"There are eight in total." Zhuang Zhenguo said: "Do you know why I never take it out?"

Zhuang Yan thought for a while and said, "Because of your comrades?"

Zhuang Zhenguo nodded: "You understand now, right? You must not understand this before. Only soldiers understand soldiers the best. Military medals originally represent the honor of soldiers, but..."

Speaking of this, I looked up at the ceiling, staring blankly for a long time, tears flashed from the corners of my eyes.

"But behind these honors is the blood of many comrades... My last merit was also established in the last battle I fought in southern Xinjiang. However, in that battle, one of my companies under my command, who served as the main attacker, lost six soldiers. After the battle, my superiors came to toast me at the celebration banquet and told me, Lao Zhuang, you did a pretty job, we have asked you for me! I drank a little that day, and I couldn't be happy at all, and I couldn't help crying on the spot. I said, Chief, I really don't want meritorious... I don't want those medals of honor and military medals, I really don't want. Why do I want these golden and jingling things? I just want my comrades to come back... Can you let them all come back?"

As he said that, he reached out to wipe the corners of his eyes and forced a smile out, as if he was mocking himself: "Hmph... Compared to them, what qualifications do I have to show off those military medals? They are dead and I am alive, but I always feel that my shoulders are carrying their lives. If you want to say that I have something to be sorry for others in this life, it is this... Do you understand my feelings? Son."

Zhuangyan felt that his eyes were a little hot, so he nodded and said, "I understand, I understand..."

Zhuang Zhenguo looked at his son sitting by the bed and said, "If your mother doesn't let you tell you what I am, I don't want you to be distracted in the army. You are used to being pampered at home. I think you will definitely not get used to it for a while when you go to the army. If you let you know my affairs, you won't be in trouble? Besides, you will be asked to come back to visit me at that time. If you miss the best training period for new recruits, three years of soldiers will be useless. I send you to the army. I don't want you to spend three years, but you will let you

Be a real soldier and a man, instead of eating, drinking and having fun with those friends all day at home. People cannot have goals and ideals. Son, you should set a goal for yourself as soon as possible. What kind of person do you want to be and what kind of life you live, the sooner the better. Otherwise, you will waste your time when you are young and when you get older, you will find that you are so confused. This is a very painful thing."

Zhuang Zhenguo has never talked to himself so frankly in the past.

In the solemn eyes, Zhuang Zhenguo used to almost regarded his family as his barracks, and always spoke in a commanding tone, not like this or that, not like this or that, not like this or that, and had no room for negotiation and no room for maneuver. Every time the father and son sat down and talked, Mars would hit the earth and parted in dissatisfaction.

I only realized today that my father’s inner thoughts were for his own good.

There is no doubt about this.

"Your grades are far worse than you, me." Zhuang Zhenguo handed back two medals to Zhuang Yan, and the arrogance of a veteran on his face came back. "I'll tell me when you get more than me in the future."

Zhuang Yan said dissatisfied: "I have only been a soldier for a year!"

After saying that, he handed the cut apple in his hand to his father.

Zhuang Zhenguo took the apple, looked at it with interest, and suddenly said, "This seems to be the first time you have peeled an apple for me."

Solemn and stunned.

My father told the truth. Over the years, it was difficult for father and son to sit down and chat calmly for a while, let alone peeling apples.

"You like it, I will give you food every day in the future." He said.

Zhuang Zhenguo took the apple out of his mouth, and his tone became hard again: "I don't need you to be here every day! Why do you accompany me? There are doctors here, you are not a doctor, let alone my illness is reimbursed by the unit, so you don't have to worry! Go back to your army and do it well. No medicine I take is better than you in the army."

Zhuang Yan couldn't help but say, "You are my dad. If you are sick, I will come back to serve you. What's wrong with it? Judging from your appearance, should I ignore your feelings?"

Zhuang Zhenguo said: "I didn't let you ignore it. Didn't you ask? Haven't you come back? I've read it and asked, you're leaving."

I can't even say solemn words.

My father is really unreasonable. Who is this? I can’t be nice to him?

"I said what's wrong with you? Why did you have to chase me to the army? If I keep my feelings with you, you will feel uncomfortable all over? Is there anyone like you who is like a father?"

Zhuang Zhenguo said: "That's right, I feel uncomfortable when I see you sitting next to me in military uniform."

"You-" Zhuang Yan almost scolded the word "psychopath", but he still held it back.

If it were the past, he would have had a quarrel with his father who could not be reasoned.

But this time, he quickly suppressed the anger in his heart.

Because he saw that his father, who was lying on the bed, had already looked a little gray and haggard.

He is a patient.

Zhuangyan told herself that she could not continue to argue with her father like this.

"Okay, Dad, let's not quarrel, okay?" Zhuang Yan suddenly felt a little sad. "For so many years, I suddenly felt that I had enough quarrels with you and I were tired of quarrels. We are father and son, not enemies, can we speak well?"

Zhuang Zhenguo froze.

A feeling of relief suddenly surged in my heart.

He felt that he had sent his son to join the army, that's right.

This road is right.

My son now knows how to tolerate others and control his emotions.

So he took a breath and said, "Son, my illness is powerless to make things happen, but don't worry, I will not give up on myself. I am a veteran. I can fight like a charge towards a mountain. You should believe me. It is indeed useless for you to stay here. Now is the time for new and veterans to change? The army is busy. You graduated from the teaching team and are already the squad leader. Go back. The army is where you should go."

Solemnly he curled his head and said nothing.

Zhuang Zhenguo said again: "I promise you to receive good treatment, and write to you well in the future, and no longer refuse to reply to you like before. Sending you to the army is not how noble I, Lao Zhuang, is, but I think that I have two sons, and I am Chinese, so it is natural for me to send a son to serve as a soldier to defend the country. My father has no other idea, I just want you to achieve something in the army, and not for anything else, just treat it as doing your part. At least we have enjoyed the fruits of peace and prosperity. If we have to work hard, we will always get a share. This is the basic bottom line of being a human being."

As the solemn listened, tears suddenly came down.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, but you let me stay for three more days, okay?" Zhuang Yan raised his head, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Just treat me as my son to fulfill your filial piety."
Chapter completed!