Carrying a string of a thousand rings of earth red, Lin Xiaoxian jumped into the corridor, three more days is the Chinese New Year's Eve, how can Instructor Lin have to go home for the New Year, while thinking while habitually glancing at the security door of Gong Shouye's house, sure enough, Old Man Gong has been waiting for her at the door for a long time.

Lin Xiaoxian couldn't help but miss Duanmujie in his heart, from the first time Duanmujie saw Gong Shouye, the two hit it off at first sight, and it only took one afternoon to become a year-old friend, Duanmujie basically came to listen to Mr. Gong talk about those past things every day. Lin Xiaoxian was kind to Duanmujie during this time, and let him go upstairs for a meal from time to time, no matter what, it can be regarded as saving Lin Xiaoxian. But at this time, Duanmujie may have been eating and drinking spicy food in that palatial home, and he has long been happy.

"Little fairy, I've been waiting for you for a long time, someone brought me fresh strawberries today, you can eat some." Gong Shouye immediately smiled when he saw Lin Xiaoxian.

"Okay," Lin Xiaoxian thought to herself that I also have strawberries at home, but seeing that Gong Shouye was so happy that the wrinkles on her face opened a lot, she couldn't bear to refuse.

After Lin Xiaoxian entered the house, he put the firecrackers on the shoe rack at the door, looked at the coffee table next to the sofa, and was startled, only to see that the coffee table was full of all kinds of fruits and snacks. Lin Xiaoxian's heart was trembling, seeing that this posture was not listened to for two hours, Old Man Gong would not let her go home.

"Where did we last go?" Old Man Gong took an old-fashioned large teacup, took a sip of tea and was about to start.

"Speaking of ......" Lin Xiaoxian thought for a while, Duanmujie went home a week ago, and she continued to listen to it in the past few days, "It's been seven or four years, when you were an instructor." ”

"Seventy-four years," Old Man Gong said twice, his mood seemed to be depressed all of a sudden, hesitated for a while, and sighed, "What I want to forget most in my life is seventy-four years, and it is the most unforgettable." ”

"What happened to you that year?" Lin Xiaoxian peeled an orange and handed it to Gong Shouye, and the old man shook his hand and let her eat it herself.

"That year, I had the same job as your father, I was an instructor in the special forces, because I was experienced in a hundred battles, and all the people in the army admired me." Gong Shouye's thoughts suddenly returned to that day that he would never forget.

Gong Shouye's special detachment was mainly aimed at jungle operations, and there were seven members plus Gong Shouye as an instructor, a total of eight people, and Gong Shouye was nearly 50 years old. Among the team members was a young man named Li Changguo, who was only 21 years old when he was selected for the special forces, and admired Gong Shouye very much. After half a year of special training, the special forces entered the border jungle at the request of their superiors to hunt down the escaped drug dealers, who were once mercenaries.

The eight members of the squad were divided into three groups, Gong Shouye and Li Changguo in one group. Due to the usual well-trained, the pursuit process was relatively smooth, but the accident still happened, Gong Shouye and Li Changguo were less than a meter apart with their guns, and they were trying to find the last bandit, when they suddenly threw a grenade from a dead corner and landed between the two. According to their training method, when explosives fall in the middle of the team, they should immediately pick them up and throw them, and if they are too late, they should also jump out with the grenade in their arms, and they should sacrifice their egos to keep the other team members safe. Gong Shouye, who had experienced countless wars, didn't know why, he hesitated when he saw the smoking grenade on the ground, and in just two seconds, the young Li Changguo held the grenade in his arms and jumped out with all his might.

Gong Shouye will never forget Li Changguo's flesh-and-blood young body, and what makes him even more unforgivable is that in that stormy era, Gong Shouye could not give up the aura of great achievements, and chose to remain silent about the real reason for Li Changguo's sacrifice. Every time he dreams back at midnight, his soul is deeply torturing himself, why he chose to hesitate at that time, why he chose timidity, why he didn't have the courage to tell the truth. In this way, this old soldier has been tortured for 30 years by the cowardice of the year, especially Gong Shouye is getting older and older, always thinking of the past, and even no longer willing to see his old comrades-in-arms and family.

