Chapter 13: The Germination of Memory

In his sleep, Gou Bin dreamed that he lived on a farm, where there were mountains, grass, cattle and sheep everywhere, a warm farm cottage, a small village in Paris, Arkansas, Cruz was a country boy in the small village of Paris, his father died on the battlefield during the death of World War I, and his mother died of a serious illness, leaving him to live alone in this not peaceful world.

In the dream, young Cruze lived a carefree life, where there was no sound of war-torn shells, only the good-natured and harmonious laughter of the village, no eerie images of corpses strewn across the field, some of the joyful laughter of beautiful girls, and the sound of herds of cows and sheep grazing.

A faint melancholy melody pervades the endless mountain village, and Ryan, a charitable and friendly old man who helped Cruz grow up when both his parents died, and this old man also has an incredible musical talent.

In my memory, this old man specializes in making tear-jerking music, Gou Bin's predecessor Cruze was deceived by him with a lot of tears, every time he made that sad tear-jerking music, Cruze was shamelessly deceived by him into a bowl of tears, shameful! In the end, this old guy Ryan laughed shamelessly, full of stinky fart, and the past was unbearable.

Ryan, who once participated in the World War I baptism of fire, in the war-torn days, this old guy actually hooked up with an indigenous girl in Austria-Hungary, the war situation at that time was the Entente vs the Allies, this old guy Ryan actually played transnational life and death love in the era of millet plus rifle World War I.

The idea is good and worthy of praise is not worth carrying forward, the bloody transnational love of life and death makes him add another emotional debt, every time he mentions this matter, he always shakes his head and sighs, tirelessly comforting Cruze, be a down-to-earth person and don't think about importing goods, especially in terms of women, imports are not as good as domestic ones.

In the dream, Gou Bin was intoxicated, he was moved by this poignant love melody, an old man's love story for his regrets, played such a sad deed, but the artillery fire was always ruthless, when the Entente defeated the Allies, the old man's favorite woman was also killed by the cannonballs.

Gou Bin didn't know how the old man Ryan liked the enemy woman died, he didn't tell himself carefully, and Gou Bin didn't know it, but he vaguely knew these in his memory, he was completely intoxicated by this heavenly rhythm, and couldn't extricate himself for a long time, forgetting all the troubles of his soul.

The dream turned Gou Bin finally saw his mysterious childhood sweetheart, but unfortunately it was very vague and he couldn't see what he looked like, he only felt that he was very beautiful, Lucy, a sweet country girl, not much older than Gou Bin, a little puzzled sister and brother love, her laughter has been hovering in her mind for a long time.

The dream is like a movie film showing the past dream and this life, so familiar and so cordial, as if he has experienced it himself, Lucy's smile and anger seem to be engraved into his mind, so hard and so worried, when he joined the army to serve the motherland, the night of parting was so wonderful, but unfortunately he couldn't see the scene that was not suitable for children.

From the moment of the landing battle at sea, it was Gou Bin who saw it most truly and clearly, the scene of bullets flying was clearly visible, the rumbling artillery fire seemed to be bombing in front of him, the shuttle landing ship approached the shallow beach, and groups of Allied soldiers fell and charged, and even the shells were blown out of the sea and still charged.

Gou Bin stepped on the sand of the shallow beach with his feet, and walked straight in the direction of the beach, he didn't feel the cold or the pain, the gurgling sound of the sea and the sound of artillery echoed in his mind, and the landing ship he was on was also blown to the bottom of the sea, and there were overwhelming waves behind him, which hit Gou Bin and sank into the shallow sea.

Gou Bin wanted to struggle to float, but he couldn't do it, there was no feeling of shelter, and there was no discomfort of choking on the sea, when he was frustrated and waiting to die, a soldier pulled him up, and the moment he got up, a cannonball flew over, Gou Bin's whole person flew, and even the whole person floated up lightly.

Gou Bin's whole person floats in the dark space of nothingness, all the silence around him is terrible, there is no roar of artillery fire, there is no scream of death, there is just endless vicissitudes of nothingness, here is like a prison field, a prison for the mentally dead, there is no sunlight and no sound, some are just endless darkness and broken silence.

"Cruz, Cruz, wake up, you promised me, you will come back alive and sound, Cruz..." A cordial call woke up Gou Bin, he wanted to respond to this call, but it was so difficult, so difficult to do, he tried to get up, but it was so difficult.

As soon as the picture turned, Gou Bin found himself outside a field medical room, and a young girl in front of him stood in front of him, trying to get close to see her face clearly, but no matter how close he was, it was difficult to get close to the figure in front of him, and the young girl in front of him didn't know what she was talking about.

Gou Bin wanted to hear what she said, but no matter how much he concentrated, it was difficult to do it, just when Gou Bin was about to give up, a cannonball fell straight in front of the young girl in front of him, Gou Bin wanted to shout but couldn't shout anything, his whole person was pulled back, unable to resist or break free.

