march to victory

"A piece of candy, do you want to do it?"

"No...you must get ten."

"Two."

"Ten."

"Okay, five, or I will make a deal, or I will bite you to death. You choose one."

"Six...six, no! Seven. Otherwise, I won't go if you kill me."

"make a deal!"

After Zhou Baoyu took the bowl and left, Qin Fang smiled and blinked at Zhang Qingshan, the meaning was obvious: Brother-in-law, look how smart I am!

"You! Stop bullying Baoyu in the future. He is one year younger than you, so it won't be easy!"

"I want you to take care of it!" Qin Fang glared at Zhang Qingshan dissatisfied with her brother-in-law's approaching outsiders.Seeing Zhang Qingshan shaking her head with a wry smile, she immediately smiled like a flower again. She pulled Zhang Qingshan's left arm and was about to say something, but suddenly heard Zhou Baoyu's roar after waking up: "It's still not right... Ah! Qin Fang! I Come to think of it, those toffees are also mine, why should you distribute them? Not to mention occupying my toffee, but also using it to threaten me, how can there be such a reason in the world..."

Qin Fang immediately closed her eyes with a smile, covered her mouth, and restrained herself from laughing with trembling body.

Zhang Qingshan and the others were all taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing.Even Zhou Ping, who was preparing a small fire kiln for everyone to warm their feet, laughed heartily.

Qin Fang smiled, but suddenly remembered something, immediately put down her hands, lay straight on the ground, looked at Zhang Qingshan with wide eyes, but closed her lips.

Alright, why are you lying tight all over your body?Zhang Qingshan felt strange, so he asked with a smile: "What's wrong with you?"

Qin Fang blinked her eyes, but didn't speak.

Zhang Qingshan was even more strange. He touched Qin Fang's forehead and then his own. He felt that Qin Fang didn't have a fever, so he asked, "Is there something wrong? Or is it because of laughing after eating too much?" stomachache?"

Qin Fang is a lively character after all, she couldn't help it, and opened her mouth to explain: "Brother-in-law, do you think I'm thin?"

After finishing speaking, she subconsciously pinched her left cheek with her left finger.

Are you not thin?She was almost skinny, and even her eyeballs were sunken—Qin Fang used to be on the thin side. Since the Long March, especially after entering the grassland, not to mention nutrition and other good things to replenish the body, even food She is often half-fed, but she has to take care of the wounded day and night, and she doesn't have a good rest... For all these reasons, not to mention that she is not looking thin, it is definitely her will that she was not knocked down by hunger and fatigue strong result.

Looking at it, Zhang Qingshan frowned slightly, and he didn't know how to answer. He just felt sorry for a good girl, but she became this thin and weak... It can be imagined that Qin Fang's lively, cute and competitive Under the appearance, there is an extremely strong and powerful heart, and one can also feel her firm determination and strong belief in the victory of the revolution.

Qin Fang didn't notice Zhang Qingshan's silent reflection, let alone the other three who were laughing just now, all looked at her in silence, with self-blame and heartache in their eyes, especially Peng Bing. Wu Shaohong and Wu Shaohong lowered their heads in shame: In the Red Army, women are rare, so they are naturally the most important objects of care, and nurses and the like are the most important, but in order to take care of them, but Working day and night, I am so tired.They feel guilty and sorry for these 'baby bumps'.

"It's really a little thin." After Qin Fang gave the answer to herself, she quickly lay down and said to herself: "I heard sister Xueqin and the others said in the chat that if a person is full, he will go to sleep. , it’s easy to gain weight. If you don’t talk tight after eating, it’s easier to gain weight... I can’t be so thin, I can’t walk out of the water and grass, I have to gain weight. In this case, in case I don’t eat Yes, I can hold on a little longer, find more wild vegetables for everyone, and take you a few more steps..."

While talking, she turned to look at Zhang Qingshan again, and asked, "Brother-in-law, am I right?"

"Hmm! That's right."

Qin Fang smiled with satisfaction.

But I didn't notice that at this time, all four men lowered their heads: What a nice girl, the reason for gaining weight is just to be able to find some wild vegetables to save comrades in the most difficult time when everyone else is down In order to save our lives, we just need to drag our comrades to walk a few steps.As a man, who doesn't feel guilty when he hears these words come from a little girl's mouth?

After Qin Fang closed her eyes for a while, she felt that the atmosphere suddenly fell silent. She opened her eyes and looked around, and asked, "Brother-in-law, why are you all silent all of a sudden?"

"It's nothing, I was just thinking, should I ask how you survived?"

"I'll tell you about this." Qin Fang got up excitedly, but just halfway through the climb, she suddenly remembered her plan to gain weight, and quickly lay down again.Just as he was about to speak, Zhou Ping smiled and said, "Okay, everyone can warm their feet."

Out of curiosity about this small fire kiln, under Zhang Qingshan's demonstration, everyone stretched their feet actively.

It was the same effect as the three of Zhang Qingshan enjoyed this kind of comfort for the first time. The three newcomers immediately showed a look of satisfaction, and Qin Fang even yelled out her own feelings.

