What a beautiful white lotus

Although Ouyang Qing was referring to the road to the nearest county seat, he came out with soldiers at dawn when he came, and arrived here in the afternoon.Now there were only the three of them, he was still a wounded man with a broken leg and needed someone to carry him, Ye Rongqiu also had a sprained foot, and his walking speed was slower than when he came, so he couldn't reach the county town until dark.

The black dog was worried about Ouyang Qing's injury, so he insisted on walking when it was dark, but Ouyang Qing stopped him: "Don't go, let's go after a night's rest. It has rained, the ground is slippery, and the mountain road is difficult to walk. If you can't see clearly, accidents will happen easily. gone."

Ye Rongqiu couldn't hold on anymore.He was holding on at first, but then he became more and more limp as he walked.He knew that human life was at stake, so he didn't dare to call for a rest. Several times he wanted to stop by himself, but staying alone in this wasteland was worse than foot pain, so he could only bite the bullet and grit his teeth to follow.

The black dog hesitated and asked Ouyang Qing: "How far is it?"

Ouyang Qing said: "At the current speed, we won't be able to reach dawn."

The black dog put Ouyang Qing down and checked his wound.He tied Ouyang Qing's broken leg tightly with cloth strips. Although the wound did not bleed profusely, the blood did not stop and was still dripping down, with Ouyang Qing's blood all over the way.But the black dog was really tired, he himself was injured, and Ye Rongqiu's condition was not optimistic, he thought about it for a while and said: "Then eat something, rest for two or three hours before continuing on your way."

The black dog came back after picking some masson pine, lit the fire with a match, and the three of them warmed up around the fire.The temperature difference between morning and evening in April was not small. Ye Rongqiu was only wearing a thin shirt, and his coat was burned in the car. It was already cold at this moment, so he hurried to the fire to warm his hands.But that kind of fire won't do anything.

The black dog threw the cleanest military overcoat to Ye Rongqiu.Ye Rongqiu gave him a complicated look, and whispered, "Thank you."

The black dog also picked up a coat and put it on.Ouyang Qing was originally wearing a coat, but he lost too much blood, his whole body was cold, his face was blue from the cold, the black dog wrapped the remaining two coats around Ouyang Qing's body, and wrapped him into a rice dumpling.

They walked all afternoon and were already hungry.The dry food that Ye Rongqiu brought out was burned. The black dog opened the bag of dry food that he found from the dead man, took out a steamed bun that was stained red with blood and threw it to Ye Rongqiu, teasing him: "Are you hungry? Here's something filled with red beans. "

Ye Rongqiu glared at him viciously, picked grass from the ground and threw it into the fire.His throw did not make the fire burn hotter, but made the flames smaller.The black dog sighed heavily: "Second young master, don't make trouble?"

Ye Rongqiu pursed his mouth aggrievedly.He never made a fire himself.

The black dog picked up some branches and held them up in front of his eyes: "The drier things are easier to burn, and the masson pine is good for making fire. The grass on the ground is not easy to burn, and there is still water vapor. Once the fire touches the water, it will be extinguished." .”

Ye Rongqiu nodded obediently.

The black dog touched the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Oh, it's weird, why are you so talkative now? Don't you usually criticize a lot of black people?"

Ye Rongqiu was so wronged that he was about to cry, and he gave him a hard look: "You are so annoying, you just like to bully me."

The black dog really liked to bully him. Seeing his miserable appearance, he wanted to bully him even harder, so he kneaded him hard and kneaded him into a white ball.At this moment, Ouyang Qing coughed uncomfortably.The black dog ran back to him in a hurry, gave him the air carefully, and yelled at Ye Rongqiu: "Bring the water quickly, and the steamed buns too!"

Ye Rongqiu frantically dug out the water bag and food bag and handed them to the black dog.

The black dog first picked out a fairly clean steamed bun and handed it to Ye Rongqiu, then picked out a clean one, broke it up and fed it to Ouyang Qing.Ouyang Qing raised his hand weakly to stop him: "I can do it myself."

The black dog said: "You should take a rest?"

Ouyang Qing shook her head: "I'm a soldier."

He said that the black dog had nothing to do, so he handed the water and steamed buns to himself.

The black dog ran back to Ye Rongqiu again. He lifted Ye Rongqiu's trouser legs and saw that Ye Rongqiu's ankle was swollen like a steamed bun.He touched it with his hand, and Ye Rongqiu gasped in a "hissy" breath, and immediately retracted his foot.The black dog looked up at him, only to see Ye Rongqiu looking at him with that pitiful look again.

The black dog tore a piece of cloth from the undershirt, wet it with water, put it on the fire to warm it, and then applied it to Ye Rongqiu's ankle: "I don't think you are like me now. Back then, I had eight servants When I served you personally, I was not as delicate as you. I have met so many masters and ladies, but none of them are as delicate as you. "

Ye Rongqiu didn't fight back, bit his lip hard, and whispered, "I really want to go home..."

Ouyang Qing only took a few bites and stopped eating.It wasn't because he couldn't stand the smell of blood on the steamed buns, but because he was too weak to chew and swallow.He was very sleepy, but he dared not sleep, for fear that he would never wake up again.So he started talking.

