Chapter Thirty-Four: You Are My Eagle (Four)

  Xiao Lie felt himself wrapped in a warm and cozy embrace of sunlight, extremely comfortable, in that pure white space, he saw his mother, she was talking to him, between them was a flowing river, on the surface of which there was some fog, and on it were small boats made of folded paper, each with a candle on it, the flame on the river's surface seemed like countless stars in the sky, Xiao Lie stood quietly on the riverbank, watching, he heard a familiar voice calling his name, he saw a figure on the riverbank gradually becoming clear, wasn't that his mother?

  "Mom!" Xiao Lie shouted.

  "Xiao Lie." Xiao Lanfang replied.

  "Mom, I'm coming over," Xiao Lie said, then suddenly jumped into the river water. However, as if there was an invisible force in the river water, he was immediately bounced back to the shore. He tried several times and it was all like this.

  "Mom! Mom!" Xiao Lie called out "Mom, are you okay now? I miss you so much."

  "Xiao Lie, you must live well, mom is fine, mom is fine. Mom everything is fine, remember you two brothers to be good." Xiao Lanfang's voice was a bit hoarse.

  "Mom, I couldn't find my brother, I don't know what to do now."

  "Xiao Lie ah, I've seen Xiao Yang, you must be able to find him. Once you find him, the two of you take good care of each other, okay?"

  The sound was getting farther and farther away, Xiao Lanfang's voice was getting more and more indistinct.

  "Mom!"

  Xiao Lie suddenly sat up from bed, and Tang Fei who was sitting on his bedside was startled.

  "It's all right."

  Tang Fei's voice suddenly pulled Xiao Lie back to reality, and he only then realized that he had just been dreaming. He tried hard to recall the details of the dream, but they were somewhat vague.

  "Where is this?" Xiao Lie asked.

  "Sanitation team, do you still remember what happened before you fell asleep?" Tang Fei asked.

  Xiao Lie thought for a moment, and then he and Kasha Li were discovered and followed the team down the mountain. As they approached the foot of the mountain, he felt his footsteps getting heavier, and before he could understand what was happening, he suddenly fell to the ground.

  "Why did I faint?" Xiao Lie asked.

  "The doctor said you were hypoxic, but fortunately, there was no frostbite on your body. I heard that you helped that girl with her needlework. How did you spend the night? When you fainted, she was very anxious, but she wasn't much better either. After going down the mountain, she was sent to the county hospital."

  Xiao Lie didn't bother to gossip with Tang Fei, he was thinking about the scene of Kasha in his arms that night, as if the feminine scent on her body was still lingering in his nostrils.

  On the same day, Xiao Lie left the medical team and the base held a welcoming ceremony for him. In Wei Qi Dong's words, he is also a hero now and has experienced a near-death experience. When someone asked him how he felt when he was pushed off the cliff, Xiao Lie thought hard and said it was similar to falling into water. He didn't have time to feel fear or despair before hitting the snow pile and getting buried under the snow. At that moment, he started digging out the snow carefully, fortunately, the snow wasn't as hard as dirt, so he could easily dig through it. Then he focused on finding a place to stand. If there was anything exciting, it was when he helped Kasha stitch her wound and saw the bloody scene, but he had no experience at all and didn't know how to thread the needle. Fortunately, nothing big happened. Honestly, her legs were very white, with smooth and shiny skin, and felt great to touch.

  Perhaps Xiao Lie didn't know that what others saw was different from what he felt himself. Those who hadn't experienced an avalanche wouldn't understand the shock of it, how in an instant those tall pine trees and boulders were engulfed, leaving people like ants waiting to be buried. And yet, some comrades had already prepared eulogies for Martyr Xiao Lie. At that moment, a wicked thought occurred to Xiao Lie: perhaps heroes are created unintentionally, and when people regard him as a hero, he still doesn't know what happened.

  But things didn't end there, on the third day, when Xiao Lie was standing guard at the sentry post, he received a call from the company commander, who told him to run down. Then he ran down from the sentry post with his gun on his back.

  In the courtyard, Xiao Lie saw a military vehicle with a divisional flag, and then two military officers were chatting and laughing there, one of whom was a woman.

  "Xiao Lie." Zhang Zhiqiang said as he saw Xiao Lie.

  "Arrived." Xiao Lie stood at attention and saluted. The three people in front of him were all military officers, so he gave them two more salutes. The two military officers also returned his salute.

