Temporary leave

  "I'm sitting in the room, suffocating with anger. Must I be inseparable from war? And all of them unjust wars? Can't I just stay still for once? Just then, a hurried knocking sound came from the door, 'Brother...'"

  "Ding ding ding!"

  "'Brother, can't you be less arbitrary?'" The shrill voice came from outside the door. I still didn't want to pay attention to him, and died, mistakenly hitting, it was this guy, not that dead...

  "Ding ding ding!"

  "This lousy phone! Is it ever going to work?!"

  In the workshop of an American family farm, a tall figure wearing a blue shirt and jeans sat at a broken table next to a sheep shearing machine, muttering to himself as he typed away on his computer. Just then, the old-fashioned landline phone hanging beside the sheep shearing machine rang loudly, and the man was forced to pick it up and hold it to his ear.

  "Hello, I'm Wang Hua, who's calling?"

  "Honey, where have you been? Are you messing around in the stable again with your old memories? Can't you focus on something important for once? I'm already 31 weeks pregnant and today you're supposed to drive me to the hospital for a 4D ultrasound, which is over 3 hours away. What time did you sneak out of the bedroom last night? Are you even capable of driving after staying up all night? Hurry up and get ready..."

  "Okay, okay, okay, right away, I'm coming. Didn't sneak out last night, got up at 5 this morning to shovel horse dung, didn't write, no."

  The tall figure had to jump down from the table, put the laptop on the desk, dust off the dust on his body, and walk out of the horse shed amidst the ridicule of a group of cowboys who were brushing horses. He led away my favorite little red horse, mounted it, and rushed to the garage at the other end of the farm, preparing to drive to take his wife for a prenatal check-up.

  "Hey boss, you use a helicopter to drive cattle, why don't you take your wife on an airplane trip..."

  Behind me, I heard Joey's shout, the wind took away half of his words, but I roughly understood what he meant. I hastily responded on horseback: "She is annoyed by the helicopter's noise, the little baby was frightened and restless!"

  My family farm is right next to the main road, and all around are other small-scale farmers like me. The farm isn't big, and the surroundings are a bit desolate. If you want to cure a headache or fever, Old Joe from the farm is a good doctor (veterinarian), but if you want to do a 4D color ultrasound, even the town doesn't have that kind of equipment, so you have to go all the way to the city three hours away by car.

  Little Red Horse galloped across the pasture with me, startling Edge Flower who was chasing after a rabbit. She was a three-month-old puppy given to me by the previous owner of the ranch when I bought it, and now she's almost one year old.

  The little red horse running around was much more interesting to him than the rabbit he had scared, this exceptionally clever little guy knew from a distance that I was riding on the horse and came flying over to play with me, maybe this is what I like most about him, smart and lively, loyal and lovely.

  The little dog caught up with my little red horse and immediately rushed to the front to lead the way. Although he was clever, he didn't know that every time I let Little Red Horse give in to him. As we rode past the main house, I saw my pregnant wife and parents standing there waiting for me to drive together for a prenatal check-up.

  At this time, it was still early in the morning, and the sky was vaguely bright. The notebook that had been placed in the horse shed also slowly shut down...