Chapter Three: Eight Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains (I)
Zhan Xia Ge took Yang Zhenbang and began their long journey around China. Their first stop, of course, was the hometown where Yang Zhenbang was born, but after decades of Canghai Sangtian, Yang Zhenbang could no longer find any shadow in his memory there. But Yang Zhenbang was not a little disappointed, in the face of the high-rise buildings one after another, in the face of the busy streets, in the face of the colorful TV wall advertisements, Yang Zhenbang exclaimed again and again.
Zhan Xia Ge stood beside Yang Zhenbang with a smile, watching Yang Zhenbang stand on the streets of the most prosperous city, and happily opened his arms. looked at Yang Zhenbang and exclaimed to himself: "This is my original hometown, is this really my original home?" You didn't lie to me, did you?! ”
Zhan Xia Ge smiled and nodded vigorously.
When night came, and the streets of the whole city were lit up, Yang Zhenbang raised his head and stared at the street lamps that emitted soft light, looking at this beautiful city that can already be called a city that never sleeps, Yang Zhenbang was really stupid. Now his heart has been filled with the greatest shock, the greatest happiness.
Several beautiful girls dressed with a sense of surname, wandering around the street in groups, Zhan Xia Ge suddenly put two fingers into his lips and made a loud whistle, and when the beautiful girls turned around together, Zhan Xia Ge shouted: "Beautiful girl, hello! ”
Several girls may have encountered this kind of accosting by strangers more than once, but their eyes fell on Zhan Xia Ge and Yang Zhenbang, and their eyes lit up. Although I don't know the reason, although not many people in China pay attention to the "Blue Shield" military sports competition, and most people don't know that there is such a person as Zhan Xia Ge, but they just think that these two men are different!
In the end, Zhan Xia Ge and Yang Zhenbang were surrounded by several girls and played in this city for several hours. Yang Zhenbang is really the first time to meet such a trendy, highly educated and energetic girl, how could he encounter such a thing in the era in which he lives? Smelling the elegant fragrance emanating from their bodies and feeling the heat on their bodies, Yang Zhenbang really felt that he was still in a dream.
When they broke up with those girls, Zhan Xia Ge quietly attached to a girl who looked the most beautiful and quiet, Yang Zhenbang's eyes were always away, anyway, she always swirled around her in the ear, and she didn't know what to say.
"Goodbye." Yang Zhenbang still had a bit of gentlemanly demeanor, and he stretched out his hand to a few girls, "Thank you for taking me to see this city." ”
"Smack......
A light kiss suddenly fell on Yang Zhenbang's face, and the girl who didn't know what to whisper to Zhan Xia Ge shouted with a smile: "Hey, he really blushed!" Look, such a big man, his face can still be as red as a tomato, he is so cute! ”
Brushing the lip prints on his face, watching a few beautiful girls laugh and disappear from their sight, Yang Zhenbang took a long time before he asked Zhan Xia Ge, "What did you tell her?" ”
"I said you're the last handsome virgin of this century!" Zhan Xia Ge said solemnly: "As a result, she didn't believe it!" I just let her try it out......"
Yang Zhenbang: "......"
Three weeks later, Yajie'er received her first letter from Warrior Song. Looking at the date signed on the letterhead, this letter, which I don't know how many turns and how many security checks, was finally delivered to Yajie'er, has been wandering outside for two weeks.
"Jie'er, you don't know, he's really like a child! A child who is about to be suffocated, suffocated, and suddenly freed again! Brother Yang Zhenbang is obviously very weak, but he still pulls me crazy, he is curious about everything, the most terrifying thing is that he also has a strong ability to do it himself, just the remote control of the TV in the hotel that was dismantled by him into parts, there are more than three! Once I just went out alone for an hour, and when I came back, Brother Yang Zhenbang actually dismantled and reassembled the indoor air conditioner! Because he wanted to figure out why the little machine kept blowing cold air. At that time, I asked, let's see, are there any parts missing, but guess what Brother Yang Zhenbang said? ”
He triumphantly raised a screw in his hand and told me that not only was there no less, but there was one more! mygod! ”
When Ya Jie'er saw this, she couldn't help but raise a gentle smile in her eyes, she could almost imagine that Zhan Xia Ge was helpless at that time, rubbing her nose while stretching out a thumbs up to Yang Zhenbang.
"What gives me the most headache is that I ignore the fact that Yang Zhenbang's real age is older than my grandfather! And what is the biggest characteristic of older people? I just like to chatter! And the instructor in the army is an expert who specializes in teaching people with his mouth, Yang Zhenbang's eldest brother puts on a senior face every day, telling me that this can't do that can't, to be honest, I'm about to be driven crazy by him! Even when I was training at school, the instructors who taught me military rules and regulations didn't make me so helpless. ”
"However, seeing the surprise and surprise shown by Brother Yang Zhenbang in the face of the current China, in the face of a world that is completely unfamiliar to him, and the kind of happiness he shows, my heart has already been filled with a kind of pride and pride! I just feel that everything I have done is worth it! ”
When Yajieer received this letter, Zhan Xia Ge had already accompanied Yang Zhenbang's eldest brother to Hong Kong, China. In this land where China lost in 1841 and finally returned to its mother's embrace in 1997, China's five-star red flag and the bauhinia regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region fluttered in the wind together.
