Along the ruined streets, against the constant explosions, when people returned to the bank of the Spree River through Marco's major uniform, the three guards frowned. , only Mario, who was held in the arms of Father Hans, looked around curiously.
"Go back to the clinic first." Father Hans simply turned around and walked towards the small clinic.
Wei Ran glanced at the Moltke Bridge, which was completely blocked. In just one night, several barbed wire fences had been pulled up on the bridge, and a large number of vehicle wreckage was piled on the bridge. In the position, behind the fire bunker facing away from them, detonating devices have been placed.
No passing signs were also hung on the telephone poles on the roadside. Under this sign, two chain dogs with submachine guns were carefully checking the documents of people who wanted to cross the bridge. They were not ordinary soldiers. They wanted to pass under their noses with the documents and major uniforms they picked up. Leaving Berlin as a child is simply a dream.
“Can’t we get out?” Marco asked with a pale face.
“It’s very difficult”
Dad Hans looked back at the chain dog at the end of the bridge, quickened his pace and said, “If you go over now, you might be arrested, but that’s not the case. Being hung on the gallows means dying directly in the ruins on the roadside."
"It's the 23rd..."
Wei Ran sighed to himself and chased Han. Father Si quickly moved away from the heavily guarded Moltke Bridge and quietly returned to the clinic deep in the alley under the cover of thick fog.
“Didn’t go out?” Dr. Lodge asked as expected. While speaking, he poured a bucket of sewage mixed with medical waste and feces on the pile of rubble not far from the door. .
"I can't get out." Father Hans hesitated for a moment and was about to say something. Doctor Lodge pointed to the clinic behind him, "I promised you yesterday, as long as you don't bring Just put the weapon in."
"Thank you" Father Hans nodded heavily and was the first to enter the clinic with Mario looking curious.
Wei Ran looked thoughtfully at the rubble pile used for dumping garbage, smiled politely, and pushed Marco into the clinic, which was extremely busy just after it opened.
Last night’s bombing, as well as the artillery strikes that have not stopped since early this morning, have caused a lot of casualties to nearby residents and stationed soldiers. This also allows this dental clinic to serve as a medical emergency.
With the busy work of Dr. Lodge and his little nurse, residents or soldiers injured in the bombing were treated one by one, but from time to time, one or two bodies were carried out of the clinic. Don't know where it was sent.
After settling down the Marco brothers and Wei Ran, Dr. Hans took out a white coat from the closet near the wall and put it on, "You guys stay quiet here, I will Go downstairs to help."
Before he finished speaking, Father Hans, who was over fifty years old, was already stepping on his slightly crooked bicycle.Went down the stairs to help Dr. Lodge.
"Brother, where are the Soviets and Jews?" As soon as Father Hans left, Mario, who had been honest a second ago, immediately took out the knife from his waist and asked with his teeth bared.
Marco slapped his forehead, "Mario, our mission is to protect this clinic and prevent the Soviets and Jews from destroying it, so we have to ambush here quietly now and try to stay as quiet as possible. Let them find out, do you know what I mean?"
"Like a wild duck hunter?" Mario asked excitedly.
"Yes, just like a hunter hunting wild ducks."
Marco simply pulled out the P38 pistol from his waist, emptied the bullet and handed it to his brother, "Mario , you hide behind the window and pay attention to the situation outside. This is a very important task, and only my most trusted soldiers can complete it."
"Leave it to me!" p>Mario took the pistol in excitement, forgetting to salute, and took off his clothes in excitement, revealing the black youth uniform that he secretly wore underneath.
Before Marco could say anything, Mario used his collar to reveal the khaki youth uniform underneath, and said proudly, "Look, I brought your old uniform too. !"
Marco slapped his forehead. He was now beginning to wonder if this brother who was nearly ten years older than him was really as stupid as Father Hans said.
But Mario didn’t care about that. He quickly took off both sets of uniforms, put on the sweater and overalls again, and then carefully folded the two sets of uniforms and put them on the table. On the bed he had prepared, he stretched his legs and pushed a chair to the window and sat down. He followed the cracks in the bricks that blocked the window and looked out at the mist outside.
"You stay here with Mario" Wei Ran, who had seen enough of the excitement, also took off his German uniform that didn't fit him well, and took it out from the closet that Hans' father had just opened. A set of white coats, "I'll go down and see if I can help."
"Okay...Okay" Marco quickly stood up and said, "If you need my help, you can call me at any time. ."
Ignoring the two brothers with very different personalities, Wei Ran put on his white coat, opened the door and left the second floor.
In less than ten minutes, four or five more people were sent to the clinic. Most of them were scratched by glass or masonry fragments in the explosion, but there were also two. Each of these unlucky guys had their ribs broken or their stomachs were cut open, exposing their organs.
"What are you doing here?" Father Hans, who was busy suturing the wound of an old woman, asked casually when he saw Wei Ran coming down.
"Help you"
As Wei Ran spoke, he raised his hand to signal a woman with a big cut on her back to slap her on the bed, and asked for gloves from the nurse. After wearing it, applying anesthesia, and simply completing debridement, suturing began.
