After 15 years on the front line, Tang Jianguo was never injured.

The enemies on both sides of the Salween River, on the banks of the Mekong River, and in the hinterland of the Golden Triangle were all areas where he carried guerrillas, and the enemies in front of him were not only the Burmese government army, but also the remnants of the Kuomintang army that had been entrenched abroad for more than 20 years, and later the mercenaries of drug traffickers.

Several brushes with death.

In the People's Army of the Communist Party of Burma, Tang Jianguo successively served as a soldier of the artillery company of Unit 4045, a battalion secretary and a company instructor, an officer of the Political Department of the Fifth Brigade of the Communist Party of Burma, an operational staff officer of the Fifth Brigade, a political commissar of Unit 042, the director of the teaching team of the 68th Division, and the chief of the security division of the 68th Division.

The official is getting bigger and bigger, but Tang Jianguo is becoming more and more discouraged about the road ahead.

Around the time of Taizu's death in 1976, the military advisory team sent by China to the Communist Party of Burma withdrew to the country in phases and batches. When seeing them off, the cries of the educated youths resounded through the Menggu River.

China no longer openly supports the Burmese Communist Party, and these intellectuals have lost their Chinese nationality because they voluntarily exported the revolution.

When I joined the Communist Party of Burma, some people asked, "Can revolutionary relations be transferred to China?" As for how they regained their nationality and returned to their home countries, no one mentioned it.

If we do not get the approval of the motherland, what is the point of sacrifice? The educated youths who have a way to go have all returned to China, and there are fewer and fewer educated youths in the Communist Party of Burma.

At this time, the Communist Party of Burma set in the western mountains, entrenched in the Golden Triangle, and took the road of "raising soldiers with poison".

It was not until 1980 that China began to face up to the nature, identity, and repatriation of these Burmese veterans, and introduced a policy of acceptance and return.

After that, in order to complete the formalities and justifiably leave the Communist Party of Burma, Wang Xi experienced a long wait of five years. While waiting, he fought at the same time, and almost lost his life several times.

Until 1985, Tang Yuan's mother was killed by a thunderbolt.

After burying his wife, Tang Jianguo took the two-year-old Tang Yuan to the turbid Nanyu River in Myanmar, and finally did not return across the river, Tang Jianguo gave birth to a total of three children, only the youngest Tang Yuan survived.

When Tang Yuan came back this time, the uncle who helped him carve the jade asked Tang Yuan if he wanted to know what Tang Jianguo said to the two-year-old Tang Yuan by the river that day.

Tang Yuan nodded, and his uncle said, "Alive, alive, better than anything else." ”

Tears shed as he spoke.

They missed the return of educated youths to the city, missed the gate of the university, missed all the life opportunities that should not be missed, and 15 years of youth did not leave anything for Tang Jianguo.

Later, the four military regions of the Communist Party of Burma evolved into four local armed forces in the Golden Triangle, controlling four enclaves, and many of their leaders were old intellectuals and young people who returned to China. Most of the educated youths who went back one after another were given a cold reception after returning to China and could not survive, so they returned to Myanmar.

Tang Jianguo was one of them, until he suddenly died of illness last year, and he couldn't speak when he was dying, but he kept pointing to the east.

Speaking of this, Tang Yuan closed his eyes and said softly, "Father wants to come back, I have always wanted to, since he spent a lot of money to open a YN account for me, I knew that at that time we were almost out of food, and Dad did not allow us to grow opium, and now it's okay, I finally brought him back." ”

Tang Yuan closed her eyes and lay down with tears.

Chen Kun's eyes have long been red, Tang Jianguo and Tang Yuan's living environment in Myanmar is definitely not good, they don't grow opium, they don't sell drugs to the country, they can't feed a few people on such a little territory, a group of people want to eat, and there are a group of people around them, Tang Yuan's sentence is very clear, "Life is not like a person." ”

Chen Kun can imagine the next thing, not to mention how such a big girl returned to YN from Myanmar, just YN to get here more than 2,000 kilometers, a girl holding an urn and how much suffering she suffered, how many white eyes, and finally came to her grandfather's house with great expectations, and suddenly found that she was still the only one who turned around.

Looking at Tang Yuan's travel bag, Chen Kun wanted to say something, and grandma's voice remembered in the kitchen, "Kunzi, bring Tang Yuan over for dinner, the meal is ready." ”

Chen Kun stood up, tried to take his eyes off the travel bag, and said to Tang Yuan, "Sister Tang Yuan, let's eat first." ”

The tone is very light and soft, and no one can not feel pity for such a strong and independent girl.

