After the comparison, I suddenly found that the sea bass in my hand is indeed a little different.

The problem is in the eyes of the fish.

At the prompting of the old squad leader, I carefully compared the fish in my hand with the other four fish, and suddenly found that my fish's eyes were blood-red.

In particular, the two "pupils" of the fish are even more red, like two small red lights, and like the legendary red elixir.

Life experience has taught me that no matter what color or species of fish it is, when it is cooked and served, the color of the eyes will change to a beautiful milky white. It's the first time I've seen these red eyes.

At that time, I didn't understand what this meant, so I could only stretch out my hand, point to the fish's eye beads, and say to the old squad leader: "This strange cautious person with red eyes is ...... I'm going to gouge out that eye and put it back on? No one can tell! ”

"Hey!" When the old squad leader heard my little Jiujiu, he was a little crying and laughing, at that time, he waved at me and said: "Xiao Tian, the fish eyes are still bloody after steaming, do you understand what this means?" ”

Faced with the old squad leader's questioning, I had to shake my head helplessly and said, "I don't understand the squad leader, you can tell me about it." ”

"That's right! This fish has red eyes, why can't it be eaten? Zhao Hong, who was next to me, also echoed at the same time, and like me, waited for the old squad leader's answer with expectant eyes.

The old squad leader's answer made the two of us stunned, even inexplicable.

Lao Ban told us: "Oda...... There are some things that I, as a soldier, should say, don't let me make mistakes...... Just do what I tell you to do, don't ask so much. ”

The old squad leader's words became more and more stiff, and in the end, they had become a typical commanding tone.

The original cheerful atmosphere on Chinese New Year's Eve was completely frozen because of the old squad leader's answer.

Zhao Hong and I exchanged colors, and suddenly felt the seriousness and weirdness of this matter. And since the leader has said this, we naturally can't be stubborn about anything.

In mixed feelings, I nodded. But in my heart, I didn't realize the seriousness of the problem.

I just thought, this fish is gone, the company commander can't explain it, and it will take half a day to make a new fish.

At this time, the old squad leader may have seen my thoughts, so he pointed to the back door of the cooking class and said, "You two go together, go to eat after throwing the fish, and leave the rest to me." If there is no sea bass, there will be no carp? When I turned around and asked, I was in charge. Yes! And ......"

When the old squad leader said this, he suddenly lowered his voice and specially instructed: "Don't throw this fish around, let alone bury it in the camp." Throw it away, take it to the back mountain shooting range, and dig a three-foot deep pit. Don't bring in those 'black-faced men'! ……”

"Huh?" I replied with a disappointed look on my face. And I felt heartily broken by the last order of the old squad leader.

The so-called 'black-faced lang' refers to wild boars.

At that time, the location of our military camp was in the mountains of Guizhou, and in addition to the highway in the south, there were mountains covered with bamboos on three sides. Because the environment is good, there are occasional golden cats and wild boars in the forest. Some of the brave ones will even run to the barracks to steal vegetables to eat.

Therefore, when we dispose of these fishy edible garbage, we have to stay away from the barracks in order to prevent the wild boars from being brought in.

The old squad leader's order was originally justified, but the key issue is that today is Chinese New Year's Eve! Who will go to the shooting range on Chinese New Year's Eve?

Besides, the shooting range is not "clean"!

I've heard veterans and mountain people say that the shooting range behind the barracks was a mass grave before liberation, and they were shot counter-revolutionaries when they were ****! Not to mention at night, even during the day, we all walked around. This Chinese New Year's Eve let me go there once, and it gives me a headache just thinking about it!

In fact, now that I think about it, my worries about the night back then were not so much "fear" as a psychological imbalance. However, muttering in my heart, since the squad leader gave the order, the two of us can only complete it.

The army is like this, just as the so-called three major disciplines and eight points of attention, the first of which is to obey orders and listen to commands. After all, he is a soldier, and there are not so many crooked things, whether he is afraid or not, he has to complete the task.

Later, Zhao Hong and I went to the shooting range with a sapper shovel according to the instructions of the old squad leader.

It took nearly ten minutes from the cooking class to the Houshan shooting range, but when Zhao Hong and I were halfway there, we couldn't open our legs.

Under the double blow of hunger and tiredness, Zhao Hong and I have lost the fighting spirit that we usually have. And in the darkness of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the deep and shallow advance accelerated the patience of the two of us.

The most important thing is that we still have a fragrant sea bass in our hands, and we can't eat it yet! How can it not be covetous.

In the end, Zhao Hong and I really didn't want to go, and the two recruits summed up a little in the vegetable field outside the barracks, and they both felt that instead of burying this fish in the shooting range and cheapening those wild boars and wild cats, it was better to destroy it on the spot, bury it in the flower beds in the camp, dig the pit deeper, and it would be fine.

