The distance from the provincial capital to Jiangbei City is only 400 kilometers, and now the railway transportation is up to two hours, and it can be reached in two hours by EMU, but Deputy Commander Luo chose a green train with the cheapest ticket, and a group of migrant workers, township and town enterprise salesmen crowded together, and sat for five hours before arriving in Jiangbei City.

After arriving in Jiangbei City at twelve o'clock in the evening, Xiao Li's stomach was already rumbling after coming out of the train station at six o'clock in the evening, but he had already strictly fulfilled his accusation, and followed Deputy Commander Luo's side with a vigilant gaze that glanced around.

Deputy Commander Luo stood in front of the railway station square and looked at the night scene of Jiangbei City after the snow, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's changed, it's really changed." ”

Taxi Xiao Li sat in the front row, Deputy Commander Luo sat in the back seat and instructed the driver: "Go to Gaotupo." ”

The taxi driver moved the car and asked casually: "You are from other places, if you have relatives and friends living in Gaotupo, you can be considered unlucky." ”

Deputy Commander Luo was very interested and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"Alas, don't mention the high soil slope, the ** price is only 15oo, it is spread everywhere, this big open is too dark, so good to eat meat by yourself, not even a mouthful of soup for people to drink, this world ......"

The broken-mouthed taxi driver chattered endlessly, but Deputy Commander Luo was already silent, holding the military newspaper in his hand, and sighed in his heart, Brother Guo, you are not having a good time.

It didn't take much effort for the taxi to drive to a shantytown, the front street façade house has begun, the window glass has been smashed, there are big words written everywhere, the road has also been dug up, various pipelines are exposed, the street lights are dim, some people who come home from work carefully push their bicycles, for fear of falling into the pit.

After paying the driver, the two got out of the car, and Deputy Commander Luo politely stopped a female student after school and asked, "Little classmate, do you know this person in the newspaper?" ”

The very beautiful girl took a look at it and said, "It's Grandpa Guo, I know him." ”

"Where can you find him?"

The girl stretched out her slender jade fingers: "Go forward, turn left and turn right, forget it, it's so dark, I'll take you there." ”

After walking for a while, the girl said, "This is it." After saying that, he got on the bicycle and left, and Deputy Commander Luo said to her back: "Thank you, little girl." Slowly turned around and looked at Uncle Guo's shack not far away.

It was a simple little shed made of broken bricks and linoleum, asbestos tiles and broken wood, which could only shelter from the wind and snow on this cold night, and at seven o'clock in the evening it was the warm moment when the people had just returned home from work and every family was preparing dinner, but in this cold and broken shack, there was only a dim lone lamp, and the cold wind was blowing fiercely, and the colored striped cloth pressed by the bricks on the shack seemed to want to pour in from every crevice.

Just as Deputy Commander Luo was looking at this small shack, a young man with a flat head came over vigilantly and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Deputy Commander Luo turned his head to look at the young man and pointed his finger at the young man and asked: "I remember you, you are stationed in the anti-aircraft artillery brigade in Lengxi, your name is Lin Hao, you were the first place in the five-kilometer weight-bearing cross-country race of the brigade that year, when did you retire from the army?" Why didn't you turn to a non-commissioned officer? ”

The young man was stunned for a moment, and looked at Deputy Commander Luo carefully, as if he couldn't believe his eyes: "You are...... Luo ......" Suddenly, he raised his hand and saluted, saying, "Report that I was discharged from the army last year, and I was squeezed out of the qualifications for transfer to non-commissioned officers. ”

"Hmm." Deputy Commander Luo wrinkled his brows, and the bad local atmosphere was sometimes more serious in the troops, and as a senior leader, it was difficult for him to pay attention to the question of the whereabouts and stays of ordinary soldiers, and the deputy commander could only be helpless in this kind of matter.

Deputy Commander Luo motioned for him to put his hand down and said, "I came to visit my old comrades-in-arms for private matters, so I don't need to salute, what are you doing here?" ”

"Report that I was ordered to protect Uncle Guo who repaired the car. On duty. ”

"Oh, whose order are you?"

"The report is on the orders of Manager Liu of Red Star Company."

"Okay, you can continue to be on duty."

"Yes!"

Deputy Commander Luo asked Xiao Li to stand nearby and guard himself, and slowly walked over alone, and when he arrived at the door of the shack, he stood for a long time, speechless, choking on the colored striped cloth of the window, behind a white old man was sitting in front of the briquette stove cooking, I don't know what was stewed in the steel pot, the stove was not hot, he sighed, went to get the fan, and suddenly the hand that stretched out froze and looked at the deputy commander Luo outside without speaking.

"Report Platoon Commander! The soldier of the first squadron of Unit 597, Luo Kekegong, is here! Deputy Commander Luo suddenly said impassionedly, and at the same time raised his right hand and saluted.

Uncle Guo slowly stood up, lifted the color striped cloth, looked at Deputy Commander Luo, and the two looked at each other silently for a long time, and suddenly the four hands clasped tightly together, and then hugged each other fiercely.

