military marriage

Chapter 18
After a little rest, in Hu Chuanlong's eardrums, his father's words would explode in his mind like thunder. "Your wife is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone..."

Hu Chuanlong took out a cigarette and took a few puffs.He was choking and coughing, and used his hands to grab the cigarette butt in his mouth, but his lips and the cigarette paper were stuck together and he couldn’t take it off. He yanked it violently, and a piece of bloody flesh was left on the cigarette butt. Wrap up a wad of tissue to block the blood.

Song Daming came over to inspect the work, his face was covered with dewdrops of sweat, and he patted Chuanlong's shoulder vigorously: "The mind has no other purpose, and the mind should not have distracting thoughts."

Chuanlong gave a military salute: "Understood! Don't worry!"

They are succinct and comprehensible, and they all realize that talking more and moving more will increase the water consumption in the body.

The air was as dry as a fire, and it was so stuffy that people couldn't breathe. It was as if the throat was about to catch fire, and the burning pain was burning, and the sweat kept dripping out.

Lu Dayong and Hu Chuanlong taught the recruits to put the wet towel into a plastic bag and seal it. When the sweat covered their eyes, they took it out and wiped it again. Although the towel smelled of stinky socks after a while, it was better than a hard towel. Tie dry towel blocks to absorb body moisture and feel good.

In the middle of the night, the soldiers sleeping in the sand nest woke up from the cold. The military uniforms they wore were so wet that they could pick up water.

Lu Dayong led the veteran, took off his clothes, got out of the sand nest, planed the warm sand surface, and buried himself in the sand.Everyone followed suit one after another. With little effort, thousands of raised "small sand dunes" appeared in the sand sea.At dawn, the hurricane suddenly rose, and the storm was like a wild yak running wildly, rolling in gravel and roaring towards it.In an instant, the sky was dim and the earth was dark, flying sand and rocks, a sand dune like a small mountain was instantly removed by the wind without a trace...

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A burst of shrill sirens sounded like thunder, and three red signal flares soared into the sky, piercing through the desolate and dead Teng Desert, illuminating the continuous sand dunes, the wilderness filled with yellow sand, and several camel thorns, red willows, etc. and other drought-tolerant plants.

The regiment headquarters suddenly issued a combat order: "A reinforced tank company on the blue side is attacking our position with the cooperation of armed helicopters and infantry, and ordered the artillery fire of the whole regiment to counterattack immediately and completely annihilate the invading enemy!"

The officers and soldiers who just got out of the sand nest, with their mouths full of sand, immediately went into battle, busy in a tense and orderly manner, and the cars led the artillery to quickly deploy, occupying favorable terrain, setting up the artillery, aiming, and loading.

The sound of the cannon shakes the dawn and shakes the earth...

The sunrise in the desert is so evocative. The red sun is rising slowly, patiently and gently covering the desert with layer after layer of brilliance, spreading a piece of magnificence. When it emerges from the horizon, it brings a When the new and glorious morning was completely cast, the battle also entered a state of intense heat.Groups and rows of artillery shells whizzed across the sand dunes, launching a fierce attack on the "enemy" who was not firmly established.

The desert was shrouded in a sea of ​​gunpowder and fire, and the desert state between heaven and earth was flooded by thick smoke and fire.The shells whistled long and flew through the air continuously. The sound of explosions was like waves, and it was impossible to tell where they were fired.

The Red Fourth Company, to which Hu Chuanlong belonged, fired several groups of artillery shells fiercely on the position, annihilating a target and then quickly retreated.

"We have to shoot one shot at another place, so that the enemy can't figure it out, and the only thing they can do is to be beaten," Chuanlong said. "The Red Army used to fight guerrillas in this way, and it was invincible and invincible."

"As expected of coming out of the Dabie Mountains, very cunning!" Lu Dayong, who was temporarily included, said, "It was really fun to fight!"

"Don't fight for a long time, don't fight greedily!" Hu Chuanlong waved his hand, "Withdraw! I'll cover it!"

Hu Chuanlong watched Lu Dayong gradually disappear with other officers and soldiers, and his father's old and desperate voice suddenly surged in his subconscious.

"Your wife disappeared, ran away, ran away, ran away again..."

Chuanlong shot fiercely, and just after he finished shooting, another burst of violent artillery sounded from the sky above the Gobi, and there was no gap in the connection.I saw dozens of artillery dotted on the Gobi, forming a "galaxy artillery map".During the shooting, the troops were scattered but the firepower was fierce and intensive.

