* Therefore, only the wise man will be able to take the wise man as the intermediary, and he will achieve great success. The Vital Matter of the Soldiers, the Actions of the Three Armies -- "The Art of War"

* Hometown is not visible, never forget. The sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, and the country is in the mountains! -- Yu Youren

*I would like to use this document to give to the 3.64 million Chinese soldiers who died in the Anti-Japanese War

*And with this article, I commemorate my unforgettable college days

Chapter 1: Reunion

In Chongqing in October of the 28th year of the Republic of China, in the evening, at the end of a short aisle that could only accommodate one person sideways, there was a small room built of bamboo, separated by wooden planks, with a small room of less than 10 square meters, surrounded by the only horizontal coffee table, and there were barely four or five young people squeezed into it. On the coffee table was a plate of dried tofu with pickled peppers, two pears (a kind of tuber, inexpensive and edible fruit, juicy and crispy, but with a strong earthy smell), and a bag of spiced peanuts wrapped in rough old newspapers. Two of them were dressed in black recycled tunics, with their arms open and unbuttoned. The recycled cloth is very rough and dyed, and after several washes, the color fades to different shades. The others wore only uniform white cloth shirts, their coats tied to a bamboo coat hook at the entrance. A window, less than a foot square, was inlaid with only three pieces of glass, and an old newspaper was pasted in the place where it should have been glass. A wooden pile collapsed under the window, and the futon was rolled up at one end. On the bed, a kerosene stove is stewing radish tofu. These young people chatted while drinking wine: "Zezhi, this wine is good, if it weren't for this old cellar, Chongqing would be really boring." I thought it was a bulk bad wine you played, but I didn't expect it to be an authentic Luzhou Laojiao. ”

Liu Zezhi, the owner of this house, is a young man of twenty-four or five years old. The figure is tall and thin but very strong, with slender eyes, a pair of rimless glasses on a handsome face, which seems to deliberately blur the depth and shrewdness between the eyebrows, neat hair cut very casually, a simple half-worn white shirt, the whole person is clean and refreshing. He lifted the lid of the pot and flipped over the dishes, and replied, "Shhhh Alas, the house in this place in Chongqing looks like a joke to us Shanghainese. A whole house, not only did not use a single brick, but even a few iron nails, all of them were tied with bamboo, and then pasted with mud, even if it was completed. This wine, was given to Mr. Mao last time, by the way gave me two catties, I was afraid of attracting eyes, so I threw away the bottle and found two jars of bulk wine to replace it. Le Yi, drink more if you like. Lao Kong, you drink too. ”

"Zezhi, you're too careful. The dish is ready, right? I'll give you a plate to serve. Hey, why are you still renting this house? Isn't there a dormitory? According to the family law, we can't even get married, do you still want to hide Jiao in the golden house? ”

Liu Zezhi replied: "You hope I will be better!" Zangjiao? Wait to eat 'peanuts'? This is the second day I rented in Chongqing, don't look at the house is not very good, the location is good, not far from where we work, and close to Yuyuan. Besides, there is no such place, the dormitory has four to six people in a room, and our old classmates don't even have a place to get together. ”

Le Yi interjected: "Lao Kong, you are really salty and don't worry about Luo Bu! Zezhi is different from a few of us poor ghosts, he studied abroad, and his family left him money. There is such a house, and there is also a place to relax. You haven't heard that in Chongqing, you can find a woman in three days, a job in three months, and a house in three years! ”

The man named Kong Wenqing, who was called Lao Kong, nodded and said: "Yes, people from the occupied areas of the whole country are flocking to Chongqing, women are easy to find, but houses are hard to find." ”

A few people laughed, the single men got together, no matter what they said, they would eventually turn on the woman, and some of them talked about the few female colleagues in the office, and they clicked a few mandarin duck scores; Some talked about Xiang Qiuyan, the only female classmate in the training class before, and half-truths and half-truths coaxed that Lao Kong must have a thief's heart, but unfortunately he didn't have the courage to be a thief...... Wine helps to talk, and the more you talk, the more lively it becomes. Liu Zezhi sighed: "It's been more than a year since I graduated, and some of the classmates of our military command Qingpu training class went to the occupied areas, and some went to Kunming and Guizhou...... I thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it...... There are only a few of us left in Chongqing, and I don't know if we can see the day when the country is recovered. ”

The expressions of several people darkened, and Le Yi asked, "Zezhi, what is going on with Hu Jun...... Forget it, in our business, everything is a secret, and if it's inconvenient for you to say it, we won't ask. Alas, I heard that Hu Jun was married...... This ......"

Liu Zezhi replied: "It's not inconvenient to say, I really don't know." Forget it, wait...... In the future, if any of us is still alive, don't forget to find Xiaohu's family......"

"Zezhi, I'm afraid this matter will still fall on you, we are all front-line operators...... Let's live one day at a time. You are different, you are Mr. Mao's secretary, and you will not be on the front line. Zezhi, I still have a widowed wife and two minor brothers and sisters in my hometown in Shanxi...... Don't talk about this, drink! Gone? You guys sit down, I'll go to the front hotel and buy some. ”

Liu Zeyi grabbed Kong Wenqing: "Don't buy it, just say it's just these two bottles of wine, and I'm almost drunk, and I have to go to work tomorrow." And you Lao Le, don't forget that tomorrow you will definitely ask your team leader Li out for me, at seven o'clock after work in the teahouse where we went to Zeng Jiayan, I have something to look for him. ”

"Well, wrap it around me. You are a celebrity next to Mr. Mao, and our team leader Li is a little unsociable, but he will not give you face. ”

This novel is from Reading Rim