In January 2015, the streets and alleys of Z City were already full of road flags and red lanterns to welcome the New Year. Although the bus is still so crowded, people began to talk more about New Year's goods, grabbing tickets and pressing New Year's money, and their faces were filled with happiness.

It's New Year's Day again. The moment Su Huanchuan sat down in the rest area of the funeral home, the emotions that he had been unable to release because he was busy before and after instantly became intense, and snot and tears flowed down like opening the floodgates. In fact, she didn't like the New Year much, anyway, it was no different from usual, going to her parents' house for two days, two days in her own cat, and then finding a place to play in the city for two days. The only thing that was different from usual was that she still had to serve her husband, who was sent back by her superiors to rest.

Su Huanchuan, who grew up in the army compound and was born in a military family, has always had a strong military plot. Every day, the driver in military uniform went to and from school on a shuttle bus sent by the army, and the driver in military uniform honked his horn and cursed people, and the green car drove to the school gate. After school, he played wantonly beside his hard-training soldier's brother, and even ran up and through the queue of others if he was bold. After the summer vacation, I can only stare at my father every day, and then take the lunch box to the cafeteria, put a few cheap but average meals and eat them indiscriminately, waiting for my mother to come back from work to bring delicious food.

This kind of life has lasted for more than 20 years, Su Huanchuan went to school step by step, went to work, was urged to marry, went on a blind date, and then failed on a blind date, until he met Chu Ling, who was tall and handsome in military uniform. At that moment, she seemed to know how her mother, grandmother and grandmother fell, although she didn't want to admit it, but Su Huanchuan really got on because of her facial features and Lao Chu, as for why she didn't separate because of the disagreement between the three views, this brother is a state-level secret officer, and it's good to be at home for a fraction of 365 days a year, and when she comes back, what she talks about the most is military discipline and political correctness, how can she have time to understand his three views?

Therefore, after five years of marriage, Su Huanchuan lived a single aristocratic life that her friends envied, with no husband, no children, and only a stable and idle job and a military salary card that paid a lot of money every month. To be honest, instead of feeling miserable, she enjoyed this kind of life, which made her feel dangerous and guilty. So when Lao Chu comes back, she will definitely calm down and show her most gentle and virtuous appearance, serve others from head to toe, and strive to express her endless thoughts. Anyway, this guy can't stay at home for a few days, and he spends half of his time sleeping. With such a little effort, you can continue to hold this salary card with an annual income of hundreds of thousands, this kind of steady profit and no loss, Su Huanchuan, who has a normal IQ, will certainly not refuse.

Whenever this time, Chu Ling kept laughing and not speaking, Su Huanchuan asked, and he spit out a sentence faintly: "You look like the proprietress of the Qinglou." ”

I can't think about it anymore, and I'm going to run out of paper if I think about it anymore. Su Huanchuan raised her head, stared at the cemetery price list of the Z City Funeral Home, and forced herself to forget the bits and pieces with Chu Ling.

When she received the notice, Su Huanchuan actually didn't want the troops to find the body. With Lao Chu's ability, as long as she can't see the corpse, she will never believe that something will happen to him. But the wind and dust servants prayed all the way to Z City, Su Huanchuan only had time to take a hasty look at Chu Ling, who was lying in the coffin, and his body was obviously a little collapsed and deformed, and was pulled by his subordinates to fill in the form everywhere to go through the formalities, and when he came back to his senses, Lao Chu had turned into a heavy black soil and sat quietly beside him.

"Sister-in-law, mourning...... The battalion commander sacrificed his life for the country and was a martyr. This, do you see if we contact the cemetery in City Z, or go back to City B, ......" The little soldier on the side carefully handed Su Huanchuan a tissue, and it was a big bag.

"Thank you...... It's here, his wish hasn't been fulfilled yet, so he just goes back, he is not reconciled. Su Huanchuan didn't expect that she would say such a thing, although she never knew what Chu Ling's mission and wish were, although it was already the twenty-first century, but at this moment, she still had a strong sense of mission and pride in her heart, since she chose to marry a soldier, she had already realized something, and she would never regret it.

"Salute the battalion commander and sister-in-law!" With the shout of the little soldier breaking through the clouds, dozens of officers and soldiers inside and outside the house stopped their work in unison, their military posture was straight, the military salute was standard, and their expressions were solemn and firm. Su Huanchuan hugged Chu Ling's urn tightly, endured the grief in her heart, bowed to the soldiers present and returned the salute, tears still falling non-stop.

After another half of the day, all kinds of procedures were finally completed, and the declaration of the martyr's cemetery was also waiting for approval. It was already past nine o'clock when she returned to the hotel, Su Huanchuan called her parents, couldn't help crying again, hung up the phone and calmed down her emotions for a long time, before taking out the box that the little soldier handed to her.

When he first married Chu Ling, his parents were actually not very happy, especially his father, in his words, this young man's family background was too irregular. Su Huanchuan felt funny in his heart, it seemed that Comrade Su's family background was not much stronger than Chu Ling, didn't he still rely on a military uniform and a big cap to capture his mother who had a cadre father and a decent job?

