Recapture

The most lively part of the birthday banquet was at night, when all the people who were supposed to come came, and those who didn't come during the day were free at night.The old man has never seen a smile on his face after being surrounded by people all day.Huo Zhengjun was also so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground. People from other military regions also came and were his comrades-in-arms, and they were once the old man's capable subordinates.All of them are the old man's guests and students, so it's all right now, just a lunch at noon, I drank wine for a noon and an afternoon.

The people at the table were indescribably happy. Seeing the chiefs waving their arms and blushing and blushing, they had the intention of setting up a stage to sing directly. The guards around them exchanged glances, feeling that they couldn't afford to lose this person, so hurriedly Pulled.Shen Junzhu lowered his head and said something to Huo Zhengjun, and the latter patted his head suddenly, then remembered that it was his father's birthday, not a gathering of comrades-in-arms, and repeatedly ordered people to take the chiefs to rest.

And Huo Siwei was happy to be at leisure, and it was rare for him not to collide with his father today, and he played cards all afternoon, very idle.There was another highlight in the evening, which was the old man's speech. Originally, old man Huo didn't want to give a speech. Such a literary thing felt very sensational.

Later, after thinking about it, the old man agreed, and he was already an octogenarian.When I was still in the front line, I read speeches from time to time at the conference. Later, when I retired to the second line and retired to the rest of my life, I didn't even have the energy and opportunity to do the least rare things at that time.Looking back, it is not the greed for power, but the gratitude for the first half of my military life and the peaceful and smooth second half of my life.

This is also the reason why the family members were discussing to let Mr. Huo give a speech, but when he refused to go, Huo Wen tried to persuade him for several days to no avail. Captain Huo Si came back and played a game of chess with him to convince the old man.

The banquet hall on the first floor was full of guests. The banquet hall on the first floor was as bright as daylight.Captain Huoss was on the second floor, leaning on the railing, looking at the front stage of the banquet hall from his angle.A microphone stand was set up and a red carpet was laid there. A lady was invited to be the temporary host before the speech. Crutches stepped onto the stage.

The creased paper in his hand was the old man's manuscript, written by himself, and he didn't need anyone to help him up, he walked up it step by step with a cane.

"The leg disease of my leg came from a bullet in a southern county in 37 when the enemy was fighting with the enemy and was hiding in the haystack when the enemy shot and cleared it." Just after the old man's first sentence fell, There was no sound at the scene, and everyone seemed to be listening to the old man's speech with bated breath. Captain Huo Si's eyes also fell on his grandfather's lame foot.

The speaking time is 10 minutes. In fact, the old man's manuscript is very short, but it is full of his ups and downs in his life.Afterwards, almost all of them were unscripted, and most of the people present were from the military and political circles. Although they had different thoughts and undercurrents, they put down their calculations at this moment and listened to the old man's speech.

It is criticism, negation, praise, beating, entrustment and whipping of a sincere patriotic veteran who is brave and then retired. "A gentleman is cautious and independent, and humbles himself. He caresses the old and the young, and keeps his sleeves cool." These sixteen words were used by the old man as the concluding remark. Captain Huo Si has long been familiar with them, and he was reminded of them when he was young. These sixteen words He memorized the word fluently.

For a moment, there was thunderous applause.Mr. Huo looked up and met Captain Huo Si's eyes. He grinned and gave his grandfather a thumbs up.

He was ashamed of the old man's heartfelt words, and he applauded with the flow of people, feeling a little melancholy.At this moment, the old man doesn't seem like he can make jokes at will, which makes people suddenly raise solemn respect.He sighed, hoping that his grandfather's words would enlighten people, but people's hearts are weird and changeable.

Captain Huo Si shook his head, took out his mobile phone and reported his situation to Si Peinan.

Shao Jingxuan didn't know when he came to Captain Huo Si's side again. Logically speaking, he should be by his father's side today, but it turned out to be like Captain Huo Si's personal bodyguard all day.

