Yu Lin took office and took on the important task of public security in Guangzhou. He is well aware of the heavy responsibility, so he sleeps all night at work, sits and waits, and does not dare to slack off. Despite this, Yu Lin still felt that his soldiers were overstretched, and he often couldn't sleep, had enough to eat, was overwhelmed, and lacked skills. So, a person immediately flashed in his mind.

Yu Lin drove alone to Shaoguan, Tan Jingting's hometown, and from a distance, he saw Tan Jingting wearing a short coat and a straw hat, wielding a hoe in the field.

"Brother Tan." Yu Lin shouted, and then rushed towards the ridge.

Tan Jingting heard the shouting, turned around, and saw that it was Yulin, so he hurriedly took the hoe and ran over.

"Brother Tan, we finally met again, don't you come unharmed, right?" Yu Lin pulled Tan Jingting's hands stained with mud, excited.

"Unharmed, unharmed, Xiao Linzi, why are you here? Are you coming to Guangdong on a business trip? Tan Jingting carried a hoe and asked as he walked.

"I've been transferred to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau now, and I've come to see you today, how are you, how are your sister-in-law and children?"

"It's good, it's just that these two little guys are too edible." At the mention of children, Tan Jingting's face was full of spring breeze.

"You wait a minute." Yulin ran to the jeep, took a cardboard box from the car and handed it to Tan Jingting: "Here, this is the milk powder I brought to Nian'an and Nianci." “

"You are really rainy in time, osmanthus has little milk, and these two little guys are basically fed by milk powder. I was going to go to Guangzhou tomorrow to buy some milk powder. Now it's okay, don't buy it, you've got it delivered to your door. Tan Jingting took the box: "Wow, there are so many, enough for these two little guys to eat for half a year." ”

"Whoever knows you, I am the best. I knew this was what you lacked the most. “

"Well, in the end, it's a brother, and I have a heart. Come, come in and see my new home. ”

Tan Jingting took Yu Lin to the new house that had just been built.

"Osmanthus, come out quickly, look, who's coming?" Tan Jingting shouted into the room.

Osmanthus came out of the house and saw that it was Yulin, and was very excited: "Ah, it's Xiaolinzi, why do you have time to come to Guangdong?" “

"Xiao Linzi has now been transferred to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. I guess you made the head of the public security bureau in Guangzhou? “

"I can't hide anything from you, Brother Tan. I've only been in office for a few days. ”

"Really? That's great, Guangzhou is not far from Shaoguan, and we can come and go more often in the future. Osmanthus had a smile on her face.

"It's not far, it's more than 200 kilometers, sister-in-law, I came today to ask Brother Tan to go to Guangzhou to help me." Yu Lin revealed the purpose of his coming here.

Tan Jingting was stunned, he thought that Lu Yulin was just coming to visit him and chatting with him, but he didn't expect Lu Yulin to invite him to come out.

"Don't stand outside, come inside." Osmanthus hurriedly led Yulin into the house.

Tan Jingting's newly built mud house has three large rooms, which are very simple, with a living room and dining room in the middle, a bedroom on the left, and a stove room on the right. In the dining room, there is a table of eight immortals, several benches, two rattan chairs and a bamboo couch are placed against the wall on the left, and there is an offering table against the wall in the middle of the room, on which Guanyin Bodhisattva is enshrined. In the bedroom, there is a large bed and a small bed, and the small bed sleeps Nian'an and Nianci, brother and sister.

"Naturally, the conditions here are not comparable to the apartments on Haig Road in Shanghai, but they are passable. I don't pay attention to it now, as long as I have a bed to lie in, clothes to wear, and food to eat, I am satisfied. Tan Jingting smiled at Lu Yulin: "I am a good farmer now, and our family's land is really a treasure land, and you can plant anything." There is also a pond behind my house, so I can catch a few fish if I want to eat them, and I also have a pig, two sheep, and five chickens in the yard. By the way, Osmanthus, you go and kill a chicken, I'll have a few drinks with Xiao Linzi at noon today. “

Osmanthus nodded hurriedly and went to the yard to catch chickens.

