Chapter 71: Crossing the Meadow (1)
"Erniu, get up and drink some hot soup."
Yao Huang opened his eyes in a daze, and what he saw was a long haggard face, and the woman with good facial features had rough yellow skin, looking much older than her actual age. Yao Huang blinked, her gaze moved up, what did she see? A shining red five-pointed star, Yao Huang was shocked.
It took a long time for Yao Huang to accept the fact that she had crossed over, and then she cried. For what? Because she crossed too miserably, people crossed over all of them were palace concubines, heroines, daughters, big maids, etc., why did she cross into a little Red Army soldier so tragically, and she was a little soldier who was on a long march across the grassland, and what was even more tragic was that she also fell behind! Yao Huang learned about the dangers of the grassland from TV, and it is said that many soldiers were swallowed up by the swamp in the grassland, and the weather was cold and there was no food, so many soldiers were buried on the grassland. The day before they were about to walk out of the grassland, political commissar Nie Rongzhen sent a telegram to Peng Dehuai, commander of the Red Third Army Corps, who was the rearguard, telling them about the situation and precautions along the way, and on the other hand, asking them to help bury the comrades who had died in front. Later, Zhou Enlai, who was accompanying the Third Army Corps, telegraphed back and said: According to the statistics of the Third Army Corps sheltering and burying the corpses of martyrs along the way, more than 400 people fell behind and died in the First Army Corps.
Drinking the hot soup boiled by the roots of wild grass, Yao Huang's body felt a little more comfortable. From the residual memories of her body, she knew that the original body of Lu Dao was not due to a serious illness due to hunger and cold, and now the inner core was replaced by her, but her body was still weak. Yao Huang drank the vegetable soup and ran to the carry-on space - what made her feel comforted was that she had a carry-on space, although there were many things in the space that she couldn't take out. What Yao Huang was able to take out were three martial arts cheats. Yao Huang flipped through it, and couldn't let her become a martial arts master all of a sudden. It's useless for the current situation, put it aside for now. A pile of weeds. I don't know what strange hobby the former owner of the Ludao space has, and he actually collects weeds. Yao Huang carefully checked these weeds and found that most of them she knew, Houttuynia cordata, plantain, ground vegetables, wild camellia, dandelion, mint leaves, purslane...... These are all weeds with medicinal properties, not weeds, but wild vegetables, all of which can be eaten. It turned out that the former owner did not have strange hobbies, but liked to eat wild vegetables or was a Chinese medicine practitioner. Yao Huang was happy to have these wild vegetables. At least not to starve.
Yao Huang thought about how to take out these wild vegetables so as not to be suspicious, over there Feng Ying had already packed up the hanging pot and walked to Yao Huang's side, "Erya, do you have the strength?" We have to go, or we won't be able to catch up with the big army. ”
Feng Ying and Yao Huang both belong to the Red First Army, but the two are not in the same company, they met after falling behind, and Feng Ying takes good care of Yao Huang.
"Yes!" Yao Huang drank the vegetable soup in a few sips. Putting the bowl away in the blanket, he stood up, and put the broken basin that was used as a stool on his back, and said to Feng Ying. "Sister Yingzi, I'm ready, let's go."
"Yes. While the sun was not setting, we walked a little more. Feng Ying was holding a long stick in his hand. Holding Yao Huang with one hand.
Sticks, washbasins, cowhides, and iron needles are the four treasures of the female soldiers of the Long March. The stick can be used as a crutch to test the depth of the road and the depth of the puddle. If someone accidentally gets stuck in the mud, you can use it to pull someone up; It can be used as a flat shoulder, carrying things and walking; Tie two branches to a stick, and put a piece of cloth on it, which is a large umbrella; It can also be used to pitch a tent when camping at night. The basin can be used to wash the face and feet, and can also be used to cook rice and vegetables; It can be worn on the head to shield from the wind and rain, and can be buckled back on the wet grass as a stool; The basin is also a means of transportation, sit on it, slide down the slope, save effort and time. Cowhide is still a very good cold thing, blocking wind and rain, warming the body, and can also be used to make shoes, belts, hanging bags, etc.; When the grass was out of food, the female warriors cut the cowhide products they brought with them into small pieces and boiled them with wild vegetables. With the iron needle, the female warriors could use their dexterous hands to sew the soldiers' clothes, shoes and socks to resist the bitter cold of the meadows. Almost every female soldier will carry an iron needle with her, Yao Huang also has it on her, don't look at the young age of the original body, her needlework is better than that of ordinary female soldiers. Before joining the Red Army, the little girl was a child daughter-in-law of a family, and she was full of hardships, and she was very good at the work of the peasant family and the work of the woman.
Two women, one older and one young, supported each other, one with a stick in his hand to explore the way, and the two did not walk fast, and when it was nearly dark, the two found a piece of dry land a little higher.
"Erya, you make a fire here, I'll go find something to eat." Feng Ying said to Yao Huang.
"Sister Yingzi, it's better for you to make a fire, I'll go find something to eat." After speaking, without waiting for Feng Ying's reaction, he hurriedly ran out of Feng Ying's sight.
