No matter how long the road is, it has its own end.

After a three-day trip, Fengyinglou finally found Chen's home.

Appearing in front of Fengyinglou, is an antique, full of European-style three-story villa, look at its building materials, as well as the two have appeared the slightest crack, but still stand upright as the courtyard pillars, if Fengyinglou is not mistaken, such a villa located in the downtown area, at least has a history of hundreds of years. The owners who have been able to live here for generations are even more valuable and noble.

Faced with such a villa that represented identity and status, Fengyinglou frowned slightly.

He really didn't understand why the power and status of Chen Hike's family would allow someone to do this near their home! As far as the eye can see, except for this quaint villa, all the houses within a radius of a few hundred meters have been bulldozed by bulldozers, and the piles of tattered bricks and rubble still seem to be silently telling everyone how prosperous this street with a long history once was.

There are no roads, no neighbors, no power supply, no running water, and even the surrounding foundations have been dug up directly, leaving only this villa, like a spiritual tower, standing alone in this piece of dilapidation, but maybe in a year or two, it will be more prosperous than ever in the ruins, obsessively guarding its former world.

Two men in suits and leather shoes were ringing the doorbell non-stop, maybe there was no one inside, maybe the owner inside, and they were no longer willing to pay attention to such unwelcome guests, so the door never opened. In the end, the two men, with a look of sorrow, jumped off the high foundation, stepped on the rubble and rubble, and walked to a car parked far away.

"Damn, an old woman who is old and undead and stepped into the coffin with half her body, a widow who has a dead husband and no one wants, eighty percent of them are psychopaths, otherwise, why is the boss out of 20 million, and he still doesn't let go of his mouth like two mallets there?"

The man who walked in front spat on the ground, he rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie that represented Sven and etiquette, and said: "Our project, just because of their last nail household, has not started for more than half a year, we run to their house every day, and our legs are almost thin, and they wear out their mouths, but they are good, and now they don't even open the door." I think it's just that we are too polite to these old ladies, so polite that they let them put their noses on their noses! ”

"You don't understand this, right," the man in the back still had a smile on his face at this time, but in the eyes of Fengyinglou, he smiled really fakely, "People used to be characters with heads and faces, and it is said that decades ago, the man in charge of the family was also the number one person in the army." If it weren't for the fact that the hundred-legged insect died and did not stiffen, it might be bitten back a few times, do you think the boss's temper is really good enough to let them suffer for so long? ”

"Whew!"

The man who walked in front glared at Fengying Building, who was also aiming at the villa, and he suddenly raised his voice: "The plucked phoenix is not as good as a chicken!" ”

Wind Shadow Building's body paused slightly, but he didn't say anything, just walked with precise steps like clocks and gears, and continued to hold the backpack in his arms and walked towards the lonely villa.

"Bell bell bell ......"

Not to mention this villa with a history of at least 100 years, even the electric bell on the door and the sound made by pressing it are the oldest, monotonous ringtones like an alarm clock. But stepping on the small and broken path in front of the door, paved with rain stones, looking at the gate more than two meters wide, even after a hundred years of cangsang, it is still beautiful, exuding a faint brilliance of brass reliefs, in the monotonous and boring bells, Fengyinglou naturally felt that it was so incompatible with the towering skyscrapers around it, from the depth and heaviness of history.

Although the two men who put on a suit and tie, but still couldn't hide the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes on their bodies, the reason why they dared to scold behind their backs after leaving the villa was probably because standing in front of this historic building, they already vaguely understood that although they had been in the wrong situation, the people living here were still not the objects of humiliation that they could be humiliated.

"I've said it many times, we won't sell this house, let alone move out of here, and watch you tear it down! No matter how many times you say it, how many times you ask, my answer is the same! The electricity is off, we can light candles, the water is gone, although I am just a woman, I can also bring back two buckets of water from the outside every day, 20 million is a lot, but to buy our most cherished home at such a price, there is still a lot of difference. Please go back, please tell your boss, please don't disturb our lives again. ”

Through the door, there was a voice in the room that although it had been disturbed, it was still decent, not arrogant, not humble, and not losing everyone's demeanor.