Speaking of this, Gong Shouye stood up and walked to the closet, took out an old wooden box, and put it on the coffee table.

"I've kept this box for thirty years, but I've opened it five or six times in total," Gong Shouye opened the wooden box and pushed it in front of Lin Xiaoxian on the opposite side.

At this time, Lin Xiaoxian felt that his eyes were wet, turned his head and secretly wiped his eyes, and carefully looked at the contents of the wooden box.

The peach-colored wooden box was worn, and there were several yellowed envelopes with addresses and names written on them, as well as three black-and-white one-inch photos, in which the faces of the people were a little blurred, but it could be seen that two of them were a spiritual guy, and the other was a delicate woman. At the bottom of the box there is also a thumb-sized red jade pendant, worn with a red thread, Lin Xiaoxian picked up the jade pendant and put it in the palm of his hand, gently touched the warm surface with his fingers, and seemed to see the passing time through the ancient jade.

"Li Changguo has a fiancée, the two agreed to wait for the holiday that year to have a lively wedding, but he didn't go back, before he died, he asked me to transfer these letters and love tokens to his fiancée, and I agreed," Gong Shouye took a sip of water and paused for a while, "After transporting his body back to the army, as his superior, I kept his relics, and after getting this wooden box, I was tormented with remorse every day, I was afraid to hear Li Changguo's name, and I didn't want to deal with everything about him, Eight years had passed since I finally had the courage to face it, and I went to look for it later, but the woman at the address had gone somewhere, and then it had been put on hold, and thirty years had passed, and sometimes in my dreams I seemed to hear Lee Chang-guk's hearty laughter and asked me if the things had been delivered. ”

The words that had been blocked in his heart for thirty years were finally spoken, Gong Shouye really felt tired, he thought that he would cry when he told this story, but there were no tears in his eyes, maybe all the tears that should have been shed over the years.

When Lin Xiaoxian returned home, his originally excited mood became very heavy, as a soldier, sometimes life and death and honor and disgrace are only in an instant, Gong Shouye downstairs is like this, and the same is true of Lin Feiyang, who trains day and night in the army.

"I was called by Uncle Gong downstairs to listen to the story again," Shen Qiuman slowly moved over holding his stomach, "I saw you enter the building door in front of the window." ”

"It's not, and it's still a sad plot to listen to today." Lin Xiaoxian sighed involuntarily, it seemed that he was also infected.

After being bored for a while, Lin Xiaoxian shook his head, trying to get rid of this low mood, "I'll hear if my brother is awake," Lin Xiaoxian put his ear to Shen Qiuman's stomach.

"How do you know it's a brother?" Shen Qiuman said with a smile, stroking his round belly, in less than a month, he will meet this child.

"The only fly in the ointment is that Instructor Lin has been at home for too short a time during this time, and he hasn't been with you and the child in his belly well." Lin Xiaoxian pouted.

"I've long been used to it, and from the moment I decided to live with him, I knew that Feiyang would not belong to me, he only belonged to the army." Shen Qiuman looked out the window and said faintly.

"That's right," Lin Xiaoxian nodded resignedly, "Lin Feiyang's soul is not a lover, but a soldier." ”

The mother and daughter were chatting, and suddenly heard the sound of the door lock turning slightly, Lin Xiaoxian felt that something was not right, Lin Feiyang said in the morning that he would not come back today, and it was not the sound of normal unlocking when he listened carefully. Lin Xiaoxian used gestures to tell Shen Qiuman to speak normally, and Shen Qiuman also noticed it, forced himself to calm down, and continued to talk as he did just now.

Lin Xiaoxian lowered her pace, walked to the door gently, glanced at it from the cat's eye, startled her, there was a man with a peaked cap outside the door who was gently fiddling with the door lock, Lin Xiaoxian was sure that this person was definitely not Lin Feiyang, her heart suddenly rose to her throat, and her palms were sweating.

