Chapter 20 Chapter 19 The Silent Truth

For many years, Li Ergou's cries have been echoing in my dreams. I know we are sorry for Li Ergou. If the company commander does this, I will not hesitate to blame the company commander, but the company commander is dead.I have no excuse to shirk, I can only choose to do the same thing as him. The reason, I don't know how to say this reason, I have thought about it for many years, and the only answer I can finally come up with is what the company commander said: This is a battlefield, and we have no choice.Yes, we can't even choose our own life and death, so what right do we have to choose life and death for others.But this was not the last time I saw Li Ergou. Two days later, under the flagpole of the division headquarters, I saw Li Ergou again.

Li Ergou was caught by our patrol soldiers just as he feared.There were quite a few people who knew him, and they decided to hang him as a traitor under the outrage.When Li Ergou's neck was hung with a rope, he shouted desperately: "I am not a traitor, I am not a traitor, I am here to find someone, and some of you can testify for me." The name of the spies he contacted, he opened his mouth wide, couldn't speak in a daze, and finally burst into tears. The soldiers onlookers laughed and called him a hard-core traitor who wanted to sneak into the barracks to help the Japanese find out information, and when he was dying, he wanted to save his life.A soldier was shouting happily: "Look at the dog traitor who is so frightened that he pissed out." The rope became tighter and tighter. Li Ergou stomped on the ground with his toes, his throat gurgling, and suddenly broke free from the rope in his hand. With both hands, he unwrapped the rope that was tight around his neck, and shouted vigorously: "Grandpa's death is not worth it!"

The soldiers tightened the rope and hoisted Li Ergou up. Li Ergou stretched his neck and swayed in mid-air, like a feathered chicken with its long tongue sticking out.Li Cunzhuang and I watched from a distance in the room. Li Cunzhuang put down the rifle aimed at Li Ergou in his hand and exhaled: "That's fine, otherwise if he mentions us and Zhang Sanbiao, I really don't know if I can do it." Let's shoot." I took off my military cap silently, and gave a military salute to Li Ergou's corpse in the air.Next door, Zhang Sanbiao was conveying the instructions of the headquarters to the division headquarters.

Li Cunzhuang said to me: "At least Li Ergou could call himself Lord like Wang Qiang before he died." I looked at him and didn't speak.Li Cunzhuang said again: "Zhang Sanbiao should finish talking with the division commander soon, right? Do you think the division will give us a medal or something this time?" I looked at him, picked up the teapot on the table and poured it for myself A bowl of hot tea. Li Cunzhuang was silent for a rare moment. The cold wind came in through the crack of the door, and he felt that the room was as cold as the outside, and only the tea bowl in his hand could warm his body.Li Cunzhuang took out the bayonet left by Zhang Fuchun from his bosom, wiped it vigorously with his sleeve, and held it up to the light to shine on the blade after wiping.I took the tea bowl in front of Li Cunzhuang, poured a bowl of tea and pushed it over: "Old Li, what about your legs?"

Li Cunzhuang smiled: "The military doctor said, I can only bandage it briefly, I hope it won't fester, and the festering will have to be cut off. Hey, I heard that the division is going to promote you to the company, and I will take care of you when the time comes." Looking at the stump of the index finger of the middle finger of the right hand: "Let's talk about it, there is no such thing as accurate." Li Cunzhuang put the bayonet back in his arms, and I watched his movements: "Old Li, I'm going to talk to Zhang Sanbiao later, will you go?" Li Cunzhuang shook his head: "Forget it, he is a high-ranking official, you guys Let’s talk about it as an official, I’m going to go to the military doctor to change the gauze.” I said oh.

The door next door opened with a creak, and voices came out from the door. It is estimated that the conversation between Zhang Sanbiao and the teacher was over.Li Cunzhuang leaned on crutches to leave. I saw him walk to the door and shouted: "Lao Li, do you think it is necessary for us to have a good talk?" Eyes: "What are you talking about?" I also stared into Li Cunzhuang's eyes: "Talk about Wang Qiang's last conversation with you, about the female corpse in Jiao Dao, and what you know I don't. Can you?" Li Cunzhuang smiled: "Quanzi, you don't believe me?" I shook my head: "Old Li, there are only two of us left in the company. If I don't believe you, who else can you trust? But how can you trust me? I am Recruit, but I'm no fool, you know what I mean?"

Li Cunzhuang stared at me expressionlessly, and suddenly smiled: "Yes, yes, you are a smart person, and smart people always ask for troubles. Then you should be smart slowly, and I will go first." Li Cunzhuang turned around again, and I was He shouted: "Li Cunzhuang!" Li Cunzhuang slowly turned his head, and I stood up and looked at Li Ergou's body swaying in the wind on the flagpole: "Next, I will talk to the military headquarters, and I will tell them about your behavior during the three days since the company was disbanded and returned to the division headquarters. There are too many suspicious places. In view of security concerns, I will propose to the military to isolate you until the end of the battle."

