Chapter 16: Survival
The battle was still going on, and not far from us was the front line, and at this moment it was already full of artillery fire, and we were like a sharp sword, quietly inserting into the heart of the enemy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Walking through the primeval forest, I took a squad of soldiers to find the base camp of the opponent's headquarters, everything went very smoothly, and the bright and dark sentinels along the way were all killed, which made me faintly feel uneasy.
Soon the other party's base camp was in front of me, I carried a knife and a gun, and rushed out first, the base camp was empty, I said it was not good, and I was ambushed. I hurriedly ran out with the soldiers, but it was too late, and after a mortar sound, my body was shaken away by the air wave, and it was immediately pitch black in front of me, and I felt that I was blocked by something, and I couldn't see anything.
I was desperately scratching with my hands, and I was indescribably afraid, when my wrist was grabbed, and someone said to me, "Wake up, comrade, what's wrong with you?" ”
I opened my eyes and looked around, the train full of passengers and train attendants were staring at me, all with a vague smile on their faces, and turned their heads to look out the window, I realized that I had a nightmare just now, and I still had lingering palpitations about the nightmare just now.
I didn't expect to be able to dream of taking the train back to my hometown, and my face was lost. I coughed awkwardly twice and smiled at the group, probably the most ugly laugh I've ever had in my life.
When I woke up, the train was about to arrive at the station, I squeezed to the docking place of the carriage with my luggage, sat on the luggage bag, lit a cigarette and smoked a few puffs, my mind was like a mess of paste, and the figures of my front-line comrades kept flashing.
Wearing a military uniform without a collar badge and cockade, he was indescribably awkward on his body, and he was fluttering when he walked. What should I say when I go back? Although there was no one at home, Zou Yanchang fortunately got me into the army, and he must have known that I was brought back, and he had to scold me to death.
Ten minutes later, I arrived at the station, I went to the door of the house and walked around, I was embarrassed to enter the door, and walked aimlessly on the street, thinking about how to face Zou Yanchang.
It was getting late, I found a restaurant to eat, I was shocked when I saw the menu, I haven't eaten out much over the years, and now the meals are not only expensive but also have a lot of tricks, a bowl of noodles for a dollar, add two pieces of meat or two shrimp and the like to become three, just this little demobilization fee in my hand, eating noodles every day is enough to survive a year.
I ordered a bowl of noodles, asked for a bottle of beer, and I smoked and drank beer while waiting for the noodles, and I thought it was a little funny, I had been a soldier for ten years, I had been wounded and bled before, I had contributed to the country from birth to death, and in the end it was worth the minimum standard of food expenses for a year, which was really funny. But then I thought about it, compared with those comrades who died in the primeval deep forest on the battlefield, I was not lucky, at least I still had the life to eat noodles and drink here.
After I had eaten and drunk enough, I got up and was about to leave, and a man came in from outside, and he wore a big toad glasses, and I saw that he was dressed very fashionably, so I looked at him twice.
The man also saw me, and lit me up for a long time, and stood at the door and blocked my way.
I thought to myself, what's the matter with this person, is he looking for trouble if he doesn't take such a wide road and doesn't stand in front of me? Your uncle, I was full of depression and had nowhere to vent, and I was trying to find someone to fight, but I looked a little familiar with him, most of his face was covered by a big toad glass, and this dress was also very unfamiliar, and I couldn't remember who this person was for a while.
The man blocked the door and didn't mean to give way, he pushed the big toad mirror on the bridge of his nose and said to me, "Where are the mushrooms slipping?" ”
I wondered why this word was so familiar, so I replied casually: "Sea cold"
The other party asked again: "Why is your face red?" ”
I shook my head and replied, "Trolls can't do it, it's alive."
"Why is it white again?"
"Saved"
We hugged each other at the same time, and I said to him, "Little Fatty, I didn't expect me Hu Hansan to come back again, right?" ”
The fat man was so excited that he was about to cry: "Three comrades, our cottage is complete again"
I was a soldier in the same place as the fat man, and I haven't seen him since the Chinese New Year, and I don't know what he's going to do, and when we both go on separate missions, we are all in the black language of bandits, and no one in that place can understand except the two of us. I didn't expect to meet in a restaurant as soon as I returned to the city, which is really fate.
The fat man's father was much older than my grandfather's officer, and he was also more lucky. I carried it when I was leather. A few years ago, he followed me to become a soldier, but it turned out to be the same as me, in Vietnam, his unit was the main force, and the overwhelming rain of bullets and bullets hit the other side in the end when there were no bullets, so it was time to use people. Meat fried. Bullets, men, women, the elderly and children are unguardable, after several battles, more than half of the dead and wounded on their side, at this time, the fat man can control those, since it is difficult to distinguish, another can be killed by mistake and cannot be let go, setting up a machine gun is a strafing shot, regardless of more than a dozen adults and children are killed cleanly. A street was razed.
