(Border Special Forces Captain Lu Zhengyan VS Team Medical Branch Nurse Wen Xu)
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The wind at the border is always wrapped in sand, as if it wants to bury all the cares into the desolation. Before Lu Zhengyan led the team to carry out a top-secret anti-terrorism mission, he held Wen Xu's hand outside the tent of the field hospital and pressed the copper whistle against her palm: "When I come back, there will be a wedding in the spring." Wen Xu looked at the unwashed blood stains on his camouflage uniform and only dared to nod - she knew that "just in case" was always hidden in the promises of soldiers.
On the seventh day of the mission, communications were suddenly interrupted. Wen Xu stood guard in front of the radio station, polishing the copper whistle until it shined. He heard from Lin Xi that the firefight on the front line was fierce, but he never heard the familiar whistle. Half a month later, Zhao Tingzhou brought Chen Ye back. Chen Ye had a broken leg and held a blood-stained military medal and an unsent letter in his arms. The letter was written by Lu Zhengyan. The handwriting was blurred by blood. The last sentence was "If I don't come back, don't wait."
Wen Xu did not cry, but she still carried the copper whistle to make rounds every day. During a rescue operation three months later, she blocked a stray bullet to protect an injured herdsman. When she was dying, she took out a copper whistle and blew it, and she seemed to hear Lu Zhengyan's voice again in the wind: "Wen Xu, don't be afraid."
Later, someone saw two tombstones standing side by side in the battlefield cemetery. Lu Zhengyan's name was engraved on the left, Wen Xu was engraved on the right, and the bronze whistle that had never been blown again was placed in the middle.
