At this time, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard door, and Li Guizi put down his rice bowl and went to open the door. After a while, I went back to the house, and while dressing, I said: "There is an emergency supply for North Korea, and the leader arranged for me to be the captain of this trip." It's going to take about five or six days! ”

Li Guizi put on his road clothes, took a few mouthfuls of food, kissed his son's little face, and went out of the house with the street lamp. Xiulian hugged her son and sent her out of the door, and said reluctantly: "Pay attention to safety, go early and return early!" ”

Li Guizi walked out of the courtyard and turned around, and said to Liang Guocheng, who was following behind: "Try not to go out these days." If someone asks, just say my cousin, come to visit relatives. ”

After Li Guizi finished speaking, he touched his son's head and walked away. Liang Guocheng suddenly felt as if something was missing, and there was a feeling of decline in his heart. I felt that there was no safety in North Korea, and my life would be in danger at any time. Now he has returned to China after a lot of hardships. The information I got from having dinner with Li Guizi Wang Tiesuo at noon was also in danger when I returned to China, and I could be arrested as a traitor at any time.

Thinking carefully about the ordeal in North Korea, who would believe that after being seriously wounded, he still led the martyr to fight against the enemy. Who would believe that there are ideological complaints about being abandoned by the motherland when they are in North Korea, and they are determined to return to the motherland; Isn't that contradictory? Thinking of this, he shuddered, if he was arrested by the political and legal organs, if no one believed the appeal, he might be regarded as a spy who had sneaked home as a traitor, and he would probably be sentenced to death.

He now feels embattled, whether in North Korea or in China, there is no safe place for him to stand in such two large countries. It suddenly occurred to him that it was no wonder that Li Guizi left his heart empty. It turned out that he had a sense of crisis in his heart, and subconsciously regarded Li Guizi as a patron saint and his home as a safe harbor. Li Guizi has to walk for five or six days to go to work, just like the army barracks, without comrades-in-arms, no matter how safe the barracks are, it will be empty; Although he has Li Guizi's daughter-in-law, he can't be safe.

Back in the house, two strange men and women under one roof are inevitably embarrassed. A small window is left on the partition wall between the outhouse and the inner room, and in order to save oil, the small kerosene lamp is placed on the windowsill, so that both rooms can have bright light. Liang Guocheng sat on the edge of the kang, Xiulian held the child in the other corner of the kang out of politeness, and chatted with him without a word. Later, I really couldn't find a topic, so I put the child on the kang and let him take a look, in fact, I asked the child to accompany him, and she went to the outhouse to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Xiulian tried to work as slowly as possible, but there was always time to clean up. Xiulian looked around the hall, there was no reason to be here anymore. I went out of the house and looked at the moon, just liberated, most of the people have no clocks, look at the sun during the day, the moon and stars at night, and the time is accurate.

She went back to the house to pick up the child, and said to the child, and also let Liang Guocheng listen: "Baby! Is it good to play with your uncle? Uncle is tired of the day, let Uncle rest early! ”

There is a kerosene lamp with a glass cover at home, Xiulian wants to take the child at night, and after pushing it, Xiulian took the child and took the lamp back to the east room. It was instantly dark in the west room, although there were small windows when the house was built, but because the window openings were made of waste paper, and the walls of the houses were made of rammed earth half a meter thick, the moonlight could not shine in at all.

He felt the darkness and got into the quilt, and there was always some uneasiness in his heart. With safety issues, he can be discharged from the hospital less, and he has to face Li Guizi's daughter-in-law for several days, this strange woman, and for some reason there is a fear in his heart. When he was alone with Young-hee on his first night in North Korea, he only felt uneasy about the difference between men and women. It is said that a man, facing a woman who is alone at home, should be inconvenient at most, I don't know why I am afraid? It will take five or six days like this, and I don't know how to get through these days!

The next day, Xiulian seemed to be fine, and got up early to prepare food for him. Liang Guocheng took the bowl and served the dishes with a restrained attitude, and ate with his head bowed carefully. Don't look up at Xiulian, and try to avoid eye contact with her. Even Xiulian saw that he was too restrained, and persuaded him to let go a little bit, and not to make himself look like a woman with small feet!

Someone knocked on the door in the afternoon, and Liang Guocheng was a little frightened. Xiulian asked him not to come out of the house, went out and opened the courtyard door, and it was Wang Tiesuo who came in. At first glance, he was an old acquaintance, and he didn't even recognize Li Guizi's son, and asked Wang Tiesuo to hug him with his small hand.

Liang Guocheng came out, Wang Tiesuo frowned and waved him into the house. It turned out that Wang Tiesuo received a report from the masses that Li Guizi's family had a living person. At that time, if you wanted to go to the border to visit relatives, you had to have a certificate of the place where your household registration was located. When you arrive at a relative's house at the border, you should immediately go to the local police station to report your temporary household registration.

Because Liang Guocheng was smuggled, he did not have his original address, let alone a letter of introduction, so he could not apply for a temporary household registration. He and Li Guizi, who were also old comrades-in-arms, had not seen each other for a long time, and with the passion between their comrades-in-arms, sympathized with his suffering in North Korea, believed his words, especially Li Guizi, and brought him home.