"Won't the old platoon commander invite me in and sit?" Deputy Commander Luo asked with a smile.

"Come in, I'm smiling." Uncle Guo let the guests into his own small shack, the low shack made the tall General Luo feel a little cramped, the bed made of bricks and door panels was spread with bedding, small briquettes were stewed on the stove with rice and leftovers, in addition to some car repair tools, a few inner tubes hung on the wall, the pump leaned behind the door, and a cute puppy heard the movement, opened his sleepy eyes, got up and came to the master's side to beg for food.

"Old platoon leader, is this your home? The conditions are too hard, and you've suffered all these years. Deputy Commander Luo took off his hat and sat on the pony and sighed.

"Get used to it." Uncle Guo said lightly, took out a cigarette and gave it to Deputy Commander Luo, and it happened that the other party also smoked the same cigarette, Zhongnanhai and the two laughed and lit their own cigarettes.

"The old platoon commander Xu Political Commissar passed away just yesterday." Deputy Commander Luo puffed out a puff of smoke and said.

Uncle Guo just nodded, didn't speak, and filled a small bowl of rice to beckon the puppy to eat.

"He told me a secret on his deathbed, and the responsibility for the failed top-secret operation thirty years ago was that his Einsatzgruppen had the wrong information from the beginning, and it was hit by the enemy's gun, so the handling of you is unjust."

What shocked Deputy Commander Luo was that Uncle Guo didn't even blink his eyelids when he heard such shocking news, and continued to be busy feeding his puppy.

"What? You already knew? Deputy Commander Luo asked.

"I knew it right then."

"Why don't you say it! Do you want to endure this unjustified injustice? Deputy Commander Luo couldn't bear the indignation in his heart and stood up excitedly.

"He is responsible, but the key is that I made a mistake in command, the organization trusted me, and my comrades entrusted their lives to me, but I failed to live up to them, and I should bear this responsibility." Uncle Guo continued to keep his face unchanged.

"But ......"

"No, but it's a man who should be held responsible, and ...... Lao Xu's child and little wife have just joined the army and can't withstand the wind and waves. ”

"So you carry it for him! This black cauldron has been carried for thirty years! Old platoon commander Guo Yuanchao! You're simply! Deputy Commander Luo twisted his body angrily, and he wanted to pace back and forth to vent his anger, but the shack was too small to even have room to turn around, and he had no choice but to pace, so he just clicked and smoked vigorously.

"Forget it, Lao Xu is also dead, and you are also old, I will give you an explanation for this. Have you eaten? I haven't eaten it yet, I haven't eaten it either, let's go together. Deputy Commander Luo couldn't help but shout outside: "Xiao Li! ”

"Yes!"

"Go buy food and drinks."

Uncle Guo hurriedly persuaded: "Don't send other people's children, if you want to buy something, there is a shop next door." ”

"That's right." Deputy Commander Luo pushed the door out and went to the shop next door to buy a lot of ham sausages, braised chicken wings, tea eggs, dried tofu, and two pot heads.

The shop owner and Uncle Guo are good friends, as soon as they heard that the other party was Lao Guo's comrade-in-arms, he said that he would not charge anything, and Deputy Commander Luo was not a hypocritical person, so he put away the money and invited the shop owner to drink together, and the other party readily agreed, plus Xiao Li and a puppy, in Uncle Guo's leaky shack, started a unique dinner.

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Hu Ye drank very happily today, he was only drunk at ten o'clock at night, and came out of the golden brilliance to see, Jin Lao called Lao Qi again: "Old Seven, don't forget, you kid, you must settle things for me tonight, I don't care if you kill people, set fire to it or kowtow, you must get those two old guys out, do you hear?" ”

Lao Qi replied with a smile: "Brother Hu, you drank too much again, didn't you call and arrange it just now, the brothers are all ready, you can do this tonight, you can go back to sleep with confidence." ”

Tiger Master slowly put away his mobile phone, his Cayenne rubbed his eyes, and hiccuped, although it was a little big, but his mind was still sober, only a pound of three taels of liquor, he wanted to put down Tiger Master, how could it be so easy, he muttered quietly, the car left the golden parking lot, the weather was cold, and there seemed to be snowflakes floating in the sky, Tiger Ye turned the car to snow mode, and slowly drove Jiangbei City at night, and there was silence in Jiangbei City, and fine snowflakes were raised under the light of the bright lights.

"When it goes down, you know that it's snowing, why don't you freeze to death that gang of people who want food." Tiger Ye muttered a dozen steering wheels, Cayenne entered a high-end community in Binjiang, where there is a property in his name, and also maintains a female student from an art academy who lives here all year round.

After getting off Cayenne, the tiger master yawned a lot, full of alcohol, and turned around, the dead Nizi was going to force himself to take a bath again, and he took a bath, but it was fun to wash together, and the tiger master's mind was full of messy things, and he didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark.

A gust of wind struck, and as soon as the tiger master subconsciously turned around, he saw a rectangular object in Heiwuwu slapping on his face, he was very familiar with this thing, and it could be seen everywhere on the construction site.

This kind of thing is called a brick.