Ma Lan has been curled up on the bed, no matter how Ling Weicheng tried to persuade her, she didn't have any appetite, let alone say a word. Ling Weicheng could only sigh softly in the end, put the food on the bedside table, and when she came to Ma Lan's room again with steaming food, she could always see that the bowl had been cooled, but was still full.

In the afternoon of the next day, Lei Zhen pushed open the door of Ma Lan's ward, and the smell of vegetable and meat porridge rolled through the entire ward.

"Brush!"

The curtains were opened by the thunderstorm, and the long-lost sunlight poured into this sealed and small space, raising a kind of warmth, and as the curtains were pulled, some thin velvet-like things kept tumbling and fluttering between the sun-filled sky and the earth. In the face of the warm sunlight that is not blazing, they are like a group of translucent elves, and there are a few traces of crystal refraction on their bodies, if you don't look closely, you won't notice that there is such a beautiful thing around you.

Lei Zhen took a closer look at Ma Lan, who curled up into a big body, he put the bowl in his hand on the bedside table, before Ma Lan reacted, he had reached out and gently hugged Ma Lan's neck, and with the most gentle movements, he pulled her upper body up, and then picked up the crumpled pillow from Ma Lan's arms, and put it on Ma Lan's back.

"In this world, there are only four people I can afford."

Lei Zhen's words easily counteracted Ma Lan's subconscious resistance, a man like him who never spoke, with a beast-like aura all over his body, and even a mystery wrapped in it, once he opened his heart and was willing to share his secrets, it would be absolutely a lie to say that there was no temptation.

But Lei Zhen didn't say anything, after straightening Ma Lan, he looked at Ma Lan's pale and tear-stained face, and suddenly asked, "Is there anyone else at home?" ”

Ma Lan nodded, of course there are people in her family, she also has a mother who loves her, a father who loves her, and a big brother who was born as a horse bandit, but spoils her more than her own eldest brother.

Lei Zhen stretched out his hand to pick up the bowl of vegetable and meat porridge on the bedside table, he gently moved the bowl of hot porridge with a spoon, and said softly: "The person I respect the most is my mother." She was a woman, and she was a widow, but she was stronger than any man in the world. When I was less than a year old, I was taken away by a wolf, and the whole village searched for three days and three nights, and when everyone thought that there was no hope, she took my two sisters and searched in the mountains for more than ten days, and finally found her son lying in the wolf's den and holding a little wolf under a broken wall. In order to fear that the she-wolf who was lying next to her would hurt her son, my mother walked to the wolf's den alone, discussed with the she-wolf, and asked her son back. If it weren't for such a strong mother, I would be a werewolf who can't even speak human words. ”

Ma Lan's eyes widened, the experience of the big boy in front of him was a little too legendary, right?

"That's why my mother spoiled me too much before she brought me back. The family is obviously very poor, and she has to fry a poached egg for me every day, and now I can't forget the taste of the poached egg that my mother fried for me, it is really fragrant. ”

Ma Lan looked at Lei Zhen in a daze, he was obviously talking about a happy childhood, but he didn't know why, but his eyes slowly overflowed with a touch of uncontrollable, as deep sadness as the sea. Ma Lan was really moved by this sadness, and before she knew it, she opened her mouth and swallowed a mouthful of vegetable porridge that Lei Zhen carefully blew cold. Slowly chewing the food in her mouth, Ma Lan finally couldn't help but ask, "Then how is your mother now?" ”

"Dead."

Lei Zhen's voice was hoarse, and he said softly: "It was when I was fourteen years old that I ran to our village, and in order to protect my sister and me, I saw a bayonet piercing her body. ”

"What about your two sisters?"

"Dead too. In order to keep her innocence, the eldest sister also pounced on her own bayonet, and the second sister committed suicide in order to make me strong as a soft egg, after frying the last poached egg for me, she used the half of the pot for frying poached eggs. ”

Malan was really stunned. Listening to Lei Zhen's hoarse, but still flat tone, Ma Lan surprisingly felt the depths of this big boy's soul, as if it was being burned by flames...... Pain.

Lei Zhen brought the second spoonful of vegetable and meat porridge to his mouth first, blew it carefully, and then sent it to Ma Lan's mouth, and gently wiped off a grain of rice from Ma Lan's mouth. "The second person I can afford is Brother Shen Hao, he is a beard, the most famous beard in Kanto."

