What's on Jasmine's mind- My leader, my regiment follow-up

(One)

Two months later, with the expectation of Silong and the secret efforts of some kind-hearted people, Lao Zhang and his group of hated elements finally had an explanation, and they were all sent to the farm affiliated to the army for labor reform.After getting the final result, Xiao Zui insisted that he and Lao Zhang should be sent down together to work on the farm together.Although Kangmei was also worried about whether his mother could bear the hardships of labor, he thought that being able to be together with his parents would be better than not being able to see each other. Besides, delegating to work would give him a little freedom, which was better than when his father was imprisoned.

After arranging and escorting these hated elements, Silong's family leave was finally approved.Seeing that Silong finally decided to go home, I was also very happy, and secretly accompanied my son back to Zenda.

On the day I arrived at Zenda, I was one step ahead of Silong. I wanted to go back to see Jasmine as soon as possible. This time I went out for another half a year.Every time I have a reason, for my brother, for my son, or for a war, I have a reason to leave the house.But what Jasmine could do was endlessly waiting and anticipating.Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel guilty, and rushed home as soon as possible with apologies.

From afar, she saw off an aunt at the gate of the courtyard, who was also one of her perennial customers, then gently closed the door and walked back into the room.I followed behind her, with the mood of a child playing hide-and-seek, secretly and happily within three meters of her.

Jasmine was busy again lying in front of the sewing machine, but she refused to rest for a moment!I sat in the armchair in the living room, looked left and right, and felt very comfortable.

When I was dozing off and thinking in my heart that I must go to Jasmine’s dream to surprise her tonight, I suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps amidst the sound of Jasmine’s sewing machine.

I quickly opened my eyes and looked up, it turned out that Silong was returning home very quickly, and had quietly entered the yard and stood in front of his mother.

Jasmine stopped the sewing machine and raised her head, but she was shocked when she saw the person in front of her, "Wenwen, are you back?" She blurted out softly.

My mind was stunned for a moment, and I thought to myself: "Your article is behind you, not in front of you. Why haven't I seen it for ten years, and I can't even recognize my son?" Ten years ago, he changed a lot. He grew taller and stronger. The most important thing is that his chin and upper lip had faint beard stubble after traveling all the way. It does.

Hearing Jasmine's soft call, Silong froze for a moment, then smiled and said: "Mom, I'm back. I didn't write to you in advance, but I wanted to surprise you. Don't tell me you don't even know me anymore?" Is it? I am your Baoer!"

(two)

Jasmine seemed to have regained her senses, looked at her Bao'er, and was speechless in surprise.She stood up, walked in front of Silong, gently and carefully touched his face, stroked his beard stubble, looked at his military uniform, and finally said ecstatically: "Bao'er, it's you." Are you back? Why didn't you say hello in advance, you will scare my mother to death with your appearance. Let my mother take a good look..."

I was behind Jasmine, relieved, and couldn't help cursing inwardly: "You brat, Silong, why didn't you write a letter in advance? He still likes to make such sudden attacks. You need to be beaten."

"Bao'er, Mom didn't know that you came back today, and you didn't prepare any food at home. Take a rest first, Mom is going out to buy vegetables!" Jasmine said happily while going to the kitchen to get a vegetable basket.

"Mother, let me go with you." Silong said and took her vegetable basket.

"Stupid child, how can a man in military uniform like you carry a vegetable basket? I'll go, and you can rest at home." Jasmine said.

"Mother, just let me go. I came back to accompany you, not to rest. Besides, when I was outside, I wanted to help you carry the vegetable basket but I couldn't get it! For half a month, our army just wanted to recruit a group of soldiers in Zenda in autumn, and our leader asked me to take care of the conscription. It is estimated that we can live at home for about a month in total. Let’s go, I will accompany you to cook The market." Silong said as he accompanied Jasmine out the door.

I looked at the figures of the mother and the child one behind the other, Silong was already half a head taller than Jasmine, and I couldn't help but feel very relieved.Jasmine's face was so full of happiness that she was about to overflow, with such a tall and handsome officer's son by her side, it seemed that within three meters of me I could rest temporarily.I'd better stay at home and wait for them to come back. While thinking this way, I watched them walk out of the courtyard.

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This day's dinner was very sumptuous, all of which were Silong's favorite dishes.Silong ate these mother's dishes that he was used to since he was a child, and felt so comfortable and appropriate from his stomach to his heart, while Jasmine was so joyful and happy seeing her son's satisfied appearance.

