The ship arrived in Quang Phuoc in the moonlight. Taking advantage of the moonlight, the group quietly sneaked into Houde Mansion, and Xianghai led everyone to his room, just in time to bump into the fourth child of the family. Niu Laosi saw that Xianghai had brought back so many people in the dark, and wanted to ask Wu's mother to take the lamp, but Xianghai stopped him and told him to go to the stove room to make a pot of rice. Niu Laosi went to the stove room to eat, Wu's mother was still cleaning up in the stove room, and heard Niu Laosi say that the young master was back and wanted to eat. Wu's mother asked how many people came and how much to eat? Niu Laosi said that he didn't know, and he didn't let the lamp go, only to see a dark person in front of the hall. Mother Wu heard Niu Laosi say this, so she simply brought the pot, and Niu Laosi also brought a few leftovers and chopsticks, and put them on the table of the eight immortals in the hall, and everyone ate on the spot. Wu's mother saw Xianghai and blamed him for not telling him when he went home, and it wasn't that he didn't have a phone, but fortunately he burned a lot today, and he was going to mix rice stalks with the pigs tomorrow. Xianghai stopped his chopsticks and said, "Even so, can you not say it?" Mother Wu slapped her mouth and said, "Look at my rapper, it's hard to say, it's hard to say." As he spoke, he went back to the stove room to get busy, and everyone laughed and ate indiscriminately. Fang Zongming ordered everyone to rest early, sleep on the floor in the hall, and return to the city early tomorrow morning. Xianghai walked up to Fang Zongming and said, do you want to see your father? Fang Zongming said: "That's exactly what I mean, Mr. Li is as kind to my five brothers as a mountain, otherwise my brother and I would have been floating in the Yellow River, and more importantly, I asked Brother Ma to recognize my father." "Let's go with Ma Chenlong to see Li Shanren.

Li Shanren finished dinner, because of coughing, lying on the Taishi chair to rest, fell asleep for a while and woke up, saw that the night was late, and was about to get up and go back to the room, when he heard the noisy voices behind him, he was about to call Niu Laosi to explore, but he saw Xianghai leading a group of people with a lantern, and shouted in the dark: "Daddy!" Li Shanren listened to it familiarly, but it was not Xianghai's voice, so he hurriedly snatched the lantern in Xianghai's hand and shone it at the sound, and it was clear that it was Ma Chenlong, who was missing half of his chin. Li Shanren stood for a long time and muttered to himself: "What do you call me?" Ma Chenlong knelt down and kowtowed: "Daddy, I am your son, please accept my worship!" Li Shanren burst into tears in an instant, and his words were unknown: "Xiang Gong, my son, you are back, I heard that you are fighting, it is a miracle that you are not dead...... Hurry up, hurry up! "

Ma Chenlong got up and took Li Shanren's hand and put it on his face: "Daddy, come and touch, I can't die, when the revolution succeeds, the child will give you filial piety!" "

"Gong'er, do you know everything?"

"Daddy, the kids know everything."

"Here, let me touch it." Li Shanren picked up Ma Chenlong's face, touched it tremblingly, and said: "You are dedicated to the revolution, your father can't stop you, whether you succeed or not, your father wants you to go home alive." "

"Children remember the teachings."

"How did you come over after so many years, let your father take a closer look......" Li Shanren thought that the lights were too dim, Ma Chenlong took the lantern from Fang Zongming's hand, and said to himself: "Daddy, look, I'm fine!" Li Shanren stroked his shoulders, body, and face, and said, "I'm not dizzy, right?" Why are you dressed like this, like a ruffian? "

Ma Chenlong said: "People can't look good, you see that we are all 'inconsistent on the outside' if the inside and outside are consistent, our lives will be gone." "

