A military base on the outskirts of Beni City on the planet Azul in the Poole Star Region is the location of the 4th Armored Division of the 5th Army Group of the 19th Army Group in the 5th Theater of Operations. Two weeks ago, with the end of the counterinsurgency war in Miami, the main forces of the Fifth Theater withdrew to their respective stations to recuperate. Hao Yi and Hu Erpang, who were transferred to the maintenance company directly under the 4th Armored Division, also followed the division headquarters to this strange place.

Just after New Year's Day, out of humane considerations, the headquarters of the group army group made an exception to give every soldier who had participated in the counterinsurgency war half a month's family leave. Of course, this is also an opportunity won by many homesick soldiers who took "extraordinary measures" in front of the homes of several commanders of the group army group. These "extraordinary measures" are varied, such as "wantonly setting off all kinds of fireworks" in the back garden of a commander's house. In short, those soldiers who were far away from home finally got their wish and "returned home".

Originally, Haoyi and Hu Erpang also had half a month's family leave. But when the rest of the comrades in the same barracks went home one after another, Haoyi and Hu Erpang did not leave for a long time to go back to Eder Planet to visit their parents. For no other reason, after returning from the Miami Star Zone, Haoyi has been in a state of lost soul, and he is not even interested in "teaching" the foodie who follows him all day long, and he has no intention of going home at all.

For this inexplicable state of his appearance, not only Hu Erpang was puzzled, but even Hao Yi couldn't figure out himself. A veteran of the same company mysteriously told Haoyi what this is called the so-called battlefield sequelae. This makes our pig's foot Haoyi children's shoes more and more depressed.

Three days ago, the dazed Hao Yi finally made a video call home, listened to his father's "instructions" and his mother's "crying", and saw the white hair faintly exposed on his parents' temples.

It turned out that Haoyi's parents received an enlistment notice from the Federal Military Department on the second week after Haoyi joined the army. At the beginning, Haoyao, who was close to the age of the sixtieth year but still had a somewhat irritable temper, was so angry that he even wanted to go to the army to arrest the "unfilial son" and beat him up. Later, under the hard persuasion of Hu Jun and his wife and Haoyi's mother Li Fengzhu, Haoyao finally calmed down his anger and swore through gritted teeth that when the stinky boy came back, he must be locked up and served by family law.

A few months later, the federal civil war broke out, and watching the troops rushing to the battlefield on the TV news, the original anger in the hearts of Haoyi's parents and Hu Erfat's parents had long since disappeared, replaced by infinite worries about their son. finally survived in fear until the end of the Miami War, and the two parents began to look forward to their son's safe return home, but there was still no news of these two unfilial sons.

After seeing Hao Yi, who had changed into a mature and stable appearance, Hao Yao, who was surprised, found that he could no longer find a reason to be angry with Hao Yi, but he was faintly unwilling in his heart, so he lectured Hao Yi with a straight face and "righteous words". And Li Fengzhu, the mother who is obviously much older, poured out her thoughts about her son to Haoyi with old tears.

After hanging up the phone, Haoyi's three souls and seven souls finally found the two souls and six souls, pulled Hu Erpang and hurriedly packed his luggage, and left the barracks, preparing to take an interstellar flight back to Eder Planet to visit his parents. However, when Hao Yi slipped his luggage and came to Beni City, an indescribable feeling of confusion hit his heart again.

Haoyi, who was a little chaotic in his mind, turned around and entered a bar with Hu Erpang, and began to drink nonsense. This drink is three days and two nights.

In the evening of this day, in a garden square in the center of Beni, citizens swam in twos and threes, enjoying the sunset and sunset.

"Brother Hao, let's not drink today, okay?" In a corner of the garden, Hao Yi, who had a loose military uniform and unkempt hair, was lying leisurely on a bench with his head on his legs and a luggage backpack. At his feet, there was Hu Erfat, who also looked tired, unbuttoned and slightly yellowed.

"Hmm!" Haoyi had a weed in his mouth, stared at the sunset on the horizon, and subconsciously replied.

"Brother Hao, it seems that you dreamed last night and said the name of Dr. Catherine again!" Hu Erpang stuck out his tongue and Tiantian's somewhat chapped lips, pouted and muttered: "You have been like this recently, can't it be because you miss Dr. Catherine too much?" ”

"Knock" Haoyi suddenly reached out and knocked Hu Erpang on the head, which made Hu Erpang grin in pain.

"What are you foodies yelling about!" Haoyi didn't know why, as soon as he heard Hu Erpang mention Catherine, he felt a little inexplicably anxious. "Lao Tzu wants to be the generalissimo of the Federation, so that he will not become such a bird for the sake of a woman!" Hao Yi glared and scolded.

"What generalissimo? I don't think it's as good as a bunch of popcorn! Hu Erpang rubbed his head and muttered dissatisfiedly.

"......" Hao Yi was choked and rolled his eyes, and after a long time he helplessly scolded "foodie", then lay down again, looking at the sky in a daze.

"Brother Hao, let's go home!" A moment later, Hu Erfat, who was squatting at Haoyi's feet, also looked at the sunset in the sky in a daze, as if he said to himself, "I miss my mother!" ”

"Okay!" Haoyi spit out the weeds in his mouth, sat up, sighed softly, and said, "Go, go home!" With that, Hao Yi jumped off the bench, grabbed his backpack and prepared to walk out of the square with Hu Erfat.

