Chapter 631 Recognizing Heroes and Respecting Heroes
Faculty downstairs.
Xu Xiuqin looked up at the lights that had been turned on upstairs.
The white-haired old man on the side said: "Xiu Qin, I'm not too talkative, but what you did today...doesn't it hurt Li Zheng's heart too much?"
Xu Xiuqin didn't answer for a long time, just watching quietly.
After a long while, he turned his head, the corners of his eyes were a little red.
"He has grown up. He has ambitions in all directions. He should not be tied down by me..."
Then he said: "Old Chen, I have to trouble you today."
The white-haired old man’s name is Chen Gang. He is a retired cadre in the county. He and Xu Xiuqin have been classmates since junior high school.
However, Xu Xiuqin was admitted to a normal technical secondary school, while Chen Gang went to serve as a soldier. Later, after the Battle of Southern Xinjiang, Chen Gang was injured and transferred to the county, where he has been living and working ever since.
"It doesn't matter to me. I haven't seen anything. I've seen a lot of life and death. I can help you with this. Besides, I was a political instructor back then. I know how to do ideological work, and I'm the best at it..."
He spoke with confidence, then changed the topic and said: "But I have to tell 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 his return. If he exceeds it,
It’s hard to handle. If he really doesn’t like being a soldier and you force him to leave, the only result will be that he goes to the East China Sea and never comes back..."
Xu Xiuqin asked: "A person who doesn't like being a soldier has received first-class merit twice?"
Speaking of this, Chen Gang also looked confused.
In this peaceful age, it is so difficult 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 first-class merit. Another time he participated in a task such as a new weapon development and prototype experiment and won a first-class merit...
Is it so easy to get first-class merit now?
In fact, he is willing to follow Xu Xiuqin home tonight. Firstly, it is because of his old classmates. Secondly, Chen Gang also has selfish motives. After all, he recognizes heroes and values heroes. He also wants to meet this man who has already won first class twice in his twenties.
A soldier who has achieved second-class merit several times.
The key is that he is just a top soldier.
"Go up, go up!" Chen Gang pointed upstairs: "Don't let your children wait too long. No one has retired from the army like him. When people return home from the army, they have prepared a table at home early, or booked it at a county hotel.
Fang, have a good meal, it’s better for you, the children will come back and cook by themselves, waiting for you to come back... Oh, how can I bear it..."
"Kindness does not control soldiers, you know this truth." Xu Xiuqin said: "Sometimes when educating and treating children, you have to be hard-hearted about some things."
A hint of admiration flashed across Chen Gang's eyes, and he was impressed by Xu Xiuqin's magnanimity and determination.
"Let's go, you're right."
He smiled and pulled Xu Xiuqin upstairs.
Li was sitting on the sofa watching TV. The dishes were already prepared. The hot ones were in the pot, some cold dishes were on the table, and the soup was still warm in the clay pot. He was just waiting for grandma to come home.
He looked at the old clock on the wall.
The time has reached five fifty-five...
Five minutes left...
He decided that if he couldn't see his grandma at 6:15, he wouldn't eat. He would go out and look for someone. If that didn't work, he would report it to the police.
Unexpectedly...娨
I am a special soldier. When I return home, my grandma is missing and I have to go find the police...
When the time came to 5:58, there was a sudden sound of a key banging at the door, followed by the sound of a key being inserted into the keyhole and turned to open the lock.
"grandmother!"
Li Zheng stood up excitedly and walked to the door, just like he had done thousands of times 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 someone else behind...
Li Zheng was not mentally prepared and 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 looked like a goose, grandma came up and pinched Li Zheng's face, then pulled him back and hugged him.
"My good grandson... I haven't seen him for more than two years..."
Li Zheng also hugged his grandma.
In the past, when grandma hugged him, he 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 roots of the hair are full of traces of time, and every hair is filled with the hardships of grandma raising her step by step.
Li Zheng couldn't help but feel warm in his heart. Something softened his steel-like will and even made him feel like crying.
But at this moment, when I looked up, I saw the old man with glasses opposite me.
All his tenderness was poured cold water on, and Li Zheng could only awkwardly hug his grandma and nod towards the unknown old man.
After hugging her for a while, grandma let go.
"Good grandson, grandma is very busy today, so she forgot about your return home..."
Xu Xiuqin put the canvas bag in her 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: "He is a political instructor."
Li Zheng stretched out his hand: "Hello, veteran."
Xu Xiuqin said: "Shouldn't we call you Grandpa Chen?"
Li Zheng said: "That's what ordinary people call us. Our army has a title of army, and we have to call it veteran."
Xu Xiuqin suddenly realized it, and then saw a table of dishes, and immediately called Chen Gang: "Come on, come on, try my grandson's cooking."
Chen Gang could only sit down.
His mission today was to come over and have a heart-to-heart talk with Li Zheng and find out 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 achieve so many meritorious services in more than two years, including two first-class meritorious services. It was simply a miracle.
"You guys sit down and talk, and I'll serve the dishes and get the bowls and chopsticks."
After placing the two of them at the dining table, Xu Xiuqin turned and entered 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 had accomplished so many meritorious deeds.
"Are you from the special forces?"
He asked.
Li Zheng also saw something familiar in Chen Gang's eyes, something that was often seen in the eyes of veterans from 203.
Li Zheng nodded: "Yes, from the special operations brigade."
Then he asked: "Veteran, have you been on the battlefield?"
Chen Gang did not hide anything and nodded: "Well, 1979, Southern Xinjiang Counterattack, Eastern Front Army."
Then asked: "What about you?"
Li Zheng was noncommittal: "Confidentiality policy."
Chen Gang: "I understand."
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 a little strangely, packed the food for the two of them, and then asked, "Why are you not talking?"
Only then did Chen Gang react: "Li Zheng and I..."
Suddenly he smiled: "It's all without saying anything."