Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (31)

Let the guards prepare their horses and ride to the division headquarters.

Hearing Mo Di's order, Huang Guilin, the commander of the guard company, was happy, and there was a good highway from Tiantianji to Tangchijia, and he went north along the Yaqian River. When the division headquarters came to Tangchi, they specially repaired this section of the road, widened the road, and paved it with gravel, and the car walked on it at a slow speed. The wild supplement group successfully robbed gasoline at Dalongshan Airport, and for a time gasoline became the most indispensable material in Yuexi. After receiving a notice from the General Staff, the guard company had prepared the car early, and waited for the regimental adults to set off.

Riding a horse is riding, after the beginning of spring, the rain has not arrived, the sun is shining, although it has not yet reached the season of spring, but it is also very refreshing. Huang Guilin arranged a guard squad, personally led the team, and set off with Mo Di.

Seeing Huang Guilin, Mo Di was a little surprised, this guy, he rarely met after winter, knowing that he was borrowed by the Yuexi County Government as the commander-in-chief of road construction in winter, if it wasn't for this large-scale transportation of oil barrels, he should still be in the highway headquarters from Heaven to Wuhe. Mo Di smiled and asked, "How is Guilin free?" No more roads? ”

"This place in Yuexi, I don't work during the New Year, I don't start construction until I get out of the Yuanxiao Highway, there's nothing to do there, I'll come back." Huang Guilin said: "The guard company has Li Lian Deputy to take care of, and I can't intervene when I come back, so it's better to accompany you to the division headquarters, and you can also take a hot spring by the way." ”

Mo Di knows that this Li Lian deputy was recommended to him by Li Pinhe, director of the party department of Yuexi County, Li Xiaoshen, Li Pinhe's nephew, Cangwu Li, Li Pinxian ranked fifth, Li Pinhe ranked eighth, this Li Xiaoshen is the second son of the second son of the Li family, a graduate of the regular class of the sixth branch of the Central Military Academy, and found Li Pinxian after coming to Anhui. Faintness can last a lifetime. Unexpectedly, Li Pinxian was directly recommended to Mo Di, and Mo Di's opinion of this Li Xiaoshen was the same as Li Pinxian, and he arranged the position of deputy company commander of the guard company. I didn't expect this Li Xiaoshen to be very suitable for the post of commander of the guard company, he couldn't manage the big things, but he was extremely concerned about the small things, from the tidiness of the barracks to the sanitation of the room, no matter how big or small, in order. After Huang Guilin was taken away, the guard company became his world, and Huang Guilin was unwilling to come back, he was really put in space.

Riding on a horse, slowly heading north, the branches of the trees with dead leaves have not yet budded, the mountain is yellow, and there is white snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, shining white in the sun. On the road, there are a lot of pedestrians coming and going, the Spring Festival is not over, the face is still with the joy of the festival, the big girl is wearing flower clothes, wearing a red headscarf, huddled together in twos and threes, and a smile is a bell. The naughty little boy has a stick in his hand, and a few leftover firecrackers for the New Year in his pocket, which are set off from time to time, startling the big girls and blowing up the hens lying on the side of the road basking in the sun. Huang Guilin followed closely behind Mo Di, a horse head behind, Mo Di asked him to come up and walk in a row, so that he could talk, so he got closer. Mo Di smiled and said: "Don't talk about that Li Xiaoshen, he is more suitable than you to be the commander of the guard company, you have expertise, he has no expertise, to insist on saying that he has a little expertise is nosy." ”

Huang Guilin nodded, he didn't graduate from a military academy, he studied a normal school, he was loose in Xu Ping's side before, it doesn't matter if he arrives, after arriving in Yuexi, the standard military camp life makes him very uncomfortable, especially under Li Xiaoshen's strict requirements, it is even more annoying, these two months, I have been taking to repair the road for two months, and I have lived a leisurely life for two months, although I am tired, but there is no control of the military camp, it is better to be free and free.

"Guilin, are you interested in moving to the government?" Mo Di asked: "I think that with your ability, being the director of the highway bureau of Yuexi County is far more promising than being the commander of the guard company." ”

When I came to Anhui and served as a soldier for a few years, the enthusiastic young people in the normal school had long been exhausted, and their interest in being a soldier and fighting a war had faded a lot. Hearing Mo Di talk about this topic, Huang Guilin subconsciously expressed his thoughts: "I think so." It's just that he is an official in Yuexi, can he be transferred back to Guilin in the future? If you can't transfer back to Guilin, you will have to stay in this place for the rest of your life. ”

"You're thinking too far!" Mo Di said: "It is not easy to return to Guilin, become an ordinary middle school teacher, or follow Zhang Yongfa to do business, without a guide, and want to become the director of the bureau all of a sudden." It's different here, the connections are good, the starting point is high, the county magistrate and the provincial governor are their own people, at least they can speak. In Guilin, I don't know how your family is, although our family has a distant relative of the county magistrate, but in a sixth-class small county like Baishou, the county magistrate is not as good as a township chief outside. Not to mention whether you can work in Yuexi for a lifetime, that is, when you return to Guilin in the future, you have the experience of being a bureau chief, and it is easier to find a government position. I estimate that Director Wei Yongcheng will not stay in the 21st Group Army for too long, and will soon be transferred to the government circle. ”

Huang Guilin nodded.

