After a while, the little boy began to peel beans again and count them.
Eat beans, grow meat, eighteen.
Eat beans, grow meat, nineteen.
Eat beans, grow fat, twenty, that's it.
Then, under the watchful eyes of Yang Banan, Sun Changhe and more than a dozen soldiers from the guard company, the little boy put the peeled green beans into his small mouth one by one and chewed them.
Yang Banan still refused to give up and asked again: "Child, where are the adults in your family?"
At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind Yang Banan, saying: "You don't need to ask anymore."
Yang Balan turned around when he heard the sound and saw Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng walking over. Leng Tiefeng's face was terrifyingly gloomy. It was he who said the words just now. This was his first time in the ten days since he went north to Huainan. say.
Leng Tiefeng came over and said, "You don't need to ask anymore, he doesn't know what you mean."
Yang Balan didn't believe it and said, "Captain Leng, how do you know that he doesn't know what the Lord means?"
"I just know." When Leng Tiefeng said this, his eyes turned red for no reason. Xu Rui walked up to the little boy and squatted down, asking gently, "What's your name?"
The little boy raised his head and replied: "Doudou."
"Doudou? This is a great name." Xu Rui asked again, "Where is your mother?"
The little boy turned his head and turned his attention to the vegetable garden surrounded by a bamboo fence on the right side of the hut.
Leng Tiefeng, Yang Banan, Sun Changhe and a dozen soldiers from the guard company all turned their heads and looked in the direction of the little boy's gaze. Then, they saw through the gap in the broken fence. A pair of feet. When Leng Tiefeng saw those feet, his heart immediately trembled, and he walked over with the San Ba Da Gai.
After walking a few steps forward, Leng Tiefeng had a clear view of the vegetable garden.
It was a very small vegetable garden in front of the house. There were two rows of soybeans planted in the vegetable garden. However, only the bean stems were left in these two rows of soybeans, and all the pods had been picked.
In the middle of the bean ridge, a young woman was lying on her side.
Leng Tiefeng walked in, stretched out his hand to check his breathing, then shook his head sadly and said, "It's gone."
After a brief inspection of the young woman's body, he found that her abdomen was as distended as a drum and there was still Guanyin soil remaining in her mouth. He said with a sad face, "He died of starvation."
Xu Rui couldn't help but be horrified when he heard this. Almost subconsciously, he restored what the mother had done.
This must be a widowed mother, and there are no other relatives in the family. The mother and son depend on each other, and the family has no walls. This can be seen from the empty hut, but even if the family has no walls, in this harvest season, the mother and son can still find enough. If you have enough food to satisfy your hunger, you will never starve to death.
However, a sudden flood changed everything.
The raging floods submerged the land that the mother had worked hard for for half a year, destroyed all the harvests, and cut off their access to the outside world. The two rows of pods in the vegetable garden in front of the house became all the mother and son's rations. However, , the only two rows of pods were enough for the child to eat. In order to save the child, the mother starved to death.
Xu Rui could not imagine what kind of psychological struggle this young mother went through before she died, let alone the pain she endured. Xu Rui once heard a professor engaged in medical research say that when a person is extremely hungry, When the time comes, you will completely lose your mind and become able to do anything.
However, this young mother never touched a single bean until her death!
When people are extremely hungry, they will lose their minds, become crazy, and even eat people. However, this mother was reluctant to eat a bean until her death, because she knew very well that it was her son's ration, and she ate it. Douzi, her child will starve to death. Motherly love defeats everything. This is the greatest mother Xu Rui has ever seen in her life!
Not only Xu Rui, but also Yang Banan, Sun Changhe and the soldiers in the guard company were all moved.
Obviously, everyone has thought about what is going on. This mother is so great!
Leng Tiefeng was thinking about another level. He was thinking that this massacre could have been avoided, that the tens of thousands of people he saw along the way could have survived, and that this young great mother could have survived. , she could have survived and raised her child, but now, she had to abandon her child when he was still ignorant. She must not be able to let go of her child, but she must end her life ruthlessly, and in a way The cruelest and most painful way!
At this moment, Leng Tiefeng's inner anger simply swelled to an unbearable level!
"Ouch..." Leng Tiefeng could no longer control his emotions. Like a wounded beast, he let out a shrill roar and rushed towards the Japs who were already dead. Then he pulled out his bayonet and acted like crazy. He seemed to stab the corpses of the Japanese again and again, until the corpses of the Japanese were smashed into sieves, without even realizing it.
Yang Banan wanted to step forward to stop him, but Xu Rui stopped him. Xu Rui said, "Let him vent. If he doesn't vent, he will suffocate to death."
Yang Bayan fell silent.
Yang Banan knew exactly why Leng Tiefeng was angry.
In fact, Yang Banan was equally angry inside at this time.
