Chapter 78: Respond to the country with guilt

"Captain Cui!" After a while, Li Pinghe walked in with confusion on his face.

I didn't say much, but pointed to the pile of letters on the desktop. Li Pinghe is worthy of being an ideological and political work profession, and soon understood the key.

"Zhang Mingxue!" Li Pinghe said to Zhang Mingxue who had just stood at the door: "Go and bring my briefcase!"

"Yes!" Zhang Mingxue responded and turned around and left.

"Captain!" Li Pinghe pushed the glasses on his nose and said easily: "Don't mind doing a favor!"

"Help?" I was stunned when I heard this and asked in confusion: "Can we help this matter?"

"At least do some preparations!" Li Pinghe skillfully untied the ropes for these letters, and replied: "Of course there are many things we can't help with, but we must at least have some precautions!"

"Preventive measures? Are you talking about opening the letter?" I couldn't help but hesitate: "Is this not a good thing..."

"No, there is no need to open the letter!" Li Pinghe shook his head, picked up the envelope and spread it out on the table: "What we need to do is to classify these letters. See which soldiers receive the letters, and then pay more attention to these soldiers when they send the letters to the soldiers tomorrow!"

"Oh!" I understood this. The truth is actually very simple. Only soldiers who received the letter may have problems! The so-called care is confusing. Just now, my heart was in a mess, and I didn't even expect such a simple truth.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing at myself, and then followed Li Pinghe to classify the letters by name.

"Political Commissar! Your bag!" Zhang Mingxue's cry came from outside the door. Because he did not get permission, he did not dare to come in without authorization.

Li Pinghe opened the door a crack, nodded outside, and took a briefcase. Then he skillfully took out a list from the inside and put it on the table and said, "Some comrades have sacrificed, so we have to think of returning those letters! I hope the others are all good news!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. The scene of the family members sacrificing before they could receive the letter flashed through my mind. At this time, I couldn't help but feel the urge to leave this room and throw all of this to Li Pinghe. But in the end I still stayed because I felt that I should do something for these sacrificed soldiers and their families.

That night, Xie Changbin arranged a very comfortable place for us, with beds and quilts. Although this may not be anything for ordinary people, it is already a very enjoyable thing for us who have been hiding in the tunnel for a long time.

But despite this, I was still lying on the bed and tossing and unable to sleep, thinking about the letters in my head. What exactly are the letters? Will it just be a normal greeting? Or just say missing or something? I hope so!

As I thought about it, I finally couldn't help but get up, put on my cotton coat and walked towards the house where the letters were stored.

As soon as I walked out the door, I unexpectedly found that the lights in the room were on. I walked up quickly and saw that Li Pinghe had been inside.

"Can't sleep?" I pushed the door and smelled a strong smell of smoke.

"Yes!" Li Pinghe spat out a long breath of smoke and handed me the letter paper in his hand.

I took it and saw that it clearly stated: "Brother Zong Xi,... I won't let you join the army, you insist on going... Now my mother is sick and bedridden, your sister-in-law has been in a hospital with difficulty, and the family owes a lot of debts. During the Chinese New Year, the whole family did not buy New Year's goods, and they didn't even make new clothes..."

"Zongxi? Tangzongxi?" I couldn't help but feel excited when I saw this name.

"Yes!" Li Pinghe replied: "What I have removed is the letter of the comrade who has already sacrificed!"

Tang Zongxi, a platoon leader of the 538th Regiment. I remember him because in the last battle, an American grenade hit his chest, and a hole as big as a football was blown out in his chest.

Looking at the letter in my hand, I couldn't help but gritted my teeth and said silently in my heart: "Good brother and sister-in-law, don't blame your younger brother anymore. He has already sacrificed his last drop of blood for the motherland and devoted everything to the people, and can no longer stand in front of you!"

"There is this!" Li Pinghe handed over another letter.

I took it with my trembling hands, and I saw it: "Shitou, your father has cancer and has no money to treat it. I hope you will come back and see you for the last time! Say to your superiors and ask for a leave to come back for a few days..."

"Shitou, Zhang Yishi..." I looked at the envelope and realized that the young man named Zhang Yishi was named Shitou.

