Blood-quenched mountains and rivers

Just when everyone was scratching their heads for food and grass and couldn't think of a way, Yang Wei, the army commander, was taking a break from his busy schedule outside.

Changed into casual clothes, Yang Wei took Tieniu, the head of the security regiment, and sneaked out of the barracks to wander around the hometown when everyone was in a state of distress.

The big and round Tieniu followed behind Yang Wei, looked around curiously and said, "Commander, look, that thing looks weird! It looks delicious!"

Yang Wei, who was walking in front, immediately felt a headache. He said that his biggest mistake today was not to take Tieniu to the snack street. It was about to flow down the corner of his mouth.

However, Tieniu didn't seem to feel Yang Wei's displeasure at all. Not only that, Yang Wei's tone became more and more pitiful, and his pleading tone was irresistible. The helpless Yang Wei finally couldn't pretend to turn a deaf ear, stopped and sighed. : "Okay, just tell me what you want to eat!"

Tie Niu's eyes immediately sparkled with joy, and he took a sip of his saliva and said, "That haggis, stretched noodles, dumplings in sour soup..."

Hearing this, Yang Wei waved his hands again and again, and said with a serious face: "You can only eat one! Tie Niu, you also know that there is a shortage of military supplies nowadays, and life is not what it used to be. I am not a stingy person, but you can eat it." Do you want to eat and drink here by yourself, and let the brothers in the army watch with their belts tight?"

Tieniu rolled his eyes, couldn't help swallowing again, turned his head awkwardly and refused to say anything, the hesitation in his eyes revealed the complicated struggle in his heart.

Just when Tieniu was vacillating, Yang Wei raised his tone and said loudly: "Can you bear it! Can you see it!"

Yang Wei's aggressive tone made Tie Niu red, and finally he whispered aggrievedly: "Then can I eat a bowl of haggis?"

Yang Wei felt relieved in his heart, but he nodded reluctantly on the surface, and the two sat down at the stall selling haggis on the street.

The offal seller was an old man of the Hui nationality. He warmly greeted the two of them to sit down in dialect, pushed aside the wooden bucket containing the offal with his hands and feet, and said with a bold smile: "You two are lucky, the last two are still left. The bowl is yours!"

After finishing speaking, the blade in the old man's hand flew up and down, and after pouring hot soup, two bowls of delicious haggis were delivered to Yang Wei and Tie Niu.

Tieniu had heard that the best mutton was from the Northwest. Looking at the steaming haggis in front of him, Tie Niu's mouth was salivating, so he quickly grabbed his chopsticks and was ready to start .

A piece of hot lamb liver was sent to Tie Niu's mouth, and it was so hot that he was about to bleed, but when Tie Niu couldn't help but patted the table and shouted that it was delicious, he suddenly felt a strange look from his side. Staring at himself, Tie Niu felt uncomfortable, he hesitated and put down the soup bowl to look around, then Tie Niu saw a boy who was only ten years old sitting next to him, with big watery eyes open Staring at himself, the saliva that flowed to his mouth was exactly the same as that of Tie Niu.

Tie Niu stopped immediately when he was about to put the haggis into his mouth. He looked at the boy and then at the haggis he was holding in his hand. He went to look at the boy, but just as Tieniu turned around, the boy quickly followed him and changed direction, always keeping his pitiful appearance in Tieniu's sight.

Watching Tieniu's movements, Yang Wei held back his laughter until he almost hurt himself, but he turned a blind eye to Tieniu's eyes calling for help from time to time. Instead, he ate his bowl of haggis, and then looked at Tieniu gloatingly.

The helpless Tie Niu looked at the young man depressedly, panting heavily: "What on earth do you want to do? Have you never seen someone who eats haggis?"

The boy's Adam's apple rolled and swallowed, and he shook his head seriously.

Tie Niu gritted his teeth, and said with the same seriousness as the boy: "Then you watch it, I will eat it for you to see!"

