Bright Sword: Develop independently and level up ten times at the beginning

Chapter 819: Rebellious Heart, Normal Heart

A base hundreds of kilometers away from the main city.

At this moment, the middle-aged man Chen Shaoxiu stared at the telegram in his hand and fell into deep thought.

"Young Master!"

"You said you were going to lead the troops, so why did you have to take me and the child with you?"

"It's been a rough journey."

“The children are all sick!”

His wife Chu Zifang came over with a lot of complaints in her words.

"This trip to Yancheng is a long one. I won't feel at ease without you."

"Besides."

"It's time to let the child see the world."

Chen Shaoxiu spoke casually, his eyes subconsciously turning in other directions. At this moment, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

Night falls...

The waning moon is like a hook, hanging obliquely in the sky.

Chen Shaoxiu lifted the curtain of the military tent, and the damp night wind wrapped in the scent of grass and trees blew in his face.

The torches of the distant sentry posts flickered in the darkness, just like his wavering mood at the moment.

The telegram in the leather briefcase had been rubbed to the point of frayed edges, and the ink had blurred its outline as it was repeatedly read.

He looked at the sleeping tents. The 300,000-strong army was as silent as a dormant beast. As long as he gave an order, the beast would tear apart any obstacle in its way.

"Ahem..."

Suddenly, a suppressed cough came from behind him. Chen Shaoxiu turned abruptly and saw his wife Chu Zifang standing in the shadows, holding their sleeping young son, her frail body trembling slightly in the night breeze.

"Why are you up?"

"I told you to take the kids to rest early!"

"What are you getting up for again?"

"You!"

“Just won’t listen!”

"I like to make my own decisions on everything!"

Chen Shaoxiu couldn't help but mutter a few words.

But he still carefully took off his coat and wrapped the mother and child, and his fingertips touched his wife's hot forehead.

Chu Zifang raised his pale face, his gaze piercing through his forced composure: "Is this the eighth urgent telegram from the main city?"

She lowered her head and gently patted the baby in her arms, her voice as soft as a feather: "This afternoon, when you were staring at the map, I saw the guards running to the telegraph room several times."

"You weren't like this before."

"What on earth is worrying you?"

"you need to know."

"We are husband and wife..."

"What can't be said between you and me?"

"If you insist on hiding it from me."

"That's when you really treat me as an outsider."

Chu Zifang raised her head and looked at Chen Shaoxiu, they had been married for many years.

How could she really not know what the person she loves is thinking?

But a lot of times...

Just chose the default.

Husband and wife are birds of the same forest.

But we've been together for so long...

That has essentially merged into one.

Chen Shaoxiu's muscles suddenly tensed up.

The lantern in the military tent cast the shadows of the two men on the canvas, distorting them into strange shapes.

The patrol's orderly footsteps could be heard in the distance, and the crisp metallic sounds of bayonets colliding with gun barrels.

"I said that."

"Don't worry about this."

"You can't control it."

"Go to sleep with your child!"

After Chen Shaoxiu finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Chu Zifang grabbed his hand.

"Do you remember the rainy night three years ago?" Chu Zifang suddenly held his cold hand.

"The Japanese almost caught us all at that time."

"Our lives were hanging by a thread."

"What did you promise me then?"

"You said so."

"No matter what happens in the future, we will face it together!"

"Be a man!"

"You have to keep your word."

"Please."

"Don't let us, mother and son, continue to worry!"

Chu Zifang looked at her husband, bit her lips lightly, and her expression was solemn.

Chen Shaoxiu's pupils suddenly contracted.

The smell of rotten straw and blood hit me in the face. I remembered the plaster flag fluttering outside the window that day, and the shrill howls of my colleagues when their intestines were ripped out by bayonets.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, a rusty taste rising in his throat.

"It's different now."

He spoke hoarsely, turning to retrieve the telegram from the safe.

"The main city is under siege!"

"The devils set a trap."

"This time."

"The one in the main city may become history completely."

"He sent me a telegram."

"Let me return to the main military city immediately."

"But even if I go back now, it will take five days."

“The daylilies are cold.”

"so……"

"Now I just want to go to Yancheng and take this batch of gold and silver with me."

"Exchange that batch of equipment."

Chen Shaoxiu clenched his fists, his eyes fierce.

"what?"

"so……"

"Are you going to give up, sir?"

"Shao Xiu, is this still you?"

"You are abandoning your faith and your loyalties!"

"The commander asked you to lead the troops to Yancheng to receive the equipment this time. Doesn't that also show his trust in you?"

"Why……"

"Did it suddenly become like this?"

Chu Zifang said in disbelief.

While talking.

Chu Zifang stumbled back, her back hitting an ammunition box with a dull thud. The child in her arms squirmed restlessly, and she frantically patted the swaddling clothes, but tears fell before she could comfort him.

"So you want to take us..." She suddenly widened her eyes, "Those baggage carts don't contain military supplies at all, but the gold and silver you prepared?" Her voice stopped abruptly, as if her throat was strangled by the night wind.

Chen Shaoxiu suddenly pulled open the curtain. Moonlight poured in, illuminating half of his angular face.

"You should know about the Ming family, right?"

"Dozens of people in the family died."

"Ok!"

"Died from combustion in gasoline explosion."

"It's such a coincidence."

"That night, there just happened to be so many oil tankers passing by the Ming family, and then they happened to explode all at once...

"It's just a coincidence."

"What are the hidden things?"

"real……"

"Sometimes I even feel like this world... is just a huge... really huge! An extremely large makeshift team."

"In this makeshift troupe..."

"Anything can happen."

"and."

"There's not even the slightest attempt at a cover-up."

"I'm speechless..."

Chen Shaoxiu shook his head rapidly as he spoke.

"so……"

"Who... wants to destroy the Ming family?"

"Such a close relationship..."

"Why is this happening?"

"For what exactly?"

"Could it be..."

"When power reaches its peak..."

"Is there no room for everything?"

Chu Zifang's heart trembled...

"Ah."

"I have soldiers in my hands now."

"I have plenty of gold and silver."

"We have money and soldiers..."

"even."

"When we get to Yancheng, we can also get a batch of the most advanced equipment."

"I can completely break free from all constraints."

"Zifang."

"Do you think...I should do this?"

Chen Shaoxiu licked his cracked lips and couldn't help swallowing.

At this moment, my throat felt like it was being scraped by a blade, and even swallowing saliva was extremely painful.

"I……"

"do not know."

"I only know……"

"My man is a man who fights the devils."

"As long as it helps fight the Japanese, it's right..."