Striving for Science - Chapter 58

“Please, please, where is this?”

“Comrade …”

“Squad leader, do you not care about us?”

The five young men stood on the street blankly, wrapping their worn coats tightly. When they saw a girl coming over in leg socks, she quickly looked away and blushed her cheeks.

“I heard from the storyteller in the town before, some people will come to a place that is isolated from the world by chance.” The squad leader touched the pistol jacket around his waist. Although it was just a shell without a gun, it had this shell Now, he will be more at ease in his heart, “Will it be the people here, can’t understand what we are talking about?”

Their class all came out of Shudi and went to the front to fight the enemy. The chief told them that because of insufficient resources, each class was only equipped with a gun, and the military uniforms were somewhat worn.

However, the country is in a critical moment, and the conditions are difficult. In just one month of war, the comrades of their class sacrificed several under the enemy’s artillery, leaving only five of them. The gun in their class has been lost in the fire.

In the evening, they received an order from the company commander to let them go on the way the enemy must pass and lay mines. Mine is a rare thing in the company. If it is not to cut off the ammunition and grass supplies of the enemy, the company commander will not waste such good things.

“Squad leader, our mine …” A few young people discovered that the mine they were protecting was missing.

“I clearly remember that by crossing that small river, you can get to the highway that the enemy must pass. Why …” The young man who said this was only about fifteen or sixteen years old. He said that he was a young man, rather than a teenager.

He was very thin and thin, but his head was big and round. Wearing new tufted sandals on the feet, but it is not suitable. This was a big brother in the company who saw that he had no shoes to wear. When he passed a village, he asked for a few straws from his fellow villagers and rushed him out overnight.

The day he just put on his new straw shoes, he followed the squad leader’s assignment. Unexpectedly, he came to a novel place. He was still young, and he was a little scared.

“Don’t panic first.” The squad leader looks the most mature, but he is actually only in his early twenties. He snapped: “The situation is not right, you are so panic when things happen, what if the enemy comes? What about the common people behind us, and what about the old lady on your house? All of them are tied up, and whoever dares to mess up will clean up him when he returns. ”

Although he said so, the squad leader himself was not very reliable. He remembered clearly that when crossing the riverside bridge, he also carefully checked the mines that were carried on his body, and suddenly there was a heavy fog, etc. He stood here when he recovered.

I do n’t know where this is. The place is so bright. That bright thing … is it the electric light in the radio? The electric lights in a big city are so bright, even hanging outside the house, what if the enemy breaks in and blows up?

What a pity.

Do they really come to a different world?

The girl just now had yellow skin and black eyes, but had red hair. Is this a child born after a Chinese married to a foreigner?

He glanced at the four comrades with some flustered faces, took a deep breath, and summoned the courage to the two young women who came to them: “Two sisters, may I ask …”

The two girls ignored him and slammed into him, scaring the squad leader to hide. He is a big man, but he can’t take advantage of young girls casually.

Ignored as a transparent person, the squad leader was a little embarrassed, but now he is the chief of the five and must stand up. His eyes flashed through the crowd, and he saw a young man, pushing a man towards this side.

“Little comrade, may I ask … where is this place?” The squad leader took a deep breath and was ready to be ignored.

Unexpectedly, the other party stopped, and his clear eyes were opposite his gaze: “Hello?”

Shen Changan looked at the young man in front of him, wearing yellowed and worn clothes, no belt around his waist, **** with a few grains of grass at random, his trousers legs were short, exposing the frozen ankle.

The feet in straw sandals were deformed and even pus.

“Here …” Shen Changan tilted his head and looked at the four thin and thin teenagers behind the young man. These four teenagers were as embarrassed as the young man, and they didn’t even have the shoes. Behind, there are surprises and uneasiness in the eyes of the four pairs.

Shen Changan suddenly understood what happened. His throat was hot and blinked several times before pressing down the soreness of 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 ?!” Only the 14-year-old soldier was surprised, “Squad leader, we smashed more than 700 kilometers one night and suffered. How can we get back?”

“Do you want to go back?” Shen Changan looked at their bleeding and purulent feet, and their throats rolled, “There is no war here, don’t go back.”

“Which door should I do?” The soldier tied the loose straw in his waist tightly. “We can rest assured by going back early to drive the enemy out. My mother told me when I was walking, waiting for me After hitting the enemy and going back, she made me a greasy noodle. ”

“Little comrade, can you tell us Kazakhstan, how do you go back to Tengzhou from here?” The squad leader was a little anxious. They had a difficult task. If the enemy was allowed to break into the rear, I don’t know how many people would suffer.

“You can rest assured that the battle over Tengzhou has been won.” Shen Changan’s eyes were a little bit red. “Not only the battle of Tengzhou was won, but the battle of our entire country was won.”

