The howling night wind swirled rapidly in the mountains, and the figures who were chasing and slashing were also rushing through the mountains. The dark vision and the rugged slopes made the man slashing behind him fall to the ground and roll on the grassy slope, but
Then he got up and shouted and chased after him. After a while, the two of them were fighting and rolling into the stream between the slopes.
The stumbling fights and collisions were all like conditioned reflexes developed over a long period of time. The pursuing soldiers threw away the steel knives on their bodies and still waved their fists to hit them, while the hunched manure collector on the other side looked at him with his eyes.
His eyes were equally ferocious, as if he had returned to the North Country. He had fantasized countless times about the counterattack he would make after being discovered by the enemy. He swung the wooden stick he picked up from the water, smashed it on the opponent's shoulder, and then smashed it.
On the head and face, the young soldier was beaten to a bloody head and fell to the edge of the stream.
In fact, his body had been stabbed several times. Tang Minjie stood in the stream under the moonlight, panting rapidly.
If it were on flat ground, he would not be a match for the opponent at all. He would probably be killed by the opponent with just a few blows. However, during his rapid escape, he took advantage of the familiar terrain, which resulted in such a result.
The cold wind at night blew over, and he looked down the mountain. What came to mind was the figure of two Chinese soldiers who were pushed high into the sky in the methane explosion...killing one of their own...
At this moment, he was slightly confused and didn't know why he was running up the mountain. He looked down and saw that torches had been lit in the farms and villages, and crowds were gathering...
I was stunned for a while.
He went to check the condition of the fallen soldier by the stream, then took out a rope and tied the other man's hands, picked up the steel knife, dragged it up and moved forward.
…
At the foot of the mountain, in the 223 Agricultural Research Institute, a few security personnel have gathered, and other personnel in the institute have also taken knives, guns, rakes and plows, and gathered towards the retting field.
The middle-aged soldier checked his companions with red eyes. One of them had been killed on the spot, but the other was still alive - to be precise, he was already in a dying state. The doctor who had some medical skills came over and was
Do your best.
Chen Cirang came over to check the situation, and the other party informed him of his name: This middle-aged soldier is now the leader of the Wenpu County working group. His name is Fang Lu. His rank in the military is not low, at least he is completely out of reach of Chen Cirang.
kind of height.
Knowing that something happened to protect the landlord and now running away, it was Tang Minjie. Chen Cirang felt that the matter was not simple and defended him a few words. Asking whether there was a misunderstanding about the matter, Fang Lu pointed at his dead companion and exploded: "This is called
Misunderstanding! You call this a misunderstanding! You call this a misunderstanding!?"
Chen Cirang knew that Tang Minjie's past was not simple, but of course he did not dare to talk back now. Later, he could only accept the other party's arrangement: "You are locals, call all the people you can call, and guard the surrounding escape routes. You must
If you want to catch him, I will personally interrogate him."
People from the village have also gathered.
Fang Lu walked towards his companions on the other side, and "Cripple" also came over: "Xiao Yu chased after him immediately. There is no news yet, so I'm afraid he got caught. And... with so many outsiders coming, will they let them go?"
The matter is all over the place?”….
"The person who came back from the intelligence line was difficult to deal with. I had expected it. But something happened to him. Why didn't he run to a crowded place? Why didn't he shout?" Fang Lu's eyes were red and he was a little confused at this time. He took a look.
Looking around, he thought for a moment and said, "There are as many people as there are people. Let's look for him together. Let's go together and do our best... kill him on the spot."
Everyone nodded, gripped their weapons, and headed up the mountain.
…
The mountains behind Xiaoye Village are not small. Tang Minjie dragged the Chinese Army soldier towards the mountains. After walking for a while, the soldier shook his head and gradually became more awake. Tang Minjie used a steel knife to force him towards the mountains.
Go deep.
The young soldier's head was bloody, and his consciousness was not very clear for a while, and the same was true for Tang Minjie. This sudden incident had shattered the dream he had experienced in the past six months, and he didn't even know what he was going to do next.
How to do it, even why to do it...
We should no longer be exposed to these things.
The night before, hiding in a dung bucket
Here, the injured Qiu officer made him curious about the accusation against the Chinese military working group. The other party was seriously injured, and the evidence was actually insufficient. He said something, and he didn't know whether to believe it for a while, so he just subconsciously
He made some arrangements and waited for the other party to fall into the trap.