"Why do you see Tian'er with me? You're not with Uncle Shao?" Captain Huo Si raised his head and glanced at Shao Jingxuan during the interval between sending messages to Si Peinan, who was standing on the ground. Holding a cup of tea and pretending to drink.Captain Huos took a few glances and felt that there was something wrong with the tea, so he put away his phone and took his teacup over to smell it.

Captain Huo Si laughed angrily, and put the teacup on the table. Shao Jingxuan, who was next to him, looked at Captain Huo Si very sincerely. Captain Huo Si was speechless for a moment, knocked on the table and frowned and asked him: "You hot pear juice? Where did it come from?"

Shao Jingxuan took a quick look at Captain Huo Si, and put the teacup into his arms: "Zhao Ke brought it to me after get off work."

"Here?" Captain Huo Si had doubts in his eyes: "Isn't there a hot pear juice shop next to Zhimeizhai? I remember that it's quite a long time ago."

Shao Jingxuan nodded: "That's right, that's the one!"

"?" Zhao Ke still needs to send you the matter of going out for two steps?

Shao Jingxuan raised his eyebrows, leaned on the table in the middle and leaned towards Captain Huo Si: "You don't understand this, do you? Come, let me tell you..."

Captain Hoss raised his hand, "Stop." His tone was indifferent: "I don't want to hear it."

Shao Jingxuan: "..."

Dinner dinner, after the last dinner, basically the day is over.Captain Huo Si left Shao Jingxuan alone in the side hall to drink hot pear juice, then got up and went to the bathroom by himself.Zhimeizhai's restroom is in the same direction as the rest room. When Huo Siwei passed by, a waiter carrying tea happened to pass by. He walked quickly but a little aimlessly, looking around with his head stretched out.

Most of them are new waiters. The front hall of Zhimeizhai is huge, it is a banquet hall, the middle hall is for games, and the side hall is used for resting.The long corridor in the middle has nine twists and turns, and it is normal for newcomers to find no place, as long as there is no accident.

"what--"

"sorry Sorry sorry!"

As a result, before the thought was over, there was an exclamation and a hurried apology from the front.Captain Huo Si followed the sound, and it turned out to be the waiter. The tea tray he was holding suddenly fell to the ground, and the tea spilled all over the floor. Fortunately, it was not much better.

Captain Hoss glanced at it, and there was nothing serious about it, but after thinking about it, he still paced over.

Fortunately, the ones offended were a group of mild-mannered ladies, about fifty years old, in twos and threes, they should be friends talking and going to the lounge together.Except for the initial exclamation, the three of them were very calm, and the other two ladies checked whether the one in the middle was burned.Captain Huo Si is very familiar, and today is reserved, so he must be here to attend the grandfather's birthday party.

"Be quick with your hands and feet, pack up and find tools to clean up, so as not to let others slip." Huo Si Wei said indifferently, looking at the people squatting on the ground to clean up.

Then he looked up slowly, looking at the lady who was hit, and Captain Hoss lowered a handkerchief: "Are you okay?" His tone was alienated but technical.

Captain Huo Si recognized now that this was the woman who had been the host on stage for a while.

With a gentle face and a good temper, she shook her head at Captain Huo Si. He didn't know her, but she knew Huo Zhengjun's son, Mr. Huo's grandson.

"The old man is in good spirits and in good health." The lady took the handkerchief and looked at Captain Huo Si approvingly. This time, she found that Wei Huo Si was different from the rumors in other people's mouths. At least he was not as arrogant and domineering as the rumors said. , full of hostility.

"Well, I would like to thank you." Captain Huo Si is not good at conversations with women, especially women of the mother's generation. Now, out of politeness, he is not very good at answering unnecessary words. He stared at the lady's earrings, a little dazed, and didn't move for a while.

"Young Master Huo?" Seeing that Captain Huo Si hadn't moved his eyes, the lady next to him reminded them a little funnyly. Captain Huo Si came back to his senses and moved aside embarrassingly to make way for them.

After they passed by, Captain Huo Si's eyes were full of doubts, he stopped moving forward, and turned back to look at the lady's dim eyes.

