Chapter 73 Song Xi
The next morning, Song Zhi and Bai Zhenggan went out.
The two of them took a car to the city and arrived at around four o'clock in the afternoon. Song Zhi took some time to go to the post office and make a phone call back to Nandu.
——His father Song Xi never answered his calls, so Song Zhi left a message directly to the guard.
Song Zhi and Bai Zhenggan boarded the train to the provincial capital that evening.
At noon the next day, the two arrived at the provincial capital. Song Zhi was afraid that Bai Zhenggan's body couldn't handle it, so he insisted on staying in the provincial capital for one night before leaving. So, a day later, the two of them boarded the train to Nandu.
The Nandu Military Region is located in a remote area. After getting off the train and taking several buses, Song Zhi finally found his father's bodyguard Xiao Zhao.
Xiao Zhao was very enthusiastic about Song Zhi. He looked him up and down and said with a smile, "Song Zhi! I haven't seen you for several years. You have changed a lot!"
Song Zhi was stunned. He didn't expect Xiao Zhao to start by saying this.
Xiao Zhao said with a smile: "You look more and more like your father!"
Song Zhi forced a smile and introduced Bai Zhenggan to Xiao Zhao, "This is... my girlfriend's father, his surname is Bai, and his name is Bai Zhenggan."
Bai Zhenggan shook hands with Xiao Zhao openly, "Hello, comrade! I am Bai Zhenggan, formerly the Party Secretary of Ruyi Village, Song County, Southeast Province, and was recently transferred to the Municipal Party Committee."
Xiao Zhao didn't know who Bai Zhenggan was at first.
But when "Bai Zhenggan" and "Ruyi Village" were put together, he knew it immediately.
"Oh, it's Secretary Bai!" Xiao Zhao said enthusiastically, "We've heard about your deeds... Come on, come on, get in the car, you've worked hard on this journey!"
"Okay, okay!" Bai Zhenggan and Song Zhi got into the green iron box car under Xiao Zhao's arrangement.
Xiao Zhao drove the car directly into the military compound and led Bai Zhenggan and Song Zhi to the door of an unremarkable gray villa.
"Secretary Bai, Song Zhi, the leader is not available right now, you should rest at home first... If there is anything urgent, I can help you convey it." Xiao Zhao said with a smile.
Could it be that Bai Zhenggan couldn't understand Mr. Song's perfunctory attitude and indifference?
He said to Xiao Zhao, "Why bother with all this trouble? Why don't I just tell you straight away! This is what I like about Song Zhi and want him to be my son-in-law. The wedding of Song Zhi and my daughter will be scheduled for the week after next. What do you think?"
Xiao Zhao was stunned.
The young man in his early thirties looked at Bai Zhenggan and then at Song Zhi, his face full of embarrassment.
Bai Zhenggan said sincerely: "If you have no objection, then it's settled. Well, I have finished what I want to say, Song Zhi, let's go now!"
Song Zhi said nothing and followed Bai Zhenggan out.
Xiao Zhao was anxious, "Hey wait! Wait!"
Suddenly someone ran out of the villa, "Brother!"
Song Zhi stopped, turned around and saw...Song Sui.
Bai Zhenggan also stopped and turned around to see a handsome young man.
Song Sui happily ran up to Song Zhi and said, "Brother, I knew you were coming back, and I've been waiting for you at home for several days... Come on, come in!"
Suddenly seeing Bai Zhenggan, Song Sui looked at Bai Zhenggan -
Song Zhi introduced, "This is my partner's father, my future father-in-law, Bai Zhenggan."
Song Sui was a little surprised, but still asked Bai Zhenggan enthusiastically: "Hello, Uncle Bai! Come in quickly!"
Guard Xiao Zhao also laughed along, "Yes, yes, you guys go in first… You must be tired after sitting in the car for such a long time… Song Sui, you have to take good care of her!"
As he said this, Xiao Zhao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and left in a hurry.
Song Sui was a little afraid of Song Zhi, so she hugged Bai Zhenggan and walked into the small villa, saying enthusiastically: "Uncle Bai, I heard that it would take at least two or three days to get here from Southeast Province by train, including transfers and so on, right?"
