Chapter 11 growing up paradox

As Tian Cun grew up day by day, his emotional balance gradually tilted towards Tian Liao's side.During the time when father and son were together, there seemed to be many common topics for men. Tamura was almost obsessed with the battle stories of his father Tian Liaochen. The fate of a wounded person or a hero affected all of Tamura's nerves. With the development of the story, Tamura raised his small face and kept asking: what happened later, what happened later? In the sound of "later" and "later", Tamura grew up day by day.Tamura went to elementary school, which is a school for children of military agencies.

Tamura, who is in elementary school, feels that he is already an adult. He often lives alone and immerses himself in problems that only he knows. His mother, Yang Peipei, was very anxious when she saw him like this. When she came back from get off work every day, Tian Cun had already returned, and he was sitting in front of the window, looking out of the window in a daze.Yang Peipei walked over and said to him gently: What are you thinking, son. Tamura ignored his mother, and put his face in his hands, still in a daze.After a while, he suddenly asked Yang Peipei: Mom, have you ever participated in a battle?

Yang Peipei was taken aback by his question, then shook her head and replied: Mom has been working in the hospital and is only responsible for rescuing the wounded. Tamura just looked disappointed and sighed like an adult. Only when his father came back did he become active.After going to elementary school, Tian Cun no longer pestered Tian Liaoshen to tell stories blindly, but discussed some issues with his father. He asked his father: Dad, tell me, why does the People's Liberation Army always win battles, and why do the Kuomintang troops always lose battles? Tian Liaochen told him with a smile: Because the People's Liberation Army is brave and not afraid of death.

Tamura asked again: Then why are the Kuomintang troops afraid of death? Tian Liao was taken aback, he didn't expect his son to ask such a question, he looked at his son for a while and said: The Kuomintang troops have no ideals, that's why they are afraid of death. Tamura continued to ask: what is the ideal of the People's Liberation Army? Father replied: Liberate the whole of China and establish a new China. Tamura seemed to understand, and he looked at his father with some reverence. At this time, the father asked again: "Son, what do you want to do when you grow up?"

Tamura replied without thinking: When the People's Liberation Army becomes a hero. Tian Liaoshen just laughed, and he patted Tian Cun's head and said to Yang Peipei, "Okay, like my son." Yang Peipei sighed from the side: Don't talk nonsense, let's eat quickly, it's cold. Tamura seemed to have endless questions, and he gave these questions to his father, because his father was a man who had fought in wars, and he had experienced many battles. His father was his idol.Lying on Tiancun's small bed, the two of them listed Chinese national heroes from ancient times to the present, from Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang to Huang Jiguang, and they talked enthusiastically and excitedly.Sometimes when it was too late, Yang Peipei would go to bed first, Tian Liaoshen walked over on tiptoe, glanced at the sleeping Yang Peipei, and said in a low voice: Your mother is asleep.

Dad, then you can sleep here with me. Tian Liaochen lay down on his son's crib, turned off the lamp, and Tian Cun hugged his father's shoulder, leaning on his father's shoulder, and fell into a deep sleep. Yang Peipei went to school to hold a parent-teacher meeting. After the meeting, the class teacher left Yang Peipei alone. The teacher said worriedly: "Your family's Tiancun is always distracted in class. I don't know what is going on in his mind." Yang Peipei asked in surprise: Does he often do this? The teacher nodded and said: I asked him what he was thinking, but he didn't say anything, he said his father knew.

Yang Peipei rushed to the head teacher and said: Teacher, I already understand. In the evening, when Tian Liaochen came back from get off work, Yang Peipei dragged him into the bedroom, and the two quarreled behind closed doors. Yang Peipei said sternly: "Tamura doesn't study hard at school and always loses his mind. Do you know that?" Tian Liaochen said with a confused face: Is he distracted?What kind of god do you go? Yang Peipei shouted angrily: It's not your nonsense, it seems that you deceived the child. Tian Liaochen was very unconvinced: What nonsense am I talking about?Everything I told him was useful, that was patriotic education, do you understand?

