A Home for Veterans Chapter 18: Comrades-in-Arms (I)

Wang Quan got up from bed in the morning, feeling that the world was spinning, he groped his way to sit on the sofa in the living room, still feeling dizzy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He drank high last night.

After arranging the old father's dinner at home, Wang Quan and Wang Yueying took Nian Jun to the banquet at the invitation of Hao Jinshan. Wang Nianjun doesn't like to go out with his parents the most, especially he doesn't want to walk with Wang Quan. "If I were to go out with him for a walk alone, I would feel worse than walking from my cell to the execution ground." He complained to his mother.

"You kid can't hate his dad like that." Whenever at this time, Wang Yueying patiently enlightened her son, "When the two of us just came to Beijing with the army from our hometown, you and your father kissed each other, pestering him every day to tell you stories, he was about to go to work and leave, and you still hugged his thighs to prevent him from going out." ”

"yes, he changed!"

"Your dad said you had changed."

"It should be said that it's not that I've changed, it's not that he has changed, it's that the times have changed, and now is not the time for 'the father is the son'."

Wang Yueying didn't understand the meaning of her son's words, and said undoubtedly: "You two don't care who is iron and who is steel, your Aunt Xiao wants to see you, I have promised her, you have to go with us when the time comes." Your father's unit and your Uncle Hao's company are going to cooperate in building affordable housing for the army, and we are not only going to have a meal this time, but also to help your father's unit do the work. ”

"Okay then, I'll go, this time it's up to your face." Nian Jun thought for a moment and said to his mother.

He was a brave and fearless man who regarded death as his home.

In spring, the city of Beijing is picturesque, the climate is pleasant, and the colorful coats of pedestrians and the red flowers and green grass on the roadside contrast with each other. Wang Quan was wearing a gray jacket on the top and green army pants on the bottom, and even elementary school students could see that he was a retired veteran cadre of the army; Wang Yueying's true colors remain unchanged, and she has been dressed up as a rural sister-in-law for decades; The Nike shoes on Nianjun's feet were a gift from his mother on his 26th birthday, and the jacket and pants were bought cheaply on the free market. Nian Jun usually doesn't bring much money when he goes out, but the seven or eight large and small pockets on his body can dazzle the gentleman who specializes in "helping" others to spend money, and he has no idea where to start.

The family of three took the subway and reversed the bus, and at a place two stops away from the 'Pacific Restaurant', they got off the bus and took a taxi for 13 yuan to reach their destination.

"Mom, are we going out today for dinner or to check the city traffic?" Nian Jun asked Wang Yueying dissatisfied.

"Child, you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, your father said, if we take a taxi directly as soon as we go out, we have to spend fifty or sixty yuan, so that the car is reversed twice, it costs less than thirty yuan, which is not a loss of face and does not cost much, what's so bad about this! After a while, I met Uncle Hao and Aunt Xiao, don't say that we have taken the subway and bus today. Wang Yueying told her son.

"It's crazy to be poor!" Nian Jun didn't understand his mother and muttered in a low voice.

As soon as a family of three got off the taxi in Seafood City, a beautiful waitress came up and asked Wang Quan: "You are Mr. Wang!" Mr. Hao is waiting for you on the second floor, and I have specially asked me to greet you here. It turned out that Hao Jinshan did not greet the guests at the gate, which made Wang Yueying feel that the dozen yuan of taxi money spent later was a bit wronged.

Wang Quan's family followed the waitress to the second floor, and as soon as they entered a spacious suite, Hao Jinshan and Xiao Tong opened their arms together to greet them, one of them pulled Wang Quan to call "old instructor", and the other hugged Wang Yueying and shouted "Sister Wang", and the enthusiastic attitude made Wang Quan and his wife have a cordial feeling of reunion and reunion after being separated for many years.

Time is a magical magician that can turn a big girl into an old woman and a young man into an old man, and no one has ever doubted the authenticity of its superb skills.

Wang Yueying saw that Xiao Tong's blackened eyebrows, reddened lips, and cheeks with too much marital fat not only could not hide the face of the middle-aged and elderly woman she had become, but a face had become a palette for a crappy painter. The red silk jacket and the braid tied into a sheep's tail reminded Wang Yueying of the "Iron Girl" who fought the heavens and the earth back then.

"Xiao Xiao is still so young!" It took a lot of effort for Wang Yueying to insert a lie that many women like to listen to in the gap between the firing of the "crooked sub-machine gun".

This made Xiao Tong, who has been accustomed to hearing lies in recent years, so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Hao Jinshan is dressed in leather shoes, with a big belly, and the big boss is full of style, as soon as he and Wang Quan meet, the two big chimneys are lit together.

The two couples sprayed enough spit stars before they remembered to look at each other's two children who had been left out in the cold.

Wang Nianjun has been standing at the door, he is not interested in the hustle and bustle of the adults, he just hopes to finish eating and go home early.

The girl sitting on the sofa is Hao Jinshan and Xiao Tong's only daughter Hao Xiaomi, when several adults are talking, she has been lowering her head and quickly moving the screen on her mobile phone, I don't know whether to play games or send text messages. When Wang Yueying saw her suspender suit and miniskirt, she not only admired her ability to withstand cold, but also worried that the cotton farmers in her hometown would lose their jobs. What makes Wang Yueying particularly unaccustomed to it is that the shoes on Hao Xiaomi's feet, the toe and heel are so thin that they can be used by the doctors in the hospital to give acupuncture to the patient.

After praising each other's son "handsome" and daughter "beautiful", the guest and host sat down separately.

"Why didn't your driver come up to eat with you?" Hao Jinshan suddenly remembered something and asked Wang Quan.

"We came by call, and we originally wanted to ask for a trolley, but then we were afraid that there would be a driver next to us, so we didn't ask for a car." Wang Quan replied naturally.

"What are we going to drink today?" Hao Jinshan asked Wang Quan's opinion.

"Come to the wine bar, I can't drink enough now, and I'm uncomfortable drinking liquor."

"I don't believe you when you say this, you can drink two bowls of high-grade sweet potato dry wine for two yuan a pound back then, and after so many years of exercise, you should have made more progress."

"Then some low-alcohol liquor."

"Okay, two bottles of low-degree Wuliangye, one bottle of dry red wine, and several drinks, you can choose what you want to drink." Hao Jinshan instructed the waiter.

After the wine was full, Hao Jinshan first raised his glass and said happily: "Don't say anything else, for yesterday's friendship and today's reunion, come, cheers!" ”

Wang Quan drank the wine in the cup and said to Hao Jinshan excitedly: "The valley is separated, the metropolis gathers, and decades have passed, which shows that we are destined, and I hope that the next step will be happy to cooperate, and the land we will develop together will ------."