If the other party is open and honest, everything will be carried out openly, and someone will come to him and make formal inquiries and negotiations with him - he also believes that this should be the process.
All reactions are subconscious. Too skilled.
So much so that when the other party came to attack him, Tang Minjie even felt a little unsure of what to do.
The scene where the methane tank blew up two people to death was a slap on the head. Why bother? Why did it suddenly come to this point?
At a certain moment, I heard the soldier in front coughing violently, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and then gnashing his teeth and cursing: "...Why? Why...you are a bastard, why...you have the guts to kill me!"
Kill me!"
Tang Minjie remained silent, but then said: "I'm sorry..."
"You can't survive." The other party said, "You know, you can't survive... Do you know, they are all heroes, my brothers, they all killed the golden dog in the bloody battle, what are you, you are a coward! You
Being assigned to pick shit is like kneeling down for the enemy! You coward! I tell you you won't survive——"
Tang Minjie pushed him forward with his knife, partially agreeing with what the other person said.
"But... why would you do such a thing..."
"We...we are doing it for the good of the Chinese Army..."
"No." Tang Minjie shook his head, "You force people to sign the land deed, and then kill the whole family. When the land reform is completed, you get money based on the land deed, and there are some other transactions in the process..."
"You are slanderous! You have no evidence——"
"It can't be hidden. This matter can be easily found out by checking. The temporary land deed must be prepared and falsified to show that you still have friends in the government. But many people in the area know which land belonged to the Qiu family in the past. You can
It can deceive outsiders, but as long as there is a direction in the investigation, it will be easy to get the bottom..."...
"..."
"Also...you came to kill me, which is tantamount to asking for it. How did you become like this..."
"..." The night wind blew through the hills and stirred the leaves in the forest. The soldier was silent for a moment, "...what qualifications do you, a betrayer of comrades, have to criticize me?"
"I don't mind if you kill people. Even if you are a little extreme, it doesn't matter. I didn't want to care." Tang Minjie said, "But the Chinese army cannot become like this, enriching themselves for public service..."
"Is it because of public service?" The young soldier smiled and tilted his head, "We conquered this world."
Tang Minjie looked at him.
"It was my brothers who shot down!" the other party said. "Fighted down and fought with all their lives. Do you know how many brothers died early, how many brothers were disabled, and how many brothers left behind a whole family? You coward."
Do you know that the colorful world in Chengdu today belongs to others? Do you know how many of my brothers’ family members are sick and unable to see a doctor or take good medicine? Do you know that we people went to Chengdu?
A year’s allowance is not enough to touch a girl’s hand?”
Tang Minjie said nothing.
"Isn't it vulgar? What a coward? But why are we all fighting so hard? To live a good life, shouldn't we? We should work hard and want our family to go to the big city and be proud, shouldn't we? I've been there since I was a teenager
After working hard in the army, being injured and hungry, I want to have a beautiful girl, shouldn't I? Especially those brothers who have died, their families, and children should have a future that is no worse than anyone else, shouldn't I?
?Why do you become a soldier? In the past, whoever became a soldier did not do it to exchange lives for money or a future. Only the Chinese Army... We are the strongest army in history! But we don’t have the best things!"
"...For the wounded and sick soldiers, the army has arranged doctors and recuperation, as well as Yishuang and children. I know the arrangements have been made by the superiors, so don't talk nonsense."
"There is an arrangement, but it is an ordinary arrangement, with ordinary accommodation and ordinary schooling, but have you ever visited Chengdu?
, look at those people, they have all kinds of good things, all kinds of novelty gadgets, fine clothes and fine food, you know what it feels like for us people to take the children of our comrades to the city and look at all those good things that we can’t afford.
Do you know what it feels like when we can’t afford it and our companions around us have broken legs?”
"So you have to be greedy?"
"We, our boss... have raised nineteen children left behind by our comrades. We give them the best things. We spend our money here with a clear conscience!"
"So..." Tang Minjie paused, "It's not just this land reform, you got money before this... How did you get it?"
