The vastness of the desert, I have never been there, absolutely unimaginable.

Every time Cai Hongming drives on this piece of yellow sand, there is always a kind of throbbing that is impacted to the heart, it is a wordless feeling, just like when you see or hear something that moves you, your whole body trembles with goosebumps, and you can't tell it.

It's autumn again, and it's time for the highland herders to sell their livestock.

At this time, the cattle and sheep are full of food in spring and summer, full of fat, and sold for the most valuable money.

After this season, the weather turns cold, and the fat bodies of cattle and sheep will become thinner and thinner in order to resist the cold, and it is not cost-effective to sell them again. These are the careful thoughts of the shepherds, and they are not worth it.

After the sweet potatoes and rice are harvested, the fields in the Xidu Shengjing are re-cultivated, and the fertiliser with miscellaneous materials such as cow and ostrich manure that has long been piled up in the corners is applied, and then the plastic greenhouse is covered and ready to grow vegetables. It's only October now, and it's still early before the Spring Festival, just enough to grow a season of vegetables. If you want to grow fast-growing vegetables, you can grow them for two seasons.

Now everyone is helping to build a plastic greenhouse to grow vegetables, Cai Hongming originally wanted to go to the herdsmen to collect cattle and sheep by himself, but Ji Dong said that a comrade-in-arms happened to be in Tibet, so he followed.

"Turn left at the front junction." Ji Dong commanded in the car.

Cai Hongming heard this, and drove to the fork in the road.

Although this desert truck is a second-hand item bought from Tuoba Niu, it is of good quality and durable. I haven't had anything wrong with it for so long. Cai Hongming thought about whether to buy another one when he went back, just one, and he was a little too busy in the Western Capital Shengjing. Besides, it's not expensive, and it's only 80,000 when the procedures are complete. Whoever doesn't buy is a fool.

The fork in the road was a bumpy dirt road, and you could feel the bumps in the road when you sat in the car.

After a while, I finally arrived at my destination, and came to a small village with a mixture of loess mud and masonry houses. After parking the car, Ji Dong got out of the car with Cai Hongming and walked to the village.

Ji Dong's comrade-in-arms is called Xiahou Kungang, he met when he was not admitted to the special forces, and he took good care of him in the army, and drove home after retiring from the army. By the way, resell some wild goods in the mountains back and forth. Life is not bad. When Ji Dong went home to visit relatives the year before last, he came and found that his house had already built a building.

Ji Dong walked to the front of the building of his comrade-in-arms, saw that the door was closed, and knocked on the door and shouted, "Xiahou." Xiahou. I'm Ji Dong. In the absence, open the door. ”

After a few calls, no one opened the door. Ji Dong didn't feel strange. I picked up my phone and called. The last time he came over, he had the mobile phone number of his comrades-in-arms, but when he called it, there was a voice message saying "This number is empty, please check and dial again".

What's going on?

"Who are you looking for?" Just when he was at a loss, an old man came from the side.

"Old man, we are here to find Xiahou Kungang, I am his comrade-in-arms, is he not at home?" Ji Dong hurriedly asked.

"It's Xiahou's baby! That baby is pitiful! Since he was a child, he had no father or mother, he grew up with his grandfather, and later made a living, earned money and married a good wife, but the grandfather who raised him left. Accidents don't go alone, last year I had another car accident while driving, and even the house was sold. Poor thing! ”

The old man chattered a lot, Ji Dong listened to it, and his eyes widened suddenly, "There was a car accident?" Sold the house."

"Otherwise, where will the money be for treatment?" The old man said angrily, and took the two of them to Xiahou Kungang's house.

"Well, that's it, go over by yourself!" After looking at the house, the old man shook his head with a sigh and turned to leave.

Ji Dong looked at the earthen houses with cracks in front of him, it was hard to imagine. I remember that when I came back the year before last, I was fine, how did I become like this in a blink of an eye. I was anxious for a while, and I wanted to ask Xiahou Kungang for clarification, so I walked in quickly. Inside is a small courtyard, which is quite tidy. Two bedrooms and one living room, the kitchen and eating area on the right, and the toilet and sundries on the left. There are several houses that fill the area and there is no vacancy.

Ji Dong was anxious, and he didn't look closely, so he walked into the house.

There was no one in the hall, so he went straight to someone's house, and he was not afraid of finding the wrong place and being beaten to death.

