Sitting on a small donkey cart pulling hay, the stuffy melon next to him lay on the somewhat dry and hard hay and covered his face with his hat, and he didn't make a sound for a long time. Wu Qi was stunned by the punch of the sullen melon, and it was an old man of the Korean nationality who drove the car, and he felt very strange when he saw it, so he asked him: "Young man, what's wrong with your eyes?" Did you get someone to beat it? ”

Wu Qi rubbed his eyes a little embarrassed and said, "I was crazy with others, but it ended up like this accidentally, nothing happened." ”

The terrain of Lao Ye Ling is undulating, with the highest peak in Jilin, generally speaking, to Lao Ye Ling, that is to Changbai Mountain. The nearest county town is more than ten kilometers away from Lao Ye Ling, but this is only a straight line distance, people who have lived in the mountains will know that the straight line distance in the mountains and forests often doubles, especially in the primeval forest covered by snow, the terrain is winding and steep, the strange rocks are craggy, climb a mountain that does not take a few steps to go downhill, the road ahead is basically like this, are hills of varying heights, and there are vertical fault layers, it is very difficult to walk.

Fortunately, this is the Korean Autonomous Prefecture, with a population of no less than one million, and when you climb out of the mountains, you can see farmhouse houses with roofs covered with a thick layer of snow, and occasionally you can see Koreans wearing Korean national costumes walking by the side of the mountains and forests with bamboo baskets on their backs, and you can see that both of them are soldiers and leave quickly.

The two walked a few hundred meters along the mountain path and happened to catch up with a small donkey cart behind them, an old man wearing a thick cotton jacket and a dogskin hat, with a face full of stubble, but kindly asked them if they were going out of the mountain, he happened to go to the south ridge of the Jiaohe River, if he stopped by the way, he would take them a little way.

Generally, the people in the countryside avoid the soldiers when they encounter them, and so many years of war have made them have an indelible fear of these people who wear military jackets, even after liberation. This place is the border between China and North Korea. Most of the people living there are Xian people, who can speak both Xian and Chinese, so communication is not a problem. There are some differences between this Xianhua and Korean, which are similar to the dialects of the north and south, but we all sound similar to it, and we are gurgling.

Walked so far in the mountains. It was not easy to climb out of the mountains, and they met well-wishers, so Wu Qi hurriedly said that he would stop by and let the old man take them for a ride.

Wu Qi sat on the donkey cart, looking sideways at the donkey's hooves stepping into the thick snow, walking unhurriedly, and couldn't help but be a little stunned, remembering the donkey cart in his hometown, but the donkey was obviously not as strong as the Northeast. He asked the old man with some curiosity: "Uncle, this donkey you are driving is strong enough, it is like that horse, how can you feed it?" ”

The old man listened to the music, piled up a layer of folds on his frozen red face, and said to Wu Qi with a grin: "Young man, you are not from the north, right?" I heard your accent because it looks like you're from Henan and Shaanxi, why are you still here to be a soldier? Not afraid of the cold? ”

Wu Qi hurriedly nodded and said, "I am from Lushi County, Henan." It was the troops who assigned me here. ”

The old man nodded somewhat incomprehensibly and said, "Oh! That's right! I've been to Shaanxi before, and I didn't have any ingredients when I ate noodles at other people's homes. It's a bowl of white noodles with a little salt at most, and this habit is really unacceptable for a while. Besides, my donkey was still a wild donkey in the mountains in the previous generation, this thing is pouting, and when I am not happy, I will roll all over the ground, but this thick-skinned, thick-legged and thick hooves are the most suitable for driving in the snowy days like ours. It's so much better than that car! ”

This old man is more talkative, and what he says sounds quite interesting, and Wu Qi is also a good listener, so he told the old man that he was not idle all the way. Through Guò Yitong's Hu Kan, Wu Qi knew that although the old man was a local, he was of the Han nationality. They live in the village they just passed by, and make a living by planting mountain and wild medicinal materials, and there are bundles of dried medicinal materials in the haystack behind the donkey cart they are making now, which is to be pulled to Jiaohe to find a medicine shop to sell, and they just happened to send Wu Qi and them to Nanling by the way.

Nanling is a county, under the jurisdiction of Jiaohe City, the population here is not large, but the geographical location is very special, so in the northwest of the county in the flat wilderness stationed a thousand troops, since the Korean armistice has been here, the melon said that they want to come to this army to find his leader, and then his task is completed. When Wu Qi heard him say that he was the leader, he naturally thought that it was Li Huan, but when he entered the military compound, he found that the person he said was not Li Huan.

The place where the troops are stationed is exactly a leeward mountain nest, surrounded by mountains on three sides is an open area, far away from the old man to see a wall built of more than two meters of bricks and stones, from the top of the wall there are also some roofs of houses, all of which are the same masonry structure, covered with wooden planks, there are more than 20 roofs exposed on the side of the wall alone, and it is estimated that there will be more in it, and I feel that the army will be stationed here for a long time.

When they were about to walk to the gate of the wall, the soldiers of the guard raised their hands at the two of them and saluted, Wu Qi also quickly stood up straight and saluted one and then was about to walk towards the courtyard, but was suddenly stopped by the guard with an outstretched arm, asking them which company they were in and why they went out.

Wu Qi was just about to say that he was from the Changbai Mountain outpost, but before he could say anything, he heard the stuffy melon walk forward from behind, and he didn't raise his eyes and said: "Liu Yan, the health officer of the third company and the first class, I was instructed by the company commander to transfer Comrade Wu Qi from the Laoyeling outpost in Changbai Mountain, and this is my ID." After speaking, he took out two documents from his pocket and handed them over, and the guard lifted the gun belt on his shoulder, tilted his body slightly, took the documents with some vigilant eyes, and turned them over.

Wu Qi was a little stunned, and subconsciously wiped it on his body, the place where the little red book was originally stored was actually empty, and then looked at the military ID cards opened in the guard's hand, one of them was indeed his own, and the other was written with an unfamiliar name "Liu Yan", and this one was like a sullen melon, wasn't he called Hong Tianfu? How did you become a member of the field army?

Looking at the stuffy melon, Wu Qi's stomach was full of questions, and he was just about to ask him what was the matter, but he saw that the guard closed the military ID card and handed it to the stuffy melon, and he didn't stop him when he stood back to the place just now, it seemed that he could enter. Before he could say this, he saw the stuffy gourd walk in with both hands, Wu Qi also walked in, and turned back to look at the two guards, and when there was no one around the door just after entering, he hurriedly took two more steps forward and grabbed the stuffy gourd, and asked him, "Your name is Liu Yan?" You, you're a hygienist? ”

The sullen melon turned around after being dragged and said expressionlessly: "What, isn't it like it?" Turning his head and continuing to walk forward, Wu Qi was still stunned and didn't come back to his senses. (To be continued......)