Ballistic Silence of Special Years

The staff are downstairs.

Xu Xiuqin looked up at the already lit lights upstairs.

The white-haired old man on the side said: "Xiuqin, I'm not talking too much, what you did today... I don't think it will hurt Li Zheng's heart too much?"

Xu Xiuqin didn't answer for a long time, just watched quietly.

After a long while, he turned his head, and the corners of his eyes were a little red.

"He has grown up, a man has ambitions everywhere, he shouldn't be tied down by me..."

He said again, "Old Chen, I'm going to trouble you today."

The white-haired old man is called Chen Gang, a retired cadre in the county, and Xu Xiuqin has been classmates since junior high school.

But then Xu Xiuqin was admitted to the teacher's technical secondary school, and Chen Gang went to serve as a soldier. Later, after the Southern Xinjiang Campaign, Chen Gang was injured and transferred to the county, where he has been living and working ever since.

"I don't care. I haven't seen anything? I have seen a lot of life and death. I can help you with this matter. Besides, I was a political instructor back then. I can do ideological work, and I am the best..."

Confidently spoke for a while, then changed the topic and said: "But I have to make a deal with you first. If you really drive him away, you may not be able to drive him away. Now that he has retired from the army, there is a time limit for returning. It’s not easy, if he really doesn’t like being a soldier and you force him to leave, the result can only be that he went to Donghai and never came back..."

Xu Xiuqin asked back: "A person who doesn't like being a soldier has won first-class merit twice?"

Speaking of this, Chen Gang also looked puzzled.

In this peaceful age, how difficult it is to get first-class merit...

I heard from Xu Xiuqin that this young man, Li Zheng, went abroad to participate in a competition and won the first place and got a first-class merit. Another time he went to participate in some new weapon development and finalization experiment and got a first-class merit...

How easy is it to get first-class merit now?
In fact, I am willing to go home with Xu Xiuqin tonight. Firstly, my old classmate entrusted me with it. Secondly, Chen Gang also has selfish intentions. After all, he knows heroes and values ​​heroes. He also wants to see this person who is only in his 20s and has already won first-class merit twice. Soldiers with second-class merit several times.

The key is just a first class soldier.

"Go up, go up!" Chen Gang pointed upstairs: "Don't let the child wait too long, there is no one who has retired from the army like him. When he returns home from the army, the banquet is prepared early at home, or he can book it at the county hotel. Room, have a good meal, it’s good for you, the child will cook by himself when you come back... Sigh, how can I bear it..."

"Compassion does not command soldiers, you understand this truth." Xu Xiuqin said: "Sometimes when educating and treating children, there are some things that must be hard-hearted."

A gleam of admiration flashed in Chen Gang's eyes, and Xu Xiuqin's grandeur and determination convinced him.

"Let's go, you're right."

He smiled and pulled Xu Xiuqin upstairs.

Li Zheng was sitting on the sofa watching TV, the dishes were already ready, the hot ones were in the pot, some cold dishes were on the stage, and the soup was still warm in the clay pot, just waiting for grandma to come home.

He looked at the old clock on the wall.

The time has come to 55:[-]...

5 minutes to go...

He decided that if he couldn't see his grandma at a quarter past six, he would stop eating and go out to find someone. If he couldn't, he would report to the police.

did not expect……

I am a special soldier, and I have to go to the police when my grandma disappears when I get home...

When the time came to 58:[-], there was a sudden knocking sound of a key at the door, followed by the sound of inserting the key into the keyhole and twisting the lock.

"grandmother!"

Li Zheng stood up excitedly and greeted the door, just like the thousands of times in the past when he went home to do his homework and waited for his grandma to come home from get out of class.

When the door opened, it was grandma Xu Xiuqin, but there was another person behind...

Li Zheng was not mentally prepared all of a sudden, and he died on the spot.

A retired female teacher was accompanied by a man of the same age who looked like a retired cadre.

This is……

Seeing Li Zheng who was like a goose, grandma came up and pinched Li Zheng's face, grabbed him and hugged him.

"My good grandson... I haven't seen you for more than two years..."

Li Zheng also hugged grandma.

In the past, when grandma hugged him, his impression was still about the same height, but now Li Zheng had to lower his head to see the top of grandma's head.

The snow-white hair roots are full of traces of time, and each hair is full of the hardships of grandma raising him step by step.

Li Zheng couldn't help feeling warm in his heart, something softened his steel-like will, and even made him want to cry.

But at this time, when he looked up, he saw the old man with glasses opposite him.

All the tenderness in his heart was splashed with cold water, and Li Zheng could only hug his grandma in embarrassment and nod towards the old man he didn't know.

After hugging for a while, grandma let go of her hand.

"Good grandson, grandma is very busy today, so I forgot about your coming home..."

Xu Xiuqin put the canvas bag in his hand on the sofa, and then said to Li Zheng: "Let me introduce, this is Chen Gang. He used to be my junior high school classmate. He also served as a soldier. What was he doing...politics?"

She looked back at Chen Gang.

Chen Gang said, "It's a political instructor."

Li Zheng stretched out his hand: "Hello, veteran."

Xu Xiuqin said, "Shouldn't I be called Grandpa Chen?"

Li Zheng said: "That is the name of ordinary people. Our army has the title of the army, and we have to call it a veteran."

Xu Xiuqin suddenly realized, and then saw a table of dishes, and immediately greeted Chen Gang: "Come, come, try my grandson's cooking."

Chen Gang could only sit down.

His task today is to come over and have a heart-to-heart talk with Li Zheng, to understand why Li Zheng chose the incredible path of retiring from the army after receiving so many honors.

By the way, he also wanted to ask Li Zheng how he was able to make so many meritorious deeds in more than two years, including two first-class meritorious deeds, which is simply a miracle.

"Sit down and talk, I'll serve the dishes and get the dishes."

After placing the two of them at the dining table, Xu Xiuqin turned and went into the kitchen.

Li Zheng and Chen Gang looked at each other across the rectangular dining table.

Suddenly, Chen Gang took off his eyes and sighed.

He understood why Li Zheng made so many achievements.

"Are you from the Special Forces?"

he asks.

Li Zheng also saw something familiar in Chen Gang's eyes, which was often seen in the eyes of 203 veterans.

Li Zheng nodded: "Well, from the Special Operations Brigade."

He asked again: "Old soldier, have you ever been on the battlefield?"

Chen Gang didn't hide anything, nodded and said: "Well, in 1979, the southern border counterattack, the eastern front troops."

Ask again: "What about you?"

Li Zheng was noncommittal: "Confidentiality policy."

Chen Gang: "Understood."

Xu Xiuqin came out of the kitchen and saw a strange scene. Chen Gang and Li Zheng were sitting face to face, but they didn't say a word.

She put down the dishes in a strange way, packed the food for the two of them again, and then asked, "Why don't you talk anymore?"

Only then did Chen Gang react: "Li Zheng and I..."

Suddenly smiled: "Everything is in silence."

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