The three of them walked down the road.

On the soft red mud road, footprints were stepped on.

The village would be empty, and there would be no one in sight.

Only plainly dressed children chased and played.

Lin Hui and the three of them walked forward along the gravel road, and there was a rustling sound on the ground.

Walking across a small bridge paved with bluestone slabs, this bridge does not know how many years it has been built and how much wind and sun it has experienced.

The armrests are already covered with moss.

The water is murmuring under the bridge.

After crossing the bridge, there is the heart of the village in front of you.

Lin Hui looked around, and there was a path on the left and right in front of him.

The houses were built one after the other along the road leading to the mountains.

Most of these houses are made of stone and brick, which is very local, but there are also some shadows of rural bungalows.

There are cement poles two or three meters high erected on the side of the road.

Old wires hung on it.

Seeing the propaganda slogans on the wall promoting family planning and prohibiting logging, the three of them all looked at each other and smiled.

Wang Yong touched his chin: "It's even more backward than my family, and it's really in the mountains." ”

Chen Erhu shook his head: "I think the scenery here is very good, better than ours, it would be good if I could live here." ”

Wang Yong rolled his eyes: "What a hammer!" You see, there's nothing to do, there's no concrete road. ”

He pointed around: "Look at every household, let alone the cauldron, there is not even an old-fashioned antenna, but we also have a black and white TV set at home." ”

"It is estimated that there are many people, and there are few electrical appliances at home."

Lin Hui waved his hand: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, find out where the old squad leader's house is first." ”

The three of them continued to walk forward and happened to see an old woman washing clothes by the river.

The water was clear, and the old woman was beating her clothes with a stick.

Lin Hui took a deep breath, and his nose was filled with the fresh smell of river water.

He hurriedly walked over to say hello: "Auntie, may I ask, do you know where Xu Da's family lives?" ”

"Huh?"

The old woman babbled a lot, but no one understood.

The three of them were full of question marks, and Chen Erhu asked, "What did she say?" ”

Lin Hui: "It seems to be a dialect." ”

Wang Yong looked confident: "I'll tell her!" ”

He walked over with a smile and gestured at the old lady from top to bottom, and the old woman was directly stunned.

"Fuck off!" Lin Hui dragged him aside: "Do you treat others as deaf and mute, what kind of things are you comparing to, even I can't understand them, can people understand them?" ”

"I'm coming!"

The two looked at him seriously and walked over, and Lin Hui asked with a smile on his face, "Old Lailai, ...... me Guys...... Si troop drop ganhUO......"

The two of them were speechless: "Brother Hui, are you not as good as us?" ”

The corners of Lin Hui's mouth twitched, and he found that the old lady looked at him like a fool.

He sighed helplessly: "Forget it, give up, the language is not understood, let's find a young man to ask." ”

Just when he saw a group of children chasing and running over, he hurriedly waved and shouted: "Little pot friend." ”

But the children just squinted at them, ignored them at all, and continued to play with themselves.

The three of them immediately went up and surrounded them, and a group of children looked at him in horror.

Wang Yong smiled and said, "Little pot friend, don't be afraid. ”

The children all blinked and stared at them as if they didn't understand.

Lin Hui frowned slightly: "Don't you understand?" ”

Chen Erhu scratched his head: "Don't the locals learn Mandarin?" ”

Wang Yong nodded and analyzed: "There is this possibility, these children have never been out of the mountains, nor have they gone to school, and it is normal that they can't speak Mandarin." ”

Lin Hui looked at them with some sympathy: "The children in the mountains are really miserable, there is no opportunity to go to school, there are too many places for our country to improve." ”

The two nodded: "Brother Hui, what should I do now, I can't teach them Mandarin on the spot, right?" ”

Lin Hui shook his head: "Forget it, we can only ask door to door, these people can't understand our words, and we can't understand them." ”

The two of them were just about to leave, when Lin Hui shouted, "Wait a minute." ”

He took out a bag of chocolates from his bag: "These children are also pitiful, they may not have eaten these things, so give them all, it can be regarded as ......"

"Chocolate!" A child suddenly screamed.

The other children also immediately came over, excited: "It's still Dove!" And white chocolate, this one is delicious! ”

Lin Hui and the three of them were all dumbfounded in an instant.

He stared at them blankly: "You can speak Mandarin?" ”

"Nonsense!" A child said angrily: "Are you stupid, what age are you, and there are still people who can't speak Mandarin?" ”

"Besides, we have a primary school here, and we also go to school!"

The three of them are full of black lines, you can speak Mandarin, don't say it early!

