The rainy season came more than half a month earlier than usual, and the rainfall was more than half a percent higher than in previous years, and it was pouring rain every day, and the Savage Mountain was wet everywhere, and it was almost impossible to find a dry place to take shelter from the rain.

Zhang Minmin, Li Lan, Zhao Xiaochun, Wang Yueyue, and Qian Huanhuan, five female soldiers from the nurse class, followed closely behind the team and marched on foot, and the youngest, Wang Yueyue, will not be 19 years old until next month. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and when you look up slightly, your eyes and mouth will drip rain everywhere. Wang Yueyue dusted off the rain on the hat and scolded: "Damn, is the water in the sea sucked into the sky by the evil dragon, this ghost weather, this ghost place." She scolded and walked, slapping the leaves on the side of the road with the bamboo stick in her hand. The sky was pouring water down like a big hole, the ground was muddy, and there were places where there was no sunlight all year round, and the small stones were covered with moss and slippery. Li Lan stumbled and slid down two or three meters, but fortunately, Zhang Minmin behind him made a quick pull to avoid being swept away by the landscape.

Savage Mountain is located in the northernmost part of Myanmar, part of the border with China, is an undeveloped primeval forest in the north of Myitkyina, stretching for thousands of miles, more than 200 kilometers in depth, the tall trees on the mountain are horizontally and vertically, covering the sky and covering the sun, the sun is not seen all year round, the beasts are in groups, leeches are everywhere, the mountains are dense and dense, the miasma is rampant, and the legend is that there are wild people who haunt it.

The rain finally stopped for a while, and the troops were told to rest in place. Zhao Xiaochun took off her coat and hat, she spread the coat on the grass and sat on it, although she hadn't eaten for a day, she was in a good mood, and gently hummed the folk songs of her hometown. Her home is in Huanggang, Hubei, where the people are simple, kind and hardworking, but after years of war, the fields are barren and the people are struggling to make a living. She was supposed to embroider and weave at home, and prepare to be a bride at home, but at the age of 17, she followed her brother to the army and traveled north and south, and now she is a young veteran. Because he has endured a lot of hardships and suffered a lot, he has developed an optimistic character. She could eat and sleep, and as soon as she heard the call to rest in place, she fell asleep within a few minutes.

However, these days, she is a little abnormal, and perhaps realizes that now is going to be the hardest day of her life, and she can't sleep well. Even when she fell asleep, she kept dreaming, one after another, and she often dreamed of catching fish in the stream with her brother, and the stream was so clear and cool. Although her brother is not related to her by blood, she was picked up by her mother on the way to pick up waste, but she still feels that her brother is very close to her, closer than her brother.

After a while, horse meat came from the troops, and it was the war horses of the troops. Zhao Xiaochun doesn't eat horse meat, not to mention the bloody, who can swallow it. She loudly instructed Wang Yueyue: "Yueyue, go find some dry branches and leaves, let's cook horse meat and eat it", while speaking, she had already stood up from her coat and set up three branches with quick movements. "Such ghost weather, go there and dry the leaves", Wang Yueyue pouted and stood still.

Zhao Xiaochun was not angry, she knew Wang Yueyue's young lady's temper. "Come, follow me," he said, as he came to the top of a steep slope. "Although it is wet everywhere, there is no endless road, and you can always find a few dry leaves under the thick leaves", Wang Yueyue followed Zhao Xiaochun to Gaopo with a little disbelief. "Well, there are really some dry branches and leaves", Wang Yueyue said in surprise, and after a while, the two of them brought dry leaves. Zhao Xiaochun took a steel helmet as a pot, put water and horse meat, and lit a fire. said that it was a dry leaf, but it was actually very damp, the fire was not big and the smoke was very thick, Wang Yueyue choked on tears, she stomped her feet and scolded: "Damn it."

At this time, the sun poked its head out of the thick clouds like a newly married daughter-in-law, casting wisps of gentle light through the dense leaves, the leaves of various colors on the ground danced with the wind like clusters of bright flowers, the steel helmet on the branches of the trees came out of the tempting smell of meat, the branches below "crackled", the fire was hot, the smoke was less, and the horse meat was almost ripe.

Zhao Xiaochun happily beckoned everyone to come and eat horse meat, she didn't eat horse meat at this time, she also gnawed on a bone with relish, she raised her eyes and glanced at the sisters, and found that Qian Huanwan was sitting on the grass looking at a photo, and did not hear Zhao Xiaochun's greeting. This most introverted little sister, half a day without a word, these days even less, early this morning she said to herself: "Maybe we can't get out of that primeval forest, I'm not reconciled."

Zhao Xiaochun picked out a piece of horse meat that was not thin or fat, and carried it with a branch to Qian Huanwan, and found that she was looking at a family photo, with two adults and three children, and the three children were all girls, from five or six years old to eight or nine years old, all wearing pigtails. Seeing Zhao Xiaochun coming over to look at the photo, Qian Huanwan said with a somewhat melancholy expression: "That's my mother, that's my father, the eldest child is me, and the other two are sisters", she took the horse meat handed over by Zhao Xiaochun and continued: "It seems that I really can't see the four of them this time." She took the horse meat in her hand and stared blankly at the dancing leaves in front of her. "Eat quickly, Huanhuan, it's not delicious if it's cold", Qian Huanwan didn't answer Zhao Xiaochun's words, Zhao Xiaochun thought about how could she persuade her, even she herself vaguely felt that death was getting closer and closer to them.

With a cigarette, the sun retracted into the clouds, and the forest was darker than before. Li Lan had already gobbled up two large pieces of horse meat, her stomach was swollen, she covered her stomach with her left hand, and waved her right hand and said, "Sisters, come and destroy all these meats, I don't know when the next meal will be", as she spoke, she fished out a slightly smaller piece of horse meat from her helmet and gnawed it with taste.