On the banks of the Weser River in Bremen, Germany, rows of houses are bathed in the morning sun, and the distant war seems to have nothing to do with it, only the dreaded Gestapo and the SS on the road have been reminding people that the country is not at peace now, and the enlistment office on the west side of the famous Roland statue is no longer overcrowded, and only the occasional SS can only be seen dragging local beggars and gangsters into the conscription office with their big thick hands to make them serve the Reich.

"Hmm... Mom, what time is it? "Byron. Mainhoff lay on the bed with an extremely ugly lazy waist, his big blue eyes and drooping eyelids are almost like the English Chaplin, the difference is that Manhoff is nearly 1.9 meters big.

Mom walked up to the attic where Mannhoff was sleeping with an apron and pushed the door open, "Get up, big lazy worm, it's already 6:40, and you still can't practice your damn saxophone?" Other people's children are fighting for the country on the front line, but my lovely son is holding the saxophone in a daze every day, our eastern neighbor Kalman is already a company commander, you look at you, and I will teach a book to mix with a man to make butter and eat! ”

Manhof folded up the soft quilt and covered his head, making a dead appearance of "not listening to and not listening to the king's recitation", and his mother stopped complaining, sat on the edge of the bed and said, "But fortunately, you don't have to go to the front, do you remember your cousin Daru..."

"All right, mother," Mannhoff sat up, "Daru is at least a martyr, a son of Corleone, the light of freedom!" I'm hungry, do you have ham today? Mom shook him with a handkerchief, and began to babble again, "I know the ham, our family's food ration ticket is about to bottom out, when will your broken school pay your salary?" Get up, get up, get up quickly, fry you eggs and brown bread, get out of here and get me some firewood when you're done!" ”

Manhof got dressed, went to the ration to get the lumber, pushed his bicycle and whistled home, and nodded and greeted every neighbor when he saw it, Bremen was a city, but the size was a town, and everyone knew each other. "Hey! Big Byron! A cold voice came from behind Manhoff, which made him shudder and immediately stood still, and Manhoff knew that this guy was his college classmate, Karl Brown, who was now a second lieutenant in the SS intelligence service. Lesna.

A smirk appeared on Manhoff's face, and he turned around and said, "I said that there is no cloud today, it turns out that the stinky foot Karl is here, and the clouds are all smoked away hahaha!" Lesner was in a dormitory with Mainhof in college, and his sweaty feet smelled strong, but now Lesner didn't laugh, he strode over, took off his leather gloves, patted the dust that didn't exist on his clothes with his gloves, looked at the tightly bundled wood behind the bike, took out a pack of French cigarettes from his pocket, and stuffed them to Mannhoff, "Man, oh my God, you haven't gone to the front line yet, this pack of cigarettes is for you" Lesnar stopped Mainhoff's refusal" Lesnar stopped Mannhoff's refusal, "The buddy of the armored regiment gave it, French goods, With the fragrance of flowers, ordinary people can't get it, save a little smoke on your big smoker! ”

Mannhoff smiled and stuffed the cigarette into his pocket, then took out a pass to enter the University of Bremen from the other pocket and stuffed it to Lesner, "I said big stinky feet, don't worry about the unmarried female teachers in the university if your feet are so smoky, I said, what is the name of the one you said last time?" ”

"Alice, are you talking about Alice, the teacher of the keyboard department?" Lesnar said depressedly, "I really like that girl, but halfway through the date, the phone from the unit called directly to the restaurant and asked me to go back, and guess what, they arrested Alice's aunt!" That poor woman has a whole ten records of swing music hidden in her house, and she also secretly hides more than 300 pounds of military flour! ”

Manhof was confused and asked, "What does that have to do with Alice?" ”

"Alice pleaded with me later, but I couldn't be the master, and at first I thought that the most I could do was to make her aunt suffer less and make amends for it by doing community service so that she wouldn't end up in that damn basement." Lesnar was trembling all over his body when he said the basement, and Manhoff quickly took out a French cigarette and handed it to Lesner, "But Major Schöner of the state bureau, what do you say to find out the corrupt forces behind it, what kind of model do you want to build, what can I do as a second lieutenant, Alice, Alice, I haven't kissed her yet, it's so yellow!" Lesner took a hard puff of his cigarette, spit out a smoke ring elegantly, savored the faint floral fragrance in the tobacco, and began to say again: "You are so lucky, your parents let you learn the saxophone at the beginning, you don't have to go to the front, teach here, I, who learn to play drums, can only join the SS, I will tell you the truth in one of our dormitories, Rudolph of the vocal music department of the dormitory opposite the door, died in the Balkans two days ago, it is said that he was * cut off half of his face, the grapevine is more interesting, he threw it into the machine gun bunker of the Greeks * , you know the damn seven-second fuse, threw it in and let the Greeks pick it up and throw it out, poor Rudolph bent down and was about to pick it up, and it exploded... I'm telling you what I'm talking to! ”

Manhof smiled, looked at Karl, who was his best friend back then, but now everyone in Bremen is afraid of him, and said: "You also have no one to talk to, I know my good brother, and he has time to ask me for a beer." Manhof made a gesture for Lesnar to come over, and continued in a voice that only two people could hear: "Work there leisurely, at least don't be so dedicated, it's all the townspeople, it's not good for you, I've heard, they call you the Stinky Foot Devil!" ”

Lesnar smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said in a very low voice: "If someone else, rushing to this sentence, I have to drag him into the intelligence department to let him enjoy the best massage, that is, you, it is kind to remind me not to go into that basement, I know, you relax." Then Lesner straightened up and said loudly: "I swore under the national flag that I would do everything to defend the Führer and the Fatherland, and not to delay your lesson, Mr. Manhoff!" Long live the Führer! Lesnari raised her right hand, and the roots of her boots clicked together.

"Long live the Führer!" Mannhoff also raised his right hand and made a gesture that every German would make.

Saying goodbye to Lesner, Manhof returned home and unloaded the firewood, picked up the saxophone, and walked towards the Weser River, Manhoff's home is five hundred meters away from the river, when he was a child, he often went into the water to fish, he even knew where there were stones, he opened the saxophone box, and after assembling it, he looked at the beautiful scenery and sighed, Manhoff's mind imagined over and over again the scene when Lesner said Rudolph's sacrifice, "Rudolph, remember the obscene appearance when you asked me to analyze the cheat sheet in a curved form, Blow you a song of Bach's G-spin and wish you a happy and happy day in heaven! ”

The melodious saxophone music fluttered along the Weser River, and many citizens stopped, listening to the sad melody of Bach's works, and their thoughts seemed to have reached a distant war-torn distance...

Behind Mannhoff, the window of the riverside row house slowly opened, and a girl with golden hair lay on the window, looking at his back with affection...