The moon shines

Unable to answer.

Is it hard to say, or... can't say?Fang Mengwei turned his head and stared at Mingtai for a while, then turned back to look at the nesting birds.

"The officials in Yan'an are different from here?" he asked.

Mingtai's heart skipped a beat. Faced with such obvious avoidance, Fang Mengwei actually insisted on asking.For a moment, it reminded him of himself back then.

At that time, he had just graduated from the military academy and returned to Shanghai.Knowing that the eldest brother is serving in the Wang puppet government, he also tried every means to pry the truth from the mouths of the eldest brother and Ah Cheng...

However, for a well-trained agent, the old memories are only a flash in the mind.It was more of a professional reflective thinking: Fang Mengwei had read his file as a soldier, and he knew it.But why did Fang Mengwei suddenly ask this question?What exactly does he want to know?own identity?Or is it just a literal question?

Although it took only a second or two to think about these issues, this brief silence was enough for the sensitive Fang Mengwei to notice something.He snorted lightly: "Mr. Ming, the person who is asking you now is Fang Mengwei. It's not Deputy Director Fang of the police station, not Deputy Director Fang of the Criminal Investigation Department, nor the second young master of Fang Xingchang's family." He said " "Fang Mengwei" is very well pronounced.

Mingtai smiled helplessly—if Meng Wei hadn't been on guard, he wouldn't even have exposed such a flaw. "Sorry, professional habits." For a stunned young man like Meng Wei who doesn't follow the routine, it's better to be frank than to hide it. "It's different." Mingtai looked at the sky and replied.

"I think so too." Fang Mengwei only said these four words, but did not continue to ask what was the difference.

Because, there is absolutely no need for this.

Whether it is necessary for work or through his father's relationship, he has come into contact with many officials at all levels, and he can see clearly what the officialdom is like.As for the Communist Party, the Communist Party, and the Party... as a military officer, he cannot read those books.But even if you don't read red books, anyone who is not blind can see the difference between the two parties.Leaving aside, let’s talk about Xie Mulan, He Xiaoyu, and so many young students on the campus of Yanda around him. Their inclinations can explain the problem very well.

Fang Mengwei lowered his head almost subconsciously, and scanned his uniform. The low-key dark black suddenly became extremely dazzling, and an unknown fire burst in his heart. He almost blurted out: "This party and country are already rotten. !"

"Meng Wei!" Mingtai was startled, and hastily stopped him.

Fang Mengwei's anger exploded quickly, and he quickly received it. He smiled self-deprecatingly: "Don't worry, sir, I have a sense of proportion." After speaking, he smiled again, and said seriously: "I haven't thanked you for helping me out."

"Hey, why are you so out of touch!" Mingtai patted him with a smile, this kind of familiar gesture that only a friend would have made Fang Mengwei finally smile from the bottom of his heart.

Even though they have only known each other for only two or three months, they still have a strange sense of trust in him.Fang Mengwei himself felt strange.It seems that that person is not an unidentified agent, but a friend he has known for many years...

I don't know if Mingtai's personal charm is too strong, or he is affected by those strange dreams.Repeating the dream too many times allowed him to extend his trust and dependence on Mr. Su to the same-looking Mingtai.It's ridiculous to think about it.Because in the dream there is a "big beam" that does not exist in history, and a "Mei Changsu" that does not exist at all, to trust someone who has just met...

However, when this idea just came up, it felt as if something was pulling hard on his chest, causing a heart-wrenching pain.Fang Mengwei pressed hard on his chest to suppress the inexplicable sadness.

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Entering June, the battle on the front line became more and more tense, and even the city of Beiping, which was far away from the battlefield, seemed to be able to smell the smoke of gunpowder.As a result, the food supply has become more tense.On the one hand, Fang Mengwei was worried that the food supply would not be able to go to schools and tides, and on the other hand, he was worried that his eldest brother would be sent to perform combat missions.

But in this world, there is nothing to be afraid of.

On the 19th, Fang Mengwei woke up early in the morning and felt that his eyelids were twitching very violently, which made him panic.This has not happened for many years.Fang Mengwei took a deep breath and prayed that nothing would happen to him!I survived the day in a daze, and nothing happened.

But before he was lucky, he received two pieces of news early the next morning:

The communist army attacked Kaifeng, and Fang Mengao's flying brigade was ordered to carry out the bombing mission.

Fang Mengao was arrested for defying military orders and refusing to bomb.

Fang Mengwei's heart sank when he heard the first news, it's over!Let the big brother drop bombs on his own land, can this be all right? !This kind of order will not be carried out [-]% according to the elder brother's temper!Back then, my mother and younger sister died in the Japanese bombing. Even if I held a gun to my elder brother's head, he would never throw the bomb!

but……

As his own younger brother, he can guess what his elder brother is thinking, but in the eyes of outsiders, his elder brother disobeyed the military order and did not bomb the Communist Army. Buckle up a "together"!