After dinner, Molly was washing dishes in the kitchen, and Silong was walking around in the kitchen.Boil a pot of water for a while, make two cups of tea for a while, and wipe the table for a while.Finally, he finally sat down at the table. On the table were two cups of brewed Biluochun tea and a small black and white photo of Kangmei and Jasmine's smiling faces.This kid, I knew he came back full of problems and worries.

(three)

"Mother, sit down and rest for a while!" When Jasmine finished washing the dishes and was wiping her hands with a towel, she was half pushed and half supported by Si Long to the table.

"Mom, you have some tea first. I have a lot of questions to ask you. What's the matter with this photo? Did Kangmei come to our house at this time last year? What did she tell you? Tell me quickly Right!" Si Long asked anxiously.

"Anti-Americanism? Didn't she tell you? She said that she would find a chance to tell you as soon as she returned to the army?! She asked me not to tell you, saying that she was afraid that you would lose your temper again. When she just returned At that time, I also received a letter, which told me that you had become the battalion commander. Afterwards, I had no news about the anti-Americanism. How is she? Is she okay? This girl!" When mentioning the anti-Americanism, Jasmine It's also a stomach problem.

"Mother, speak slowly. I'm confused by you. Kangmei never told me anything, even this photo was picked up by me, not from her. Kangmei's father is us The teacher's former teacher was punished more than half a year ago, so she was also involved. She has been unhappy recently. Now, she is under a lot of pressure in the army, and I don't know what she thinks... ..." Silong told Jasmine exactly what happened in the army this year, as well as the situation when he went to fight against the United States a while ago.

"Mother, Kangmei came to see you at our house, but she didn't say anything to you? Why doesn't she want to talk to me now?" Silong asked in confusion.

After hearing so much from Silong, Jasmine basically understood the current situation of Lao Zhang and Kangmei.She looked at the group photo with Kangmei on the table, and couldn't help but recall Kangmei's innocence, liveliness and persistence a year ago.

She didn't answer her son's question right away, but instead asked: "Bao'er, are you 28 years old this year? You're not young anymore, do you have any girl you like?"

"Well, mother, I really can't say that. Probably not yet." He made a mischievous face.

"Then, Kang Mei has always liked you, you should know about it, right?" Jasmine asked again.

"This, that, she seemed to have said it before, but I thought she was a little girl talking to herself at the time, and ignored her. I really don't know what she thinks now. Also, why did she say Don't need my pity and sympathy? What does that mean?" Si Long said eagerly.

"Bao'er, she likes you very much, you can even say that she loves you very much, and she will never change that." Jasmine looked at her son's puzzled eyes, and continued: "The last time she came to our house Come here, I just want to see what your living environment was like when you were young, what kind of mother do you have? What kind of person are you? She wants to know very much, and wants to know more about you. At the same time , because you said that she can't do anything because she is clumsy, and she humbly asked me a lot of ways to do things.

Last time her vacation was only ten days, but most of the time she stayed at our house and helped me with a lot of things.She is a lovely, understanding, good girl. "

Silong was silent there.Jasmine looked at her darling baby son, smiled slightly, and continued: "You said that her attitude towards you has changed now, she has become indifferent, it must be after what happened to her father. I guess, the resistance Mei didn't want to implicate you because of her father's affairs, so she ignored you?!"

(four)

"Mother, does Kangmei think so much? She used to be very simple and naive, but since the teacher's accident, she seems to have changed a lot, and she has become more mature. But you said she did it for I think about it, so as not to affect me...?" His expression was still unbelieving and questioning.

"Bao'er, tell mother. If you are on good terms with the anti-Americans, how will it affect you in the army? I mean, what effect will it have on your political future?" Jasmine asked a little worried.

"On an optimistic estimate, my position will stop at the current battalion commander; on a pessimistic estimate, there may be a worse situation. I can't imagine it now. Anyway, as a political future, it must be Affected..." Silong said slowly while thinking.

"Bao'er, in your heart, do you like anti-Americanism? If you don't like her, don't abuse her sympathy. It's not fair to her. If you like her, you really like her. Then you have to take good care of your future. The decisions you make must be in line with your own heart, then no matter what decisions you make in the future, Mother will support you." Jasmine looked at him and said softly but firmly.

"Mother, it seems that I really need to think about it. What does it feel like to like someone? What exactly does it mean to like her?" Silong said softly while holding the teacup, looking at the rising water vapor.

"I don't know how other people feel. Anyway, I know that I like someone, and I will always miss him. No matter what I am doing, I will think of him unconsciously. If I have happy things, I hope I can share them with him; I also hope that he can share with you the unhappy things. You have something good, and you want to give it to him unconsciously. Anyway, that person is the person you care about the most in your heart and the one you love the most. That person..." She was murmuring, as if she was speaking to Bao'er, or as if she was speaking to herself...

