The River Flows East to the Whistle

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Jiang Liu woke up on a very soft bed.

Surrounded by white walls, and the smell of disinfectant.

"Student Jiang Liu, you're awake, I'll call you a doctor." A young nurse with heavy make-up ran out smiling.

where is thisJiang Liu sat up and looked around. It was obvious that this was a ward, and he was alone, with green trees and sunshine outside the window.

Why are you here?It was clear before... the tide of memory came rushing over, Jiang Liu hugged his head, Jizo's eager face, Li Xuan's scream, what happened?

"Student Jiang Liu, please lie down quickly." The doctor who walked in quickly made Jiang Liu think it was Li Xuan in a white coat for a moment, and then found that it was an unfamiliar face.

The doctor walked up to Jiang Liu with a smile, "Do you have a little headache? Is there any other discomfort?"

Jiang Liu shook his head.

The doctor seemed relieved, "That's great. First of all, let me tell you that you are absolutely safe here, and no one will hurt you again."

What's the meaning?Jiang Liu looked at the doctor suspiciously, and he judged instinctively that neither the doctor nor the nurse was a sentinel or a guide.

"This is the Sanatorium of the Black Gold Topaz United Military Region. A week ago, you fainted from exhaustion and were sent here by the military doctor."

is that so?Jiang Liu slowly remembered, only thinking of the darkness and the sound of dense rain.

"Here, on behalf of the Imperial Military Ethics Management Committee, I would like to express my apologies to you."

ah?Jiang Liu raised his head suspiciously.

"Sun Pan, the Chief of Staff of the Military Field Guide Corps, violated the regulations to implement the Lighthouse Project and was suspected of seriously violating the human rights of guides. He is currently being investigated by his superiors. Many young guides like you were sent to the front line to participate in high-intensity combat activities. I was hurt. The Tang Empire has always implemented all-round protection for guides, and will not allow such things to happen, so you are safe here."

The doctor's smile reminded Jiang Liu of flattering his superiors and subordinates, but he didn't know why he had this attitude towards himself.

"After you recover in our hospital, you will be sent to Tali, which is located in a safe inland area, to receive formal training as a guide. Therefore, we hope that during this time, our services will satisfy you."

Jiang Liu looked at the doctor and nurse in front of him coldly.Suddenly a fragment of memory entered the brain, and the tall figure fell down amidst the sound of gunfire.

"Ksitigarbha! How is Jizang? Where is he?" Jiang Liu jumped up from the bed in an instant, and was pushed back by the doctors and nurses.

"Mr. Jiang Liu, don't get excited, you are safe, those people will not hurt you again." The doctor comforted Jiang Liu, but turned around and instructed the nurse in a low voice, "Bring the sedative."

"Tell me, what happened to Li Xuan and the others!" Jiang Liu shouted as he pushed the doctor.

"Li Xuan? Is that the military doctor?" The nurse asked the doctor suspiciously, "Send him here with that tall soldier? The soldier still has a wound on his shoulder. Send him here, and the two of them left .”

A tall soldier with a wound on his shoulder, it seems that both of them are fine, Jiang Liu secretly heaved a sigh of relief, let go of the doctor's arm, and calmed down.

The doctor looked at Jiang Liu vigilantly, then quietly put the sedative in his pocket back into his pocket, turned around and whispered to the nurse, "The mental state is not stable yet, remember not to stimulate him."

Then he turned to Jiang Liu, smiled and said, "Don't worry, you will never be sent to the front line again. The only thing you have to do during this period is to rest. If you have any needs, please tell this nurse."

He will not be sent to the front line again, that is to say, he will never see those people again. For a moment, Jiang Liu thought of Li Xuan's tired face, those sentries who asked him for help, and Jizo who hugged him.

Suddenly there was a stabbing pain in his neck, Jiang Liu stretched out his hand, and accidentally touched the neck, there were many circular raised wounds, Jiang Liu's heart was churning, he remembered the hug with Jizo, the interrupted union.

"Mr. Jiang Liu, you don't look very well, do you need any help?" The nurse asked earnestly.

"Get out." Jiang Liu said coldly. "I want to be quiet."

The doctor and nurse looked at each other, then left without making a sound, and the ward became quiet.

Jiang Liu touched the scar on his neck and looked out of the window silently. Could it be that everything has passed like this and he will never see those people again?

Jiang Liu fell into deep thought.

In the next few days, Jiang Liu received meticulous care in the ward. Three nurses and one doctor kept showing up every day, asking questions with a smile on their faces.

Can everyone who comes down from the battlefield get such treatment?But Jiang Liu's spiritual thread did not detect any emotion of gratitude or concern.

One day, the conversation between two little nurses at the bedside answered Jiang Liu's doubts. The two nurses thought that Jiang Liu was fast asleep, so they chatted unscrupulously by the bedside.

"This little boy grows up quite well, but he just ignores people. Has he ever talked to you?"

"nor."

"Oh, I still want to have a good relationship with him. You know, when they are sent to the tower, they will marry high-ranking officials in a few years. At worst, they will be ministers or something. We must treat them well now, and find them in the future." They do something, maybe they can promote you. What are you talking about, Sentinels, all of them are tall and handsome, and they get promoted and get rich very quickly, oops..."