I haven't seen each other for many years, the two of us were so drunk that we blushed and had a thick neck, so we forgot about Zou Yanchang, and after I went home, I didn't wait for me to say anything, Zou Yanchang arranged for me to live first, but he was not angry when he looked at him, but very proud. I thought to myself, when did this old man become so talkative.
I stayed in the army for too long, and I was very unaccustomed to this kind of work of being drunk and idle every day, and I didn't take it too seriously, so I only kept the establishment and then took a long vacation. Partnered with the fat man to go to the south to do business.
Time has entered the 80s in a flash, and we are all in our thirties, watching other people's businesses get bigger and bigger, but we are getting more and more miserable, not to mention saving money to marry a daughter-in-law, eating is a meal without a meal, and fat people often have to borrow money from their families to solve their urgent needs.
On this day, the weather was good, the sky was cloudless, and the two of us brought a pair of sunglasses, wore big bell bottoms, and pushed a tricycle on the street of Jiangmen, with a board on the car, which was full of various books and tapes, and a broken horn played the most popular Hong Kong and Taiwan music at the moment.
The two of us walked while bragging, and before we knew it, we walked to the antique market on Old Clothes Street, which was full of old things. Xi Xiangzhang is all accepted. Like ceramics, calligraphy and painting, jade, old furniture, small to winning pocket watches, three-inch golden lotus embroidered shoes, copper coin pipes and snuff bottles, as long as it is an old thing, there is basically everything.
I suddenly remembered the strange egg that I touched with the fat man in the river when I first joined the army, this thing looked strange, and there were some lines on the milky white eggshell, like a map, and like birds and beasts, I don't know what it was actually for, and most importantly, it saved my life.
I've always taken this thing as a treasure to carry with me, although I don't know the value but the fat man has always wanted to sell this egg for some money to do business, I stopped it, I always feel that this thing will come in handy one day, and we haven't reached the point of desperation, I really can't sell the preparation, in exchange for some money, anyway, I don't have much point to occupy there.
The two of us found a place on the side of the road to stop the three wheels and bought two bowls of rice rolls for lunch nearby.
There are vegetarian rice rolls and meat rice rolls, which are pigs, beef, shrimp meat, and some vegetables, wrapped in flour skin and cut into sections, and then put on the pot to steam, one piece of vegetarian food, two pieces of meat, economical and affordable.
We grew up in Lianghu since we were children, and the chili peppers are not taboo at all, but they are sweet and a little unaccustomed to eating, and my bowl is so sweet that it is greasy.
The fat man took two bites and said to me: "Lao Zou, I listened to the words of my old man, obeyed the call of the party, and brought you to the south to make a little money, but I didn't expect Mr. Deng to change. The means of reform are so strong, the national economy has been invigorated in just a few years, and the situation is very good, unlike when I first came here, there were few shops on the street in this place, and now the streets are full of large and small shops, and there is nothing to buy. It's really a bit of a burden to you, I think you were also a deputy section level treatment, a person who sits in the office all day long with a stable income, but fortunately your establishment is retained, you might as well go back and continue to work, don't suffer foreign sins with me"
I took a sip of water to dilute the sweet taste in my mouth and said: "Brother, let me tell you the truth, of course it's no problem for me to go back now, but I wanted to keep the establishment at the beginning, which Uncle Zou forced me, but I want to go back like this, isn't it exactly what he meant, I'm not afraid of being embarrassed, do you know what I'm most afraid of?" If I go back and enter the office, I will think of those dead comrades, my work is all in exchange for their lives, do you think I can sit safely? Let's go around now, do a little business, although we can't make a lot of money, but at least I don't think about those things, I can sleep peacefully."
I have suffered all kinds of hardships in the army over the years, let alone this little thing, I comforted the fat man: "We are not bitter now, I think when we were in the mountains of Yunnan, we drilled around from the forest all day long, and when there was no fire, didn't you also eat raw snake meat?" At that time, you shook your head vigorously, saying that you would not eat it if you were starved, and I still forced it into your mouth. Do you remember one time when we went into the mountains, two soldiers of the same period were separated from us, he was afraid of snakes and did not dare to catch them, he was hungry for several days, and when we found him, he was still gnawing on the bark of a tree, and you also said that he was called Carrying Ge. I thought that when the Red Army crossed the grassland, it was not like this, what was so terrible about eating some tree bark, but the soldier died within two days of returning to the station, and I heard that it was because he had eaten poisonous things in the mountains before and died of poisoning. We came here to listen to your old man, we can't always be like this if our business is not good now, and the old man will not harm us, the tape books are not good to sell, we can do something else, just like Mao. Host. Xi He said that "the east is not bright, the west is bright, the south is dark, and there is the north", as long as there is still a breath, are you afraid that there is no way to live? ”