Li Shanren finally smiled and said, "Yes, yes, come into the house and let your mother take a look." Li Shanren said, took the lantern and shone it behind Ma Chenlong, and saw that there were many people behind him, and hurriedly ordered Xianghai: "Quickly ask Wu Ma to entertain guests." At this time, Mrs. Li had come out of the house, and when she saw Ma Chenlong, everything happened too suddenly, and she was so shocked that she poked on the ground like a piece of wood, and her eyes looked directly at Ma Chenlong, and she was speechless for a while. Li Shanren raised his hand and shook it in front of her eyes and said, "Child, me, Gong'er is back." Only then did Mrs. Li come back to her senses and said to herself, "I thought I would never see my son again!" He walked up to Ma Chenlong and asked, "Is it really a child?" Ma Chenlong replied: "It's really a child, the child is not filial, there is a lot of disrespect, please accept the child's worship." Saying that, he was about to kneel again, but was dragged by Li Shanren: "The man has gold under his knees, and he is not willing to kneel, he is not willing to kneel." Mrs. Li hurriedly picked up Ma Chenlong, looked up and down, as if she was about to fly away if she didn't look at anyone, and said, "Gong'er, you have suffered!" After saying that, a thousand words came to my heart, and I couldn't hold back any longer, and two lines of hot tears rolled down. Ma Chenlong couldn't help but burst into tears, and said: "Mother, I blame you wrongly, the child said goodbye without saying goodbye, which made the parents sad!" The mother and son hugged their heads and cried, this scene was tear-jerking, and everyone was uncomfortable. Fang Zongming on the side wanted to meet Li Shanren and his wife, but he couldn't bear to interrupt their mother and son recognition, so he could only stand with his hands down, and Xianghai and they couldn't interject. Mrs. Li whimpered and said: "It was only a full moon when you left, and the hot water bottle was the size of a hot water bottle, and now you are tall and big, wandering outside, and have no place to go...... Kid, stop playing with your life and go home! Ma Chenlong held back his tears and said: "Mother rest assured, although the child left home for revolution, he was born as a person of the Li family and died as a ghost of the Li family." I will not die, the revolution will soon succeed, and when the time comes, the children will return home in glory and honor their parents. Now the child has to give up his small family for everyone, please forgive her mother! At this time, Fang Zongming saw that it was nearly midnight, so he lifted the lantern and stepped forward to greet Li Shanren and his wife: "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, do you remember me?" As he spoke, he took a lantern and shone it in front of him. Mrs. Li recognized it at a glance and exclaimed, "Isn't this the second child?" Why are you here too? "

Li Shanren heard his wife call him "second", but his wife only called Fang Zongming "second" on the beach, could the man in front of him be the "water ghost" brother Fang Zongming? Hurriedly pulled Fang Zongming to him, almost put his face to face and looked at it again and again, and said, "Ah, it's really the second child, it's really the second child!" Didn't you join the army? Fang Zongming said: "Benefactor, it's really my Zongming, joining the army is a long story." Li Shanren couldn't help but happily called out to Mother Wu: "Mother Wu, hurry up and call the guests to sit in the guest hall and speak slowly." At this time, Wu's mother saw the excitement in the upper room, and couldn't help but come to inspect it, and saw the swarthy group, heard Li Shanren's call, approached to see, they all recognized it, and immediately called Niu Lao Si excitedly. Zhao Da dragged her in the dark and said, "Aunt whispered, go and serve tea, let's go sit in the guest hall." At this time, the heat of the day was swept away, the summer night was cool and pleasant, and Li Shanren's cough was gone. Everyone was refreshed and came to the guest hall, Wu's mother brought tea, and Niu Laosi also met with everyone. Fang Zongming invited all the other comrades to come to see Li Shanren and his wife, gathered together, sat in a circle, and led the "water ghost" brothers to leave the shore beach, go to Ezhou to join the army, follow Lin Rong to make a revolution, after Lin Rong sacrificed, he broke up with other brothers, left the new army and came to Yunnan to enter the lecture hall to study, followed General Cai to participate in the Kunming Uprising, attacked the overseer's mansion to fight against Yuan to protect the country and the Northern Expedition, and became an officer of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Later, the KMT and the CCP cooperated, accepted Marxism, and finally found a way to save China from fire and water.

"Today, for a common goal, Brother Ma and I came together, and I didn't expect that we all came from the shore." Then he respectfully walked up to Li Shanren and his wife, and said: "Thank you to my father-in-law and mother-in-law for cultivating an excellent fighter for the revolution, and I also ask the two elders to forgive Brother Ma for not being able to fulfill his filial piety by the side of the two elders, and it is difficult to repay the kindness of nurturing." Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and I ask for forgiveness from the two elders. "

