Two minutes after Shen Zheng left, the long-haired young man supported another young man and peeked at a corner in the far corner of the restaurant for a long time before leaving with the person in a gray manner, not that he didn't want to retaliate, but the thunderous attack of the guy just now really left him with great psychological trauma. There was no tongue, no prelude, no rehearsal, like a rainstorm in May and June, which came so suddenly.

Seeing this group of people leave, the proprietress looked behind He Ke and came back to her senses. After all, I felt a little guilty in my heart, but I didn't know how to speak, and when I was at a loss, the old cook on the side said: "Coco, don't be stunned, let's eat first, you still have classes in the evening, and you have to go back to school after eating." ”

The proprietress glanced at the old cook gratefully, and echoed, "Yes, yes, Coco, let's eat first?" The whispered words were afraid that a word too loud would disturb her.

"Coco?"

He Ke turned his head, and the slightly red and swollen eyes made the proprietress feel an inexplicable pain in her heart.

"Girl, Aunt Hong couldn't stand you just now, you... Alas...", how can he work in his own restaurant for a long time, she knows this girl's character and attitude very well. Although everyone gets along with each other on weekdays, they are always cordial and lively, and at this moment she wants to say something like "please forgive me", but she is like a fish in her throat.

He Ke shook his head and said, "Aunt Hong, I want to go back to school." ”

This bland sentence was a little bland, but it took a pinch in Aunt Hong's heart, and she almost burst into tears, and she didn't even dare to look directly at the little girl's haggard eyes, and the thousand words just now were stuck in her throat very uncomfortable.

Sighing, Aunt Hong said softly: "Coco, it was Aunt Hong's fault just now, you blame me, it's right, it's okay to scold me a few times to get angry." If you really want to leave, Aunt Hong won't stop you, and I'll come back to see you Uncle De and me when I have time in the future. ”

After speaking, he counted a little cash from the cashier and handed it to He Ke, and then said: "It's not safe to bring too much cash, you take this money first, save it and go to the bank to get it, and I will transfer the rest to your card tomorrow." ”

As for the plan to keep He Ke just now, she couldn't say anything at the moment, what would happen tomorrow? For a while, she didn't think about it so much.

Looking at the middle-aged woman in front of her who has always been shrewd and sophisticated but took in her part-time job, even if she is not so kind and not so kind, but at least she has not treated herself badly. Relying on her heart, she barely managed to survive with that fragile family for nearly half a year.

The cruel tempering of life has long made He Ke habitually turn the fruits of his own efforts into gratitude and satisfaction to others, and just wants to find a job after graduating from college that can make his mother stop working, support himself, and provide for his younger brother to study. It's just that this dream doesn't seem to her to be more difficult, but it also makes her more motivated.

......

Wandering aimlessly on the streets, like a dandelion that has left its mother's body. After returning to China, this land did not give him the sense of belonging he imagined, no family, no relatives, and no friends. The only three remaining comrades-in-arms were also arranged in other unknown corners because of inhumane factors, just like themselves.

At night, the temperature has almost dropped to the freezing point of nearly minus four or five degrees, but Shen Zhong is still wearing the short-sleeved T-shirt, his hands in his trouser pockets, looking at the neon flashes in the distance, his eyes are fluttering.

Feeling the strange eyes of the occasional passer-by looking at him, he had to pay attention to his outfit that was not in season, and bought a coat to fool around on his body to give an explanation to everyone, and then found a newsstand to buy a local map.

The next day, he got up early in the morning, left the hotel with his backpack, and went to the farmers' market to buy a few catties of fruits, braised chicken, braised duck, cooked vegetables and a small bottle of two pot heads, and a large bag of food, and bought a farm shovel to take with him. In order not to be written down, he did not take a taxi, but walked on foot to a hill more than ten kilometers northeast of the outskirts of the city.

I arrived there around noon, but the weather was good.

Although I don't know how to read feng shui, and I don't know the theory of the five elements gossip, I still understand the truth of relying on mountains and rivers.

