military marriage

chapter 23
1
A burst of bugles sounded melodiously in the wind, piercing through the gray morning tent composed of wind and sand, and the wind and sand built up by the strong wind were scattered and shattered, like rambunctious dogs lying sleepily in front of the barracks door After a while, it was cleaned up by a big shovel and a big broom, and was transported away by a truck. After cleaning up the barracks, the fighting men in the barracks immediately gathered the whole team and started another ten kilometers of morning training.

Hu Chuanlong led more than 100 people from the whole company, rushed out of the barracks, and rushed into the wind and sand. Nothing can temper the will of soldiers more than hardship.Gusts of wind pressed on, carrying sand grains through the team wantonly, trying to disrupt the disciplined team, blur their hearts, and challenge this group of barracks men.

Rustle's footsteps resounded through Tianyu's uniform slogan, causing the raging cold wind to escape screaming, and the mad sand that was using the wind to build momentum was also scattered.At this moment, the blood of every soldier in the whole company is boiling, and the pride has occupied the hearts of all soldiers.They are an invincible company, they are a group of iron-clad soldiers with a steel-forged will!

When their vigorous figures crossed the Shahai Lake, every officer and soldier who couldn't turn their eyes away felt a piece of torn green seedlings at the bottom of the lake, still struggling in the wind and sand.But they didn't stop, they sprinted to the finish line, sprint!Sweat drenched the camouflage uniform, puffs of hot air turned into water mist, steaming with the hot air from the mouth...

When they arrived at the destination and returned to the company camp, the team was much weaker. They took off their training uniforms and put them on their shoulders, talking about the saplings in the sandy lake. They slid to the bottom of the lake at the same time, watching the scattered trees lying on the sandy ground. The unbearable sapling sent out bursts of regret.

"These saplings were blown by the strong wind last night?" Lu Dayong said.

Chuanlong stares at him, and you will think of some good things that fall from the sky. This must be the sapling that the nearby villagers just wanted to plant, what a pity!They may have wasted a lot of time!How about... why don't we use our nap time to help the villagers plant these saplings?Greening the desert is everyone's responsibility!
This idea is not bad, Lu Dayong scratched his head, then I go to the village to contact the village chief, and communicate with them what we mean?
But it is very strange that the "fellow countrymen" they called enthusiastically did not respond, and the eager knock on the door did not wait for the slightest movement. The wind that night could not have been the disaster of some saplings, let alone the disaster of the villagers. ?Such sandstorms occur almost every few days in spring.

But Chuanlong was stunned by the empty houses built with earth. If the residents of the village had moved out long ago, what happened to those thousands of saplings?

On the contrary, Lu Dayong quickly pushed open the door of the red house, and the chickens and pigs in the yard were eating quietly, which showed that when the owner had just left, he had given them more feed.

Not long after the noon rest signal sounded, there was silence in the barracks, and the training ground, which had been boiling all morning, also entered a state of rest and recuperation.

Chuanlong tiptoed out of the room. As soon as he left the company, Lu Dayong and Li Zhengguo also followed.Chuanlong was about to lose his temper, but they laughed and said don't always eat alone, the heroic deeds of good people and good deeds are all done by you alone, isn't it fair?Gotta give us some.

So the three of them went to Sikeshu Village together, but the owner of the red house didn't come back. They wandered around the yard for a while, Chuanlong suddenly grabbed the shovel half buried in the sand and said, the saplings don't wait for anyone, we're just around the corner Wait while you are dry, the master will naturally appear!When the three of them turned back to Shahai Lake, more than 100 officers and soldiers of the whole company had already started working. They planed sand, dug holes, counted saplings, and watered them.

When the Qiqi came, rows of young saplings stood upright in the wind and sand. They were tied and fixed by officers and soldiers, and shot into the sky like arrows.

