Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 560 Supernatural Events
On the morning of July 1st, it was just daybreak and Di'anmen Street was very quiet. A Liberation truck was parked on the side near Nanluoguxiang. The military green canvas looked very beautiful in the sun. Wang Wenyuan and Zhang Jianguo each carried their luggage and walked out of Nanluoguxiang. After coming out, they saw a man in military uniform and with a righteous face standing in front of the car. The two walked over and took out the student ID cards given to them by Deputy Director Wang.

The man in military uniform looked at it, pointed to the back pocket of the car without saying anything, and said, "Get in the car, there are two more people, we will set off when they arrive."

Two people got on the car with their luggage, chatting in low voices and waiting for you quietly. Not long after, a man and a woman, who were about the same age as them, got on. They nodded to each other as a greeting and the car started. Along the way, sixteen more people got on one after another. The back compartment was already a bit crowded. Fortunately, the car did not stop and kept driving on the road. Because Wang Wenyuan got on the car first, he was in the innermost part. He and Zhang Jianguo, also known as Fo Er, could not see outside and did not know where the car was going.

The person at the rear of the car whispered something to Wang Wenyuan, saying that there were two similar cars behind him, and told the people in the car that they were going to Xizhimen and then heading north. Wang Wenyuan simply stopped thinking about it and closed his eyes to sleep. Zhang Jianguo also followed Wang Wenyuan's example and started to sleep.

Before leaving, Wang Wenyuan also made arrangements. Before leaving, Wang Wenyuan took Hua Mama to his basement. The basement was full of food, meat, and some canned food, which were prepared for grandma and the two mothers. About 30 barrels of foreign milk powder that he had exchanged for ten large yellow croakers were also in there. He told Hua Mama not to let outsiders know. Hua Mama rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

There is not much food left in Wang Wenyuan's current space warehouse, but there are a lot of canned food, which were all left behind by the other side when they retreated. The rest are gold bars and dollars. The gold yuan coupons and legal tender were left to Hua Mama, who was shocked at the time and kept asking him if he robbed a bank. Wang Wenyuan smiled and said, "Yes, we robbed the bank of the old government at that time. Who asked them to harm my parents?"

Wang Wenyuan was not worried about Hua Mama and the others, because he knew that they were still very tight-lipped. On the last night, Wang Wenyuan slept with his sister in his arms. In fact, he did not close his eyes all night, just quietly watching his sleeping sister. Finally, in the early morning, Wang Wenyuan nailed his parents' honor sign above the entrance of Yard No. 91, and the gate of Yard No. 93 was locked with iron locks and chains. After doing all this, he woke up Zhang Jianguo at dawn and had breakfast with his grandmother and two mothers as a farewell.

After a long journey, the three large trucks finally stopped in the afternoon. The men in military uniforms outside shouted to get off the car, and people from the three vehicles got off one after another and lined up according to the instructions of the men in military uniforms. During this time, Wang Wenyuan saw other brothers among the people getting off the other two vehicles, as well as Chen Erzi, Dazhuang and Shitou.

There were three cars and a total of sixty people, forty men and twenty women. After they lined up, Wang Wenyuan discovered that this was actually a military camp. There were people standing guard at the door and people on high ground on alert. It was a completely enclosed military camp. Although Wang Wenyuan was surprised, he changed his mind and decided to make the best of it and take things as they come.

Time flies. After half a year of high-intensity military training, this team has clearly taken on the appearance of a regular army. There is no difference from other companies in the original military camp, except that they have more cultural courses and the name is a bit special, called the Grassroots Cadres Training Class.

At that time, the higher-ups had a plan for the grassroots management of the front line. They knew that the Military Control Commission would be abolished sooner or later, so someone proposed to train a group of grassroots cadres. The selection criteria were a certain level of education, a clean resume, and a good family background, preferably with certain special skills. As luck would have it, Wang Wenyuan and his brothers all met the requirements. The most important thing was that they had all received instruction from Yushanzi in Baiyun Temple, and had learned ancient Chinese and mathematics, as well as some miscellaneous subjects. Although the length of their studies varied and their levels were uneven, at least they could read, write, and calculate.

