Chapter 204 Section 16

The train roared across the ground. Wearing the uniform of a second lieutenant officer, Lin Rui got off the long-distance vehicle on the grassland with a 91 rucksack on his back. The head of the local armed forces was waiting for him with a horse.He got on his horse and waved the reins. Two horses gallop across the prairie at dusk. "The yurt in front is Wuyun's home." The Minister of Armed Forces said in half-baked Chinese. "Did she know that Wu Yun died?" Lin Rui slowed down his mount and asked sadly. "I know." The Minister of Armed Forces said, "We and the Civil Affairs Bureau sent her plaques and things."

Looking at the dilapidated yurt, Lin Rui felt sour in his heart.Intermittent singing came from the door of the yurt, and an old woman in ragged clothes sat at the door and sang. The Minister of Armed Forces translated: "Son, you are a lamb in the grassland. You sneaked out to eat grass. The grass is not good. You should come back to eat milk..." Lin Rui couldn't take it anymore, got off his horse and strode over. The old woman stretched out her arms to him, and Lin Rui knelt down in front of her: "Mom, I'm sorry! I didn't take good care of Wu Yun!" The old woman's sunken eye sockets were filled with cloudy tears, and she was stroking Lin Rui's military uniform and muttering in her mouth.

"She said that Wu Yun just went out to graze, and will come back to feed her milk." The Minister of Armed Forces translated in a low voice. Lin Rui lowered his head, and tears fell into the grass: "Mom, I am Wu Yun's comrade-in-arms, that is, Wu Yun's brother... I didn't take good care of him, it was my fault... You can scold me, beat me Bar……" The Minister of Armed Forces translated into Mongolian in a low voice. The old woman stroked Lin Rui's face and muttered. The Minister of Armed Forces translated: "You are Wu Yun's comrade-in-arms. Wu Yun flew out from the grassland. I am relieved to have you with him. You are a good boy. Wu Yun is not sensible. Wu Yun wrote The letter tells me that it depends on you to become an officer."

Lin Rui lowered his head and sobbed: "Mom, it's all my fault, I hate myself!" The old woman sang a song after listening to the interpretation of the Minister of Armed Forces. The Minister of Armed Forces whispered: "The son is the star in the sky, and the mother is the moon. No matter where you go, where you can see the stars, you can see your son, and where you can see the moon, you can see your mother..." Lin Rui threw himself on the ground: "Mom—" The yurt in the night, under the oil lamp.Lin Rui sat in the yurt, took out those envelopes and handed them to Wu Yun's mother.Wu Yun's mother opened it to see if it was money, and pushed it back.Lin Rui stubbornly tucked it into her skirt.

Morning light gradually rises.Wu Yun's mother walked out of the yurt and saw Lin Rui in camouflage uniform chopping firewood.She smiled and brought out a bowl of milk tea, Lin Rui wiped off his sweat and walked over to drink the milk tea. On the endless grassland, Lin Rui rode his horses to herd sheep.Wu Yun's mother stood in front of the yurt and looked into the distance. Lin Rui rode back and dismounted.Wu Yun's mother took him in by the hand and had already prepared a meal for him.Lin Rui sat down, ate mutton with his hands and drank milk tea, choked and spit out.Wu Yun's mother laughed, and he laughed too.

night.Lin Rui was sleeping soundly, his rough hands stroking his face.Tears dripped down his face, and Wu Yun's mother stroked Lin Rui's face and muttered. In the morning, Lin Rui got up and saw Wu Yun's mother brought a Mongolian costume.He changed his clothes, and Wu Yun's mother muttered about dressing him. Lin Rui got out of the yurt and mounted his horse swiftly. He looked like a young Mongolian boy.Wu Yun's mother looked at his back, smiled and muttered. dusk.Lin Rui was practicing boxing, while Wu Yun's mother was sitting in front of the yurt watching.Several young men rode over and invited Lin Rui to wrestle.Lin Rui wrestled with the Mongolian boy, imitating Mongolian wrestling moves.Wu Yun's mother smiled lovingly and watched.

night.Lin Rui handed his photo to Wu Yun's mother, and Wu Yun's mother carefully hung it with Wu Yun's photo. Morning.After changing into his military uniform, Lin Rui got on his horse with his rucksack on his back, and rode for a while with the Minister of Armed Forces.Lin Rui reined in his horse and turned around, seeing Wu Yun's mother still waving.He raised his right hand, gave a military salute on the horse, gritted his teeth and rode off with the Minister of Armed Forces. station.The Minister of Armed Forces sent Lin Rui to the car, and Lin Rui told her: "Please go and see her more, I will send you money, if you need anything, please write to me and call me directly. If she is sick and needs money, you can speak quickly. "

The Minister of Armed Forces nodded: "Don't worry, we also have policies to take care of it." The car started, and Lin Rui opened the rucksack to get the toiletries in the sleeper car.When he touched it inside, his expression changed.His right hand slowly took out, it was a small package wrapped in cloth.He opened it, and inside were those envelopes containing money. Lin Rui threw himself on the window, looking at the passing grassland outside: "Mom—" The train roared across the prairie.