Chapter 16: Freedom and Sharpening the Knife
President Boer didn't promise Xu Le anything, although he personally declared Xu Le a disgraceful federal hero, but he couldn't let Xu Le Lion open his mouth. The amnesty is not a trivial matter, not to mention that the amnesty is aimed at military intelligence officers, and Mr. President must consider the political risks that this matter may bring.
In another office of the president's official residence, Xu Le kept signing legal documents, federal law allows the president to grant amnesty, but the relevant legal procedures are extremely complicated, although the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Defense has full authority to represent him in these legal procedures, but the final signature and certification is also not a small task.
After the legal documents were signed, he was taken to another office, where two thin documents were placed on the smooth black tabletop.
Admiral Myers sat on the sidelines, smoking a thick tobacco cigarette as several Department of Defense officers waited for him.
Xu Le knew that only after signing these two documents could he truly be free. He stepped forward and read the two thin documents carefully, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
After the prison conversation, he thought that the military god Li Pifu had already seen through all his details, and the reason why the military supported the president to pardon him was because the army needed its own special ability to enter the empire as a spy and act as a death squad in this magnificent cosmic war.
However, he did not expect that these two documents did not contain this content, but only asked him to give up certain relevant rights and accept any orders from the federal military at any time.
Perhaps this clause has hidden that meaning? He squinted at the document and thought, signing this document, he would become a lifelong Union soldier, not only to obey military orders like a soldier, but more likely to be arranged to do something very strange.
He didn't think there was anything unfair about it, and the 713-year prison sentence was erased by Mr. President, and it was very natural for him to do something for the Federation. On the contrary, he felt that such conditions were too generous.
"You have a month's vacation, and then report to the Ministry of Defense, and as for who to report, you know for yourself. Admiral Myers put down the tobacco in his hand and said, "I don't know why the division commander admires you so much, but I didn't want to watch you kid die, sign the papers, and then leave quickly." ”
"Shi Qinghai's matter?" Xu Le still held on to this question. Said seriously: "Even if you sign the document." I may also not perform my duties. ”
"Failure to perform duties. The amnesty was automatically lifted. You will be imprisoned in the fox fortress for seven hundred and thirteen years. Admiral Myers stared into his eyes like an eagle.
"I'm not afraid of off. Xu Le smiled bitterly. Then start putting down the pen.
After signing a thin paperwork similar to a deed of sale. It's clear that both Admiral Miles and Admiral Myers. Or those few officers of the Ministry of Defense. All breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
As the number one person in the federal military. Whether it is to award Xu Le. Or amnesty. Or sign the paperwork at this time. Admiral Myers shouldn't have been there at all. It's just that this is a task that his teacher personally explained on the phone. He can't be careless.
"Boy. You're free. And there is no freedom anymore. ”
The officers of the Ministry of Defense walked out of the office with their papers with solemn expressions, and Admiral Miles walked out the door and said in a deep voice.
At the door of the president's residence, Admiral Myers left first, and he actually made a special trip from the First Military Region to the Tokyo District for Xu Le's business.
Xu Le stood alone on the grass at the entrance of the presidential residence, looking up at the sunlight in the sky, smelling the faint green fragrance of the newly cut grass branches, a little unclear.
After a few moments, he took off the medal on his chest and put it in his pocket, and walked outside the residence, surrounded by Secret Service agents in black suits, unaware that this young soldier was the same terrorist who had injured many of his colleagues in the S2 Foundation building half a year ago.
Oh, he has no luggage on his back, no keys on him, no wallet, no bank cards, he has nothing but a medal. He was standing at the door of the president's residence, and people didn't know him, and he didn't know where he was going, because he didn't even have the money to take the subway.
Xu Le looked up at the sky, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, whether to find a way to contact Tai Zhiyuan or Zou Yu first, the question is whether he still wants to go into the official residence and borrow a phone from Mr. President?
At this moment, a black car without a sign slowly drove over, and the pass on the window made the security personnel around the residence have no emotional reaction.
The window slowly rolled down, revealing Tai Zhiyuan's slightly white and thin face, and he said with a smile: "Lost?"
"Well, sort of. Xu Le laughed happily and opened the car door.
Tai Zhiyuan waved his hand and said, "You drive." ”
Xu Le was slightly stunned, got into the familiar driver's seat, gently stroked the tactile steering wheel, and looked at the display window of the miniature radar on the on-board computer, only to realize that it was his own car.
"Where are you going?" Tai Zhiyuan was wearing a military uniform today
The window asked.
"I want to go home and see. Xu Le started the car and reached over at the same time, "But I want to make a phone call first." ”
Tai Zhiyuan handed over the phone, Xu Le dialed a familiar phone number, and after a pause, he said into the phone: "Yuzi, I'm out." ”
Looking out the window, Tai Zhiyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was stabbed by the blazing sunlight above the capital.
