There was silence in the camp late at night, except for the tireless croaking of frogs in the pond. The night of this era is destined to be lonely, looking at the whole camp is pitch black, only the oil lamp in the room of Tang Zhidao in the regiment headquarters is still lit up, and under the oil lamp, the head of the Tang regiment is looking at the newspaper he bought back from Beijing a few days ago, and the lace news on it is better than that of later generations. The "Oiran Competition" in a tabloid newspaper is particularly eye-catching, and the annual Oiran Selection Contest in the Eight Hutongs is held as scheduled. He still didn't feel sleepy at all when he came back from checking the sentry, which may be a "good habit" developed in later generations.

At this time, the pendulum clock on the wall rang ten times, the newspaper on the table had been turned over, Tang Zhidao stretched a lazy waist, at this time a cool breeze hit outside the window, and he actually felt a trace of chill, the temperature difference between day and night in the suburbs of Beijing in mid-August has become significantly larger, and the sun is still scorching at noon.

Head Tang looked out the window, gently pushed open the door, and quietly walked out of the room, he didn't want to wake up the staff around him, he should let them rest after a tiring day.

"Commander, are you out?" But as soon as he walked out of the room, a voice rang out.

"Dazhu, you didn't sleep either." Tang Zhidao slowed down and asked with concern, he was still quite satisfied with this orderly, although he looked rather wooden.

"How can I sleep if the head of the regiment doesn't sleep." Li Dazhu said honestly, every day he stayed outside the door until the light in Tang Zhidao's room went out and went to sleep.

"Leave me alone next time, you'll go to sleep when the time comes." Tang Zhi smiled apologetically and said, "Just accompany me around the camp today." ”

"Dazhu, how long has it been since you came home." Tang Zhidao led Li Dazhu around the camp blindly.

"It's been almost a year, and I haven't been back since I was a soldier." Li Dazhu scratched his head and said.

"The situation at home is fine." Li Dazhu's family also has a mother in her forties and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old sister.

"It's all good, my sister will get married next month." Speaking of his family, Li Dazhu's heart was warm, since he became a Tang Zhidao orderly, he could get a few more oceans every month, he didn't keep any of them and sent them all back, hoping to buy some good dowry for his sister.

"Next month? Well, I'll give you a month's vacation at the end of the month and go home to help with your sister's wedding. Tang Zhidao touched Li Dazhu's head and said with a smile.

"Thank you, Commander, thank you!" Li Dazhu said excitedly, these years as a soldier, there are no days off all year round, and there is no door to go home. When he first joined the army, Li Dazhu was really homesick, and he wanted to be a deserter several times, but after a long time, it faded, after all, a few oceans of military salary every month was also heavy in his hands.

While chatting, the two had already crossed the barracks of the first and second battalions and walked towards the garrison of the third battalion. The entire camp of the mixed regiment was built temporarily, and only some of the original buildings in the area could be used (for example, the regimental headquarters was rebuilt on an abandoned land temple), so the camp of the third battalion was relatively far from the regimental headquarters and had to pass through a small wood.

"Who!" As soon as the two men reached the camp of the third battalion, the sentry stopped them.

"I'm Li Dazhu, I ...... with the regiment, and I came to check the sentry on the order of the regiment commander." Li Dazhu was just about to report the name of Tang Zhidao, but was stopped by Tang Zhidao's eyes.

"Oh! It's Brother Li, please come in, please come in. The sentry picked up the oil lamp on the sentry and shook it twice, barely seeing Li Dazhu's face clearly.

