"Shall we go?" Hong Yingying guarded Gao Quan's side every step of the way, and Commander Gao sat on the stretcher, and she followed closely on the side of the stretcher.

"Don't be busy just yet." Just when Biaozi and a few guards grabbed the stretcher pole and were about to lift it up, Gao Quan suddenly stopped the movements of several people, "It's noon now, I'm hungry, are you hungry?" Gao Quan looked at the people around him.

Some nodded and some shook their heads. Of course, the warriors were hungry, and by noon it was time to eat. Shaking their heads were Hong Yingying and Biao Zi, these two people who had always been anxious about their foot injuries, and they had long forgotten about hunger.

"Since the chiefs are hungry, let's eat before leaving." This is a kind word, when it comes to the meal, it is a virtue that the people of our country can not give up at any time, Xu Laogen said this sentence casually, and after finishing speaking, he also straightened his eyes. There are so many people in his house, even if all the food stored in his old Xu family is taken out, it will not be enough for these people to eat!

"Haha, Lao Xu, don't slap your swollen face and become fat!" Gao Quan couldn't help but laugh when he saw Xu Laogen's embarrassing appearance, "There are so many of us, how much food is enough for us to eat at one meal?" ”

"If the chief wants to eat, we will take care of the food! My old Xu family is not enough, won't we go to the neighborhood to borrow it? "Sister-in-law Xu came out to complain for her man. Although the Xu family's family background is average, the relationship between the two has always been very good, and the sister-in-law of the Xu family can't see others say short words about her man, even if the person she said is a guest who has just healed in her house, even if this person is clearly a senior official of the national army! Sister-in-law Xu protects Xu Laogen tightly!

"Haha, I said the wrong thing, and I should be punished." Gao Quan hurriedly waved his hand to admit his mistake.

Over there, Xu Laogen pulled his wife's sleeve tightly, this is the commander of the national army, if he annoys people, how can ordinary people from this small family afford it?

"We have food with us, so we don't need Sister-in-law Xu to prepare it. Today, I went to the mountains to hunt, and I also shot two big guys, and let the soldiers wash and peel the leopard, and I invited the villagers to eat leopard meat! Borrow the iron pot of Sister-in-law Xu's house and use it, right? This time, Xu Laogen's wife hurriedly nodded and agreed, "Please ask Lao Xu to inform the villagers in the village, let everyone prepare the dishes and chopsticks, and wait for the meat to be stewed and the family will serve a bowl." ”

Dozens of families in the village, one or two hundred people, plus the two or three hundred soldiers brought by Gao Quan, really care that the whole village is full, let alone a leopard, even if Gao Quan stews all the prey he fought today, it may not be enough! Each family holds a bowl, so that the villagers can see some meat, and the meaning is on the line.

"Hey, that's a good idea! I'm going to call someone! "Running errands to inform the whole village to eat meat, this kind of good thing to show your face, whoever you replace, everyone is willing to do it, Xu Laogen agreed and ran away happily. Sister-in-law Xu also happily led the soldiers to her kitchen to carry the big iron pot and stew meat in her iron pot, needless to say that the two of them can eat half a bowl of meat more than others, right?

The order was given to cook on the spot, and the troops were lively. The warriors were busy fetching water and chopping wood, and the cooks untied the leopard from the poles, skinned, gutted and cut into pieces. The place in the courtyard of the Xu family is a little small, and the pot is directly put on the threshing floor in the village. Just one pot of the old Xu family was not enough, and Sister-in-law Xu led it and went to the villagers' houses to borrow four large iron pots.

Five cauldrons were opened, two pots were steamed with white rice, and the meat was divided into the other three pots, and a leopard seemed a little less. The leopard looks very big, but it is not a big fat pig, and the meat is not as much as a big pig, Gao Quan asked the troops to wash and chop the birds, rabbits and other prey that they hit today, and stew them together with the leopard meat, plus the mushrooms, fungus, bamboo shoots and other mountain goods and dried vegetables that the villagers brought from each family, and made up three big pots. The goat has to be kept, and Gao Quan plans to go back to give Huiqin, Tang Wenjuan, Wu Guangxing, and Xie Zhongming a taste of it that didn't come.

The meat in the pot began to tumble, and a strong fragrance filled half of the village. Hundreds of men, women, and children in the village gathered around the threshing floor, gossiping, and those who were neat and energetic came to help. said that it was a bowl of meat for each family, but in fact, no one came to check the number by name, which one has an extra bowl and a half bowl, who can take it from him?

It has been a long time since there has been a major event like today in the village, and the villagers all have smiles on their faces. The cooks guard the pot of stewed meat, and the iron spoon holds the meat next to the bowl. The villagers took out their dry food from their homes, ate the meat and vegetables in their bowls, and ate them with the soldiers on the threshing floor, talking and laughing. The relationship between the military and the people was rapidly strengthened during the meal.

Gao Quan was injured in his foot and neck and couldn't go to the edge of the pot to eat with the soldiers, so Biao Zi served two meals to the military seat and Director Hong, and asked Hong Yingying to take care of Gao Quan next to the stretcher.

Xu Laogen talked and laughed with the villagers for a while, took the rice bowl to Gao Quan's stretcher, and talked to the national army commander who invited the whole village to eat meat.

"Old Xu, how did you track this leopard for days?" Gao Quan has always been very curious about this matter, and when he saw Xu Laogen, he remembered it.

"Hehe, this is the ability I learned to hunt with my father since I was a child." Speaking of his hunting skills, Xu Laogen looked proud, "No matter how big or small the beast is, as long as it tells me to keep an eye on it, it won't run!" Look at the footprints, smell the smell, check the traces, these are all the capital of the poor hunter to eat! If it weren't for these two times, wouldn't someone like me begging for food from the mountains starve to death? ”

"Lao Xu's ability is quite big?" Gao Quan looked at Xu Laogen's eyes and had something else meaning, "How is your marksmanship?" ”

"That's not what you said! If it weren't for the fact that I wanted a whole leopard skin, the leopard would have knocked me down with one shot! It's not me bragging, there's a wild boar a mile away, and I can take it down with one shot! "The more he talked, the more he became a sniper.

"Then I'm going to let you be a soldier in my army, are you willing?" After talking for a long time, Gao Quan finally said his purpose.

Xu Laogen's hand shook, and his rice bowl almost fell to the ground, "This, this, the chief is joking with me, right?" A troop of my age too? "Xu Laogen is forty-seven years old today, and there are a lot of gray hairs on his head, and there are young men in the army, and there are people like him?

"I'm not kidding you." Gao Quan still had a smile on his face, but his tone of voice became solemn, "There is still a shortage of talents like you in my army, who are good at tracking. Your son joined the 72nd Army, and you joined the 500th Army, and the father and son joined the army. "Gao Quan's tone is not allowed to be rejected at all, the military commander personally recruits people, who dares to refuse?" In addition, if you go to the army with me, you can also watch Hu Changqing, who killed your daughter, be shot with your own eyes, and you can also kill devils to avenge the murdered villagers in the village! ”