Chapter 49
The father's death was a heavy blow to the mother.
A few months after my father's death, my mother became bedridden and died in the fall, vomiting blood all over her bed.
Yuhuan saw his father's face in the gushing blood water, and the blood-red sunlight reflected on his father's face.
Yuhuan felt that his father was still there, and he was staying by his mother's side, who was critically ill.
The illusory situation was so real, Yuhuan could see his father sigh and sigh in a rising red mist, and even see the gray hair on his temples and the deep wrinkles on his face.
My mother said dreamily, "Huan'er, your father has come to call me, and I heard him talking." ”
Yuhuan said: "I also saw my father, my father didn't speak, my father was sighing." ”
The mother smiled hard and stubbornly insisted, "Your father is talking, I really hear it!" He told me: It's a hundred, and that's how it is for a lifetime......"
Yuhuan saw his father in the red mist again, his father's military uniform was soaked in blood, and his eyes were sunken in the sockets of the eyes.
Fathers will not forgive their enemies.
Fathers have always been grateful and avenged.
So, Yuhuan said to his mother: "Dad won't say this, Dad won't be blind to death." ”
The mother was uneasy and struggled to sit up.
Yuhuan leaned forward and held her mother down.
The mother had to lie on the bed and say, "Huan'er, I'...... I know your temperament, and I know your filial piety to your father, but... But I will make it clear to you today that you ...... the past You've got to forget about it, you're ...... You're a girl, you can't manage it, you can't manage it......"
Yuhuan was silent.
When she was dying, her mother was still not at ease, so she called Yuhuan and her younger brother to the front and explained to Yuhuan: "Take ...... Take your brother and ...... forever Never...... Don't let him be a ...... again Be a soldier, never......"
Yuhuan wanted to nod, but somehow he shook his head, his lips moved, and he spit out a word: "No......"
Her mother watched her sadly until the light in her pupils finally disappeared, and she did not close her eyelids...... Next to the grave where his parents are buried, Yuhuan is full of filial piety, full of tears, kneeling for a long time, like a white stone statue.
The younger brother Baishun was a little afraid, first stared at his sister timidly, and then squatted in front of his sister, wiped the tears on his sister's face with his sleeves, and blushed his little face, desperately trying to pull his sister up.
Yuhuan couldn't resist his younger brother, and finally stood up.
This made Baishun very happy.
Baishun took his sister's hand and wanted to go home.
Yuhuan looked at the new grave in front of him and did not move.
Baishun wanted to make trouble with his sister, but he didn't dare, so he had to stare at his sister's face pitifully.
Yuhuan choked up at this time, and said to his younger brother, who had nothing to do: "Baishun, you ...... You have to be a soldier, you have to promise my sister, go to ...... Go to the army. ”
Bai Shun flashed his big eyes and asked, "Why?" ”
Yuhuan wiped the tears on her face and said, "Because because you are a boy." ”
Bai Shun thought it was strange: "The boy is ...... Are you going to be a soldier? ”
Yuhuan stroked his brother's round head: "If it's a boy...... If you have blood, you have to be a soldier. ”
Baishun's little head tilted: "Then, aren't there many men who haven't been soldiers?" ”
Yuhuan said: "There is no blood feud! People's father was not beaten to death by Zhang Tianxin! ”
Only then did Baishun know that the person who killed his father was Zhang Tianxin.
Bai said by the way: "Zhang Tianxin is a villain!" ”
Yuhuan nodded: "Yes, you have to remember that when you grow up, you will become a soldier and avenge your father." ”
Bai Shun nodded first, and then shook his head again: "But ...... But my mother said, don't want me to be a soldier, and never want it......"
Yuhuan kissed his brother's ruddy face, and tears fell on his brother's face: "Baishun, from now on, you ...... You have no mother, only a sister! You...... You have to listen to my sister! ”
Baishun was sad, and lowered his head with red eyes: "I...... I listen to my sister, and I listen to my sister for everything. ”
Yuhuan reiterated again: "Then promise my sister that I will grow up to be a soldier and avenge my father!" ”
Baishun said, "I...... I'm going to ......."