"Well, that is!"
Song Sui, "You've worked hard! Come, go inside, have a glass of water, and have a good rest. Aunt Wang knew you would come today, so she went out to buy groceries early in the morning. She said she would make a delicious meal today..."
Bai Zhenggan looked at Song Zhi, "Did your father get married?"
Song Zhi said nothing.
Song Sui looked embarrassed. "No, no... Aunt Wang Qinglu's husband is my father's subordinate. My father is away from home for a long time. Aunt Wang sometimes helps us clean the house and do housework."
Bai Zhenggan understood, "Oh! She is the part-time nanny your family hired!"
Song Sui: ...
"No, she's not!" Song Sui quickly clarified, "She's not a nanny, really not..."
Bai Zhenggan walked into the yard and immediately frowned.
——The yard is square and there is nothing in it, just bare rammed earth and a row of cobblestone roads made of cement. It is deserted. Although this place is desolate, it is also very clean, without any smell of worldly life.
Bai Zhenggan followed Song Sui into the villa, and took another look -
The room was bright and clean, but the furniture was old and the curtains were white. There was no decoration at all in the whole room, no unnecessary things, and no breath of life at all. It was obvious that it was not a place where people lived long-term.
Bai Zhenggan asked Song Sui, "Do you live here?"
Song Sui nodded, "Yes!"
After thinking for a while, he shook his head again, "I come back once a week."
Song Sui said to Bai Zhenggan again: "Uncle Bai, it's not easy for you to come here, just have fun here for a few days! My dad doesn't live here, my brother and I live upstairs, and there is a guest room downstairs, you can..."
Bai Zhenggan, "When is your dad free?"
Song Sui, "It's hard to say. I seldom see him. Basically... it's good enough for him to come back once a month."
Bai Zhenggan, "Can I give him a call?"
Song Sui was a little embarrassed, "Uncle, I'm not trying to shirk my responsibility. It's just that apart from the guards, no one else can find him."
At this time, a clear and pleasant female voice sounded, "Xiao Zhi is back?"
Bai Zhenggan and Song Zhi turned their heads to look——
A well-maintained middle-aged woman stood at the door, holding a wicker shopping basket in her hand.
Song Sui, "Auntie Wang!"
Song Zhi also greeted the woman, "Hello, Aunt Wang."
This person is Wang Qinglu.
Wang Qinglu came over in great surprise, "Xiaozhi, long time no see..."
Before she could even utter the word "see", she was suddenly stunned and stared at Song Zhi from head to toe for a long while.
Song Sui asked, "Aunt Wang, my brother looks more and more like my dad, right?"
Wang Qinglu looked at Song Zhi for a while, then replied with a smile, "Yes!"
"Oh, by the way... Xiaozhi, I bought your favorite dishes..." Wang Qinglu suddenly saw Bai Zhenggan and was stunned for a moment, "Who is this..."
Song Zhi, "Aunt Wang, this is my girlfriend's father..."
Bai Zhenggan didn't want to shake hands with the woman because she was a woman, so he nodded slightly and said, "Hello, comrade. My name is Bai Zhenggan."
Wang Qinglu looked at Bai Zhenggan again and said with a smile, "Ah, the children have grown up and will soon be talking about marriage... Comrade Bai, please sit down. I will go to cook. It will be quick... You have worked hard on the way. Have a good meal and take a rest later!"
As she spoke, she walked towards the kitchen with the basket of vegetables, but she couldn't help but look at Song Zhi again, then lowered her head and hurried away.
Bai Zhenggan glanced at Song Zhi and asked, "Do you look like your father or your mother?"
Song Zhi took out a yellowed photo from his wallet and handed it to Bai Zhenggan.
Bai Zhenggan took a look and said, "You look a lot like your mother!"
——It should be said that when Song Zhi first arrived in Ruyi Village, he was a weak scholar with fair skin, a bit of a feminine look, with softer features and a more gloomy temperament, very similar to the elegant and beautiful lady in the photo.
