It wasn't until he found the somewhat dilapidated small courtyard according to the address provided by Chang Juan that Li Ziyuan breathed a sigh of relief. When Xue Dongshan called the door, he saw an old lady who came out in response, although Li Ziyuan was not sure if it was Chang Juan's family, Li Ziyuan knew that this old lady must know the whereabouts of Chang Juan's family.

I am afraid that my fully armed guards will scare this lady with a big grin. Li Ziyuan got out of the car and stopped Xue Dongshan, who opened his mouth to ask, came to the eldest lady in person, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Auntie, let me ask, does Chang Kuishan's family live here?" ”

Chang Kuishan is Chang Juan's father, so Li Ziyuan mentioned his name. It's just that to Li Ziyuan's surprise, the eldest lady did not answer his words immediately, but looked at him quite vigilantly for a long time before she said slowly: "This commander of the People's Liberation Army, can you ask who you are and what is the matter with their family?" ”

Regarding the eldest mother's vigilant look and words, it was determined that this eldest lady must be Li Ziyuan from Chang Juan's family, and said with a smile: "Auntie, I think you are not his family, and it is estimated that you are their old neighbors or relatives, at least you are not strangers to his family."

"Chang Kuishan's eldest daughter is the Chang Juan who left home to fight against the Japanese, and her nickname is Juanzi, you should know it. I am her husband and the son-in-law of his father, Chang Kuishan. On behalf of Chang Juan today, I specially brought our children to visit their two elders. ”

Hearing that Li Ziyuan was the son-in-law of the family, the eldest lady took a closer look at Li Ziyuan, and then looked at the baby that looked very similar to Chang Juan in Liu Cui's arms next to Li Ziyuan, her vigilant look turned excited, and she turned her head and shouted into the room: "Old man, come out quickly." The person who came was not a bad person, it was Juanzi's man who came to see us with his child. ”

After shouting, the old lady looked at the baby who saw her grandmother for the first time, and was still a little timid, and the eyes that were defensive before disappeared in an instant. Then he squatted down with red circles under his eyes, looked at the baby and said: "It's Juanzi's child, it's really Juanzi's child, this eyebrow and eyes are exactly the same as Juanzi's childhood." ”

And with the old man's words, several people came out of the house one after another. looked at Li Ziyuan in front of him, and the mother who took the child and held it in her arms and kept crying. An old man who came out and hid a little, after seeing the child in his wife's arms, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

It's just that after kissing the baby, I carefully looked at the people around Li Ziyuan, but I didn't see the eldest lady of my daughter, and she was a little disappointed: "Then who, why didn't Juanzi come back together." Is she really so ruthless that she doesn't even want to see her father and family? Is it true that you don't plan to come back for the rest of your life? ”

Listening to the words of the eldest lady who was quite disappointed when he didn't see his daughter, Li Ziyuan hesitated for a moment, and then said to the father-in-law and mother-in-law in front of him: "Mother-in-law, I am Chang Juan's husband, she can't come, and it's the same for me to come to see your second elder." If there are some words, let's go into the house and talk about it. ”

After Li Ziyuan's words were finished, the eldest lady remembered that this place was in the alley. There was already a group of onlookers around, and the crowd that was looking at Li Ziyuan was pointing, it was really not the place to speak, so they held the baby and dragged Li Ziyuan into the house. It's just that after entering the house, Li Ziyuan took the baby and dragged his daughter, and the father and daughter knelt down directly in front of the two old men.

Seeing a group of guards with loaded guns, obviously a senior official of the People's Liberation Army or a son-in-law who met for the first time, he knelt down for the two of them. The two old men hurriedly came over and shouted that they couldn't help it, and at the same time came over to help Li Ziyuan up. And a few young people around the second elder were also frightened and didn't know what was going on.

Li Ziyuan ignored the others, stood up and gave the second elder back to his seat. turned around and knelt down again with the baby, and respectfully kowtowed to the second elder three times. Only then did he stand up again and said: "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, these three heads are for me and the baby to replace Chang Juan, who has been sacrificed for two years and can never come back, for your second elder, to thank you for raising her." ”

"It's not that Chang Juan doesn't want to come back to visit the second elder and do her filial piety in front of the second elder. She really misses you and the family that gave birth to her and raised her. But she will never be able to come back, and she will never be able to visit her parents again, and Cheng Huan will be on her knees. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are sorry, but I didn't take good care of and protect her. ”

Hearing that his daughter was no longer alive, the old man could still control himself, but the old lady could no longer control her longing for her daughter, and couldn't help crying. It has been 12 years since my daughter left home, and there has been no news during this time. Originally, there was a glimmer of hope that her daughter was still alive. Now that they know that their daughter has died, how can the two old men control their grief?

It's just that Li Ziyuan was sad when he saw the old man, and the other young people present, except for a girl who also cried and looked very sad, the rest didn't show any sadness. Just peeking at Li Ziyuan in front of him, he kept comforting the old man.

Among them, there was a man who was probably slightly younger than Chang Juan, not only did he have no sadness on his face, but he also avoided looking at Li Ziyuan. Seeing this person's expression, Li Ziyuan frowned, but in the end he didn't say anything. After comforting the old man, he accompanied the two old men to talk and enlighten them.

