After several years of construction, a black asphalt road has been built here. The supplies no longer have to be carried on people's backs, and the beautiful Jiefang brand trucks shuttle on the asphalt road. The crude oil will be sent to the temporary truck station, and then the materials from the mainland to support Xinjiang will be transported back. The willow villages on both sides of the road are lined with shade, and the workers who have been busy for a day have time for leisure chatting.

The hospital is a three-story building built in a dormitory. On the first floor, when you enter the hospital building, there is a lobby, and on the left side of the hall are the outpatient clinics, and on the right side is the office area. The eldest sister is still the dean, and Xiaoyu is already the director of surgery. The offices of the two are next to each other, and Xiaoyu benefits from the help of her eldest sister like a mother, whether she works or lives. Especially in my work, with the help of my eldest sister's 20 years of experience in the war and teaching by word and deed, the surgical technique has been perfected, which is called a knife here. For the convenience of doctors and nurses, the dormitory and the hospital are separated by a wall. Although Xiaoyu and the eldest sister are both single, they are both leaders, and each has an independent single room.

Xiaoyu is plumper than before, and there are shallow crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. In order to cover up the year when he was about to step into the future, he wore a white-framed glasses, which showed a stronger sense of intellectuals. No matter how she changes the decoration, the essence of beauty will never change. It has become a topic of discussion behind people's backs, especially when she and her eldest sister are tired of being together all day long, and it has become a topic of discussion among young doctors and nurses in the hospital. Because of the strict management of the eldest sister and the secretary and dean, she was later called the old queen mother. Xiaoyu is the director of surgery, and she has a lot of contact with the eldest sister herself at work, and the two old virgins are just happy together!

In the fifties, there was no television, and there was no radio in Xinjiang. The eldest sister has recently started to sleep poorly, which is a symptom of the elderly. She didn't feel old in her heart, only in her early fifties. The hands and feet are still very flexible. It's just that the gray hair is increasing day by day, and the memory is not as good as before. That day, she accidentally found a black spot on the back of her hand, and the sensitivity of her profession made her heart sink a little. Do you have age spots? I hurriedly put on reading glasses, and when I looked closely, it was indeed age spots. She felt a panic in her heart, did she want to grow old in this desert place?

If you retire one day, a lonely person, facing the endless desert every day, will soon become senile dementia! She also had the heart to find a wife, but it was full of soldiers who had been collectively demobilized by the army, and some skilled workers transferred from the mainland were bringing their families. She regretted letting Xiaoyu come here, if Xiaoyu was still in the mainland, maybe someone suitable would have already started a family. After she retires, she can go to Xiaoyu and live with them, the two of them go to work, and she cooks for them at home while watching the children. The children gathered around her knees, and the screams of grandma and grandma were also a joy for families! Now Xiaoyu can't find Liang Guocheng, and he can't get a different surname, so he can't start a family. Every day, two women are together, and when they hear young doctors and nurses talking, it is always not a good feeling in their hearts!

Recently, the eldest sister has been anxious and has a sense of urgency. She had no hope in herself, because there were no one of her age. She hopes that Xiaoyu can become a family, and she can also integrate into their family and live like a family. She chatted with Xiaoyu and asked Xiaoyu tentatively, but at first she resolutely refused to look for it, and her head shook like a rattle, so she had to give up temporarily. A few days later, the company held a group wedding for several young workers, and the eldest sister and Xiaoyu were invited to participate.

In that era of work first and life later, weddings were the biggest entertainment, and almost everyone who was not at work went to the wedding site. The wedding scene was crowded, the wedding was lively, everyone present was infected, and the wedding reached in a joy. People can think of themselves most when they are excited, the eldest sister's heart is dripping blood, thinking of her lover who lost contact on the Long March, her mouth is laughing, her heart is crying, and she can't hold back tears in her eyes. Xiaoyu covered her face and ran out. The eldest sister chased out, and Xiaoyu was already crying.

Halfway through the wedding, the two of them no longer had the heart to be happy, so they left the wedding scene in advance and walked to their workplace. Along the way, the two of them were silent, each thinking about their own thoughts. The eldest sister doesn't have much hope for her marriage. She has been thinking about finding an opportunity to persuade Xiaoyu to give up her old family match and choose a marriage partner from among these young workers. She also knows that the hardest thing in the world is to forget her lover. She herself is the best example of this, having been celibate all her life in order to keep a promise. Now that I'm older, I feel lonely and planning for my retirement.

If she had admitted the reality a few years earlier, she would have found a lover to marry and have children. Now maybe the children and grandchildren are around the knee and enjoy the joy of family. I won't come to this desert, where the sand is flying in the summer and the snow is cold in the winter. She treats Xiaoyu as her own child and doesn't want Xiaoyu to follow in her footsteps. Although this is also a substitute for her own plans after retirement, there are more elements for her sake.