But now Song Zhi eats well at the Bai family and does a lot of heavy physical work. He has become stronger, more cheerful, and more stable, naturally showing masculine beauty.
However, his facial features are still very similar to those of his deceased mother.
Song Sui smiled and said, "I should say that my brother used to look a lot like my godmother, but now... he really looks like my father, exactly like my father when he was young."
"By the way, Uncle Bai, brother...please sit down and have some tea!" Song Sui poured water and made tea enthusiastically.
Bai Zhenggan asked Song Zhi to put away his mother's photo, sit down, drink tea, and chat with Song Sui.
In just a few words, Bai Zhenggan found out that Song Sui was now a temporary worker in a military factory. She did not live here on weekdays, but in the company dormitory, and only came back for one day on weekends.
Bai Zhenggan found it a little strange, "I thought you joined the army and took over your father's job!"
Song Sui laughed and said, "How is that possible... the one who takes over is my brother, after all, I am an adopted son!"
Bai Zhenggan thought: It seems that Song Sui is a very sincere boy, and he doesn't shy away from the fact that he is an adopted son.
So Bai Zhenggan asked again: "So you haven't found a partner yet? Are you and your brother in the same year?"
Song Sui touched his head a little embarrassedly, "There's no rush for this..." Then he asked Song Zhi, "Brother, why didn't you bring your future sister-in-law with you?"
When Tao Tao was mentioned, Song Zhi's expression became relaxed and his tone became much gentler, "She is delicate and can't sit in the car for such a long time. Let's talk about it later!"
Song Sui, "Can I attend your wedding with your sister-in-law? If the date is set, please let me know so I can take time off to go."
Song Zhi's eyes softened completely, "Okay."
While they were talking, Wang Qinglu finished cooking and called out "Dinner is ready." Song Sui immediately stood up and said, "Come on, I'm here to help!"
Song Zhi also stood up——
Wang Qinglu came out hurriedly with a large bowl of soup and said to Song Zhi, "Xiao Zhi, don't move... It's a rare visit for you, just sit down, sit down!"
Song Zhi stood there stiffly, not knowing whether to leave or stay.
Bai Zhenggan said to Song Zhi, "Sit with me!"
Song Zhi sat down.
"What specialties can you find in Nandu? We've come here with great difficulty... After dinner, let's go for a walk on the street, buy what we need, and buy the return tickets. We'll leave early tomorrow morning..." Bai Zhenggan said.
Song Zhi agreed.
Wang Qinglu heard this and said in surprise: "You're leaving tomorrow?"
"Yes!" Bai Zhenggan said.
Wang Qinglu was a little embarrassed, "But... Song Xi, he is not free recently!"
"It's okay!" Bai Zhenggan said, "He's busy, it's okay... We came here just to say hello to him. Since he's busy, we'll just say hello to you. That's all. Come on... Let's eat! We've been sitting in the car for several days, it's rare to have some home-cooked food..."
As he spoke, Bai Zhenggan took a closer look at the dishes on the table.
——Tofu with green onions, cold preserved egg and cucumber, scrambled eggs with black fungus and a bowl of mushroom and vegetable leaf soup?
No meat at all?
Perhaps seeing Bai Zhenggan's expression, Wang Qinglu felt a little embarrassed, "I, I... well, I'm not very good at cooking."
Bai Zhenggan gave a thumbs up and said, "It proves that Mr. Song's life is worse than that of us country folk! Great, great!"
Wang Qinglu looked embarrassed.
Song Sui stood up and said, "I'll go to the restaurant and get some meat dishes!"
"No, no! This is great!" Bai Zhenggan quickly stopped Song Sui and said to Wang Qinglu, "Besides, I can't treat you as a babysitter, right? Thank you, you've worked so hard!"
Wang Qinglu explained: "It's because... Song Xi can only eat these light foods."
Bai Zhenggan looked around and asked, "Why, is Mr. Song coming to eat too?"
Wang Qinglu was speechless.
Song Zhi chuckled, "Uncle, let's eat quickly. We have to hurry up and leave. This is the suburbs after all. We have to change several buses to get to the city!"
