Dark corridors, mottled stairs

Everything is still the same, and it has not changed at all.

He gently patted the door of the familiar unit on the sixth floor. Li Bin's mood became heavier. He even didn't even know what he should say when he saw his mother.

The door opened gently, and Li Jie, wearing a white dress, stood at the door, her eyes were red and swollen, and the tears on her face had not been wiped dry.

"Little sister." Li Bin blurted out.

Li Jie was also stunned. Obviously, she did not notice what Li Bin called her.

"Shi Jun, why are you here? How do you know our family?"

"You... do you know me?" Li Bin asked Li Jie uncertainly.

"Are you an idiot? How come I didn't know you for four years?" Li Jie almost shouted, "I don't want to talk to you now. If we have something to do at home, you can go." As he said that, Li Jie reached out and wanted to close the door.

It’s not like this. Li Bin knew that her younger sister was studying at TJ Nankai University, but Li Bin never expected that her younger sister was in the same class as her. Her younger sister’s personality is very virtuous. At this time, she felt extremely bad when she was in Li Bin’s attitude. Li Bin hurriedly reached out and pushed the door and blurted out: “I am Li Bin’s good friend, a friend of life and death.”

"Xiao Jie, who is it?" Cang's voice came from the room.

Mom, it was Mom's voice. Li Bin's eyes heated up and tears rolled out.

"It's my classmate, he said he said he was my brother's good friend." Li Jie's voice was already filled with a sob crying voice.

"Please invite guests in and stand at the door and speak." The old voice was filled with a hint of fatigue.

Li Jie turned sideways and opened the door. Li Bin walked into the familiar home. The room was very dark and the air was filled with the smell of sadness. The small living room was still the same as it was three years ago. There was a small wooden single bed in the corner. It was where my mother sleeps every day, with two bedrooms and one living room of more than 40 square meters. When Li Bin was there, she slept with her younger sister. Originally, Li Bin and Li Jie wanted her mother to sleep with her, but her mother persisted in setting up a bed in the living room. She said she was afraid of affecting the study of the brother and sister. Although her mother had no education, she hoped that her children could go to school well and find a decent job.

My mother sat on the wooden bed, her hair turned gray and white, her eyes were swollen and her voice was hoarse: "The guest is here, the room is small, come here to sit." My mother patted the wooden bed beside her, sat inward and gave up a place.

My mother is only in her 50s this year, but now she looks like she is in her sixties or seventies. Li Bin silently bowed deeply to her mother, and tears dripped on the rough cement floor. "The guest is here", in my mother's eyes, she is just a guest now. Li Bin's heart is as if she was thrown into a meat grinder, and every rotation will bring more intense colic until she is tangled into a ball of meat paste. Tears surge uncontrollably: Mom, mom, I am your son Xiaobin. However, this sentence can only be silently shouted in my heart.

There was an unexpected guest in the room, sitting on the only wooden sofa in the room. Big Old Li, Li Bin's captain and coach. Big Old Li also had red eyes, obviously just cried. Li Jie silently put a cup of hot water on the dining table next to Li Bin. There was also a bank card, a red non-commissioned officer certificate, a martyr certificate, a personal third-class medal of merit and a big envelope. Li Bin knew that the bank card was his own pension. 200,000 yuan. The pension for their troops was very high. This may be some considerations for the country to reduce their worries. In that big envelope, there was a

Li Bin knew that it was collected by his comrades. When he was in the army, Li Bin and his comrades would feel twitching and pain every time they gathered the money, which means another good comrade and good brother left them forever. Li Bin silently reached out and picked up his non-comrade certificate from the table. Li Bin had never seen his non-comrade certificate. Only when you die or retired can you get his non-comrade certificate. Li Bin looked at the familiar, somewhat strange and tender face on the non-comrade certificate and shed tears silently. The house was as quiet as death, with only low crying sounds coming from time to time.

It took a long time.

The old man Li stood up and saluted his mother a standard military salute: "Auntie, I'm going to go back to the army. Please ask if you have any requests. Your comrades will definitely help you solve them."

Mom shook her head gently, and the few strands of gray hair that had just been brought up on her forehead scattered again, covering her face.