When he arrived in the next room, when he saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly burst into tears, and he was about to flow. In the small room, Xiahou Kungang lay motionless on the bed, and a beautiful little girl next to him read a villain book to him. He didn't expect that the bold man who played and laughed with him in the army would fall to this point.

Xiahou Kungang, who was lying on the bed, was only half-paralyzed, and the rest of the place was fine.

was listening to her daughter reading, when she suddenly felt someone coming in, turned her head, and saw that it was Ji Dong, so she greeted with a smile: "Adong, you are here." ”

"Xiahou, how did you become like this." Ji Dong's tears couldn't hold back any longer, and they all flowed out in an uproar.

"It's nothing, it's just bad luck. When the car was on the road, someone suddenly ran out, in order to avoid, the brakes were sharp, and the wheels accidentally slipped and fell to the side, breaking a few ribs, breaking the legs, and breaking the vertebrae, and it became like this. It's also luck to be able to save a life. Xiahou Kungang said with a smile.

Although he saw the smile on his face, Ji Dong could feel the bitter tears and wordless sadness hidden in it.

A man who was originally in charge of the family, as the pillar of the family, suddenly changed from taking care of people to being taken care of, this is not something that anyone can bear, let alone his comrade-in-arms with strong self-esteem? It is estimated that this is more uncomfortable than killing him.

"Hongming, you can help him take a look."

Ji Dong said to Cai Hongming, and then said to Xiahou Kungang: "This is Hongming, their family specializes in treating bone injuries, let him help you see how the situation is?" ”

Xiahou Kungang pulled his cheeks, and wanted to say that there was no need at all. He had a broken vertebrae, but it wasn't a minor injury, and it could be cured at any time. But in the end, he didn't say anything, because he couldn't refuse his friend's kindness.

Cai Hongming walked up to him, lifted the quilt covering him, and prepared to undress.

At this time, the little girl who had been obediently staying next to him and listening to them suddenly pounced and shouted, "You can't take off my father's clothes." ”

There was a sudden sound outside, and a woman with a haggard face ran in in a panic, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Xiahou Kungang was fine.

"Quack, what's wrong?" The woman asked her daughter, who was clinging to her father. Gaga means lovely and beloved in Tibetan, which shows how deep the mother's love for her daughter is.

"He's going to take off his father's clothes so he will catch a cold." Quack pointed at Cai Hongming and said.

"Quack, uncle is helping dad see a doctor, it's okay." Xiahou Kungang touched his daughter's head and introduced to the woman: "Dawacuo, it's Ji Dong who is here, and you've seen it." This is his friend Hongming. Ji Dong, you haven't been here for two years, Gaga's have forgotten you, remember that you hugged her before? Quack, call uncle. ”

Quack was so shy that she hid behind her mother's back, not daring to come out.

Cai Hongming realized that he was indeed a little confused, and this wound inspection was not a matter of a while. Xiahou Kungang is now half a life away, and if he gets sick again because of the cold, it will be terrible. After thinking about it, I wanted to take him to the Xidu Shengjing for treatment, after all, the environment there is better, and it is convenient to use medicine or something. As for sending it to Dad's side, you don't need it. There are already Liu Chong and his comrades-in-arms there, and the room can't hold so many people, so don't toss. Besides, he also believes in his own medical skills, which can be said to be better than blue, and his father may not be better than himself.

Xiahou Kungang shook his head after hearing Cai Hongming's suggestion.

He knew that his injury was beyond the law, and he didn't want to toss anymore, but he couldn't resist the advice of his comrades, and when he heard him say that his shoulder had been pierced by a bullet, but now it had been healed, he also had a little hope in his heart. Who doesn't want to be a healthy person and enjoy life in peace?

The desert truck could only seat a few people in the front, and the back was too shaky to put Xiahou Kungang in the back, so Cai Hongming asked Li Chun to drive his modified off-road car from the side of the Western Capital Shengjing.

It was already afternoon when Li Chun drove the car here, and it would be late to go back. It was not safe to drive at night in the desert, and Xiahou Kungang's family could not live there, so they went to a nearby town for a night. Early the next morning, Cai Hongming asked Li Chunzai to go back to Xiahou Kungang's family. Because Ji Dong was the only person Xiahou Kungang was familiar with, he asked him to go back with him. As for himself, he continued to drive to the herdsmen to collect cattle and sheep. (To be continued......)