Dense gunshots and explosions continued to come, Mi Bao and they rushed down the hillside, through the low oak forest, the snowflakes fell halfway and the black town appeared in front of them, Mi Bao looked at the long-lost town, and took a deep breath.

The sound of gunfire came from the direction of the school, and the red fireball of the explosion spread out by the low wall next to it, and you can see that there are devils in yellow uniforms around the siege, and the encirclement is slowly shrinking, the fire on the roof is very fierce, the enemy is beaten so that they can't raise their heads, but they are mobilizing troops, and the situation is urgent.

Tao Jinbao grabbed the snow and wiped it vigorously on his face, leaned down and said: "It seems that our intelligence has been delivered, and the main brigade has come to the rescue, listening to the gunfire on the roof, it should be Mr. Monk's heavy machine gun." We caught up. ”

Xiao Guozi said excitedly: "Let's fight from behind and give him a two-sided attack!" ”

Mi Po looked silently into the distance, as if she hadn't heard the conversation between the two of them.

The three of them quickly approached the school, and chose a higher and more powerful terrain with their backs in the direction of Daheigou, Xiao Guozi and Tao Jinbao raised their guns, aimed, and pulled the trigger almost at the same time.

The enemy who was attacked by the surprise was a little flustered, some of the devils and the puppet army turned to this side with guns, there were grenades exploding around them, they did not love to fight, and fought and retreated, when they were about to reach the slope of the big black ditch, Xiao Guozi turned his head, and suddenly found that Mi Bao did not come with him, he spit out a mouthful of splashing mud and snow, and shouted at Tao Jinbao: "I said that Mi Bao's head was sealed by heavy snow, you still don't believe it, this time it fell into the devil's nest, no matter how big his life is, he can't come back, what should I do?" ”

Tao Jinbao only cared about the enemy in front of him, and as soon as Xiao Guozi shouted to him, he found that Mi Bao was gone, his heart sank, and he immediately threw his gun behind him, replaced it with a rifle that had just been captured from the Japanese puppet army, and turned back to Xiao Guozi and said: "You go and meet the brigade, I'll look for him!" ”

Before Xiao Guozi could respond, Tao Jinbao had already run away.

I walked down the long and narrow aisle again, with a line of sky above me. It was still the familiar wooden house, covered with thick snow like the previous long winter, and the Tsubaki tree at the intersection was still there, silently watching Mi Bao, who was as tall and strong as himself. Mi Po felt surprisingly quiet all around, and time seemed to stand still.

In the center of the town, in the round open space, there are sculptures of men, women and children in the town, they are covered in ice and snow, children are staring at frightened eyes, the old people are calm, and the women's eyes are lowered, all frozen in the courtyard where the children play and play and rush to the market. None of them may die to say that they are lucky enough to escape from the hiding place of the people, because each of them knows in his heart that it is their neighbors and their children who are hiding in the secrets.

Mibo walked among them, looking for her familiar faces, greeting them. He saw the third master and the third mother, they were older than five years ago, and they were also staring at him at this time, the third mother's mouth was half open, as if to say, Mi Bao, why are you still alive? Mi Bao stood in front of her and said, "Third mother, uncles and aunts, I came alive to pick you up." Mibao felt that the question she should ask was why she was still alive, not dead. He wondered how the town could be so quiet that he couldn't even hear his own breathing.

I don't know whether it's gunsmoke or morning fog, they swirl in the streets and alleys and the ice-sculptured crowd, fluttering like a dream. A cold wind blew, and the dark red pine gate not far away opened silently, it was the gate of Peach's house, Mi Bao didn't have to think about it, because it was the place where he wandered many times in his childhood, and it was also the place he dreamed of countless times in the mountains that he called the fairy land, at this time the milky white mist was pouring out of it, and a person appeared, standing at the door and looking at Mi Bao's side, the figure was familiar and unforgettable.

Peach! Mi Po shouted in his heart.

Peach was wearing a green blouse sprinkled with small white flowers, with big black and shiny braids hanging down on her chest, and small yellow flowers on her sideburns, staring this way, as if she had also seen Mi Po, but she was not as surprised as Mi Po imagined, she nodded to Mi Po expressionlessly, and turned around and walked towards the courtyard. Mi Bao hurriedly followed, and the courtyard was empty with thick snow.

"Peaches! I'm Mipo, don't you know me? It's me! Mipo shouted.

His voice was instantly swallowed up by the boundless silence, and he found himself standing in the middle of two raised tombs in the courtyard, one of which had the words "Zheng Tao's Tomb" engraved on it, and he felt a heart-rending pain in his heart, and fell on the tombstone.

"Mipo! You're here! Make it easy for me to find! ”

Tao Jinbao's voice suddenly came, and the sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance re-poured into the eardrums. Mi Bao raised his head with difficulty, turned around, and saw Tao Jinbao holding a gun, gasping and standing behind him.

"Peach," Tao Jinbao bit his chapped lip and said with a solemn expression, "Peach was gone a year ago, and the thin monkey dog told the devil that Peach Daddy was an anti-union, and the devil asked Peach to take him into the mountains to find it, and Peach didn't obey, so the devil killed her and her mother in this courtyard." His father, Zheng Liu, who is now the captain of our Anti-Japanese Federation, buried them in the yard, saying that he was guarding his home for him. ”

Mi Bao's hands were deeply grasped into the thick snow of the tomb, and he suddenly became very calm, and said slowly: "Peach, you wait for me, when I kill all the enemies, I will come and pick you up at a moment!" ”

With that, he jumped up, took off the black and shiny double-barreled shotgun from his back, loaded the bullet on top, and rushed towards the battlefield in the face of the bloody morning sun......

In the new century, the mountains are still standing, the red pine oak trees are still lush, the artillery fire of the war years has not burned them, the chainsaws and sharp axes of the indiscriminate felling period have not destroyed them, the new green that has emerged from the scorched black land that has experienced the war is now towering, and the descendants of the roots of the trees who have experienced the era of indiscriminate felling have gathered around their parent bodies.

On this day, a group of young people came to the bottom of the valley, both men and women, dressed in red and green, and carrying bags. They sang, talked, laughed, startled a flock of wild pigeons, fluttering into the blue sky.

They stopped and looked up at the dove that had made a graceful arc.

The sun was good, it was a clear spring day in the northern mountains, and the sun finally shone through the ruins at the bottom of the valley. Many of the seeds of the Tsubaki tree, which were carried by the wind, took root by the broken wall, and grew very tall and thick, and became a forest.