Throughout Cao Xingmin's life, he fought in the Sino-Vietnamese self-defense counterattack. After being discharged from the army, he was assigned to the Yangbei Municipal Bureau.

In the Yangbei City Bureau, he has been working all his life.

Some of the former subordinate colleagues have entered the municipal bureau or even the provincial department. He has been in the sub-bureau and the county bureau for decades, and he is still walking in place.

Although he is a member of the sub-bureau and the head of the county bureau, he always rides an old-fashioned permanent bicycle to work except for official unit cars.

Smoking a pack of inferior cigarettes for a few yuan, this is obviously extremely incommensurate with his identity, so Director Cao never lets others find out.

In addition to the people around him giving him cigarettes, he also does not accept cigarettes from outsiders.

Because he understands that his cigarettes are not good, and he is afraid that others will look down on him.

He is such a person, he never cares what others think of him, a pure and honest man.

I can't comprehend, people born in that era, what kind of faith?

Perhaps in the eyes of others, Cao Xingmin is a stubborn and pedantic person who does not understand human feelings and sophistication, and cannot keep up with the times.

But it was people like Director Cao who conquered me with their personality charm.

I don't want to think about him anymore.

Because the thought of this makes me feel so uncomfortable that my heart is blocked by a big rock.

During the days when Director Cao was going to stay, I stayed in his ward almost all day except for duty.

Accompany him on his last journey.

Maybe it's because people are dying and their words are good, the last thing Director Cao talked about with me was, how should I live in the future, maybe in his stubborn thoughts, maybe he wasn't around and stared at me, I would be like an unrestrained falcon. Ignore everything.

Let your temperament come to your senses.

On the other hand, I can avoid Tang Yuwei.

When Tang Yuwei first started, she didn't believe that I stayed in the hospital all day.

When she was my girlfriend. After going to Director Cao's hospital room.

Director Cao's family praised Tang Yuwei for being like a star.

Actually, I let Tang Yuwei. Acting as my girlfriend is actually to reassure Director Cao.

After all, the matter between me and Xing Rui is a piece of his heart.

Since Tang Yuwei left, Director Cao has thought about everything.

I can see that I went to the hospital room to accompany him, and it was his happiest day.

Sometimes Director Cao became addicted to smoking, and he would secretly ask me to take two puffs when his wife was out, and let me stand at the door of the ward as a sentry.

After his wife returned. He would be like a thief, and he would quickly extinguish the cigarette butt under the bed, and his wife would pretend that she didn't know anything.

This virtuous rural woman, with her tolerance, wronged herself.

Director Cao will feel that he is very smart.

In fact, her wife knows that after all, non-smokers are very sensitive to the smell of smoke, and they can smell it as soon as they enter the house.

Sometimes I'm in the hospital room. You will meet some admiring people, and some prisoners who have been interrogated and captured by Director Cao himself, and those people will come to see him with a grateful heart after they are released from prison.

Some people live in poor conditions. He came to see him with eggs, local products from his own fields, and fruits grown at home. That's a slow mind.

Director Cao introduced me to me and said:

"I'm his son, every time I say it. My heart will be moved.

Sometimes when I am in a good mood, I will eat other people's fruits in front of them.

Actually, I can see it. He is also to eliminate the inferiority complex of others.

Sometimes I have something to do and I can't take care of coming to the hospital.

Director Cao would ask his wife to call me and ask me why I didn't come to the hospital again.

Although her wife spoke casually, no matter how busy I was, I would put everything on the go and rush to the hospital.

Sometimes Director Cao rolled on the bed in pain, and when he saw me coming, he was stunned and motionless, greeting me with a smile.

I know he's holding on, he's such a man, a man with iron bones.

Sometimes Director Cao would suddenly say in a dignified tone from his sleep:

"Broadly speaking, are your urban squadrons all rice buckets? This case has not been won for several months.

I know that from Director Cao, I am working in my dream again.

Each time I looked at his distorted, navy blue face.

I always joke and say:

"What? You think you are the iron man Wang Jinxi, and you will cry out when you hurt, don't you tell people that I am your son? Are you still embarrassed in front of your son?

Before I finished speaking, Director Cao's wife choked up.

As soon as Cao Ju's wife cried, my tears couldn't help but fall down.

Every time I cried, Director Cao would scold me with a stiff face:

"What are you crying about, how old are you, still crying, am I not dead yet? You're still a gentleman, don't, hold your head high and give Lao Tzu a smile.

Ha ha! Yes, that's it, but son, your old donkey's face is ugly.

I know that my smile is fake, and it must be worse than crying.

I can be a man who admits death and does not bow his head in front of outsiders, but in front of Director Cao, I am a child.

People and people's feelings come out, in fact, in my heart, I have always regarded Director Cao as a spiritual father.