“The enemy … was run away?” The soldier stared at Shen Changan in a daze, “Are you lying to us?”

“I didn’t lie to you.” Shen Changan pointed to the front. “Here is the capital of our new China.”

“Xin Huaxia …” Xiao Bing looked at the passers-by dressed all around, and for a long time he couldn’t recover, “War … won?”

“Yes, we won.” Shen Changan knew that his words and deeds at the moment were in their eyes, and they might be very neurotic, but in the face of these five young people who were younger than himself, he could not pretend not to see them. .

“Then, are the people in Natengzhou all right?”

Shen Changan nodded.

“What about our Shu province?”

Shen Changan focused on the head.

“It’s great.” Xiao Bing smiled a little childishly, “Then my mother, old man, brother and sister must be safe.”

Shen Changan laughed with her, “Yeah, that’s great.”

“Then we will go to the company commander and return to the team, and then go back to eat the greasy noodles made by my mother.” Xiaobing jumped up in joy, “Squad leader, Lao Gen, pig ears, strong brother, you all go to my house , I invite you to eat noodles. ”

“You … Let’s go after reading the national flag.” Shen Changan was silent for a moment. “After the enemy was repelled, our country has become better and better.”

“Squad leader …” The soldier looked at the squad leader, and he could see that he wanted to see the national flag.

“Okay.” The squad leader was also a little emotional. He nodded. “Comrade, please trouble you.”

“No trouble.” Shen Changan looked down at Dao Nian, and Dao Nian also looked up at him. His lips moved, and he bent down in his ear. “Dao Nian, what’s the matter, let’s go back and talk, OK?”

Daoian nodded in silence.

“Is your friend’s leg also harmed by the enemy?” The soldier peeped a few glances at the Daonian who was sitting in a wheelchair. “But the chair he sits on is really good, if the old company commander can also use it. ”

After the old company commander broke his legs by the enemy’s artillery fire, he sent it to the rear, and did not know if he had saved his life.

“Dongwa!” The squad leader snapped loudly, “Shut up.”

The soldier called Dongwa shut his mouth quickly. He apologized to Shen Changan, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t mention this kind of sad thing.”

“It’s okay.” Shen Changan shook his head slowly. “I also hope that your company commander will later use a wheelchair.”

They followed the flow of people and came to the outside of the square. At this moment, many people in thick coats had stood outside. Shen Changan looked at the sandals on the feet of the five people and silently removed his eyes.

“It’s still a long time since dawn?” Xiao Bing’s character jumped a little, and after being quiet for an hour, he began to ask around Shen Changan, “These people are not black in color, are we not Chinese people?”

“Some are foreigners, but more of us are Chinese.” Shen Changan explained carefully to him, “I just used a potion to dye my hair with other colors.”

“There is such a powerful thing?” Xiaobing touched his head and smiled, “It looks a little more beautiful.”

The squad leader silently looked at everything around him, and there were more and more doubts in his heart, but when Dongwa was happily talking to the brightly dressed comrade, he did not bother him if he was not good.

A little bit of time passed, and when the day was about to dawn, the flag-raising ceremony began.

The five men looked at the distance with their toes on their feet, and they were stunned at the moment when the soldiers dressed in neat clothes, dressed in white gloves and leather boots, held the flag out.

When the soundtrack sounded, the red flag raised the flag slowly, they found that the people around were silently singing, Xiaobing asked Shen Changan: “What are they singing?”

“National Anthem.” Shen Changan said, “A song that everyone in our country can sing.”

“It’s great,” Xiao Bing smiled, “I will learn to sing when I go back.”

When the red flag fluttered to the top of the flagpole, there was applause from the scene, and the squad leader looked around blankly. Everyone here was wearing beautiful and thick clothes, and everyone had a relaxed smile.

He saw that there were old people and children, and the shoes on their feet looked very warm.

When the first sun rose, he suddenly remembered.

They did not lose the mines, but after the mines exploded, they died together with the enemies who were about to escape.

It’s just … he forgot.

They are already dead.

The sun shone on his young face, as if dyeing him all over.

“What year is it now?”

“2018.”

“Is the war really won?”

“All have won.” Shen Changan nodded. “Everyone has clothes to wear and meals to eat, so don’t worry about the enemy’s gunfire falling from the sky.”

“That’s great.” The squad leader grinned. “Comfortable.”

“Thank you.” Shen Changan bowed to the five of them.

“Then … we should go back.”

“Where are you going back?” Xiaobing asked, “Go to the company commander’s report?”

“No, back to Shu province, let’s go back together.” The monitor said, “There are people waiting for us to go back.”

The author has something to say: heroic soul, return home.