It was also at this time that the waiter of the hotel knocked on the door, walked up to him and asked, "Mr. Lei, the time is almost up, can you serve the food?" ”

Lei Zhanjun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Serve the food, and by the way, open the ten boxes of wine I brought first." Saying that, Lei Zhanjun said to his comrades-in-arms: "Today, I brought twenty boxes of real special Moutai from the military region, and everyone drank it openly, and took it home if you couldn't finish it!" ”

As soon as everyone heard that there was good wine, they all let out a cheer, and immediately, Lei Zhanjun arranged for nearly 30 of his comrades-in-arms to sit at separate tables.

Zhang Wenhao's family sat at the same table as Lei Zhanjun's family, but the seating arrangement was very interesting, Zhang Xingping and Lei Zhanjun sat together, followed by Lei Zhanjun's wife and Song Huafang, and then Zhang Wenhao and Lei Lei.

After taking a seat, the hotel's service staff pushed several trolleys in, each table had sixteen cold dishes, which had already been prepared, and even the wine that Lei Zhanjun had already pulled from the military region with a truck brought it up, Lei Zhanjun said with a smile: "Everyone pay attention today, sixteen cold dishes, don't worry about hot dishes first, they all open up for me to drink first!" The hot dish starts after 90 minutes! ”

The deafening cheers even startled the waiters, these people are all tough guys who have been on the battlefield, all of them are massive, drinking is their life, not to mention that today is the first gathering of so many people since they were discharged from the army, everyone is excited, and they have long been looking forward to having a drink with these brothers who have lived and died together.

The glass wine glass in the hotel was 250 ml, and the sauce-flavored Moutai wine specially supplied by the military region was 53 degrees, Lei Zhanjun stood up and said to everyone: "Come, brothers!" Fill it all up! ”

"Good!" Everyone also stood up, each pouring their own wine glasses, Lei Zhanjun picked up the wine glasses, and said to Zhang Xingping: "Brother Zhang, everyone's lives here can be said to have been saved by you, without you, there would be no party we have today, this first toast of wine, it's up to you!" ”

Zhang Xingping wanted to shirk it, but everyone else also said the same request, Zhang Xingping looked at the pair of blazing eyes around him, nodded, sighed slightly, and said: "For so many years, I dreamed that I could have today's scene, back then we were all a bunch of hairy boys, and even the only few big brothers who had families and rooms, but they didn't come back alive, but now, each of us has our own family, our own children and our own lives, and now the stability is not easy to come by, If there were no comrades-in-arms and brothers who died in front of us, we would not have the opportunity to enjoy the peaceful life we have now, and the first wine is to pay tribute to those brothers who went with us and fought with us, but could not return with us! ”

Zhang Xingping shrugged his nose and forcibly endured the tears that were about to come out of his eyes, and covered the mouth of the glass with one hand, and slammed the glass on the table with the other hand, not spilling a drop of wine, and then, he raised his glass and said loudly: "Brothers, it's done!" ”

"Smack!" Everyone slammed their glasses on the table, and then shouted at the same time, "It's done! ”

Half a catty of liquor, opened his mouth and was drunk cleanly, Zhang Wenhao's heart was infected, but he looked at the orange juice in his hand, and felt a little nondescript in his heart, but his father said that his wound was not healed, and he was not allowed to drink, so he shook his head helplessly, and just wanted to drink the orange juice in the cup, Lei Lei next to him suddenly raised his glass to himself and said, "Zhang Wenhao, let's touch one." ”

Zhang Wenhao smiled at her, touched the glass lightly, raised his head and drank the orange juice, but muttered a little depressedly: "How good it would be if this was wine"

Although the environment at the scene was noisy, Zhang Wenhao's whispered muttering was still heard by Lei Lei, she pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a low voice: "You are in a special situation today, plus my father doesn't let me drink, so we can only use orange juice instead of wine, in the future, if I have a chance, I will have a good drink with you, by the way, I have a good amount of alcohol." ”

Zhang Wenhao pursed his lips and asked jokingly, "Do you think my alcohol consumption will be bad?" ”

Lei Lei raised her eyebrows and said, "If you have a chance in the future, you will know by comparing them." ”

Zhang Wenhao nodded and said, "Okay, I made a note, and if I have a chance in the future, I will definitely have a drink with you." ”

Lei Lei smiled, then leaned over, lowered his voice and said: "I have the opportunity to teach me combat fighting, after reading your moves just now, I found that taekwondo is simply weak, we used to be higher and straighter than who could kick the legs, but you are thinking about how to kill the other party in the shortest possible time, that feeling, it is really aura." ”

Zhang Wenhao laughed and said: "Isn't taekwondo also very aura? Not only do you practice in a special martial arts field, but you also have to wear specific clothing, and what kind of belt you wear can also distinguish different levels. ”

"Don't say it" Lei Lei shook her head and said with a depressed face: "Now it seems that taekwondo and sanda performances are more serious in nature and good-looking, but they are not real fighting. ”

Once this group of middle-aged men started drinking, they never stopped, they drank three together, the three wines saluted the dead brother, the current life and their hopes for the future, the two middle-aged women looked at this group of boyish crying and laughing men, while shaking their heads helplessly, their hearts were also moved, and the two children were bored with each other's orange juice clinking, and then smelling the rich and tangy sauce wine and swallowing saliva.