This is actually a hidden danger between him and Li Guizi, in case what he said about his suffering in Korea is a lie, or he is captured and betrayed. He and Li Guizi became apostated, and the two of them could be expelled from the party, sent to rural labor reform, and if more serious, they could be sentenced to betrayal.

As a public security officer, when the masses reported, Liang Guocheng was the first to come to mind.

He regretted that they attached too much importance to comradeship, and regarded people who didn't know the details as comrades-in-arms. At that time, he had to be handed over directly, and the higher authorities would investigate his authenticity, which would be responsible for him and protect the two of them, at least the two of them would not be at risk. If you hand him over now, Li Guizi will not be able to unify the affairs of the two of them, and it will be impossible to explain if Liang Guocheng is put in Li Guizi's house for a day.

Liang Guocheng invisibly tied the two of them to him, and protecting his safety also protected the safety of him and Li Guizi. Someone in Li Guizi's family reported that it was obviously unsafe. He thought of the idea that it was dark under the lamp, and the safest place was to take him to the police station. There he was the director, and everyone knew that he had made meritorious contributions on the Korean battlefield, and it was normal for a comrade-in-arms to come to see him. As long as he doesn't leave the small courtyard of the police station, ordinary people will not suspect the people in the police station. Everything has to wait for Chen Guizi to come back.

Hu Yu never saw Xiaoyu again during the holiday, so he had to return to the army unwillingly. He examines marriage with a fifty-year-old person, and feels that marriage is to find a beautiful daughter-in-law and a man to earn money to support the family, and the daughter-in-law does not worry about food and drink, and has children and does chores? He felt that this was how he and Su Yan lived. But he didn't know that he had never joined the army without makeup, and he had never seen the killing on the battlefield, he just blindly worshiped heroes, and he was willing to pay for heroes and families!

He felt that a profession like him, with more than 20 years of revolutionary experience, was the object of pursuit by young girls in the fifties and sixties. As long as he extends an olive branch, no girl will refuse! I can't figure it out, after running thousands of kilometers with hard work, where would I think that Xiaoyu would refuse him thousands of miles? Since he met Xiaoyu on the train, although he fell in love with her and decided that she was his wife in this life, he never revealed his feelings to her after knowing that he had a lover. even tried his best to please her and help him find Liang Guocheng. He thought that Xiaoyu had a good impression of him, Liang Guocheng had been missing for several years, and he should have a desire for home, so why would he reject him so resolutely?

After Hu Yu returned to the army, he was puzzled and kept sullen! Li Furu saw that his trip was not going well, and after inquiring about the situation, he contacted the Political Department of Xinjiang Oilfield through the general logistics organization department of the army and the Ministry of Petroleum.

Mainland enterprises have abolished the Political Department. Because the Xinjiang oil field was a collective demobilization of the troops, the military structure was still used, so the political department was retained.

Hu Yu left, and the mess he stirred up began to be slowly straightened out. Everything seems to have returned to normal, the eldest sister and Xiaoyu both tacitly know that no one will explain or say anything about what has passed, just as if nothing has happened. However, the meeting is more polite than before, unlike in the past, when everything was said.

Xiaoyu has been more independent since then, not like looking for her eldest sister in the past, like a child who will never grow up. The eldest sister has also made many efforts, and wants to reconcile with Xiaoyu to the point that she is still like a mother and daughter, and I really hope that Xiaoyu will still live like a mother and rely on her like a mother.

But after talking a few times, Xiaoyu agreed, and when they met and talked again the next day, they still had work to talk about, and there was still nothing to say about work. After trying hard a few times to no avail, she is no longer strong, and she feels that it may be that her mother-daughter fate with Xiaoyu is exhausted. But she had a severe cold a few days ago and was infusion in the hospital, Xiaoyu somehow got the news, silently came to her ward, and waited for her to be well. Although the two of them don't talk much now, the eldest sister is on call regardless of business and private affairs, and has never found any reason to prevaricate.

Since Hu Yu's incident, Xiaoyu has been much quieter than before, and never goes to crowded places, and always spends time in the office in a daze. She had just sat down at her desk after checking her room this morning. The door was pushed open a crack, and a little nurse timidly poked her head in and said, "Director! Dean, please go to the office. ”

Xiaoyu came to the eldest sister's office and pushed the door in, and the director of the political department of the oilfield, the fat old man that Xiaoyu hated was sitting on the sofa. The eldest sister pointed at him, helplessly lowered her hand, and Xiaoyu nodded in understanding. The director of the political department saw Xiaoyu coming in, pointed to the sofa opposite and asked Xiaoyu to sit, she knew that the two-hour torment had begun again.

"This, this, Comrade Xiaoyu, how are you thinking about it?" The director of the political department has come three times to do work for Xiaoyu and ask her to promise to marry Hu Yu. This is the work assigned by the leaders of the ministry, and it is his unshirkable duty to solve the marriage problem for an old Red Army soldier of the Long March, and now an old general.