Ballistic Silence of Special Years

Chapter 1226 Veteran Lao Wan
two months later.

The riverside near the 433rd Brigade station.

Wan Xiangdong was wearing a fisherman's hat and casual clothes, sitting on a folding chair with his eyes closed and meditating.

Xiao Zheng, a public service soldier, took a folding chair and sat behind him, where he concentrated on reading.

Jingle Bell--

The bell clipped to the fishing rod suddenly rang.

Wan Xiangdong opened his eyes and pointed his hand, as if directing his troops to charge.

"Xiao Zheng! Fish!"

Xiao Zheng threw down the book in a panic, rushed over, grabbed the fishing rod and jerked it back.

But this time, the hand was light and there was no resistance at all.

Xiao Zheng felt a chill in his heart and took another twitch unwillingly.

The result is still an empty feeling.

He turned back to Wan Xiangdong and said, "Brigadier, the fish has escaped."

Wan Xiangdong sat in a chair, his eyes a little vacant, and he looked a little dazed.

He felt emotional.

I feel like this pole is like my military career.

After carefully preparing and waiting patiently, at the last moment, it was all in vain.

Endless loss couldn't help but surge into my heart.

Seeing the brigade commander's appearance, Xiao Zheng was a little panicked. He thought he had missed the fish by reading a book and wasted time pulling the lever.

"Brigade Commander, I..."

"Oh." Wan Xiangdong pulled away from his chaotic thoughts, smiled and said to Xiao Zheng, "It's okay, it's okay."

He said "It's okay" twice in a row.

It seemed to be said to Xiao Zheng, and it seemed to be said to himself.

“Look at the bait and then cast the rod,” he said.

"it is good."

Xiao Zheng quickly went to check the bait.

This time is different from the past. In the past, Wan Xiangdong liked to use a hand pole and sit by the water like an old monk in meditation, sitting firmly on the fishing platform, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

But after a serious illness, although the condition is now under control, it is only under control. The doctor told him to rest more and go back to the hospital regularly for treatment.

Wan Xiangdong certainly knows what this means.

The duration of PD-1 therapy is not a matter of one or two days.

Even if it is completed, it can only be said that life is temporarily saved. In the future, certain medications must be taken and taken regularly to control the disease.

The only advantage is that this treatment does not have as big a impact on the quality of life as surgery, which is ultimately a good thing among bad things.

But Wan Xiangdong knew that he would never return to the command position.

The post of brigade commander had been resigned before, and Li Zheng acted as brigade commander. Now Wan Xiangdong does not hold any position for the time being and is idle.

This time I returned to the 433rd Brigade because my wife had a job transfer and I was leaving the station, so I found a time to have a meal with Li Zheng and the others as a farewell.

Li Zheng heard that he was coming to have dinner, so he specially held a banquet in the small canteen of the brigade headquarters.

Lao Wan couldn't bear to part with this river. He liked it here. Since he was leaving, he came here to fish again. On the way, he also wanted to add a dish of sweet and sour fish to the dinner table for the farewell banquet in the evening.

In the past, whenever he encountered any problems or was in a bad mood, he would come here to fish all morning. After fishing, he would have solved the problem.

For Lao Wan, this place is like a Buddhist temple in the eyes of a Buddhist. Although he himself is an atheist, the human spirit and soul must have a place of pilgrimage and rest.

Next to the river is Lao Wan's Buddhist temple.

Xiao Zheng finally repositioned the bait and threw the fishhook into the river far away.

This time Lao Wan did not use a hand pole, but used a flip hook.

In the past, Lao Wan didn't bother to use this kind of flip hook. In his words, it didn't have any technical content.

But today is different.

Stomach cancer tortured Lao Wan until he lost his energy.

He couldn't hold the pole anymore.

It's okay if the flip hook is upside down. Anyway, just load the bait and throw it into the river, and then hang a bell. When the fish takes the bait, the bell will ring, and people can go over and pull the rod.

Lao Wan suddenly sighed.

The fishing method that I looked down on the most before is actually the method that suits me best now.

At different stages of life, your ideas will change, and what suits you will also change.

Before he got sick, Lao Wan devoted himself wholeheartedly to the army. The army was everything to him, and the 433rd Brigade was his lifeblood.

The construction of the army was impressive, and Lao Wan felt that his life had also become impressive.

Wife and children?

It seems that I have never been ignored before.

This disease, my wife's care, my daughter's well-behaved.

Lao Wan saw it all.

Looking at it, I felt guilty.

It turned out that I had so ignored the happiness in front of me, and the most precious things were often right next to me.

Feelings of family and country, national defense and strong army.

The old dream of military uniform became farther and farther away from Lao Wan after a serious illness.

As the saying goes, if there is a loss, there must be a gain.

After losing his dream of being a general, Lao Wan was once despairing of all hope, but as time went by, he discovered that he had not everything.

There is a family, a father, a mother, a wife, and a daughter.

He is not just a soldier.

He is also a son, a husband and a father.

In the past, I lived for the army, and my parents, wife, and children lived for me. Now, it is time to return to the family and make up for what I once owed.

"Old brigade commander!" Li Zheng's voice came from behind.

Lao Wan turned around and saw Li Zheng.

Li Zheng gave a standard military salute when he came up, and came directly to sit down cross-legged next to Lao Wan.