The most important point is that all of them have undergone strict examination. Although the original purpose of their examination was to see whether they had committed crimes, bullied the people, colluded with spies, etc., but after the examination, these people were found to be innocent, and their backgrounds were also very clear. Most of them were orphans. It was because of this examination that the higher-ups paid attention to these poor children who were suffering at the bottom of the society.

In this way, the full schedule of courses every day allows these children to grow up rapidly. The courses are very rich, including ideological and moral classes, shooting classes, driving classes, Chinese, mathematics, statistics, shorthand and other courses. Their daily lives are busy and they don’t even have time to think about their families. Maybe the whistle will be blown at night for a long training.

It stands to reason that their originally planned two-year study period should have gone smoothly, but accidents often happen inadvertently, and the root cause of the accident was the man in military uniform. He was the company commander of the grassroots cadre training company, named Qi Mengjun. He was a serious and extremely strict company-level cadre, but no one expected that he was still a militant deep in his bones. The incident happened in the winter of 1950. Originally, the training class was studying step by step, but the army where the military camp was located received an order to go to the peninsula. This was no secret in the military camp. As early as October, there was news, but these orders were not issued to the grassroots cadre training company, but Qi Mengjun pretended not to know and directly led the team to follow the large army.

No one thought much about it at the time. They had all been in the same military camp for so many years that they had forgotten the significance of the company's existence. It was not until they arrived on the peninsula and the war began that people in the rear discovered that this company had gone to the front line. But by the time people above found out, all the people in this company had been disbanded and transferred to various companies, because the advantage of this grassroots cadre training company was that it had a group of educated people, which was what each company needed.

Although the people above slammed the table and cursed Qi Mengjun, it was already a fact and no one could do anything about it. However, they still complained to the higher-ups. Finally, a person in the lake said: "It is a good thing for these literate children to go through the baptism of war. It can be regarded as training. In this way, the children who have walked out of the war can also hand in their final graduation results."

In this way, these sixty people participated in this three-year war. They could occasionally hear news from each other, but not much. Occasionally they would meet on the battlefield. When they met, they were very happy and wanted to give all their delicious food to each other, because once they turned around, no one knew whether it would be forever.

The war was in full swing, and more and more military reports were transmitted to Sijiu City. On this day, Zhang Jianguo was drinking in his own trench with his brother Gui Qi, now called Yu Zhiguo, which was the name he gave himself when he registered. The two of them drank alone because Gai Jiu and Wen Si both died. This happened half a year ago. Recently, the enemy had increased its firepower, and the two men met each other somehow. Yu Zhiguo was in the engineering company, and Zhang Jianguo was in the artillery battalion. When they met, they thought of the two brothers who died, and they both kept silent, drinking alone.

"Jianguo, Jianguo, something bad has happened, something bad has happened!" A soldier from the artillery battalion ran in.

Zhang Jianguo stood up all of a sudden and said, "Wang Wencai, you are so sad. What's wrong with you?"

Wang Wencai held up a telegram and said, "We just received news that we were asked to bombard Hill 703. It said that the sharp knife company there had all been killed and the enemy had already climbed the hill. Didn't you say that your eldest brother was in the sharp knife company?"

When Zhang Jianguo heard this, his eyes became blurry and he fainted. The teacup in Yu Zhiguo's hand fell to the ground. He screamed heartbreakingly, "Brother!" and fainted as well.

The commander of the artillery battalion ran in, kicked Wang Wencai on the butt, and shouted, "Who the hell told you to tell him? Call the medic right away."

When the enemy occupied the high ground, they were very shocked, because there was not a single corpse on the entire high ground, and there were bomb craters everywhere. Isn't this a ghost? The enemy's high-level officials didn't believe it at all, so they ran to the high ground to patrol. It was really a supernatural event, and they didn't see a single figure. Just as they were puzzled, our army's artillery shells quickly covered the high ground.

(End of this chapter)