Captain Huo Si was the master after all, he didn't say that the guests had all left, and he still kept the master as the shopkeeper.Mr. Huo, Huo Zhengjun, Huo Wen, his uncles, aunts, cousins ​​and his cousins ​​saw off the guests at the door together, but the wife talked closely, and when they were parting, they made an appointment to drink tea together next time.

Captain Huo Si stood neatly behind Mr. Huo, talking sideways to Shao Jingxuan. The two of them have been like twins since they met, making the Huo family dumbfounded.But the two had been neighbors since they were young, and they had been playing together since they were born. In addition, the two families were closely connected, so Huo Zhengjun turned a blind eye and allowed Captain Huo Si to be absent-minded.

Although Captain Huo Si was talking to Shao Jingxuan, his eyes were still staring outside. When the lady passed by just now, Captain Huo Si moved his eyes calmly, nodded and raised his chin, "That lady is the old man before the speech. Are you the host?" Captain Huo Si's question was impeccable, and Shao Jingxuan really didn't notice anything strange about Captain Huo Si.

He only glanced at him before turning his head: "Yeah, from the provincial department, I've met with my dad a few times." He lowered his head and fiddled with his mobile phone, as if he remembered something: "Her son is almost eighteen gone."

Captain Hoss glanced at the lady who was surrounded and walked out, and said indifferently, "Yes."

"Hey." Shao Jingxuan pushed Captain Huo Si with his elbow, and Wei Fu Huo Si followed Shao Jingxuan's line of sight in his heart. He Xing and his father left, and before leaving, he took a few steps behind and bowed his head to Huo Wen talk.He didn't know what he said, but Huo Wen was quite happy when he heard it, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, then He Xing bent over to Mr. Huo, and followed in his father's footsteps.

Captain Huo Si withdrew his eyes, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. Shao Jingxuan followed him and looked away, but when he looked at Captain Huo Si, the latter had already lowered his head. Shao Jingxuan didn't quite understand the expression on his face. true.

After the scene was over, the Huo family hadn't left yet. Huo Zhengjun was very pleased to see Captain Huo Si sitting in the corner with his head down and playing with a lighter, just because he didn't make any mistakes today.When Shen Junzhu met Captain Huo Si, he vaguely heard about it. At that time, he was eating at a banquet, and immediately his face changed, and he was ready to be smashed, but he didn't expect Captain Huo Si to stabilize.

Mr. Huo also saw Captain Huo Si in the corner, father and son exchanged glances, Huo Zhengjun walked towards Captain Huo Si with his hands behind his back.

Shao Jingxuan was called away by his father, Captain Huo Si was bored, a pack of Liqun was placed by his hand, the plastic package hadn't been opened, he just played with the lighter silently.When a pair of well-polished leather shoes stopped in front of him, Captain Hoss felt a burst of fire inexplicably, and was inexplicably restless. He didn't want to be disturbed now.

However----

"Lieutenant Si." The voice was rich and steady, and Lieutenant Howth was getting tired of listening to it in the past 26 years.Captain Hoss flicked his fingers without looking up, and stopped playing with the lighter in his hand.

"Lieutenant Si." Seeing that he didn't look up, the man continued to call out patiently, but his voice was a little higher and his tone was a little more dignified.

Captain Huo Si suddenly twisted the lighter between his fingers, flipped it two inches above the palm of his hand, and then fell into Captain Huo Si's palm again.Lieutenant Huo Si closed his palms together, and he put away the lighter. He raised his head and looked at Huo Zhengjun with a worried expression, "What?"

Captain Howth's attitude was really not good. The father and son hadn't had a serious conversation since Captain Howth came back.I didn't expect to want to have a good talk, and the atmosphere became tense again.Huo Zhengjun frowned, Captain Huo Si's attitude was indifferent and distant, completely different from the morning.

"Have you had dinner yet? Seeing you and Jing Xuan have been in the side hall, it doesn't look like you've had dinner." Huo Zhengjun's tone was blunt, and Captain Huo Si couldn't react for a while because of his genuine concern, his eyes moved slightly, and his lips pursed slightly. to him.