Li Cunzhuang scratched his scalp: "Why? What is this? Did I say no to you? I'm in a hurry to find a doctor. Tonight, let's go tonight, go get a bottle of wine and some peanuts, what do you want to ask?" Just ask, don't bully me, Quanzi, if you talk nonsense with the higher-ups, I will be ruined by you." I nodded: "Okay, see you in the evening." Zhang Sanbiao opened the door and walked in. Li Cunzhuang quickly said: "Talk slowly, the two officers. I will retreat first." He turned and closed the door.Zhang Sanbiao watched him go out, turned to me and said: "This brother's leg injury is not serious, right?"

I told him, "It's hard to say, the possibility of amputation is very high." Zhang Sanbiao sighed: "Brother Chen, this time, your sacrifice is really... oh, I don't know how to thank you. And Xiaogang, he also... oh. We haven't seen each other for a few years, I didn't expect him to..." I looked at the tea bowl on the table: "Yes, Xiaogang, and the company commander, and Li Ergou outside." Zhang Sanbiao stopped holding the teapot: "The translator? What's wrong with him?" I looked towards The flagpole outside did not answer Zhang Sanbiao's words, "There is also Wang Gang, and Wang Qiang. You were not present when they sacrificed."

With a clang, the teapot in Zhang Sanbiao's hand fell to the ground, and hissed, "Wang Gang? Wang Qiang? The two brothers of the Wang family? Did they die trying to save me?" I stood up: "Yes, Wang Gang Wang Qiang! Your former brothers. Before they died, I must tell you that they definitely did not poison you on Huanggu Mountain." Zhang Sanbiao calmed down in an instant: "Okay, I heard what you said. But I can tell you that after so many years, I have figured it out. The poison that happened was Wang Qiang's wife, that woman named Xiuhua, who respected me before we set off to Huanggu's grave. from that glass of wine."

"If it wasn't Wang Gang or Wang Qiang who poisoned her, then that woman is very problematic. Did Wang Qiang mention her? Now I suspect that she was a Japanese spy back then! The Japanese planted her on Mount Huanggu in advance. " I shook my head: "Impossible, Xiuhua died a long time ago." Zhang Sanbiao asked: "How did she die? Did anyone see her death?" I whispered, "She was raped to death by Japanese soldiers, Wang Gang and Wang Qiang were all present " Zhang Sanbiao sat down on the stool that Li Cunzhuang had sat on: "What's going on here?" I shook my head: "I don't know. I just brought Wang Gang and Wang Qiang's words. Believe it or not is your business. They also said that you will always be Brother Zhang San." Zhang Sanbiao was silent for a while, picked up the tea bowl in front of me and sprinkled the tea On the ground: "The past is over, the brotherhood is shared, and the grievances are wiped out in a glass of water. Gangzi Qiangzi, Zhang Sanbiao is grateful to you for calling him third brother." I nodded: "Thank you." Zhang Sanbiao quickly said: "Where is it, I should thank you for helping me untie this knot. And thank you for taking care of Xiaogang all these years." We fell silent again.Zhang Sanbiao thought for a while: "Let's talk about something happy. This time I brought two medals from Commander Li in Taierzhuang. I was going to give them to Commander Gu and Deputy Commander Zhao. Now we have unanimously decided to give these two medals to you and him." The brother who injured his leg just now is more suitable. It has spread in the barracks, and everyone is happy for you." I smiled lightly: "Two? Two is not enough, is there seven?" Zhang Sanbiao was stunned for a moment: "Seven, Company Commander Zhou, Xiaogang, Gangzi Qiangzi, you alone, and the one with the leg injury Brother, six? Why is there one more?" I didn't answer, looking at the dead body of Li Ergou hanging on the flagpole outside.Zhang Sanbiao nodded, and said in a low voice: "Forget it, don't think so much, don't disappoint everyone's kindness, you should help them get it. Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning, in front of the assembly stage, I will personally give the You are honored." I nodded, and Zhang Sanbiao laughed: "Okay, then I'll take my leave first, and see you at nine o'clock tomorrow." I stopped Zhang Sanbiao: "Is there any wine, Commander? I want to get some." Zhang Sanbiao smiled and nodded: "Yes , Yes, if not, I will make him change, but I have internal injuries, and the military doctor said that I can't touch alcohol and tobacco for a month, so I won't accompany you." Zhang Sanbiao went out. At lunch time, the army commander’s orderly brought two bottles of liquor and some beef jerky. I stayed in the room until dark and did not see Li Cunzhuang. I was about to look for him. Li Cunzhuang limped away. came in. Seeing the food and wine on the table, Li Cunzhuang's eyes lit up, he yelled, turned on the oil lamp while laughing and cursing, poured himself a few cups, chewed beef jerky and said to me vaguely: "Quanzi, You are really going to be promoted, look at this treatment." I ignored him, grabbed