Fan Tianfu sat down on the circle chair on the other side of the coffee table. The Fan brothers are well-known in Wutong County, and this is entirely due to their mother.

It was a strong-tempered rural woman, illiterate, but reasonable. She raised a large group of sons, and for decades she struggled with poverty and hunger to fight her perseverance, desperately supporting her sons to study, and only she knew how much bitter water she swallowed.

In this family, the father works outside all the year round and ignores everything in the house, the mother is an old mulberry tree, the sons are silkworms, the sons' career is silk, and the mother uses all the tender green mulberry leaves made of her own life to feed this group of silkworms, and her only wish is to watch these silkworms spit out wisps of shining silk, so that those sarcastic and mocking her raise a group

The "poor" people of the same clan, those village officials who bullied and embarrassed her, look at her

How the "poor species" ended up. Decades have passed, and the only wish of her sons, who were born and raised in poverty and hunger, is to turn all the bitter water swallowed by their mother into tears of happiness and satisfaction, and then flow out of their mother's eyes.

Although they are not the kind of men who dare to fight and kill, they are down-to-earth, conscientious, show their abilities, and lead the way in different fields, which is known to almost everyone in Wutong.

Fan Yixing is the eldest son, he is a well-known writer in Wutong, he is dignified and extraordinary, Lin Ximeng has been in contact with him, that person is very orthodox, it seems that orthodoxy is incompatible with his profession.

This was especially true of his other brothers. In such an open society, how many men who have a little ability and a little achievement don't go out to make a mess?

The Fan brothers were an exception. They seem to have taken any kind of drugs, and they have nothing to do with the trouble.

This has led to their growing prestige in society to the point of becoming well-known. Zhuo Qi and his wife have worked in the county for so many years, of course, they have heard about it, but they never thought that Fan and his entourage also had a younger brother who was a soldier outside.

Now, why did he, the younger brother who was a soldier, make an appointment with her? Do you want to get the decoration project through her?

However, she hasn't even explored it, where did the project come from? Still, he must know what she's here for.

When she thought of the man in front of her, she knew that she had opened her mouth to ask

"How much commission does he give me", Lin Ximeng was like crawling with little insects, and he couldn't sit still.

She really looked in the mirror today, looked at the past, came to take a look, looked inside, looked outside, no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't look like a person.

She almost burst into tears. Fan Tianfu held a cup of hot tea in both hands and handed it to her.

"In that case," she said, taking the tea, biting the corner of her mouth, and inwardly to herself,

"It's better to break the jar and break it. It's a big deal, I'll never see this man again. Thinking of this, she relaxed, drank a little tea, smiled, and once again fell her gaze to the military hat that shone with five red stars.

"How?" Fan Tianfu smiled and looked at the military hat,

"Is it strange?"

"Yes. You don't look like a soldier, but a typical artist. ”

"Isn't it like?" Fan Tianfu still looked at her with a smile and said,

"Although I don't wear a military uniform, I'm still an active soldier." Lin Ximeng couldn't help but look at him.

The knowledge about soldiers she received since she was a child is the slogan of the annual recruitment season

"One person is a soldier and the whole family is glorious", because there is no brother in the family who goes to be a soldier, she naturally doesn't know how to be honored; The second is that a cousin who was a soldier said a word to her

"Good iron doesn't hit nails, good men don't serve as soldiers", this sounds natural, at least those who are soldiers are abnormal people who have no emotions and six desires.

Think about it, how can a normal man be a soldier for more than ten years or even decades? However, the man in front of him, and not to say whether he is normal or not, does not care whether he is normal or not, when he speaks

"I'm still an active-duty soldier", the pride from the heart, the pride from the bones, made her dizzy and confused.

It's more than pride! More than pride! It's a show-off! It is a millionaire who flaunts his wealth to a worthless pauper, and this pauper really has to show his envy.

Lin Ximeng couldn't hide his envy. At this moment, all the prejudices about soldiers in her mind collapsed.

"You love the army a lot, don't you?" She asked enviously.

"Yes. It was the army that cultivated me and made me, and I will always have the blood of a soldier in my veins. I think that being a soldier is the noblest and most sacred profession in the world, and if there is an afterlife, and then let me choose a career, I still choose a soldier. Lin Ximeng was in awe of this man.

For the first time, she felt that she knew too little about the world, and that she knew so little.

"What is your greatest wish?" Lin Ximeng asked.

"Become a commander who gallops across the battlefield and controls thousands of troops." Lin Ximeng looked at him, imagining what kind of heroic posture this man in military uniform should be when he led thousands of troops and horses to gallop across the territory to be invincible.

There is no doubt that this is a man who is too full of blood, and his elegant conversation can only show that he is well-educated, but it cannot hide the full bloodiness in his body.

There are also those eyes, which seem to be smiling in appearance, but in fact they are sharp, and if you don't have full courage and guts, you don't dare to face them squarely, and I believe that on the battlefield, just these eyes will make the enemy's heart beat and be frightened.

