tea sellers and soldiers

Wu Qing walked to the street in a daze, Li Yun was talking happily like a storyteller, and Wu Qing squeezed into the front of the crowd: "What do you think is wrong with Duan Shaofeng?"

Li Yun twisted his mustache and raised his mustache, and talked about his experience triumphantly: "Oh, brother Qing, I knew you had to come. Your Xiaofeng brother is not a food soldier now. The generals guarding the city of Hangzhou have taken a fancy to it He's gone, and I've transferred him to my subordinates."

Wuqing heard this, but was full of anxiety: "Then, have you seen him?" Li Yun touched his beard and said, "How can I see him, but everyone in Hangzhou is talking about him, and he led people to burn the enemy. The army’s food and grass won three days for the Hangzhou garrison.”

Listening to this, Wu Qing's heart seemed to be slowly calming down, he was a little superstitious towards Duan Shaofeng, Duan Shaofeng had been walking in front of him since he was a child, and the shadow cast by him could envelop Wu Qing's whole body.Hearing that Duan Shaofeng was guarding him in Hangzhou City, he felt inexplicably at ease, thinking that no matter what the barbarian's iron hooves could not reach Tingxi.

After he went back, he knelt down in front of Tan's father's room all night. His mother and second brother couldn't persuade him, so he had to watch the father and son stalemate.

Kneeling until noon the next day, Wuqing finally couldn't hold on any longer. When his head was falling, he heard someone shouting loudly outside the courtyard: "We have won the battle! We have won the battle!" Wuqing grinned foolishly, even if he was about to It is also worth grabbing land with your head.

Tan's father finally agreed to Wuqing's request, and his parents, second elder brother and second sister-in-law first went to join relatives in Fuzhou, and guarded the tea garden by themselves, waiting for Tan Yunlin and Duan Shaofeng.

When Tan's father was about to leave, he held Wuqing's face choked with sobs, tears embedded in the gully on his face: "In the future, without parents by my side, we must be extremely vigilant in everything." Tan's mother held his hand beside him: "Write to us in half a month, and leave as soon as you hear the news. Your own life is the most important thing."

Wu Qing nodded vigorously, her eye sockets were as red as if she had been suffocated by heat, but she tried her best not to let the tears fall.

After seeing off his parents, Wu Qing returned to his original home, and now he is the only one left in the lively family.

In addition to sorting tea in Zhuangzi every day, he packs and sorts the tea, and goes to the street and the gate of the government to inquire about some news about the army.

The war has been stalemate for two months. In May, people from Hangzhou passed by Tingxi Town one after another. Regardless of whether they are young or old, rich or poor, they are all equally embarrassed when fleeing.The city of Hangzhou has been captured, and the troops of Guangdong and Guangxi have not yet been reorganized.

Wuqing hadn't received a letter from the north since March, and when she heard that Hangzhou had fallen, she couldn't pick out the tea leaves in her hand. She wished she could give birth to a body that was invulnerable to water and fire and fly to Hangzhou.

Wu Qing decided to pack up her things and go to a big village in the north of Tingxi Town to take a look, even for a little news.

On the first day before leaving, Tan Yunlin came back.Wuqing will never forget that day, at dusk, it has been a long time since no one

There was a sudden sound of the firewood door that passed by, and when he opened the warehouse door, he saw Tan Yunlin, who was so dark that he almost didn't recognize him, standing outside the door in a daze, as if he had lost his soul.

"Big brother! Big brother!" Tan Wuqing threw himself on him happily, and circled around him joyfully as he did when he was a child. "Brother, why are you back? Where is my brother Feng? Did you win the battle?"

Tan Yunlin hurriedly pushed him into the warehouse, and slammed the door shut. "Hush." ​​Tan Yunlin signaled him to keep quiet.Wuqing stared at him curiously.Hearing that there was no sound of people around, the string that Tan Yunlin had been stretching was finally broken, and he let go of Wu Qing and slumped on the ground.

"Brother is useless, he became a deserter." Wu Qing's heart tightened, and he said in a daze: "Being a deserter will lose your head..."

