Chapter 81 Hong Tao

Li Anran was not the only one who was happy. No one in the Hong family, old or young, spoke at this time, concentrating on the meal in front of them.

The snow-white big steamed buns are stuffed with pickles and stir-fried chili peppers, and the oily and fragrant braised pork. The satisfaction of the taste buds makes everyone focus on the important matter of eating, and ignore the tall man standing at the door. Man.

It was when the second daughter-in-law turned around to feed her son that she noticed the man at the door. Because of the backlight, she just asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Xiangqin, it's me."

The man's voice was trembling, and Grandma Hong's hands shook. , the chopsticks fell to the ground, and then he stood up and walked to the door tremblingly. "Tao'er, Tao'er, is that you?"

Everyone in the Hong family stood up, causing Li Anran to stand up involuntarily, with a big steamed bun in his mouth.

"Mom, it's me, it's me." The man's backpack slipped from his shoulders. He stretched out his hand to support his mother, whose legs were weak and almost fell. He choked and said, "Mom, be careful."

The eldest daughter-in-law held the baby and pulled the light cord, and the room suddenly became bright. Only then did Li Anran see the man's face clearly. He is about thirty years old, with a height of over 1.7 meters and is very strong. The face shape is somewhat similar to Uncle Hong, more like Granny Hong.

Grandma Hong held her son's hand and it took a while to wake up. "You haven't eaten yet? Come in and eat first."

"Hey."

"Dad." The man called Uncle Hong and sat down next to his father.

Uncle Hong snorted, "Anran, sit down and continue eating."

Li Anran agreed and stretched out his right hand towards the man, "Li Anran An Ran, Uncle Hong's... student."

The man quickly stood up and held Li Anran's hand, "Hong Tao, my father's youngest son."

Li Anran was stunned. , and then laughed, what a wonderful person.

The second daughter-in-law brought the bowls and chopsticks to her husband, and then took her son from her mother-in-law's hands, "Hong Tao, eat." Seeing the man looking at the food on the table in a daze, she explained, "It's An Ran I bought it in the city with the money. He also cooked the braised pork."

Li Anran took a white steamed bun from the basket and was about to hand it to Hong Tao, but he retracted his hand when he saw it. " Brother Tao, why don't you wash your hands first?"

Hong Tao looked at his hands and stood up quickly, "I forgot, I'll wash them now."

Wait for Hong Tao to wash them. When the master came back, the whole family became quiet again, and the only sound in the room was the sound of chewing food.

After dinner, Li Anran took out a can of tea for Uncle Hong. Hong Tao and himself brewed it while the women were busy cleaning the house.The daughter was watching over her two younger brothers on the kang.

"Retired?" Mr. Hong finally spoke.

Hong Tao took the cigarette from Li Anran and leaned forward to answer, "I'm injured, so I can't be a soldier in the future."

As soon as he said this, all the women in the room were shocked. They all looked at him.

Hong Tao quickly explained, "The main reason is that I have reached my age..."

"Where is the injury?" Grandma Hong walked over slowly with red eyes.

"It's nothing serious. It's just that the bullet damaged my lungs. I can't do heavy exercise in the future. Mom, it's okay. It won't affect my daily life." Hong Tao quickly stood up and supported his mother, putting a hand on her arm. Patting gently.

"Mom is fine. I wish I could come back. I wish I could come back. Is there any news from the boss?"

"My brother? Don't worry, their troops are all in the north and there is no war."

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Grandma Hong finally couldn't help but shed tears. She knew that after her son went to the battlefield, she had been on tenterhooks for more than a year, fearing that she would receive some bad news. Her tears at this moment were not because of sadness, but because of joy. "Okay, okay, it will be good to be able to come back with all my beards and tail intact. Tao'er, are you going back to the village this time, or have you been assigned a job?"

"The above said that I will be assigned to the county. I thought I didn’t have any labor at home, so I applied to go back to the village.”

Upon hearing what Hong Tao said, a trace of disappointment flashed across Grandma Hong’s face, and she quickly straightened her mood and smiled instead. He comforted his son, "It's okay to go back to the village. Now that I'm engaged in contracting, life is much better than before."

"By the way, why is there a tractor parked at the door? Ergou's house next door Got rich?"

His wife Xiangqin immediately laughed, "How can a lazy guy like Ergou afford it? Brother An Ran lent it to me..."