I know that Jasmine misses me again, but right now, I can't show myself!What a bastard I was for making her worry and miss her so much!But I couldn't tell her for a while, this really made me scratch my head anxiously, not knowing what to do.

"Mother, is the person you care about the most in your heart my father? Are you still thinking about him? Now, you can always tell me, my father, who is he?" Silong asked suddenly .

(Fives)

Hearing Bao'er's sudden question, Jasmine was taken aback, the teacup in her hand shook, and she quickly put the teacup on the table without saying a word.

"Mother, I am not as childish and naive as I was when I left home. I can accept any... any truth. In fact, I haven't asked for leave to go home in the past ten years, because I have been They are all avoiding this question. I know that as soon as I get home, I will definitely not be able to help asking you this question. If I am not mature enough, I will argue with you on this issue and make you sad. So, I've been busy all the time, so busy that I don't have time to take vacations and visit relatives. In fact, I'm just waiting, and I'll come back when I feel ready to ask you this question one day.

Mother, I don't believe my father is a tailor.I don't believe you'll forget my dad's name either.You have been refusing to tell me, there must be something unspeakable. "Silong said this, looked at his mother's face, and continued cautiously.

"My name, Yuan Silong, Yuan is my mother's surname, and the name Silong has something to do with my father, right? Is my father's surname Long, or does the name have a dragon in it?

Did my father join the Kuomintang army before, so you refused to tell me.Are you afraid that if I know about it, it will be affected since I was a child? ? "

"No, no." In front of Bao'er who had grown up, Jasmine hastily denied it, but she couldn't come up with any strong evidence to refute it.

Looking at his mother's sad and anxious face, Silong couldn't bear it, but his desire to know his own life experience and his father's desire made him harden his heart.He thought that if the questioning continues like this, mother is a person who accepts death, and if she decides not to speak up about father, it will make the matter deadlocked.Otherwise, it is better to attack in a roundabout way, to be a soldier who is not tired of deceit?He frowned, suddenly thinking about it.

(six)

"Mother, the anti-American father, my former teacher, he was also in the Kuomintang army. He defected to the People's Liberation Army during the Liberation War. It was only during this rectification that these old accounts were revealed. My teacher He has always admired me for a long time. Some time ago, I went to see him, and he told me the story of the Anti-Japanese War.

He said that from 1942 to early 1945, he was in Chanda, and he was a member of the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force at that time.Yu Xiaoqing's regiment was stationed in Zenda, and was later promoted to Master Yu.He is the adjutant of Division Yu and the commander of the spy battalion. His name is Zhang Lixian. "

Hearing the name Zhang Lixian, Jasmine moved her head slightly, but she still didn't speak.

Silong noticed this detail and continued: "The teacher told me that the most memorable battle took place in the spring of 1944. It was the raid on Nantianmen. And the most memorable person for him , was the one who led them to fight this battle, the head of the Sichuan Army at that time, Long Wenwen.” At this point, Silong’s heart suddenly flashed. When I first entered the door, my mother obviously mistook me. Shout out to 'articles', could it be? ?

"He also said that I look a lot like this head of the dragon. The head of the dragon, Long Wenwen, is my father!" He finished the sentence slowly and firmly, while paying attention to his mother nervously. expression.

Molly has been very disturbed, and I can see the anxiety and struggle in her heart from her face.When she heard the name "Long Wenwen" from Silong's mouth, she couldn't hold it anymore and hesitated: "Zhang Lixian, he told you everything? He told you everything about your father gone?"

I was very anxious beside her, but I couldn't do anything.Really my silly Jasmine!Always stupidly single-minded when it comes to me.How could he get out after being cheated by his son? !And Silong, a brat, why is he playing tricks on his mother?Next time, I have to teach him a lesson.

Before I could think of a trick in my mind, I heard Silong's excited voice: "Mother, is that Captain Long really my father? Is my father's name really Long Wenwen? Silong, Is it just to commemorate him?? Mom, you’ve already admitted it, so it’s not easy to renege on it. Tell me quickly, how did my father die? Tell me quickly!”

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Under the child's more anxious urging, Jasmine finally couldn't help crying loudly.Seeing her so sad, my heart was full of mixed feelings, and my heart was up and down with her sobbing, ups and downs...

Silong stood up, went to the kitchen to get a pot of hot water, wrung a hot towel and handed it to Mother, and comforted him softly: "Mother, don't be sad. Now I know everything, you can spend so many years The words buried in my heart tell me how much sadness and grievance I have, I can help you share it. I miss my father so much and take him as my pride."

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