In a dark bar in Longcheng, Yu Mingyuan was sitting in the corner, drinking strong alcohol alone.
Since the end of the war, Yu Mingyuan has become both taciturn and extremely decadent. At first, Su Tianyu deliberately wanted him to take over the work of the association, because after the 1975 conference, everyone knew that Lao Li would be the next one.
He must retire after graduating from high school, and after the decentralization of power among various units, Yu Mingyuan is the most suitable for this position.
But it is a pity that no matter how much Su Tianyu persuaded, Yu Mingyuan was unwilling to hold a major position. In the end, Gou Liuzi gave him the title of vice president in the association, but he also spent three days fishing and two days sunbathing.
I rarely go to work or appear in public.
Dabai even made several trips back from Bana City to drink with him and enlighten him.
But when the two met and talked about their entrepreneurial days, Tong Hui, Kong Zhenghui's rebellion, and those wonderful years, they cried together.
Su Tianyu saw that this was not possible. Yu Mingyuan's illness had not been cured, and he looked depressed. In the end, he could only verbally restrict Foreign Minister Bai's entry and not allow him to play with Yu Mingyuan anymore.
In fact, Gou Liuzi also knew in his heart that Yu Mingyuan could not get over the hurdle in his heart, and he was blaming himself for many things.
…
In the bar, Su Tianyu walked to the wine table, bent down and sat across from Yu Mingyuan.
Yu Mingyuan raised his head with drunken eyes, his expression was dull for three seconds, and then he asked with a stiff tongue: "You...why are you here?"
"I want to drink, otherwise why are I here? I'm already married, how dare I pick up girls?" Su Tianyu loosened his collar, turned to gesture to the waiter, picked up the wine bottle and said: "
You like drinking, don’t you? Come on, let’s drink together!”
Yu Mingyuan looked at him blankly: "You don't have to worry about me all the time. I'm an adult. If I don't understand something, do I still need you to enlighten me?"
"Why do I care so little about you?" Su Tianyu curled his lips: "You gave up, but I still have a lot of things to do. How can I have time to enlighten you?"
"Then...are you really drinking?"
"Come on, do it!" Su Tianyu rolled up his arms and sleeves, took the wine glass handed over by the waiter, and drank together with Yu Mingyuan.
The folk singers in the bar sang about youth, ideals, and views on the world on the stage. Su Tianyu and Yu Mingyuan didn't talk nonsense, they just clinked glasses and drank in silence.
That night, the two of them didn’t know how much they drank. All they knew was that towards the end, there was no one in the bar. Various spirits were placed on the small table, and Hou Guoyu, Daxiong and the others, who were worried about the two of them, also entered.
Wait indoors to protect their safety.
In the early hours of the morning, Director Su of Longcheng had completely lost his composure and drank under the table. He sat on the ground, rubbing his cheeks as if he had ADHD, and said in a hoarse voice: "You said you have one last thing to do.
, I promised you. But after the matter was done, you rode on the horse but did not survive! What do you mean, sincerity makes me feel uncomfortable, right?"
When Yu Mingyuan heard this, he burst into tears. He covered his cheeks and cried, murmuring: "I rode a horse for a competition, Xiaoyu... I miss Tonghui, I miss Xiaorou... I miss him too! He
I made a mistake... and died, but we have been together for more than ten years!!"
When Su Tianyu heard this, he sat on the ground and replied in a daze: "Mingyuan, there are some things we have to accept our fate. Gu Baishun, who hates you the most, obviously caught you but did not kill you. You and I are both mortals, not gods.
, you can’t control everything. We are still alive, and there are people around you who care about you. If you are useless, who can you stand up to? No one else will say it, do you hope that Xiaorou will come back and see you like this?!"
When Yu Mingyuan heard this, his voice trembled, and he cried and murmured: "...Xiaorou is today because of me! Can she come back?"
The Sunset Plan was planned by Yu Mingyuan, which directly led to the sniper killing of the traitor Commander Wang, the capture of the previous Minister of Military and Political Affairs of District 1, and even affected the direction of the war in Longcheng.
This matter cannot be hidden. The people in District 1 hate Yu Mingyuan so much, especially the military unit, that they even thought about organizing an assassination. However, because of the tense relationship between the two parties, the other party was also afraid of a misfire, so they chose
gave up.
