After entering the house, there was a strong aroma of medicine. Lying on the bed in the back room was an old man in his fifties. The old man looked sick and looked very haggard.

"father……"

Seeing his father's appearance, Wen Depeng, who was originally worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief. His face looks much better now than in previous years.

"The boss is back..."

When the old man lying on the bed saw his son, he immediately became energetic and pointed feebly at the chair beside the table. After Wen Depeng sat down, he looked at his son carefully.

"I am stronger and more energetic than before. These clothes are beautiful. Your father and I have never worn clothes like this in our lives..."

His father's words only made Wen Depeng's eyes heat up. He, as his son, has not been able to put on good clothes for his father until now.

"Dad, you are unfilial at that time."

Wen Depeng knelt down from the chair to the ground and took two heavy bites.

"Okay, there is no such thing as filial piety or lack of filial piety. Loyalty and filial piety are hard to achieve...cough..."

Hearing the sound of coughing, Wen Depeng quickly helped his father up and patted his back to calm him down.

"Stop taking pictures. It's an old problem. I'll get better by myself if I take a spring break..."

Wen Si, who had already sat up, glanced at his son and asked

"How many days will you stay when you come back this time?"

"My son, I won't leave..."

Squeaking, Wen Depeng said with his face flushed.

"I, I'm thinking of hiding for a few days, waiting for the troops to leave, and then no one will ask when I come back..."

"Oh...cough...cough...fuck, bring that certificate, that certificate..."

Ms. Wen Li, who was leaning against the door, quickly took out a cloth bag from the cabinet and handed it to Wen Si. Her trembling hands lifted the cloth, revealing a red notebook...

"Two months ago, the officials in this city brought this red book with gongs and drums, saying..."

Without even looking at his son, Wen Si opened the red book.

"It's said that I raised a...cough...cough...arrogant son who is a soldier of the Expeditionary Army...cough...what kind of army is it? At that time, your father, I didn't know you were...cough, cough...

... They didn’t say anything in the letter, but they said that the expeditionary force was going to fight foreigners and earn respect for China’s soldiers. Our whole family is, uh, "members of the expeditionary force." This bronze plaque is still hanging on the door..."

While talking, Wen Si looked at the red book

"My son is going to fight foreigners to earn face for China so that foreign devils will not dare to look down on us anymore..."

Wen Depeng's eyes were looking at the handwriting on the open notebook, which contained the names of several people in his family, and there was another sentence below:

“With this certificate, you can enjoy the priority to participate in or invest in public undertakings, and you can also enjoy low-cost preferential treatment when purchasing items in public stores and other public undertakings, as well as free mailing and other rights. If your family members are in school, they should enjoy full benefits.

Free compulsory education, and medical treatment in public hospitals shall be free of medical expenses..."

"Your second brother has entered the factory, your third brother, and your eldest sister are now in school. Even your father got this medicine for free from the hospital. The whole family, young and old, is all benefiting from you."

After saying this, Wen Sifang looked at his son

"My father's life has been useless. I haven't left you any family fortune. On the contrary, it is still a drag. If you don't want to go, your father won't force you. He can turn around and ask your mother to send this book back..."

Then Wen Si stopped talking, and Wen Depeng looked at his father who had closed his eyes. He knew that if he sent this certificate back with his father's temper, he might...

"Dad, I'm going, I'm going..."

Kneeling down again, Wen Depeng's words were filled with tears and he kept biting his head.

"I will definitely not embarrass our Wen family and our Chinese people..."

Ms. Li, who was writing on the doorframe, was already crying. Who wants to see her son die, but...

"Why are you crying? It's not about separation between life and death..."

Bending down to pull his son, Wen Si also had tears in his old eyes.

"Our Wen family comes from the sage King Zhou Wen..."

Just like in the past, Wen Si was talking about the history of the "Wen family" again.

"There is righteousness in the world. Who is this talking about? It is Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty. From then on, our surname Wen has been the righteousness of our country..."

Perhaps because he had talked too much, Wen Si's face was morbidly red. Even so, his face looked very excited. After finally talking about the glorious history of the "Wen family", he looked at

The son said in a very serious tone

"This time you are going to go on an expedition with the army. This is different from the past. You are going to earn face for China. You can go happily if..."

Looking at his son seriously, Wensi's voice became hoarse.

"I have three sons, and two of them are filial, so they are worthy of our ancestors. If you die in the war, our family can be worthy of the ancestors of the Wen family, and worthy of the "righteousness" of the Wen family."

Dad's words only made Wen Depeng nod his head heavily, but his mother, who was leaning against the door, had already burst into tears.

"Cry, there's nothing to cry about. I, Wen Si, am useless in this life, but I have a good son, a good son..."

While shouting, Wen Si also started to cry. Who is willing to let his son die? No one is willing.

"Go and buy some vegetables. Today I have to toast our son..."

Drunk. On this day, Wen Depeng, who rarely drank, was as drunk as a dead man. While drinking, he kept repeating one sentence

"Don't worry, Dad, I will not disgrace the upright people of the Wen family..."

While eating, Mrs. Wen and Li kept putting meat into her son's bowl, saying "How much, eat enough...", while the second, third, and Dani wanted to eat meat every time.

, everyone was interrupted by Wen Li with chopsticks, or Wen Depeng gave the meat to his brothers and sisters, and they just had a good time.

The next day, Wen Depeng, who had a splitting headache, did not stay at home. Early in the morning, he put on his military uniform, had a drink in front of his parents' door, and then left the house quietly. He did not see

, when he left, the wrinkled Wen Si looked at his son with tears in his eyes by the broken window.

"Come back alive..."

Inaudible words came out of Wen Si's voice...

After walking out of the house, Wen Depeng walked out of the alley without looking back. When the neighbors on the road saw him, they would always smile at him and say hello warmly, but at this time he did not

In any mood to pay attention to the enthusiasm of the neighbors, his heart felt blocked and astringent. After walking for more than an hour, when he arrived at the meeting point near the train station, he saw dozens of people standing at the meeting point with very complicated expressions.

Brothers, they...

Looking at each other, almost everyone had a wry smile on their face. At this time, someone didn't know who sighed.
Chapter completed!