The child has been driven into obsession by you, now let him learn and gain knowledge. Tian Liaochen frowned: You know the knowledge, I didn't go to school for a day, didn't I also become the deputy chief of staff, and still command thousands of troops? Can war be eaten as food?Now is the age of peace, we need to learn knowledge, how can we build a country without knowledge?Yang Peipei argued hard. Tian Liaoshen did not agree with Yang Peipei's argument, he waved his hands impatiently: You little intellectuals, you just can get on the line.Peace is temporary, the United States and the Soviet Union will never die, do you know that?In the future, there will be great battles and vicious battles waiting for us to fight. When we are old and unable to go to the battlefield, we will have to rely on our descendants to lead the charge and tell children what is a hero and what is a bear. What's wrong with that?Comrade Yang Peipei, tell me.

Yang Peipei thinks that this is a scholar who meets a soldier, and it is not clear why.She stomped her feet and shouted: Tian Liaochen, don't mess with me, the child will be ruined in your hands if it goes on like this. Tian Liao spread his hands in confusion: "My son is fine, why is he ruined?"It's incredible. Yang Peipei ignored Tian Liaochen and sat there wiping away tears. Tian Liaochen came out with an innocent face, saw that Tian Cun was reading a comic book, reached out to take the comic book away, and said solemnly: Son, let's not read this for now.Come, let Dad test you, how is your culture?

After finishing speaking, he took out the textbook, put it in front of himself, fiddled with it, pointed to the words in the textbook and said: Son, what does this word read? Tamura didn't read the words, and said to his father: Dad, let me play with your gun for a while, I haven't touched a gun for a long time. Tian Liaochen bargained with his son: Tell Dad how to pronounce this word, and Dad will give you a gun. Tamura glanced at the words and replied impatiently: the country of the country.I was right, give me the gun quickly. Tian Liaochen went back to the back room, took off the gun from the wall, ejected the bullet, and gave the gun to Tian Cun.

Tamura skillfully unbolted the gun and looked at it: there was not a single bullet, it was an empty gun, which was really boring. Dad, I am not young anymore, I am already eight years old.Didn't you say that eight-year-olds can join the children's group? Tian Liaoshen said: From now on, Dad will definitely give you bullets and take you to the shooting range to shoot, that will be enjoyable. At this moment, the phone rang, and Tian Liaochen went to the living room to answer the phone.Tamura put down the gun and went to another room.Yang Peipei read the "Army Field Nursing Handbook" under the lamp with her back on her back, and kept memorizing something in her hand.Tamura quietly walked around his mother, opened the drawer, and saw the bullets his father had just unloaded from the gun.Those bullets were placed there brightly, and Tian Cun glanced at his mother. Yang Peipei was very focused and seemed not to focus on him.He stretched out his hand, picked up a bullet in his hand, and slipped past his mother quietly. Yang Peipei turned around and said, "Tiancun, come here." Tamura lowered his head and stood there motionless. Yang Peipei sighed, and said: You just listen to your father, you beat or kill every day, you are a primary school student now, not the People's Liberation Army, do you understand?Go do your homework quickly, and I'll check it later. OK, I'll bring you the homework in a while.After Tamura finished speaking, he slipped back to his room and closed the door. In the living room, Tian Liaochen was still talking on the phone, which seemed to be a call from the army to ask for instructions. Tian Liaochen looked very annoyed, and criticized the army for being uneasy about training and going to support the left. Tamura's hands were shaking because of his excitement, so he just shook his hands and pressed the golden bullet into the barrel of the gun.He seemed very satisfied with his results. He raised his gun, aiming here and there, making a "bang bang" sound, and kept turning his body on the bed, making various shooting appearances. Finally, he saw the light bulb burning above his head, and he aimed his gun at the light bulb, his expression focused.Suddenly, his finger pulled the trigger. After a gunshot, the light bulb shattered, and the room was suddenly dark.Yang Peipei screamed in the room and ran over.Tian Liaochen also ran over, there were fragments of bulbs all over the bed, Tian Cun stayed there in a daze, and immediately he shouted excitedly: I hit it, I hit it. Yang Peipei couldn't bear it any longer. With a yell, she rushed over, snatched the gun from Tian Cun's hand, waved her hand and hit Tian Cun twice, and then yelled at Tian Liao: If you take the gun home again in the future, I will throw it out for you. After she finished speaking, she covered her face and began to cry. Tamura was frightened, he stood there in a daze, looking at this and that.