"Old brigadier, how many fish did you catch?" he asked.

Lao Wan smiled bitterly: "I will be an air force for the time being."

Li Zheng said: "No, you are in the Army, you will definitely not be in the Air Force."

After that, he added: "Today is Saturday, I will fish with you until we catch a big fish."

Lao Wan felt warm in his heart as he looked at this brigade commander who was much younger than himself and his successor.

Yes.

It's rare.

When Li Zheng came to serve as chief of staff, there were a lot of rumors in the brigade and the army that this man was very young and his promotion speed was as fast as a rocket. It was probably related to the reason of the old chief Shao Xianyong.

Although I had already denounced this statement at that time, I ordered that it should not be said again in public or private situations.

But if he asks himself, he has no confidence in Li Zheng's appointment.

Now it seems that it's just my own villainy.

Li came up through real skills and had nothing to do with Shao Xianyong.

It's okay to insist that there is a relationship. It's just that he is Shao Xianyong's son-in-law and is more likely to be noticed.

"Our team played very well this time. I heard that Wen Zhaohui locked himself in the office for three days after he returned."

Although Lao Wan is no longer in the army, his old comrades are everywhere, and he has been paying attention to the results of this exercise.

The opening battle between 413 and 422 failed miserably, and Lao Wan's heart was already hanging in the air.

If Li Zheng also fails, then the golden brand of the main force of Army Group A will be thrown into the mud pit.

Before the exercise, he had the urge to call Li Zheng more than once to ask about this or that, but in the end he resisted.

If you are not in your position, you will not seek to do anything.

It's not that Lao Wan is afraid of taking responsibility, but that he is afraid that others will say he has long hands and many things to do.

Hearing that the 433rd Brigade won the victory with absolute superiority and excellent tactics, Lao Wan was so excited at home that night that he stayed up all night. His wife got up and saw that the bed next to her was empty. She was worried that something had happened, but she ended up in the study. Found Lao Wan.

When we found Lao Wan, he was in the study, repeating one sentence in a low voice: "Wonderful...wonderful..."

My wife went over to take a look and found that Lao Wan had stayed up all night reviewing the map on a military map of the G314 area based on the information he had learned.

As a result, the woman who had been Lao Wan's wife for 20 years couldn't hold it back, covered her mouth and started sobbing.

This cry made Lao Wan panic, and he quickly asked his wife what happened, thinking that the doctor had made some bad conclusion about his condition.

When asked about the result, the wife said with tears in her eyes: "After so many years of marriage, you have never even gotten up to cover your daughter with a quilt. After a drill, you were so excited that you couldn't sleep all night..."

These words were like morning bells and evening drums, which shocked Lao Wan into silence.

When it arrived, he silently rolled up the map, supported his wife, went back to sleep, and never mentioned the exercise again.

"Yes, I heard about it." Li Zheng said: "Wen Zhaohui is a very smart commander. He just underestimated the enemy this time. I guess it won't be so easy to fight him next time."

Lao Wan said: "Next time we fight, I still bet on you to win."

Li Zheng said: "Old brigade commander, do you think so highly of me?"

Lao Wan said: "When it comes to command studies, Wen Zhaohui may not lose to you, but when it comes to command patterns, he is definitely not as good as you. When he sees things, he is standing on a slope, and you are standing on a mountain. The two of you, Separate here.”

After that, don’t forget to laugh at yourself.

"As for me, I'm just standing in the pit."

Then he started laughing.

Li Zheng said: "Then next time our brigade is doing exercises, I will invite you to be a guest."

Lao Wan waved his hand: "No, from tonight, there is no brigade commander Wan Xiangdong. There is only one patient, Wan Xiangdong, and one family man, Wan Xiangdong. The military is already a past and a memory for me."

The two were silent.

After a while, Lao Wan said: "My wife has been transferred to City G and works in a government agency."

Li Zheng said: "Congratulations, the welfare, salary and treatment in G city are very good. Xiaoxue can also go to a better school."

Xiaoxue is Lao Wan's daughter.

In the past, Xiaoxue had been living and studying in the county town with Lao Wan's wife.

Lao Wan said: "This was arranged by the head of our village. Now that I no longer have a position, the organization does not plan to arrange a job for me. I am just hanging around as a casualty. They did not let me change my job to facilitate my treatment. I I am grateful to the organization for taking care of me, but it is time for me to return to my family from now on. After so many years, I found that I have done nothing for my family except my salary card..."

Lao Wan's words evoked another thought in Li Zheng's mind.

Lao Wan is like this.

Why not yourself?

Lao Wan saw that he was in a daze, so he said, "How long has it been since you went home?"

Li Zheng's face turned red: "Since the exercise..."

Lao Wan said: "Your father-in-law didn't call you and order you to go back and take a look?"

Li Zheng shook his head.

Lao Wan said: "Take time to go back and take a look. I think you will leave after dinner tonight, otherwise your daughter will not recognize you. Don't follow my old path. It was difficult for my daughter to call me daddy when she saw me before. This time when I was sick, she stayed with me more, and my screams became more natural."

Li Zheng was silent.

Jingle Bell--

The bell rang again.

This time, Li Zheng was one step ahead of Xiao Zheng and drew the pole first.

Very heavy to use.

With another pump, you can feel a violent backlash.

"Big fish!"

Li Zheng shouted excitedly.

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(End of this chapter)