V4.Chapter 13

The cemetery of martyrs in the capital rarely welcomes grave sweepers on festivals such as national day, but it welcomes a pair of handsome men and women. Pure

Both of them were black. The girl next to the man was in a black dress. She looked young, but she looked solemn and steady at her pace. Holding a bunch of white chrysanthemums in her hand, she turned her head from time to time and looked at the man next to her. Her eyes were distressed and worried.

They walked hand in hand. On both sides of the steps, the wind rustled the grass and trees. They were solemn, lush and bleak. Xia Shao followed Xu Tianyin up the steps, turned a mountain road paved with broken flower marble slabs, and saw another short step in front of him.

There are only three steps on the steps. When you look up, you can see the spring jasmine flowers on both sides and the Han white stone tomb in front. The tomb is built in a rectangle and looks like a coffin placed quietly. The coffin is high and placed on eight small steps. It is surrounded by a fence carved of Han white stone on three sides. Only the tombstone is more than one person high. The coffin behind the tombstone needs to look up.

When you look up, you can see the blue sky.

This relatively secluded, independent and large tomb in the martyrs' cemetery is where the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the Xu family rest.

Solemn and solemn, but it makes the eyes of those who see it hot.

Xia Shao felt that Xu Tianyin's hands were sweating. His hands were worryingly cold in the hot weather in the morning. Xia Shao gave him a worried look and unconsciously gained strength. Xu Tianyin turned and looked at her. Her eyes were as dark as the impenetrable deep sea in the sun. But when he looked at her, there was a little light. His lips closed tightly, held her hand tightly and went up the steps.

Above the steps, the tall tombstone is inlaid with a picture of a couple. The man's age looks not much different from that of Xu Tianyin this year, and even his eyebrows are somewhat similar. But the man has a smile on his lips, with the special implication and cultural temperament of that era, gentle, elegant and broad.

Xu Tianyin is not particularly like his father. He is more like his mother. His mother is a very beautiful woman. The black-and-white photos are fixed in the 25-year-old years, the most beautiful years of a mother.

The woman's smile is beautiful, gentle and warm. Looking at people makes people soft.

The cemetery is usually cleaned, and the ground is very clean, but their photos are still covered with some dust. Xu Tianyin stepped forward and wiped his parents' photos. He didn't use a paper towel. He just wiped it gently with his fingers. Looking from the side, he looked like a living son, gently stroking his parents' cheeks.

Xia Shao lowered her eyes slightly, took a deep breath of mountain wind, and pressed down her nose. Lifting his eyes, he saw Xu Tianyin returning. He still held her hand. The ring on her hand was cut to pieces by the Mottled sunshine falling from the gap between the branches.

The man turned to look at her. His eyes were distressing. He was not good at expressing his feelings on weekdays. Today he became solemn, "this is my parents."

Xia Shao nodded gently, looked at the couple's smile on the tombstone, smiled and said gently: "uncle, aunt."

"Parents." Xu Tianyin looked at Xia Shao and corrected her.

Xia Shao was stunned and nodded, "Dad, mom."

Today, she will not be funny and pretentious with Xu Tianyin. He brought her to meet his parents. In front of the dead second old man, the concept of mortal can be put down temporarily today, just for today to fulfill the wishes of those who cherish their memory and those who died.

Xia Shao smiled and looked up in a daze. Xu Tianyin looked at her, his eyes slightly stunned, and then he turned around and hugged her in his arms. The man's breathing has always been heavy, but now he has become cautious, so that the person he holds is also a little worried.

Xia Shao let the flower in his hand be beside him and let Xu Tianyin hold it. Listening to his almost inaudible breath in the mountain wind, he felt the heavy heartbeat in his chest and raised his hand with some heartache.

I had intended to appease him, but I heard his voice.

"Today is not their death day." the man's voice was hoarse, but Xia Shao was stunned. But Xu Tianyin's next words stunned her, "today is my birthday."

"...." Xia Shao opened his mouth slightly and couldn't speak.

