Chapter 49 Chapter Forty-Nine

The death of the father was a heavy blow to the mother. A few months after my father died, my mother became ill with tuberculosis and became bedridden. She died in autumn. When she died, she vomited blood profusely, which covered the bed and the floor. Yuhuan saw her father's face in the gushing blood, and the blood-red sunlight reflected on her father's face. Yuhuan felt that her father was still there, guarding her dying mother. This illusory scene is so real, Yuhuan saw her father sighing in the rising red mist, and could even see her father's white hair on the temples and deep wrinkles on his face.

The mother said dreamily: "Huan'er, your father has come to call me, I heard him talking." Yuhuan said: "I saw daddy too, daddy didn't speak, daddy was sighing." The mother smiled hard, and insisted stubbornly: "Your father is talking, and I can hear it clearly! He told me: once it's over, it's the same thing in life..." Yuhuan saw her father again in the red mist. Her father's military uniform was soaked in blood, and his sunken eyes were wide open. Father will not forgive enemies. My father has always been kind and revengeful. So, Yuhuan said to her mother: "Father wouldn't say such a thing, and he will never die with peace in his eyes."

The mother was very disturbed and struggled to sit up. Yuhuan leaned forward and forcibly held her mother down. The mother had no choice but to lie on the bed and say, "Huan'er, I... I know your temper, and I know your filial piety to your father, but...but I will tell you clearly today, you...you have to take care of the past. It forgot, you...you are a girl, you can't control it, you can't control it..." Yuhuan was silent. When she was dying, the mother was still worried, so she called Yuhuan and her younger brother to the front again, and said to Yuhuan, "Take...take good brother, never...never...don't let him be...a soldier again, never... ..."

Yuhuan wanted to nod, but somehow she shook her head, moved her lips, and said a word: "No..." The mother looked at her sadly, until the light in the pupils finally disappeared, and did not close her eyelids... Beside the grave mound where her parents were buried, Yuhuan was full of filial piety, kneeling for a long time with tears on her face, like a pure white stone statue . The younger brother Baishun was a little scared, first he stared at his sister timidly, then he squatted in front of her, wiped the tears on her face with his sleeve, and was blushing, desperately trying to pull her up.

Yuhuan couldn't hold back her younger brother, and finally stood up. This made Baishun very happy. Baishun took her sister's hand and wanted to go home. But Yuhuan looked at the new tomb in front of her and didn't move. Baishun wanted to quarrel with his sister, but didn't dare, so he could only stare at his sister's face pitifully. Yuhuan choked up her sobs, and said to her younger brother, "Baishun, you...you have to be a soldier, you have to promise your sister, go...to be a soldier." Baishun's big eyes flashed and asked, "Why?" Yuhuan wiped the tears from her face and said, "Because you are a boy."

Baishun felt quite strange: "The boy... is he going to be a soldier?" Yuhuan caressed his younger brother's round head: "If you're a boy...you'll have to be bloody, and you'll have to be a soldier." Baishun tilted his head: "Then, aren't there many men who didn't join the army?" Yuhuan said: "He has no blood feud! His father was not beaten to death by Zhang Tianxin!" Only then did Baishun realize that the person who killed his father was Zhang Tianxin. By the way, Bai said: "Zhang Tianxin is a villain!" Yuhuan nodded: "Yes, you have to remember that when you grow up, you will serve as a soldier to avenge your father."

Baishun nodded first, but then shook his head again: "But... but mother said, don't want me to be a soldier, and never want to..." Yuhuan kissed his younger brother's ruddy face, and tears rolled down his face: "Baishun, from now on, you...you have no mother, only a sister! You...you have to listen to your sister!" Baishun was sad, and lowered his head with red eyes: "I... I listen to my sister, I listen to my sister in everything." Yuhuan reiterated again: "Then promise my sister that when I grow up, I will become a soldier and avenge my father!"

