Zheng Huang's bitter turn has nothing to do with him personally. Until one day, he suddenly received a call from his half-brother Zheng Xuan, saying that his mother wants you to come back. Zheng Huang, who was buried by poverty and humiliation, howled and cried like a drowning man who grabbed a life-saving straw, making Zheng Xuan on the other end of the phone inexplicable.

Zheng Xuan's father, Zheng Zheng, met Lu Yinhuan very late, long after Lu Yinhuan fled to Thailand, and at first Zheng Zheng was a soldier in the propaganda team of the Burmese army, which is the propaganda team member who often sees people playing the accordion on the march and in the trenches on the front line to boost morale in war-themed movies. Zheng Zheng is a city soldier, educated, many of his tunes are made up by himself, because the songs he wrote and performed are very infectious, which greatly boosts the morale of the front-line soldiers, in a certain battle, Zheng Zhengrong made a second-class meritorious service, and was valued by the division commander, and was escorted to the military academy for further study. After coming out of the military academy, Zheng Zheng made rapid progress, becoming a platoon commander, company commander, deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, etc., and was promoted all the way. It is rare for a person with such shallow qualifications as Zheng Zheng to be the head of the regiment, and it can be said that he relies on high culture, strong ability, and excellent business.

At that time, Zheng Zheng was rated as an activist every year, a pacesetter in combat propaganda, and the troops he led were rated as advanced combat collectives. Zheng Zheng's political report was also particularly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, full of vivid and vivid examples, and the soldiers generally reported that after listening to Commander Zheng's report, their vague understanding of their thinking was gone, the direction of progress was clearer, and their love for the country was greater. After Zheng Zheng became the commander of the regiment, he often went to the grassroots units to talk with the soldiers, keep abreast of the backward ideas of the soldiers, and then prescribe the right medicine and sum up the effective ideological work methods for travel. By the way, Zheng Zheng, as an advanced model of cadres, has also been to Naypyidaw, received a cordial reception by the president's old man, and shook hands with his old man, what a great happiness it is! That kind of happiness is simply incomprehensible to people nowadays. Today's people are thinking about nothing more than how to get rich and how to realize their self-worth, but at that time, the Burmese people were thinking about the suffering of two-thirds of the people in the world, and they were thinking about the motherland. Compared with the two realms, there is really a world of difference.

Yes, in retrospect, how different the past era was from the present. At that time, Zheng Xuan had just entered elementary school, just in time, the first thing they did in class was to practice lying down in case of shells, under the leadership of the squad leader, everyone stood up and lay down; Stand up, lie down, and practice over and over again. In the afternoon, before school is dismissed, there will be a group meeting in the class, at which everyone will speak and seriously think about the tactical essentials in the light of the combat teachings. Fight the word "escape" in the depths of your heart. What does it mean to have a flash of the word "escape"? For example, who is cowardly before the fight, or self-injury before the war, etc., these are all bad behaviors flashing thoughts, and they must fight fiercely until there are no such selfish distractions in their minds before they stop. If a student makes a mistake, such as being late for class, not handing in homework on time, etc., they will be punished by the teacher for standing in front of the statue as a punishment. In addition, it was once popular to run early and track and field late. The morning running exercise is to get up in the morning, after arriving at school, the whole class stands up, lined up neatly with each other, and in the evening is after school in the afternoon, everyone exercises the long jump, high jump and other field events.

Zheng Xuan also recalled a ridiculous thing. One day after school at noon, he went to the suburbs to catch crickets, and when he caught them, he was so addicted to catching them that he forgot the time, and when he remembered it, it was too late to rush back to school for afternoon classes. Absenteeism was a serious violation of discipline, and he was scared and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, he remembered the gun in his schoolbag and immediately had an idea. He sat cross-legged on the grass, took out his gun, and practiced as seriously as an adult, feeling much more at ease as he practiced. The logic of a seven-year-old child is this: he is absent from school not for fun, but to practice shooting, and learning the skill of killing enemies is a good thing and should be praised, so it is understandable to violate discipline for a good deed that should be praised.

He also had the impression that he sat on the grass and played with guns for a long time, and then the wind blew a little cold on his body, but the colder he was, the hotter his heart became, and the squad leader's words flowed into his young heart like a warm current.