the wine bottle and poured myself a glass, and said to Li Cunzhuang: "Tell me." Li Cunzhuang picked out a shred of meat from his teeth, squinted his eyes and looked at me: "You better ask, you ask, I will answer." I nodded and said: "Alright, let me ask you, why did you put the woman's body next to me in the cave that day? And when we got off the train, after Wang Qiang found out that you concealed the number of matches in the cave, What did you say that surprised him? What exactly did you show Wang Qiang?" Li Cunzhuang took a sip of wine beautifully: "It's nothing, it's just a pair of gold earrings. It's the gold earrings that Wang Qiang made for Xiuhua on Huanggu Mountain." I stood up and pointed to Li Cunzhuang: " You, you are the black shadow that Wang Gang and Wang Qiang said fell off the cliff from Xiuhua's room, and you were also on Huanggu Mountain that day?!" Li Cunzhuang desperately raised his index finger: "Shh, shhh, do you still want to listen to me? Hey, why is the oil lamp dim again?" I took a deep breath and sat down, looking at Li Cunzhuang who was fiddled with the oil lamp: "How could it be so Coincidentally, where are you going to be a thief?" Li Cunzhuang smiled, "Yes, being a thief is not stealing things, but stealing people." I asked in surprise: "What is your relationship with Xiuhua?" Li Cunzhuang looked at me with a smile: "Don't you know that I am from Shanxi? Xiuhua is also from Shanxi." I said in surprise, "You..." Li Cunzhuang nodded and said, "Yes, I am the man who gave birth to a son with Xiuhua, and she is my wife. Wang Qiang bought me from the trafficker. Wife, Quanzi, do you understand? He and I have a grudge against my wife, but he doesn't know it!" I swallowed a glass of wine in one gulp: "So...you...but don't blame Wang Qiang, he just bought it from someone else, no, he saved Xiuhua. He doesn't know about you...it's not a matter of stealing Wife hate." Bang, Li Cunzhuang put the wine glass on the table at once, and looked at me with surly eyes: "Can't talk about it? Why can't we talk about it? Xiuhua refused to leave with me, saying that she didn't want to go back and experience the feeling of being hungry. In the days when people look down on you because you don’t wear warm clothes, this girl’s heart is tied to Hu Ziqiang’s body. You say, if it’s you, your wife likes other men and treats you like shit, do you hate it?” I suddenly understood: "You, it's you, you let Xiuhua poison Zhang Sanbiao in the wine, right? Why did you do this? Who do you work for?" The surly look in Li Cunzhuang's eyes disappeared, and slowly Slowly showing a sad look, my heart moved, I felt as if I had seen this kind of look before, and I heard Li Cunzhuang wryly said with a smile: "Who can I do things for? Who can I do things for, I can only do things for myself. Zhang Sanbiao I didn't let Xiuhua put the poison in the wine, it was Xiuhua's own decision. I don't know, I really don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't let her do it. Zhang Sanbiao is so powerful, I'm afraid that she will be found poisoned, How dare I let her be poisoned? I..." Li Cunzhuang picked up the cup and drank it down, with a frenzied light in his eyes: "I want to kill Zhang Sanbiao's grandmother with my own hands. How long have I been with him, Quanzi, do you know? Five years, five years, a total of one thousand and eight One hundred and twenty-five days, but I just had no chance to do it, and then Zhang Sanbiao disappeared. After returning from Huanggu’s tomb, he disappeared as soon as Zhang Dashuai died. I frantically searched for his whereabouts, asked all the people, and finally quickly When he was desperate, he came out on the Xuzhou battlefield! Of course I want to save him, how could I let him die in the hands of the Japanese? I want to dig out his heart to see how dark it is! Do you know? Quanzi , I have been hesitating, whether I should kill Wang Qiang to avenge my wife, whether I should kill Liu Xiaogang and make Zhang Sanbiao suffer for the rest of my life. But to Zhang Sanbiao, I swear, as long as there is a chance..." Li Cunzhuang began to cry: "Quanzi, Quanzi, when Ishii escaped that day, you asked me to shoot, but I was not aiming at the horse or Ishii, I was aiming at Zhang Sanbiao. But I told myself that I couldn't let him die so happily , I want to tell him who I am, and I want to tell him who I am while digging out his heart with my own hands." "Actually, I'm lying to myself. I'm not a fucking man. I just let him go that time. I can only lie to myself. I still want to kill the Japanese. Xiuhua was ruined by the Japanese. I aimed my gun at Zhang Sanbiao, and in the end I hit the horse. I don’t want the Japanese to take advantage of his death. I’m sorry for my dead baby.” I thought about it all at once, and I remembered Li Cunzhuang's familiar sad eyes: "Your baby? Could it be that in the ghost baby story..." The sadness in Zhang Sanbiao's eyes became stronger: "Yes, my baby is a baby who died in the ghost baby story. I was the one who