Xiaoyu was crying all the way, she shed tears for Liang Guocheng, and she also shed tears for herself. She couldn't figure it out, Liang Guo was full of enthusiasm, responded to the call of the motherland, and fought for the country to enter the war, how could it be like evaporating from the world, and she couldn't see anyone dead or dead. If it is like the eldest sister who heard that she was captured, there should always be an explanation at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. When working in the mainland over the years, she never missed the opportunity to inquire, and no one could accurately tell him about Liang Guocheng's situation.

After dinner that night, the eldest sister sat bored in a daze. In that era of political leadership, there were no entertainment activities in their spare time, most people got off work and had nothing to do, they were bored after eating, and the electric lights were limited for two hours at night, and when the time came, they had to go to bed.

There is no power limit in the hospital, and it is Xiaoyu's turn to be on duty at night. After she took over, she checked the room as usual, nothing serious, and returned to the director's office.

In the past few days, Lian has participated in several weddings, not only was she not infected by the lively celebrations, but she missed Liang Guocheng even more, and she felt uncomfortable. At this time, the door opened, and the eldest sister walked in. The eldest sister knew that she was in a bad mood when she attended the wedding, and wanted to persuade her to give up waiting for Liang Guocheng while the iron was hot, because after so many years, there was no news. The eldest sister is a regimental cadre who has been transferred to another job and has a certain network in the army. She asked someone to inquire about it in the official, unlike Xiaoyu, who could only ask about a group of soldiers.

Under the circumstances of the time, the number and list of the volunteers captured by the enemy were kept secret. Ordinary soldiers don't know at all, and knowing a little is also chasing after the wind. Unheard of official inquiries, she suspected that he might have died in a prisoner of war camp or had died when the enemy captured him. In order not to make Xiaoyu more painful, she didn't tell Xiaoyu. can only persuade her euphemistically, when she reaches her age, not to mention that she can't meet the right one, even if she has the right one, she can't have children and can't be a complete woman, it will be a woman's lifelong regret!

After the eldest sister sat down, she was worried about going straight to the topic, and Xiaoyu was disgusted, and chatted with her about the last few surgeries. Xiaoyu has put her feelings in her stomach in the past few years, studied more technology, and her eyes lit up when it came to surgery. After talking for more than an hour, the time for the fire has arrived, and if you don't change the topic, today's thoughts will be wasted again. Because although the hospital does not have power outages, only important places such as wards, surgical diseases, etc. are allowed to have lights, and places such as office corridors must also have power rationing.

Suddenly, there was a chaotic sound of feet outside, as if there were more than a dozen people coming from afar. Someone: "Doctor! Doctor! Called. There was often anxiety and terror in his voice. The doctor's professional sensitivity is that there is an emergency and a critically ill patient in need of emergency care is brought in. Xiaoyu hurriedly stood up and handed a doctor's pendant on the back of the chair to the eldest sister.

A dozen people dressed in oily overalls, carrying a man of the same age with a pained expression on their hands and feet, came to them in a panic. Almost in a pleading tone: "Doctor! Save him? Please! Save our captain? "It seems that these workers and the injured people have a different relationship." Send the injured to the emergency room! Xiaoyu is like giving orders.

The rescue room here was a separate room under the conditions of the time. Inside there is a bed, an oxygen cylinder. Workers carried the injured into the rescue room and put them on the rescue bed. Xiaoyu turned on the light and was about to cut the clothes of the injured person with scissors, when she accidentally saw the face of the injured person and saw that it was Liang Guocheng lying there. She screamed, the scissors in her hand fell to the ground, and she threw herself over and hugged the wounded man's face with both hands. The wounded were already in shock, and there was no expression of pain on all their faces. Due to internal bleeding, his face was miserable and pale, quiet like a deceased.

"Guocheng!" Xiaoyu screamed heartbreakingly. He stepped forward and hugged the wounded and began to cry. It seems that he wants to release the resentment that has been held in the past few years. When he felt that he had returned to China and was in a unit in Xinjiang with her, he did not come to her, so she kept waiting hard. complained in his mouth: "You have no conscience? You have no conscience! ”

The injured co-workers were made stupid. They were all soldiers of a company that was collectively demobilized, and the wounded were in the unit who was their company commander and now the leader of their drilling team. They are all like brothers, they talk about everything, and they have never heard of any doctors. You look at each other, I look at you, I don't know whether to persuade or what to do?

The eldest sister is really happy for Xiaoyu, and after a few years, it finally came to fruition. After thinking about it, I think this is too much of a coincidence? In North Korea, he heard from his comrades-in-arms that he had been captured, and he was never heard from again. It is generally believed that after being seriously wounded and captured, he died in a prisoner of war camp where his wounds worsened. I have also not heard of the exchange of prisoners of war, and now it has suddenly appeared, and it seems unlikely. Did you recognize the wrong person? After attending the wedding today, Xiaoyu has been emotional and almost came back in tears. From a medical point of view, if a person looks a little alike, lying down and falling asleep or fainting and has no expression on his face, he will be more likely to recognize mistakes. If the two people who look particularly long like live normally, every habitual action, a look; A small change in the face can tell the difference between the two.

The eldest sister asked the worker who carried the injured, "What is the patient's name?" How old is it? ”