After listening to my wife Hong Tao said with a grateful face, "How many years older than you are, I have the nerve to call you Brother An Ran, thank you."

Hong Tao still wanted to be polite, but he heard Old Man Hong coughing next to him, so he hurriedly Silence.

"You've been working hard on the road. Go back home and rest early. We'll talk tomorrow if you have anything to say." As soon as Mr. Hong finished speaking, the second daughter-in-law Xiangqin next to him blushed.

Hong Tao took out a brocade box from his bag, opened it and placed it on the table. A second-class military medal lay quietly inside.

Mr. Hong is the king of soldiers in the four military regions. He only received a third-class merit when he retired from the army. No one knows better than him how he got the second-class merit. At this moment, his mood was agitated, and he could no longer hold back. He let out a long breath, "Tao'er, good job."

Li Anran looked at Hong Tao, a strong man, and suddenly something came to his mind. Thinking of the sacrificed Tong Lin, his eyes felt a little sore.

This war lasted for ten years. The Dragon Kingdom successfully broke the Yue Kingdom’s dominance of Southeast Asia.The sweet dream has brought down their economy, eliminated hidden dangers, and created a good environment for future economic development. All of this was earned by Tong Lin and the Hong Tao people in front of them with their lives and blood, and they fought it with courage that was not afraid of death.

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Li Anran was deeply touched by Tong Lin's sacrifice. If it weren't for Tong Lin, perhaps the consequences after he got off the car would be very tragic. From his inner understanding, Tong Lin is his savior. It was also because of this incident that he felt an inexplicable affinity with the people who came down from the southern battlefield.

The countryside is very quiet at night. Except for the occasional barking of dogs in the village, it can be said that everything is quiet.

Perhaps because of the emotion, Li Anran actually suffered from insomnia. There were a lot of messy thoughts in his mind, including the special training arranged by his uncle, Minister Zhao's words, Han Man, whom he had met but was full of mystery, and some speculations about Luo Jiasheng, and the unknown about the trip to Xiangjiang. Fears...all kinds of things, many clues coming one after another.

The reason why Li Anran gritted his teeth and insisted on training with Mr. Hong here was actually because he knew that the trip to Xiangjiang contained unknown risks. , improve your own survival rate in danger.

It’s impossible that Li Ningbo didn’t know his skills and still insisted on sending him to be trained by a military king, and he used firearms. One can imagine what he might face in the future.

Afraid? Of course I'm afraid. It is said that the older you get, the more you fear death. What's more, he is more than seventy years old in his two lives. According to his true psychological age, he should be considered an old man.

The winter wind in the north is very strong, blowing at the seams of the window edges that are not strong enough to make a subtle whining sound. The kang beneath me was extremely hot today, but my body was a little cold. I don't know if it's a physical problem or a psychological problem.

Li Anran stood up quietly, put on his clothes, took out a cigarette in the dark and lit it. The color of the smoke in the darkness is light blue, floating in the room, changing into various shapes.

The cigarette seemed to stimulate the cerebral cortex, and his thinking became active. Many memories from his past life emerged like a tide, and the scenes passed before his eyes like a movie in fast forward.

Maybe you should seriously plan your life. How wonderful should you live in this life, so that this life will not be in vain, and you will not live up to the price of life paid by a person who only met once. Even for that young and shy face, he should face many things seriously.

After a sleepless night, it was not until a ray of morning light shone through the window on the bedside that he put away his complicated thoughts and prepared to get up and go home to celebrate the New Year.

When he got up, through the window, he found that the Hong family father and son were already practicing martial arts in the yard.

Uncle Hong and Hong Tao seem to be practicing a pair of exercises that are somewhat similar to Tai Chi push hands.Judging from the white mist rising above their heads, the father and son have been practicing the mutual fighting technique for a long time.

After watching for a long time, Li Anran realized that they were practicing the Hua Quan taught by the hero Gan Fengchi during the Qing Dynasty. This boxing style is very popular in the south, but there are fewer people practicing it in the north. As the saying goes, the southern fist and the northern leg are similar to each other. People in the north are tall and have a tough martial arts style. Southerners are short, so they naturally choose to use strength to fight, and are mainly feminine.

Nowadays, martial arts routines have begun to become popular, and fewer and fewer people are really willing to endure hardships to practice martial arts. A few decades later, the so-called martial arts in many people's mouths is just fancy tricks and is not worth mentioning. In fact, they were right. Is there any difference between martial arts routines and dance?