Chapter 559: Simple and Extraordinary
For the old man's reminder, everyone doesn't care, if you reach everyone's strength, it will be really a shame to be drunk by this wine.
After seeing Agen drink this bowl of wine, the others also picked up the wine bowl in their hands and drank all the remaining wine in the bowl, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, this hot feeling was really refreshing.
Seeing that everyone was like this, this time the old man was already speechless, it was not easy to see an unusual person, but he didn't expect to see several of them.
"Are you really okay?" asked the old man, still a little disbelieving.
"Uncle, don't worry, we have nothing to do with it, your wine is really delicious, can you sell us some when we leave?" Ye Fei asked the old man at this time.
"Yes, yes, there are a lot of them behind me, no one drinks them, I can't drink so much by myself, and the people in the village are all old people who can't drink such strong wine, so they all keep it in the back!" the old man nodded and said.
"Okay, then when we leave, uncle, you can just sell us the wine, leave some of what you need, and give us the rest!" Ye Fei immediately made his request to the old man.
"It's all for you, you ......" Originally, the old man wanted to ask them if they could finish drinking, but seeing that these people had just drunk a bowl of wine in one gulp, and there was nothing to do, he was not embarrassed to continue.
But the old man still asked: "Then how do you take it, so much wine, do you need a few horses to help you pull it?" The old man kindly reminded Ye Fei of them.
But Ye Fei smiled and said: "It's okay, we use things, you don't have to worry, uncle, by the way, just now you said that there are only old people left in this village, what is going on? What about young people? And why are you still working at your age, what about your children?"
The old man sighed, as if Ye Fei had said something sad about this old man.
Ye Fei saw the old man like this, and knew that the old man had something on his mind, and then said: "That's it, uncle, thank you for treating us so much, you can sit down and drink with us, anyway, we can't finish drinking so much wine!"
"This ...... This is not good, I am just a dirty old man, and you ......" When the old man heard Ye Fei say this, he was immediately embarrassed, and looked at himself, and compared him with Ye Fei and them.
Ye Fei said: "Uncle, it doesn't matter, we are all ordinary people, we don't pay so much attention to it, you can drink with us, and call your wife over, there is no one anyway now, you should also have dinner time, just let everyone eat together, there are many people and lively!"
When the old man heard Ye Fei say this, and saw that there was no dislike for him in the eyes of others, his eyes suddenly turned slightly red, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, wife, hurry up and add two more dishes, and then come here, let's eat together!"
Seeing that the old man was going to add vegetables, Ye Fei hurriedly said: "Uncle, no need, these dishes are enough for us to eat." β
The old man said stubbornly: "How can this work, I am happy to be able to eat with everyone, old man, of course, I have to eat well, today I will invite everyone to dinner, anyway, I can't see anyone here for a few days!"
"Then how can we do it, it is natural for us to give money for dinner, how can we let the old man invite it......" Ye Fei wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the old man.
"Okay, okay, this is the place, I have the final say, you all listen to me, you can eat as much as you want, drink as you want!" said the old man immediately.
Ye Fei saw that the old man was so gracious, and he was no longer reluctant, so he said: "Then thank you uncle!"
Not long after, the old man's wife brought a few dishes out, and the old man's wife also sat down here, because of the increase in the number of people, one table was no longer enough, so everyone put the two tables together, so that everyone could sit down.
After everyone sat down, Ye Fei said, "Uncle, what happened to what you said just now that there are only old people left in the village?"
The old man picked up the wine bowl in front of him, took a sip, and then said, he is not Ye Fei, he didn't dare to drink so much directly, so he could only drink slowly.
"Our village is not big, there are only a few hundred families in total, in the past few years, everyone is farming in the village, life is quite normal, every day early and late return is not much, but since it is said that there is a war on the front line, the people in the village began to sign up to go to the front line to fight, and to go to war can only be young people, we old people are useless, can only stay here, because the young people are gone, the old people have no strength to work in the field, the land is idle, no longer able to grow crops, these old people can only rely on the little money sent by these young people from the front line, buy some food, barely make a living!" said the old man with great emotion.