Brothers, blame me for being incompetent and unable to take you back to your respective hometowns, so let's make a home here and rest in peace!

After choosing a place, he put down his things heavily, picked up a shovel and excavated.

There are too many unsolved mysteries in this world, from cosmic astronomy to bacteria and viruses, and they are full of magic. Now, there's one here.

It's also a shame that no one sees this place in the wilderness, otherwise you wouldn't have to curse the hell of a daylight job! It didn't take a few minutes to dig a one-meter-deep pit, and then start digging around like a bulldozer. Everything he shows is like an ancient ancestor who came out of ancient times, and there is an incredible power.

In less than an hour, a large pit three meters long, one meter deep and two meters wide was dug out by him alone, and he didn't even need to take a breath. He threw the shovel aside, unzipped the backpack on the side, and took out ceramic jars of different styles, some beautiful, some rough, some large and some small.

He just put them in front of him one by one, eleven in all, and a set of combat uniforms. These are the ashes and relics of his brother who fought side by side with him for four years overseas.

"Brothers, I am back, with your wishes. You have also returned, and this is the land of the country. I can't take you all day long, so I can only put your 'home' here. ”

Muttering to himself, he sat down next to the eleven ceramic jars and looked into the distance.

"I just returned to China, and I was still a little uncomfortable, I looked at them, they looked at me, they all looked at me, they all looked like outsiders, and I felt stranger than when I first met you when I came out of the mountains. Before getting on the plane the day before yesterday, I met with two brothers, Qu Yuan and Gao Hongwen and Gao Hongwu, who each took the ashes of their six brothers back from other countries. The four of us were arranged to return to China in different places, at different times, and in different ways, and I don't know where they are now. ”

Then there was a silence that boundlessly came, and returning to their hometown was the most distant, but practical, and beautiful dream of all of them in the squad.

Faintly, the eleven urns and the set of clothes seemed to have turned into the appearance of these soldiers before their deaths, sitting quietly beside Shen Zheng, looking at the mountains and rivers of the motherland in front of them, no one spoke, just sat quietly, watching, with a smile on their faces, as if they saw that the peace and tranquility of this land at the moment actually had their share of credit.

After a long time, Shen Zhong picked up the first urn beside him. Cheng Kai, the first soldier to die in Shen Chong's sharp knife combat team, was only twenty-one years old when he died. Three years ago, the squad was secretly transferred to the border by its superiors, and the local public security bureau cracked a particularly serious arms smuggling case. However, the so-called "cracking" is only to find a few useful clues, and compared with the other side's well-equipped and professional quality, trying to eliminate thousands of armed forces with the strength of local public security alone is tantamount to self-destruction.

The squad led by Shen Zhong has no code name, no specific duties, and no fixed combat area, and even the superior who gives him an order every time is and who the superior of the superior is, only that every task they have to carry out is a top secret of the state, and no one can handle it except them.

And that time, the same way, in order to completely annihilate the enemy, they secretly infiltrated the territory of other countries for more than a month, and when they had to be exposed, they disguised themselves as foreign tourists, during which they went through several tracking assassinations, blocking and sneak attacks. The last battle was fought in a primeval jungle, where a squad of thirty-four men confronted the last six hundred or so of the arms dealers for two days and nights, without eating, drinking, or sleeping!

In order to introduce the main force of the arms dealers into the jungle ambush circle, the five members of the squad used as bait to constantly harass the other party, but when Cheng Kai and others were about to return to their combat area, they were shot through by the opponent's helicopter gunship on the spot.

When they finally cleaned up the battlefield, Cheng Kai's body was found, and his left chest and abdomen were directly smashed, but they didn't even have time to do a farewell ceremony for him, and they were once again instructed by their superiors to go to Guatemala City, the back garden of Fengguo, thousands of miles away, to carry out another top-secret mission.

His heroic soul has been in exile for three years before finally returning to the place he misses so much today.