What a beautiful white lotus

A bomb exploded nearby, and the huge explosion made Ye Rongqiu's ears ring; a wave of heat and thick smoke hit his face, making Ye Rongqiu feel suffocated.

After a while, Ye Rongqiu regained his sanity.The sound of the explosion was still ringing, but it was getting farther away, and the Japanese did not drop bombs where they were.But worse than the explosions were the cries of people.Someone was killed in the bombing, and his relatives cried and cried while holding his body, in agony.

Ye Rongqiu turned his head and saw clearly that the person lying on top of him and protecting him turned out to be a black dog.

Heigou got up from Ye Rongqiu's body and spat out several mouthfuls of water with dust in it.The original snow-white bandage on his head was stained gray by the dust splashed by the explosion just now, and there were several wounds on his hands and face.He asked Ye Rongqiu: "Hey, are you dead?"

Because Ye Rongqiu was protected by the black dog, he was not injured except for two blood marks on his palm when he fell.He looked at the black dog with complicated emotions, and after a while he lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Thank you..."

The black dog ignored him, but looked up at the Japanese plane in the sky.The plane hovered over Chongqing for a while, dropped several bombs, and then flew away roaring.During the whole process, the Chinese army did not make any counterattacks, and the people ran away crying, and no one came out to stop them.

Ye Rongqiu looked at the enemy fighter planes that were drifting away, and couldn't help cursing: "Damn little Japan!"

The black dog stared into the distance, suddenly changed color, and quickly climbed up to a low wall beside him, standing on the low wall and looking into the distance.Ye Rongqiu looked at him in surprise: "What are you doing?"

Heigou frowned and cursed loudly, "Damn it!" Then he jumped off the wall, spread his legs and ran towards the direction he was looking at just now.

Ye Rongqiu was stunned for a moment, and shouted: "Where are you going?" The black dog ignored him and ran away in a blink of an eye.At this time, two hooligans ran out of Mr. Huang's yard. Ye Rongqiu was afraid of being caught by them, so before he could think about it, he chased after the black dog.

This was the first time the Japanese army attacked Chongqing by air, and it was a tentative attack. They did not drop many bombs.But for those people in Chongqing who thought they were far away from the war and enjoying the comfort, it was an extremely tragic destruction. The people on the street were crying and shouting and running frantically towards home, and the streets were in chaos. .

The black dog ran very fast, and Ye Rongqiu was almost separated from him by the crazy crowd several times, and then stumbled after him.He didn't know where the black dog was going, but he didn't know where he should go either, so he followed wholeheartedly.

Ten minutes later, Ye Rongqiu was out of breath and couldn't run anymore. He was about to give up when he suddenly saw the black dog in front of him suddenly turn a corner and rush into an alley.He quickly cheered up and ran over.

This is a very miserable street.A few of the few bombs dropped by the Japanese just now landed here, and most of the buildings on the street were destroyed. Remnants of bricks and tiles were mixed together with blurred flesh and blood, making Ye Rongqiu almost suffocate.It can be seen that this is a slum area, and there is a lot of garbage and sewage among the broken tiles. Ye Rongqiu feels sick to his stomach with the stench and the disgusting picture.

The black dog stumbled and ran on the broken tiles, Ye Rongqiu didn't know what was going on, he gritted his teeth, stepped on the pile of rubble and chased after him.

The black dog yelled hoarsely while running: "E Niang! Where are you going, old man? Xiaohua? Where are you, Xiaohua?"

Ye Rongqiu ran along behind him in a daze, thinking vaguely that E Niang seemed to be the old bitch that the black dog rescued on the street that day.

Suddenly, something moved in the ruins, and the black dog ran over immediately, peeled away the broken stones, and a human arm was exposed there.The black dog turned his head and yelled at Ye Rongqiu: "Call someone to save him!"

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback by his ferocious appearance, and immediately turned around and shouted towards the street: "Come here! Someone has been buried here!"

Soon two more people came running over, and everyone worked together to break open the gravel and drag out a dying man from inside.

The black dog dragged the man out, and immediately ran forward again, rushing into a dilapidated courtyard.The house on three sides of the yard had already collapsed on two sides, it was dilapidated and dilapidated, unsightly.Ye Rongqiu rushed in, and saw the black dog kneeling on the rubble pile to the east and digging frantically, shouting while digging: "Old man? Damn it, where are you going to die?"

Squinted Ye Rongqiu rushed in, and shouted at him: "Come quickly and help me dig!"

Ye Rongqiu had never seen a black dog in such a frightened state before, he was startled for a moment, rushed over before he had time to think about it, and started digging stones with him.

After a while, the black dog dragged out a small gray thing from under the gravel.Ye Rongqiu took a closer look, and gasped suddenly: It was a kitten.It's just that now half of this poor little creature's body was soaked in blood, lying quietly in the palm of the black dog, without any ups and downs in his body.

The black dog suddenly calmed down.He took the poor kitten into his arms and stroked its tangled fur gently.After a while, he carefully placed Xiao Hua's body in the open space beside him, and then continued digging in the rubble without saying a word.

Suddenly, Ye Rongqiu stopped the black dog and prevented him from digging any further.The black dog pushed him away and continued digging rocks. Ye Rongqiu stopped him again and made a silent gesture: "Wait a minute, I seem to hear someone talking."

The black dog was taken aback for a moment, and finally stopped, lying on the pile of rubble and listening carefully.Ye Rongqiu also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.A few seconds later, they heard a weak female voice calling from the ground: "Baby...Baby...I'm here..."

