Chapter 8: Finding Charcoal

"Company commander, you didn't say it earlier. I thought it was a terrible punishment. Isn't it just for me to think of a way to make a fire without smoking, and this matter will be wrapped up in me. ”

Hearing that the company commander Zhao Yifa said the punishment measures for him, it was just for him to come up with an idea, Sun Lei immediately patted his chest and swore an oath.

As soon as Sun Lei responded to this matter, instructor Wang Wenju stopped putting on his official stand, and said with a smile: "Comrade Sun Lei, the officers and soldiers of our whole company, the matter of lighting a fire to cook and warm up depends on you kid alone.

"You just have to come up with a good idea, you have to be able to do it, you have to do it. Company Commander Zhao and I, as well as the officers and soldiers of our company, will fully support you. ”

As soon as instructor Wang Wenju's voice fell, including the company commander Zhao Yifa and the few soldiers who came up from onlookers, they all nodded.

If you want to say that Sun Lei's head is really good, he just thought about it for a while, frowned, and quickly thought of a good idea.

After snapping his fingers, Sun Lei pointed to the telescope hanging on the neck of the company commander Zhao Yifa, and said unceremoniously: "In that case, what, company commander, borrow your telescope."

"I use him to survey the nearby terrain and see if there is any special wood that can be used to live without smoking."

Company Commander Zhao Yifa, after hesitating for a moment, reluctantly took off the telescope he had carried with him for many years from his neck and handed it to Sun Lei.

This telescope doesn't look very shabby, but Zhao Yifa captured it from the hands of an ace army commander during the Liberation War, and it was a brand new American product at that time, and it was very easy to use, and he carried it with him for more than three years.

"You rookie bastard, you can really pick a time to kick your nose in the face. I'll lend it to you, let's talk about it in advance. I'll only lend you ten minutes. Eleven minutes later, it was immediately returned. Otherwise, no matter how much credit you have for your kid, Lao Tzu will still clean you up. ”

After the company commander Zhao Yifa settled down, he reluctantly stuffed the telescope into Sun Lei's hand, and said angrily.

After taking the telescope from the company commander Zhao Yifa's hand, Sun Lei said with a smile: "Company commander, don't worry, I won't break it, I'll only use five minutes at most." ”

After saying this, Sun Lei, who was a little fluttering now, changed his words and praised Haikou and said: "If you really break this telescope of yours, I promise to seize a better, newer and more advanced telescope for you when fighting American devils." ”

Regarding what Sun Lei said at this time, the instructor Wang Wenju and the company commander Zhao Yifa, who were standing in front of him, just laughed it off, feeling that this recruit didn't take it to heart at all.

Including the soldiers who came up on the spotting, after listening to it, they all thought that Sun Lei, a kid with low eyes, was just bragging in front of instructor Wang Wenju and company commander Zhao Yifa.

Holding the telescope and observing in all directions, Sun Lei finally locked on the place where they were bombed by the American fighter plane that flew away just now, which was more than 100 meters away, that is, where the original few dilapidated houses were.

Aiming at that one place, he observed it with a telescope for a full minute, and then Sun Lei returned the telescope to the company commander Zhao Yifa.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Lei said to Wang Wenju, the instructor standing in front of him: "Instructor, I want to borrow a sack from which soldier in our company, I don't know which soldier in our company has it, and I ask the instructor for this little favor." ”

Although instructor Wang Wenju didn't know what Sun Lei was borrowing the sack for, he still fulfilled his promise to fully support Sun Lei just now, and after standing in place and thinking for a while, he finally knew who was carrying the sack in the company.

I saw Wang Wenju waving his hand at the soldiers of the cooking class who were standing not far away, and said in an almost commanding tone: "Who in your cooking class has a sack, hurry up and lend it to Comrade Sun Lei." ”

Seeing that the instructors had spoken, Fan Wei, the squad leader of the cooking class, did not dare to slack off, called the four soldiers of their cooking class together, and made a lot of drumming before he vacated an empty sack and handed it to Wang Wenju.

After taking the empty sack from the instructor Wang Wenju's hand, Sun Lei moved like a rabbit, and with just a few blinks of his eyelids, he rushed out of the dense woods and went straight to the ruins where the dilapidated houses that were blown up were located.

Seeing that Sun didn't even make a report, he left the team and left the forest, and the company commander Zhao Yifa was angry and anxious, and was about to open his mouth to scold loudly, but was dissuaded by the instructor Wang Wenju who was standing aside, so that the officers and soldiers of the whole company could wait and wait for the good news.

In the ardent anticipation of all the officers and soldiers of the Third Company hiding in the woods, after about half an hour, Sun Lei returned to the woods with a sack of things on his back.

At this time, the sky was already bright, the winter sun was shining, and the light hit the warm body of the person, and hit Sun Lei's slightly dark and healthy cheeks, rising a radiant feeling.

"Instructor, company commander, let the comrades of the cooking squad take the contents of the sack and make a fire, to ensure that there will be no smoke coming out, and we will not be exposed because of this."

Sun Lei put the sack full of things on the snow that he carried, and then faced Wang Wenju and Zhao Yifa who were standing in front of him, and made a guarantee in a firm tone.

Company Commander Zhao Yifa, who was very curious about what was inside the sack, couldn't wait to open the sack and take a look, only to see that it was filled with black pieces of wood.

took out a black piece of wood from the sack, put it in front of the people standing in front of him and looked at it a few times, and then asked Sun Lei with a somewhat angry tone: "What kind of things did you kid get, look at these woods are burned to such a black level, let's use it to make a fire again, a fart, you kid shouldn't have deliberately used these black broken things to fool me and the instructor, right?" ”

Without Sun Lei answering, instructor Wang Wenju, who was standing on the side, stretched out his hand and snatched the small black wooden block from the hand of the company commander Zhao Yifa, and after looking at it carefully, the smile on his cheeks immediately became brilliant under the sunlight.

"It's terrible to be uneducated, Zhao Er was stunned, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. This is not a useless piece of wood that you say, but charcoal, which generally does not smoke when it is fully burned.

"How could you blame Comrade Sun Lei indiscriminately just now, we should praise Comrade Sun Lei. Lao Zhao, hurry up and apologize to Comrade Sun Lei. Instructor Wang Wenju pointed to the black wooden block in his hand, and criticized Zhao Yifa, the company commander with a disappointed look.

The soldiers on the side heard the instructor shouting the company commander's nickname "Zhao Er's stunned son", they immediately laughed, and in the entire three companies, only the instructor Wang Wenju had such the courage to dare to call the company commander Zhao Yifa's nickname in front of so many people.