Ye Fei and the others also understood at this time, it turned out that they were all the reasons for the war, the front line that the old man just said should be the place where humans and beasts are fighting, but they didn't expect that this war would make so many people leave their hometowns and let so many people leave their relatives.
"I seem to see that there are not many old people in this village, have these old people also left here?" Ziqing also said at this time.
The old man looked at Ziqing, and then said: "The rest of these old people, because the young people do not come back all the year round, there is no one to take care of the lives of the elderly, even if they are sick, no one goes to see them, so many of them have died, and a small number of them can move, so they all moved away, but where they can go, they are the same!"
"Then are all these young people requisitioned?" Liu Li asked the old man, because she knew that after a war, officials would go down to conscript, and each official needed to be conscripted to a certain amount, so Liu Li was worried that the reason why the young people here went to the front line was because they were all conscripted by these officials.
"It's not exactly, at the beginning of the war, there were people who came down to recruit soldiers, but our village is small, and there are not so many suitable people, so there are not many people to requisition, but then some of these requisitioned soldiers came back from the front line and told everyone about the situation on the front line, so the people behind also took the initiative to go to the front line to sign up, which made us have fewer people in our village, to tell you that although our village is small, there have been many capable people before, I know that there were generals in our village before, but later died in the battle, so this kind of atmosphere of protecting the family and defending the country has prevailed in our village since before, and everyone was also infected by this atmosphere, so they went to the front line desperately. The old man said that at the end, he felt very proud.
Everyone finally understood why everyone only saw the old people in this village, but not the young people, and why their eyes were full of disgust when they saw Ye Fei and the others, because they felt that young people like Ye Fei and the others should go to the front line to fight, instead of coming to them to play.
Ye Fei thought for a moment, and then said, "That uncle, your child is also ......?" When Ye Fei said this, he was a little embarrassed to say it.
After hearing Ye Fei's words, the old man took a sip of wine again, but this time he directly drank all the remaining wine, and tears appeared in the eyes of the old man's wife. I have two sons, I should have been able to enjoy them, and my son is also very filial, but after the war, my eldest son was conscripted and left, and there was no news for a long time, until a man came back from the front, and he told me that my eldest son died in the battle on the front line, and he died with the other party, and I felt that the sky was about to fall, but my wife told me and told me that I should be proud, because my son died while defending his country, and what he did was worth itγ When the old man said this, he also looked at his wife sitting beside him.
"Although we don't have any skills, but the sons we teach can contribute to the country, and that's enough!" said the deepest meaning in the simplest words.
"That's right, and it is precisely because of this that my youngest son also went to the front later, and now he will send us a letter every once in a while to tell us about the situation, also to reassure us and let us know that he is still alive, and the two of us will not let him worry, we will live our own life and let him rest assured that he will fight on the front line, this is the only thing we can do!" said the old man with a smile.
Everyone can feel the pain in the uncle's heart, the eldest son has just died, and he sent the younger son out, they can give up this feeling, they can't bear it, but they have done what many people can't do, this is the simplest and most extraordinary thing they can do as people living at the bottom.
Ye Fei and they were also influenced by the old man, they thought a lot, this meal, they talked a lot with the old man, maybe the old man has not seen so much of the world outside, but the old man can always use his simplest words to say the greatest things in everyone's hearts.
Ye Fei and the old man were drinking and chatting at the same time, making the old man happy at the moment was the only thing Ye Fei and they could do now.
Originally, Ye Fei and the others wanted to help the old man find the old man's youngest son from the front line, but then they couldn't do it, first, because the number of people on the front line had reached several million, how could it be possible to find a person here, and even if they found it, the little son who went out of the village where the country contributed to the atmosphere, would he come back? This possibility is also relatively low, so Ye Fei didn't say this request, I just hope that the old man's youngest son can be safe on the front line. (To be continued.) )