The two looked at each other for a long time, Captain Huo Si opened and closed his lips, and responded lightly: "Eat."

Huo Zhengjun's tense shoulders calmly relaxed a little bit. When Jing Xuan said that Wei Si's temper had changed a lot, he didn't believe it. Today, he really changed a lot.Huo Zhengjun secretly looked at Captain Huo Si, except for his demeanor of not getting close to strangers, he could see other things too.

"En." Huo Zhengjun looked at his son and nodded in satisfaction. It was a big improvement that at least the father and son could communicate well.Huo Zhengjun knew that easing up the relationship was not going to happen for a while, so he chatted casually with Captain Huo Si and was about to leave, but as soon as he turned around, he remembered that several wives had asked whether Captain Huo Si had a girlfriend openly or secretly.

Huo Zhengjun remembered his son's previous phone call, and his face darkened a little, "Have you broken up with your boyfriend?"

Captain Huo Si watched Huo Zhengjun leave, and then lowered his head to think deeply. Unexpectedly, Huo Zhengjun shot back again, asking him whether he broke up or not.

"Alright." Captain Huo Si licked his lips, and answered Huo Zhengjun casually.Seeing that his own father's expression changed and he was about to have an attack, he was lucky and stood up suddenly. At 1.8 meters six, he was half a head taller than his father, "Don't worry about it." Captain Huo Si smiled, very lightly and very ironically.

Captain Huo Si must retaliate. Where there is Shen Junzhu, there is no him. He has said this to his father before, and now he still wants to interfere in his and Si Peinan's affairs, so don't mention it.

Immediately afterwards, Captain Huo Si walked towards Mr. Huo with strides. The old man was sitting on the edge of the table, talking to his uncle sideways, and the father and son enjoyed themselves happily.Huo Yujia and Huo Wen were checking the gift list while chatting. Huo Yujia urged Huo Wen to find a boyfriend. Huo Wen smiled helplessly and said that she had no idea yet.

Huo Yujia scolded her and said, "You're all thinking about work, you."

Huo Wen smiled.

Mr. Huo sighed when he heard this: "It's good that Captain Si is half as sensible as Awen." He said so, but he couldn't hide the love in his eyes.

"Yes, yes, our family is only Wei Wei who is most similar to you when you were young!" Huo Yujia smiled and followed the old man's words.

"Hmph" the old man turned his head away: "I don't know who has followed that dog's temper!"

"I said why my nose is itchy. It's your old man who arranges me here." Captain Huo Si walked over slowly, with a smile on his face, and stood behind the old man very naturally.

After being caught, the whole family looked amused and had a burst of joy.

Captain Huo Si lowered his head and talked to the old man, probably saying that he would go home early today. Mr. Huo was in a good mood today, so he let him go with a wave of his hand.

Before leaving, Captain Huo Si took a look at Huo Wen, and said: "Take grandpa back early."

Huo Wen smiled, "I know, go out and be careful."

Captain Huo Si glanced at his sister, turned around and left Zhimeizhai.

"Huh—" he took a long breath, today's entertainment made him exhausted.As soon as he walked out of the gate, the smile on Lieutenant Howth's face faded, and the undisguised depression and impatience covered his face again.The anger that had been suppressed all day today was let go when he got into Shao Jingxuan's car, "Fuck me—" Captain Huo Si didn't deliberately lower his voice, so this scolding sounded extraordinarily special in this empty underground parking lot Clear and powerful.

He asked Shao Jingxuan for a car in advance, his car belonged to the old man, and today his father would probably be driving his grandfather back home.

He didn't want to go back, so he borrowed Shao Jingxuan's car.

A broken off-road vehicle made in China, with a thin layer of gray on the army green paint, Lieutenant Hoss smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, but he couldn't laugh, he could only choke and let out a few fragmented voices , What he is talking about, he himself does not know.But this is the status quo of Lieutenant Howth at this moment.

He bowed his head on the car, and lay quietly on the steering wheel with his eyes closed.He tried to connect what he saw with what he guessed, but once he touched these things, he would have a splitting headache.

