Siheyuan: Spring and Autumn

Sha Zhu had no choice but to take her directly to Baoding.

By the time they found the White Widow's house, they were both tired, hungry, and relieved.

After knocking on the door of the Bai family, a middle-aged woman came out and saw the brother and sister standing outside the door and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Sha Zhu said, "You are Aunt Bai, right? I am He Yuzhu, and this is my sister He Yushui. We came from the capital to look for my father He Daqing."

Widow Bai said coldly, "Wait a minute, I'll let Lao He come out and talk to you."

After saying that, she turned around and went back into the house. After a while, she came out of the house again, walked to the gate and said, "Your father said that before leaving the capital, everything had been made clear. He doesn't want to see you, so he asked you to return to the capital as soon as possible and not come again."

After saying that, he closed the gate and went back into the house.

Sha Zhu was so angry that he fell backwards. He never thought that his father would be so heartless!

People say that if you have a stepmother, you will also have a stepfather. He didn’t believe it before, but now he truly believes it.

"Dad, Yu Shui said she missed you, so I brought her to see you. Please come out for a while."

Sha Zhu stood outside the courtyard gate and shouted loudly, and He Yushui also cried and called for his father, attracting many neighbors to watch and talk.

However, there was no sound at all in the courtyard.

"Could it be that he didn't come back?" Sha Zhu suddenly had an idea, otherwise he couldn't explain it.

Sha Zhu asked a middle-aged man: "Uncle, do you know where my father works? Is he working overtime today and not coming home?"

The middle-aged man said, "Your father works in a state-owned restaurant. But I saw that he had come back. We chatted for a while at the door of this house."

Sha Zhu was furious. Since He Daqing had already returned, how could he be so hard-hearted?

Having come here with great difficulty, he naturally didn't want to give up, and started shouting at the rain again.

However, even though they shouted until their voices were hoarse outside, there was still no response from inside the house.

Sha Zhu hugged He Yu Shui and sat on the ground leaning against the wall. Both of them were in tears and were too sad to control themselves.

If Qin Zheng were here, he might sincerely sigh:

There are countless painters in the world, but none of them can paint a picture of sadness!

It was past 1 a.m. and the two were cold and hungry and could not hold on any longer. Sha Zhu had no choice but to carry He Yushui back to the train station and buy tickets back to Beijing.

From then on, Sha Zhu hated He Daqing.

The next night, when the two men returned to the courtyard exhausted, looking at their complexions, everyone knew that the outcome would not be good.

But no matter how everyone asked, Sha Zhu didn't say anything.

However, when Han Qing came over to ask about the situation with concern, He Yushui threw herself into her arms and told her the whole situation while crying.

For a time, some were indifferent, some were gloating over other people's misfortune, and some were sincerely comforting. Many people started to make their own calculations in their minds.

The deaf old lady sat in Shazhu's house, leaned her walking stick on the ground and said, "My Shazhu, don't be sad. From now on, just pretend that you don't have this father. Just study hard, work hard, take good care of the rain, and don't think about those unnecessary things."

Sha Zhu thought of what happened last night and felt angry and upset. He nodded in agreement solemnly and gave up the idea of ​​going to Baoding again.

On the tenth day after the Spring Festival, the day when Qin Zheng's troops evacuated from the high ground position on Highway 24A, Yi Zhonghai suddenly received a letter and a remittance slip from Baoding.

After reading the letter, he sat at home for a long time in silence.

In the evening, he came to the deaf old lady's room again, and the two of them talked about something.

After coming out of her room, Yi Zhonghai went to Sha Zhu's house again.

When he opened the door, he saw He Yushui crying again, and Sha Zhu was trying to persuade her with a helpless look on his face, but to no avail.

Yi Zhonghai asked kindly, "Yushui, are you missing your dad again?"

He Yushui nodded with tears on her little face.

Yi Zhonghai said: "Yushui, if you really miss your father, write him a letter. Maybe he will write back to you."

He Yushui's eyes lit up, and then he said helplessly: "I can't read."

"If you can't read, find someone who can write for you."

He Yushui looked up at Sha Zhu and said, "Brother, help me write it."

Sha Zhu shook his head and said, "I won't write it."

"Humph, if you don't write it, I'll ask Brother Qin Ming to write it."

Yi Zhonghai smiled and said, "Once you have finished writing, you can give it to me and I will pay for you to send it."

"Thank you, Master Yi!"

He Yushui thanked happily, and Shazhu next to her also looked grateful, which made Yi Zhonghai suddenly agree with what the deaf old lady had just said.

The next evening, as soon as Yi Zhonghai got off work, He Yushui handed him the letter that Qin Ming had helped write, and then went home happily.

Seeing that his wife was still cooking, Yi Zhonghai went into the kitchen to help light the fire and threw the letter into the stove.

Lin Xiaoqin asked: "What did you throw?"

"Oh, nothing, just a piece of waste paper."

After a week, every time He Yushui saw Yi Zhonghai, she would ask He Daqing whether he had replied. Naturally, disappointment awaited her.

However, the young girl did not notice that there was a hint of guilt in Yi Zhonghai's eyes when he looked at her from behind.

Just like that, from expectation to disappointment, from disappointment to despair, from despair to numbness, from then on, He Yushui no longer mentioned his father He Daqing.

Towards the X battlefield.

The first phase of the fourth campaign ended.

According to the order of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, the Volunteer Army and the People's Army switched to mobile defensive operations across the board, exchanging space for time, and deployed three lines of defense in the area from the north bank of the Han River to Hengcheng in the south and to the "20th Parallel" in the north. They strived to hold each line of defense for 30 to days, and required to gain two months to cover the second combat troops to advance, assemble and prepare for counterattacks, and then launch a new counterattack after the UN forces advanced deeper.

The 39th Army where Qin Zheng was located was the second echelon, stationed along Zhujin Mountain, Qingyu Mountain, and the northern bank of the Hongchuan River.

On February 2, the UN forces launched the first attack, but progress was slow.

Every time they arrived at a position, they encountered stubborn resistance from small units of the Volunteer Army, and their losses continued to increase.

On February 2, something ridiculous happened.

The commander of the 9th US Army, Major General Moore, flew over the Han River in a helicopter and couldn't help but exclaim: How beautiful and spectacular!

As a result, the plane suffered a mechanical failure and crashed into the Han River. Moore was so frightened that he suffered a heart attack and died!

As a result, Major General Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division of the United States, served as acting commander of the 9th Army, and the 1st Marine Division was commanded by its deputy commander, Brigadier General Puller.

In the early morning of March 3, the Volunteer Army took the initiative to evacuate Seoul. At the same time, the first echelon moved northward, and the second echelon carried out mobile defense.

Qin Zheng's troops began to face the enemy in front of them, adopting a deployment of key defenses, staggered deployment, holding key points, and controlling the whole area with points. They combined blocking with counterattacks, ambushes, and attacks, relying on every position to fight with the attacking enemy for mountains and rivers, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.