Yang Zhenbang looked at the two flags that raised the backbone of the Chinese nation and the national prestige of the Chinese nation, and he kept muttering, "Recreate the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, reproduce the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty...... I didn't think I would actually see this day! ”
After going around Macau again, Zhan Xia Ge took Yang Zhenbang into Tibetan Province, and at this time, Zhan Xia Ge and Yang Zhenbang encountered a big trouble, forcing Zhan Xia Ge to take advantage of the privilege in his hand again. Anyone who enters the high-altitude areas of Tibet Province must undergo a physical examination, and Yang Zhenbang's current physical condition is simply impossible to meet the minimum standards. Facing the documents presented by Zhan Xia Ge, the staff of the physical examination department swallowed a mouthful of water carefully, but she looked at Yang Zhenbang, who was already tired and could hardly stand on her own, and said in a low voice: "The place you went to is a plateau with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, where the oxygen content is only 47% of the normal environment. ”
But at Yang Zhenbang's insistence, Zhan Xia Ge still entered the Tibetan Plateau with Yang Zhenbang. can no longer enjoy the "privilege", Zhan Xia Ge can only take Yang Zhenbang with him, choose the means of transportation they use between the travel company and the car rental market, Zhan Xia Ge took a fancy to a Mitsubishi Pajero V63000 off-road jeep at a glance. This kind of jeep has strong horsepower, and in a harsh environment like Tibet Province, where the engine may stop and never start again, the Mitsubishi jeep with the surname can be excellent is undoubtedly the best choice. Moreover, this jeep has seven seats and a large interior space, which can prepare enough oxygen and first-aid equipment for Yang Zhenbang.
Renting such a car, the price is absolutely unambiguous, 850 yuan a day, gasoline, tolls and the so-called environmental protection fees have to be paid by them, the driver has to take care of food and accommodation every day, and finally has to add an additional 500 yuan subsidy. If it is not a full package, after sending you to a place, the money for the empty return car will also be counted on your head. In other words, you only need to charter a car for two days, but you have to pay for four days of rental, and the driver will eat and live for four days.
This method of charging, to be honest, is robbery! Collecting the return fare, Zhan Xia Ge can reluctantly accept it, but what Zhan Xia Ge doesn't understand the most is that the subsidy to the driver is not an internal matter of the travel company, why did it end up on their heads?
To be honest, Zhan Xia Ge really has no talent for bargaining, and just when he nodded and was about to pay, he was stopped by Yang Zhenbang reaching out.
Yang Zhenbang pointed to the logo on the car and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a car made by Yuben, right?" ”
Zhan Xia Ge nodded, "Yes! ”
Yang Zhenbang made a straight face, "I don't want it!" ”
Zhan Xia Ge's eyes couldn't help but widen, and Yang Zhenbang emphasized: "This is a car made by me, I don't want it!" Aren't you shouting every day to boycott the goods, why do you always find all kinds of reasons to indulge yourself once the matter comes to your own head?! ”
Zhan Xia Ge stared at Yang Zhenbang deeply, in his eyes, Zhan Xia Ge saw an almost simple persistence and seriousness, in nearly a month, Yang Zhenbang with an almost greedy gaze, constantly looking at everything around him, absorbing everything he could see and hear, and now, he has gradually begun to understand this new world.
Zhan Xia Ge nodded and said, "Understood." ”
Zhan Xia Ge and Yang Zhenbang turned to leave, and behind the two of them, the employees of the travel company who received them dropped a cold snort full of disdain, "If you don't have money, just say it, what kind of uncle?" ”
In the end, Zhan Xia Ge chose a Yanjing off-road jeep and spent the day preparing all the things they needed for their trip. Riding in this powerful but uncomfortable Yanjing off-road jeep, Zhan Xia Ge and Yang Zhenbang began their trip to Tibetan Province.
They stayed in a hotel with the driver for 30 yuan a day, ate a bowl of intestine noodles for 5 yuan, and bought some gasoline for about 50 yuan a barrel at a small barrel of 50 yuan.
They took the Xin-Tibet Highway from Xinyecheng in Xinjiang Province in the north to Ali in Tibet Province in the south. After entering the Ali region, most of the roads are in uninhabited areas such as the Gobi Desert, full of majestic mountains and snow-capped peaks that do not melt all year round. There are some sections of the road where there are no people for hundreds of miles, and there is no gas station, and often not a single pedestrian is seen in a day. But in this case, they unexpectedly saw a herd of Tibetan wild donkeys.
They had to fill the car with gasoline cans that made a gentle swaying sound as the car started. At this time, Yang Zhenbang, whose health was getting worse and worse, could no longer use willpower to overcome altitude sickness, and lay on the back seat of the off-road jeep with a pale face, with a soft oxygen tube inserted into his nose.
