Li Xingmin's university status can actually represent many similar people. He is ordinary and has many fantasies, but he can't achieve them. In the stage of gentle passage of time, his eyes are confused and hesitant...
Until a certain moment, I realized that I was still unavoidable after all, and had to plunge into the torrent of society alone.
It would be better to have a family property to pave the way.
The earlier you prepare, the better.
For most of the rest, there will be a very lonely or even struggling stage.
I don’t know when this society started, and there has been a big deviation in the orientation of values. It is rare to recognize "small happiness", but there are too many marking lines to pursue the recognition of the big environment-people don’t live for themselves, they live for others to see of.
This is where the low self-esteem of many people comes from.
Xu Tingsheng has been an offline person all his life, and now he is much higher than those marked lines. He is the type that is easy to be satisfied, like an old man living by a quiet lake, holding a fishing rod, hoping that the waves will not be disturbed.
The car drove into the community and found the unit building. Xu Tingsheng could tell from a distance of more than twenty meters that the figure standing in the distance was Fang Yuqing.
In the spirit of joking, Xu Tingsheng turned on the high beam on purpose and shook him. Fang Yuqing raised his hand to cover his eyes, and then put it down again. Surprisingly, he didn't laugh and yell as usual, but just stood there.
Xu Tingsheng parked the car, got out of the car and said, "Come to see me? It's a good time."
Fang Yuqing shook his head and said, "No, I've been waiting for you here for more than two hours."
"Then why didn't you go up first? It's not like you don't know about Fu Cheng's family." Xu Tingsheng said in surprise, "Why didn't you call me? Or... something happened?"
In fact, the first two questions are superfluous, Fang Yuqing's expression and state this night are enough to show that something happened.
"My grandfather finally entered the hospital three days ago. The old man is still fighting hard, but there is not much time left."
"The news leaked two days ago."
"Yesterday, my uncle was taken away for investigation."
Fang Yuqing said.
Xu Tingsheng was silent for a moment after hearing this. What he had been guessing and doubting before, the huge storm originating from the Fang family, triggered by the final deterioration of Mr. Fang's condition, finally arrived.
People want not to be shocked by the waves... But huge waves are coming, and people never want to.
Xu Tingsheng looked at Fang Yuqing.
Fang Yuqing looked at Xu Tingsheng.
After a while, Xu Tingsheng said, "Let's talk upstairs."
It was a very common invitation, but Fang Yuqing was stunned, and his expression became a little struggling. Because Xu Tingsheng's words actually represent a gesture, just like Fang Yuqing didn't call or go upstairs before, and just waited downstairs, it also represented a gesture.
Fang Yuqing's posture means: I tell you this, but I don't think you have to be involved in it, and I won't force it on you. You can choose to withdraw, and I can turn around and leave if I haven't heard of it. Said.
And Xu Tingsheng's answer like this means: I'll listen, I'll try... There is a high chance that he will choose to get involved.
"Let's go, go up first, have a drink or two and talk slowly. I'm still confused now."
Seeing that Fang Yuqing hesitated, Xu Tingsheng gave him a hand.
The two went upstairs and into the room.
Fang Yuqing sat down on the sofa.
Xu Tingsheng threw his luggage aside, took a bottle of whiskey and two glasses from the wine cabinet, poured half a glass for Fang Yuqing, and poured some for himself.
The two took a sip, a big sip and a small sip respectively.
Fang Yuqing put down his glass, watched Xu Tingsheng refill his wine, and said, "From the outside people's point of view, you are deeply involved with our Fang family... But the truth is clear to us, except for me, except for those involved in the development of the Ningyuan land. Some policy convenience and escort, in fact, your relationship with the Fang family is not that deep at all. Therefore, if you want to withdraw and sacrifice some interests, you should still be able to do it."
"I know this myself." Xu Tingsheng raised his eyebrows, signaling him to change his statement in a logical direction.
"Grandpa said he wanted to see you." Fang Yuqing said.
"Okay." Xu Tingsheng said.
Fang Yuqing hesitated for a moment, "But I really can't understand why grandpa did this and why he treated you as the bell-breaker. In fact, in my opinion, you are not qualified in this round. The result of being involved will only be death together .”
Xu Tingsheng smiled wryly. He knew his strengths and the power structure in the country. He was indeed not qualified.
"Actually, I don't understand either, so I want to hear what the old man has to say first." Xu Tingsheng said.
"I'm afraid I've heard it. It's too late for you to withdraw." Fang Yuqing said, "The old man is not a good person."
After he finished speaking, both of them laughed.
Clinked glasses again.
"What kind of enmity? What kind of resentment are you going to have? First, let me know what the consequences will be." Xu Tingsheng asked.
"Consequences? Maybe our Fang family will die." Fang Yuqing said.
Xu Tingsheng suddenly sat up straight.
"Tit for tat." Fang Yuqing said with his back.
"In 1979, in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, my grandfather led the troops to the front line. His two old comrades-in-arms did not get on the wheel that time, so they sent their son to my grandfather's army... thinking about letting the child touch the battlefield, Accumulate some military merits, so that you can go up in the future.
The two families entrusted their people to my grandfather, and they are very relieved. One of them has two, and the other has three. The largest is twenty-seven, the youngest is nineteen. "
Xu Tingsheng studied history in his previous life, and he actually knows better than most people about the cruelty of the border war that history textbooks have almost always avoided. That short-lived local war was actually far more cruel and difficult than most people imagined and experienced.
"Anyone not coming back?" he asked.
"None of them came back." Fang Yuqing said.
"..."
Five words, five lives, what does "all" mean? Xu Tingsheng was stunned.
Fang Yuqing went on to say: "That time we fought on a very critical mountain, and we couldn't take it down in three days... Grandpa's old army's style is known for its toughness, and it has always been a way of fighting with broken teeth. So, then It's the same thing this time, it's still the same thing, maybe the old man knows the same way, the guard company, the cook, the civilian staff... all of them are left alone, and they go up to fight. In this way, the children of the two families, originally just answering telegrams and so on Yes, of course we all have to follow."
"The battlefield has no eyes, so it's really not your grandfather's fault." Xu Tingsheng interjected with a common logic as if to excuse the old man.
Fang Yuqing looked at him, smiled bitterly, and then did not explain directly, but continued to tell:
"In that battle, the order of death, whoever turns back, dies.
The old man stood on the mountainside with a machine gun on his shoulders.
People rushed up wave after wave, falling down one after another...
And then, those five, maybe terrified, maybe feeling special, grandpa wouldn't shoot...they, turned around. "
Fang Yuqing stopped here.
Because there is no need to talk about it.
The two old comrades-in-arms, the five sons of the two families, it's not just that the old man didn't take good care of them, but... they died directly in his hands.
The feud has accumulated for more than 20 years.
No wonder Fang Yuqing said: "Consequences? Maybe our Fang family will die."
"After that battle, my grandfather became a hero. From then on, no matter from the army to the local area, he always overwhelmed those two old comrades-in-arms, and the two of them silently forbeared, and at the same time, they went all the way up... But, that incident After all, it is necessary to report, and everyone in the three families knows."
"The old man may have been too arrogant in his early years, or he may have softened his hands because of wrongdoing and guilt. In short, he didn't take precautions early... When he stepped back, he realized that he could no longer suppress the strength shown by the other party."
"With a little prestige, he has been in control for the past few years. Unfortunately, there is still not enough time, and the descendants of the Fang family are not up to the challenge... Now he is down. On the day the uncle was taken away, someone came to the hospital to deliver a note with only Four words: Open your eyes and watch."
"..."