Chapter 21: Injured and transferred to a clerical position, the little girl steals things
Lin Xiuzhi from Changxing Village was worried. In a hospital thousands of miles away, several men in military uniforms with serious faces were standing at the door of the operating room and were also worried.
A man wearing glasses clenched his fists, his eyes turned red, and he angrily hit the wall, "It's all my fault. If it hadn't been for saving me, the company commander wouldn't have been injured, and wouldn't have..." and wouldn't have been lying in the hospital, dying.
"It's okay. Jiang Xingyan is a lucky guy. He will be fine." Jiang Xingyan's superior said solemnly, praying for him.
The operation lasted four hours. Thinking of Jiang Xingyan being carried into the hospital covered in blood, team leader Qiao Xiangye sighed.
He pondered and said, "Sun Guoan, what happened to you guys at that time?"
The man with glasses wiped his tears with his hands and tried to recall: "Captain, fortunately, we have fulfilled our mission. After we caught the drug dealer, on the way back, we suddenly saw a group of children. I felt that something was wrong, so I asked the company commander not to get off the car."
"But, but..." The man felt his scalp tingling when he recalled the scene at that time.
The leading child had a weird smile on his face and was holding a knife as he killed his companions behind him.
This kind of cruelty was the first time he saw it in a child.
Qiao Xiangye motioned for the man to continue, "What's next?"
"The company commander wanted to go down, but I was confused and went down to stop him. I snatched the knife from the child's hand, but he had a bomb tied to his waist and it was already counting down."
It was too late to hide, and Sun Guoan was ready to sacrifice himself for the country. But the company commander suddenly ran up and kicked the child away. As a result, he failed to grasp the timing well, and the bomb exploded right in front of him.
Because he was protected by the company commander, he only suffered minor skin injuries, but the company commander was covered in blood. If he had not been able to sense his faint breathing, Sun Guoan would have thought that the company commander was dead.
"Captain, it's my fault. If it weren't for me, the company commander wouldn't be like this." Sun Guoan spoke in a hoarse voice and opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Qiao Xiangye looked at the door of the operating room with a depressed look on his face. That was the soldier he most trusted, and he would have a vacation after completing the mission this time.
I thought of what Jiang Xingyan said to me before he left on the mission: "Captain, I haven't been home for almost two years. After this mission, I want to take a vacation."
Qiao Xiangye also agreed. Who knew that fate would play tricks on people? How could a good person...
Every minute and every second in the hospital was torture. Qiao Xiangye suddenly asked, "Has the subsidy for his family been delivered?"
The political commissar behind him nodded and said, "It has been delivered. I wrote a letter before leaving for the banquet. It should have been delivered in two days."
"Okay, that's good."
Qiao Xiangye didn't know how long he stood there. After the lights in the operating room went out, a doctor said, "The patient is saved." Sun Guoan burst into tears on the spot, and the huge stone in his heart fell to the ground.
"However, the patient's condition is not good. The residual force of the bomb affected his entire body, with the most serious injury being his right leg. He may not be able to recover."
Qiao Xiangye wiped his face and said, "Doctor, can we go see him now?"
The doctor shook his head and refused: "Not yet, we need to observe for a week."
Sun Guoan had just put down the stone in his heart, but when he heard the doctor's words, he cried and laughed. He laughed because the company commander was saved, but he cried because the company commander's leg might never be healed in his lifetime.
"Ask more people to watch over him, and don't talk about his family members for now." Qiao Xiangye arranged his men to take turns to look after Jiang Xingyan.
The political commissar following behind him whispered, "Old Qiao, Xingyan's right leg..."
"Let's wait a little longer until the person wakes up. If it really doesn't work, arrange for him to be a regular employee and find him a clerical job." Qiao Xiangye didn't want to let him go either.
Jiang Xingyan is both brave and resourceful. Apart from his somewhat cold temperament, he is perfect in other aspects. He trains very hard and is very quick to carry out missions. Qiao Xiangye is very optimistic about him.
If it weren't for this accident, Jiang Xingyan might have been promoted.
In Changxing Village, the evenings were beginning to get cooler as autumn approached. In the middle of the night, Chu Sangning was suddenly awakened by a noise. She put on her clothes, opened the door, and found a figure not far away.
A person was sitting in the yard without saying a word. Chu Sangning bravely walked closer and found that it was Lin Xiuzhi.
"Auntie, you scared me to death. I thought someone was scratching the wall." Chu Sangning was so scared that his back was sweating. He sat next to Lin Xiuzhi and slowly calmed down.
Lin Xiuzhi rubbed a photo in her hand, looked at the moon in the sky, and said to Chu Sangning: "Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon."
Chu Sangning calculated the days: "Well, it's almost there, less than half a month."
"Half a month, Brother Yan's birthday is coming soon, ah——"
Lin Xiuzhi wiped away the tears from her eyes and smiled at Chu Sangning: "You should go to bed quickly. I will sit here by myself for a while."
"Auntie, let me accompany you." Chu Sangning was worried about Lin Xiuzhi's current condition.
"It's okay. We should always look forward. Besides, Xingyan has a good fortune and a long life. God will definitely bless him."
Since Lin Xiuzhi said so, Chu Sangning went back to sleep.
Time passed day by day, and Lin Xiuzhi went from being nervous and depressed at the beginning to being calm and peaceful later, as if nothing had happened.
During work in the morning, when Chu Sangning was struggling with the weeds, he suddenly heard a scream and a woman walked towards He Yueyang.
"How dare you bully my daughter? Let go."
He Yueyang was not to be outdone, glaring at the woman: "You bully her, why don't you say that your daughter stole my things?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't want your things."
He Yueyang frowned, walked up to a girl, held her hand, and took out a biscuit from her pocket, expressing his disdain to the fullest, "What is this? Your family can't afford this kind of biscuit, where else can you get it from except stealing it from me?"
The woman held the girl in her arms like a chick. After a moment of silence, she suddenly smiled coldly, "No matter how poor our family is, we will never steal anything, and the little girl certainly won't do that."
"Where did you get that thing? Did you buy it yourself?"
The quarrel between He Yueyang and the woman attracted quite a few people. When they saw the biscuits in Xiaoya's pocket, they pointed at the mother and daughter and talked about them. The rustling sounds made Xiaoya look up helplessly.
Chu Sangning didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but the pitiful helplessness in the girl's eyes was like that of an innocent and harmless little deer. Her black eyes were clear and she would never steal.
She looked at the biscuit in He Yueyang's hand and suddenly smiled. She moved closer to He Yueyang and said in a low voice, "He Zhiqing, why do these biscuits look so familiar to me?"
"What do you mean?" After He Yueyang moved out of the Youth Educator Home, his temper became worse and worse. He felt that he was an educated youth from the city and looked down on these farmers.