It was under such circumstances that Zhan Xia Ge took Brother Yang Zhenbang and turned around in this land for eleven days.
Of course, they went to the cemetery of the martyrs of Consiva, where the sky was still blue without a trace of dust. There, too, it's still off the beaten track. There, the iceberg, which has a vertical distance of more than 450 meters, still stands proudly there, shining with a little silver brilliance in the sunlight. And the heroes surrounded by pines and cypresses are still resting here.
Facing his "tombstone" and looking at the words "People's Heroes Are Immortal" on it, Zhan Xia Ge really didn't know what Yang Zhenbang was thinking in his heart.
Yang Zhenbang lit three cigarettes with his own hands, and now his body is really not suitable for touching this kind of thing again, he suddenly let out a violent coughing sound, but Yang Zhenbang pushed away Zhan Xia Ge's hand. Yang Zhenbang put three lit cigarettes in front of the tomb of another hero, he stared at the tombstone carved from the hardest granite, he reached out and gently wiped off a few wisps of dust from the tombstone photo, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother, I came to see you!" ”
Yang Zhenbang's hand was raised, and a bottle of the most fragrant and mellow Chinese Moutai liquor poured out of his hand, drawing a crystal silver line in the air, and fell fiercely to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters.
"Big Brother Company Commander, do you remember what we once said?"
Yang Zhenbang looked at the photo on the tombstone stupidly, which was the last proof left by the best plastic surgery expert and the best videographer for the Chinese hero in this world before the hero was buried. In the photo, his eyes are still closed, and the corners of his mouth are still slightly lifted upward, with a serene smile.
"We said at the time that when the Anti-Japanese War was won and the devil was beaten away, we would disarm and return to the field together, marry a daughter-in-law together, and live a life of wives and children on the hot kang. At that time, I will become a teacher, so that more children can learn to write their own names, so that more children can remember everything we have been through, so that they can learn from this, and stop letting the enemy enter our homes, force our food, burn our houses, and force our women. And you, the company commander, go to the fields, herd the sheep, and during the New Year's Festival, you can also carry a few catties of mutton and a bottle of soju to come to me to greet the New Year. ”
"We even thought about what kind of wine you brought, the wine doesn't have to be too good, it's not too expensive, as long as it's strong enough to pour down our two brothers together, so that we can sleep with our heads in our arms as if we are on the battlefield because of the cold, and let us find the feeling of the past. You don't need to bring a lot of lamb, put a few handfuls of wild vegetables, throw in a few wild onions, and add a few pieces of salt, these things are the best delicacy for us. ”
Speaking of this, fiery tears had already gushed out of Yang Zhenbang's eyes, and he lay on the stone tablet and cried loudly: "But now that decades have passed, I have survived, but you are gone, big brother company commander!" If you hadn't used your body to help me block a bullet, if you hadn't sat on the top of the mountain, you would have taken me into your arms, and you would have survived, reopened your eyes, and come to see this new world, this new China, you should be the company commander, big brother! ”
Zhan Xia Ge stood in the distance, watching Yang Zhenbang lying on the tombstone of another heroic brother, he knew that Yang Zhenbang's eldest brother must have a lot of words at this time, and wanted to say it to his brother alone. In this world where the sun shines on the body and feels a little cold, the sighs of the heroes who sleep here come from the wind, and the passionate loyal souls of the heroes who die without regrets roll in the clouds.
The driver who was standing on the side of the chaperone, first bent his waist deeply in front of the Kangxiwa Martyrs Mausoleum, and then he stared at Yang Zhenbang, and after a long time asked, "Is he the descendant of these heroes?" ”
"No!" Zhan Xia Song said softly: "He is the ancestor and brother of these heroes!" ”
At this time, Zhan Xia Ge heard Yang Zhenbang's call, "Zhan Xia Ge, you come here!" ”
Zhan Xia Ge flew over, Yang Zhenbang pointed to him and said to the tombstone: "Big brother company commander, let me introduce you to a little brother." His name is Zhan Xia Ge, how about it, when you see him, do you think he is very familiar? That's right, he just climbed that iceberg desperately and accompanied us for seven days to dig us out! He is also a soldier, a soldier who was born in New China decades later, and also shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting his family and defending the country! ”
"He has the same surname as when I first joined the army, and he has a sense of superiority that is out of place with everyone, and even my brother and I are ashamed of myself when it comes to causing trouble." Yang Zhenbang said in a deep voice: "However, he is a good soldier!" ”
Hearing this comment, Zhan Xia Ge's body couldn't help but tremble fiercely, really, even if Instructor Long Jianhui hung his own Silver Eagle Medal on his collar, even if he was officially announced to be the third fang of the Fifth Special Force, even if he became the youngest instructor of the Fifth Special Force, even if he was greeted by the cheers of the crowd, he didn't arrive like this...... Glorious!
(To be continued)