When they arrived in the provincial capital, it was almost half past nine, and Zhou Xiaozheng was directly passing by with his wife on the avenue and waiting for the military region's car, usually they wore military uniforms and waited on the side of the road, and the passing military vehicle would automatically stop. After waiting for a while, I saw a military truck stop, and the driver on the car hurriedly got out of the car and saluted, "Hello chief, are you from the military region?" Get in the car. ”

After Zhou Xiaozheng returned the salute, the two followed him into the car, "Comrade, are you going back to the cooking class or where?" ”

"Chief, I'll go back to the army/need/place to unload supplies, if you go back to the cooking class, I'll send you over." The little warrior said with a smile.

Zhou Xiaozheng was happy when he heard it, where do you need to go back to the cooking class, "You don't need to go to the cooking class, do you know Zhao Chuanguang?" Just take us to him ourselves. ”

"Okay, I just happened to go there, what a coincidence, if you're half an hour late, I'll leave."

The car drove fast, but it took twenty minutes to reach the ground, and after Zhou Xiaozheng showed his ID card for issuance, the little soldier took them to the office, "Chief, I won't go in, the director is inside." ”

After Zhou Xiaozheng and Lin Lishan saluted and thanked him, he pushed open the half-closed door.

I saw my brother Zhao Chuanguang, who I hadn't seen for many years, sitting behind his desk, drinking tea with his head down.

Zhao Chuanguang heard the movement of the door, frowned and looked up, and was stunned. His body trembled slightly, and the hand holding the hot tea slowly drooped, and the hot tea in the cup slanted into his pants, which made him feel excited.

He didn't care about the root of his thigh that was burned, rushed to the door, jumped on Zhou Xiaozheng and hugged him tightly, crying and laughing, "Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng, you are really alive." Are you really back? "Such a big movement caused everyone to look here, and all the colleagues in the office next door came out to see what was going on?

Zhou Xiaozheng hurriedly pushed him in and closed the door, "Are you peeing on cats?" Go get a change of pants. Oh, brother, you're good. I'm all wet. ”

Zhao Chuanguang stepped forward and hugged Zhou Xiaozheng tightly, put his head on his shoulder, rubbed his face on it a few times like a vent, slapped him a few times, let him go and laughed: "It's hot, it's really alive." In the past few days, those guys in the capital have called and said that you are alive. The phone signal is not good, click. I just thought about going to the capital in a few days to see if it was a human or a ghost. I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes. Brother Zheng, my brother burns a lot of paper for you every year, which is considered a waste. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng kicked him, this guy just didn't do it right. He took off his military coat and threw it at his wife's back, quipping, "Look, it's all your snot." Tell me how I'm going to go back and meet people? Don't go to change your pants yet? Your sister-in-law is here. ”

"What a sister-in-law, it's a younger sister. You're a few months younger than me, what's the matter, I call you brother, do you really think it's brother? Sister-in-law, you do it first, and my brother and I will go and change our pants first. After speaking, he dragged Zhou Xiaozheng to the dormitory.

"Brother Zheng, have you completed the task? It's not going to go out again, is it? Don't go out again, or do you want to leave the army? d, I haven't seen anyone for 17 years, and I don't know if I'm alive or dead. Brother Zheng, if you listen to your brother, even if you die, don't take those deadly jobs, or you will break your leg. Zhao Chuanguang put his arms around him and whispered in his ear.

Zhou Xiaozheng was angry and moved, and patted his head, "Don't worry, don't go out." Didn't you look at me? You're talking about the door. ”

"Oh, this is a promotion, and it's worthy of you. Brother Zheng, you didn't deliberately take off your coat to show me, right? ”

"Yes, it's for you. Give me an overcoat to wear, I'm freezing to death. I said where do you live? ”

Zhao Chuanguang laughed and said, "Old, right? Siberian tigers have become sick cats. It's almost there, tnd, but luckily it didn't burn the little jj. Brother Zheng, don't you know, every time I burn you a sack of paper money, it is estimated that Lord Yama was moved and let you come back. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng quipped: "Then I'm back, so I don't need to burn paper money, just give money." Your brother has to support his wife and children. ”

"Just blow it. Do you still want your children to raise? The old man of the Lin family still can't raise it? You haven't been around for more than ten years, does your little girl still recognize you? Did it push you out of the house? Zhao Chuanguang just pushed open the door and hurriedly pulled him in.

