Chapter 8: Entering the Barracks
The scholar is also very smart, he knows how to converge, after all, this is the ranks of the national army, not the ranks of the Red Party.
Seeing that Xia Yuan had some admit, the scholar's eyes faintly revealed a trace of excitement, and he muttered in a low voice: "Are you all pretending to be stupid?" Yes, it must be like this, in this world, pretending to be stupid may be able to live longer. ”
The scholar's brain supplement was something Xia Yuan didn't expect, but it gave him an excuse for a sudden improvement, of course, it was just an excuse other than the sudden beating of his head.
The young commander led them to the side of the small river ditch, where there was a pit dug by the national army, waist-deep, and the young commander said, "You only have ten minutes." ”
Several people took off their clothes and jumped into the pit.
"Hey, that's so comfortable." Old man Wang picked up the water and sprinkled his face, with a satisfied face, and after washing for a while, he shouted: "Monkey, come and rub my back." ”
Grabbed a round stone and stuffed it into the monkey's hand, this waist-deep water is a little reluctant for the monkey, and he walked over with great effort, took the stone and looked at it, the surface of the stone is smooth, and there are some potholes on the back, which is very suitable for rubbing the bath stone.
The scholar pestered Xia Yuan, he found that Xia Yuan's cultural level was really not ordinarily high, all his questions, Xia Yuan could answer them, and for a while, the scholar admired Xia Yuan incomparably.
Old man Wang enjoyed the service of the monkey, and looked at Xia Yuan, who was entangled with the scholar, "Big, why are you entangled with this stuffy gourd, come here, I'll let the monkey rub you in a bath." ”
Xia Yuan picked up the water and splashed it on his body, washed away the yellow mud on his body, and shook his head: "No need, hurry up and wash it." ”
Rejecting Old Man Wang's kindness, Xia Yuan grabbed a handful of sand and rubbed it on his body, and the graininess of the sand could also rub off the mud on his body.
"Come up, change into your uniforms, and I'll take you to the barracks now."
Ten minutes later, the commander on the shore shouted to them.
"Hey, monkey, come here, you wear this small one, and give the big one to the big one."
Old man Wang glanced at the military uniform on the monkey's body, his trouser legs were dragged to the ground, and he acted as the big brother in the team, after all, the team belonged to his elders, and everyone didn't say anything, but whether to listen to Old Man Wang's words or not, the choice was still in their hands.
Only the monkey will listen to the old man.
The military uniform of the national army is grass green, the bullet bag, the marching kettle have not been issued, the clothes are a little worn, and even some places are worn, when the old man Wang wore them, he also found that the clothes had holes, and the young commander said: "These clothes have been in the warehouse for too long, and some have been bitten by rats, so you can make do with them." ”
Old man Wang nodded and said, "It's not in the way, it's not in the way, it's cool to wear." ”
This dress was much better than the burlap gown they had worn before, and it didn't spicy on the body.
Xia Yuan touched the hole in his chest, which was just the size of a bullet penetrating, he had been on the battlefield, these people had never been on the battlefield, and they didn't know the source of the hole in the clothes on their bodies.
Most likely, it was taken off from the dead people, and they were washed casually, and they were dressed, and there was a big smell on the clothes, and these people had not even touched the guns, let alone gone to the battlefield, so they naturally did not recognize the source of these clothes.
The sky gradually darkened, and it was difficult to see the condor trained by the soldiers on the playground, and the battalion commanders were stationed on the mountains and fields, and if they walked forward, it was a big city, and they had been nesting in the ravines and ravines for half their lives, and they didn't know what the city in front of them was called.
The young commander led them to the tent where they slept, a freshly erected straw hut with a few worn-out bedding lying on it, and there was a strange smell on it.
"If it's dirty, you can take it to the river over there to wash, but you can't go out without permission, tell me, I'll take you there."
The young commander did not leave, and told them some rules in the barracks: "Don't think about escaping, once you are caught, you will not only be punished corporarily, but also poisoned, once you are injured, there is no medicine to use on you, whether you can live or not, you can only leave it to fate." ”
Seeing that everyone was silent and looked at himself with a pair of big eyes, the young commander continued: "Here, obeying orders is something you must master, don't think about talking back to the commander, let alone disobeying orders, the commanders don't like soldiers who disobey orders, if they are sick, they have to save money to go to the doctor, don't treat the army as your home, look for the army for everything, after all, the army raises so many people, it is impossible to take care of all of you, hear it." ”
"Yes~" The assembly is weak.