made up that story and spread it everywhere in every military camp. I want to let the people in Zhang Sanbiao's army back then I can't sleep at night after hearing this story. I want my son's dead ghost to haunt them every day. I can't kill so many people, but I won't make them feel better. I want to dig out Zhang Sanbiao's heart and give my son a funeral. spirit!" I felt powerless all over my body: "It turns out that the Beiyang army who slaughtered the village in the ghost baby story was Zhang Sanbiao's army back then. That village..." Li Cunzhuang nodded and said: "Yes, it is my hometown. They fought for it. They took the credit and slaughtered the village of my hometown. My baby was killed by them just like that. My baby is only nine years old. I have been arrested since he was born, and the military pay is insufficient, so I have no money to send them , The two of them don’t know how to live their lives. I admit that I am not a good husband or a good father, but I really feel sorry for them every day in my heart. I am powerless.” "I fled back and was arrested again. I ran back and was arrested again. People are arrested and fought everywhere. What can I do? Xiuhua has no choice but to listen to the traffickers coaxing that going to the city to help a servant can make money, so let the baby go to my brother The home of the mean ghost never looked back. I heard from my fellow countrymen that my heart was so painful that I was going to explode, so I became a deserter again and went back to my hometown after a lot of hardships. Gone, all gone, the whole village was burned It’s like charcoal. I dug in the ashes of my brother’s house like crazy. I dug bit by bit with my fingernails. I dug and dug out my baby. It was burnt until I could see the black bones. That’s my baby! My own flesh and blood." Li Cunzhuang slapped the table and burst into tears. I stared blankly at the man in front of me, feeling like I knew him for the first time.Li Cunzhuang wiped his tears and snot with his sleeve, and took a breath: "Quanzi, do you know why I don't hate you? Because you can see my dead baby, and my baby is willing to let you see it, which means he thinks you are close, and you are a good person. He believed in you, so I never wanted you to be involved in this matter. I put the woman's body next to you to scare you and not to make you troublesome. To be honest, I was right in the cave that day. Wang Qiang became murderous, and I thought it was an opportunity. You know, Wang Qiang is very skilled, and with the help of the careful Wang Gang, I never had a chance to do it. If you do it, you may never have a chance in this life." "But you made us form a circle, so I couldn't do anything. When I heard you calling, I saw the woman's body, and I thought of that way to destroy your plan. But, in the end, I still treat Wang Qiang Can’t do anything! To be honest, there are not many people who regard me as a friend. I know you think I’m a veteran and look down on me, but Wang Qiang, although he always bickers with me, I know that when it’s really dangerous, he If you don't want to die, you will save me. I don't know if I will have friends after killing him. " "No friends, really, my heart is empty. I have no wife, no son, no more friends. Quanzi, tell me, after killing Zhang Sanbiao, do I need to live any longer?" I diverted Li Cunzhuang's words: "You said the company commander suspected you, why?" Li Cunzhuang smiled softly: "Quanzi, do you still remember the strange thing that we reported one more in the cave?" I was taken aback: " Wasn’t that the monster from Huanggu’s Tomb?” Li Cunzhuang shook his head: “No, I did it, and that’s when the company commander began to suspect me. Also, what that girl named Jin Bihui was looking for was Wang Gang and Wang Qiang. I really don't know because the stuff is on me." "Don't look at me like that, let me tell you the whole story, including what happened in the night at the mountain temple, and why Li Ergou told you to be careful of me!" Li Cunzhuang said: It started when I left my hometown to seek revenge for my son Zhang Sanbiao.At that time, the troops of the Beiyang Army changed their superiors every day. When it was easy to find out that Zhang Sanbiao had defected to Zhang Zuolin, I hurried to join the Northeast Army, but later I found out that Zhang Sanbiao had been bombed to death. I don't believe it, I will never give up until I see Zhang Sanbiao's body, even if I see his body, I will crush him to ashes.The hard work paid off, I finally found out that Zhang Sanbiao was not dead, he was working as a staff officer in Zhang's residence, and he couldn't come out anytime soon.I couldn't get close to him, and I tried every means to sneak into Zhang's mansion and become a guard, but before I saw him, Zhang Sanbiao was sent out to work again. I waited for a month without seeing him come back, so I gritted my teeth, escaped from the Zhang Mansion and started looking for him everywhere, and finally found out that he had already left