"Give."

The delicate girl handed a coarse grain cake to Summer, who swallowed her saliva and looked at each other in surprise, then took it silently, and then gobbled up the cake into her mouth, and swallowed it after a simple chew, and told the rebellious stomach.

Without asking if there were any such stupid words, he quietly turned his head, not wanting Sister Chuan to see him gobbling up.

"Let me ask you something, have you seen my brother? My brother is a lieutenant in the Sichuan Legion, his company commander died last year, he became a company commander, and he was in charge of many people, and the rest of their division came back, but there were no people from the Sichuan Legion, I waited for him for a long time, by the way, this is a photo of my brother, you see if you recognize it. "Sichuan girl speaks very incoherently, in the language of the summer era, called Meng - it's just that the Meng at that time was praise, and at this time, Meng ......

Often means stupid.

Sister Chuan took out a photo, it was a lieutenant and a photo with her, the lieutenant was serious in the photo, and Sister Chuan was smiling, very cute.

"Have you seen him?" Cautious and expectant inquiry.

Actually, you don't need to look at the photo Summer to know the answer, but looking at the girl who just gave him the cake, he thought: It's better for her not to know.

"I haven't seen it, but I think he must have a mission, you know, being a soldier is to obey orders, go wherever you want to go, and you can't help yourself with an order." It's hard to tell lies in the summer, lies are as simple as drinking cold water to him, even lies like gambling and swearing, he can say a bunch of them without stopping, and when he lied to his senior sister in his freshman year, he couldn't even blush and tell the lie that I thought you wouldn't be able to sleep - he couldn't sleep because he yelled at the animals in the dormitory all night.

But this time, he said it hard, even full of guilt.

"They all say that, but they haven't even written a letter for so long." Chuan Meizi complained bitterly about her brother, and Summer suddenly remembered the one hundred and six people, and they ...... They also have such relatives, their relatives, maybe like this Sichuan girl, are waiting in distress for their relatives who don't know where to go but can never come back after being ordered by the above, right?

Right......

Relatives who don't even have ashes and news.

"Your brother must have written the letter, but you know, it must be very easy to lose the letter these days, and I can't tell if any of Ma Daha accidentally lost the letter." Summer said, probably because he had made up a lie, and now he was much more clever about it.

"Why do you want to lose my brother's, it's really ......" the girl complained dissatisfiedly, and then took out another cake, and without saying a word, she stuffed it into Summer's hand, and said thank you to Summer with a smile, saying, "Then if you meet him, remember to urge him, and let him come and see me quickly." ”

Summer nodded fiercely in agreement, and the girl remembered that she hadn't said her name yet, and said, "My name is Xiao Zui, you remember to say when you meet him, Xiao Zui misses his brother very much." In the midst of the summer's repeated nods, the little drunken girl left happily, forgetting that she had always been the end, and had never said what her last name was, or what her brother's name was.

Watching each other leave, Summer's gaze became extremely complicated.

The hard cake in his hand seemed very heavy at this moment, and Xia resisted the urge to stuff the cake into his mouth, and carefully put it into his pocket - Meng Lian is not a good person, but the two people who ate one bite along the way were all broken and eaten, and they forgot about him when they were hungry just now, so let's keep him for a bite now.

……

In the courtyard of the containment station, in the summer, I saw Deputy Meng Lian, who needed to be supported by himself for daily movement, but ran faster than a rabbit at critical times, but now Deputy Meng Lian was like a dog guarding food, staring nervously at the surrounding routs, and the routs around him, staring at the little food in Deputy Meng Lian's hands.

The routs were swallowing saliva, as vicious and terrifying as hungry wolves.

After the summer came, this episode of the earth dog protecting food, the earth dog coveting, and the earth dog tiger watching also came to an end, and everyone knew that that little bit of food, two people were just cushioning their stomachs.

"Your share." After the summer came, Meng Vice-company divided the food into two, a slightly larger one was naturally his, and the other was summer's, and Summer didn't care, just quietly took out the cake and handed it to Meng Vice-company.

