Two months later.

The riverside near the 433rd Brigade station.

Wan Xiangdong was wearing a fisherman's hat and casual clothes, sitting on a folding chair with his eyes closed and meditating.

Xiao Zheng, a public service soldier, took a folding chair and sat behind him, where he concentrated on reading.

Jingle Bell--

The bell clipped to the fishing rod suddenly rang.

Wan Xiangdong opened his eyes and pointed his hand, as if commanding his troops to charge.

"Xiao Zheng! Fish!"

Xiao Zheng threw down the book in a panic, rushed over, grabbed the fishing rod and jerked it back.

But this time, the hand was light and there was no resistance at all.

Xiao Zheng felt a chill in his heart and took another twitch unwillingly.

The result is still a feeling of emptiness.

He turned back to Wan Xiangdong and said: "Brigadier, the fish has escaped."

Wan Xiangdong was sitting in a chair, his eyes a little vacant, and he looked a little dazed.

He was filled with emotion.

I feel like this pole is like my military career.

After carefully preparing and waiting patiently, at the last moment, it was all in vain.

Endless loss couldn't help but well up in my heart.

Seeing the brigade commander's appearance, Xiao Zheng was a little panicked. He thought he was reading a book and delayed pulling the lever, causing the fish to escape.

"Brigadier, I..."

"Oh." Wan Xiangdong pulled away from his chaotic thoughts, smiled and said to Xiao Zheng, "It's okay, it's okay."

He said "It's okay" twice in a row.

It seemed like he was saying it to Xiao Zheng, and it seemed like he was saying it to himself.

"Look at the bait before casting the rod," he said.

"good."

Xiao Zheng quickly went to check the bait.

This time is different from the past. In the past, Wan Xiangdong liked to use a hand pole, sit by the water like an old monk in meditation, sit firmly on the fishing platform, and wait for the fish to take the bait.

But after a serious illness, although the condition is now under control, it is only under control. The doctor told me to rest more and go back to the hospital regularly for treatment.

Of course Wan Xiangdong knows what this means.

The duration of PD-1 therapy is not a matter of one or two days.

Even if it is completed, life can only be temporarily saved. In the future, certain medications must be taken and taken regularly to control the disease.

The only advantage is that this treatment does not have as big a impact on the quality of life as surgery, which is ultimately a good thing among bad things.

But Wan Xiangdong knew that he would never return to the command position.

The post of brigade commander had been resigned before, and Li Zheng acted as brigade commander. Now Wan Xiangdong does not hold any position for the time being and is idle.

This time I returned to the 433rd Brigade because my wife had a job transfer and I was leaving the station, so I found a time to have a meal with Li Zheng and the others as a farewell.

Li Zheng heard that he was coming to have dinner, so he specially held a banquet in the small canteen of the brigade headquarters to entertain him.

Lao Wan couldn't bear to part with this river. He liked it here. Since he was leaving, he wanted to come here to fish again. On the way, he also wanted to add a dish of sweet and sour fish to the dinner table for the farewell banquet in the evening.

In the past, whenever he encountered any problems or was in a bad mood, he would come here and fish all morning. After fishing, he would have solved the problem.

To Lao Wan, this place is like a Buddhist temple in the eyes of a Buddhist. Although he himself is an atheist, the human spirit and soul must have a place of pilgrimage and rest.

Next to the river is Lao Wan's Buddhist temple.

Xiao Zheng finally rearranged the bait and threw the fishhook far into the river.

This time Lao Wan did not use a hand pole, but used a flip hook.

In the past, Lao Wan didn't bother to use this kind of flip hook. In his words, it didn't have any technical content.

But today is different from the past.

Stomach cancer tortured Lao Wan until he lost his energy.

He couldn't hold the pole anymore.

It's okay if the flip hook is upside down. Anyway, just load the bait and throw it into the river, and then hang a bell. When the fish takes the bait, the bell will ring, and people can go over and pull the rod.

Lao Wan suddenly sighed.

The fishing method that I despised in the past is actually the method that suits me best now.

At different stages of life, your ideas will change, and what suits you will also change.

Before he got sick, Lao Wan devoted himself wholeheartedly to the army. The army was everything to him, and the 433rd Brigade was his lifeblood.

The construction of the army was very impressive, and Lao Wan felt that his life had also become very colorful.

Wife and children?

It seems that I have never been ignored before.

This disease, my wife's care, my daughter's well-behaved.

Lao Wan saw it all.

As I looked at it, I felt guilty.

It turns out that I used to ignore the happiness in front of me so much. The most precious things are often right next to me.

Feelings of family and country, national defense and strong army.

The old dream of military uniform became farther and farther away from Lao Wan after a serious illness.

As the saying goes, every loss must have a gain.

After losing his dream of being a general, Lao Wan was once despairing of all hope, but as time went by, he discovered that he had not everything.

There is a family, a father, a mother, a wife, and a daughter.

I am not just a soldier.

He is also a son, a husband and a father.

In the past, I lived for the army, and my parents, wife, and children lived for me. Now, it is time to return to my family and make up for what I once owed.

"Old brigadier!"

Li Zheng's voice came from behind.

Lao Wan turned around and saw Li Zheng.

When Li Zheng came up, he gave a standard military salute and came directly to sit down cross-legged next to Lao Wan.

"Old brigade commander, how many fish did you catch?" he asked.

Lao Wan smiled bitterly: "I will be an air force for the time being."

Li Zheng said: "No, you are in the Army, you will definitely not be in the Air Force."

After that, he added: "Today is Saturday, I will fish with you until we catch a big fish."

Lao Wan felt warm in his heart as he looked at this brigade commander who was much younger than himself and his successor.

yes.

How rare.

When Li Zheng came to serve as chief of staff, there were a lot of rumors in the brigade and the army, saying that this man was very young and his promotion speed was as fast as a rocket. It was probably related to the reason of the old commander Shao Xianyong.

Although I had already denounced this statement at that time, I was ordered not to say it again in public or in private.

But if he asks himself, he has no confidence in Li Zheng's appointment.

Now it seems that it's all just my own little person's heart.

Li came up through real skills and has nothing to do with Shao Xianyong.

It's okay to insist that there is a relationship. It's just that he is Shao Xianyong's son-in-law and is more likely to be noticed.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "This time our team fought very well. I heard that Wen Zhaohui locked himself in the office for three days after he returned."

Although Lao Wan is no longer in the army, his old comrades are everywhere, and he has been paying attention to the results of this exercise.

The opening battle between 413 and 422 failed miserably, and Lao Wan's heart was already hanging in the air.

If Li Zheng also fails, then the golden brand of the main force of Army Group A will be thrown into the mud pit.

Before the exercise, he had the urge to call Li Zheng more than once to ask about this and that, but in the end he resisted.
To be continued...