The life of a female cannon fodder

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"Xiao Li, I'm going back this afternoon, and you won't be able to come next year. I really can't bear to leave you. I will definitely miss you and lose a lot of weight after you return to China." At the Consulate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York, Li Qiu, dressed in a professional suit, was packing her things. A colleague who was in New York looked at her eagerly, with special envy and reluctance.

Another male colleague retorted to the female colleague who spoke up: "You are missing Xiao Li's cooking skills and you are hungry and thin."

Li Qiu packed her things into a cardboard box and smiled when she heard it: "I don't think I will be sent abroad." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already issued a transfer order for her. After returning to China, she will directly enter the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Deputy Director of the Information Department, becoming the youngest spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The year was 1985, Li Qiu was 27 years old. During college, she interned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for two years. After graduation, she was posted in Tokyo for two years and in New York for two years. During the four years of posting, she only returned home once. Now her youngest son Lu Li is almost four years old and in kindergarten. The eldest son Li Xinglan, the second son Lu Xinghui is eight years old, the third son Li Xingchen, and the fourth son Lu Xingyao are six years old, all of them are in elementary school.

She probably really didn't have the fate of giving birth to a daughter. She gave birth to three sons. She prepared clothes for girls twice but didn't use them. In the end, it was because her cousin Shangguan gave birth to a daughter and gave the clothes to her youngest daughter Han Guoguo that they were not wasted.

After four consecutive years of overseas assignments, Li Qiu went abroad to Tokyo before her youngest son Lu Li was weaned. For so long, she only accompanied her youngest son once when she returned to the capital from Tokyo. Soon she was assigned to New York again. It can be said that among the five sons, the one she spent the shortest time with was her youngest son Lu Li.

Leaving her husband and sons to travel far away for the Double Ninth Festival, Li Qiu gradually understood the practices of Marshal Li and Madam Jiang. She herself embarked on the same old path that Marshal Li and Madam Jiang had taken. Many times it is really like this. When two important things are placed in front of you, it is difficult for you to make a choice. Except for poverty and singleness, most things cannot be had at the same time.

"Xiao Li, your son is almost four years old, it's good to go back. Your whole family is in the capital. Although you have to work after you go back, you will always have more time to spend with your family." The female colleague who spoke at the beginning sighed. She has not married yet and lives apart from her fiancé because she is afraid of being apart from her children in the future. Before she came out, she told her fiancé that she was uncertain about her return date and asked him to find a suitable girl to marry early. As a result, her fiancé directly refuted her and is still single and waiting for her to come back.

There are many people like Li Qiu who rarely see their husbands and children for several years. Now is the time when the country needs them. All love, hatred, and grudges should be placed behind the national justice. The country comes first and the family comes second.

Although they all had this idea, they were also happy for Li Qiu now that they knew that she would not be sent abroad again in the short term after being transferred back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital. They all knew that Li Qiu was sent to Japan right after she gave birth, and later to New York. To be honest, she only saw her son twice after he was born. To put it bluntly, her son probably didn't recognize her after she went back.