  "This is our hero, last time, it was really dangerous, when we were evacuating the crowd, he was at the end, in order to save one of the crowd, finally both of them were washed down the mountain, at that time our hearts were so cool. Oh, you can ask him for specific details. Today I really appreciate the visit of Xu Ziqing and Li Qiuyun from Junbao." Zhang Zhiqiang smiled.

  "Where is it? We should thank Zhang Lianchang for providing us with such good material, it's we who should be thanking you." Xu Ziqing smiled.

  This is a senior captain wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, looking very scholarly, but he has a kind of familiarity that makes people feel at ease. The female lieutenant beside him seems to have been seen somewhere by Xiao Lie, but for the time being, it doesn't come up.

  "Commander, our class owes you one. You've made our class known throughout the entire army with such a glorious achievement. After all these years, we finally have a chance to show our faces." Wei Qidong said with a smile.

  "Hmm, why don't you go tell those two comrades from the Military Report that all of this was under your guidance?" Zhang Zhiqiang said.

  "It doesn't matter, as long as they are from our base, they are our people. Commander, I think you're usually very honest, how did you come up with this? You're too wise."

  "Hmm, that's it. Hmm? What do you think?" Zhang Zhi found that this sentence sounded strange, and before his right foot had even left the ground, Wei Qidong had already run far away.

  When facing two reporters, when they opened their notebooks and looked at him, Xiao Lie suddenly felt a little nervous. Although he was also a focus in the new recruit company, it was different now. At that time, his comrades-in-arms were not without hardships, but only his own good luck. He even thought that if he had died at that time, would these two reporters take a photo of him and publish his story in the military newspaper?

  "Little comrade, can you tell me about your situation that day?" Li Qiuyun asked with a smile.

  Perhaps because the other party was a woman, Xiao Lie felt slightly less tense, and then he calmly recounted his experience. When talking about this, his speech became more fluent, as he had told this story countless times in front of Lian Chang and in class, almost every day making several reports like this. However, in this factual report, he omitted the part where he hugged Kasha, so that everyone's impression was that on that night, the two were far apart, just talking to each other, and spent the whole night like that. Although they were both cold, they still smiled at each other, encouraging themselves and each other. Xiao Lie looked like a perfect gentleman, a model of virtue and morality.

  Xiao Lie said in an interview, the soldiers in the base also admired him extremely. If a man has something other than a strong desire to win, then there is also a bit of vanity. Except for abnormal humans, no one doesn't like others saying they are good, and no one doesn't like being recognized by others.

  When Xu Ziqing went to see other places in the base, Li Qiuyue suddenly said to Xiao Lie: "Do you still remember me?"

  Xiao Lie was taken aback for a moment, wondering when he had met a female military officer in the army. He shook his head honestly.

  "I knew you wouldn't remember me." Li Qiuyue said, her tone making it seem to others that Xiao Lie must have had some kind of relationship with Li Qiuyue in the past, and now he was pretending not to know her.

  "Report, I really don't know you," Xiao Lie said this sentence while searching his brain for the female he knew, and the conclusion was still that he didn't know this female military officer.

  "Do you still remember when we were new recruits in the same company? I used to visit your company back then." Li Qiuyue said.

  "Oh." Xiao Lie finally remembered that day, there was a female military officer who came: "It's you, I remember now."

  "Look, they actually laughed, that female officer actually laughed, Xiao Lie actually made him laugh with one sentence." Tang Fei said standing by the window.

  "Got it, I'm not blind, what are you talking about?" Gu Yu said: "Not calm."

  "What's the relationship between Xiao Lie and that girl? Why does she seem to be laughing so happily? Did they know each other before? Where did they meet?" Li Xiaoqiao asked.

  "Security personnel are just security personnel, they think of problems that are more meticulous and sharp than us. Honestly, I don't know." said Gao Yuanshan.

  Xiao Lie didn't know that at noon that day, he and Li Qiuyue, who was as calm as a statue, became the focus of attention for the soldiers in the base. In this all-male base, the chance of seeing a woman was extremely rare, let alone one who was familiar with a low-ranking soldier. This was definitely a gossip topic, and in a place lacking extracurricular conversation topics, it could keep the soldiers talking for a long time. Many people think that women are very gossipy, but if men start gossiping, they are no less than women, and sometimes even more so.

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