The light passed through the water mist, forming a colorful halo that enveloped Li Ling and Qin Xiaoyu in the dormant warehouse. At the moment of regaining consciousness, some memories reappear as if they were yesterday, while others are gone forever......

The first scene appeared in a place that Li Ling called his "hometown".

The early autumn sun warmly sprinkled on the school playground. Li Ling climbed the hemp rope for a while, and then began to do frog jumping again. He moves very lightly, touching the ground with his toes so that he doesn't lead the teacher over.

When jumping to the third group, Li Ling gasped for breath, ready to stop and rest for a while. At this moment, a black object on the edge of the runway caught his eye, it was a swarm of paver ants.

Li Ling was interested, squatting on the side of the runway and watching. He remembered a book about ants as a magical life with countless nicknames: geological prospector, Hercules, weather forecaster, architect, pharmacist, surgeon, and so on.

"I can't imagine that these unattractive guys are so versatile!" Li Ling sighed, took out a piece of leftover steamed bun from his pocket, twisted it and sprinkled it on the ground, and watched the ants scramble.

"Smack!" Someone slapped him the shoulder. "Haha, that's scared, brother?! If you don't sleep well, what are you running around?! A tall student smirked.

"Be careful that I beat you!" Li Ling said angrily. The guy behind him is called Su Hao, who has stayed three levels in a row, almost one head higher than all the students in the same class, and likes to bully the small with the big.

"Come on, I'm not afraid of you, little one!" Su Hao raised his fist in vain. Then, his eyes began to glow: "The ants are in a meeting!" Ha ha! With that, he ran away in a hurry as if he had won the jackpot.

Li Ling was wondering when Su Hao's figure reappeared, but this time, he was holding a large handful of wheat straw and a newspaper in his hand.

"What do you want to do!?" Li Ling asked.

"Seven hundred miles of fire to the company's camp!"

"Interesting? It's just a swarm of ants. ”

"Yes!" Su Hao said as he placed the wheat stalks around the ant colony. "What, you want to play the Flooded Seventh Army? Then you go get a pot of boiling water. Su Hao lit the newspaper and wheat stalks, then pouted his ass and poked into the ant colony.

Li Ling found that Su Hao's ass was very warped and big. There is a changing trend of adolescent girls. Whew, it's disgusting!

"you!" Li Ling flew up and kicked Su Hao's ass.

Su Hao threw himself to the ground, his face and hair covered with wheat stalks and dust, and he immediately jumped up and pounced on the skinny Li Ling with his teeth and claws.

Li Ling didn't know where to get a lot of strength, and he greeted him without showing weakness.

The two of them knew that they had run away secretly, and they didn't shout, and with a dull crashing sound, both of them turned into blue noses and swollen faces.

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"Li Ling! Come with me! Teacher Liu, the head teacher, rushed into the classroom, grabbed Li Ling, and dragged him into a black car.

As a child in a remote town, Li Ling took a car for the first time, but he didn't feel the slightest sense of excitement. Whether it was Mr. Liu or the driver sitting in front, they all kept a straight face and didn't say a word.

Li Ling vaguely felt that something bad was happening, but he couldn't figure out what it was, and he didn't ask.

The car drove along the asphalt road of the town until it reached the county seat, and after turning around, it stopped in a large courtyard.

At the top of the four-storey white building, there is a large red cross symbol. Li Ling felt that his steps were a little weak, and Teacher Liu glanced at him and reached out to grab his arm.

The corridors of the hospital were flooded, and all sorts of people in uniforms and suits stood outside the emergency room, looking anxious.

"Let's go! Let's get it! The child is coming! Teacher Liu opened the way and pulled Li Ling forward.

Li Ling was numb, walked through the crowd, and was placed on the bench opposite the emergency room, still not knowing what was happening.

From time to time, long sighs such as "It's a pity", "In order to save everyone", and "suddenly exploded" sounded in the crowd, and all kinds of compassionate eyes surrounded Li Ling's little face and glanced up and down. Someone approached to say something, but quietly retreated.

Li Ling's eyes widened, looking at the chaotic scenes around him, everything was so familiar and so distant. He rested his head in his chair and closed his eyes tightly, isolating himself from the chaos around him. Gradually, memories that had become blurry resurfaced clearly.

Five years ago, her mother, Su Qing, was seriously ill and died. When she was dying, she told Li Dashan that the only thing she couldn't rest assured about was her son Li Ling.

"You can leave with confidence, my son is handed over to me." Li Dashan only said this sentence, and then patted his strong chest.

Su Qing smiled and closed her eyes.

At that time, Li Ling was only seven years old, and he saw the radio waves at the head of the bed turn into a straight line. I don't know what that means. I just felt stuffy and panicked, and I couldn't breathe.

