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In 1985, on the battlefield of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, two young soldiers became righteous brothers and brothers.
The two agreed that if one of the two brothers died in battle, the other who survived would provide for the deceased's parents in old age.
Not long after, one of them died on the battlefield, and the other who survived returned to his hometown after the war, took care of his comrades-in-arms' parents for many years, and married his comrades-in-arms' sister.
However, the parents of his comrades-in-arms were not willing to accept his kindness at all, why on earth?
Good brother righteousness is thin and cloudy
This person's name is Fang Haiying, who was born in 1965 in a military family in Tongling City, Anhui Province.
At the age of 18, Fang Haiying inherited his father's will, joined the army, and became a people's soldier.
As a soldier's child, Fang Haiying never complained of being tired during training, although he was very able to endure hardships, but he left his hometown at a young age and came to a place where he was unfamiliar with life to serve as a soldier, and it was inevitable that he would have grievances in his heart that could not be told.
At the beginning of his time in the army, Fang Haiying was always a little depressed, and he could only relieve his boredom by immersing himself in training.
However, with the acquaintance with the soldier Hu Xinglong, Fang Haiying finally found the happiness that he had not seen for a long time, and slowly found a sense of belonging in the life of the army.
Fang Haiying and Hu Xinglong are fellow countrymen, because of this reason, Fang Haiying, who is homesick, felt very kind when he saw Hu Xinglong at the beginning, and Hu Xinglong also took special care of this fellow brother who was one year younger than himself.
The two are in the army, so they have become good buddies, and with in-depth understanding, the two have also found more and more shining points in each other, and the brotherhood is also deeper.
In a blink of an eye, in 1984, the days of Fang Haiying and Hu Xinglong's peaceful training in the army also ended, and they went to the front line with the army.
The days on the front line were full of bullets and bullets, people were injured every day, and some comrades died, although every soldier endured psychological suffering, but everyone was also determined to sacrifice to defend the motherland.
The front-line fighters have long put life and death on the line, thinking only about one thing, and that is to win the battle for the motherland. Fang Haiying and Hu Xinglong also have such a determination to see death as home.
However, as long as it is a person, who doesn't have a little concern in his heart? Fang Haiying and Hu Xinglong, they are also children raised by their parents, and under the hearts of the two of them, there is still a sense of uneasy filial piety.
Hu Xinglong
In 1985, on the eve of their determination to die, the two had a small talk for the last time, and they both understood their reluctance to their families, so a firm commitment was born between the two.
They came to the kapok tree next to the barracks, replaced wine with water, and took heaven and earth as a witness, and bowed to them as righteous brothers under the bright moonlight.
During this simple ceremony, they promised each other that if one of them died in battle, the surviving one would return to his hometown and fulfill his filial piety to his parents on behalf of the deceased.
The power of commitment
In 1985, Hu Xinglong's home welcomed a guest, who was Hu Xinglong's sworn brother Fang Haiying. But Hu Xinglong did not come back, and he left his young life on the battlefield forever.
Fang Haiying told the Hu family's parents about the situation when Hu Xinglong died.
It turned out that the day after Fang Hu and the two worshipped, the two brothers went to the battlefield with a heart of seeing death as home. In the hail of bullets, the team of the two was broken up because they were ambushed.
Hu Xinglong and Fang Haiying also separated as a result, and each followed the squad to fight to the death with the enemy. However, as the situation became more and more unfavorable, it was very likely that all the soldiers who were surrounded by the enemy would die under enemy fire.
In order to create a gap for his comrades to break through the encirclement, Hu Xinglong deliberately jumped to a conspicuous position and directed all the enemy's artillery fire to himself.
Hu Xinglong died heroically because of this.
Fang Haiying was lucky to survive because of the timely evacuation, but he was also seriously injured because of the desperate battle, and he was in a coma in the rear field hospital for several days, and it was not until he woke up that he knew the news of Hu Xinglong's sacrifice.
Hu Xinglong's parents, although they had already come out of the great grief of losing their son at that time, when Fang Haiying told them about Hu Xinglong's sacrifice, the whole family couldn't hold back and hugged and cried with Fang Haiying.
Although Fang Haiying was very sad about his brother's death, he also felt relieved that he had survived, and Hu Xinglong's parents could be taken care of by him.
Fang Haiying is also a temperamental person, what he promised his brother Hu Xinglong must be done!
Fang Haiying told the Hu family's parents about his promise to Hu Xinglong, and firmly stated that he would definitely provide for Hu Xinglong for the second elder.
The Hu family's parents were very moved when they heard this, but as the parents of heroes, they would never take advantage of others.
They knew that Fang Haiying also had parents to serve, and they didn't want to cause trouble to Fang Haiying, so they thought that they had a daughter who could support them in the future, and politely rejected Fang Haiying's kindness of wanting to do filial piety for his brother.
However, Fang Haiying is a person who does what he says, and this is not only a promise, but also his brother's last wish, Fang Haiying must not live up to his brother's trust in him during his lifetime.
However, despite Fang Haiying's repeated insistence, the Hu family's parents were still unwilling to accept this kindness.
Fang Haiying was not discouraged, but directly cut off his back road to show his determination to serve the second elder.
