In order to force the Nationalist Government to submit, the Japanese invaders bombed the mountain city of Chongqing even more frantically, Ruikang almost every day in the staff and outside the city, all his energy into the national disaster, although he is already a senior officer, but he does not care much about these, sometimes even take off his military uniform, personally go into battle to save people in the ruins.

In June 1941, early in the morning, the sound of roaring airplanes was heard in the sky of Chongqing, and a sharp and loud air defense siren sounded inside and outside the city. With the piercing siren of "Woo Woo Woo~", the whole city fell into panic again, and people began to look for the air-raid shelter to save their lives.

Men and women, young and old, panicked, frightened, while looking up at the approaching enemy planes, while hurrying into the nearby bomb shelters, many of them have lost their homes and relatives, in the troubled times are struggling to find a ray of life, their faces are mixed with the fear of death and the desire to survive. These two instincts make the crowd rush wildly, and everyone wants to get into the safety of the tunnel as soon as possible to save their lives.

Zhou Ruikang looked up at the black shadows in the sky bitterly, and tried his best to organize the crowd to enter the air-raid shelter.

"Don't crowd, don't crowd, line up!" Dust and sweat had stained his face almost unrecognizable, and his voice was drowned out by the high-pitched sirens and screams of terror as people rushed into the dugouts in disorder.

Ruikang would help hold the child at one time, and help the old man who had fallen, and the crowd rushed against him, exhausting him.

At this moment, as soon as he raised his head, the corner of his eye was flashed by a golden light, and he hurriedly looked up at the source of the golden light, just around the corner of the street, the dazzling light kept flashing towards the sky, Ruikang's heart sank, and he immediately realized that this was the reflection of the mirror, this is the damn traitor is using the reflection of the mirror in the sun, to signal the enemy's planes in the air, let them cast * ah!

Before he could think about it, he got up and pushed away the crowd in front of him, and ran towards the reflection of the mirror, where a thin man with a hat and a peasant costume was holding a small mirror in his right hand, and was shining in the mirror.

"What are you doing?!" Rikon pointed at him as he rushed up to grab him.

As soon as the man saw through it, he turned around and was about to run, Ruikang jumped up and pounced, grabbed his back, the man turned around, his face was fierce, he gritted his teeth, and suddenly an extra dagger in his hand swung towards Ruikang's throat, Ruikang was startled, and he leaned back to avoid it, and as soon as his hand was released, the man was about to escape, and Ruikang hurriedly flew up and kicked on the man's step. The man was kicked to the wall by Ruikang, but he was still not convinced, and he swung his knife forward.

Thanks to the strict training of the military academy, Zhou Ruikang is no longer a weak scholar, three times five divided by two, one buckled the man's wrist, cleanly snatched the dagger from his hand, kicked him in the knee socket, pressed him heavily against his back, pressed him heavily to the ground, and locked the man's two arms with one hand.

"You fucking signal the Japanese! You damned traitor! I'll beat you to death! Ruikang raised his eyebrows, raised his fist angrily, and punched the traitor to the temple, knocking the man unconscious on the spot.

I was about to tie up the man, but it was too late, the Japanese planes had already received the signal, and they came with a bang and dropped *.

* Raindrops rained down, Ruikang had never seen a cannonball fall from the sky so close, so close to himself, so close, he opened his eyes wide and glanced at it, not caring about the traitor under him, the instinct to survive made him quickly run to the side of the street.

But it was too late, the cannonball fell less than twenty meters behind him, and the huge explosion blasted him into the air, he only saw his body mixed with the rubble around him, he seemed to be a small piece of rubble, at that moment, he understood the fragility of life, and at that last moment, in his mind, he actually saw Mei Ruojun for the first time in the Mei family.

I don't know why there is such a sentence floating in my heart: "The world is misty, but I don't know, the front edge is predetermined, and the eyes are like stars, but I don't know, I have been tossing and turning for many years, looking for and seeking, just for this life and you are obsessed with ......"

Zhou Ruikang was thrown to the ground heavily, his head hit the corner of a broken house, blood oozed from his head, the corners of his mouth, instantly stained the ground red, his eyes were black, he could no longer feel pain, whether it was physical or mental, in an instant, it seemed that all the pain disappeared, and he entered a world without consciousness...... In that world, there is no love, no hate, no joy and no sorrow......

