Cairo time: February 24, 2020

04:12 a.m., coordinates: Western Province of Egypt

I don't know where I went with my eldest brother, but I ran frantically to a mud house as if I was in a hurry. This earthen house is located in a barren desert, with no grass or trees in a radius of five kilometers, and the house is made of mud, and some dry branches are erected on the top, and the branches are covered with a layer of mud, which forms the roof. The earthen house has a window and a doorway, but the window has no window, there is no door at the door, it is completely two hollows, and the ground inside the earthen house is also a layer of sand, and there is nothing in the whole house except an earthen kang and an earthen stove, on which is a rusty and dirty iron pot, and there is nothing on the earthen kang, only a dirty and hard-looking sack is covered with the legs of an old woman sitting on the earthen kang. The old woman, with her messy white hair and lost her eyes, was my mother.

The eldest brother and I staggered into the back of the earthen house and faced my mother sitting on the earthen kang, and then knelt on the sand, and my mother leaned over and held my eldest brother's hands and said, "Go to your third uncle, he has urgent business to find you." After saying goodbye to my mother, my eldest brother and I set off for my third uncle's house......

The third uncle is a well-known local general, and in recent years, he has led troops to go deep into the border passes to kill countless enemies, and has made great contributions to the defense of the country. When I went to the third uncle's house, I found that the third uncle, my aunt, and the second aunt were sitting around the table without saying a word, and the table was full of fruits and big fish and meat that had not yet been eaten.

Seeing me and my eldest brother sit down, the third uncle glanced at the two aunts next to him, and then stared at me and the eldest brother and said, "Here's the thing, this time there is an enemy invasion at the border pass and there are a huge number of people, the country sent me to the border pass to quell the chaos, I know that this time is not like before, this time we will all die 100%, I need a few deputies to help me, my previous deputies are other people's children, I don't want them to follow me to die on the battlefield, so this expedition, I want to replace all the people who lead the army with our own family, Because of the long distance of the frontier and the harsh environment, I plan to choose a few men from my family to join the army." As soon as the third uncle's voice fell, the second aunt next to him interjected: "Considering that our family and your other uncles and aunts have only one son, none of us can afford to lose this son." But you have three sons, so we have decided to send your two brothers to the battlefield with your third uncle, and you two are still with your second brother."

After hearing this, the eldest brother was silent and in a daze, and the aunt next to him said, "You two have something to eat, this table of dishes is for the two of you", and my mind was already full of my mother sitting alone on the clay kang with her cloak scattered, and then I cried helplessly and helplessly, "What should we do without our mother." At the same time, the climactic part of the song "Look at the iron hooves and walk through thousands of miles of rivers and mountains" in "Borrow from the Sky for Another 500 Years" also sounded in my ears, which made me even more sad and reluctant to leave my mother......

The third uncle got up and said, "Eat quickly, go back and tell your mother after eating, we will leave today." And I was at a loss except for crying and repeating the phrase "what should my mother do" in my mouth......

Suddenly, my eyes went dark, and I touched it with my hands, and found that both sides of my head were wet, and tears were still flowing from the corners of my eyes. Ah, it turned out to be a dream, and then I got up and went to the table to pick up my phone, and then searched for the song "Borrow from the Sky for Another 500 Years" and started the single loop, but for some reason, I cried after listening to it......