Why be serious

I returned to Huzhou with this book, my grandpa and grandma.

Xiaobao and Yingying haven't seen them for a long time, and they no longer recognize who they are, so they greet them timidly.

Rong En and Auntie were not there, only the children, Xia Hui and the servants were left at home.Grandpa and grandma asked me who Xia Hui was.I don't know how to explain it, so I can only say that he is a friend of mine who helped take care of little Bao Yingying when I was away.So grandpa and grandma were very polite to him.

After I settled my grandparents, I went to visit Xia Hui again.When I went to his door, he left the door open and was packing his luggage.

I asked him, "Is it that urgent?"

He paused while pulling the suitcase, lowered his head and said, "Your family members are back, and I'm not needed here."

I said you can stay, they are old and it is difficult to take care of two children.

Xia Hui shook his head firmly: "I have to go."

I'm not surprised he said that.He has made up his mind to go, why not me.

So I told Xia Hui: "I'm leaving too."

He was taken aback: "Where are you going? Didn't you just come back from Muzhou?"

I told him that I was going to join the army.

Xia Hui looked at me in a daze for a moment, with a bit of fear in his eyes.He asked me, "Are you serious? There's a war going on right now."

I said: "Yeah."

I haven't spoken to anyone about this yet.

In the evening, both Rong En and Auntie came back, and the whole family was sitting at the dinner table. I waited for them to finish their meal before announcing the news:

"Army Signal Corps Technical Training Class," I said, "I've signed up, and I'll go to Beiyan when the class starts."

There was a moment of silence at the dinner table, and everyone looked disheveled.But what I never expected was that it was Rong En who broke out first.

He said angrily, "Why don't you discuss such a big matter with your family?!"

"I must go," I said quietly, "you don't understand."

That night, the house was full of chaos, Xiaobao's crying, Auntie's sobbing, Rong En's roaring, but it was grandma and grandpa who were the most calm.I think it must have been the same scene when my uncle joined the army. After beating and scolding, my uncle still ran to the north, and finally died there, sleeping in the same hole as his ideal.

Grandpa and grandma didn't say anything, but said with a dejected expression that I had grown up and had my own ideas.

My aunt cried and persuaded me to think twice: "You are like your mother. You have ambition, good boy. But the current battle is too difficult to fight, and you are the only son left in the family! If you are gone, what will the family do? Xiaobao and Yingying They are still too young. Your father and I are old, and your grandparents are almost 70 years old. They all rely on you. Black-haired man, I'm really scared!"

I didn't answer, just smoked blindly, and Xia Hui was sitting opposite me.

Xia Hui was still in a daze as usual, neither persuading me nor agreeing with others.I don't know what he's thinking.

As for Jung Eun - I had a big fight with Jung Eun.

"You will die anytime when you go to the battlefield!" Rong En was furious and smashed a vase.He likes to do that when he's angry.

I said, "I know, that's how my uncle died."

Rong En said: "Those things you have learned are useless, what doctrines, ideals...survival is what matters!"

"That's why I said you don't understand," I said, "you're old, Ron, this time is not what you think it is. If everyone is as useless as you are, there will be chaos in the world. Who fights? Who keeps watch?" City? Who will take back Muzhou? How can grandma and grandpa have the opportunity to return to Huzhou?"

A goblet flew past my ear, and I heard my aunt crying.I went on to say: "Now there is no shortage of me in the family to inherit the business. You also know that I am not that material. I am not as good as the eldest brother and the second brother, but the descendants of the eldest brother and the second brother are still there. Teach Yingying and Xiaobao well. , let them study hard."

When Rong En heard this, he was going to beat me. My grandfather got angry when he saw this, and yelled at him to stop him.To hinder Yue Zhang's face, he had no choice but to give up.I just told everyone that he disagreed and it was impossible for me to join the army.Said to lock me up again.

Even though my grandparents were at home, Rong En still kept his word in the Rong family.This time, he didn't even listen to my aunt and niece's persuasion.I was locked in the study, and I was delivered three meals a day.I haven't eaten it once.

On the third day of the hunger strike, the food delivery person came again. I saw that it was Xia Hui.

He looked emaciated, pale and with puffy eyelids.I asked him, "Are you sick?"

He said, "I'm not leaving, can you have a good meal?"

I said: "No."