They don't care about that, they care about when they can eat.
"Sir, when will we be able to eat, starve to death." A strong man asked cautiously.
"Wait."
The young chief glanced at him, a little dissatisfied, and turned away.
These strong men from the countryside are full of food, and they don't care about anything other than eating. There were a lot of strong men in the army, most of them were like them, at first some people would beat them, but there were too many people coming, and the first sentence was when they could eat, and gradually no one would fight.
When they get to the training ground, naturally someone will teach them a lesson.
After about half an hour, several people were lying on the futon, some resting with their eyes closed, and some chatting.
Two soldiers of the national army walked in outside the straw shed, carrying a wooden barrel, and one of them held a spoon in his hand and knocked on the wooden barrel, and the sound attracted everyone's attention.
"Old man Wang, it's time to eat, it's time to eat." The monkey almost jumped to his feet, lying on the barrel and glancing: "It's rice porridge!" White rice porridge! ”
When everyone heard this, they all stood up, leaned over, and saw the rice porridge in the wooden barrel, and their eyes, which were originally a little numb, suddenly brightened.
"Line up, line up!"
The national soldier holding the spoon knocked the monkey's head with a spoon, and a crisp sound sounded, and the monkey covered his head and quickly stood up.
Rice porridge in a wooden barrel, coarse grain cakes in a cloth pocket, and roasted wild vegetables, this is their dinner at night.
Rice porridge, a few grains of rice floating in the white soup, everyone eats with relish, there are not many coarse grain cakes, just one person, no chopsticks, everyone found a branch on the spot, and after being lame, he ate with wild vegetables, and devoured it.
The two soldiers of the national army looked at the gobbling up man with disgust, and one of them said: "Two bowls per person, you can't eat more, this is the rule above, if you didn't just join the company, there would be no white rice porridge." ”
"Grandpa Jun, you can do it, we haven't eaten for a few days, this little white rice porridge is like drinking water."
Old man Wang leaned over and put on a close-rope approach.
"! Say two bowls are two bowls, and after eating, they will be gone! Let's go, let's go down there, there are quite a few people here today. ”
"Grandpa Jun" Old Man Wang looked at the two people who left with the wooden barrels, pinched the wooden bowl in his hand with some disappointment, looked back, thought about it, and said, "Monkey, go, go out with me." ”
"Hey."
The monkey licked the rice grains in the bowl and went out with the old man Wang.
The slow scholar looked up, lowered his head and drank the soup in small sips, after the soup was drunk, there was only white rice in the bowl, he used chopsticks made of branches to eat the white rice in the bowl one by one into his mouth, turned his head and saw Xia Yuan lying on the bed and already asleep, so he took his bowl and stacked it with his own bowl.
After a while, the soldiers who collected the bowls came and took their bowls away.
The scholar simply lay on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but Old Man Wang and the monkey came back, the two of them were holding a handful of grass roots in their hands, and the monkey was still chewing one in their mouths.
In the hazy darkness, a strong man in the next village woke up, rubbed his eyes, saw the action of the monkey's mouth chewing, and couldn't help asking: "Monkey, monkey, what do you eat in your mouth?" ”
"Houttuynia cordata's roots, old sweet, do you want to eat it?" Said the monkey.
"Eat, why don't you eat." The man quickly got up.
Old man Wang smiled and pressed the monkey, and said to the man: "If you want to eat, you can eat, follow me in the future, and take you to find it every night, this thing is sweet, to ensure that you will not die of hunger." ”
The man thought for a while, and along the way, Old Man Wang's people were not bad, so he nodded and agreed.
The old man asked the monkey to throw the root of Houttuynia cordata to the man.
Houttuynia cordata has a root that resembles sugar cane, but it is small, slightly sweet to chew, and can replenish trace amounts of water and sugar. Old man Wang didn't know where he got it, so he had a handful in his hand. However, Old Man Wang's real purpose is to be big.
The big one is one meter eight tall, is the tallest among them, the fight is absolutely not worthwhile, in the village, the old man Wang knows how to form a gang, but unfortunately he can't fight the landlord bullies, no way, the landlord bullies have guns, they are just farmers, but now it's different, to the army, they also have the opportunity to touch the gun, if they can put the big one over, when the time comes, they can't fight the chief, but they can fight other people.