Zhou Xiaozheng had a cold face, didn't answer, put on the coat handed over by Zhao Chuanguang and put it on.

Zhao Chuanguang changed his pants, looked at his cold face and said cautiously: "Brother Zheng, what's wrong, won't your daughter really disown you?" The kid's temperament was a little colder. Don't rush, take your time. The child is still young, and she follows her grandfather when she is young, and she will be sensible when she is older. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng sneered, and couldn't help but burst into foul language, "P, she grew up with her grandfather when she was a child." ”

"No, I went to the capital but inquired, and I did follow your father-in-law and mother-in-law. It's just that the threshold of the old man's house is too high, and I am embarrassed to go to the door. I've seen the kid several times. I heard that the child's father was gone, and he followed her mother, and her sister-in-law was not married. But it's true that I've lived with her grandparents, are you mistaken? Zhao Chuanguang looked at him suspiciously. The child did follow the old man, and his vision was quite high, but there was still some politeness.

Zhou Xiaozheng glanced at him angrily, "Fool, that's my brother-in-law's daughter, you inquired wrong, you forgot that I went on a mission with my brother-in-law." ”

Zhao Chuanguang looked at him in disbelief, and after a while, he was stunned and said, "This, this, what about that child?" What about our little princess? Really delicate? ”

Zhou Xiaozheng squinted at him with disdain, "I'll just say that you fool, why do you have time to burn paper every year, why don't you have time to see my Jiaojiao, and you still want to come up and beat you." It's confusing! Will my species be like that? ”

"Where am I going? Brother Zheng, where is the child now? Where did you go with your sister-in-law? You won't give it away, will you? TND, wouldn't it? "D, he has been tricked by the little girl for so many years.

Zhou Xiaozheng sighed, and he didn't know how this guy climbed to the director, so he asked helplessly: "Have you seen the old man bring his grandson-in-law over this month?" ”

"Yes, I saw people. The old man has several granddaughters, who remembers him? …... Wait, you say that young man is our son-in-law? Not a grandson-in-law but a grandson-in-law? No, our little princess is only 17 years old, just kidding. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng said to him solemnly: "No kidding, that's really my son-in-law." My Jiaojiao let my father take me away after I left, you should know the situation of my family. Otherwise, I wouldn't have run out early at the age of 16. Ah Guang, I'm tired, no one can blame me. ”

After speaking, Zhou Xiaozheng pulled a stool and sat down, took a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table and lit it, and took a few puffs in a hurry, but he didn't smoke for a long time and was choked a few times.

Zhao Chuanguang gently patted him on the shoulder and sighed. Needless to say, if the child is in the hands of his father, he must have suffered a lot, that is the lifeblood of Brother Zheng.

Zhou Xiaozheng was holding the cigarette holder, staring ahead, and after pinching the cigarette holder with his fingers, he said quietly: "You don't know how hard my Jiaojiao has lived. Like orphans, I can't live anymore when I am bullied by my eldest brother and his family. The old man helps the old family, the old lady can't protect her, your sister-in-law has never seen her once in 17 years, let alone the Lin family. They sent something over every year, and they were all swallowed by the boss's family without telling her. When my Jiaojiao was ten years old, I couldn't go on, so I tried my best to call your sister-in-law and say that I was going to find her mother. But your sister-in-law refused at the time.

My Jiaojiao, what a strong and proud child, how many sins have he suffered to seek help. But TMD is such a child, dressed in patched clothes, thin only a handful of bones, and finally grew up like a weed. The old family also wants to design her to marry her mother's scumbag. If she hadn't been smart, she would have found a way to marry Zhang Guoqing. If there is no Zhang Guoqing, my Jiaojiao will not even have scum left. Didn't you see that my family is so delicate and thin that there is only a layer of skin left, and they also comforted our husband and wife, and I was sensible and well-behaved, which broke my heart. In the end, Zhou Xiaozheng was covering his face with his hands, and he couldn't say anything. After he came back to see Zhou Jiao, he heard everything from Zhang Guoqing's mouth, from Zhang's father and mother, and from the mouths of the people in the village. Cause and effect, without cause, where does she come from? That's what she stumbled step by step and finally realized on her own. How good you are now, how much suffering you have in the past. She didn't say it, but it was his Jiaojiao, how could he not understand his own children.