After the meal, the two chatted with Orion again, and placed them in the inner room. Orion led the bell and fell asleep on the wooden bed in the big house.
As soon as the door was closed, the room suddenly fell silent, only the wick soaked in low-quality lamp oil was crackling and crackling.
Shen Junshan had already taken off his coat, and was sitting on the kang taking off his shoes at the moment, looking at the small kang, Xie Tao was a little at a loss, trying to maintain calm, standing still in front of the door for a long time.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" Shen Junshan took off his shoes, raised his eyes and saw that Xie Tao seemed a little embarrassed, and asked in confusion.
Xie Tao put his hands behind his back, pinched the door frame hard, and said dryly: "Go to bed first, I still want to go out for a stroll."
"Walking?" Shen Junshan pointed to the window where the tree shadows were shaking, "Are you sure about this weather?"
As if to echo his words, a strong gust of wind blew outside, causing the branches to fall low and scrape against the window, making an unpleasant sound.
Of course I'm sure, anyway, I'll wait until you fall asleep before I go up, otherwise it's too shameless to be alone. Xie Tao was full of grievances, "I, then I will walk around the room." She simply stood on the ground and started exercising, stretching her arms for a while, and stretching her legs for a while, which somewhat relieved her anxiety , "Exercise, it will be much warmer."
"It's warmer up here." Shen Junshan's probing eyes swept over Xie Tao. He didn't believe a word of what the man said just now, but he didn't expose it. He just said that, listening to Xie Tao's exhaustion The brainy but full of loopholes in the answer makes me feel happy.
Shen Junshan didn't know when he became such a wicked person, but teasing Xie Liangchen occasionally was indeed a good way to relax.
The oil lamp burning on the table suddenly went out, and the room became dark immediately. Xie Tao's raised arms froze, and Shen Junshan's chuckle came from behind him, and then he lifted the quilt and lay down and made a slight movement.
Was it the wind, or did Shen Junshan blow out the candle
It should be the wind.
Losing the light, Xie Tao could only sit on the edge of the kang slowly and move onto the kang. She took off her shoes slowly, slowly lifted the quilt, and lay entangled in the place farthest from Shen Junshan.
The room is just that small, and the kang is even smaller, no matter how far it is, it is only a fist's distance away.
It was cold and windy outside the window, and the room was not warm. Wisps of cold wind blew in, slapping people mercilessly.
Shen Junshan turned over, and Xie Zhen's warm breath was in Xie Tao's ears, "I'm not used to sleeping with others."
"Huh? Oh, um."
"When you join the army in the future, you have to get used to any bad situation." Shen Junshan raised his upper body and covered her with the quilt.
Xie Tao lost his mind for a moment, feeling the warm quilt on his body, "Aren't you going to cover it?"
"I'm not cold, go to sleep."
Shen Junshan lay back, and Xie Tao didn't open his eyes until his breathing became steady and long. His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and she looked at him through the moonlight.
Under the moonlight, his lips were extremely tight, and the coldness between his brows could be clearly seen under the moonlight. The bright moon was bright, but it seemed so far away.
Suddenly, Shen Junshan opened his eyes, and the clear light in his pupils shone into Xie Tao's eyes.
"looking at what?"
Xie Tao hurriedly closed his eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "Who watched it?"
The faces of the people around him were delicate, with an imperceptible coquettishness in their tone, like coquettishness, or whispering in a lover's world. Shen Junshan looked at her for a while, put his eyes on her pursed lips, and said with a smile: "Really? Like a little girl, no wonder Brother Wei admits his mistake."
"Who? Who looks like a little girl?"
Xie Tao subconsciously opened his eyes to refute, and wanted to stretch out his arms to protest, but saw that Shen Junshan had closed his eyes, and he was not going to start any further debate with her.
Wrinkled his nose, closed his eyes, and after a while, secretly opened them again, seeing that Shen Junshan was sleeping peacefully, motionless, so he boldly continued to stare at him.
She suddenly remembered the heat of being in the trap last night, with her feet in his arms.
Are you only allowed to be nice to others? Xie Tao wanted to pout, but held back, she lifted the quilt, approached Shen Junshan, and covered it gently.
Shen Junshan had no other reaction, it seemed that he was really asleep, Xie Tao heaved a sigh of relief, his vision gradually blurred, the corner of the man's mouth hooked upwards, with a coquettish look of smiling or not, it was actually Gu Yan's frame!
Opening her eyes wide again, Gu Yan framed a short dream, and the person in front of her was clearly still Shen Junshan.
"I'm really out of my mind, why do I think of him at this time?" Xie Tao scolded himself fiercely, then rubbed his eyes, shook his head vigorously, trying to drive that annoying face out of his mind, But he was directly brought into his arms by holding his head with both hands.
Shen Junshan's deep voice was still hoarse with sleepiness, "Be quiet."
Xie Tao froze for a while, raised his head from his arms to peek, and saw that his eyes were tightly closed, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and he seemed to be sleeping very restlessly. Over the past few days, Shen Junshan had worked the most and rested At least, she managed to get a good night's sleep because she didn't know how to be considerate.
Her heart tightened suddenly, for fear of waking him up, Xie Tao didn't dare to move anymore, she was actually quite tired, she only held on for a while, sleepiness hit her unconsciously, and she just leaned against his arms slowly Go to sleep slowly.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn, Shen Junshan had already dressed, he put Xie Tao's backpack on the side of the kang, handed her overcoat, and hurriedly confessed, "Clean up, Brother Wei is going to take us down the mountain. "
Xie Tao crawled up.
