Looking up at the door that was splashed with paint, Bai Xiaobai suppressed the anger in his heart, and tried his best to gently knock on the door that he was extremely familiar with. "Bang bang, Dad, Mom, open the door, I'm Xiaobai. Mom, open the door. ”

In the middle of the night, I heard the footsteps of a man from the back room, and the hesitation could be heard from the sound. As the footsteps moved to the door, the owner of the footsteps asked a trembling question, "Are you Xiaobai?"

"yes, Mom. Open the door quickly, what the hell is going on, why is our family like this? Bai Xiaobai heard that it was his mother's voice, and hurried to respond anxiously, for fear that the old man would disappear directly if he took a step slower.

Behind the door, there was the sound of hurriedly searching up and down for clothes, followed by the sound of hurriedly touching the door and unlocking the door, accompanied by the sound of the old man choking with excitement

"It's really my son, Xiaobai, you're back, Mom will open the door for you, don't worry, Mom will open the door for you." ”

The moment the door opened, Bai Xiaobai saw his mother who had been separated for 8 years, her mother's face was older than when she left home, when she left home, her mother was still black hair, but now it has become white, and her white eyes are blurred with black and white colors.

"Mom......"

The old lady opened the door and saw her son, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes, and she took her son's luggage with a smile while shedding tears, and held her son's face with one hand.

"Hey, I'm thin, I'm dark, I'm strong, I'm growing up, it's good to come back, it's good to come back." Come into the house, Mom will make you something to eat. Old man, old man, the son is back, the son is back, this time the son is not leaving!"

Bai Xiaobai followed behind his obviously happy and somewhat incoherent mother, walked into this still familiar home, walked through the corridor, crossed the yard, the sauerkraut jar in front of the house, the warehouse next to the courtyard gate, everything was the same, looked around the place where he grew up from sound, Bai Xiaobai stepped into the main room, and the scene where the sturdy father who was full of expectations came over to give him a big hug did not appear, the temperature in the house was very low, the sunlight came in through the window and saw that the pillar of light was full of dust, and the house was messy, and it was not the usual mother's neat style。 In the double bed in the hall lay a skinny old man who heard his mother's cries, and was trying his best to turn over and look in the direction of the door.

"Dad, what's wrong with you? Dad. What the hell is going on Mom, what the hell is going on, don't you still say that everything is okay at home in the summer, why is my dad like this? How can our family become like this? Seeing his bedridden father, the dilapidated home, and the situation just before arriving at the house, Bai Xiaobai collapsed instantly, like a lion about to eat people, his hoarse voice roared from his chest, and his neutral voice seemed to shake off some of the dust on the beams.

Bai Mu walked to the side of the bed, helped Bai Father turn over, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, forced a trembling voice, and looked at Bai Xiaobai as calmly as possible

"Son, your dad has cancer, he was diagnosed at the beginning of this year, stomach cancer, and it was found to be terminal, I said to sell the house to your dad for treatment, your dad said what to do, said that cancer is scared to death, anyway, it's better to save the money to marry your daughter-in-law." None of our family can screw him, so day by day worse health, since the beginning of last autumn, our family has entered the scope of the government's shantytown transformation, which is supposed to be able to compensate two houses plus 500,000 yuan in relocation fees according to the standard, but I don't know how, our family will become the developer's land, these developers said that our house is not worth so much money, after the assessment can give a house, and you have to take part of the compensation after the construction of the new community to make up the house payment, your father originally wanted to do the operation at the end of the year according to the original compensation, it is estimated that you can still watch you get married, which Cheng came up with this, a hurry on the fire, all of a sudden bedridden, sent to the hospitalAfter the doctor's examination, we told us that your father's disease is now meaningless, the cancer cells have spread to the whole body, and at most they can live for more than a month, plus the surrounding demolition, there are only a few households left around our house, the developer sees that we don't move, so they find a group of young people in society, pinch water and electricity for us, and splash paint, feces, and glass outside our door every day. As soon as the police came, they ran, and the police walked on the front foot, and they followed on the back foot. ”

Listening to his mother's trembling narration, Bai Xiaobai's eyes were about to explode, bloodshot white eyeballs, the demolition agreement in his hand was clenched into a group by him, he had heard of the viciousness of the developer's demolition, but he didn't expect it to happen to him, and his father's illness was already like this, they didn't talk about it at all, according to what his mother just said, it is estimated that there will be collusion between officials and businessmen, looking at his father who was breathing the bed, Bai Xiaobai squatted down, one hand** Looking at his father's already thin face, the other hand tightly held his father's dry hand like a piece of wood.

"Dad, my son is coming back late, Dad......"

Called his father twice, Bai Xiaobai couldn't say any more, tears flowed silently down the corners of his eyes, the air in the room seemed to be frozen, only sobbing remained, when he left, his father was so mighty, and he had also been a soldier When he stood on the platform to see himself off, he seemed to be able to carry a mountain of arms just waved at himself, and the sonorous voice only said to himself to do a good job, don't come back if you don't do well. During the Chinese New Year, I called home, and my father also said that I would have two cups with myself when I returned home at the end of the year, and it was only a few months later, and now my father can't even speak, a good home, the original shabby but tidy, small but warm home, has become like a dilapidated and scattered house, why did he shed his blood for the country for eight years, but his home has become like this? Looking at his father, who did not know when he was going to be separated from heaven and man, looking at his dilapidated home, and remembering that he had fought floods, earthquakes, and mountain fires in the army, conducted cross-border military exercises, and carried out tasks to charge into battle, were all these all in order to make his parents become like this? The edification and education he had received in the army for many years seemed to have become a little shaken in an instant, and he was no longer so reliable.

"Son, don't think about it, aren't you coming back, it's good if you're back, our family's good life has begun, they are bad people, let's ignore them, you can't do stupid things just by looking at this situation, your father and I endure it like this, just want you to arrange your work well after you come back, go to work, and then stop marrying a daughter-in-law and live a good life. They all have backgrounds, we can't afford to mess with them, you must not let down the efforts that your father and I have made for so long" Bai Mu saw that Bai Xiaobai was wrong, and immediately anxiously dissuaded Bai Xiaobai, and Bai Father also nodded with all his strength with the help of Bai Mother's dissuasion.

Bai Xiaobai heard the anxiety in his mother's tone, and then looked at his father's expectant eyes, who were nodding with all his might, and his tense whole body instantly seemed to be drained of blood and completely paralyzed, what was this sense of powerlessness? When he first walked into the border terrorist headquarters alone, he didn't have this sense of powerlessness when he faced four or five terrorists with guns against him, is this reality?

"Dad, Mom, don't worry, I won't do anything stupid, I'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow to report, but I promise, those ruffians who plagued our family won't be happy, I don't believe that there is no king law in the world." ”

In the end, Bai Xiaobai seemed to have caught a trace of something, and his strength came back a lot.

sat with his parents all night, chatting about the affairs of the army for so many years, chatting about the affairs of the family for so many years, sometimes laughing, sometimes bursting into tears, and at four or five o'clock in the morning of the next day, Bai Xiaobai lied that he was tired, and his parents went to sleep, and when his parents were asleep, Bai Xiaobai stood up and cleaned up the house, and walked out of the house on time at 7 o'clock to take the formalities and walk in the direction of the Civil Affairs Bureau.