The insults of the citizens and the distrust of their own people made these soldiers, who had bled and sweated on the battlefield, suffer a great deal of depression and pressure. These soldiers couldn't understand. Back then, they had resolutely stepped onto the battlefield to protect their country. However, just because they had luckily crawled back from the gates of hell after experiencing hardships, their country and people had treated them as traitors and enemies. The unyielding bones of soldiers allowed them to endure the enemy's knives, guns, sticks, and sticks, but they could not accept the unwarranted crimes imposed on them by their own people. Therefore, some people chose to die to show their resolve.
However, when their lifeless bodies appeared in front of the public, not only did the public not reflect on it, but they also enthusiastically cheered."Good death! Traitors and cowards should die! They were committing suicide to avoid punishment. This means that we didn't wrong them at all.”
Despair spread among the prisoners. Every day, there were people who could not stand the torture in their hearts and chose to take care of their own lives.
His father did not choose to commit suicide.
He still remembered the promise he made to his family.
One day, an inspector interrogated his father.
"Why didn't you die on the battlefield?”The inspector put on a condescending expression from the beginning.
His father lowered his head and remained silent.
The inspector threw the three files to his father. "You should know these three people. In order to protect their country, they bravely sacrificed their young lives. They were the heroes of this country. They were the people the entire country should thank. As their father, you chose to live on at death's door. Don't you feel ashamed?”
Looking at the young and familiar faces of his three sons in the photo, the father wailed in pain. He had always thought that his sons were waiting for his return at home, but he did not expect that they were already separated from each other.
That night, the father hugged the photos of his three sons and cried all night. He thought of death, but he still chose to live. Because he still had Chen Haonan and his wife waiting for him.
After a long period of physical and mental torture, his father was finally released a year later. Other than the tattered prison uniform on his body, his father was penniless. However, his father did not care because he was finally going home. He was finally going to see the family he had been thinking about day and night.
The road home was so close yet so far. Because he had no money, his father could only choose to walk. Because of the prison uniform he was wearing, the people on the roadside cast disdainful looks at him. No one was willing to help him, no one was willing to give him any charity. His father could only pick up rubbish by the roadside to satisfy his hunger. Finally, after a few months of wandering, his father returned home.
Looking at the familiar door, the ecstasy in his father's heart instantly turned into an inexplicable fear. In ten years, everything had changed. His father did not know what was waiting for him behind the door!
Finally, his father mustered up his courage and pushed open the door. Under a peach tree in the courtyard, three small tombs were neatly arranged. It was the cenotaph of his three brothers that Chen Haonan had dug up when he was young. His father walked with heavy steps and moved to the peach blossom tree bit by bit. His hands trembled uncontrollably. He wanted to reach out and touch his sons 'graves, but his hands hung in the air for a long time without putting them down.
At this moment, his mother's voice came from the house.""Who is it?"
Before he could finish his sentence, the door opened and his mother fumbled out of the room with her eyes gray.
His father saw his mother's abnormality. Ten years had also left traces of time on his mother's face. His father did not speak. However, a woman's keen intuition told her that there was someone close to her standing in the distance.
"The child's father! Is that you?" His mother asked anxiously.
His father felt a wave of panic. His wife, whom he had been longing for day and night, was right in front of him, but his body involuntarily retreated. Then, as if he had been frightened, he turned around and rushed out of the courtyard.
His father did not know why he was like this. He did not know what he was afraid of. There was a shop by the roadside, and the owner recognized his father, who was in a daze. His father asked the boss for a bottle of white wine and drank it in big gulps. Perhaps after getting drunk, he would not be so afraid anymore!
After drinking, his father, who never drank alcohol, was infatuated with the carefree state of being in a daze. After getting drunk, his father no longer felt afraid. He staggered back home.
"Father, you're finally back!”His wife welcomed him with tears of joy.
Her father pushed her to the ground." Give me the money!”
His mother was stunned. His father impatiently began to rummage through the house. Soon, he had a harvest, and then he left home satisfied.
It was really a good thing. The depression of being ostracized and wronged by the world, and the kind of pain that even his father could not explain himself.| The sudden fear of going home disappeared after his father drank. His father couldn't live without wine.
That night, when he saw Chen Haonan, whom he had not seen for ten years, his father in his drunken dream felt fear again. Looking at the face that was almost identical to his own when he was young, his father did not know how to face it. He chose to roar.
Since then, his father had drunk himself every day to avoid Chen Haonan. This was the only way for him to obtain temporary peace. However, on the night before his father died, Chen Haonan's words woke his father up. What was it that supported his father to return home? His father kept asking himself. Then, he smiled. Chen Haonan had already grown into a man who could take care of his family as promised. However, she had become a burden to this family. Hence, his father was relieved. At that moment, his father felt an unprecedented calmness in his heart. In his haziness, he saw his three sons waving at him with smiles. His father smiled. He no longer felt fear and chose to walk calmly towards death.
In the hospital outside the Fourth Youth Reformatory, Chen Haonan, who was lying on the hospital bed, calmly recounted his past.""I killed my father. If I hadn't cursed my father to die, my father might not have died.”
"Haonan!" Nurse Xiao Yu held Chen Haonan's hand tightly and said in a gentle tone,""Don't blame yourself too much. It's not your fault.”
"No, this is my fault! I didn't understand him from his perspective. His three sons died in battle one after another, and his comrades fell one after another, but he survived alone. In addition to the secular eyes of the world. All of this together changed his father. Facing my father, who was under immense pressure, as his son, not only did I not try to understand him, I even said such ruthless words to him. I forced him to his death. So I killed my father."
Xiao Yu looked at the youth who was deeply remorseful with pity. For a moment, she did not know how to comfort him.
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