The wind was still blowing outside, everyone went out, Xie Tao looked at the little girl beside him and asked, "Is Bell going too?"
"Well, it takes two hours to get to the town from here. It just snowed last night, and the road is not easy to walk. I will live in the town tonight, so I have to bring the bell with me." Orion glanced at the house and landed. door lock.
Xie Tao looked at the child who was less than his waistline, and was a little worried.
The wind and snow hadn't stopped, and after half the distance, the bell suddenly screamed sadly, everyone was startled, and when they looked back, it turned out that the snow-white puppy who was held in her arms broke free from her arms for some reason. He ran away at high speed in the direction he came from.
The existence of the puppy is obviously very important to the bell. The bell kept yelling, Orion felt sorry for his daughter, so he had to hand the bell to Xie Tao to take care of him, and hurriedly asked: "Help me take care of her", and chased all the way back by himself.
This time, no one came back for a long time. In the vast snow, the sky and the earth were white. When he was wondering, a gunshot came from the direction of the wooden house. Shen Junshan immediately became alert, and touched the gun at his waist, "I Go back and have a look, you and Bell are waiting for me here!"
Xie Tao hummed, and slightly tightened the hand holding the bell, a sense of unreasonable worry came to his heart.
Not long after Shen Junshan left, there was another gunshot from a distance, except for the Japanese on the train chasing them, Xie Tao couldn't think of any other possibility.
Facing the Japanese pursuers armed with live ammunition, there were only Shen Junshan and Brother Wei. No matter how you think about it, you can't stay here and wait for the result.
She gritted her teeth, placed the bell in a bush, and hurriedly ran towards the cabin, the gunshots kept ringing "bang! bang", every sound seemed to hit her heart, waiting for her to rush to the yard At that time, the battle inside was already over.
Shen Junshan half-kneeled in the yard, beside him were four bloody corpses, three of them were Japanese, and one was that of Brother Orion Wei. And the puppy who was the culprit was crouching at Orion's feet at this moment, motionless, its snow-white hair was stained with a little blood, it seemed to understand that its master was dead, and let out a cry of grief.
"When I arrived, he was already dead." Shen Junshan's tone was full of self-blame, half of the responsibility for Brother Wei's death lay with them.
"You..." Xie Tao's throat choked, and the heat wave rushed into her eyes. She took two steps forward and knelt at Orion's feet.
There was a light sound outside the door, Xie Tao looked back, and the bell ran back at some point, and was staring at it for a moment.
"The bell..."
Xie Tao muttered, wanting to go forward to cover her eyes.
Bell waved her hand away, and walked straight towards the corpse, but when she reached Orion's feet, she didn't even look at him, and retreated back with the puppy in her arms, with a smile on her face.
The world was quiet, Xie Tao opened his mouth, his whole body was icy cold, she never expected Bell to behave like this, even... this is her father after all! Shen Junshan frowned, stepped forward and pulled the bell behind him: "Liangchen, don't look at her like that, she doesn't understand anything."
Xie Tao came back to his senses, being reminded by Shen Junshan, he couldn't say anything, his face was pale.
Without their sudden intrusion, the peaceful life between Brother Wei and Lingdang would not have been broken, and Lingdang would not have ended up with his family ruined. After all, they were the ones who killed Brother Wei and Lingdang.
Even more hateful, of course, are those Japanese!
Shen Junshan took a deep look at the corpse, he had already calmed down, and said: "Let's bury Brother Wei first, we can't just let him lie in the ice and snow like this."
Xie Tao took a deep breath, stood up reluctantly, and found the shovel and hoe with Shen Junshan. Half a day later, a new grave was erected next to the original grave in the small courtyard.
Bowing deeply to the grave, Xie Tao finally couldn't hold back the tears anymore, she and Shen Junshan stood in front of the grave, silent.
The wind continued, the snowflakes gradually stopped, and the new grave was also covered with a light layer of white.
The person in the grave has a warm heart, caring children, and a reluctant wife. Not long ago, the three of them were sitting at the same table, drinking and laughing together.
Inside the locked gate, there should have been Brother Wei and Ling Dang, and in front of the warm brazier, there should have been father and daughter cuddling together to keep warm. Tears couldn't stop falling from his chin, and fell on the snow bit by bit, Xie Tao's eyes were hazy, vaguely, as if he heard the laughter and laughter in the small courtyard.
After a long time, Xie Zhen said solemnly: "Brother Wei, we will take good care of the bell, don't worry."
The afterglow of the setting sun filled the entire mountain road radiantly, even though he was reluctant to give up, he had to leave after all. Shen Junshan walked in front, and Xie Tao followed behind holding the bell. The same road, different moods, ease and comfort have disappeared, leaving only sadness and guilt.
The air was silent and cold, the snow that fell last night hadn't melted, it was fluffy and soft, and it was a little slippery when it reached the hillside, Xie Tao wanted to walk with the bell several times, but the little girl twisted her body to avoid it every time.
Under the setting sun, a beam of light refracted from the forest and reflected on Xie Tao's face. The light beam swept across the corner of his eyes, and Xie Tao was shocked. This is the light reflected only by the scope of the sniper gun!
She was just about to turn around to inform Shen Junshan, but she didn't expect Shen Junshan to throw her to the ground first. At the same time, a bullet grazed his shoulder, and blood gushed out. Rolling down, Xie Tao reached out to pull it, but heard the scream of the bell coming from behind her. She quickly turned around and hugged the bell, and while shooting back, she ran towards the dense forest with the bell.
She can do whatever she wants, but Ling Ding, nothing will happen to her!