Chapter 52
At dusk, Zhao Zhi also woke up, the goats had returned, and today's harvest was good. The dog's sniper rifle hit a half-sized wild boar, the goats and machetes also hit a dozen birds and two monkeys, and the dozen or so routs who followed out were barely empty-handed.
Dinner was sumptuous, and everyone ate a piece of meat and sat around the campfire drinking the broth. Zhao Zhi didn't dare to let them eat more, people who had been hungry for a long time would die of swelling if they ate too much at once, and their weak stomachs couldn't stand such stimulation. After resting by the pond for two days in a row, storing some food and recovering everyone's spirits, Zhao Zhi decided to take advantage of the fact that it had not rained again in the past few days, and hurried as soon as possible, striving to get out of the jungle as soon as possible and leave this damn place.
In the subtropical summer, the sky is blue after the rain, but everyone has no time to appreciate it, so they just bury their heads in the road. As the temperature in the jungle rises, many people follow the example of machetes and add a camouflage ring made of branches to their steel helmets, so as to at least block out some of the scorching sun.
The routs who had rested for two days were much faster, and the mountains in front of them were not very high, and the trees were beginning to thin out, and they seemed to be about to get out of the jungle. Zhao Zhi, who was still a little weak, walked at the back of the team, the mountain road had been trampled a little muddy by the guy walking in front, Zhao Zhi walked slower and slower, and finally simply sat on a stone to rest.
The machetes and goats in the lead drove back, and they waited in front for a long time, but they didn't see Zhao Zhi and them, so they came back to look for them. "Sir, hold on for a while, walk for a while, we'll rest" The goat wiped the sweat on his face and panted to pull Zhao Zhi. "Wait a minute, I'll show you something good" Zhao Zhi pulled away the goat's hand and said to the goat mysteriously. "What?" The goat looked at Zhao Zhi curiously, Zhao Zhi generally doesn't deceive, especially Zhao Zhi is squinting his eyes now.
"Wait a minute, wait for the bastards in front of you to go farther. Dog, you go and watch, and when you see someone coming, you shout "Zhao Zhi's mystery made everyone curious." Lao Cannon and Edward, who were sitting on the ground, also got up and looked at Zhao Zhi fixedly, seeing what tricks he was playing.
When the dog made a safe gesture, Zhao Zhi mysteriously beckoned everyone and used the wooden stick in his hand to open the grass nest behind the stone. Under the sun's rays, the grass nest was shining with golden light. "It's pure gold" The old cannon reached out and pulled out a golden Bodhisattva from the grass, and there were several golden Bodhisattvas and Buddha statues of different sizes lying in the grass, which were washed off the dust on the surface by the rain for several days, and they were extremely dazzling.
There are a total of three golden bodhisattvas and five golden Buddhas in the grass nest, and Zhao Zhi found it when he passed by this stone, and he saw the flash in the grass nest without any opinion, and he flicked it with a wooden stick. But how to take away this gold has become a big problem, and I am afraid that according to everyone's current physical strength, it is enough to choke. "Looking at the current terrain, I estimate that we will walk for another three or two days, and we will be able to get out of the jungle, we have nothing on us, what will we eat when we enter India? With what? Even if the British army can provide some provisions, we still have dozens of brothers, and there are still many places where we need money when we return to China, and we will find a way to bring these things out" Zhao Zhi fiddled with the golden Buddha on the ground and decided to take them all.
These things were stolen from temples in Burma when the guys in the Fifth Army retreated. Trekking all the way, when I got here, either the master died, or I had no strength and had to be thrown into the grass nest. Since Zhao Zhi found this gold, he wouldn't throw it here, not to mention that other people's eyes were staring at the gold on the ground.
"We'll only leave the dog's sniper rifles, and the rest of the guns, including pistols and bullets, will be given to the bastards in front. Lao Cannon and Edward each carry two smaller ones, each of the four of us will carry one, from now on, we will follow the back of the brigade and distance ourselves from them" Zhao Zhi led the way and stuffed a golden Buddha into his backpack and threw it on his back.