On that day, because the Japanese army bombed the mouth of the tunnel and the vent, the citizens in the cave had difficulty breathing and crowded to the mouth of the cave, causing each other to trample on each other, thousands of refugees died, and thousands of lives disappeared in one day, and the entire Chongqing Municipality almost became a mass grave, and the streets were lined with disheveled corpses, which was unbearable......

//

In the hospital, Cheng Jiaqi covered her mouth with a handkerchief, crying breathlessly, gauze wrapped around Zhou Ruikang's head, his face was blue and purple, his arms, ribs, and leg bones were broken, and he had an oxygen cylinder tube in his nose, like a broken doll lying on the hospital bed.

The doctor's words still echoed in her ears: "Mrs. Zhou, we are very sorry, the colonel's limb injuries are fine, but the head injuries are very serious, we don't know how much his injuries will affect him, everything will not be diagnosed until he wakes up, so we can only wait, I hope he can wake up as soon as possible." ”

But Ruikang has been lying in bed for more than half a month, but there is still no improvement, she keeps talking in his ear every day, hoping that he can move his fingers, or blink his eyelashes, looking at his closed eyes, expressionless face, making her feel that the whole world is gray.

Jiaqi walked to the window, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and prayed silently......

The commander of the army came, his colleagues came, the crowd came and went, walked and came, commendation certificates, flower baskets and fruit blue, and condolences were a lot, but no matter how honored, the commendation could not wake him up.

His wounds healed and his bruises began to recede, but he remained in a deep coma.

A month later, Xu Enhai and Song Yuanyang actually appeared in the ward, which was completely unexpected by Jiaqi, although there were all kinds of grievances, but these two seemed to be a symbol of Xu Manlin in the world, their arrival made Jiaqi have a kind of illusion, feeling as if Xu Manlin had sent them to visit Ruikang.

Jiaqi politely invited them to sit down, Xu Enhai sat there and asked about Ruikang's condition, there was no special expression on his face, but Song Yuanyang was very sad between his eyebrows, shook his head, and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity." ”

Xu Enhai squinted at Song Yuanyang and said: "Yuanyang, everyone has their own life, although I have a personal grudge with him, but Zhou Ruikang can also be regarded as sacrificing his life for the country, which is admirable." ”

Song Yuanyang sighed: "Yes, I used to think that he was just a person who only knew how to be in the wind and snow, rolling in the pile of women, but I didn't expect him to really have such courage." It seems that Man Lin does have a vision, but I am superficial. ”

The two sat for a while, and when they left, they left a large stack of banknotes and forcibly let Jiaqi accept them, Jiaqi was very puzzled by the intentions of these two, everyone is not stupid, the past in Shanghai, the death of Xu Manlin and Mei Ruoli, Xu Enhai's conspiracy to seize property, and lure Zhu Yafen, all as yesterday, Jiaqi welcomed them in, just because Xu Enhai is a celebrity above, and at present, he and Ruikang are colleagues, and it is not good to tear their faces, but the grievances and hatreds between them cannot be erased at all.

What's even more strange is that after this day, that Song Yuanyang came to visit many times one after another, almost every three days, and always frowned at Zhou Ruikang quietly in front of the hospital bed, but he didn't say much. Jiaqi knew that there must be something wrong with him, and tried to ask a few times, but Song Yuanyang always shook his head and smiled and said that it was okay.

In this way, summer has passed, autumn has come, Ruikang on the hospital bed is still relying on oxygen cylinders to maintain his life, living in a world without consciousness, maybe he is too tired and needs a completely quiet world to rest.

//

And in the late autumn of that year, Mei Ruojun gave birth to a beautiful little boy in a small cabin on Jinyun Mountain, and when Ding Xiaohui stood outside the door and heard the loud cry of the baby, he was excited as if this was his own flesh and blood.

The midwife opened the door with a smile and congratulated Ding Xiaohui: "Oh, congratulations, congratulations, he is a healthy son, and the mother and son are safe." ”

Ding Xiaohui excitedly stuffed a red envelope to the midwife, rushed into the house, her hair was scattered and sticky to her face with sweat, her eyes were closed in prostration, and a small, red baby in the candle bag next to her closed her eyes and smashed her small mouth, cute like an angel.

