He grows wheat, sorghum, corn and sweet potatoes in the small courtyard where he lives. He built a row of pigsty under the wall near the road, plus the original three or four acres of water, to feed pigs and fish. He is like an old farmer, he gets up early every morning to arrange farm work, his staff, the farmer's farming, the vegetable planting, the pig-feeding pig, the fish-farming, the division of labor is clear, and the requirements are specific. He himself was responsible for raising more than a dozen rabbits and became a "rabbit commander".

The agitated heart returned to calm, and the heroic spirit of the sky melted into the idyllic secluded.

This is the Red General, the founding general - Monk Xu!

What Pang Jiandong said was related to General Xu.

Since the second half of 1984, General Xu, who has retired, has become more and more weak. He often felt abdominal distension and pain, and he didn't tell others, he just gritted his teeth and endured it, how many times the heroic general was wounded on the battlefield, he didn't take this pain seriously at all. Not only that, but he also did not let the staff and family around him know, lest everyone think that he was "not in good health". However, one day in January 1985, he was diagnosed with liver cancer when he went to Shanghai East China Hospital for a routine physical examination.

Now the matter is getting bigger, and for these old revolutionary commanders of the old generation of military commanders, the party and the country are protecting them as treasures. Everyone persuaded General Xu to go to Beijing for treatment, but no matter how the old leaders, old comrades-in-arms, and old subordinates persuaded him, he was unwilling to undergo further examination and treatment, and he stubbornly lived in his residence in Nanjing, refusing to leave a single step.

In desperation, the General Hospital of the Nanjing Military Region dispatched elite soldiers and strong generals to form a special medical team to General Xu's home to carry out systematic monitoring and treatment for him.

However, General Xu's condition did not improve at all, but became more serious. The great pain caused by liver cancer brutally tormented him. His relatives who have been with him at the bedside and the old leaders, comrades-in-arms, and subordinates who often come to visit him have seen such a scene with their own eyes.

Whenever General Xu felt uncomfortable, he never cried out for pain. Once, the pain was so bad that he said he wanted to get an injection, but before he could get it, he said he wouldn't get it. He gritted his teeth and insisted, without snorting, and finally the pain was unbearable, so he let others leave his side, leaving no one in the room, and he didn't want others to see his painful appearance.

General Xu was very active by nature, and since the medical team was stationed, the veteran experts of the medical team told him every day: "Chief, you should pay attention to rest and recuperate, and it is best to rest in bed." The desk calendar on his desk will leave his record every day: 3000 meters, 3500 meters......

However, just after the Spring Festival in 1985, due to the continuous deterioration of his condition, when he got up in the morning, the old general could no longer get up on his own, and his legs were so swollen that it was difficult to even walk.

Even so, he couldn't lie down. One day, he asked the chief of the security department stationed in the military region to take him out for a ride in a car. And for good reason: sitting in a jeep with people bumpy is a good activity. He felt comfortable and it was good for him to cooperate with the treatment.

Such a problem stumped everyone.

Originally, General Xu was a highly critically ill patient and had to be on absolute bed rest to avoid liver rupture, hemorrhage or respiratory failure. In addition, he had been bedridden for some days and was almost completely incapacitated; Secondly, due to severe ascites and generalized edema, weighing more than 200 pounds, who can dare to carry him to "move, move"?!

Staff, medical staff and relatives are at a loss.

General Xu wanted to "move", but if he was not satisfied, everyone was a little unbearable. In particular, according to the stubborn character of the old general, if you don't let him "move", he prefers to think about "activity", which will inevitably lead to greater trouble.

Everyone, you say a word, I say a word, racking my brains to think of the best of both worlds.

At this time, I don't know who came up with a solution, that is, to read some military novels to General Xu Da who was lying on the hospital bed.

When everyone found a copy of Govin's "Soldier Assault" and read it to the old general, everyone found that the old general finally quieted down.

His eyes were fixed on the ceiling of the roof, his hands tugging at the quilt, as if caught in some memory.

This situation surprised everyone. Later, when the old general was sick and in unbearable pain, it also worked.

Perhaps the old general is overcoming the torture of illness with his iron will!

It's just that a copy of "Soldier Assault" is only tens of thousands of words, and it was finished in a few days. So everyone changed to a military novel, but before they could read many words, they were driven out by the old general. The old general was angry and scolded what.

There was no way, everyone hurriedly went to the library of the military region to collect a large number of military novels, and then except for a very small number of novels, most of the novels could not satisfy the old general, and the old general's anger became bigger and bigger day by day.

At this time, Yan Jiangang, commander of Army A of the Nanjing Military Region, asked someone to bring over a magazine.

When the old general's children read the novel in this magazine to the old general, General Xu laughed heartily for the first time since he was in bed: "Damn, this is a military novel!" This is the real history! Hey, why does this Li Yunlong sound like a person......"

The head of the security department stationed in the Nanjing Military Region echoed the old general in a low voice: "It sounds a little similar to General Wang Jinshan's deeds." ”

The old general recalled the story he had just heard, and burst into laughter again: "What is it like, it's the king madman!" Don't you know that the nickname of this madman is still the one I gave Wang Jinshan! Once, during a battle, this guy fought with a big Kuomintang soldier and got red eyes, as a result of which the two rolled down the cliff together. The Kuomintang soldier was killed on the spot, and Wang Jinshan was only poked in the head by a cone-shaped stone. You say that he is a commander who rushed to the front line, this is not a madman...... Haha......"

Hearing the old general's ridicule of Wang Jinshan, everyone present at that time was slanderous in their hearts, and collectively complained silently-

General Wang Jinshan is a madman, aren't you a madman in everyone's eyes!

And the magazine that made General Xu so energetic was "Fellow Robes", and the military novel he heard was "Bright Sword"!

"Okay, let's not talk about it. If you continue to read, I want to see the next story of Li Yunlong! ”

When General Xu eagerly asked his children to continue reading "Bright Sword", everyone present was dumbfounded for a while.

It's a magazine, not a book!

"Bright Sword" is only part of the content of the magazine, and if you want to listen to the rest of the story, you can only wait for the next issue of the magazine.

But the old general was so enthusiastic about this book that everyone present was dumbfounded.

So everyone finally calmed the old general temporarily, and when they got out of the ward, Yan Jiangang, the commander of Army A, received a call as soon as possible.

And then there was Pang Jiandong's line.

(To be continued.) )