military marriage

Chapter 7 The Disaster of Love

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The boundless wheat is golden in the heat waves, the waves are full of joy of harvest, and the rumbling harvester stirs up the hot scene.

The wind blowing from the Hongya Reservoir, carrying the heat of water vapor, carrying the dryness of the desert, carrying the fragrance and needles of wheat awns, blows on people's faces, itching and hurting, making people want to fight all the time. sneeze.

All the officers and soldiers were divided into ten groups in groups of ten, and one group took care of five hundred acres of wheat fields.

Hu Chuanlong led his own group of personnel to inspect the wheat fields under his jurisdiction sweating.Not far away is the wheat field that some local people have harvested. They piled the wheat straw in the field to form a small hill, covered it with sand to leave a smoke hole, and then lit the wheat straw to smoke and spread it on the ground as the next year's dung. inside.

Wisps of blue smoke tearing uncertainly in the wind always made Hu Chuanlong feel uneasy.He reminded the people who smoked that the wind is too strong and the weather is too dry, so it is not safe!But the common people are very confident that they have been here for decades, and the smoke and dung are good at it, so that the comrades of the People's Liberation Army can rest assured!Every time Hu Chuanlong inspected these smoking dung mounds, he couldn't help covering the smoldering wheat straw with handfuls of sand.

In the middle of the night, Lu Dayong felt his stomach was swollen, so he came outside the tent wearing a singlet and shorts for convenience. He just took out the dick and sprinkled half of it, but he was frightened by the bright red flames in the distance, and hurried back to the tent. Shaking Hu Chuanlong: "Platoon Leader Hu is not good, not good..."

Hu Chuanlong opened his eyes and said impatiently: "It's late at night, don't play tricks, go to sleep!" Turning over while talking, he was about to fall asleep again.

"No, no...it's...it's true, it's on fire." Lu Dayong was nervous and incoherent, "Fire, it's a big fire..."

Hearing "fire", Hu Chuanlong jumped up from the carpet with a premonition, turned on the light, looked out of the tent, and said decisively to Lu Dayong: "I'll go and check it first! You organize everyone to quickly Get up and prepare to put out the fire!" Hu Chuanlong rushed out of the tent and turned back to his comrades, "After everyone gets up, turn off the power!"

Holding a shovel, Hu Chuanlong rushed into the raging fire first.

The dots of flames, in the dry and hot wild night wind, quickly burned and spread, and the fire pillars jumped across the field ridges, rolled over the edge of the ground, rushed towards the green mountains and forests, and opened their bloody mouth to the endless yellow and orange wheat fields...

Hu Chuanlong desperately scooped up the sand on the ground with a shovel, threw it into the fire, and suppressed the flames.

The officers and soldiers took shovels, buckets, and washbasins and went into battle.

Night Breeze was like an angry lion, shaking its head and tail to drive away the cubs, throwing flames around. Wherever the fire hit, it immediately burned, forming a new source of fire, making the efforts of officers and soldiers tend to be in vain.

Riding on the howling wind, the flames swept across the electric poles along the way like a fire dragon, devoured the wheat fields, and approached the village not far away step by step...

The flames burned the sand beneath their feet and reflected the night sky red.

The huge wall of fire formed by the flames scorched everyone's bloody cheeks, which were covered with ashes and sand.

"You can't go on like this, Platoon Leader Lu, hurry up and take the other officers and soldiers back a few hundred meters, and dig a trench that the fire can't pass through!" Hu Chuanlong's eyebrows and hair were already blurred by the flames of the strong wind.

When Lu Dayong heard such an order, he suddenly realized, wiped the sand that covered his eyes, led the other soldiers to leave, and stared at Hu Chuanlong worriedly.Hu Chuanlong said: "Don't dawdle, I am a dragon, I am not afraid of fire. Once the fire spreads into the forest, it is even more uncontrollable. We have to cut off this source of fire." He kept throwing sand into the fire, "You tell me again The two soldiers got in touch with several nearby villages and Company Commander Li and his groups."

Old and young, men and women from nearby villages, carrying buckets, washbasins, and shovels, joined the firefighting team. All officers and soldiers of the engineering company dug trenches under the command of Li Zhonghua...

The overwhelming fire finally collapsed in the thick ashes in the early hours of the morning, leaving only some dark fires lingering on.

Li Zhonghua organized everyone to bury them with shovels, extinguish the dark fire, and cut off all fire sources.

The electric poles were scorched by the fire and stood black in the wind of fire. Everyone's eyes, ears, eyebrows, clothes... were all black ashes.

Fortunately, the fire was subdued in front of the village. Fortunately, due to proper command, the damage to the wheat field was not large.Just when Li Zhonghua was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Lu Dayong, with the help of several officers and soldiers, appeared in his field of vision with a Jiaoren, who could not be seen clearly and had only a little human shape on his back.

