Chapter 403

Among the refugees, the families of the soldiers who have some skills are the best. Those rich and powerful families have fled out of the city for a while, and fled to the distant Castle ancestral home. Because of the limited access, the rest of the little nobles may not have a better life than some civilians.

John's family was having a good time with Mrs. Mary, the officer's neighbor, and their children. And not far away a few poor families have already run out of food, can only watch a few children eat bread swallow saliva.

The transportation line from the United States and South America to the British mainland has not been cut off, but it is a heavy loss. So food as a necessity can still be maintained, this meal hungry, the next meal may be able to get some relief. Although some elderly people have died of starvation due to food shortage, they still have to live like this, don't they?

An officer usually has a lot of things to do. As the possibility of landing in Germany increases, he has more and more things to do. Usually, he can seldom see his wife and children in the air raid shelter, so most of the time, John is responsible for the life of the officer's family.

Looking at the children of the two families eating bread and laughing happily, John also felt that although such a day was bad, it was still full of hope. He sat next to his wife, leaning against the concrete wall of the air raid shelter, feeling the deep cold from his back. This is his life, in the corner of the war.

"Hey! You have so much to eat, you should give us some! " Just as John was staring at his son's smiling face at dinner, several men in old suits and sticks of civilization passed behind his neighbor Mrs. Mary. John knew them. He used to be a couple of declining nobles on the other side of the block. After the bombing, he was one of those who came to rob the site.

"Sir! This is our place. " Mrs. Mary was obviously not a weak woman. She looked back at the men who obviously came to make trouble. She turned her lips and said, "we don't have to discuss with you what we eat and who we give it to."

"It's all you people who have taken over the food that should have been given to us. We are hungry!" Just a few people who are going to rob food are a little angry, and they shout with strong words: "you look at us hungry, you are a group of people who have no conscience!"

"What are you talking about? You spend money on your own wine. If you don't have money to buy food, you go everywhere to rob other people's food. What face do you have to teach us? " John's wife frowned and helped his neighbor, Mrs. Mary, to argue, "we can't manage you robbing other people. How dare you rob us now?"

"What happened to you? Give me the food! This is a place that even the police can't control! " The man at the head yelled angrily, kicking away an old woman curled up on one side: "we originally only wanted half, now I've changed my mind, you all get out of the air raid shelter!"

"We are the first to take refuge here." John got up, stood in front of his family and Mrs. Mary, stood in the way of these rascals, and snapped, "I'm an officer. If you don't want any trouble, get out of here!"

The man at the head was obviously hesitant, and the others at the back were even more aggressive, even shrinking back. However, they have been robbing other people's food for some time. The old people around them have been bullied by them, and they really have no money to scrape. This is why they are so hard to provoke the John family.

Now, one reason is that they are difficult to ride a tiger, and the other is that they have no food to eat, so they have to take risks. The man at the head gritted his teeth and thought that if we hit you, we'll run away immediately. In this chaotic world, no one will take care of such things.

Think of here, he roared: "less nonsense! Grab it for me With a few people behind him rushed up, John went up and swung his fist on the man's face, painful each other scream.

Originally John's body was not strong, but he didn't suffer from hunger because of his fortune. Although some of the scoundrels opposite him were taller than him, they were not as strong as John because they were hungry recently.

So for a moment, in the screams of John's wife and Mrs. Mary, and the cries of several children, John wrestled with several people. After all, those people were numerous and powerful, and John was soon knocked to the ground because he was weak.

Beyond John, the men who came to grab food became more unscrupulous. They looked greedily at the half bag of flour and two bags of bread stacked in the corner. As soon as the broken nobleman at the head reached for the food, there was a gunshot behind him.

John took out the revolver from his pocket and shot the leader behind the broken aristocrat. The man was shot in the back and fell on the ground. The scream echoed in the air raid shelter. With the sound of the gun, it was far away.

"Who dares to take another step forward! I'll shoot him! " John vomited the blood on the ground, and sat up with one hand on his back, the other hand holding the pistol with light smoke from the muzzle: "this place is ours! These are ours, too! Does anyone have a question? "

"No! No more! " Several people shook their heads quickly, because they saw the fierce shooting of John, and also saw the despondent aristocrat who fell on the ground and didn't know how to rob food. Now they are thinking about how to get away.

"Don't let me see you again! You know what I mean? " John pointed to the despondent aristocrat lying on the ground not far away with the muzzle of his gun and yelled: "take this bastard! Get out of here Hearing John's words, several people, for example, were pardoned. They nodded and bowed quickly, lifted the man who had passed out from the ground, ran out of the shelter where John was, and did not dare to run back. And watching a few people leave, John seems to have exhausted all his strength and fell to the ground, panting loudly. Mrs. Mary covered her face and sobbed. John's wife squatted on the floor, staring at the pool of blood in front of her in a daze. This is the cruelty of war, this is the despicability of human nature. What happened in this small air raid shelter seems to represent what happened in this sad world. People kill each other and impose evil on others for one reason or another. In the evening, the officer went back to the shelter and listened to his wife's story about what happened during the day. After hearing this, the officer didn't speak. He just went to John's house and motioned to John to accompany him out. One after the other, they left the shelter and went to the street full of debris“ Thank you The officer sincerely said, "I'm very grateful that you took care of my family today. Next time you go out on business, give my wife the gun, just in case. I'll try to get you another one. "“ I see John nodded back“ I have a place for a second lieutenant in my hand. I'll recommend you tomorrow. " After thinking about it, the officer said, "I know that promotion in troubled times may not be a good thing, but it will be better in some places." John knew this was the officer's reward and nodded his thanks. I will continue to work hard. " Then both of them did not speak, so they walked slowly in the dark street. In the afternoon, German bombers destroyed a power station. Part of London was blackout, so now it's dark. In fact, many civilians are complaining about why the British government does not talk to the Germans to end this seemingly endless war. But it seems that such complaints have never been heard at the top of the British government. Now the situation is that whoever calls for negotiation is called a traitor, and whoever calls for compromise is the coward of Britain and the running dog of Germany. In this kind of madness, the British government has never considered the possibility of peace talks with Germany. When the two men went back to the air raid shelter, they saw two army officers and several soldiers carrying a box into the air raid shelter. The two of them looked at each other, as if they saw deep uneasiness in their own eyes“ Excuse me, what's the matter? What's the matter? " They quickly stepped forward, staring at the officers and men of the army and asked“ Sir Two army officers stood at attention and saluted: "we are ordered to come here to distribute combat supplies."“ Is there a mistake? " John's puzzled face asked: "here are civilians, what kind of combat materials are distributed? It's not a military facility, it's just an air raid shelter for civilians. Do you mean it's occupied? "“ No The army officer took a look at the commander of the air defense forces, and had to patiently explain: "according to the" British must defend their homeland "combat order issued by the prime minister, every British family has to allocate a grenade. If the German land and invade the British city, every British will rise up to resist!" John looked at his backer. The air defense officer frowned: "these civilians are not trained to throw grenades. It's very unsafe for them to use grenades. Has the military considered all this? " The army officer shook his head and explained, "we don't know about that. We're just ordered to distribute these weapons to civilians. I don't know whether to train them to throw in the future or to keep them free to use. "“ These bastards! They want our wives and children to die! " John said, biting his teeth“ We still have a lot of places to hand out grenades. " The army officer pointed to a truck parked not far away and said with embarrassment, "if you don't mind, we'll go down and send these grenades."