Luo Yongxin and Liu Zhuang looked at the sizzling roast mutton, and the battle between heaven and man in their minds was undoubtedly very fierce. It all relied on the military discipline cultivated in seven or eight years as a soldier to support the refusal.

They could tell that the meat on the table was definitely not enough for four people. Moreover, Isminaya's appearance looked at the fairy mortal dust, and ordinary men did not dare to look up, and they felt even more inferior and felt unworthy of eating her dishes.

Fortunately, Ishminaya has more emotional intelligence, and she can see that she is really not enough to eat, so she hurriedly said: "Senior, you accompany these two comrades to sit first, and I will go to the window to buy some cooked vegetables." ”

Gu Biao reacted immediately and took a piece of money to his sister.

Luo Yongxin and Liu Zhuang also hurriedly got up and went with them - they had already asked Gu Biao to treat them, and they were embarrassed to let the little girl serve them dinner.

Gu Biao noticed that Luo Yongxin's legs and feet were slightly inconvenient, could it be that he was demobilized because he injured his leg when he was fighting the Vietnamese and left sequelae and could no longer serve?

And that Liu Zhuang, his legs and feet are fine, but his posture of holding a stainless steel dinner plate is left-handed. I can see that he has no index finger and middle finger in his right hand, which should also be disabled due to war injuries, and his right hand tiger mouth is also unable to do holding movements, and he can't do a lot of heavy work.

After a while, the two of them each returned with a full plate of food. It is estimated that there are two catties of rice in that pile, and one or two catties of mutton slices per person, as for the vegetables, it is relatively simple, nothing more than stewed radish and cabbage gang, but the amount is absolutely enough.

As he walked, he signaled to Ishminaya that she was too polite, and that they didn't have to eat so much meat.

In the end, it was Gu Biao who signaled them to adapt as soon as possible and not to be restrained: "Brother Luo, Brother Liu, don't be polite." This can be regarded as the necessary foreign affairs training for you. When you arrive in Iraq, vegetables and rice are more expensive than mutton, so you must get used to eating mainly mutton as soon as possible. ”

"Is there a place in the world where mutton is more expensive than vegetables?" the two were stunned, and then they happily buried their heads in and ate it.

While eating, Gu Biao casually asked about the previous resumes and troops of the two, and had a lot of useful information - when Xiao Sui asked him for a relationship, he wouldn't say too much details.

Luo Yongxin introduced himself: "We are all from the 149th Division of the 13th Army of the Shudu Military Region, I have been a soldier for seven years, Xiao Liu has been a soldier for five years, and I have been promoted to squad leader before the war." This time he was wounded and could no longer be qualified for mountain warfare, so he was demobilized.

We are all Jinshadu people, close to the southern mountainous area on the border of Shu and Yunnan. Ten years ago, the country came to Jinshadu Mountain to open a mine and set up Panzhou, and the family changed their careers to become miners. The mountains were too poor, but fortunately we were in good health, and later we were selected to join the army. ”

Gu Biao was not very interested in military affairs in his previous life, but he had a lot of involvement in this conflict with Vietnam in this life, so he read a lot of surrounding information.

He knew that the 149th Division of the 13th Army was the trump card of our army's mountain warfare, and the personnel were all brave mountain people recruited from the 100,000 mountains of Shu and Yunnan, either hunters or miners.

If a layman who has no concept of these can roughly be understood as the "Wudang Flying Army" recruited from Nanban after Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu seven times.

It is precisely because these troops are particularly strong in mountain warfare that they are equipped with relatively few tanks, but when they are fighting with the Vietnamese, they encounter hard nails in the mountains and jungles where they cannot use armored units, so they send these troops up to fight to the death.

So Luo Yongxin and Liu Zhuang were both seriously injured on Lang Mountain, and finally dug up the dead man's pile.

After Gu Biao knew what he knew, he looked at the other party's appearance and felt that he had some understanding:

When he first came in, he felt that these two people were not too tall, Luo Yongxin estimated that they were less than 1.7 meters, and Liu Zhuang might barely be in his early 1.7 meters. And they are all lean and thin, and they appear to be more than sensitive, but their strength is insufficient.

However, since it is a mountain warfare unit, this kind of physique is not surprising.

"This time I'm going to Iraq, it's not a mountainous and jungle environment, and it doesn't necessarily rely on marksmanship, can you adapt to it?" Gu Biao decided to confirm it out of caution.

Luo Yongxin was a little anxious, obviously attached great importance to this opportunity to be a temporary worker, and Ai Ai didn't know how to explain, and finally only held back one sentence: "Classmate Gu, don't blame me for not being able to speak, anyway, I killed five Vietnamese soldiers, all of which are proven by military merit medals and archives!"

Liu Zhuang hurriedly added with understanding: "I also killed six - uh, that's right, in fact, Brother Luo is better than me, he also killed two American soldiers six years ago, but this matter can't be said explicitly, we volunteered secretly at that time." ”

Gu Biao immediately had no doubts.

No matter what the combat environment is, there must be two brushes to kill so many Vietnamese and Americans.

"Okay, let's replace wine with tea, drink a glass, and take care of each other when we go abroad. ”

The four of them drank tea together, and Gu Biao remembered something, so he asked Luo Yongxin: "Do you still hate the report written by reporter Xiao? Let you temporarily lose your honor, otherwise it is estimated that you can have a second-class merit." ”

Luo Yongxin sighed very truthfully: "The size of the credit does not depend on whether the deeds are seen or not. If Reporter Xiao doesn't write anything, it is estimated that no one will care who will attack Langshan first.