"I graduated from the military academy three years ago." He said, "I have been a soldier for three years. I originally wanted to be admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, but unfortunately I failed, so I went to the military academy in Tianjin."

The black dog said: "You should rest."

Ouyang Qing shook her head: "I want to say, I don't want to sleep. It's been three years, and I haven't been on the battlefield. I have changed several teams, including reorganized divisions, new reorganized divisions, infantry companies, heavy machine gun companies, and supply companies. I've been there, but I've never been in a war."

Ye Rongqiu asked softly, "Why?"

Ouyang Qing said: "I also want to know why, probably fate. In fact, several times, we almost fought with the Japanese. In July last year, I was in Tianjin, and the Japanese took Tianjin—to me My hometown has been occupied, but I haven’t fired a single bullet from my gun. Because the company I was in, the Japanese hadn’t come over, so we retreated and gave up my Tianjin to the Japanese.”

Both Heigou and Ye Rongqiu looked at Ouyang Qing quietly, neither of them said anything.

Ouyang Qing gasped for breath twice, unscrewed the water bottle tremblingly and took a sip of water, coughed twice, and then said: "When I was in Shanxi last September, the Japanese called again. We took Germans The weapons of the Germans can only be equipped with German bullets. We can't make them ourselves, so we can only rely on the Germans. But the Germans and the Japanese devils are allies, and they deliberately delay our ammunition supply. There are more bullets than bullets. I went to the battlefield with the determination to die. I thought that even with a bayonet, I would stab a few Japanese devils to death—the Japanese devils who robbed me of Tianjin City. But I just finished writing the suicide note, The order from above came down, saying that we cannot be sent to die, and we are asked to retreat."

"But I am willing to die. My parents refused to be obedient citizens in the Japanese-occupied areas, and both threw themselves into the river to die. My aunt became obedient citizens, but was killed by the Japanese devils. I don't want to be a deserter on the battlefield, I want to go back Tianjin, I have to build a grave for them, otherwise they will have no home after death." Ouyang Qing began to tremble.

After a while, he calmed down, and continued: "I was transferred to the transport battalion later, and I never went to the battlefield. I have sent more than 100 soldiers to the front line. Today's group of people are new recruits. They are also going to be sent to the front line, I know, they don’t want to go, but I’m actually willing to exchange with them.”

The black dog stepped forward to tighten the coat on Ouyang Qing's body.

Ouyang Qing murmured: "It's been three years. I have been a soldier for three years. I have never beaten a devil. I have lived a good life for three years. I thought it was my life. My life is thicker than others. God takes pity on me and doesn't want me to If I die, I want me to be fully prepared to fight a big victory and drive away all the Japanese devils..." Then he looked down at his broken leg, and smiled wryly, "You say, How could this be... I wish I was dreaming..."

Ye Rongqiu had already started to cry, but he bit his lip to keep himself from making a sound.The black dog stared at the fire with wide eyes, not letting tears fall from his eyes.

Ouyang Qing was also silent.After making this call, he became even weaker, with his eyes half-closed, struggling desperately between coma and wakefulness.

The black dog asked Ye Rongqiu: "Are you feeling better? Can you go?"

Ye Rongqiu choked up and nodded.

The black dog stood up and put Ouyang Qing on his back again: "Go on your way after you have had enough rest."

Ye Rongqiu picked up a thick branch as a crutch, picked up the bloody and dirty bags, and followed the black dog to continue walking towards the county seat.

Ouyang Qing's body was getting colder and colder. He had been wrapped into a big rice dumpling, but his body temperature kept dropping.He leaned on the black dog's ear and murmured: "I thought I was different from others...I thought I couldn't die...but I'm going to die..."

In fact, everyone feels that they are different from others.But in the end, most of them turned into the same dust without being able to prove that they were different until their death.

The black dog said: "The county seat will be here soon."

Ouyang Qing said: "It doesn't matter if I die. My hometown has been lost, and my country is about to end."

"It's our country," said the black dog.

Ouyang Qing was silent for a while, then said: "Yes, it is our country... even if I die, our country will not be finished. I think too highly of myself, I am nothing, there are still many in this country Many people have more ideals and ambitions than me... It's just that I can't see the day of victory..."

Even Ye Rongqiu, who was following them, choked up and said, "No, you will see."

"Corporal of the Infantry Company of the Garrison Regiment of the 28th Reorganized Division...Sergeant of the Heavy Machine Gun Company of the 38th New Reorganized Division...Deputy Platoon Leader of the Infantry Company of the [-]th Division...Second Lieutenant and Platoon Leader of the Transportation Battalion of the [-]th Division..." Ouyang Qing began to read and joined the army experience.Suddenly, he lay on the black dog's shoulder and began to cry.Panting heavily, he cried out weakly and sharply: "I can't die! Give me a gun, give me a cannon...give me a knife! I want to go to the battlefield! For my country, for my For my hometown, for my people...for my ideals!! Fighting!!! I...don't want to die!!!"