Actually, the weather was really good that day.

The sky is blue and the wind is neither too big nor too small, and it blows on your face like a pair of gentle hands.

After leaving the airport, I saw Liu Honggui sitting next to the flower bed on the side of the road, with his crutches leaning against him, wearing a summer dress, folding his right leg trouser legs and pinning it with a pin.

Next to him was a young girl who looked like a twenty-year-old, with a ponytail simply tied with an rubber ring. Her face was slightly dark and her eyes were full of shyness. She didn't dare to look up at others.

Judging from the dressing, this girl is not like a city person, with the simplicity and nature of a mountain person.

"Old squad leader!"

The solemn conjecture finally came to an end.

Before coming, Liu Honggui flashed through his mind.

Sure enough, it was really the old squad leader Liu Honggui.

Liu Honggui, sitting by the flower bed, looked quite energetic, but he lost a lot of weight.

Go up solemnly, squat down, and grab those hands with both hands.

Due to long-term cultivation, Liu Honggui's skin has become much whiter.

The blue veins looked as obvious as centipedes under the skin. Because they lost too much subcutaneous fat, they felt that they were holding a pair of hard bones - maybe there were only bones.

Looking at Liu Honggui's face, his cheekbones were vomited out and his cheeks were a little sunken.

My heart couldn't help but feel sore, my throat was blocked again, and I couldn't speak at once.

"Don't be sad."

Liu Honggui comforted the solemnity instead.

"It's a miracle that the doctor said I can survive until today."

He poked his chest and his abdomen.

"A mess inside, it's spreading."

Zhuangyan doesn’t know what to say.

Tang Wenkai stood aside and had no way to speak.

The atmosphere seemed a bit solemn.

Liu Honggui continued to say something: "I said, I will stick to it until you come back, and I will persist in seeing your victory, solemnity, and I did not break my promise."

The solemn head lowered and pointed hard: "Yes, old squad leader, you didn't break your promise."

Suddenly he remembered something and looked up and said, "Old squad leader, I'll call Niu Shilin, Xu Er and the others over!"

As he said that, the person stood up and was about to walk into the airport.

"No!" Liu Honggui called Zhuang Yan: "Don't call them over, I asked the instructor to go to you and the battalion commander alone, just don't want to be seen...

"Why?" asked solemnly.

Liu Honggui was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Save a thought, leave a fairly beautiful thought..."

He opened his hands and looked down at himself.

"I don't want others to see what I am now. Even if... I'll give me the last bit of dignity."

Solemnly, there was a needle piercing my heart, and it was extremely painful.

"Hong Gui...you..." Tang Wenkai seemed to feel something, but he was unwilling to ask that sentence.

After thinking about it, I still held back and didn't say anything.

"Battorney, I heard that you are back today. I specially found a teacher and asked him to take me here because I am leaving, so I will say goodbye to you."

Liu Honggui's words were actually vaguely within Tang Wenkai's speculation.

But he didn't want to hear this result.

"Hong Gui, are you going to leave the army?" Tang Wenkai asked.

Liu Honggui nodded without any hesitation and immediately said, "Yes, I have completed the procedures and decided to leave. The master also agreed. What happened last week, but you are going to come back, so I stayed for a while but didn't leave."

Tang Wenkai was a little unhappy: "What did the teacher think? He actually agreed? What kind of plane is this?"

Liu Honggui explained: "I applied for it myself, it has nothing to do with anyone. It was not the army that asked me to leave, but the decision I made after careful consideration."

Walk?

Neither Tang Wenkai nor Zhuangyan were willing to accept Liu Honggui's decision.

An officer with advanced cancer, where can he go after leaving the army?

It is definitely impossible to change jobs, at most it is to raise the troops.

In this case, why leave?

Isn't it good to stay in the army?

Instructor Lu Xiao sighed slightly, turned around and looked into the distance.

Zhuang Yan said: "Old squad leader, where are you going to leave the army?"

"Go to treat the disease." Liu Honggui said: "Maybe we have to go to a few places to see the disease."

"Treat a doctor?" Zhuang Yan said: "Isn't it possible in the army? Our division has hospitals, Linhai City has hospitals, and military districts have hospitals..."