"Yes, it's not bad." Li Dazhu pretended to say: "Stand guard well, I'll go around in first." ”

"Brother Li walks slowly, Brother Li walks slowly." The sentry nodded and watched Li Dazhu enter, as for Tang Zhidao behind Li Dazhu, he didn't see it clearly because it was too dark, so he thought that it might be a small soldier in the regimental headquarters guard class. …,

Of course, this is not Tang Zhidao's first night patrol of the third battalion camp, how to say that the third battalion is also his subordinate, he has always treated face matters equally, there are a lot of things that should be given to the third battalion, and the routine inspections are not the same. It's just that when encountering inappropriate and disciplinary violations, they are directly transferred to the third battalion to deal with by themselves, and even the follow-up inspectors rarely do it, and as for how the third battalion handles it and whether it is handled, it has not been thoroughly investigated. It's just that this is really the first time to go on a single-handedly night patrol like this, and every time I came to the third battalion in the past, either the battalion commander Chen Daofeng personally accompanied me, or the company commanders took me around.

The two walked straight into a barracks, because it was the height of summer, the doors were all wide open, and dozens of soldiers were lying in the middle of the room, which seemed very crowded, and even two or three soldiers were sleeping in the aisle. As for the lack of a decent bed, it would be nice to have a thick plank to lie down. The smell in the room was also very unpleasant, with the smell of smelly feet, the damp and moldy smell of wooden planks, and the smell of flowers and plants blown by the breeze outside. The snoring, grinding of teeth, the sound of turning over, and the sound of rats gnawing in the room were so mixed that Tang Zhidao and Li Dazhu tiptoed around inside without anyone noticing.

"Why did you come back?" Suddenly, when a soldier turned over, he found two figures, but he just muttered disapprovingly: "Let's go to gamble again!" ”

"Bet!" Tang Zhidao was stunned, and through the bright moonlight that poured in from outside, he saw that there were indeed many empty beds in the room. It seems that although he repeatedly emphasized the prohibition of gambling at the regimental meeting, and also maintained the handling of several officers and soldiers of the first battalion, the underground gambling den in the third battalion is still thriving.

"Let's go, let's go and see it too." The two of them left the barracks and continued to walk deeper into the barracks, but they did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and finally came to several barracks of the 12th Company located in the innermost part of the barracks.

"Come on, come on, bet, bet!"

"Buy and leave, buy and leave!"

"I'm betting on the big one, no, no, no, this time I'm going to change the pressure on the small one."

……………

Everyone was very involved in playing, and when Tang Zhidao and Li Dazhu approached, no one noticed it at all, maybe they just regarded it as a soldier who couldn't sleep at night and rushed to join in the fun, and the two quietly crowded into the corner, quietly watching all this on the field. No one around paid attention to them, after all, there were not a few people like them who were purely watching the excitement.

"Come on, come on, there are still no bets, I'm going to open it." In the middle of the field, a short and fat man with a red face shouted loudly: "I have a white ocean waiting for you to win." The table in front of him was already full of white flowers, and a rough estimate of hundreds of oceans was also there.

"Big, big, big......"

"Small, small, small......" The onlookers shouted loudly one after another, their eyes glued to the dice on the table, for fear of missing the moment when the treasure was opened.

"Open!" The short and fat man screamed and took the lid away, and there were three "ones" in the bowl.

"Alas, how are they all small!"

"yes, it's five in a row."

"Will someone be out of the woods?"

"How could it be, the bureau and the treasure set up by Company Commander Zhu himself." Those who lost money sighed and sighed, and those who won the money cheered and waited for the next round of betting, winning less and losing more. But once you bet on this thing, you want to win more, and you want to turn over if you lose.

"Thin monkey, you come to shake the dice, Lao Tzu is tired and rests for a while." Zhu Laosan gave a look to a lewd man beside him, retreated to the side and half-lay on the recliner, and another soldier with clear eyebrows behind him was very quick to pass a smoking gun. …,

The lewd man known as the "thin monkey" was desperately shaking the dice, while shouting at the top of his throat, the officers and soldiers of the scene hesitated for a moment and began to bet one after another, but the result was still more losses and fewer wins, and several times in a row, some people shouted angrily: "Damn, Lao Tzu doesn't play anymore, and I have lost ten oceans." ”

"All the money for these two months has been put in."

