Chapter 89, I understand
Since he could only watch from a distance and not play blasphemous, Li He sighed in his heart and turned his gaze to Kuang Xingyuan, who was lying on the hospital bed. He was also very curious about what kind of person Kuang Xingyuan was, when he rescued him that day, he was still covered in mud and blood, which was not his original face.
At this time, Kuang Xingyuan was lying on the elevated hospital bed, with bandages on his forehead and plaster on his arms, but his eyes had regained their due brilliance.
Just by looking at it, Li He was sure that the Kuang family had a military background, because Kuang Xingyuan's square face was full of the kind of fortitude that he grew up in the military camp since he was a child, and was even abandoned by the old man at the grassroots level for several years.
It's not really that he is in a good mental state, but he uses willpower to make up for his physical weakness. Compared with his knife-like eyebrows and the bridge of his nose, there is no lack of warmth in the depth of his eyes, especially when he and Li He look at each other, his gaze does not have any sense of scrutiny, unlike Xu Hongcheng, when he sees Li Jie and Li He's father and son, he seems to be eager to cut their skin to see what the soul of the father and son looks like, when Kuang Xingyuan looks at Li He, there is only one simplest gratitude in his eyes.
"Sit. Kuang Xingyuan raised his left hand, which was not hanging from the plaster, and pointed to a chair next to the bed, and said naturally, as if he had known Li He for a long time, and said, "Xiaorou, please go and wash a few fruits for Li He." Situ Xiaorou and Xu Hongcheng both called Li He "classmate Li He", but Kuang Xingyuan called him by his name, which seemed to be a little simple and rude, but it also lacked the politeness of the former, and many times politeness is estrangement.
Washing fruit is such a thing, Xu Hongcheng can do it, let Situ Xiaorou do it himself, and also show respect for Li He, and Xu Hongcheng has automatically avoided it at this time, no matter what Kuang Xingyuan and Li He say, how long they say, he just needs to wait in the corridor outside.
Li He didn't know what to say to Kuang Xingyuan at this time, he often felt that his father was not good at interacting with people, and at this time he realized that he was not much better, he could only say that compared to himself in his previous life, his current self is much more confident, but after all, there is still a long way to go, and there are still a lot of things to learn.
However, if you are too good at it, it may not be a good thing.
"This is the second time I've narrowly escaped death. Kuang Xingyuan didn't care about Li He's crampedness and confusion, just smiled slightly, and as soon as he spoke, Li He's curiosity was raised, and then he said casually: "The last time was outside Lao Cai in Vietnam, the tank I was in was hit by a Soviet-made RPG rocket, hit the side, do you know? The armor on the side of the tank is relatively weak, I thought I was dead, in fact, several of my comrades died, and I was seriously injured, but miraculously escaped from the bottom escape door." ”
"Have you ever been on the battlefield?" Li He was a little surprised, although he guessed that Kuang Xingyuan's family would most likely throw him to the grassroots level of the army for training, but he didn't expect to throw him directly on the battlefield. Calculating age, Kuang Xingyuan was about 18 years old when the war broke out on the southern border, and it was still logical for him to appear on the battlefield, but he was too ruthless, and he was really willing. Like Li He's father Li Jie, he is very opposed to Li He's risk of saving people, maybe the times are different, and people's ideological realms are different.
"No need to say 'you', feel free, I should be a few years younger than your father, you can call me Uncle Kwong. Kuang Xingyuan smiled faintly and said, "Yes, I participated in the counterattack against Vietnam, and I didn't retreat until I recovered Laoshan in 84." However, except for the fact that I almost died in the tank when I first entered the battle, I was lucky in the subsequent battles, and I did not suffer even minor injuries. When I got out of the tank, I felt like I was out of my body, and I knew that as a party member, I was supposed to be a staunch materialist, but I really felt that way at the time. I seemed to see myself floating, looking back and seeing myself covered in blood, but in medical terms, it could have been a hallucination after confusion. ”
Li He looked at Kuang Xingyuan quietly, in fact, he wanted to say, it was really not necessarily an illusion, when he was drunk and hit the washbasin headlong, and saw his head full of blood flowing out, he also had a feeling of being out of his body for a moment, if it wasn't for the fact that he returned to his 16-year-old self immediately afterward, would he just watch his blood drain away, and then leave his body and leave this world in a flutter?
