In front of the North Gate

"You can't sleep either?"

The summer wind was also very hot, Shi Jilan was sitting on a boulder not far from the team, and was interrupted by Shi Jichang's meaningless "moon appreciation".

Shi Jilan looked down at him, Shi Jichang had already climbed up and sat beside her.

Shi Jilan called him: "Brother."

"How can I sleep," she said, "today is June tenth."

On June 400th, there were nearly [-] people in the Shi family compound, and two survived, Shi Jichang and Shi Jilan.

When Shi Jichang stood up from the pool of blood, his eyes were almost blinded by his mother's blood, but he heard Shi Jilan's shout, and Shi Jilan called him: "Brother!"

Shi Jichang rushed towards her, opened his eyes covered with coagulated blood, and saw his father's body lying on the ground clearly.

"Brother." Shi Jilan called him crying.

Shi Jichang grabbed her hand, and before walking out of the ground, he took away the only weapon that the Japanese didn't take away, his bow and crossbow.

But later, the crossbow failed to kill any Japanese.

Shi Jichang was very sad to find that with such a great hatred, he was still thirsty and hungry, as if his desire for something to eat was greater than revenge.

During that time, he and Lan'er ate everything.

Scramble leftovers with wild dogs, go to temples to steal hard steamed buns that have been displayed for a long time.

The old man who sells western goods belongs to the second category, grabbing.

Because he looks old and out of town, alone.

For the first time, Shi Jichang used a crossbow to touch the old man's neck, asking him to give him food.

The old man looked up at him, but Shi Jichang hadn't reacted yet, the bow and crossbow had already fallen to the ground, and the wooden things quickly fell apart and fell apart due to the strong force.

Shi Jichang was stunned, he had no time to react, and the old man turned his hands back.

The old man said: "If you don't learn well at a young age, you will be robbed of Taoism."

Before Shi Jichang could speak, Lan'er was the first to cry.

She ran out from behind the big rock, threw a stone at the old man, and said, "You let my brother go, let my brother go."

The old man really let him go.

"There is a younger sister," said the old man, "take it and eat it."

The old man gave them a bowl of rice, which he probably prepared for himself. Before leaving, he gave him an iron knife and told Shi Jichang that this was a compensation for his broken crossbow.

When Shi Jichang was playing with the knife under the moonlit night, Lan'er looked down and said, "Thinking about it now, that old man at that time should be one of the first batch of revolutionaries."

"How to say?" Shi Jichang looked at her.

"It's just a feeling," Lan'er said, "It feels like he is, after so many years, it's not exact."

She adjusted her sitting posture, and continued: "He was too partial back then, why didn't he give me something?"

Shi Jichang also laughed: "I gave you more than half of a bowl of rice back then, isn't that okay?"

"Go away," Lan'er said, "do you eat better than me?"

"I'm letting you in!" Shi Jichang turned up his volume a bit, looked Lan'er up and down on purpose, and said, "If you didn't become a little girly later, I would be like this now? I couldn't love you before , I don’t want you to do anything.”

Jiedao also lets you hide behind.

"What's the use?" Lan'er responded to him, "Then what should I do if you are taken away? Shall I continue to find someone to protect me?"

Shi Jichang looked at her.

"It's what you said. Embroidery is useless, it's useless," she nodded, "I understand now, more than ten years ago, that only guns are useful and knives are useful."

The two calmed down again and went to watch the moonlit night together.

Later, they stumbled into the kitchen of a wealthy family by stealing something by mistake.

The masters of the wealthy families caught them, and without beating or scolding, they pushed up their glasses and asked them if they would participate in the revolution.

Lan'er reacted faster than Shi Jichang, she said: "The revolution killed the Japanese?"

The master said of course, Lan Er stood up, she said to participate.

Later, the two killed a lot of Japanese, which was regarded as a national enmity and a family enmity, so they reported it together.

"Brother, you said that we didn't bury them, and we don't even know where the bodies are. Do they still have spirits in the sky?"

It took a while for Shi Jichang to answer her: "What is the spirit in the sky, superstition."

Lan'er held back the tears that were about to fall, and hit Shi Jichang vigorously: "Go away."

When Lan'er was far away, Shi Jichang raised his head and continued to look at the moon, and said softly, "Yes."

"Bless Lan'er in peace," he said, "and may the war end soon."

The author says:

These two chapters are a bit heavy, and I mainly want to explain my life experience.