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[Ah? This person appeared in the original novel? Did the heroine's father die in a mission? ]

[He didn't appear in the original novel, but didn't everyone send private messages to the author before? The author suddenly updated the extra chapter today, and a man named Wang appeared and said that his father died together with Meng Cheng]

[Extra? Where is it? I want to check it out too?]

[Just after the original text]

[What is the content of the extra chapter? Is it specifically about the death of the heroine's father? ]

[The extra story is about Meng Zheng meeting a man named Wang. This man's father used to be a soldier with the heroine's father and was also a battalion commander. At that time, the two of them led a mission together, but they died in the end.]

It has been nearly two years since Ye Min first saw the bullet screen. She has become accustomed to seeing important information above her daughter's head from time to time and has developed a strong ability to manage her facial expressions.

But when Ye Min saw the barrage that suddenly appeared, he was still stunned for a moment.

It was this brief pause that gave Chai Guihong and his wife the opportunity to say goodbye. By the time she reacted, they had already taken the child to the Feng family next door.

Because Ye Min didn't allow him to collect the money, Meng Zheng took the five-dollar bill, looked at his mother, then at his father, and asked, "This money..."

"Keep it." Meng Cheng said, "You and your sister will each have half."

Although Meng Zheng attended the seedling class for three years, what he learned was very limited. Chinese was okay, as he was taught a lot of ancient poems. For math, he was just learning numbers before moving up to the senior class, and Ye Min still taught him addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In fact, Ye Min and Meng Cheng are more casual about their children's studies, mainly because the brother and sister are still young. The older one is in a seedling class, and the younger one is less than two years old. It is too early to focus on their studies now.

However, Meng Zheng is very curious and likes to interrupt and ask questions about everything. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are often used in daily life, especially addition and subtraction. If you go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, you must figure out the accounts clearly.

Meng Zheng was very smart, so he asked Ye Min to teach him addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Now, addition and subtraction within three-digit numbers, and multiplication and division below ten are no problem for him.

Meng Zheng quickly worked out that half for each person was RMB 2.50, so he took out a handful of banknotes from his pocket and counted out RMB 2.50 for An An as he walked home.

Although An An already knew that money was a good thing and refused to hand in the New Year's money, she couldn't tell the difference between large and small amounts. When she saw her brother took a bill and gave her such a big handful, she exclaimed "Wow" and put the money in her pocket with a look of surprise.

After watching the two children divide the money, Meng Cheng looked up at Ye Min. Seeing that her face looked a little strange, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Ye Min looked away, smiled and asked, "Aren't you going to pay New Year's greetings? How about a box of biscuits and a pound of ugly apples?"

"That's enough. You don't need to bring much." Meng Cheng walked to the closet, opened the door, took out a box of cookies, picked up a few apples from the box next to it, put them in a cloth bag, and asked before leaving, "Are you really okay?"

"It's really nothing, I just got up too early in the morning and I'm a little sleepy." Ye Min said and deliberately yawned.

Meng Cheng felt relieved and said, "I'll go early and come back early. I'll cook dinner."

"Um."

Ye Min responded, watched him walk out, then retracted her gaze to look at An An, who had taken off her shoes and was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, watching her brother counting money. Her gaze moved slightly upwards and fell on the rapidly refreshing bullet screens.

I guess everyone who received the message went to watch the extra episode. As time went by, there were more and more related discussions on the barrage.

[Although I knew this extra episode would be very sad and prepared myself mentally before watching it, I still cried after watching it]

[Me too! Damn those spies! Our ancestors shed their blood to give them a stable life, but what about them? They were easily bought by foreign forces, causing the people's fighters to shed blood and tears!]

[These people are selfish in nature, like the 500,000 who enjoy the good life brought by their motherland but curse their motherland on the Internet every day]

[Wait, what are you talking about? I don't understand. How is it related to spies again? Isn't Li Wenxiu dead? ]

[Friends who don’t know the situation can go and read the latest extra chapter of the original novel, which talks about the cause of death of the heroine’s father, which is related to the secret agent]

[I heard the latest extra episode is quite cruel, I don't want to watch it, is there any kind person who can give a summary? ]

[To sum up, in early May of this year, Meng Cheng's unit received news in advance that foreign forces had gathered a group of people to bomb the Donghe County bus station. As you know, cars were the main means of transportation in the past, and the bus station was very crowded. In addition, many bus stations in small places did not have any inspections when entering the station. After the unit received this news, Meng Cheng and a battalion commander named Wang were immediately sent to rescue.]

[But no one expected that the real purpose of those people was not to blow up the bus station, and their target was not the ordinary people on the bus, but the soldiers who came to rescue. Each of them was tied with explosives, and they had already controlled the people in the bus station, making it as controlled as a steel tunnel.]