for Huanggu Mountain from the Guandong Imperial Mausoleum.So I rushed to the foot of Huanggu Mountain and followed Zhang Sanbiao's footsteps. Zhang Sanbiao didn't know that I was following him, but I never dreamed that I saw Xiuhua on Huanggu Mountain, and she became the wife of Orion on the mountain.I didn't dare to see her in the morning, so I sneaked into Xiuhua's room at night while Zhang Sanbiao and Wang Qiang were drinking. She was surprised when she saw me, but she didn't agree to go with me, saying that she would rather live this kind of life on the mountain than follow her. She was comfortable with me, and gave me a pair of gold earrings that Wang Qiang gave her, and told me not to be a soldier anymore, and go back to start a small business to support my son.I said it in a hurry, my son is gone, and Zhang Sanbiao is the murderer. Xiuhua screamed, attracting people from outside. I quickly jumped out from the back window. Fortunately, the tree and grass saved my life from breaking.I climbed up the mountain again, and found myself in a small room with no one in it. There was a big iron cage in that small room, and the iron cage was covered with a thick yellow cloth. The one locked in that iron cage was the monster from Huanggu's tomb back then. Of course I didn't know it was him at the time, but he sensed my movement inside.He didn't know who I was either, so he said that if I let him out, he would grant one of my wishes. I didn't believe it at first, I said that I have a very powerful enemy, is there any way for him to get me revenge?He said that he could teach me the methods of fascination and poisoning, so that I can subdue my enemies and do whatever I want.I still didn't believe it, so he asked me to go to the tree hole in the back mountain and bring him something to prove it to me. Izumi, do you know what I took?have no idea?You have seen that thing before, it is the ball buried in the belly of the mountain god of the mountain temple.What is that ball?It is the heart of a corpse, the heart of a corpse that has been dead for hundreds of years.The corpse must be a person who died of poisoning. After the body rots, the heart will not rot, but will shrink more and more tightly, and finally become that kind of black ball.Its smell can fascinate people's eyes and make people hallucinate and go crazy. My heart was moved, and I told myself that this deal is a good deal, and I think it is a good thing to deal with Zhang Sanbiao.What's more, I don't care who is in the cage, anyway, he was locked up by Zhang Sanbiao.My enemy's enemy should be my friend.I can let him go without this deal. But when I held the ball in my hand, I only smelled a faint smell, but didn't feel anything strange.The man in the cage told me that as soon as I let him out, he would show me how to use the ball.I agreed, and saw the iron lock on the cage door with a saw blade.He told me inside that what is needed is temperature. If there is enough temperature, the smell of the ball can be evaporated. If you want to eliminate the smell that makes the other party alert, you just need to grind the ball into powder and sprinkle it in the fire. Although the effect is not as good as the volatile smell, it can be invisible and tasteless. The cage was sawed open, and the sun was about to rise. The first ray of sunlight came in through the window grille, and the room felt warm, but he in the cage had disappeared, and we didn't have time to see each other clearly.I looked at the sun, and my heart moved. I hid one ball, put the other two balls on the firewood pile in the sun, and quietly closed the doors and windows and left. What happened later, Wang Gang said in Jiao Dao, the two brothers who Zhang Sanbiao pushed in that morning went mad, smelled the smell of the evaporating ball, killed each other, and killed several people.It was also that morning that Xiuhua took the liberty of adding tiger wolf medicine to Zhang Sanbiao's wine. As a result, when mountain ant eggs spewed out of the coffin in Huanggu's grave, the medicine saved Zhang Sanbiao's life. If I hadn't listened to what Wang Gang said about these situations, I wouldn't have known about them.I only know that after Zhang Sanbiao and the others got down from Huanggu's grave, I distracted the guards standing at the entrance of the grave, but I didn't get rid of them until late at night. When I returned, Zhang Sanbiao and the others had already come up.I hid in the dark and saw Zhang Sanbiao cut open the pangolin's stomach, took out the iron box from inside, and then had a fight with Wang Gang and Wang Qiang.I was going to reap the benefits of the fisherman, but I didn't expect the guards who were chasing me to come back, and I watched them rescue Zhang Sanbiao.At this moment, I noticed something moving at my feet, and when I looked down, it was a pangolin... After cutting open the pangolin's stomach, there was also an iron box. I didn't bother to open it, so I put it away and followed Zhang Sanbiao all the way.It's a pity that they changed