This is why Yu Mingyuan is decadent. He feels that not only did he fail to save Wen Xiaorou, but he even harmed her.
District 1 knows the relationship between the two, so they still do not agree to replace Wen Xiaorou, but continue to place her under house arrest.
In the dim bar, Su Tianyu slowly raised his arm, reached out and slapped Yu Mingyuan's cheek: "Hey, look at me!"
Yu Mingyuan raised his head with blank eyes, his face covered with tears.
"Do you believe me?"
"I believe in you, I have always...believed in you!" Yu Mingyuan was talking drunkenly and his consciousness was blurred.
Su Tianyu hugged his neck and said word by word: "If you come back alive, I will find a way to get Xiaorou out within three years!"
"You are comforting me."
"I swear to the sky that within three years, she will come home!" Su Tianyu stared at her eyes: "The new chief of the first district has to solve this mess and successfully win back the previous foreign minister of the Military and Political Council. It is an extremely glorious thing.
Son, do you understand? You are fine, you don’t have to worry about anything, I will take care of the rest!"
"Is there... any chance?" Yu Mingyuan's voice trembled.
"Yes, there must be!"
"Okay, okay, okay!" Yu Mingyuan said three good words in a row and nodded solemnly.
The two drank all the wine on the table and left the bar with the support of Hou Guoyu, Daxiong and others.
As soon as he left the house, Su Tianyu answered An Qiqi's call. He pressed the answer button drunkenly: "Hey, I even mentioned drinking, but it's always a stupid call!"
"Who are you talking to?!"
"...I'm sorry, I thought it was my daughter who made the call..." Su Tianyu took one step at a time and immediately changed his words: "Sir An, what are your instructions?"
Four years ago, An Qiqi and Su Tianyu officially got married and gave birth to a son and a daughter. The boy was three years old and the daughter had just turned one.
As soon as An Qiqi heard the word "instruction", he immediately said excitedly on the phone: "I'm telling you, this place is ready..."
Not far away, Yu Mingyuan was standing on a brightly lit street, looking at a street in a daze. Coincidentally, that street was the first business base of the five elders of Longcheng when they started their business, and the earliest Tongji Club was on that street.
Everyone has so many memories and youth left in that small courtyard.
"Let's go, brothers! Goodbye!!" Yu Mingyuan waved to the street like a psychopath, his eyes red.
Su Tianyu hung up the phone, walked over, and asked softly: "What are you shouting when you step on the horse?"
"Haha, it's nothing... say goodbye to the past." Yu Mingyuan hugged Su Tianyu's neck: "Let's go to my place and continue drinking!"
"I can't drink, brother! I have to go home. We haven't seen each other for a week. If we don't go back, the girl and my wife will not be safe."
"...Okay, say hello to the three mothers for me. I miss them too."
"piss off!"
"Haha!" Yu Mingyuan laughed.
"Okay, let him go home, and we two brothers will drink with you." Hou Guoyu stopped Yu Mingyuan: "You tell me how to play, and we two brothers will just accompany you."
"Good brother!" Yu Mingyuan nodded.
In this way, the guards sent Su Tianyu away, while Hou Guoyu and Daxiong accompanied Yu Mingyuan to the security brigade and continued drinking.
…
A groggy night passed.
The next day was sunny and cloudless.
Yu Mingyuan, who was hungover last night, slowly opened his eyes while lying on the bed. When he turned his head and looked around, he found that the environment in the house was extremely strange.
"Where the hell is this?" Yu Mingyuan sat on the bed, rubbed his face, frowned and muttered.
The video was really broken last night, and he remembered that he left with Daxiong and Hou Guoyu, but where he went and what he did, he had no memory at all.
"Ha~!"
Yu Mingyuan yawned, dragging his aching body, and was about to get out of bed, but suddenly found that he was wearing a brand new suit, and there was a bouquet of flowers placed on the nearby table, and even his socks were
was replaced.
"... Damn it, are you still dreaming?!" Yu Mingyuan had self-doubt. He looked confused and was about to lie down and get up again.
"Bang!"
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open and a large group of people rushed in.
"Come on, get up quickly!" Hou Guoyu shouted loudly, with a very urgent look on his face.
Yu Mingyuan looked at him blankly: "...What are you doing?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Da Xiong, Brother Qiu, and even Lu Feng, Su Tianbei, Su Tiannan and others all came from behind. A group of middle-aged men, more than twenty people in total, looked at him with bared teeth.
