"War is far more cruel than what is described in film and television dramas, a country and a nation, but anyone who can have a little respect for citizens will not easily set off a war, the cruelty of war makes people shudder, you can never imagine how terrifying the scene of corpses on the battlefield is......" The old man looked at a cigarette again, revealing his incomparable disgust and fear of war from his tone and expression, Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't help but secretly wonder in his heart, grandpa wouldn't be a deserter on the battlefield, right? That's why I'm so afraid of war, and see which of those heroes is not a success.

"I know what you want? When you are desperate to escape from the battlefield, bullets and bombs will chase you, only by bravely facing the enemy, bravely hanging up the bayonet and charging into battle, you can have a chance to live. Film and television dramas should promote a positive image, pay attention to violence and gore, bombs blow up a person to death, do you think it's just flying corpses and blood? Do you think you will always defeat the enemy with one blow when fighting with a bayonet?

Stumps and broken arms, ears, eyes, noses, pieces of minced meat splash on you, when one accidentally flies into your mouth, when you watch your intestines, heart, liver and lungs being blown out and flowing all over the ground, when you watch the brains appear in front of you, even if you are bold to the extreme, you will be disgusted and resist, and gradually reject, and eventually this rejection will become your disgust to step on the battlefield.

War, always cruel to the extreme, there is nothing to talk about here, killing is the only way to talk, life is the only bargaining chip on the table, when you don't know what death is, you will always feel that the corpses are everywhere You stand alone at the top and achieve immortality with ten thousand dry bones is glory, the real generals are really the commanders who survived on the battlefield, they have nothing but tears, even if they achieve an unprecedented victory, what is the price? A bone pit that has not grown for several years, a corpse that is not even recognizable in appearance, and a corpse that cannot be completely corpsed when it is dying.

War has always been a slaughterhouse for careerists, no real soldier will be eager to go to the battlefield, because they know that once on the battlefield there will be countless brothers and sisters who will die forever, when you don't understand a thing, don't trust other people's eyes and ears, and don't easily believe your own eyes and ears, this world has too many seemingly simple areas that you can never explore.

I've heard people say that don't think of yourself as smart and don't think of everyone else as fools. War is not as simple as you think, and it is not the truth that everyone is talking about, and the people who really understand war, only those who have really experienced countless battles of blood and fire, want to know or understand something, and do it yourself, otherwise most of what you know is just a superficial surface. ”

The old man's words reveal a vicissitudes of life, a rich and irresolvable bloody sadness, through his dictation, Cheng Xiaoyu saw a bloody picture of life, there are no tragic heroes, there are no successes and failures, and there is no glory of the victor The frustration of the loser, some are just the memories of life, some are just disgusted with war, some are just the humility and weakness under the cruelty and blood, and some are just the desire for peace. The heavy emotions made Cheng Xiaoyu ignore the fact that his grandfather, a peasant who only knew a few words and had little culture, could say such a lot of truthful words.

The grandfather and grandson didn't sleep all night, chatting from one o'clock to four o'clock, many times one person said again, and the other listened again, and from time to time there would be a brief silence, and they fell into their own thoughts, and they were in high spirits without the slightest sleepiness.

The old man didn't want to hide anything when he opened his mouth, he told his grandson about the cruelty of war and the hard-won peace from the perspective of not revealing the identity of the characters in the story, so that he should cherish today's life and cherish the current era of peace. Don't look at the old man has not left the village several times for decades, but he still has an understanding of some phenomena and social forms in today's society. The dead in war are real knives and real guns, and in today's society, the materialistic dead are invisible soft knives, and many times you don't know how you died.

The old man told Cheng Xiaoyu that if you want to live a personal life in today's society, the first thing you need to do is to defend yourself against others, and it is very simple to understand that you don't trust others easily, and Cheng Xiaoyu is very puzzled by self-defense, if people are even on guard against themselves, what is left?

"Self-defense is not for you to defend yourself, but for you to think about the problem from a different perspective, if you are an outsider to this matter, what will you think or do? Don't frown, in China, with a population of more than one billion, how many people can defend themselves? ”

The old man saw his grandson's thoughtful and confused expression, and knew that he was a little touching when he talked about his past experience today, and what he said was a little excessive, which was not at the level of a little old man in a rural area, and his grandson's age and experience must be incomprehensible, so he opened his mouth to comfort a few words.

There was a little bit of hazy light outside, the old man and Cheng Xiaoyu sat up and got dressed, and Cheng Laoshi and his wife in the East House also got up, lit a fire and boiled water to wash.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, if anyone's chimney rises late, the villagers will accuse the family of being lazy and industrious.

Before I finished washing up and eating, the footsteps outside had already sounded, the old man was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the kang, Cheng Laoshi was also sitting on the edge of the kang, and the kang table was full of melons, fruits, pears, peaches, peanuts, candies, and cigarettes.

"Dad, it's a New Year's greeting for you."

The door opened, and Cheng Laoshi, who was in his early sixties, went up the mountain, but he didn't see his father and went to his younger brother to look for it, and when he saw that his father was really at his brother's house, he didn't say a word, and after the New Year's greetings, he knelt down in front of the door on his knees, and kowtowed to his father three times before getting up and walking into the house.

Cheng Xiaoyu was also sitting on a chair in the room at this time, and saw the uncle come in and say a good New Year, the moment that really belongs to him for the New Year is not here, but to go to the uncle's house for a while to pay New Year's greetings, this is the rule, even if the uncle can come to the door at this moment, he could have paid New Year's greetings directly.

"Big brother, come and smoke." Cheng Laoshi lit a cigarette for the eldest brother first, and then gave up the position close to his father to the eldest brother, not to mention the brothers and sisters, there is no doubt about the filial piety of the old man, Cheng Laoshi is so honest and listens to his daughter-in-law in everything, in the matter of treating her father, Wang Xiumei does not dare to touch the bottom limit of her husband, and she is very filial to the old man.

"Dad, let's go to my house to eat today, boy, they are all back, the old pimple just gave birth to a big child, you always give me a name." Brother Cheng sat beside his father respectfully, and opened his mouth to invite, which was also a way to conceive for a long time, and his grandson was born for more than two months, and he waited for the New Year to invite his father without a name.

The old man paused, nodded and hummed softly.

There was another sound of footsteps outside, Brother Cheng stood up and said goodbye, there were still a few older elders in the village who still needed him to pay New Year's greetings.