Zhou Jiao would never forget to check whether her three sons were injured.
So, after dinner, without waiting for them to speak, she took out her sons' spare clothes and waited for them.
This time it was because of Ping An's dishonest behavior of running away first.
Zhou Jiao's gaze was fixed directly on him, and she looked at her eldest son with a half-smile. "Dabao, will you choose leniency for confessing or severity for resisting?"
Ping An smiled and walked up to her, "Mom, I won't hide it from you. I was just bitten on my arm, but it healed a long time ago. My dad applied medicine on me at the time."
Zhou Jiao's heart tightened, "What bit you?"
Ping An took off his shirt in a very casual manner and pointed to a wound on his right arm. "That's it. Look, it doesn't affect me at all now."
Zhou Jiao leaned in closer and touched it with heartache, "Why are you so careless?" Although she said that, she knew in her heart that making military achievements of all sizes was already a blessing in disguise.
"I was trying to avoid the vital parts and got bitten without paying attention. After I came back, my dad removed the bandages and applied your medicine on me. I was healed in two days."
Zhou Jiao walked around behind him. His back was not much better than her younger son's. The wound had already scabbed off. It was useless for her to say more.
"Mom, this was only our first mission. We've been much more clever since then. Seriously, I won't hide it from you this time. My dad even told us privately that if we get hurt again, he'll join us."
Zhou Jiao snorted, "The Major General has diverted his attention to your father. You must have done something big to piss him off, that's why he said that."
Ping'an winked at Liuyi when he heard this.
"Hey, Mom, it's my turn."
Zhou Jiao happily patted Liuyi, who had squeezed out Ping'an, and said, "You three brothers covered for each other and had a great time."
"That's what you taught me."
Liuyi took off his clothes and turned around. "How is it? Apart from a few insect bites on his bags, your son looks just like he's going on a trip."
Zhou Jiao laughed and slapped his butt, "Just teasing your mother!"
"Mom, you don't know. I don't even feel comfortable taking off my clothes in front of my comrades. You said others have wounds here and there. Does this count as attracting hatred?"
Zhou Jiao was quite curious about her son's achievement and return unscathed, and couldn't help asking, "What happened?"
Liuyi smiled when he heard this. "The three of us brothers can speak the local language and disguise ourselves. It's easy for us to get away with gathering information without revealing any flaws."
Zhou Jiao glanced at him suspiciously. Is it that easy?
"Twice I was with the Fifth Group, and we took a small group through the woods. And guess what? We never encountered a single enemy."
Zhou Jiao's pupils shrank when she heard this, "No one else noticed anything unusual, did they?"
"How could that be! Later, the three of us brothers took turns. But even if we took turns, it wouldn't be a big deal. With our hearing, we could hear everything from far away in the woods."
Zhou Jiao breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. Rest for a few days. Mom will prescribe some medicinal food for you to nourish your body. You won't be able to do that when the holidays come and you have to go back to school."
Liuyi nodded seriously, "Don't worry, we won't play with our lives."
Zhou Jiao patted her three sons' shoulders with relief.
The three brothers smiled at each other, knowing that this hurdle was over.
Wuyi relaxed for a moment, urged his brothers to take a shower, and then he went to his mother and started chatting about the gossip he had just heard.
"Mom, what happened to Uncle Ning? Is he really being sent back to Beijing for emergency treatment? My master uncle and the others are all in the frontline hospital. They are quite skilled doctors."
Thinking of Cheng Shaoning, Zhou Jiao deliberately patted her chest in front of her son and said with a look of relief, "I was so scared that I almost fainted. You didn't see your cousin Ning being rolled out of the operating room wrapped like a mummy. My heart stopped for a while."
Wuyi patted her back quickly and said, "Don't be afraid."
"How could I not be afraid? Your Seventh Uncle had the surgery and said that if I didn't wake up within 24 hours, there would be no help. We were so scared, including your great-grandmother, that we waited outside the ward all night. Your Seventh Uncle even gave me a large IV drip, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to hold on. If a healthy person were to die like this..."
When Zhou Jiao said this, she no longer had any interest in exaggerating in front of her son.
Then this sunny boy has not yet married. If he really becomes a hero, I guess the old lady will follow her grandson.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the old lady looked calm in front of the operating room door.
That was the dignity of a veteran revolutionary. She couldn't cry, much less make a scene. She had to remain calm and collected. She wouldn't lose her soldier's dignity.
Wuyi paused as he patted his mother's back, then continued to pat gently and orderly. In fact, there were many things they didn't dare tell their mother.
People like Cheng Shaoning are already lucky, at least there are still opportunities for rescue. Many of their comrades lost their young lives on the spot.
Especially many of the new recruits, they were only seventeen or eighteen years old. The battlefield was covered in blood and broken limbs were scattered all over the ground.
These cannot be said, and I dare not say them.
"Son, this challenge is considered a success. You won't be joining the army, right? Your two brothers have already entered the military academy, and it's hard for Mom to stop them, but shouldn't you calm down?"
"You don't know yet that on the day the war broke out, your grandma fainted as soon as she entered the house. She was afraid that your grandpa would miss any news about you if he rushed home, so she didn't dare go to the hospital."
"That night, your grandma cried so much that her pillowcase was soaked. Have you ever thought about what would happen to her if something happened to you? She was scared when your grandpa got into trouble."
Wuyi patted his mother's bony back and felt a lump in his throat when he saw her chin which had become as pointed as a cone.
"Mom doesn't mean to force you. Soldiers are indeed great. Without soldiers defending the motherland, what kind of country would there be? But I already have two sons in the army, and I don't want my last son to follow the same path as his brothers.
I'm so tired, and the hardest part is my heart. Whenever the phone rings, I get terrified, worried that I'll hear some bad news..."
Wuyi leaned his head on her shoulder and said, "Mom, I won't leave anymore. I won't go anywhere. I will just stay with you."
Zhou Jiao secretly wiped away the tears from her eyes, "Am I being selfish, Mom? I thought I could let you go your own way, but I can't bear to do that. I really can't bear to do that."
If you have something to do, you might as well let me take your place. Your dad left with you, and I'm the only one waiting for you at home. I'm also afraid."
"Don't be afraid, not only me but my brothers and sisters won't go to the front line anymore. The war is over. From now on, we will all go to school properly and go home to be with you every weekend.
When summer vacation comes, I will take you out to play. Mom, don’t you like jade the most? We secretly made a lot of it this time, you will definitely like it.
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