Liang Guocheng is more concerned about restoring his status as a soldier, so that he can be admitted to the military hospital for treatment, maybe the doctor will still be Xiaoyu after his operation! He told Wang Tiesuo Li Guizi his thoughts, and the two of them lowered their heads, sighed and kept silent. He thought that they had difficulty helping, and after all, this was a small town, so he didn't say anything.

After a few minutes, Li Guizi seemed to have made up a lot of determination: "Brother, it's not that we can't help you, it's true that we can't help you." ”

Wang Tiesuo took over and said: "After the exchange of prisoners of war, all the captured personnel and party members of the Volunteer Army were expelled from the party, and the cadres were relieved of their posts, and then all of them were sent back to their rural hometowns. ”

Li Guizi went on to say: "Now the counter-revolutionary movement is being suppressed in the interior with great fanfare. You're a captive, and you're smuggled back. If you are taken prisoner in Korea and sent back to the main road by the enemy, I am afraid that your life will not be guaranteed. ”

Liang Guocheng looked puzzled and tried to argue: "I was indeed captured because I was wounded in the line of duty. ”

Wang Tiesuo took over and said: "We both believe your words, but it doesn't mean that everyone believes them. ”

Liang Guocheng's forehead was slightly sweaty, and he rubbed his hands vigorously unconfidently, his face showing fear and uneasiness. He responded to the party's call to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and came to Korea to defend his home and country. He believed that there was a strong country and a great party as the backing, and he worked hard to complete the tasks assigned by the organization every time. That is, after being wounded and captured, he firmly believed that there was a strong motherland, and established a party organization to actively save himself.

Ever since he was thrown out as a dead man, Young-hee rescued him to her house, and the Koreans arrested him as a traitor, no matter how he explained it, no one believed that he was a volunteer, a country for which he almost paid with his life, and wanted to kill him; The most helpless thing in his life is when he gives his life to a North Korean girl; He sighed, where is the motherland? Where is the party that swore to fight for? Now he has returned to his homeland at the risk of his life, with good wishes, hoping to restore his status as a soldier, heal his injuries and live like a normal person.

Hearing Wang Tiesuo Li Guizi's words, he once again felt abandoned by the motherland, and his stabbed heart was bleeding again.

"I have an uncle who never got married, he is a hunter, and he hunts alone in the mountains for a living." Northeast people call the young ones old, and Li Guizi also follows the customs: "If you want, go to the mountains and live with him for a while to see the situation." ”

Liang Guocheng first shook his head, and then nodded helplessly. Wang Tiesuo lent Li Guizi, the only means of transportation at the police station, an old bicycle, because Liang Guocheng was limping, and it was too inconvenient to move without crutches.

Dozens of miles away from the town, you have to take a shuttle bus to the bottom of the mountain corner to hike up the mountain. It has only been a few years since liberation, and although the world is peaceful, the ordinary people are very poor. There are very few people who go out of the house, and the shuttle bus runs once a week, so it is not enough for passengers. It's not safe to put Liang Guocheng somewhere else, Li Guizi wants to take him to his home first.

Inquire about the time of the shuttle bus and send him directly up the mountain. It was also his uncle, who was now old, and often coughed unstoppably, and refused to ask him to come down the mountain. Liang Guocheng went up the mountain, and they also took care of each other.

The train station where Li Guizi works is more than ten miles away from the town, and it usually takes less than two hours to walk to see his old comrades. There were no asphalt roads, and the roads were full of ditches run over by horse-drawn carriages. Li Guizi took him all the way crookedly, walked for less than an hour, and arrived at the station, under the railway embankment, a lonely courtyard, which was his home.

It is said to be a station, and it is a special line for the repair of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. It is now a rotating station for refueling coal and water and sometimes transferring supplies for trains supporting North Korea before leaving the country. Li Guizi's home is not far from the roadbed, an adobe house, and the small courtyard is a mud wall.

Li Guizi let Liang Guocheng into the house, a bright and dark hut, and he could see the road clearly after a while. He coughed a few times because of the smell of sweat and smoke in the hut, and Li Guizi smiled apologetically and said, "No way, the Northeast Niangmen can't do without the big cigarette pouch." ”

Li Guizi's wife is a typical Northeast woman, holding a child in her left hand and busy cleaning up the house with her right hand. With a cigarette pouch and pot in his mouth, he was smoking. When I heard the door, I thought my husband had returned. Without turning his head, he turned the child upside down and handed it to Liang Guocheng, who had just entered the door. Liang Guocheng had never hugged a child, and he was a little overwhelmed, and the child cried out with a wow. Li Guizi hurriedly picked up the child: "What are you doing?" Don't look at the guests anymore. ”

Li Guizi's daughter-in-law turned her face and smiled at Liang Guocheng awkwardly, which can be regarded as an apology. Liang Guocheng saw her better face, and smiled and revealed a mouthful of white teeth, as crystal clear as Xiaoyu's teeth. Although she can see that she is a little shy from her face, she can also see the capable, pungent, and female character of a woman in the Northeast. She pushed Li Guizi coquettishly: "Why are you so annoying?" When the guests came, they didn't say a word, and they made the guests laugh. ”

Li Guizi handed the child to his daughter-in-law and said, "This is our old comrade-in-arms, and we can't go back to the mainland if we are injured." I sent him to my uncle on the mountain the next day, and asked him to cure him with herbs. ”

In the past, there was a kind of professional hunter in the deep mountains, usually hunting for a living, and also picking some herbs in the summer, mostly to cure his own diseases. These people have a home when the weather is warm, and they go down the mountain to go home to reunite with their families. Like Uncle Li Guizi, who has never married in his life, he goes down the mountain several times a year and sells mountain goods to buy some daily necessities.

