The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

"The hero who troubles the heroes (

I think our knights just opened,

There were only a dozen knights and seven or eight girls in total.

- aria from the opera "The Hospitaller"

In the summer of 2000, the weather was gloomy and the wind was getting stronger, but the house was still full of laughter.

In the living room, a spirited old man was sitting on the sofa, watching the children use a feather duster to gently clean up the oil paintings hanging in the center of the wall.

The background of the painting is an old plane, and a group of people are walking away from the plane talking and laughing in a row.

The people in the painting are all famous figures in the sky, but at this time, only the old man on the sofa is left alone with nostalgia for that magnificent era.

"Grandpa, a guest came to you, it's a reporter." The granddaughter interrupted the old man's memories softly.

"Let them come." The old man adjusted his clothes. Over the years, he has received more reporters than he has eliminated enemies.

A middle-aged female reporter came over, and she said to the old man, "I pay high tribute to you, Your Excellency Hartman, the air hero."

Hartman sneered and said, "I know you, Rita, and they say you're the toughest reporter to deal with in recent years. Sit down."

"It's my pleasure." Rita sat down in the chair beside her and took out the tape recorder and visiting book.

Hartman asked the children to bring her a glass of plain water, and then asked, "Aren't you going to toss those in the office and come to me to hear about the war?"

Rita smiled and said, "I have a piece of history that I want to ask you about. It's about the Knights Hospitaller."

Hartman took a sip from the teacup on the coffee table in front of him, and said, "My father's experiences in the Knights are all written in his memoirs and correspondence, you know, I went to the Air Force to meet him. Li Duo, I know no more than others."

Rita said: "Sir Hartman is a respectable man. As the second commander-in-chief of the Knights Hospitaller, he carried forward the spirit of the Knights' 'guarding the people and helping the suffering'."

Hartman said with some displeasure: "Although I am glad that you praised my father, he is just a gardener, and the most respectable is Uncle Charles, the first-generation commander-in-chief, who planted the seeds that led to the The big tree!"

"You reporters, you have been digging up his lace news in recent years. Today, it is extremely irresponsible to test how many queens he has slept with, and to guess who is his illegitimate child tomorrow, but turn a blind eye to his achievements. !!"

"If you keep doing this shit, be careful that someday there will be elves throwing stones at your windows in the middle of the night until you enter the coffin!!!"

Rita spent the next half an hour receiving the ideological education of the old gentleman before seizing his opportunity to drink tea to get to the point.

The reporter said, "Your Excellency Hartman, I have a message recently."

"Not long ago, a large vase once collected by Ms. Ellie was accidentally smashed, and a notebook was found in the vase, which was a record of the receipt of allowances for the first one or two years of the establishment of the Knights Hospitaller."

"In the first two months of records, you have received allowances in addition to your father, Sir Hartman."

"You know, in all the memoirs and official records, the records of the Knights' first establishment are blank, not even the exact date."

"Can you tell me the story of the day the Knights were founded?"

"Did you also join the Knights at that time?"

At this moment, a flash of lightning pierced the sky, and a pale light illuminated the somewhat gloomy room.

Hartman leaned back on the soft sofa back, closed his eyes, and recalled the events of that day.

"That was 72 years ago." He said slowly, "I don't even remember what day it was."

"You should know what happened at that time. My father was a military doctor at the time. He was instructed to go to the epidemic area to cooperate with Aunt Mila in the treatment work during his vacation. At that time, he was afraid that the epidemic would expand and I would suffer at home, so he took me there. , at least he can watch me when I'm by his side."

"As written in the book, he asked me to dig a lot of flowers and plants, and finally found the bacteria in the water by dyeing."

"Later, Uncle Charles founded the Knights Hospitaller, and my father took me to join."

"At that time... at that time, who knew that the Knights would continue to this day. Uncle Charles and the others thought that we would break up before the end of the year."

"If it wasn't for the fact that he established economic democracy when he established the Knights, Aunt Ellie would never have thought of keeping accounts, so I asked her for this notebook from Uncle Meyer for her."

Rita's eyes lit up while she was recording, and she asked, "The Uncle Meyer you said..."

Hartman pointed to the oil painting on the wall and said, "It was Marshal Meyer, who was in charge of the temporary airport there, and that's when I fell in love with flying."

Rita asked again: "So, you are also one of the first members of the Knights Hospitaller?"

"Haha, that's right, after all, I also have a stipend." Hartman said with a smile~www.readwn.com~ But I was also the first to quit the group because I only worked for two months. "

Rita asked maliciously, "Then why did you leave the group at that time?"

Hartman said indifferently: "Because then the summer vacation is over, and I have to go back to school."

Rita, who was about to make a big news, was stunned for two seconds. The reason was too strong to make any tricks.

She asked again, "Then why isn't your name in the records?"

Hartman took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then replied with a smile: "I was only eight years old at that time, and my daily task was to prepare food for everyone in the village. In order to get rations from the quartermaster, I wore the knights. The vest, otherwise who would be willing to wear more clothes on a hot day?"

"At that time, who would take me seriously, I didn't take myself seriously."

"When the democratic life meeting was held later, Uncle Charles said that since I also participated in labor, I should have a position. At that time, I didn't have much to say, except that the quartermaster's rations were enough."

"Later, when my father was writing his memoirs, he asked me specifically, and I said how can I be compared to my uncles and aunts as a little kid who cooks porridge, let's forget it."

Rita wrote down Hartman's account verbatim in her notebook.

The reporter found that she had just asked two questions, and Hartman had only answered the latter, and that the day the Order was founded had not been mentioned.

She asked again: "Excuse me, what was the day of the establishment of the Knights?"

At this time, the lightning and thunder outside the house did not stop, and the raindrops as big as beans were splashed down.

Hartman turned his head to look out the window at the garden shaking in the storm, and said lightly, "I have Alzheimer's, I don't remember."