When he arrived at school the next day, the teacher asked him why he was absent from class yesterday afternoon and what he was doing. He replied confidently that he had been watching the practice of shooting yesterday afternoon. Zheng Xuan thought that the teacher was going to praise him now, maybe he would have to talk about his experience of watching shooting, but the result was much more than he expected, the teacher neither praised him nor let him talk about his experience, but still punished him for standing in front of the blackboard for a noon, because his mistake was outrageous. At that time, he felt very aggrieved and felt that he was not lying, and that he was indeed practicing shooting. What's wrong with practicing shooting, and why plead guilty? He couldn't figure it out.

At that time, both in the army and in the locality, the red ballet was in vogue. When there is any event, everyone jumps in high spirits. The dance is not difficult to dance, it can be learned as soon as it is learned, that is, the arms swing sharply, and at the same time the feet stride forward, stride backward, stride to the left, and stride to the right. People beat gongs and drums and held red flags in the streets to celebrate. The streets are noisy with gongs and drums, a sea of red flags everywhere, and people are smiling and their faces are full of happiness from the heart...... Ah, it was a fiery time.

In that fiery era, everyone had ideals and ambitions, and they all thought in one place, worked hard in one place, and strived to be excellent talents.

Zheng Zheng and Lu Yinhuan's only son is named Zheng Xuan, who is five years younger than Zheng Huang. Zheng Xuan is very delicate, a bit like a girl, she doesn't like to talk much, but she is very attached to her brother, always revolving around him, and often letting him take him out to play. Every time Zheng Huang went to his room, he took out a lot of snacks for Zheng Huang to eat, and also showed Zheng Huang some of his collection of small toys, such as the copper shell of the machine gun, the image medallion pressed by plexiglass, a round magnifying glass without a frame and without a handle, and so on. Once, he found an old brown paper envelope out of nowhere, and took out a lot of old photos from it for Zheng Huang to see. These old photos are basically taken by Zheng Zheng before, including his father standing on the side of the road with his sleeves rolled up and playing Allegro, his father sitting by the river playing the flute, the background seems to be sunset or morning glow, and his father playing basketball on the clay court, one of which particularly aroused Zheng Huang's interest. It was his father in a hospital gown with vertical stripes, sitting on a swing, behind him was a female nurse in a white coat and a white hat, the female nurse was very young and very beautiful, with two long braids hanging from her ears to her front of her, and a sweet smile on her face. His father was laughing with his legs stretched forward and his head back on the nurse's chest, surrounded by what appeared to be a garden, dotted with flowers. Zheng Huang picked up this photo and looked at it carefully, although he was still a child, this photo gave him a strange feeling. Although he couldn't see anything from the photo itself, Zheng Huang always felt that there was something in this photo that he couldn't tell, or something different. I asked Zheng Xuan where his father took this photo, and he said that his father had taken it in the nursing home when he was recuperating in the past, and he also said that his father never let him see these photos, he secretly turned them out and saw them, and his father would have beaten him if he knew about it.

Zheng Huang and Zheng Zheng are not close, when Lu Yinhuan met Zheng Zheng, Zheng Huang was already four years old, which happened to be the age of memory. Zheng Huang knew that he should have been called Yu Huang. Although he is not close to Zheng Zheng, he and Zheng Xuan have always gotten along very well.

Later, Zheng Huang learned that the woman in the photo almost became Zheng Xuan's mother, that is, Zheng Zheng's lover, a nurse in a field hospital, later a doctor, and then a director. She was tall, with a long face, no glasses, and long braids. Zheng Zheng met her in the hospital after being wounded, but unfortunately they didn't have time to hold the wedding when a shell hit the field hospital, and her body was blown to pieces.

It didn't take long for Zheng Zheng to be dismissed because of the low morale of the army under his command, and he himself accepted it calmly. After getting a compensation, he was introduced to Lu Yinhuan, and this is how Zheng Xuan was born. But he died early, and when Zheng Xuan was ten years old, he died due to ineffective medical treatment. After his death, Lu Yinhuan never remarried, and raised two children alone, so she also suffered when she was young.