"Listen to what you said, I wish I could marry myself."

"I can't get married. I heard that a sentry must be paired with a guide. Alas, what a pity. Do you know? In the first half of the year, I also met the commander-in-chief of the Black Gold Military Region, a very handsome middle-aged man Man, super mature, super secure."

"How did you see it? Are you on the front line?"

"How could I go to that kind of ghost place, he brought his guide here."

"Is his guide ill?"

"It seems to be, but I don't know the specific situation. At first, I thought that for such a high-ranking official, the wife must be a beautiful woman, but I never expected it to be a man, thin and sickly."

"Don't talk nonsense, I just remembered what I said. Others said that the guide is very beautiful, with eyebrows and eyes like a woman, and he is a field military doctor."

"What's the use of being pretty? She's almost 40 years old, and she's old and thin. If you ask me, the officer should be replaced by a younger girl."

"However, I heard that once the sentinel and guide are combined, they cannot be changed for a lifetime."

"It seems to be so, so these guides should hang up a promising sentry while they are young, and then guarantee it for the rest of their lives. I also heard that Commander Heijin and his guide were like this back then. They were originally arranged for the commander. He was a female guide, but let the military doctor take advantage of the loophole, seduce the sentinel and the two of them to sleep while the officer was home on vacation, after sleeping, there was nothing he could do, for this, the commander was punished a lot, at that time There is a lot of trouble in the army."

"You mean, they were two men sleeping together?"

"Yes, I heard that their sentinel guides can sleep regardless of gender."

"Ah, that's disgusting!"

"Yes, there are even more disgusting things. I heard that sentries need guides to comfort them on the battlefield, but now there are not enough guides, so they can only one-to-many. The method of comfort is said to be, oh, I can't say it .”

"Hey, isn't that like a comfort woman?"

"Keep your voice down, don't you know? It seems that this is the one who couldn't take it anymore, almost died, and was carried back. When he first came, his body was full of marks. So, in front of him, you must not mention these things. .”

"I won't mention it, I won't mention it, but he is so pitiful, those sentinels are so perverted."

At this time, a doctor outside the door called two nurses over, interrupting their chat. After the two left in a hurry, Jiang Liu opened his eyes.

It turned out that this is how the outside world viewed sentries and guides. He remembered how the sentries on the front line staggered into the counseling room covered in blood, and how those 1.8-meter-high men were tortured by sensory overload to the point of crying. There is cruelty they face on the battlefield.

Although the job in the counseling room is hard work for Jiang Liu, it is undeniable that every sentinel showed the greatest restraint. No one ever underestimated himself, and some were only grateful and apologetic. Jiang Liu remembered that he would rather A sentinel who shoots himself in the chest.

If they leave by themselves, who will take care of them?There is also Li Xuan, and Ksitigarbha.Jiang Liu clutched his chest, thinking of the tall sentinel, his chest felt as if there was a solid thread pulling on it, and it ached.

Jiang Liu covered his head with a quilt and forced himself to fall asleep, but at night, he dreamed of that tall figure again and again.

"In a week, you will be discharged from the hospital." After the routine examination in the morning, the doctor smiled and said to Jiang Liu. Jiang Liu looked out the window and did not answer.Without waiting for Jiang Liu's reaction, the doctor added without giving up, "The superiors know about your matter, and all departments attach great importance to you, so you will be sent to the capital tower in the inland safe area."

Inland?Jiang Liu's heart was shaken. Indeed, inland means safety, away from the battlefield, but...

"How is Hei Jin's battle going?" Jiang Liu asked suddenly. This was the first time he had been admitted to the hospital, and the doctors and nurses were taken aback.

"Is it the front line?" The doctor and the nurse looked at each other. "We don't know much about it. It's some distance away from the front line... I think your health is important now, so don't worry too much about these things."

"Yes." The little nurse standing aside interjected, "Wars are the work of the sentries. We usually don't care about them, and they won't hit us anyway."

"Student Jiang Liu," the doctor interrupted the nurse, "Your mental state is not very stable now, we suggest that you should not touch those information, so as not to affect your mood."

Jiang Liu looked blankly at the two people in front of him. He suddenly felt that it was worthless. He was protecting such a group of people for the sentries who were desperately fighting on the front line.

"Then, you rest more, we have to see other patients." Seeing Jiang Liu's complexion, the doctor hurriedly stood up and prepared to leave, but the little nurse next to him suddenly interrupted again: "Yes, we still have to go to the sentinel In the ward, there was a sentinel sent with you, who was shot in the chest, and it should also be black gold."

The sentinel who was shot in the chest, Jiang Liu was stunned, could it be...

"His hair is chestnut, a little long?" Jiang Liu asked.

"Yes, it was tied up in the back when it came. You could have asked him, but he's been in a sensory fugue. He's been in a coma for more than two weeks, and he's dying."

"Let's go!" The doctor angrily interrupted the little nurse's chatter, and pushed the nurse out of the ward while apologizing.

When they went out, Jiang Liu was still sitting on the bed. He didn't expect that the sentinel who stopped himself for himself was also living in this hospital. The excitement slowly rose in his body, and he was here too!