Li Dashan arranged his wife's funeral in the shortest time, and then grabbed Li Ling's cold little hand and said, "Let's go, take you to McDonald's!" ”

After being demobilized from the army, Li Dashan became an ordinary forest guard in the town, earning a meager salary. For a meal of McDonald's, the father and son went to the county seat and spent half a month's salary on Li Dashan.

Since then, in addition to his mission, Li Dashan has accompanied Li Ling to play ball, climb mountains, and race. He has never supervised his son's studies, but fortunately, Li Ling's grades have not fallen behind......

Gradually, Li Ling actually fell asleep on the bench, and did not wake up until the early hours of the morning. Those chaotic figures have long since disappeared, and only two or three relatives and friends are keeping by their side.

Li Ling walked into the emergency room lightly, and saw his father lying on the hospital bed dying, and he didn't dare to come out.

Li Dashan happened to wake up, maybe he had been awake all along, and he called Li Ling's name softly.

"I'm here, Dad." Li Ling's heart was relieved, and he hurriedly walked up. "How does it feel?"

Li Dashan shook his head with difficulty and said, "You have to remember, don't cry, don't be sad...... It's not a big deal, and although it's a bit impersonal, fate can't be avoided. ”

Li Ling nodded a little flusteredly, and put Li Dashan's big hand groping in the air on his arm.

At this moment, Li Ling hopes that he can remain optimistic and strong as his father has always taught, and does not have to let him comfort himself in turn.

When he tried to think like this, he succeeded in choking back tears.

It's a pity that just like my father said, fate was inevitable, and Li Dashan's electrocardiogram soon became a straight line.

Li Ling shouted a few times, and the doctor soon came and asked him to stand aside.

It was only then that Li Ling found that his father's hand was tightly gripping his arm and never let go. Li Ling tried to break it, and those fingers were as tight as iron hoops.

For a moment, grief overwhelmed him like a flood.

"I swear, this is the last time!" Li Ling muttered to himself in his heart, tears flowed down as if the gate had been released.

At a certain moment, several strangers in suits and leather shoes repeatedly asked Li Ling what his plans and requirements were, but he always had only one sentence: he wanted to be a soldier. Not for anything else, just because Li Dashan also served as a soldier.

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"Whew, whew!" Li Ling gasped for breath and ran and climbed on the hillside grass. The weight on his shoulders was so heavy that he could barely straighten up, and his legs alternated mechanically as if he had lost sensation.

It's like hundreds of days and nights in the past. , he kept reminding himself to keep going, to keep going......

Weight-bearing cross-country was originally a regular event in the army, but this time, the superiors conveyed a strange assessment method. All the events were completely out of the competition, and many of the previous rules were removed, requiring only the recruits to show their best form and results in order to select the best recruit of the year. There was even an ingenious way for female soldiers and male soldiers to compete together. Of course, the grades are calculated for men and women.

For example, as long as you run from the starting point to the finish line, no matter what route you take, how much weight you bear, as long as you don't secretly take a car or plane, the results are valid.

According to the usual private competition, Li Ling is almost certain to get the first place. But this time, instead of choosing the main road that everyone usually trains, he cut diagonally along the path on the hillside. Although the climb over the hill was physically demanding, the distance was shortened by almost two-thirds.

Because of his father's relationship, Li Ling secretly swore before this assessment that he would not only get the first place, but also let everyone remember himself and remember that he was the son of the hero Li Dashan.

He and his friend Jiang Hao in the army came here to wander around when they had nothing to do, thinking that they were quite familiar with the terrain here.

Unfortunately, he miscalculated, there was a light rain last night, and with the morning dew, the grass on the hillside was wet and slippery. On several occasions, Li Ling almost rolled down the hillside.

It was almost impossible to win the weight-bearing cross-country event, but he ran even harder to close the gap as much as possible. In all the previous events, Li Ling is far ahead, as long as the gap in this last item is not too big, he will still win the final victory. All the while, he had no intention of throwing away the extra weight on his body.

"After the one-person high stone ridge in front, it is a big slope, even if I roll down from it, I have to roll faster!" After Li Ling fell again, he thought to himself.

"Whew!" Li Ling jumped and jumped directly over the small bushes under the stone ridge. By this time, he was already standing at the top of the hillside.

Perhaps because of the rain last night, the grass on the hillside was green with a few small flowers. Li Ling whimsically wanted to find a place with a steep slope and slip down directly. As for those flowers and plants, I can only say sorry.

"Hey!" A woman's shout sounded behind him.

Li Ling's frightened body was crooked, and he almost rolled down the hillside. When he turned around, he found a female soldier sitting next to the bush, her face a little distorted by excitement or grievance, and her clothes were crumpled, but she still looked good.

Li Ling knew this female soldier, her name was Qin Xiaoyu, she had been in the limelight at the recruit gathering with her beautiful face and graceful dancing, and it was said that her training results were also amazingly good.

