Cheng Zheng walked to the phone, listened to his daughter confirm with someone that she had called Comrade Cheng Zheng, the corners of her mouth raised, pinched her cheek, and warned with her mouth - no big or small.

"Hey, I'm Cheng Zheng." The earpiece is placed next to the ear, and then he speaks.

They both went back to the dining table in the living room and continued to immerse themselves in their work.

After writing a few words, she sighed again, put down the pen in her hand and counted the days, my mother went to another place with Aunt Xiujuan in October, and said that she was going to contract something, but she did not hear clearly, anyway, she said that she would not come back until half a month later.

The calendar book on the wall of the living room draws a circle on the date ten days ago, and the days are counted together, thinking about my mother.

"Okay, you arrange for the tiger head to come over, and I'll have someone pick him up when the time comes."

Cheng Zheng hung up the phone and went back to his study to arrange for people to enlist in the army.

Three days later, when they returned home from school, they suddenly found that there was a strange boy in the house. He looked a few years older than himself, and he estimated that he was seventeen or eight.

"Come on, this is your tiger brother." Aunt Wang raised her hand to greet Shuangshuang, and introduced to the tiger head, "This is your Uncle Cheng's daughter, called Shuangshuang, who is now in the first year of junior high school." ”

"Brother Tiger Head is good." They didn't know this person, but they still obediently called the person first, and when they saw the tiger's head, they also shyly greeted themselves.

What surprised Shuangshuang even more was that that night, this tiger-headed brother actually stayed in his own home.

"Grandma, what is that tiger head brother doing? How to come to live in our house. ”

Before going to bed, they knocked on the door of their grandmother's room and slipped in like a small fish.

"Tiger Head is the son of your father's former comrade-in-arms, just over there in our hometown, and he is now old enough to join the army."

"Oh, I see." Shuangshuang remembered the appearance of the elder brother just now, it turned out that he was here to be a soldier, "Did he come alone?" It's a long way from home. ”

In the past few years, Shuangshuang has followed his family back to his hometown several times, but because of the long distance, it took six or seven days to travel back and forth by train, which was really not easy, and Shuangshuang was very impressed.

"Yes, he came by train by himself."

"Didn't his parents send him?"

Aunt Wang touched Shuangshuang's head, "His father sacrificed, and it is not convenient for his mother to go out alone in her hometown, and this child is very sensible." ”

Sacrifice? Both blinked, trying to understand the meaning of the two words.

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In the study on the second floor, Cheng Zheng and Hutou were sitting on the sofa and greeting.

"When I went to your house, the first time I saw you, you were only eight years old, right?"

"Yes, Uncle Cheng, I was young then, but now I have grown up."

"Yes, it's quite tall and strong." Cheng Zheng looked at this child, the son of his sacrificial comrades-in-arms, who had no father since he was born, but he wanted to be a soldier like his father.

"If you live here for a while, you will be your own home, and when the enlistment process is completed, you will be arranged to join the recruit company, and if you pass the training, you will come under me."

Hearing that he could go to Uncle Cheng's hands, the tiger's eyes lit up, "Uncle Cheng, I must train hard!" ”

"Hmm." Cheng Zheng patted the child twice on the shoulder.

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Jian Lu returned home from City B, but when she arrived home, she found that her family had changed a lot.

The little boy she had seen back then really passed the conscription test and came to find Cheng Zheng, she was surprised and delighted.

"Tiger head, don't you, remember me?"

Tiger Head touched his head and asked shyly, "Remember, Aunt Lulu is good." ”

"Hey, you're really good, you're sure to be a great warrior in the future."

When Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng returned to their hometown for the first time, they made a special trip to visit Hutou's family and gave them subsidies, but Hutou's family was not in good condition. The tiger head is also ambitious, and he wants to inherit his father's legacy and become a soldier who defends his family and country.

At home, Jian Lu and Aunt Wang took pity on the child, cooked him a lot of seafood to eat, and bought him two new clothes.

