"You mean you were working as a translator at the police station that day, and you met my father in the underground parking lot!?" I asked excitedly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Nope! No, we were supposed to have just met that day, but I didn't think he remembered me, and we really met more than a month later. That was the first time I was in a shift room in the United States, and I was locked up with your father. Now that I think about it, it's even rarer than winning Mark 6! Mr. Shen smiled bitterly.

"You met in a cell?"

"Yes. I'm starting to be scared of him! He's tall and strong! It's not the same as Ben who I thought he was in his 50s, and I thought he would beat me up first! Because I always think he's bad. ”

Mr. Shen looked at me and smiled bitterly, and I smiled too.

Then I looked up and saw the family photo on the fireplace. Curiosity made me finally ask.

"Mr. Shen, can I ask. What's going on with the little boy in that photo? Could it be you, too? ”

I was a little embarrassed to ask.

Mr. Shen said with a smile.

"Yes, that's my son, Shen Zhenzhou. We look alike! It's just that he's a little dark. Isn't it? ”

"Zhenzhou?"

"That's right! Chinese name. ”

"You know what? Mr. Writer, I can only say so much to others, but I am afraid I have to say something different about you. Can you keep it a secret for me? Maybe I'll ask you for help in the future! ”

"Yes. Yes. ”

"Swear by your father's name." Mr. Shen said very seriously.

As soon as I heard it, I knew that there must be something important here, so I said, "Yes!" ”

"Don't get me wrong, I don't want him to know about himself so early, he's still too young. I'll tell him when he's older. ”

Mr. Shen looked at the photo and then turned his head and said, "He's actually Cody's child." That's the old friend I'm talking about. ”

I'm afraid Mr. Shen will be disappointed this time, but I'm not too surprised! Even if I was surprised, I pretended to be surprised, but I had already thought of this answer, and he said that if I could write a book, I said that it was no problem.

I'm ashamed to say it now! I didn't finish the book because I couldn't write it anymore.

Actually, since Mr. Shen learned the truth, I am not in the mood to write a book.

The idea of writing at the beginning is ridiculous when I think about it now! When I think of the conversation between Mr. Shen and my father at the police station, it feels like seeing my father close in front of me, but I can't catch him, and then he disappears.

Sometimes I was really jealous of Mr. Shen, who could have a long talk with my father for one night before his death! We were still familiar with each other, but I could only wait for a photograph of him taken decades ago, a deformed cross eroded by time, and a vague memory of him in my mind.

At the end of 2006, I put down my half-written book, and I went to General Berard's house again to get some answers from him. When General Berard was young, my father and I were brothers-in-arms, and we enlisted in the army together. After the end of the Vietnam War, the two chose different life destinations, and his father did not want to stay in the army, and he chose the path of professional soldiers.

He was kinder to me this time than last time! Like your own son.

"You're just like your father! A simple character, he always has beautiful fantasies about the future, and I persuaded him at the time! He even wanted to stay there and settle down! ”

He put his hands on his chest, stood in front of the tall floor-to-ceiling window and looked out the window at the snowflakes like flying flakes, mighty and wise, like a black statue of perseverance! His complexion now has a peculiar majesty!

"Do you think your fate is unjust to you? Can you live and grow up in a country full of hostility to you, and finally miraculously make it to this side of the sea, do you still feel unlucky? Children, not everyone can wait for a boat to take them to the other side of the sea to reunite with their loved ones. ”

After the general finished speaking, he turned to look at me and said, "Do you think your parents have left you little stuff?" They gave you a strong body to survive the difficult years, and they gave you a smart brain to make you a useful person so that you could live well in this country. You're not alone here, you still have a brother! There are loved ones! You're always grieving and hurting your feelings, and you miss them, that's right! But you should feel good, they are by your side, and you should live happily and well with your family every day. ”

The general smiled wryly.

"Your pain now comes from your thoughts about your parents, and your thoughts come from the fact that you can't see them, especially your father, you know the answer, you feel that everything in life is meaningless, you are at a loss now, you want to write a book to catch them and miss them, so you will be more painful You feel that you have been hurt, yes, it is true, but this is not what your parents want, it is fate, it is the times.

"None of us have decided or changed. If your parents knew what you were like now, I think they would be even more sad. Your father must also regret letting Shen bring you news of him. The general paused and continued, "Remember them, it's not just pain and sorrow. You can cry or you can grieve like this, but not for the rest of your life. Another child, you have to remember that there is always a passing day in people's lives, and you must know how to cherish the present and remember the past. The general spoke calmly.

I didn't say a word in those dozens of minutes, and the general said a lot that day. I'm just listening and thinking.

"Get up!!"

The general's words frightened me! I looked up at him!

"Stand up!! Come over the kids!! Hug me! ”

It's like the general is ordering me! I stood up and walked up to him, numbly outstretched my arms and hugged him, and he hugged me and punched me in the back.

"You're as strong as your father was! Come on! Let's go grab a bite to eat! General Berard said excitedly.