Li Zhonghua's heart tightened for a while, and he ran over quickly: "Who? Who is he?"

"Hu Chuanlong! Platoon Leader Hu!"

Li Zhonghua gasped, Hu Chuanlong's camouflage uniform had turned black and ash, tightly stuck to his charred body.The fire wind blew, and the ashes on his body swirled with the wind. His exposed skin was like a burnt mutton skewer, with red, yellow and yellow bubbles...

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Before Yusuo was taken to the intensive care unit, in Lu Dayong's statement, he had made full preparations.In the car, Lu Dayong told Yu Suo the truth: "In short, although Hu Chuanlong lives in the best hospital, the attending doctor is Dr. Zhang, the most talented doctor in the hospital, but after treating Hu Chuanlong's injury, Dr. Zhang only said one sentence. We can only do our best, everything depends on Chuanlong's fortune!"

Yusuo waited eagerly in the cave dwelling, only wanting to hold a wedding after her lover came back to fulfill the purpose of her trip. She still went back to the cotton mill to prolong her spinning career. Before Chuanlong became a general, she It can only prolong life in this way.Of course, after marriage, Yu Suo is no longer alone. She can rent a house near the cotton spinning factory, and go back to visit her aunt every holiday. People are full of flesh. She believes that her aunt will eventually reconcile with her and accept her. Chuanlong.

Yu Suo's silence made Lu Dayong feel uneasy in his heart. He thought that the little girl must have been frightened stupid by the catastrophe flying in front of him.So he said with emphasis: "Did you hear what I said? Do you understand?"

Yu Suo came back to reality from her own thinking, looked at Lu Dayong and said, "Anyway, he's seriously injured, whether he can survive or not is up to fate?" She turned her head to the car window, and several delicate jujube trees were violently The strong wind whipped and crawled on the ground, but the Jujube tree soon erected its thin and short branches in the strong wind.Yu Suo withdrew his gaze and said stubbornly, "A man, a soldier, why is he not as good as a jujube tree? How can he be so irresponsible to me? His life is not his, but mine. I won't let him resign himself to fate. He cannot resign himself to fate!"

Lu Dayong thought to himself that she is not as weak and delicate as she looks, since she can get used to the rough diet of the company of Huihuang Village, maybe she can really provoke poverty and disaster on her shoulders.In any case, she was strong enough not to cry in front of his bravery.

Lu Dayong calmed down, and as soon as his head leaned against the back of the chair, his eyes could no longer be opened, and he snored heavily after a while.

Yusuo walked into the intensive ward, and the moment he saw Hu Chuanlong, he still couldn't help crying bitterly.The scorched black body lying on the bed was covered with blood-soaked bandages, and oxygen tubes, defecation tubes, and urinary catheters were inserted, and the personnel were unknown.He is a completely different person from the handsome soldier who was full of poetic romance and passion ten days ago!
Apart from crying bitterly, Yu Suo didn't know how to face this appalling body!Her god, before she fully accepted the wind and sand here, it collapsed, she couldn't find a support point, she couldn't find a way out!
A pair of generous hands gently patted her shrugging shoulders from crying.Yu Suo raised her head suspiciously, and a tall and tall figure stood behind her, covering all the life experiences of all things, in his lightning-like eyes, burning with the light of wisdom and kindness.Based on the mention in Hu Chuanlong's letter and Yusuo's keen sense, she knew who he was!

"Political Commissar Song?!" She was wronged like a child meeting a loving father.

Song Daming nodded, and said slowly, love is not always dressed in happy costumes, especially the love of soldiers, it may still be a glamorous scene yesterday, but today it will become desolate and hideous.Yusuo, can you survive this disaster?Can you help my platoon leader Hu out of this catastrophe?You have to understand that it is not God who has gone through this catastrophe, but you!
"With me?" Yu Suo seemed to understand. "I'm not here? But the doctor said it depends on Chuanlong's own good fortune."

"Yes, Yusuo! Whether Chuanlong can stand up again depends on your absence!" He said: "Chuanlong was once my recruit, then my squad leader, and now the platoon leader of my regiment. I understand my subordinates, a good man will not fall easily, as long as you give him strength! Give him hope!"

Her name, in Song Daming's mouth, naturally and easily turned into a kind of nobility, full of a powerful force.

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"... Difficulties are nothing, isn't it just the breeze blowing by your ears? Isn't it just the insignificant waves under your feet? Isn't it just a speck of dust in your eyes? Raise your head, straighten your chest, and shed a tear is enough drown it..."

Hu Chuanlong moved on the bed, moving his lips: "Water, water..."

Yu Suo hurriedly put down the thick letter in his hand, picked up the salt water on the bedside table, and fed it into his mouth little by little with a cotton swab dipped in salt water.