Meng Vice-Lian glanced at Xia in surprise and silently took the cake.

It's tacit.

"We can't do this," Summer whispered after scribbling over the pitiful food, "we need to change our situation." ”

At the first time of the rout, Xia asked Deputy Company Commander Meng what to do, and Deputy Company Commander Meng said that the way was to follow the rout, find a shelter that was willing to receive them, wait for the new troops of the national army, and then they would re-enter the army from the shelter, issue a decent or notable rifle, and continue their previous mission.

This is one of the only ways to get out of the rout, and the other is to take off their military uniforms and walk away - usually only to be caught on the way home or die in a corner where no one is around.

In fact, it is the same fate as continuing to be a rout.

This is the fate of the defeated army, the fate that cannot be chosen and cannot be fought.

"We should act like soldiers." Summer said what she thought.

"Is there anything to eat?" Deputy Meng Lian asked suddenly.

Summer shakes his head.

"Then ......," he said with some amusement, "why do you look like a soldier?" ”

Meng Lian looked at Xia as if he looked at himself a long time ago, when he was a rout for the first time, he didn't want to be like those old fritters, but he ...... Now they are what they are.

In the face of Meng Lian's rhetorical question, Xia Lian's words were blocked for a while, there was no food, why did you ask this group of defeated princes from all walks of life to maintain the appearance of soldiers? To put it mildly, why can't you even stuff your stomach, how can you keep looking like a soldier?

Isn't it just to eat, can't you even eat, what else are you talking about?

In fact, it was not only the summer who wanted to change, but even the major in the courtyard wanted to change - he had been tirelessly trying to change this situation, trying to use his personality charm to dominate the dozens of routs in this courtyard, and now he was doing his own efforts.

"We can't go on like this, we can't be like a plate of loose sand, like a bunch of rogues, we need to change." The Major was pushing his own ideas to others, but his words were met with only mockery.

"If you change, will you have food?"

Someone exposed the cruelest reality, and the major was instantly dumbfounded, and shrank back again in a panic.

It is only natural that soldiers eat food and receive salaries, and without food and salaries, these people are a mess in reality.

"I want to change, I can, what do I want here, I want to change into new clothes? Come to me, just recognize these four words. Mi Long kicked the four words of the business principle he wrote with his foot, venting his indignation as much as possible - a bully in the rout barracks and a black market operator, in fact, he was also a person who had ideals and pursuits, and paid and fought for them.

It's just that......

The cruel reality made him collapse from the northeast all the way here, and then, he realized.

Then, he became a bully in the black market here, an unprovoked existence in the eyes of countless routs, so he began to eat and drink spicy, and he began to live a good life that he could never have imagined before - a group of penniless routs set off his tyrant to the sky.

The people who tried to change shrank back, and everyone just looked at each other and decided to continue living the life they deserved, as if they were resigned to their fate.

Summer is actually very unaccustomed to this kind of resignation - everyone is rotten, rotten and desperate, so desperate that he doesn't want to, he doesn't think it will change, and the numbness makes him very uncomfortable, although he is also so numb in the two years of college, but he has a pursuit, although it is planned to confess to the goddess, but that is also a pursuit, isn't it?

"So how can you make these people change their numbness?"

Summer pondered the question, his eyes darting back and forth through the crowd, and he thought, there is always a way.

Milong is actually the most dazed person - 918 is a pain that everyone in the Northeast can't forget, he was not such a numb person at first, he was a soldier, imagining to do something for the black land in the Northeast and the people there.

But the defeat all the way, the collapse all the way, and the running all the way made his former dream unattainable, and also made him slowly give up the ridiculous thing.

However, he had a dream after all.

He hated these routs, because they were as numb as him, and seeing them was like seeing himself, so he was very accustomed to seeing different things, such as the major in the rout, like the rout called Summer.