Although she didn't open the door, out of her considerable education and accumulated politeness, she still opened the viewing window on the door, and when she saw the young face of Fengying Lou clearly, she couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "Excuse me, who are you?" ”

Without asking, Fengyinglou could already determine that the woman in front of her, who smelled of books all over her body, was Chen Hike's mother.

Even though time has taken away her youth, so that her skin is no longer as crystal clear as milk, but time has not been able to take away her beauty. There is a faint softness in her eyes, and the worldly affairs that are fused with knowledge and cultivation, and on her face, the polite smile that followed after a slight startle, was even more gentle like a spring breeze.

In fact, how can the spring breeze in March have this intoxicating elegance in her smile?

In the face of her, I believe that anyone will be amazed by her temperament and demeanor, and forget her real age. It is precisely because of the demeanor inherited from her that Chen Jianxing has an amazing personal charm in school.

"My name is Fengyinglou, I am a friend of Chen Hike, and we study in the same school."

The woman standing inside the gate had a surprised smile on her face, and with a soft "click", the lock on the door was opened. When she opened the door and welcomed the guest from thousands of miles away, Fengyinglou's gaze involuntarily fell on her hands.

Her fingers were slender and slender, and they matched the rustic piano in the hall behind her, forming a natural picture. However, it was also these hands that broke the ubiquitous elegance on her body. Perhaps only a person like Fengyinglou can keenly capture the reality that her finger joints have become slightly thicker because she is often engaged in some kind of manual labor.

Wind Shadow Building's gaze finally fell on the two buckets that were also placed in the hall. The piano, the bucket, and a pair of hands full of artistic beauty, but no longer flawless, are these three things that make Fengyinglou look a little crazy.

"Please come in," she seemed to see the turn of the Wind Shadow Building's gaze, and even more saw the psychological changes of the Wind Shadow Building, but she was more unimpressed, and said with a smile: "I've heard Hiking say that you children who go to the same school are out-and-out freaks. You hardly drink anything with irritating ingredients other than water, but you must taste the Nine Rings I brewed. ”

No matter what kind of mood the Wind Shadow Building was in now, he still couldn't help but ask, "Nine Links?" ”

"It's tea." She replied lightly: "As the saying goes, the same rice, raise a hundred kinds of people." In fact, tea, too. The same water, the same tea, with different heat and mood, can make tea with different textures. One cup quenches the thirst of the guests, two cups make the guests' teeth and cheeks fragrant, three cups are like a breeze, four cups invite the guests to be calm like a valley, five cups are as enthusiastic as fire, six cups are poured out to have friends from afar to say that they are not happy, and seven cups are ......"

Feng Yinglou listened in a daze, he knew that China's tea ceremony had a long history, but he really didn't know that with nine cups of tea, she could brew a wide range of seas and sky. In fact, listening quietly to her eloquent story, a feeling of mountain water and a faint spring gushing is growing in Fengyinglou's heart, and unconsciously, it has gently swept away the fatigue of his long journey.

She obviously cares about her son and is eager to know the latest situation of Chen Hiking, but she cares more about the guests who come from afar. It wasn't until she moved out a set of tea sets and was really ready to make tea for herself that Fengyinglou finally couldn't help but speak: "You were forced to be like this by people outside, why don't you find someone to help?" ”

The employees of the two real estate companies just now were right, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, Fengyinglou will never believe it, Chen Zuxing, who is qualified to enter the Fifth Special Army, his father, and even his ancestors, all the connections are completely broken because of the phrase "people go to tea and cool". Even if there is really no foreign aid, even if they call Chen Hiking, they will definitely not fall to the current situation.

"Our Chen family, when did it become so downtrodden that we had to go around begging for help?"

Before the woman who was making tea could answer, a dry, rock-hard and oppressive voice came down from the second floor. Under the gaze of Fengyinglou, a gray-haired figure with a still tough body walked down the stairs slowly.

She is not tall, very thin, sharp with a high breath in her eyes, and she always subconsciously purses her lips until the two deep marks on her face are clearly shown that she is not a person who is too strict and difficult to get along with.

