I think our knights just opened,

There were only a dozen knights, seven or eight girls.

- Singing from the opera "Knights Hospitaller".

In the summer of 2000, the weather was gloomy and the wind was getting stronger, but the house was still full of laughter.

In the living room, a spirited old man sits on the sofa and watches the children gently clean the oil paintings hanging in the center of the wall with a feather duster.

The background of the painting is an old airplane, and a group of people are walking away from the plane in a line, talking and laughing.

The people in the painting are all famous figures of the year, but at this time, only the old man on the sofa is alone in nostalgia for that magnificent era.

"Grandpa, a guest has come to you, it's a reporter. The granddaughter softly interrupted the old man's memories.

"Let them come. "The old man has straightened his clothes, and over the years, he has received more journalists than he has eliminated enemies.

A middle-aged female reporter came over, and she said to the old man: "I salute you, Your Excellency Hartmann, the hero of the air. ”

Hartman sneered and said, "I know you, Rita, they say you're the toughest journalist in recent years, sit down." ”

"It's my pleasure. Rita sat down in a chair next to her, pulling out the recorder and visiting notebook.

Hartman asked the children to bring her a glass of boiled water, and then asked, "Why don't you go and toss the people who sit in the office, and come to me to hear stories about the war?"

Rita smiled and said, "I have a piece of history that I want to ask you for, and it's about the Knights Hospitaller. ”

Hartmann picked up the teacup on the coffee table in front of him and took a sip, then said: "My father's experiences in the Knights are all written in his memoirs and correspondence, you know that later I went to the Air Force, and I don't know more than anyone else. ”

"Sir Hartmann was a man of respect, and as the second Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, he carried forward the Order's spirit of 'guarding the people and helping the suffering'. ”

Hartman said with some displeasure: "Although I am glad that you praise my father, he is only a gardener, and the most respectable is Uncle Charles, the first generation of the head of the regiment, it was he who planted the seeds and gave birth to the great tree that came later!"

"You journalists, you have been digging up his lace news in recent years, today he has slept with several queens, and tomorrow you guess who is his illegitimate child, but you turn a blind eye to his exploits, this is extremely irresponsible!!"

"If you continue to do this nonsense, be careful that one day there will be elves who will stone your windows in the middle of the night until you enter the coffin!!"

Rita spent the next half hour receiving the old gentleman's ideological education before seizing the opportunity to drink tea and get down to business.

The reporter said: "Your Excellency Hartman, I recently got a piece of news. ”

"Not long ago, a large vase that had been in the collection of Lady Ellie was accidentally broken, and a notebook was found in the vase, which contained a record of the receipt of allowances for the first year or two of the establishment of the Knights Hospitaller. ”

"In the first two months' records, in addition to your father, Sir Hartman, you also received a stipend. ”

"You know, in all the memoirs and official records, the records of the first days of the Knights are blank, and there is no exact date. ”

"Can you tell us the story of the day the Order was founded?"

"Did you join the Order at that time?"

At that moment, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and a pale light illuminated the somewhat gloomy room.

Hartman leaned back on the soft couch back, closed his eyes, and remembered what had happened that day.

"That was 72 years ago. "I don't remember what it was." ”

"As you should know at that time, my father was a military doctor at the time, and when he was on leave, he was ordered to go to the epidemic area to cooperate with Aunt Mila in the treatment work. At that time, he was afraid that the epidemic would expand and I would suffer at home, so he took me with him, at least I was by his side and he could watch me. ”

"As the book says, he asked me to dig up a lot of flowers and plants, and eventually found the bacteria in the water by dyeing. ”

"Later, Uncle Charles founded the Knights Hospitaller, and my father took me with him. ”

"At that time...... At that time, who knew that the Knights would continue to this day, Uncle Charles, they all thought that we would break up before the end of the year. ”

"If he hadn't established economic democracy when he founded the Order, Aunt Ellie wouldn't have thought of keeping accounts, and I asked for the notebook from Uncle Meyer. ”

Rita's eyes lit up and she asked, "...... Uncle Meyer you were talking about?"

Hartman pointed to the oil painting on the wall and said, "It's Field Marshal Meyer, who was in charge of the temporary airfield there, and that's when I fell in love with flying." ”

Rita asked, "So, you were also one of the first members of the Knights Hospitaller?"

"Haha, that's okay, after all, I also have a stipend. Hartman laughed and said, "But I was also the first to quit because I only worked for two months." ”

Rita asked with some malice, "Then why did you leave the group at that time?"

Hartman said indifferently, "Because then the summer vacation is over, and I'm going back to school." ”

Rita, who was about to make a big news, was stunned for two seconds, this reason was too powerful to do tricks at all.

Then she asked, "Then why doesn't your name appear in the record?"

Hartmann took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and then replied with a smile: "I was only eight years old at that time, and my daily task was to prepare food for everyone in the village. ”

"Who would take me seriously at that time, I didn't take myself seriously. ”

"Later, at the meeting of democratic life, Uncle Charles said that since I also participated in the labor, I should have a place. At that time, I didn't have much to say, just to say whether the quartermaster's side had enough rations. ”

"Later, when my father wrote his memoirs, he asked me specifically, and I said that how can I be compared to my uncles and aunts when I cook porridge, so forget it. ”

Rita scribbled down Hartman's narration verbatim in her notebook.

The reporter found that she had just asked two questions, and Hartman had only answered the latter one, and that the day the Order had been established had not said a word.

Again, she asked, "Excuse me, what was the day the Order was founded?"

At this time, the lightning and thunder outside the house did not stop, and the raindrops as big as beans were sprinkled with a bang.

Hartman turned his head to look out the window at the garden shaking in the storm, and said lightly, "I have Alzheimer's disease, I don't remember." ”