The Major gave him a different feeling than the defeated soldiers, the Major was trying to do something - it's just that he was immature and timid, but in front of the defeated soldiers was like a handful of snow in front of a campfire, which melted at the touch of it, and the dragon always thought: sooner or later, this major will become like them, like the officers he has come into contact with, cowardly, pointed, and run......

What about that summer?

That's the only two clean people in the rout, one is a major, the other is Summer, it's just that, seeing Summer shrinking there, the dragon seems to see what Summer will look like in the future, the future, the soldier called Summer, will become the same as everyone here.

The ending of all people's lives seems to be the same, they will all become unified and numb, there is no hope, only outright despair and numbness.

So Milong wants to see more of the Major and Summer, and look at them more before they become like that, otherwise, he won't see such a different appearance in the future.

Lying on the recliner, the dragon watched quietly.

He saw that Summer moved, and when he saw Summer walking towards the Major, and seeing two people who were different from them sitting together, he thought: It's different.

The major, who was always called Ah Yi by the defeated soldiers, looked at the summer who was walking towards him, and showed a strange look.

He has never been on the battlefield, although he is also a rout, but he has not been on the battlefield, just smelling the sound of cannons and becoming a rout, so he is different from the vast majority of routs, he wants to gather the rout and turn them into soldiers.

But this requires a strong personality charisma - and this, it is that he, an officer with the rank of major, with a dazzling academic background but no experience in combat and combat, and leading troops, cannot gain the slightest respect from these old fritters, let alone organize them.

This reminded Ah Yi of the story of Zeng Guofan: repeated defeats and battles......

He never wanted to give up, he didn't want to rot like the rout in the rout, but looking at it, there were so many rout soldiers here, only he was different from them - the easiest way to identify, clean.

He was the only one clean here, and the routs had already resigned themselves to not cleaning up.

By the way, now two clean people, and the other one is now walking towards himself.

"Sir," Xia said hello to Ah Yi after coming over, in fact, he preferred the way of calling the chief, because that kind of army could give him infinite trust.

"Is there something wrong? Oh, sit down ......," Ah Yi said politely and habitually, but after he finished sitting down, he laughed.

Summer didn't smile, but whispered, "Among us, you are the only school officer, I think you should organize us all so that we can be like individuals." ”

"How?" Ah Yi smiled bitterly: "They ...... They don't listen to me. ”

This is the most poignant result that Ah Yi has obtained after countless attempts, and it is also the most incomprehensible result.

Summer lightly uttered two words: "food." ”

Ah Yi smiled bitterly, and said to him that he was now innocent and poor, is there any food?

Of course there is food!

There is food on the black market, and the profiteers and the fat-headed, big-eared stationmasters sell what they have on the black market, earning what little money they have hidden from the routs - but he is really poor, how can he have the money to get food!

"It's easier for a group of people to find food than for one person, as long as you organize the people here to find food, there will always be a harvest, even if it is a clear soup with little water, it is better than nothing, right?" Summer said the plan he was thinking about, Ah Yi's eyes lit up, and then he said dejectedly:

"They...... They won't listen to me. ”

The rout soldiers completely destroyed Ah Yi's self-confidence.

"What if you can? I won't lose anything by trying, I'll go and tell Deputy Meng Lian, he's a lieutenant, you're a major, don't we have two leaders in the food search group? After listening to the summer advice, the unconfident Ah Yi slowly had the urge to give it a try, he thought, or can it?

"Does he agree, then?" Ah Yi pointed to Meng Lian.

"I'll go tell you." Summer ended the exchange with Ah Yi and returned to Meng Lian's vice-president, who was writing a letter at this time - he found paper when he was looking for food, took a treasured pen, and began to write slowly.

Xia stood by and watched Meng Lian write beautiful letters in traditional Chinese.

Meng Vice-Lian finished writing the letter.

"It's kind of fake." Summer whispered to the family letter just now.

It's not a little, it's very fake.