Yu Lin pulled Tan Jingting to the Eight Immortals table and sat down: "Brother Tan, although your current life is leisurely and carefree, I don't think this day is what you should live now, and in another twenty years, it will be appropriate for you to live such a life." “

"Xiao Linzi, when I was in Shanghai before, I said that I want to return to the countryside and live a pastoral life of male farmers and female weavers, and now although I live in poverty, I am very content with my wife and children, and now I work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and tease my children in my free time, which is very easy."

"Brother Tan, even if you want to learn from Tao Yuanming, then you have to wait for your twilight years."

"Xiao Linzi, your eldest brother Tan is almost forty years old, twenty years ago, I was unwilling to live an ordinary life, so I ran away from home, went to military school, and vowed to make a name for myself and glorify my ancestors for the Tan family. In the past 20 years, whether it is the War of Resistance or the Civil War, I have been living a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife. For the sake of ideals, I used to be enthusiastic and sacrificed; For the sake of wealth, I used to be greedy and mercenary; For the sake of power, I used to do whatever it took to be with wolves; But in the end, it was all a bamboo basket for nothing, and I was also dead, fighting for power and profit is not suitable for me Tan Jingting, it is better now, stay away from the hustle and bustle, and be happy. I didn't expect that twenty years later, I would return to an ordinary life, Xiaolinzi, you say, is this called returning to the basics? “

"In my opinion, you are simply a tyrannical thing." Yu Lin couldn't hold back the dissatisfaction in his heart: "Brother Tan, you are a resourceful, brave and warlike person, you are now in the prime of life, it is the time to make great achievements, how can you live in the fields, feed pigs and chickens all day long, plough the land and weed, and kill time?" ”

Tan Jingting was stunned, he didn't expect Lu Yulin to react so much to his current life.

"Xiao Linzi, I just want a peace now, this kind of idyllic life is not difficult for most people, but for me, it is my choice after I have realized it."

"Brother Tan, you used to live in an environment of deceit and intrigue, so you became unbearable to look back, but now it is different, the times have changed, and now the people of the whole country are in full swing to build New China, don't you look at the people around you, they are all energetic, full of energy, and rushing to contribute to New China." The more Yu Lin spoke, the more excited he became: "Brother Tan, come with me, I can let you show your skills and not waste your talents, and what we are doing now is for the well-being of most people, and it can make you feel clear conscience and peace of mind, isn't this exactly what you and Sister-in-law Osmanthus want?" “

Tan Jingting lowered his head, fell into deep thought, and after a moment of silence, he raised his head.

"Xiao Linzi, I am very grateful for your sincere invitation to me to come out to do things." Tan Jingting raised his head: "But it's not me who refutes your face, now it's the world of the Communist Party, like us, the old and young remnants of the Kuomintang, the foundation is not clean, not to mention that I still have the blood of the Communist Party on my hands, don't talk about it, just talk about you, as soon as I see your left hand, I will ...... I can't forgive myself. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been left with this lifelong disability. ”

Tan Jingting lowered his head sadly, and suddenly, Tan Jingting felt a force hit his right cheek, and out of instinct, he hurriedly fought back with his right hand, hitting Lu Yulin's outstretched left fist. Tan Jingting looked at it and saw that he hit Lu Yulin's left hand, and he was shocked into a cold sweat.

"Xiao Linzi, didn't hurt you, did you?"

Tan Jingting leaned his head over, wanting to see it clearly, but he didn't expect Lu Yulin's left hand to sweep directly towards the door in front of him, Tan Jingting's head was tilted, and Lu Yulin's left fist hit Tan Jingting's left cheek. Tan Jingting couldn't help but let out a "ahh

"Well, my left hand is pretty good, isn't it?" Yu Lin spread out his left hand and challenged Tan Jingting: "Brother Tan, come on, let's compete and see if my left hand is useless?" ”

"Is your left hand okay?" Tan Jingting looked at Yu Lin with some surprise.

