Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2802 The Second Letter

"Come on, press it!" Tan Shuangxi asked the soldiers to do the pressing action, and he had his hands free. He didn't have time to untie Guo Dapeng's clothes, nor could he turn him over. Tan Shuangxi could only use his hands to remove his clothes. Go up and touch the wound. Tan Shuangxi started to touch up from the waist. He originally thought that the bullet hole in the back might also be on the right back, but before his hands touched it, the middle finger of his left hand sank into his body. The wet and slippery feeling frightened Tan Shuangxi. He jumped, quickly pulled out his hand, and shouted: "The wound is here!"

Another bullet hole was in the right lower back. The wound was much larger. The lead came out horizontally, creating an inch-long gash. This is when the lead hits the ribs in the body and changes the direction of flight. The soldier next to him handed over another first aid kit, and Tan Shuangxi unfolded it to bandage him. Before it was bandaged, the health worker who came over touched Guo Dapeng's neck and said, "Don't bother, he's already dead!" "The tone and voice sounded helpless.

Tan Shuangxi raised his head and looked at Guo Dapeng's face. He had already stopped breathing, his lips were slightly open, his eyes were wide open, but there was no focus... From the terrifying sound of cannons in the bushes, it reached him. It only takes a few dozen seconds to stop breathing "Oh! Oh! Oh!"

He originally thought that he would be very angry and full of murderous intentions, but he was not. The dark night, the cold mountain wind, the sound of gunfire in his ears, the roar of fighting, the wailing of the dying... all of a sudden filled his heart. It was the feeling of powerlessness and fear that gripped his heart, causing him to lose the strength to stand up for a while.

"... To be honest, I was really scared at the time! Very scared! My legs kept shaking and my heart was falling. It felt like a hand was grabbing my heart hard!" Tan Shuangxi's hand holding the wine glass also Trembling, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. I can be considered a veteran. I have seen dozens of battles and experienced big scenes, but I have never been so scared that I couldn't move like that day..."

"Then what?" Zhang Laicai asked.

"It took me a while before I felt like I was 'alive' again. At that time, I just felt so angry that I wanted to kill all the bandits who were ambushing me! But there were no enemies in front of me, only the discarded corpses and two muskets. They must have lit up the cannon and ran away. The forest was so dense and the grass was so tall that you couldn’t tell the north, south, or west after just a few steps. "Lao Zhang, did you know that back then?" The battle was so fierce that I was not afraid at all when moving corpses on the embankment, transporting the wounded, and repairing fortifications. But this time, every time I walked to the edge of the woods while marching, I felt extremely panicked, thinking that there would be a sound at the next moment. Cannon fire."

"Didn't you send a vanguard?" The infantry drill requires that when marching, there must be vanguards in front and on both sides of the brigade. They must search and march when encountering complex terrain such as woods. This is the most basic combat requirement.

"Do you know why Guo Dapeng didn't even get a top three in the end? Because he was a top soldier, but he found it difficult to walk in the woods in the dark..." At this point, Tan Shuangxi took a deep breath, raised his neck and took another sip. "No wonder, it only took half a year from the time he joined the army to the time he died."

"The new recruits die quickly, and the survivors are the veterans." Zhang Laicai drank so much that his eyes were red, "Look at our platoon, more than half of them are new faces."

"When all the sick and wounded are back, we will be overstaffed."

"Otherwise, how can we say that we need to reorganize?" Zhang Laicai said, "Probably we need to expand again. I heard that we are going to fight a big war with the imperial court! We will go directly to the capital to sit in the Dragon Court!"

"It's only a matter of time to sit in the Dragon Court. Does the emperor also take turns to sit there? There are hundreds of elders."

"It's about the same as now."

"People only live a few years. I don't know how many elders will feel unhappy." After drinking, Tan Shuangxi became bolder and expressed the questions he had originally hidden in his heart.

"What are you talking about?!" Zhang Laicai woke up instantly and looked around timidly, "What is this place!"

Tan Shuangxi also felt that he had said something wrong, so he continued drinking. The two of them tacitly did not mention the matter again. They talked about tomorrow's matter again.

"It's for Hu Weide's family tomorrow." Tan Shuangxi sighed as he said, "He and his wife are very loving, and they are newly married. I'm afraid he will cry till he is black tomorrow."

"I heard that he is the son-in-law?"

"Yes, he is a Fu Lao, a farmer. My father-in-law is a local. He is also a small rich man."

"Since he is a son-in-law, there must be no brothers in the family. How can he become a soldier?"

"Originally there was no need to be a soldier," Tan Shuangxi sighed. "There is a policy that a naturalized citizen with a Class B diploma can be promoted to an officer candidate as long as he volunteers to serve for one year, so he came to be a volunteer. If he was not killed in battle, At least he is a second lieutenant when he comes back this time, alas!"

"What a pity!" Zhang Laicai also sighed.