"Well! He died under the enemy's cold gun!" Li Pinghe continued, "I remember before he died, he gave me a letter and asked me to send it out! He said vaguely in his coma and kept calling 'Forgive me!'... And this..."

"Enough!" I didn't take the letter he handed over from Li Pinghe, and turned around and ran out of the house. Because I no longer had the courage to read the next letter.

"Wang Changsheng!"

"arrive!"

"Li Tie!"

"arrive!"

...

The next morning, the soldiers gathered in the square. Liu Shunyi stood in front of the team and called out the soldiers with the letter one by one, and then handed the letter to them.

The soldiers were disciplined. After they got the letter, they didn't know how much they wanted to open the envelopes and see what was inside, but they still endured it and stood upright in the queue without moving.

After a while, the letter was finally sent, and Liu Shunyi gave the order to disband with understanding. The soldier who received the letter couldn't wait to open the envelope in his hand.

One second, two seconds...

I looked at the warriors quietly and observed the expressions on their faces. This moment was so long for me that I almost thought that time had stopped.

One smile, two smiles... Looking at the smiles on the soldiers' faces, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved. But before I could even hurry to turn my gaze to other soldiers, a soldier turned around and faced the south, kowtowed three times, and then shouted to the sky with a shrill voice: "It's all my fault!" and fainted.

The soldiers hurriedly ran up to the first aid. I dragged my heavy steps and picked up the letter paper with tears from the ground. There were only a few simple words on it: "My wife has difficulty giving birth, because there are no other people at home, and the villagers found it too late, and all the adults and children are dead!"

Not only that, I soon found that several more soldiers were crying at the letter in their hands, and there was my guard Xu Yongwei among them.

"What's wrong?" I couldn't help but walk to Xu Yongwei and asked.

Xu Yongwei did not answer, but just squatted on the ground and kept crying.

"Captain!" Zhang Mingxue's eyes were red and his voice was choked, "Xu Yongwei's father was paralyzed. He was looking forward to him going home every day, and he climbed to the door every day for him to go back, but he never waited. Once he waited too late and he had no strength to climb back because the neighbors didn't notice it, and the next day..."

I patted Xu Yongwei on the shoulder speechlessly and wanted to say a few words of comfort, but I couldn't say anything to my mouth. Because I felt that any words of comfort at this time would be so thin and powerless to the warrior.

No one will understand my current feelings. Life and death on the battlefield have long connected my hearts with the soldiers. To me, they are my brothers and my relatives. It is no exaggeration to say that their father is my father, and their mother is my mother. Knowing that their family is unfortunate, I am also cut off my heart!

"Captain!" At this time, Liu Shunyi handed a telegram to me and said, "The division headquarters called and allowed the soldiers to have a half-month vacation, so that they could go back and see their families!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, stood up straight and gritted my teeth and said, "Go back! It's half a month's vacation, and I'll be here to concentrate in half a month!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and immediately returned to the barracks to sort out their luggage. Liu Shunyi began to discuss with Xie Changbin to prepare military vehicles and itineraries for the soldiers.

"Captain Cui!" Looking at the soldiers who had packed their luggage and left in the car, Li Pinghe walked up and handed me a cigarette.

"This is to serve the country with heavy burdens!" Li Pinghe sighed.

"No, this is a crime to serve the country!" I shook my head.

"Super the country with guilt?" Li Pinghe looked at me in confusion: "What are they guilty?"

"Yes, they are guilty!" I replied heavily, "My family has made them suffer!"

After I said this, Li Pinghe had nothing to say.

The heroes and sinners are actually equated. Perhaps only at this moment can we know how bitter this fact is!

"What are your plans next?" Li Pinghe continued to ask.

"I don't know!" I was confused. I really didn't know what to do after taking the big vacation. Go home? I don't know where my home is now, let alone looking for relatives.

"Or? Come with me to meet my uncle!" Li Pinghe said with some expectations: "Uncle is my father's comrade-in-arms. I have been following him since I was a teenager! I have told him about you, and he has always wanted to meet you!"

"Um!" I hesitated for a moment and said, "It's good, but I have to report to Commander Pang first! Maybe he has other arrangements!"
Chapter completed!