Wait for himAfter finishing his work, Dr. Lodge couldn't help but frown and said, "Doctor Hans, who taught this young man? Why is he so rough?"
Dad Hans looked at the action in confusion. Wei Ran, who was open and closed, gave a noncommittal "hmm" and continued busy with the work in hand.
With the help of Father Hans and Wei Ran, the progress of treating the wounded in this humble little clinic has been accelerated a lot. After Wei Ran stitched up the trauma all morning, he even had the opportunity to participate in a difficult operation to clean out the wood fragments from the stomach.
It was through this operation that Dr. Lodge and Father Hans also had an intuitive understanding of his medical abilities, and they simply left all the simple trauma suturing work to Wei Ran with confidence. .
On the other hand, Weiran is also very serious. Having the opportunity to accumulate experience with living people is more intuitive than using the small animals around the Hongqi Forest Farm. Especially when treating soldiers wearing German uniforms, there is almost no psychological burden. After all, if they are saved, they are considered a success in practice, and if they are saved, they are considered a contribution to the anti-French silk suction.
With the help of three grown men and a small nurse, this small clinic finally calmed down near noon.
But before they could take a bite of the lunch prepared by the little nurse, a gray-faced old woman ran in in a panic and said, "Doctor Rocky, please help. My daughter has been injured." Buried in the ruins, she is dying!"
"Where is the person?" Rocky dropped the piece of bread he had just picked up and looked out the door.
"She was crushed under the ruins!" The old woman explained with tears in her eyes. The muddy tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, and a clear streak appeared on her dusty old face. trace.
Rocky was stunned and said bitterly, "Mrs. Ferris, I...I can't leave the clinic."
Dad Hans, who was standing aside, was stunned. , also put down the piece of bread in his hand, "I'll go! Victor, can you go with me?"
Wei Ran glanced upstairs subconsciously, hesitated for a moment and then clicked. nod. Under the leadership of the old woman, Wei Ran and Father Hans walked through the ruins and finally got into an apartment facing the street.
This apartment seemed to have been bombed by an aerial bomb. The entire upper part had collapsed, and there were even smoke or flames coming from some locations. The remaining lower half was particularly lively. The surviving residents helped each other carry out their injured neighbors. Some of them had even had their wounds stitched up by Wei Ran or Father Hans not long ago.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Ferris, Wei Ran and Father Hans, who was carrying a medicine box, got into a collapsed room at the end of the corridor. The first thing they saw after entering was the collapsed roof. .
"Go through the corner and you will see my daughter!" As Mrs. Ferris spoke, she hurriedly took out a box of matches and tried to light the candle she had been holding tightly in her hand. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute, you guys wait a minuteCome on, I can light the candles right away! ”
“Don’t be busy”
Dad Hans unbuttoned his white coat, took off the square box flashlight hanging on his belt, turned it on, lay on the ground, and pushed The medicine box went in along the triangular gap in the corner of the wall.
Wei Ran, who was about to take out the kerosene gas lamp, quickly stopped, and the second one got into the gap that was only less than ten centimeters wider than his shoulder. Following the faint moaning sound, the two walked around the collapsed floor, and finally found the woman whose lower body was pressed by the rubble at the innermost side.
It was not bright just because of it. After glancing at it with his flashlight, Father Hans sighed. The woman's legs were tightly pressed, dark red blood was flowing along the floor, and her upper body was leaning against a bed. On the shabby sofa, one hand was holding on to one leg of the sofa, and the other hand was holding a palm-sized photo frame.
After seeing Father Hans, this woman was stunned. There was a hint of disappointment on his face, and he opened his mouth as if to say something. His big, pleading eyes looked at Wei Ran, who was lying next to Father Hans, and said something silently.
Crawling forward subconsciously, Wei Ran put his ear to the woman's mouth. Amidst the explosions that came from time to time outside, he vaguely heard her ask, "Dr. Rocky...isn't he here?" ? "
Wei Ran glanced at the woman who might die at any time and shook his head with difficulty, "He can't leave the clinic for the time being. "
The woman tried her best to bring her mouth to Wei Ran's ear and asked intermittently, "Can I... trust you? "
Seeing Wei Ran nod without hesitation, the woman seemed to have exhausted all her strength and said, "In the evening...let Dr. Rocky...come...come and see me... Just...tell him...one person...and don't let...the soldiers around you...know. ”
Almost as soon as she finished saying this, the woman lost her breath. At the same time, a tear slipped from the corner of the woman’s eye and fell on Wei Ran’s face.
Glancing at Dr. Hans who was helping with the lighting, Wei Ran had a glimmer of understanding. In order to take out the flashlight, Dr. Hans untied his white coat, revealing that he was still wearing it. Before putting on the white coat, I had already taken off Marco's uniform, so I could only see a shirt at the collar.
Try this. The woman snorted, and Wei Ran shook his head at Father Hans. The latter sighed and left the flashlight to Wei Ran. He pulled the medicine box and crawled out backwards.
