In the lotus pond in early summer, the koi fish are facing the sky. The solitary stem leads to green, the green leaves turn over the wind, the green water lotus, and the double shadow divides. The man sat on the steps by the pool, surrounded by a group of children, and it was rare to be able to tell the words and phrases of the ancient Chinese poems in the praise of lotus and lotus appreciation.

Seeing the man's first face, Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't see what was different about him, but she was just curious about how such a simple mountain Diao people could get the Cai family Bodhisattva's other eyes, and then she thought that the old man loved the house and the house, and most likely gave Cai Taoyao face. Growing up beside the old man and Huang Meihua since she was a child, she didn't feel anything strange about this single-phoenix-eyed man who could be called the "third brother" by the Jiangnan underworld, but on the night she rescued the big and small doubles, she had a half-understanding of this man's words. She had very little contact with Li Yundao, and in her mind before, Li Yundao was generally positioned as a super phoenix man who had taken shit luck. It's just that what the eldest lady of the Qin family didn't expect was that the sparrow flew up to the branch, and he really staged a scene of a carp jumping over the dragon gate.

Sending Shili and Xiaoman to take the children to the courtyard to count the ants, Li Yundao smiled sincerely at her by the pool: "Is there something wrong with me?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded, the eldest lady who has always had a habit of cleanliness actually ignored a valuable custom dress, and slowly sat down on the steps beside Li Yundao: "The big pair and the little pair opened their mouths and closed their mouths What my master said, what my master did, I originally thought it was just some childish worship, but now I think about it, or maybe the two children are really discerning and know what it means to see the essence through the phenomenon." ”

Li Yundao was noncommittal, glanced at the direction of the study, and asked with a smile, "Haven't come out yet?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Grandpa once made a poisonous oath back then, and he will never set foot in the capital again in this life. Miss Qin sighed slightly.

Li Yundao thought for a moment before he said, "You should know that at their age, the knot in my heart that cannot be untied is more deterrent than the poisonous oath. ”

"That's why I'm here to find you in the capital. Qin Xiaoxiao remembered the chance encounter at the airport that night, pursed her lips and chuckled, "It seems that I came at the right time." She wasn't worried about the fulfillment of the so-called poisonous oath, but she sighed that in the study not far away, the two old men who had been fighting all their lives were already in their last years, so they wouldn't bring regrets into the coffin, right?" Qin Xiaoxiao sighed and said, "If it weren't for my grandfather who came to Beijing to say it himself, these secrets of the previous generation would probably be brought into the coffin." ”

Li Yundao didn't speak, but leisurely hummed a Peking Opera tune, "The heavy rain is coming, the wind goes first, and the war suddenly makes the ministers fierce." Qin Bang had the intention of annexation, and the harmony of the clan came into being. He has long had the ambition to serve the country, and he is a hero in times of crisis. Let the rain be wild and the wind and clouds surge, and the waves will hit the sky!"

Qin Xiaoxiao listened with interest, and when Li Yundao finished humming, she squinted and asked with a smile, "Will you make peace?"

Li Yundao smiled slightly: "Who said it wasn't?"

In the study room with carved window lattices, sandalwood is swirling and ink is condensed.

The two elderly people sat opposite each other, and the dark tide of the Jin Ge Iron Horse on the Chu River Han Realm was surging.

Wang Pengzhen's spirit is surprisingly good, and he is like a god and imposing.

Qin Guhe naturally took the lead, pulling out thousands of catties in four or two, and faintly won half a chip over the red side in the chess situation.

Seeing that the sunspot was about to form a momentum of forcing the palace, suddenly, the old man of the Wang family slapped his thigh and shouted softly: "Ouch, fooled!"

After speaking, the old man touched his chin and looked up at Qin Guhe with a smile: "Regret a son, how?"

Qin Guhe said with a smile: "The person who is about to step into the coffin, what kind of gentleman do you care about whether you are a gentleman or not, and what about regretting the two sons?"

The old man of the Wang family laughed, and really put the rook and horse that had just moved back into place, and did not forget to return the black two-in-a-row chess to its original place.

Ten moves later, black pressed the palace again and took the lead.

Qin Guhe said: "I also have to regret a son." ”

Old Man Wang stroked his palm and said, "Okay!"

Behind Wang Pengzhen, Lieutenant General Bai Xiong smiled silently.

Behind Qin Guhe, the giant plum blossom was silent.

Qin Guhe didn't move any of the children on the chessboard, but just groped out a yellowed photo from the depths of his jacket pocket, sighed, and his eyes were full of tears: "Can you regret this son?"

Wang Pengzhen also sighed lightly, and the deacon was silent for a long time, and then said slowly: "It's all about the past." ”

The past is like smoke, and there is a smile and hatred.

What Wang Pengzhen and Qin Guhe talked about in the room was not enough for outsiders, only knowing that the two old men even shared dinner in the study.

Late at night, Qin Guhe went out of Beijing again.

