Chapter 153

Wei Ming took Lao Lao Lao Wei to an open area with no cover around, ensuring no one would eavesdrop.

"What exactly is going on?"

Wei Ming said seriously to his father: "Prepare yourself mentally first, calm your mood, and ensure you won't be too excited when you hear what I say next."

"So mysterious, I lost my father when I was young, I've long since trained a heart of iron and stone, just say it!"

Since he said so, Wei Ming didn't hide it: "My grandfather, that is your father, he is still alive."

"What?"

This sentence made Lao Lao Lao Wei's brain lose focus for a moment.

Wei Ming repeated it with a firm expression.

Lao Lao Lao Wei knew his son couldn't joke about such things. He saw his eyes widen, his breathing began to accelerate, his legs straightened, and it looked like he was about to pass out.

Wei Ming hurriedly supported his father: "Deep breath, deep breath, didn't you say you had a heart of iron and stone."

"That was under the condition of losing my father when I was young!" Lao Lao Lao Wei slowed down, sat on the bench nearby, and grabbed Wei Ming's arm tightly, "Tell me, what exactly is going on?"

Wei Ming: "The letter you received last time was sent by grandfather. He wants to contact us."

"Impossible, your grandfather's handwriting isn't like that." Lao Lao Lao Wei was very firm. There were still many letters his father wrote to his mother during the Anti-Japanese period at home, and he and his mother often flipped through them.

"Then is it like this." Wei Ming took out the letter written by "Old Ghost."

Lao Lao Lao Wei looked at the handwriting on it, and his eye sockets suddenly turned red. This handwriting was too familiar!

"Then the previous letter?"

Wei Ming: "Afraid of being recognized by people in the village, entrusted someone else to write it."

Like the old branch secretary and great-uncle's generation, they were all Wei Senhao's little brothers back then. They might all recognize his handwriting. The old Wei was cautious all his life, so he certainly wouldn't let himself have the risk of exposure when writing to the village.

"Then why is he still alive? There is still a 'Home of Glory' plaque hanging at home!" Wei Jiefang's voice was a bit aggrieved. He experienced the pain of losing his father when he was ten or so. He felt he was more miserable than Pingan. Having a father who later died is worse than not having one at all.

But since he didn't die, why didn't he come back!

"He has his difficulties too. You can see for yourself after reading this letter." Wei Ming stood up, with his back to Lao Lao Lao Wei.

Lao Lao Lao Wei took the opportunity to wipe away his little pearls. Damn, so embarrassing.

He opened the letter, the first line: "My dear grandson, seeing the words is like seeing me."

Lao Lao Lao Wei's heart trembled. It was indeed the format when the old Wei wrote to his mother, still as cheesy as ever.

"You are a smart child, believe you already know who I am. Hide it in your heart, tell your father only. After all, I am a person whose identity cannot see the light. This letter also needs to be handled cautiously after reading.

"It's been almost thirty years, I think of returning to your side every moment, but the situation forces me. Once I return to the mainland, many people will be implicated.

"I am not a deserter, nor am I greedy for life and afraid of death, but I cannot let you and others suffer because of me. So I can only endure it until the last two years. Reform and opening up let me see hope. After thinking about it, I risked writing the previous letter, and I weighed every word, afraid of making a mistake.

"Receiving your reply, I know that the world has changed. Familiar people are no longer here, but many people connected to my blood have been born. I really want to see you siblings, and the twins of your uncle's family.

"I don't know when we can really meet, but as long as we are alive, there is hope. So I will take care of my body, I will live until the day the whole family reunites.

"You said you are writing things, why not send them for me to see? Being in Hong Kong, it is not easy to see mainland works..."

Lao Lao Lao Wei watched, and Wei Ming also recalled that experience in his previous life. Grandfather hid many of his unspeakable secrets in the letter, but he knew that as a warrior with firm faith, he had not done anything to apologize to the country and the nation in these thirty years. Instead, he tortured himself for many years because of this fake death incident.

Although he didn't get to see him for the last time, he already understood his deeds very clearly through Lao Lao Lao Wei's half-sister, his little aunt.

At this time, Lao Lao Lao Wei finished reading the letter.

"What is this writing? Unclear and confusing!"

Wei Ming took the letter: "The old man is still cautious, worried about the letter being privately opened, so he wrote very vaguely. Not a single name was mentioned in the letter, nor did he mention what happened to him back then."

"Then what happened back then?" Lao Lao Lao Wei really wanted to know the truth, otherwise he would have to suffer from insomnia tonight.

In the mid-90s, a few years after Lao Lao Lao Wei passed away, his mother suddenly called Wei Ming, who was in Yanjing, to go home, saying that a guest had come to the house, from Taiwan.

The appearance of that beautiful woman, who was not much older than Wei Ming, shocked Gouzi Village. Although she claimed to be Wei Senhao's niece from Taiwan to the outside world, when the door was closed, she told Wei Ming that she was his own aunt and explained the old Wei's affairs back then clearly to Wei Ming.

So Wei Ming told his father what he knew in the form of a guess.

"Grandfather was captured back then, right."

Lao Lao Lao Wei: "Yes, but he was seriously injured and captured. According to the description of his surviving comrades, your grandfather covered the team's retreat alone, was seriously injured, and lost his ability to act. At that time, they thought he had sacrificed himself. Later, they went to clean up the battlefield but couldn't find anyone, so they guessed he was captured."