"In that case," she said, expressing her doubts,

"How did you leave the army now?" Fan Tianfu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, and a trace of regret and regret came to his face, and said: "I have never entered a military school, so I can't be promoted." ”

"Why don't you go to military school?" Lin Ximeng asked this sentence without thinking. But as soon as the words came out, she immediately felt that Fan Tianfu didn't like this topic, which seemed to touch his sore spot.

However, once the word is spoken, the horse is difficult to chase, Lin Ximeng is not the kind of woman who is flexible and well-behaved and articulate.

Seeing Fan Tianfu close her lips, she didn't know how to change the topic away for a while, so she just sat stiffly.

After a long time, Fan Tianfu spoke: "My mother often said, 'If you drink the water of the king of Zhou, you can't say that the king of Zhou has no way.'" I have always been very good and favored in the army, I am in charge of cultural propaganda in the regiment, and every year I do my work in a sound and impressive way, and everyone praises me, even the all-army cultural propaganda work site meeting is held in our regiment, television stations at all levels and military newspapers and news units at all levels throughout the country have made special reports on me, what self-taught pacesetters, what outstanding communists, and so on, I have received all the honors that a soldier can get. Ten military merits were made. I had a chance to enter the military academy, but I was ignorant at that time, and the leaders were obsessed with me and my comrades-in-arms were obsessed with me, so I decided in my heart that as long as I did my job well, I would not worry about not being able to do it, because I never wanted to leave the army from the first day I joined the army. Who knows, the policy is dead, it does not change for individual cases; I couldn't do it, so I had to turn into a volunteer. ”

"What a foolishness!" Lin Xi dreamed.

"You regret it, don't you?" Lin Ximeng grabbed the topic and began to ask.

"I dedicated the best years of my youth to the army, and I dare say that there is no soldier who has ever been as brilliant in the army as I am. I'm proud and proud of that. In terms of ability, ability, and level, everyone feels sorry for me, including the leaders, who can't help me. "That's the crux of the matter.

Whenever she thought of this, Lin Ximeng was always proud, because she had already seen this clearly. And Fan Tianfu, such an outstanding man, was even lost in these issues.

She felt deep regret and regret for him.

"How did you come up with the idea of going to sea to start a business?"

"In the spring of this year, the army also began to give full play to the advantages of the army to do business, and the regiment set up a decoration company, and I was one of the people in charge. According to the regulations of the troops, this is not allowed. However, in response to my situation, the chiefs gave me special care and approved the ......" At this moment, Fan Gong came in and asked cautiously: "Manager Fan, is it time to eat?" ”

"Okay, okay, let's go." Fan Tianfu sat still, turned to Lin Ximeng again, and continued: "After approval, I will come back to operate, register, register, apply for business licenses, and rent office space...... I'm starting to set up camp here, recruiting troops, and getting ready for a fight. ”

"Career is a big part of your life, isn't it?" Lin Ximeng worked as a reporter, and he had an occupational disease.

Of course, she knows better that only talking about topics that the other person is interested in is the best means of interpersonal communication.

Especially the man in front of her, she had already judged what kind of man he was, and as long as she was a good listener who appreciated him and appreciated him, their conversation would be successful; On the contrary, if she talks about herself freely, even if she talks well, it is not the best policy.

"It's not just the most important location," Fan said.

"For me, my career is my life. I think that in life, you should do a big career vigorously, even if it is a big ups and downs, you don't care; Otherwise, mediocre and mediocre, well-fed and well-fed, safe and stable, that kind of life is meaningless, and coming to this world for a trip in vain is simply a waste of life......" Fan Tianfu looked at her eagerly, gushing about his understanding of life.

What made Lin Ximeng strange was that he didn't mention anything about asking her to contract the project. Fan Gong came to urge him to eat for the third time, and Fan Tianfu stood up and said with a smile: "Did you make Teacher Lin hungry?" His smile flashed with a kind of concern, which made Lin Ximeng feel that he couldn't refuse.

She also laughed wittily and teased: "I thought you soldiers don't eat." One sentence made everyone laugh.

Fan Tianfu had already booked a room and food at the New World Hotel downstairs, and several key members of the company attended to accompany him.

Fan Tianfu introduced Lin Ximeng to everyone, and introduced everyone to Lin Ximeng one by one. They were all respectful and obedient to Fan Tianfu, and tried their best to compliment and respect, and seemed to have a good understanding of each other, and they came together invariably, carrying a sedan chair, blowing and beating; Fan Tianfu sat on the sedan chair, showing himself to the fullest, comprehensively, and vividly, while the audience was only her, Lin Ximeng, alone.

Completely oblivious to her undressed image, she smiled appreciatively throughout, looking intently at the radiant man, listening to his obsessive, demagogic and demagogic depiction of a magical world in his characteristic and contagious language.

This world is his magnificent career. It was as if she had already walked into that world, obsessed with that world, and never wanted to come out of it again.

Of course, the most important thing is that there is this man in that world.