Lunch is very rich, but Chen Kun can't raise his appetite, Grandma Li likes to drink a little wine, not much at a time, a small cup, at most one or two, Tang Yuan also accompanied a small drink.

This is an unpretentious girl, she should eat and drink, she is not too restrained, Chen Kun is not good, she has something in her heart, and the colorful cloth travel bag in the room flashes in her mind from time to time.

After eating, a few people chatted for a while, grandma has the habit of taking a nap, and now she has begun to doze off, Tang Yuan got up and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and took them to the kitchen to clean up, Chen Kun also followed out the door, leaning on the open door of the kitchen and watching Tang Yuan busy.

After drinking some wine, Tang Yuan's slightly dark face was a little flushed, adding some coquettishness.

At this time, seeing Tang Yuan tidy up the kitchen, Chen Kun clasped his hands, shook his head and said, "Sister Tang Yuan, let's go shopping?"

Tang Yuan looked at Chen Kun and nodded.

There is a guest house in the compound, which later became independent and expanded into a military district hotel, which has a not small artificial lake, some weeping willows are planted around the lake, and there are few people, Chen Kun plans to take Tang Yuan to go there for a walk.

The two walked side by side, passed the sentry box of the hotel, turned a neat bamboo forest, passed a gazebo, there was a large shelf of steel pipes in front of them, and several old wisteria flowers climbed the entire flower stand, and the eyes were full of large patches of purple.

Speaking of wisteria, I always feel that it has a simple atmosphere, as if it is a flower that has traveled back from ancient times.

Chen Kun didn't expect to find such a scenery by wandering around at will, and he always felt that the beauty of wisteria should be matched with the ancient mansion to have a long-term artistic conception and charm, and at this time, the large area was also very beautiful, and he also liked Tang Yuan's appearance.

Chen Kun asked Tang Yuan, "Do you like it?"

Tang Yuan nodded: "Well, it's beautiful." ”

Chen Kun took the lead and walked forward, saying as he walked: "The beauty of wisteria can't be shown in any pictures, its beauty needs you to approach, look up, smell the flowers, self-absorbed, and don't get drunk and don't return." ”

He made a self-absorbed expression as he spoke.

Tang Yuan saw it, laughed, and followed Chen Kun over.

Chen Kun continued: "You look up at it, hanging one by one, falling vertically, not stumbling or entangled, not leaving sorrow and no resentment, falling memories, full of butterflies and dancing bees, full of the beauty of early summer, I met you, and planned to leave?"

Tang Yuan began to listen very happily, and when she heard this, her face was a little haggard, and she nodded and said, "Well, I plan to leave, I am already very happy to be able to bury my father next to my grandfather, and this place does not belong to me, so I plan to go back." ”

Chen Kun listened with some worries, Tang Yuan's encounter can make the strongest people feel distressed.

Chen Kun said seriously: "Go back, go back to YN or Myanmar, do you still have family over there?"

Tang Yuan smiled and stroked the bangs on his forehead behind his ears, "There is no family, and I don't have one here?" There are still some children who grew up together in Myanmar, all of whom are fathers-in-arms, that is, some children of educated youth, most of them have no parents and family members like me, and the situation over there is very chaotic, always thinking that I can take them to prevent them from learning badly, but in fact, where can they be bad? It is not easy to survive, the government army has dealt a very hard blow in recent years, and the locals have also rejected us. ”

Chen Kun was a little dull, what is this? Looking up at heaven in hell? Wanting to change the topic, he said, "Can you come back together?" Sister Tang Yuan, have you ever shot a gun?"

Tang Yuan smiled, but smiled a little bitterly: "What about coming back? We haven't read much, and we can't survive at all if we leave there, although it is difficult in the south, we have something to eat." You've asked me if I've ever shot someone, and I've killed more than one person with a gun. Tang Yuan looked serious.

As he spoke, he took out the money from his pocket and handed it to Chen Kun, and said: "When I came, I brought some jadeite and wanted to try it, I could sell it for money, and I could find a way out for everyone, I am not afraid of your laughter, I also sold you the jade pendant that my mother gave to my father for so many days, na, there are three hundred yuan here, you are the grandson of Grandma Zhang, I will give you the jade pendant, but I don't have so much money, I can only give you three hundred." ”

Chen Kun's eyes turned red all of a sudden, as if she had been hit hard at some moment in her heart, no wonder her eyes were so reluctant when Chen Kun took the jade pendant that day, and what kind of point did she sell the jade pendant that her parents had loved, and how grateful she was to Grandma Zhang, who had only invited her to eat a few times, to return the remaining money from the sale of the jade pendant to Chen Kun.

