Chapter 063 Seeing Lanxiang Again
As soon as the sky was dawn, Dong Limao and his team took a truck from the front line command center back to Donggua Station.
The hero returned, causing a sensation in the entire military camp. Almost everyone knew that Dong Limao led ten spies and brothers to blow up the Japanese railway station warehouse, but few people knew that he destroyed the bacterial weapons used by the Japanese army to deal with the expeditionary force.
The commander of the guard, Kong Xiangfei, held a celebration banquet for Dong Limao and others on behalf of the commander and the commander. At the banquet, Dong Limao rarely spoke and kept drinking with his head in a mess. He drank until he crawled on the table and never moved again.
Dong Limao was confused. He heard Bai Rushuang talking to him, singing to him, asking him why he was not awake yet, and even heard sobs. Dong Limao wanted to open his eyes and told Bai Rushuang that he had become the great-grandfather Dong Jiacheng and was fighting with the Japanese devils. Rushuang didn't have to worry about me, I would wake up. When I got the old photo of my great-grandfather, I would wake up... Even, Dong Limao was saying in his heart: Rushuang, I love you. No matter what I did after I became my great-grandfather, it was not what I did. It was something that great-grandfather had experienced in the past. It had nothing to do with me. I didn't love Li Yuanyuan at all. I loved you, Rushuang, I really love you very much... But he couldn't say anything, and he was so anxious inside.
"Brother Dong...Brother Dong... Wake up... Wake up..."
Dong Limao heard a woman's voice calling, thinking it was Bai Rushuang, so he opened his eyes suddenly and grabbed the little hand that patted his arm: "Rushuang, I miss you so much..."
"Brother Dong, I'm Lanxiang. Did you have a nightmare just now?"
Dong Limao blinked and saw clearly that sitting by the bed, he was holding Daolanxiang's hand with both hands. He was a little disappointed, but also asked in surprise: "Lanxiang, why are you here? Huh... you are wearing military uniforms too..." Dong Limao stood up, grabbed Daolanxiang's shoulders with both hands, and looked at Daolanxiang in military uniform carefully.
"Brother Dong, I have officially joined the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force. I took the initiative to ask to come to the front line. Last night, I arrived at Donggua City and came to the spy company's base to find you, but you were drunk and unconscious..." Dao Lanxiang's shoulders were hurt by Dong Limao's hands. She struggled for a few times before she broke free from Dong Limao's hands.
"When is it now?" Dong Limao saw that it was still pitch black outside the house.
"At night, you have been sleeping for a day and a night, just like the last time you were unconscious after being injured, and you were shouting Rushuang..." Dao Lanxiang lowered her head, as if she was very unhappy.
"So, have you been here for a day and a night?" Dong Limao was a little thirsty. He saw a tea jar on the table on the bedside table, picked it up and drank a few big mouthfuls of water.
"It was Brother Zhu who asked me to accompany you here, saying that you were too tired after returning from the mission." Dao Lanxiang took the teapot where Dong Limao had finished drinking water and put it on the table and asked, "Brother Dong, are you hungry?"
"Not hungry." Dong Limao replied, getting off the bed and putting on his shoes, feeling relaxed. He twisted his arms a few times, and his bones and joints crackled. He seemed to suddenly remember something, and looked at Dao Lanxiang and asked, "Lanxiang, why didn't she come with you? Where is she?"
Dao Lanxiang flashed her eyelashes a few times and asked in confusion: "Brother Dong, who are you talking about? Is it the woman named Rushuang?"
"No." Dong Limao waved his hand and said, "It's a Burmese girl. I'll ask her to go to Ruili to find your one."
"You asked her to find me?" Dao Lanxiang looked confused and shook her head and said, "No one has ever found me."
"Didn't she go to find you?" Dong Limao shook his head: "No, I clearly told her your address and asked her to find you at Ruili Oak Forest Temple. Why didn't she go?"
