"Please, may I ask, where is this?"
"Comrade..."
"Squad leader, how can someone ignore us?"
The five young men stood blankly on the street, wrapping their tattered coats tightly. When they saw a girl wearing leg socks, they quickly looked away, their cheeks flushed with shame.
"I've heard from the town storytellers before that some people come to a place where they are isolated by chance." The squad leader touched the pistol jacket on his waist. Although it is only a shell without a gun, it has this shell. Now, he will feel more at ease, "Could it be someone here who can't understand what we're talking about?"
Their squads all came out of Shu to fight the enemy on the front line. The officer told them that because of insufficient resources, each squad was only equipped with one gun, and the uniforms were somewhat worn.
However, the country is at a critical time, and the conditions are difficult and there is no way. In just one month of war, several of their comrades died under enemy fire, leaving only five of them. The gun that their class was equipped with had been lost in the artillery fire.
In the evening, they received an order from the company commander to go to the enemy's only path and lay mines. Landmines are a rare thing in a company. If it wasn't to cut off the enemy's supply of ammunition, food and grass, the company commander would be reluctant to waste such a good thing.
"Squad leader, our mines..." Only then did a few young people realize that the mines they were protecting were missing.
"I clearly remember that after crossing that small river, you can reach the road that the enemy must pass. Why..." The young man who said this was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old. It is better to say that he is a young man than a teenager.
He was very thin and thin, but his head was big and round. He was wearing new straw sandals on his feet, but they didn't fit well. This is the eldest brother in the company who saw that he had no shoes to wear. When passing a village, he asked a fellow villager for a few handfuls of corn and grass, and made it for him overnight.
The day he just put on the new straw sandals, he followed the squad leader on a mission. He didn't expect to come to a novel place inexplicably. He was still young and a little scared.
"Don't panic." The squad leader looked the most mature, but in fact he was only in his early twenties. He said sharply: "The situation is not right, you are so panicked when you encounter an accident, what if the enemy comes? You panic, What about the ordinary people behind us, and what about the mother and father at the head of your house? All are tied up by Laozi, whoever dares to make trouble, Laozi will clean up when he goes back."
Although he said that, the squad leader himself was not very at ease. He remembered very clearly that when he crossed the small bridge by the river, he carefully checked the mines he was carrying, and suddenly there was a heavy fog. When he returned to God, he stood here.
I don't know where this place is. The place is so open and bright, and the bright thing... is the electric light on the radio? The lights in the big city are so bright that they even hang outside the house. What if the enemy breaks in and blows up
What a pity.
Did they really come to another world
The girl just now has yellow skin and dark eyes, but has red hair. Could it be that this is the child born from a Chinese married to a foreigner
He glanced at the four comrades-in-arms who looked a little flustered, took a deep breath, and summoned the courage to say to the two young women walking towards them: "Two girls, may I ask..."
The two girls ignored him and ran straight at him, so frightened that the squad leader hurriedly ducked back. He is a big man, and he can't take advantage of a young girl casually.
Being ignored as a transparent person, the squad leader is a little embarrassed, but now he is the leader of the five and must stand up. His eyes flashed across the crowd, and he saw a young man pushing a man towards him.
"Little comrade, may I ask... Where is this place?" The squad leader took another deep breath, ready to be ignored.
Unexpectedly, the other party stopped, and his clear eyes met his gaze: "Hello?"
Shen Changan looked at the young man in front of him. He was wearing yellow and shabby clothes. There was no belt around his waist.
The feet in the straw sandals were deformed from the cold, and they even festered.
"Here..." Shen Changan tilted his head and looked at the four thin and short teenagers behind the young man. These four teenagers, like the young man, were all in a mess, they didn't even have a pair of cloth shoes. Behind him, there were surprises and unease in four pairs of eyes.
Shen Changan suddenly understood something, there was heat rising from his throat, he blinked a few times before suppressing the soreness in his throat, "Where are you from?"
"You can understand us, that's great." The squad leader was a little excited, "Do you know how far Tengzhou is from here?"
"Tengzhou is more than 700 kilometers away from here."
"More than 700 kilometers?!" The 14-year-old soldier said in surprise, "Squad leader, we walked more than 700 kilometers in one night, and it's too bad, how can we get back now?"
"You want to go back?" Shen Changan looked at their bloody and festering feet, his throat rolled, "There is no war here, there is no need to go back."
"Which one will do?" Xiao Bing ties the loose straw around his waist tightly, "Go back early and drive the enemy out, so we can rest assured. When I left, my mother told me to wait for me. After defeating the enemy and returning home, she will make me oil slag noodles."
"Little comrade, can you tell us, how did you get back to Tengzhou from here?"
