In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

Wang Xingguo laughed and said, "That's really good, it proves that the fish supply is becoming more and more abundant."

"Second brother, let's go home quickly, your wife is worried about you."

"Alright, get in the car, your second brother will take you home."

Wang Xingguo, with Wang Xingning in tow, quickly returned to their doorstep.

As soon as Wang Xingning got off his bicycle, he called out into the house, "Second sister-in-law, my second brother is back."

Li Xiuping, who was steaming buns, rushed out excitedly without even washing her hands. Seeing Wang Xingguo enter the house, she exclaimed, "Honey, you're finally back!"

This time, staff came directly to his home and asked Wang Xingguo to stop his vacation and go to carry out an emergency transport mission. His family members guessed that his mission was related to the front line because of the information about the self-defense counterattack in the newspaper, so everyone was very worried.

Now that he has returned safely, Li Xiuping is so excited. Wang Xingguo doesn't care that the two little ones and his sister are in the house. He hugs the excited Li Xiuping and pats her back to comfort her.

It took Li Xiuping a while to push him away. They hugged in front of her sister-in-law, and she was still a little embarrassed.

Wang Xingguo said with a smile, "This time I've been given a ten-day vacation, so I can spend a few days at home with you all."

Li Xiuping smiled and said to Wang Xingguo, "Honey, I have good news for you. I'm pregnant with our second child."

Wang Xingguo was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, knowing he was going to be a father again.

Wang Xingning said cheerfully, "Second sister-in-law, I deliberately didn't tell second brother about this. It's more appropriate for you to tell me the surprise yourself. I'll make dinner, you and second brother can have a good chat."

After saying that, Wang Xingning carried the vegetable basket and walked towards the kitchen. Wang Chengan and Wang Jianhua ran out of the room, and Wang Xingguo picked them up one in each arm.

Wang Xingguo asked with a smile, "Honey, how many weeks pregnant is she, according to the doctor?"

Li Xiuping touched her belly and replied with a smile, "I'm also surprised. I'm already seven weeks along. I must have gotten pregnant during your last vacation. And I haven't had much morning sickness, much better than when I was pregnant with my son. I wonder if it's a girl, she's more well-behaved than my son."

Wang Xingguo nodded repeatedly and said, "A daughter would be the best. I really want a little girl."

The couple chatted for a while, then the two little ones wanted to go down to play with their toys. Li Xiuping also had to go help with cooking, leaving Wang Xingguo to light a cigarette and watch the two little ones play with their toys.

A lot has happened in the past month. Li Zhengang's wife gave birth to a daughter, and his sister-in-law gave birth to a boy on the day he left. The twenty-first master took over the naming of the boy and named him Wang Chengbin, hoping that the child would be both scholarly and martial.

I just finished my postpartum confinement two days ago. We didn't have a full-month celebration banquet; we just had a simple meal with relatives and friends. We still don't have the means to hold a banquet right now.

As soon as the sister-in-law finished the full moon celebration, she took Wang Chengbin to work.

After all, Wang Xingguo no longer has the final say in the night market, so being able to get a leave of absence after his postpartum period is already a very good thing.

The situation back home was very good because potatoes, sweet potatoes, and even taro were grown everywhere. Since these weren't considered "land," there was no need to pay taxes.

This ensures they won't lack food after the autumn harvest; at least they'll have coarse grains to supplement their diet, and they certainly won't go hungry this winter.

Moreover, they raised a lot of chickens, ducks and geese this year, and the clan said they would send chickens, ducks, geese and pork over before the New Year for them to eat during the holiday.

The neighborhood office has compiled statistics and found that the number of people suffering from edema in the entire neighborhood has been reduced to zero.

People are able to buy more and more nutritional supplements, and everything is getting better.

This time it was going to the front line, not something that was kept strictly confidential, so everyone gathered at the Wang family's house that night with their own food to listen to Wang Xingguo boast about how he killed two enemies.

In reality, only one enemy kill could be definitively confirmed, but when pursuing the fleeing soldiers, Wang Xingguo was among the first to charge, so he was awarded the merit of killing one enemy.

Everyone was convinced of this, firstly because Wang Xingguo was of a high rank, being a regimental-level officer.

Secondly, Wang Xingguo didn't stay in the back; instead, he charged ahead with the team. Since it was dark and impossible to confirm, everyone felt that Wang Xingguo must have hit the enemy, and it was very appropriate to record one kill.

He couldn't talk about transportation work or the collection of gold; he could only talk about battles and the capture of enemy soldiers.

These two things will be reported; they are not things that need to be kept secret.

Everyone applauded, their pride in Wang Xingguo evident in their expressions.

After everyone had finished listening and dispersed, Wang Xingguo drank a large cup of tea and cheerfully told his family, "Actually, it wasn't dangerous at all this time. More than a hundred of those guys rushed over in a swarm, but our soldiers fired a round of shots and about twenty of them fell down. Then they ran away desperately."

Wang Xingbang asked, somewhat puzzled, "Second brother, how dare they invade our territory? We even drove away the American imperialists, what makes them think they can invade us?"

This isn't because they're arrogant enough to think they can completely defeat the new China; their real intention is to continuously encroach on our territory!

They gradually built outposts and occupied land, believing that because of the three years of hardship, our country would only tolerate their behavior and would not fight a major war with them.

Furthermore, the Soviet Union provided them with a large amount of weaponry and equipment, and the United States also provided them with assistance. This gave them the illusion that with the backing of these two major world powers, even if something happened on the border, the US and the Soviet Union would stand by their side.

Their opportunistic mentality, coupled with a serious underestimation of the People's Liberation Army's determination to defend national territorial sovereignty, led to this outcome.

In reality, they had no understanding of the combat capabilities of our People's Liberation Army. Some enemy troops even thought that with such good weapons and equipment, one of them could take on three or five PLA soldiers.

Who knew it would turn out the other way around? The PLA soldiers were incredibly brave and completely overwhelmed them, forcing them to flee in panic.

So at this point, our fellow countrymen were a bit confused, wondering how they dared to do that?

And you know what? Because we've experienced so many wars these days, young people have a strong sense of national responsibility and a desire to defend our country.

After the outbreak of the self-defense counterattack, many young people requested to join the army to go to the border to defend their homeland.

But no one expected that on November 21, the Chinese government would officially announce a ceasefire across the entire front.

We won the war, so why should we cease fire?

This is something many people don't understand. It's not that we can't win, but this high-altitude, frigid land is about to be blocked by heavy snow, and our supply lines are too long. Maintaining a large army stationed here for too long would be too costly.

Moreover, our actions were purely defensive counterattacks, not an attempt to occupy other people's territory.

The announcement of a ceasefire across the entire front and the proactive withdrawal of troops to create a buffer zone were aimed at gaining international moral support, preventing the Soviet Union and the United States from finding fault, and also at forcing them to sit down for negotiations.

Unfortunately, the other party did not turn back.