Lieutenant Hoss panicked in the closed car, shook his hands to unbutton his suit, and threw the clothes on the co-pilot. Looking at the clothes on the co-pilot, Lieutenant Hoss seemed to have untied the clothes on his body. shackles.His head still hurts, which is a sign of his hysteria. There is a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, but he can't control it, or the more he restrains, the more violent the outbreak will be.

He is not born with a gentle temperament, and a person who has been on the verge of a random emotional outburst for a long time will only intensify once he endures the next outburst.Captain Huo Si knew the truth of it well, and he finally got clean after asking those people.

Captain Hoss no longer forced himself, let out a breath, adjusted the seat, half-lyed on the driver's seat, and half opened the window next to him, and there was a low curse from outside from time to time, as if he was talking to Captain Hoss. Responding to the scolding just now, Captain Huo Si didn't think too much, and put his hands behind his head to calm himself down.

But it didn't work.

After a while, a burst of lights came on in the underground parking lot, which dazzled people and made him frown.And the sound of the car's horn and engine made him even more irritable, tensing his legs in the narrow space.With a movement of his elbow, he bumped into the mobile phone that was accidentally exposed from his pocket, and his elbow was hurt.So he poured out his anger on the phone, pressed the power off button fiercely, didn't know which muscle was wrong for a moment, and threw the phone out of the window absurdly, with a wave of ruthlessness and determination.

But the windows were closed, and Shao Jingxuan specially installed bulletproof glass.Both the mobile phone and the glass window made a loud noise, and the mobile phone fell down along the window edge, lying quietly on the place where the corner of the suit drooped.

Captain Huo Si stared at the phone, there was no light in the car, maybe what he was looking at was not the phone, but the darkness.He stared at the phone tightly, and suddenly looked back.

Familiarly, he took the unopened package of Liqun from his side, did not open it, but directly burned the corner with a lighter, took out the cigarette inside from the corner of the scorched paper shell, and lit it with the lighter, Hold it in your mouth.

Liqun's energy is strong and extremely fierce.As soon as he entered his mouth, Captain Huo Si let out a muffled cough from choking, and frowned slightly, but the strong smoke was like a treasure to him, Li Qun, he followed one by one.

He didn't know when he didn't think about things anymore, so he smoked a cigarette and loosened his tie in boredom.Usually he untied the extremely light tie, but today he could not untie it for life and death, and the people at the banquet today played in his mind like a flying horse, from the waiter welcoming guests at the door to the grandpa delivering the speech, to the sullen-looking Zhou Xing, the taciturn Qi Simin, Huo Wen who entertains guests like a fish in water...Shen Junzhu, Captain Huo Si took a close look at each of these faces, until the lady with the emerald earrings swept them away.

Lieutenant Huos tugged on his tie, his face darkened.

The image in Lieutenant Howth's mind still remained on her earrings, which he had seen before.These are Diancui lined with emeralds, the craftsmanship is extremely rare, and the manufacturing method is extremely cruel. More importantly, he has seen this pair of earrings before.When did you see it?Captain Hoss searched for memories in his mind, but his heart was overwhelmed with a strong sense of depression. The lanterns in his mind became faster and clearer frame by frame, and his breathing became heavier and heavier. , getting heavier.

The feeling of the Adam's apple being tightly pulled by the tie is getting deeper and deeper.

Then, echoing those scenes were Shao Jingxuan's thunderous words, which exploded in his ears. Shen Junzhu and his father stood sideways, straight as pine trees.

He remembered, that day he and Tong Diaozhu went to the underground auction house, and what Tong Diaozhu bought was a pair of earrings and a necklace, and now the pair of earrings have gone through many twists and turns, and have been worn on the ears of this noble lady .

Among them, Lieutenant Huo Si can figure out the key points without thinking about it.The chill came over Lieutenant Huos's body, probably because the windows were opened too much and it was winter in City A.

Captain Hoss couldn't tell what it was like, he felt like falling into an ice cellar for a while, he opened the window, but his body was still terribly cold.