Sure enough, after she walked down, she looked at her daughter-in-law, and opened her mouth to reprimand: "Wanmei, you don't even know the other party's roots, just based on what he said, you hurriedly invited him into the house, if he is the person invited by the other party to touch our family, aren't you sold by others, and you have to be stupid while making tea and counting money for others?" ”

The woman who was called "Wanmei" by her mother-in-law shook her head gently, she raised her head to look at Fengying Building, and said in a low voice: "I feel close to him when I look at him, he has no malice." ”

Grandma snorted lightly, her eyes did not shy away from looking back and forth on Fengyinglou, it may be that Fengyinglou's body, the breath of the best professional soldiers, made her satisfied, and at the same time, she also clearly understood what it meant to be able to enter the fifth special force, she slightly retracted the condescending meaning in her eyes, but when she asked, she was still full of oppression: "At your age, you should still be trained in school, why did you come here?" ”

Wind Shadow House replied very simply: "I was eliminated." ”

Sure enough, as soon as he said a word, Wanmei's eyes showed a faint sympathy and tenderness, but she quickly turned her head, not wanting Fengyinglou to feel embarrassed by the pity in her eyes. And the grandmother who looked at Fengying Lou condescendingly, but her face had an unceremonious expression of rejection thousands of miles away. She suddenly said, "When you were in school, you were a hiking friend?" ”

"Yes!"

"You won't be anymore!" Chen Hiking's grandmother said categorically: "I have been teaching hiking since I was a child, to make useful friends, to learn from people who are stronger than him, instead of falling willingly, thinking every day that it is less than the upper and more than the lower!" ”

Feng Yinglou took a breath lightly, and at this time, he finally understood why Chen Zuxing obviously had a pure heart, and he could risk his life in order to save him, but he would not hesitate to step on his shoulder to climb up in order to get more attention from the instructor.

Perhaps, her husband was once in the army, and maybe her son also made a name for himself in the army, but they all disappeared and died for their own reasons. makes her feel that her glorious power and status are no longer there, but she is still stubbornly clinging to her former dignity, unwilling to lower her figure and face reality.

It was because she longed to regain the pleasure of being respected, and because she wanted to lift her head again, which she had been oppressed by reality and could only hold her head high in this family, she forcibly imposed too much hope on her grandchildren's generation, hoping that they could emerge in the Fifth Special Force and become the new generation of generals of the [***] team again.

Such a woman has gone through several twists and turns on the road of life, and has not learned to be calm and plain like the sea, but she has become more and more sharp and spicy. In such a family environment, Chen Hiking has no way to choose what friends he makes, so he can only follow the life route set by his grandmother for him, and move forward step by step.

And in the living room, the certificates and trophies with Chen Hike's name written on them silently reminded Fengyinglou what kind of childhood the big boy who was two years older than him but entered the Fifth Special Unit in the same period. In the face of such life pressure and hopes that do not belong to him, how can he be happy, and how can he not do his best to climb up, even by unscrupulous means?!

Listening to her mother-in-law's unceremonious expulsion order, Wanmei's eyes showed a little bit of asking for forgiveness towards Fengyinglou, but she sighed lightly in her heart, but she didn't know why, while she was worried that Fengyinglou would anger her mother-in-law, she had a faint joy in her heart, which was not allowed for outsiders.

Because she saw it, Feng Yinglou pursed her lips.

"No!" Feng Yinglou finally spoke, his attitude was still respectful, but in his voice, there was a firmness that could not be shaken: "I am not only a friend of Chen Trek, but also a brother who fought side by side on the battlefield and was saved by him!" If I want to give up such a friend, such a brother, such a comrade-in-arms, it is impossible! ”

Whether it was Fengyinglou or Chen Hike's mother Wanmei, they all thought that the woman standing on the stairs would be furious because of Fengyinglou's uncompromising confrontation. But she was slightly stunned, and muttered to herself: "It turns out that you have been on the battlefield together!" ”

Her husband is a soldier, her son is a soldier, and her grandson has also become a soldier, and she has been with professional soldiers all her life. In the end, she actually showed a somewhat dry smile at Fengyinglou, "The telephone lines at our house were broken by others when the building was demolished, and in October this year, I didn't receive a call to my home on foot, where is he now?" What is the matter with asking you to come here? ”

Facing two pairs of eyes with the same concern, Feng Yinglou's hands holding the backpack couldn't help but tremble slightly, looking at his movements, Wanmei's body suddenly trembled violently, and the tea bowl she held in her hand fell onto the marble carved coffee table and fell into several pieces.

