The bouncing shadow soon disappeared in a flash. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But the dog in Zhao Hong's hand continued to roar in the direction of the white shadow as if it had gone crazy, as if it had been provoked by a great provocation. No matter how Zhao Hong pulled, the black dog still barked wildly, charging at the white shadow.

In the face of the inexplicable appearance, my mind spun rapidly, although I only saw a shadow, but that thing was cautious enough. Because in the moment when the shadow flashes and disappears...... I'm sure I saw a fox face.

The face was smiling, a provocative smile, and its eyes were as bright as a dead gray cat, but they also had a strong taste of playfulness.

The three of us stood stunned in front of the position of the phantom, all dumbfounded by the strangeness that had arisen again and again, and our nerves were a little numb.

Zhao Hong desperately grabbed the chain of the dog, and said to me in a daze: "How do you explain the fox face...... Also fake? ”

As he spoke, his voice trembled with obvious undulations, and the cigarette butt from the corner of his mouth fell to the ground.

I can hear that Zhao Hong's emotions are too unstable, and he has been forced to the brink of a nervous breakdown under the double stimulation of myths and real crises.

I looked at his face that was about to cry, and suddenly realized that I must not go on the road with such an emotionally unstable oil bottle again, otherwise, I would be harming him and myself in disguise.

Therefore, seeing that Zhao Hong's emotions were about to get out of control again, I didn't answer him directly, but after thinking for a while, I borrowed a sentence from the old squad leader once told us: "Old Zhao! Do you still remember...... 'The heart dies from doubt, and fear is born from the heart.' 'Remember?' Back then, at the shooting range, what we encountered was even more tricky! Didn't you survive it? You're also a soldier...... Think about it! What our old squad leader said back then! ”

"The heart dies from doubt, and fear is born from the heart", this simple but Zen-like sentence also contains the connotation and energy that only those of us who cook can understand.

This sentence can pull Zhao Hong back from the abyss of ghosts to rational memories.

In the flash of light, I was also reminded of that "supernatural" memory by my own words......

That's the story of when I was a soldier, on the shooting range.

When I was in the service, the company was stationed in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which was surrounded by mountains on three sides and surrounded by verdant bamboos.

But even so, there is one exception in the camp where there is no bamboo or even any weeds...... That's our range.

The company's shooting range is not a good place, as soon as I joined the army, I heard the old-timers say that it was a mass grave before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the **** also shot a counter-revolutionary. It is said that more people have died there before than we have ever been a soldier in our entire company.

Maybe because of this, I always feel that the place is heavy and unlucky, and I walk around in broad daylight, except for target shooting and special training two or three times a year, I almost never set foot on that broken ground.

But what I didn't expect was that after dodging, the bad luck in this shooting range still couldn't be dodged.

In the second year of joining the army, the company had a routine task of leveling the land of the shooting range before the special training of the whole army, and because the cooking squad had relatively little combat readiness work, it was ordered to be assigned to the firing area for rearmament, and was responsible for digging deep into the shooting range to "report the target trench."

This is a chore, and our comrades-in-arms in the cooking class are all unwilling to do so. Not to mention the tiring task of digging a target trench, we also have to take care of the company's food, and we have to grasp it with both hands, and we can't make mistakes, which makes us who are used to a relatively leisurely life very unbearable.

Therefore, in the face of the "fire duty" duty task of the cooking class, which everyone in the class originally avoided, everyone also changed their faces and rushed to participate.

After all, compared to outdoor work in the scorching sun, cooking and taking a break in the air-conditioned cooking class is much more relaxing.

Later, however, our "fake positiveness" was quickly seen through by the deputy company commander, and the deputy company was still very faceless, and fiercely and openly criticized our false attitude at the "company regular meeting."

At that meeting, he was angry, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, patting the table and scolding the cooking class for "fake positive, really evading", saying that we were bloody, and in the end, the deputy company waved his hand and handed over the task of "reporting targets during the special training period" to us.

This sentence is tantamount to completely taking us out of hell...... Hit the eighteen layers of hell.

During the half-month training period at the beginning of the special training, because of the "care" of the company deputy, in addition to cooking and performing fire duties in the cooking class every day, we also had to run to the training ground all day long to serve as logistics soldiers, and we were as tired as our third grandson.

That kind of day is very difficult, even if you report the target with the sun and the bullets whistling in your ears, the people who are not on the wheel have to be responsible for making tea and pouring water, rubbing the line on the magazine, we are busy when others are resting, and we are busy when others are busy, which is no different from the waiter.

At the end of the day, the cooking class was running at both ends, and everyone was tired and out of breath. When the sun goes down, we can't leave, and we can't leave until everyone leaves.

This kind of life is very tempering people's emotions and physical strength, and after a few days, several people in the cooking class have different degrees of dehydration and slight heat stroke, and they feel soft when they walk.