horses. When I chased to the door of the Shuaifu, someone who knew me and had a good relationship with me told me that because I had been a guard of the Shuaifu for a few days, I became a deserter. Zhang Dashuai lost his temper and ordered everyone to go everywhere. Search me and shoot me to death, and advise me to run away quickly. I had to leave temporarily.Not long after, Marshal Zhang was ambushed and killed by the Japanese at Huanggutun Station. I hurried back to the northeast, but Zhang Sanbiao left Zhang's mansion without knowing where he was going because of a disagreement with the young marshal.I searched and searched, but after searching for more than half a year, I couldn't find anything. I was holding my breath, so I decided to go back to Huanggu Mountain to have a look.If Xiuhua still refuses to go with me, I will kill the two Orion brothers and take her away by force. But the mountain was empty, and the Orion brothers disappeared. I saw Xiuhua's tomb in the back mountain, and I picked up the fallen leaves from the grave one by one.My last family member in this world is gone. From then on, the only purpose of my life is revenge. I no longer have relatives, only enemies. Quanzi, do you still remember the kettle I carried?I told you about the broken kettle while fetching water by the stream!It's the one I threw away later.I'm afraid that the company commander will go to fetch water with you when you get suspicious of the kettle, and take it away by the way, because the water in it is not only mixed with shredded tobacco, but also the powder that was dried and ground from the ball obtained on Huanggu Mountain. .I kept it with me all the time, and went everywhere to inquire about the whereabouts of Zhang Sanbiao and the Wang family brothers.Later, I found out that the brothers of the Wang family had joined the National Army, and I chased them all the way to the 31st Army. But there is no chance to attack, Wang Gang and Wang Qiang are close at hand, I know I can't beat Wang Qiang in open fights, and I can't hide Wang Gang in secret fights, so I have to endure it.When others laugh at me and humiliate me, I treat them as if they don't exist.My heart is only on revenge, and I don't care about these trivial things at all.But Wang Qiang didn't like the behavior of these people, and he often complained to me. Although he didn't speak well of me, he didn't allow others to bully me.And Wang Gang didn't treat me as an outsider, he told me everything and asked me to help him make up his mind.I think my baby will look like Wang Gang when he grows up. He is upright, smart, and handsome. Don’t be like me. Gradually, my hatred for Wang Qiang was not so strong. I wanted to stay in the army like this forever, and forget about being killed by bullets someday, but the company commander brought in a sharpshooter Liu Xiaogang to the company. When I inquired about Zhang Sanbiao, I knew that he had such a younger brother, and he had a falling out with Zhang Sanbiao when he was taking credit for Tucun. The fire of revenge in my heart was burning again: Zhang Sanbiao killed my son, so I killed his younger brother. , Let him also taste the taste of his dead relatives. But that was Liu Xiaogang, the sharpshooter. The company commander often asked him for marksmanship skills. I tried to ambush him several times but failed, which aroused the company commander's suspicion.Before this battle, the company commander talked to me and said that he should either be transferred from the Sharp Knife Company, or I could give him a reasonable explanation that I was following Liu Xiaogang. I told the company commander emphatically about the Yin Soldier incident, and told him that I have always been wary of the gunman after that incident, and I always suspected that he was the extra thing. It is the story of the Yin soldiers I told you in the cave, the only difference is that at the end of the story I told the company commander, Zhang Fuchun died.But Quanzi, do you know the truth about the Yin Soldier incident back then?Let me tell you, my former troops were in the cave that day, because I forgot to bring a water bottle when I went out to watch. The platoon leader and brothers drank the water mixed with powder in the pot, and there were endless illusions underneath.It was too late when I found out.The brothers in the platoon in the hallucination were killing each other non-stop. I saw my heart was bleeding, but I couldn't stop it. I could only try my best to protect myself. In the end, only Zhang Fuchun and I survived.do you know?Eleven brothers, ten of them died right under my nose, and some of them were killed by my own hands just to keep alive. Do you know the feeling of blood dripping from your heart while shooting?I hate Zhang Sanbiao even more, and I put all this blood debt on his head.I never dared to think about whether I was the culprit for the deaths of my brothers. I was afraid that if I thought about it, I would lose the courage to continue to take revenge. The company