Lu Yulin sat up, it turned out that he was having a nightmare.

"You're finally awake." Mark stood up from the side of the bed: "You've been in a coma for a long time, I'm really afraid that you will have an accident." ”

Lu Yulin wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his right hand, and looked at his left hand, which had been bandaged: "Thank you, Doctor Mark, thank you!" ”

"The nails have all been removed, I have already taken X-rays for you, the phalanges are not broken, but the middle finger, ring finger and little finger all have different degrees of bone cracks, and the finger muscles and nerves are seriously damaged, and it will be difficult to repair." Mark was silent for a moment, and still told Lu Yulin the worst result: "If you're lucky, your hand can still be saved, otherwise, you may have to amputate." ”

After hearing this, Lu Yulin inevitably felt a little sad in his heart, but he didn't want to add sadness to Mark, so he hurriedly smiled and comforted Mark: "Okay, Mark, don't feel sorry for me, I can pick up a life, it's all your credit." I've seen soldiers in the field hospital who are missing arms and legs, and if they can survive, so can I. ”

"Lu, you are really admirable. Oh, I've brought the gramophone from my office to your hospital room, and I've brought a couple of records, and music to relieve the pain. Do you want to hear it? I'll put it for you. ”

"Well, Mark, I haven't listened to music for a long time, do you have Beethoven's Heroic Symphony?" Lu Yulin wants to listen to those uplifting tunes, believing that music can bring him spiritual strength.

"Yes, yes, I happen to have this record, I'll show it to you." Mark took the record of Beethoven's piano pieces, put it on the phonograph turntable, and rested the stylus on the record.

With the ups and downs of the music, Lu Yulin's right hand involuntarily beat on the sheets.

"You've studied music before?" Mark was a little surprised to see that Lu Yulin was very musical.

"My father taught me to play the piano when I was a child, and then I studied with a German music teacher in a church school. In the past, when there were social gatherings at school, I often performed on stage. However, I am afraid that I will not be able to play it again in the future. Yu Lin said, looking at his left hand wrapped like a dumpling with some sadness.

Mark couldn't help but sigh: "God will definitely bless you for a good person like you." ”

In the middle of the night, Yulin developed a high fever, Mark checked his injury, found that the little finger of his left hand had been severely ulcerated, and decided to amputate the little finger, he told Lu Yulin who was groggy about this decision.

"Lu, your little finger is already necrotic, and if you don't amputate it, it will cause sepsis and be life-threatening."

"Mark, you're a doctor, you can do it." Lu Yulin opened his eyes and signaled to Mark that he agreed to amputate his leg.

Mark nodded and instructed the nurse to push Lu Yulin into the operating room.

In the operating room, Mark amputated the necrotic little finger and re-bandaged Lu Yulin's wound.

The morning light sprinkled on the hospital bed, Lu Yulin opened his eyes, he felt unbearable pain in his left hand, so he slowly raised the left hand wrapped in a thick bandage, the little finger part of this hand was already missing, his eyes were a little moist, and he couldn't help but put his left hand close to his mouth and kiss the mutilated part.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and Ah Qiang, Ah Long walked in.

"What do you want to do?" Mark blocks Keong's path with his body.

"Get out of the way, we're going to take Lu Yulin back." Cuong gave Mark a brutal push.

"No, Mr. Lu's injuries are not healed yet, you can't take him away." Mark still didn't back down and blocked Lu Yulin with his body.

Cuong pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Mark's head: "Get out of here, don't interfere with our official duties." ”

"Mark, get out of the way and let me go with them, you forgot, I'm a prisoner." Lu Yulin was afraid that Mark would suffer a loss, so he hurriedly persuaded Mark to give way to Ah Qiang and Ah Long.

Ah Qiang walked up to Lu Yulin and forcibly pulled Lu Yulin out of bed.

"No, no, his leg is still broken, he can't drag it, I'll get the stretcher, I'll carry it." Mark hurriedly rushed forward to stop Cuong and Aaron's rough behavior.