For some reason, Zheng Xuan didn't like her very much, and felt that she never had a smile on her face, and she spoke softly, giving people a feeling of being unapproachable. Sometimes on Sundays, when Zheng Hyun is playing at home for a little longer, she will say, "Your dad may be looking for you." Even a child can hear the horror in her voice, which makes Zheng Xuan very unhappy. Zheng Xuan feels that both adults and children should be polite and not curse a child to leave their home. He misses Zheng Zheng very much, Zheng Zheng is different from her, he thinks that his father likes him very much, every time he sees him, he always touches his face, calls him a little fat man, he will chat with him, ask him about the situation in school, and sometimes let him put his hands behind his back, straighten his stomach and learn the way his father walks, and then Zheng Zheng laughed, saying that he learned very well. In fact, Lu Yinhuan, as a mother, is not bad for the two children, and it is not easy to pull the two of them up. Zheng Xuan and his mother were at odds because he found out that after his father's death, a friend of his father's often came to his house to play, this is because his father was the regiment commander, and this was the division commander, Zheng Zheng's superior, and the main head of the army. If another uncle, or a man with a lower position than Zheng Zheng, came to his house as a guest, he would just turn ten years old and say with a straight face, we don't play with you, you can go. The adults were a little afraid of him, thinking that he spoke in the gloomy tone of Zheng Zheng in the past, and they didn't dare to come to his house to play. But Zheng Xuan didn't dare to say such a thing to the division commander. Because for the first time, after he made a threatening expression to the division commander, he was immediately taken out. As for what torture he suffered, no one knew, and he never said it himself. But he no longer dared to contradict the division commander. Zheng Xuan was withdrawn and cowardly when he was a child, and Zheng Huang felt that this must have something to do with his mother.

But the principal of the elementary school is a person that Zheng Hyun respects very much. There is one thing that Zheng Xuan is still grateful to when he thinks about it. It's a little embarrassing to say, but when he was in the third grade of elementary school, there was a time when he somehow had a bad problem and loved to steal people's things. In fact, his family conditions are still good, and as long as he says what he wants, his mother will generally satisfy him. But he wants to steal it, probably thinking it's fun and exciting. What he stole was nothing great, but he was rummaging through their school bags and stealing a ruler, a high-grade pencil, or some change in the pencil case while other students were not looking. Once he stole a fountain pen, and the classmate who lost the fountain pen reported to the teacher, because the class kept losing things, and the teacher also paid attention to it, and as a result, when the whole class was in the playground for physical education class, the teacher quietly checked each student's schoolbag in the classroom. At the end of class, he was called to the office, and when he was confronted with the pen that I had dug out of his bag, he admitted that he had done it, and under cross-examination by the teacher, he also admitted to some other things he had stolen. However, when the teacher asked him to admit that a classmate had stolen the tuition for the semester that he had brought to school to pay, and that he had done it, he firmly denied it. It was indeed not his doing, and he naturally would not admit it. The teacher said that he had a bad attitude and that he would inform his parents of the incident and announce his punishment at the school assembly. He was terrified when he was young, and if his mother found out about this, he might not know how to clean him up, and besides, if the punishment of him was announced at the school assembly, how would he see people. At that time, he really felt that it was the end of the world, and he really didn't want to live anymore. After school, he didn't even want to go home, wandering around the street alone, Zheng Huang didn't know how to comfort him when he heard him talk about this and the consequences he was going to face, just silently stayed by his side. It was dark before they had to go home.

Zheng Xuan stayed awake all night, and went to school the next day in fear, but to his surprise, the teacher did not look for him, and the classmates, including the classmate who lost the pen, did not seem to know who stole the pen, let alone his past misdeeds, and his classmates treated him as always. For the next few days, the teacher did not look for him, as if she was suffering from amnesia, and completely forgot about it. A week later, the principal brought him a message, saying that he wanted to talk to Zheng Hyun and asked him to come to his house. He asked Zheng Huang what to do, and Zheng Huang told him not to go, and said that if the principal forced him, then he would go to the principal's house instead of his younger brother. He never understood what was going on.

That night, after the two of them went home, Zheng Huang was so worried that he couldn't eat, so he found an excuse to run out, and he wandered outside alone for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage to go to the principal. I don't know what the principal did to Zheng Huang, anyway, it's as if it didn't happen. But Zheng Huang resolutely refused to let his younger brother go to the principal's house, presumably the principal was not a good person. But the smart Zheng Xuan has not thought carefully about this problem, but has been worshipping the principal in a daze, and after making a fortune, he still supports him as an elder like his father.