The black dog was looking for the source of the sound blankly, Ye Rongqiu pointed to a piece of gravel in front of him and said, "It's under here!"

The black dog rushed up immediately, and planed away the gravel above, revealing a stone slab underneath.Ye Rongqiu stepped forward to help, and the two of them worked together to move the stone slab away.

E Niang was just under that stone slab, and because there was a gap under the slate, her life was saved temporarily.However, when the stone slab was pulled away, Heigou and Ye Rongqiu gasped at the same time: E Niang was pressed down by a huge boulder from the waist down, and the gravel and soil under her body had been soaked black with blood.

Ye Rongqiu immediately looked at Heigou's face, only to see that his expression was numb, and his eyes were filled with horror: They all knew that it was impossible to save E Niang.

The black dog didn't say anything, squatted down and carefully hugged E Niang's upper body into his arms, and said in a low voice, "Old man, I'm here to save you."

E Niang smiled haggardly: "I almost can't hold my breath anymore, I hope you come back anyway. Listen carefully, all my money is under the bed." She looked back and saw that she had been blown into Looking at the house in ruins, he said, "When someone comes to dig, you should watch carefully. Don't ask others to take the money. I saved it for you. You can use it to ask for a wife."

The black dog didn't seem to be listening, and focused on wiping the dirt on E Niang's face with his sleeve.

E Niang coughed twice in a low voice, her breath suddenly became disordered.She barely held her breath, and continued: "I don't have a baby, so I will treat you as my baby. I have saved all the filial money you gave me, and my dowry. It's all there. Here you are. There is also a black wooden box in the bedside cabinet, and there is some money in it. It is the dirty money I got from selling meat. That is my coffin book. You take the money to open the coffin and send me to Go back to Li's house in Yubei...buried..."

Ye Rongqiu has never seen such a scene of life and death.He was not old enough to remember when his mother died, so he recalled it later with more regret than pain.Now a fresh life is about to disappear in front of him, which caused a huge shock and impact to his heart, and made him tremble uncontrollably.It was as if his mother, who had died prematurely, had come here across 20 years and was dying again in front of him.He tremblingly said: "No...you won't die..." He didn't want to believe it, and he didn't want to believe that human life is so fragile.

But the black dog didn't say that.His madness was only when he was looking for people. After he found E Niang, he became very calm.He didn't want to show grief in front of the dying.He said softly: "The Li family in Yubei, I know, there are more."

E Niang coughed a few more times, and her breathing became weaker.She waved her hand with difficulty, and said again: "Forget it... Forget it... I have no face to enter the Li family's ancestral grave... You can just dig a hole and bury me..."

The black dog said: "Okay, I will listen to you. What else."

E Niang looked at the black dog's face with slack eyes, raised her hand tremblingly, but couldn't find the exact position.The black dog grabbed her with one hand and pressed it to his face.E Niang smiled, and said in a soft, almost inaudible voice: "Baby... I haven't said a good word to you in so many years... I'm saying it now... You hear me clearly... I haven't had a chance to say it either." The second time..."

The black dog said, "I'm listening."

E Niang said: "Baby, you are a good child...you are not bad...you are very good...you are better than many people...I know you have suffered a lot in the past, you lost your soul ...But people need to find the meaning of life...I have not lived a good life, the only meaningful thing I did was to give you a bowl of rice seven years ago..."

The black dog finally started to tremble, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

E Niang said: "I also want to die before I understand, people have a lifetime...to live well...it's never too late to start...you...your heart is better than anyone else...to live well...to live well ...to live meaningfully...”

The black dog bent down, buried his face in E Niang's chest, and said in a trembling voice: "Mother, I understand, I remember, just don't worry. Don't rush away when you get there, wait for me. I will call you See, I'm alive and well."

E Niang smiled, she was speechless, so she could only mouth "wa'er" and raised her hand to touch the black dog's head.But this time, she didn't succeed, and her hand fell in mid-air—and couldn't be raised again.

The black dog never cried.It wasn't until the body in his arms slipped from his arms little by little, and he carefully put his fingers under E Niang's nose, and only after confirming that she was really dead, did he finally let out a loud roar.

"No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Ye Rongqiu's tears burst instantly, and he covered his face and cried bitterly, as if this middle-aged woman he had despised had a great relationship with him.Emotions are contagious, and at this moment, he felt distraught.

After a long, long time, the black dog finally gently put E Niang down, walked up to Ye Rongqiu, and wiped away the tears on Ye Rongqiu's face with his dirty, bloodstained hands, but unfortunately his hands were dirtier than Ye Rongqiu's face , painted Ye Rongqiu's clean face like a cat.

Ye Rongqiu looked at him pitifully with red and swollen eyes.

The black dog hesitated for a while, then patted Ye Rongqiu's head with a generous and warm palm, and said in a low voice, "Don't cry."

Ye Rongqiu sobbed and wiped away the tears on his face: "I, I didn't cry."

The black dog looked into his eyes: "I have saved your life."

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback, not knowing what he meant.

The black dog said in a calm and calm tone: "Save people to the end. Don't be afraid, I will save you. Don't worry."

Ye Rongqiu looked at him blankly.At that moment, he forgot whether making fun of the black dog was beyond his control, forgot to despise the identity of the black dog, and forgot how dirty the hand that the black dog put on his head was.He only felt that the hand on his head was warm, and his heart was clear, and the emotions that had been turbulent for several months were at that moment, peaceful.