He seemed to see his own child who had never come to the world, and fell in love with this child almost at first sight, and carefully took him into his arms, tears of excitement and excitement.

Ruojun heard a choked and sobbing sound in her ears, slowly opened her eyes, and saw Ding Xiaohui crying beside the bed, she felt both warm and touched and sad and desolate, it was actually Ding Xiaohui who was the first to pick up the child, and where was the child's father? She misses Ruikang very much, there is not a day when she doesn't miss him anymore, poor child, she thought, I don't know if this child can see his biological father in this life, but she looked at the look of love and pity for the child in Ding Xiaohui's eyes, and immediately stopped obsessing with this question, this child is lucky, he will have a good father.

She looked at Ding Xiaohui with a grateful smile, and said weakly, "Do you really like him?" ”

He looked up and said movingly: "Of course, I don't just like him, I love him, God, I feel like he is a part of my life now, I have carefully protected his uncle for more than nine months, and I will continue to protect him, watching him grow up and grow as tall as a tree." ”

As if he understood, the little baby suddenly opened its little mouth and let out "Hmm! With a bang, Xiaohui and Ruojun were amused.

Ruojun looked at him deeply, the middle-aged man in front of her, she owed him too much, gently, she held his hand, and said softly but sincerely: "I think he doesn't need an uncle, but a good father." Will you be his father? ”

Xiaohui looked at her excitedly, only to feel that an angel was singing next to her ears, so many years of waiting, finally in exchange for her words, grabbed her hand tightly, put it on her lips and kissed it heavily, and said movingly: "Yes, willing, of course I am willing." Ruojun, I love you, I will love you and the child. ”

Ding Xiaohui is very happy, immersed in the joy of being a father for the first time, he cooks for her, in order to let her have more milk, he bought crucian carp soup for her to drink, he learned how to change diapers, in addition to going to the Hu family to teach, all his time is around Ruojun's mother and son, busy and happy, the two discussed, and when Ruojun is out of confinement, he will find a good day to go to the city to register his marriage.

"Ruojun" he hugged the little baby, couldn't put it down, teased his chubby little face, and asked with a smile: "Have you thought about what to name the child?" ”

Ruojun's heart sank slightly, she hadn't thought about it, she had thought about it many times, this was the blood of the Zhou family, but would the people of the Zhou family welcome him? She thought that neither the dead Mrs. Zhou nor the living Mr. Zhou would accept the sin and seed of this "uncle and sister-----in-law", and the Zhou family was not short of children, Ruikang already had Dingbang, and there would be more children in the future, she thought, This poor child is destined not to belong to the Zhou family.

After being stunned for a while, she said softly: "If you don't mind, he can be surnamed Ding, and he should also be surnamed Ding, because you brought him into this world." ”

He returned to her with the child in his arms and caressed her beautiful face affectionately: "Have you thought about it?" I wish I wanted this child. You are not afraid that one day in the future Zhou ......"

"No, there won't be that day...... she interrupted him, she didn't want to hear the name, the name that made her heart ache and helpless, "as long as you don't mind, the child's surname is Ding, and if you mind, then his surname is Mei." ”

"Hehe, of course I don't mind, you don't know how much I love him." Ding Xiaohui smiled, and there were shallow fine lines at the corners of his eyes. She felt even more indebted to him, and said gently: "If you don't mind, I want to name the child 'Nian'an', because I owe Ryan a child." ”

"Ding Nian'an, Ding Nian'an, good, good name, I like it." He nodded, accepted it gladly, looked at the little baby in his arms, his eyes were full of love, and said with a smile: "You have a name, your name is Ding Nian'an, do you like your name?" ”

Xiao Nian'an seemed to have a special fate with Ding Xiaohui, squinted his eyes tightly, and squeezed out a smile: "Uh-huh", and made Ruojun and Xiaohui laugh again. Xiaohui hugged Ruojun into his arms, she leaned softly into his arms, teasing the beautiful and lovely Nian'an.

Mei Ruojun seems to have found her new life, Ruikang has finally become yesterday, into the past, into memory, into lovesickness, into secrets. She made up her mind to let go of the past and form a new family with Ding Xiaohui wholeheartedly.