Xu Jianmin continued, "You are indeed a good young man compared to the unsightly fellows in the village, but you are still far from being a match for the all-around excellent Li Zhiqing."
"Uncle, you..." Xu Xiangyang looked at his uncle sadly. How could he insult his own nephew like that?
"The truth is always unpleasant to hear, but honest advice hurts. Li Zhiqing won't be trapped in our small place forever. She has a wider world to explore. You are not on the same path as her."
Xu Xiangyang said: "I won't be trapped here forever."
After my uncle's leg is healed, he will still join the army. Just because he is not worthy of it now does not mean he will not be worthy of it in the future.
"I won't wait for you to become stronger and bigger. I'm already a strong person. I will only admire those who are stronger than me. I won't wait for you here." After a pause, he said, "But it would be good for you to go out and see the world, so as not to be blindly confident."
Every word he said was like a knife, piercing his nephew's heart.
Xu Xiangyang was not annoyed. He would make himself stronger and work hard to make himself worthy of her. If he could not get what he wanted in the end, then at least he had tried his best and would not have any regrets.
He couldn't just give up and do nothing. He wasn't a coward.
Li Xiyue didn't know about the conversation between Xu Xiangyang's uncle and nephew. She went to the team leader's house and gave Sun Xia half a pound of brown sugar and half a pound of White Rabbit milk as compensation for making clothes.
Sun Xia refused to accept it. Li Xiyue had done a favor for their family, so why would they want her things when she only made a few pieces of clothing?
Li Xiyue insisted on giving it, and the thing was not hers alone, but was given together with Huang Xinrui. She left the thing and left.
After leaving the house, she went to Uncle Xu's house.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw that something seemed to be wrong with the grandfather and grandson. Xu Guoqing's eyes were red, as if he had been crying, and Uncle Xu Liu was pounding medicine with a loud bang, looking very angry.
"What's wrong?" Li Xiyue came to Xu Guoqing and asked.
Xu Guoqing didn't say anything, wiped his tears and ran away.
Li Xiyue had no choice but to ask Uncle Xu, "Grandpa, what happened?"
"It's about the enemy spies who came to the village yesterday. Guoqing thought they were the devils and insisted on going to fight them. I didn't let him go, so he kept making a fuss."
Uncle Xu sighed, "He was clamoring about joining the army again today. I said a few words to him, and he completely exploded."
Li Xiyue understood that it seemed that Xu Guoqing had not given up his dream of joining the army.
Uncle Xu had his hair cut, and she vaguely saw a scar on his head, which looked like it was left by a bullet. She asked in surprise, "Grandpa, what's the wound on your head?"
"When I was young, I was fighting the Japanese and a bullet went through my head. Fortunately, I survived," explained Uncle Xu.
Li Xiyue was shocked. He could survive with a bullet through his head. Is this a medical miracle?
"I was still a small officer at that time. I withdrew from the front line because of an injury. Later, I followed the military medical skills and rescued the wounded everywhere. After the war, I became a barefoot doctor who changed his career halfway through." Uncle Xu mentioned the past with a faint smile on his face.
Li Xiyue looked at Uncle Xu Liu with admiration. It turned out that he was also a soldier in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and that was how he got his headache.
"Are all the martyrs buried in the cemeteries on the mountain?" Li Xiyue asked.
Uncle Xu was surprised. "Did you find out?"
"Xiaobai took me there."
Uncle Xu said, "Yes, they are all martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country. Every family in our village has a martyr, and all the villagers in the village can be considered descendants of martyrs."
"It's just that each generation is worse than the previous one. Many people are selfish and do immoral things, bringing shame to the martyrs."
Li Xiyue feels that no matter what era or place, there will always be good people and bad people. This has nothing to do with one's background. People with good backgrounds are not necessarily all good people, and people with bad backgrounds are not necessarily all bad people.
It is normal for good bamboo to produce bad shoots.
"Back then, everyone was a soldier. All our ancestors from Xujia Village participated in the war, but less than a third of them survived. Before the war, Xujia Village was a large village in Yonghe County, with hundreds of households. But now, it has become a sparsely populated village."
"There were six brothers in my family. We went to war together, but I was the only one who came back. I was lucky enough to escape death... My wife passed away early, and Guoqing's father was the only child. Guoqing was his father's only child. If something happened to Guoqing again, I would be sorry to my ancestors."
No matter what, we have to leave a descendant for the family to pass on from generation to generation.
Li Xiyue understood the old man's thoughts. The old man had his own concerns, and the young had their own ideals and ambitions. This was a clash of ideas between the older and younger generations, so she couldn't say much.
Li Xiyue went out to talk to Xu Guoqing, and Xu Guoqing was very determined.
A new era will come, and the ideas of the older generation will gradually disintegrate. If Xu Guoqing insists on his own ideas, Uncle Xu Liu will ultimately not be able to stop him.
After talking it out, Xu Guoqing felt much better. He was optimistic by nature, so he immediately put aside the unhappy things and talked about the interesting things that happened in the village yesterday.
Although Xu Guoqing is a boy, he is as gossipy as the aunts and grandmas in the village. In a short while, he talked about every household's affairs without even taking a breath, and laughed while talking.
Li Xiyue finally understood why he was beaten every day. It turned out that every beating a child received was not in vain.
However, the people in the village seem to have their own selfish desires on a daily basis, but they are extremely united towards the outside world, especially their hatred for the Japanese devils.
Although they all have their own little thoughts, they are undoubtedly patriotic compatriots.
When we returned to Uncle Xu's house, Uncle Xu talked about another thing.
"The team committee has decided to build a clinic in the village. Since you're already a legitimate barefoot doctor, it's not a big deal if you always squeeze in with me. Besides, I'm old and can't be a barefoot doctor for more than two years. The team plans to let you officially take over."
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