The battle that took place on the Songjiang Plain was going on in full swing, day and night.
The dark clouds gathered by the artillery completely covered the sun and starlight on this cloud city.
The flames and shotguns spitting out from the machine guns destroyed countless flesh and blood bodies that were still with scalding body temperature a second ago, turning them into mud.
Blood seeped into the fertile black soil that had been washed away by the ancient Yangtze River for thousands of years.
Thousands of miles away, in Taiping Hong Kong, Meng Lanting was wandering in the room of this luxury hotel, hesitating between going and staying countless times.
Finally, she picked up the phone and dialed the number.
While waiting patiently, the call was connected.
"Hello, eldest sister.
It's me, Meng Lanting.
I'm still in Hong Kong," she said.
"I know."
On the other end, Feng Lingyi's voice followed the radio waves and reached Meng Lanting's ears.
"Didn't Xiaojiu send you to Hong Kong?
Why haven't you left yet?
Did you encounter difficulties?"
Her voice sounded hoarse, as if from fatigue, but her tone was still calm, and there was no trace of her emotions, anger, love or hate at the moment, just like the impression she usually left on Meng Lanting.
"There is no difficulty.
I decided not to leave at the last moment."
She said in a low voice.
The other end paused.
"Why doesn't he leave?
Since I have arranged for you like this, I hope that if you go out, he will probably feel more at ease.
You'd better obey the arrangement."
Meng Lanting's eyes fell on the piece of inconspicuous little tofu news in the Dechen West Newspaper that she had read a few days ago.
"Sister, I will go out.
But before that, I ask for your help."
Feng Lingyi seemed slightly startled: "Say."
"I saw a piece of news in an English newspaper saying that our secret messages were intercepted and deciphered by the Japanese, and our actions were leaked and raided.
In that battle alone, a division of soldiers was sacrificed.
Is this true?"
No answer.
"I have seen a brief introduction to cryptographic theory research, including creation and deciphering, in the information I received from abroad.
I was very interested.
There is a mathematics professor employed by the military in the United States who is one of the best.
I want to become his student, but my personal application is impossible.
I hope you can help me and introduce me.”
"I don't know how long it will take for this war to end.
Even if I'm lucky enough to win a quick victory, once I learn something, I think I should be able to play some role in the future."
"I need your support and help, eldest sister."
Feng Lingyi's voice finally came through again, his tone rising slightly.
"Lanting, I'm surprised to receive such a request from you."
"I underestimated Xiaojiu and you before."
She paused.
"To tell you the truth, the United States has been helping us train personnel in this area since last year, and we are also considering setting up our own organization.
If you have talent and are determined to devote yourself to this, I will naturally support you.
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Contact us.
Okay, I'll let you know."
"Thank you, eldest sister, for your support.
I'm waiting for your instructions.
I have one more thing to call you.
About Kezhi."
"Is he in Shanghai now?"
Feng Lingyi was silent for a moment.
"Yes.
Taking part in the battle."
She said.
"Sister, when I separated from him, I didn't have time to say a few words.
Before I went out, I had to tell him.
I didn't know how to contact him, but he said you could, and asked me to come to you if I have anything to do.
I ask you to Do me a favor and tell him to give me a call when it's convenient."
"Can."
Feng Lingyi agreed immediately.
After hanging up the phone, Meng Lanting sat at the table and was lost in thought for a moment, then tidied up, got up, and left the room.
In the next two long months, the only place Meng Lanting went out was the library of the University of Hong Kong.
In the hotel room, she was either immersed in borrowed periodicals, reading newspapers, or listening to the radio.
The call she was waiting for never came.
It's daylight and it's dark again.
She lay awake all night long, keeping her eyes open, waiting for the next day to come.
Summer is slowly passing and the weather is getting colder.
Finally one day, the radio said that the battle was over.
It ended with the fall of Shanghai and the strategic shift of the national government's front line.
As usual, the waiter delivered the day's newspaper to her room early and in time.