[What the hell! What happened next? ]

[Didn't they say their target was the military? So what if they controlled the bus station like a barrel?]

[Because after the rescue team arrived, they proposed to exchange one soldier for one civilian, double the number of officers, and let them surrender their weapons before entering.]

[What happened next? Did they change people? Was there no other way to deal with this group of people? ]

[Oh my god! I am about to cry just by reading the retelling! ]

【Uoo ...

Seeing this, Ye Min could hardly breathe, and tears welled up, making it impossible for her to remain calm. She wanted to get up and wash her face, but she was afraid of missing the details, so she could only lower her head to wipe away her tears and continue watching with red eyes.

[There may be a way, but it takes time. How can those spies give them time? ]

[Yes, they finally chose to exchange, here is the original text]

[The middle-aged man in front of him took off his glasses, wiped his wet eyes, and continued: "They agreed to the exchange. The cadres went first, and those with brothers and sisters, and those who were married and had children went first. In order to delay time, your father proposed to exchange one by one, and then he went in first. My father coordinated outside, arranged snipers, and looked for opportunities to break through."

"What happened next?"

"Those were all ordinary people, and there weren't as many explosives as they said. Only a few of them actually had explosives strapped to their bodies. After your father went in, he quickly found the breakthrough point and told the sniper the method they had discussed before going in. Then he took advantage of the chaos to eliminate those people carrying explosives and quickly completed the countermeasure.]

[That's not right! Since they have completed the counterattack, how could Meng Cheng die? ]

[Because they missed one person, a woman who was hiding among the hostages pretending to be a pregnant woman, but actually her belly was full of explosives.]

[Meng Zheng asked with red eyes: "Who is that woman?"

But the middle-aged man in front of him just shook his head, slowly closed his eyes and said: "I was only seventeen years old that year. I lost my father suddenly. My whole family was immersed in pain and had no energy to specifically ask about the woman's name. But I remember her last name was Tian. She was from a capitalist family. Her parents died during the Great Movement. She went to the countryside alone as an educated youth."】

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Although Meng Cheng said he would go early and come back early, facing the enthusiasm of his comrades, he couldn't just leave and go. It was half an hour later when he came back.

Ye Min had already calmed down and washed her face, so you couldn't tell that she had just been crying. So when Meng Cheng came back, he didn't think much about it. He just said a few words to her and went into the kitchen.

Since I joined the army, my family would prepare a large table of food every New Year. Because there were so few people, they could not finish the food on the same day, and had to eat leftovers for several days.

But this year during the Chinese New Year, they invited Qian Xiaoyun and his wife and Mr. Dong to come over. Ten dishes were just right for seven people. Except for the leftover old duck soup, they finished all the others in one meal.

As for the duck soup, it was finished by noon today, and we had fresh dishes in the evening.

Meng Cheng didn't do much either. He grilled a fish, fried bacon with garlic, a soup and a vegetable dish, just enough for a family of four. The meal was quick to cook, and with Ye Min's help, they were able to eat just after 5:30.

After the family sat down around the dining table, Meng Cheng first gave a piece of fish belly meat to Ye Min and Meng Zheng, and then to An An.

Although An An has learned to eat with a spoon, she doesn't know how to pick out bones. Not only can the fish meat not have small bones, but the big bones have to be picked out as well.

After selecting the fish meat, Meng Cheng gave the tenderest meat from the fish head to his daughter. There were no bones in the meat, so An An could eat it.

While picking fish and meat for An An, Meng Cheng paid close attention to the other two people at the table.

In fact, Meng Zheng didn't need to pay much attention to him, as he had a good appetite, eating fish and meat at the same time. But Ye Min took only a few bites, and she didn't finish the fish meat she was given until he had served her well.

Meng Cheng thought about it, and waved his hand in front of Ye Min's eyes, waiting for her to come back to her senses and asked, "Is the food not to your liking?"

It was impossible that the food was not to their liking. They were all from Jiangcheng and grew up in the same compound, so their tastes were similar. Besides, Ye Min had joined the army, so Meng Cheng had cooked all the dishes on the table.

Ye Min also replied: "No."

"Then why don't you eat?" Meng Cheng asked, "Did something happen?"

"No, I didn't go out much today, what could have happened?" In order to gain Meng Cheng's trust, Ye Min finished speaking and started to eat with his head down.

But until she finished her bowl of rice, she did not touch any other dishes except the piece of fish.

If Meng Cheng had only slight doubts in his heart when he asked her just now, then after she finished the meal, he was able to be sure - Ye Min was hiding something in her heart.

In front of the children, Meng Cheng did not rush to ask questions. He calmly finished his dinner and cleared the dishes.

According to the custom in my hometown, people do not take a bath on the first day of the Lunar New Year, otherwise their money will be lost or leaked.

Although the Four Olds were eliminated after the founding of the People's Republic of China and feudal superstitions could not be stopped after the Great Movement, many customs are still retained.

