The four of them gathered around the burning fire, weary and heavy, as if they were about to sleep. The dry branches burned so quickly that several people had to take turns pulling the branches, and several people realized from the moment they lit the fire that it was a mistake to start the fire. If there is no fire, a few people can hold on for a while, and once the fire is ignited. The will to persevere is broken. They found that they couldn't do without fire at this moment.

Shiro was lying on the snow that had been melted by the fire, with Kawao's coat spread underneath him. Shiro had a high fever and kept babbling. The tube of the trousers, which had been frozen into a blood tube, was roasted by the fire, and the dirty blood slowly soaked down the trouser tube on the melted snow.

"Mother, mother......" Shiro shouted in a coma.

The eyes of several people went to look at Shiro together, and Shiro closed his eyes, and his face turned red due to fever. Chino looked at the sleeping Shiro, shrugged his shoulders and cried.

"Mother, mother......" Shiro exclaimed, stretching out his hands in the air in a coma.

Several people know that Niang is Shiro's only relative in this world. When Shiro was very young, his father went to the sea to fish and encountered wind and waves and never came back, and it was his mother who brought Shiro up.

When the iron-box-like boat pulled their group of soldiers to Lushunkou, China, Shiro also shouted at the choppy sea like this. The shouting made a car full of tears in their eyes. When Shiro was captured as a soldier, his mother was sick. Mother lying in bed. When Shiro was taken out of the hut, he heard his mother cry out in a terrible voice; "Son—" Then he heard his mother fall from the bed. He screamed and tried to break away from the caught, but the grip of the hands became tighter and tighter, and he turned his head and shouted all the way: "Mother, you wait, I will come back-" He believed that Mother must have heard his shout, and he did so all the way while on the boat.

As soon as the ship landed, it was a different world. He looked at the vast sea behind him, and then he realized that Hiroshima was far away from him, and his mother was far away from him. He let out a long howl, "Mother, I'm sorry for you," and knelt down. At the same time as he knelt down, the entire Japanese soldiers on the shore knelt down. Towards the turbid waters, in the direction of his hometown, a whimper sounded in his ears.

It was dusk again, and the snow-capped mountains were dyed in a dusk like a dream, and the wind and snow were whimpering and snorting in the mountains and forests far and near.

Chino woke up, shrunk and tired by the fire, kept trembling, looked at Kawao and Chino helplessly with his eyes, trembled his lips and said with a crying voice, "Can we still go back to Hiroshima?" ”

Kawao and Noo looked at Chino, and then at Shiro who was lying by the fire, and they suddenly felt that the burden on their shoulders was very heavy.

"Yes—" Kawao said.

"Surely—" Nofu said.

After saying this, Nofu looked around blankly and whimpered in his chest.

"I'm cold, I'm going to starve to death......" Chino cried again, the cry was hollow and weak, and it looked very small and sad in the whimpering wind.

Nofu had a fire in his heart for some reason, he didn't know who to hate, he took off the gun on his shoulder and held it weakly, and the muzzle of the gun was blindly aimed at the world.

Shiro woke up when the first cold star rose in the eastern sky, and when he woke up, all three of them gathered around him and looked at him silently. Shiro grabbed Noo and Kawao's hands, stared at them in a daze for a long time, and then looked up at the darkened sky, and returned to reality in a trance.

Another cold star rose in the sky, blinking in Shiro's eyes, he turned his face to look at the two people, and then at Chino, who was shrunk aside, and took a breath and said, "You guys...... Back to Hiroshima ...... Don't forget to check ...... My mother ......" Shiro burst into tears, and several people looked at Shiro's eyes and their eyes were hazy. Shiro gritted his teeth at this time, and said word by word: "Yokoji, I want to kill him!" When Shiro said this, he gasped sharply.

Shiro's bullet in the leg came not from the guerrilla direction, but from the muzzle of the gun in the crossbar behind him.

The Yokoji family and Shiro are the only two families on the side of the river. After Shiro's father sank into the sea with the fish boat, his mother took him to the stream.