The curtains in the room were lowered, and the lights were turned on all night, quietly revealing Meng Lanting's figure sitting in a chair with his knees curled up.
When her eyes fell on the densely packed list of deceased officers above the school level, which was framed in shocking black frames and took up most of the page, she almost completely lost the courage to look at it.
After a long time, she picked up the newspaper and read the names printed in type one by one, from the first to the last.
Read it again.
Watched it again.
After reading it for the third time and not seeing her familiar name, she burst into tears.
This was the first time in months that she had cried.
She cried for a long time, and finally wiped away her tears, cheered up, climbed out of the chair, stood in front of the white mirror in the bathroom, and looked at the woman in the mirror.
The short hair has slowly grown longer.
It has not been combed for a few days, and it hangs down messily.
The green face of a girl that has not completely faded away has a faint bluish white color, and her eyes are bright red.
Early the next morning, around five or six o'clock, Meng Lanting, who was still in his dream after finally falling asleep last night, was awakened by the ringing of the phone.
Feng Kezhi, he called.
"Why haven't you left yet?"
The signal on the phone was not very good, hissing mixed with the noise of the radio waves, and the sound was high and low, but even so, you could still hear that his voice was hoarse, his tone was a little anxious, and he was questioning.
Around him, the sound was also very noisy, as if many people were busy with something.
In the distance, from somewhere, there was a faint sound of gunfire.
Meng Lanting held the phone in his hand tightly, closed his eyes, and took a breath.
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"I'll leave.
But before I go, I have something to tell you."
Opening her eyes, she said.
"What's up" "By the way, your brother is in charge of the headquarters' communications.
It's relatively safe.
Don't worry."
His tone softened, he hesitated, and suddenly seemed to remember something.
"You can't be pregnant" He lost his voice and his tone suddenly rose.
"no."
He groaned, unable to tell whether it was disappointment or hope, and fell silent.
"We failed to hold on and are retreating as ordered."
After a moment, he said, his voice low.
"What do you have to say?
I'll listen.
Once you've finished speaking, let's leave today.
Don't delay it any longer.
I'm afraid the British won't be able to defend Hong Kong, and it won't be safe there sooner or later."
He seemed a little helpless, and his tone even sounded a little pleading.
"Feng Kezhi, let me ask you something first.
What happened when you and Miss Zhong were in the hotel room that night when the fire broke out in Zhabei?"
Feng Kezhi on the other end of the phone seemed stunned.
"What did you say" His voice rose again, and then he seemed to try to tap the microphone, and there was a harsh noise.
Meng Lanting waited for the noise to stop.
"I know I shouldn't talk about this at this time.
But I'm not willing to ask you clearly.
I met Ms.
Zhong in Hong Kong.
She told me that that night, you and she shared a room at the Jin Jiang Hotel.
You were What's the meaning" Meng Lanting heard a low curse sound coming from the other end of the phone, full of surprise and anger, and then immediately said: "Lanting, apart from saying these, has she bullied you?"
"The only person who can bully me is you."
Meng Lanting said softly.
He paused, and when he spoke again, his tone was already anxious.
"Lanting, don't be angry.
Listen to me.
I was drunk that night.
It was my fault that I didn't go home immediately.
I drove around on the street for a while and then I felt drunk.
It happened to be that restaurant nearby, so I didn't think much about it.
I asked for a room and went to bed.
I had a headache at the time, so I probably fell asleep without closing the door.
When I woke up, I saw her next to me and left without doing anything.
When I got home later, I didn’t want to wake you up, so I lay down on the sofa downstairs and slept.”
"Lanting, you must believe me."
Seeing that Meng Lanting was still silent, Feng Kezhi suddenly remembered and hurriedly explained: "By the way, I seemed to have booked a room there for her before, but I really forgot about it a long time ago.
I wasn't complimenting her at that time."
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She?"
He paused again and changed his words hastily.
"I'm a fucking asshole but my relationship with her is really not what you think I am."
"Okay, that's enough."