"I... I'm riding a horse... I really didn't wake up?" Yu Mingyuan kept questioning himself in his heart. He felt that he was hallucinating after drinking.
"Something serious has happened, get up quickly!" Hou Guoyu ran over and shouted.
"What's the big deal?" Yu Mingyuan asked weakly.
"You're getting married on horseback. Isn't this a big deal?!"
"Ah???" Yu Mingyuan's expression was dull.
"Lift him up, brothers, help him!"
"Hoola la!"
Everyone swarmed forward, put on Yu Mingyuan's brand new leather shoes without any explanation, and carried him out of the house.
"Why are you getting married? With whom??!"
In the corridor, Yu Mingyuan's incomprehensible shout came.
…
At 9:56 in the morning, Lao Quan Tong Bureau.
Yu Mingyuan was surrounded by everyone and pushed into the ceremony hall. As soon as his feet stepped on the red carpet, the wedding march sounded around him.
The music was cheerful and exciting. Yu Mingyuan turned to look around and found that the tables on both sides were already full of guests and friends, with more than 300 people present. Moreover, Liming Sheng, An Zecheng, his aunt Yu Zhen, An Qiqi,
As well as Tan Mingchao, Tan Hengqiang, and the veteran garrison generals, they were all present.
This scene shocked Yu Mingyuan. He looked at the main stage in astonishment, with a banner hanging on it - Welcome to the wedding of Mr. Yu Mingyuan and Ms. Wen Xiaorou.
When those words appeared in Yu Mingyuan's head, he still couldn't believe it was true.
Next to him, Su Tianyu walked over and said, "In order to drink too much of you, I vomited all night last night!"
Yu Mingyuan looked at him blankly: "...this...this?!"
Next to him, Gu Baishun said with his hands behind his back: "The replacement of the last batch of prisoners of war was completed yesterday afternoon. If the unlucky foreign minister is not sent back, he may die in Longcheng, so everything is ahead of schedule. Your wife... is from
When you return from the sea, Director Su will personally pick you up."
Hearing this, Yu Mingyuan looked at Su Tianyu, tears instantly flowed down, and he cursed excitedly: "You are lying to me!"
Su Tianyu pointed to the direction behind the ceremony stage: "She is right there, go!"
"Go on, don't be stunned!"
"Come on, brother!"
"...!"
An Qiqi and Wawa kept urging from behind, and Yu Mingyuan gradually came back to his senses. Surrounded by the best men, he walked towards the ceremony stage and moved forward step by step.
Yu Mingyuan and that woman walked on this red carpet of less than a hundred meters for fifteen years!
When the music around him sounded and the host shouted congratulations, Yu Mingyuan's mind went blank.
He quickly approached the entrance where the bride entered, staring at the gauze curtain blocking his view, holding roses with tears in his eyes.
"Please invite the bride to the stage!"
After the shouting ended, the gauze curtain was opened, and the woman who had been waiting for Yu Ming's excursion for more than ten years came out in a wedding dress.
Behind her, Tan Mingchao, Wawa's daughter, and Su Tianyu's son held up the hem of her wedding dress for her, with smiles on their faces and awkwardly scattering flower petals.
The lights in the room came together, Wen Xiaorou was wearing light makeup, and there were faint wrinkles on her face. She also had tears in her eyes and said softly: "They said they were going to have a wedding... I don't know... whether you are still willing."
Yu Mingyuan looked at him, opened his arms, and hugged her fiercely: "Yes...I'm sorry...I made you wait for so long. Of course I am willing, I should have married you a long time ago!! Thank you
, Xiaorou... Thank you very much for being willing to wear a wedding dress for me after all these years!"
Wen Xiaorou turned her head and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "...where I was, I only had one belief. I have to come back and put on these clothes."
The two hugged each other tightly, traveling through waiting and fifteen years of time.
The long love race finally ended, and the wedding began in a joyful atmosphere.
In the last step, Wen Xiaorou threw the roses backwards, looking for the next lucky person to get married.
But unexpectedly, the rose hit Dabai's head. He could catch it with his hand, glanced around with a slightly embarrassed look, and murmured reservedly: "Damn, this is a clear sign that I broke the shoe! Politely
Let me ask, is second marriage illegal?!"
"Let me remind you that Director Bruna's succession press conference will be held in a week." Su Tianyu replied.