Everyone's faces, familiar ones and unrecognizable ones, were played repeatedly in Captain Huo Si's mind one by one.The yelling on the road, the squabbling of men and women passing by, Huo Zhengjun's stiff questioning, Huo Wen's laughter...and the grandpa's serious words, "A gentleman should be cautious of independence, be humble and self-raised, treat the old and the young, and the breeze Two sleeves."

For a moment, Captain Huo Si couldn't distinguish between reality and the environment, and he had a severe headache, but unconsciously stumbled and drove out of the car.In the middle of the night, there were very few people. Captain Hoss knocked down 1/3 of the car windows, and drove the car aimlessly, moving mechanically, but it seemed like a vivid ventriloquism was being staged in his mind.

The people and faces, things and words in his mind were magnified a hundred times and presented in his mind, making him panic and frightened. The cold sweat on his back had already soaked his shirt, and beads of sweat dripped slowly from his chin. In this huge situation, he suddenly felt as if he had forgotten someone or something, but he just couldn't remember it.He broke through the scarlet lamp that was still on at night, and the wind through the window finally woke him up a bit.

He seemed to know that he could redeem himself only by remembering what he had forgotten, so he tried his best to jump off the sea in his mind and look for that person in the cold sea, which sounded absurd.

But he got a glimpse of happiness from it, and found the rules from it. He swam faster and faster in the sea, and he drove the car faster and faster "30 miles, 60 miles, 70 miles..." He seemed to be following his own With more chips in life, the wind is getting colder and colder, his hair has been blown away, and his eyes are slightly squinted.

The lanterns became more and more blurred, and he gradually couldn't see the faces clearly. When he looked at the faces in City A one by one, he found them more and more strange.Is it a stranger, or has he never and never thought about seeing clearly?A gust of cold wind poured into his mouth, choking him almost lying on the steering wheel and coughing.

Captain Hoss was tired, he raised his left hand, and took a deep puff of the last cigarette stuck between his fingers. The smoke in his hand, whether it was blown by the wind or he sucked it, left a long piece Soot, falling under the bumps of the car body.

Fell between his fingers.

Captain Huos felt a burst of warmth in his cold hands, and the wind blew away the other sounds in his head.The forgotten person suddenly had traces to follow. After the so-called voice exited, there was only one sound left, which was gentle and calm in the cold night: "Wei Si."

Captain Huo Si suddenly came to his senses, but the voice receded quickly in an instant, and those faces and voices came again. The face also disappeared in an instant.His lips were also pale, and his trembling body wanted to catch the person who was close but blurred in the sea.

But his car kept going forward and got on the elevated road. A few sporadic cars passed by him and disappeared into the endless winter night.

In the end, Lieutenant Hoss lost his strength, curled up his fingertips, and curled up his whole body. He didn't think of that person, he just heard his voice illusoryly. In the end, the speed of the army-green car didn't slow down at all, and it slammed into the ground hard. On the thick fence built of reinforced concrete.

Captain Hoss knocked his head on the steering wheel, and all the sound disappeared in an instant.

A tear flowed from the corner of Lieutenant Huos's eye, and he didn't remember anything about him.

So on this cold winter night, Captain Hoss fell into a deep sleep.

The author says:

His mood didn't deteriorate suddenly, but he was depressed for a day

①I saw Shen Junzhu (when I was young, I found Shen Junzhu's DNA identification report in his father's file, which is a father-son relationship and has been brooding on it ever since)

②Ignited by He Xing (Mountain birds and fish have different paths, He Xing's ambitious Bo Huosi dislikes it very much, plus his attitude and ridicule towards Si Peinan)

③Tired of coping with interpersonal relationships (mostly because he wanted to use him to cling to the Huo family)

④The oppression of family members hopes that he will return to politics, but he is unwilling

⑤I saw the lady's earrings and found that it was photographed by Tong Diaozhu

Now the situation in City A is unstable, so he speculates that Huo Wen is inextricably linked with Tong Diaozhu, He Xing and others, and even involves collusion and bribery, and Captain Huo Si also feels that he is being treated as a pawn, feeling powerless and sense of betrayal