The routs who were kept in the dark were still happy with the guns they got, and Zhao Zhi and a few people fell far behind the team, and even when they were camping, they distanced themselves from the routs. When asked by a rout, he only said that Zhao Zhi had an infectious disease and needed to be isolated. Fortunately, Zhao Zhi was indeed ill a few days ago, and no one doubted it.
After two days of walking along the path guided by the corpse, the poisonous insects in the jungle began to become fewer, and the terrain seemed to become flat. Zhao Zhi guessed that he was about to get out of the jungle, this guess made everyone happy, he had been walking in the jungle for half a month, and he was finally about to be freed, and everyone's feet were a little faster, and his body seemed to have endless strength.
After walking for more than half a day, the rugged mountain road under our feet disappeared, and through a small forest, what appeared in front of everyone was a four- or five-foot-wide avenue, a real avenue for cars. Zhao Zhi and the others did not rush up the avenue, but just marched along the grass beside the avenue, because everyone didn't know where this was. After turning a corner along the avenue, some herringbone shacks could already be seen on both sides of the avenue. The materials used to build were thatch, banana leaves, and the individual shacks were covered with tattered raincoats, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force were scurrying around in tattered clothes.
In the past two months, everyone has come into contact with the jungle that covers the sky and the sun, which is the high mountains and steep. The sudden appearance of shacks and people on both sides of the avenue makes everyone feel novel.
"Yo, isn't this Chief Zhao? How did you end up in this field? A familiar voice woke up the stunned Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi followed the voice and looked over, and there was an officer who was still neatly dressed at the mouth of the shack closest to him. Zhao Zhi carefully identified it for a long time, it turned out to be an old acquaintance, the officer was Zhao Wanqing's brother Zhao Yuanzhi, who met Zhao Zhi after they laid down the supply point, and forcibly divided nearly one-third of Zhao Zhi's food.
But at this time, Zhao Zhi was no longer afraid of him, the female soldiers had already become a gang with the doglegs, and no one would say the cause of Zhao Wanqing's death. "It turned out to be Brother Yuanzhi, looking at your complexion, are you doing well?" Since he is not afraid of him, Zhao Zhi's tone does not need to be so polite. Zhao Yuanzhi's face was stunned, he didn't expect Zhao Zhi, who was like a flower child, to talk to him in such a tone, snorted heavily in his nose, turned his head and went into the shack.
The old cannon pulled a rout, "Brother, what is this place?" How far is it from Ledo? The rout soldier looked at the old cannon, plucked his nostrils, and said angrily, "I just arrived here yesterday, and I heard that there are still more than 50 miles from here to Ledo." But every morning and at noon, the chiefs in the neighborhood would send food to bring them, and the brethren who had just come out of the woods would rest here."
Hearing that there were only more than 60 miles to go, everyone was very happy, and Zhao Zhi decided to rest for one night first and march on the road tomorrow. Cao Benchuan's people had already separated from Zhao Zhi and the others, and the old cannon and the goat found a clearing, and took the dog to the neighborhood with the machete to see if there was anything to eat. In the evening, the machete returned with the dogs, and they also brought back a corbel and two chickens, which the machete had exchanged for its adjutant knife and the headman.
Originally, the man had taken a fancy to the dog's sniper rifle and was willing to exchange two oxen for it, but before he went to Ledo, the dog did not dare to lose the only weapon. The machete had to be exchanged for some meat with his beloved adjutant knife, but the dog also put on the last two grenades. Whatever, it's important to fill his stomach first, just one meal, and 6 people ate a beef leg. The two chickens were made into smoked chickens with machetes, ready to take a few bites on the road.
It's so comfortable, Zhao Zhi was lying on the military blanket rubbing his bulging belly, this time he was really full. "Huang Mao, let's go slowly, we can get to Lieduo the day after tomorrow, and the rest will be left to you. You know, you also have a share of this gold, and you are also responsible" Zhao Zhi, who crossed Erlang's legs, leisurely picked his teeth and teased Edward.
"Got it, got it, you've said it many times" Edward, who was also rubbing his stomach, rolled his eyes at Zhao Zhi impatiently, but he didn't want to be seen by the old cannon. The old cannon, who was thinking about how to let go of this opportunity, shouted and pounced on Edward, and the two of them writhed on the lawn.