"The entire shooting preparation process is eight times faster than the time stipulated by the headquarters, eight times!"

"100% first group coverage, we're victorious, we're victors—"

As soon as the exercise was over, all the officers and soldiers, all black and shiny, their faces as black as a layer of tung oil, jumped and danced happily on the desert, cheering and shouting with their arms raised, just like a group of chimpanzees.

This warm atmosphere of joy could not infect Hu Chuanlong, his expression was numb, and he was almost numb to the scene in front of him, without any perception.

"Hu Chuanlong!" Lu Dayong called, but he didn't respond at all.

"Deputy company commander, deputy company commander..." The correspondent's shout still failed to arouse any reaction from him.

"Hu Chuanlong, deputy company commander, deputy company commander, Hu Chuanlong—" the officers and soldiers of the whole platoon, company and regiment called, and he still gave everyone a bewildered expression.

"Commander, commissar, he's deaf! He's deafened by the sound of gunfire!"

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"There is no war at the end of the world, and the spirit of soldiers is reduced to the light of the sun and the moon." Lu Dayong said, "The years of wind and sand, the accumulation of loneliness, the protracted training, the hard and boring military career day after month, month after year. , did not weaken our will, did not break our body..."

Yusuo threw Yuanyuan to Jinju again and again, and ran up to Hushanling, floating among the green and dew-filled mountains and forests, watching the sun rise gradually, covering the mountains with layers of golden light, turning the messy The disorderly layers of damp green shadows are rendered into pieces of golden splendor.

"...A woman who has no virtue and no quality, and thinks that marrying a soldier is a woman who can eat food, drink hot food, and call the wind and rain, but she pushes my good brother and comrade-in-arms Hu Chuanlong into the abyss..."

Yu Suo wandered in the jungle, thinking about Lu Dayong's words like a ghost, and worried about Hu Chuanlong's actual situation, and hoped that in the jungle, he could make a major decision alone, so as to clean up the evil that shrouded Chuanlong's heart in one fell swoop. Various unfavorable factors.

"...Sister-in-law, our Political Commissar Song has long said that only those who have walked in the mud can leave footprints on the tortuous road! No matter what happened between you and Hu Chuanlong, no matter how helpless he was I have done things that hurt you, but at the critical juncture of his life, I hope that you gentleman will not forget the old evil, and rekindle his hope with your kindness and comfort..."

Song Daming, Lu Dayong, Hu Chuanlong... In the green square, everyone has pure eyes that can be moved by noble emotions, and the star-like blessings have always been treasured in Yusuo's heart.She is like a wildfire in the field, as long as there is a little bit of material, it can be ignited.

"Yusuo, you little woman! It's been a long time since you came out, and you don't know how to go back after lunch, and you don't care if the baby is crying from hunger!" Jin Ju searched for Yuanyuan in her arms, and the background behind her was The chimneys of every household in the village, winding thin blue smoke in circles.

Yu Suo took Yuanyuan, hugged Yuanyuan tightly in his arms guiltily, and sat on a boulder exhausted physically and mentally.The child's small head arched straight into her arms.

Jin Ju looked back and forth and said, "Feed the baby quickly! He's starving!" Seeing Yusuo's cheeks turned red with embarrassment, she urged, "Mo Qiang is particular, which woman didn't come here like this? Your current The young people fall in love, all skinless and shameless, their faces are thicker than the city wall, and they really feed the baby to do something decent, but they are pretending to be coy." She taught Yu Suo to hold the child across her lap, Head against her chest.Yu Suo unbuttoned the skirt, exposing half of her breasts. As soon as the snow-white breasts broke through the confinement of the bra, Xiao Yuanyuan's mouth caught the nipples accurately and sensitively, and began to suck greedily.

Jin Ju looked at the pair of mother and son and thought to herself, this is definitely my heirloom, such a delicate and tender son, he would not have such a blessing, otherwise He Manxiang would not have run away!
The eighth mother-in-law's mournful cry rose an octave in the heat wave at noon.

The villagers, numb to her cries, sat on the roots of ancient maple trees with large bowls of rough porcelain like small washbasins filled with hills of white rice covered with slices of pickles, cucumbers and cabbage. Eat and enjoy the cool.They said, Ba Po was screaming so piercingly, her voice was piercing and high-pitched, it made my fine hairs explode, and all the prickly heat on my body exploded.

