More than three months later, at noon.

In the shot, the appearance of Nangang City appears, and the modern city under the warm sun has more warmth, and the cold high-rise buildings are divided and connected by straight and spacious roads with busy traffic.

Jiefang Avenue, the most prosperous commercial artery in the city, the green belts on both sides of the road and the lanterns hanging on the tall trees, as well as the shopping malls on both sides of the shopping malls and shops, show that the Spring Festival is now celebrated.

A large area surrounded by high-rise buildings, almost all of which are low-rise houses, and the asphalt road has become the dividing line between prosperity and backwardness, and on one side is the last urban village in Nangang City.

In a small alley of messy power lines and meandering sewage, a muscular man in plain clothes and a sturdy man with a note in his hand struggles to find a faint or even invisible street sign.

Hu Wenbing asked all the way to the address on the note, and finally found this place with great effort.

Walking through an alley dripping with domestic wastewater, he saw the half-hidden wooden door. When he walked over and pushed the door open, he was greeted by a scruffy man with messy hair curled up on a bed with his back to him in a single room with a closed window, dimly lit.

A pungent smell of wine came to his face, and Hu Wenbing swept his eyes to see that in the messy room, there were empty red star two-pot wine bottles thrown horizontally, and on the table with only three legs, there were some lo-mei that had already emitted a peculiar smell.

A rat flashed along the corner of the wall, tripped over an empty bottle, and made a clanging sound.

The scruffy man's body just moved, and then continued to sleep soundly.

Hu Wenbing looked at the scene in front of him, feeling very uncomfortable, and turned to look at the man on the bed board, but a wave of anger that hated iron could not become steel rose in his heart.

Holy shit, I've finally found you!

"Li Mai!"

He yelled.

The sloppy man turned around, opened his confused eyes and took a look, and saw a familiar face and a burly body in the haze, but his dizzy brain did not find a corresponding impression, and then returned to sleep.

Hu Wenbing strode over, threw his handbag aside, broke his body, grabbed the sloppy man's collar with both hands, and jerked him up.

"You fucking stand up!"

Hu Wenbing let go, the sloppy man shook a few times, opened his eyes with great difficulty and looked at them a few times, then fell down again, curled up and slewd up to sleep.

Exhaling heavily, Hu Wenbing dragged a chair and sat down, took out a cigarette and lit it, pointing at the sloppy man's backbone.

"Hunter troops, short knife commandos, I think you're a wreck! You haven't experienced any storms, why can't you pass this level?!"

Looking back out the door, several brightly dressed children ran past the door with fireworks in their hands, chirping excitedly. The atmosphere of the New Year will last until the 15th day of the first lunar month, but the atmosphere outside and inside the door is huge.

"Li Mai, it's over, it's over, people can't be resurrected after death, you abuse yourself like this, is that what she wants to see?!"

After softening his tone, Hu Wenbing persuaded bitterly, "She's gone, but your life will go on! What do you want to do when you've fallen to this point? To put it mildly, aren't there many women......?"

His last syllable landed, and the sloppy man turned around sharply and stared at him with blood-red eyes, and the sharp gaze that burst out in an instant seemed to penetrate Hu Wenbing's heart, making him feel a burst of fear for no reason.

The terrifying gaze only flickered, and the sloppy man returned to him.

Shaking his head helplessly, Hu Wenbing took half a cigarette in one gulp, took his handbag, and took out an envelope that looked a little yellow, crumpled.

"In your state, I'm worried about my godson. Hu Wenbing sighed and said.

The sloppy man didn't react, and suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly, slowly turned around, and propped one hand on the bed board, "You, what did you just say?"

Hu Wenbing handed over the envelope, "The letter I received a few days ago was sent to me by her, and it was sent to my new unit in several places. But the contents of the letter are addressed to you, read for yourself. ”

The sloppy man reached out and took the envelope, took out the letter paper, and slowly spread it out, the familiar handwriting, the familiar text logic, it was Zhai Xiaoyu.