Baishun said, "I...I'll go..." Yuhuan was dissatisfied with the timidity of the voice: "Speak louder!" Baishun raised his face and said loudly: "Sister, I'm going to be a soldier! Go and avenge my father!" Yuhuan just hugged her younger brother in her arms and burst into tears. While crying, she knelt down again facing the grave: "Father, you... did you hear me? Your son Sun Baishun is not a coward, you didn't hurt for nothing Him! He will go to Zhang Tianxin to settle accounts..." Pulled by Yuhuan, Baishun also knelt down in front of his father's grave, and according to his sister Yuhuan's request, he swore a blood oath of revenge to his father.

On that night, Deputy Brigadier Tang and Mrs. Tang came to pick them up in a carriage. Deputy Brigadier Tang had just come out of Zhang Tianxin's officer detention center, dark and thin, with a tired face; Mrs. Tang also seemed to have just recovered from a serious illness.In such embarrassment, the Tang couple did not forget the big brother and the little children of the big brother who were sworn brothers. Yuhuan and Baishun were really moved. The siblings called "Uncle" and "Auntie" and threw themselves into the arms of Deputy Brigadier Commander Tang and his wife.

Deputy Brigadier Tang and Mrs. Tang responded repeatedly, asking them to pack up and move to Tang's house immediately. Yuhuan's aunt came out to stop her, saying that with her as an aunt, it was not easy to bother others so much. Deputy Brigadier Tang said, "I'm not someone else. Don't Yuhuan and I have multiple surnames?" After listening to Deputy Brigadier Tang's narration, I realized that not only was Deputy Brigadier Tang and his father brothers, but his father had also saved Deputy Brigadier Tang's life.This pair of old brothers went out to serve as soldiers to eat food together, and participated in the New Army Uprising together. They lived and died together for more than ten years, and their friendship was deep.

Deputy Brigadier Tang persuaded Yuhuan's aunt, and said to their siblings: "Let's go, son, from now on, your uncle and aunt's home will be your home. If you have uncle and aunt, you will have one." Do it." Yuhuan said: "Uncle, I don't want anything, as long as Baishun grows up to serve as a soldier with you." Deputy brigade commander Tang smiled bitterly: "What kind of soldier should you be? Once Xihe was defeated, the brothers in our brigade died and surrendered. As the saying goes, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered. Uncle, the deputy brigade commander is no longer a brigade commander. Baishun returned What kind of soldier are you?" With a long sigh, Deputy Brigadier Tang said: "Furthermore, Uncle also looked away. It's not a good thing to serve as a soldier and lead the army. Let's just keep our heads down and be a commoner. Uncle and Aunt still have some capital. You grow up Let's learn how to do business with Uncle in the future. I will never be thirsty or hungry..." Only then did Yuhuan realize that while the bullet at Xihe Station killed her father, it also annihilated Deputy Brigadier Tang's military dream. When his father was gone, so was Deputy Brigadier Tang. Deputy Brigadier Tang didn't want to take revenge. , going into business. Yuhuan turned her head and said, "Then...then I won't go with you, my brother and I will go with my aunt." Deputy Brigadier Tang was very upset and said, "Why are you so stubborn? Your aunt is not your uncle or uncle, but also his wife, and there is such a big family. Aren't you making trouble for your aunt!" Yuhuan's aunt said: "It's nothing. It's good to be here. There are many cousins, so I'm not lonely." Deputy Brigadier Tang resolutely said: "It's better to live with us. We have no children, so we want to have fun." Then he persuaded Yuhuan again: "Ni, don't make things difficult for you, Uncle Tang, let's go!" Yuhuan stared blankly at Deputy Brigadier Tang, still insisting on her own opinion: "Uncle, I... I will go with you, you must promise me that when you grow up, you will let Baishun serve as a soldier!" Deputy Brigadier Tang had no choice but to nod his head and said, "Okay, okay, I promise, can I promise? It's just that Baishun is still young, so it's not time to talk about this, is it?" Yuhuan was speechless.Deputy Brigadier Tang said again: "Ni, don't worry, you won't forget your father, and I won't forget my elder brother either!" Seeing that Deputy Brigadier Tang spoke sincerely, Yuhuan dragged his younger brother into Deputy Brigadier Tang's carriage, bid farewell to his deceased parents and aunt's family, and went to Tangji eighty miles away.Not long after they were on the road, Baishun fell asleep amidst the creaking wheels.How did Baishun know the heavy responsibility of being a son of man on his shoulders at that time?