In the past few years, I have been older, and there are geriatric diseases called winter cold in the north, and I rarely go down the mountain. General daily necessities such as salt, vinegar, soy sauce and other necessities, some people specially go up the mountain to sell, but they are more expensive than the mountain. Li Guizi's uncle's geriatric illness to avoid the winter cold is a cold day, especially after nine days, coughing and shortness of breath, unable to breathe.

In the mountains, wood is used for heating in winter, and no matter how tight the stove is, smoke will come out; What's more, the northeast house is mainly a fire wall and fire pit, and the chimney is on the roof, if the wind direction is not good, the smoke is poured into the house. So in the past few winters, when the weather is cold, I hold a small medicine pot most of the time, and when it is a good day, I go out and go down the mountain to put a few shots, which is also not far from my house, so I can't shoot big animals, I can't make any money, and my life is much tighter. In the past, when he was young, he sold mountain goods, and he helped Li Guizi and them, and now Li Guizi often brings some daily necessities to the mountain.

Li Guizi is a careful person, and in Liang Guocheng's account, he knew that he came from the other side of the river last night by swimming, and he didn't sleep all night after being drenched in heavy rain, so he let him rest in the left phase room. In general, the traditional northerners, the house on the east side of the main house is the upper house; There are old people living in the family, no old people living in the host, and guests living in the west house.

Liang Guocheng dragged his disabled body every day in North Korea and was forced to do super-intense manual labor. Yesterday it rained heavily, and I was hunted down in high tension and soaked in the river for more than half the night. He was lying on the kang of Li Guizi's house, and finally felt home after a few years. Hu Yu, who was in a daze, stood on the kang by the soil, sang and laughed with his big mouth and patted him and said, if you don't return to the country quickly, how can you live in the house of a retired comrade? Two soldiers came over and put him on a stretcher and carried him to the jeep at the entrance of the courtyard.

The jeep dragged him into the barracks, and the gongs and drums at the barracks were noisy, welcoming him as if he were a hero. He saw that Xiaoyu was also in the crowd, and saw him turn around and leave. He jumped off the stretcher and chased, chased and chased to the Yalu River, and Xiaoyu suddenly jumped into the river and swam to the other side. He saw the captain of the squad on the other side with the Korean soldiers, and he shouted loudly Xiaoyu, come back! Come back! At this time, someone called his name, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Li Guizi.

Li Guizi sat on the edge of the kang and asked, "Have you had a nightmare?" When I first returned home, I also had nightmares. ”

Li Guizi's daughter-in-law interjected in the outhouse: "When I first got married, I would often have nightmares at night, crying and laughing. I don't even know why, I was scared half to death by him. ”

The three of them all laughed, and even Li Guizi's son laughed when he saw the adults laughing. While he was sleeping just now, Li Guizi knew some carpenter work, and found some old wood for him to make two crutches, one long and one short. The long one rests on the arm's socket and is supported by the hand underneath; A short one, a pole, and a hand grasp crosswood, simple and practical.

Ever since he lost his crutches in the river, he has almost been supported by someone, and he can only walk with the injured leg in his hand. After being arrested by the militia this morning, his hands were tied backwards, and it was even more difficult for him to move an inch if no one had his arms on his back.

He happily picked up the crutches, and Li Guizi's crutches made with his hands high almost restored his height on the crutches, allowing him to regain his self-confidence. He walked a few steps underground with crutches, and the two crutches that he felt suitable, walked on crutches, and walked two steps with one step on the legs, and with time he became more proficient, and the ones that did not appear to be slower than the able-bodied.

It was dark. Li Guizi's daughter-in-law Xiulian put the small dining table on the kang, and served a pot of Northeast stew with a ceramic basin, two bowls of bud rice stubble porridge in a large coarse black porcelain bowl, and a small dustpan Northeast pot stickers: "It's not easy for brothers to come home once, and the family really can't bring good things to entertain you." It's really slow to treat the guests! ”

Sitting on the hot kang and eating dry and thin hot meals has become the luxury life he imagined when he came out of Yingji's house. He said with emotion: "I have been asking for food in North Korea for almost half a year......

"Ahh Hum! He was about to go down and say, Li Guizi stopped him with his eyes. He wants to help his comrades-in-arms with his comradeship, and this kind of warrior love in the war is a friendship that can give each other's lives. But in this era of politics in charge, class fighting is a quick shot.

More anti-special defense years on the border. I really brought him home, and it felt a little complicated. His situation is so complicated that no one will believe that the enemy will throw the living as if they were dead. The North Korean villagers will feed you for a few years for no reason, and they will send you back to China desperately. He was caught by the KPA soldiers, and instead of being returned to the volunteers, he was going to kill him.

If it weren't for the fact that they talked about the head of the troops, they talked about every battle, they were all living experiences; He will feel that it is a fantasy! No one will believe his words, and if he is caught by the border guards, it will be a big trouble. So as soon as Liang Guocheng entered the house, he didn't tell Xiulian the truth in order to reduce unnecessary explanations, and only said that he was sent up the mountain to let his uncle treat his legs.