Chapter 197 He didn’t come?
Huo Jianguo's footsteps were once again nailed to the spot by the troops' urgent recall.
At this moment, heavy rain fell without any warning.
The voice in his heart was telling Huo Jianguo that if he didn't go to Su Mei's house today, apologize to her and coax her into submission, then there would be an irreparable rift in the relationship between him and Su Mei.
But as a soldier, reason told Huo Jianguo that he should rush to the battlefield without hesitation, because that was his duty as a soldier.
His hands were clenched into fists, and the veins on his arms bulged out from under his invisible military uniform, as if he was struggling with the knots in his heart.
But the entanglement was only a momentary thing. In almost an instant, Huo Jianguo changed the direction of his feet, turned around and walked towards the village committee radio studio.
Although he felt extremely painful, Huo Jianguo had no choice but to make this choice.
When he arrived at the village committee, he used the only landline in the village committee to call the troops back. Chu Zhongtian said that an undercover agent sent by the army to investigate arms smuggling was exposed in the enemy's territory and was taken hostage by the black arms leader.
That place happened to be on the border between China and Myanmar. The enemy was on the Myanmar side, and the black army chief there had said that if they wanted the undercover agent to come back alive, Huo Jianguo would have to come forward in person to pick him up.
The younger brother of the arms chief was killed by Huo Jianguo many years ago.
Now that person wants Huo Jianguo to come forward, it is obvious that he has bad intentions, but he has hostages in his hands, and he specifically asks Huo Jianguo to rescue the people. Chu Zhongtian has no choice but to call Huo Jianguo.
The troops will send a car to arrange Huo Jianguo to return to the troops as quickly as possible.
After receiving the news, Huo Jianguo said on the phone:
"I will leave immediately. Please send a car to the town to pick me up and take me to the train station. I will return to the unit as quickly as possible."
After hanging up the phone, Huo Jianguo walked out of the village committee. He looked deeply in the direction of Su Mei's mother's home, and then walked towards the town with heavy steps in the storm.
In the sky, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, like a waterfall pouring down from the sky, submerging the entire mountain village in water.
The fields in the mountain village became a vast ocean, and the crops swayed in the rain, as if fighting against the wind and rain.
The rain flooded the low places and formed small ponds.
Su Mei walked towards Su's house in such a rainstorm and against the wind.
She also didn't expect that when she walked out of Su's house, there was a crescent moon hanging in the sky, but it suddenly started raining when she was only halfway there.
When the rain fell, Su Mei suddenly hated herself. She hated herself for deliberately slowing down her pace while walking.
I shouldn't have been expecting Huo Jianguo to catch up with me all the way.
Although she couldn't be said to be completely devoted to Huo Jianguo, after all, they had been together for a year. During this year, Huo Jianguo took care of all the housework, handed over all her wages, cared about her and gave her all the love he could.
Even though there is no love, Su Mei is not completely attracted to Huo Jianguo. It's just that her attraction is restrained by her reason, so she doesn't fall so deeply in love.
But she still has expectations for Huo Jianguo.
When she ran out angrily, she hoped that Huo Jianguo would catch up with her. Even though she had only walked halfway, Su Mei still did not give up this expectation.
She had imagined more than once that Huo Jianguo would suddenly rush up from behind and pull her into his arms as she walked in the dark.
With such expectation in mind, Su Mei bravely walked one distance after another.
As a real time traveler, Su Mei firmly believes that there are evil things in the world. She is afraid of walking at night, for she is afraid that while she is walking, a beautiful woman like Chu will suddenly appear from nowhere and take her life.
She looked back frequently as she walked.
Every time she looked back, she comforted herself and told herself, it's okay, he will catch up soon!
But as they were about to arrive at the Su family, Su Mei's heart began to dim a little.
No matter how many times she turned her head, there was no one behind her.
He didn't come?
Until there was a sudden thunder in the sky and it started to rain. Su Mei was soaked by the heavy rain. When her body started to feel cold, her heart also felt cold.
It turns out that the man is no different from his elder brother Huo Jianjun. Knowing that it was his mother who was making trouble, he still chose to let her walk alone in this desolate mountain wilderness?
Isn't he worried? Doesn't he know if she will be afraid?
A feeling of disappointment surged in her heart, and Su Mei unconsciously quickened her pace. However, because she felt uncomfortable, she kept her head down while walking. In addition, it was too dark and she did not notice the stones under her feet. She accidentally stepped on a dead branch.
A sharp pain came from her ankle, and Su Mei cried in pain.
She obviously thought she was a strong person, but now she fell to the ground, her body covered in mud. For a moment, she couldn't help but burst into tears in the darkness and heavy rain.
Obviously, getting into university is a good thing. Even in an orphanage, the moment she was admitted to university, she was the pride of everyone in the orphanage. Why did it turn out like this?
The rain soaked her clothes, making Su Mei's whole body cold, even her bones seemed to be frozen.
She gritted her teeth and propped herself up, trying to stand up. However, as soon as she moved, she felt a piercing pain in her ankle, which almost made Su Mei faint.
Su Mei could only walk on tiptoe on her injured foot. She tried to raise her head to see the road ahead, but because of the heavy rain, all she could see was the vast mist and she couldn't see anything clearly.
Along the way, she gritted her teeth and moved her feet with difficulty. She didn't know where she found a wooden stick, but she stuck it on the ground and walked step by step.
She had never experienced such misery even in the orphanage, but she still gritted her teeth and persevered, moving forward little by little, and finally staggered into the gate of the Su family's yard.
The room was dark, but the voices of Su's father and mother chatting could be faintly heard.
Soaking all over and with tears streaming down her face, she knocked on the distant gate of her home.
"Who is it?" Bai Xiaofang's familiar voice rang out from inside the house, and soon someone opened the yard door from inside.
After seeing who was in the room, Su Mei was filled with grievances and threw herself on the man without caring about anything else, crying incoherently:
"Fifth brother!"