Mark took a stretcher, helped Lu Yulin up, made him lie on the stretcher, and carried Lu Yulin into the prison cart with another doctor.

Lu Yulin looked at Mark, his eyes full of gratitude.

Watching the prisoner cart whizz away, Mark's fists clenched tightly and gurgling.

Lu Yulin was taken to the dark and damp dungeon, changed into a prison uniform of No. 79, and lay on the creaking wooden bed, next to a wooden table with an oil lamp on it, the light was dim, there was a commode in the corner, the wall was covered with cobwebs, and some straw was spread on the ground to absorb moisture.

The torture wounds on Lu Yulin's body were still tormenting him, and any movement he made would involve the nerves of his body, and the pain would spread to his whole body. He could only stand on his left leg, and his left leg had also strained its muscles because of the tiger chair, so he could not stand for a long time, and his right leg could only drag forward, although he was tied with a plaster, but the pain in the broken bone continued.

If you remove the thick gauze on your shoulder, you will find that the imprint looks like two pits, and you can clearly see the white collarbone. The carrion on the brand has been removed, and some new granulations have grown, but the redness and swelling have not disappeared, and it is difficult to lift or rotate the arm, and the slightest movement will cause pulling, and the hot pain suddenly made Lu Yulin grin.

When he was at St. Mary's Hospital, whenever he felt unbearable pain, Mark would inject him with a tiny amount of morphine to help him relieve the pain, and now, not only are the painkillers gone, but the medicine has not been changed, and the gauze is stuck to the flesh and skin, and it cannot be touched at all.

The worst thing was the left hand, only four fingers left, and although it was tightly wrapped in gauze, in the absence of morphine, the heart-rending pain came to him day and night, keeping him awake at night and suffering from it. When the pain is severe, he can't help but hit his head against the wall, and he sometimes hopes that he can be like Ah Cheng and die headbutt, so that there will be no more such painful feelings. But he can't do it now, the information that Shu-yeon hid hasn't been sent out yet, it's very important information, and it's been exchanged for So-yeon's blood. It has a bearing on the success or failure of the entire plan to cross the river, whether Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East, can be preserved intact, and the lives of countless PLA soldiers must be sent out, and this is the greatest motivation for his survival at present.

Tan Jingting received a call from the Marine Police Department, saying that the canopy boat was not found, and it was estimated that it had rowed into the reeds, where the marine police's speedboat could not enter. After hearing this, Tan Jingting only said that he knew, and hung up the phone. His mind is now full of Lu Yulin's miserable appearance, and he has no time to care about other things.

Tan Jingting dragged his tired steps back to No. 28 Haig Road. Osmanthus stood at the door and waited, heard a knock on the door, and hurriedly came out to open the door.

"How did you get out? What about Sister-in-law Zhang? Tan Jingting saw that Osmanthus came to open the door with his stomach up, and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Sister-in-law Zhang went grocery shopping, I saw that you didn't come home all night, and I was a little anxious, so I sat at the door and waited for you."

Tan Jingting looked at Osmanthus's bulging abdomen, and said distressedly: "Osmanthus, don't worry about me all the time, you should rest more, it's not good for the fetus to worry about it all day long." ”

"You want me to be heartless?" Osmanthus sneered.

Tan Jingting sat on the sofa, leaned his head on the back of the sofa, and held his right hand into a fist against his forehead. A tired face.

"Jing Ting, what's wrong with you? Why are you so tired? Osmanthus handed a hot towel to Tan Jingting.

Tan Jingting took the hot towel and covered his face, and suddenly, the towel trembled, and Tan Jingting couldn't help sobbing.

"Jing Ting, what the hell is going on, what's wrong with you, ah?"

Osmanthus has never seen Tan Jingting cry, in his eyes, Tan Jingting is a person with a heart as hard as a stone, and they all say that men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't reached the sad place. Osmanthus knew that Tan Jingting was in tears, which was really sad.