Li Bin withdrew his gaze from his non-commissioned officer certificate, wiped his tears, stood up and said calmly to the eldest elder Li: "Li Bin's leader, right? I am Li Bin's brother. Let's sit down and have a meal together. We want to hear about Li Bin." Li Bin didn't know why he said that. He originally planned to find an opportunity to return to the army, but after seeing his mother and younger sister's distraught appearance again, Li Bin gave up this tempting idea. People are not living for themselves.

The eldest brother Li sat down silently after hearing this. The family brought him the same shock. In his heart, he also wanted to sit for a while. The only man in the family sacrificed his life for the country, and he gave it to him himself. The eldest brother Li felt deeply guilty.

Li Bin silently took out a hundred yuan from his wallet and handed it to Li Jie: "My sister, go to the small shop downstairs to buy some cooked food, and buy two more bottles of wine."

"Oh", Li Jie responded and took the money silently. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Why did she take his money so naturally, as if it was supposed to be. This feeling was so familiar. Li Jie hurriedly wiped the tears that gushed out again and left in a hurry.

The dining table was carried to the bedside, and a guest came to the house, and the stool was not enough

For some reason, Li Bin had already pulled up his mother's hand. His mother's hands were dry and rough, and his palms were covered with thick calluses. However, his mother's hands were warm, and it was these hands that supported this home, this thin home, if the home could be described as thin.

My mother looked a little dazed, and she didn't react until Li Bin stuffed the chopsticks into his hand.

The mother gently put the chopsticks on the dining table, stood up, and shook her body slightly: "You guys sit down, I'll go cook two dishes."

"Auntie, no need, sit down, sit down quickly." Old Li stood up in a hurry and held his mother's arm.

Li Bin picked up Erguotou on the table and poured some lightly into his mother's teacup: "Drink some bar." Li Bin really didn't know what to call his mother, so he could only replace it with a general one. Could it be that telling his mother that he was Li Bin? He was not dead? If you don't say that others can't accept it, even Li Bin himself wouldn't be able to accept it.

The little sister brought out a few dishes from the kitchen and sat down at the table.

Li Bin picked up the wine to the eldest elder Li: "Thank you."

Big Old Li took a deep sip with a cup full of wine.

He didn't know why the young man in front of him wanted to thank him, but he seemed to feel that he knew why he thanked him.

"What does my brother do in the army? Didn't he say that he is in the logistics force? How do you think that the warehouse will be in danger of life?" Li Jie finally asked the big old Li about his question. Big old Li coughed gently. The identity of their troops who can be placed in the open is XXX Logistics Force XXX Warehouse.

"Your brother is a good soldier, the best soldier I have ever led." The old man Li Gu Zuo said to him: "Your brother died in the fight against the criminals." This explanation applies to every comrade-in-arms who died in this army.

"Then why don't we ask us to get my brother's body? Can't even give my brother's ashes to us?" Li Jie was not such a sarcastic person, but the brother's monthly allowance was sent to his mother and half to himself. He was supported by his four years of college in the past four years. However, when he was about to graduate from college, he was going to paint a bright future with his brother, but the pillar that supported the building in his heart collapsed.

"This is the rule in the army that Comrade Li Bin has been buried in the martyrs' cemetery in the military region." The old man Li said with difficulty. Yes, the martyrs' cemetery is a bare stone tablet and a life, where it can only be changed to a place as big as a palm, and can only be turned into a few simple words. [Li Bin joined the army in July 2001 and died on May 7, 2008] Perhaps that is also his last destination. After so many comrades-in-arms sacrificed, some of whom can find the bodies, some who are buried in foreign lands forever, and those who can leave some memories for future generations are the few words on the martyrs' cemetery.

Li Bin knew that the bare martyr monument was the holy monument in the hearts of the entire brigade of soldiers, and was sacred and inviolable. On the day of the Army Day every year, the Vice Chairman of the State Military Commission would come from thousands of miles to present a flower basket regardless of wind and rain. The old general bowed deeply and left too much shock in Li Bin's memory.

"I'm going to see my brother." Li Jie said stubbornly

"Okay, I'll make arrangements." The old man Li replied
Chapter completed!