Yang Banan could clearly feel that the faith in his heart was collapsing. He once believed in the Three People's Principles so much, and he once loved Chairman Chiang Kai-shek so much. But now, what he saw and heard on his way north has completely shaken him. Confused, for the first time in his life, Yang Banan was shaken by his past beliefs.
Just as confused as Yang Banan were Sun Changhe and the soldiers from the guard company.
Is it really worth doing this just to stop the Japanese? Is it really worth such a big sacrifice
It is said that the purpose of being a soldier is to protect the family and the country. What is protecting the family and defending the country? Mao Zedong said that to protect the home and the country is to protect the wife, children and children, and to protect the common people from being bullied and humiliated by the enemy. But now, the people in Huainan did not die under the bayonets of the invaders, but died at the hands of their own people. caused by floods.
Moreover, this tragic flood was ordered by the Supreme Leader!
Boundless disappointment surged from the hearts of every officer and soldier in an instant.
Xu Rui's cold eyes passed over the faces of Yang Banan, Sun Changhe, and every officer and soldier in the guard company, and said: "You have all seen it, and now you should know what kind of thing your leader, Chairman Chiang, is. Right? Do you still believe that he is resisting Japan for the sake of the common people? A leader who can order the bombing of Huayuankou without hesitation and drown millions of common people, is he still worthy of your support and your allegiance? "
Yang Banan said quietly: "The regiment leader should have heard that Ci does not command troops."
"Ha, Ci does not command troops? What a Ci does not command troops!" Xu Rui said sharply, "In ancient and modern times, there are indeed many commanders at home and abroad who have won the overall victory by sacrificing the situation, but I have never heard of anyone who You can win by sacrificing the people, by sacrificing your own people, there is no one! Chief of Staff Yang, can you give an example?"
Yang Balan remained silent for a long time. Of course, he could not cite such an example.
When Xu Rui wanted to say more, Leng Tiefeng came back holding a bloody bayonet in his hand.
"Old Xu, please stop talking." Leng Tiefeng stopped Xu Rui first, then turned around. Leng Sensen's eyes swept over the faces of Yang Banan, Sun Changhe and the soldiers from the guard company one by one, and then said, "Give them all to me. Listen, if anyone dares to mention the words Chairman Chiang in front of me in the future, don’t blame me for turning against him."
After saying that, Leng Tiefeng put away his bayonet, then stepped forward, picked up Doudou, and left.
It's really strange to say that Doudou was just a four-year-old child who was taken away by a stranger, but he didn't cry. He just looked at Leng Tiefeng and others with a terrifyingly calm look. Xu Rui He told Lei Xiang that this kid is great and will definitely be promising when he grows up. If he becomes a soldier, he will definitely be a good soldier.
Xu Rui would not have thought that what he said casually today would eventually become a fact.
In the war that took place in North Korea in the 1950s, which was related to China's national destiny, Dou Dou participated in the war midway. With one man and a rifle, he killed 386 American soldiers. In the end, he became a soldier who frightened the United Nations. As a super killer, the US military brought in instructors from West Point School from China to deal with him, but he also killed him.
Twenty years later, Doudou had been promoted to battalion commander. The reconnaissance battalion he led in southern Xinjiang defeated Vietnamese monkeys and even the commander of the northern theater became a prisoner of the reconnaissance battalion. In the next thirty years, the Vietnamese army As long as the mention of the Wolf Fang Troops is mentioned, the liver and gallbladder will tremble, and the soul will fly away.
But this is all decades later.
At this time, Doudou was just a four-year-old child.
While camping, looking at Doudou sitting by the fire like a little adult, Xu Rui asked Leng Tiefeng: "Veteran, have you decided what to name your child?"
Leng Tiefeng said: "If you think about it, I'll call you Hongsheng."
Xu Rui nodded and said: "Shui Sheng, this name is quite appropriate. It was difficult for him to escape the flood. It was his mother who gave him a second life. Calling Shuisheng this name can make him remember him forever." He has a great mother, and I also believe that when he grows up, he will be extremely proud of having such a mother.”
Leng Tiefeng said: "I think so too. He is still too young and it is difficult to remember what his mother looks like, but I hope he can always remember that he has such a great mother."
Xu Rui asked again: "Are you really going to raise him personally?"
In the Dameishan base area, a nursery has been built to adopt the orphans of martyrs. Wang Husheng, political commissar of the Independence League, personally serves as the director of the nursery, so Leng Tiefeng can definitely send Doudou to the nursery, and he will still get good health care. However, Leng Tiefeng was determined.
Leng Tiefeng nodded and said, "Yes, I want to raise him personally, and I will tell Yanzi."
"Yanzi is a good girl, she will definitely understand." After speaking, Xu Rui touched Doudou's little head and said, "Besides, Doudou is so sensible, and he will definitely be a good brother in the future." (To be completed.) Continued.)