"I said, bosses, what do you want to come to the Northeast these days? Here we are, the heating has just stopped in March and April, the weather has not warmed up, the snow is gone, there is nothing to see. "Our driver's name is Xie Dong, and he is a very straightforward northeasterner.

"We just like to go out and walk around in the off-season. At other times, there are many people, and it hurts to watch. The eagle sat in the co-pilot and said to him.

"Where are you all going?"

"Just Jiutai, the environment here is not bad."

"Hey! What's so fun about Jiutai, the reservoir ecological park is over in one go. Otherwise, I'll take you to Changbai Mountain, there are many people who have gone to Changbai Mountain in recent years, and you must go there when you come to Jilin. ”

"I said Brother Dong, it seems that your business in this tourism is good." The youkai interjected.

"Hey, it's okay, business is good in the Northeast during the peak season, and I'll go to Inner Mongolia in the off-season. Generally, those who come to Jilin go to Changbai Mountain to play. You don't know, at that time in 15 years, there were a lot of people who went to Changbai Mountain, and many little girls went, one by one, and they said that they went to see a person named Little Brother. I've pulled so many tourists, but I still don't know who this little guy is. ”

"A few of us don't like to visit scenic spots, so we plan to go around in a small place and experience the customs." The eagle replied.

"Customs, this is easy to do! If you live in a rural area, you can stay in our village for a few more days, and the elderly association in our village is doing some activities these days, and I invited a troupe to come over, and I told you that the authentic Northeast two-person turn, perform for a few days, and don't need money, watch it for free. But I said, our village has been lively enough recently, and in two days there will be some people from the Cultural Relics Bureau in the city, and if you go to our back mountain, you may still be able to see them! Xie Dong talked about the recent situation in their village, and didn't see that the eagle's face became extremely ugly.

"Oh my God! Brother Dong, you still have treasures in the back mountain! The Cultural Relics Bureau is here! The monster stepped forward and said to Xie Dong in surprise.

"What a baby! They are here to do a census of cultural relics, and what they dig out is some rotten stones and broken bricks, and I don't want you to give them to me, so those people will be treasures! You say that if this is gold, silver and jewelry, who will call the Cultural Relics Bureau! But they're good to come, at least they can take care of our hostel's business! ”

The car drove on the road for two hours, and at about 7:20 p.m., we arrived at the village that Xie Dong had mentioned, and the village was deserted at night, with almost no pedestrians on the road, only a straight street lamp to greet us.

Xie Dong's house is a three-story rural villa, and between the first and second floors, there is a very conspicuous sign: Good Time Family Hostel.

There were five or six tents in the open space outside the hostel, and round tables were crowded underneath the tents. When I entered the house, there were all kinds of ingredients in the basin and a dozen large iron pots.

Xie Dong explained that because the village auditorium had set up a stage for the old people to watch the play, the place to eat asked his family to borrow the venue.

We went upstairs, everyone sorted out their luggage, washed up and went to sleep on the kang, this is the first time in my life to sleep on the kang, the whole shop is hot, like an electric blanket is particularly comfortable.

The eagle looked a little irritated, and he sat on the kang and kept discussing with Qiu Ying how to bypass the Cultural Relics Bureau. Qiu Ying means that there is no need to worry, everything will be discussed tomorrow after exploring the road. Probably too tired along the way, I didn't listen to their conversation for a few words, so I fell asleep.

I woke up in the morning by a youkai, and sometimes I really think this kid is an energetic psychopath. We were all still sleeping, and the boy suddenly stood on the kang and shouted, "Eh! Huh! Thief! The people from the Cultural Relics Bureau are here so soon!! ”

I rubbed my eyes and got up, just in time to see Xie Dong greeting them.

I was counting the numbers, and one of them, a woman, as if she knew we were spying on them, looked up at us.

"This woman is very good-looking! How do you think she knows we're watching her! The monster did not shy away from it, but said with a smile that there was no voyeurism at all to be discovered.

The eagle came over to take a look at the situation and glared at the monster: "Take in your rogue look!" ”

When we went downstairs, there were already many old people gathered under the tent to drink tea and chat. There are more than a dozen cauldrons on the side, several chefs and assistant cooks come and go, and the smell of ingredients is everywhere, so it's not lively.

