In front of the North Gate

Chapter 14

Shi Jichang talked a lot that night, probably more than the sum of his days at Lou Huaiyu's place.

But Lou Huaiyu was always a bit dull, feeling that his voice seemed to be separated by something, and it always only reached the ears, not the brain.

"The situation is very critical now..." Lou Huaiyu heard Shi Jichang say this, but he might have caught his suspicious gaze, so he paused, then stopped, and did not continue.

Shi Jichang said that while he was in hiding, he had gradually become aware of the tense atmosphere in the backyard becoming more and more day by day. Yamaguchi probably also had doubts about him still hiding in the courtyard, so he secretly added many peacekeeping teams to secretly patrol the backyard.

Shi Jichang's wounds were also getting better day by day, and the day Du Juan came to knock on the door, he was already able to come and go freely, so he didn't hide behind the bed at that time, but turned over the wall and stuck it in a small bamboo forest outside the courtyard.

The small bamboo forest is not big, just enough to cover a person without being conspicuous.

Shi Jichang hid in it, and heard Du Juan go away. After a while, there was a sound of orderly footsteps, and then the door of Lou Huaiyu's small courtyard was knocked open, and the sound of footsteps broke in, and it became messy.

Then, the sound of objects and seats being turned in the room was also heard.

When Shi Jichang heard Lou Huaiyu's cough shaking, he heard Shankou ask him, "Why are you suddenly so sick?"

Yamaguchi's tone was quite gentle, which even made Shi Jichang feel that even if he was discovered on the spot today, Lou Huaiyu would not be hurt.

Shi Jichang uncontrollably recalled the scene yesterday when Shankou bowed his head and kissed Lou Huaiyu.

Then naturally, I thought of Lou Huaiyu's breath against him, the fragrance on her body, and the palm touching him.

The soft flesh on Lou Huaiyu's face pressed against him, looking like a child who didn't understand anything, but said naturally: This will make it hard.

Shi Jichang almost immediately had some reactions that he shouldn't have at the moment, but he couldn't help thinking, how many times have Lou Huaiyu and Shankou done this kind of thing?

He was simultaneously ashamed and shocked by himself, and also had a more complicated, unspoken concern.

The relationship between Lou Huaiyu and Shankou is clear and self-evident, but I don't know why, in getting along with Lou Huaiyu, it gradually becomes unacceptable.

It's a pity that Shi Jichang couldn't figure out this feeling, and he didn't have time to figure it out.

The sound of flipping gradually approached, and soon came to the flower garden by the wall in the courtyard.

Someone punched the wall very close to Shi Jichang, and cursed a sentence in Japanese that he often heard in the dungeon.

Shi Jichang backed away subconsciously, a bamboo branch caught the paper in his arms, almost fell off a piece, and was caught by him again.

The paper was grabbed by Shi Jichang in a hurry before it was dug out. He never kept his own writing, but Lou Huaiyu thanked him with crooked characters and left a lot.

Shi Jichang looked down at the paper in his hand, and saw the words Shi Jichang right away.

Lou Huaiyu wrote it without asking him to teach it again.

The sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets inside the wall continued, Shi Jichang put away the papers, looked back at the mottled courtyard wall, and finally turned around and walked through the bamboo forest, and quietly turned into another courtyard.

The road to Lan'er is not far away, and it's not the first time Shi Jichang has left.

But it was the first time the two met face to face in the courtyard.

Lan'er's hair has grown a lot since before he was arrested, and he is wearing a well-fitting cheongsam, and he really looks like an aunt at first glance.

Shi Jichang seldom saw her dressed like a girl, so he couldn't help but smiled, and was glared at by Lan Er.

After staring at him, he asked, "How are your legs doing?"

Shi Jichang pretended to move, and said, "It's okay to walk and trot."

Neither of them expected that just as Shi Jichang finished speaking, he was about to start running the next second.

The peacekeeping team in the backyard somehow saw his door and shouted from a distance, "Who's there?"

When Shi Jichang turned his head to look, his gun was half drawn.

Neither of them had time to say more. The best situation at that time was to injure someone and escape.

"There is no way to inform you." Shi Jichang said.

After Lou Huaiyu finished listening, she didn't know what to say for a while, so she nodded slowly.

During Shi Jichang's narration, he wanted to interrupt several times, feeling puzzled, and wanted to ask if it was really inconvenient for him to tell him, or if he didn't want to tell at all, if he really wanted to take him out, or just talking.

I want to ask him when he will reconnect with Lan'er, and when he plans to leave. After such a long time, is there really no time to talk?

I also want to ask him what he thinks of himself, a chess piece that can be manipulated, or a temporarily useful driftwood, whether he regards himself as a friend, and whether he wants to get close to him for a minute.

I would like to ask him more, did he mean it when he said that he "leaves Lou Zhiming and is caught by Brown Huaiyu", or does he simply feel that he is a committed and useless bitch?

Lou Huaiyu has a lot to ask.

But Shi Jichang seemed to have forgotten what happened that night, and he looked upright as if he had no emotions, which made Lou Huaiyu's thoughts ridiculous.

"...Lou Huaiyu" Shi Jichang called him, "Did you hear that?"

Lou Huaiyu woke up: "What?"

"I said," Shi Jichang looked at him and said, "I'm here this time because I have something to do, and I want to ask you for help."

After Shi Jichang and Lan'er went out, they went all the way back to the original base, only to find that the building was empty, and after traveling to many places, they finally connected with their companions again.