Even Zhou Baoyu, who was angrily returning with the bowl in his arms, immediately forgot about the matter of finding Qin Fang to settle accounts with Qin Fang when he saw the small fire kiln, and joined in.

After the six people lay down, Zhang Qingshan quietly asked Qin Fang beside him: "Xiao Fang, there is medicine now, why don't you give them medicine?"

Qin Fang also replied in a low voice: "Lao Peng's right thigh was scratched by the knife, it was not deep, and did not hurt the muscles and bones. Previously, because of the lack of medicine, he did not dare to use more, and the nutrition could not keep up, and he walked for a long time. I didn’t have a good rest, so the wound was a bit inflamed. When I met you, I just finished changing the last medicine for him. When you were cutting the beef just now, I looked at his wound and gave him two anti-inflammatory medicines. Tomorrow morning, I will change his dressing and give him an injection. The problem is not big. Old Wu’s is even simpler. His sprained left foot has already been fixed with two boards when it reaches the meridian. As long as the nutrition can keep up, there is no need to use external medicine to help."

Only then did Zhang Qingshan heave a sigh of relief.Instead, he gave everyone a round of cigarettes, and while smoking, he asked them about their experiences along the way.

Immediately, with Qin Fang as the keynote speaker, Peng Bing and Wu Shaohong added occasionally, and began to tell about their hardships along the way.

In the ambush at Yanzikou, because the rear troops were rushed by the Kuomintang cavalry division, some of the follow-up troops were dispersed.Many injured comrades put pressure on Qin Fang and her headquarters hospital.

On the way from Yanzikou to Water Grassland, as Zhang Qingshan guessed, some seriously injured comrades committed suicide, but there were also many lightly injured.When they reached the edge of the water and grassland, the troops were short of food and clothing, and began to implement quota supply, and the scarcity of medicines made people only sigh to the sky.

The chiefs held a meeting to study and decided that due to the reduction of food, in order to expand the scope of collecting wild vegetables and other food, they should not be concentrated in this way.Therefore, except for a few essential headquarters agencies such as the general headquarters, the rest had to be decentralized, and most of the wounded in the headquarters hospital were sent to their original divisions, and most of the nurses were also given tasks: Each person is responsible for taking care of at least five wounded.As a result, they were also sent down to the divisions.

Because Qin Fang is young and has not been a nurse for a long time, her knowledge of nursing is one of the bottom ones among all the nurses, so she is naturally taken care of by everyone, and all the ones assigned to her are lightly wounded.It was also a coincidence that she was assigned to the Seventeenth Division.

However, the [-]th Division, as a model division, was basically a pioneer on the Long March. Compared with other divisions, the consumption was greater, and it was also the first division to run out of food: a few days after entering the grassland, some companies began to run out of food. On the tenth day, the whole division ran out of food.

After Qin Fang arrived in the [-]th Division, she was naturally taken care of by everyone, but she was very conscious. Every time she only ate half full, she said she was full. Surplus food was given to the wounded.

The whole teacher ran out of food, and she could only eat wild vegetables with everyone. Occasionally, someone specially gave her some precious food, and she gave it all to the wounded. She ate wild vegetables silently, gave silently, and often had to smile Use my own singing and joy as everyone's pistachio, build up confidence for the wounded, worry about the deterioration of the wounded, and hide in the corner alone countless times, crying, blaming myself for my incompetence.

However, she had been half-fed and malnourished for a long time, and her physical fitness also declined sharply after all teachers were cut off from food.Therefore, it was normal for her to fall behind - on a quiet night, she secretly hid in the lush grass not far away and wept, and in the end, she accidentally fell asleep.Perhaps it was the first time in a long time that she subconsciously put down all kinds of complicated emotions in a deep sleep, which made her oversleep.And others thought she was desperate for the future of the revolution, so she sneaked out and committed suicide—this kind of thing is so common that everyone is so numb that it is not strange, so when Qin Fang woke up the next day, it was already noon, The peloton was gone.

She chased after the footsteps of the large army. Along the way, she encountered some soldiers who were also left behind, most of whom were lightly wounded.

I don't know if they strayed away from the main force, or if the main force was quicker, or because of other reasons, they didn't see any stragglers along the way. At this time, there were seventeen of them in total.

Some of these 17 people got stuck in the quagmire. Because the rescue method was wrong, even the rescuers were pulled into the quagmire at first——Wu Shaohong fell behind because of exhaustion. The comrades in the quagmire were injured, although the rescue was unsuccessful; some were too hungry, and seeing the familiar wild vegetables along the way were all collected, they tried to eat unknown wild vegetables, and died of poisoning; Hunger, I fell headlong while walking, and I couldn't save him even if I rescued him.There are also people who huddled together back to back that night, sitting and sleeping, but when they set out to call someone the next morning, they found that they were all 'sleeping' forever...

In just two or three days, only the three people in front of me were left in this 17-member team.It is conceivable that the three of Qin Fang are able to persevere until now, relying entirely on their own willpower and belief in revolution.But even so, if they hadn't met Zhang Qingshan and the others, the three of Qin Fang must have suffered from extreme hunger and exhaustion...