Chen Bei's right trouser tube was empty, there were no legs, and he became lame.

He was wearing the uniform of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force cadres, a green cotton plain cloth shirt, blue pants, and a large-brimmed hat.

Chen Yan and her brother have the best relationship, tears burst out of their eyes, how did the handsome and dashing little brother become like this, she couldn't help but rush up, but was pulled by her mother.

The drums on the airport sounded in unison, the unanimous military band played music, the thin music was blown by the cold wind and changed its tune, two members of the Communist Youth League wearing Lenin uniforms stepped forward to present the paper flowers in their hands to Chen Bei, Chen Bei took the flowers, saluted, and then came down on crutches.

The head of a certain department of the air force stationed in Jiangdong supported the welcome ceremony, hundreds of cadres and soldiers sat upright at the venue, provincial chairman Chen Zikun, provincial party secretary Zheng Jiefu and relevant leaders sat on the rostrum, the master of ceremonies introduced the hero Chen Bei who returned from the uprising, he stood up and saluted the audience, and thunderous applause rang out.

The chief asked Chen Bei to make a speech, in which he talked about his ideological process, how he made a decision to defect to the light, broke with the Kuomintang reactionaries, and how he fought wits and courage with the enemy, kept the plane, and landed safely.

Chen Bei did not inherit his father's advantages at this point, he was not good at speaking, he was silent for a while in front of the microphone, he couldn't say a word, the auditorium was quiet, silent.

The chief was a little embarrassed, and was about to say a few words to himself, when Chen Bei suddenly spoke: "Actually, I'm just homesick......

The political work cadres of the Air Force made a look and took the microphone: "It was the inspiration of our relatives that made Comrade Chen Bei resolutely revolt, the Kuomintang reactionaries entrenched in Taiwan, and stubbornly resisted, so that how many flesh and blood were separated, and our relatives could not see each other, we, as the People's Air Force, must resolutely liberate Taiwan and defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries!" ”

More than 1,000 air force fighters below raised their arms and shouted: "Resolutely liberate Taiwan and defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries!" ”

The political work cadres shouted again: "Learn from Comrade Chen Bei!" ”

The soldiers also shouted: "Learn from Comrade Chen Bei!" ”

The atmosphere became warm, and the commanders of the troops and local leaders also took turns to speak, and this is the explanation for Chen Bei's injury: In the battle on the sea, Comrade Chen Bei fought bravely and tactfully with the enemy, and after injuring an enemy plane, he was unfortunately attacked by a sneak attack, was shot in the leg, and finally returned victoriously with the help of our fighters.

Welcoming the successful conclusion of the meeting, Chen Bei was assigned to the newly established Jiangdong Aviation School as a full-scale instructor, close to home, convenient to take care of, and the organization also made an exception to assign him a jeep and a driver.

After finishing all this, Chen Bei finally returned to his long-lost home, and his mother Xia Xiaoqing was waiting at the door, seeing her son's empty trousers, and trying to hold back her tears and step forward to help.

"Mother, I can go by myself." Chen Bei refused politely, and walked up the steps with a cane, his right calf amputated, and he walked very slowly, and the iron head of the crutches hit the marble floor, as if knocking on everyone's heart.

When I came to the living room, it was all my own family, Chen Bei told the truth, the leg injury was accidentally injured by an anti-aircraft gun, Yan'er asked about the situation at the time, and was heartbroken: "There is no need to amputate the limb at all, these quacks!" ”

Chen Bei smiled sadly: "Don't blame them, the medical conditions in Fujian are not good, and the wounded soldiers are all amputated." ”

Xia Xiaoqing wiped away her tears, and Yao Yilei and others also shed tears.

Chen Zikun said: "Anyway, it's good for the family to be reunited, you all go back to sleep, Xiaobei, come to my study." As he spoke, he walked away with his hands behind his back.

Chen Bei picked up the crutches and followed him with difficulty, but no one supported him, because everyone knew that Xiaobei was the strongest.

When he came to the study, Chen Zikun carefully inquired about his son's flight to revolt and all the details, and then sighed: "It shouldn't be......"

Chen Beidao: "Father, am I not doing it right? ”

Chen Zikun said: "It's not necessarily wrong to go here, it's not necessarily right to stay there, Saiong knows the blessing and the bad luck, in short, since he has come to this point, it's too late to say anything." ”

This is the end of the conversation, the father and son went back to rest, when Chen Bei was lying on the bed tossing and turning, his parents were not asleep, Xia Xiaoqing said that the child is not young, it is time to find a daughter-in-law, Chen Zikun said Okay, start looking for him now.

In the following days, Chen Bei was depressed, asked for leave and did not go to work, sat at home every day, and drank one or two bottles of foreign wine in the wine cabinet every day.

The family said that they wanted to introduce him to the object, but Chen Bei refused, thinking how could the handsome pilot who was a heartthrob in Yushu back then be reduced to such a point, and he had to arrange it at home to find his wife, he was very resolute, and Xia Xiaoqing had to give up.

Liu Yuan, who was already interning at the provincial party committee, once came to visit Chen Bei, but he avoided it, and it is said that Liu Yuan cried for a long time after returning home.

Until one day, Beijing airlifted a prosthetic leg of aviation aluminum alloy, which was personally arranged by Premier Zhou to be made by skilled craftsmen, and the upper part had a leather sleeve that could be put on the knee, light and strong, Chen Bei installed the prosthesis with the assistance of the nurse and slowly stood up.

