She slowly turned back until Su Congwen was no longer visible.
"What did you kid do in such a hurry just now?" Qin Ying asked in confusion.
"It's nothing. I couldn't bear to leave my second brother, so I said a few more words to him." Su Qingyun smiled casually, as if nothing happened just now.
"Oh." Qin Ying didn't think much, "Come in quickly, it's cold outside."
"good."
The Su family entered the house, looked at the home, and sighed in unison. Although there was only one person missing, the home seemed to be much deserted.
After everyone was silent for a while, they started talking about other topics to divert their reluctant emotions.
Su Qingyun went back to the room alone and looked at the calendar on the table. She took out a red pen and lightly clicked a red dot on February 17th. This date was only two weeks away.
Listening to the faint voices coming from outside, Su Qingyun sighed heavily.
Time passed day by day, and Su Qingyun became more and more worried every day. Soon, it was the time she marked on the calendar.
"Yunyun, what are you doing sitting outside the house? It's cold outside, come in." Qin Ying looked at Su Qingyun sitting alone in the yard and wondered.
"It's okay, Mom, I'll sit down for a while."
Su Qingyun sat in the yard with a silent expression. Today was a rare sunny day in winter. The sun was shining warmly. She could see the smoke and green mountains in the distance. Everything was so quiet and beautiful, but she also knew that in the country, On the other side, there was a hail of bullets and artillery fire at the moment.
Among those brave soldiers who chose to go abroad to fight for the sake of national peace and stability, one was her second brother, her young and fearless second brother.
Su Qingyun turned her head and saw her second aunt who was picking up the soles of her shoes with her eldest aunt in the room. She felt a little sour in her heart. At this moment, she was afraid that her family would know, and she was also afraid that her family would not know.
"I don't know what's going on. My heartbeat is pounding today, and it's fast." Zhang Xinlan covered her heart, a little strange, "Why do you feel so panicked?"
"Why are you panicking?" Li Xiulian said with a smile, "You're panicking because you didn't have any meat in your mouth. You ate three big chunks at lunch today. Are you still panicking?"
"Oh, it's not that kind of panic." Zhang Xinlan waved her hands and couldn't explain why. "Anyway, I just feel unsure. It's so strange. I haven't felt this way before."
Qin Ying on the side said: "Do you feel uneasy?"
"What does it mean to be restless?"
"I just feel like something bad is going to happen." Qin Ying explained.
"Yes, yes, that's how it feels." Zhang Xinlan said quickly, and then she was startled, "Isn't it because of the Patriots that something happened to them?"
Seeing that the weather was good today, the three brothers of the Su family went up the mountain together. They wanted to go up the mountain to see if there was any game that they were hungry enough to forage for. Since they had nothing to do at home, they might as well go out and try their luck. It's time to pass the time.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up!" Li Xiulian said quickly, "The Patriots know the situation on the mountain well, what can happen? I see you have had a busy day."
"Hurry up and get your soles. Didn't you say that you want to make two pairs of thick cotton shoes for both Cong Wen and Cong Wu?"
Zhang Xinlan curled her lips and could only suppress the inexplicable panic in her heart.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Captain Qin Youfu's voice suddenly sounded on the village radio, "Villagers in Luoshui Village, can you hear it? There is a major news being broadcast now, there is a major news being broadcast now."
Breaking news? Su Qingyun's heart suddenly became excited, couldn't it?
"At 4:30 this morning, our country's self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam has started! According to the news broadcast, our country's first batch of participating troops totaled 7 armies, 22 divisions, and 360,000 people, and there were more than 70 militiamen and migrant workers participating in the war. Ten thousand people, more than 800 tanks, self-propelled artillery, and armored vehicles, more than 9,000 various artillery pieces, and more than 30,000 various vehicles, all launched an attack on Vietnam, which has been constantly provoking our border territories in recent times!"
"This war is a war that our country must fight in order to protect its hard-won stability. The deployment of so many troops, tanks and artillery is enough to prove our country's determination to resolutely defend its territorial integrity. It is very remarkable that our country has come this far. It is not easy. There are too many bloodshed and sacrifices. For the sake of peace, we have to fight. As Chinese people, we must also be united in dealing with the outside world. Even if we are not soldiers and have not gone to the battlefield to charge, we must be their strongest backing in the rear! "
"I hope everyone can cheer up and stay vigilant at all times. Don't be taken advantage of by some malicious people or forces. Once you find anyone or anything that goes wrong, report it to the brigade immediately!"
After Qin Youfu finished speaking loudly, he repeated it twice. He wanted to use the news of the war to inspire the villagers to unite, and also to prevent some forces with ulterior motives from taking advantage of the situation, because this has happened before. Yes, what those Western countries like to do most is to kill someone while they are sick. Even if they are just a remote village, they still have to be vigilant.
After Su Qingyun listened to the broadcast clearly, her heart sank and she frowned.
