Chapter 62

At this time, the hotel staff knocked on the door, walked up to him and asked: "Mr. Lei, it's about time, can you serve the dishes?"

Lei Qianjun hastily waved his hand and said, "Serve the dishes and serve the dishes. At the same time, open the ten boxes of wine I've brought." With that, Lei Qianjun said to his comrades beside him, "Today, I brought over 20 boxes of real special gift moutas from the military sector. Everyone just opened their mouths to drink and brought them back to the military!"

When everyone heard that there was good wine, they all cheered and Lei Qianjun arranged for thirty of his comrades to sit at different tables.

Zhang Yunfeng and his family were sitting at the same table as Lei Qianjun's family, but the seating arrangements were very interesting. Zhang Xingming and Lei Qianjun were sitting together, then Lei Qianjun's wife, Song Huafang, Zhang Yunfeng, and Lei Xinlei.

After they sat down, the staff of the hotel entered with a few carts, each table was filled with 16 dishes, all prepared beforehand. Along with the wine that Lei Qianjun had brought over from the military region using a truck, Lei Qianjun said with a smile, "Today everyone is paying attention, there are 16 dishes, so don't miss the hot food, just open your mouths for me to drink! The hot dishes will only start 90 minutes later! "

These people were all tough men who had once bathed in blood on the battlefield, and each of them had a huge amount of manpower. Drinking was their life, not to mention that today was the first gathering since so many people had left the army, and everyone was extremely excited, wishing that they could drink to their heart's content with these brothers who had once lived and died together.

In the hotel, there was a glass cup of 250 ml, and the military district specially provided the soy sauce type Maotai wine of 53 degrees. Lei Qianjun stood up and said to everyone, "Come, brothers! "Fill up the wine!"

"Alright!" Lei Qianjun lifted his wine cup and said to Zhang Xingming, "Big Brother Zhang, it can be said that you saved everyone's life here. Without you, this gathering would not have happened today. The first toast to wine would be yours!"

Looking at the burning gazes around him, he nodded and let out a sigh, saying: "After so many years, we have all dreamed of this scene today. Back then, we were all just a bunch of little kids, and even a few of our oldest brothers who had families and families failed to return alive, but now, we all have our own families, children, and lives together. The peace that we have now is not easy to achieve, if not for those comrades who sacrificed themselves in front of us, we wouldn't even have the chance to enjoy it now.

Zhang Xingming wrinkled his nose, trying to hold back the tears that were about to flow down his face. He held his hand tightly over the glass, and with his other hand, he picked up the glass and smashed it on the table with a 'pa' sound. Before the wine spilled onto the table, he raised his glass and shouted, "Brothers, it's done!"

"Pah!" Everyone slammed their wine cups on the table and simultaneously shouted, "Do it!"

However, his father said that his wounds had not healed and he was not allowed to drink alcohol, so he helplessly shook his head. Just as he was about to drink the orange juice, Lei Xinlei, who was beside him, suddenly raised her glass to him and said: "Zhang Yunfeng, let's meet again."

Zhang Yun Feng smiled at her, the glass lightly touched, and he raised his head to drink the orange juice. He muttered with a bit of depression in his mouth, "How good would it be if I drank this wine …"

She pursed her lips into a smile and said in a low voice: "Today you are in a special situation, plus my dad did not allow me to drink, so we can only substitute orange juice for wine. When there's a chance in the future, I'll drink with you, and by the way, I'll tell you that my alcohol capacity is very good.

Zhang Yun Feng smirked, and jokingly asked: "Do you think my alcohol tolerance will be low?"

Lei Xinlei raised her eyebrows and said: "If there's a chance in the future, you'll know after the competition."

Zhang Yunfeng nodded his head, "Okay, I will remember this. If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely drink with you."

Lei Xinlei laughed, then leaned over and lowered her voice, "When you have the chance, teach me how to fight in actual combat, after seeing your move, I discovered that the Taekwondo is too weak, we used to be able to kick someone else's leg higher and straighter, but you were thinking about how to kill them in the shortest time possible, that kind of feeling, is too powerful."

Zhang Yunfeng teased, "Isn't Taekwondo very imposing? "Not only do you need to practice in a specialized martial field, you also need to wear special clothing, and what kind of belt can be used to distinguish different levels. Before you make your move, you must also call out, giving off a strong aura."

"Don't say anymore …" Lei Xinlei shook her head and said with a depressed look on her face, "Now it seems that the Taekwondo and scattered fighting is a bit more serious. It looks good, but it's not a real fight."