"Okay, let's eat!" Bai Zhenggan picked up the bowl and started eating.
However, the tofu in the spring onion tofu was rotten, the preserved egg and cucumber salad had no salt but chili, the scrambled eggs with black fungus was too salty, and there were only three green leaves and two mushrooms in the big bowl of soup...
It's totally inedible.
Bai Zhenggan took a bite of the white rice, put down the bowl, and looked at Wang Qinglu with a smile, "Thank you for the treat!"
As he said that, he stood up and said, "Goodbye!"
Wang Qinglu's eyes suddenly turned red. "Did I do something wrong?"
When Song Sui saw her crying, she took a step back, with a look of fear in her eyes, but she quickly controlled herself.
Bai Zhenggan felt a little strange after hearing what Wang Qinglu said and seeing Song Sui's reaction. He looked at Wang Qinglu, thought for a while, and asked, "Where are you working?"
Wang Qinglu was stunned for a moment, sniffed, and said timidly: "I, I am just a housewife."
Bai Zhenggan felt even more puzzled. "Whose housewife are you?"
Wang Qinglu bit her lip.
Bai Zhenggan regained his smiling expression and said to Song Sui, "Song Sui, let's go. Wait until your brother's wedding date is set, and then let him call you!"
Song Sui: "Uncle, are you leaving now?"
"Well, I have something else to do, so I won't delay you any longer." As he said that, Bai Zhenggan winked at Song Zhi again.
The two walked outside.
Song Sui, "Uncle, brother, I'll take you out!"
Wang Qinglu said, "Wait a minute!"
Everyone stood still.
Wang Qinglu looked at Song Zhi with disappointment in her eyes, "Xiao Zhi, do you really want to marry a country girl? Have you ever considered your father's feelings?"
Song Zhi glanced at her and walked out of the living room without saying a word.
Bai Zhenggan smiled and waved at Wang Qinglu, "We are leaving now, you don't have to see us off!"
So he followed Song Zhi.
Song Sui also ran out in a hurry.
Bai Zhenggan said: "The customs here are quite strange. A housewife doesn't practice her cooking skills, but she still has the nerve to cook and entertain guests... and the guests she entertains are from other families!"
"Your boss Song is even weirder. Even if he asked the guards to take me to the dining hall, I would still like it. After all, he is a bachelor! Letting other people's women entertain me, what does this mean? Is he hinting to me... that he, a military district commander, slept with his subordinate's wife?"
Bai Zhenggan's voice was not small.
Song Sui was so frightened that she stood there, looking back at Wang Qinglu at a loss.
Wang Qinglu also heard it clearly and her face turned red with embarrassment.
Song Zhi walked away without stopping.
Wang Qinglu took a deep breath and called the security squad, "Xiao Zhao, Song Zhihe and that old country man are gone... Maybe I messed up, and they thought the food I cooked was not tasty... I'm sorry, I didn't know it would turn out like this..." Her voice was pitiful.
She was certain that as long as she told the guard this, the guard would convey her words to Song Xi.
Xiao Zhao comforted Wang Qinglu with a few words and hung up the phone.
really--
He immediately dialed a phone and said, "Hurry up and connect me to the commander. Tell him... I have something important to discuss with him!"
After a while, the other side said, "The chief said that he will deal with Song Zhi's matter when he is free."
Xiao Zhao was anxious, "I have something important to discuss with the chief!"
The person on the other end was probably a little anxious, so he hung up the phone and went to call for help.
After a while, Song Xi's voice sounded, "What's the matter?"
——Usually, Wang Qinglu would ask the guard squad to convey something to the leader. If the guard squad failed to convey it, Wang Qinglu would come to investigate, and then sit quietly in the guard squad and cry silently, making everyone feel very uncomfortable.
However, Xiao Zhao now has something more to say to the leader, and it is very urgent.
Xiao Zhao took a deep breath, and then said calmly: "Commander! I know it's inappropriate for me to say this, but... Song Zhi is getting married, don't you really want to ask him? Commander, Song Zhi is your biological son! How long have you not seen him? Do you know that he looks exactly like you..."
