Perhaps the little guy saw Wu Yanxu walking towards him in military uniform, so he kicked with more vigor and method, comparable to Ma Xiaobing.
"Listen to my command, stand still!" Wu Yanxu shouted, and the little guy lifted his right foot and stood still. Seeing Wu Yanxu saluted him, he also returned the salute in a proper manner, then laughed and turned around and ran back to his grandmother.
Wu Yanxu saluted the grandfather and grandson again. The little guy in front of him reminded him of the time when Ma Xiaobing stepped on Jian Ning's feet. He came back just like that. It would be a lie to say that he didn't miss Tian and his sons.
He became Ma Fuquan, and Ma Xiaomai and the other two always regarded him as their father, and he also treated them as his own sons. He was confused now, was this adventure a blessing or a curse?
Overall, he is still more lucky. Thinking about his daughter circling around him like a happy little swallow these past two days, and Wu Juan's eyes always hiding a faint smile of peace and tranquility, he feels that he is still lucky!
After more than five years away, Hecheng alone has changed dramatically. Just like yesterday afternoon, he was not in a hurry to go back, but instead took a look around. He attended elementary and junior high school in Chenhe County, Hecheng City, and high school at Hecheng No. 1 Middle School.
He took two buses to No. 1 Middle School. They had a new campus and a rebuilt gate, but the old building remained. He stopped by the ping-pong table. Every Saturday, after selling vegetables in Laoshi Town, Wu Juan would take the two-hour bus ride just to visit him at school, clean his dorm, wash his clothes, and slip some of her vegetable money under his pillow or in his books.
Every time Wu Juan came, he would hide by the ping-pong table. When Wu Juan left, she would come here to find him. He would always tell her with a blank expression not to come again.
Although he used the excuse that he didn't want her to be scolded for lack of money after she returned, he was actually very annoyed that his father-in-law always warned him not to be like Chen Shimei who went to the city and spent his time there. He also said in words and deeds that he would marry one of his two daughters in the future and take care of them in their old age, so he should not go against his conscience.
But in fact, since he was admitted to the police academy and started working, his father-in-law never asked him for money, nor did he make any demands on him after he became the captain of the special police. He only called to scold him when he did not go home during the holidays.
At this moment, Wu Yanxu stood here, and the past scenes flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern. He found that he had been really stubborn in the past. Why couldn't he change his mind? Now that he thought about it, he probably would have married Wu Juan even if his father-in-law hadn't forced him to.
Humans are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? He just disliked the feeling of being forced by his father-in-law, or maybe he knew that Wu Juan cared about him. Their family was from the countryside near the town. After he came to the city to study, Wu Juan also learned to dress herself up and tied her hair into a high ponytail like the girls in the city. Every time she came to school, she would change into clean clothes that she had hidden in her backpack in advance, just to please him and not embarrass him.
Why did he ignore and hurt her just because he was angry with his father-in-law?
Wu Yanxu now finds it incredible when he thinks about the past. At that time, he stubbornly thought that by ignoring Wu Juan he was indirectly taking revenge on his father-in-law, but in fact he was not happy in his heart. While hurting Wu Juan, he also hurt himself.
The more I think about my past, the more of an asshole I am!
After walking around outside, Wu Yanxu saw a young man in a police uniform looking out from his yard, holding a few books and a pile of information. Seeing him approach, the young man smiled and said, "Hello, is this Wu Yanxu, Captain Wu?"
"Hello, it's me. May I ask who you are?"
"Oh, I'm Gu Guangming, the little Gu from the Municipal Bureau. These are the books and information our deputy director asked me to find for Team Wu. I just graduated from the police academy and am a trainee officer at the Municipal Bureau. There's a note in the first book with my phone number on it. If you have any questions, Team Wu, please feel free to contact me at any time."
Gu Guangming took out the note and gave it to Wu Yanxu, a very sunny and talkative young man. It was obvious that he had heard about Wu Yanxu, and his young face was full of admiration.
"Thank you. Would you like to come in and sit for a while?" Wu Yanxu took the note, looked at it, put it in his pocket and asked politely.
Gu Guangming hesitated. He really wanted to stay and chat with Wu Yanxu for a while, but remembering that he was still in the trainee period, it would be inconvenient for him to leave his post for too long. He smiled and said, "Next time, I'll come visit you during my break. See you later."
"Okay, see you later. I won't see you off."
Wu Yanxu took the books and materials back to the house and flipped through them. Suddenly, he remembered that Jian Ning said that the reason he felt familiar with the Jiguana Mountain was probably because the book Wu Juan read to him also happened to mention Jiguana Mountain. He hurriedly put down the books and materials and searched in the bookcase.
After searching for a while, he couldn't find the book. He called Wu Juan, but she didn't answer after a while, probably because she was busy. His home was close to the hospital, so he decided to go find her and help her with some work.
Wu Juan refused to let him help, but he insisted. So she took him to the rooftop to air-dry the washed sheets and quilts. Back in their hometown, Wu Yanxu often helped her hang out the quilts. On the rooftop, Wu Yanxu pulled a quilt from a bucket, and the two of them naturally did what they always did: one grabbed one end, shook it flat, and then attached it to the rope.
"Little Gu from the Municipal Bureau just sent me some books and materials." Wu Yanxu told her while patting the sheets that were hung out to dry.
"Then why are you coming to the hospital instead of reading at home? This little work won't tire me out, so why do I need you to help me?" Wu Juan smiled and pursed her lips.
"I have something to ask you." Wu Yanxu smiled. "After being bedridden for a few years, my mind has actually become clearer. I often hear you talking to me and reading to me. Sometimes I have intermittent dreams, but I don't remember most of them when I wake up. I only remember seeing a mountain in my dream. It looked a bit like a rooster crowing with its neck stretched out. I don't know if it was a dream or I heard you describe it to me, but I remember this one thing anyway."
"That's what I saw in a book. The mountain is called Jiguan Mountain."
"Jiguan Mountain?" What a coincidence, it was also called Jiguan Mountain. Wu Yanxu asked her, "Which book is it from?"
"It doesn't seem to be a book. Oh, it's a newspaper. It's published in the newspaper. I put those newspapers in the storage room of the dirty laundry. Do you want to read it?"
"Look, go down there later and find it so I can take a look."
After the two went downstairs, Wu Juan rummaged through the storage room and found the newspaper. It was the People's Public Security News, published in the first half of last year, and the author was Wu Zhuoyi.
Wu Yanxu took a look and found that it was a narrative essay. The Jiguana Mountain described by the author was almost exactly the same as what he saw in that time and space. The author mentioned that this was the mountain in his hometown and that he often picked wild fruits on the mountain when he was a child. He became interested and called to get the author's contact number.
When he reported the number, Wu Juan wrote it down for him using her mobile phone. When she showed it to him, he felt that the number looked familiar. After thinking about it, he took out the note that Gu Guangming had given him from his pocket and compared the two.
Hi, what a coincidence, Wu Zhuoyi is actually Gu Guangming.
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