When they walked out of the door, thunder began to roar over Zenda, and dense rain poured down on their heads. Shuo Yu glanced back at Yu Xiaoqing, who was still kneeling in the yard, a man who wanted to die but failed.
When they left the Dingzi Alley where Zhang Lixian and his men lived, they turned around and saw their regiment's old veterinarian crying with Deputy Commander Tang of the Yu Division in the car at the entrance of the alley. They really looked like two ordinary old men at that moment.
One said I can't cry with you but still kept crying, the other said it was all over, it was all over, and wiped the half-clear and half-turbid tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeves and the corners of his clothes.
The veterinarian cried so sadly because he was worried that the baby would die just after the wound healed, so he came with the child.
Shuo Yu got him out of Tang Ji's car, held his hand, and looked at Tang Ji who lost his composure for the first time. To be honest, even when this guy was crying, it gave people the feeling that he was acting. He had been pretending for a lifetime, and finally he was real for once, but others also treated him as fake.
"Deputy Commander Tang is well?"
"Okay, okay, as long as you're fine, I'm fine too. It's okay, brother. Life is short, what's there to not understand?"
It was the first time that Shuo Yu knew that Tang Ji could speak Shaanxi dialect, and spoke it very well. He didn't know what had happened to the veterinarian. He just watched the old man laughing and crying at him, and he smiled at him too. Shuo Yu wanted to make him happier, but Old Man Hao was not Lei Baoer who would laugh when he made a face. He was just a 57-year-old old man.
Milong and the others stared at this side, muttering something. They didn't know how the old liar in their eyes was related to the veterinarian. They said that he was becoming more and more like that bastard Ayi.
Not to mention them, even Shuo Yu who came over didn't know what was going on. He just watched the veterinarian wipe his cloudy eyes with his sleeves bit by bit, but he couldn't wipe them clean. He had to use the clean part of his clothes to help the old man wipe his eyes.
"Dad, don't cry, let's go home."
"Ah, go home, go home."
Yu Xiaoqing behind them did not send anyone to stop them. Shuoyu originally wanted to take the veterinarian with him, but the old man staggered and did not want his help, insisting on walking by himself. Shuoyu had no choice but to watch him walk, asking him as they walked.
"Dad, what did Tang Ji say to you that wasted your tears?"
"Nothing, nothing much to say. I'm just old now, and my eyes are shallow. I want to cry when I see cats and dogs. He can speak my hometown dialect, so I just talk to him a few words, just a few words..."
Veterinarian Hao waved his hands, his steps were not steady, even so he did not look at his feet but looked up at the sky. Shuo Yu thought he did not want to cry anymore. When he was still her, she had watched a time-travel costume drama that was popular all over the country as a child. One of the popular lines in the drama was, when you want to cry, look up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, and your tears will flow back.
"Dad, if we don't fight anymore, we can live a good life. In a few years, when the whole country is at peace, you can go back to Xi'an. Then I will go back with you."
"Good, very good, very good."
Shuo Yu listened to the veterinarian's words and believed it, because he had seen such an old man before. The older a person gets, the softer his heart becomes. It is so soft that it is unbelievable. The less likely they are to cry when they are young, the more likely they are to cry when they are old. They want to cry at the slightest thing they see.
He always felt that a person's tears and reproductive cells were the same, there were only so many in a lifetime. If you use more when you are young, you will have less when you are old. On the contrary, if you always hold back when you are young, you can't hold it back when you are old.
Looking at those misty eyes, he didn't know why he always wanted to subconsciously avoid them, as if Old Man Hao was not seeing him, but someone else. Shuo Yu asked Dashan to hold one of Veterinarian Hao's hands to prevent the veterinarian from getting lost, as they still had a long way to go home.
Veterinarian Hao said he was fine, but was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused.
The clear-headed part was that he could remember almost every face and name of the cannon fodder, but the confused part was that he thought he was still on the loess plateau, lamenting that the raindrops falling from the sky had become sweet, and the earthen slope had turned into a tree nest.
Shuo Yu grabbed his other hand, that rough yet warm hand, and pulled him back.
As they walked along, Shuoyu listened to the old man muttering all the way. They pointed at their own faces and asked the old man who they were. If he couldn't tell them, he would be an old fool. They regarded this as a joke, but the veterinarian answered every face seriously, including his own.
Finally, this boring farce ended with a dead face. The veterinarian just said his name. It seemed that their leader came over just to stop this boring game. After calling a halt, he went to the front again and walked on his own.
Shuo Yu looked at the wrinkled hand in his hand, which was like old bark. He realized that the veterinarian's face was so old. It seemed that he had not looked at this face carefully for a long time. Every wrinkle on it was like a gully in the loess, hiding sorrow and wind and frost.
I was so tired that I tried to smooth them out, but it was no use.
The veterinarian was confused and looked down for his keys on the road.
"How do I get home with the key?"
If you are annoyed, just lie to him and tell him that the key is with him and you will give it to him when you get back.
When they passed by Milong's house, everyone had a basket of eggs in their arms, even their leader was stuffed with eggs. They were going back to Jiqipo, so they had to take this with them.
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