"Captain Gu," a soldier shouted to the door.

"What's the matter? In. Gu Annan wiped away the anger on his face and quickly cleaned up his mood.

"The owner of the oyster fried shop came and said that the people from the 'Seven Stars Gang' went to his shop again today and sat there, and the other party asked him to add protection money."

"What? You mean that he had already paid them protection money before? Gu Anan was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened, "What the fuck do you say about him!" ”

The fire in Gu Annan's heart flickered again, and he took the soldier who came to look for him to the hall outside the office, and saw Boss Hou, who opened an oyster fried shop in Yingdong, standing there a little cramped.

"Captain Gu, the people of the 'Seven Star Gang' are too deceitful, they ......," Hou Ruilin saw Gu Annan coming out of it, and leaned in to complain.

"How do you pay them protection money? Didn't you tell you to ignore them before? Gu Annan asked at him.

"This ...... I see that they didn't collect much before, and you know, when we open the door to do business, what we are most afraid of is that people come to the door again and again to do things," Hou Ruilin wiped the sweat on his forehead, Gu Annan has always helped them support them, and he didn't listen to his arrangement, which will be a little unsightly.

"Something? With me here, what they can do is nothing more than to go to your store and sit in your store and not order anything to eat. Gu Anan was a little angry when he saw Hou Ruilin's appearance of mud and couldn't support the wall, "What did I tell you before, with the money to pay the protection fee, it is better to find a few people to go to their shop and sit down, and see who is afraid of whom." ”

"......," Hou Ruilin was a little speechless by Gu Annan, he had thought about this method when Gu Anan first told him, and he also connected a few people who were doing business together to discuss, but everyone didn't want to come out to offend the people of the "Seven Star Gang", so it was over.

"I'll catch them once they go to your shop, and I'll go somewhere else when your people go to theirs, pretending not to see them. There were a few times when you saw them go away. The reason why Gu Annan is angry is that these businessmen are angry with him, and the Chinese survivors who do business in Yingdong rely on him to help support them, and their sense of crisis is not strong, even if they can't get along in Yingdong, they can still go to other places in Chongming Mishima, and there is a big gap between the sense of urgency in the hearts of the Bagan people who are already struggling in a desperate situation.

"Captain Gu, we all fled before, and now we are doing a small business just to support our families, if those Bagan boys smash my shop in case they go up, then I'll be finished." Hou Ruilin was still the same as when he came to Gu Annan the previous times, crying and crying without saying anything, and kept screaming.

"I really hope they dare to smash the store," Gu Annan said through gritted teeth, "As long as they dare to make a big deal, I will give these guys a pot." ”

"You just have to deal with them, don't be cowardly, don't always be afraid of this and that, alas, ......," Gu Annan suddenly felt very tired for a moment, now he is much more worried about these things in Yingdong than when he went to the front line, and these pig teammates often make him a little speechless.

"Xi Yongliang, you go with Boss Hou and knock on those Bagan people." Gu Annan commanded the soldiers beside him, then waved his hand to Hou Ruilin, and turned around and went back to the office.

Gu Annan was already a little disgusted with the weak temperament of Hou Ruilin and others, but out of compatriot consciousness, he couldn't bear to watch them being bullied by outsiders.

Hou Ruilin took Xi Yongliang in the direction of his shop, and when he was on the way, he slandered Gu Annan in his heart.

"Captain Gu said lightly, not thinking about hiding behind himself, so that we can do business in front. He is a cadre of the army, and he has food everywhere he goes, can we do the same? When things get bigger, if those Bagan boys smash our storefront, who will we ask for a judge, even if we can judge, we can't afford the loss. ”

"Brother Liang, if you pass over today, you will teach those Bagan boys a good lesson, and increase the prestige of our Chinese people," After slandering Gu Annan in his heart, Hou Ruilin said flatteringly to Xi Yongliang.

"Hehe," Xi Yongliang was a little disdainful of these outrageous compatriots, he snorted, and he agreed.

"Catch them all and keep them longer," Hou Ruilin took the opportunity to encourage again.

"These people are all well learned, as soon as I go to your store, they will order the dishes, what can I do?" Xi Yong glanced at him, "Could it be that you will stay there and wait for them to finish eating before helping you send off the guests?" ”

"Deterrence, deterrence."

"You still need to be hard to strike iron, Boss Hou," Xi Yongliang's tone was a little pinched with a gun and a stick, "You said that Yingdong has Brother Nan here to support you all, why is this advantage of riding face mixed like this now?" ”

Hou Ruilin didn't dare to accept his words, their thinking was still the old-fashioned way of valuing harmony and destroying wealth and eliminating disasters, and they were very scornful of Gu Annan's radical behavior.

It didn't take long for Xi Yongliang to return to Gu Annan's office, and when he knocked on the door and came in, Gu Anan looked up and asked, "It's done?" ”

"As soon as our people go, those Bagan people will be like little ghosts seeing grandpa," Xi Yongliang smiled, but his tone was not relaxed when he said this.

