When they got up in the morning, Mrs. Roves and Fu Jin had just come out of the house when they saw a middle-aged man in coarse cloth kneeling in front of his door.

Fu Jin and Mrs. Roves were very surprised, although they had met many people who had expressed their gratitude in this most primitive way before, but this time it was even more surprising to them, for it was evident that the man had been kneeling for some time from the dew-soaked clothes.

"What are you? Hurry up......" Before Fu Jin could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Miao Aman.

"You saved my child! I've heard that it was you who saved the little girl, and I will be a cow and ......a horse for you all my life," Miao Aman cried bitterly to express his gratitude, and his head hit the ground and thumped.

"God, get up quickly." Mrs. Roves and Fu Jin reached out to pull it, and it took a while for Miao Aman to stand up from the ground. Because he knelt down for too long, his legs and feet were numb when he stood up, and he almost fell.

Fu Jin and Mrs. Roves helped him to sit next to him, and Mrs. Roves said, "You need to get the blood back now, or it will be dangerous." ”

After finishing speaking, she squatted down and gently patted Miao Aman's legs with both hands. Miao Aman felt extremely ashamed, but he didn't expect to shed tears at this time.

"You're all good people! You're all good people! Miao Aman kept repeating his words, and this is the only way for this honest Chinese farmer to express his gratitude.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you? Let's go to our cafeteria here for a bite to eat first. Fu Jin saw that Miao Aman was almost recovering, so he suggested.

Miao Aman shook his head, and after a moment he asked, "Where is Yaya?" I want to see her. ”

Although Mrs. Roves could speak Chinese, Miao Aman spoke more dialects, and she did not understand this sentence. Fu Jin understood, and she said to Mrs. Roves, "He probably wants to see his daughter." ”

"Oh, how did we forget about it. Get up, sir, your daughter is still in the ward, but she should still be resting now, you know, she just had surgery yesterday and she's still very weak. Mrs. Roves said.

"I'll just look at it, just look at it." Miao Aman pleaded a little.

After speaking, Fu Jin and Mrs. Roves led Miao Aman to the inpatient department together. The inpatient department is a three-story building made of bricks and cement, and the ground is smoothed with cement mortar, which looks very clean.

went up the stairs to the innermost ward on the second floor, and Miao Aman followed the two to his daughter's bed. Her daughter was still asleep, and the white cotton futon wrapped around her, looking clean and warm. My daughter's little hand stretched out from the corner of the quilt, and a thin tube was inserted on it, thinking that this was what foreigners said about infusion.

Miao Aman squatted down and gently touched Yaya's head, and a smile finally appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Let's go out and let the kids rest for a while." Fu Jin walked over and whispered to Miao Aman.

Mrs. Roves nodded her head in agreement.

The three of them quietly walked out of the ward again. When he walked outside the ward, Fu Jin said to Miao Aman: "The child is no big problem now, and he should be discharged from the hospital after resting here for two weeks." You don't have to worry about the treatment, we are here for free. ”

The corners of Miao Aman's mouth twitched, and after he pursed his lips again, he said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Fu and this lady, I have a request that I want you to agree to." ”

Fu Jin and Mrs. Roves looked at each other, not knowing what request he was about to say.

Miao Aman snorted and said, "I want to ask you to help me take care of Yaya!" ”

"Take care of her? What do you mean? Fu Jin didn't quite understand what Miao Aman meant, she didn't know if Miao Aman was referring to the time of illness or something else?

Miao Aman obviously knew what Fu Jin meant, and he stepped forward and explained: "I'm going to be a soldier and go to the front!" Yaya has no one to take care of at home, I want you to ask the school to take care of it, I know that I am a bit excessive and unruly, but I can only ask you, if I die on the battlefield, I hope you can raise Yaya. This kid isn't a picky eater, just give him a stutter......"

When he said this, Miao Aman knelt on the ground with another thud. Mrs. Roves and Fu Jin hurriedly helped them up.

Fu Jin said with some hesitation: "You must know that I hope the school can provide food, clothing, housing and transportation, but there is no one to replace the parents of the children." ”

"When you're on vacation, let her go back to her grandmother. It's just that her grandmother is old, and I'm afraid that if I'm outside, her grandmother will die one day, and she will really become an orphan. As he spoke, Miao Aman began to cry again.

"Well, I promise you." Fu Jin felt that although it would be inappropriate for the child, she finally agreed.

Mrs. Roves followed suit, saying, "I think the children may come to me during the holidays." ”

……

Mrs. Roves and Fu Jin agreed to Miao Aman's request. After eating at noon and secretly glancing at his daughter outside the door, Miao Aman left the hospital firmly.