She never knew the elder martial brother's birthday. She didn't ask, but when she asked, he only said that he was only a birthday.

At that time, Xia Shao did not know Xu Tianyin's childhood experience, but he could already feel the extraordinary of his life experience. Since he didn't want to say, she didn't ask again, just waiting for the day he wanted to tell her.

I just didn't expect that this day would be at this time.

She just felt the man holding her, hoarse voice and trembling arms. He seldom showed his feelings on weekdays, but at this moment he had some hoarse remorse and remorse. "I said I was going to an amusement park. There was no one in China at that time. They took me abroad for vacation. The next night, there was an accident."

The next night?

Is that the second day of your birthday?

Xia Shao was shocked and could not be described in words for a moment.

In childhood, there are no children who don't expect birthdays. His parents promised to meet his requirements and take him to his favorite amusement park. How happy it is. However, it was this decision to go abroad that made him lose his parents and childhood. This, together with the night of losing his parents, became his nightmare, bound him and couldn't get out again.

So, it's just his birthday.

These years, he only came to visit his parents on this day. In his eyes, his parents' death day was no different from this day.

"I killed them." the man's voice was hoarse and sounded like the roar of a beast.

"It's not your fault. There are many children in the world who ask their parents to do this, and many parents who meet their children's requirements. Not everyone will encounter such misfortune. Blame the murderer's ruthlessness." Xia Shao felt pain in her heart, patted the man on the back, and calmed his mood along the meridians. She didn't want him to have a cold sweat that day again. She asked, "Do you know who the murderer is and what his purpose is?"

"Foreign terrorist organizations, my first mission, killed their leaders." Xu Tianyin's voice was very low and cold to the freezing point.

Xu Tianyin's father was in an important position when he died. The assassination of the terrorist organization had many purposes. Although this matter was not made public in China, it caused tension in the relations between the two countries at that time. Finally, for the sake of state affairs, Xu Tianyin's father was sealed up as a martyr, and his parents were allowed to be buried together in the martyr cemetery. The Xu family received great compensation for this, that is, the so-called political However, such disposal has made the boy who lost his parents bury a dark seed because the murderer was at large for more than ten years.

Twelve years later, he went on a mission for his country. His first mission was to assassinate the head of a terrorist organization. That war made him famous because he completed the impossible task - he not only assassinated the head of a foreign terrorist organization, but also caught all the top leaders of the organization.

No one knows how he did it. All he knows is that the people he killed died miserably, their faces distorted, and suffered a lot of fear and pain before they died.

Since then, he will complete many tasks that are considered impossible. Since then, his war achievements are unknown. He is like a shadow living in the dark, and his war achievements are only recorded in the archives.

Such a life lasted for ten years, until he was awarded the rank of major general based on his military achievements, until master Xu couldn't see it, and didn't want him to live a dangerous life abroad. He signaled his efforts to let him go from behind to become the youngest provincial military region commander after the founding of the Republic.

It was at that time that they ran into each other in the bar, and then they found out that they had the same origin. They met and fell in love for four years. Today, they stand in front of his parents' tombstone.

Xia Shao held Xu Tianyin in her arms. She never thanked anyone like this at this moment. She thanked master Xu. If the old man didn't help, even if he was awarded the title, with this man's temperament, he would still choose to live a dark day. Lonely and cold, until the end of the road ahead.

Fortunately, they met.

Fortunately, he was willing to tell her today. She believed that he would feel much better if he said it. She also firmly believed that his happiness would be the pursuit of her life from now on.

"Elder martial brother, let's offer a bunch of flowers to the second old man." Xia Shao whispered.

Xu Tianyin was silent for a while before nodding. They held their hands together, put the bunch of flowers in front of the tombstone, and stepped back and bowed together.

"Mom and Dad, you can't laugh at me when you hear me say that." Xia Shao smiled first. Her cheeks were powdered in the mountain wind and dyed those dense branches, which looked a little delicate, "You don't have to worry. Although I'm many years late after you, I'll take care of my senior brother. You know under the spring, bless him safe and happy, and I'll come to see you more with him."