Yao Huang found a dry place not far from Feng Ying to sit down and rest, the grass roots in this vicinity were all boiled and eaten by the army, where could I still find food? The reason why he got out of Feng Ying's sight was just to take out those wild vegetables in the space openly.
After sitting for about half an hour, Yao Huang estimated that Feng Ying would be in a hurry if he didn't go back, so he took out a small pile of wild vegetables from the space and hugged them in his arms, and returned to the place where the two were camping. Feng Ying was both surprised and happy when she saw this pile of wild vegetables, if this pile of wild vegetables was saved to eat, it would be enough for the two of them to eat for two days. Feng Ying filled her basin with a basin of water and threw the wild vegetables into the pot to boil, at this time it didn't matter the type of wild vegetables, as long as they could eat them. Yao Huang was given a night of wild vegetable soup, which was no better than the bowl of wild vegetable soup she had eaten in the morning. The bowl of wild vegetable soup was completely water, with only a few grass roots floating sporadically on the water. In this bowl of wild vegetable soup, most of the bowls are full of wild vegetables, but there is less water.
Yao Huang swallowed the wild vegetables with difficulty. In modern times, she had eaten wild vegetables a few times, and they were all carefully prepared by the chef, and a small plate of wild vegetables could be sold for dozens of dollars for only a few sticks. But it tastes good. Where is it like this bowl, boiled in a heap, and there is no salt or oil, it tastes bitter and difficult to swallow. But you can't stop eating them, and if you want to get out of the meadow alive, you have to eat them all. Yao Huang said to himself: Yao Huang, you are very happy, at least there is a space, there is something to eat, many soldiers don't even have anything to eat, they are all starving to death.
After eating the wild vegetable soup, Yao Huang and Feng Ying rested back to back, so that they could warm each other. The two of them held the basin and other things in their arms, so that they could protect them from the wind. The climate of the grassland is very strange, changing three times a day, and the temperature difference is extremely large. In the morning, the sun rises late and is cold; At noon, the sky is clear and the sun is scorching; In the afternoon, there are often sudden black clouds, thunder and lightning, heavy rain and hail, or fog and rain; The temperature dropped to around zero degrees Celsius at night, making people shiver from the cold. Before the Red Army entered the meadow, they wore mostly summer and autumn clothes, and there were few clothes to protect them from the cold, and even if they lit a fire, they could not resist the cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow. Feng Ying had a blanket, two people surrounded him, and there was a fire burning next to him, and he also survived the night.
The next day, the two of them drank a bowl of the wild vegetable soup left over from the previous night, and the two of them sorted out their things and started the day's trek. He hadn't gone far when Yao Huang saw two warriors lying on the grass. This was a common occurrence because of hunger and cold, and many fighters would fall down as they walked and never get up again. Especially after camping, the night was especially cold, and the soldiers did not wake up after falling asleep.
Feng Ying sighed and said to Yao Huang, "Let's go!" ”
Yao Huang was unwilling, this was the first time she faced death, she didn't believe that human life was so fragile, she wanted these two people to live. Yao Huang stepped forward and carefully examined the two warriors, both of whom were very young, seventeen or eighteen years old. Yao Huang put his finger under their noses, and both of them were no longer breathing. Yao Huang didn't give up, and moved his hand to the chests of the two people, one of whom had a quiet chest, and Yao Huang's eyes couldn't help but turn red. Moved to the chest of another warrior again, and the slight rise and fall made Yao Huang shout, "Sister Yingzi, hurry, hurry, this person is not dead yet, he can still be saved!" ”
Feng Ying hurriedly ran to Yao Huang's side, pulled out the blanket from behind his back, and wrapped the young warrior up. Yao Huang recalled the modern first-aid knowledge while performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the young soldier, pressing the soldier's chest, and feeling that his heartbeat was no longer as good as it was at the beginning, Yao Huang lowered his head in Feng Ying's extremely surprised eyes and gave the little soldier artificial respiration.
"What are you doing, you girl?" Feng Ying pulled Yao Huang up. Is this girl crazy? At this time, he actually did such a shameful thing to a man?
"Sister Yingzi, he is not breathing, I will help him do artificial respiration." Yao Huang remembered that people in this era were still very feudal and old-fashioned, and quickly explained, "Dr. Zhang of the health team told me that if a person is not breathing but still has a heartbeat, you can blow on him mouth-to-mouth, so that person will be angry." ”
Dr. Zhang is a doctor who came back from abroad and has very good medical skills. Feng Ying thought that this "artificial respiration" sounded very reasonable, and it must be a clever treatment method researched abroad, so she was relieved, and no longer stopped Yao Huang from giving artificial respiration to the little soldier.
Again and again, Yao Huang didn't know how many artificial respirations she had done, she only felt that her lips were going numb, and hot air finally came out of the nostrils of the little warrior.
"There's breathing, there's breathing." Yao Huang happily turned his head to share the news with Feng Ying.
Feng Ying burst into tears of joy, they rescued their comrades, which was nothing short of a miracle. You have to know how many comrades-in-arms they have lost along the way. When the warrior was not breathing, they all thought that the warrior was dead, and it turned out that he could still be saved! Feng Ying kept the method of artificial respiration firmly in his heart, and relying on this method, they did save a lot of soldiers along the way.
"Erya, you're amazing." (To be continued......)