"I took my 'son' and lived like a wild man in the mountains for three years, just when I was beaten by an adult male bear and broke a few ribs, and my son was also shot off his hind legs, and was about to freeze to death and starve to death, it was Brother Shen Hao who saved me and brought me back to his mountain. Not only did he heal my wounds, but he also brought me the best things to eat, and every time I went out to make a ticket, he always didn't forget to bring me a copy. ”

Ma Lan frowned slightly, the beard is the so-called ringing horse, to put it bluntly, he is a bandit who makes a living by robbing houses and houses, and is proficient in riding, and can leave with one blow. Whether it is a soldier or a family, Ma Lan has an innate rejection of the profession of bandits.

"Brother Shen Hao turned out to be just a hunter in the mountains, and it was he who killed his wife and his daughter-in-law who had not yet passed the door, so he led a group of brothers who couldn't survive and erected his own pole. Those of you soldiers who were eating public food and holding guns in their hands saw that Yue himself was running faster than a rabbit, but Brother Shen Hao led his brothers to constantly fight against Yue himself. They attacked their own trains, robbed them of food, clothing, guns and bullets, and distributed the extra things to the people around them. At that time, Brother Shen Hao said to me, "The soldier ran away, but our masters in Kanto didn't run, Xiao Yue wanted to sprinkle on our territory, so I had to ask Lao Tzu about the gun in his hand first", just with these few words, I followed Brother Shen Hao and became a beard. Brother Shen Hao looked up to me and gave me a gun on the first day I joined them! ”

The look of disdain on Ma Lan's face disappeared, she had to admit that this big brother Shen Hao did have the qualifications to make Lei Zhen respect, at least he was a well-known man!

"We kept attacking myself, robbing them of food and weapons, and accommodating more brothers, and later, we already had more than 400 brothers and more than 200 guns in our cottage, and Brother Shen Hao was already firmly in the first place of the joint horse bandits. At this time, a woman named Zhang Xiaopan came to us and asked us to join their [***] guerrillas. Their guerrillas, who were only about 20 people and had seven or eight guns, wanted to swallow us, the No. 1 horse bandit in the Kanto region, and everyone laughed when they heard it. But she insisted on staying, saying that she wanted to tell Brother Shen Hao about uniting and resisting and working together to save the country. ”

Hearing the [***] guerrillas, Malan frowned again.

"I don't know what she said to Brother Shen Hao, anyway, a few days later, Brother Shen Hao slowly respected her. But to hand over the cottage he founded to a guerrilla force of only more than 20 people, Shen Hao's eldest brother was unwilling. Later, in front of all of us, he said in a joking tone that he was a person who was afraid of his wife, and as long as Zhang Xiaopan married him, he would naturally put all his net worth into the hands of his wife. At that time, Zhang Xiaopan blushed and left, everyone laughed, and we all thought that she would never come back again. ”

Ma Lan nodded, if she was Zhang Xiaopan, she would not come back.

But three days later, Zhang Xiaopan returned. She looked straight at Brother Shen Hao in front of everyone, and it wasn't until he, a man in his thirties, couldn't help but want to turn his head that she suddenly asked, "If I marry you, you will be willing to join our guerrillas." The words that the man said were nails that were hammered into the wall, and he had to smash a pit on the ground with spit, even if Brother Shen Hao understood something in his heart, he couldn't take back what he said in public. Results ......"

Facing Ma Lan's increasingly curious gaze, Lei Zhen said in a low voice: "That night, Zhang Xiaopan became our sister-in-law. But just when he was worshipping the church, Brother Shen Hao suddenly slapped himself a few times, he said that he was not worthy of Zhang Xiaopan, and men couldn't take advantage of others! It was that night that Brother Shen Hao joined their [***] guerrillas, but that night, Zhang Xiaopan slept alone in the new house, while Brother Shen Hao squeezed together with us. ”

Ma Lan was really surprised, and she couldn't help asking, "That Zhang Xiaopan is ugly?" ”

"No, she is very beautiful, more beautiful than any woman we have ever seen, I heard Brother Shen Hao say that she is still a female college student, and then it was because she came that she gave up the pen from what class, anyway, she picked up a gun. Do you know why Brother Shen Hao decided to hand over the cottage to the guerrillas of [***], but there were not many people who opposed it, that is, because most of the brothers in the cottage secretly liked their sister-in-law, even if she smiled at herself, these brothers could secretly have fun for a long time. ”

