Chapter 34: Arrival Home(1/2)
Later on the doctor's pissing, Winters inexplicably took a small bag of jingling rewards from the smiling customs boss, and the boss put the third-class service medal on his chest.
In the irreconcilable march played by the temporary orchestra, Winters and Bard carried Major Moritz on a stretcher and were asked to leave the anti-smuggling prison.
The heavy prison gate behind him closed with a "bang", and the thirty-three warrant officers and a seriously injured major were thrown at the prison gate.
That's how things were resolved?
So where are we going now?
Where is Brigadier General Layton?
The trainee officers stared at each other.
"No matter what, go get a few carriages first! Take the major back to the Army." Winters whispered his suggestion. It's better to find a car than to stand stupidly. It's impossible for everyone to take turns carrying the major back to the Army headquarters?
During his time, they obviously felt that this was reasonable. If someone was willing to take the lead, things would be easier to handle. Immediately, a few people with strong acting power went to find a carriage.
"Hi! I said why do you give us money for the customs gang?" Andre slapped his thigh hard: "Feel is the money for us to get a taxi!"
The anti-smuggling company is very remote, unlike the docks waiting for work at any time. The warrant officers finally stopped two serious carriages, and got two mules from nearby farms and a donkey cart that pulled hay.
But when allocating seats, no one wants to ride a donkey cart. The mule cart has at least a small carriage. The donkey cart has two wheels added to the wooden board, and there is no cover.
After all, everyone is an officer, so you can’t be a warrant officer or not as a cadre? It’s really embarrassing to ride this donkey cart.
"Okay, everyone, don't be too slow." Winters said helplessly: "I took the major to ride in a donkey cart, and the carriage can't fit the stretcher anyway."
The warrant officers happily went to grab the seats. Major Moritz, who was still unconscious, was clearly arranged by Winters without knowing it. He was carried onto the donkey cart in a daze, and Bud also sat up.
"You go and ride a carriage, as this donkey carriage is indeed a big loss." Deep down, Winters, like his contemporaries, also thought it was embarrassing to ride a donkey carriage.
But who told him to find a car just now? He had to suffer if he had to do this.
"I'm from the United Provinces." Bud laughed: "This is not my hometown, and no one in Hailan City knows me."
"Oh." Winters sighed: "But this is my hometown."
———Separation line——
The guards outside the gate of the Venetta Army Headquarters watched the four large and five livestock cars parked at the gate of the military headquarters. They were about to walk up and scold these rural coachmen who didn't know how to be tall and thick, when they saw a large group of young men in officers' uniforms coming out of the carriage like magic.
In this era, epaulettes and armbands have not been invented yet. The way to identify soldiers and officers is to look at the shape of clothes, while the way to identify officers and higher-level officers is to look at the materials and decorations of clothes.
Therefore, although the cadets of the Army officers were wearing cadet summer uniforms, they were also very authentic officer uniforms in their shape. The guards at the Army Headquarters were knowledgeable and would never misunderstand it.
Several guards did not dare to neglect and immediately separated one person to report to the headquarters building.
The Army Headquarters was also furious by these juniors who were suddenly released. Originally, everyone vaguely felt that this matter could not be good, and in the end, they might have to do another big battle. Some combatants were already secretly preparing for the guys.
No one expected that the customs would be so high, but he said he would let it go. Seeing that the customs was so pragmatic that he didn't even want his face, the Army Headquarters was quite shocked.
Fortunately, the army officers were very efficient and quickly handled the emergencies properly.
Major Moritz was taken over by medical staff.
Warrant officers were taken to complete the registration process and register.
After reporting, the warrant officers were divided into two groups. The warrant officers who could not live in Hailan City were taken to the officers' club to be placed in. After completing the registration process, the warrant officers from Hailan City went back to their homes to find their mothers.
Winters and Bud temporarily separated, and Bud went to stay in the Officers' Club. At the fourth intersection after leaving the Army Headquarters gate, he and Andre also said goodbye for a while and set out on their way home.
Six years have passed, and the city has changed a lot. The uneven old streets are covered with new stone. Many shops and buildings he remembers have changed their signatures, but there are always some unchanged things that can be used as road signs.