Because there were too many people who came to eat here at noon, Xie Dong arranged for us and the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau to eat at the same table, which played into the hands of the eagles. However, since each table could only seat ten people, Fanzi and I were arranged to sit at the next table and sit with Xie Dong's grandfather and several other old people.

The youngest of those old people is 80 years old, don't look at their age, in fact, they are very talkative, they chatted, and talked about the various battles they participated in during the Liberation War, what Jiaojialing defense battle, Chengzi Street siege and so on. I don't really know much about war, so I can only pretend to go along with it. However, as long as the old people mentioned the Anti-Japanese War, their eyes lit up and their voices were loud. Not only that, but they also drew a simple map on the table with chopsticks dipped in marinade and discussed their memories.

In addition to the more famous Northeast dishes I know, such as pig killing vegetables, Di San Xian, pork stewed vermicelli, there are also sauce stuffed forest frogs, scallion oil cold-water fish, etc., the taste and texture of cold-water fish are similar to those of moray eels in our coastal areas, very fresh. I think the best and most fragrant is the humble scrambled eggs, and the aunt said that this dish is called toon scrambled eggs. Stupid eggs? Is it because the local chickens are too stupid? Who knows, as long as it's delicious.

I was eating a lot, but Fanzi rarely used chopsticks, he didn't seem to be used to eating Northeast food, and he might be thinking about something else. After the dishes were served, the youkai suddenly moved from their table to ours. He held a wine glass and told me with a slightly red face that the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau were too rigid, and eating with them was like eating with a bunch of cultural relics.

As he spoke, he stuffed several pieces of pot-wrapped meat into his mouth, and the topic of the old people aroused his interest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are participating in the Battle of Linjiang in the South of the Yangtze River and Four Guarantees!!" The monster leaned over to Xie Dong's grandfather, Xie Xiaozhu, and asked.

"I didn't participate, I was young at the time, only eight years old, and it was my brother and a few of them who joined the Democratic Alliance." The old man pointed to the three gray-haired old men sitting past us.

"You young people know about this battle?" An old man named Wang Fugui, one of the three, said with a surprised expression.

"In the War of Liberation, the science and education channel often broadcasts it, saying that many people froze to death at that time, and the battle was particularly difficult." The youkai replied.

"No, it's minus thirty or forty degrees, and the snow can't go up my waist. How cold it must be, the bolt of the gun was so cold that it couldn't be opened, and a piece of skin fell off when the hand touched the bolt!! The bald old man Fang Henian said seriously.

"You can't use a gun, so why are you fighting!" The monster interrupted the old man.

"At that time, there was really no way, when I wanted to fight, I soaked urine on the gun, and fought while it was hot and thawed! This has to be fast, otherwise the weather will freeze you if it's slow! Old man Fang Henian pointed to his crotch.

"Can you pee this, this, that, that?" The youkai asked, taking a sip of his drink.

"What can be done, at that time, under these conditions, comrades with guns fought, comrades without guns waited for comrades with guns to sacrifice and take guns to continue fighting, and went to see Marx without paying attention!" The old man Fang Henian put down his chopsticks and said.

"In fact, the most difficult thing was when the second river retreated from the north and south, the Kuomintang opened a small Fengman reservoir to release floods to block us, and the two-mile-wide Songhua River was flattened! It was foggy and could be seen from miles away. The original ice blocks floated down the river and on the water, and if you didn't hurry over, they would be tied again! The water is so cold that it is in the marrow! The old man Wang Fugui recalled.

"What then?!" monster

"What to do? We, the soldiers, didn't have time to hesitate, and jumped in the river one by one! Supporting each other, the soles of their feet were stepping on the ice on the original river, and their bodies were soaked in the water from the reservoir, and the cotton clothes were soaked as if they were filled with lead. When I finally got ashore, as soon as the wind blew, the soaked cotton pants immediately froze, like an iron bucket. You must not rest at this time, you have to move and walk, otherwise you will freeze to death after taking a break! This scene, little dolls like you who grew up in peacetime can't imagine it at all. ”

"Yes, yes, our happiness now depends on you, come on, heroes, I respect you!" The youkai became serious, and he stood up, raised his glass full of wine, and said to several old men.

