Chapter 25 twenty three

【visit】 The ditch is now the softest mound, the grass grows waist-high where the water flows, and as far as the eye can see, I am the only one in the sleeping wilderness.I walked on the new polished planks of the old trench, with nylon safety ropes beside me.A red plastic warning sign was inserted on the mud floor, which read: Trenches of Perseverance.Danger: Beware of unexploded ordnance. I leaped over the rope and scrambled up the mound on hands and feet, clutching wet grass with both hands.No man's land.I found a hole between the tallest mounds, lay down on the grass, and read Ashley's letter in my notebook.

□□□ Who are we fighting against?I rarely see their faces, unless they are dead bodies. The sun rises behind them and sets behind us; the east is theirs, they own it.We have the dawn, and the breaking sun draws their shadows on the horizon.They own the twilight.We wear khaki, they wear gray.Their barbed wire is stronger and thicker than ours; their knapsacks are strange, dark cowhide with the fur still on them. But they are humans after all, no different from us, they will bleed when stabbed, and they will want revenge.You have taught me the means of cruelty, and I will repay you double.

3. This sentence comes from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". An hour later, I left the trench, ducked under the ropes, and headed to the parking lot.At two o'clock, Mi Rui arrived by car, parked and got out of the car. I asked: how about the beach? The wind is so strong that it is difficult to draw.But the light is beautiful.I brought my sketchbook, maybe I can draw something here. We walked across a level field and entered the cemetery.There are ten rows of white tombstones in the cemetery, neatly arranged.The lawn is well manicured and there are small trees everywhere.

All these people died around here? I think so. Mi Rui took her sketchbook and walked towards a stone monument in the distance. I stayed here to look at the tombstone, but didn't follow. ╬ 5/2819 Private P.Eccles Tellem Light Infantry November 5, 1916, aged nineteen he was called up I walked to the end of the cemetery and found Mi Rui next to the monument.A tall cross is surrounded by white stones. Tristan, I think this is a grave too impossible. Mi Rui squatted down in front of one of the white stones. But you see, it is very similar to a tombstone, but it has no name. I walked over to see that the top of the stone was engraved with a soldier of the Royal Berkshire Infantry in the Great War, and below it was a big white cross with KNOWN ONTO GOD engraved inside.Dozens of these stones form a ring around the cross.Mi Rui reached out to touch the stone and frowned.

why?Why are they different from others and don't have their own graves? I looked around, but there was no indication other than the Ocul cemetery at the small entrance.Mi Rui looked at the tombstone and covered her face. Tristan, what's down here? I have no idea.I read a situation in the book, when there are too many corpses, they will be put into a bomb crater I walked around the perimeter, some stones had flowers in front of them, some had red paper poppies. But that might be somewhere else, not here in Okur. Mi Rui got up and looked at the surrounding fields, picked up the sketchbook, and walked to the car.I followed.

Do you want to draw this cemetery? don't want.She said: Let's go home.