At this point, Deng Hongling suddenly realized and suspiciously looked at Feng Qingxue, "Doctor, how do you know my brother participated in the Anti-Arican Aid Korea Campaign?" She didn’t rember ntioning it.
Feng Qingxue lowered her mask and smiled at her. Her skin was like snow, her brows and eyes like a painting; amidst such beauty, there was an unmistakable gentleness. Deng Hongling was almost srized, having never seen such a captivating person, and the lodious voice reached her ears, "I guessed. I thought Wucheng is very close to North Korea, so the country would definitely first dispatch soldiers from the Capital Military District to aid. Of course, it doesn’t an soldiers from here are necessarily assigned to nearby troops; they could be allocated to border areas. So I said it was a guess."
Deng Hongling listened and did not doubt her, mainly feeling more grateful to Feng Qingxue, believing soone willing to help them in this situation would not harbor ill intentions.
"My brother’s unit is in Ludi, part of the East Sea Fleet, not the Capital Military District," said Deng Hongling.
So he was in the navy!
No, Lu Jiang had always been in the army, which ans Deng Nan was assigned to the East Sea Fleet after the anti-Arican campaign.
Feng Qingxue paused for a mont and rembered it.
Feeding the sleeping child with half a bowl of porridge, Feng Qingxue slowly asked, "What’s your nephew’s na? How old is he?"
"His na is Deng Wu, with the character for martial prowess in his na, and his nickna is Xiaowo. My brother married late and wasn’t often ho after marriage, so Xiaowo is nine years old this year," Deng Hongling answered without hesitation, "When my brother had the accident, Xiaowo was just over a year old. I was rejected from marriage and poured all my heart and energy into caring for this nephew who was abandoned by his mother."
The more Deng Hongling spoke, the more painful her heart felt, yet she couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Their ancestors supported the Anti-Japanese War, almost offering up their entire family fortune, leaving only so land and an ancestral ho. After liberation, the land was confiscated. Her father, who had passed away, was still classified as an exploitative class landlord. Because her brother Deng Nan served in the military with rit and her parents passed early, the state showed leniency towards their family, initially spared them from persecution. Many red capitalists and landlords with rit were like this, but none escaped the catastrophe that began in 1966.
Her brother was arrested due to their sister-in-law’s report and then exiled to a distant place. Her fiancé, whose wedding was scheduled for the end of the year, suddenly turned his back on her, canceled the marriage, and married soone from the worker and peasant class with ’pure roots and red lineage.’ Angrily, because she had been engaged to him, he leveraged his job to frequently criticize and humiliate her in public.
The class identity followed the father, not the mother, so she was nailed to the pillar of sha, never to rise again, but she couldn’t die, didn’t dare to die. She had to raise her nephew, with the two of them struggling to survive.
Even if Deng Hongling didn’t say it, Feng Qingxue could guess mostly accurately.
On the surface, the current movent seed to have cald down significantly, and so people were gradually returning to work. Actually, the actions below hadn’t decreased; perhaps it was the final frenzy. They invented many new ways to tornt people without reason, and things like what happened to Deng Hongling occurred all over Jiang Nan. It’s just that due to Feng Qingxue’s work and life in recent years, she hadn’t encountered it.
"Everything will get better," Feng Qingxue said as she cupped Deng Wu’s chin, fed him another half bowl of porridge, and stopped, patiently repeating what she had said before to boost the other’s confidence. "There’s hope as long as you stay alive. Living ans you can see your brother return safely with your nephew. You haven’t received any bad news about your brother all these years, have you?"
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