Chapter 10 ten

When my father was fifty-six years old, an order was announced to retire early.Under normal circumstances, a soldier at the level of my father can work until the age of sixty, and there is a possibility of promotion.But his father retired early as the chief of staff of the military region. Father was announced to retire early, and there were two major events that had something to do with him, that is to say, these two events constituted the biggest mistake in his life.One is that he sold the military vehicles equipped by the troops to the county of his hometown.My father sells not one or two military vehicles, but a batch!Before that, the county leaders in my hometown approached my father several times and asked him to help buy some trucks that could be transported.My father's hometown is very remote, and I have never been able to get on the train. The task of transportation can only be completed by car.Due to the rapid development of transportation, it directly affected the backwardness of the county where my father's hometown is located.This is a big event, and my father is also worried about the backwardness and poverty in his hometown.The economic situation at that time was that everything was operating under the planned economy, and FAW produced Jiefang cars.It is distributed uniformly by the state, not to mention the county where my father's hometown is located, even the province can't get a few cars like this a year.

The people in my hometown were anxious about traffic, and my father was even more anxious. Finally, the opportunity came. The Military Commission provided a batch of military vehicles for my father's army. The documents fell into my father's hands. My father's eyes lit up. He waved and wrote on the document that the support of these military vehicles was given to the local government.The place is of course the county where my father's hometown is located.On every road in my hometown county, you can see military vehicles dyed grass green, rushing busily. What my father didn't expect was that this would be a mistake.He understands the equipment of the army, which at this time has changed drastically compared with decades ago, which makes his father very satisfied.He was looking forward to a new round of war, but after ten years of waiting, there was no war, so his father was disappointed.Why do troops without war need such good equipment?What a waste!It is better to let this batch of equipment go to support local construction.Father sold these military vehicles to his hometown with good reasons.

One wave is not flat, and another wave rises again.The county where my father's hometown is located, in order to thank my father for his love and care over the years, chose a geomantic treasure land in my father's hometown and built a spacious and luxurious cemetery for my father.But my father knew nothing about this cemetery. This was done by the county leaders behind his back.The reason is that his father has said more than once that he will be buried in his hometown after death in the future instead of going to some crematorium.This is another limitation of my father's thinking.Everything in that cemetery is ready, just waiting for my father to "return to the roots".According to the thoughts of the county leaders, this is nothing. There is a general in his hometown, which is a major event that has not been encountered in a hundred years.It is also human nature for a general to return to his hometown after his death.Besides, the general has done so much to benefit his hometown, so what's the point of building a cemetery for the general?

People can't be covered in paper, and when the two things add up, the matter becomes a big mess. First, the military region leaders knew about it, and the military region leaders felt that this matter was extraordinary, so they reported it to the Military Commission.After the Military Commission dispatched a working group to investigate the two incidents, under the overwhelming evidence, an order summoned his father to Beijing, and the leader of the headquarters talked to him in person.Facing the facts, my father was speechless, but what my father didn't understand was, how could this be considered a mistake? !Shortly after his father returned from Beijing, he was announced to be retiring.

After retiring, my father suddenly became old.He stayed at home for a while with nothing to do, he didn't know what to do, menopausal syndrome came to his father, and he began to lose his temper non-stop, at the mother and at the child. At that time, both Lin and Jing had joined the army, and Hai was the only one left in the family who was studying.That year, my mother was just in her early forties, and she was proudly the head of the art troupe.The children are all grown up, and there is nothing for her to worry about at home. She is still devoting her life to her career with enthusiasm, and she wants to make up for the lost time when she was young.

My father often lost his temper alone at home. He first broke the glass he was drinking, and then pulled his prematurely gray hair. His anger had to be suppressed because he had no object.Then he ran from one room to another room, cursing and swearing non-stop, and said over and over again: Wait for you to come back, and I will deal with you!He didn't like everything, including the room his mother had tidied up.As a result, he couldn't take care of anyone anymore, he was really old, his heart was old. The rest is that he can only stop and stop smoking his trumpet and drinking sorghum.His drinking capacity is also not as good as before. He looked at the wine and felt powerless. His father, who was drunk after a few sips, shed heroic tears.Then, before it was dark, I fell asleep, let my farts go, and gritted my teeth, without washing my feet or brushing my teeth.The mother had had enough of all this to her father, and she couldn't bear it anymore, so the mother proposed the idea of ​​​​separating from her father.To the mother's great surprise, her idea received a warm response from her father. In fact, he had already had enough of his mother's restraint. He had been restrained by his mother for so many years. Take a breath of free air.Soon, father and mother officially separated.At that time, there were many houses in the family. If you searched for them, your father ran away from your mother.

When my father was working, the happiest job was to stand in front of the sand table or combat map and study imaginary enemies.He has studied the imaginary enemy thoroughly, including the deployment of our army, but it has never been used.But this didn't affect his hobby. He thought, if he doesn't need it now, he will use it sooner or later.Maybe at that time, the leader of the Military Commission will invite him out of the mountain again, and let him command thousands of troops to fight against the real enemy. When he thinks of this, his blood boils. So, my father devoted all his time and energy to making sand tables and drawing combat maps.He has long been familiar with sand tables and maps, and making these is easy for his father.Soon my father's room was occupied by one sand table after another and one battle map after another. My father found comfort in the crowding, and my father found it in his imaginary space.

Excited alone.He was immersed in his excitement for a long time, and he only walked out of his room when he was eating. His mother always took an indifferent attitude towards everything his father did, which was exactly what his father wanted. Mother has always lived in harmony. Later, the military art troupe was streamlined and reorganized, and my mother retired prematurely. My mother was also at home for a while, and my father and mother were at home at the same time. Most of the time, they were doing their own things.My mother still loves to read, and most of what my mother likes to read are old love stories. She is still often moved by the love stories in the book, so she takes off her presbyopic glasses again and again to wipe her eyes.When she was not studying, her mother would stare out the window in spring, summer, autumn and winter in a daze. She thought of Feng in her dream again and again, and at this time, her mother was deeply moved.She often sees the road outside the window, one after another elderly couple walking hand in hand in the dusk. At this time, how she wishes Feng would be by her side, accompanying her for a walk in the dusk.

As time passed, not only did my father's hair turn white, but his movements also began to slow down.He needed to ask his mother for help with many things, and when he needed help from his mother, he would call: "Girl, come and help me!" When my mother heard my father's cry, she always had to wipe away her tears before walking over to help my father in one way or another. Regardless of whether my mother's attitude was good or bad, my father lost his temper at all.Because he knew that he couldn't do without his mother's help.At one point, he shyly offered to live with his mother.To his surprise, his mother agreed.This made my father very happy. From then on, the elderly father began to live under the discipline of his mother. His mother forbade him to suck the trumpet anymore, and his father agreed. If his mother asked him to wash his feet, he would wash his feet, and if his mother asked him to brush his teeth, he would brush his teeth. , Without the supervision of the mother, the father would sometimes cut corners, and then he would giggle at the success of his scheme. The mother could only turn her back and sigh when she saw her father like this.

Sometimes when my father saw that his mother was not by his side, he would yell, "Girl, come and help me!"When my mother rushed over, my father smiled and said, "It's okay."The mother looked at the father and let out a long sigh. The father in his later years no longer had any conflicts with his mother. He became an obedient child of his mother, but his father always called out: "Girl, come and help me!"Only when his mother was by his side did he feel at ease. In the lonely life of my parents in their later years, my father kept shouting: Girl, come and help me!

Then came the sound of mother's hurried footsteps.