"Brother can't just leave, let's borrow some copies!" Someone next to him immediately came up and persuaded him: "Borrow some money first, wait until the salary is paid, and then pay it back, Lian Chang Zhu is kind and even wants us interest." ”

"Then I'll play two more?" Lu Dongsheng, a soldier of the 12th Company of the 3rd Battalion who just wanted to leave, began to hesitate, after all, this ocean of white flowers really belongs to someone else, if you gamble two more, maybe you can not only get it back instinctively, but also make a little money to spend.

"You can get money by putting a handprint on it." Another man quickly wrote the soldier's name on a piece of paper and handed over an IOU.

"Damn, fight." Lu Dongsheng gritted his teeth hatefully, pressed a handprint on the IOU, took a stack of oceans from the other party's hand and put it on again.

"Big, big, big......" Lu Dongsheng stared at the thin monkey's hand with red eyes, expecting to prescribe the result he wanted.

"Six-six-two, small!" With the sound of the thin monkey, Lu Dongsheng's eyes were dark and he sat down on the ground. But no one paid attention to him this time, after all, he borrowed too much and this kid couldn't afford to pay it back for a while.

"This time, I will bet directly on one, two, three." Lu Han forced himself to get up and just wanted to go back to sleep, when a person patted him on the shoulder from behind and whispered.

"You, you are ......" Lu Dongsheng looked back and was a little angry at first, then surprised, and when he saw it a little clearly, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Tuan ......"

"Shh Before he could speak, he was stopped by Tang Zhidao.

"Do as I say." Seeing that no one noticed the situation here, Tang Zhidao took out two pieces of ocean from his pocket and handed them to Lu Dongsheng.

"Good, good." Lu Dongsheng only felt that he was covered in a cold sweat, and he was mechanically supported by Tang Zhidao and Li Dazhu to return to the gaming table.

"I'll bet one, two, three, small." Lu Dongsheng gasped and put the two oceans on the table. The thin monkey obviously noticed something abnormal, and just about to stretch out Kaibao's hand retracted, his eyes glancing straight at Zhu Laosan.

"Open!" Zhu Laosan spit out a big cigarette and said impatiently.

"One, two, three, small!" The thin monkey lifted the lid and shouted, and there was another sigh in the crowd.

"Damn, Lao Tzu bet on it, Lao Tzu bet on it." Lu Dongsheng laughed and hugged the winning ocean in front of him.

"Bet big this time." Waiting for the thin monkey dice to shake, Tang Zhidao whispered in the thin monkey's ear.

"Ten oceans, all bet big." Lu Dongsheng no longer hesitated this time and threw the ocean in front of him all in.

"Two-two-six, big!" The thin monkey shouted again, some people were happy and some were worried.

"Bet three sixes below!"

"Twenty oceans, all bet on three sixes, leopard!"

"Three sixes, leopards!"

………

After a few rounds, the ocean that was originally piled up on the banker's side has been reduced by half, and the little-known Lu Dongsheng is full of white flowers in front of him, shining under the light of the oil lamp, and it is dazzling. At this time, Zhu Laosan, who was originally half-lying, couldn't sit still anymore, pushed away the thin monkey and scolded coldly: "Useless things, Lao Tzu will shake them personally." ”

"It's time to stop." Seeing Zhu Laosan on the field, Tang Zhidao whispered in Lu Dongsheng's ear again.

"That's it for today, I'm not playing." After that, Lu Dongsheng took off his clothes and began to fill the ocean inside.

"Smack!" Zhu Laosan slapped the table and scolded: "If you win money, you want to leave, it's not that easy!" "If you win twenty or thirty oceans, forget it, and win most of Lao Tzu's results in one night, how can this work!

"Yes, yes!" The minions beside him also shouted: "The money that Lao Tzu lost was won by your kid, and there is no way to leave." ”

"Could it be that Lian Commander Zhu opened a black store, only allowing others to lose money, not letting people win!" At this moment, a voice sounded like a thunderbolt on the field

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