The tiger head is a little shy, and after a few excuses, he can't refuse, so he can only accept it. It wasn't until I signed up for the army, entered the recruit company, and got the first month's five-yuan allowance, and sensibly went to buy two catties of pork and sent it to the door to express my gratitude.

Jian Lu looked at the fat pork on the board and sighed to her mother-in-law, "The child in Hutou has no father since he was a child, but his family has taught him really well." ”

"It's not easy, it's not easy for a child to stay with us for a few days and the rules are not followed." Aunt Wang washed the pork and prepared to roast the winter melon and braised pork.

As she spoke, Jian Lu remembered the disagreement between the two in the past few days.

When I went out of the kitchen, I found that my daughter was following Cheng Zheng like a little tail again, what happened?

"Mom, what's wrong with Shuangshuang? I'll just go out, she's so clingy to her dad. ”

Aunt Wang was stunned, "Huh? Is there one? ”

She didn't notice anything.

In the living room, Cheng Zheng was pouring water, carrying a thermos bottle and pouring boiling water into the enamel cup containing tea leaves.

When he turned around, his daughter was behind him again.

"You girl, why did you come here? Not a writer anymore? ”

Shuangshuang shook his head and nodded again, "Dad, are you going on a mission recently?" ”

Since Cheng Zheng was promoted to deputy brigade commander, he has rarely gone out on missions, and at most he has participated in drills □□ given young people more opportunities to train.

"I haven't been out lately, what's wrong?"

"Oh, okay!" When Shuangshuang heard that his father was not going to do the task, he immediately smiled like a flower, and he was very happy, and he thought in pieces, "It's good not to go out of the task." ”

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Cheng Zheng looked at the girl who was happily jumping back to do her homework, confused, "What do you say without a beginning or an end?" ”

Both of them discovered their daughter's recent abnormality, and they talked to each other at night, feeling that their daughter was hiding something from their family.

Jian Lu was worried that the child would not be bullied at school, so she immediately couldn't sit still, lifted the quilt and prepared to go to her daughter's room to ask, but she also stopped Cheng Zheng and said that the mother and daughter were easy to talk about, so he should not come over first.

She was lying on the bed, her legs lifted up to the sky, and she had been feeling so distressed and tormented lately that she heard a knock at the door and asked, "Who?" ”

"Your Mom~"

"Mom, come in..."

The mother and daughter rarely lay on the same bed again, and Jian Lu looked at her daughter, who had grown a lot taller, and was full of relief, but the girl who had always been very cheerful suddenly felt a little depressed, and she was a little worried.

It is said that raising children is not easy, and you have to pay attention to it all the time.

"Shuangshuang, tell your mom how you've been doing at school lately?"

"That's good." They blinked with big eyes.

"So what's wrong with you? I don't think you're too happy, is someone bullying you? No matter what, you can tell your parents and grandma that we will always be on your side, you know? ”

"Mom~" both listened to their mother's words, slammed into their mother's arms, hugged their mother tightly with both hands, and when they looked up again, their eyes were red.

Jian Lu was immediately startled, could it be true that something bad had happened, she gently patted her daughter's back, "Bao'er, say something slowly, don't cry." ”

Shuangshuang sniffed, shook his head, and spoke in a hoarse voice, "Isn't Dad very dangerous?" ”

"Dad? What's wrong with Daddy? Jian Lu didn't know why this topic suddenly turned to Cheng Zheng.

"Dad...", both twitched, and said hard, "Dad, a soldier, has to go on a mission, and he has to fight bad guys, which is very dangerous... When I asked Hou Xiaobao, he said that there were many soldiers who died in battle, and that sacrifice was death, and they would never come back. I'm scared Daddy will never come back..."

The tears of Shuangshuang are like pearls with broken threads, falling down one by one, a white little face is crying, the small nose is red, the eyes are even more confused with tears, and the crying voice stains the throat vaguely.

"How did you come up with this?" Jian Lu didn't expect her daughter to be because of this incident, her heart was sour, and she hugged the child tightly and said softly.

"Dad will be fine, don't you worry."

She had never heard of anyone who had died before, nor had she seen anyone in the family home, but this time she saw the tiger head who had lost her father, and she knew for the first time that someone's father would die and would never come back.

