055 in that faraway place

"Uncle, doesn't grandma have to eat? We've boiled the porridge too, should we bring it to grandma? Xiaoxue asked.

"Oh, no, she hasn't woken up since she came back last night, and she hasn't eaten or drunk all day." Zhao Guodong said, "Let's eat, when she wakes up later, I'll feed him, you study hard." ”

After drinking the wine, eating the meal, and cleaning up, Xiao Yingzi and Xiao Xue both took out their books and sat in front of the desk lamp and began to study, afraid that Xiao Xue would dislike her home for the first time and dislike her home for being too dark, Xiao Yingzi deliberately twisted the table lamp to the brightest place.

Xiaoxue is also a very careful person, she noticed Xiao Yingzi's small movements, so she made the brightness of the lamp a little smaller, and said, "Don't be too bright, it's easy to hurt your eyes." The two girls looked at each other and smiled and began to learn. Zhao Guodong took care of Aunt Mei in the back room, and he was afraid that there was something wrong with Aunt Mei.

"Uncle?" Xiaoxue poked her head out of the outhouse and said, "Are you busy?" ”

"Oh, not busy." Zhao Guodong said that he gently put Aunt Mei's hand in the quilt, then covered it for a while, and quietly wiped the tears off his face, "What's the matter, Xiaoxue?" ”

"There's something I want to ask you." Xiaoxue said.

"Alright, I'll do it." Zhao Guodong wiped all the tears from his face, and then tried his best to look the same as usual, "What's wrong?" Is the light in my house too dim? Don't worry, I'll change your light bulb right away, right away, right away. ”

"No, uncle, come and sit down first." Xiaoxue pulled Zhao Guodong to sit on the stool, and Zhao Guodong noticed that the two children had finished their homework. "I want to ask, are you a soldier?"

"yes, what's wrong?" Zhao Guodong didn't know what the use of Lu Dao Xiaoxue asking this, so he admitted it.

"Can you tell us a little bit about your time as a soldier?" Xiaoxue said.

"What is there to talk about, you might as well listen to your teacher Lu's lesson, and I will tell a story where I am." Zhao Guodong really didn't want to mention those things back then.

"Uncle, our teacher Lu taught us to listen to more patriotic stories, which will help us educate our patriotic thoughts, I think it's the most suitable for you here, you say listen to those officials who are blowing nonsense there, and I don't know what they are talking about, we have to sit down honestly and applaud them, how boring, it's better to be here, at least, you have been a soldier and fought, true."

"Well, let me think about what I'm going to tell you." Zhao Guodong thought for a long time and didn't know where to start, so he simply took out the black box from under the bed.

"Actually, I understand that you asked me to tell you a story just to find out what is in it." Zhao Guodong stood up with great difficulty and beat his legs, "It's going to rain tomorrow." ”

"I've never shown this thing to anyone, including your teacher Lu, he is a comrade-in-arms of one of my regiments, I haven't shown it to him, it's not an ordinary piece of paper, but a living person, as soon as I open this box, it's like seeing them standing in front of me, a living person standing in front of me, and then lying there straight and straight, motionless."

Zhao Guodong opened the black box, carefully took out all the notes inside, and placed them seriously, one by one.

"Brothers, we meet again, I drink with you once every year during Qingming, and today I take the liberty to invite you out. But don't worry, I will definitely do what I promised you, don't worry. "Don't say it's Xiaoxue, even Xiao Yingzi has never seen such a heavy expression on Zhao Guodong's face.

Zhao Guodong respectfully took out the rows of "August 1 Medals" from the box, neatly arranged there, one no less than one, one hundred and thirty-eight, no, one hundred and thirty-nine, Xiao Yingzi took out the medal that Zhao Guodong put in his place and put it together.

Zhao Guodong took out a neatly folded red cloth from the box, it can be seen that this red cloth has been some years old, the red is no longer a little invisible, some messy threads have also emerged, and the cloth surface has become rough.

"This is the military flag of our soldiers, five regiments and seven companies, and seven companies of immortality, because our company is always alive and has experienced hundreds of battles, and our military flag has never fallen, and every person in the seventh company is defending it, letting it stand tall on the position, telling the enemy that we are still alive."

Zhao Guodong picked up a blank piece of paper, "This paper is blank, nothing is written, it's not that he doesn't want to write, but he didn't have time to write, his name is Gouwa, is Xiao Yingzi's second uncle who has never met, and is also Aunt Mei's biological son, my brother who grew up with me, he took my hand when he was leaving, and said, you must take care of our mother, you are left alone in our family, you must live well and take care of your mother." Until he died, he couldn't forget the mother who raised him. ”

"At that time, I was thinking, I will definitely bring you back, also to leave a memory for myself, Xiao Yingzi, do you still know the two wooden guns that Grandma Daomei is holding in her hands? One of them was carved by your grandfather with a knife for your second uncle, I can't take away Aunt Mei's thoughts, so I put a blank piece of paper in this box, which can be regarded as a memory for our brothers. ”

"Xiao Yingzi, let me tell you, you must remember that after I die, you will also put a blank piece of paper in this box." Zhao Guodong didn't care if Xiao Yingzi agreed or not, picked up a note and said: "This is written by Amon, Amon is a very strong and honest man, he has never been a picky eater, and he doesn't know how to be bitter and tired, as long as you give him a steamed bun, he can be stupid and happy for a day, and he will show a mouthful of big white teeth when he smiles." Zhao Guodong's eyes appeared in front of him again, a tall and big man with a steamed bun in one hand, scratching his head with one hand, and a stupid big man with a smirk in his mouth.

"He said that he had a daughter-in-law in his village who had never been to the door, and if I met her, I would sing a song to her, and that song was sung like this." Zhao Guodong's eyes flashed with tears, "In that distant place, there is a good girl ......." ”