◎Chapter 20     The life and death of life

The two single beds in the room were combined together, two pairs of slippers were placed in front of the bed, two tea jars were placed on the cabinet, two toothbrushes were placed in the tea jar, two equally broken desks, two chairs, two towels were hung on the iron wire in the corner of the wall, and two cabinets were next to it... Everything was paired in pairs, everything was the same, the same old, the same ragged.

There were black and white photos of two people who were in the army hanging on the wall, which turned yellow, one was Teacher Qin and the other was Teacher Tao.

Out of female intuition and a sensitivity to love, Su Mei realized that two men had lived in this broken house for twenty years.

Professor Liang: "Where is Teacher Tao? He didn't leave, right?"

Bao Zhan: "You didn't kill anyone, so don't hide him."

Hualong: "Tell us, it's not interrogation now, it's just a conversation with you."

Su Mei: "Are you... gay?"

Teacher Qin lowered his head, and silence was also an answer.

He held back the tears of mixed feelings and closed his eyes, as if he had returned to the past.

He saw a small village where several children were knocking on iron buckets under the willow tree at the entrance of the village. The child asked him: Brother Qin Tian, ​​where are you going?

Teacher Qin's name is Qin Tian. He wore a big red flower on his chest and replied: Join the army and defend his country.

That year, he was eighteen years old and joined the army. He was in the "Self-Defense Counterattack Against Vietnam". He was reorganized from the army into the Airborne Division. During the two-mountain rotation wars from 1984 to 1989, Qin Tian experienced more than a hundred battles of all sizes and big and small, and witnessed countless comrades sprinkling their blood on the front line land. The land must be full of wild flowers now, and the compassionate mother of Earth always embraces her children.

In 1986, he ate buns in a heavy rain.

In 1987, he chewed steamed buns in the strong wind.

In 1988, a man left the only remaining buns and steamed buns to him.

Every airborne soldier has heard a saying: Paratroopers are born surrounded!

He wanted to jump into a large rapeseed field. However, when he first landed on the enemy's position, winter night had already arrived. He was at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and the north wind blew, and the enemy's subway wire was shining with cold light, and everything pointed and upward was greeting him.

At that time, a group of sparrows flew by his feet!

"Self-Defense Counterattack Against Vietnam" The Air Force rarely participated in the war, and only carried out a few practical airborne combat in the late stage of the war to explore military experience. It was Qin Tian's first time to conduct a night parachuting. The temporary paratroopers would shout to each other when they jumped through the darkness. He heard a name: Tao Yuanliang. When the indicator light for the parachuting was on, he jumped and roared into the darkness. Perhaps it was a kind of will of heaven, and he was entangled with the paratrooper named Tao Yuanliang.

The two umbrellas are intertwined and entangled, which is a very dangerous air situation during parachuting. If no timely measures are taken, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Tao Yuanliang yelled with gesture: "You insert it into my umbrella, you fly first, don't worry about me."

Qin Tian pulled the handle of the flying parachute, and the main umbrella suddenly got out, and then pulled open the spare umbrella on his chest with force.

At this time, the height was less than 500 meters, and Qin Tian was very worried about whether Tao Yuanliang could land safely. Fortunately, Tao Yuanliang also flew off the main umbrella at the critical moment and opened the backup umbrella.

However, as soon as they landed, the two of them were surrounded by the enemy. The task at that time was to destroy the enemy's transportation hub and communication facilities, so they were only equipped with light weapons. Qin Tian was injured. They were chased by the enemy into the ruins of a village and hid in a gasoline barrel for three days.

Qin Tian and Tao Yuanliang knew the cruelty of the war. If they were captured alive by the enemy, they would be made into scarecrows and placed on the border.

After eating the only food, it was exaggerated that the two of them could only survive on the mushrooms that grew from their hair.

During the three days of life and death, because the space in the gasoline barrel was small, the two had to hug each other.

A taboo love has long been destined to be in the dark.

We cannot know what the two of them thought and said during those three days, if it is not considered blasphemy of love, it should be said that they fell in love with each other and they didn't even know it themselves.

Three days later, Tao Yuanliang risked his life to cross the Fire and carried Qin Tian, ​​who was dying due to injury and hunger, back to his hospital.

Three years later, the two had already retired from the army. Qin Tian returned to his hometown to work as a volunteer teacher. Tao Yuanliang opened a motorcycle repair shop. They were separated by one side and wrote many letters.

How many years will it take to open a door between two men?

In those letters, did there be any implicit and tactful expressions, and any thrilling content?

How many dark clouds do you need to penetrate with one hand? How much courage does it take to hold the other hand?

Some people play the flute in a foreign land, and the chrysanthemums in a foreign land turn yellow.

Neither of them got married. One day, the students suddenly discovered that Teacher Qin was wearing mourning for no reason. No one knew the reason - Tao Yuanliang's parents died in a car accident. A few days later, the students had another teacher: Teacher Tao.

Two men lived in this somewhat broken room and repaired cracks and holes. From then on, it took twenty years.

Teacher Qin and Teacher Tao plant peaches together, weed them together, and stroll in the mountains together. The two of them walked all the way from young to middle-aged. How beautiful is this mountain village?

This is a mountain village with peach blossoms in full bloom.

This is a mountain village with drizzle.

This is a mountain village with chrysanthemums blooming.

This is a mountain village full of snow.

This is their paradise. It seems that overnight, the spring breeze polished the green all over the mountains. The two of them guarded the tranquility of their hearts. Their happiness was like fireflies in the wilderness gathering faint light, and the wind and rain were swaying, and no one knew it. Yellow flowers swayed everywhere, purple flowers were everywhere, and red flowers rolled and rolled with the hills, and flowing water in life, quietly watching the flowers bloom and fall.