Zhang Wenhao has always been afraid that his father will drink too much, because everyone comes to toast with his father, affectionately calling him big brother, even after so many years, he can still see the undisguised gratitude on the faces of these people, and Lei Zhanjun has not escaped, everyone takes turns to toast him, but they are all apologizing to him, apologies should not have been angered by the accidental ambush on Lei Zhanjun.

It seems that for Lei Zhanjun, the forgiveness of these people is his biggest knot, when each of them sincerely expressed their apologies and kindness, Lei Zhanjun cried loudly, even with his wife and daughter Lei Lei also cried silently, they knew that Lei Zhanjun had been entangled in his heart and even struggled for so many years, the countless cries in the dream, the tears curled up in the corner after waking up from countless nightmares, and the countless slaps that slammed into his face, all at this moment, completely away from him.

From then on, they began to reminisce about everyone who had appeared and left in their lives.

Wang Sen was in tears, but with a smile, he played with the glass in his hand, and said, "Do you remember the instructor, that Qilu man, how old was he when we went to the battlefield?" ”

"Thirty-nine!" Zhang Xingping blurted out: "He was thirty-nine years old that year, he had three children, the youngest of whom are now in their thirties, the children are living very well, and they are very filial, unlike other people who have many children, pushing the old people around each other, these three children are snatching the old mother as a treasure, and the other two families are unwilling to live in someone's house for one more day, and now the old sister-in-law is living a good life." ”

"I'd like to see it if I have a chance!" Wang Sen said softly: "The instructor loved me a lot back then, and didn't let me learn to smoke, but after I really learned it, he always replaced the good cigarettes with his filter for my unfiltered ones, and when he was dying, he also said that he would call him Dad, saying that I was about the same age as his eldest son, and I would never hear my son call him Dad."

Saying that, Wang Sen lay on the table and sobbed, his shoulders shook violently, and several people next to him hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him, Zhang Xingping stood up at this time, picked up his wine glass, and said, "Why don't we want to be happy?" Could it be that those brothers of ours left us with nothing but sorrow in the end? ”

In a word, everyone agreed, and then everyone began to deliberately, no longer with sadness to recall everyone who stayed on the battlefield back then, but with a knowing smile, to recall the time with them.

After drinking too much, after the hot dishes, the atmosphere gradually subsided a little, and everyone was no longer simply drinking and toasting and reminiscing about the past, but talked about their current lives.

Some of these people have become businessmen who live a rich life, some like Zhang Xingping, who live an ordinary life that is not deficient and has more than the bottom, and some people have not lived so smoothly.

After drinking and spitting out the truth, when Lei Zhanjun heard that many of his comrades-in-arms were not doing very well now, he made a decision to open a veteran supermarket chain in the city where his comrades-in-arms were located, and handed them over to these comrades-in-arms or family members who had difficulties in life to take care of them, and he gave them fifty percent of the shares.

As soon as these words came out, everyone refused without hesitation, they were unwilling to accept the help of their comrades-in-arms, on the one hand, they didn't want to trouble their comrades-in-arms because of themselves, on the other hand, it was also out of their own hardness and self-reliance concept, and more, they didn't want the brotherhood between comrades-in-arms to be mixed with money.

Lei Zhanjun's wife immediately drew up a very professional business model: she set up a management team, went to the city where these comrades-in-arms are located to investigate, select a site and contact the most suitable and stable source of goods, and then she funded the design and decoration of the store, and the cost of each store was controlled within 500,000 yuan, and the comrades-in-arms did not occupy shares, but occupied fifty percent of the dry shares, and directly distributed dividends from profits.

Even so, those people still didn't want to accept it, and in the end, Zhang Xingping stood up and said very seriously: "If any of you refuse, walk out of this room now, I, Zhang Xingping, will no longer recognize him as a brother from today onwards!" It's hard to be a brother, and you don't let your brother help, so what's the bullshit brother? Without the love of supporting each other, even fox friends and dog friends can't compare! ”

In the end, under Zhang Xingping's strong request, everyone agreed, and that Aunt Xue was unequivocal, immediately took out her mobile phone, recorded their mobile phone numbers and home addresses one by one, and promised that in the future, the supermarket would be opened within a range of no more than three kilometers near their home to give them the greatest convenience.

Such an extraordinary gathering of comrades-in-arms lasted until twelve o'clock in the evening, and each of them drank a lot of wine, but it was rare that each of them was very sober.

Before the end, Lei Lei took out a camera to take a group photo for everyone, Wang Sen hurriedly asked the waiter for a few pieces of A4 printing paper, and repeatedly wrote seven big characters and two punctuation points on it with a signature pen, and nine people held the paper and took a meaningful photo, the photo was taken by the waiter, Zhang Wenhao's family, Lei Zhanjun's family, and their twenty-seven comrades-in-arms were all on the photo.

In the crowd, pieces of A4 paper were connected into a sentence: "We are alive and wonderful!" ”

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I don't know why, after writing this chapter, my mood fluctuates a little, and I suggest you learn about a public welfare activity called "Caring for Veterans", which is very touching and makes people feel guilty for no reason