Liang Qing's father is back, this is a typical northern man, maybe life has given him too many vicissitudes, his appearance seems to be much older than his actual age, and most of his hair is gray at the age of less than fifty, so the neighbors, regardless of their age, call him 'Lao Liang'.

Seeing that his father was back, Liang Qing ran forward and took his father's hand: "Dad, who do you see coming?" ”

Lao Liang was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his hands, and said with a smile: "It's a comrade of the People's Liberation Army, why are you here, you just need to inform me if you have something, why do you still run in person." There is simplicity in the words.

The arrival of Liang Qing's father alleviated Xue Ming's embarrassment, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold the other party's hands: "I must come in person, and I want to discuss the child's affairs with you face to face." ”

Lao Liang gave way to Xue Ming in the chair and began to pour water for Xue Ming again. It was only at this time that Xue Ming was on the right call, and he was the parent who helped him out of the siege during the last test.

"I also want to thank you in advance, if it weren't for your words that stabilized everyone's emotions that day, I would really be embarrassed, I didn't expect that you are Liang Qing's father, thank you." Xue Ming said sincerely.

"Where are you talking about, you are not all for the good of the children." Lao Liang smiled honestly.

At this time, Liang Qing politely hid in the inner room and no longer bothered the conversation between adults.

"What a sensible and good boy." Looking at Liang Qing's back, Xue Ming said.

"Yes, whose child knows, don't look at our Liang Qing has no mother for a long time, but this child is really angry with me, he hasn't bothered me since he was a child, sometimes, I really feel sorry for the child." Lao Liang's voice was a little low.

Xue Ming took a sip of water, looked at Liang Qing's father and said, "I won't go around the corner, I came today for the sake of the child, and I want to discuss it with you." Xue Ming paused for a moment, and saw that Lao Liang was looking at him seriously, Xue Ming continued: "You also know that we have done many tests for this group of children, and invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and you can imagine the importance of the country. ”

Lao Liang listened very carefully, and nodded incessantly: "We guessed some of them, if it is to recruit literary and artistic soldiers, it will be too much trouble for you." ”

Xue Ming nodded with a smile, and then said: "It can be said that this is a project that is highly valued by the state and the Military Commission, and it may have a very important impact on the future development of our army. These concentrated children will be educated and trained for a long time, and the teachers are all first-class experts and backbones in the country and the army, and they will be trained very strictly before they will be allowed to go out into society, and then these children will be the elite of the elite, I can assure you. Your child has great potential, ranked among the best in various evaluations, our expert group has a high evaluation of her, but you are such a child, we don't know if you can let us take her away, to tell the truth, we don't want to recruit only children when we make plans, once something is in danger, we can't explain to the child's parents, and we're sorry for the child. "What Xue Ming said was very sincere and practical.

"Will they do dangerous work?" Liang Qing's father asked with some concern.

Xue Ming did not evade: "You know that we are the army, the mission of the army is to protect the family and defend the country, it is inevitable that there will be sacrifices, this kind of sacrifice is fair to every one of our soldiers, but from another point of view, which industry will be absolutely safe?" If you are not hard, no matter how simple the work is, it may not be safe, and it will also be dangerous, in addition, we really don't want to miss Liang Qing, a good seedling, and we will discuss it with you after careful consideration, and I hope you can agree. ”

Liang Qing's father fell silent, he was recalling Xue Ming's every word.

After a long time, Lao Liang raised his head: "You take the children away, I believe in the country, I believe in the army, and I believe in everything you just said." Which parent doesn't want their children to be productive in the future, I'm a rough person, not highly educated, and the child is always delayed with me, so how can I be worthy of her mother's spirit in the sky, you take Qingqing away, and you will have a good future in the future. ”

Xue Ming was also moved by Lao Liang's words: "Please rest assured, we will not live up to your trust in us, these days you and Liang Qing try to communicate as much as possible, you can prepare some things for her to take with her, as for those daily necessities, clothes and anything, you don't have to bring them, the army will provide them, we will leave on time on the evening of Monday, July 7th, this is our arrangement plan for you to take a look, and there is this admission letter, you need to sign it." ”

After completing the necessary formalities, Xue Ming got up and was about to say goodbye, he looked into the back room, and said to Lao Liang: "I still have to go to that Shen Yifei's house, Shen Yifei has also been admitted, his family should also be on this street, I have to negotiate this matter with his parents, so I won't bother you, don't forget the time, can I say hello to Liang Qing?" ”

During their conversation, Liang Qing didn't show up, but she should have heard it all, and Xue Ming wanted to see how the child reacted, so he asked Lao Liang for it.