"Brother Dong, I didn't go to the hospital of Oak Forest Temple. The next day after you left, that...the commander of the Dwarf Winter Melon Kong came to my house and asked my dad to marry me as his concubine. My dad was worried that if he didn't agree to him, it would cause disaster, so he agreed to Dwarf Winter Melon and said that he would come to my house to marry after the Water Song Festival... I...I don't want to, so I joined the frontline anti-Japanese medical rescue team and ran out secretly..." Dao Lanxiang roughly explained what she had encountered in the past few days.
"Damn this short winter melon with the surname Kong! Let's see how I deal with him in the future!" Dong Limao heard Dao Lanxiang's narration, and a burst of anger rose in his heart. If the short winter melon Kong Xiangfei was by his side at this time, Dong Limao would probably have punched his oil belly and slapped.
"Forget it, Brother Dong, the first level of official position to crush people to death, it is not worth scheming with such a scoundrel." Dao Lanxiang saw Dong Limao's anger. She didn't want him to offend his boss for herself: "Oh, by the way, this morning, Hu San brought a letter and asked me to wait for you to wake up and hand it over to you." Dao Lanxiang said, taking out a letter from her pocket.
"Letter? My letter?" Dong Limao didn't believe what letter he would have. When he saw Dao Lanxiang take out a letter with four corners from his pocket, he really believed that he had a letter. He took it and took it and saw it. It was written: Dong Jiacheng, the company commander of the 9th Company, the 3rd Regiment, 200th Division of the Fifth Army of the National Revolution, received it.
Dong Limao recognized that this was the handwriting of the great grandma. She wrote in traditional Chinese characters and was written in brush. The address below the envelope was: Department of Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of West China Union University, Chengdu.
"Brother Dong, who came from the letter?" Dao Lanxiang secretly glanced at Dong Limao and asked in a low voice.
"It was written by my great-grandma... for me." Dong Limao looked at Daolanxiang and said.
"Your great-grandma? You should be in your seventies or eighties, right? You can even write such beautiful calligraphy!" Dao Lanxiang took what Dong Limao said seriously.
Dong Limao opened the envelope and took out the three pieces of letter paper inside, which were written in densely packed with brushes and regular script:
Brother Jiacheng:
Meeting a letter is like meeting.
The last time I left at home, it has been ten months and three days. Today is our daughter Xiujuan (author’s note: Xiujuan is Dong Limao’s grandmother.) The day of the full moon. I was unable to give birth to a son for your Dong family. I feel deeply guilty. Please forgive me, Brother Jiacheng.
I received a letter from Brother Jiacheng. It happened to be the day when I gave birth to Xiujuan, so I couldn't reply to Brother Jiacheng. It was not until today that I mustered up the courage to write a pen late at night and told Brother Jiacheng that I gave birth to a girl, and my name was Dong Xiujuan. I hope Brother Jiacheng won't blame me for my own actions.
The child is very cute, his nose, eyes and mouth are like Brother Jiacheng. Looking at her, I can't help but think of Brother Jiacheng.
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After reading it, Dong Limao learned that the letter was written on December 8, 1941. He still clearly remembered that his grandmother's birthday was November 8, which means that the letter was written to his great-grandfather in the middle of the night when his grandmother was full moon. It was April 8, 1942. The letter was on the road for four months before it reached his great-grandfather. In the past, Dong Limao also heard his great-grandfather mention that his great-grandfather was a traditional Chinese man who put masculinity first, and he was always in the great-grandfather.
The grandma said she wanted to have a son, and on the night before leaving Chengdu, she told her grandma on the bed that if she was pregnant, she would be named Dong Limao. Because her grandma's surname was Li, her great-grandfather gave her a double name, which meant the flourishing branches of the Dong family and the Li family. Later, because the father who was in the back family was also named Li and the mother's surname was Dong, the great-grandma used the name that the great-grandfather once gave her son to her great-grandfather, which fulfilled one of the great-grandfather's wishes and the Dong family had a descendant.
Dong Limao probably heard about these things from his great-grandma, but he really didn't know what the relationship between his great-grandma and his great-grandma was, and he was embarrassed to ask his great-grandma. Just from this letter written by his great-grandma to his great-grandma, it seemed that his great-grandma was very afraid of his great-grandma.
Chapter completed!