He originally wanted to leave the army, if there is a big deal and no matter how bad he is, he will be able to do it without the care of the army?

Liu Honggui seemed to have made up his mind and interrupted Zhuang Yan and said, "Okay, Zhuang Yan, I know what my situation is. Is there any other meaning in staying in the army except for letting others watch me die slowly?"

Solemn and speechless.

Indeed, it seems meaningless to stay.

The only function is to make it easier for me and comrades like Tang Wenkai.

In fact, for Liu Honggui personally, there is no difference at all.

"If I don't leave, I'm afraid my other foot will be cut off." Liu Honggui joked.

But after hearing Zhuang Yan and others, they didn't find it funny at all.

Liu Honggui said: "Battorney General, can you let me talk to Zhuang Yan privately?"

Tang Wenkai felt that standing here would make him feel even more uncomfortable. Since Liu Honggui wanted to talk to Zhuang Yan alone, he agreed without thinking.

"Okay, I'll go there."

After saying that, he walked to the side of the airport gate with the instructor Lu Xiao, and stood there and whispered.

Liu Honggui turned around and looked at Zhuang Yan: "You are very good..."

After saying these words, my lips moved a few times and stopped.

"You have done what you promised me. As a comrade-in-arms, I am very grateful for everything you did for me. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't stay in the 4th Division. I feel relieved if you have you in the 1st Company. This time I chose to leave, it has nothing to do with any leader in the division. It was me who thought about it for a long time before I figured it out. Instead of waiting for death here and living in chemotherapy and radiotherapy, I might as well try traditional Chinese medicine or folk remedies..."

"If you stay here, it won't prevent you from using folk remedies!" Zhuang Yan said hurriedly: "I can help you find any folk remedies you need."

Liu Honggui waved his hand: "No need. Solemn, you are a military talent, but you still haven't figured out some things. I stayed in the army for a day, and I am still a soldier..."

He looked down at his military uniform.

There are no military ranks above...

"As long as I am a soldier, it will be fine if I take folk remedies and get them done. If I am unfortunately killed, the army will be discussed and said that they are not responsible for me... Do you think our army's doctors will ask me to eat or not let me eat them? I have been in the army since I was 18 years old. I have feelings for this place. I have reached this point. I don't want to leave a bad reputation for the army before I die."

Solemn and speechless.

He never thought about this principle.

Maybe no one thinks as thoroughly as Liu Honggui.

Because he is sick, he has a lot of time to think about things that others don’t have time to think about.

"In this life..."

Liu Honggui suddenly sighed, and there was more sadness in his tone.

"Actually, it's good to think about it. Everyone has to die, sooner or later. As long as you live, do what you think is worthwhile, it's fine. My best youth is left in the army. To be honest, I don't regret it."

The solemn nose began to feel sore again.

"Don't think I'm talking big." Liu Honggui said: "Do you remember when you went to the hospital, you saw an old man on the bed next to the room?"

Zhuang Yan remembered that Liu Honggui's ward had three beds and one room, but since there were not many people in the oncology department, there were a lot of people living there for a while, and then there was an old man.

The old man’s surname is Lin, he is a native of Linhai. He drove a taxi before retirement. He was one of the first people in Linhai City to buy a car and run for rent.

When the reform and opening up first began, taxis were still a new thing.

With his diligence, Old Man Lin turned into two cars and three cars. He worked hard to grow up with two sons and a daughter. He didn't expect that before he retired, he suddenly entered the hospital and found that he had esophageal cancer...

When Zhuang Yan met Old Man Lin in the hospital, the latter was because he went back for a follow-up examination and staged chemotherapy. A year ago, Old Man Lin had surgery to remove one-third of his esophagus, and it is said that even part of his stomach was removed.

He would often sit on the hospital bed, pointing at his chest, gesturing the distance, and telling Zhuangyan that his esophagus is only so long and his stomach is only so small, so he can only eat a little bit, a little bit is enough...

Old man Lin likes to be a soldier very much. When he saw Zhuangyan, he kept chatting with him. He sighed that he had the opportunity but did not treat him as a soldier because of his component issues, and missed the military and green years.
To be continued...