Meng Lanting interrupted him.
"If you say no, I believe you and I feel much better."
"Really" He on the other end of the phone seemed a little unbelievable.
"Yes.
I can also talk to you next."
"I'll listen to whatever you want to say."
"I've been thinking a lot these days.
At that time, I didn't want to leave, and it was really because of you.
But now, I decided to leave, but it's not because of you."
"After telling you what I've been thinking about these days, I'll leave."
Feng Kezhi seemed surprised again.
He hesitated for a moment, as if he was about to say something, but finally did not interrupt her again.
"Feng Kezhi, you have been a proud son of the emperor since you were a child.
Apart from joining the army, there should be nothing you can't ask for.
So you can do whatever you want.
If you like me, you will use all your methods to pursue me.
Now that you feel hurt, you will I pushed you away, even if I asked for your forgiveness again and again, you were still so cruel, but I was different."
"For nearly twenty years, I have been a sensible daughter in front of my parents, and a sister who has to take care of my younger brother.
I want to take into account the friendship between your family and our family, and I am grateful to your family for their kindness and kindness to me, as well as your sisters.
All kinds of expectations for me.
The education I received since I was a child has forced me to try my best to meet other people's expectations, even if they are not what I want.
I never seem to have the opportunity to consider what I want. , what do you want to do.”
"I actually want to thank your eldest sister for bringing me this short marriage.
If these things hadn't happened, I would still be the same as before.
Now you know that I cheated on you, you don't want me anymore, and you gave me the divorce papers.
I won't force you.
You have your pride, and you do it for my own good.
But now I understand that I actually want to do what I can for this country at this time.
Gone."
"Lanting" He seemed a little dizzy and his voice was hesitant.
"Don't interrupt me, I haven't finished speaking yet."
Meng Lanting suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and said.
Feng Kezhi shut up.
"Feng Kezhi, I'm really sorry.
When you courted me, I ruthlessly rejected you.
Then I turned around, ridiculously succumbed to my habits, married you, and deceived you."
"At the beginning, it was true that I made up my mind to never see you again.
But even so, I still want to tell you that I have never met anyone like you before.
I don't dare to bet the rest of my life on you. in my hands, so I kept telling myself that I couldn’t accept you.”
"Since I met you, I have had a lot of troubles and even anger, but I think more of them should be happiness.
I don't know what you think, but I don't regret the days I spent with you."
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She recalled the night before when he sent her back and blocked her against the wall of Zhou's alley to tease her.
She also recalled the night when he took her dancing on the terrace and the melody of "hatd knabutve" floated out from the gramophone. , his throat suddenly became clogged, and he paused.
"Lanting" Feng Kezhi seemed to finally react and called her name loudly.
Meng Lanting blinked his eyes to get rid of the wetness in his eyes.
"Didn't you always ask me if I like you before?
I left something for you and put it in an envelope.
I will ask the plain clothes to bring it to you.
If you can receive it, you can read it if you want to.
If you don't read it, throw it away.
It doesn’t matter if it falls.”
"I've finished my words.
I hope you can take care of yourself and be well while fighting for the country's strength."
"Lanting, what do you want to give me, please don't do this, please?"
His tone was tense and uneasy.
The voice on the phone suddenly became blurry.
"Correspondent, what's going on with the phone?
Why don't you check the line for me?"
Meng Lanting heard his roar distorted by the radio waves coming from the other end.
There was a hissing noise, and then nothing was heard.
Meng Lanting raised his hand, wiped his eyes, and hung up the phone gently.
She climbed off the bed, opened a box she brought with her, took out a book from it, opened it, took out a photo, looked down at it for a moment, and gently touched the forehead with a small drawing on it with her fingers.
The turtle boy immediately put it into an envelope.
She entered the bathroom, lowered her head, washed her face with cold water from the faucet, wiped it dry, and opened the heavy curtains.
The bright morning light poured in through the window, and the darkness in the room was dispelled and turned into white. gd1806102: