Chapter 385: The veteran doesn't die, he just withers
Qin Yanwu sighed and said, "I don't know you yet? This time, there must be a few boys from the Zhang family who are causing trouble, I can guess with my toes. [Those children are all spoiled, and they have always been arrogant, and this time it can be regarded as giving them a long memory. ”
"And I can see that this kid is probably already giving them face." Qin Yanwu pointed at Wang Zheng with a smile and said, "If he goes all out, I won't be an opponent." ”
"You're wrong." Wang Zheng was really not sure if what Qin Yanwu said was true or not, he couldn't see through the strength of this old man at all.
"But the Zhang family and the Han family can be regarded as stiff." Han Xingye said pitifully: "Grandpa Qin, you have to help me." ”
"Don't think I don't know you've hit me with all the ideas." Qin Yanwu pointed at Han Xingye with a smile and said, "You young people, you are all ghosts, but I, an old man, can't play with you." ”
"Grandpa Qin, how can people be so insidious." Han Xingye put on a slightly embarrassed expression just right.
"Actually, as long as you and Wang Zheng come to Fuzhou, you have already shown your posture, you know, now the old commander doesn't care, the Han family is stronger than the Zhang family, since you are here, it means that the Han family doesn't want to get into trouble with the Zhang family too stiffly, your posture is lowered, so Zhang Yanxing and Zhang Yanchen have to put down the shelf and hurry up to greet them?" Qin Yanwu said with a smile: "Don't pretend to be pitiful anymore, no matter how you and the little brothers and sisters of the Zhang family have a quarrel, it will not affect the final outcome of this matter." ”
"I can't hide anything from you." Han Xingye said a little embarrassed: "Grandpa Qin, you are an old monster. ”
"Little girl, are you praising me or scolding me?" Qin Yanwu said with a smile: "Let's go, go and see your grandfather, his health has been getting worse and worse in the past two years." ”
When Han Xingye heard this, he nodded silently, then put his arm around Wang Zheng and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see your grandfather." ”
"Okay." Wang Zheng nodded very seriously, as a soldier, out of instinctive respect and sense of honor, he also wanted to meet the old general Zhang Huwa, who had galloped on the battlefield.
Without Qin Yanwu taking it, Han Xingye had already dragged Wang Zheng to the two-story building in the center of the garden, which was Zhang Huwa's residence.
Wang Zheng looked at the skinny old man lying on the bed, and felt a little uncomfortable. And Han Xingye sat on the edge of the bed gently, pulling Zhang Huwa's skinny hand, tears rolling in his eyes.
Zhang Huwa was lying on the bed, even in such a hot weather, his body was still covered with a thin blanket, the old man's hair was all white, the sides of his cheeks were deeply sunken, his eyes were tightly closed, and his thinness was distressing.
Zhang Huwa has Alzheimer's disease, coupled with the fact that he was injured too much on the battlefield when he was young, and it broke out in his later years, many diseases together, are rapidly draining the vitality of his body, no one knows how long this old man can last, maybe it can last a year, maybe it will be tomorrow.
No matter how bullish the characters are, they can't always withstand the passage of time. Looking at this old man in his last years, Wang Zheng's mind suddenly sounded a sentence that American five-star General MacArthur said in his farewell speech that veterans do not die, they just wither.
Wang Zheng didn't know how to face this old man, this old general of the founding of the People's Republic of China deserved any degree of respect and admiration, Wang Zheng raised his hand almost instinctively, and his right hand slashed between his eyebrows, saluting his first military salute after leaving the dragon scale troops.
"Grandpa, I'm back." Han Xingye said softly with a crying voice.
The old man lay on the bed, not the slightest reaction.
Wang Zheng could feel that the old general Zhang Huwa's body was extremely weak, and he could no longer withstand any degree of tossing, as if as long as a gust of wind blew, he could take away the weak vitality like a candle flame in this old man's body.
"Grandpa, I've been a soldier in the past six months, and I've gone to Ningxia, if you know, you'll definitely praise me for being good, right?" Han Xingye said with a smile while crying.
"In the past few months, I have been a soldier in Ningxia, in that place, no one knows that my grandfather is Han Baoguo, and no one knows that my grandfather is Zhang Huwa, if you mention the names of the two of you, I'm afraid the head of the Ningxia Military Region will have to come and pour me tea, right?"
"Haha, but I didn't say it, I train like everyone else every day, never be lazy, never flatter the instructor, at the end of the recruit period, I was also rated as an excellent pacesetter, an excellent pacesetter in the entire military region, grandfather, I won glory for you, if you can wake up, I guess you will be happy to drink a big bowl of Lao Baigan, right?"
"I've tanned, I've lost weight, I've grown a little taller, but fortunately my breasts haven't shrunk." After saying this, Han Xingye knew that he had missed his mouth, and he was also amused by himself, so he stuck out his tongue embarrassedly.
The old man on the bed didn't react at all.
"By the way, grandpa, there is another important thing, I brought my boyfriend, can you open your eyes and take a look?" Han Xingye wiped his tears with the back of his hand and said in a choked voice.
Hearing Han Xingye call himself "boyfriend" again, Wang Zheng's heart suddenly had a strange feeling, and when he looked at this little girl with tears in his eyes, Wang Zheng seemed to understand something.
"Grandpa, open your eyes and look at him, he is actually quite handsome, but he is a little flowery, a little bastard, and a little bit doesn't take your granddaughter seriously."
Hearing Han Xingye say that he was a bastard, Wang Zheng was helpless on the side, but Han Xingye cried even more: "Grandpa, open your eyes and help me teach this guy a lesson, why do you say he is such a bastard?" Why don't you understand your granddaughter's mind? ”
When Wang Zheng heard this, he was like being struck by lightning, and looked at Han Xingye who was sitting on the edge of the bed crying in a daze.
Is this a confession?
If so, could there be a more fucked-up confession?
At this moment, Wang Zheng suddenly understood many things, smiled slightly, raised his head, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.
"Grandpa, do you know why I went to the army?" Han Xingye wiped her tears and said: "Because of Wang Zheng, because of this bastard, I suddenly understood in an instant how unbearable my first twenty years were, I understand that there are some things that should be borne by myself, and I need to bear them after all, and it was Wang Zheng who made me brave." ”
"Grandpa, your granddaughter who used to be naughty and like to pull your beard has grown up." Han Xing lay on the bed and sobbed: "Grandpa, can you open your eyes and see?" ”-
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