"Let's break our wrists and try it."

Yu Lin said, putting his left hand on the table: "Come on, Brother Tan, try it with me." ”

Tan Jingting was still hesitating, and Yu Lin pulled Tan Jingting's left hand over: "Come, give it a try, come on!" ”

Tan Jingting had no choice but to hold Yu Lin's left hand, and Yu Lin used all his strength to break Tan Jingting's left hand to the right, almost knocking Tan Jingting's left hand down on the table. Tan Jingting was afraid of hurting Yu Lin, so he didn't dare to use his strength at first, but then gradually felt that Yu Lin's hand was really strong, so he also began to work hard, and finally turned defeat into victory and knocked Yu Lin's left hand down on the table.

"What's the matter, it's not as weak as you think, you have five fingers, I have four fingers, and I'm not ashamed to lose to you, anyway, I used to wrestle with you when I had five fingers, and I never won against you." Yu Lin shrugged.

Tan Jingting smiled: "Xiao Linzi, have you really recovered?" Let me take a closer look. ”

Tan Jingting hurriedly grabbed Lu Yulin's left hand, and carefully observed that in addition to the defect of the little finger of Lu Yulin's left hand, the other four fingers were already able to stretch and flex freely, and the nails had also grown, but there were still some permanent scars on the fingers.

"Ah, why are you lying to you, I met a good doctor, known as the first knife in Jiangnan, Dr. Miao, is indeed a skilled doctor, he used ancestral secret recipes to treat me for more than half a year, my finger function has been fully recovered, and my leg injury, shoulder burn has also recovered. Otherwise, I'll show you another hand. ”

Yu Lin saw that Tan Jingting still had some doubts on his face, so he wanted to prove once again in front of Tan Jingting that his left hand was okay and fully recovered.

Yu Lin looked around, saw a fruit knife in the fruit bowl, picked up the knife with his left hand, and saw a vole in the field outside the house looking around vigilantly, so he shook it with his left hand, and the knife flew out with a 'whoosh', and the vole struggled a few times and then didn't move.

"How? A hundred steps through Yang, Brother Tan, seeing is believing, you should believe it now, right? Yu Lin looked at Tan Jingting triumphantly: "I still have this little bit of boy skill practiced in the military academy." “

"Sure enough, the shot is extraordinary, now, I am relieved, alas, I am really afraid that your life will be ruined in my hands." Tan Jingting let out a long sigh of relief.

"How about it, Brother Tan, come with me, it is said that it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to sit on the country, we Communists have just conquered the country, and the enemy will not give up, and now there are still many lawless elements and hidden spies in Guangzhou City, who want to sabotage the construction of New China, so I urgently need someone like you, Brother Tan, to be my right-hand man to jointly deal with the enemy's provocation and counterattack."

Tan Jingting was moved by Lu Yulin's words, indeed, he is now in the prime of life, and he is dealing with chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep all day long in this countryside, how much is wasting time, after all, he Tan Jingting used to be a powerful figure, and being silent in the mountains and countryside is also the result of weighing the pros and cons, afraid of being liquidated by the Communist Party, afraid that his wife and children will be implicated, and afraid of facing the Communists who have been persecuted by himself, especially Lu Yulin, he can't get over it on his conscience.

But Lu Yulin's generosity and generosity, regardless of the previous suspicions, swept away the haze in his heart, and now Lu Yulin's physical condition has indeed improved greatly, which made him move away from the big stone in his heart, Lu Yulin sincerely invited him to become an official, so that he had the opportunity to show his talents, which made Tan Jingting deeply moved.

Tan Jingting once fought with Lu Yulin at the Whampoa Military Academy, lived and died together in the 19th Route Army, and now they can work together to fight side by side for the construction of New China.

However, once promised Osmanthus to stay away from the hustle and bustle with her and the children, and live a peaceful and peaceful life among the green mountains and green waters, it has only been less than half a year before breaking her promise, will Osmanthus complain that she has no faith?