Jinju accompanied Yusuo back to the village.Hearing the sound of the eighth woman crying, Yu Suo hesitated and slowed her steps, Jin Ju hurriedly said: "It's not a day or two, don't pay attention to her! She has been crying for a while and feels bored, Naturally, the smoke will go out."

However, in the screaming voice of the eighth woman, several new contents were added that were different from the past.Involuntarily, Yu Suo's footsteps seemed to be drawn by an invisible rope, and he walked straight towards the alley of the eighth wife's house.Jin Ju shook her head helplessly and followed closely behind.

"Yusuo..." When the eighth woman saw Yusuo, her knees softened and she knelt down. When she saw Jinju, she got up and knelt in front of Jinju, hugging Jinju's thigh like a life-saving tree. Tree, "Uncle... you can save the poor poor people of my family!" She said, "Chuanlong...he...he, something happened to my son, something happened..." The eighth woman cried Out of breath.

"Get up, get up and talk!" Jinju hugged Yuanyuan, raised her legs, and desperately struggled to break away from the eighth woman's embrace, "Don't cry and cry there, you can't speak clearly because you stumbled, you scared the baby!"

The eighth woman stood up, with a thin face dangling around her neck, like a bitter melon floating on a melon stand.

Chuanlong was injured by a gun in his ear during the foreign training and became disabled.To make matters worse, the 3000 yuan that He Manxiang took away was borrowed by Chuanlong from the Secretary Chief. Because of the emergency, Chuanlong forgot to type the IOU. Chuanlong's life is completely over, and he will be dealt with by the army...

Yusuo took the trembling mother-in-law and poured out her stomach full of bitterness all afternoon, and carefully summarized these two pieces of information that she had already learned from Lu Dayong's help letter.

"What should I do?" The eighth woman wiped her tears and picked her nose, "If I don't pay back the 3000 yuan as soon as possible, my son will go back to the bay to scrape adobe lumps again. There is no good in scraping adobe lumps for a lifetime." Woolen cloth?"

"...Sister-in-law, only with your help and dedication can Chuanlong, who has been hit hard again, stand up again! Sister-in-law, just give him a hand..." Lu Dayong's words echoed in Yu Suo's heart, It drowned out the arguing between Ba Po and Jin Ju.

In fact, Jinju has never been in the mood to listen to the eighth woman's complaints.Her interest is entirely in children.She let Yuanyuan's bird-like paw stand on the palm of her left hand, and supported Yuanyuan's slender waist with her right hand, letting him stand in her palm like a bird for a while, while she cheered and marveled.Or, simply let Yuanyuan sit on his knees, with his palms corresponding to the back of Yuanyuan's hands, pinch Yuanyuan's ring fingers with his thumb and forefinger, and let his two ring fingertips close and open, open and close back and forth : "Cong Chong Fei, Chong Chong Fei..." Slowly, Yuan Yuan reacted on her leg, and the little hands slowly and consciously opened and closed according to the rhythm of her mouth, Jin Ju couldn't stop kissing with excitement. On his face, praise him for being smart.

Now Jin Ju heard that the eighth woman was raising money again, and she was talking about He Manxiang again, so she couldn't help but stop the game and said: "You are honest, your words can hurt people very much! You obviously took the money to make your own coffin. Why do you insist that Man Xiang is asking for money? You have spent your whole life digging up adobe lumps, and you still despise farming, really!"

Baba Qiu made a "plop" and knelt down in front of Jinju like a meat loaf, with her head resting on Jinju's leg, and she let out a wailing voice: "Uncle, if you don't help me, who else will help me? Uncle Big, you just have another baby, treat Chuanlong as your own baby, beat him, scold him, just help him get through this difficult time..."

"Stand up straight!" Yu Suo helped Ba Po, "If you can't get up by yourself, what's the use of screaming? Who can help you stand up?"

"Ah?" Ba Po blinked her eyes and looked at Yu Suo pitifully, "What are you talking about?"

Yusuo's expression was firm, and he said every word: "I decided to go to the army and help him pay off the 3000 yuan; I decided to go to the army to take care of him until his illness is completely cured..."

"You?!" Jinju and Bapo opened their eyes wide in astonishment at the same time, looking at Yusuo, with suspicious expressions waiting for confirmation again.

(End of this chapter)