Not long after seeing Er Hei, Yang Lei went home when he went to the city to run errands.
In recent years, the relationship between Yang Lei and Yang Dahai has improved. Yang Lei is no longer as tit-for-tat as he was when he was a teenager. In recent years, he has matured a lot, and he has his own judgment and understanding of what happened back then. Yang Dahai is also getting older, and his health is not very good. Yang Lei watched him from the impression that he was bossy and arrogant, and his temples became gray. Year by year, the knots in his heart are no longer tight and cannot be loosened. . As a child, no matter what faults parents have, they have the obligation of filial piety. In the past, Yang Lei could not understand this. Now, when others have grown up, they have understood many things and let them go.
Yang Lei will take the initiative to go home and buy some tonic gifts for Yang Dahai and his stepmother. Yang Dahai was very pleased with Yang Lei's change. When Yang Lei handed Yang Dahai the American ginseng he bought for Yang Dahai for the first time, Yang Dahai took it and took his glasses to read the words on it. His glasses-wearing hands were trembling slightly.
Although it is impossible for the father and son to be as close as the father and son of other families, it is very precious for Yang Dahai to be able to sit together and talk peacefully, have a meal, and talk about work and life.
In the past few years, he has also grown old, Yang Dahai has also begun to reflect on the past, and his attitude towards people has also changed. After Yang Lei joined the army, he did not lose face. Although there was a scene when he graduated, in the past three years, Yang Lei did not rely on his relationship. , Yang Dahai has never experienced this kind of pride in being a father. This made him stop interfering with Yang Lei too much, so the relationship between father and son is now more relaxed.
However, Yang Dahai has been urging Yang Lei's life-long event.
"Dad, as I said, I'm busy with work now, and I don't want to think about it for the time being."
At the dinner table, Yang Dahai's wife made a blind date for Yang Lei and showed him the girl's photo.
"Xiao Lei, look at how beautiful this girl is and her family background, look..."
Yang Lei was a little impatient.
"Mom, don't worry about it. We'll talk about it in a few years."
"In a few years? You're not eighteen or nineteen now, it's time to consider personal issues!"
Yang Dahai was a little anxious. As early as before Yang Lei graduated from the military academy, Yang Dahai suddenly started to find a girlfriend for him, and he had hardly stopped in the three years after graduation. Yang Lei didn't understand why Yang Dahai was so impatient on this matter. The friends around him who are over 30 are not married, and the family has never urged them like this. When a man is in his twenties, it's not surprising that he doesn't get married at the age of forty. Yang Lei used to think that Yang Dahai only cared about whether he would follow the right path, but he didn't expect to be so anxious about this matter.
For this, Yang Dahai talked to Yang Lei more than once.
"You're in the military school... Do you have any favorite female classmates?"
"No."
"There are also a lot of female cadres in the 701 regiment, so you don't like them?"
"All colleagues."
"You... what are you looking for?"
"Don't ask. I'm busy with work, and I'm not going to talk about it yet."
"... You've had girlfriends before! Why now... "
Yang Dahai stopped talking, and the conversation never progressed.
Yang Lei had some good friends when he was in the army, and he also brought them home. In the past, Yang Lei's bastard brothers, Yang Dahai, hated them, but now Yang Lei's military friends and colleagues, Yang Dahai, have always been very cautious. Sometimes Yang Lei was talking and chatting with his friends in the room, and he felt that Yang Dahai was watching them.
Yang Lei felt that Yang Dahai had become a little weird. He thought, maybe people are a little weird when they get older.
Now when it comes to the blind date, the meal is an unhappy one.
"That Fang Yu, did you ever come to see you later?"
Before Yang Lei left, Yang Dahai suddenly asked.
"No."
Yang Lei put on his shoes expressionlessly.
Yang Lei knew that Yang Dahai didn't want him to still have contact with Fang Yu and other bastards in the past, so Yang Dahai often asked, and he was very concerned about whether they still had contact.
"No, not even once! Is it possible to ask Mr. Zhi?"
Every time Yang Dahai asked, Yang Lei was very impatient. Yang Dahai seldom asked.
Yang Lei drove back to the 701 regiment. The activity room of the regiment headquarters was decorated with lights and activities.
This is a party between the military and the local. In order to solve the personal problems of the single officers in the army, the Jianghai Youth League Municipal Committee and the Women's Federation organized a group of single young women to come to the barracks to socialize. We have arrived. Twenty or thirty beautiful girls dressed as flowers and butterflies are walking in the barracks, bringing color to the monotonous and masculine barracks. Even the soldiers can't help but look at them secretly between drills. .
"Staff Yang, you came back just in time, and the head of the regiment also signed up for you!"
"what?"
Can Yang Lei join in the fun? At the beginning of the friendship, male and female guests were asked to appear, and the head of the group pushed Yang Lei and asked him to take the lead.
"Captain, I'm not going."
"What can't you do?" The head of the regiment is from Sichuan and speaks Sichuan dialect.
"I... have a girlfriend!"
"What are you fooling around? Come on! This is an order!"
The head of the regiment liked Yang Lei very much and kicked him up.
"Xiao Yang's mold is good, give us the head of the 701 regiment a face!" The other regiment leaders also joined in.
"Yang Lei is a handsome guy. As soon as he gets up, the rest of our cadres will suffer!"