The news has been mixed.

The good news is that the Allied Army went south all the way, winning streak all the way, knocking down many concentration camp-style villages occupied by the Japanese army, and has successfully reached the territory of Pingcheng.

The bad news is that there is internal strife between the two armies in the country, and the situation in the whole country is very chaotic. Their small team going south failed to get timely ammunition supplies, but the Japanese army vigilantly sent a lot of troops and troops to Pingcheng. arms.

"There is news that Watanabe Yugawa, the general deployment of the Northeast of the Japanese Army, will come." Shi Jichang's voice became louder with excitement, "If he can be wiped out in one fell swoop, it will be very helpful to the entire campaign."

He looked at Lou Huaiyu: "but the source of the news is not reliable, I miss you..."

Shi Jichang stopped talking because Lou Huaiyu suddenly lowered his head and laughed.

Lou Huaiyu felt both nasal and absurd.

Because Lou Huaiyu failed to ask the export question, the answer is self-evident.

"What do you want me to do?" Lou Huaiyu stopped laughing, and asked him in a low voice, "Do you want me to provide you with information, or let me help you kill him."

"How did you kill him? Did you kill him when you were in bed with him?"

Lou Huaiyu raised his head and saw that Shi Jichang's brows were deeply wrinkled.

"What's the matter?" He laughed again, "Isn't that what you mean?"

"I..." Shi Jichang uttered only one word, then stopped again.

What cannot be disputed is that even if there is no bed in his plan, there is indeed a part of using Lou Huaiyu to carry out the assassination.

Lou Huaiyu also looked at him: "Admitted?"

He smiled and called Shi Jichang.

"Shi Jichang." Lou Huaiyu said, "I ask you, have you thought about me?"

"When I was saving you, when I was working for you, did you... care about my life or death?"

Lou Huaiyu suddenly felt quite desperate: "Do you really want to take me out, or do you really think that death for a person like me is not a pity?"

"You should think I'm disgusting, right?" Lou Huaiyu stared at him and asked a series of questions, "I look down on me because I have to live with me for so long. In fact, I can't stand being touched by me. If I hadn't been forced to, You wanted to stay away from me a long time ago, didn't you?"

"No." Shi Jichang said with a frown.

Lou Huaiyu ignored him, laughed coldly to himself, and continued: "Then why do you think a person like me wants to help you for no reason?"

The air in the room seemed to be stagnant, and the quietness made both of them feel suffocated at the same time, creating some unbreathable depression.

Shi Jichang looked at Lou Huaiyu, and through the weak light, he saw the slightly red corners of Lou Huaiyu's eyes.

Lou Huaiyu was sad.

When Shi Jichang thought this way, he felt the constriction in his chest became more serious.He wanted to do something to tell Lou Huaiyu not to be sad, to be happy, and to explain his reasons, and it was not like what he showed today, as if it was just to ask him something.

Shi Jichang also cared about his safety, and when he went out, he would always want to see him with his own eyes.

It's just that Shi Jichang was clumsy with a clumsy tongue and a lot of reasoning, but he didn't know what else to say, and he couldn't comfort him, and Lou Huaiyu pursed his lips to restrain his breathing, as if he didn't want to be exposed.

"You... don't think about it." After a long time, Shi Jichang said.

He seemed to have organized the language for a long time, and said to Lou Huaiyu fluently and formulaically: "I... We are in this era, so we have to learn to put the safety of the country before our own personal desires."

Lou Huaiyu couldn't help laughing again, and the tears gathered in the corners of his eyes finally fell.

"It's not too much to ask you." Shi Jichang said again.

"Stop talking." Lou Huaiyu turned his head to the side and interrupted his remaining words.

Lou Huaiyu had seen Shi Jichang's expression more than once before, so he felt very familiar.

When reading newspapers, when explaining to him "living and working in peace and contentment", when teaching him to write "the world is peaceful".

He used to love and admire Shi Jichang very much. He felt that Shi Jichang was completely different from anyone around him. He was so great, noble, and selfless, like a hero in a storybook.

Watching it again today, I don't know why I find it annoying.

Because Lou Huaiyu is not as noble as Jichang, he doesn't understand righteousness, he doesn't want peace in the world, he is a selfish villain, short-sighted, only cares about the present and himself, he has been distracted before, he cares about something more than himself Personal safety, but this person has a big heart, pretending too much, just can't pretend to be himself.

"Stop talking." Lou Huaiyu repeated.

He turned himself around, no longer facing Shi Jichang, and escaped from the small circle of light, hiding in the darkness.

"I won't help you," Lou Huaiyu said, "you go."

The time that Shi Jichang paused was neither too long nor too short.

With her eyes closed, Lou Huaiyu could only feel Shi Jichang's weak breathing in the air.

He heard Shi Jichang's breathing seemed to change several times, fast and slow, and finally, he simply responded to him: "Okay."

Immediately afterwards, the door was opened, and the cold night wind blew in, lifting some of Lou Huaiyu's hair, as if it could spread throughout the whole body through these strands, making him feel cold too.

After a while, the door was closed again.

When Shi Jichang came, he didn't know what he kicked, but when he left, there was no sound.

Lou Huaiyu asked others to leave by himself, but he didn't know why, and he felt as sad as when Shi Jichang left without saying goodbye, sitting on the ground and watching the empty and authentic moments, empty and dazed.

He thought that Shi Jichang would probably not come again.