Winters found his way home following his memory.
When he opened the courtyard gate and stood in front of the familiar, beautiful, single-family stone two-story building, he suddenly felt a little panic.
He took a deep breath and knocked on the buckle on the door.
"Who?" A crisp female voice came from the room.
Although the voice changed, Winters still recognized the sound, and a smile appeared on his face: "It's me."
The door was opened with a crack, and a small head was poked out. A pair of big eyes that looked like Uncle Winters blinked at him: "Brother! You're back!"
The door was suddenly pushed open, and the girl rushed out and hung it around Winters' neck, turned around and shouted loudly into the room: "Mom! My brother is back!"
Winters was once again frightened by this sudden intimacy and was at a loss. He was so clumsy that he didn't know how to respond, so he had to gently rub the girl's hair.
"Oh, let go, let your brother enter the house." A thirty-generation woman with a high nose, deep eyes, dark hair and phoenix eyebrows, dignified and generous temperament hurriedly came out and pulled the girl off Winters' neck.
But she couldn't help but shed tears, stretched out her arms and hugged her baby nephew tightly.
She grabbed Winters' shoulder and pushed him away. She took two seconds to carefully look at Winters. She then pulled Winters closer and kissed Winters' cheek. She cried more and more fiercely, and couldn't even say clearly. She kept muttering: "But I'm back, I'm back."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Winters now feels like a girl playing with a rag doll, and he is casually fiddled with like a puppet. He grinned and replied: "Auntie, I'm back."
For normal people, family members are a kind of vague gender. People rarely describe their family members by beauty and ugliness. Beautiful men and women walking on the road may be eye-catching, but people rarely look at their family members' faces carefully.
Even because I was too familiar and unfamiliar with my family, my family’s faces were in my mind, but many people could not accurately describe it.
So Winters would not look at these two women with beauty and ugliness. Although he feels at a loss now, this is just a normal reaction to adults being treated as children. He only feels that he is at ease with them.
"Mom, please let go and let my brother enter the house." The girl pulled her mother's arm dissatisfiedly and rescued Winters from the death of her aunt.
"Yes, yes, look at me like this." Aunt Winters wiped her tears and smiled and wanted to help Winters carry her luggage.
Of course, Winters could not have let the woman help her get things, and her aunt didn't force herself to lead Winters into the door, while the girl hugged Winters' left arm and hung it on Winters.
The older woman is Cosa Serbiati, Winters' aunt. The girl is Winters' cousin, Elizabeth Serbiati, Winters' uncle and aunt named her daughter after the name of Winters' mother.
After entering the room, Winters saw a strong ginger cat walking out of the living room.
The sea blue climate is warm, and in order to dissipate heat, the cats are petite. However, this orange cat has a well-developed bone mass, high shoulders, thick legs, and short figure, but it looks different from the local cats.
The big cat's tail was straight up, and the tail tips were bent into hooks. He walked slowly from the room in a horoscope to Winters' feet, rubbing his cheeks unscrupulously against Winters' trousers' legs, making a snoring sound.
"General!" Winters scratched the cat's head and stroked the hair on the cat's back. Just as he was about to reach out to touch the fat on the big cat's belly, the big cat shook his head coldly and walked away in a horoscope.
"The general still recognizes me." Winters said happily to his aunt and cousin without any awareness of being disliked by the cat.
"How could I not recognize you?"
"Where is the little general?"
After entering the door, I walked through a short corridor and turned right to the living room. Speaking of the demon, the demon arrived. Winters had just arrived at the living room and sat down. A tabby cat, which was smaller than the previous ginger cat, ran out and bleated.
"Little General!"
The tabby cat kicked its back leg and jumped directly on Winters' body. The paw pierced the clothes and made Winters take a breath of air conditioning. Winters hurriedly hugged the young general with his right hand, otherwise the tabby cat would have to scratch a few blood marks after another effort.
The young general bleated and rubbed Winters' collar with his cheeks, licked Winters' chin, and his barbed tongue made Winters hurt.
"Haha, why is the young general so enthusiastic?" Winters looked at his aunt helplessly: "But it's time to cut the claws."
"I miss you so much." My aunt replied lovingly.
