Chapter 16: Mercy

The German boy raised his hands and looked at him pitifully, Sun Hui noticed that he had no weapon and the wound on his chest, hesitated for a while, slowly lowered the muzzle of the gun, and seeing Sun Hui's movements, Ye Chuchu looked at the German wounded soldier again, realized something, and put down the gun.

"He's handsome." Ye Chuchu saw Wang Linlin's unbearable appearance, and couldn't help but make fun of her, "Linlin, your vision is good." ”

"It's not ......" Wang Linlin blushed, and then the German boy called "Mom" in Russian again, Ye Chuchu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"Linlin, he called your mother." Ye Chuchu hugged Wang Linlin and said with a smile, "No wonder you are reluctant to kill him, it turns out that you have a son." ”

"Sister Chu Chu, you are so bad!" Wang Linlin was embarrassed and slapped Ye Chuchu's shoulder, "I don't want such a big child......"

Sun Hui was also amused by her cute words, but he soon noticed that the wounded German soldier was very badly wounded, and he came to the German boy, stretched out his hand and lifted his shirt, looked at his wounds, and couldn't help but sigh.

He knew very well that a piece of shrapnel was stuck deep in the boy's chest, and if the doctor was here and operated on immediately, the boy could still be saved, but now he could not do anything about it.

"Give him some more water." Sun Hui got up, looked at the water bowl beside Wang Linlin, and said, "Then prepare something to eat for him, and I'll go outside and get him some hay to spread it." ”

"Thank you, Brother Sun." Wang Linlin said gratefully.

"Thanks for what." Sun Hui smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "You two see what we use here, if you can take it away, send it back to the tank, let's spend the night in the tank." ”

"Okay, Brother Sun."

Sun Hui walked out of the cellar, and there was silence all around. He judged that the battle line had been pushed far to the east, although Sun Hui knew about the situation, but he was even more worried. It was dark all the time, like evening, but it was calm and windless. Sun Hui walked to the edge of the forest and saw that the haystacks were still intact. He sat down to rest by a haystack, when he saw a mound covered with a layer of fallen snow in a nearby glade, which had not existed. He looked around and walked towards the mound he had never seen before. It turned out to be a German shelter that was already empty. Sun Hui walked down and looked around in the half-light and half-darkness, and found some washed bandages and two soldiers' lunch boxes in a dark corner of the shelter. He glanced under a low bed made of rough planks. Under the bed there was a small broken mirror and a military kettle covered in a woolen sleeve, and the lid of the cup was made of plastic.

Not far away, he saw the same shelter again. He found a flat, double-edged bayonet stuck in a tree trunk near the shelter and took it with him. For him, everything is now available. A stretch of telephone line, a ball of wire, a pair of brown socks soaked in sweat, a half-used notepad with a pencil tip, a round military lamp filled with hard wax, a soap box with a pink soap in itβ€”Sun Hui stuffed them all into the two lunch boxes, and thought to himself, "These things can be used too." ”

To his delight, in this shelter, abandoned by the Germans, there was also a small iron furnace of excellent quality in the corner. The stove is small and delicate, with a detachable chimney, cover, door and ash outlet. He felt that this kind of stove was the most needed thing in the ice and snow.

Sun Hui tied a handful of hay with wire, carried a military kettle, a lunch box, and everything he found in the shelter, and walked back to the village. The German boy had already woken up, greeted him with a smile, touched his forehead with a finger, pointed at Sun Hui, and then pointed at the entrance of the cellar, and waved his hand as if saying goodbye.

Sun Hui understood that he wanted to say, "I thought you left me and didn't come back." ”

Ye Chuchu and Wang Linlin had already left, but they left some food and water for each other, and put a few apples.

Sun Hui looked at the dying man, sighed, and said to him: "I brought you some hay, and I will build a bunk of hay for you, so that you can lie down softer." ”

He quickly and deftly spread out the hay, moved the German wounded over, put the blood-soaked uniform under his head, and gesticulated: "You lie down alone a little longer, and I will go to the woods and bring back the stove." It's not good that I don't have a stove. There is no one in the place where the Great Soldier Qiu Ba used to stay, and there are no more of your people and none of ours. No one has put their guns anywhere, and it looks like these guys are far away...... "All he said was Chinese, regardless of whether the other party could understand it or not."

The stove and chimney turned out to be not light. On the way back, Sun Hui put the stove down horizontally from time to time and sat on it to rest. He put his tired hands on his knees and looked at the battlefield where the battle had taken place not long ago. There was no human track, there were black craters of bombs and shells, paths trodden out, and small yellow-brown mounds of abandoned firing points, and there was a strange silence, as if there had never been a frantic flight of machine-gun fire, no explosion of heavy shells, no shouts and hoarse moans of dying soldiers.

Back in the tank, the girls had already made hot tea to greet him, and they were very happy to see the stove and other supplies he had brought back, the original stove in the tank was too small, and this stove could be bigger, and it was much easier to make meals.

The girls are very fond of eating fruits, although the apples brought back by Wang Linlin from the cellar are a little frozen, but they still taste very good, they eat apples, drink hot tea, talk and laugh, and their emotions gradually return to normal.

"That German boy, Linlin's 'son' doesn't know what's going on?" They didn't know how to talk about Wang Linlin's special experience just now, Xiao Tiantian smiled and asked Sun Hui, "Brother Sun, did you see him?" ”

"Bad sweet sweet! See if I don't tear your mouth! Wang Linlin blushed and shouted.

"I laid a straw bunk for him to lie down more comfortably." Sun Hui replied, "But his injuries are very serious, I'm afraid he won't last long, and we don't have a doctor here, so we can't take out the shrapnel in his chest, so we can only resign ourselves to fate." ”

"It's pathetic." Xiao Tiantian is also a kind-hearted girl, and when she learned that the other party didn't have much to live, she couldn't help but feel pity for him.