Although she wanted to say something more sensational, Xia Shao felt that if she said too much affectation, these words were enough.

However, it was these words that made her feel no more simple, but made the man turn his head to look at her. On the blue sky, there was a scorching sun shining in his eyes. In the extreme darkness, there was the extreme light, which made people lose their eyes.

The man hugged her again, this time longer than just now.

They didn't leave the cemetery until noon. When they left, the man held her hand all the way, as if they were afraid that if they let go, she would disappear.

Xia Shao smiled. After walking out of the martyrs' cemetery, there was still a long way down the mountain. The car stopped at the foot of the mountain. She deliberately didn't go. She smiled and said, "I'm tired. You carry me."

Xu Tianyin turned his head and looked at her skirt. Seeing that it was a long skirt, he nodded and squatted down silently. Xia Shao came forward with a smile and hugged the man's neck. On the way down the mountain, there were more young men and women walking slowly on the roadside. The girl lay on the man's back with a flower branch in her hand and smiled and scratched his itch. The man was not afraid of itching at all, but when she saw that she was having fun, she turned her head and looked at him Her eyes were soft and a faint smile was on her lips.

This time, the smile didn't go away for a long time, all the way down the mountain.

At this time, the sun was just right, the sky was blue, and it was noon.

……

11 a.m. to 1 p.m..

At the Xu family, there was a family banquet.

The family banquet was set in a beautiful attic with pavilions and waterside pavilions inside a red wall. This red wall blocked the noise of tourists outside and the warm atmosphere of the festival. In today's Republic, there are only a few places where national leaders can live, and the Xu family is one of them.

The attic faces the wide lake, on both sides are weeping willows. It's hot at noon. Listening to the sound of autumn cicadas and the lake wind, a family dinner is quiet.

The old man sitting on the throne, dressed in a very simple white Tang shirt, sat majestically in a chair and ate the food slowly. This majestic old man is old man Xu Kangguo.

The seat next to the old man's left hand is empty. Under it is his second son Xu Yanshao and his daughter-in-law Hua Fang. Xu Yanshao is a little fat, but his complexion is ruddy, his temperament is correct, and there is a high-ranking dignity between his eyebrows. At the age of 50, he is now a member of the Central Committee of the Republic and a principal at the provincial and ministerial level. His wife Hua Fang is the director of the Archives Department of the Supreme Procuratorate.

They are in the empty Xu family in the long house, which can be described as scenery. But even so, Mr. Xu has very high requirements for the status of family members. So far, he has retained the seat of the long house family. For a banquet like today, although the long house has not been in for many years, there is still a seat on his left hand.

After the second room, there is the third room of the Xu family. It's called Sanfang, but it's actually a married daughter's family. Xu Yanying, father Xu's youngest daughter, sounds like a man's name, but this is also the father's high requirement for his daughter not to lose the man.

Xu Yanying works for the Party committee in Beijing. Her husband Liu Zhenghong takes up the post of deputy secretary of the provincial Party committee and comes back to spend the holiday with the old man every year today.

The Xu family, with two bedrooms and three bedrooms, is an absolute political family in the Republic. Family members are at the national, provincial and departmental levels, and no one can surpass them.

What's more, the Xu family has a third generation.

The third generation sat on Mr. Xu's right hand, but the first chair was still empty, and a young man sat in the second chair. A man in his twenties and eighties must be surprised if Xia Shao is here at the moment. The man's facial features are five points similar to Xu Tianyin, but his masculinity is obviously more gentle. There is no coldness between his eyebrows, but his innate dignity. He smiles quite handsome and elegant.

The man is Xu tianzhe, the only son of the second room of the Xu family. Xu tianzhe is Xu Tianyin's cousin. He is two years younger. He is seven out of twenty this year. He takes office as a local mayor. The 27 year old young mayor is also the most promising in the Republic.