The horse walked very slowly, chatted all the way, walked for an hour for twelve miles, almost the same as usual, and arrived at the division headquarters by noon. With the guard squad, I found a restaurant in Tangchifu, dealt with a lunch of lunch, and then went to the hot spring to soak for an hour, and after three o'clock in the afternoon, Mo Di appeared in front of the division department.

At this time, Tan Heyi was already restless.

The entire headquarters of the 176th Division was also in extreme tension, and everyone performed their duties, cautiously and carefully, and did not dare to speak loudly, or even walk loudly. Qin Jishi, the director of the logistics department, who had nothing to do with the operation, also felt stuffy in the house, so he walked outside the door and found a stone pier to sit and smoke.

"Lao Qin, is this specially waiting for me outside the door?" Mo Di smiled.

Qin Jishi raised his head, looked at Mo Di in front of him, stood up suddenly, and said a little blamefully: "Ouch, boss, why did you arrive, Senior Commander Tan is going crazy." ”

"Why? Hungry? Mo Di smiled.

Qin Jishi took out a pack of cigarettes and handed one to Mo Di, Mo Di took it, put it under his nose and smelled it, and then handed it back to Qin Jishi, Qin Jishi took the cigarette and said, "Really don't smoke?" ”

"No, I coughed." Mo Di said: "What is the division commander crazy about? ”

"I heard that it was for the adjustment of the Japanese puppet army in Hefei and Anqing, and the army asked for a response plan this afternoon, and the chief of staff Li Xuan made two drafts, and the division seat was not satisfied, and he didn't eat lunch, and he has been discussing and studying." Qin Jishi said.

"Didn't eat at noon? Hungry can discuss something. Mo Di smiled and asked, "You won't be hungry too, will you?" ”

"Follow!" Qin Jishi said: "The division commander didn't say that he would eat, who would dare to eat privately." Have you eaten it? ”

Mo Di nodded: "After eating, I went to take a bath in the hot spring over there, thinking that the division headquarters would also work and rest normally, but who knew that it had entered a wartime state." You don't go to get something to eat, I'll accompany you to eat, and after an hour of soaking in the hot springs, my stomach is a little empty. ”

"You're not going in?" Qin Jishi asked in surprise.

"Why should I go in at this time?" Mo Di smiled: "The military department wants them to come up with a plan, they are in a hurry, if I go in, I will be the one who helps them come up with a plan, I don't want to make myself the one who is in a hurry." ”

"Didn't the master call you here to make you come up with an idea?" Qin Jishi didn't understand.

"The master called me here to ask me to take the responsibility of causing trouble." Mo Di said with a smile: "In the eyes of some people in the group army, it was because we went to the Dalongshan airfield to deal with the Japanese that we brought this unwarranted disaster to the 21st Group Army. The division didn't want to take on this responsibility, and Li Shenzuo couldn't understand the meaning of the division, so five more coping plans would not satisfy the division. ”

Qin Jishi couldn't close it with his mouth open, and he made a mistake in beating devils, there is also this kind of thing!

Leaving the gate of the division headquarters with Mo Di, he turned a corner, there was a small shop, Qin Jishi was very familiar with this place, and as soon as he entered the door, he ordered two bowls of pot soup, and after a while, two bowls of fragrant and red pot soup were served. Mo Enemy looked, happy, this thing is good, the pot left over from cooking, burned golden in the pot, and then poured on the soup, made into a big bowl, and then look at the soup, very creative, yellow cowpeas, crispy radish, red peppers, white bright shallots, plus pickles, sheep's beard and ginger, delicious with delicacies, make people swallow. Mo Di ate a piece of the pot and tasted the strange taste soaked in the pot, but he heard a loud noise on the other side, and when he looked up, Qin Jishi was no longer half a bowl.

After eating the pot soup, finding a toothpick, picking the shredded green onions between the teeth, Mo Di followed Qin Jishi into the division headquarters.

Seeing Mo Di, Tan Heyi's face was obviously relaxed, and the expression of Chief of Staff Li Xuan was no longer relaxed, but a longing.

"Just arrived?" Tan Heyi asked.

"Well, just arrived." Mo Di said: "I was hungry, and I happened to meet Director Qin at the door and begged him to take me to eat a bowl of pot soup." ”

Hearing the word pot soup, a colic came out of the stomachs of all the people in the division headquarters.

Tan Heyi recalled that he hadn't eaten lunch either, waved his hand, and said, "Everyone is hungry, go eat some first, and then do research later, today, you must report the plan to the military department." ”

It was estimated that the people in the division headquarters were starving, and they scattered with a bang, and ran straight to the gang, including Jiang Chunyang, director of the Political Department, and Li Xuan, chief of staff. When everyone passed by Mo Di's side, they all cast grateful eyes, if it weren't for him, I don't know how long this hunger would last. Jiang Chunyang stood still in front of Mo Di and said, I will talk to you when I am full, and he will disappear like a gust of wind. In the end, Tan Heyi was left, and he originally wanted to say a few words to Mo Di, but he threw a few manuscripts at hand to Mo Di and said, you take a look at this first, and I will also go eat something.

The division headquarters, which was still crowded a minute ago, was suddenly empty, there were only two Mo Di and Qin Jishi, you look at me, I look at you, and laughed in unison.