At this time, the stern grandmother still didn't see anything, she glared at the "clumsy" daughter-in-law, and then fell on the face of Fengyinglou, with a look of concern and hope that could not be concealed, waiting for Fengyinglou's answer. She even asked: "Since you have been on the battlefield together, how did you perform on foot, did you make meritorious contributions, did you get praise from instructors, and did you get military merit medals?" ”

She was so eager to hear the news of her grandson's success that she didn't even notice that her daughter-in-law had already put down the tea set in her hand and walked to her side. She waved her hand impatiently, wanting to shake off her daughter-in-law's hand that was holding her tightly, but in the end, because of her daughter-in-law's rare persistence and strength, and because she didn't want to lose face in front of an outsider like Fengyinglou, she temporarily gave up this dispute.

"Chen hiked, he ...... Came back with me. ”

Hearing this, her mother's face turned pale in an instant, she looked at Fengyinglou as a treasure, and the bag that had been held tightly in her arms, tears had quietly oozed out of her eyes, bit by bit. But Chen Hike's grandmother set her eyes in the direction of the gate, "We're back together, what about the others?" ”

Suddenly, grandma's gaze froze, and she glared at Fengyinglou, "Wouldn't it be that I was expelled from school with you and didn't dare to see me, so I asked you to come back and report to us first?!" ”

Wind Shadow Lou shook his head slightly, and in a voice that even felt unfamiliar to him, he whispered, "No, he wasn't expelled. He is so good, he will never, never be expelled from school! ”

"Well, that's good!" Grandma nodded again and again, "Walking is a good grandson I taught single-handedly, if he can be expelled, then ......"

Suddenly, Grandma was completely stunned. And at this time, she was sad to lose her beloved son, but she was still able to walk to her side at the first time, and hugged her mother-in-law to prevent her daughter-in-law, who was overly agitated and fell down the stairs, from crying uncontrollably.

It was under their gaze that the Wind Shadow House finally opened the bag he had been holding tightly in his arms.

Although this three-storey villa has been cut off from power for half a year, there is no light in the room, and they can only light candles to illuminate it at night, but now it is only four o'clock in the afternoon, and the large floor-to-ceiling windows welcome the sunlight in generously and illuminate every corner of the hall. And the black urn, which had only fallen off a corner and had cracks on the surface, stung the eyes of the two women in an instant under the illumination and reflection of the sun.

is so far apart, but the intimacy of the blood, so that they don't need to pounce and take a closer look, they can know that the big boy who sticks to the front of the urn, smiling brightly and happily, is the closest child in their lives!

Grandma suddenly struggled desperately, the force she used was so big, so big that if she didn't let go of her, it would hurt her arm, as soon as Wanmei let go, grandma flew over. No one could have imagined that she, who was already gray-haired, could run so fast.

snatched her grandson's urn, and her grandmother's lips trembled more than a dozen times before she finally came back to her senses and cried loudly.

"I'm sorry," Facing the woman who had lost her grandson and all hope at the same time, Feng Yinglou lowered her head, "On foot, he, he, no military merit medal." ”

Chen Trek is a hero, a hero who died on the battlefield in order to save Fengyinglou and died in the arms of Fengyinglou. But after all, he didn't get an order, so he acted privately, although everyone, including the principal, recognized his actions and respected his decision, but, after all, the Fifth Special Unit is an army, and there are no rules, and the top management of the academy must not use a military merit medal to affirm the fact that a student violates the order and leads his classmates to fight across the border, such a serious violation of discipline!

Therefore, Chen hikking has merits and demerits, in the school book, he has no great merits, nor great faults, although everyone knows that he has done a good job, and he has done more than a fault!

The world is impermanent, how can everything go smoothly?

"No !!"

The woman who lost her grandson and all hope at the same time, at this time, she no longer has the usual strength, no longer has a lofty attitude, she tried her best to hold the urn, let the tears like rain, keep dripping onto the surface of the urn, she suddenly let out a cry of extreme grief: "I don't want military medals, I don't want him to get ahead, I don't want him to glorify his ancestors, I just want him to come back, I only want my ...... My grandson is back! ”

(To be continued)