Chapter 58
After breakfast the next morning, several jeeps came from outside the barracks. There were a number of British soldiers in the hula, led by a Caucasian man who was taller than the old cannon. He wears a large wide-brimmed cap, a light yellow British army summer dress, suede shoes and grass-green military socks, a pair of round citrine glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a straight beard on his mouth. Judging by the wrinkles on his cheeks, the man was in his 50s, with no rank or firearm on his body, except for the occasional puff of a large pipe.
"Zhao, this is General Alexander's adjutant, and he has come to see you" Edward, dressed in a straight military uniform, stepped forward to make an introduction.
The Caucasian man said slowly to Zhao Zhi, word by word, "God bless you, the child who escaped from the hands of death." You have crossed the vast jungles of Burma, resisted the ravages of disease, survived starvation, and saved the people of the British Empire. You are a good man of the Chinese nation and a friend of our British Empire. On behalf of the British Forces in India, I would like to pay tribute to you and extend my heartfelt condolences to you on behalf of the Allied Forces in India. ”
After listening to Edward's translation, Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand, "This is what a soldier should do" The adjutant put down his pipe, spit out a puff of blue smoke in his mouth, and shook hands with Zhao Zhi warmly.
The group entered the barracks, and Edward motioned to Zhao Zhi to let the others out. In Zhao Zhi's room, there were only three people, Zhao Zhi, Edward, and Alexander's adjutants. "You can call me Arthur, and let's get straight to the point. That's right, this rescue mission was well accomplished, but some people in Britain don't want this to be known, so we can't inform your military department about it, and we can't give you a promotion. Moreover, your rank of major, we will also take it back, here is 2,000 dollars, a little heart from General Alexander personally" The adjutant said this with embarrassment.
After listening to Edward's translation, Zhao Zhi smiled and refilled some tea for the adjutant, "I know, but we need your plane to return home, is this okay?" After receiving a reply that he completely agreed, Zhao Zhi gave full play to his rogue skills, and after asking for the plane to transport it, he talked about weapons and equipment and medicines, and after asking for weapons, he asked the British army to come forward and get a disability certificate for everyone. Zhao Zhi knows the truth that the rafters rot first, and get a disability certificate for everyone, at least after returning to China, it will not be so eye-catching. Anyway, with a lot of gold bars in hand, there is no problem in getting by.
After sending the British away, Zhao Zhi gathered everyone to talk about it, and everyone's reaction was different. Uncle Guan Miguo was naturally very dissatisfied, he originally thought that this time he, a sergeant, would have to be promoted to a second lieutenant or lieutenant, but he didn't think about it, but it was in vain. It doesn't matter if the goats and machetes are a few of them, as long as they can return home safely. Not to mention Yuan Qingqing, Zhao Zhi went there, she went there. After discussing for a long time, the heartbroken uncle agreed with Zhao Zhi's request for weapons and equipment, but he couldn't use it when he returned to China, and it was money to sell it to the black market.
After getting supplies and replenishing weapons and equipment, as well as 2,000 US dollars, the big stone in Zhao Zhi's heart fell to the ground, and he just accompanied Yuan Qingqing to buy some souvenirs all day long. Just returned to the barracks at noon that day, Edward took Wallace to see Zhao Zhi, and by the way, he was going to send Zhao Zhi to the hospital in Ramgarh to change the dressing, it has been back for three days, and the medicine on Zhao Zhi's back should have been changed a long time ago.
The three of them chatted for a while, and Zhao Zhi got on the three-wheeled motorcycle driven by Edward and went to the Lambgar Military Hospital to change dressings. Not far from the hospital, there was a large house with a door panel that read dressing room in Chinese and English. Edward called a nurse to take Zhao Zhi to change the dressing, and slipped away to find a familiar female nurse. The nurse led the way in front, and Zhao Zhi followed behind into the dressing room.
The dressing room is not large, and there are four long tubs evenly placed inside, which contain some light purple potions. There were some replaced cotton gauze bandages and other things floating on the potion, and there were yellow, yellow, red and red pus and blood sticking to it, and Zhao Zhi was disgusted when he saw it. There are some small benches on the side of the bathtub, which Zhao Zhi estimates are used for the wounded who have changed dressings. There were already some wounded people in the dressing room who were changing dressings, and four or five nurses were busy coming in and out, very busy.
