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The task of rescuing the prisoners in the Japanese labor camp was assigned temporarily, leaving little time for the Mingtai team to survey the terrain and prepare.And because of the large number of prisoners who need to be rescued this time, there are personnel from both parties.The armed forces and numbers of the Japanese army did not allow them to underestimate the enemy. It was obviously difficult for Mingtai and the three of them to block and rescue at the same time, so Uncle Li's team was also involved.Naturally, there was Cheng Jinyun.

This is the first cooperation between Mingtai and Cheng Jinyun after they established their relationship. Everyone thinks that the two are one person, one party, and the other. It is tacit understanding between the party and the party, and it should be intimate between people. , in harmony.

However... in the end, this turned out to be the hardest mission ever completed.Yu Manli and Mingtai, life and death partners, also had their most serious quarrel.

Guo Qiyun was on Yu Manli's side this time.The photo studio was closed for a day, and the curtains were drawn in broad daylight, and the incandescent lights were turned on in the room.It is not easy for passers-by to notice when the lights are turned on during the day. Anyway, they are all pale, as white as the sky and as miserable as the hearts of the people.

The table was full of guests' photographic paper negatives, and Guo Qiyun picked them up one by one and looked at the light, picking out the suitable ones and then developing them.Yu Manli did the same thing as him, except that Guo Qiyun was looking for it with a purpose, while Yu Manli was looking at it aimlessly.Look at other people's faces on the photo paper, look at the shoulders that others are holding hands, see whether their smiles are real or not?The head on the negative was also pale and pale, and Yu Manli became even more depressed when she saw it, and became a little impatient.

What is even more impatient but dare not be impatient is Mingtai, who has been talking nice things for a long time but no one pays attention to him.

"Look, do you still think I'm the team leader? Is there anyone who cares about me?"

Guo Qiyun paused, thinking to himself, did you treat us as team members, did you ever talk to Yu Manli and me when you followed that girl away to find that cub?

So he went on flipping through his negatives, making up his mind to watch the battle without making a sound.On the other hand, Yu Manli threw the film in her hand into the pile, flicked through the film with both hands like mahjong tiles, collected herself, and then took out another one to continue her viewing game.

"What do you guys think? Isn't the task completed in the end? What we value is the result, and the process is allowed to be difficult and tortuous."

Mingtai teased Yu Manli with his usual naughty smile.Every time the eldest sister saw him laughing like this, she would pinch his face fiercely with both hands, saying that her heart was melted by his laughter.The elder brother would hit him on the head, saying what would the young master want, his eyes were stern, and his words were pampering.Brother Ah Cheng would give him a look of disgust, but he could see that the smile in that look was by no means a look of disgust.What about Yu Manli?In the past, Yu Manli would laugh with him and then be coaxed by him, but today's Yu Manli, he suddenly had no confidence at all.

Yu Manli watched as Mingtai changed from being full of chaos to now pulling up a stool and sitting on the other side of the table lying on her stomach to watch her and Guo Qiyun.She also crossed her elbows across the not-wide dining table, and showed Ming Tai the negative she had just grabbed in her hand.On the negative, Mingtai was wearing a white suit, opening his mouth to accuse the photographer opposite, and Yu Manli, who was leaning sideways with her skirt tied loosely on her back.

That day, at first it was for camouflage, then it was for commemoration, and then there was this negative.Thinking about it now, it turns out that commemoration has long been part of it. Isn’t commemoration usually a parting gift?

"Guo Qiyun, how can you misplace this negative, what if it gets mixed up in the guest's photo and leaked out?" Mingtai turned his head and yelled at Guo Qiyun.

"Don't worry, no more."

Before Guo Qiyun could answer, Yu Manli had already tore up the film while talking.

Black and white images are scattered on the white tabletop.It was swallowed up in a pile of coffee-colored negatives, and it was difficult to pick them up again.

"Manly..."

Mingtai and Guo Qiyun yelled out almost at the same time, Mingtai's voice was frightened and angry.

"I will propose to Shangfeng to terminate the life-death partner." Yu Manli slowly stood up and said calmly.

Mingtai's eyes looked up as she stood up, and a trace of panic grew in the frightened and angry emotions. As she stood up, it slowly germinated, and then exploded without any process or warning. I felt a slap in the heart, a heavy pain.In order to cover up, he also stood up, and at the same time he punched the table, the wind of the fist sent the photo negatives on the table flying.

Guo Qiyun rushed over to press the negatives with his body, and lay there looking around: "You guys, can you look like a partner."

Mingtai yelled out first: "I don't agree. Is it child's play for you to be a life-and-death partner? If you say no, you don't want it? You have waited for so long in the military academy for me, and the teacher will never agree to just cancel it like this. A life-and-death partner, One life for two!"