Tan Yunlin was pulling his hair like crazy, and a seven-foot boy was crying like a toddler: "It's too miserable, Jiangbei is too miserable now, the villages we passed by are no longer considered human. "

Wu Qing squatted down and hugged him distressedly: "It's okay, brother, don't be afraid. We are going to the south, and our parents have already gone there to live. Now that this is such a mess, let's be careful, no one will know that you are a deserter. Brother Waiting Feng When we come back, we will go south together.”

Yun Lin, who was crying silently, suddenly raised his head and looked at Wu Qing steadily, his eyes made Wu Qing feel inexplicably terrified. "Wu Qing." As soon as Yun Lin opened his mouth, Wu Qing stepped back as if he had made some inquiries, and said softly, "Wait a minute, brother, I'll make you a cup of tea."

He ran over in a panic to look for tea, and Yunlin's voice sounded very calmly behind him: "Shaofeng is gone in Wuqing, he died in battle while defending Hangzhou."

The teapot fell straight to the ground, Wu Qing stepped in front of Yun Lin in two steps, and grabbed his collar, the veins on his neck outlined his anger: "You nonsense! Brother Feng has already become a team officer, General Appreciate him too."

Yun Lin burst into tears: "That battle was too tragic. We couldn't wait for reinforcements. The people in the city were already in chaos, and we couldn't hold it anymore. Later, I found it when I was cleaning up the corpses in the city. His face is already unrecognizable, but I found the misty and suicide note that he was tucked in his arms..."

Trembling, Tan Yunlin took out the blood-stained package from his bosom. Wu Qing grabbed it twice but failed to catch it. A strange scene appeared in front of his eyes, which suddenly became dark and blurred: "Is the sky cloudy?" ?”

Wu Qing dreamed that when he was very young, he spoke quickly and walked late, and when the little boys in the alley jumped up to Jiewa, he only liked to sit quietly at the door of the house. Quite a misfit kid.

Only Duan Shaofeng was willing to take him to play, and he didn't dislike his limp voice and short legs that couldn't walk. "You also grew up drinking my mother's milk, so you can be considered my brother. Brother Feng will take you to play in the future."

From then on, Duan Shaofeng had a little follower behind his ass.The children in the alley deliberately played him, teaching him how to express gratitude to Duan Shaofeng.So, Wu Qing foolishly asked them to write the words "I am Brother Duan's little follower" on their backs.

At that time, Shaofeng was already seven or eight years old. He showed Wuqing his back as if he was offering a treasure, and angrily took a dog-beating stick from the house. From East Street to West Street, everyone who bullied Wuqing The kids are scared to death.

After that?The two gradually grew up. When he was twelve or thirteen years old, Duan Shaofeng was obviously alienated from him, and he never took the initiative to play with him anymore.I go to pester him with a shameless face, he always avoids any physical contact with himself, and his eyes are evasive.

After another two or three years, it seemed that I couldn't hold it anymore, I didn't understand Duan Shaofeng's alienation from me, and I couldn't bear the strange feelings in my heart, so I said shamelessly in that night full of noisy insects There was a faint talk.

After that, the two of them will be together secretly, exchanging kisses shyly and excitedly in a place where no one else is, and listening to the other party chewing their own names repeatedly.Duan Shaofeng's shoulders are much wider than his, and he can always wrap himself in his arms with all his beard and tail.

I am like a honey bee, burying my head on his shoulder, walking on thin ice and sniffing his breath greedily. Every time at this time, Duan Shaofeng would laugh at him: "Why is my baby like a puppy?" Yes."

Wu Qing opened his eyes quickly, but his eyes were still hazy. His elder brother sat pale on the side of the bed, as if he was a paper man that could be broken with a single poke. "The fog is clear but you are awake. Your eyes are only temporary. You can still see clearly after you adjust slowly. The most important thing for you now is to calm down."

A gust of cool wind made Wuqing shiver, although it was in June, but he was as cold as a patient with a high fever.He looked at the hazy sky, as if it was about to rain: "If you can't see clearly, then you can't see clearly." Anyway, there are no beautiful colors in this world.

Yunlin thought that he couldn't bear the blow of being blind, and quickly explained: "We will go to Fuzhou tomorrow to find our parents, and we will settle down there and find a doctor to take care of it, so that nothing will happen. "

Wu Qing lightly turned her head to the inside, silently counting the tassels on the pillow cover: "Go and find them, I... I won't leave."

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