When it was Zhao Zhi's turn, a female nurse motioned for Zhao Zhi to point out her wound, and seeing that Zhao Zhi was not injured in her lower limbs, she asked Zhao Zhi to wait now. Zhao Zhi saw that he didn't have to enter the bathtub, and his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. In Zhao Zhi's opinion, the bathtub full of pus and blood was more terrifying than the locusts in the jungle of Myanmar.
Zhao Zhi didn't wait long before a male military doctor wearing a boat-shaped hat came over to examine his wounds. Zhao Zhi's injury has basically healed, but he has not changed the dressing for a few days, and the gauze sticks to the wound, which requires slowly wetting the gauze with alcohol first, and then slowly removing it. Who knew that the male military doctor didn't care so much, just grabbed the corner of the gauze with the tweezers in his hand and violently peeled it off. As soon as it was revealed, a lot of new flesh was pulled out of the wound, and the blood flowed. Zhao Zhi's heart was trembling in pain, the flesh on his cheeks was trembling, and his whole face changed color in pain.
But what he didn't expect was that the male military doctor not only didn't feel sorry, but instead pointed to Zhao Zhi's painful discolored face, laughed, and said something in his mouth, which was probably not a good thing. The angry Zhao Zhi didn't even think about it, and it was a slap in the face of that guy, and his hand hurt when he hit him. Zhao Zhi used all his strength to beat him, and he slapped the male military doctor on all fours. Zhao Zhi reluctantly grabbed a small bench and pounced on it, and it was a good beating on the guy's body until the male military doctor was lying on the ground and no longer moved.
The wounded and nurses in the dressing room were stunned, this Dr. William has always joked about the wounded soldiers, they all know, and the wounded soldiers who were usually cleaned up by him also endured it themselves, but they didn't expect to run into stubble today. Soon, the news of William's beating was known to the whole hospital, and this dressing room of less than 100 square meters was surrounded by people watching the excitement.
"Why did you beat the doctor? It's really lawless," a Chinese officer with a big belly and glasses pointed at Zhao Zhi and yelled, angry like a lion.
Zhao Zhi turned sideways and asked everyone present to look at the lacerated wounds and blood on his back, "Please ask the nurses present, how did this doctor change my dressing?" ”
"That's not why you hit someone?" The officer's tone was obviously much smaller, but for the sake of his own face, he was still accusing Zhao Zhi.
The British director of the hospital asked the nurses in English, and the nurses answered vaguely and with a male face, and it was not difficult for onlookers to see who was right and who was wrong. "Yo, isn't this Captain Zhao Zhi?" A very arrogant voice sounded, and several gendarmes of the expeditionary force entered the dressing room. The person who spoke was the officer who led the team, Zhao Zhi's old acquaintance - Zhao Yuanzhi. Now Zhao Yuanzhi is no longer called a flower when he was in Lieduo, today he is wearing a brand-new twill British military uniform, with the rank of colonel pinned to the collar, a large leather belt on his waist, and a pistol pinned to the belt. On the feet are leather shoes with elastic mouths, polished and shiny. He wears white gloves on his hands, a watch on his left wrist, and his black-rimmed glasses have been replaced by gold-rimmed glasses.
"Zhao Zhi, we are from the military department of the military department, you beat the military doctor for no reason, come with us" Zhao Yuanzhi looked at Zhao Zhi with a smile, like a cat looking at a mouse.
Zhao Zhi also looked at Zhao Yuanzhi with a smile, slowly put down the small bench in his hand, sat down and lit a cigarette, "Did your eye see me beating someone?" ”
"Zhao Zhi, don't be too crazy, there are no British to help you this time, come here, take it away" Zhao Yuanzhi, who was annoyed and angry, angrily asked the gendarmes to go up and catch Zhao Zhi.
"No, you can't take him away, he's a guest of our British command, I see which of you dares" A clear voice sounded.