Ye Chuchu watched Sun Hui fall asleep, got up and sat in front of the observation window, observing the situation around her, when her eyes fell on the burning city in the distance, she remembered the current situation, her heart was confused and sad, and she couldn't help but burst into tears. It's just that she covered her mouth with her hands and endured it so that she didn't let herself cry.

At dawn the next day, Sun Hui got up and found that he was the last to wake up, the girls had taken turns on duty last night, and they didn't call him again, and they had made breakfast early, and after seeing him get up, they gave it to him, which moved him in his heart.

After eating, Wang Linlin remembered the German boy in the cellar and wanted to see how he was, so Sun Hui accompanied her to the cellar.

Wang Linlin packed some meat foam and mashed potatoes in a lunch box and sent them to the German boy. The wounded German soldier had eaten only a little of the food that the girls had left for him the previous evening, and it seemed from all odds that his wounds had worsened. He looked at Wang Linlin and Sun Hui with inflamed eyes, licked his dry lips, only ate a few bites of mashed potatoes on Wang Linlin's hands, and then took a sip of the steaming hot tea. His hands were wet and hot.

"What are we going to do with you?" Wang Linlin sighed, shook her head and asked, "How can we help you?" Where are we going to find you a doctor where there is nothing but death and destruction? ”

The German boy did not speak, only smiled bitterly. Wang Linlin feared that he would die in the darkness of the cellar, so she melted some oil on the fire, twisted a thin wick out of rags, lit the lamp, and placed it in a corner of the cellar.

The flickering light barely illuminated the emaciated child's face of the German. He looked at the light for a long time without blinking, then stretched out his hands to Wang Linlin, and said like the first moment they met: "Mom! Mom! ”

Wang Linlin understood, and it was impossible for her not to understand: she was the last person this doomed German could see in her life. In this painful and solemn moment of his farewell to life, there was in her everything that bound him back to the people—his loved ones, the sky, the sun, the land of his native Germany, the woods, and the whole wonderful world that was slowly departing from the consciousness of the dying. Wang Linlin also understood: his thin and dirty hands and eyes full of prayer and despair, but gradually dimmed, expressed the dying man's hope that she could save his dying life and help him drive away death......

All the losses, all the losses and pains that Wang Linlin had endured in these terrible days pressed on her heart and burst out, and she couldn't help crying bitterly. She threw her head on the hands of the German boy, a lock of uncombed wet hair covering the face of the dying, and she cried loudly, as if she were saying goodbye to life.

Sun Hui watched her weep silently, and did not know how to comfort her for a moment, he knew that the several deaths she had seen in these two short days full of fear and blood had merged with her simple thoughts; She snuggled into tears as she leaned into the German boy's hot hands and tear-stained face, and the German boy stroking her slender, delicate, but now slightly rough hands, with his own hands, slower and slower, and whispered, "Mommy...... Mommy ......"

The German boy gradually lost consciousness in front of her. There was an uneven snorting and gasping sound in his exposed, bandaged chest, his lips trembling, and his wide-open eyes staring at Wang Linlin were expressionless—there was neither pain nor sadness, only a strange, mysterious, distant look from everything—a look that always came to man with the last line that no one could see distinguishing between life and death.

Wang Linlin sat motionless next to the German boy with her hands on her knees, not letting go of his hands that were gradually getting colder. Through the gap in the entrance of the uncovered cellar, she saw that the sun had risen, so she carefully stood up, blew out the lamp, and opened the opening. A fresh cool breeze blew into the cellar, slightly stroking the feeble blonde hair on the German boy's head.

The German boy is finally dead. Wang Linlin closed his eyes, smoothed his loose hair with his palm, and put a hand on his forehead, which was gradually cooling. She stared at the boyish face for a long time, sat for a while, dried her eyes, and stood up silently.

Sun Hui watched her get up, knowing that at this moment, this originally innocent, kind, weak and delicate girl should become stronger.

The two left the cellar and returned to the tank, Xiao Tiantian originally wanted to joke with Wang Linlin again, but seeing the red circles in her eyes, she knew that the German boy must be dead, so the joke was not spoken.

The five of them discussed what to do next, and Ye Chuchu asked Sun Hui, since it was already very close to Leningrad, would it be safer to enter this heroic city now? When Sun Hui heard this, she immediately denied her idea.

Sun Hui told the girls that after they entered Leningrad, it would be difficult for them to come out again, and their chances of survival would be greatly reduced.

Sun Hui talked about one of her old neighbors, a very funny old Russian lady who came to China with her grandson and lived next door to his house.

The old lady is over 90 years old, she has been to China when she was young, and she speaks Chinese fluently, and it is not difficult for Sun Hui to communicate with her, because she is close and knows that Sun Hui is interested in history, sometimes the old lady will take the initiative to chat with Sun Hui, who is unemployed at home, and invite him to eat some delicious food.

But the first time she ate at the old lady's house, Sun Hui found that the old lady liked to lick the bottom of the plate.

Seeing Sun Hui's doubts, the old lady smiled and told Sun Hui about her experience.

The old lady said that when eating in the restaurant, she also likes to look for the old man who licks the plate after the meal. She said that there is no need to talk to such people, there will also be a collision of hearts, "This is a symbol, it represents that we have common habits and experiences." ”

The old lady's name was Ravonya, a native of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) during World War II, and during the siege of the city from 41 to 44, she lost eight relatives and almost died herself. Although she is old now, she still remembers everything she has experienced, and she will tell it to others when she has the opportunity. "People should know what's going on there." She said.

She told Sun Hui that when the huge white mushroom cloud rose from the sky, 16-year-old she and her parents were walking arm in arm on the old street paved with large bluestones.

It was September 8, 41, Leningrad had been under siege by the Germans for more than a month, but war seemed far away for Ravonia and the vast majority of citizens.