Yang Lei had no choice but to go up with the other officers. The female guests standing opposite had already set their sights on these officers, and Yang Lei was very eye-catching among these people. The girls all looked at him, some secretly, some generously, and three or five covered their mouths and looked at him while talking excitedly.
Yang Lei didn't even look at what the girls on the opposite side looked like. The game started, Yang Lei casually shook hands with each girl and gave a brief introduction. After transferring a few girls, someone directly asked him for his mobile phone number and QQ number. Girls in this era are different from those in the past. They are direct, open, and have nothing to be embarrassed about.
Yang Lei was perfunctory, thinking about going out after this session, and finally turned to the last girl.
"Hello, my name is Yang Lei."
Yang Lei stretched out his hand mechanically, but the other party didn't. Yang Lei raised his head.
A pretty, stylish girl looked at him with a smile.
"... Fang Mei?"
"Why are you here?"
In the small restaurant in the town, Yang Lei gave Fang Mei a drink.
"Why can't I come? I'm also a single young woman. Why, Captain Yang, you're not welcome?"
Fang Mei returned to China for more than half a year, worked in a foreign company, and became a supervisor as soon as she left.
"What are you making fun of?"
Yang Lei didn't need to ask to know that Fang Mei was here to tease him on purpose.
Fang Mei intends to stay in the country for a long time after returning to China. The returnees around 2002 are real money and very popular. Although Fang Mei has already obtained a green card outside, she has returned to work because of her family. She and Yang Lei have always kept in touch, and the two were childhood sweethearts and have always had a tacit understanding.
"I'm not joining in the fun, I'm really serious about going on a blind date. Staff Officer Yang, how about you, give me a chance?"
Fang Mei smiled. After the age of a little girl, Fang Mei is now full of mature charm. Among those young women, many officers took aim at her, rushing to introduce themselves to her.
"Who do you see, let me introduce you."
"Who else, of course it's you?"
"Come on!"
Fang Mei giggled.
"Look at you! Yang Lei, when you think I'm still seventeen or eighteen, you hang on a tree? You dumped me, and I still love you for the rest of my life? We are now the friendship of revolutionary comrades-in-arms!"
Fang Mei is a dashing girl who can afford it and let it go. She has had wonderful and vigorous feelings in these years abroad. She is a woman who truly understands love and life.
After eating and chatting, Fang Mei glanced at Yang Lei.
"What about you? Are you alone?"
No need for Yang Lei to say, Fang Mei also knows. In the past few years, Yang Lei has not even seen a woman by his side.
"Aren't you planning to fall in love?"
Yang Lei ate the food without saying a word.
"Didn't your family urge you?"
"...Why are you acting like my mother now, can we just talk about this without meeting?"
Yang Lei became impatient.
"You're almost there. You're all three people. You have to live your life realistically, and don't get along with yourself."
Yang Lei didn't answer and didn't show any expression.
Fang Mei observed Yang Lei's face, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke slowly.
"... Still thinking about Fang Yu?"
Fang Mei knew about it three years ago.
Three years ago, when Fang Mei returned to China to visit relatives, it was also the most painful time for Yang Lei. Although Fang Mei buried this relationship in her heart, Yang Lei was someone she loved deeply after all. Fang Mei accompanied Yang Lei and thought about using her feelings to warm him back. Yang Lei didn't want to delay another person who was so sincere. His person, Fang Mei told the truth.
When Fang Mei knew that the person in her heart that Yang Lei said back then was Fang Yu, Fang Mei was shocked.
"… Are you gay?"
The word comrade was already referring to a fixed group of people at that time.
"I'm not, I only have feelings for him!"
Yang Lei has never had this kind of thought for a man other than Fang Yu. To be honest, during the four years in the military academy, where men were concentrated, Yang Lei had met more than one man who had hinted at him. Among them, there were also excellent and handsome people, but Yang Lei never felt anything, and he himself I don't understand why I have feelings for Fang Yu alone.
Fang Mei understood.
She remembered how sad Yang Lei and Fang Yu looked when they almost started in the courtyard of the small building. She remembered that night under the wisteria trellis, Yang Lei told her in distress, "I like him... I like him so much... I don't even know. What to do!" She remembered that when the three of them were chatting together, Yang Lei was always absent-minded about her words, and Yang Lei's eyes always followed Fang Yu firmly...
Fang Mei finally understood. She thought that the "she" Yang Lei said was "he".
Fang Mei has been abroad for many years, her vision is different, and she has seen more love for her comrades. Although the facts shocked her, she was easier to understand than others. Yang Lei didn't hide it from her, Fang Mei knew everything about the past few years. Seeing Yang Lei coming over the past few years, she could only sigh silently in her heart.
"Afterwards, did you find him?"
Fang Mei asked. Yang Lei shook his head.
"You... still can't let him go?"
Fang Mei feels that Yang Lei has stopped falling in love until now, because he hasn't come out yet.
Listening to Fang Mei's words, Yang Lei turned the glass and smiled.
"Don't worry, I didn't toss myself that much. I was twenty years old, and I gave myself an order to live. He must have his reasons for doing things. He gave me this reason. I couldn't accept it at the time, but After so many years, I seem to understand. You are right, people always have to live in reality. He gave me an explanation, but I didn't believe it at first, I had to see it myself. Now think about it, Really stupid."