"He was also confused. With this Class B diploma, he couldn't do anything good. He was qualified enough to take the civil service examination, the military academy and the factory, but he came to become a volunteer! He lost his life out of confusion. He probably didn't even leave any cubs behind. "

Despite the two people sighing, in fact, Tan Shuangxi and Zhang Laicai didn't like Hu Weide very much. Zhang Laicai didn't like him just because he was a Fu Lao. Most locals didn't like immigrants. Tan Shuangxi didn't like him because Hu Weide liked to show off that he had a wife everywhere. He showed off so much that the whole company knew that a pauper actually stepped in and married the daughter of a small landlord in Botang Village. This shows how annoying this guy is. What's even more annoying is that he often shows off some romantic affairs that are not true or false, and he stopped until he was severely beaten by several soldiers who had been single for many years. But the order is here, and since the deceased is the most important, Tan Shuangxi and Zhang Laicai still have to fulfill their responsibilities to Hu Weide.

Early the next morning, they set out from Fushan and went to several other places along the way to deliver death notices. It was almost noon before heading to Botang. But Botang Village was not near the railway station, and there were no public carriages in the countryside. The two had to use their iron feet trained in the army and walked along the country road while hearing the news. It was already afternoon when they arrived.

The two walked all the way, and there was no market on the road, so they could only rely on dry food on the grass to satisfy their hunger. I was tired and hungry when I walked to Botang. After asking around at the village office, I found out that Botang is a big village with sixteen tiles. Hu Weide's home is in Shiyijia, about five miles away from the village office.

"I'll find someone to lead you. You're all on business, so it's not easy." The village chief said and asked, "Looking at you, you probably haven't eaten yet, right?"

"There really isn't." Tan Shuangxi couldn't bear to be polite anymore, "There's no restaurant here. Let's have a meal first and then go there."

"How can there be a hotel in the countryside? Besides, you are here on a business trip, why should you spend money?" The village chief said and called a young man, "Go and tell your mother that a comrade is coming to the village on a business trip. The food is here!" After saying this, he said, "Comrades, please sit down and have a rest. Food will be ready soon!" He then brought a big teapot and poured herbal tea for the two of them.

In normal times, they would have to use discipline as an excuse to excuse themselves. Now I'm so hungry that I can't take care of it anymore. Sit down and wait for your meal.

While waiting, Zhang Laicai inquired about the situation of Hu Weide's family. After all, they knew very little about this comrade-in-arms. Apart from his wife, whom he always showed off, he had never heard anything about the specific situation at home.

"His family," the village chief said, "his father-in-law's surname is Fang, and the Fang family is a common surname in the village. His father-in-law was originally a landowner. He had dozens of acres of land, and he also hired several long-term workers. He has become very prosperous in recent years. , is a model household of Tiandihui.”

"So my family is very rich..."

"It's natural to be rich, but he's very stingy." The village chief smiled, "Hu Weide was originally a long-term worker in his family. He was a good-looking man and could write and do calculations. He charmed the girl from the Fang family in just a few seconds. If she wants to live, she won't marry him. Originally, Father Fang looked down on him because he thought Fu Lao had no roots, and secondly, Xiao Hu was usually very frivolous, so he was afraid that his daughter would marry him. I treated him very badly."

"Do you have any children?"

"No." The village chief said and sighed, "He went to serve as a soldier just three months after getting married. Father Fang scolded him, saying that he was seeking his own death... No, alas! Poor! This girl from the Fang family became a widow at a young age. "

Tan Shuangxi knew in his heart that most likely, his father-in-law had nothing nice to say on weekdays, so Hu Weide signed up to join the army out of anger, hoping to earn a future and come back feeling proud.

Unexpectedly, people disappeared just like that.

There is no need to guess too much, the girl from the Fang family will find a new son-in-law in a year or two at most. In the end, Hu Weide could only lie in obscurity and be forgotten in the military cemetery in Chaozhou.

Thinking of this, Tan Shuangxi panicked. He couldn't help but sigh roughly. He suddenly thought of something again and asked, "Does this Xiao Hu have any other relatives?"

"He is a Fu Lao who came to Hainan. He doesn't have any relatives here." The village chief shook his head. "I heard him say that his family used to be able to live well, but then something happened, and they couldn't survive anymore and the whole family sold out. The brothers and sisters each took their own money to make a living. It has been more than ten years since they arrived in Hainan, and there is probably no one left at home. "

"Since you are from Fujian, where exactly are you from?" Tan Shuangxi asked again, unwilling to give up.

"I don't know, who cares?" The village chief smiled, "You can ask the girl from the Fang family then. She probably knows."

While they were talking, a half-year-old child came over carrying a big bamboo basket and said, "Boss, let's eat!"

"Eat, eat." The village chief said, opening the bamboo basket and taking out two large bowls of fragrant rice noodles. The white rice noodles were covered with shrimp meat and vegetables, which looked very appetizing.

(End of this chapter)