After the meeting, Brother Qi and Guo Kaiqing went to bed to rest, and Zhang Jian said that he would go to the courtyard to have a look and strengthen the inspection of the sentry.

The seventh brother was very satisfied with Zhang Jian's carefulness, "You kid has to check the whistle several times a night, every time I wake up, I can't see you in bed." ”

"How many times can you wake up in one night?" Zhang Jian smiled at Seventh Brother.

"I don't know, but most of them wake up with urine."

After Guo Kaiqing took off his coat, he didn't fall asleep immediately, he kept thinking about everything that happened today, why did this Chu Shan come to the army compound to stir up, he really couldn't think of an answer.

An hour later, Guo Kaiqing got up and went out of the house, he wanted to see if Zhang Jian was still in the tree, and when he walked under the big tree, he found that Zhang Jian was gone, and then he came to Zhang Jian's dormitory, he did not enter the house, through the moonlit night, it seemed that Zhang Jian was not in the house, and then he sat on the stairs under a watchtower, and talked with the sentry of Zhang Jian's platoon.

"Is your platoon commander good to you?"

"Okay, of course, I've never seen such a good platoon commander, he treats us like brothers."

"You're pretty good at talking, by the way, you've been a soldier for a few years, and how many platoon commanders have taken you?"

"I am a three-year soldier, when I came here as a soldier, Zhang Jian was our platoon commander, and I have been following him for so many years."

"You're a sycophant, just like a platoon commander, just say he's the best."

"Our platoon commander never bullied a soldier, his clothes were washed by himself, and there was something at home for any of his comrades-in-arms in peacetime. He will give him money, which is not a good platoon leader. ”

"According to what you say, Zhang Jian is like Lei Feng?"

"What is Lei Feng, if Lei Feng lives until now, I think it is better than our platoon commander, Lei Feng is known to others, he has done good deeds, all remember him, our platoon commander is different, he has done a lot of good things. No one knew him. ”

"Then do you know the local folks? There's a guy named Chu Shan? ”

"I don't know, I rarely go out, you want to know the way, go to the few people who always go to drink a big bowl of tea. It is possible for them to know the Tao. ”

Tired of the day. I also drank some wine in the evening. After chasing Chu Shan for a while, now Guo Kaiqing is also a little sleepy, and he wants to sleep. Just as he was about to enter the house, he suddenly remembered Zhang Jian, so he walked back to the bottom of the tree, at this time Zhang Jian was lying on it, and when he saw Guo Kaiqing, he waved his hand, indicating "safe and sound".

The next morning, Guo Kaiqing had breakfast and came to the teahouse to drink tea.

The teahouse owner and his wife were cleaning the teahouse, and when they saw Guo Kaiqing coming so early, they immediately greeted each other with a smile, "It's so early, we haven't opened the board here yet." ”

"Then I'll stand at the door, you're busy."

"It's all over, come in, what do you want to drink today?"

"Didn't I say it, the best tea, you forgot."

"I have a good thing today, I want you to try it, this thing is delicious, my wife and I drank several bowls yesterday."

"Something good."

"Egg powder."

"Where did it come from?"

"Do you remember last time, two egg collectors came to me to drink tea, and after you left yesterday afternoon, they came again and gave me a bucket, saying that they wanted me to taste it, and if it was good, I could go to them to buy goods and sell them in the teahouse."

"Then how much is this egg powder for a bowl?"

The teahouse owner touched his head, "This bucket of things, they gave it for free, and I didn't ask him for a price, so let's do it, you are a regular customer, I gave it away for free, and let you drink it for free." ”

'How can this work, open a shop to do business, how can there be a reason not to need money, you don't want money, even if you brew it, I won't drink it.' ’

"Okay, how about a bowl of five cents?" The teahouse owner's eyes, while speaking, turned back and forth, he wanted to test how this 'potential consumer' viewed his 'offer'.

"Five cents is five cents, you come to a bowl first, I'll taste it, if it's the right taste, I'll eat breakfast here in the future, drink a bowl of egg powder, eat a small snack, you should be full."

"I'm so tired, old woman, give a bowl of egg powder to the comrades of the People's Liberation Army."

Not long after, a bowl of steaming egg powder water was placed in front of Guo Kaiqing, only to see that the color of the water was similar to that of milk powder, and there was a fragrance of fragrance, Guo Kaiqing took a sip, felt good, asked for two small snacks, and ate it with egg powder water.