Song Xi's voice was cold, "What did I tell you before?"
Xiao Zhao shouted, "But! But he just arrived and is leaving soon! Commander, you are so cold to him. He is deeply heartbroken. Do you know that? You can't..."
There was a beeping sound on the other end of the phone.
It was obvious that Song Xi had hung up the phone.
Xiao Zhao hung up the phone depressed.
——The leader is good in every way. He is considerate of his subordinates and fair and impartial. In Xiao Zhao's opinion, he is a perfect god of war! Perhaps his only shortcoming is that he is too harsh and cold towards his own son.
Over the years, he never asked Song Zhi a question.
It was as if Song Zhi was not his son at all, but had popped out from a crack in a rock!
In the past, Xiao Zhao wouldn't have said anything. But Xiao Zhao's sister got married this year, and he rushed back to attend her wedding. He joined the army when he was young, and his sister was still young when he left. She was not sensible at all, and they rarely contacted each other... But when he saw that his childish sister in his memory had grown into a graceful young lady and was about to get married, he couldn't bear to let her go. He beat up his future brother-in-law and warned him not to wrong his sister in the future, otherwise he would hit her with an iron fist -
Now, Song Zhi is also getting married.
Xiao Zhao put himself in the leader's shoes and really didn't want to let the leader miss his son's wedding.
"Dingling--"
The phone rang rapidly.
Xiao Zhao took it and said, "Hello, security squad."
Song Xi's voice sounded coldly again, "What did you just say?"
Xiao Zhao: ...
——This is a good thing! Things are turning around!
Xiao Zhao immediately said respectfully: "Commander, this is what happened. Song Zhi..."
Song Xi, "Let me ask you, what was the last sentence you said?"
Xiao Zhao, "I, I said...you were so cold to him, did you know that he was deeply hurt by you?"
He broke out in a cold sweat.
Song Xi, "No, the previous sentence."
Xiao Zhao:? ? ?
He took a deep breath, "Song Zhi is leaving soon..."
Song Xi, "One more sentence!"
Xiao Zhao made up his mind, "I, I said... Song Zhi is your biological son. You haven't seen him for a long time. You must not know that he looks exactly like you, right?"
Song Xi didn't speak for a long time.
So long that——
Xiao Zhao thought the phone was broken, so he just called "Hello".
Song Xi: "He left?"
Xiao Zhao said "hmm".
Song Xi sneered, "You're quite courageous!"
Xiao Zhao: "Commander..."
Song Xi hung up the phone.
Xiao Zhao heard the beeping sound of the phone being hung up again.
He looked at the microphone and held his forehead.
But Song Sui brought Bai Zhenggan and Song Zhi to the gate, said something to the guard, and then waited by the side.
After a while, a military vehicle drove out.
The guard went over to greet the driver and called out to Song Sui, "Their car is going to town, you can take a ride with them!"
So the three of them got on the military transport vehicle.
When they arrived in the town, the three thanked the military vehicle driver and got off the vehicle.
Bai Zhenggan said, "Quick, let's find a restaurant to eat!"
Song Sui took them to a small private restaurant with no signboard as if they were familiar with the place, and ordered braised pork with sauerkraut, fried sea fish, egg dumplings and shredded radish, and a pot of chicken soup stewed with wild yam.
Then, she blushed and explained to Bai Zhenggan, "Uncle, there's really nothing wrong between my dad and Aunt Wang... Mainly, Aunt Wang has been living in the military compound, and my dad's house is sometimes left to Aunt Wang to take care of. Really, my dad doesn't come home once a month. I'm considered one of the most diligent people, but I only come home once a week..."
Bai Zhenggan asked, "Does your Aunt Wang's husband have any objections?"
Song Sui shut up.
After a while, he whispered, "Auntie Wang's husband has always been with my dad..."
Bai Zheng laughed dryly but said nothing.
Song Zhi remembered something and asked Song Sui, "Do you have a pen pal?"
"No!" Song Sui answered subconsciously.
