father - home

When Shenke slammed the door, I couldn't hold on and fell to the ground together with Zhao.

"Zhao! What's wrong with you? Wake up! Wake up!" I looked at the pale face in my arms, and my heart ached.

After a while, Zhao slowly opened his eyes.

"How are you? What did he do to you?"

Zhao said in a weak voice, "It's not me, it's Ellen."

"Ellen, God!" I forgot!Too regretful, I hurriedly put Zhao on the ground and ran to Ellen's side.

Only then did I pay attention to Ellen.Just because of the clothes he was wearing, I knew it was him at a glance, but in fact Ellen has changed beyond recognition: the glasses fell on one side, one lens was broken, and the other was just the frame; The lips were bleeding, and more blood came from the left ear.

"Ellen." I tried to help him.

Ellen let out a groan of pain and I stopped.

"Can you tell me where you hurt?"

Ellen shook her head slightly.

"Come on, Ellen, let me check you." I tried to unbutton Ellen's shirt, but a weak hand stopped me. "Ellen!"

"No, sir, don't bother."

"No! Ellen, you have to hold on, I can save you."

"I know my situation... thank you, sir."

"No!"

Ellen's face was distorted and deformed by the pain, and his eyes were staring forward in a daze. "I can't wait to meet her."

"Who?"

"My wife. When Laura died, I wanted to go with her too, but she wouldn't let me."

"Ellen."

Ernst told me about Ellen's wife.When Ellen and his wife Laura were imprisoned in a concentration camp, Laura was already pregnant.In concentration camps, once pregnant women were found, they would be pulled out and shot immediately.At first, Laura tried her best to hide the fact that she was pregnant, but due to extreme malnutrition and fatigue, Laura suffered from severe pregnancy-induced hypertension. In the late pregnancy, her whole body was swollen and convulsions occurred frequently.Ellen had to take the risk and confessed to the battalion commander the fact that his wife was pregnant, and begged to give the couple a chance. In exchange, he was willing to work as a doctor in the camp hospital, doing things that even the SS military doctors were unwilling to do. The cruelest, dirtiest thing ever.

Since the concentration camp desperately needed an experienced doctor like Ellen, the battalion commander agreed to his request and gave the couple a chance, but God didn't.Ellen operated on his wife to terminate the pregnancy in time.When Laura came to life, Ellen lied to her.Ellen told his wife that the baby died before it came out.In fact, the child is alive, he has breathed, but he is too weak, so weak that he has no strength to open his eyes to see the world, and no strength to shout to announce his arrival.For the death of the child, Ellen was mentally prepared. The child would die anyway, but he did not keep his wife.After the pregnancy was terminated, Laura's pregnancy-induced hypertension was relieved, but malnutrition and infection eventually killed her.Because Ellen has no medicine.Ellen was not entitled to any medication unless the SS medic agreed, which the SS medic at the time did not.

What can a doctor do without any medicines available?All Ellen's efforts were to kill her child with her own hands, and then watched her wife die.Ellen was so sad and indignant that all thoughts were lost. He wanted to die and be with his wife and children.

"Laura said: Anyway, you are a doctor, there are many people who need you, you can't die like this, you can't die like this meaningless... So, I survived, in order to make death more meaningful .”

"Then you should try to live."

"But I miss her so much. It's been three years, and I miss her more and more....Fortunately, this death is meaningful, and she won't blame me."

"Ellen, I can't! Let me help you... If not, I'll take you to Munich..."

"No! You can't take any more risks for me. It's not worth it."

"Ellen, no one is unworthy." This was Zhao's voice.I don't know how he got there.There was a streak of blood on the floor behind him, as well as blood on his bare thigh.Zhao held Ellen's hand, and his body swayed from side to side due to the loss of support.I hugged him and let him lie in my arms.

"Thank you, Zhao, I understand my injury, there is nothing I can do. Don't make things difficult for the lieutenant, he is a good man."

"But, Ellen, what do you want me to..."

"Don't think like this. This is not only your fate, it's the fate of a nation, a country, the entire human race."

All of a sudden, Ellen's left hand, which had been covering his abdomen, also lifted up, and I quickly grabbed it.

I don't know where Ellen got the strength to pull Zhao's and me's hands together and hold them tightly. His empty eyes suddenly became warm, full of tenderness, affection, and expectation. "May God bless you!"

Ellen is dead, having been beaten to death by Shenk with a wooden chair, metal frame, and gun butt for trying to stop Shenk from taking Zhao.It is impossible not to be affected by witnessing such a tragic reality.Ernst came and took care of everything for me.

When only I and Zhao were left in the ward, I knelt beside his bed. "Zhao, can I see it?"

Zhao closed his eyes and turned his head to the other side.

The new wounds were not serious, most of them were scratched by glass, and there were some bruises on the lower abdomen, but the important thing was that the original wound was dehiscated.

I turned Zhao's face slightly, his lips were trembling constantly, tears wet a large area of ​​the pillow on the other side. "Zhao, I'll give you an injection of morphine first, and then treat the wound."

I was preparing the injection, Zhao grabbed me.

"what happened?"

"Let me go back." Zhao fixedly looked at me.

"where to?"

"I can't...can't let Shenk ruin you." Zhao's chest rose and fell violently, and he spoke intermittently.

"Zhao, you swore that you would never think like this again." After I said it, I realized that my voice was a bit harsh, and I was really anxious.

"I won't commit suicide again, but... no one can do it for me..."

"Zhao, didn't you hear Ellen's last words? This is not a personal matter, they are not only for you, don't you understand?"

"I understand, but you are for... I can't, anyway I can't just watch..."

I patted Zhao and held my hand tightly, and comforted him: "It won't happen, Zhao, don't worry, Shen Ke wouldn't dare, I know that. Don't worry, nothing will happen."

Even if Zhao is dubious, he can only listen to me.I can't be so sure myself.

Zhao took morphine and finally fell asleep peacefully, not very at ease.In the evening, a high fever occurred again.

Throughout the night, I prayed over and over again: "You will not be afraid of the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day, nor the plague that travels by night, nor the poison that kills people at noon. Although thousands of people fall on the On your left, ten thousand people fall on your right, but this disaster will not come to you." I hope that he can also receive the blessing of the gods when I am not around.