This year's spring has been exceptionally warm. Since I had taken a long leave due to a work injury, I had nothing to do in my dormitory, so I simply took the opportunity to go back to my hometown. It's been a long time, and this is the first time I've been here

After a year outside, I always feel that time has passed very long.

After getting off the long-distance bus and walking alone on the small mountain road home, it felt as if my hometown had become much stranger in just a few months. The mountain peach blossoms and the apricot blossoms that bloomed very early are here

The bright spring light exudes a faint fragrance. When I was a child, I didn't care about this kind of spring scene, but today I have a trace of sorrow. It's been a long time, my hometown, it's been a long time, my hometown

Mountain peach blossoms. I went home and bought a new set of clothes and a pair of cheap leather shoes, so that my family would not bother them to see that I would not take care of myself outside. Walk in yet

There was a lot of dust on the mountain road, and the leather shoes on my feet were dusty.

My father was full of joy when he saw me back, and my mother didn't express her love for me with words and expressions, so she went into the kitchen to cook, and I said, "Mom, I'm a professional cook, let me."

Let's cook the dishes! As he spoke, he took the spoon from my mother's hand, but both my mother and father saw the burns on my hand at this moment, and their expressions immediately darkened, as if they were blaming themselves

I didn't take care of me, a wanderer. I didn't want them to bother me too much, so I hurriedly changed the subject to interrupt the awkward atmosphere.

"Dad, I bought a lot of cookies and desserts for my grandmother, and I'll send them to her." I handed my mother the spoon in my hand, and walked out of the gate a few steps with the duffel bag I had brought back

I came to the yard where my grandmother lived. My grandfather Liu Lao Wu is many years older than my grandmother, and he is old and sick, he died a few years ago, and now my grandmother is alone, although she

The old man has such an unsuccessful grandson as me under his knees, but in this good peaceful and prosperous world, there is nothing in his heart that he can't let go. I haven't seen my grandmother for half a year, and now it looks like a cang

I was much older, my eyes were spent, I entered the courtyard and even called her twice, but she didn't recognize who I was, and I couldn't help but feel a little desolate and sad in my heart.

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I slept happily at home, and for such a long time, I was bound by time in the city's concept of time every day, and I didn't have to sleep a single lazy night. Today one

It was noon when I woke up, and it was raining outside. I got dressed and walked outside the courtyard gate, facing the empty long alley, my thoughts fluctuating. When I was a child, I played with my friends in this long alley

Heaven, but now I am the only one standing in this drizzly alley, and my heart is full of melancholy.

I looked at a mountain peach tree growing out of the brick cracks under the far corner of the alley, and watched the petals on the tree that had been knocked off by the drizzle in a daze, the petals fluttering and fluttering in the breeze

into the stagnant water on the ground. Suddenly, a military off-road vehicle turned into the alley and splashed the fallen flowers and water on the ground. Just when I was hesitating, I saw an old officer who was in his old age but in good spirits got out of the car, this old officer was dressed in a neat green military uniform, wore a pair of old sunglasses, and his chest was full of medals of all kinds and sizes

Will. I wondered at the moment: There have been no big people in our village? I haven't heard of a relative who is an official, who is this old chief who came to our small alley?

However, the old chief walked straight to me with the stagnant water in the potholes on the road, and asked me with a kind face: "May I ask if this is Zhang Youfu's house?" "When I heard it, I was asking Zhang Youfu, but it was looking for me to sacrifice

Grandfather on the battlefield in Korea. I hurriedly replied to him: "Zhang Youfu, he is my grandfather." The old chief's eyebrows in his sunglasses were raised, which meant that he had finally found the right person. I continued, "No."

He had been sacrificed for years. ”

The old chief nodded as if he knew it, then looked at me again and asked, "Who are you in your family?" Take me into the house! I quickly agreed: "Hey! Ay! ”

We asked each other questions as we walked into the courtyard. The old chief was old, and walked slowly, but he was calm and powerful, and he always put his hands behind his back, as if I were afraid that I would help him. A few words

Chatting, I realized that the old commander in front of me turned out to be my grandfather's old comrade-in-arms Zhang Bo on the Korean battlefield, I hurriedly walked in front of him, and called Zhang Ye respectfully

Father. I also gave him a general story about what happened to our family after my grandfather Zhang Youfu died.

It turned out that Mr. Zhang inquired all the way about the whereabouts of the old Zhang family before he found our family, and he knew that it was difficult and difficult for my grandmother and my father to depend on each other in that difficult era, and he deliberately ran around today

Bo came to my hometown, firstly, to visit my grandmother and family, and secondly, to take advantage of the Qingming Festival to worship my grandfather Zhang Youfu.

My parents were also surprised to see that I had brought an officer, and when they learned that this old officer was my grandfather's old comrade-in-arms, my father was as excited as if he had seen his own relative

Kind. Zhang Bo was many years younger than my grandfather, but my father affectionately called him uncle, and the old chief Zhang Bo was as kind as if he had seen his own family......