At the beginning, the family of three had been living in a place called Yongtangcuo, a small scattered area, crowded with dozens of families. But because they are refugees who have fled to Thailand, most of them are able to unite with the outside world. Cuoli later set up a compound canteen, in which there was a retired cook, called biscuits, this person has a bit of a problem with his brain, in addition to cooking, he loves to sing whenever he is free. He sings not for fun, but sings very seriously at a glance, and also studies the singing method diligently, and when he sings, he must put it on the shelf, full of typhoons. This cookie probably thinks that being a guy is not very useful, and I want to make a name for myself by singing, which is really a good thing. A firehead army, not honest cooking, always there to sing a model play, after a long time, everyone knows that his brain is not normal, and they all love to tease him for fun. Someone told him that he sang very well in his plays, and sooner or later he would be transferred to the propaganda team to play a heroic character, and he would be popular all over Thailand in the future. He believed it to be true, studied more and more diligently, and hid in the warehouse of the canteen all day long, crying his throat frantically. Someone cut out a photo of a famous actress in a song and dance troupe from a color pictorial, and told him that this actress heard about his deeds, fell in love with him, and wanted to talk to him. Believing this nonsense, he was so excited that he framed the actress's photograph and put it at the head of his bed, and said that his object was a famous actress in Bangkok, and that he would soon come here to see him. At that time, whether it was a soldier or a family member, or even a child like them, when he saw the biscuit, he would tease him: "Uncle Biscuit, come and put on a show for us." As soon as he heard this, he would immediately stand in a T-shaped step, stand up with both hands, and start singing. Someone told him again that with his current singing skills, he could be transferred to the propaganda team, and he should not continue to be a cook. The propaganda team is under the control of the Political Department, and the director of the Political Department is also the division commander, so they suggested that he go directly to the division commander to talk to him and take the initiative to apply for transfer to the propaganda team.

It is said that it is very inconvenient for a soldier to talk to a division commander, because there are clear hierarchies in the army, and it is not possible to talk to whoever you want to talk to. But because this biscuit is a firehead army, it has unique favorable conditions, as long as the division commander comes to the canteen to eat, he will have the opportunity to talk. The canteen is divided into three stoves: staff stove, officer stove, and chief stove. The chief's stove is only for the chief and the chief's family. When Zheng Xuan was eating, he had seen it several times, and Biscuit cowered and walked into the chief's stove to find the teacher, and other chiefs would joke with him when they saw him: "Biscuit, have you made any progress in singing recently?" "Biscuits, is the object of Bangkok coming?" But Zheng Xuan never saw the division commander joking with him, the division commander always asked Biscuit to sit down on the chair next to him, and talked to him very seriously: Biscuit, you are our soldier, and the soldier must listen to the organization, and now the organization needs you to be a cook, so you should be a good cook and cook good food for everyone. Singing and playing heroes, why? In order to learn the spirit of heroes and do their own work...... Sometimes, the head of the canteen is afraid that the biscuit will affect the chief's eating, so he will run in a panic and reprimand the biscuit and tell him to leave quickly, and the division commander will wave his hand and say to the leader, it's okay, it's okay, he talks to the biscuit.

Soon, under the teasing and teasing of others, Biscuit's condition began to worsen, and he went to the gate of the compound to pick up the actress from Bangkok, which was the object of his imagination. As long as he saw a girl he didn't know coming in from the gate of the compound, he would ask if the girl was from Bangkok, and if the girl was beautiful, even if he told him that she was not from Bangkok, he didn't believe it, and repeatedly told them that he was a biscuit, and his big name was Pi Youcai, and it was Pi Youcai, who sang very well, and made people cry and laugh. At this time, the demobilization and demobilization work in the army began, and the departments concerned were ready to demobilize the biscuits, and the division commander personally instructed Li Youcai to postpone his demobilization and send him to the county psychiatric hospital for treatment because he specially called the canteen manager to learn about the situation of the biscuits. The division commander was very thoughtful, Li Youcai is a rural person, and if he is demobilized and returns to his hometown, he will have to pay for it himself, and it will be a very heavy economic burden for a rural family. If Li Youcai had not been demobilized, the cost of his treatment would have been entirely borne by the army. It is very touching that an army commander cares so much about an ordinary soldier.

I heard that the teacher has always wanted to be with Lu Yinhuan, but because of her two sons, especially the younger son, she has not been able to do so. However, as the Zheng brothers gradually grew up, this voice slowly disappeared.

Later, something big happened internationally, and the United States invaded Vietnam. I heard that the division commander assisted the US army in the form of mercenaries, but was killed by artillery, but I don't know whether it is true or not. But Zheng Xuan did never see the division commander again.

Later, Zheng Xuan was entrusted by his mother to send condolences to some elderly people in the house, and he basically carried out this matter every year. One year he was delayed and went late, and when he came back, it was completely dark. He walked to the parking lot with his mobile phone, and suddenly heard a person singing Peking Opera in the dark:

Our soldiers are like lost dogs

Filled with hatred, to whom do I speak?

I am like a goose mourning in the sky

I'm like a dragon swimming on a shallow beach

I'm like a fish swallowing a hook and line

I'm like a ship that has lost its rudder in the waves

Thinking about it, my liver and intestines are broken

How can we look forward to tomorrow tonight?

