Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wanderer Returns Home

The Fang family's house is a large courtyard near the river, and the structure of the roof can be seen in some Chinese style, but the layout of the house is a bit European style, but the area in the middle of the courtyard is cleaned up with a bit of Jiangnan water town flavor.

After the car stopped, Fang Lang left Captain Blackwell to get out of the car and go into the house to have a cup of coffee, the captain said that considering that Fang Lang had been away from home for so long, he would not disturb Fang Lang to reunite with his family first, and then come to visit his family tomorrow.

When Fang Lang turned around and looked at the door of his house, he saw his family looking at him in a daze at the door. When he turned around and saw his face clearly, his mother Yang Xiuer had already run over with tears in her eyes.

Fang Lang didn't say a word, put down the luggage in his hand, knelt on the ground with a plop, and banged his grandfather, father, and mother three times, and shouted: "Grandpa, parents, the unfilial son Fang Lang is back, kowtow to you." ”

Fang Lang didn't know why he knelt down and kowtowed directly, thinking that this might be the natural reaction of the original owner, and he could be regarded as expressing his apology for occupying the original owner's body.

Mother Yang Xiu'er had already run over, grabbed Fang Lang's arm, looked at her son's red forehead, and kept muttering: "My son! You're back, you're back. He wiped tears from his eyes as he spoke.

Fang Lang's eyes were red when he was also said, and he said continuously: "I'm sorry, Mom, it's my son who is ignorant and worries you." ”

The mother just wiped her tears vigorously and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, quick, come into the house!" Tao, come and help your brother with his luggage. ”

Looking at his younger brother who was called over by his mother, Fang Lang was not polite, and casually threw the luggage in his hand to his younger brother Fang Tao and said: "Tao'er, you haven't seen you for the past two years, but you have grown a lot taller!" They've all become big and small. Brother has been gone for two years, no one has bullied you! ”

After taking the luggage in Fang Lang's hand, Fang Tao, who was so weighed down by the weight that he almost didn't stand firm, also said with a smile on his face: "Brother, you can be regarded as back, huh!" This bag is heavy enough. No one bullied me! Brother Xuewu and they all protected me when I was in school, there are not many Chinese of us, and we are very united in school, and now after Brazil entered the war, those Japanese classmates have also stopped. ”

"That's good, if someone still bullies you, you and my brother said, and my brother directly led the troops over to clean them up." After speaking, he patted his younger brother on the shoulder and walked towards his grandfather and father at the door of the house.

came to grandpa, held grandpa's arm and said, "Grandpa, I'm back, your body is still strong!" ”

The old man is already seventy-three years old, but his body is still quite tough, and he has to punch once a day, as the old saying goes, seventy-three and eighty-four are the two hurdles of the elderly, if you survive it, you can live a long life. With Fang Lang's observation, the old man didn't dare to say that he would live for another ten years, but it was no problem to live for five or six years.

"Old man, I have a very strong body, I punch every morning, I can eat and sleep. You stinky boy, you have come out of breath, and you have learned to run away from home, and the old man thinks that his eldest grandson is gone, so he wiped a few tears. "The old man is very open-minded.

Fang Lang thought in his heart, now your grandson doesn't know if it's gone, but don't worry, I will help him do his filial piety to you.

"I'm sorry, grandpa is a grandson who is not filial, so you have to worry about it."

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back safely! Talk to your dad well! Stop arguing, you know? The old man patted Fang Lang's hand holding his arm, and glanced at Fang Lang's father who was standing beside him.

Fang Lang comprehended, and said to his father with an old face: "Dad, I'm back, I'm sorry, it's my son who is not good, I shouldn't say goodbye without saying goodbye, I make you worried." ”

Father Fang Xinshan, under the discipline of his grandfather, is a traditional and conservative person, the family concept is heavier, grandpa after the death of grandma, no longer take care of the family's affairs, so, the actual head of the family is the father.