When our family had dinner together, we talked a lot with Mr. Zhang, and learned that Mr. Zhang had been transferred to the desert of Xinjiang after returning from the Korean battlefield, and was secretly military with the scientific research team at that time

Two bombs and one satellite were developed in the base, which gave the old Su who was trying to misdeceive at that time a dismount, which greatly boosted the country's prestige, and later participated in the self-defense war against Vietnam, and now it is time to retire, but

is because he has no relatives, no children, his wife left early, and his importance in the army is very great, so Zhang Lao has always stayed in the army.

When talking about the situation of our family, my father was saddened--- when my father was young, it was a time when aspiring young people were eager to join the army, but because my grandmother left behind

Severe war phobia, when I heard that my father was going to join the army, I almost cried and blinded my eyes. She is such a lone seedling as my father, where can she give up? But just my grandmother is a conservative person

The idea really ruined my father's future, so much so that my father would not even be able to support himself in this mountain before he went out now.

Zhang Lao pondered for a moment, then looked at me with affirmative eyes and said to my father, "Why don't you let the child become a soldier too?" The army is a place to exercise people's will, and at the same time

You can study in it, and you can arrange a job in the future. ”

I suddenly felt like I had been touched by something, I never thought about being a soldier, I was just interested in weapons, and I wanted to be a soldier? this

Aren't they purely two different things? I looked at my father with questioning eyes, and saw that he seemed to be hesitant, and I knew in my heart his difficulties, he was really incapable of allowing me to live a good life and life

Live, although I don't like to be a soldier, but at the moment Zhang Lao can only do this meager effort for our family, and it is not easy to shirk, besides, parents who love their children can never hold their children in the palm of their hands.

A delicate son is like a murderer, so my father nodded on my behalf and agreed with a happy face.

However, the current season is not the time to sign up for the army, but now if you want to join the army, you don't have to wait for someone else's recruitment office to recruit new recruits from all over the country, just a letter of introduction. Chapter Lao

After staying in my hometown for a few days, I left my hometown first with a letter of introduction from Mr. Zhang. After explaining my resignation to the restaurant owner, I packed my bags and sat on the train to the Xinjiang Military Region.

Since I was going to join the army and not to travel, I took very little luggage with me. What I never expected, however, was that after this one I left my hometown, I would never return.

In spring, the winds and sand in the Great Northwest are particularly violent. I looked out the window of the train in a daze, recalling the carefree happy times of my childhood, time really passed too fast,

In order to survive in this world, people will always have endless sufferings in their lives, but everyone has to fight and work hard for survival. At this time, I suddenly understood: people are born in this world

It is to suffer and suffer, but it is inevitable that it will not come to this world to suffer and sin, so when everyone is born, they know that they will face the pain of a lifetime, so they open their mouths and cry.

The meaning of life is like this, it can never sit back and enjoy it, and it can never be done once and for all; I won't waste most of my life in the dark dirt like the insects, and the summer will pass

and will die; It will not live only in a beautiful spring like a bee butterfly. Everyone, no matter whether you are happy or depressed now, you will have to face hardship and tiredness in the days to come.

The carriage was not full, many seats were empty, and almost all the passengers in the carriage were looking out the window at the wind and sand, but everyone was immersed in admiring the big

When nature creates a magical landscape, there is a bird-like voice that breaks people's thoughts, "Hey, uncle, your bag is quite heavy, hungry (I) will help you with your luggage."

Put ...... on the shelf".

But most people don't bother to pay attention to the person who said this, but as soon as I heard this person's accent, I knew that this person was actually our Shanxi countryman, and when I looked up, hey, I really guessed

It's right. If you want to say that you can see at a glance where he is from, or what fixed characteristics people look like in some part of China, if you want me to say that it is not all true, but the person in front of you looks like us

The typical appearance of a farmer on the Loess Plateau, only to see his dark skin, his young face seems to be about to grow wrinkles, the most special thing is his mouth full of big yellow teeth, because of the water quality of Shanxi

Most of them are hard water, that is, the content of various inorganic salts is high, and farmers in some places do not have a good habit of brushing their teeth frequently, so it creates his mouth of big yellow teeth.

As soon as I saw that it was my fellow countryman, I felt a sense of intimacy in my heart. I saw that this person was very enthusiastic and wanted to help others, and he had just helped a not very old uncle put the package away

On the luggage rack, I saw the young girl on the opposite side standing up and taking something on the luggage rack, and my fellow hurriedly chirped: "Sister, let the hungry (me) do the work, you tender arms."

Thin-legged ......"

Looking at this young girl again, she was embarrassed, because her boyfriend was still sitting next to her, but what she wanted to take was just a small handbag, just because it was difficult to refuse, no

In order to pour cold water on this kind man, he acquiesced to Big Yellow Fang to help her get things. In my heart, is there something wrong with this man? When you help someone, you always have to see if they need help. Big Yellow Teeth

is also full of polite words: "It's okay, it's okay, you're welcome." However, he only cared about himself as polite, and did not care whether others paid attention to him or not, and chattered to himself. As soon as you speak, you start

Lao Kuan, who had maintained a smile all the time, showed his big yellow teeth again.