Pick it up. After taking one last look at the woman with the flashlight, Wei Ran picked up the photo frame still in her hand and turned it over. In addition to the woman buried in the ruins, there was a man with curly hair and a standing figure in the photo frame. There is a little black-haired girl between the two of them.
But this man is not the Doctor Rocky she wants to see for the last time. Look at the woman’s other hand.Regarding the sofa legs, Wei Ran already had some guesses in his mind.
Before he climbed out of the ruin-like room, the cry of Mrs. Ferris could be heard behind him. Wei Ran couldn't help but look at the corpse in front of him again, and then crawled out backwards.
"Mrs. Ferris, she wants me to bring you something." Wei Ran returned the flashlight to Hans, who was already preparing to go back, and sat down at the door, facing the paralyzed man. The old lady on the ground said.
"What?" The old woman Ferris was immediately attracted to her attention.
Wei Ran looked at the ruins inside the door again, and said thoughtfully, "She said this house is full of memories, and she wanted to stay here for one more day. She also said..."
p>"What? What else did she say?" Mrs. Ferris said, grabbing Wei Ran's shoulders.
"She said the war will be over soon, and she hopes you can continue to live." Wei Ran continued to tell lies that would be verified soon.
Mrs. Ferris let go of her hands and leaned blankly against the cracked door frame, letting unstoppable tears flow from the corners of her eyes, her eyes just looking at the collapsed room.
Shaking his head secretly, Wei Ran stood up, took off his blood-stained white coat, shook it, put it on again, and walked farther and farther along the cracked corridor.
On the way back to the dental clinic, a radio truck equipped with a loudspeaker was broadcasting an impassioned speech with a mustache on a street full of ruins. The upright young soldier standing on the radio truck seemed to be under heavy smoke. It was as if the fog had blinded my eyes, and I couldn't see the ruins on the street or the civilians in need of help.
In the back of this loaded radio truck, some children about the same age as Mario were already carrying messenger bags and glue buckets, putting up posters in various places on the street. But the diligent, serious and even fanatical appearance of these children seemed increasingly absurd in Wei Ran's eyes.
Evading those mad dog-like soldiers, Wei Ran returned to the clinic at the end of the alley under the cover of thick fog and ruins, only to find that several soldiers with submachine guns had surrounded the place. At the entrance of the clinic, Dr. Lodge and Father Hans, who came back first, were arguing with them about something, and then they were forced to the wall with two submachine guns pressed against their chests.
It was only then that a lieutenant got off the motorcycle and said arrogantly, "We received a report that there is something hidden here..."
" What's hidden here?"
Before he finished speaking, Marco, his face wrapped in gauze, had already walked out of the clinic wearing the picked-up major uniform.
With a sound of "Pa!", all the soldiers, including the lieutenant, saluted Marco in unison.
Responding to these soldiers who looked no older than himself, Marco took the lieutenant's ID, looked at it, returned it to the other party, and then said slowly, "My The army commandeered this clinic three days ago. Captain, what did you just say were the deserters hiding here?A Jew? Or the Soviets? ”
After receiving such a rebuke from Marco, this young lieutenant who had obviously never been on the battlefield, and most likely had never even left Berlin, panicked, and for a moment he didn’t know what to say. .
"In other words, what kind of reports did you receive? "Marco continued to ask.
"We received a report that someone took a child and hid in this clinic this morning and never came out. "The lieutenant straightened his body and replied, "We suspect..."
"Mario, come out. "
Marco didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and shouted without looking back. Then Mario, wearing a youth league uniform, walked out and glanced proudly at Hans, who was standing in the corner. Dad, he stretched out his right arm towards the lieutenant, and even took out a certificate issued by the Youth League from his pocket.
Until his brother got a gift in return. , Marco then said, "This is the child I brought over this morning. Do you think he is a Jew? Or do you think I'm a deserter? "
"Major, this may be a misunderstanding. "The lieutenant said quickly.
"It's best to be a misunderstanding." Marco covered his face with gauze and said impatiently, "Okay, leave as soon as possible. I have to accept it here for a few days. For treatment, please don’t come here these days. ”
After sending away the soldiers led by the young lieutenant, Marco immediately broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, and Hans, who had been forced into the corner by the gun, also looked at Mario more favorably. He said with a smile, "This little stupid thing is still useful, but Marco, who taught you to do this? "
"It was her," Marco pointed at the nurse who was removing the gauze on his head, and said happily, "She came up with the idea. Luckily I had acted in a play before, and luckily Mario had smuggled his uniform. "
"In this case, you two brothers might as well continue acting. "Wei Ran, who had been hiding in the corner watching the excitement, came over and joked, "Maybe it can help this clinic avoid a lot of trouble. "
"That's a good idea." Father Hans's eyes lit up, and after he signaled the nurse to take Mario away, he said, "That little idiot must be willing to do such a thing. Rocky, what do you think? "
"I don't know anything, I'm just a doctor. " Dr. Rocky said in a puff of smoke, clearly blaming him.
"Then it's settled." Father Hans patted Marco's shoulder hard and helped him get it. He took off the bloody gauze stuck to his forehead and said, "This clinic depends on you to protect it. ”