"I feel that Hou Ruilin's grandson thinks that we should use them as gunmen, and let them go to the front to collide with the Bagan people and break the blood," on the road just now, Xi Yongliang quietly noticed Hou Ruilin's expression, and after going to his store to help him drive people, he chatted with him a few words.

"Be a gunman? These pig teammates are also worthy? Gu Annan's expression was a little indifferent, and he glanced at Xi Yongliang, "If it was my previous temper, I would just cut it first and then play it." ”

"Team Gu, calm down," Xi Yongliang hurriedly persuaded. He knew very well how Gu Annan had been reduced from a meritorious military captain to a captain in managing public security, "It's not worth it for these people." ”

At the beginning of the disaster, the soldiers and civilians who retreated to Chongming first landed on Changxing Island, and then after opening the Yangtze River Bridge between Chongming and Changxing, they began to rapidly advance towards the eastern part of Chongming Island, targeting farms and wind farms there.

Gu Annan was at the forefront of the island's front at that time, and he continued to lead his troops to advance eastward along Binjiang Village, Quanquan Village, and Yingdong, until the entire Dongtan area was cleared. This swift offensive gave the first survivors who had moved to Chongming Island a precious respite, and laid a solid foundation for the government's subsequent attack on Hengsha Island.

Because the area from Binjiang Village to Yingdong was recovered by Gu Annan, the government decided to keep him here for an encouraging purpose and take charge of the local reconstruction work.

Another purpose of the government's retention of Gu Annan in Yingdong was to temper his ability to work in civil affairs and prepare for his future transition from military to political affairs to local administrative leadership. Moreover, Gu Annan has already made great contributions in Chongming's landing on the island, so the next operation on Hengsha Island needs to share the opportunity with others.

If things develop according to this script, then Gu Annan only needs to do a good job in post-disaster reconstruction with peace of mind, and his future political career will be a smooth road.

The conditions in Yingdong are very hard, but Gu Anan is always on the front line, and he has no complaints about losing the opportunity to attack Hengsha next.

Gu Annan's family has been a soldier for three generations, and his grandfather has also made meritorious contributions on the battlefield of Funan, and he has been influenced by the patriotism of his elders, and his ideological consciousness is beyond the comparison of ordinary people.

Later, fate seemed to play a joke on him, pushing a difficult choice in front of him.

That was after the government army launched the Hengsha Island strategy plan, when a large number of soldiers set off from Dongtan Wharf and crossed Hengsha in the south.

The reconstruction work in Yingdong and other places has fallen on the heads of the people, who have not long landed on the island, and many of them have just put into production to save themselves.

As the government's future plan for the three islands of Chongming becomes clearer, Hengsha Island plays an increasingly important role in it. Truckloads of supplies were loaded to the northern beaches of Hengsha Island, where a wharf was built.

Because the center of gravity began to tilt towards Hengsha Island, the difficulty of the reconstruction work in Yingdong has suddenly increased a lot, and the source of difficulties is not only tools and machinery, but also food and other daily necessities. At that time, the farmland on Chongming Island had just been reclaimed, and the daily food consumed by the survivors and the garrison troops came from the reserves that had been brought in from outside the three islands.

In addition, these materials are gradually tilting towards Hengsha, and the local people in Yingdong are a little miserable.

Although the government knows a thing or two about this situation, their energy is focused on the strategic action on Hengsha Island, and they have not gone deep into the grassroots to do a more detailed understanding. Because of the forced situation at that time, the government's thinking was the same as when the country tightened its belts and launched two bombs and one star, thinking that everyone would just grit their teeth and get through.

Gu Annan's report to the above several times was also shelved, and seeing that his report and application could not be fruitful, he had to take out the rations of the soldiers stationed in the area and distribute them to the people of Yingdong first, in case everyone would suffer from hunger after the disaster and make the situation worse.

The military rations at the garrison were gradually running out, but the supplies from the Dongtan base camp were continuously being shipped towards Hengsha.

Until now, Gu Annan still remembers the situation clearly.

It was raining that day, but Gu Annan's office building was full of people standing in the dark, and the survivors were all standing in the rain, with several corpses that had been carried over in front of them.

When Gu Annan received the news and came to the door, those people knelt down towards him in unison.

"Hungry to death......" Looking at the corpses on the ground outside the door, Gu Annan saw that one or two of them were still children.

Some droplets of water slipped down his jaw, not sure if it was rain or tears.

"Company Commander Gu, save us," a mournful cry came from the crowd, which looked very heavy in the heavy rain.

"You guys get up and talk first," Gu Annan shouted to everyone, and he turned his head to the soldier next to him and asked, "How much military rations are left?" ”

The soldier bowed his head and did not speak, he knew that the military rations had run out, otherwise there would not be a situation where people would have starved to death. In the past few days, they have already reduced from three meals a day to two, and all the food rations saved have been taken out and distributed to these survivors in Yingdong.