After a pause, he suddenly remembered, "I made a pen pal by chance a few years ago, but we broke up later... I wrote her several letters, but she didn't reply..."
Song Zhi stared at him for a while and asked, "What kind of pen pal is it?"
Song Sui blushed unnaturally, "No, nothing..." He quickly changed the subject, "By the way, brother, did you know that Yan Naqian is in jail?"
Song Zhi, "I know. She and I went to the same village to work in the production team."
Song Sui was stunned, "Really?! Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"What's there to say?"
Song Sui was speechless.
After a long while, he asked, "What crime did Yan Naqian commit that landed her in jail? We just heard that she owed money, and her father and brother quickly remitted money to her... How is she now?"
Song Zhi finished explaining Yan Naqian's crime in a few words and said, "I guess she will have to stay in prison for another year before she can be released."
Song Sui was stunned.
——In his impression, Yan Naqian is a little bit spoiled, afraid of hardship and fatigue and unwilling to take responsibility. But he never expected that Yan Naqian was so bold as to forge state documents? !
At this time, the old lady in the shop brought up the food.
Song Sui quickly called Bai Zhenggan, "Uncle, come on... I'm really sorry for neglecting you today. Come on, eat, don't be hungry. By the way, do you want to drink?"
Bai Zhenggan waved his hand, "No, no, just eat!"
I have to say that the dishes at Nandu have completely different flavors from the meals at home.
The braised pork with sauerkraut is sour, sweet and slightly spicy, and very delicious. The advantage of salt-and-oil sea fish is that it is fresh. The simple cooking method can enhance the freshness to the greatest extent. The fish has few bones and much meat. The meat is firm and tender and very delicious!
The shredded radish and egg dumplings are homely, with soft radish and delicious egg dumplings; the chicken soup is rich and slightly sweet, mixed with a light fragrance of medicinal herbs...
After having his fill of soup and rice, Bai Zhenggan winked at Song Zhi.
Song Zhi knew what his future father-in-law meant: I will pay the bill, and you hold your brother back.
So Song Zhi said to Song Sui, "We are leaving now. You should go back to the factory directly. Don't go back. Otherwise, you will feel sick."
Song Sui smiled bitterly, "Brother, I'm different from you. I... I have to go back, otherwise she won't be able to vent her anger and will keep nagging in front of our dad... Dad finds her annoying, but since she's a lesbian, he won't blame her, he'll only blame me..."
Suddenly found out that Bai Zhenggan went to pay the bill?
Song Sui was anxious and stood up quickly, "Uncle! Uncle, you can't do this! You are a guest coming from afar! I should treat you to a meal..."
Bai Zhenggan smiled and said, "Okay, we are not strangers. I am your brother's elder, which means I am your elder. I am so happy that you, a junior, are willing to have a meal with me!"
"Oh no, no, that's too rude," Song Sui hurriedly ran to the old woman and said, "Grandma, how much is this meal? Give him the money and I'll pay you!"
Song Zhi pulled his brother over and said, "Okay, we've already paid the bill, so forget it. Don't make it so troublesome... You should go back soon, we have to leave too."
Song Sui became even more anxious. "Brother, it's rare for you to come back. Please wait a few more days. Dad is really not in the military area. He has been conducting exercises in the nearby mountains and forests recently! You are getting married, which is a big deal. Please... please wait a few more days?"
Song Zhi smiled, "Go back quickly!"
Seeing that he was determined to leave, Song Sui had no choice but to borrow a pen and paper from the old lady in the small restaurant, and hurriedly wrote down his factory contact number, and then handed it to Song Zhi, "Brother, please call me as soon as your wedding day comes. I will definitely go to your wedding!"
Song Zhi put the note away and nodded seriously.
The two brothers parted ways.
Song Zhi took Bai Zhenggan on the bus to the city.
The two of them sat in their seats for a long time before Song Zhi suppressed his surging emotions and said to Bai Zhenggan, "Uncle, I'm sorry."