The cannonball exploded, and it exploded silently, the hazy figure in front of him, in the explosion of the cannonball, disappeared like dust, Gou Bin wanted to call but couldn't shout anything, his eyes unconsciously flowed moist teardrops, very cold and worried.

Pain! A heart-wrenching pain spread all over Gou Bin's body, he wanted to wake up from this never-ending nightmare memory, but it was difficult to do, he didn't know if it was a memory or a nightmare, a nightmare or a memory? It was a chaotic and terrible dream, and he wanted to wake up and end this terrible memory-like nightmare.

Gou Bin struggled to wake up in his nightmare, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't do it, until Sean whispered to wake up Gou Bin in the nightmare: "Cruze, Cruze, wake up... Cruze, oh! Thank God for selling dogs, Cruz you finally woke up, what? Are you having nightmares again? ”

Gou Bin woke up from the nightmare with a sweaty face, wiping the sweat oozing from the corner of his face with one hand, the original low-grade fever had disappeared, Gou Bin said uncomfortably: "Mmmm, Sean, it's you, Huhu~~ What's wrong?" Sean, how long did I sleep? ”

Sean leaned against the wooden wall beside Gou Bin, took out a cigarette and lit it, handed it to Gou Bin and said, "It's been an hour, it's still early, then again, Cruz, what nightmare did you have?" Look at your sweaty face and panicked, tell me? Give, spiritual food, save some smoke yourself! ”

Gou Bin tightened the tablecloth he was wrapping, shook his hand to take the cigarette handed by Sean, took a sharp puff of shock, and said innocently: "No, no, I just remembered the previous things and was a little scared, Sean, thank you for your spiritual food, it would be better if you had something to eat!" ”

Gou Bin dreamed of the situation inside and felt a burst of fear, the war was too terrifying, human life was so fragile, a few shells bombarded down and basically killed a village, not to mention the picture of bullets flying, it was better to die to see God, no pain and no knife to take the direct train to heaven, and those who did not die were also guilty.

Sean rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Peanuts are available, do you want them?" Well, that Cruz, Lucy, I already know it's your girlfriend, and I don't think it's strange that you call her thousands of times in your dreams, but that Ryan, who is here? You've shouted dozens of times, does he owe you a lot of money? ”

"Uh..."Gou Bin really doesn't know how to answer Sean, why does Ryan owe him a lot of money? It's true that he owes Ryan a lot of debt, if he hadn't estimated that the owner of this body would have starved to death, a great and friendly lovely old man, I don't know if he burped?

Thinking of the word money, Gou Bin's consciousness was a little vague, and he couldn't help but ask curiously: "By the way, Sean, how much money do you have to serve the country as a soldier?" Those of us who are soldiers, how do we calculate this salary? Also, why did you come here to be a soldier? Hi Hi ~ I'll be honest with you! ”

Sean looked at Gou Bin with a strange expression and said, "I'm by ~ Cruz, aren't you?" Okay, I obeyed you, uh-huh, at a level like me, it's only about 20 dollars, and the death in battle is only a few hundred dollars, don't think about the cost of 10,000 dollars for the death of that pit man, that's all a lie, how many people are in an army? Can the state compensate for it? ”

Gou Bin thinks about it, if the state really implements the compensation law of the Mongolian people, it is strange not to overspend, it seems that a car in this period is only a few hundred dollars, how many can be bought for 10,000 dollars? It's too pitiful, only the dead pay for a car, and human life is not worth anything!

Gou Bin couldn't help but think of the most critical question, and it was also the most confusing question in his heart, he turned his head to look at Sean on the side and said, "Sean, why did you come to the battlefield?" Serve the motherland or? Recently, looking at your behavior, making more money than rewarding behavior, what is the purpose of our coming here? ”

Sean snatched the cigarette from Gou Bin's hand with one hand, and took a puff without disgust and said, "Me? Hehe~ I'm not as great as you think, joining the army is a last resort, it's best to get rich on the battlefield, go back and live a petty bourgeois life, if you die in battle, at least you have earned a car money for your children! ”

Gou Bin looked at Sean with a shocked expression, is this the ideal of the simple soldier brother in front of him? Gou Bin didn't expect that Sean's ideal was so simple, and it was so ignorant, and it was actually a question worth thinking about in the spirit of living to make a fortune and being healthy after death.

Sean sighed, clenched the carbine with both hands on his chest, spit out the burned-out cigarette in his mouth and said: "Cruze, don't think too much, you have time to think about these unrealistic questions, it's better to think about how you can survive, it's better to live than nothing, sleep!" It's dawn in an hour! ”

Gou Bin nodded, looked at Jimmy and Barbara who were asleep, and couldn't help but sigh and close his eyes to force himself to sleep, Gou Bin knew that when he woke up again, it was time to set off, and everything would go to the battlefield again, and the dream in the dream was just a dream.

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