He taught me to be a man, to guide me, what men should do and what not to do.

I also learned to be strong in him, and the darkest days in prison were the hope that Director Cao gave me to live.

His broad arms are like a beacon in the darkness, guiding me forward.

Actually, I was in the hospital. There is another reason that Xing Rui must often visit Director Cao in the hospital.

But I didn't expect that Xing Rui only went once after Director Cao was hospitalized, and he stayed in the ward for less than ten minutes before leaving under the pretext.

I wanted to talk to Xing Rui, but as soon as I saw Xing Rui's cold face, I said a word.

After Xing Rui left, Director Cao asked me what happened to Xing Rui and me?

I said casually:

"Nothing! She is now taking care of Li Jun, and I still try to avoid meeting each other to avoid misunderstanding.

Director Cao listened to me. Shook his head and said nothing.

I could see it in his lonely eyes. In fact, Director Cao blamed himself in his heart.

If it wasn't for Director Cao, Xing Rui wouldn't have been. So desperately take care of Li Jun.

There are too many misunderstandings between me and Xing Rui that have not been resolved, but since Xing Rui went that time, they have not appeared again.

My perception of Xing Rui seems to be slowly changing, from the beginning of the guilt to a kind of hatred.

Because Xing Rui was too cruel in the matter of Director Cao.

I know Xing Rui and know that Xing Rui is ruthless. But I didn't expect that Xing Rui could be so ruthless.

Just because I am often in Director Cao's ward, she didn't even care about the big face in order to avoid me, how could I have no opinion on Xing Rui.

It stands to reason that Director Cao has been taking care of you Xing Rui, and you Xing Rui know that Director Cao's days are numbered, can't you Xing Rui take a little time to talk to Director Cao?

Director Cao's daughter, Cao Xin. In her junior year in the provincial city of Liuquan, she is a very quiet girl.

Cao Xin cried all day long, and it was difficult for her, after all, Director Cao's illness could not bear for a few months.

In fact, we all know each other.

When Director Cao introduced me as his son. The girl stared at me for a long time, her expression full of questions.

I saw Cao Xin staring at me, and said in a joking tone:

"Don't get me wrong. I'm not Director Cao's illegitimate son.

As soon as I said this, Director Cao and his wife. He laughed.

When the girl saw that I amused her, she said:

"Don't worry. I'm not afraid even if it's my dad's illegitimate child, my family has no money anyway!

I went to college, and I still owe a lot of money outside? See me later, call my sister, do you hear?

Director Cao seemed to enjoy this short family gathering.

He has worked hard all his life, and in order to work, he rarely gets together with his family all year round.

At this time, I am in Director Cao's family, full of the role of a living treasure.

In fact, Cao Xin and I can talk very well, and after getting to know each other, she will ask me about the funeral home, and I will also ask her about her life in college.

Although Cao Xin is a few years older than me, I always feel that she is an innocent girl with a strong student spirit.

Maybe I'm too realistic. During that time with Cao Xin, we were in the hospital almost every day, and Cao Xin and Xing Rui had almost no contact, which was very surprising.

And I can hear from Cao Xin's topic that she actually has a lot of opinions about Xing Rui.

In Cao Xin's eyes, Xing Rui is a self-righteous person, and he never considers the feelings of others when he speaks and acts. Except for Zhang's beauty, there is no merit at all.

Every time I hear Cao Xin say this, I always laugh, she always asks me what I laugh at, is it because she said something wrong?

I can't name a single one.

But Cao Xin spoke highly of Tang Yuwei, she said that Tang Yuwei was not only beautiful but also sensible.

Every time Cao Xin says this, my heart will always be sour.

Director Cao finally didn't survive this summer.

It was a rainstorm in the early hours of the morning, and the thunder in the sky was one after another.

God sees it as it uses, and it sends an upright man away in its own way.

Since Director Cao was hospitalized, my mobile phone has not been turned off at night, and I may be waiting for the results that I am most reluctant to wait for.

At around two o'clock in the morning, I received a call from Director Cao, and the first thing Director Cao's wife said on the phone was:

"Son, come to the hospital, come quickly,,,,

I know what Director Cao's wife means by this son.

After all, how helpless their orphans and widows are in the face of this bad news.

Hanging up the phone, I rushed to the hospital without stopping.

After entering the ward, Cao Xin and her mother hugged Director Cao's body, crying and breaking their liver and intestines.

I still haven't, to see Director Cao for the last time.

Director Cao was covered with a white cloth.

With heavy steps, I walked into the ward, stretched out my trembling arms, and pulled the white cloth on Director Cao's face.

I felt like my mind went blank at that moment.

After lifting the white cloth, Director Cao's face was calmly closed, as if he was asleep.

I took a few steps back, kept my hands on the bedside table, looked up and closed my eyes, tears pouring down tears. (To be continued......)