If there are more and more people, it will not be too much of a problem to overturn the chief in the future.
Xia Yuan opened his eyes, listened to Old Man Wang's plan, and couldn't help but sneer, this Old Man Wang is also stupid and cute, using the rural gang and faction in the army, it is too simple, many people in the army have died on the battlefield, and those soldiers and commanders have not crawled out of the pile of corpses, and those soldiers and commanders have died, just rely on your Houttuynia cordata.
Xia Yuan ignored Old Man Wang, turned over and continued to sleep.
With his crossing, the weakened body gradually recovered, and it would take at least three days to return to its peak state, and it would take a process to recover, and the body would not be able to bear it if he stuffed it into this already thin body, and the most critical point was that with the improvement of his physical fitness, he needed a lot of food.
When his physical fitness recovered, Xia Yuan planned to no longer hide his strength.
failed to accept the big one, and the old man Wang was somewhat disappointed, "The big man is so good, it's not as easy to deceive as before." ”
The monkey asked with some curiosity: "Old man Wang, what's wrong with the big one?" I don't listen to you anymore. ”
"My head is good." Old man Wang said: "Big man is tall, I think there are few people in our military camp who can grow to the level of a big man, and the fight must be very strong." ”
The monkey scratched his head, not understanding what Old Man Wang meant.
Old man Wang rubbed the monkey's head, turned over, and said, "Sleep." ”
One night, when I woke up, I was fighting wits and courage with mosquitoes, and no one had a good night's sleep.
Following.
As soon as the sky was hazy, the platoon commander rushed in with people, lifted the bedding on their bodies, and kicked them with his feet, "Get up, get up, hurry up, give you a minute, line up for me to stand at the door, if I can't see your people later, today's breakfast will be gone." ”
Xia Yuan slept very lightly, and when the platoon leader came in, he woke up, folded the futon, and stood at the foot of the bed.
The platoon commander glanced at Xia Yuan's big man, nodded to him, and turned around and left with the people.
Old man Wang rubbed his eyes, turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, who was standing in a fixed position, and was a little surprised: "Big man, you woke up really early, call us next time." ”
Xia Yuan nodded calmly, these people all came out of the same place with him, they can help, as for whether they can survive on the battlefield in the future, it depends on their ability.
"There's still a minute to go, so hurry up." He turned his head to look at the scholar who was looking for his eyes, walked to the bucktooth in the next village with an expressionless face, and said, "Glasses." ”
I don't know why, everyone who slept all day felt that Xia Yuan seemed to have become different.
Bucktooth laughed, took out his glasses from under him, and said, "Just kidding the scholar." ”
"Don't take it as an example." Xia Yuan walked up to the scholar with his glasses and threw them to him.
"Thank you." When the scholar put on his glasses, he felt that the world in front of him was much clearer.
Old man Wang's face is a little not good-looking, the bucktooth was just collected by him last night, this morning Xia Yuan gave the bucktooth a dismount, the old man Wang's face can see where it goes, laughed dryly, and said with a smile: "The big one is good, don't take it as an example!" ”
After the big one went out, the smile on Old Man Wang's face disappeared and said, "Did you see the platoon commander's eyes looking at the big one?" It's obviously optimistic about the big one, you have to pay attention, a little bit of eye. ”
"The big one has become smarter, but he has also become fiercer." Said the monkey.
"It doesn't matter, when you have a gun, it doesn't matter if he's strong or not, you can still be killed with one shot." Old man Wang bared his big yellow teeth and spitted: "We are all from the same village, we have to hug each other, don't let people bully us." ”
"Old man Wang, don't you care about the big one?" Bucktooth's face is not very good-looking, a big fool, he actually scared himself, and it was a bit embarrassing to say it.
The most important thing is that the eldest is only in his early twenties, and he is almost thirty years old, so let a stinky boy scare him, and his face can see where he goes.
"No matter what, how good can he and the scholar be, we have to behave well, and when the platoon commander is optimistic about us, we are looking for an opportunity to clean them up, they are afraid of us, and they will join us."
Old man Wang looks very kind when he laughs, but there are a few people in the village who can fight with the landlord who are good at stubble.