"Don't worry, the battle in Tengzhou has already been won." Shen Changan's eyes were a little red, "Not only the battle of Tengzhou was won, but the battle of our entire country was won."
"The enemy... was driven away?" Xiao Bing looked at Shen Chang'an blankly, "Are you lying to us?"
"I didn't lie to you." Shen Changan pointed to the front, "This is the capital of our New China."
"Xinhuaxia..." Xiaobing looked at the brightly dressed passers-by, and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. "The war...was won?"
"Yes, we have won." Shen Changan knew that his words and actions at the moment might be very neurotic in the eyes of Daonian and the others, but in the face of these five young people younger than himself, he couldn't pretend that he didn't see them .
"Then, are those people in Tengzhou okay?"
Shen Changan nodded.
"What about our Shu Province?"
Shen Changan nodded heavily.
"That's great." Xiao Bing showed a childish smile, "Then my mother, the old man, and my younger siblings are definitely safe."
Shen Changan laughed along: "Yeah, that's great."
"Then let's go to the company commander to return to the team, and then go back to eat the oily noodles my mother made." Xiaobing jumped up in joy, "Squad leader, Lao Gen, Pig Er, and Qiang, you all come to my house. , I invite you to eat noodles."
"You guys...let's go after watching the flag raising." Shen Changan was silent for a moment, "After the enemy was repelled, our country has become better and better."
"Squad leader..." Xiaobing looked at the squad leader, and he could see that he wanted to see the flag raising.
"Okay." The squad leader was also a little moved, he nodded, "Little comrade, trouble you."
"No trouble." Shen Changan looked down at Daonian, and Daonian also looked up at him. The corners of his lips moved, and he bent over and said in his ear, "Dao Nian, let's go back and talk about anything, okay?"
Daonian nodded silently.
"Did your friend's leg also get hurt by the enemy?" Xiao Bing secretly glanced at Daonian who was sitting in a wheelchair, "But the chair he sits on is really nice, it would be great if the old company commander could also use it. "
After the old company commander had his legs broken by the enemy's artillery fire, he was sent to the rear, and he didn't know if his life was saved.
"Dongwa!" the squad leader snapped, "Shut up."
The soldier who called Dongwa hurriedly shut his mouth, and he apologized to Shen Changan in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned such a sad thing."
"It's okay." Shen Changan shook his head slowly, "I also hope that your company commander will use a wheelchair later."
They followed the flow of people and came to the outside of the square. At this moment, there were many people wearing thick coats standing outside. Shen Changan looked at the straw sandals on the feet of the five people and silently looked away.
"How long is the sky still bright?" Xiao Bing's character was a little out of character. After being quiet for an hour, he began to ask around Shen Chang'an again, "These people with hair that are not black, aren't we Chinese people?"
"Some are foreigners, but more are Chinese people." Shen Changan explained to him carefully, "Just using a potion to dye the hair with other colors."
"And such a powerful thing?" Xiaobing touched his head and said with a smile, "It looks a little good."
The squad leader silently looked at everything around him, and his doubts grew more and more, but seeing Dongwa happily talking to the well-dressed little comrade, he would bother the other party if he was not good.
Time passed a little bit, and when the day was about to light up, the flag-raising ceremony began.
The five of them stood on their toes and looked into the distance. They were stunned when they saw the soldiers who were neatly dressed, walking at the same pace, wearing white gloves and leather boots holding the national flag.
When the soundtrack sounded and the red flag was raised slowly, they found that the crowd around them were silently singing something. Xiao Bing asked Shen Changan, "What are they singing?"
"National Anthem." Shen Changan said, "A song that everyone in our country can sing."
"It's good." Xiao Bing said with a smile, "I will learn to sing when I go back."
When the red flag flew to the top of the flagpole, applause broke out at the scene, and the squad leader looked around blankly. Everyone here was wearing beautiful and thick clothes, and everyone was wearing a relaxed smile.
He saw that there were old people and children, and the shoes on their feet looked extremely warm.
When the first ray of the morning sun rose, he suddenly remembered.
They didn't lose the mines, but after the mines exploded, they perished with the enemies who were about to flee.
Just... he forgot.
They are already dead.
The sun shone on his young face, as if it had cast a layer of light on his whole body.
"What year is it now?"
"2018."
"Have the war really been won?"
"It's all victorious." Shen Changan nodded, "Everyone has clothes to wear and food to eat, so don't worry about the enemy's artillery fire falling from the sky."
"That's great." The monitor grinned, "Easy."
"Thank you." Shen Changan bowed to the five of them.
"Then... we should go back."
"Where to go?" Xiaobing asked, "Go to the company commander to report?"
"No, back to Shu Province, let's go back together." The squad leader said, "There are still people waiting for us to go back."
The author has something to say: The hero's soul returns to his hometown.