The next day, Qin Guhe returned to the General Staff.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't leave, she lived in the Wang family, her grandfather transferred all the shares of Qincheng Group to a military research institute, she had no complaints, and even secretly rejoiced in her heart, since she was sensible, Qincheng Group has been like a huge shadow hanging over her, her father and uncle are reluctant to ask about things, and the twins are too young, only she has been considered the successor of Qincheng since she was a child. Among the people in the Qin family, except for the old man, no one knows better than her that the effect that Qin Cheng can play after belonging to the military is far more than the function of an ordinary private business. At this time, she stepped down, she was relaxed, under the command of the old man of the Wang family, Li Yundao accompanied her to walk through the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, these long-awaited scenic spots, but before she had time to go to the Great Wall to feel the thousands of miles of clouds that did not teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain, the old man of the Wang family who was extremely kind in Qin Xiaoxiao's opinion, the old man who was called the Dinghai Divine Needle by the military of the Republic, finally came to the last moment of his life.

At the request of the elderly themselves, no longer waste national resources, but only when they are dying, their children and grandchildren stay by their side.

After Shili and Xiaoman finished taking the pulse, they recited the Jizo Bodhisattva Sutra and the Immeasurable Sutra, and for a while, the Buddha's voice was vast and full of meaning.

"Wangnan!" The old man suddenly turned ruddy and summoned Li Yundao to step forward.

Li Yundao also knew that this was a return to the light, kneeling in front of the couch, sad and speechless.

"People always have to die, and the small box is the place to return after all, so don't worry too much. The old man looked at the people around him with relief, everyone including the No. 1 chief was reluctant, but the old man himself smiled happily, "Taizu took 40,000 compatriots to fight a big world, Taizong took 100,000 people to live a good life, Tang Zong and Song Zu, bent bow and eagle, next, this is your world." Wangnan, grandpa will give you a word. ”

Li Yundao clenched the old man's almost withered hand, but he never expected that life and death would bring such grief.

"Righteousness, self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world. The old man said slowly, word by word, "Do you remember?"

Li Yundao nodded and choked: "Righteousness, self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world!"

The old man glanced at Cai Taoyao beside Li Yundao, and then shouted twice: "Good boy, good country!"

Happily close your eyes.

"Dad......"

"Grandpa......"

"Chief's ......"

The cry and the sound of shaking slowly lingered over the courtyard, and in the distant night sky, the meteor shower of the lion star fell into the sky.

The central leaders personally took command, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs took the lead in setting up a funeral committee, which was second only to the Taizong Ye of that year. The people of the Wang family, including Li Yundao, have become like puppets controlled by others without any suspense, and there is an endless stream of Wang protégés who come from all over the country to mourn, and those who know and don't know each other have come forward to receive them.

What shocked all those who didn't know was that on the day of the funeral, the old man of the Qin family actually came, not bowing and condolence, but actually four rings, the deep meaning of which was enough to make the people who were waiting to see the decline of the Wang family shudder.

Then he went out of the funeral and entered Babao Mountain, and the No. 1 chief personally supported the coffin, which shocked the people.

Wang Kang Kang and Wang Yuanchao seemed to have dried their tears, and they were extremely strong on the day of the funeral, and it was only at the moment when the old man was officially buried that the sisters hugged their heads in pain.

After everyone left, Li Yundao returned to the newly erected tombstone alone, and the photo of the old man on the monument was in the same spirit.

Li Yundao, who had always been disgusted with the old lama asking him to recite Buddhist scriptures, squatted under the stele for the first time and recited the Dizang Sutra, and recited the Immeasurable Sutra that was only used to gamble with the old lama in the past, and finally leaned in front of the stele before he muttered for a long time: "I know that you are an old party member, and party members and comrades are not interested in religion, but I still have to recite this sutra to you, whether it is true or false, whether it works or not, what if it works? In fact, in the days when I was studying on the Snow Mountain, I thought that I should also have a father and mother, and I generally imagined them as invincible with three thousand white robes, but in the end, I didn't expect that it was your old man who was truly invincible. In the past few days, I just listened to your old comrades-in-arms and old subordinates nagging about your heroic deeds back then. Bandits are very good, not the same as being robbed by you and your grandmother and coming back to be your daughter-in-law? No matter how strong the United States is, you will beat them to cry and cry for their mother. There is also the yellow-skinned monkey in the southwest, and the battle that year made the Yue Guoyan have palpitations until now. The old man who was carried back by you all the way from the Chao # Xian battlefield also came two days ago, saying that his life was saved by you, he was eighty years old, and his children were full, but no one could stop him from coming to your spirit and kowtowing a few times. There is also the No. 1 chief, he said that if it wasn't for the bullet you blocked for his father back then, maybe there would be no old man for him, and there would be no No. 1 chief now. Grandpa, Xiaobei is also back, Huang Sheng is pregnant, and Xiaobei and Xiaobei both said that the child born is not surnamed Gu, but surnamed Wang ......"

Grandpa, can you hear me?

Grandpa, your old man has been doing well.