In doing so, I will not only run away less, but also be able to fill in the greenery for national defense construction, so why not do it.

In this way, after the two of us had summed up, we both started with all our might, digging a deep pit with a sapper shovel, and only then did we bury the broken fish that had caused us great trouble, and then we helped each other back in the night.

On the way back, an inexplicable feeling suddenly rose in my heart.

I feel aggrieved.

After all, since I joined the army, everything has not been smooth, and I finally survived until the New Year, but I was inexplicably called out by the old squad leader to bury some dead fish, seeing that other comrades-in-arms were eating and drinking, but I shivered in the cold wind on Chinese New Year's Eve, how could I not touch the scene?

At that moment, I felt more wronged than Dou E. And the feeling of hunger became more and more intense, so that with every step I took, my stomach would involuntarily "protest"!

But just when I felt that my spirit was a little trance, I suddenly smelled an inexplicable smell of meat.

At this time, I silently followed the smell of meat, and my eyes were on my hands.

At this time, I suddenly realized that my right hand, which I had been holding the sea bass, was stained with fat sea bass ointment. At the same time, I suddenly remembered that the sea bass I threw away was the strongest and fattest of the five, and the oily soup and silver-white tender meat that had just come out of the pot had already made me salivate.

Under the attack of hunger, I was almost completely captured by the taste between my fingers.

At that time, I really wanted to taste the taste of fish oil between my fingers without losing face!

But fortunately, at the last moment, I held back, because the serious look of the old squad leader let me know that there was definitely something wrong with this fish.

If you are a soldier, you will not deceive people!

Later, I resisted the temptation, wiped the fish oil off my right hand, and rushed back to the cafeteria, just in time for the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, although the meal was already a little cold, but I still caught up with the company commander's toast.

During the banquet, I specially went to the dining table of the military martyrs' families to see, I was stunned to find that the seat lacking a sea bass was replaced by a steamed carp of the old squad leader, I specially tasted the taste of the steamed carp, but found that the carp made by the old squad leader actually made the deliciousness of the sea bass!

Later, our lives returned to peace, and the matter of burying fish was quickly forgotten.

Little did I know that I was about to die.

In the first few days after the New Year, we went out to exercise, cook, and be on duty as usual, and no one ever mentioned what happened on Chinese New Year's Eve again.

Until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year

On that day, I was not responsible for being on duty, so as usual, I participated in the company's morning exercises.

According to the rules of the cooking class. I got up at 6:30 in the morning, first ran a five-kilometer run with the company commander, and then I could move freely, and after eating breakfast, the personnel of our cooking squad would go to prepare the lunch meal.

But I didn't expect that day, when I opened my eyes, I felt discomfort all over my body, especially my throat, which was sticky and dry, and the worst thing was that I always felt itchy in my throat, which was that strange itching.

I can't describe the feeling, for example, it's like something is going to crawl out of my neck.

At first, I didn't take it to heart, after all, since the Spring Festival, the tasks of the cooking class have been relatively heavy, and it is normal to occasionally feel sick or something. At that time, I didn't think much about it, I took some medicine and went out with the army.

To my surprise, however, my condition quickly deteriorated.

As the run began, the pain in my throat and stomach intensified and quickly worsened.

In the end, I couldn't hold on anymore, and after running less than a kilometer, I squatted under a bamboo on the side of the road and threw up.

Along with my vomiting, I could smell a pungent fishy smell coming out of my throat like a sea! My eyes were full of gold stars, my legs were weak, my face was covered with dense "wool sweat", and the things in front of me gradually blurred.

At this time, all my comrades-in-arms who saw that I was not in good health surrounded me, and their comrades-in-arms supported my body at the first time.

At that time, thanks to their timely help, I didn't fall headlong.

After everyone helped me sit down against the bamboo, I gradually recovered.

But when I regained my consciousness in my vague mind, I found that my comrades-in-arms around me were looking at me with strange faces, and the look in my eyes was like pins and needles.

At this time, Zhao Hong pushed my body and asked me stumblingly: "Tian Buer, what unclean things have you eaten recently!" ”

At that time, I was too weak to speak, so I could only shake my head sluggishly.

After that, Zhao Hong stretched out his hand and pointed at the puddle of filth that I spit out, and his eyes widened and he said in fear: "Then look at what you spit out?" ”

Looking at Zhao Hong's frightened expression, I instinctively bowed my head.

When I saw what I was spitting out, I chuckled in my heart! If it weren't for the deputy company commander's support, I would definitely faint again!