Anyway, this matter ended up in a mess, Su Huanchuan estimated that it might be because she was not young and her mother was a little anxious, and her mother had always had the final say at home, and her father was probably vetoed. Now after so many years, except for the occasional birth, my parents have completely opened up and run marathons all over the world. Knowing that when Chu Ling had an accident, the two of them were still playing in the field, and only after Su Huanchuan's strong persuasion did they agree to let her deal with it by herself, she really didn't want the second elder to follow her to work hard, and she had to cry with her.

Now that the matter is done, she only has this little relic of Chu Ling in her hand, and after hesitating for a long time, Su Huanchuan still slowly opened it and took out the things inside.

There was only one smaller box and an audio player in the box, which I had bought for him the year before. After opening it, there was only one recording left in it, and Su Huanchuan knew what it was, and his hands trembled for a long time before he pressed the play button.

"Sister Chuan'er, that, I forgot to call you on your birthday, happy birthday, I seem to have given out a bonus, you can buy it if you like it yourself." And yes, huh...... It's almost the New Year, I may not be able to go back to the Spring Festival this year, I have already called my parents, you can help me apologize to them when the time comes. ”

When the recording arrived, a long silence began, Su Huanchuan bit her lip, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

"Actually...... Hey......" After two full minutes of silent recording, Chu Ling's somewhat choked voice sounded again, "You know what I'm going to say......, right? Really, it would be nice to take a long vacation last year and hurry up to have a baby. No, no, don't give birth, you're still so young...... What the fuck am I talking about!"

When the recording arrived, I only heard Chu Ling take a deep breath, and said at a very fast speed as if he had made up his mind: "Sister Chuan'er, I'm sorry for you, I guess I'm dead now, and I don't know which tendon I made the wrong match, I know that I don't have to recruit you if I don't live to retire, I ...... Anyway, you're good, hurry up and deal with another object, or it's too old to find. There's a necklace in the box, so don't take it off, never take it off. There's something in the necklace that we've been working on to save your life at a critical moment. In the next life, if I meet you so well, I will serve you as a cow and a horse, and I will rely on you every day to stay by your side......"

Chu Ling in the recording cried so much that his voice changed, Su Huanchuan had never heard Chu Ling express his emotions so wantonly, to be honest, his surprise was greater than his sadness. In her impression, Chu Ling has always been a moody person, even in front of herself, when she is unhappy, she frowns slightly and her tone is cold, and when she is happy, she purses her lips and smiles quietly, as shy as a little girl. In the process of dating between the two, Su Huanchuan was the one who took ninety-nine steps, if she hadn't heard this recording, she might never have known that Chu Ling actually liked her so much.

"Alright, so be it. Chu Ling, commander of the first battalion of the Special Operations Regiment of the 136975 Division of the B Military Region, in Z City on December 15, 2014. The above is classified as a Class 1 secret, and it will self-destruct after listening. ”

So when Su Huanchuan hadn't come back to his senses, Chu Ling's last voice left in the world disappeared without a trace.

Su Huanchuan stared at the ceiling with a blank gaze, wanting to hear even the slightest sound, but the room was silent after all. She regretted in her heart that she didn't cherish the last time she spent with Chu Ling more than two months ago. She just wanted to open the door for Chu Ling again, wash his clothes once, cook once, and see him purse his lips and call herself "Sister Chuan'er" with a smile. But this is no longer possible. Throughout the night, Su Huanchuan's mind seemed to be blank, and it seemed to be full of Chu Ling's shadow, so that she couldn't do anything, the only thing she could do was to let tears welling up.

She cried for another half an hour, crying so much that Su Huanchuan really didn't have so many tears to fall, so she poured a few mouthfuls of water, opened the box and put the necklace Chu Ling said around her neck. The style of this chain is indeed very ordinary, the key is that it is too large, and a large piece of jacaranda flowers looks like a piece of broken glass hanging from it. But this is what Lao Chu left to her, no matter how big it is, no matter how ugly it is, she doesn't think it. Just seeing the necklace, Su Huanchuan remembered the confidential task that Chu Ling had been keeping his mouth shut. She only knew that their project was related to a secret energy source newly discovered in the country, could the energy be stored in glass? Su Huanchuan turned over and studied this unattractive pendant, and did not see any clues, but she, who had never exercised and had low blood pressure, was now exhausted, so without thinking about it anymore, Su Huanchuan adjusted the rope a little longer, and stuffed the pendant into her clothes.

Maybe for the average person, the story ends here, the woman who has lost her husband will eventually return to a peaceful life, maybe she will get married again in the future, have a child, maybe not, in short, there is nothing to tell. But for Su Huanchuan, when she saw that the broken glass that Lao Chu had told her never to pick up completely submerged into her body within a minute, the story that belonged to her and Chu Ling had just begun.