"Instructor Lin, how many times have you told you, every time you finish cooking, clean up the garbage in the kitchen." After thinking for a while, Lin Xiaoxian shouted loudly, "Don't say that you will hide on the balcony, I will arrest you." ”

Sure enough, as Lin Xiaoxian expected, the sound of churning the door lock stopped, Lin Xiaoxian listened carefully, and heard the footsteps of gently going downstairs, she glanced through the cat's eye again, and the man with the cap just now was gone.

Lin Xiaoxian let out a sigh of relief, and didn't have time to comfort Shen Qiuman, so he quickly locked the door twice, and then rushed to the phone and dialed Lin Feiyang's phone.

An hour later, the anxious Lin Feiyang returned home, and after seeing with his own eyes that Shen Qiuman's mother and daughter were all right, he finally let go of the heart that had been hanging, he asked Lin Xiaoxian to repeat the whole story carefully, he couldn't help frowning, hesitated for a while, he walked to the balcony and closed the door to talk to his superiors on the phone.

Looking at Lin Feiyang's abnormal behavior, Shen Qiuman and Lin Xiaoxian both felt that things seemed to be more serious than they imagined.

About ten minutes later, Lin Feiyang returned to the house and said with a serious expression: "Today's matter should not be an ordinary thief sneaking the door and picking the lock, I have asked for instructions, I can tell you, and then we may move." ”

"I'm moving again, Dad, I just got into a certain relationship with this old house, and I started to listen to my mother, and I went into the house to change my slippers, and I'm moving out again?" The key to Lin Xiaoxian is that she feels sorry for Shen Qiuman's big belly, and she will give birth soon.

"I'm sorry, I know your mother's situation now, and I know that you will have to take the college entrance examination in a few months, but the matter is really serious. Ten years ago, I led a squad to capture a group of fugitives, and their leader resisted with guns, and I shot him in the head and killed him instantly. A few days ago, the intelligence officer informed that the younger brother of this leader had brought people into the country and might do a big case to avenge his brother by the way. If he wants revenge, the first target is me. Lin Feiyang thought about it again and again and decided to tell the mother and daughter the details, so that they could better prevent the problem from happening.

"That's right." Lin Xiaoxian looked at Shen Qiuman.

Shen Qiuman came over and held Lin Feiyang's cold hands, the fright just now must have been more nervous than their mother and daughter, "Xiaoxian and I are both at your disposal, we are safe, and you can rest assured." ”

Lin Feiyang held Shen Qiuman's hands tightly, "Thank you, you have given me too much, but I have never given you a stable life." ”

"You want to stay until the long night, and now we should discuss what we should do." Lin Xiaoxian almost went up and pulled away the clasped hands of the two.

"I asked my superiors for instructions, and they attached great importance to it, so that you should move to the army dormitory, although it is small but safe, do not leave the scope of activities of the army before the matter is over, and try not to contact others, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble." Lin Feiyang's expression was very serious, it wasn't that he was a soldier, these desperate people have always been crazy to achieve their goals.

"That means I can't connect with my friends and I can't go to school until you catch them." Lin Xiaoxian's eyes widened, and the answer he got was Lin Feiyang's categorical nod.

After dinner, Lin Xiaoxian packed up his books and exercise books, and during this time, he relied on himself to review, and Lin Feiyang knocked on the door and came in.

"It's all packed." Lin Feiyang handed Lin Xiaoxian a glass of milk, "Thank you today." ”

"What do the family say, thank you, nervous about you." Lin Xiaoxian took the milk.

"Do you know, in our army, people like me don't want to get married, do you know why?" Lin Feiyang sat on the edge of the bed.

"I don't have time to go home to spend time with my wife and children." Lin Xiaoxian said with a smile.

"No, because I was afraid of weakness, my hands kept shaking on the way back from my drive just now," Lin Feiyang looked at Lin Xiaoxian, "So, I ask you, no matter when, protect yourself, your mother, and our future children." ”

"I will, I will." Lin Xiaoxian drank the milk in one gulp and handed the empty cup to Lin Feiyang, "Can I talk to Tian Tian and them, I may not be able to call for a while." ”

"Absolutely." Lin Feiyang went out with the cup.

Lin Xiaoxian sighed in her heart, picked up her mobile phone and left a message for a few friends.