"No, no, the second brother has said it, the old man is ashamed, Gong'er has not been by my side since he was a child, and the old man is guilty and heartbroken. When the child returns, I don't know how happy I am for the father. A good man has ambitions in all directions, and I won't stop him, but how can I bear to watch him be born and die. Li Shanren said, tears fell like rain, and he trembled and grabbed Ma Chenlong and said: "Son, my father thinks of you all the time, you choose what kind of road you take, and you can't stop your father." But remember that this is your home, and remember to come back! Li Shanren told Ma Chenlong to remember to go home. Ma Chenlong kept nodding, saying that his father was relieved that the child would definitely come back. Li Shanren asked his wife to go to the room and take out all the accumulated gold, a total of one hundred taels, as well as half a Qianlong gold coin, put it in a box, and handed it to Ma Chenlong: "This is a long way, and the good luck is uncertain, but the revolution also needs funds, you can take this in case of emergency." In order to return half a gold coin to you, you must treat it as a good luck treasure, so that it will never leave you in life and death. "It's really an unbreakable blood relationship, after that, this experienced old man is full of tears.

Ma Chenlong took it and held it heavily in his arms, unable to calm down for a long time. Fang Zongming said to Li Shanren: "Sir, such a big gift, it is really a timely rain and snow, and I am afraid that there is no way to repay it." and make revolutionary contributions, which can be repaid at the next day. As he spoke, he took a pen and paper and wrote down the note and handed it to Li Shanren. Li Shanren wrapped the note with the other half of the gold coin, handed it to his wife to put away, and said: "The old man of the note put it away, seeing this thing is like seeing my son, I can pray for the father and the child's safety." He also said to Ma Chenlong: "This thing is indeed auspicious, and in the dark, it falls into your hands, so that your father and son will not be separated, and you should hide it well, and see the currency as if you were a person." While everyone was talking, Li Shanren suddenly remembered something, and said to Wu's mother: "Go to West Street and call your son-in-law, this Fang Zongming brother used to work with his father." Fang Zongming hurriedly asked, "Could it be the widow of Senior Lin?" Li Shanren replied: "Exactly." Fang Zongming said: "There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to get it, it turns out that the widow of Lin's predecessor is here, and we have been looking for him for a long time." Li Shanren told Wu's mother to hurry up and call Ah Mao, Wu's mother promised, and when she was in a hurry to leave, she was stopped by Xianghai and asked Zhao Da to accompany Wu's mother, take care of their black lights, and be careful on the road. After a while, Wu Ma and Zhao Da called Ah Mao, and Wu Nu also came with them. Wu Nu can't do without her husband Ah Mao at a step, and she manages Ah Mao to death, and usually every penny of money Ah Mao makes by making clothes must be handed over. Today, when I saw Aunt Zhao's nephew come to invite me in the middle of the night, I was very surprised, even if Wu's mother was present, I was not at ease, and I secretly rubbed and followed. Li Shanren pulled Ah Mao and came to Fang Zongming and said, "Look who he is." Fang Zongming asked, "Is it so?" Li Shanren said: "He is Lin Rong's widow, Lin Amao." Fang Zongming hurriedly lifted the lantern and came closer to look at it, and exclaimed: "It's really like, the face and figure are the same as Lin Rong." Mao asked, "Is my father so short?" Fang Zongming said: "Yes, as short as you." Don't look at your father's shortness, he is a foreign student, a great talent, a revolutionary pioneer, to a certain extent, we all work for him. Everyone laughed. Fang Zongming asked Ah Mao again: "Is your mother okay?" Ah Mao's face was full of relatives and he muttered: "I heard my adoptive father say that my mother died when she gave birth to me on the way to escape, and I haven't seen her." Fang Zongming said: "We have been looking for her for a long time, and it turns out that she has passed away a long time ago. With a grim expression, he called everyone to the front of Ah Mao and his wife, and said: "Come and meet the revolutionary descendants of the Ah Mao brothers, raise their hands, and salute the revolution." As he spoke, everyone raised their right hands in unison and saluted. Ah Mao is ashamed to say that he can't afford it, he is just a tailor, and he should not disgrace his heroic father. Mrs. Mao saw that the men respected her husband, and she was in awe of her husband.

Everyone talked for a while, and Fang Zongming said to Xianghai: "Don't wait for dawn, so many people have gathered together, and it has been noisy in the middle of the night, and the movement is too big, just in case, let's set off back to the city now." Everyone agreed, and immediately took their leave and walked out of Houde Mansion.

Li Shanren was reluctant to give up and sent Ma Chenlong and them to the cross bridge.

The darkness before dawn, like viscous ink, tightly envelops everything under the night. Li Shanren sent Ma Chenlong to the ship, and the father and son said goodbye.