commander was skeptical, but then the war broke out, and he didn't have time to find out the truth.Later, when there were only the six of us left in the cave, I knew that the opportunity to attack Liu Xiaogang had come. I pretended to fall through the kettle while lighting the bonfire, sprinkled the water mixed with powder on the firewood, and lit it. firewood. When the company commander suddenly ordered to count, I immediately understood that the medicine had worked, and the company commander had hallucinations because he kept thinking about the fact that I told him that there was one more Yin soldier.During the counting, I stood at the end, my body looking towards the back where no one was.You have seen my expression, clearly I am continuing to count to an invisible person.The burning powder has also affected you. In your hallucinations, you always think that there should be someone behind me. In this way, you always feel that there is one more. I knew that Liu Xiaogang would not be able to escape this time, so I urged the company commander to let everyone go to bed, but the company commander insisted on keeping the night watch out of his intuition as a soldier for many years.I was considering whether to make the campfire hotter, when I suddenly discovered a terrible thing.I found a faint fishy smell in the air, which is the smell of the ball. I have tried countless times, and it is impossible to have a smell when the wet powder is burned. This smell shows that there is only one possibility: there are still people using this thing in the hole.There will be no one else, only the person in the cage on Huanggu Mountain back then. I know he has great powers, and I also know that Wang Gang and Wang Qiang have a feud with him, but I never thought that he would chase here at this time. I looked all over the cave and didn't find him. No one can guarantee that after he troubles Wang Gang and Wang Qiang, he will wipe us all out.At that time, you were all fascinated by me, and no one could help, only the company commander, because he was still standing in the cave against the wind, and he was still able to persevere.I secretly groaned, the smell directly emitted was more direct and stronger than the smell after the powder was burned. I found that I could not move my hands and feet, and soon I also lost consciousness. When I woke up, you had already woken up before me, and the company commander was gone.You will know everything below.In order to prevent you from discovering the tricks in the bonfire, I had no choice but to tell you about the dark soldier incident I told the company commander. Until the company commander came back, it seems that he connected with my words and deeds before the battle and had an impact on me. Serious doubts.But I can't tell because the company commander chased him out of the cave that night. I really have nothing to do with it. I know who did it, but I can't say it. I knew that I had to escape quickly, otherwise the company commander would probably attack me out of safety considerations, so I took the opportunity of fetching water for you to drag you away.But unexpectedly, Ishii led troops to inspect the cave that Jin Bihui was investigating, and the company commander and the others were caught.I can't just watch you go to die, the end result is that everyone is captured alive. I began to suspect that Li Ergou was the man in the iron cage in disguise.Otherwise, what a coincidence, as soon as he escaped from the cave, the devils surrounded us.I tried to get closer to Ishii and tested Li Ergou, but I was disappointed, he is just a coward.But from the conversation, I heard that after he failed against the Japanese, our army was very worried about the punishment of the traitors. I was moved and felt that this person could be used. So I made a deal with Li Ergou in a low voice: he promises to listen to me and guarantee our safety in front of the Japanese; as for me, I promise that if he is caught as a traitor in the future, as long as I don’t die, I will Prove to everyone that he has helped our national army. Of course he would not tell you at that time, because the more people he knew, the greater the danger he would be exposed to the Japanese. Later, when he fled, he did not dare to tell you because he had seen that if he wanted to tell me, he would definitely kill me. over him.I let him monitor every move of the company commander, and tell me immediately if there is any situation, because I am afraid that the company commander will be against me. So in the mountain temple, Li Ergou kept watching us at night according to my orders, but soon something I was more worried about and expected happened.Sure enough, there was an ambush by the man in the iron cage in the mountain temple. I would rather everyone be captive of the devil than die because of this.If he wants to deal with us, he has to stun the devil first. As long as everyone stays awake, he can seize the opportunity to escape when the devil goes crazy. But I still have a small