Chen Bei has practiced martial arts since he was a child, his balance is excellent, he has to hold on to the wall at the beginning of a few steps, and then he simply walks independently, although he walks very slowly, but he is very steady, his pants are covered by prostheses, and his feet are leather shoes, which looks like a normal person.

Being able to walk, Chen Bei's spirit and confidence are slowly recovering, and he insists on exercising every day, starting from walking slowly and climbing stairs, and then he can jog, ride a bicycle, and drive a car.

Chen Bei finally took a vacation and went to work at Jiangdong Aviation School, he wants to return to the blue sky!

Jiangdong Aviation School is the former Kuomintang air base, Chen Bei is very familiar with every grass and tree here, and when he sees a few old Japanese-style planes on the runway, he is even more eager to sit in it immediately and soar into the blue sky.

The principal of the aviation school is surnamed Jiang, he is an old eighth road, and when he saw Chen Bei coming to work, he was very enthusiastic, and took Chen Bei's hand and said welcome, welcome, the aviation school is in urgent need of talents, especially ace pilots like you.

Chen Bei said that he could immediately devote himself to his work, and President Jiang took him around to learn about the basic situation of the aviation school, and the instructors were mainly some old revolutionaries from the Northeast Aviation School, the seedlings brought out by the Japanese instructors, the ground crews and mechanics were mostly retained by the Kuomintang Air Force, and the cadets were young men with strong political skills and solid physical qualities who were drawn from the army.

Principal Jiang is like a treasure, but Chen Bei doesn't think so, the aviation school has a strong Japanese style, which makes him, an ace pilot from the Flying Tigers, feel very disdainful, and the level of those pilots makes him shake his head, the national army pilots are all college students, fluent in English, and the pride of the sky, and these reserve pilots in front of them are simply yam eggs dug out of the soil, and there are not many who are even literate, and everything must be educated from the very basics.

"Comrade Chen Bei, I heard that you are an American student and you are very knowledgeable, so you should be a cultural teacher for them." Principal Jiang said with a smile.

Chen Bei immediately refused: "I fly the plane well, so let's be a flight instructor." ”

Principal Jiang said: "We are a junior aviation school, and there is no flying subject at present. ”

Chen Beidao: "Then let me fly the head office to ensure that the plane will not be damaged." ”

Principal Jiang said: "That is the plane transferred by the fraternal troops, our aviation school has no right to use it, besides, Comrade Chen Bei, you are an old pilot, why bother with the new soldiers for this bit of gasoline, our country's foundation is thin, and aviation gasoline is one barrel less."

When it came to this, Chen Bei could only obey and obediently become his cultural teacher.

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It was already 1950, most of the country had been liberated, Tibet and some islands along the southeast coast were just around the corner, and land reform was in full swing.

The reorganization of the army is also in progress, Chen Zikun's old army has been reorganized into the People's Liberation Army, some old officers who are too old to serve as front-line command have been dismissed, and military leaders like Chen Shou and Gai Longquan have all stepped down, and they have neither power nor money, so they can only come to the Fenglin Road residence every day to fight the autumn breeze.

As the chairman of the province, Chen Zikun's salary is still very high, and he has a special fee of 5,000 yuan per month, plus his family foundation is thick, so there is no pressure to take care of these old friends.

However, Chen Zikun was powerless to deal with the food problems of tens of thousands of former officers, old police officers, and former officials, and the country was changed from old to new, and a large number of Kuomintang retained personnel were laid off.

Chen Shou was full of complaints, he saw an opportunity for no one to say to Chen Zikun: "The old brothers are starving to death if they can't eat, I knew that I wouldn't join the Communist Party, but if we can't do it, let's go back and be bandits, I still have a thousand guns hidden." ”

Chen Zikun said with a straight face: "What nonsense, hurry up and surrender the gun!" ”

Chen Shou said: "A gun is the root of life, and you can't hand over a gun to a wife." ”

Chen Zikun said: "You are confused! Do you think a thousand guns will come in handy? Lao Jiang has defeated 8 million guns, and you are still short of 1,000, and the only function of you hiding these guns and ammunition is to fold us all in. ”

Chen Shou sneered: "Okay, I'll hand it over." ”

After 1,000 American-style rifles buried in the ground were taken out, all sealed with butter, and the outside was a waterproof canvas and a wooden box, and it was estimated that they would not break if they were hidden for 10 or 20 years.

In accordance with the spirit of the central authorities, the provincial party committee transferred 500,000 catties of wheat from the grain-producing areas to provide relief to these unemployed people, and did not deal with anyone in the case of illegal possession of firearms.

Shuangxi's wife finally gave birth, and she was pregnant with a child before she didn't keep it, so this is particularly pampered, it is a boy who is not very good, a few yellow hairs on his head who is sick, like a little monkey with leprosy skin, when the full moon wine, Chen Zikun gave a very heavy gift, Shuangxi only had this son in his forties, that is really in his hands for fear of falling, holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, when the father asked the old chief to name his son, Chen Zikun thought about it and said, just say Chen Zhong, loyal to the country, loyal to the nation.

Chen Shou and Shuangxi both said that this name is good.

"We must be loyal to the party." Shuangxi said excitedly, but he didn't expect it to become a prophecy......