After waiting for a morning, still not seeing Chushan's arrival, Guo Kaiqing observed the guests in the teahouse boredly, although the owner of the teahouse promoted his 'egg powder water' whenever he met people, but no one bought his 'account', and they all said that it was not good to drink when they thought about it, or actually drank tea, after all, the big bowl of tea was cheap, even if a few small snacks were added, it would not exceed five cents.

Seeing that it was almost lunchtime, Guo Kaiqing got up and returned to the compound, and then the seventh brother walked in front of him in a hurry, "Where have you been early in the morning, the eldest brother called just now, I said that you are not there, and he said that after you come back, give him a call, there may be something urgent." ’

As soon as he heard Zhang Dazhi's call, Guo Kaiqing didn't even eat lunch, he didn't use the phone in the compound, but went to the post office, and when he passed by the vegetable market, he also bought some cooked food and wine.

As soon as he saw that Guo Kaiqing was here again, and he brought a lot of food, the post office director greeted him, "Didn't you finish drinking yesterday, what's the matter, you want to drink with me again?" ”

"I'm in a hurry, help me answer the phone."

Looking at Guo Kaiqing's serious appearance, the post office director instructed his colleagues to look ahead, and he led Guo Kaiqing into the office, "You fight first, I'll go to the box to help you look at it, and make sure it's okay." ”

"Xie Lu, thank you, big brother."

"You're welcome."

On the other end of the telephone line, Zhang Wenzhi has been guarding it, and when he saw Guo Kaiqing call back, he immediately said the reason, "Second brother, I checked the things you asked me to check, Li Gongzi called me in the morning and said that there were indeed people who went to the countryside to collect eggs in the egg powder factory, but they all returned to the factory a week ago." The two people you are talking about should not be from their factory. ”

"Yes, how many egg powder companies are there in G City?"

"Didn't I tell you everything, just one, as Li Gongzi said, the merchants who are investing there now, none of them have done the same business, they were all friends before, it must be right, this is the only one."

"That seems. They must be impersonating Luo. I know, big brother, thank you, thank you, please ask Li Gongzi to help me keep an eye on it. If anything happens. Notify me again. I hung up first. ”

"What are you anxious about? Is there something wrong, do you want someone to help? ”

"I think I can handle it."

"Then you have to be safe. Don't capsize in this small ditch, we still have a long way to go, I don't want anything to happen. ”

"Don't worry." In order not to let Zhang Wenzhi worry about himself, Guo Kaiqing, who was originally talking, hastily put down the phone.

"Finished fighting?"

"It's over, big brother, I'll go first, I still have some things."

"Take the thing, don't leave it behind?"

"It's for you to eat, the guy in the house didn't eat yesterday, you eat, I'll go first."

Coming out of the post office, Guo Kaiqing found the director of the police station and asked him to help find two egg collectors, who were from the egg powder factory in G City.

"Did they do something?"

"It's a little, my comrades-in-arms called and said that someone was pretending to be someone from the egg powder factory and cheating everywhere, I happened to be drinking tea in the teahouse that day, and I saw them, both of them were wearing suits and red ties."

"This is easy to do, I will immediately call someone to arrest them, I hate people who don't work for nothing in my life, and I deceived people to Lao Tzu's territory."

"By the way, Director, do you know Chu Shan?"

"You ask him what he does, and he is guilty of it?"

"That's not true, I'm just asking casually, I often see him in the teahouse, he hasn't come in the last two days, and I miss him a little."

"This old Chu, you'd better stay away from him, he has a big temper, he is a demobilized soldier, he has been injured, the old revolution, during the turmoil, no one dared to rectify him, the red-small-general went to his house to find him, but let him scold a bloody dog."

"Where does his family live?"

"I live in the village next to the telephone line we repaired yesterday, and there is an old lady at home, the blind mother closed her eyes, and she was sick all over the body, and she didn't have a few years to live."

It turned out that Chu Shan lived in the village where Guo Kaiqing went yesterday, after Guo Kaiqing returned to the compound, he changed into civilian clothes, he said hello to Zhang Jianqi, and walked towards the village at night.

Passing by the yard of the dead dog the night before, Guo Kaiqing specially stopped, at this time there was no dead dog on the courtyard wall, and next to the kennel in the yard, there was a big dog watching him, but he didn't bark.

Guo Kaiqing looked at the yard again, and then the big dog walked to the iron gate, and he was not kind to Guo Kaiqing, and kept making a 'hum' sound, but fortunately, the big iron gate was closed, otherwise it would definitely rush out and bite Guo Kaiqing twice.

"What do you do?"

As soon as Guo Kaiqing turned around, he saw a strong man looking at him, and he recognized it, this was the owner of this courtyard.