"Ouch Xinlan, how did you get your hand pricked?" Li Xiulian looked at Zhang Xinlan's finger with bloody beads and exclaimed, "How can you still prick your hand even though you have a shoe sole? Hurry up and hold it down."
Zhang Xinlan turned a deaf ear, as if she couldn't feel the pain at all, and said blankly: "Did the captain just say that there was a war?"
"Did you say it? It seems so." Li Xiulian didn't listen to such a long sentence, so she was unsure.
Zhang Xinlan turned to look at Qin Ying, who looked unhappy.
Zhang Xinlan asked quickly: "Yingzi, did you hear clearly just now? Is there a war?"
Qin Ying nodded slowly.
Zhang Xinlan shook her head, her expression suddenly changed, and she said in disbelief: "A war? How could there be a war? Hasn't it been a long time since there was a war?"
"Congwen, will Congwen go to the battlefield?" She said with a dull look in her eyes.
"No, it won't be." Li Xiulian panicked for a moment, and then comforted Zhang Xinlan, "There are so many troops and soldiers across the country, isn't Congwen still in military school? Even if there is a war, students will not be allowed to go , don’t think too much about it.”
"Yes, yes, yes, Congwen is in the military academy, in the military academy." Zhang Xinlan's eyes lit up and she kept saying. She was trying to convince herself that Congwen was in the military academy now and would not go to the battlefield. He definitely wouldn't.
Hearing her words, Su Qingyun lowered his eyes slightly. The second brother was a student in a military academy, but he was a soldier first. He knew what the responsibilities of a soldier were, and he resolutely fulfilled his responsibilities and obligations as a soldier. But this kind of How could she bear to tell her second aunt?
The second aunt is a mother. What a mother needs is not a brave and capable soldier, but a safe and healthy son.
"No, no, what did Cong Wen say before he left?" After Zhang Xinlan comforted herself a few words, she suddenly thought of what Cong Wen said when he said he was going back. "He said there were some temporary arrangements from above for him to go back early. , why are you in such a hurry that you have to go back early?"
She said she could stay at home for half a month, but she suddenly left early because of the order from above. No matter how stupid she was, Zhang Xinlan still felt something was wrong, but she still didn't want to believe it.
She looked at Qin Ying and asked: "Yingzi, you read a lot, tell me, where is the Yue Kingdom? Where is the border? Our family is in Chuncheng, he won't go, right? Absolutely not Right?"
Qin Ying's frown never relaxed. She looked at Zhang Xinlan's frightened face and couldn't bear to say the words in her mouth.
"Second sister-in-law..."
"Yingzi, tell me, Congwen won't go, right?" Zhang Xinlan hoped that Qin Ying would nod. As long as she nodded, she would believe it.
"The country of Yue is close to our country's Yun Province. If there is a war, the first troops to be assembled will be the Chuncheng Military Region." Qin Ying couldn't bear it, but she still said the words because she knew that as a mother, she would be worried if she didn't tell the truth. Telling Zhang Xinlan will only make her more frightened and frightened.
"Chuncheng Military Region, Chuncheng Military Region." Zhang Xinlan murmured the name twice, her face turned frighteningly white.
Isn’t Congwen in the Chuncheng Military Region? Isn't Spring City Army Academy Congwen's school? Congwen was so close and even returned early, could he...
Zhang Xinlan didn't dare to think about it any further.
Li Xiulian also realized the seriousness of the matter at this time, and she did not dare to think, had Congwen really gone to the battlefield?
Zhang Xinlan sat blankly, like a wooden stake, not knowing what she was thinking. Li Xiulian and Qin Ying also fell silent, and the atmosphere in the room was horribly stagnant.
Su Qingyun turned away, suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and wiped his tears.
"No, I have to send a telegram to Congwen!" Zhang Xinlan was stunned for a long time, then suddenly stood up, "I have to ask if he is in school!"
As long as Congwen can reply to her telegram, it proves that he is still well and has not gone to war or to the country of Laoshizi.
After saying that, she rushed out of the house very quickly.
"What kind of thing is this! What a crime!" Li Xiulian sighed, dropped what she was holding, and chased out with Qin Ying. They were all afraid that something would happen to Zhang Xinlan.
"Xinlan, wait for us, we will go with you."
Su Qingyun also followed behind.
Zhang Xinlan's pace was so fast that the three people behind her could hardly keep up. They followed her hurriedly and slowly, panting from exhaustion and sweating from the cold weather.
Four people, three older and one younger, rushed to the town just to send a hurried telegram to confirm the child's safety.
After nearly an hour's journey, the four of them rushed to the town in just over half an hour. Zhang Xinlan went straight to the post office, quickly took a telegram and sent it to Spring City.
They are all praying to receive a reply from Congwen.
But only Su Qingyun knew that this was destined to be a telegram without a reply.
