Chapter 1: The Hole

First of all, I apologize.,The shadow encountered a little problem today.,Can't update it on time.,But in order to prevent everyone from making a book shortage.,I'll bring you a small story.。 Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although info is not a tank theme, but it is also a World War II, I hope you can like it, and I may continue to bring you such a little story in the future.

"Bruno, go and plug all those holes, it's not reassuring to look at it."

It was the first thing my owner said to me before I entered the old house in front of me.

That year, I went on a business trip to France. Luckily, the contract was signed much faster than expected, which gave me a little time to stay in France. To be honest, I haven't been able to go around the city of Paris, but I've always dreamed of going to a place like Provence, where the bustle of a big city is never my final choice.

However, although I was in France, it was difficult to make a trip to Provence in the southeast, so I made a choice and arrived in the small town of Sonlis, northeast of Paris......

In the town, I really felt a soothing and quiet that is rare in the city, and it was all too comfortable for me. As I was about to reach the end of a street, I found a building that was markedly different from the other houses.

Although Thannliz is only a small town, and the construction of houses will certainly not be as luxurious as in Paris, the most basic style is still there. However, at that time, the house in front of me should not be described as in disrepair, and its dilapidation is as good as the old buildings I have seen in China.

I don't know what kind of magic attracted me, so I slowly walked towards the room. Maybe I'm paying too much attention to it and not paying attention to anything else. I had not taken two steps before I was woken up by a soft, kind voice, and I was almost startled, and hurried to look for the voice, and a smiling old lady was standing there dignifiedly, looking at me quietly......

"What? Young people, are you interested in this old house? ”

The old man opened his mouth slightly and said slowly. That's when I woke up from the dream I had just been fascinated by watching her. I smiled a little embarrassedly, but I answered "yes" anyway......

"Bruno, go and plug all those holes, it's not reassuring to look at it."

Jenny looked at the hole in the door, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and said to Bruno, who was sitting on a stool in the living room in a daze.

"Okay, I'll take care of it later."

Bruno replied weakly to Jenny, then sighed deeply. Although he didn't know how much he loved his wife and how good his relationship with her was, even if the two had children, it was just the crystallization of their affection. Now, however, Jenny was like a resentful woman, mentioning this and that to him all day long, and things like mending loopholes were quite easy, and Jenny had asked him to find better food for the child and her, which was simply difficult for him who had already worked hard to find food for the three. But Jenny didn't become like this in an instant, since the situation changed, she changed little by little, although Bruno was upset about this, but there was nothing he could do.

After thinking of something useless, Bruno sighed deeply, found his tools, and prepared to mend the hole in the first one, the door. Driven by curiosity for a moment, Bruno put one eye on the hole and looked out of the hole, but this look really startled him, and a man in a military uniform was running towards him. Before he could react, the man was already knocking on his door.

"Sir, ma'am, can you open the door, I ...... I need your help. ”

The voice outside, anxious, also revealed a little immaturity, it should be a young man.

Bruno secretly screamed badly, it must be this hole that caused him this big trouble. It turned out that after the situation changed, in order to prevent "those people" from coming to the door at night, every family would put wooden boards on the windows at night to block the light in the house and pretend that no one was there, and the Bruno family was naturally like this. But today is different, the light should be through the hole in the door, to the outside, which is really an unexpected bad thing.

"My name is Ben, a soldier of the 37th Division, can you let me in for a while? The Germans are coming. ”

Although the voice outside became more and more anxious, and even had a hint of crying, Bruno was still unmoved, he just said lightly: "The family is too small to entertain." ”

"Please don't do that, I...... I'm just going to go in for a while, and it's not going to be a bother. The voices outside tried their best to defend themselves, but Bruno only shook his head silently.

Perhaps it was Bruno's silence that played a role, and the people outside stopped banging on the door and stopped talking. But just as Bruno was relieved, a shout came from outside: "Sir! Aren't you patriotic? Don't you want our country to go back to what it was? ”

This sentence really pierced Bruno's heart, although he had a general sense of the country and just wanted to live an ordinary life, but since his country was breached, his thinking began to change slightly......

"Come on in!"

Bruno quickly opened the door and spoke quietly and forcefully to Ben outside.

Ben was taken aback and went into the house like a rabbit.

"Thank you! Mr. The first thing Ben did when he walked in was to say thank you to Bruno.

Bruno waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, you go up to the attic on the roof and leave tomorrow, you know?" ”

"No problem!"

"Clara has already slept, Bruno, those holes ......" At this time, hearing a strange sound from the living room, Jenny also came from the bedroom to the living room, and suddenly saw a man in military uniform appear in her home, which frightened her a little.