As a young man with strong blood, Li Ling certainly did not forget her name, especially when the brothers in the same dormitory chanted it hundreds of times a day. My friend Jiang Hao didn't know where to get a photo of Qin Xiaoyu, and he would always secretly take it out and take a look at it during the busy training period.

"Looks like she's going to take a shortcut, too, but even if she's going full speed at the start, she shouldn't have gotten to the top of the mountain before I do. Could it be that she is physically better than mine? Li Ling glanced at it hurriedly and muttered a few words to himself.

However, he still noticed the backpack next to Qin Xiaoyu, which didn't seem to be carrying much weight. At least not like myself, with sandbags strapped all over my body in addition to the prescribed weight.

"In any case, you can't fall behind a woman!" After taking a few big breaths, Li Ling nodded politely at Qin Xiaoyu, and then hurriedly ran to the edge of the mountaintop, looking down from above, ready to choose the best path.

Qin Xiaoyu's lungs were about to explode, and in the past, those stunned young people all ran over and asked for warmth. But today, this wooden guy actually just glanced at himself lightly, and then wanted to leave without looking back.

"Even if he hadn't seen my swollen, blue ankles, he would have been able to see me slumped on the ground, sweating coldly, right?" Qin Xiaoyu thought as he struggled to stand up. But as soon as she moved, she took a breath of cold air and sat on the ground.

At this moment, she saw Li Ling take out a thick locomotive hat and put it on her head, then threw the large backpack on her shoulder down the right hillside, and then ...... Momentum?!

"Hey, hey, wait!" Qin Xiaoyu couldn't care about any reserved or pretty girl's little tsundere anymore, and shouted anxiously.

Li Ling hunched his waist and was posing there, when he suddenly heard Qin Xiaoyu again, "Hey!" Feed! shouted, and he couldn't help frowning, and shouted impatiently: "My name is Li Ling, eldest lady!" ”

As soon as he finished shouting, Li Ling regretted it, thinking that he was an ordinary recruit baby, and it was completely reasonable for people to not know him, right? And he had heard Jiang Hao say in private that Qin Xiaoyu had a prominent family background and outstanding talents, but he didn't go abroad to gild or anything like other rich children, but he chose to come to the army for training, which is really commendable.

"Maybe my previous biased impression of Qin Xiaoyu's showy and arrogant love is indeed a bit petty, right?" He thought, and his face calmed.

Qin Xiaoyu was also stunned, she couldn't even believe her ears, although she was very strong, although she could endure hardships, but after all, she was spoiled, except for the instructor and parents, where did anyone yell at her like this? "Could it be that when I fell from it just now, I not only broke my foot, but also broke my appearance?" Qin Xiaoyu thought in his heart, and hurriedly took out his small heart-shaped mirror from his backpack and took a photo—his face was moist, his lips were red and his teeth were white.

"I see." Qin Xiaoyu nodded, he understood, the other party either had a unique aesthetic vision, or he was a mallet.

"In that case...... Let's get straight to the point! Qin Xiaoyu removed the hand covering his ankle while thinking about it, and said bluntly: "I'm injured, can you ...... it?"

Halfway through her words, she herself was stunned. The hill is gentle, but the place is remote. Go down the mountain and call someone up, I'm afraid that it will be dark early, but I can let the other party help me down, with the other party's aesthetics, I'm afraid it will be troublesome......

"Hurt?!" Li Ling looked at Qin Xiaoyu's body in surprise, and finally looked at her ankles.

Then, he glanced down the hill very reluctantly, thinking that if he got a zero egg for the weight-bearing cross-country, he was afraid that the name of the rookie king would be gone......

Just because of that glance, Qin Xiaoyu, who was sensitive by nature, turned red and white for a while, she no longer had any hope for Li Ling's humanity, and said unceremoniously: "If you want to get out, just get out, just send a message to the people below." If it weren't for the lack of signal here, I wouldn't have brought my mobile phone with me......"

The more she talked, the more aggrieved she became, and her voice trembled, and she couldn't help but blame Li Ling's indifference for this grievance.

"How's that going to work?!" Unexpectedly, Li Ling strode over, then jumped and landed heavily in front of Qin Xiaoyu. "I'll check it out for you!"

"Hmm——? Well! After Qin Xiaoyu was surprised, he nodded slightly, thinking that although the other party had a bad attitude, he was under the eaves and had to ......

"Oops!" The severe pain made Qin Xiaoyu scream immediately, it turned out that Li Ling didn't greet her, grabbed her ankle, and pinched a few handfuls with her rough hands, and her tears fell straight down in pain.

"It seems to be quite serious!" Li Ling frowned and glanced at Qin Xiaoyu's distorted little face. Immediately, a look of curiosity appeared in his eyes, and he asked quite seriously, "Does it really hurt so much?!" ”