In the residential area of the old machinery factory, Zhang Tianming's home, in the living room, Zhang Tianming stood there, looking at the empty dining table in a daze.

Li Mai waved his hand to Tian Jun, who wanted to come forward to persuade him, motioned for everyone to go out, and then walked to his cousin's side and said in a low voice, "Dandan, you accompany him, try to make him cry, if there is anything, call me directly, I and my brother are outside." ”

Her cousin's eyes were so red and swollen that she nodded heavily.

Zhang Tianming's family lives on the first floor, and when he walks outside, there is an open space. The people who used to cool off here were gone, and near the guard's room in the distance, the police had withdrawn after surveying the scene, and two people were washing the ground with water.

Sitting down on a few chairs near the door, the first brother sighed deeply, took the hookah that Tian Jun borrowed from the doorman, and smoked silently.

The parents died in one day, and the blow to Zhang Tianming can be imagined.

Li Mai took a deep breath, still able to smell the faint smell of blood. He looked at Tian Jun and said, "Lao Tian." ”

Tian Jun walked over, "Brother Mai." ”

"Now go back and gather the brothers for a meeting to remind everyone to be safe in the near future, especially those in your family. No one knows if there are any remnants of the Black Dragon Gang left, and such a thing can't happen again. Li Mai commanded in a deep voice.

The first brother exhaled a thick smoke and said, "That's right. Discuss with Fu Biao, and try to protect the families of the brothers who have offended the Black Dragon Gang. ”

Tian Jun nodded, hesitated, and said, "Will Fu Biao cooperate?"

The first brother nodded, "Yes, Fang Biao is a loyal person, since he chose to follow the wheat, he will definitely go all out." ”

"I'll go back to this right away. Tian Jun immediately left quickly.

Soon after Tian Jun left, Li Mai and his first brother saw an old man with some inconvenience in his legs and feet, walking slowly with a cane and carrying a black bag.

The old man walked very slowly, and slowly walked to the door of Zhang Tianming's house under the dim street lamp. He put down the bag, crouched down with some difficulty, and slowly poured out the contents of the bag.

But it was some silver treasure candles, a bottle of two pots, and a pack of cigarettes.

The old man picked up the second pot head and the cigarette and put it aside, took out the lighter, lit the paper money with a slight tremble, and burned it in front of Zhang Tianming's house. The fire grew stronger and stronger, and the old man took apart the cigarettes and threw them into the fire one by one, and after throwing away a pack of cigarettes, the paper money and candles also turned to ashes.

He unscrewed the second pot head, poured it on the ashes one by one, and slowly muttered in his mouth, "Brother, brother and sister, wicked people have their own evil retribution, life and death have fate, Tianming will correct the murderer on the spot, rest in peace." ”

It turned out to be a friend of Zhang Baowei and his wife.

After pouring a bottle of wine, the old man stood up on crutches, and his movements were very difficult.

Li Mai hurriedly got up and walked over and helped the old man, "Old man, you have a heart." ”

The old man seemed to know that Li Mai was watching from the side, and glanced at him lightly, "You also have a heart." ”

Facing the old man's gaze, Li Mai's heart was slightly shocked, it was definitely not the gaze of an ordinary old man. Looking at the old man's mottled face, Li Mai seemed to be able to see a lot of things from it.

Li Mai felt that this old man was not simple, so he helped him to the chair and said, "Old man, please sit here." ”

The first brother also stood up, and if he was a little hunchbacked, if he didn't have good skin, he would look no different from the old man.

After inviting the old man to sit down, Li Mai and the first brother sat down.

"Ah......h

At this time, a heart-rending roar suddenly erupted in Zhang Tianming's house, which went from high to hoarse, then low, to grief, and then to endless cryes of sadness, guilt, self-blame, and anger.

It was Zhang Tianming, he finally broke out.

"Alas......"

The old man sighed deeply, "Li Xian, this hard-working child. ”

Li Mai and the first brother were stunned at the same time, glanced at each other, and Li Mai asked, "Li Xian?"

The old man put his hands on the cane, glanced at Li Mai, and said, "It's Zhang Tianming." ”

"What's going on?" Li Mai wondered, even the first brother who knew Zhang Tianming earlier than Li Mai was confused.

Zhang Tianming's name is Li Xian?

