Luo Gang sat in the duty room of the military district gate with a calm face, scanning everyone entering and leaving the military district from a corner of the window.

The officer on duty sat in front of him, covering him.

He knew that this was undoubtedly a needle in a haystack, but he just couldn't give up. He just gave the task and did not participate in it personally, and always felt relieved.

He felt that he was like the person in the story who had been stolen by someone. Everyone looked like the person who stolen the axe, and everyone was not like him. The conflicting mood was intertwined and it was difficult to calm down.

A car with a "Western O" license plate drove into the gate and slowly stopped beside the guard booth at the door. The driver rolled down the window, took out the ID from his arms, and handed it to the sentry.

West refers to the southwest province, with the O-shaped header indicating that it is a provincial unit.

Why did people from the local area come to the military region?

Luo Gang was a little puzzled.

The sentry meticulously checked the driver's ID and then threw it into the car window and looked at it. The driver moved away from his upper body and let him see clearly the person sitting in the car.

Luo Gang's pupils suddenly dilated, and his body involuntarily dodged to the side.

Xiao Jianjun, Xiao Jianjun and his wife were in the car!

His tight face quickly loosened, showing a faint gray tone, and the old man spots on his face also appeared clearly, as if he had grown much older in an instant.

The officer on duty looked at him in confusion, moved his position, blocking Luo Gang behind him, and blocking the view outside.

Luo Gang smiled self-deprecatingly. It was so strange. Since when did I start to avoid Xiao Xiao intentionally or unintentionally? Do I don’t want to see him again, or do I dare not see him again?

As old as you are old, are you still obsessed with the grievances and grievances of the past?

He poked his head out from behind the officer and wanted to look at Xiao Jianjun again, but after a glance, he suddenly took it back again.

That child and that middle school student were also in the car!

He suddenly realized.

That child was Xiao Qiang, Xiao Jianjun's son. The child who often raised his study after an hour had not seen him for more than eight years - since that incident happened.

The little carrot heads back then turned into big guys.

Luo Gang closed his eyes and recalled the vague memories he met Xiao Qiang on the lawn.

Yes, there was a vague shadow of Xiao Jianjun when he was young between the outline of the child. No wonder I felt that he was a little familiar with him. He mistakenly believed that he was a soldier I had seen when I was in the army. Therefore, after listening to the hero and model report meeting, he became so angry and took his anger on him.

It turns out that he is Xiao Jianjun's son!

Luo Gang secretly looked out from the narrow gap between the officer on duty and the window, staring at Xiao Qiang greedily. The child's figure was as thick as his father at the time, but the expression on his face was more agile. In the dim car, his eyes were so sharp. The spirit was flying between the eyes, which was distinctly different from Xiao Jianjun's calmness.

This kid is born to be a soldier!

Luo Gang's heart moved, and a thought suddenly flashed in his heart, an idea that made him feel bold!

Could it be...

The sentry has checked their documents and is about to release them.

Luo Gang quietly pulled the officer on duty, made him lower his head, and whispered to him.

The officer on duty nodded, leaned out of the duty room, asked the car to wait for a while, then ran over, stood beside the car, saluted the man in the car, called Xiao Jianjun out, and came to his ear.

Luo Gang saw Xiao Jianjun's body trembling suddenly, and looked at the duty room with a blink of an eye. He hurriedly took back his body.

It seems that it is not easy to face it bravely, it is even more difficult to overcome than capturing a mountain.

"I got off the car here. Please ask Dr. Tian to take Xiao Qiang and the others to the hospital to complete the discharge procedures. I still have something to deal with." Xiao Jianjun said to Tian Shengying.

"Don't worry." Everyone on duty saw the notification from the officer on duty. Tian Shengying agreed readily, and the car started slowly and drove towards the hospital at a speed of twenty miles inside the military region.

Xiao Jianjun made up his clothes and accompanied Xiao Qiang to check his body today. He did not wear the military uniform that had remained unchanged all year round, but was wearing casual clothes, which made him very uncomfortable.

When he entered the duty room, an old man sitting upright jumped into his eyes. Although he was sitting, his upright figure still looked so tall and eye-catching.

Xiao Jianjun stood attentively and saluted: "Xiao Jianjun, logistics staff officer of the Military Region Logistics Department, report to the leader! Please instruct!"

Luo Gang's face twitched twice, restrained the urge to meet him, stood up, and waved his hand: "Staff Officer Xiao, there is a task to you, go home with me first."

Still not calling me the old commander means he did not forgive me.

Can we communicate in this way?

"Yes! Ensure the task is completed!" Xiao Jianjun stood at attention again.

Along the way, both of them remained silent.

When he arrived at Luo Gang's door, Luo Gang opened the door. Their house was never locked, and the door was always closed. This was the rule he had set before: "As long as it was about work, anyone can come to my house to find me, and I never lock the door!"

"Jianjun! Isn't this Jianjun? Dear old man, you finally called Jianjun home. After so many years, you just have to bear it!" Luo Gang's wife couldn't help but scream as soon as she saw Xiao Jianjun, pulling him to ask questions, and she was filled with tears.

"Okay, okay, I'll nag later. I'll talk to Jianjun." Luo Gang frowned and interfered with some jealousy.

"Okay, you guys are talking about the important matters. I'll buy a few vegetables and a bottle of wine. Old man, you haven't had any wine for half a year. Today Jianjun is here, you guys and you guys have a good chat." Luo Gang's wife was about to go out happily.