It was supposed to be a matter of bullets sweeping over, in the blink of an eye. There were also 7 comrades-in-arms in my class, all of whom died on the mountain that day, and it was a good life to be able to dig them back from the pile of dead people. ”

Liu Zhuang on the side also sighed: "Reporter Xiao is quite conscientious and righteous. At the beginning, she stayed with our front-line troops, ate together and went to the front line, and did not stay in the field hospital like other reporters, everyone respected her, and a female comrade could be so brave. What's more, she also posted a lot of money to us privately afterwards, which is higher than the state's disability subsidy, and I am actually very grateful to her. ”

Liu Zhuang's words seemed to remind Luo Yongxin, who hurriedly took out a small cloth bag from the pocket on the inside of his military uniform and solemnly handed it to Gu Biao.

"Classmate Gu, before we came to the capital, we went to Comrade Xiao's. She has a new letter and some money, let me bring it to you, saying that I asked you to borrow it before, and now I will pay you back. I was going to wait until you got back to your room and there was no one, and then I left it to you alone. Since Xiao Liu has mentioned it, I'll give it to you now. ”

Gu Biao was very surprised, he knew that Xiao Sui would definitely have to repay the money, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

Was it just part of it? Or did she suddenly earn so much in manuscript fees?

Esminaya on the side also pricked up her ears, very curious about what a female war correspondent would send to Senior Gu, the two seem to have a large amount of "friendship with money", isn't the relationship ordinary?

Gu Biao also opened the letter in person and looked at it.

"Gu Biao's brother is like meeting: ......"

Xiao Sui mentioned three things in the letter, the first was that she felt that she was well prepared for the review, and was determined to take the Chinese Department of Fudan, return to Hujiang to study, and words like asking for comfort and encouragement. (Her father is from Hujiang, because he was transferred to the Hui Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles)

The second thing is that she said that she could pay off the 1,000 yuan she borrowed from Gu Biao three months ago. The money was also attached to the letter and brought to him by Rayong Shin.

Gu Biao opened the money and found that it was indeed a full 100 pieces of unity.

The third thing involves Xiao Sui chatting with him about the latest situation in his life, including why he was able to scrape together enough money in advance.

"The military newspaper manuscript fee has been settled, and my first war novel "Seven Soldiers and One Zero" has also been published in the literature and art of the Liberation Army, and a publishing house has contacted to include a collection of related short stories.

In addition, he previously created the film script "Heartstrings", which was handed over by his mother to Hujiang Film Studio for use, and the manuscript fee has also been received. I hope that there will be opportunities in the future to strengthen each other. Best regards to Jinqi, sister Xiao Sui. ”

Gu Biao couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it. Since Xiao Sui made meritorious contributions and became a hero, it seems that his creative career has exploded all of a sudden, writing novels can also be published, and writing scripts can also be bought by top studios, and he has earned thousands of yuan in three or four months.

Screenwriters and writers are indeed high-income earners in this era. Those who are supported by dead wages, even if they are eighth-level workers of more than 100 yuan, will not be able to catch up for a lifetime.

It is no wonder that the state has legislated since 80 years: the manuscript fee of more than 800 yuan will be taxed......

However, from Xiao Sui's letter, Gu Biao can also see the other side of the literary and artistic publishing market in this era: people's reputation is very important, and the quality of content is sometimes not the first.

Especially because there is no market-oriented competition, there are too few films and novels, and the audience has to watch what they have, so whoever is praised will be popular.

The reason why Xiao Sui's script can be used by the studio is not necessarily that other people's level is inferior to her, but just because her stepmother can play the heroine, so she recommended her daughter's script to the producer. And the producer saw that this was a hero of the military newspaper system, and almost used it.

"When Iraq comes back, let's have a tea with her during the summer vacation, and if you are really admitted to Fudan, let's talk about the translation of films. Gu Biao secretly thought in his heart, so he put the letter away again.

"Senior Gu, the friends you know seem to be very powerful. Ishminaya on the side asked.

Gu Biao's expression was solemn: "What did you see?"

Ishminaya hurriedly waved her hand: "No, no, no, how could I peek at your private letters." Just listening to your chat, I know that sister seems to be able to make a lot of money by writing articles. ”

"It's okay. Gu Biao said honestly, "Don't think nonsense, let's concentrate on doing our own thing." ”

……

After the last week of careful preparation, Director Bao, Gu Biao, and a secretary (male) of Director Bao, plus translator Ishminaya, two security personnel Luo Yongxin and Liu Zhuang.

A group of six people finally boarded an international flight to Baghdad.

In 79, China also had a Boeing 747, a wide-body passenger plane with two aisles and three sets of seats, so everyone sat in a Tu-154.

Single aisle with three seats on each side. Gu Biao, Isminaya, and Director Bao sat in the same row, and the other three sat in the same row. Considering that Ishminaya had never been on a plane, Gu Biao was very gentlemanly and asked the younger sister to sit at the window so that she could take a look at the scenery for a while.

In the cargo hold on the belly of the aircraft, a small number of weapons were also carried through diplomatic consignments. (You can't carry it with you, and you have to store guns and bullets separately)

Iraq is still a chaotic country, with a month to go before General Hussein becomes president – he is currently Deputy Cardinal for Renaissance and Minister of Propaganda and Security, and Commander-in-Chief of the military.

Taking into account the national conditions of the transitional era, the relevant laws and regulations and even the unspoken rules of the Iranian side also allow the security personnel of regular foreign visiting delegations to carry certain weapons.

Just like those backward African countries in later generations, it is equally impossible to ban foreigners from owning guns.

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The second watch is five o'clock in the afternoon. The day after tomorrow will be the same