"General"·Introduction
I'm dying.
The blood flowed out from the chest, starting from the limbs, and entered little by little. When I shrank to my heart, what I thought of was not the many battles I had fought in my life—it was that spring.
The peach blossoms were in full bloom that year. A Yuan stole Hong, his father's eighteen-year-old daughter. A Lan smiled and said that he would lead a horse for me in the future. The three of us sat under the peach tree and drank until the moon rose. A Yuan said that it would be nice to live like this for a lifetime. A Lan said, then live a lifetime. I said, OK.
We were seventeen years old at that time and didn't understand anything. I don't understand the words "lifetime", sometimes it is shorter than a battle.
Later, A Yuan died of the epidemic. He opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't. Later, A Lan died on the battlefield, with seven or eight holes stabbed in his body, still smiling on his face.
I will live until the end to remember them. I remember how loud they laughed when they said, "You are responsible for living."
Now I'm dying too.
Ayuan, Alan, do you have peach trees over there?
Wait for me.
I am coming.
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Three people, a lifetime, and a spring that can never come back.
Intention: Three young men joined the army, missed home, and died in the war. One person lived to remember them until the end.