Liang Shouxin had been staring at Ye Qing. He only looked away and sighed when he heard Qin Ye's question.
"Your aunt Pei Ru is a good friend of your mother. When we were getting ready to leave, your mother saw us off! Pei Ru's belly was already very big at that time. I really shouldn't have taken her with me!"
Liang Shouxin closed his eyes and began to recall.
It was a war-torn era. The men had won a battle on the front line and were celebrating happily when he suddenly heard the news that Pei Ru was about to give birth.
He left the celebration party and rushed home immediately.
By the time he got home their little daughter had been born.
He said: "My little daughter is so beautiful! Other people's newborn babies are wrinkled and not pretty at all, but my daughter was born with a fair complexion, two big eyes, and two eyeballs rolling around. She is so cute."
"I think I must have been the happiest father in the world at that time. My eldest daughter stayed in my hometown, and I took care of my wife during her confinement. I was so happy to see my little girl every day."
"Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. That day, not long after Peiru's full moon, I suddenly heard the assembly call at night, and I knew something was going to happen."
"I quickly handed the child to Peiru, and asked Aunt Zhang next door to help keep an eye on him, and then hurried to the gathering."
"I had no idea that the war would be so brutal. Almost all of our troops were killed, but the enemy still kept coming."
"After that, I didn't know anything. I completely lost consciousness before the rescue arrived. When I woke up again, I was already in the medical team. The medical conditions at that time were very poor! I was seriously injured and there was almost no hope of survival."
"At this time, Aunt Zhang ran over with the child in her arms and said that my wife had been captured. If she hadn't taken the child out, the child would have been killed on the spot."
"I know our chances of winning this time are slim, and I also know that Peiru has little hope of survival in the hands of the enemy."
He spoke calmly, but Qin Ye's hands clenched tighter and tighter.
He was also a person who had participated in a war. Although the war he participated in could not be compared with that of his predecessors, he could imagine the cruelty at that time and his despair in that situation.
He felt his voice begin to tremble: "And then? Did you win? How about that child...how about that child?"
Liang Shouxin closed his eyes in pain: "Two days later, our medical team was also dispersed. I had no hope of escaping with my child, so I had to entrust the child to a comrade who still had the strength to run away."
"I know he is also seriously injured and there is a high probability that he will not be able to escape. However, I can't just watch my child die in front of me. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I want to fight for it!"
Qin Ye thought for a moment and asked again: "Didn't you leave her something meaningful at the time? So that it would be convenient for you to recognize each other in the future?"
Liang Shouxin shook his head: "Where is the time! Besides, the situation was urgent and there was no room for any delay. Every second of delay could cost a life!"
"Later, I was saved miraculously, but Peiru... Peiru was killed by the enemy in front of the two armies."
Old tears rolled down his cheeks.
How could Liang Shouxin still be the mighty hero at this moment? He was clearly a lonely old man who had lost his loved ones and relatives.
"Then I returned to the capital, and with a glimmer of hope, I began to inquire about the current situation of my comrade."
Qin Ye became even more nervous, and even Ye Qing couldn't help but become nervous.
"What happened next? Did you find out?"
Liang Shouxin looked at Ye Qing and shook his head slowly: "Some say he died in that battle, some say he retired and returned to his hometown after being injured, and some say he escaped in that war and became a deserter."
"I don't believe it! None of our soldiers are cowards! How could he be a deserter?!"
"Later, I went to look up his specific information, hoping to find his hometown to see if he had actually returned."
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