After leaving the only five oceans on his body, he declined the old man's invitation to stay for his son-in-law, who had met for the first time but had become someone else's husband, and turned around and left with Liu Cui and the baby. Li Ziyuan could see that Chang Juan's family was not rich now. And the dodging man always made Li Ziyuan feel that something was wrong.

Just when Li Ziyuan just stepped out of Chang Juan's house, the somewhat dilapidated courtyard. Several policemen from the local police station where the courtyard is located ran over with the help of a member of the Military Control Commission. Bringing a cadre from the guard squad to his jurisdiction, everyone knows that it must be a big chief. Therefore, after receiving the news, the people of the Military Management Committee rushed over immediately.

Seeing the personnel of the Military Management Commission appear, Li Ziyuan's brows furrowed. He came lightly this time, and he insisted on taking the guard squad with Ma Yongcheng, the political commissar, and he didn't want to alarm the people of the Military Management Committee at all. But he didn't expect that it still alarmed the people of the Military Management Committee.

It wasn't until the cadre who led the team trotted over all the way to stand up and salute, and Li Ziyuan found out that this person was not his original guard Zhang Yuhu? Seeing Zhang Yuhu, Li Ziyuan's face looked slightly better: "Who should I be, it turned out to be you kid." Didn't your troops go south to fight? Why did you come here to be a military management committee? ”

The old chief's words, Zhang Yuhu felt very kind. Zhang Yuhu, who was standing straight in front of Li Ziyuan, said: "Chief, I don't want to come either." But isn't this an order from a superior? When our troops finished fighting Luoyang and were transferred back to Taiyue District to recuperate, I was left behind. first worked as a public security chief in a county in Taiyue District. ”

"Later, when the Taiyuan Military Control Commission was formed, I was transferred here, and now I am the director of a police station in Taiyuan City. I heard that there were some people here, so I brought someone over to have a look, but I really didn't expect it to be the old chief. It's such a pleasure to meet you. ”

Zhang Yuhu was happy to see Li Ziyuan, and Li Ziyuan was just as happy to see Zhang Yuhu. Just hearing that this guy is now the director of the police station, Li Ziyuan's eyebrows twisted up again and said, "You really plan to stay?" Didn't think about going back to the army? If you were in the army, you would have been a battalion commander by now, what would you be the director here? ”

Li Ziyuan's words, Zhang Yuhu smiled bitterly: "Old chief, obey orders and listen to commands, but you taught me." Besides, what can I do? A command from my superiors, I still have to change careers? I don't want to leave the army and deal with a group of civilians and criminals here all day long, but isn't that an order? ”

"By the way, old chief, why are you here? Did you stay in Taiyuan this time? Can't you, you are so capable of fighting, can your superiors be willing to leave you in the rear? There is a mixture of dragons and snakes here, and the security is not very good. Especially when Taiyuan had just been liberated, many stragglers who were in Taiyuan City were scattered and returned. ”

"In the past few days, we are registering the stragglers who have returned from the breakup. Good guys, there are five or six hundred registered in this piece alone, and there are quite a few colonel-level officers among them. Oh, and there's another major general over there who was also caught here. It was the Thirty Army that betrayed their commander, causing the plan of the uprising to be destroyed. ”

"It also caused a cadre of ours to die in the prison after being taken to Nanjing, and later took over as the division commander of the army. Also, I'm afraid there are still a lot of hidden spies here, as well as the Japanese who stayed in Taiyuan. Yesterday, we were still here, with a latent radio station over there. ”

Looking at Zhang Yuhu's concerned look, Li Ziyuan did not hide him, and directly explained the reason why he came here. Hearing that Li Ziyuan came to see Chang Juan's family, and then looked at Liu Cui beside Li Ziyuan, Zhang Yuhu dragged Li Ziyuan aside and said to him: "Chief, I don't know about the sacrifice of County Magistrate Chang, and I don't know that her home is in my jurisdiction." ”

"However, County Magistrate Chang is not only my sister-in-law, but also a revolutionary martyr, and I should take care of her family. But that sister-in-law's family is a bit complicated, so you should try not to come in the future, especially don't bring the baby. Her father, who used to run a pawnshop, was a small capitalist. ”

"And among her younger siblings, one of the younger brothers has always been a soldier in the Jin Sui Army, and I heard that he is still an adjutant of a division commander. The other brother and eldest sister are nothing, one is just an ordinary clerk in the provincial government, and the other is an ordinary teacher. ”

"But there is a brother-in-law, who is a very powerful spy leader in the Jin Sui military system, and our army has been searching since it entered the city, but it has never been caught. Except for her participation in the revolution, no one else has been in contact with us. ”

Hearing Zhang Yuhu's analysis of Chang Juan's family, Li Ziyuan remembered what he saw in Chang Juan's house, the person who dodged and didn't dare to face him. Turning his head to Zhang Yuhu, he said, "The person you are looking for, if I guess correctly, should be hiding in their house now." ”

"Also, if people don't contact us, they can't be said to be reactionaries. Different political views are different political opinions, and don't make anything happen because of this kind of thing. The care that should be given is still to be given, even if it is not in the face of their family, but also in the face of the baby and her mother. ”