As Pei Yuanzheng walked deeper, the sound of insects became clearer.
After walking for about ten minutes, Ruan Niannian was almost falling asleep in his arms when she heard Pei Yuanzheng calling her.
"Nian Nian, look quickly."
Ruan Niannian opened her eyes from a daze, and saw a hazy light in front of her.
Where is she?
I raised my hand and rubbed my eyes, and the haziness became clearer and clearer, flying in the night sky, like little lanterns dancing in the wind.
There are flocks of fireflies!
The originally dark night sky was illuminated by these fireflies, making her feel extremely comfortable and warm, as if she was lying in her mother's arms.
Although...the embrace she was in was a little hard, but it didn't matter.
"Let me down." Ruan Niannian hooked her legs, and her voice, which had just woken up, was a little nasal, naughty and cute.
Pei Yuanzheng gently put her on the ground and introduced her: "Wife, this is a valley, not far from our village. The surrounding terrain is quite steep, so no one should have discovered it yet."
When he spoke, Ruan Niannian was happily chasing fireflies. Her lively and light-hearted figure caught the man's eyes, and his steel-like firm eyes softened the years.
"It's so beautiful!" Ruan Niannian ran back and held Pei Yuanzheng's hand and exclaimed.
Pei Yuanzheng looked at her happy smile and felt that this was the first time he had seen it in all these days. As expected, sharing can make people happy.
He stared at Ruan Niannian and praised, "Yes, it's very beautiful."
People are beautiful but don't know it.
Hearing his agreement, Ruan Niannian pulled him into the territory of fireflies. There was a warm and tiny light all around, which made the place particularly bright.
Ruan Niannian looked at Pei Yuanzheng, whose face had softened, and asked him, "Brother Yuanzheng, how did you find this place?"
Pei Yuanzheng paused slightly, his eyes went blank for a moment, then quickly focused again.
He looked at Ruan Niannian's pretty face and said, "That's a long story, wife, are you willing to listen to me?"
"Uh-huh."
Ruan Niannian found a place to sit without getting tired, pulled Pei Yuanzheng to sit down, hugged his arm and leaned on his shoulder, "Tell me, this place doesn't seem easy to find, and from your tone, it seems like you knew about this place a long time ago."
"You must have been very young at that time. How did you find this place?"
This was indeed a story from a very old time. Pei Yuanzheng emptied his mind and slowly told the story that had been hidden in his heart for many years.
"When I was little, my mother didn't love me the most."
"Our place has been a village dedicated to reserving soldiers for war since a long time ago."
"Our ancestors were all brave and good at fighting. Whenever we recruited soldiers, our village was always the one that responded with the most volunteers. The men in our village were also braver and better at fighting than soldiers from other places."
"So, once they are conscripted into the army, very few of them can come back."
"I grew up listening to stories about our ancestors' battles."
"I'm getting off topic. Let me tell you how I found this place."
"When I was young, my mother was fair to my brothers and me, but people are always biased. Maybe because my eldest brother was her first child, she would always favor him a little more."
"Our village has preserved the tradition of the older generation. Whenever the army recruits soldiers, every household will voluntarily send a male to serve in the army."
"The one in front of me is our village's captain, Pei Qingshan. He has an average physique and cannot join the special operations force. He is also the only soldier in our village who has not joined the special operations force in all these years."
"So even if he retires and becomes the captain, there will still be some people in the Zhang family who will not accept him."
"After he retired, the conscription came soon, and it happened to be our family's turn."
"I had just turned 18 at the time, so it was definitely not my turn."
"Besides, my eldest brother, who was favored by our mother since he was young, is tall and strong, and his physical fitness is beyond the reach of our three younger brothers."
"It was also in that year that my eldest brother met my eldest sister-in-law. For her sake, he refused to join the army no matter what. He knew that with his physical fitness and ability, it would be a safe bet for him to join the special operations force. He and my eldest sister-in-law were very close at the time, and he would quarrel with my mother as soon as he got home."
"She said that his mother raised him to this size just to send him to the army and die."
"How could mother know that Brother Qingshan would step down so soon?"
"Because my mother was deeply hurt by him during that time, she no longer forced him to go, and instead asked us three brothers who was willing to go."
"My second and third brothers were silent. They didn't want to go. My second brother was honest. He was also dating my second sister-in-law at that time. He was willing to go, but my second sister-in-law's family told him in advance that if he went to the army, the marriage would be cancelled, and they would find another family for my second sister-in-law."
"As for the third brother, he has always been more cunning. Logically, the eldest and second brothers had their reasons for not going, and he was the one who should have gone to the army between the two of us. But in order to avoid going to the army, he ate rat poison without saying a word, and it was not easy to save him."
"Although mother favors my eldest brother, we three were also born from her womb, so she naturally felt bad for us. It was not easy to save my third brother, and she couldn't let him go to the army when he could die at any time. Mother begged me with tears and even knelt down in front of me."
"In fact, I wanted to go from the beginning. I grew up listening to those stories. At that time, I had not yet begun to think about starting a family, so naturally I wanted to join the army and give it a try."
"But, I felt that among the three older brothers, it would never be my turn, so I didn't say anything. Who knew that in the end, everyone except me would have a reason not to go."
"I was very happy to join the army, but my mother felt guilty about letting me join the army when I was just 18 years old. She was very cautious with me at home and didn't believe me no matter how I said I volunteered."
"Even my eldest and second brothers looked as if they felt sorry for me. I felt very depressed at home before I went to the army."
"Wherever I went, my family members stared at me with guilty eyes. I ran out that night to get some fresh air. I ran to the mountain alone to relax. I slipped and fell down without paying attention."
"I didn't get hurt, but I found this place."
"I stayed there all night that night. I thought they didn't know I was out, but they looked for me all night. Later, I joined the army. Because of my outstanding individual combat ability, I was soon selected into the special forces."
"From that time on, my mother thought I might die outside, and I became her favorite son instead of my eldest brother. She always felt that my allowances and bonuses were earned with my life, so no one in the family was allowed to use them, not even herself."
After listening to this rather long story, Ruan Niannian didn't know whether she should smile and congratulate him for getting what he wanted, or hug him and comfort him, telling him that everything was over.
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