She felt that Brother Tiger was so pitiful, and gave him a lot of food when he left, and she was worried about her father, so she had to ask her father every day if he was on a mission. I was relieved to hear my father say that he couldn't go out of the task.

She was so scared, afraid that her father would not be seen.

Cheng Zheng originally thought that his daughter-in-law was going to talk to her daughter, but she wanted to come over to see what was going on, after all, her daughter had really been abnormal recently.

He had just walked to the front of the girl's house, but he heard a cry like a cat's meow, what was the situation?

"What's wrong?" Cheng Zheng, who pushed the door in, flashed various reasons in his mind, "Is it who bullied us?" ”

No matter who it is, if he makes his daughter cry, he will definitely administer justice!

Jian Lu shook her head at him and briefly explained a few words to him, Cheng Zheng listened to the topic of sacrifice said by his daughter-in-law, and then looked at the girl who was crying and sobbing, and her heart seemed to be grabbed and rubbed, sour and soft.

"Come, Daddy, look." Cheng Zheng has been in the army for decades, but how could she have imagined that she would be cried by a little doll saying that she would not carry out the mission, because she was worried that her father would not come back.

With their little faces wrinkled and a tear falling from their eyes, they watched as their father stretched out his hands and was suddenly taken into his arms.

Dad's chest was broad, and he easily picked her up, put his hands around Dad's neck tightly, and sobbed, "Dad, I don't want you to go to war, I don't want you to go on a mission... I don't think you'll come back. ”

Because of crying, both of them had a very nasal voice, but Cheng Zheng's eyes were red when he said a word, and he was a tough guy and tender, and the little girl in his arms dragged his heart and rubbed it repeatedly.

"Daddy is definitely not going to be fine, Daddy is so good, have you forgotten? No matter what you do, Dad will definitely come back. ”

"Really?" His wet eyes looked at his father, and the tears on his eyelashes trembled.

"Really, Dad is a soldier, and I promise you, he will never break his word."

"Okay." Both stretched out their hands, their little fingers bent, "Then Dad, let's pull the hook, pull the hook and hang it, and it will not change for a hundred years." ”

For the first time, Cheng Zheng played a childish child's game, stretching out his little thumb and pulling the hook with his daughter.

"Okay, don't cry, we're crying like cats." Cheng Zheng wiped his daughter's cheeks casually, and the more he wiped it, the more he wiped it, the more flowers he felt.

Jian Lu looked at the father and daughter, her heart was also sour and warm, and she took out her handkerchief, "Come, wipe your face." ”

"Mom, mom has to be with me all the time." Shuangshuang stretched out her hand again and was hugged into her mother's arms, usually she always shouted that she was a big child, but now she seemed to be back to the time when she was three or four years old, she couldn't bear to be coquettish with her mother, she had to confirm one by one, "And grandma." ”

"Okay." Jian Lu didn't expect her daughter to be thinking about this at this age, looking at her daughter's serious eyes, she smiled slightly, and stroked her forehead, "Don't worry, Dad, Mom, Grandma, I will definitely always be with you." ”

"Good!" Shuangshuang nodded, now relieved, Mom and Dad won't lie to themselves. The pair of people who wiped their faces wiped their noses blew their noses, and their fathers poured hot water to wet the towels, and obediently washed their faces, and a little face became red and fluttering, that is, there was a nasal voice after crying, she looked up her little face and patted the bed, "Mom and Dad, you can sleep with me tonight." ”

Jian Lu couldn't remember the last time a family of three was lying on the same bed.

Both of them are in the middle, with dad on the left and mom on the right, her thin arms dragging one person's arm in one hand, sleeping peacefully.

At night, Shuangshuang had a dream, in the dream, he grew up, and his parents had gray hair and grew old.

Like my parents when I was young, I poured water for cooking, and when I was young, my parents took me to play, and in my dreams, I helped my parents out of the house.

When I woke up, I immediately opened my eyes and looked at my parents, which was so good, I was still so old, and my parents had not yet grown old.