The soldier was stunned for a moment. After a while, he smiled and said, "The comrades in the working group are right. Redemption is not an option. If these landlords are left behind, sooner or later they will dig up our roots with resentment. The only way is to
Killing them is a matter of once and for all, and we will only resell their land to the superiors at the lowest price. Anyway, they will not be used after they die. If we do this this time, everyone will live a good life and no one will be harmed.
Hurt. You coward, don’t you understand? The land is equally divided and no one with any objections is left. Our Chinese army spent the least money, and all the heroic families will live a good life. This is the best.
In the end, this is the best result——”….
When he finally spoke, he suppressed his voice and sounded almost like a deep roar. Tang Minjie closed his eyes, and the sigh in his throat was almost like a moan.
The two walked for a while, stopped at a cave-like depression in the mountains, and sat on the ground. Tang Minjie was drowsy, and so was the other person, but after a moment of silence, the other person's bloody eyes looked over.
"If you kill my brother, you won't be able to live..."
After saying this, he waited for a while and then said: "Do you know, we didn't plan to kill you originally, we wanted to have a chat, we originally wanted to... cooperate with you. But it ended up like this...
"
After a while, he asked, "Where did you hide the one named Qiu?"
Tang Minjie sat there in a daze and sighed: "...not in 223."
"Still over there at the dung station?"
"..." Tang Minjie looked at him. He didn't know whether to appreciate or regret his perseverance, but finally showed a sarcastic smile: "He was too seriously injured and hid in the excrement bucket. Halfway through the words, he was already dead."
"..." The young soldier opened his mouth, "You deliberately..."
"Well..." sighed, "I originally thought there would be a good result, I thought... this is certain..."
"Hehe...hehe..." The soldier also laughed sarcastically, and then said: "You will not be able to live if you kill my brother..."
The night wind outside the cave was blowing, and there were faint sounds coming from the bottom of the mountain. The two rested for a while, but Tang Minjie made no movement. The young soldier did not give up. After a while, he said: "Why don't you run?"
After a while, he said again: "What did you do outside?"
Tang Minjie ignored him. Only once did he say, "You killed my brother." When he cursed, he slowly spoke: "It should be called 'comrade.'"
The young soldier seemed to be stunned for a moment, but then he said word by word: "...Are you worthy?"
Tang Minjie stopped talking.
Time passed bit by bit in the wind, and the wind gradually spread at the foot of the mountain. Tang Minjie leaned against the wall of the cave, but he no longer planned to leave. His thoughts were a little chaotic, recalling the peace of the past six months, but
He only had a slight evil thought and ended up killing two more people. He knew that the young soldier in the cave was still gently grinding the rope on his hand against the stone wall. Tang Minjie knew he should stop it, but he was just too lazy to speak.
He even dozed off slightly.
I don’t know what time it was at night, but there was movement outside nearby. Tang Minjie opened his eyes, looked at the soldier on the opposite side, and then raised his long knife: "Don't talk." But the soldier stood up, and the rope behind him did not move.
After untying it, he shouted loudly: "Here -"
This sound tore through the night sky. This was a small hole formed by a depression in the stone wall. The two were not far apart. Tang Minjie swung his hand and the knife was already pressed on the other's neck, but the young man laughed: "Quickly
Come on, here—you do it! Kill me if you dare—"
Tang Minjie didn't take action.
In the darkness not far away, the middle-aged soldier had already rushed over. There was no musket here, and he had a bow in his hand. Tang Minjie held the young soldier in front of him with a knife, but the other man violently
Struggle: "I'm not afraid of death! I dare to take action! You coward! Take action - Lu Tou, Qiu Zishu is dead, he was killed by him. This coward doesn't dare to take action, kill him, kill him -"
Fang Lu held his bow and looked here with red eyes: "My two brothers are dead...who are you?"
"Kill him, Lu Tou, before those people come..."
The young soldier struggled without fear of death. Tang Minjie sighed and let him go. He held the knife, looked at Fang Lu opposite, and shook his head: "Why do you want to do such a thing?"
In the sky, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, but he thought it didn't matter. He decided to stop here.
The peace of the past six months flashed through his mind, but it quickly became distant. What was more in front of him was the howling wind and snow with the smell of blood in the north, which had been haunting him ever since his sister died.
Endless pain. For him, death was a moment that was long overdue.
Lu Mingfang. I have waited too long and wasted my time...