"Leave her alone, get on it!" Bruno nudged Ben, who had been slowed down by his attention to Jenny, and pushed him up to the second floor.

Seeing that the figure had finally disappeared from her sight, Jenny came back to her senses a little, and she shouted at Bruno, "Are you crazy? You let that kind of person into our house! ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Bruno replied in the same voice: "He'll leave tomorrow, and you should have seen nothing!" ”

"How could I not have seen it? If the Germans knew, we would ...... "Because the situation was so terrible, Jenny didn't dare to say any more."

"Alright." Bruno slowed down his tone and said, "That's it for today, you go in and accompany Clara, I'll go to sleep on the second floor, and keep an eye on him by the way." ”

"It's okay for you to get him out now." Jenny reminded Bruno, who was going upstairs, but Bruno continued to walk upstairs as if he hadn't heard anything.

After about five minutes of doing it upstairs, Bruno remembered that the holes had not been filled, so he immediately went downstairs, and was once again stunned when he picked up his tools and brought himself to the hole again......

"Boom!"

The door was kicked open, but fortunately Bruno had stayed away from there before, so he wasn't injured. Bruno knew that the Germans were also shining from the light emitted from that hole, and it was his slackness just now that he regretted it now!

Although the Germans had already broken into the house, Bruno was not very panicked, after all, this was not the first time. But when Bruno looked closely at the three men in front of him, his heart began to grow cold—not the elite divisions of the blitzkrieg in front of them, but the SS, another notorious unit compared to the glorious Wehrmacht in Germany.

If you are a Wehrmacht soldier, you usually only need to give them two cigarettes, or some money, and you can send them away. But the SS was completely different, and their fanatical worship of Hitler and their belief in Nazi ideology made them paranoid and crazy.

Several Germans shouted at Bruno, but although Bruno had fought with the Germans several times, he still did not speak German. Although he couldn't understand it, Bruno could guess what these Germans were saying, but at this moment, he wouldn't speak.

At this time, Jenny also heard the noise and poked her head out of the bedroom to check the living room. Of course, this was immediately discovered by the German soldiers, who shouted for her to pass, but Jenny couldn't understand what he said, and turned her head to drill into the bedroom, but it was immediately grabbed by the German soldiers and thrown to the ground.

The rest of the story is commonplace, the German soldiers beat the two, and although Bruno didn't say a word, Jenny was quickly shaken. But Bruno makes a "Clara" lip gesture at Jenny, and Jenny immediately becomes a clockwork doll who can only cry and answer everything when asked. After that, the two of them did not know how painfully they were suffering, and although the Germans were happy about it, they did not notice that a small figure was watching them from the bedroom door.

Clara looked out through the hole in the door, and at the age of 8, she was completely stupid, she couldn't scream, she couldn't run away, her mind went blank. By the time she reacted, there was blood on the ground, the doors of the house were open, and the Germans had long since disappeared. She ran to the two of them, but Bruno and Jenny on the floor were long gone, and she ran back to her bedroom, leaning her back against the door, crying in despair......

Not long after, there was another loud gunshot, which frightened her so much that she forgot to cry, just stared out the window blankly, and spent the night in fear......

The next day, a detachment of French partisans passed by and rescued Clara, who had lost her sights, and after that she spent the war in her homeland in the barracks, and in the years after the war, she returned and built a new house next to the old house, where she settled.

"Excuse me, the man named Ben, did you inquire about him later? What happened in the end? ”

"Dead, dead in the attic." The old man said sadly, "It's suicide." ”

"Suicide?" I was a little stunned, and when the old man said that he was dead, I thought he had been found and killed by the Germans, but the real result was much more than I expected.

"yes." The old man's laughter became more and more sad, and she said slowly: "These are what the guerrillas told me later, there is a hole in the floor of the attic on the second floor of our house, and from that hole you can see the bedroom on the first floor, and it was on the edge of that hole that I committed suicide with a pistol. ”

Hearing this explanation, I froze in place, I can't imagine what kind of mood Ben felt when he saw that heartbroken little girl, in short, he should have failed to endure this condemnation of conscience, failed to live up to the sacrifice of the Bruno family, and left willfully and irresponsibly......

I asked the old man if he still had a grudge against Ben, and the old man only said that he hated him for not being able to cherish the most precious things he had been given by others, and she did not blame the man for the Germans.

Later, the old man invited me to drink some tea in her new home, and the handmade pastries were also unforgettable. In the evening, I said goodbye to her and got into the car back to Paris, where I stayed up all night. A few days later, I returned to China, and this trip to Sanliz in France was a small episode in my ordinary life, but there are many, many more episodes like this......

Okay, that's all for today's story, I still have the story, and you'll come too. (To be continued.) )