"Poof!"

The shiny shovel was plunged deep into the freshly green grass, and a large lump of turf was tossed high to the side.

After digging this shovel, Fu Gou'er raised his hand to wipe the sweat that was about to flow into his eyes, and after peeking at the squad leader not far away, he muttered softly, "Dig!" Dig! I dig all day long, and I don't know what to dig for! ”

He is a native of Anxi, Fujian Province, and is 19 years old this year; His family was originally a tea farmer, and there was a tea mountain of more than three acres handed down by his ancestors, and his life was quite passable; Who knew that last year, his father was in the autumn service of the county, and when he was repairing the city wall, he was accidentally hit by a stone, which put the family in a desperate situation; His father was bedridden for a month, and everything worth a little money in the family was pawned and replaced with soup and medicine, but it was still not enough, and he had no way to bring his younger brother and sister to Quanzhou to sell, and there were only his father and mother and three of him left in the family; The so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, and just when his father saw that he was slowly getting better, his mother was sick again; Lang Zhong in the town was a quack doctor who used the wrong medicine, and his mother only lasted three days before kicking her legs; In order to do his mother's funeral, his father had to sell the tea mountain to the Liu family, a big family in the village; But the Liu family turned out to be in a down-the-ground posture, not only keeping the price extremely low, but also raising the idea of their grandfather, wanting them to sell themselves and continue to take care of Chashan; In a fit of rage, Fu Gou'er picked up the firewood knife and turned into the Liu family, killing the two young masters of the Liu family.

After the killing, Fu Gou'er knew that he had caused a catastrophe, and that night he escaped from Anxi alone at the urging of his father and came to the outside of Quanzhou; It happened that the Yang family was recruiting a boat mate, and Fu Gou'er, who wanted to avoid the limelight, immediately signed up, so he was sent to Jeju Island with his group of 300 people at the beginning of last year.

When he arrived here, Fu Gou'er realized that the Yang family said that they were recruiting guys on the boat, but they were actually recruiting new recruits for the Fuliao Army; However, the treatment of the Fuliao Army was far better than he expected, so he, like most recruits, happily stayed and became a recruit in the second company of the fourth battalion.

As soon as he entered the barracks, he realized how hard and tiring this training was—every day, he ran at least five kilometers with a backpack of fifty or sixty pounds on his back, and if he was unlucky, he had to add one more at night in case of an emergency assembly; The queue training station lasted for an hour or two, and the arm-thick military stick came up with a slight movement; There must be rules for walking, sitting and lying down, and the slightest mistake is served by a military stick, or a hundred prostrate steps forward as punishment......

It's just hard and tired, and what makes Fu Gou'er find it even more unacceptable is that the cultural class at that hour after dinner every day - he is a peasant who can't read a single word, and now he is forced to recognize at least five words a day, and if he forgets it in the spot check the next day, it will be a military stick or corporal punishment; It's been almost two months since he entered the camp, and the most he has been punished is this cultural class.

Of course, the cultural class is not completely boring, and after reading the words every day, the gentlemen of the Propaganda Department play allegro and tell stories is what Fu Gou'er likes to listen to the most -- from the stories of the gentlemen, Fu Gou'er understands that he belongs to a great ethnic group of Han people, and he also knows that the Han nationality has a rich and vast land called Liaodong, but now it is forcibly occupied by a group of barbarian Tatars, and the task of the Liao army is to take back this land.

At the beginning, Fu Gou'er, like the more than 1,000 Fujian recruits, couldn't figure out what the Tatars had to do with themselves, but as time went by, they got closer and closer to those Liaodong veterans, and after a few grievance meetings, the recruits gradually understood that the recovery of Liaodong was not only a matter for the Liaodong people, but also for all Han people!

Especially Fu Gou'er, because he was grateful for the old squad leader's care and love for him, he empathized with the old squad leader who was robbed of the field by the Tartars - his tea mountain was occupied, but he was just like the old squad leader! This also made him one of the first Fujian recruits to fully integrate into the team.

It is precisely because of his integration into the Fuliao Army that Fu Gou'er is puzzled by the training arrangements for more than a month after the New Year: after running a five-kilometer run every day, it is extremely boring geotechnical training, and the four battalion heads are lined up, digging desperately on this spring-filled land! The trenches that stretched for miles and were more than one person high were dug and filled, and I didn't know what they were tossing.

The veterans didn't see anything about assassination and throwing, and even live firing was rarely carried out, which made Fu Gou'er quite irritable - he was already digging the soil with calluses on his hands!

After taking a breath, Fu Gou'er rubbed in front of the old squad leader and asked softly, "Squad leader, how long will we have to dig this soil?" I can't bear the backache every day. ”

The old squad leader glared at him and said, "It is my duty to be a soldier and eat food and obey orders...... If you want to dig you, you will dig, where is so much nonsense! ”

Fu Gou'er, who scolded in a word, walked away, but the old squad leader stopped his movements and looked up at the sky - what Fu Gou'er asked was also his doubt: When is it a head on this day of digging soil!

The old squad leader knows more about the current situation than Fu Gou'er, and of course he knows that the most important thing for the Fuliao Army at present is to deal with the conquest of the North Koreans - there have always been rumors that the North Koreans will come in February, but now it is the sixth day of the second lunar month, why can't he even see a figure?

However, the blue sky did not give the old squad leader an answer, and in the slightly drunk spring breeze, a gray carrier pigeon flew leisurely from the north.

After hovering around the Yuan Forbidden City, which was about to be completed and was hurrying to repair the three city gates, the carrier pigeon plunged headlong towards the mansion at the foot of the water mountain.

As soon as it landed, it was grabbed by a pair of white hands, untied the small bamboo tube on its feet, and took out a note about two fingers wide.

Soon, the note was sent to Xiancha's hand, and after the latter glanced at it, his face became solemn, and he hurriedly came to Tingfeng Xuan with the note in his arms.

As soon as he walked to the door, Xiancha saw a group of Taoist priests coming out of the door, and the one who walked at the end was the Lingxuzi who was famous for his sloppiness.

"Dao Chief, this trip to Satsuma depends on Dao Chief," after Lingxuzi came out, Xian Cha saw that his master also appeared at the door, and paused and said, "Yu is good to discuss, but this matter of safety, Dao Chang must pay a lot of attention, and it is very important to bring everyone back with all their beards and tails." ”

"Prince, just rest assured," Ling Xuzi said with a smile, "Don't say that you specially transferred a few good men from the reconnaissance brigade to us, even if you are poor yourself, you can't get close to thirty or fifty people who are idle...... The prince just sits at home and waits for our good news! ”

After speaking, he gave up his hand again and again, and drifted away with the group; Chu Fan watched them walk away, and then noticed Xian Cha next to him, who followed him into the door, and after coming to the office, he took out the note.

"Bang!"

After reading the note, Chu Fan slapped the table and snorted.

"It's finally here!" (To be continued.) )