Wei Ming: "Later, the war ended, and the US side gave a list of deceased prisoners of war, which included my grandfather, right."

"Yes, at that time they thought your grandfather must not have been cured, otherwise the Americans couldn't have said he was dead," Lao Lao Lao Wei reacted, "You mean the Americans faked it?"

"Who do you think has the ability to let the Americans help fake it?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei suddenly realized: "Your great-grandfather!" Wei Ming snapped his fingers: "I checked the information. Back then on the Korean battlefield, there were also Chiang's people helping to plan. My great-grandfather had rich experience in fighting with our army. It's possible he was invited to be a consultant, right? He probably also knew my grandfather's unit number, found the seriously injured grandfather through this, and brought him back to Taiwan for treatment. This is very reasonable."

"Then why say he died?" Lao Lao Lao Wei said aggrievedly, causing him so much sadness back then.

Wei Ming: "Dad, are you stupid? Saying he died, he is a martyr. If he didn't die and went to Taiwan, what would he become? How would you and my grandmother live in the future?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei suddenly realized: "So your great-grandfather was still kind!"

Although these two brothers fought each other for many years, bones are broken but tendons are connected. Sibling affection was what great-grandfather emphasized in education back then.

What's more, great-grandfather's two sons had already died in battle, and the Wei family only had grandfather's branch left. For the Wei family bloodline, great-grandfather had to do this.

Lao Lao Lao Wei drew inferences: "So that's why your grandfather didn't dare to contact the family before?"

Wei Ming nodded. After all, overseas relations have only become popular in recent years. Before, everyone was afraid of being involved. Xue Jie's family suffered because of suspected overseas relations.

Wei Ming added: "Maybe there is also the reason of not wanting to implicate great-grandfather. He brought grandfather, such a dangerous person, to Taiwan. If grandfather returned to the mainland, great-grandfather, as a guarantor, would definitely suffer too. Grandfather probably spent a lot of effort to go to Hong Kong now."

After Wei Ming's "analysis," Wei Jiefang could basically understand, and the whole person was enlightened.

!

Then he thought of a question: "You said your great-grandfather was such a big official in Taiwan, your grandfather shouldn't be bad now, right?"

Wei Ming: On the contrary, after arriving in Hong Kong, due to the embarrassment of his identity, grandfather refused to accept great-grandfather's help and worked as a doorman like himself, living an ascetic life. He only entrusted his wife and daughter to great-grandfather in Taiwan to take care of. After all, that new wife was also forcibly arranged for him by great-grandfather.

Although grandfather is not a big tycoon in Hong Kong, he really enclosed money in his letter.

Wei Ming took out a handful of currency that Lao Lao Lao Wei had never seen from his pocket.

"This is 1000 Hong Kong dollars, given by grandfather."

"Wow, so much, foreign currency is valuable, right!"

Wei Ming shook his head: "According to the official exchange rate, this is only equivalent to more than 300 yuan."

"Ah, only three hundred something."

Lao Lao Lao Wei was also floating. He couldn't earn this much in a few years before. Now, the train ticket money for the six of them from Chengdu back to Beijing is more than this amount.

Wei Ming laughed: "But this is foreign currency, which can be exchanged for overseas remittance coupons to buy some hot-selling goods at overseas Chinese stores. But you don't need it, so this belongs to me. I'll make up three hundred yuan for you later."

Lao Lao Lao Wei waved his hand: "Father and son don't say that. I'm not short of money now, what you gave before is not spent yet. What I'm thinking about now is whether to tell your Uncle Pingan about this."

Wei Ming: "Better not say it. Didn't grandfather say in the letter, just tell you alone. And my uncle is a party member and a soldier. Telling him this is testing his party spirit and humanity, isn't it."

"Right, right, then don't tell him. When eating tonight, you watch my mouth closely. I'm afraid I'll blurt it out if I drink too much."

Lao Lao Lao Wei thought about having a father again. Although the impact was great, he was ultimately happy. His father's image had become a bit blurry.

"Then when are we going to Hong Kong?" Lao Lao Lao Wei said urgently.

Wei Ming laughed: "Don't even think about it in the next few years, but I might go there recently."

"Ah, why?"

Wei Ming: "Because I am a writer, and a screenwriter."

Wei Ming has already completed the script for "The Book of Heaven," and next he needs to hurry up and start "Heroes Come from Youth." As long as he facilitates the mainland-Hong Kong co-production, he will have the opportunity to go to Hong Kong to find the old man.

Lao Lao Lao Wei was unhappy. Wei Ming asked him: "Anything you want to say to your father? I'll write it in the letter later, or you can write a separate letter and send it together?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei: "I have to think about it carefully. Let's go, take your grandmother to see the doctor first."

For half a day, they went to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, found a rheumatology expert, chose a milder treatment plan, and got some medicine.

When they returned, it was already dark, and they had another meal with Uncle Pingan's family at the Long March Canteen.

The next day, Wei Ming continued to accompany his grandmother and the others to visit famous scenic spots in Yanjing. He and Lao Lao Lao Wei trailed behind and whispered: "Dad, have you thought about what to say to your father?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei said directly: "Just say a thousand is not enough."

"Be serious."

Lao Lao Lao Wei sighed: "Ask him if he was seriously injured back then, if there are any lingering illnesses..."

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