Chapter 22 Friends, Goodbye (Part 2)
"Are you a lie?"
Yang Huimin really didn't want to believe that this man who could only be described as a cold-blooded butcher was the big boy who proudly raised his right hand in a cold and numb world when she needed support the most. Although he didn't like to talk much, although he never had any expression on his face, he only knew to follow her silently, at that time, at least he made people feel that he was a living person.
Yang Huimin could still clearly remember that when Lei Zhen squatted down and carefully treated the scars on her arm, the tenderness on his face was slightly revealed. He was so focused at that time that even his eyes became gentle. But now... the big boy is gone.
When Lei Zhen turned his head and faced his eyes that were so cold that it was almost impossible to tolerate any emotional fluctuations, Yang Huimin's body trembled slightly involuntarily.
"Put your tears that are not worth a copper coin... No, sorry, I'm wrong. You look pretty good. If you go to get a broken bowl of rice, you can really cheat one or two copper coin than me. Now you should know that there is no use for us, you can only be fools with some props, right?"
Feeling Yang Huimin's changes, Lei Zhen's eyes became even colder. He raised his chin, pointed to Suzhou River, and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to be caught by the Japanese, I don't want to be dragged back like a dead dog. If you rape it until death, use your good nature and roll back with your tail as soon as possible! Get out quickly, don't drag me down like a peacock dog!"
No wonder he never speaks. It turns out that when he opens his mouth, he is so sinister and mean.
"Lei Zhen, I hate you, I hate you so much!"
Yang Huimin was really injured. No one had ever spoken to her in this tone in his life, and no one stared at her with such disdain. Yang Huimin covered her face and jumped out of the trench. She cried while rushing towards the Suzhou River that was already close to her. When she jumped hard, she finally jumped into the Suzhou River, allowing the tears that gushed out of her eyes and mixed with the Suzhou River water, Yang Huimin used all her strength to slap the river water beside her, and swam straight to the other side of the Suzhou River through diving under the water.
When Yang Huimin finally swam to the other side of the Suzhou River, before she could climb to the shore, she was surrounded by hundreds of Chinese people who rushed to the river. The Japanese soldiers on the ground and the patrol boats anchored on the Suzhou River did not attack her anymore. Yang Huimin was finally safe.
When Yang Huimin subconsciously turned around and looked for Lei Zhen, who should have jumped into the Suzhou River and swam to the safe area, Yang Huimin suddenly saw Lei Zhen, who was standing in the trench on the other side of the Suzhou River, was facing her, waving his arm, as if saying goodbye to her.
Yang Huimin looked at Lei Zhen blankly, staring at the dog that was too fierce and too tame, which was lying beside Lei Zhen, and when her eyes glanced over Lei Zhen and inserted it in a strange angle, Yang Huimin suddenly reached out to cover her mouth and made an undepressing cry: "Oh my God!"
Until this time, Yang Huimin suddenly remembered that when she had just experienced a life-and-death battle and was sitting in the trenches crying silently at a corpse, she vaguely heard a few depressing screams, and the sound of her teeth tearing her flesh. Yang Huimin even remembered that the young Japanese soldier who was only eighteen or nineteen years old was still slowly flowing down her face, and the knife wound that penetrated her chest.
I understand, everything is understood.
Yang Huimin finally understood why there was only one wounded soldier on the battlefield after just experiencing a fierce battle. It was because Lei Zhen and his son were sitting there crying, using the bayonet in his hand to open a road to the Sihang Warehouse for her! He silently watched her alone, climbed into the Sihang Warehouse, and experienced the happiest and most solemn flag-raising in his life.
After he completed all this, no one withdrew from the British Concession and just waited for her silently.
But……
Why didn't he jump into the river?
Why didn't he swim over?
Didn’t he know that if he missed this opportunity, he would never be able to escape?
Lei Zhen pointed at Suzhou River and shook it again.
Yang Huimin still clearly remembers what Lei Zhen said at that time: "I can't swim."
"The Suzhou River is not wide, so I carry a stone and I can walk directly from the bottom of the river."
"Go away, you're so angry." After hearing this, Yang Huimin was really angry and anxious. "Please use your stupid and stupid head. Can you think about it carefully? This section of Suzhou River looks only twenty or thirty meters wide, but it's full of mud. I don't know how much garbage you threw in, and the waste discharged from factories on both sides of the Taiwan Straits are so dark that it's like you don't know a little water-related. In the middle of the night, a landslide like you, who walks into the Suzhou River with a stone in your arms, will die in the mud. If you have to hold a stone and force it to cross the Suzhou River, I think you might as well buy a piece of tofu and hit it to death directly, so that you don't have to be a drowning ghost, and you're just going to die!"
Yang Huimin really didn't expect that Lei Zhen finally walked step by step from under the Suzhou River to the other side of the Sihang Warehouse. Now facing the enemy that had been forced, facing the patrol boats that would pour out the next row of bullets on the Suzhou River once no one suppressed him. Lei Zhen had no chance or time at all, and he would walk across the Suzhou River with another stone.
Looking at the girl who was already crying on the ground across the Suzhou River, Lei Zhen reached out to stroke his son's head and said softly: "Yang Huimin, we are cleared."
Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, Lei Zhen gently let out a long breath, raised the rifle in his hand again, and put the rifle's sight onto a Japanese soldier. Vaguely, through the rifle's sight, Lei Zhen seemed to see the gentle smiles of his mother and two sisters again.
"Mom, sister, are you here to pick me up?" Lei Zhen whispered in his heart: "I'm sorry, I can't continue to report to you, nor can I kill all the ghost soldiers. Before I left the village, I swear to myself that I, Lei Zhen, will never hide behind women in my life! Mom, sister, you... don't blame me!"
Just as Lei Zhen was about to pull the trigger again, he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Boy, are you fucking stupid? What kind of hero is pretending to be alone in front of him?"
Lei Zhen turned his head suddenly, and in the ruins of a small attic that had just been bombarded by the Japanese army with a platoon, a platoon leader with blood in his arms, stretched his neck and shouted at him: "Stop running over quickly, let's cover you. Even if you are determined to die, come here to accompany us to finish, and you can have a fucking companion on the road!"
Seeing that in this situation, Lei Zhen was still lying in the trench in the front, the platoon leader was really anxious, and he shouted angrily: "You are holding a broken gun in front of you alone. Hundreds of Japanese people rushed over. If their machine guns are fired, you can't even lift your head. If you can hold on there for three minutes, I will fuck you as a father! We have heavy machine guns here, so many bullets can be used as firecrackers. We have grenades, machetes and bayonets, biscuits and water, and can also get firepower support in the warehouse. Before being beaten into a honeycomb by the Japanese, you can at least fight to the death with your sloppy gun technique..."
The platoon leader's roar stopped abruptly because he had seen a man and a dog who had thrown away all the weapons in his hand and ran towards them with all his might.
Chapter completed!