At that time, there was only one Henglu in Daxi. The mother took Shiro to reclaim two acres of land by the big stream, built a thatched hut and lived there. At that time, the brothers in the Yokoji family were still young. Later, it became bigger, and the Yokoji brothers, who grew up, reclaimed all the wasteland by the big stream, and reclaimed it all the way to the rice field of Shiro's house. Every year when the seeds are planted, Shiro will see the hateful eyes of the Yokoji brothers. Shiro doesn't understand why the Yokoji family hates him. The mother told him that the Yokoji family wanted to get rid of them. Shiro was farming with a cow, and suddenly one morning, a knife cut a large hole in his stomach, and his intestines flowed out of the gap. Shiro looked at the cow and understood everything, Shiro didn't say anything, silently watched the cow fall in front of his eyes with the last drop of blood. The mother was sick for a few days over the cow's death. Shiro looked at the two acres of rice fields by the stream that were about to ripen and cried, he had no relatives in this world except his mother. Daxi was his home, and he didn't know where else to go without Daxi. Without oxen, he toiled in the fields like an ox. Every time he raised his head and saw the hostile gaze of the Yokoji family, he also looked at that gaze, suppressing the anger of patience in his heart. Later, when he was arrested in China, Yokoji was also arrested in China. He and Yokoji never said a word, just looked at each other with hatred. He thought of his mother, now he is the only one who is alone, and there are still a few brothers in the Henglu family, can his mother still stick to the two acres of rice fields? That night, as soon as the gun rang out, he was hit by a bullet fired from the sideways, which he never expected.

Thinking of this, Shiro suddenly wailed, crawled over, and touched the legs of several people. The moment he was shot and fell to the ground, Kawao and Chino rushed over and dragged him up. He crawled in front of the three of them and cried. As soon as Shiro cried, several people couldn't hold back anymore, hugged each other, and cried bitterly together.

"You have to live and go back to Hiro......shima," Shiro hissed.

It took a long time for several people to stop crying and put Shiro who was lying on the ground next to the fire again. The fire flickered and flickered, and the wind whined all around.

Shiro looked at the fire, and his dry eyes lit up. For a long time he looked at the three humans; "Gather some more wood, the fire is going out."

Now the wind was louder, and the few wisps of fire struggled in the wind. Several people listened to Shiro's words and staggered towards the snowstorm. The three of them walked a few steps and looked back at Shiro, who was lying on the side of the fire and shouted hoarsely at a few people; "Hiroshima—" Several people listened to Shiro's shout, their hearts ached, and they still walked into the wind and snow.

Shiro grabbed his gun from the snow and tugged at the bolt, a yellow bullet being crushed into his load. At this time, Shiro glanced at the sky, the sky was very vast, and the swirling snow mist struggled and a beautiful figure danced in mid-air. After a long time, he withdrew his gaze from the sky, glanced at the fire beside him, and dragged his gun towards the fire......

The three of them picked up some branches and staggered back, the wind whining and echoing in their ears. The mind is very chaotic, and from time to time bizarre hallucinations appear, and their movements suddenly become blind and mechanical. They realized that this cold night might not be able to pass, and they might freeze to death and starve to death in this wind and snow. They no longer have the strength to move forward, and they don't know where they are ahead or where they are alive. The only belief that sustains them is to live. In front of us is the fire that burns, where there is warmth, where there is light...... They stumbled forward.

It was dark, the wind was blowing, and only the fire beckoned to them. At this time, the three of them suddenly heard Shiro shout heartbreakingly: "Mother-" and then an earth-shattering gunshot.

Several of them shuddered and crawled to the fire like crazy.

What appeared to them was Shiro lying on the fire. Shiro shot himself in the head. Blood was gurgling outward. The three of them were stunned for a moment, and shouted in unison for a while: "Shiro-"

The three of them knelt beside the fire, facing Shiro's corpse, the fire was burning and the wind was blowing.

A strange smell of meat spread from the fire.

"Shiro-Shiro-" the three of them shouted as if they were crazy about the fire.