It turned out that Fang Haiying had the opportunity to be sent to the military academy for further study because the army had given him a third-class meritorious service, but in order to fulfill his promise to Hu Xinglong, he gave up this rare opportunity.
He returned to his hometown after the war, and although Hu Xinglong was his fellow villager, the two were far apart. So, in order to take care of the Hu family's parents, Fang Haiying left his parents and moved to live near the Hu family.
It's not that the family doesn't enter the door, Fang Haiying's parents can understand their son's approach, and they also expressed their support for their son.
Fang Haiying then left his home and came to the village where the Hu family was.
Fang Haiying can be said to be very determined to achieve such a point, but can he finally impress the Hu family's parents? Can he make them accept his filial piety?
The godson became a son-in-law
However, Fang Haiying's "filial piety" is too heavy in the eyes of the Hu family's parents, after all, Fang Haiying is still a stranger to them.
Fang Haiying also understood the old man's this, so after being rejected by the Hu family again, he borrowed it to the village committee and found a job near the village, preparing to let the two elders of the Hu family put down their estrangement and accept themselves through long-term relationship.
Since then, Fang Haiying has often appeared at the Hu family, either helping to work in the fields, or helping to chop wood and carry water, contracting all the heavy work of the Hu family, and the Hu family has not even had a chance to refuse.
Fang Haiying also contributed most of his salary to subsidize the Hu family and pay tuition fees for Hu Xinglong's sister Hu Guilan.
Gradually, Hu Xinglong's parents were also moved by Fang Haiying's sincerity and began to accept Fang Haiying's son-like existence.
People's hearts are long, and the second elder was also very distressed when he saw Fang Haiying living alone in the village committee, so he took Fang Haiying to live at home.
In this way, Fang Haiying successfully influenced the Hu family, and he could justifiably fulfill his filial piety for his brother.
At this time, living with Hu's father and mother, there was also Hu Xinglong's sister Hu Guilan, who had just turned seventeen years old and was in high school.
Fang Haiying moved in and took care of the Hu family's sister as her own sister, and her sister also saw her brother's shadow in Fang Haiying, and she relied on Fang Haiying for everything.
It didn't take long for my sister to be eligible to join the army, and my sister shared the news with Fang Haiying for the first time, Fang Haiying was really happy for her sister, but her sister didn't seem to be very happy, and even a little sad.
Under Fang Haiying's questioning, my sister expressed her sorrows. It turned out that my sister didn't want to leave the country because she was worried about her father's health, and she was planning to give up this opportunity to join the army.
Fang Haiying heard his sister say this, and for the first time, he got angry at his sister, he told his sister that he must cherish this opportunity to join the army, and promised to take care of his parents, so that his sister could rest assured.
Fang Haiying will never break his promise, after his sister went to the army, Fang Haiying took care of the Hu family's parents, which can be said to be meticulous.
When Hu's father was sick, in order to take better care of Hu's father, Fang Haiying even made a bunk next to Hu's father's bed, accompanied the bed every night, and helped Hu's father get up and go to the toilet at night.
Once, Hu's father suddenly had convulsions in the middle of the night, Fang Haiying found out in time, he didn't say a word, picked up Hu's father and went to the doctor. But the conditions in the countryside at that time, even during the day, there were no doctors near the village, let alone in the middle of the night?
It was still winter at that time, Fang Haiying was too anxious, and forgot to put on his shoes when he went out, and in the cold wind, the barefoot Fang Haiying walked for two or three hours with Hu's father in his arms, and his feet were worn out by the stones on the road.
Hu's father also received timely treatment, and the doctor said that if he came a little later, Hu's father would die.
Fang Haiying has since become the lifesaver of the Hu family, and the two sides have become closer, and Fang Haiying directly changed his name to call Hu Xinglong's parents "parents".
In addition, the relationship between Fang Haiying and her sister Hu Guilan is also one step closer.
When Hu Guilan was in the army, Fang Haiying often wrote to her and called her, caring about her life outside alone, and often sent Hu Guilan her favorite hometown specialties.
Hu Guilan also gradually developed feelings for Fang Haiying under such concern, but Fang Haiying didn't seem to have any plans to further develop a relationship with Hu Guilan.
Hu Guilan will inevitably think more, does Fang Haiying really only regard herself as her "own sister"?
Finally one day, Hu Guilan took a brave step forward, she called Fang Haiying and asked the question hidden in her heart in person.
The shy Fang Haiying finally told the secret that had been held in his heart for a long time.
It turned out that Fang Haiying had always had a crush on Hu Guilan.
The two who were in love with each other finally expressed their hearts to each other and became a couple. The parents of the Hu family are also very supportive of the two, because they believe in Fang Haiying's character and believe that their daughter will be happy if she marries him.
In May 1994, the two got married, and gave birth to a son the next year, so that the three generations lived together, and the whole family lived happily together.
In 2011, Fang Haiying won the title of moral model in Anhui Province, and under his many appeals, a stone monument commemorating Hu Xinglong was erected in Tongling Limao Mountain.
Fang Haiying fulfilled his promise to Hu Xinglong with his life, the Hu family was happy and happy under Fang Haiying's care, and Hu Xinglong would be very pleased if he knew about it.
People who hear this story are not only moved, but also inevitably envious: How good it would be if I could have such a brother!
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