Osmanthus hugged Tan Jingting, Tan Jingting lay on Osmanthus and cried to his heart's content, and his voice changed from small to loud, from crying to crying. When Sister-in-law Zhang came back from shopping for vegetables, when she saw Tan Jingting's appearance, she didn't dare to come out, so she hurriedly carried the vegetables into the kitchen.

After crying for a few minutes, Tan Jingting finally stopped crying, and he wiped away his tears with a towel.

"Jing Ting, what is it about you that you are so sad?" Tan Jingting's crying also made Osmanthus tears.

"Xiao Linzi, I arrested Xiao Linzi, he was tortured to the point that his body was incomplete, and his muscles and bones were broken. I'm sorry my brother, I'm such a jerk. Tan Jingting slapped himself.

"Xiao Linzi? Is it Xiao Linzi who came to see us a few days ago? He also sent me a record, how can you get him caught? Osmanthus was stunned when she heard that Tan Jingting had arrested Xiao Linzi and was tortured to the point that she broke her muscles and bones.

"He is a key communist criminal, and I have to arrest him. But I didn't expect that Zhu Hongda, Ah Qiang and the gang would be so ruthless and torture Xiao Linzi to the point of being inhuman. Tan Jingting was annoyed.

"Jing Ting, I heard you say that Xiao Linzi is the best brother in your life, and he is the most close to you, and you have always regarded him as your own brother."

"Osmanthus, if Xiao Linzi is not a communist, I will definitely be a brother with him for life, but he is now the target of our arrest, how can I renew my brotherhood with him? But in my heart, I can't see Xiao Linzi suffering and being tortured. Tan Jingting shook his head in pain.

"Jing Ting, I remember that the flood washed away the house in my hometown, I had nowhere to stay, so I came to you hard, along the way, I picked up rags, did odd jobs, asked for food, there was no meal, when passing by the Eighth Route Army station, they gave me two steamed buns, two eggs, I relied on these two steamed buns and two eggs, walked more than 100 miles. Later, I met a kind person and took his carriage to Chongqing. ”

"Osmanthus, I didn't know you suffered so much at the beginning."

"Jing Ting, the Communist Party is not as terrible as you think, I only know that without the steamed eggs they gave me at the beginning, I can't go so far, I can't see you, they speak for the poor, do things for the poor, are the poor all bad people in your eyes? Am I also a bad guy and your enemy? ”

"No, Osmanthus, that's not what I said. Xiao Linzi and I are people from different camps, each with its own master, and I am now an enemy with him. ”

"Jing Ting, I don't understand the truth, but I think people can't ignore their conscience, Xiao Linzi is your good brother, you can't push your brother into the fire pit."

Osmanthus touched her abdomen: "Jing Ting, in a few months, our child will be born, have you forgotten the words of the old abbot, you must accumulate good deeds, otherwise there will be retribution." If it is reported on me, I admit it, but don't report it on our children. Jing Ting, you have already lost a child, and you can't afford to lose another one. ”

Osmanthus's words made Tan Jingting wake up suddenly: Yes, you must accumulate good deeds for unborn children. He Tan Jingting has worked hard for ideals, money, and power in his life, but his ideals have long been incompatible with reality; And he also bent the law for bribes in order to make money, regardless of shame, Meng Ruoyu is his best example from the past; He also thought that once he was in power, he could look down on his colleagues and shock the world. But if you want to get these, you must learn to slip around and shoot horses, tend to be inflammatory, and unscrupulous means, and these are not his own strengths, and they are also shameful to him, so this path will not work for him. Now the only thing he hopes for is that the family has a good wife and children, can be fed and clothed, and the family of three stays together, happy and happy, and can live such an ordinary life, he will be satisfied. Perhaps now for him, being content and self-esteem is the greatest pursuit.

Tan Jingting hopes that he can use some good deeds to make up for some of the injustices he has committed over the years, so that his conscience can be at peace, which is to atone for his sins and accumulate virtue for his wife and children.