Ma Lan squinted at Lei Zhen, the woman's heavenly surname, which made her ask an irrelevant question again, "Then do you like her?" ”

Lei Zhen was silent for a moment, but nodded vigorously, and at the same time he sent a spoonful of vegetable and meat porridge into Ma Lan's mouth. "Later, I asked Brother Shen Hao, and Brother Shen Hao told me that he liked Zhang Xiaopan, and when he saw Zhang Xiaopan for the first time, he wanted to marry her as a daughter-in-law. But the daughter-in-law he hopes to marry is a woman who can really like him and be good to him, not for the price he paid for more than 400 people and more than 200 guns. Besides, Zhang Xiaopan is only twenty-one years old, and Shen Hao's eldest brother is thirty-three years old, his age can already be Zhang Xiaopan's uncle, and he can't read a few big words, he doesn't want to delay Zhang Xiaopan's life. ”

If Ma Lan only recognized Shen Hao's courage a little at the beginning, now she is really surprised. Although he has not read a book, and what he says can really be called rude, but he is indeed a well-known man, a real man who dares to love and hate, and has a chivalrous tenderness!

"And what about later?"

"Later?" Hearing Ma Lan's question, Lei Zhen with a flat face, and sent a spoonful of vegetable and meat porridge into Ma Lan's mouth, he inhaled lightly, and said: "Our horse bandit has become the strongest team in the Kwantung Anti-Japanese Federation, and Brother Shen Hao really gave up his position as the leading boss to Zhang Xiaopan, but for us, there is not much change. We still go to the people every day, to rob their things, and still distribute the surplus things to the people around us who have no food to eat and no clothes to wear. But the most annoying thing is that Zhang Xiaopan has to gather his brothers together every night to talk about the great principles of saving the country and the people, about the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, about not taking a stitch from the masses, and about why we should be hard and simple. ”

Looking at Lei Zhen's face that barely had any mood fluctuations and could not change when he heard anything, Ma Lan could almost imagine Zhang Xiaopan's helpless appearance.

"A few months later, Brother Shen Hao and Zhang Xiaopan worshiped heaven and earth again, and she finally became our real sister-in-law, a sister-in-law who was really willing to marry Brother Shen Hao and be his wife for the rest of his life. On that day, although I had a feeling in my heart that I couldn't put into words, I was still happy for Brother Shen Hao, and it was on that day that I drank for the first time and got drunk for the first time! Most of our hundreds of brothers were drunk, and the next morning, when everyone was still huddled together and sleeping together, even the sentry brothers, because they had drunk a few more glasses, fell asleep with their guns in their arms, they came! ”

"It's said that I'm here! Just when we were happy, they had already surrounded the entire cottage and began to use artillery to bombard our cottage! Many of the brothers were blown up alive by platoon artillery before they could figure out what was going on. When we got up with our eyes rubbed, we were all stunned, and there were at least 2,000 people at the foot of the hill who had dispatched at least 2,000 men in order to eliminate our bandits, or rather, the horse bandits who had not changed anything in the name of [***] guerrillas! ”

When Ma Lan heard this, he could almost construct the entire battlefield at that time in his own brain. That Shen Hao's cottage has been built for so long, there must be some adobe wall and wooden wedge arrays and other things, plus the trenches similar to individual pits that the beard is used to, forming a fairly solid defense system, and in the case of condescending and cavalry that can launch a surprise attack on the enemy, their cottage is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But in terms of scale, it is said that the army has dispatched at least two brigades!

The Kwantung Army, which is said to be the most elite army unit, has 2,200 men in two brigades, two machine gun squadrons, and 24 heavy machine guns alone. If they were well prepared, the artillery they carried would far exceed the two artillery platoons in the normal state, and it was likely that two artillery batteries of one hundred and twenty-two people would be directly dispatched!

In this case, the army assembled under the cottage will have eight infantry guns of 70 mm caliber, and dozens of grenadiers and mortars! In the face of such a powerful artillery attack, those simple fortifications in their cottage can be torn to pieces alive with only a few rounds of shelling! And the firepower network composed of twenty-four heavy machine guns and thirty-six light machine guns can definitely easily wipe out any attack of the cavalry!