"Go away." The girl grabbed the back of the cat's neck without hesitation and lifted it up, and put the cat on the ground.
The tabby cat refused to give up and kept circling around Winters' feet, screaming endlessly, like a chatterbox. It did not "meow" like other cats, but made a short "ba" sound.
"Look, look, it's such a big guy." Coza sat on Winters' right, holding Winters' right hand in both hands and said sadly: "The eyes of these eyebrows really have the shadow of your mother. Elizabeth (referring to Winters' mother) will definitely be very happy to see you adult."
This is the second time when Winters has heard his elders say who he looks like when he is in love?
Winters was not as sad as his aunt. He smiled and said to his aunt, "Is that so? Lieutenant Colonel also said that I am like my father."
"Hmph!" Kosa glared at her eyes and her eyebrows stood up: "How could it be? Look at your nose, hair color, eyes, this is the bloodline of the Granashi family. I'll find you a portrait of your grandfather. You are exactly the same as your grandfather when he was young. Lieutenant Colonel just talks nonsense! When he comes back tonight, I have to deal with him well."
Lieutenant Colonel is the synonym for Major General Antonio Serbiati at home, because he was given a grievance when he quarreled with his aunt, "I am a lieutenant colonel at least, you have to give me some face."
From then on, Coss used lieutenant colonel to call her husband, and forced her nephew and daughter to call her, so that when Winters saw her uncle in the customs prison, he subconsciously called out "lieutenant colonel".
"Aira, go and take your brother to put down your luggage first." Cosa remembered that Winters had just returned home and asked with concern: "Are you hungry? You must have eaten anything at the customs side, right? I'll cook for you."
As she said that, she stood up and walked to the kitchen.
"No, aunt." Winters quickly called out to his aunt: "I'm not hungry, I'm just a little tired now and want to sleep for a while."
"How can I not eat? I'll make some snacks, very quickly." Cosci ignored Winters's advice and walked towards the kitchen.
In the military academy, Winters was the third-grade squad leader; in front of the big heads and civilians, he was an officer; on the Skuo, he was a warrior who dared to jump into the gang; during the same period of Venetta, he vaguely had the intention of leading the way.
But at home, his family status is still a child, slightly higher than his sister and the young general, and far lower than the general. So he could only helplessly watch his aunt walking through the dish door and heading towards the kitchen.
"Brother, I'll take you back to your room." The girl dragged Winters from the soft chair in the reception room: "After you leave, my mother asks the servants to clean it every day, which is cleaner than when you didn't go to school."
Leaving the living room and passing through another corridor, from the stairs to the second floor, Elizabeth smiled and pushed open the familiar door, and the dusty memories were opened with the door.
There was a trace of carbonization on the wooden floor, which was where Winters played with fire when he was a child. Two wooden swords, one large and one small, used when he and his uncle were learning swordsmanship, were leaning against the corner of the wall, with a dartboard hanging above it. The bed was covered with a clean white cloth, and the desk was wiped spotlessly clean.
"Right? It's cleaner than when you were, right? I'm the one who is responsible for the inspection every day." Elizabeth proudly asked for credit, but Winters was immersed in the memories and heard nothing.
Winters caressed these familiar old objects and finally opened the closet.
He originally just opened it casually, trying to see if the clothes he had worn before were still there. However, he didn't expect that five or six new clothes were neatly hung in the closet, all of which were adult sizes.
"This is all made by your aunt for you." Elizabeth's voice came from behind. She said to Winters complainingly: "Your aunt asked you to measure the size and write a letter to send it back. She refused to do it, so she had to estimate the size by herself. After you left, she would do it every year and throw it every year. After you finished it, she didn't dare to send it to you, and just pretended to be here, saying that she was afraid that you would not have clothes to wear when you got home."
"I can only wear cadet uniforms in military academy. It's useless to write a letter to send back the size. Three sets of cadet uniforms are enough to wear." Winters' heart flowed into his heart. He gently closed the closet door. He smiled and said to his sister: "It's you, are you still hiring a tutor at home now?"
The girl shook her hair: "I'm already past the age of tutoring to teach. I'm now learning painting with Mrs. Anguisora."
"Learn to paint?"
To be continued...