Neither Meng Cheng nor Ye Min are superstitious, but they don't take baths very often in winter. During the New Year holidays, Ye Min and Meng Zheng stopped their daily training, and it was not difficult for them to not take a bath for a day, so they took the opportunity to be lazy.

You don't have to take a bath, but you still have to wash your buttocks and feet. After the brother and sister washed their buttocks one after another, Meng Cheng filled a basin of hot water and let them soak their feet together.

While the two were soaking their feet, Meng Cheng called Ye Min back to the room and continued to ask her what was wrong.

Whether to change careers or not is not a trivial matter, and it is not a pleasant thing to talk about. Ye Min originally wanted to talk about this with Meng Cheng after the New Year.

But now that he was blocking her in the room, and he was still trying to get to the bottom of it, Ye Minxin immediately asked, "Have you ever thought about changing your career?"

Meng Cheng was stunned. He never thought that Ye Min was thinking about this. He asked in confusion, "Why do you suddenly want me to change my career?"

"It's not that sudden. Your current salary is good, but military service is also risky, especially since this place is close to the border and you have to go on missions every now and then. Every time you go on a mission, I'm always worried at home, afraid that you'll get hurt or break a leg, and even more afraid of hearing the news that you've died."

In fact, "every few days" is a bit exaggerated. As the country has become more stable, the number of Meng Cheng's missions has been decreasing year by year in recent years, maybe only two or three times a year.

And half of them are disaster insurance.

Yunnan Province is mountainous and rainy in summer, which makes it prone to landslides, mountain torrents, mudslides and other geological disasters. These disasters are not so severe if they are small in scale, but if the affected area is a little larger, it will be difficult for local government staff to complete the rescue work alone, so they will contact the army to dispatch soldiers to assist in the rescue.

But disaster relief is also dangerous. Geological disasters like flash floods are not over after they occur once. As long as it rains, danger may occur at any time during the rescue process, and bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable.

In addition to disaster relief and insurance, Mengcheng also receives special missions from time to time to prevent criminals who secretly enter the country from causing trouble.

Most of those criminals are secretly armed and bring advanced weapons that may not even be available in the country. In the process of stopping them, gunfights may break out at any time, resulting in casualties.

So it was not surprising that Ye Min was worried at home when he went on a mission.

There are many military wives like her in the compound, and some even quarrel with their husbands because of this, or the military wives force their husbands to change their jobs or transfer. This is not because the military wives have low awareness, but because such a life of fear is too tormenting.

In the past, Ye Min had never complained to Meng Cheng. Even when she was angry with An An, because he was on a mission and failed to return in time, which led to An An almost being swapped with Li Wenxiu, she did not blame him loudly.

But she didn't say it, but Meng Cheng couldn't just ignore her, and couldn't flatly refuse her when she first proposed to change her career. But it was also difficult to agree immediately. He studied early, graduated from high school at the age of 17 and went to military school. After graduation, he stayed in the army.

This is not only his career, but also his belief.

After struggling, Meng Cheng finally asked, "Can I have a few days to think about it?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, Ye Min shook her head and said, "Forget it."

"What?"

Ye Min let out a long sigh: "I was just in a bad mood at the moment. I didn't mean to force you to change your career. Just think of me as just going crazy."

"I don't think you're forcing me to change my job," Meng Cheng said quickly. "I understand your concerns. In fact, every time I go on a mission, I get scared myself. I'm afraid that I'll get hurt and become a burden to you and the children. I'm also afraid that something will happen to me and I'll never see you again."

When he just graduated from the military academy, Meng Cheng had no such worries at all. Even after marrying Ye Min and going to the battlefield, he was not afraid of death.

Maybe he becomes more cowardly as he gets older, or maybe it's because he has a wife and children around him and has been living in tenderness for too long, so it's hard to feel fearless like when he first started out.

Meng Cheng looked into Ye Min's eyes and said, "It's not that I don't want to change my career. I'm more reluctant to leave you and the children than the army. It's just that this decision is too important. Give me a few days and I'll think about it, okay?"

Ye Min snuggled into his arms, pressed against his chest, closed her eyes and held back her tears.

She knew that what Meng Cheng said was true. He couldn't bear to leave her, his children, and his home, but he was a soldier after all, and when he was on a mission, he would always put himself last.

That's why in the original book, he would be the first to step forward to exchange hostages.

Besides, is leaving necessarily the best option?

If he applies for transfer now, Meng Cheng may be able to avoid the mission and survive safely, but what about others?

Without him, would anyone else be able to find a breakthrough? Even if they could, someone would definitely stand up like him. Would that person who stood up be without parents, wife, and children?

There was also Captain Wang. Although she always felt that he was not a competent husband or a good father, he was also a living person. He also had a wife and children, and his little daughter was even less than two months old.