Chen Kun's tears couldn't stop falling, and he couldn't wait to give Tang Yuan all the money in his bag in the morning.

Tang Yuan handed over the money that he would not ask for no matter what, the two argued, Tang Yuan stuffed the money again, Chen Kun's hand shrank, and the money fell to the ground, Tang Yuan was stunned for a moment, hugged his shoulders and slowly squatted down, and suddenly cried, at first the voice was small, and slowly became louder.

Chen Kun also squatted down, slowly sat on the ground, stretched out his hand to hug Tang Yuan's shoulder, and whispered, "Cry, it will be good to cry." ”

Where is there any strength in the world, Chen Kun always believes that there is no one in this world who is born strong, and those so-called invulnerable people are just because they have experienced more things, and they understand that everything must be borne silently by themselves.

Zhang Jiajia once said: "All strong are soft cocoons." You can refuse to put on armor, but you can't stop the cocoon from growing, which is why you become strong. ”

Your face is light and breezy, and no one knows how tight your teeth are. You walk in the wind, and no one knows that you still have bruises on your knees. You laughed heartlessly, and no one knew that you could only cry silently.

There is no invulnerability in the world, but it is just self-deprecation.

In fact, the so-called strength is not to hold on hard, to laugh when crying, but to be thorough when crying, to be happy when laughing, to be incisive when speaking, and not to hesitate when doing it. Even if there is too much helplessness in life, just like Tang Jianguo said: "Being alive is better than anything else." ”

For a seventeen-year-old girl, Tang Yuan has endured too much pain that she should not bear at this age, in a strange environment, she doesn't even have an object to talk to, and at this time, looking at her crying there, she seems so lonely, so wronged, so lonely.

The world passed slowly, and crying gradually turned into sobbing, Tang Yuan raised her head, the little eyes on her little face were already red and swollen into two walnuts, and she cried for so long in the arms of a boy younger than herself, even if she was open-minded, she felt a little embarrassed.

After calming down, Tang Yuan lowered his head and said, "Go back!"

Chen Kun stared at Tang Yuan for a while, picked up the money on the ground and held it in his hand, was silent for a while and said, "Bought the ticket for that day, can you show me?"

Tang Yuan glanced at him strangely, thinking about what to see, but he still took out the ticket and handed it to Chen Kun according to his words. "The day after tomorrow. ”

Chen Kun took the ticket and looked at it, it was difficult to tell what mood he was feeling, the only thing he could be happy about was that he came to his grandmother's house today and met Tang Yuan.

Looking at the ticket, the train ticket the day after tomorrow, it was still a hard seat, Chen Kun used both hands hard, and with a chirp, Chen Kun tore the ticket in half.

"Don't go. Chen Kun stared at Tang Yuan's eyes, ignoring Tang Yuan's flushed face.

Tang Yuan's face was full of anger, if it weren't for Chen Kun is grandson of Grandma Zhang, he would probably beat him, a ticket is 100 yuan, and now every dollar is so important to Tang Yuan.

At this time, Chen Kun continued: "I have partnered with others to open a game machine hall, you can help me manage the accounts, I also just need manpower, I mean seriously, I will open a second store in three months at most, and then a third, when you think the right partner can call over to help, of course, the premise is that you can believe me." ”

Chen Kun knew that he was too young to be convincing, so he looked deeply into Tang Yuan's eyes at this time, and said extremely seriously.

Tang Yuan smiled and said, "Really?"

With a distrustful expression, Chen Kun also knew that it was not convincing, so he patted his head and pulled Tang Yuan to run to his grandmother's house, to make it clear, the money in Chen Kun's bag is estimated to be more convincing than Chen Kun.

When he came to Tang Yuan's room two days later, Chen Kun asked Tang Yuan to wait, ran to the grandmother's room next door, took out his backpack and ran to Tang Yuan's room.

opened the bag in Tang Yuan's puzzled eyes, took out the remaining 20,000 yuan, and the contract for today's game console, slapped it on the table together, and said to Tang Yuan: "Look, this is the contract set today." ”

Tang Yuan saw Chen Kun's serious expression, picked up the contract and looked at it.

At that moment, Chen Kun slowly explained: "Actually, this store is not mine alone, there are several shareholders, I help you is actually you help me, if you want me to give you a salary of 1500 per month, when the time comes to open a branch, I will give you dry shares, try it, the sea of swords and fires have come over, are you afraid of breaking a way for your partners?"

"If you want to think about it, I'll take you to see it tomorrow. Chen Kun continued.