Outside the hospital, Second Lieutenant Luo Kehui was already waiting for him in a battalion headquarters Huanghe jeep. After seeing Miao Aman, Luo Kehui honked the horn.

Miao Aman glanced back at his daughter's ward, and then walked towards the jeep.

Luo Kehui glanced at him, tilted his head and said, "You sit in the back, I'll take you to the recruiting office to report now!" ”

Miao Aman nodded and got into the car. The jeep started, and after a puff of green smoke came out of the exhaust hole, it began to drive towards the county seat.

……

The expeditionary force was launched. Before arriving in Myanmar, Huang Ke gave Sun Liren a face-to-face lecture. He said, "The troops of our expeditionary force should be our army, and everything should be done in the interests of China. If the principle is violated, it will not obey the command of the United States and Britain. He also said, "Mandalay is an important transportation point on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and now that the British have abandoned Yangon, the material aid from the United States needs to enter from Mandalay, so the defense of Mandela is the first priority." ”

Sun Liren naturally understood what Huang Ke meant, and now China, the United States, and Britain are engaged in joint operations in Burma, but the weapons promised by the Americans have not been given, and the defense promised by the British has not been completed.

However, Sun Liren is still worried, because although Stilwell is the chief of staff of the Chinese theater, he is the de facto supreme commander on the battlefield in Burma, which was also confirmed at the joint meeting of China, the United States and the United Kingdom, so what should be done if there is a conflict between Huang Ke and Stilwell's orders?

Instead of sending a telegram of thousands of miles at that time, it is better to ask now, Sun Liren said bluntly: "If there is a conflict between General Stilwell's orders and the principles of Nanjing, what should we do?" ”

Huang Ke did not stop and said decisively: "Based on our interests, if you can't get it, ask for instructions, if you don't reply to the instructions, you will make a decision according to the battlefield situation." ”

"Yes!" Sun Liren is on the right path.

Huang Ke patted him on the shoulder and said, "I won't go to see you off, but I will definitely go to greet you on the day of your triumph!" ”

……

After Sun Liren left, Zhu Xianjue, a staff member standing aside, frowned.

Zhu Xianjue is a scholar living in Europe and the United States, who once taught at Yenching University, and was recruited by Huang Ke as a staff member not long ago because of his in-depth study of European and American relations.

Here today, after hearing Huang Ke's words to Sun Liren, he felt a little disagreeable, so he said: "Chairman, have you considered that such an order will lead to the deterioration of relations between China, the United States, and the United Kingdom?" ”

Huang Ke smiled and said, "Mr. Zhu, I know what you're worried about. If it were in the days when I was completely dependent on US aid, I would never have dared to give such an order to Sun Liren. The reason why he dared to give Sun Liren such a resolute order was that his own strength had increased. ”

Then, Huang Ke told him about the current general situation in China. At present, China's military industrial system has been preliminarily completed in the pre-war economic construction, and the mileage of railway transportation can basically meet the transportation needs of the war. Heavy industrial products such as steel and petroleum produced in China can basically meet the needs of front-line combat troops, but they are limited to front-line troops.

It is precisely because of these material developments that we have been able to achieve a phased victory in the present war.

At present, the Japanese army has invested more than 1.3 million troops in China, but it can only occupy China's coastal areas, so China at this time has the ability to say no to some demands of the United States and Britain that are not in line with its own interests.

"Of course, on the other hand, our industry is still very weak, and the military industry is always at zero in many key sectors, and in the face of the continuous investment of the Japanese army in China, China needs to arm more troops, so that the industrial supply is stretched, and the assistance provided by the United States is naturally a relief in the snow."

With American-style equipment, he will be able to arm more American mechanics and will be able to achieve a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army one day earlier. Therefore, the relationship with the United States naturally cannot be stalemate. ”

Zhu Xianjue frowned, Huang Ke said this made him feel a little contradictory, on the one hand, he said that China's industry can be basically self-sufficient, and can say no to some interests of the United States and Britain, but on the other hand, he said that he needs American assistance, isn't this a contradiction?

After listening to Zhu Xianjue's words, Huang Ke said seriously: "Although Mr. Zhu has a lot of knowledge and insight, he does not understand the door of politics and diplomacy. Let's put it this way, in addition to humanitarianism, the United States has given us aid in large part because of the need for the common interests of the war against Japan. Besides, Stilwell does not represent the U.S. government, and Sun Liren's attitude does not represent the Chinese government. ”

Zhu Xianjue said with a smile: "It turns out that the chairman of the committee is confident. ”