Bai Zhenggan, "What does this have to do with you? It's okay! I've been mentally prepared for this, so I don't care... Don't think too much about it. Anyway, don't count on your relatives in the future."
Song Zhi hummed.
Bai Zhenggan thought about it again and again, but still couldn't help but said, "That Wang Qinglu, is she really not related to your father?"
Song Zhi hesitated and said, "I have spent very little time in Nandu, but I vaguely heard that she seemed to have waited for my father for many years...but my father has always been unwilling to get married, and she only married Uncle Zhou ten years ago. Uncle Zhou is my father's subordinate."
Bai Zhenggan asked again, "Is she really not a good cook, or is she targeting you?"
Song Zhi said silently: "Then I don't know. Anyway, every time I came to Nandu, she would cook these dishes for me... I was young before and didn't know how to face her. I only know that if I didn't finish the dishes she cooked, she would cry and be very sad... Then my father would be very angry, saying that Aunt Wang came to take care of me with good intentions, but I didn't know how to appreciate it..."
Bai Zhenggan, "Okay silly kid, she's just pretending!"
Song Zhi looked at Bai Zhenggan in confusion.
Bai Zhenggan looked at Song Zhi with a look of disappointment, "Think about it, why is your father mad at you for not being able to eat the food she cooks? It's because he has eaten the food cooked by Wang Qinglu before. Maybe that woman's cooking skills are quite good!"
Song Zhi suddenly realized.
He clenched his fists.
——When he was young, he didn’t know why Aunt Wang’s cooking was so bad, but his father always forced him to finish it. Later, as he grew older, he vaguely understood that Aunt Wang did this because of his deceased mother.
However, he was still unwilling to believe that a woman who looked so gentle and kind could release so much malice towards such a young child.
Until now, Bai Zhenggan directly exposed Wang Qinglu's true face.
Bai Zhenggan said, "Okay, let's not think about the past anymore. Live a good life with Taotao from now on!"
Song Zhi pursed his lips, "Okay."
When the two arrived in the city, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon. They hurried to the guesthouse to complete the check-in procedures, put down their luggage, rushed to the train station to buy train tickets for the next morning, and then hurried to the largest local supply and marketing cooperative -
After walking around the supply and marketing cooperative and seeing a lot of good stuff, he came out again, went to a scalper and exchanged his cash for various bills, then went back into the supply and marketing cooperative and started buying a lot.
Bai Zhenggan bought dried seafood and several sets of women's clothing that looked very unique. He also bought two new sets of clothes for Song Zhi and two pairs of leather shoes for him.
Finally, I saw the wedding pillowcases, towels, boutonnieres worn by the bride and groom, and the big red gauze flowers tied on the bride's head...
Bai Zhenggan waved his hand.
purchase!
I kept buying things until the supply and marketing cooperative got off work.
Bai Zhenggan bought a sack of things and spent almost two hundred yuan.
Song Zhi carried the things back to the guesthouse. The father-in-law and son-in-law went out to eat a bowl of wontons each on the street and asked the owner of the snack stand where the black market was...
As a result, neither of them knew the way, and by the time they found the black market, most people had already left.
The vendor was in a hurry to close the shop, so Bai Zhenggan spent a little money and bought a lot of little things.
The father-in-law and son-in-law went back to the guesthouse and spent the night there. They checked out early the next morning and went to the train station carrying their large and small luggage.
But Song Xi was conducting a field exercise in the deep mountains and forests.
He has been feeling a little uneasy ever since he received Xiao Zhao's call.
Xiao Zhao said that he was too harsh and cold to his own son...
Yeah? Even outsiders noticed it?
Xiao Zhao also said -
Song Zhi looks exactly like him? !
Song Xi scoffed.
But I didn't want to think about Song Zhi's childhood appearance involuntarily.
——The child has always been thin, quiet and taciturn. And because he was born prematurely, his development has always been slow. He looked like one year old at three and like six years old at ten. In addition, his eyes and eyebrows are too much like his mother's. If you ignore his hairstyle and clothes and only look at his face... he looks exactly like his mother!
The last time I saw him was... six years ago?