Hu Erfat, who followed behind Hao Yi silently, did not have the slightest joy and excitement, and followed Hao Yi's footprints step by step with his backpack.

"Old Zhao?" Suddenly, Hao Yi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped his steps and exclaimed. No, Hu Erpang behind him didn't react for a while, but he crashed into Hao Yi's back in a daze, knocking Hao Yi to a stumbling one.

"Foodie, you want to kill your brother Hao!" Haoyi finally stabilized his figure, turned around and scolded Hu Erpang angrily, without waiting for Hu Erpang to explain, but ran away anxiously.

"What Lao Zhao?" Hu Erpang scratched his head and muttered in confusion, then came to his senses, and hurriedly ran over with his backpack and followed Haoyi, shouting loudly: "Brother Hao, wait for me, where is that guy Zhao?" ”

It turned out that Haoyi saw the back of a man who was holding a beautiful woman and a five or six-year-old girl not far away, like Zhao Jiakun, the squad leader of the 9th maintenance company before, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly rushed to the man.

"Lao Zhao? It's really you! After Haoyi saw that the man was indeed Zhao Jiakun, he happily slapped Zhao Jiakun on the shoulder and shouted.

"Haoyi? How did you end up here? Zhao Jiakun, who was dressed in casual clothes, had a little less smell of iron and blood on his body, but a little more of a mature man's breath, and his eyes also flashed with joy, "Hao, Brother Hao, old, old Zhao, why are you here?" Hu Erfat, who followed after him, shouted out out of breath and incoherently.

"Two fat? You're here too? Zhao Jiakun turned around and asked in surprise.

"Nonsense, nonsense, where there is Hao and Brother Hao, how can there be no existence of my fat master!" Hu Erpang finally took a breath, but for some reason he stuttered.

"Okay, Lao Zhao, don't pay attention to that foodie! How did you? Hao Yi smiled and punched Zhao Jiakun again, and just wanted to ask why Zhao Jiakun was here, when he suddenly saw the young woman in her early thirties and the clever and lovely girl beside Zhao Jiakun, who were curiously looking at herself with dark round eyes, and quickly changed her words and asked, "Who is this?" ”

"Oh, I'll introduce you first!" Zhao Jiakun pulled the woman over with a happy face, and explained to Haoyi and the two: "This is your sister-in-law Chen Juan, this is my daughter!" As he spoke, Zhao Jiakun stroked the girl's head lovingly, and taught softly: "Xiaoli, come and call uncle!" ”

"Hello uncle!" The clever and lovely girl, holding a lollipop in one hand, took a small sip, and shouted obediently crisply.

"That's good! Come, Uncle will give you candy! Hearing Zhao Jiakun's daughter call her uncle, Hao Yi's heart moved, snatched Hu Erpang's backpack, took out a handful of candy from it and stuffed it into Zhao Jiakun's daughter's hand.

"Uncle Xiexie!" This time, there is no need for Zhao Jiakun to teach, this smart little girl unceremoniously accepted the candy handed by Haoyi, her black eyes lit up, and she thanked her happily, which made Haoyi smile slightly.

"Hello sister-in-law!" After laughing, Hao Yi didn't forget to say hello to the beautiful young woman, and turned around and joked to Zhao Jiakun: "Old Zhao, I didn't expect my sister-in-law to be so beautiful!" You old boy is very blessed! ”

"By the way, how did you two get here?" Zhao Jiakun smiled innocently, and then asked again.

"Hey, it's a long story, Lao Zhao!" Haoyi shook his head and sighed.

"Well, let's go, let's find a place to chat!" Zhao Jiakun nodded and said.

A moment later, Haoyi and the others came to a café near the square. The three of you chatted for more than half an hour, and finally got a general understanding of each other's situation.

Since that hijacking and forced landing, Zhao Jiakun was transferred back to the Fifth Theater Headquarters Hospital for treatment because of his injuries. A month later, Zhao Jiakun was successfully discharged from the hospital, and immediately got a place to go home for demobilization. Zhao Jiakun's hometown is in a small town not far from Beni City, and the couple with their five-and-a-half-year-old daughter have just moved to Beni City. Just now, Zhao Jiakun was taking his wife and daughter for a walk in the square, but he didn't want to meet Haoyi and Haoyi who were about to go home to visit their parents.

Haoyi also roughly talked about what happened after the separation from Zhao Jiakun, and of course he also mentioned the matter of Solomi's counterattack, and Zhao Jiakun was stunned and sighed for a while.

"Lao Zhao, then what are your plans in the future?" After talking about the routine, Haoyi asked casually.

"Hey, what can I do?" Zhao Jiakun still had a few faint scars on his face, which were the traces left by the counterinsurgency war, and he sighed a little lonely and said: "I got a job repairing cars in Beni City, and I can barely make a living, so I don't think much about the rest!" Just have my wife and daughter with me! What about the two of you? There was ......"

Just as Zhao Jiakun was about to ask Hao Yi about the two of them, a somewhat familiar computer-synthesized sound suddenly came from the loudspeaker in the café, which was originally playing some soft music.

"Ladies and gentlemen, a message is now urgently inserted! According to the emergency call-up order issued by the headquarters of the 5th theater of operations, all officers and enlisted officers and soldiers of the regular federal forces who are on leave are requested to return to their respective stations within 24 hours, or report to the nearest Selective Service registration point! Repeat......"

“！” After repeatedly hearing the news of the computer synthesis playback, Haoyi and the others couldn't help but look at each other with wide eyes.