"Li Mai, I hid it from you, I was pregnant with your child, and when you joined the army, it was already three months. Either way, I will give birth to him, and I will wait for you to come back with our son. If you die, I will raise him as an adult and send him to the army!"

The date was three months after Li Mai enlisted in the army, and there were only these two short sentences in the letter.

This was a letter sent to the troops, but at that time, Li Mai had already finished his recruit training and was selected for the hunter training camp for isolation training. The letter was sent back, Zhai Xiaoyu resent the letter and sent it to Li Mai's friend Hu Wenbing, but at that time Hu Wenbing happened to have a new job, and the letter was tossed and unexpectedly forgotten, and it was actually sent to Hu Wenbing five years later.

Li Mai looked at the letter in a daze, his mouth slightly open.

Hu Wenbing said in a deep voice, "I asked someone to check, and Zhai Xiaoyu died on the operating table because of dystocia. She sacrificed herself to save your flesh and blood. ”

Li Mai's eyes were glazed.

"She's a good woman, but she's dead, you have to face it and cheer up. For the sake of your son, you have to cheer up, do you hear me?!" Hu Wenbing said heavily.

Li Mai's eyes finally moved, and he muttered, "Daughter-in-law, we have a son......"

Hu Wenbing suddenly stood up, raised his hand and slapped Li Mai!

"Fucking sober! Zhai Xiaoyu is dead! She's dead!"

He grabbed Li Mai's shoulder, who was beaten by him, and shook it vigorously, "You have been decadent for three whole months! Enough! Enough! Cheer up! Take the child back! Raise him to adulthood! So that you can be worthy of the dead Zhai Xiaoyu!"

Li Mai slowly raised his head and looked at Hu Wenbing, whose face was bruised with muscles, his cloudy eyes slowly became brighter, and his numb expression slowly changed.

"Do I really have a son?"

Seeing that Li Mai finally came back to his senses, Hu Wenbing let go of him, nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice, "After Zhai Xiaoyu died, the child was picked up by her sister and now lives with her sister. I asked a friend from the Public Security Bureau to find the address, which is in Xihai City. ”

Because of the special nature of the troops he served, Li Mai retired two months earlier than ordinary troops, so when he came back, it was shortly after the National Day. When he went to find Zhai Xiaoyu with excitement, what he saw was a cold tombstone.

She's dead.

In order to save the child, she chose death.

Li Mai hid in this rental house in Nangang City, and anesthetized himself with alcohol every day to relieve the severe pain in his heart with numbness. He has no meaning in life, and he can't accept such a bloody reality. The former captain of the Short Knife Commando of the Hunter Force, he has fallen to this point.

How he wished he could go back in time five years ago, so he would choose to wander the world with the woman he loved, and fighting heroes was not what he wanted.

"I just want to live with the people I love. ”

The family objected to his marriage to an ordinary woman who was ten years older than him, and he did not hesitate to sever ties with the family, but under pressure from the old man, he was forced to enlist in the army.

finally looked forward to returning, but faced with the sad news of Zhai Xiaoyu's unexpected death......

At this time, the unexpected news brought by Hu Wenbing rekindled Li Mai's desire for life, and when he slowly became convinced of this, he felt that he was having a strong and unyielding motivation to live.

He's going to bring the child back and raise him to adulthood!

Li Mai looked at Hu Wenbing and muttered, his tone changed from question to affirmation, "I have a son?

He jerked to his feet and was about to walk out of the door.

Hu Wenbing grabbed him: "What are you doing!"

Li Mai's gaze was firm, "I'm going to take my son back." ”

Hu Wenbing pointed at him, "You're going to do this?"

As he spoke, he picked up his handbag and glanced around the room, but there was nothing. Hu Wenbing said, "Let's clean up and tidy up first, and then go see my godson." Let's go, what are you doing in a daze!"

"Oh, good. ”

Li Mai followed Hu Wenbing out, his mind was full of his son, constantly imagining what he looked like, how tall he was, he should be more than four years old this year, with his and Zhai Xiaoyu's excellent genes, he must be a handsome and super cute young man, proper.

The gloom in his heart was swept away, and he raised his head, feeling that the sun was warm for the first time......