Standing in front of the low and dilapidated wooden house, looking at the window without a trace of light, sighed softly, Li Wenhao pushed open the door.

Squeak!

"Dad, I'm back!" Li Wenhao called out first when he entered the house, but no one responded.

groping his way forward in the dark, and when he found the table, Li Wenhao touched the matchbox, made a match, lit it with a "click", and hurriedly lit the candle next to him.

With a soft "poof", the flames rose, and the faint candlelight jumped to illuminate the hut.

Stripped bare!

In addition to the table in front of him, there were three chairs beside the table, a charcoal brazier, and only candles, matches, wine bottles and other miscellaneous items on the table, and there was really no furniture or furnishings anymore.

On the other side of the table, there was a drunken man lying on his stomach, his unkempt hair scattered on the table mixed with the wine on the table, and the hand hanging under the table was still clutching an empty wine bottle even when he was asleep.

"Dad?" Tentatively screamed, seeing that the man did not respond, Li Wenhao put down his schoolbag, first went to the bedroom and hugged a blanket, draped it on the man, and lit the charcoal brazier, before taking out the rice from the bag and walking towards the kitchen.

About half an hour later, Li Wenhao came out of the kitchen with a large basin, put the basin on the table, and Li Wenhao came back with two bowls and two spoons.

First put a bowl of very thin porridge out and put it on the man's side, Li Wenhao pushed the man hard: "Dad, get up and eat." ”

It wasn't until the man sat up sleepily that Li Wenhao sat down beside the man with a bowl of thinner porridge and rice soup in his bowl.

"Haah~" yawned loudly, the man didn't even look at Li Wenhao, picked up the bowl, and poured it into his mouth with a sigh.

"Hot." Li Wenhao said in a low voice.

But the man still ignored the porridge in the bowl and threw it up.

"Bang!"

The porridge bowl fell heavily on the table, and the man touched his mouth, took the bowl of porridge and sent it back to his mouth.

Glancing at the man carefully, Li Wenhao thought for a while and said, "When I came back just now, I met a group of people, it seems to be... Accounts... Target? ”

The movement of the basin was paused for a moment: "Really? Didn't pay attention. ”

The voice: hoarse, gloomy, with a feeling of sandpaper grinding each other, as if the throat had been burned by a long period of alcoholism.

Gollum ~ Gollum ~

The Adam's apple rolled, and the hot porridge slid into his mouth, but the man kept feeling like he didn't feel hot.

"Bang!"

There was a better bang than before, and the basin slammed against the edge of the bowl, and the man squinted his eyes and found half of the unfinished bottle of wine on the table, and poured it into his mouth again without care.

During the whole process, from the time he woke up, the man who was called his father by Li Wenhao didn't even look at Li Wenhao.

Li Wenhao also snorted and drank the bowl of rice soup in the bowl, gently put down the bowl, and looked at the man who was drinking, with a hesitant expression.

After a while, he finally made up his mind, and after a high-pitched hiccup from the man, he said, "I will be twelve years later, and I want to go to the first awakening!" ”

Listening to Li Wenhao's words, the man glanced at him for the first time from the gap in the hair that fell down to cover his face, and said for a long time: "Reason!"

Subconsciously clenched his fists on his knees, Li Wenhao sat upright: "I heard Mr. say that if you can become a combat officer, you can join the combat academy, and you can earn more money than ordinary people after graduation." ”

After listening to his words, the man who was still slanting Li Wenhao withdrew his gaze, took a sip of wine, and then lowered his head again, staring at the edge of the table.

Li Wenhao looked at the man with apprehension, but he couldn't see through the man's face covered by his heavy hair, let alone his somewhat disappointed face......

"No money!"

After a long time, the man said in a hoarse voice.

"Ahh What the? Li Wenhao, who didn't react for a while, asked subconsciously.

"Do you have any money?" The man asked.

Li Wenhao opened his mouth, then shook his head again, and did not speak: he has no money......

"It takes money to participate in the first awakening!" The man didn't seem to expect to hear any reliable answers from him, and said to himself: "And not everyone is qualified to fight, and even if there is, it will require more money to study in the combat academy in the future, astronomical money!" ”

Li Wenhao didn't speak, and the man continued: "So, why do you think you have the financial resources to participate in the first awakening and even join the combat academy?" With the guaranteed quota of the village? ”

Li Wenhao pursed his lips, he had indeed heard from Mr. that some villages could have places to escort combat academies, but as for whether there was one in his own village, Mr. did not know.

As if he saw what Li Wenhao was thinking, the man smiled hoarsely: "The village is not qualified to have a guaranteed place." ”

"Well, isn't there any other way?" Li Wenhao asked unrelentingly.

"Yes!"

Under Li Wenhao's hopeful gaze, the man seemed to suddenly have an interest in talking, or just wanted to dispel his thoughts, different from the previous silence, and suddenly said a lot of words.

Raising three fingers, the man said slowly: "Three roads: first, there are guaranteed places at the town level and city level!" But on what basis for you? Second, the children of martyrs! But your mother isn't a martyr, is she? Three, mighty children! But who do you think is like the mighty, me, or your mother?"

Three answers! Three questions!

talked to himself, but directly defeated Li Wenhao.

Sitting on the stool dejectedly, staring blankly at the empty bowl in front of him, Li Wenhao didn't even know what kind of mood he should be in now.

Gollum ~ Gollum ~

The man finally took the last sip of his wine.

"Cleaned up!"

With the last three words, the man pulled up the blanket that had slipped on the floor and went back to his bedroom to sleep.

And Li Wenhao, sitting there dejectedly, thought about it for a long time, but could only get up and go to the kitchen with pots and bowls and spoons to clean.

Jingle Bell!

The bedroom door opened slightly, and a pair of eyes stared at Li Wenhao, who was unaware, in the dark.

There is no longer the usual drunkenness and drowsiness in his eyes, but instead there are endless vicissitudes!

"Can anyone be in the position?"

"Can anyone be a war officer?"

The man behind the door muttered in a voice that only he could hear, a word difference, only a subtle difference in tone.

......

"Combat ......"

Lying on the bed, through the window, looking at the night sky outside the window, the lonely half moon hanging.

In the winter of Bac Giang, you can't see the stars, only a round of the moon......

I always hear Mr. talk about his military position.

The gentleman said that it was a group of extremely powerful people, and he said that even the wild bears and boars in the mountains were far from being the opponents of the warriors.

He said that they have a wide variety of skills, and I heard that on the battlefields outside the country, there are countless warriors who guard the country and resist the invasion of the enemy.

He also said that all of them have important responsibilities in the country, and they can earn a lot of money, and I heard that the village chief is a very powerful fighter.

Li Wenhao has not seen the village chief much, and he does not know what the village chief is capable of.

But with Mr.'s erudition and the degree of respect in the village, even Mr. Zun can't do it, it must be a very powerful group of people!