Soon, someone finally couldn't hold it anymore.

On the fifth day of the special training, the third squad of the company conducted a live-fire shooting, and I remember that it seemed to be a 100-meter target shot in a lying position, with 10 rounds of ammunition per person. At the end of the shooting, the target reporter reports the target with the flag, the company commander records, and then changes the target paper to continue......

However, after the shooting was over, the field was quiet, and the company commander and company officer raised their binoculars, but they could not wait for the person who reported the target to raise the flag.

In this unusually calm atmosphere, people immediately felt that something was wrong with the "flag soldiers" who were hiding in the target reporting trench.

When the company commander noticed the abnormality, he immediately ordered the company deputy on his side to take someone to see what was going on. After the company deputy nodded, he led the Mongolian soldier Baturu to stop the training, and the two of them trotted to the target trench.

At the time of the accident, Zhao Hong and I were pressing bullets into the magazine, so we didn't see what happened in the target reporting trench for the first time, but we still found out later, Baturu and the company deputy hurriedly dragged out the target reporting comrades, and the person they were carrying at this time was also unconscious.

The fainted soldier was called Zeng Hongbing, who was less than eighteen when he came to the cooking class, and he was a small Sichuan soldier, because he was small and loved to eat chili peppers, so we used to call him "little chili" in the cooking class.

At first, Xiao Pepper's coma did not attract enough attention from us, but after the health team examined it, it was natural to conclude that he was suffering from heat stroke and dehydration, and prescribed medicine for a few days, first infusion, and waited for him to wake up.

But what no one expected was that Little Pepper was dizzy, but he couldn't sit up.

After Xiao Pepper transfused for a long time, his eyes were open, but he couldn't sit up, and his thinking was very sluggish, when Zhao Hong and I went to see him, I felt that Xiao Pepper woke up and behaved very evilly. Or, what is the name of the person?

In our speculation, Pepper spent two more days half-asleep.

On the third day, the old squad leader couldn't stand it anymore, so he took me and Zhao Hong to the infirmary, cut a pulse for Xiao Chili, and secretly became a "Tulangzhong".

After the old squad leader cut the pulse for Xiao Chili, his face twitched obviously, but he immediately regained his composure.

After the squad leader withdrew his hand, he calmly said to us: "He is a 'middle yin heat', make him a bowl of 'soul rejuvenation soup' at noon today, and you feed him to drink." I'll take care of the rest. ”

Later, I learned that the so-called "bardo department" is because of the uneven heat and cold caused by evil qi entering the body, this disease is mostly caused by greedy for shade in the heat, and the symptoms of heat stroke are similar to those at first, but it is diametrically opposed to the principle of heat stroke, once misdiagnosed, it can also kill you. And the soul rejuvenation soup is a unique elixir for the treatment of this disease.

At first, I didn't know what a soul soup was, but after the old squad leader made a bowl in front of me, I suddenly understood that this soul soup was actually ginger soup with black donkey hoof powder!

The old squad leader made a soup to restore the soul, and swore to us that ginger can drive away the cold and remove evil, and it is the thing of the yang in heaven and earth, so the Taoists also call it "Ziyang", and Chinese medicine and Confucianism also believe that this thing can "benefit the body but all kinds of diseases", and it is an excellent thing for treating yin deficiency.

As for the hooves of the black donkey, it is even more divine, and the cook of the Five Organs Temple calls this thing "Qilin Finger", and when it is done, it has the nourishing effect of Ejiao.

When he said this, the old squad leader also reminded me: "Don't underestimate this ordinary ingredient such as ginger, in the hands of a good cook, he can exert the effect of ginseng." ”

The words of the old squad leader were obviously suspected of elevating himself, and I was influenced by my family at that time, and I always thought that the cook was a profession that could not be put on the table. Therefore, the old squad leader only had a slightly contemptuous smile when he replied.

After all, even the diners who eat can't see the back kitchen, even if we can make food comparable to ginseng, what's the use? Do you want to be a doctor? At most, it's only in the middle of the tolang.

The old squad leader looked at my disdainful attitude, and did not reprimand me for anything, he indifferently told me for the first time: "Food and medicine are not separated, and ...... Eating can lead to life, but it can also lead to death, and it can also cure ghosts. ”

At the time, I didn't know what his last words meant, but in the days that followed, I really saw the old squad leader's ability to treat "ghosts".

It's just that it wasn't lucky, but a kind of fear and surprise. It was also because of what happened later that I began to pay attention to the knowledge of the old squad leader, that is, the so-called "dark rules" in the cook's circle.

Since we added an extra bowl of soul soup to Xiao Chili every day at noon, Xiao Chili's illness has improved very much, and it has been completely cured in less than three days. On the fourth day, he happily ran back from the health team and continued to cook and go on duty.

But after he came back, we suddenly felt that this little pepper was ...... It seems that he is not alone from before.