Xiao Jianjun wanted to stop her: "Auntie, I just..." Turning back, he wanted Luo Gang to explain, but seeing that Luo Gang's eyes were full of prayers, no longer had the uncompromising eyes in his memory, he silted his mouth and let go of his hand.

"I've been in here recently, haha, I have been wondering about the smell of wine for more than half a year. Today I'm so happy that I'll drink a pot. I'll let me show you my skills later. I often have my fried peanuts, which is my exclusive secret recipe, haha!" Luo Gang suddenly felt enlightened and happily brought Xiao Jianjun into the study.

In the quiet atmosphere of the study, the air gradually became weird again.

"I remember the first time we met was in 1965. At that time, you were not satisfied with me... In a blink of an eye, it has been 23 years." After a long silence, Luo Gang spoke first.

"At that time, I was young and energetic, so I wanted to go out of the army and be a guard for the chief. It was also a revolutionary need. Revolutionary soldiers are bricks, so wherever they need to be moved?" Xiao Jianjun said self-deprecatingly.

"You never want to call me the old commander again, and you are still angry with me." Luo Gang looked at him and sighed with emotion for a long time.

"I dare to be angry with you. You are the commander of the military region. I am just a small logistics consultant."

Luo Gang looked at him in a complicated manner, his eyes gradually became blurred, and he sank into memories: "66 years, do you still remember that I was locked up in a cowshed. If you hadn't secretly delivered food to me, I might have starved to death... In 72 years, I went to the army to check the training situation. A grenade thrown by a new recruit fell into the ammunition box. You kicked me away, and then shoveled the grenade and threw it into the ammunition crater, and threw it into the ammunition crater by yourself... Have you ever thought about it, if it weren't for your luck, the smoked grenade happened to be shoveled out by you and threw it into the ammunition crater, and with your small body, you wouldn't be blown to pieces?"

"I am your guard, and it is my duty to protect the safety of the chief." Xiao Jianjun had a expressionless face.

"Yes, you made great contributions...but you told me that you don't want to continue to be a guard for me and want to go out of the army. Don't you know that as long as you are a guard for me for a few more years, you can stay in the agency?"

"I told you at that time that I just want to be a soldier. It is my glorious mission to defend my country!" Xiao Jianjun said bitterly, "As a result, I went to the agency and became a logistics consultant."

"Protecting my safety is not to defend my country? It's outrageous!" Luo Gang became excited and patted the handrail of the sofa hard, "You have to get out of the army, okay, get out of the army. The squad leader has been a platoon leader for three years, and the platoon leader has been four years. Later, when he became the company commander, he ran to Vietnam and walked into a sea of ​​corpses and blood, almost losing his life!"

"I almost lost my life, but my comrades really abandoned my wife and left their lives on that land!" Xiao Jianjun also roared excitedly, tears streaming in his eyes, "My best friend, I saw him blown into pieces by Vietnamese shells with my own eyes. Do you know this feeling?"

"Of course I know, I have fought a war for a lifetime, how could I not know! When I go to the battlefield, your life is not yours. Who knows this principle better than me!" Luo Gang coughed a few times, lowered his head, his voice was very weak, "Do you know, when I know you were seriously injured and carried down by the corpse team, how worried I was... I didn't fall asleep that night. When his mother's Red Guards criticized me, I always said to sleep and never suffer from insomnia, but when I heard that you were still alive, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night!"

"This is the reason why you transferred me to the Military Region Logistics Department on the eve of our order to fight back? You want me to stay away from war, so when the battle is at its most intense, I became a deserter? You know that when I received the transfer order, the soldiers looked at me with contempt, and when no one left, I knew that I would never see them again in the future, and I would never be qualified to see them! And there are many soldiers, I will never see them! You ruined my hope and destroyed my dignity as a soldier! Everyone knows that Xiao Jianjun was a shameful deserter on the eve of the charge!" Xiao Jianjun's face was filled with tears, and he roared wildly.

"You have made sacrifices and bleeding! You have fulfilled your duties as a soldier! You are hospitalized and promoted after your injury is healed. Isn't this normal?" Luo Gang's thin hand held the handrail tightly, and the veins bulged.

Xiao Jianjun shouted wildly: "You say this to the soldiers who died, and see how they will answer you! In order to protect me, you transferred me to the logistics department of the military region so that you can save your life and live like a dog? Then, because this transfer order violated your lifelong principles, you blame yourself. In order to show your openness and integrity and always correct, I rejected my application to the military academy again and again, allowing me to work until I was in my forties, or a logistics consultant?"

Luo Gang's body shook and collapsed: "No, it's not like this... I haven't thought about it like this?"

"I haven't thought about it? Do you believe this? I have been with you for so many years, and I have already known your temperament!" Xiao Jianjun was very tired. Once the depression over the years erupted, the sequelae brought by endless fatigue.

"I know I'm committing a crime. I've committed a tremendous crime!" Luo Gang stroked his forehead with his right hand, covering up the tears, and suddenly raised his head, "But if I ask me to do it again, I will still call you out! Because, I don't have a son in my life, you are my son! In my heart, you will always be the little boy who secretly delivered me food in the middle of the night. I can't watch you die! I can't see Xiaowen has no husband, Xiao Qiang has no father, and I have no son! I can't do it!"

"You..." Xiao Jianjun was about to retort, and Xiao Qiang's shadow flashed in front of his eyes.

Son, this hope that continues the fire of his life is willing to do anything for him, even if it violates the principles! If he had not passed the test safely today, he vowed to use all his strength to keep Xiao Qiang safe!

Soldiers, he is also alone first!

Not a machine without emotions!

Xiao Jianjun fell down on the sofa in depressedly.
Chapter completed!