wish in my heart, I just want to take the opportunity to kill Liu Xiaogang first.In such a chaotic situation, Liu Xiaogang died, and the company commander could not insist that I was the murderer.When I entered the temple, I found that the smell was mixed with the smell of sweat. Then when Wang Qiang wrestled with that devil, we and the devil soldiers shouted for cheers and our body temperature rose, so the smell of sweat became stronger.I knew that with our excitement and the temperature in the temple rising, the black ball hidden somewhere must be at work. Sure enough, when Wang Qiang lifted Li Ergou, he told us that if he couldn't feel Li Ergou's weight, I knew that the hallucination had begun.But because the temple is too big, there are too many people, and the door is closed to sleep after dinner, and the effect of the black ball can be maximized until midnight.So I try my best to remind you, you can't fall asleep, you must persist until the devil is abnormal. But shortly after you were escorted out, I fell asleep instead.To be exact, the company commander who suspected me was afraid that I would be bad for everyone, so he sneaked up on me and cut the back of my neck with his palm, but at that time the smell in the air had already had an effect, the company commander was not strong enough, and I woke up soon up. I know the company commander doubts me, but I have to make everyone believe my words, I have to keep everyone awake, so I talked in my sleep.Of course, it was a dream talk deliberately told to everyone. The company commander must have thought that what I said in a coma could not be false, so they all believed it. In my dream, I said that in the Yinbing incident, when I returned to the barracks at night, something came and attached to my body, and I shot and killed my sleeping companion.No one would suspect sleep talk, I heard the company commander and the others whispering, making a plan to deal with the things that will come in.But what I never dreamed of was that someone really came in. That person is you!You know now, I originally only used the words to keep the company commander from falling asleep, but I pointed the finger at you.除了我，大家都以为是你，你就是被附身来杀他们的东西。我知道连长他们都是装睡，都准备等你动手灭了你，但我光着急没办法，只好在地上写了两个字：趴下，希望你能看到躲过这一劫。 好在你看到了，你一趴下大家就注意到了那条奇怪的狗。我知道那东西一定和铁笼子里的人有关。大家也不傻，我看到大家装着跟鬼子一样痴痴地站起，就知道他们已经明白了该注意的东西，可就在这时你又发飙，去抓枪打狗，除了你跟我，谁能确定你要打的是狗不是我们自己人？你一下子又把矛头引到了你身上，我快疯了，估计你下一秒就能变成连里的枪靶子。好在连长一脚踏住了你的手，否则我估计你立马就得头上开洞，但看到他们朝你围上去的时候，我再也没办法装了，只好出了手。 谁知道那些黑球就被藏在山神像里面，我一推倒，连长就知道你是被冤枉的，又伸腿把你踢开，可连长的腿也就在那时候断了。底下就是连长安排好的对付那个东西的计划，还是让刘晓刚出手。刘晓刚手里有枪，我明白报仇又没指望了。再底下就是那场混战，你比我知道得还清楚吧。 李存壮说完了，我半天说不出话来，我终于明白了，为什么暗道里李二苟说我离开山神庙以后，李二苟盯着连长他们，看到连长眼里有绿光，佛像在眨眼，原来都是空中黑球的气味引起了幻觉。我也明白了，为什么李二苟让我提防李存壮，而在暗道里遇见李存壮又吓得话也不敢说。 我好容易问了一句：“那逃亡路上的鬼打墙是怎么回事？”李存壮笑了：“假的，是我走山坡操近路抢在了你们的前面等你们。我只是想能拖一会儿是一会儿。” 连长对我有怀疑，他不会在我前面走的，根据我对他的了解，他只会跟在我们后面，尾随我们等我露出破绽，这也是他能找到井下的我们的原因。我就想拖住你们，等上他们，继续找机会对刘晓刚下手。但后来听到日本兵就要追上了，我不敢再拖了。我知道王刚还是童男子，就借坡下驴，用童子尿让大家赶紧继续上路，也借机消除你们对我说的鬼打墙可能产生的怀疑。不过世事难料，我想藏在小女孩皮下的那个怪物也没想到，你会把我们带回岩洞，更没想到他们找来迷惑我们的那个猎户的老婆，神志会在岩洞里的危急关头时保持片刻清醒，把我们带进了通往汉墓的蛟道。 我给李存壮倒了一杯酒，李存壮端起了酒杯，我问：“你对王强已经有了那么深的友情，为什么在蛟道里又布局想杀他？”李存壮一口喝掉了酒杯里的酒：“因为那时候我突然特别想杀了王强。” 我摇摇头：“不会的，你要想下手早下手了。”李存壮摇头说：“不一样的。我那时候看到王强压在那姓金的娘儿们身上，我的血都冲上脑门了。我忽然觉得王强就是这么压在秀花身上的，就是这么让秀花不要我的。我忽然觉得他该死，比张三彪还该死。我想杀了他。所以我没告诉你我身上还有很多根火柴，我想在暗中下手。” “那个女人不是我杀的，她就是灯枯油尽了，耗干了。我想她能找到岩洞里的暗道，就是死前的回光返照。都说人死前头脑是最清醒的，你看王强，活着那么没心眼，死前比谁都想得明白。我就说了两句话：'秀花是我老婆，张三彪杀了我儿子。'他就什么都明白了。” “最明白的是连长。他一见到活着的张福春，就什么都明白了，知道我肯定和刘晓刚有私仇。你记得他抛给我的那把刺刀，他那是告诉我，不要再动脑筋，他说有恩怨等救出张三彪再说。可他还是不明白，我要杀的就是张三彪，杀不到张三彪我才会杀刘晓刚。” “你看多好，我现在也特别明白。泉子，你说我的娃长得像我不？”我摇摇头：“不知道，我没看过。”李存壮嘿嘿地笑了：“你撒谎，你看见他在夜里守在我旁边了对吗？我的娃很乖的，他一定整夜地守着我，所以我死不了啊。我没杀了张三彪之前我不会死的。对吧，我要死也是明天九点钟以后的事情了。” 我猛地想站起来，却发现自己的腿软绵绵的一点劲没有，我嘶声说：“明天九点钟，你，你想……”李存壮悲哀地看着我：“你说呢，泉子，我腿没用了，当不了兵了，我这次再不下手，就永远没有机会了。不要跟我说什么张三彪悔改自新的话，我不会放过他的。我已经很宽容了，我承认现在的张三彪是条汉子，我承认他恨鬼子不含糊，可我那一枪已经救过他了，我杀了他不会内疚的。泉子，我知道你会阻止我，那你想想，要是被杀的是你的娃，你怎么办，你报不报仇？” 我想告诉李存壮那天营房里看到的黑影也许只是只山猴，他已经深陷于报仇的幻觉里不能自拔了，可是我喘息着说不出话来。李存壮给自己倒了一杯酒：“泉子，我知道你怕我下手脚把酒吐在了棉袄上，可是我药没下在酒里，是在油灯里，没想到吧。呵呵，你知道我是个兵油子，很狡猾的，对不？” “没事，我不会伤害你的，但你不到明天下午醒不来了。你看这把刺刀亮不？明天张三彪发勋章的时候，它就会插在张三彪的胸口了。你知道我为什么要对你说这么多？因为你醒来的时候，我一定已经被乱枪打死了。他们一定会说我是个汉奸，对吧？谁杀了张三彪都会被当成汉奸的。” “我没有李二苟那样的勇气，能忍受挂着汉奸的臭名死去不辩解。我佩服李二苟，但我做不到。我不想死了还被人家骂成汉奸，像李二苟那样。” “我现在把事情都告诉你了，我死了，就拜托你给我正名了。这是当年从穿山甲肚子里取出的盒子，我看了，我不知道是什么玩意儿，但我知道一定很值钱。我现在留给你了，你一定要帮我正名啊。记住，告诉大家我不是汉奸。” 最后几句话我听起来已经感觉很远很远了，依稀听到李存壮边继续一个人喝酒边哼着一首村谣： 妹妹摘花让哥带哟，妹妹问哥爱不爱哪。 哥爱妹妹一枝花哟，上面不开下面开哪。 妹妹不要说哥坏哪，跟哥回家编花卖哟。 编好花花生个娃哪，一家三人把锅卖哟。 也许是想着和妻儿在一起的酸苦甘甜，李存壮哼唱了一遍又一遍，最后声音出门远去，远去的声音带着哭腔，跟受伤的狼在夜里嚎哭一样。 我晕了过去。 醒来的时候我发现自己躺在床底，旁边放了只铁盒，而床外都被东西堵死了，有人正在外面抬着压在床上的东西。好容易能出来，阳光刺得我睁不开眼睛。我一把揪住外面的勤务兵衣领：“怎么会这个样子？怎么会这个样子？张三彪呢？李存壮呢？他们在哪？在哪？” 勤务兵被我吓倒了，结结巴巴地说：“鬼子，鬼子的飞机来轰炸过了，李，李什么？那个有腿伤的是吧？他，他扑向了给他授勋的张长官……陈长官，陈长官！你没事吧？” 我摇摇欲坠，颓然地松开了他的衣领：“迟了，迟了，都死了，都死了。”勤务兵连忙说：“张长官没死呢，连皮都没伤。都亏了李，那个什么扑在他的身上，飞机投下的炸弹才没炸到张长官，现在，正和军长在集合场上……” 我冲门而出，跑向集合场，集合场上被炸得坑坑洼洼，张三彪看到我，激动地说：“陈兄弟，你可来了，授勋的时候怎么也找不到你。可惜了那位李兄弟。唉，为了救我死得太不值了。我有罪啊。他够英雄啊。” 李存壮的遗体被放在集合台上，半边脑壳已经被削去了，眼睛圆瞪着。我慢慢地合上他的眼睛，从他的怀里掏出了擦得雪亮的刺刀。师长和张三彪站在我身边对李存壮行了个军礼，我转身把刺刀递给张三彪。 张三彪惊讶地说：“陈兄弟你这是？”我淡淡地说：“拿去，好好珍藏吧。张长官，记住这个救过你的人，他是我的兄弟，他叫李存壮！”