"Qingqing, uncle is leaving, you come out for a while." Lao Liang shouted into the house, and seeing that there was no response, Lao Liang opened the door of the inner room.

Through the crack in the door, Xue Ming saw Liang Qing lying motionless on the bed, probably asleep, he quickly grabbed Lao Liang, who was about to enter the house, and said softly: "Don't call her, let her sleep, you also know our station, if there is anything unclear, you can bring the child over at any time, and you can also bring the child to play when you are usually fine, we can also take the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the children first, then I will leave first, thank you for your cooperation." Xue Ming solemnly thought that Lao Liang saluted a military salute.

Lao Liang walked out with Xue Ming, and said: "I don't worry about handing over the child to you, I know that you are a real person when I look at your face, honest and reliable, this is not something that can be pretended casually." ”

Xue Ming was also amused by Lao Liang's words: "You will meet again, I will ask you to take a good look at me when I have a chance in the future." ”

Lao Liang and Xue Ming looked at each other and laughed.

"Xiao Yifei's home is not far ahead, just turn a corner, it's great that Yifei can also go, this child is very clever and smart, the two children go together to have a companion, they can take care of each other, do you want me to take you over?" Lao Liang asked.

"No, no, I can find it myself, thank you, then I will leave, thank you again for your strong support and cooperation, goodbye." As he spoke, Xue Ming waved his hand to Lao Liang, turned around and strode towards Shen Yifei's house.

Lao Liang turned around and went back to the house, only to find Liang Qing standing in the house, with tears on his delicate face.

"Girl, why are you crying?" Lao Liang hurriedly squatted down and wiped away the tears from his daughter's face.

"Why don't you want me anymore? Why let me go? Why don't you ask me if I'd like to? Liang Qing choked up with an aggrieved face and asked three 'whys' in a row.

Lao Liang was a little confused: "Girl, don't you like the People's Liberation Army?" Willing to participate in their activities, Dad thought you wanted to go to them. ”

"I like it, but then I don't want to leave you." Liang Qing said with a sob.

Lao Liang Le: "So that's the case, listen to my daughter, you're about to grow up, Dad always has to go out, I can't accompany you every day, take care of you, and I will delay you for a long time, Dad hopes that my daughter will be great and promising when she grows up, these uncles and aunts will take care of you better than Dad, besides, you won't come back in the future, and when you finish studying, you can be with Dad every day, how about it?" ”

"Then I don't want to." Liang Qing turned his head and ran into the back room, and closed the door with a "bang".

Lao Liang smiled helplessly, "Silly boy, Dad doesn't want to let you go, you are still young, you can understand your father's hard work." ”

Talking to himself, Lao Liang's eyes were a little moist.

Xue Ming was relatively smooth in Yifei's house, and as soon as he heard that he was going to be a soldier, and Liang Qing was also going, he clamored that he must go, and Yifei's father also felt that it was a good choice to be a soldier, and now that the society is more chaotic, he was more worried that Yifei would contact with the indiscriminate people outside and learn badly, so he agreed very happily, but Yifei's mother was not very willing, the child was still too young, and he was going to leave home at the age of seven, and he was reluctant to be a mother, but he couldn't screw the two of them, so he had to reluctantly agree.

Leaving Yifei's home, Xue Ming ran to four or five more homes, and all of them went relatively smoothly.

Many young people today don't know much about that era anymore, but many people who have come here still remember that era vividly.

In the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, the supply of materials was extremely scarce, and in the same year, groups of educated youths who went to the mountains and went to the countryside returned to the city en masse and had nowhere to resettle; often a few families could only be squeezed into a small room by building bunk beds, and most families barely survived on only one person's salary, and many people had no jobs, social order was very chaotic, and fights and brawls occurred from time to time. Being able to become a soldier is equivalent to the state paying for a child for himself, which really solves a big problem for these families with difficult family backgrounds, on the one hand, it can reduce the burden on the family, and on the other hand, the future work is basically settled. Therefore, most poor families are willing to send their children to eat food and serve as soldiers.

After a busy few days, they visited all the children's homes and were satisfied with the results without any obstacles. They had a general meeting again, and felt that it was not convenient for so many children to gather together, so they decided that Geng Zhijun and Yan Yue would take some of the children first, and wait for the last batch of children to report, and then Xue Ming and Teacher Wang would take the rest of these children to set off.

It was already the beginning of July.