"I'm going to go to my relatives, may I ask my eldest brother, how is the Chushan family going?"

"I don't know how to do it, I'm here to help people look at the house, you can go to another house and ask."

"Okay, thank you."

Guo Kaiqing left the courtyard quickly, taking advantage of the sound of the strong man opening the door, Guo Kaiqing turned around and peeked, and saw that the big dog was still looking at himself, "Wangwang," the big dog suddenly rushed out and rushed towards Guo Kaiqing while opening the door with the strong man.

When Guo Kaiqing saw this scene, he ran away, and the big dog that followed him chased after him, and Guo Kaiqing jumped on the wall of a courtyard after the most reluctance, and then escaped.

"What are you doing, what are you doing on our walls?"

"There's a dog chasing me outside."

"Dog, where did you come from?" After the owner of the yard walked out of the yard, he saw the big dog in the distance, "You young man, you are too timid, even a dog is afraid, it comes to chase you, you run, of course it will run with you." ”

"This dog is running so fast that it scares me to death."

"The next time a dog chases you, and you pick up a rock on the ground and hit it, it won't chase you."

When Guo Kaiqing heard what the owner of the courtyard said, he was suddenly inspired, "Next time I will definitely encounter this situation and not run, I will pick up stones and hit it." ”

"By the way, who are you, what are you doing here?" The accent of the owner of the courtyard was very strong, and Guo Kaiqing thought about it for a long time before he realized what he was talking about.

"I'm looking for Chu Shan."

"Oh, you're looking for him, next door, the yard is, but you're late, he took his mother to visit relatives, and he left in the morning, saying that he was going to stay for ten and a half days, so you better go back."

Guo Kaiqing was very disappointed that he didn't find Chushan, because he passed by the yard where there was a dog, it was the only way, this time he grabbed a lot of stones from the ground and put them in his trouser pocket.

There is a yard with a dog, the owner is at home, the courtyard gate is not closed, when Guo Kaiqing passed by the yard, he found that the big dog was not in the kennel, he left the courtyard gate lightly, while walking, while thinking about whether Chu Shan knew that he was going to come to the house to find him, and deliberately hid.

"Wang." A dog barked, and Guo Kaiqing found the big dog standing on a big rock, looking at him viciously.

Guo Kaiqing made a gesture of picking up stones, but the big dog did not step forward, he thought that this trick really worked.

After walking a few more steps, Guo Kaiqing looked back and saw that the big dog was still standing still, so he quickened his pace and wanted to leave the village as soon as possible.

"Wangwang," the big dog may have attracted Guo Kaiqing's brisk pace, and it ran towards Guo Kaiqing while barking.

Seeing that a dog was chasing him, Guo Kaiqing ran, he ran forward desperately, but no matter how he ran, he didn't get rid of the big dog that barked while running.

At this time, Guo Kaiqing remembered the stone in his trouser pocket, he took out one and hit the big dog hard, but unfortunately he didn't hit it, which may also be related to Guo Kaiqing's loss of balance while running.

"Wangwang," the big dog saw that someone was beating him, and became more fierce and abnormal.

Guo Kaiqing hit another stone at the big dog, but what he didn't expect was to let it dodge.

Finally ran to the corner, Guo Kaiqing wanted to hit all the stones on his body, just when he was about to exert his strength, a person came down from the hillside, he held an object in his hand, when the big dog passed by him, he scraped a little harder, the dog's head was cut off, and the bones went to the ditch under the hillside.

"Good means." Guo Kaiqing saw that this person was Chu Shan, but he didn't expect him to be here.

"Just like you, you still said that you have fought a war, who will believe it, okay, don't embarrass our China-country-people-people-liberation-liberation-army, you can't even deal with a dog, even if you go to the battlefield, you are a deserter."

"I'm just afraid of this thing, this dog doesn't look like the dog in my hometown."

"Don't defend yourself, did you come to me on purpose?"

"yes, I just wanted to ask you."

"Alright, come with me." Chu Shan led Guo Kaiqing to a small mountain bag, and he used the key to open a small door, which was very peculiar, and Guo Kaiqing was full of praise.

"You dug it up? Why is it so good? ”

"Isn't it you? You didn't learn to dig fortifications in the army, did you? ”

"I've learned, but I didn't expect to be able to dig like this?"

"You passed by that courtyard just now, did you see a fat man?"

"Is there a house with dogs?"

"What else can I say, can you do it?"

"When I passed by, there was only a strong man, and I didn't see a fat man."

"This guy is really, he may have run away."

Guo Kaiqing was confused, he didn't know what Chu Shan was talking about, he was confused. (To be continued......)