They drank three cups of wine together, one for their dead brothers, the other for their lives and their hopes for the future. The two middle-aged women looked at the childish looking men who were both laughing and crying, and at the same time, their hearts were moved. The two kids were toasting each other with orange juice in boredom, and then gulping down the strong aroma of the soy sauce.

Zhang Yunfeng was always afraid that his father would drink too much, because everyone came to toast his father, affectionately calling him Big Brother. Even after so many years had passed, he could still see the undisguised gratitude on their faces, but Lei Qianjun was still unable to escape. Everyone took turns to toast him, but they were all apologizing to him, apologizing for the ambush that happened to him all those years ago.

It was as if the forgiveness of these people was the biggest knot in his heart. When every single one of them sincerely expressed their apology and goodwill, Lei Qianjun broke down in tears, even his wife and daughter Lei Xinlei silently wept. They all knew that Lei Qianjun had been struggling with himself in his heart for so many years, crying in his dreams, crying in the corners of his bed after waking up from nightmares, slapping himself on the face countless times, but they had all left him at this moment.

From then on, they began to reminisce about everyone who had appeared in their lives and then left.

Tears streaming down his face, Wang Sen toyed with the glass in his hand and said, "Do you still remember instructor? That man Qi Lu, how old he was when we were on the battlefield?"

"Thirty-nine!" Zhang Xingming blurted out, "Back then, he was thirty-nine years old and had three children. The youngest is already over thirty years old, and the children are all living quite well, and they are also especially filial, unlike those who have many children, who push and shove the elderly around like they are some sort of treasure trove. Whichever family they stay in for one more day, the other two are not willing to do so. Right now, sister-in-law is living a very good life."

"I need to go take a look when I get the chance!" Wang Sen softly said, "The instructor doted on me back then and didn't make me learn to smoke. But after I learned it, he always traded the good cigarettes with me for my unfiltered ones. Before I died, he even asked me to call him daddy, saying that I was the same age as his eldest son, and that I would never hear him call him father again …"

As he spoke, Wang Sen lay prone on the table and began sobbing, his shoulders heaving violently, the people beside him hurriedly coming forward to console him. Zhang Xingming stood up, raised his wine cup and asked, "Why don't we all feel happy?" Could it be that what our brothers left us, in the end, is nothing else but sadness? "

His words caused everyone to agree with him. They then began to reminisce about everyone they had left behind in the battlefield. A smile of understanding appeared on their faces as they thought back to the times when they had been together with him.

After too many rounds of drinking and cooking, the atmosphere gradually became more reserved. Everyone no longer simply drank and toasted, reminiscing about the past. Instead, they talked about their own lives.

Some of these people had turned into wealthy merchants. Some were like Zhang Xingming, living ordinary lives that were not very well off, and some lived lives that weren't that well off.

After drinking, he told them the truth. When Lei Qianjun heard that many of his comrades from the past were not doing well, he made a decision. His family would pay for him to set up a chain of supermarkets for the veterans in their respective cities.

On one hand, they didn't want to make trouble for their comrades because of them. On the other hand, they also didn't want to involve money in the brotherly relationship between comrades due to the tenacity and self-reliance in their bones.

Lei Qianjun's wife immediately came up with a very professional business model. He would set up a management team and head to the city where his comrades were staying to investigate, select and contact with the most suitable and stable source of goods. After that, she would fund the design and decoration of the storefront in a unified way, with the cost of each storefront controlled to within five hundred thousand yuan.

Even so, those people were still unwilling to accept it. In the end, Zhang Xingming stood up and said extremely seriously, "If any of you reject, you can leave this room now. From today onwards, I, Zhang Xingming, will no longer recognize him as a brother! As a brother, if you don't want your brother to help, then what kind of nonsense are you talking about? Without the friendship to support one another, one cannot even be compared to those rogues! "

In the end, under Zhang Xingming's strong request, everyone agreed. Auntie Xue did not hesitate and immediately took out her phone, recording their cell numbers and home addresses one by one. She also promised that in the future, the supermarket would be no more than three kilometers away from their home.

Such an unusual gathering of comrades lasted until midnight. Each of them drank a lot of wine, but what was rare was that each of them was completely awake.

Right before the end of the show, Lei Xinlei took out a camera, to let everyone take a picture, Wang Sen quickly asked the waiter for a few sheets of A4 printout paper, and with a pen, he wrote down seven large words and two punctuation points on it. She was held by nine people, and took a photo with extraordinary significance, the photo was taken with the help of the waiter, Zhang Yunfeng's family, Lei Qianjun's family, and all twenty-seven of their comrades were all in the photo.

Among the crowd, sheets of A4 paper formed a single sentence: "We are alive, it is wonderful!