Kuang Xingyuan paused for a moment, and he found that Li He understood what he meant. This made his eyes full of surprise, the feeling of being out of his body, Kuang Xingyuan rarely said it to people, but even the closest people around him actually didn't believe him when he said such a feeling. But Li He not only believed him, but also seemed to understand this feeling, which made Kuang Xingyuan a little surprised. After a pause, he added, "Then I thought, maybe I died like my comrades, but for some unknown reason, I came back to life. ”
Li He thought for a while and asked, "You mean, you came back from the dead?"
This time, Kuang Xingyuan didn't correct the honorifics used by Li He, and there was a confusion in his resolute eyes, and he shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, I don't know." But since then, I have a little bit of a light view of life and death, and I always feel that I have picked up this life, and I will not lose anything. On the battlefield, I was known for not being afraid of death, and I also made a lot of contributions, but after recovering Laoshan in 84, I suddenly didn't want to stay in the army, my old man lost his temper, I debated with him for three days and three nights, and finally he very reluctantly agreed to my transfer to the place. Otherwise," Kuang Xingyuan smiled, pointed to the collar of his hospital gown and said, "I may be the youngest general in our army now." ”
Li He also smiled, this possibility completely exists, and even when he arrived at the place, Kuang Xingyuan walked very fast, after all, there are very few 37-year-old deputy halls. In fact, every teenager has a heroic dream, although Li He was very mixed in his previous life, but when he was very young, he also thought about being an uncle of the People's Liberation Army, holding a steel gun to protect his family and defend the country. So at this time, he naturally said: "When I was a child, what I wanted to do most was a battle hero like you. ”
Kuang Xingyuan shook his head and said with a serious expression: "The battlefield is not a place worth aspiring to, and no matter what kind of imagination people have not experienced, it is more of a misunderstanding. ”
Well, Li He didn't want to talk about the battlefield either, so he asked: "Then why do you have to go to another place? If you are tired of the battlefield and are transferred to other military regions to stay away from the battlefield." ”
Kuang Xingyuan smiled and said, "My old man said the same thing at the time, after all, many people in our family are in the army. Including Xiaorou, don't look at her as if she is soft and weak, in fact, more than half a year ago, she was still a major of the Airborne Forces, but she is not a showman of the art troupe, if you shake hands with her just now, you will find that her palms are calloused, in terms of marksmanship, she is only a little worse than me. ”
Li He Khan said in his heart, Uncle, are you testing me? You still hold her hand firmly? But Airborne Troops, this S-class beauty is really not an ordinary person, can grasp this kind of extremely scarce resources in the army, uncle, what do you really think is that you are not an ordinary person, right?
Regarding Li He's question, Kuang Xingyuan thought for a while and then said: "As for why I have to leave the army and move to the locality. I thought at the time, if I died with my comrades when the tank was hit, of course there would be no future. But I survived, and I had a strange feeling, as if there was some force that had laid the trajectory of my life in the dark, and if I continued to stay in the army, I could only follow this trajectory, and this thought became stronger and stronger in my mind, so I decided to jump out, jump out of this trajectory, and see what possibilities my life would have. I say that, do you understand?"
Li He said quietly: "I understand." ”
If you change people, most of them will think that Kuang Xingyuan's idea is pretending.
In fact, this is really the case, the so-called fate lay-out, the so-called pre-arranged life trajectory, for many people, everything in the dark is not an invisible and untouchable force, but his father. Who his father is is the key to determining the trajectory of his life.
A family like Kuang Xingyuan has deep roots in the military system, and as long as he stays in the army, he is destined to go faster and farther than others, and I don't know how many people envy him. However, he said that he wanted to jump out of such a life trajectory, if he didn't pretend to be forced, he would be Wenqing.
I don't know what others will think of Li He, but Li He knows what Kuang Xingyuan means.
This is not the kind of middle school teenager with a good family background and good conditions, crying and shouting to get rid of the shackles of the family, while enjoying the bus tickets, connections and everything provided by the family, this is really different.
Li He said: "What you want to break free from is an indescribable power, whether it is fate, reincarnation, in short, a mysterious power beyond our imagination." And this kind of power can't simply be called ghost deism or idealism, maybe it's actually a natural force, just like the ancients often said that the mandate of heaven, 'heaven' is certainly not a real sign, but some kind of cycle. Actually, you don't really want to get rid of it, you want to try to jump out of the original trajectory, whether you can turn around and see some kind of clue. Even if you have also experienced life and death, you can't say something that you can't say, it's not a matter of expressive ability, it's a matter of cognitive limits.