Although the political and military levels cannot be compared, Xu tianzhe is still a little worse than Xu Tianyin, who is now a major general and commander of the group army.

In the seat of Xu tianzhe's head, which is also the last position of the Xu family, there is a famous girl. The girl is in her double decade. She is still in college. Her name is Liu Lan. Her eyebrows and eyes look like her mother Xu Yanying, but she looks elated and proud.

Although the Xu family pays great attention to table manners, they are not afraid to say nothing at dinner. It's just that today is always dull for many years.

Tomorrow is the death day of Xu's parents. The old man is always in a bad mood on this day. Moreover, the Xu family all know that Xu Tianyin will worship his parents on this day, so there are always few people in the family reunion day.

The Xu family is also used to it. On this day every year, the family eats silently and no one speaks.

But this year, someone opened his mouth.

This is Liu Lan.

"Isn't my cousin working in the capital military region? I thought he would come back this year." Ding Buwang, three generations of the Xu family, is an only child. Although Liu Lan is a foreign surname, she is also the granddaughter of old Xu's son. As the only girl in the family, she is naturally favored and has a very unusual status. Therefore, in today's day, her parents dare not speak, but she dares to speak.

The people at the table were stunned. Liu Zhenghong and Xu Yanying looked at their daughter at the same time, with implicit warnings in their eyes. After warning their daughter, they went to aim at the old man.

Mr. Xu raised his eyes and looked at his granddaughter. Although his eyes were dignified, he sighed, "let him do it. It's a knot that can't be solved. He won't come back."

Seeing that the old man was not angry, Xu Yanying and her husband were relieved. Since she started talking, Xu Yanying sighed, "Tianyin, poor child! The child still can't come out after the eldest brother and sister-in-law have been away for more than 20 years. I don't know when to untie this knot. Tianyin was lovely when she was a child..."

At the age of 46, Xu Yanying has faint crow's feet on the corners of her eyes. Her figure is a little rich. Her eyebrows and eyes are full of tenderness and sadness. When the eldest brother was killed, she was only in her early twenties, older than her daughter. When she was a child, her father taught her children severely. Even if she was the daughter of the family, she didn't receive much special treatment. Her father took the same care to educate her as his two brothers. Her mother and eldest brother loved her most. Their brother and sister had a good relationship, but they didn't think that their mother died early and their eldest brother went early.

The poor child was fine before he went abroad. He came back like a different person. From then on, I went to Hong Kong to recuperate for 12 years. When I came back, I went to the military. I just carried out tasks outside and soaked in danger all year round. Once I went, it was ten years.

The eldest grandson of the Xu family has the weakest relationship with the Xu family. If it weren't for family gatherings, he would always have reserved a seat for him. It's like there's no such person in the family.

Xu Yanying first because her eldest brother loved her, and second because she loved Xu Tianyin. She always paid attention to her nephew. But in the three generations of the Xu family, it is obvious that his daughter has a better relationship with his second brother's son tianzhe. Their brother and sister seldom met Tianyin and spoke little.

Therefore, Xu Yanying is a little strange that her daughter took the initiative to mention Xu Tianyin today.

But even when she saw her daughter, she smiled strangely and said, "Mom, I don't think my cousin is as poor as you say. He's living well now. Haven't you heard of making a girlfriend? I saw the video of the proposal. It's romantic. I guess cousin tianzhe can't do it! I don't think cousin Tianyin was cold at the opening ceremony of Beijing University."

As soon as this was said, the table was quiet.

No one spoke for a moment.

Naturally, the Xu family all know about it, and they have seen the videos. But so far, no one has made a statement, and no one has mentioned it in front of the old man.

Two rooms and three rooms all want to know what the old man's attitude is. I just didn't expect to be put forward today.

Therefore, Xu Yanshao, Hua Fang, Liu Zhenghong, Xu Yanying, and Xu tianzhe and Liu Lan of the three generations of the Xu family all look at old man Xu at the moment.

The old man frowned.