And if they hadn't found a breakthrough, more people would have died in that mission. By then, how many families would have fallen into despair?

Thinking of this, Ye Min sat up straight, opened his eyes and said to Meng Cheng: "Wait a little longer."

"Huh?" Meng Cheng was a little confused.

"Don't rush to make a decision. Wait for some time."

If Meng Cheng had stayed in the army and gone on that mission, would he have had no chance of survival?

When Ye Min first saw the barrage, he would answer yes, because it is difficult for people to keep calm and think when they are panicked, and they will become overly pessimistic. The more they think about it, the darker the road ahead will seem, and they cannot see any hope.

But when Ye Min calmed down and thought about it again, he felt that it was not the case.

The bullet screen said that Meng Cheng successfully found a breakthrough after entering, and cooperated with the sniper to stop those people. He and Captain Wang died because they missed a pregnant woman pretending to be a hostage.

After all, in the eyes of many people, the elderly, children, and pregnant women all need protection, and these types of people are naturally able to make people let down their guard.

Who would have thought that a group of criminals would actually hide their secrets after taking hostages, and let their accomplice pretend to be a pregnant woman and hide among the hostages.

But the reason why the person pretending to be a pregnant woman can become a secret weapon is because no one knows about it. However, Ye Min has known their plan for this lifetime. As long as Meng Cheng is reminded to pay attention to the pregnant woman before he goes on a mission, Ye Min believes that he will not be confused again when carrying out the mission.

She could even report in advance that there were spies preparing to cause trouble in Donghe County.

It's just that one has to provide evidence when speaking. It's questionable whether the military leaders can believe her when she says there is a spy.

And whether you believe it or not, someone must be sent to investigate her. Otherwise, how could she, an ordinary military wife, know the spy's plan? And she described it in such detail. Could it be that the enemy deliberately arranged it?

Even if she was making it up, saying that she overheard someone discussing this matter in the city, let alone whether it made sense, how stupid would a spy have to be to find such an unsafe place to discuss this matter? She had to explain the time, place, and people clearly.

There is no small matter when it comes to espionage, and the troops will certainly conduct a thorough investigation.

And one lie often needs another lie to make up for it, and in the end the lies will pile up more and more, and the flaws will also increase more and more. If she can't tell a lie perfectly, it is very likely to get herself into trouble.

Even if she meant well.

I can tell Meng Cheng about this and tell him about the existence of the barrage.

He believed that Meng Cheng would not think she was crazy and would not tell anyone about the barrage, so her safety could be guaranteed.

But even if it was Meng Cheng, he had to have evidence to prove that there were spies. How could he find the evidence? He could only follow the clues of the female educated youth named Tian mentioned on the bullet screen.

But in recent years, educated youth have been sent to the countryside one after another. In the eight brigades under the Hongqi Commune alone, there are hundreds of educated youth who have gone to the countryside.

There are nine communes under Donghe County. Not to mention the large number of educated youth who went to the countryside, there must be at least five or six thousand of them.

The surname Tian is not a small number of people. There are at least a hundred of them among the five or six thousand people. Even if we only look at the female educated youth, there are dozens of suspicious persons.

The place where the educated youth surnamed Tian went to work in the countryside was not necessarily Donghe County. The accident happened at the bus station, so it was very convenient for those people to rush over from the surrounding counties and cities.

Moreover, the flow of people is not that large at this time. The smaller the place, the more likely it is that the appearance of strangers will attract attention.

If they are caught off guard and find themselves exposed, will they change their plans? Or even abandon the plan altogether and lie in wait for the next opportunity?

If so, the situation will certainly become more difficult.

At least she roughly knew what happened in the May mission, and knew that the key point was the pregnant woman. If the operation was postponed, the agent's plan might also change, and even if she had the bullet screen, she would not know the specific mission after the change.

To say or not to say, that is the question.

Ye Min didn't sleep well that night. He kept thinking about this problem in his half-asleep state. He felt groggy when he went to the hospital on duty the next day.

Fortunately, there were not many people coming to see the doctor during the New Year, so they were able to handle it. After getting off work on time, on the way home, Ye Min suddenly had the answer in her mind.

She decided to tell Meng Cheng the truth.

First, she felt that in matters of life and death, time was money. The sooner she told Meng Cheng, the greater his chance of survival would be. The longer she delayed, the more passive his situation would become.

Second, Meng Cheng had been stationed at the border for many years and had dealt with many spies. He had captured so many spies that she couldn't count them with two hands. Even if she racked her brains, she was bound to be inferior to Meng Cheng in this aspect, so she might as well leave the problem to him.

Even if Meng Cheng failed to catch the spy gang with the help of the educated youth named Tian in the end, he would definitely be more attentive when carrying out the mission after knowing the whole story.

The chance of survival is also greater.