Fang Mengwei was startled immediately, this crime is a big one!There was nowhere to vent the anxiety in his heart, and he walked up and down the room in a state of distraught.His father must be more anxious than him, and he didn't eat dinner. At this time, he dared not go to his father.what to do?Who should I ask for it?Fang Mengwei had two questions running through his mind.

The answer slowly came to light - Cui Zhongshi.

His father has been kind to him, and he is very capable in speaking and handling. In the past three years, he has always acted as a mediator between his father and his elder brother. It is really appropriate to ask Uncle Cui to go to Nanjing to dredge the joints.

Fang Mengwei had an idea in his mind, but the matter was so important that he didn't dare to make up his mind alone.What's more, to envoy Uncle Cui, he must inform his father.Although he is afraid to go to his father now, there is still one person he can turn to for help.

"Uncle!" He called Xie Peidong who was going upstairs, and gave Xie Peidong a rough idea of ​​what he had just thought.

Xie Peidong neither nodded nor denied. After thinking carefully for a while, he said, "I'll talk to the president later. If he doesn't object, you can discuss it with Deputy Director Cui. But don't rush this matter, you have to take care of it." Just find out what's going on there."

Fang Mengwei pursed his lips: "I know, don't worry, uncle."

A son denies his father, but a father cannot deny his son.After listening to Xie Peidong's report, Fang Buting sighed quietly after a long silence.Xie Peidong understood that the president agreed.

Within a few days, news came that Fang Mengao was escorted to a military court in Nanjing.The court date is set for July 7th.

As soon as Fang Mengwei got the news, he ran to discuss with Cui Zhongshi. Before he reached his house, he bumped into Cui Zhongshi who was in a hurry on the way.It turned out that the two thought of one place.

After leaving Cui Zhongshi's house, it was already dark.Fang Mengwei walked slowly along the street to calm down the depression in his chest.Going to Nanjing to save people is indispensable. Thinking about how he was full of righteous indignation in front of Mingtai a few days ago when he said that the party and the country were corrupt, and today he was discussing with his father's subordinates how to pay bribes to save his elder brother... How ironic!

Thinking of it this way, not only did the depression in my heart not dissipate, but it added a new blockage.No wonder I was so upright in the dream, presumably because I couldn't ask for it in reality, so I went to the dream to seek compensation.Fang Mengwei was thinking, and suddenly saw a familiar figure coming out of the alley in front of him. The man obviously saw him and waved at him.

Fang Mengwei deliberately looked in the direction he came from: Mao'er Alley. "Visiting friends?"

"No, I'm here to buy candy." Mingtai smiled, a little embarrassed, and explained, "I can't change my eating habits all at once. I haven't eaten sweets for a long time, and I feel panicked."

Fang Mengwei immediately understood, black market.Now you have to rob to buy something in grain stores and non-staple food stores. Naturally, there are unscrupulous merchants who hoard goods and sell them at high prices.He shook his head, indicating that he would not care.

"You seem to have something on your mind." Although the light was not good, Mingtai was keenly aware of something wrong with Fang Mengwei. He was usually silent, but he was always full of energy.However, today there is a bit of "decadence". Such a Fang Mengwei is really rare. "Want to tell me?" he asked.

Fang Mengwei was silent for a while.

"Then I'll walk with you."

The two walked side by side along the old wall, and the surrounding light dimmed little by little in the silence of the two.It wasn't until it was too dark to see the opponent's eyes clearly that Fang Mengwei suddenly said, "I don't want to do it anymore."

Mingtai stopped walking and turned his head away.The young man next to him lowered his head slightly, hiding a pair of beautiful deer eyes in the shadows. "I'm afraid that I'll be like them sooner or later. I'm afraid that one day my elder brother will come back and find that I have become the person he despises the most." There seemed to be a hint of crying in his voice.

This is... what happened in the officialdom?Mingtai knew that it was rare for him to be able to say these heartfelt words to himself, and he should not ask about the details behind it, and he was not qualified to ask. "No." Mingtai raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder, shook his palm firmly, and repeated it with certainty, "No. I believe in you!"

Only then did Fang Mengwei raise his head and look directly at him.With the last glimmer of light in the evening, Mingtai clearly saw that the young man with beautiful eyes had already had red eye sockets.Her thin lips were pursed into a line, as if holding back her crying.So familiar!Mingtai's heart seemed to be hit hard, but he couldn't remember when Fang Mengwei's eyes turned red in front of him.

Before he could continue to think, a tear rolled down from Meng Wei's left eye unexpectedly, quickly brushed across his cheek, and disappeared.Mingtai's hand was faster than his brain, and he arched his fingers and gently slid across his lower eyelids, wiping away the moisture under his eyes.

This action obviously startled the person on the opposite side, a pair of deer eyes widened, and the black jade-like pupils seemed to hit the bottom of people's hearts.Ming Taiming stared blankly like this, and unexpectedly panicked inexplicably, as if he had returned to the age when he first teased a girl, he panicked and wanted to explain: "I..."

"Mr. Ming, thank you." Before he could finish a word, Fang Mengwei solemnly thanked him and stopped him.

Mingtai breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a little blocked in his heart for no reason.