"I have always been loyal to love!" Dabai said without hesitation.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Everyone laughed.
In a joyful atmosphere, the wedding came to an end. Under the greeting of the emcee, everyone took a group photo on stage.
In the center stood Yu Mingyuan and Wen Xiaorou, in the front row were old-school generals such as An Zecheng, Liming Sheng, and Tan Hengqiang. On the left and right were Su Tianyu, Dabai, Fei Pingsheng, Su Tiannan, Su Tianbei, Xin Xiaodong, Tan Mingchao, Wawa, and An.
Qiqi, as well as Wang Daolin, Lu Feng, Wei Xiangzuo, Gu Baishun, Daxiong, Hou Guoyu, Sun Wei, Xing Yao, Lao Qian, Yao Doudou and others.
"Everyone have a laugh!"
"eggplant!!!"
"Crack!"
The picture freezes, and time seems to have stayed in the 79th year of the new era for an instant.
…
Two years later, in the 81st year of the New Era.
The political struggle with District 1 finally ended, Longcheng declared its independent sovereignty, and the legitimacy of the regime was publicly recognized by the coalition government.
Another year later, due to the close political ties between China District and Longcheng, as well as the opening of policies, there was a large-scale return wave in the two places. Many elderly people who had been wandering overseas for half a century embarked on the journey back home.
On the way back to his hometown, he went through the local organization department and reception department to find his relatives who were forced to separate during the war.
At the same time, the official departments of China District and Longcheng also held cultural exchange activities based on Chinese civilization.
Su Tianyu once again visited the Chinese District, taking his wife, children, elderly second uncle and other family members back to the northeastern Laojiu District, which the elderly people miss deeply.
In a deserted cemetery outside Songjiang City, the Su family carried out ancestor worship activities.
Su Tianyu's youngest son was just five or six years old. He looked at his second grandfather, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to the newly arranged grave with tears on his face, and kept murmuring: "Mom, Dad... we are back."
, is back!”
Seeing this scene, the son raised his head and asked Su Tianyu: "...Dad, why do we come here to worship our ancestors?"
Su Tianyu touched his head and responded softly: "Because this is our hometown. Our deceased relatives are buried here... Our roots are here!"
…
In the Lao Mo area, in the Memorial Hall of the Battle of Tianshen Mountain, Jiangzhou, representing the Chinese region, led his wife and children, followed by a group of generals from the Chinese region, and was visiting everything in the exhibition hall.
This exhibition hall was jointly funded by Longcheng and the Laomo area to commemorate the soldiers who died on this battlefield. It was they who passed through the swamps and deep forests and changed the war situation in the Laomo area.
Next to a group of sculptures, a group of people from Jiangzhou stopped to watch.
The background of this sculpture group is in a forest deep in the mountains. There are sculptures of more than thirty soldiers gathered together. Some are shooting, some are cleaning ammunition, and some have fallen in the trenches.
middle.
Their clothes are ragged, their faces are sallow and their muscles are thin, but their eyes are resolute and sharp.
Jiangzhou's son was not very old, only about six or seven years old. He held his father's hand and asked with a puzzled face: "Dad... why do they come to fight so far away?"
Jiangzhou stared at the sculptures of soldiers and responded calmly: "Because they want to go home!"
"Why go home and fight?"
"Because someone wouldn't let them go."
“Then are they martyrs?”
"...Of course they are martyrs!" Jiangzhou stared at the Chinese who looked like himself and added in a hoarse voice: "They are also history, history that your generation must remember!!"
Next to them, the commentator came over and said emotionally: "This sculpture group restores the scene of the Battle of Tianshen Mountain, interspersed with the third regiment and the second company of the army. They all died in the last interception, with an average age of two.
Sixteen years old...the youngest is seventeen years old and is a recruit who has just joined the army from Dragon City."
Jiangzhou took off his hat when he heard this and shouted: "Stand at attention!"
All generals took off their hats and stood straight.
"Salute to our comrades who have traveled thousands of miles home!!"
After the shouts fell, the surrounding generals stood at attention and saluted, including Jiangzhou's son and all the surrounding Chinese who visited the memorial hall.
The long journey home was thousands of miles long, and it took two generations and nearly fifty years to finally complete this journey.
Five years later, Su Tianyu led Longcheng to start "going home" negotiations with China District.