Yuhuan was dissatisfied with the cowardice of this voice: "Say it loudly!" ”
Baishun raised his face and said loudly: "Sister, I'm going to be a soldier!" Go get revenge on your father! ”
Yuhuan then took his younger brother in his arms, whimpered loudly, and knelt down in front of the grave while crying: "Dad, you ...... Do you hear me? Your son Sun Baishun is not a bad seed, you didn't hurt him in vain! He will go to Zhang Tianxin to settle accounts......"
Pulled by Yuhuan, Baishun also knelt down in front of his father's grave, and according to his sister Yuhuan's request, he swore a blood oath of revenge to his father.
On the evening of that day, Deputy Brigade Commander Tang and Mrs. Tang came to pick them up in a carriage.
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang had just come out of Zhang Tianxin's officer's detention center, dark and thin, with a tired face; Mrs. Tang also seemed to have just recovered from a serious illness. In such an embarrassment, the Tang couple did not forget the eldest brother and the little children of the eldest brother.
Yuhuan and Bai Shun were really moved, and the sister and brother both called "uncle" and "aunt", and threw themselves into the arms of Deputy Brigade Commander Tang and his wife.
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang and Mrs. Tang responded again and again, asking them to pack up their things and move to Tang's house immediately.
Yuhuan's aunt came out to stop her, saying that she was the aunt, so it was not good to trouble others so much.
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang said: "I'm not someone else, don't I have the same surname as Yuhuan's father?" ”
After listening to Deputy Brigade Commander Tang's narration, I realized that Deputy Brigade Commander Tang was not only a brother with his father, but his father also saved Deputy Brigade Commander Tang's life. This pair of old brothers went out to serve as soldiers to eat food together, and participated in the New Army Uprising together, accompanied by more than ten years of birth and death, and their affection was deep.
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang persuaded Yuhuan and her aunt, and said to their sisters and brothers: "Let's go, child, from now on, your uncle and aunt's home will be your home. ”
Yuhuan said: "Uncle, I don't want anything, as long as Baishun grows up and goes with you to be a soldier." ”
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang smiled bitterly: "What kind of soldier should you be, Xihe is defeated, the brothers of our brigade will die, and the brothers will fall, and the so-called trees will fall and scatter, uncle, this deputy brigade commander is not appropriate, what kind of soldier is Baishun?" ”
With a long sigh, Deputy Brigade Commander Tang said again: "Besides, Uncle has also seen it, it is not a good thing to be a soldier and lead a soldier in the end, let's keep to ourselves and be a grass-headed people." Uncle and aunt still have some capital, so you can learn to do business with your uncle when you grow up. Always thirsty, hungry ......"
Only then did Yuhuan realize that the guns and bullets at Xihe Station killed his father at the same time, but also extinguished Deputy Brigade Commander Tang's military dream, his father was finished, Deputy Brigade Commander Tang was also finished, Deputy Brigade Commander Tang didn't want to take revenge and was going to do business.
Yuhuan twisted his head and said, "That...... Then I won't go with you, my brother and I will follow my aunt. ”
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang was very unhappy and said, "Why are you so tough? Your aunt is not your uncle and uncle, she is also the daughter-in-law of other people, and you have such a big family, aren't you making trouble for your aunt! ”
Yuhuan's aunt said: "It's nothing, it's good here, there are many cousins and sisters, and they are not lonely." ”
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang said resolutely: "It's better to live with us, the two of us have no children, and we want to be lively." ”
Then he said kind words to Yuhuan: "Ni, don't be difficult for your Uncle Tang, let's go!" ”
Yuhuan stared at Deputy Brigade Commander Tang in a daze, still insisting on his own opinion: "Uncle, I'm ...... I'll go with you, you must promise me that when you grow up, let Baishun become a soldier! ”
Deputy Brigade Commander Tang was helpless, so he nodded and said, "Okay, okay, I promise, can't I promise?" It's just that Baishun is still young at the moment, and it's not the time to talk about this, is it? ”
Yuhuan had nothing to say. Deputy Brigade Commander Tang said again: "Ni, don't worry, you can't forget your father, and I can't forget my eldest brother!" ”
Yuhuan saw that Deputy Brigade Commander Tang was sincere, so he dragged his younger brother into Deputy Brigade Commander Tang's carriage, wept goodbye to his deceased parents and aunt's family, and went to Tangji, which was eighty miles away. Not long after hitting the road, Baishun fell asleep to the sound of "squeaking" wheels. How did Baishun know the heavy responsibility of being the Son of Man at that time?