Aunt Sun had gotten too much sleep during the day and wasn't sleeping very soundly at night. She heard Suihe open the front door, and then a few moments later, the sound of the door being locked. Worried, she got up to check. As soon as she left the house, she saw four young men in her kitchen.
Seeing Aunt Sun coming out, the few people who had just arrived quickly stood up to greet her, looking at Aunt Sun with full respect. When Aunt Sun saw these people, she immediately thought of her son, and holding back her tears, she asked the children to sit down and eat.
When the four of them arrived at the county town, there was no car available. Suihe had already said on the phone that it was a secret operation, so they could not contact the local troops. The four of them came directly from the county town.
There were two people Aunt Sun had seen before, and she could even call them by their nicknames: Lao Gao and Mimiyan. They had come with He to deliver something to the family home when Sun Yonggeng died. She didn't know the other two, but Suihe said they were new members of their group who had joined last year.
Lao Gao ate the meal that Suihe had prepared in advance with big mouthfuls. He was so hungry after running all the way. When he heard Aunt Sun calling out his and Mimiyan's names, he remembered them and quickly put down the bowl in his hand. He wiped his hands, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and then held Aunt Sun's hands with both hands.
At this point, Aunt Sun couldn't hold back her tears and started to flow. Looking at Aunt Sun's pain, Lao Gao thought of his parents. If he died in the mission, they would probably live in the same pain. He was from Shandong and had a temperamental personality. He would do what he thought and then shouted loudly: "Mom! I'm back!"
Aunt Sun felt as if all her strength was drained away in an instant, and she sat down on the ground, unable to move.
The cry of "Mom" woke up those people who were eating frantically. They put down their bowls and came over to Auntie, shouting "Mom". Auntie Sun was shaking all over and bursting into tears. When she opened her mouth to cry, people saw that her lower lip was bleeding because she had been biting it too hard to hold back.
Looking at the concerned faces, Aunt Sun took a long time to calm down. Lao Gao and the others helped her up and asked her to eat the food while it was still hot.
Suihe remained seated on the bench without moving, having just finished his cigarette when he lit another.
After finishing the meal, they each drank two glasses of water, finally taking a break. Squint quietly handed Auntie something thin. Auntie Sun didn't know what it was, so she looked at Squint with a questioning look.
With narrowed eyes, he pointed at the room where Auntie had just come out and told her to go back inside and watch. He placed his index finger on his lips and made a "hush" gesture. Auntie Sun knew that this was specially given to her, not wanting her comrades to know.
She took the two slightly thick pieces of paper that Mimiyan had given her and hurried back to her room. When she turned on the light and looked at them, she couldn't control her tears and burst into tears. It turned out that the photos that Mimiyan had given her were photos of Sun Yonggeng taken when he was in the army.
Taking photos was very expensive in this era, and there was no photo of her son at home, so when she saw this photo, she felt like she had seen her son, and now she was shedding tears of joy.
There were two photos: one was a one-inch photo of Old Sun in his uniform, the other a group photo of their group. The one was probably the one Mimiyan had secretly torn from a document. The group photo was taken after they had showered in the team. They were all wearing large vests, shorts, and slippers, shoulder to shoulder, arms around each other, their faces beaming. Seeing this photo, you're instantly infected by the smiles, instantly feeling the joy of the people in the photo.
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