There was still a quarter of an hour of rest time between the wake-up calls, and Chuanlong had a precise grasp of assembling the company on time for the training in the afternoon, so he seemed not in a hurry.He patted the sand on his body and said, this is too slow, we have to find a way to increase the planting speed.

Li Zhengguo said let's talk about it next time!It's strange, there's not a single person to be seen in such a huge area, what happened here last night?

2
Yusuo hugged Yuanyuan, Wang Guoqiang dragged the black egg, and Dacui whose eyes were swollen from crying—all the citizens of Sikeshu Village gathered in front of Xiuying’s hospital bed for the elderly. Plasma hung on his body, and he was dying.

"It's a lot of trouble... Yu Suo... My good boy, I don't blame you... I don't blame you..." The old man closed his eyes slightly, and searched for Yu Suo's hand with his non-iv.

"Grandmother! I'm here!" Yu Suo took the old man's hand into his own with tears in his eyes.

"I'm not... useless... I'm old... dragging everyone down! Don't waste money... Go back, go back? Live to this age... One day is one day... Why waste all this money? Money... ...turned into a tree...the saplings are still hiding in the sand...back...let's all go back..."

Two lines of tears slid down Yu Suo's cheeks.She swore in her heart that she would do her best to cure the old man even if she went back to sell pigs and chickens, or even sell her own blood!

Under the strong incandescent tubes, the uproar and worries of admission became quiet.Wang Guoqiang sleeps on another bed with Heidan and Yuanyuan, and Dacui also sleeps at her mother-in-law's feet.Everyone has been really tired for the past few days!Yu Suo yawned, then turned off the light, and lay down beside the bed, wanting to sleep too.But once she calmed down, the wind and sand destroyed the saplings in Shahai Lake, piercing her heart like a sharp arrow. That was her dream, and that was the wealth and hope of all the villagers in Sikeshu Village!And the chickens and pigs at home... they all followed like a shadow, filling her heart so heavily that she couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up, tucked the quilt for each of them, quietly opened the door, and slipped out.

Yusuo walked out of the hospital, stood on the street of the county seat, looked up at the sky, the moon was very round, and the bright moonlight evenly spread soft silver light.She identified the direction and walked towards Sikeshu Village, more than 30 miles away, she should be able to arrive in the middle of the night, to re-dig the saplings to keep moisture, reduce the loss of death, and feed the pigs and chickens. The family property of the villagers.

The sky was so bright, Yu Suo walked on the desolate and silent desert, only the creaking sound of stepping on the sand was heard, as if stepping on snow.Looking from a distance, there are endless sand seas and uneven sand dunes on all sides.The night wind blows, the sand flies up, her eyes are at a loss, she suddenly wants to sing a song to drive away the fear of getting lost, so she sings, and opens her mouth to say "Ten Cups of Wine", she is stunned for a moment, So she sang from the first glass of wine to the tenth glass in one breath, and the first time she met Chuanlong in the hotel, the days of marriage and separation, all were projected on the sand dunes like a movie.

How naive, she thought, she always thought that love and marriage belonged to her before, but she never thought that after marrying a soldier, her love would belong to a mountain village and a big family. love is hard to find a way out...

Yu Suo's emotions were vented heartily and vividly in the empty desert night, in the gentle and affectionate singing, and in the desolate tears.It wasn't until gusts of wind in front of her eyes rolled up the yellow sand quite high, like puffs of smoke rising from the flat ground, completely submerging the cool moonlight in the sky, that she realized in horror that she was lost!
The sand beams here are very high, and the sand is also very soft. Some sand beams are even cut like blades by the wind, forming an arc across the front, one after another, stepping down and sliding straight down, making the arduous trek a reality. Cycle back and forth on the treadmill, and do hiking in situ.They make every climb extremely difficult.Ke Yusuo knew clearly that no matter how difficult the [-]-mile journey was, she could not have walked for a whole night without seeing the target Sikeshu Village.

Yu Suo raised his eyes and looked around the sand sea without any reference objects. The yellow sand was everywhere in his eyes, and the time, space and direction became more and more blurred.