In Fang Lang's impression, his father has always been very strict and believes in filial piety under the stick, so the two brothers Fang Lang and Fang Tao have been invited to the family law since they were young. But after being educated by his father's stick, they are indeed two sons with completely different personalities, Fang Lang has never been afraid of being beaten, he has been naughty since he was a child, and he frantically tested his father's bottom line on the verge of death, but fortunately, he was protected by his mother and grandfather, so he was not beaten and died halfway.

And the younger brother Fang Tao is a monkey who was frightened by the killing of chickens and monkeys, and was frightened by his father's lecture to his brother since he was a child, and he was very obedient and became a good boy, and his reading grades were very good, but he was too honest and was often bullied by his classmates at school. In the past, when Fang Lang was at home, someone bullied his younger brother, and Fang Lang beat him up in the past, and slowly everyone knew that he had an elder brother like a demon king in the world, and everyone didn't dare to bully him. This is also the reason why Fang Lang will ask him if he has been bullied as soon as he comes back.

Fang Lang could see that his father's eyes were also slightly red, the fist in his hand was clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched, obviously calming his mood, his mother was worried that his father would say something hurtful again, so she stood beside her father and grabbed his hand and patted it gently.

In the end, my father just said, "Let's go inside!" He took the lead and turned around and entered the small courtyard.

The mother beside her was obviously relieved, followed behind her father, beckoned again and again, grabbed Fang Lang's arm and walked home, as if she was afraid that Fang Lang would run away again.

After everyone entered the house, they took out a few stools in the living room and gathered around to learn about the current situation from Fang Lang. Fang Lang also picked up some easy things to say, and he didn't dare to say that he was injured, but he just said that he saved an American on the battlefield, and then the other party helped find a relationship and transferred Fang Lang away from the front line, and now he is in charge of managing a transport ship, responsible for traveling between Brazil and Italy, so he has the opportunity to go home to visit relatives.

After listening to it, everyone felt a lot more at ease, only the old man had followed the grandfather through the chaos in his hometown after all, and knew the danger on the battlefield, and it was definitely not as frivolous as Fang Lang depicted, but the old man would definitely not expose Fang Lang's avoidance in front of his family.

Just when everyone was a little relaxed, my father said: "The sea is not unsafe, there are German submarines everywhere, have you forgotten why Brazil entered the war?" Wasn't it the Germans who attacked the Brazilian transports? ”

After listening to her father's words, her mother's heart rose again, and she looked at Fang Lang with a worried face and said, "Son, is that so?" Then can we stop going! ”

Fang Lang listened to his mother's words, he couldn't cry or laugh, and was about to express comfort, but he heard his father say: "Women, what nonsense, do you think being a soldier is the same as being at home?" Do it if you want to, or don't you do it if you don't want to? If you don't go, you will be caught and shot as a deserter. ”

Father's words frightened his mother, and tears were about to burst out of her eyes again, Fang Lang hurriedly said, "Mom! Rest assured! Now my son's ships are all under the protection of the escort fleet, there are planes in the sky and warships on the sea, and they are very safe. Besides, now that the Allies have counterattacked the European continent, the Axis powers have few days to jump around. I estimate that the war will be over within this year. ”

In order to dispel his mother's doubts, Fang Lang accidentally revealed the history. But he didn't mind, because first of all, it was all his family, and there was nothing he couldn't say. Secondly, it is now clear to everyone on both sides of the war that the balance of victory has been tilted in favor of the Allies, and victory is only a matter of time.

Fang Lang's words made his father interested, and he rarely asked Fang Lang: "How do you know that the war will end within this year!" Don't listen to the propaganda of the troops, these are the propaganda that the commanders instigated you to do so desperately. ”

I didn't expect my father to be so knowledgeable, and he was not guided by the overwhelming propaganda outside, which gave Fang Lang a new understanding of this feudal parent who had never been out of St. Paul.

"What kind of eyes do you kid, why am I not right?" Father Fang Xinshan found that Fang Lang was looking at him with a strange look, and couldn't help but speak.