The old man raised his head slightly, looked at the night sky, and said slowly, "This child was not born to Brother Zhang and his wife. It's a long story...... In 1988, in the 17th Reconnaissance Brigade, the last batch of rotational reconnaissance troops in the Vietnam War, there was a recruit named Gou Yu. When making the roster, his platoon commander asked him what his name was, and Gou Yu said that his name was Gou Yu and that he didn't have a big name. He is also surnamed Li, at that time, Platoon Commander Li took a name for him called Li Xian, and Gou Yu liked it very much and thought it was very good. ”

The housekeeper Li Mai and the first brother both showed puzzled expressions, and the old man waved his hand slightly, "Don't worry, and listen to me slowly." ”

"The dog had just passed his eighteenth birthday when he joined the army, and he was a mountain boy who couldn't read big characters. The platoon commander named him Li Xian, and later when he heard the instructor say that this name sounded like a university scholar, he admired him even more as the platoon commander. So Li Xian, who didn't know anything at that time, was very brave in battle, and felt that he should use practical actions to prove to the platoon commander that he was not wrong. ”

After fighting for a while, Li Xian gradually realized the cruelty of war. Country boy, he is the only seedling at home. He began to think that if it was glorious, wouldn't their family's incense be broken. But there is a war going on, and there is no way to do this marriage and have children. The second time I came back from cross-border reconnaissance, I experienced another test of life and death, which was even more thrilling than the previous one. Li Xian made up his mind to give birth to a baby before the glory and keep the incense of their family. ”

He made eye contact with a girl from a border family, and had sex in the banana grove that day. As fate would have it, Li Xian was ordered to go on the expedition again, but this time he failed to come back alive. Later, the girl held the child, which is now Zhang Tianming, and came to the scene of the burial of the martyr's body, and left the child with martyrdom, and a letter written crookedly by Li Xian. ”

Hearing this, Li Mai and the first brother were all embarrassed, but they didn't expect Zhang Tianming to have such a story, which is sad and lamentable.

Gou Yu said one thing in the letter, he said that the name Li Xian was given to him by the platoon commander he admired the most, he knew that it would not take long, but he was unwilling to live up to the platoon commander's love, so he hoped that if the girl gave birth to a child, whether it was a boy or a girl, she would be named Li Xian. It's just that the girl has a strong temperament, and she can't stand the fingers of the villagers, so she dies in front of the dog's tomb to show her innocence. ”

Later, the child was adopted by the new platoon commander of the platoon where the dog remained, that is, Zhang Baowei. Xiao Zhang and his daughter-in-law have never had children in their lives, and treat Li Xian as their own children. ”

Speaking of this, the old man glanced at Li Mai and then at his brother, "I know you are his very good friends. Xiao Zhang has told me many times that he hopes to find an opportunity to tell the child about these things, hoping that he can continue the incense of the dog's leftover family. It's a pity that before I could say anything, people died. ”

The first brother frowned and asked, "Why did Brother Zhang do this?"

The old man said lightly, "Because the dog was injured and captured because he saved him, and finally he fired the glorious bullet and died with the Vietnamese monkeys." ”

The first brother sighed for a while.

"It's night. The old man slowly stood up and walked away slowly.

Li Mai, who was in deep thought, raised his head suddenly, and asked in a loud voice, "Old man, may I ask who you were at that time?"

The old man paused, and after a long time, he said lightly, "The 17th Reconnaissance Brigade is a nobody, but my old company commander is the famous national hero Li Lu!"

With that, the old man walked slowly again and slowly disappeared into the darkness in the distance.

Li Mai's heart was turbulent, and in the dark, he was slowly entering his father's relationship back then. No one knew his dad better than he did.

Ever since he could read, what he read the most was the records in his grandfather's study about his father's army from the day he joined the army to the day he disappeared, public, confidential, confidential, and top secret. He knows too well the bits and pieces that his dad has come all the way through those years.

From the point of view of time, the time that the old man said happened to be the time when his father went south to participate in the war, and as soon as his father enlisted in the army at that time, he served as a platoon commander in the 17th reconnaissance brigade!

Later, he was promoted to deputy company commander and company commander at the speed of a rocket, and formed the world-famous short knife commando.

Li Mai smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect ......"

The first brother asked, "What didn't you expect?"

"My father was also in the 17th Reconnaissance Brigade at the time, and his name was Li Lu. For the first time, Li Mai mentioned his father's name to others.

The first brother was not very surprised, but nodded slowly, "Actually, I have been guessing that I have been confirmed from you today." Smiling, he said, "I was a soldier in the nineties, and I learned my skill in killing pigs in the army." ”

Li Mai sighed, "There seems to be a rope in the dark that connects us, which is a sigh." ”

At the same time, they looked at the room where there were no more cries, and in Zhang Baowei's room, Zhang Tianming found a picture of his parents, put it on the table, and took out all the contents of the safe.

Title deed, passbook, and a letter.

The content of the letter is consistent with what the mysterious old man said, and at the end, Zhang Baowei left a sentence: "Child, seeing this letter, you have fulfilled your responsibility to send me and your mother to the end, Dad hopes that you can inherit your biological father's wishes, continue the incense of the Li family, and be an outstanding person like your biological father, father Zhang Baowei." ”

Tears wet the yellowed stationery, and Zhang Tianming knelt in front of the photo of his parents and kowtowed heavily. Zheng Dandan, who was standing at the door crying silently, felt a pain in his heart.

Three rings, Zhang Tianming slowly raised his head, and blood was slowly oozing from his forehead.

"Dad, Mom, I will be called Li Xian in the future, and I will definitely become an excellent person. ”