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Xiao Xiong is the son of the principal, and he was Zheng Huang's classmate when he was young. It's rare to see now. When I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, the principal had an accident, he changed schools, and he lived in the school, even if he rarely ran into him in the yard, and even if he did, he just nodded to each other and passed. Zheng Huang felt pity for him. From his heart, he has no prejudice against him, his father's business belongs to his father, what does it have to do with him, they can still be good friends. But he apparently didn't think so, or maybe his parents didn't allow him to associate with the children in the hospital.

I later learned that it had a lot to do with the principal's wife.

One day, when the principal's wife, Director Wen, was at work, she heard her mother say that she was the director of the hospital, and a nurse from the outpatient department of the hospital led a young man into her office, and the little nurse introduced the young man as her boyfriend. Previously, this little nurse had come to Director Wen many times, saying that she was not in good health and could not handle the heavy work of the outpatient department, and asked to be transferred to the inpatient department, but Director Wen never agreed. This time, she thought that the little nurse with her boyfriend had come to intercede and want to transfer her job, but she didn't expect that the young man didn't say a word, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked Director Wen to transfer his girlfriend immediately, otherwise they would accuse Director Wen's husband, that is, the principal of the elementary school, of doing an ugly thing that he did. The meaning of his words is very clear, do you want to be public or private? See you in court in public, and immediately transfer work in private. Director Wen has a strong temper, and when she heard it, she became angry, first of all, she probably didn't believe that her husband would do anything ugly, and secondly, she couldn't tolerate others threatening her. Besides, Director Wen may still think so, her husband is a principal, and he basically lives in the school, what can he have to do with this pair of young men and women, and how can they know about his ugly things? Isn't it pure nonsense. So, she didn't even think to ask what it was, so she immediately pointed to the door and told them to go out at once, and let them do whatever they wanted. As a result, they went to court.

Here's the thing. One night, the little nurse came to the principal's house alone and wanted to talk to Director Wen about the transfer, but Director Wen happened to be away from home and met a friend. The principal was the only one drinking in the house, and the bear was not at home when he lived in the school. The principal had come back to get a few changes of clothes, but when he saw that there was wine on the table, he didn't care about 3721, so he drank a plate of peanuts. I was dazed and a little drunk, so I talked to the little nurse for a while, and then I started to pull her......

Herein lies the disagreement. The little nurse said that the principal pulled her into the bedroom, pressed her down on the bed, and began to pick her clothes, and if she hadn't resisted desperately, she would have been ...... by the principal

The principal said that it was good for him to pull her, but he just thought the girl was very cute, and wanted to pull her down to drink together, but she didn't want to, so he forgot it and didn't force her. As for what pulled her into the bedroom, pressed her down on the bed, and ripped off her clothes, it was complete nonsense, nothing at all. The principal also emphasized that he said that he was an ED, and he couldn't do that at all, and he said that his lover could prove it.

The court asked Director Wen to investigate the principal's words. Director Wen said this: He is indeed ED, which is generally not good, but after drinking, it is not absolutely impossible. Mr. Wen's words may have played an important role in the court, and the principal was sentenced by the district court for attempted rape.

Why did Director Wen say this? Could it be that Director Wen has a bad relationship with the principal, and even hates the principal, hoping that he will be sentenced? This obviously doesn't make sense. Then the only reasonable explanation may be that Director Wen, as a cadre of the medical system who has been educated by Nightingale's spirit for many years, has a high consciousness and always remembers: "Be an honest person, tell the truth, and do honest things." As a result, in the face of the court's investigation, Director Wen answered the questions unusually honestly.

A few years later, when the principal was released from prison, Director Wen and the principal returned to their hometown to settle down. Director Wen's behavior proves that she has a deep affection for the principal and proves her unswerving loyalty to love.

When Xiaoxiong graduated from high school, he took the initiative to apply to study abroad, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful for various reasons. Under the influence of his father, he was fired from a well-treated company and did not work for a long time. In desperation, I found a rural girl to marry. Xiao Xiong entered a factory as a worker, and heard people in the compound who had contact with Xiao Xiong say that Xiao Xiong's family life was very difficult because his wife did not have a job.

"Alas," Zheng Huang listened, took a sip of wine, sighed long, and said to Zheng Huang, "It's a pity for the principal, it's a pity. ”

Zheng Xuan seemed to hear a certain sense of satisfaction from his brother's sigh. Yes, compared to the principal, his father's life is still happy.