In spring, peach blossoms are everywhere, and petals are piled on the boats on the shore. They carry a boat of petals and fish in the middle of the lake.

In summer, the lake water is a piece of jade with a quiet green color. Water lilies walk on the lake surface, and lotus flowers bloom step by step.

In autumn, wild doves flew over the chrysanthemums, crossed the blue sky, and flew towards the colorful clouds. They went to the market at the foot of the mountain to sell peaches.

In winter, they built snowmen with their students and led their dogs to the birch forest on the mountain to catch hares.

Many years have passed, and peach blossoms are blooming every year, and demolition forces them to make a choice between tolerance and cruelty. There is no sadness, no wind, and wild flowers are silent in the quiet grass. The veterans of Vietnam War are more fighting spirit than the villagers. Teacher Tao cannot tolerate someone destroying their homes. The weak teacher Qin thought of suicide, and he even prepared the last supper. His suggestion is: hang them together after eating.

Teacher Tao chose to take risks. The two quarreled for the first time in their lives. In the end, Teacher Qin compromised. Teacher Tao formulated a murder plan. He pretended to be an illusion of going home, and also thought about using flutes and flutes to communicate information. People who have served in the army know how to convey safe or dangerous information in a simple way.

Teacher Qin said: "I can play the flute every day. If I don't play one day, I will be caught. However, I will not say anything."

Teacher Tao said: "I want to kill that Section Chief Yang first."

Teacher Qin said: "Why kill him first?"

Teacher Tao said: "Who told him to look so similar to you?"

Teacher Qin said: "What about it?"

Teacher Tao said: "Kill the developer again, Township Mayor Wu... until they stop."

Section Chief Yang was obsessed with chess, and Lan Keting was built according to his idea. That night, he and the developer, Wu Township Chief, and others finished drinking in Taohua Villa. They walked alone to Lan Keting not far away to study the endgame. Someone came over to play chess with him, and he recognized that this person was Teacher Tao.

He didn't want to get off, but Teacher Tao showed his knife and wanted to run away, but he knew that Teacher Tao was a veteran of the Vietnam War.

Section Chief Yang took a step with his teeth. He thought that Teacher Tao was also a person who loved playing chess and used forced methods to compete for chess skills. He never thought that Teacher Tao would kill him in just three steps and killed him with just one knife.

The human fur man did not stop the demolition process, so Teacher Tao killed the developer again. He brought a bag into the developer's room from the window, claiming that he brought an unearthed plate. The developer has a hobby of collecting cultural relics and has seen many people who sneakily sell cultural relics, so he is not surprised.

After opening it, there was straw in the bag, and there was only a knife in the straw.

Teacher Tao covered the developer's mouth with one hand and placed the sharp blade on his neck with the other, forcing the developer to open the safe. The developer thought it was a robbery, but unexpectedly, Teacher Tao forced him to smash his priceless cultural relics again.

Teacher Tao’s way of dealing with the corpse was not very clever. He left the developer’s body in the room and placed Section Chief Yang’s body into the forest ranger’s hut. The forest ranger hung the body on the tree at the entrance of the village, which was purely an accidental act of venting anger. If one reason had to be found, it was that the forest ranger, Teacher Tao and the villagers had one thing in common - they had the same hatred for violent demolition.

Teacher Qin was arrested and found a scabbard in his room. After technical inspection, it coincided with the murder weapon that killed the victim. The police also confirmed through the surveillance video of the city railway station that he did not send Teacher Tao to the station that day. He was the station alone, just to forge the illusion that Teacher Tao was coming home and that he was not at the scene of the crime. After Hualong handcuffed him, he patted his shoulder, perhaps out of respect for a veteran of the Vietnam War.

Teacher Qin used silence to fight the interrogation. He bit off a piece of his tongue without answering any questions.

The Wuling County police carried out control and interception work to prevent the suspect Mr. Tao from fleeing. With Taoyuan Village Primary School as the center, a search operation was launched. However, the surrounding mountains were the hiding place of Teacher Tao. It was not easy to track down and arrest a Vietnam War veteran. Two days later, the police did not find any trace of Mr. Tao.

On the third day, he walked into Taoyuan Township Police Station alone.

A policeman asked him what was wrong.

The man replied: "Submit yourself!"

The case ended with the murderer surrendering himself. Teacher Tao bears all the crimes alone. He claims that Teacher Qin is not aware of it. Because Teacher Qin does not speak from beginning to end, the police cannot convict him, so he has to release him. The next day, the special case team left Wuling County. On the way to the provincial capital airport, the propaganda officer called and said two things:

1. Teacher Qin committed suicide and hung himself on the peach tree in Taoyuan Village Primary School. He left his last words and hoped to be buried with Teacher Tao.

2. The young and middle-aged villagers of Taoyuan Village cut down all the peach trees on the surrounding mountains in a few days. The development progress of the Peach Blossom Spring Scenic Area was forced to be interrupted because there were no peach trees.

Professor Liang: "What a paradise!"

Hualong: "Why do I think Teacher Tao's name sounds very familiar?"

Bao Zhan: "Tao Yuanliang."

Su Mei: "Tao Yuanming, whose courtesy name is Yuanliang, and whose nickname is Wuliu..."

What a great irony is the Peach Blossom Land without peach trees. On the empty mountain, there is only a peach tree in the primary school. The villagers only leave such a peach tree. What does it mean? Is it to see the sufferings of the world? Is it to silently feel the sufferings of the peasants from generation to generation?
Chapter completed!