Beiping, in a sanatorium.

"Old man he, someone has come to see you!"

Old man he, with his back to the door and his face to the window, did not answer the other people in the sanatorium. As in the past Wutong was always sitting in such a way. There were only two trees of the Wutong tree everywhere in the city, and the trees were deciduous trees. At this time, there was no good looking. But what old man was sitting in such a steady state, as always. Some nursing workers doubt whether he has Alzheimer's disease, but he can solve it by himself when eating, sleeping and going to the toilet. There is no sign of dementia at all. It seems that he is just a little lonely.

"Old man he, your son is coming!"

Old man ho has no son. In other words, his son has died in the Vietnam War. Of course, it's impossible for a dead person to visit him in a sanatorium. As for grandchildren, there will be none. His son was just 18 years old when he went to the battlefield. How could he leave him incense. But he wasn't frustrated. He was glad that his son had chosen the right path, and that his son and his father had chosen the same path - to fight for the country.

everyone in this sanatorium can not believe that the old man who is staring at the Wutong tree everyday is full of decorations. In the most beautiful time, he once sat in the headquarters full of fire, and the signalmen who came to summon him reported to him the battle situation on the front line in a roaring way. But now, he chose to become an ordinary old man. He refused the old age arranged for him by the state. He contributed everything he could to the country. At the end of his life, he didn't want to be a burden to the country.

"Father." A voice sounded in old man he's ear, "my son has come to see you."

Old man he turned his head slowly and saw a completely strange face. After staring at that face for two seconds, old man he turned his head back.

"General." A familiar and strange address sounded.

Old man he shivered. His identity is strictly confidential. If he wants to enjoy the life of ordinary people, the state will do everything for him. Unless he nods, no one can find out his past identity. Because once his identity is exposed, people who come to flatter him are afraid that they will trample the threshold here in a day.

"General he Shouguang." The man even gave his full name.

In this sanatorium, his name is "he Shouguang" - a rather ominous sounding name. However, his original name was "he Shouguang", one of the 14 commanders of the central army who once held real power.

"You are -" he Shouguang turned his head and looked at the young man standing behind him. The young man was too young. His son died at the same age, but how many years has his son died? Fifty years? Sixty years?

"Cao Shi." The young man replied.

"Oh He Shouguang showed a sudden expression, "it's the Cao family. No wonder, no wonder you can find me." Since he is a member of the Cao family, there is no exception. And look at each other's age, I'm afraid it's the new generation of the Cao family?

"General, I don't want to beat around the bush with you. I'm here to get something." Cao Shi said with a smile.

"Poof --" he Shouguang burst out laughing. Then he spread out his hand, "what else can you like here? If you want something in your ancestral home, you don't have to come by yourself, do you? Can't you find the address with the ability of the Cao family? "

"Ha ha." Cao Shi laughed, "what I want is in this room."

"What do you want?" He Shouguang also replied with a smile, "the old man's life?" He doesn't believe that Cao Shi dares to harm himself. Although he has been out of the military for a long time, I don't know how many people in the military are his old students. Even if Cao Shi is a member of the Cao family, he never dares to embarrass himself at the risk of offending countless military dignitaries.

"I want a keepsake from the old man." Cao Shi said slowly in he Shouguang's ear.

He Shouguang didn't speak, but his eyelids jumped.

"I know there are many people in the military who are supported by you. They can't survive without your kindness." Cao Shizhi got up and said with a smile, "that's why I came to find the old man. I hope the old man can also help the younger generation."

What Cao Shi said is true. When he was in office, he Shouguang trained a large number of talents for the military, so that it was later rumored that he was cultivating his own party members and engaging in his "he faction.". In order to avoid suspicion, he retired from the army and hid in this small sanatorium. He even refused to meet his former students.

"All the people I support are the pillars of our country." He Shouguang's tone is not without complacency, and then he changed his words and said coldly, "and what are you?"

In he Shouguang's view, the Cao family, an old aristocratic family, should be swept away together with the remaining evils of feudalism. Even as early as in the war, he sighed at the military conference: I just hate that the muzzle of the gun can't be aimed at my own people, otherwise, I must kill those moths before destroying those aggressors. The "moth" in this sentence refers to the Cao family, an old aristocrat who only wanted to develop themselves and make a fortune in the war.It is impossible for he Shouguang to carry the people of the Cao family, even if he wears a knife around his neck.

But Cao Shi won't put the knife on he Shouguang's neck. He just took out his mobile phone and put it in front of he Shouguang after clicking on a video.

What's playing on the mobile phone is a black-and-white video. From the perspective of image quality, it should be very long ago, even without sound. The young man in the picture holds a paper cigarette with his fingers and irons a woman's chest tied to a wooden post with a cigarette end. Although there are only pictures and no sound, women's painful expressions and men's smiles seem to be able to make sound.

After seeing this video, he Shouguang suddenly changed his face.

"Now do you know what I am?" Cao Shi extinguished the mobile phone screen, put his head close to he Shouguang's ear and said softly.

Everyone has his weakness. As a half cut old man, he Shouguang is not afraid of death, but even he has the weakness of not being willing to make it public. And this weakness, he thought, should disappear in the long river of history with the war years, but today someone will find it out and put it in front of him.

The Cao family is really powerful.

Even he Shouguang couldn't help sighing.