Chapter 26: I recognized the wrong person and my leg injury cannot be healed

Chu Sangning was standing on tiptoe to cover her head with something. Maybe because she was not tall enough, she simply dropped the bag and covered the man's face with her hands, shouting loudly: "Auntie, hurry up, hurry up."

The man stood still, and Chu Sangning became even more aggressive. He went up and grabbed the man's hair, but he never expected that the person behind him didn't make any move at all.

She turned around and saw Lin Xiuzhi looking at the man and crying silently. This...

Chu Sangning was confused. What was going on?

"Son, my brother Yan, you are finally back." Lin Xiuzhi suddenly burst into tears and shouted loudly.

Chu Sangning froze instantly. What? Brother Yan? Aunt Lin's son Jiang Xingyan? So the man whose hair she was pulling was Aunt Lin's youngest son who was a soldier?

She took two steps back, tremblingly pointed her finger at Jiang Xingyan, and stammered, "You, you...I..."

Jiang Xingyan's voice was cold. He glanced at Chu Sangning, then looked at Lin Xiuzhi, "Mom, I'm back."

"It's good that you're back, Brother Yan, it's good that you're back. Go home quickly. It's cold outside. Go inside quickly." Lin Xiuzhi took her son and asked her old man to take the luggage. She started to pack busily.

"Brother Yan, please sit down for a while. I'll go to the kitchen and get you a bowl of hot water. Sit down."

Lin Xiuzhi left happily, and only Jiang's father, Chu Sangning and Jiang Xingyan were left in the empty hall.

Chu Sangning lowered her head, her face flushed red. When she raised her head, she found that her eyes met Jiang Xingyan's, and her black eyes suddenly showed a hint of panic.

"I, I'm sorry, I didn't know, I thought..." I thought it was some hooligan from the village who came to peek.

Father Jiang touched his pipe and introduced: "Xingyan, this is the new educated youth staying in our house, Sang Ning."

"Chu Zhiqing, this is my youngest son, Jiang Xingyan."

Chu Sangning nodded politely at him, laughing as softly as a mosquito: "I'm sorry."

Jiang Xingyan coughed solemnly, looked away, hesitated for a moment, and then said carefully: "I'll have to look carefully next time."

"Yeah, I got it. I'll go to the kitchen to help first." Chu Sangning covered her face with her hands, her ears slightly hot. Thinking about how she had just been in Jiang Xingyan's arms, her face suddenly turned red.

Lin Xiuzhi looked at the uneasy Chu Sangning with a smile on her face: "Sangning, this is really a misunderstanding. That's my youngest son. I've told you many times that he's finally back."

Her son had not been home for many years, so it was an unexpected surprise for Lin Xiuzhi that he could come back this time. At least she could celebrate her son's birthday in time.

It was not a good idea for Chu Sangning to stay in the kitchen. After the water was boiled, she also wanted to go to the main room. They sat together quietly, and the moonlight was bright outside.

Lin Xiuzhi had very sharp eyes and could tell something was wrong at first glance. She knew her son well. He had been sitting there for more than half an hour without changing his posture. She walked in front of Jiang Xingyan.

She raised her hand to lift up her son's clothes, but Jiang Xingyan dodged helplessly and whispered, "Mom——"

Lin Xiuzhi's heart skipped a beat, and her voice almost sounded like tears: "Son, let me see."

Jiang Xingyan knew that his mother was stubborn, and she couldn't hide the injuries on her body, so he had to let Lin Xiuzhi lift them up. Seeing that the gauze wrapped around her son was still soaked with blood, Lin Xiuzhi felt sad and almost swallowed it down while holding back the bitterness in her throat.

"Son, does it hurt?"

Jiang Xingyan tried his best to comfort his mother: "Mom, I was a soldier, this injury is nothing, it doesn't hurt."

Lin Xiuzhi rolled her eyes at her son and said, "What's wrong with being a soldier? Soldiers have human bodies too. Any human being will know the pain."

Jiang's father stared at the injuries on his son's body without saying a word. For a moment, the living room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

"Where are your legs? What's wrong with your right leg?" Lin Xiuzhi saw that her son's hand was always on his right leg. She tried to pull Jiang Xingyan's pants, but Jiang Xingyan dodged it.

The room was quiet for a moment. Jiang Xingyan shrank his palms slightly and said casually, "My leg is injured."

The more this happened, the more worried Lin Xiuzhi became. Her son was the kind of person who would only report good news to his family and not his worries. Since he said his leg was injured, it must be more than just a leg injury.

"Tell me the truth, I was so worried about you that I couldn't sleep all night."

After Lin Xiuzhi finished speaking, Jiang Xingyan rubbed his brows and said in a low voice, "A leg injury may not be able to recover to normal."

Not necessarily? Then, does that mean that his leg is lame? Lin Xiuzhi didn't dare to think about it, and she was in a state of collapse.

Jiang's father's heart sank. Seeing his wife opening her mouth to ask something, he simply interrupted her: "Xingyan finally came back. We can talk about it tomorrow. Let the child go to rest first."

"Mom, Xingyan just came back. He has been busy all day. Let him have a good rest." Pan Wenlan also had an eye for it. She asked her mother-in-law to get a quilt and ask Jiang Xingyan to go and rest quickly.

When everyone left the main room with their luggage, Lin Xiuzhi slapped her head and said, "Oh, look at my poor memory. Brother Yan, you go to my room and sleep first."

He vacated his room and let Chu Sangning live in it. His son couldn't break into the little girl's room.

Jiang Xingyan said nothing. He looked at Chu Sangning with dim eyes, stood up, and walked away with the help of a cane.

Looking at his limping back, Chu Sangning gazed at his tall and slender figure, which looked even more upright against the backdrop of his military uniform. Thinking of what he had just said, he felt regretful: Such a good person, but... it's a pity.

In the second half of the night, no one in the Jiang family fell asleep except Chu Sangning and Jiang Panan. Jiang Xingyan closed his eyes, feeling very irritated. As for Jiang's father and Lin Xiuzhi, they were worried about their youngest son's health, so they also did not fall asleep and closed their eyes to pretend to doze off.

Pan Wenlan turned over at the other end of the room and gently pushed her man: "Do you think Xingyan's injury can be healed?"

The man closed his eyes and hummed: "Yeah, yes, Xingyan has been thick-skinned since he was a child, there will be no problem." Everyone in the Jiang family hopes that a miracle will happen to the injuries on Jiang Xingyan's body.

The next morning, Chu Sangning woke up to Lin Xiuzhi's crying. In the yard, Lin Xiuzhi's heart was as troubled as a kitten. After struggling for a long time, she finally asked.

When she learned that the company hospital said her son's leg injury might not heal, she grabbed his sleeve and burst into tears: "I shouldn't have let you join the army, I shouldn't have listened to your father. Now it's all good, my son."

Father Jiang squatted under the eaves, saying nothing and smoking his cigarette. He coughed violently twice, and his eyes turned red.

Jiang Xingyan knew that his parents would be sad if he told them, but this was his own decision, and he would not regret it even if he was hurt: "Mom, don't blame Dad for my own decision, I made it on my own terms."