Chapter 35: The Past of Guizhou

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During this period, Lin Shaosong once again demonstrated excellent leadership skills and ability to spend money. He made a high-configuration soft sleeper for all of us, and also bought a separate box with a washroom for Momiji.

Maybe it's the reason why we're here, Lin Shaosong rarely takes the initiative to find Hongye to offer courtesy, and Hongye also plunges headlong into the pile of old papers left by his grandfather and doesn't come out often.

In the trip to Guizhou, the most excited people are me, Wang Roar and Baturu three comrades-in-arms, we used to meet often, and there is a mutual favor, this trip is to go to Guizhou where we were soldiers, "hometown", it is inevitable to recall some of the joys and sorrows of each other's soldiers.

Speaking of Guizhou, that is where I once fought, and I also have a special affection for that red clay plateau.

During this period, seeing that I knew Guizhou so well, Xian Hongye pestered me and asked me to tell me some basic images there, so that everyone could have a general impression and preparation there.

I took the opportunity to tell everyone: "I have many impressions of Guizhou, such as the black and thin mountain people and the climate like spring all year round, but there are still two things that have the deepest impressions...... Poverty and food. ”

The poverty in the mountainous areas of Guizhou is the kind of abject poverty, I do not mean to belittle Guizhou, on the contrary, I am sincerely sympathetic, the kind of poverty caused by comprehensive factors such as transportation, land, ethnic cognition and so on is really shocking, so I have to reflect deeply.

And because of the unique climate and complex ethnic conditions there, my second impression of Guizhou is that there are many and "weird" local foods, and there are many ingredients and ways of eating that have never been heard of in Han China, which is very eye-opening.

And the interweaving of poverty and local characteristics, ethnicity, and food has become my complex memory of that place.

As I spoke, I looked at Baturu and asked him, "Shengmeng Seafood, do you remember what happened when you first engaged in 'military-civilian mutual assistance' in our company?" ”

My words made this Mongolian boy's black face turn red at that time, and he waved his hand again and again, looking disgusting, begging me if I could not say it.

I ignored him, but continued to tell everyone about the "fantasy journey" at that time.

I first said: "When I was in the army, I would hold a military-civilian mutual aid activity every year, in fact, the army went to the mountain people's homes to do some volunteer work, and they were giving some money, and the mountain people left the soldiers at home to have dinner, and everyone promoted their feelings. ”

During the event that year, I, Zhao Hong, Baturu and Xiao Pepper and other comrades-in-arms were assigned to a place called Maoshizhai.

Maybe my old squad leader had a premonition, so before our squad set off, the old squad leader repeatedly instructed his comrades in the cooking class and the machine step class: "The cat village is a young village, and you went to respect other people's customs and habits, understand?" ”

In that squad, I was the oldest, and I didn't think about what the old squad leader meant, so I didn't think about it, so I took the lead and promised you don't worry, we will definitely do it, and successfully complete the task Yunyun, after the expression, a few of us got into the company's truck, staggered all the way, and came to the place called Cat Village.

The reason why it is called "cat village" is such a cold name, I arrived after I deeply realized, it turned out that the cat village road is blocked and difficult to travel, "cats will not come here to", we got off the military vehicle and walked forward two kilometers on foot, an hour later than the reservation time to arrive at this village.

It was nearly noon.

To be honest, the village is not big, but it is quite clean. When we arrived, the 23 people in Miao Village had already received the "news" and were waiting for the arrival of our soldiers.

The village chief of the Miao village is very old, and he is the only "high-talent student" who studied in primary school before the 90s, and the old man was also very excited when he saw us guys, and hurriedly brought us bowls of hot soup to catch us, and at the same time praised us for our hard work in not very neat Chinese.

Seeing that the villagers were so enthusiastic, we couldn't push anything, so a few station soldiers picked up the bowls...... But no one dared to drink it.

Among my comrades-in-arms, I was the last to serve the bowl, and I felt strange about everyone's expressions before, but when I picked up the bowl, I didn't dare to drink it.

Because everyone saw at this time that the bowl was nothing else, but an authentic bowl...... Hot Cow Blood!

I know by feeling that this thing must be entertaining distinguished guests, but the problem is that looking at the bright red bubbling blood soup, each of us is frightened by the choking smell of blood.

Among the comrades-in-arms, Baturu was the most fierce in the number of fierce seafood baturu, this Mongolian recruit had not yet eaten Gu in white at that time, and it was the "heyday" period when he saw meat and raw food.

Baturu's eyes lit up and he howled, "Yi and Bai Yirila!" "And then it was dry.

He was so happy that there were only a few of us left, not people inside and out.

In the end, I took the lead, and everyone pinched their noses and drank a small half bowl, which passed the first level.

After receiving the wind, I recited some slogans and impromptu speeches on the situation of the military and civilians as usual, and then handed over the funds, textbooks, clothes and other things to the village chief to support the catfuck village, and then began to clean the village inside and outside and repair the cowshed.

During this period, we were once again shocked by the poverty of the entire cat poop village.

In the words of the Han Dynasty, the four walls of the house are the most embarrassing realm, but in the cat, I really saw people who did not even have four walls, some people actually lived in a shack with only three logs, and each household in the village basically only had three electrical appliances, namely radios, light bulbs and flashlights. Other than that, it seems that the only contact with the outside world in the village is the village chief's phone and a broken cell phone with an intermittent signal.

The soldiers were a little sad and cried when they saw it, and probably because of this, we worked very hard that time, and we did our best to help the cat village do some infrastructure work within our ability.

After the task was completed, I looked at my watch and suddenly it didn't feel right.

At that time, it was already six o'clock, but according to the agreement between us and the company, they should have sent a car to pick us up as early as half past five, why was there no movement at six o'clock? It's weird, isn't it?

In desperation, I asked for a military telephone from the communications corps, and after calling several times, I learned a very embarrassing reality from the instructor on duty in the company.

Because the cat village is too remote, we even sent to pick us up the car broke down on the way, because of the signal isolation, the car has not been found until now, and now everyone is busy looking for the car, so they don't care about picking us up.

So the instructor ordered us to stay put. At most, tomorrow, no more than the day after tomorrow, pick us up.

After a wry smile, I hung up the phone, explained the situation roughly to my comrades, and then went to the village chief to discuss the matter of staying overnight.

At that time, the village chief heard that we were going to spend the night, and his face was a little embarrassed, and he told me in broken Chinese: "You can spend the night, but there is one thing to remember!" In the middle of the night, you must not go out. ”

"Why?!" I didn't even want to ask.