A group of children looked expectantly at the chocolates in his hands.

The corners of Lin Hui's eyes twitched, and he held something and shook it in front of their eyes: "As long as you tell me where Xu Da's family is, these will be given to you." ”

"Are you his enemies?" A child asked warily.

Lin Hui was speechless: "Look at my clothes, do you look like enemies, we are comrades-in-arms." ”

A group of children blinked and looked at the three of them: "Is it really his comrade-in-arms?" Didn't you come to trouble him? ”

Lin Hui and the three of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly, it seemed that they were wrong to blame this group of children.

The reason why they didn't speak was because they were protecting Xu Da.

This kind of vigilance is the same as that of a little soldier in battle.

It's much better than the kids in the city who grew up in honeypots and didn't have the slightest vigilance.

Lin Hui took out his documents, and the two of them hurriedly took out their documents: "Children, take a good look, we are all serious soldiers." ”

"We came to him because we were on vacation."

A few children stared at it, looking at it carefully.

The leading child smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry, we rarely come to outsiders, and Xu Da's family is over there." However, Brother Xu is not at home now and has gone to work in the fields. ”

Another child pointed in one direction and said, "The field is over there, and you have to go over the hill in front of you, just behind the mountain." ”

Lin Hui smiled and said thank you, and then gave them the chocolate.

The children didn't take it at all, and ran away with a smile: "Thank you, uncle, we have eaten chocolate, you can keep it for yourselves." ”

In the blink of an eye, a group of children laughed and ran for a long distance.

"Little bunny." Wang Yong next to him said with a smile.

Lin Hui looked at the backs of these children and sighed.

The children in the mountains are simple, they don't take advantage of them casually, and they don't take other people's things casually.

Their kind hearts are the most precious thing in this mountain, much cleaner than most adults.

"Let's go, let's go to the field to find the old squad leader."

"Okay."

The three of them followed the direction they had just pointed out and climbed over the mountain in front of them.

Walk all the way to the back of the village and climb over a hill.

Soon I saw a large area of terraced rice fields at the foot of a mountain.

There are people working in every field.

Chen Erhu suddenly realized: "No wonder I couldn't see anyone in the village just now, they were all busy working here?" ”

Lin Hui nodded: "This is the south, unlike ours, they can plant three crops a year, and now is the time for harvest, they must be busy." ”

Everyone nodded, and walked all the way down.

After walking for a while, everyone was stunned.

It's not easy to find Xu Da all at once.

Almost all of the people who were working in the fields were wearing military clothes.

But it is also somewhat inaccurate to say that it is a military uniform.

Because some people wear physical training uniforms, some wear summer clothes, and some wear autumn clothes.

In short, at a glance, there is green everywhere.

Lin Hui smiled slightly: "I finally know why when the old squad leader left, he brought so many old clothes back, and he dared to give a set to the people in the village?" ”

Wang Yong and Erhu glanced at each other, somewhat ashamed.

One of them just wants to go back with a military medal full of military merit to show off.

The other is to bring back the old military uniform to show off to Daddy.

But Xu Da brought his old clothes back to his hometown where he was born and raised, thinking of giving back more things to his father and fellow villagers.

Although they are all old clothes that no one wants, for the people in the mountains, these are precious thoughts and the most practical things.

Compared with Xu Da, their realm is too far behind.

"Three comrades." An old man walked over with a cow and asked with a smile, "Are you here to find Xu Da?" ”

The three of them nodded together, and Lin Hui asked, "Uncle, do you know where Xu Da is?" ”

"Well, you see." Uncle Nunu mouthed: "Isn't he the one who is the busiest in the field?" ”

The three of them turned their heads together to look over.

Sure enough, I saw a figure in a terraced field, and he was busy quickly.

The action is much faster than other busy people.

The old man smiled and said, "Dazi is really good, after coming back, not only did he send us a lot of things, but he also helped with the farm work in the whole village." ”

"If there are only old people in anyone's family, and there are no young adults, he will take care of all the work."

"Your troops are really good at cultivating talents."

The old man laughed and led the ox away.

The three of them turned their heads together to look at the hard-working figure in the distance, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and their eyes were a little inexplicably moist.

Xu Da has worked hard enough in the army in peacetime.

He has a straighter brain and is older, which leads to a lower physical fitness than others.

He has put in a lot more effort than anyone else to get to where he is today.

Originally, the holiday was for him to go home to rest, but he didn't expect to be so busy after he came back.

This labor intensity is no worse than the training in the army.

The three of them glanced at each other, then took a deep breath and ran towards him together: "Old squad leader! ”