Although he said so, but looking at the young man's eyes, Tie Niu couldn't say anything, and he cried helplessly: "Can't you not watch me eat?"

The young man lowered his head aggrievedly, fiddled with his fingers and said, "I haven't eaten for two days, so I'll just take a look."

After finishing speaking, the young man raised his head and looked at Tieniu sadly, and said: "It's really just to see, there is no other meaning."

While saying this, the young man moved his steps, reluctantly planning to leave, but looking at his back, Tie Niu finally softened his heart, and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll share some with you!" 275

Hearing Tieniu's words, the young man came to Tieniu in two steps as excited as if he had been granted an amnesty. He stared at Tieniu's action of picking up offal with chopsticks, and couldn't help saying: "Brother, the way you use chopsticks So lovely!"

Tie Niu gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "It looks good? Do you want to take a second look? If you pinch it twice, it will all be in your bowl!"

The young man smiled embarrassedly, his eyes calmed down a lot, but Tie Niu, who had a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, couldn't help but put a few extra dollars in the young man's bowl, and then protected the bowl with two big hands, turned his back and said, "Okay This time, each eats his own food, so I can’t give it to you anymore!”

The hungry and cold boy had no time to thank him, so he grabbed his chopsticks and gorged himself. The boy was only about ten years old, and he looked very embarrassed. His bony appearance was like a sick cat. Yang Wei couldn't help sighing softly, Asked: "Dad and mother are gone?"

The boy's cheeks were bulging and he said vaguely: "I don't know if I'm here. I was abducted by human traffickers when I was a child, and I can't even remember where it is in my hometown."

Yang Wei carefully looked at the young man's appearance, the young man's life experience immediately explained Yang Wei's doubts, and suddenly realized: "No wonder, you look like a Han Chinese."

The young man snorted and said, "What's so good about the Han people? I wish I could be a Huizi. No one takes in the children of the Han people in this place, and the Han people don't come here very often, especially in the past two years. , it’s hard to ask for food.”

Hearing the young man's complaints, Yang Wei felt very uncomfortable. However, in this land where Han people live together, the gap between race and religion is always unavoidable. Even this young man is no exception. There is no way for anyone to avoid it, especially for such a poor child who can't carry his shoulders or hands. If he wants to farm, he has no banker, and he is almost "forced" to a desperate situation by God.

Thinking of this, Yang Wei couldn't help but feel soft-hearted. Looking at Tieniu, he cleared his throat and said, "Tie Niu, what do you think of this kid?"

Tieniu, who was drinking soup, almost choked, coughed again and again, put down the soup bowl angrily, glanced at the young man, curled his lips and shook his head and said, "It's not that good!"

In the eyes of the simple Tie Niu, anyone who competes with him for food and drink is not a good person. Yang Wei couldn't help laughing loudly, and after a while he said in a low voice: "Do you think your security team has no manpower?"

Tieniu immediately understood what Yang Wei meant, and the expression on his face immediately became very complicated.From Tie Niu's point of view, it's really pitiful that he has been a polished commander in the garrison for such a long time. It would be nice if he could have a soldier under his command, but if it was this child, Tie Niu felt that he would obviously not have enough to eat Given the danger of food, when it comes to choosing between his subordinates and his belly, Tieniu chose the latter without hesitation.

Looking at Tieniu's firm eyes, Yang Wei winked at the child again and again, "What do you know?"

The young man came to Tie Niu and said courteously: "Sir, I can do everything, making beds, serving tea, pouring water, running errands, and doing chores. You only need to whistle and I will make everything orderly for you!"

The young man's unabashed self-promotion moved Tieniu's heart, hesitantly said: "As soon as you whistle, you will arrive?"

"Of course!" The young man quickly imitated the salute and said, "As long as you let me follow the commander, I can do anything!"

Thinking that he had finally taken a small step away from the majestic and majestic head of the security regiment in his mind, Tie Niu gritted his teeth and said, "Well, from now on I will call you Little Whistle, and you will follow me." Already!"