Xu Le didn't care about his reaction, and whispered to Zou Yu on the other side of the phone: "I'm sorry, that hooligan is still locked up, but the other side promised me to do my best, maybe it won't be long before he will be released." ”
In the end, he said very seriously: "Thank you." ”
The black car drove through the No. 2 highway, accompanied by the slight neighing of the motor, the sunroof opened, and the sunlight and the warm breeze of late spring penetrated in, sprinkling on the upper body of Xu Le and Tai Zhiyuan, speckled and windy.
"The wind blows a lot, and it's easy to get sick. Tai Zhiyuan said.
"You've been in the army for so long, aren't you physically stronger than before?"
From Tai Zhiyuan's military uniform and slightly changed temperament and facial complexion, Xu Le had already guessed where this guy had been hiding for more than a year. Xu Le has never cared about Tai Zhiyuan's identity, and the crown prince, who is regarded as jade by the vast majority of people in the Federation, is just his friend, and he is still the weaker one in the friendship relationship, because this prince is not in good health, and he has fainted in his arms in the past.
"I was promoted to major so quickly, you know, I've done so much, and I'm just a captain now. ”
"I came out of the barracks. In the Liufeng Slope Clubhouse, the lieutenant colonel's epaulettes are all prepared for you, but you ran away to S2 Lone Hero. ”
A faint mockery seeped out from the shaggy beard on Tai Zhiyuan's upper lip. He is younger than Xu Le's age, but the weak sense of youth has already been blown away by the wind and smoke of Qinglong Mountain, and all that remains is calm and self-confidence.
Xu Le raised his eyebrows and said, "I never wanted to play a hero, who knew that Medellin was actually an imperial spy, I admit, I was just a guy who was too lucky." ”
He took the medal out of his jacket bag and threw it over.
Tai Zhiyuan looked at the shining Zichen Medal in his hand, sighed and said, "When Li Pifu was your age, he only had two purple stars on his chest. ”
Xu Le smiled, did not continue to discuss his own affairs, and began to ask Tai Zhiyuan about his life in the barracks for more than a year, he had never seen blood, but he had ever shot a gun, how did he win the first place in the anti-terrorism exercise, and did you have any other girls besides Bai Qi......
In the black car, the sound of happy laughter gradually sounded, passing through the free wind and sunshine, a young man forgot the blood and fire darkness, a young man forgot his status, just like a long time ago in H11, through the intercom, telling very interesting things.
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At the corner of the corridor, Xu Le took out a key and opened the door of the Wangdu apartment. This was Tai Zhiyuan's first time in this apartment, and he walked straight to the sand and sat down like a master, carefully looking at the size and layout of the room.
The air circulation system in the apartment has been working well, and although there are no residents for more than half a year, there is still no dust and dirt. Xu Le poured a cup of tea for Tai Zhiyuan, then walked to the terrace, looked at the green vine branches and leaves that had regrown, and smiled slightly.
"After Yuzi became pregnant, she lived here?" Tai Zhiyuan put down the teacup and suddenly asked.
"Well, in June, the Zou family took her back. Xu Le didn't look back and said, "The key I took just now was for her, and she always likes to forget to bring the key out of the house." ”
"Zou Liuhuo, I've been to see it, the little guy looks good. Tai Zhiyuan's voice was like a riverbed washed by water at this moment, a little rough, "You said it wasn't yours, it was Shi Qinghai's?"
Xu Le turned his head and said seriously: "You have nothing to do with Zou Yu, right?"
Tai Zhiyuan was silent for a moment and then smiled and said, "Indeed...... But can you be polite to me? Although I didn't help you this time, Li Pifu took a fancy to you for some reason, but...... I thought about what to do, after all. ”
"How are you and Madame okay?"
"After a quarrel, there was no big problem, I didn't go back to Mochou Houshan, the mother and son calmed down for the time being. ”
Tai Zhiyuan said lightly and lightly, but Xu Le was extremely moved, and after all, he was embarrassed to say something related to gratitude.
The smile gradually faded, what he was going to do after regaining his freedom, what tasks the federal military would arrange for him, he didn't have to think about it, but he always remembered something deeply, someone.
"Can you help me look it up?"
"Who?"
"Magnolia. ”
After a while, Tai Zhiyuan put down the phone, looked at him and said slowly: "Your secretary is in the capital, a member of the seventh group of Baishui, and the marriage ceremony will be held tonight." ”
Xu Le was silent for a moment, walked into the kitchen, and began to carefully sharpen a three-pointed fine-edged knife.