Who is that woman? Hualing saw her, at the hospital...
Qi Taiguo paused in thought, then rembered, his eyes dimd slightly.
Cheng Su noticed this, her heart sank a little, so there really is such a woman!
"That person isn’t really anyone special, but it’s okay to tell you." Qi Taiguo, seeing her somber expression, said, "She’s the widow of a comrade."
Cheng Su was startled.
A flash of pain and regret crossed Qi Taiguo’s eyes, seeing this, Cheng Su said, "If you don’t want to talk about it, then don’t. I won’t ask. I trust you!"
Qi Taiguo smiled a little, patted her back, and said, "There’s nothing that can’t be said. Since you have doubts, I should clarify it, so you don’t let your imagination run wild and feel uneasy."
Cheng Su opened her mouth, and he pressed her lips down.
"I had only been a soldier for less than four years when I was sent to fight in the Vietnam War. At that ti, we had a platoon leader nad Zheng Guixiang. In our eyes, he was a cheerful old bachelor, over thirty and still unmarried, quite pitiful. Do you rember I told you before that I also attended a mixer?"
Cheng Su nodded, she rembered, how could she not rember.
"That girl was Yao Xiaoyu. Didn’t I have you already? So how could I possibly accept her red star? It was quite awkward back then, so our platoon leader accepted the red star and confessed to Little Yu on the spot." Qi Taiguo recalled, smiling slightly, and said, "Although the platoon leader wasn’t very handso, he was a good person, honest, considerate, and naturally, Little Yu got together with him!"
After Zheng Guixiang and Little Yu got married, they quickly had a son. When they went to fight in the Vietnam War, Little Yu was pregnant with another one.
"In those days, there was no family planning, so when we set off, Little Yu’s belly was already showing!" Qi Taiguo said lightly, "The Vietnam War..."
He pursed his lips, finding it hard to continue. How could he say that because of his impulse, the platoon leader took a bullet for him and ultimately died in battle?
Qi Taiguo pounded his chest, looking at the tent’s top, and said, "At that ti, I was too young, full of vigor, too conceited, charging forward like a reckless calf, regardless. Seeing my brothers falling one by one made angry, indignant, driven by the urge to sacrifice, I charged ahead. An old soldier, who wasn’t completely dead, shot a burst of bullets at , and it was the platoon leader who knocked down."
Cheng Suxin tightened in her chest, her eyes reddened, she hadn’t expected it to be like this.
Qi Taiguo’s eyes also filled with tears, and he said, "Platoon Leader Zheng covered my back with his life."
"Taiguo..." Cheng Su grabbed his hand and said, "Don’t say anymore!"
The story is too painful, every ntion is like cutting into the heart.
"Before the platoon leader died, he even said to : ’You rascal, Guo, you mustn’t expose your back so carelessly in the future, because not many people can watch your back anymore!’" Qi Taiguo shed a tear from the corner of his eye and said, "From then on, I swore, never to let the comrades and brothers who cover my back sacrifice themselves."
Cheng Su lowered herself, holding his head tightly, letting him rest against her neck.
In a place she couldn’t see, Qi Taiguo’s tears flowed freely and continually. After so many years, thinking of it still filled him with regret, unable to tell anyone, unable to admit his reckless failure.
Because of him, a brave soldier’s life was lost.
And his today was exchanged with the life of the platoon leader, it was Zheng Guixiang’s life that made Qi Taiguo’s achievents possible.
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