Chen Zhuguo slept on the table until more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and several teenagers talked much quieter when they worked all afternoon, for fear of disturbing his rest.

Chen Chunhua figured out what happened, and her mood became complicated. When she was a child, she felt that her second uncle of the same clan was a brave and enthusiastic person, and he would take the initiative to help anyone who had something at home. When the war began, he went to the battlefield and became a hero of the whole village.

However, when the war ended, the village received not the good news of his triumphant return, but the scandal of being taken prisoner. Since he returned to the village, he has been discriminated against by the villagers in all aspects, and he has always received lower wages than others for his work, and no girl wants to marry him, and the matchmakers have shaken their heads when they tell the girls about him.

Gradually, a warm-hearted young man changed from a hero to a traitor and a coward in people's mouths, and then became a well-known second-rate idler in ten miles and eight villages. Then, no one would have thought that he and many people like him had suffered so much and how much grievances they had carried.

Until near the evening, the guests who came to eat entered the store one after another, and the noisy sound in the store woke up the sleeping Chen Zhuguo, who was a little embarrassed to say hello to Chen Chunhua: "Second uncle didn't bring money today, I'll send it to you another day!"

"Second uncle, this is what I invited you, in the future, if you want to drink, come to me, the wine is enough!" Chen Chunhua said.

"Yes, Second Master, come to our store if you want to drink in the future, I will serve you good wine!" Zhang Meng also said, "Second Master, you are not a bad seed, you are the best, I misunderstood you before, I'm sorry!"

Chen Zhuguo has not received such courtesy from people for a long time, his cloudy eyes are a little moist, and he hesitates and says, "You are all good boys!" and then slowly walked out of the store, the setting sun reflected on his background, that not tall body, in the eyes of everyone, but it was so majestic!

The next day, Li Liang and Zhang Meng obtained Chen Chunhua's consent and went to Chen Zhu's country with a barrel of oil, a piece of pork belly, and a bag of rice. Chen Zhuguo lived in a simple adobe house with only doors and no windows. I heard Chen Chunhua say that when Chen Zhuguo's family was first liberated, he was assigned a brick house to the former landlord's family, and after Chen Zhuguo became a stain and returned to China, he still lived in that big house with his parents and brothers, and when his parents died of depression a few years ago, his brothers kicked him out.

At this time, Chen Zhuguo had become a second-rate person who hated dogs, and he didn't argue with his brother, so he moved to this abandoned adobe house in the village, simply cleaned up, and lived there, and lived there for several years. The people in the village also have little contact with him, and the cadres of the brigade have a headache for him, whether he goes to work or not, the cadres of the brigade don't care much, anyway, every year the village distributes grain to every family, and the least is given to Chen Zhuguo. In this way, Chen Zhuguo was hungry and full, occasionally stealing a chicken and touching a dog, this family rubbed some food, that family rubbed some drink, and life was passable.

When Li Liang and Zhang Meng came to Chen Zhuguo, Chen Zhuguo was not at home, and the door was empty and unlocked. Li Liang pushed open the door, and the smell was heavy, straight to his nostrils. Chen Zhuguo's house was very messy, next to the door was a broken clay jar, full of ashes, and unburned firewood, on which were set up with a few sticks, the iron pot was so smoky that it was no longer clear to see its original color, and there was still a little rice soup left in the pot, which smelled rancid, and a few flies nailed to it, which looked very disgusting.

Looking inside, the ground is full of firewood sticks, broken wine bottles, iron wires, broken wires and other inexplicable garbage, there is a bed in the corner of the house, a straw mat is spread on it, the edge of the straw mat has been broken, some unwilling to be lonely grass stalks unscrupulously stretch their bodies, as if they want to better see the world; there is also a bed of broken cotton quilt at the foot of the bed, not so much a quilt, but a pile of broken cotton strips, the quilt surface wrapped in cotton has long been full of holes.

"Brother Meng, let's help the second master clean up!" Li Liang couldn't stand it anymore and said to Zhang Meng.

"Good!"

The two of them worked together, picked up a broken broom from the corner, swept all the sundries in Chen Zhu's country out of the door, and stacked the firewood that could be used in the corner of the house.

"Ah, how did you two fine men sweep out all my things from the second master!" I don't know when, Chen Zhuguo came back, he said a little pity, "These things are useful to the second master, these wine bottles are going to be sold to the scrap recycling station for some money, and this, this quilt is for my winter warmth." ”

"Second master, where is this quilt, it is clearly a pile of torn cotton wool, how can you keep warm, when it is winter, I will send you a new bed!" Zhang Meng said.

"You don't understand, don't look at this quilt, it was my mother who sewed it for me with her own hands, I carried it abroad, and brought it back when I came back, thanks to it, I didn't freeze to death in the ice and snow. Chen Zhuguo said, "Look, there are bullet holes on it!"

Speaking of this, an unusual brilliance appeared on Chen Zhuguo's face, as if he thought of the years of passion and war.

"Second Master, we know that you are a great hero, tell us the story of your war in Goryeo!" Li Liang said with reverence.

"What kind of hero is not a hero, I haven't lived as a bear now, this is how my life is, I have lived most of my life in a daze!" Chen Zhuguo said with a sigh.

"Second master, you are heroes, and the country will give you a positive explanation after all. I believe that this day will not be far away!" Li Liang had the heart to tell Chen Zhuguo some of the information he had learned in his previous life, but he was worried that these unexplained news would cause trouble for him, so he could only say so vaguely.

"It would be nice if it could be like what you said, the second master does not seek fame or profit, I just hope that history will give us some fair evaluation!" Chen Zhuguo said.

Li Liang and Zhang Meng begged Chen Zhuguo to talk about some things on the battlefield. Chen Zhuguo couldn't stand the begging of the two and a half children, and slowly opened the conversation.

"I was just 20 years old, working in the village and participating in the militia training in the village. Listening to the radio that Eagle Sauce invaded Goryeo, Chairman Lee Tak-sung called on us to resist Eagle and aid Goryeo to defend our homeland and country. That's how I went to war. When I went there, the township and the village organized a farewell party, and there were more than 30 people in the township who went with me, and I was the only one who came back!" Chen Zhuguo's voice was a little choked.