No matter who it is, in the face of such a one-sided battle situation, it will raise a feeling of powerlessness in their hearts.

"The brothers are dead. I watched Zhang Xiaopan climb to the highest house, loudly told us where he was, was discovered by them, and bombarded the roof with cannonballs, the shell hit really accurately, almost directly hit Zhang Xiaopan's head, at that time Shen Hao's eldest brother went crazy, he stood up with a machine gun, he wanted to avenge his sister-in-law, but before he could shoot, he was beaten into a hornet's nest by dozens of bullets...... Before he died, he only said one word to me beside him...... Run! ”

When Lei Zhen said this, his voice suddenly stopped, and he raised his head high, at this time, Ma Lan could clearly hear the terrible sound coming from between Lei Zhen's teeth, and he could clearly see that the corners of his mouth were trembling slightly.

"I said that I sent so many troops to kill us all, but they still underestimated us beards, and in the end we still had seventy or eighty people who escaped through the tunnel. He said that he was chasing after us, my sister-in-law died, and the guerrillas were also dead, and we didn't know where to go to find the anti-union she said, so we could only keep running. Two months later, our group of bastards who were not human, ghosts, and even eldest brother and sister-in-law could not be saved, finally got rid of Yue himself behind him, and it was not until we saw the troops wearing another kind of military uniform that we knew that we had escaped from Kanto and escaped from Yue himself's territory. ”

Lei Zhen Huo Ran lowered his head, he stared at Ma Lan, and asked word by word: "Do you know why I hate soldiers?" ”

Malan shook her head, and suddenly her eyes widened in disbelief as she realized.

"We really thought we had fled to a safe place, and we even hugged each other, whether it was soldiers or bandits, at least we all grew up eating the same rice. As a result, the other party didn't say a word, it was a machine gun fire, and those brothers who did not die under the muzzle of the cannon and did not die under the pursuit of the person fell to the ground. We have guns in our hands, we are beards, but we have never killed a person of our own, we have never robbed a common man! I don't understand, why are those so-called soldiers who see me running faster than rabbits, holding guns in their hands, and eating rice, so cruel to us?! They don't even ask who we really are or what we do, even if we are really criminals and really guilty, they have to give me a chance to speak, right?! ”

Speaking from his heart, Ma Lan didn't think that the commander of that unit had done anything wrong, and believed that no matter who it was, he would suddenly see such a rogue like Hanako, with a weapon in his hand, he would give the same order, right?

In the face of such an ending, Ma Lan could say anything more than secretly sighing in his heart, "Heaven creates man"?

"In the end, I survived only one of the more than 400 of our brothers, and the others died." Lei Zhen stared at Ma Lan and said, "My mother is dead, my two sisters are dead, and I have no home for a long time." I watched my favorite sister-in-law, my most respected eldest brother, die at the hands of myself, and I watched my brother, who had run away together for more than two months, die under the indiscriminate guns of you soldiers, I have nothing, no one to persuade me, no one to give me hot food, and no one to wrap my wounds, but I still survived! Compared to me, you are really happy and lucky enough, why do you want to be cheap and play your temper here like a big lady?! If I had been like you, I would have died so long ago that I couldn't even find my bones! ”

Ma Lan was stunned, Lei Zhen was right, compared to him, she was really happy and lucky enough. The older boy was still as strong as a stone, and she could only lie down and let him take food into his mouth in the same way as a child.

Ma Lan tried to raise her hands and take the rice bowl and spoon from Lei Zhen's hand, but she ended up still lying there, allowing Lei Zhen to put the vegetable porridge into her mouth. Is it because she wants to hear more about this boy, or is it because this big boy who exudes the smell of a wild surname all over his body clumsily wipes the rice grains on her lips with his fingers, and the indescribable tenderness full of wild surnames makes her heart have a faint indulgence?

Malan didn't know, she really didn't know, but she suddenly understood that no matter how strong she was usually and invulnerable, she was still a woman after all, and when she could no longer withstand too much pressure, she needed someone to coax her and comfort her. It has nothing to do with strong women, it has nothing to do with excellent soldiers, this is probably a kind of ...... A woman's heavenly surname, right?!

After honestly eating another bite of vegetable and meat porridge, Ma Lan really heard what she wanted to know, "The third person I respect is Xie Jinyuan." ”

(To be continued)