Father Fu was a little surprised that the…the Commander-in-Chief also knew about his family?
Commander-in-Chief Xia never thought about pretending to know anything. Pretending not to know was not conducive to both families’ future development. It would be better to just tell the truth when they first met.
After the brief surprise, Father Fu frowned slightly and said, “I don’t know when I can meet with my daughter. I am a little worried about her. I want to know if she is injured.”
Commander-in-Chief Xia could answer this question immediately, “No, she’s all good. She’ll have a short interview here, then she can go back.”
Her future daughter-in-law was back now, but she wasn’t returning to the camp but to the Fu Family.
Commander-in-Chief Xia sighed softly.
Knowing that his daughter was not injured, Father Fu let out a long sigh of relief, “Then I will wait for her. I will wait for her outside. Please let my daughter know that I’m waiting for her outside in the car, Commander-in-Chief.”
He didn’t feel relieved if he hadn’t seen his daughter in person, and it was his first time taking his daughter home… He didn’t want to go home alone; he wanted to take his daughter home.
Because he couldn’t find his wife, he didn’t know the existence of his daughter and had never sent her to or picked her up from school before.
This was his regret, and there was no way to make up for the regret.
Now that his daughter had grown up, he didn’t want to miss having a father-daughter relationship with her; even if he had to wait for her for a while, he was willing to wait.
He was willing to wait for his daughter to finally bring her back home.
The thought of seeing his daughter later, picking her up, and sending her home, made Father Fu feel excited.
The excitement was only short-lived, though. He thought of the sacrificed soldier who had returned home. That soldier had sacrificed to cover him. Father Fu lightly closed his eyes, and after a sigh, his voice became a bit solemn when he spoke again, “Is there anything that the Military Department has for my daughter tomorrow? I want to take her to visit the martyr’s family and send the martyr one last time.”
“Sorry, Engineer Fu, the ashes of the martyr have been brought back to the troops last night, you… alas, you can bring her to the cemetery in the future to visit the martyr.” Commander-in-Chief Xia also became serious when talking about the late martyr.
When Father Fu learned that the martyr was brought back to the army urgently before his death, he couldn’t help clenching his fists. After a long time, he said, “Okay, then I will go back to the car and wait. Excuse me, Commander-in-Chief.”
He could take his daughter home, but the martyr’s parents could never see their son’s smile again.
“Engineer Fu, don’t blame yourself. This is the ultimate destination of a soldier, and it is also their responsibility. He has fulfilled the responsibility of a soldier to fight for the country.” Commander-in-Chief Xia saw the deep self-blame in Father Fu’s eyes, and he continued in his deep military voice, “Every soldier has the consciousness of sacrifice, and they have no complaints or regrets, including your daughter.”
Whether it was Ye Jian or Xia Jinyuan, those tens of thousands of soldiers were all like that.
Ye Jian didn’t know that her father had arrived at the military headquarters. She raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes when she sent away the martyr. Facing the evening breeze in Beijing, she whispered, “It would be great if there were no sacrifices.”
It would be great if there was no sacrifice because then there would be no sorrow.
“That’s a beautiful dream, but it is only a dream. Sacrifice will always exist, and our only hope is to reduce the sacrifice.” Xia Jinyuan, who was standing next to her, heard her words, and in return, replied in a low and tense voice slowly, “It is our duty to exchange our grief for the reunion of thousands of families, Blue Bird.”
The sorrow was blown away by the wind, bringing the haze in her heart away with it.
Yes, if there was no sacrifice of soldiers, how could they reunite thousands of families?