When the old men saw that the monster was so respectful, they also became serious. Old man Yao Guanghai, who was sitting directly across from me, sighed and recalled: "At that time, many of our brothers died. It was so cold, and the corpses froze the moment they fell, and those with guns, those with shrapnel, those with painful faces, and those who were frightened were all frozen. Sometimes, as soon as I close my eyes, I will see their young faces, corpses, lying on the ground, the snow is white, the blood is red, and I will never forget this blood-red and snow-white picture until I die. ”

"Those who can find the bodies are still decently dead, and some can't even find the bodies. When we went to Jiangnan, we fought for two days and two nights to snatch Jiaojialing, which is not far from here, from the hands of the New First Army, do you know? This is the trump card army in the hands of the Kuomintang! Old man Wang Fugui knocked on the table and said.

"Yes! Who is that, Sun Liren's army! The youkai replied.

"Humph!" Wang Fugui snorted coldly, "At that time, there was such a saying in our army, you must eat vegetables and white hearts, and you must fight the new army when you fight." It was this ace army that also crippled us. He raised his voice here, but quickly regained his composure, "At that time, the form was very good, everyone took advantage of the victory to pursue, chasing the retreating new army to this village, they had a small team and hid in the back mountain, and his brother Dazhu was the commander of our machine gun company at that time, and he took a few brothers to chase the group of people into the back mountain. It snowed heavily that night, and we carried the bodies of our brothers all night. The next morning, in the heavens, on the earth, on the mountains, and in the rivers, wherever you can see, it will be white. Dazhu and Heiwa never came back, and we went up the mountain to find nothing later. So many living people are missing. ”

"People sacrificed, how can there be a body, no more, find a relic to leave a memory, my brother, nothing. I don't know how many times I've found this back mountain, this area......" Old Man Xie Xiaozhu shook his head and said.

The old people began to remember their comrades who died in that war. The chatting and chatting fell silent, and the atmosphere of the banquet became solemn. Fanzi had already left the table at some point, and the monster pulled me to toast a few glasses of wine.

There was an old man named Zhu Xiaowen, who was the least talkative person at the wine table, and at this time he took out a few old photos from his shirt bag, looked at them and began to silently wipe away his tears. Old man Xie Xiaozhu told us that Zhu Lao missed his childhood when he was young.

Zhu Xiaowen's old man's lover is called Xiaohong, who died in the war and was only 17 years old when he left.

Probably because of the effect of the alcohol, my brain was a little dizzy.

Little Red, a familiar name. My mind conjured up the image of my ex-girlfriend, the woman who had left me because of my poverty. My longing for her exploded when Zhu Lao told him about his love, his little red became my little red, and I became his remnant in that terrible troubled world. Xiaohong and I experienced the sweetness of love, but also experienced the cruelty of war, and finally ended in separation.

I couldn't hold back my tears.

I opened my eyes and felt like my head was about to crack.

"Big brother, are you finally awake?"

The youkai poured me a glass of water, and I realized that I was lying on the kang.

"Am I drunk?" I asked him.

"It's not just drunk, now the whole village knows that your girlfriend dumped you, and you still miss her, if I hadn't stopped it, I guess now the whole village would know that we were here to dig their ancestral grave. I said, you hugged the old man surnamed Zhu at noon and cried and dragged me affectionately, and read 'red, green, don't go', have you forgotten it yourself? He sat cross-legged next to me and said with a wicked grin.

"Who told you to drag me to drink?" I'm a little embarrassed.

"Who knew you were so bad." The youkai looked disdainful.

"What about the others?" I saw that he was alone in the room and asked.

"I went up the mountain to pick some points. What kind of mildew is this, they went up the mountain waves, but I want to stay and serve you. The monster said angrily.

At six o'clock in the evening, Eagle and Qiu Ying returned.

When the eagle saw that I had sobered up, he said to me and the monster:

"Pack up and work at night."