"Nope! General, I would love to go home now, home! I miss my kids! ”

"Good! Good! You have to be strong! Live well. ”

On that day I left the general's quarters and hurried home as fast as I could. Bought lots of toys and gifts for the kids. My wife said, "You've suddenly changed into a different person!" Did you get some inspiration? I said, "Yes!" I'm not going to write about it anymore! I'm going to work! Go live a peaceful life! "I decided not to be a writer anymore, at least for a long time I wanted to disappear!

I couldn't sleep that night, and late at night I walked out of my bedroom and came to the study to look at the half-written books and materials, and I didn't know what to do! Put them away? Will it only increase my heart disease, can it be destroyed? No! Never! I thought about it, and finally I suddenly remembered Mr. Shen! In the documents I left a recording of the conversation with him that day, and the others included the half of the book, which I wanted to give him as a gift.

A few days later, I went to look for Mr. Shen, and this time I went back to his bookstore, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw that he was busy with the bookstore's business. He was very enthusiastic when he saw my arrival, we talked in the small office of the bookstore, and when I told him about my plans, I asked him to forgive me for breaking my promise, and I gave him this half of the book and some materials as a gift that could not be considered a gift, and I told him the truth in my heart, and said that if you really want to, or if you can pick up a pen, you can write half of it, and then write it according to your own ideas, and then leave it to you to read! It's a little memory of the past, but I really can't write it.

He listened to me with a smile, nodded, and said he would write and treasure the book.

We didn't talk much that day, and just as I was about to walk out of the bookstore after saying goodbye, a customer opened the door and knocked me down! I wasn't hurt, just as I was about to get up! Something suddenly came to mind! I said to Mr. Shen excitedly, "Do you remember?!" Mr. Shen!! Over here! In Raccoon Town!! I am here! There you are! My father is here!! He helped me check the book! I see him! We've met!! I know what he looks like! I see!! ”

All my emotions rushed over me! Then I fainted.

When I woke up, I found me lying at Mr. Shen's house, and Mr. Shen was reading my book right next to me, reading very seriously.

Mr. Shen's black son was also present that day, and I really had a lot of contact with him about this little guy in the future, and after listening to Mr. Shen's arrangement, I pretended to be his relative for more than 20 years. In the years that followed, he grew up and married Mr. Shen's youngest daughter. When Mr. Shen died, he thought he was the head of strategic security in the White House. At the time I wrote this autobiography, he thought he was the Secretary of the Admiralty.

Mr. Shen saw me wake up and said, "Mr. Writer! You've scared the hell out of me in the bookstore! Thanks to the guy who hit you is a doctor! Say you're just overworked and take a break! ”

After this slightly embarrassing day, I began to conceive of a civilian life like Mr. Shen, and then I got a job as an editor at a publishing house, and I usually wrote small articles and continued to do it until many people forgot about me as a celebrity, and I forgot about them, and my family and I lived a peaceful and happy life.

Of course, it is not possible to forget my brother Dill and Mr. Shen, and I will never forget them, even if they leave before and after. Prior to Mr. Shen's death, my brother Dill had risen to the rank of lieutenant general in the army and was killed in a plane crash at the age of 52. His wife was the same soldier who had come to me at the airport to help him, and they had met in the midst of the war, in an accident in Baghdad. His wife, who was also Vietnamese-American, survived the accident and left only two of them, and they married and had two children.

I was in the restaurant at the airport and told him that he could leave the army and do something else, and that he should not take any risks.

Mr. Shen was also present. Dill said to me calmly, "In the words of Chinese soldiers, whether others understand it or not, there must always be someone to defend the country." It's my choice. ”

In the years since they left, I missed and remembered them very much alone, and I looked at them in the photos. I want to use General Berard's words to say that I have become stronger, and I feel and savor the beauty of the old days of life in my sorrow and memories. Rather than suffering, their presence and departure constituted one of the most beautiful and cherished moments of my life.

I don't know when my life will end, and I don't want to say that life without friends and relatives in the future is miserable and pitiful, because they are still with me, in my memory. I want to cherish the rest of my life! So I picked up the pen again and made them clear in my memory.

General Berard Lee, who always had my father's shadow, died in New York in 2018 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was 78 years old.

At his simple and solemn funeral, there was a Chinese-American general named "Chen Wu", a major general of the United States Marine Corps.

He was the youngest son of the owner of the Chinese restaurant in Raccoon Town, he was not particularly tall and strong, and I paid special attention to him from TV at the time, just standing in a crowd of high-ranking generals and most of the white and black crowd, his skin color was noticeable.

He is a new story from "soldier to general", under the arrangement of fate and the times, he relied on his own strength, and finally rose to the rank of four-star general, he created miracles! Whether it is the United States, the country to which he belongs, or his homeland, China, he deserves it.

But no one would have thought that in the years to come, General Chen, as a Chinese-American general, would end up with a tragic role that is embarrassing.

I don't understand why the director of history always loves to create tragedy? Why can't it end with a happy reunion?