"You know, I'm the kind of person who gave up writing and followed Rong - I have a fiancée, and there are many alumni who encourage and spur me, and they all admire me," Meng said gloomily: "Not only admiration, but also encouragement, they all say that I am the 'pillar of the country', the soul of the Chinese nation is made up of people like me, and the blood of the Chinese nation is dyed by people like me." ”

Summer laughed, as if she had heard the funniest joke, the soul and blood of the Chinese nation were made up of those who fell on the battlefield, dyed by those who gritted their teeth in suffering, and inherited by those who looked for light in despair - how could it not be the turn of these living dead corpses, right?

"Yes, I hate myself, too." Meng Vice-Lian suddenly said violently: "I don't want to be like this, but what can I do?" Every time it's a loss, every time it's a run, every time it's a despair! Am I going to tell them about despair and fiasco and numbness? Do I still have to tell them that the pillars of the country in their eyes are numb and humble here, like stinky rats and stray dogs? ”

"Look, the officials lied to us, we lied to the family, everyone was lying, deceiving everyone to keep cutting flesh and bleeding from their bodies, and deceiving them to grit their teeth to persist in this war."

Summer sat on the ground dumbfounded.

After a long time, he said, "We will win." ”

"Yes, we will win, little Japan will lose, their tactics are rigid, they do unrighteous acts, they swallow elephants with the body of snakes, they will ......definitely lose," Meng Lian said the slogan he had said countless times, and continued to say the picture that countless people dreamed of and falsely portrayed: "We will drive the Japanese away, and we will take back the lost land little by little, until the Japanese mainland ......"

His voice was very loud, but no one reprimanded, all the rotten routs, but no one scolded and dissatisfied, just immersed in the lies repeated by Meng Deputy Company, immersed in that wonderful picture.

The beautiful and mesmerizing picture.

No one is going to deny this picture, they are convinced that it will appear, but ......

But what does it have to do with them?

They're just a bunch of rotten routs,

Numbness, despair.

Summer saw in the looks of all the defeated soldiers the indomitable spirit of this nation in the midst of suffering, and he thought: When they take up arms, I, a descendant, have no right to despise them.

After Meng Lian finished venting, he slowly crumpled the finished letter into a ball - he tried to send the letter when he was cynical, but after venting, he was ashamed and couldn't convince himself to send it.

Xia silently watched Deputy Meng Lian crumple the letter into an indestructible small ball, and said softly: "We can set up a food search group, how about it?" ”

"A group of people starving together in a food group...... Well, it's better for a group of people to go hungry than for one person to starve. Meng Lian said with a smile, he knew that this was the effort of the person in front of him, and he wanted to fight, but he found that, in fact, it was good to do so.

Major A Yi and Lieutenant Meng Fu finally had a meeting, and under a soldier called Summer, the two officers began to study the matter of finding food - almost a one-man show that Meng was tired of, because Major A Yi's eyes and hands were low, so that he didn't understand what the rout needed at all, and this was exactly what Meng Fu was good at, after all, it was not a matter of once or twice that he became a rout.

Meng was annoyed and began to collect people in the rout, promoting his food search group - many of the rout soldiers chose to join, after all, in their simple view, the more people there are, the easier it is to rob, but not all the rout soldiers choose to join, such as the lost dragon, which is sneering and cold-eyed, and such as Li Wula, who is numb and disdainful.

But in any case, this small organization that wants to fill its stomach and has nothing to do with dignity was simply established in this courtyard, and more than half of the soldiers in the courtyard chose to join, promising that under the leadership of the team leader A Yi and the deputy team leader Meng Fu, everyone will find food and share.

And at the next moment, the deputy team leader Meng was annoyed and his least favorite name was called out by the rout:

"Excuse me, should we start looking for food now?"

The deputy team leader, who felt offended again, said, "Yes, start looking now!" Go find food! ”

Summer watched the defeated soldiers who had found the organization go out like headless flies, and thought: Hunger and huddling together for warmth are probably the reasons why the Beggar Gang can be established, right?

The dragon lying on the recliner laughed disdainfully, but he was thinking: Hey, it's really weird, a group of routs are really organized?