"Where is this? Where are the four trees? Where are the four trees..."

The wind and sand crushed Yu Suo's cry into mud, and floated to the illusory sky together with the yellow sand.

Yusuo, who was in a desperate situation, was cold and hungry, exhausted, and collapsed in the sand, watching layers of wind and sand blowing towards her in despair, she was powerless to struggle, she didn't want to struggle, give up, give up!She thought, maybe she was destined to die in the sea of ​​sand for love!It's a pity that her dream has just begun, and she is about to die in the sea of ​​sand!

When the yellow sand flooded Yu Suo's neck, two lines of tears fell silently, leaving two scalding grooves on the face covered with yellow sand...

3
The bugle is excited, and the figure of the ten-kilometer long-distance race is alive and well.

As if it had formed a pattern, the officers and soldiers who had finished their long-distance running, when they passed Shahai Lake on their way back, would all go down to the bottom of the lake and be busy for a while in an orderly manner.Digging trenches, planting trees, transporting water, watering...

Hu Chuanlong returned with only shorts and a vest, his sweaty body was steaming.

Song Daming was still panting and trying his best to rush towards the finish line, one by one vigorous figures passed by Song Daming, Song Daming shook his head, looking at the flying figure in front, his pace slowed down.

Lu Dayong jumped past Song Daming, feeling something was wrong, turned around and took Song Daming's hand: "Commissioner, come on!"

Song Daming smiled wryly: "Old arms and legs don't work anymore! - You run away, leave me alone, leave me alone..." Angrily, "Rush forward, don't affect you!"

Lu Dayong didn't say a word, he just insisted on holding Song Daming's arm and rushed forward, wishing he could run with Commissar Song on his back, but Song Daming had no choice but to move his legs to match the speed of Lu Dayong.

Hu Chuanlong went down to the bottom of Shahai Lake, and a sudden gust of wind uprooted many newly planted saplings, tearing and rushing all over the ground. ...

Chuanlong watched some warriors chasing the saplings, some warriors crawling on top of the newly planted saplings to prevent being uprooted by the wind, and some warriors caught the tumbling saplings on the ground, and put their whole bodies on their faces in surprise. Pounced on it... how to increase the speed and increase the survival rate in this way?Chuanlong walked up and down Shahai Lake, thinking, and suddenly remembered the scene of planting cottonseed in his hometown: Hu Degen scattered a basket of cottonseeds into a pile of moist soil, mixed the seeds and soil evenly, and Hu Shenggen artificially Insert the planter into the mud and step on it, and the nutritious seedlings like caves will be declared successful... Chuanlong subconsciously looked at the soldiers digging the trench, and saw them insert the shovel into the sand and step on it with their feet. Pull the horizontal edge of the iron to make it deep, and then turn it up...

"Yes!" Chuanlong's eyes flashed a light, and he shouted, causing everyone's eyes to turn to him, Chuanlong quickly ran to the barracks, "You wait, I have a solution!"

"Hey... hey..." Li Zhengguo yelled at Chuanlong's back, "There is no need for a reason to slip away."

"Cough, I guess he ate too much fat for the extra meal last night, and he had diarrhea." Fu Aiguo leaned on the long handle of the shovel, looked at Chuanlong's back, and made everyone laugh. Squat with him in the toilet?He had to run back to the barracks just because he pretended that civilized stool was precious.Seeing that everyone laughed, Fu Aiguo sternly said, "Work, work, what are you doing staring at others? Can green trees grow on the ground?"

All the officers and soldiers stopped laughing, and started to plan the sand ditch again.

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The yellow sand had already buried Yu Suo's chin. She closed her eyes in despair, which were so dry that they could not shed a single tear, and let layers of fine sand hit her cheeks, rush up to the soles of her feet, and land on her cheeks. On top of her head, let her blood and her body solidify into a beam of sand...

(End of this chapter)