The twenty-one-year-old Song Zhi seemed to have suddenly grown taller.
Song Xi still remembers that the last time he saw Song Zhi was when he was in college, about eighteen years old? At that time, he was less than 1.7 meters tall and as thin as a bamboo pole.
The 21-year-old Song Zhi suddenly grew to about 1.8 meters tall, almost as tall as him.
But still thin.
Moreover, when he was not speaking, the gloomy and worried temperament between his brows was very much like his mother.
Song Xi didn't want to see Song Zhi at all.
But at this moment, he wanted to see Song Zhi very much.
He wanted to see if it was really like what Xiao Zhao said—Song Zhi looked exactly like him?
At midnight, Song Xi finally made a decision.
"Xiao Du, let's go! Let's go to the train station!"
"yes!"
Guard Xiao Du agreed and drove over.
Song Xi got in the car.
It’s a long way from here to the city railway station.
But Xiao Du, who had received Xiao Zhao's reminder early in the morning, drove the car at a flying speed and finally arrived at the train station before dawn.
"Chief, I'll go to the ticket hall first." Xiao Du said, jumped out of the car and ran towards the ticket hall.
Song Xi got out of the car slowly, put his hands behind his back, and looked around.
In the misty morning, not many people came to catch the train.
He looked carefully at everything within his sight...all the young people he could see, and then suddenly froze.
——Is that Song Zhi? !
A handsome young man in black trousers and a white shirt was accompanied by a middle-aged strong man. Both of them were carrying a large sack on their backs. They were talking and laughing as they came over here, and their attitude was very intimate.
Song Xi saw clearly that the young man was Song Zhi!
The sturdy man suddenly stopped and pointed at a peddler pushing a cart.
Song Zhi nodded, put the sack on the ground, took out the empty lunch box from the sack, and hurried towards the vendor.
The sturdy man took the opportunity to weigh the sack that Song Zhi had placed on the ground, then frowned, quickly opened Song Zhi's sack, took out a few things from it, and stuffed them into his own sack.
After a while, Song Zhi came over with a lunch box full of buns.
The strong man picked up his sack and prepared to walk into the train station.
Song Zhi weighed his sack, frowned, and called the strong man. The two men argued for a few words. Song Zhi ignored the strong man's objection, took the strong man's sack and put it on his shoulder, and walked towards the waiting hall first.
The strong man had no choice but to pick up the sack left on the ground by Song Zhi and hurriedly chased after him.
Song Xi was already stunned.
He couldn't believe that the young man was Song Zhi.
——It’s only been six years since we last met, how come Song Zhi has changed so completely? ? ?
Song Zhi's eyes and eyebrows still look a bit like his mother's, but they look more like him, he is simply a replica of Song Xi! ! !
Song Xi tried desperately to search his memory for the image of Song Zhi as a child.
He would not be mistaken, Song Zhi looked like his mother...
In a trance, Song Xi felt dizzy.
The quiet and solemn train station in the early morning suddenly turned into the dusk shrouded in endless sorrow. The train station was dilapidated, and the people coming and going were all ordinary people with sad faces and children.
"Grandma, why don't you come with us? The Japs are coming!"
"Mom! Mom...Mom! Who has seen my mom?"
"Dad, I want to play with Xiao Ming! I don't want to leave, I want to go to school, woo woo--"
"I'm sorry I can't go with you. I, I can't bear to leave my family..."
"Little sister! Little sister, hurry up!"
Song Xi remembered the scene clearly.
That was the year when the Japanese army launched the most severe counterattack.
He was trapped in Pingdu and fell into the enemy's trap. Fortunately, several underground workers risked their lives to save him, so he was not arrested.
Finally, the organization found an opportunity to break through——
So that day, she sent him to the train station.
The entire train station was packed with displaced, panic-stricken people.
Only she, wearing a black velvet cheongsam, a white mink coat, and carrying an expensive purse, looked elegant and calm. She looked at him with a smile, her eyes hiding greed and reluctance, but she said with a smile -
"goodbye."
Song Xi felt a sharp pain in his heart.
He pressed hard on his heart.
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