"Do you still remember two lives? When you delayed pulling the trigger to fire the first shot because Cheng Jinyun said you didn't see the cubs, did you think about the other prisoners we were going to rescue? When you say you are going to find Man Zai and ignore the whole team to follow, have you ever thought about me as a partner in life and death?" Yu Manli shouted back without showing any weakness, put her hands on the table, and Mingtai and Mingtai exchanged words. Staring: "When you almost died because of such a stupid impulse, have you ever thought about me with two lives? Since you have a choice about life, I can also choose how to die for my life to be worth it! "

Guo Qiyun stepped back a little bit from the intertwined line of fire between the two, climbed down from the table, and sighed.

"Leader, this time, I'll stand on Manli's side. Although we follow orders during the operation, there is nothing wrong with it. However, you can't get carried away and forget the overall situation just because she is your fiancee."

"Shut up, don't add fuel to the flames." Mingtai rubbed his hands, he was a bit at a loss as to how to reply after being yelled at by Yu Manli.In fact, he stopped Jinyun from the beginning of the day, but she turned around and left, and he had to follow.Who told her to be... "Manzai is still a child, how could she have the heart to let a child be taken away by the Japanese..."

He can only explain it in this way, and such an explanation is a reason for others, but it is quite weak for a trained spy elite and the commander of a team with a mission.

"I was chosen to stay when I was a child. There are so many orphans in this world, so many left behind, but I have never met a kind you. You should not be a soldier, you and your wife should Be a missionary."

"Yu Manli! Are you a bit over the top!"

"I'll make a report."

"I won't agree. What are you going to say about the reason, saying that our country/communist cooperation has made mistakes? Be sober! I won't tell you now." Mingtai seemed to leave aggressively, more like fleeing in despair .

Guo Qiyun shrugged after Mingtai slammed the door hard, and looked at Yu Manli: "Okay, just scare him. He is the team leader after all. Moreover, life and death partners, unless one party dies in battle, otherwise, it is impossible Release. You understand."

Yu Manli didn't answer, her hands covered with bright red nail polish looked for the negative film she tore up on the table, and she brought it to the front of her face bit by bit with her fingertips and put it away.Probably it was torn too hard, and a corner was always missing, and it was still incomplete after all.

It's really annoying to choose this thing.She was afraid to vote, afraid to be chosen.Because once you make a choice, you have to weigh it first.In the trade-off, there is no dos and don'ts, or even the so-called pros and cons, only important or unimportant.

She is the one who has been left behind, and she knows better that Mingtai will leave sooner or later.

March 1940, 3, the vernal equinox.

It was the fifth day after the rescue operation, and the third day after Mingtai and Yu Manli quarreled.

What Minglou saw when he returned home was Ming Jing and Yu Manli sitting opposite each other on the sofa in the living room, holding embroidery knuckles in their hands, and the two of them pointed their heads together, laughing and whispering.Mingtai sat on the window sill behind and watched from afar. The curtains were lifted by the wind, blocking his sight from time to time, so he grabbed them with his hands.The man leaned forward, wanting to listen to what they said, but he didn't dare to get too close.

When Mingtai saw Minglou and Ah Cheng coming in, he immediately jumped off the window sill, holding on to the curtains with his hands, and called out, Big Brother, Brother Ah Cheng.

Minglou stopped in the hall and gave a hum.He called again, Ms.

Ming didn't raise the camera and responded perfunctorily.Yu Manli, who turned her back to him, didn't respond at all, she could only vaguely see her slender fingers slightly hooked, and the needle thread running up and down on the stretched fabric.

Minglou stood and watched for a while, then looked at Mingtai's uneasiness, and walked back to his room.

As soon as the door was closed, the first thing he said was to Ah Cheng: "Has Cheng Jinyun's internal party criticism and warning been issued? Has the Mingtai team submitted a report on the rescue operation? The result is affirmative. If he himself Write down the process and reprimand him personally. If not..."

Ah Cheng curled his lips: "You don't know him yet, what else would he write besides good things?"

"Then find a chance and get whipped! It's time for his vacation to be over, and it's time for the University of Hong Kong's business to be over."

"Are you a real brother, you really did something wrong to our young master."

"You don't know me, do you?" Minglou's cold swishing voice floated over.He took off his thin woolen coat and suit, put on a suit vest, and carefully rolled up the sleeves of his shirt one by one: "Being able to stand here and sit in this position, everything we do is for the survival of most people." .No one is willing to be left behind, and no one can't be left behind. When necessary, we will all be abandoned, and we can all die. If he can't understand this by now, I will not hesitate Kick him out."

The wind outside the window also blows the curtains in Minglou's room.He stood at the window, feeling the slight dampness from the wind.

On the vernal equinox, one waits for the Yuan bird to arrive; two waits for thunder to sound; three waits for electricity to begin.

He thought, the swallows were going to fly south, it was going to rain, and the days were going to get longer.One spring rain and one warm.

Fortunately, after a long time, people have returned.