Half an hour later, Hu Chuanlong closed his lips and shook his head on the pillow.

Yu Suo put down the cup in his hand, lay on the head of the bed, and lightly pecked his lips on Hu Chuanlong's face, "Who said what I just read? Don't play tricks, these are the words in the No.40 letter you gave me , you won’t forget, right? You said this is what your platoon leader Song Daming told you when you first came to the army! Your studious and progressive shadow always fills up the distance between us, my flesh and blood are really real now I'm right in front of you, but you are a deserter, and you don't even bother to look at me..."

Yusuo stood up, wrapped ice cubes in a pure cotton towel, and applied it to Chuanlong's swollen wound bit by bit, then wiped off the smelly pustules with a sterilized cotton towel, and finally dipped a cotton swab in the medicine, Gently smearing the wounds all over his body... She looked focused and moved slowly, watching him slowly fall asleep under her caress like a newborn baby.

Yu Suo knew his needs and injuries well.

The first thing to do when waking up in the morning is to pour the urine and feces in the catheter into the basin and into the toilet for cleaning; then wash his face, hands and feet with salt water; Let him fall asleep with the sound of her reading aloud, let him relieve pain, save energy, and restore vitality in sleep.

Yusuo remembers that when she read the fourth letter of their previous correspondence, the doctor withdrew Chuanlong’s oxygen; when Yusuo’s letter reached No. 14, the last bandage on his body was also removed...

In the sound of Yu Suo reading the letter aloud, Chuanlong sucked his mouth, frowned and made a smile that was uglier than crying; while Yu Suo read aloud, the dark skin on his body began to fall off, and his pus dripped The wound dries up, scabs over, flakes off, and begins to grow new muscle.She no longer thinks about the past, no longer thinks about the future, and only focuses on the good situation in front of her, watching him happily like a newborn baby, starting to develop and grow again under her care.

The doctors and nurses in the hospital all said that Yusuo was the most professional nurse; all the patients in the hospital said they had never seen such a dedicated nurse as Yusuo; They have never seen such a caregiver who moved them so much.

Hu Chuanlong fell asleep, and the lights in all the wards were turned off. She was still cleaning all Chuanlong's clothes, towels, and sheets by the sink, and then disinfected them one by one. He is now harder than a newborn baby. If you don't pay attention, the wound will deteriorate Infect.

Yusuo stayed by the pool for a little longer, and Chuanlong slept very restlessly, scratching his body with his hands, looking extremely irritable.Yu Suo hung the washed clothes and quilts in the drying room. When he returned to the ward and saw this scene, he hurriedly pulled his hand away, turned on the bedside lamp, patted his head, and drove away all tiredness and drowsiness, and sat on the bed. On the chair next to him, he took the thick correspondence between them for seven years from Chuanlong's feet, unfolded it and put it on his lap.

"Chuanlong, I'm reading a letter from our No.90 now!" The letter twirled between Yu Suo's fingers like running water, "You know? This letter is the first time we have met since we corresponded." The first letter you sent me when you returned to the army after meeting once." Yu Suo looked at Chuanlong who was lying on the bed and waiting quietly, his thin and black eyes were as bright as a deep pool, full of coquettish anger.She said: "You, a thing that is playing tricks on your illness, always ask me for this way of sleeping."

Outside the window, everything is immersed in darkness.The night covers the house, the trees, the earth... all under its black wings.Only the restless Mo Feng still wanted to tear apart the fetters of darkness, sending out earth-shattering roars like waves, sharp and futile.

The darkness of the night and the hiss of the wind made the bean-like light on Chuanlong's bedside appear more peaceful and warm.

"...Yusuo, in fact, after every man comes into contact with a woman, he will measure the weight of this woman in his heart. The reason why I dare not offend you, the reason why I bid farewell to you in a hurry, and the reason why I swore to take the military academy exam is because I know that you are The weight in my heart—the image of my wife in my mind is you! I am very selfish. The purpose of joining the army at first was not to defend my family and the country, but because of He Manxiang’s betrayal; Give you, want to give me the rejuvenated love, a shelter..."

Chuanlong's steady and even snoring made Yu Suo stop reading aloud.She leaned her head against the back of the chair, trying to get herself a good night's sleep.But she found that although she stopped reading aloud, she couldn't stop thinking.

It seems that she served Chuanlong in undressed clothes and read letters aloud with a haggard face, all in order to awaken Chuanlong's fighting spirit for survival and care for life, all in order to pass on love to him and let him create life miracles in love.

But she found that she was not so great. She seemed to be more interested in letters and exploring Chuanlong's past trivia than Chuanlong's comfort in listening; All the letters were connected back and forth, and she couldn't stop pasting and copying the letters and the lost days into vivid stories. She found out in contradiction that she was unfortunately not Chuanlong's first love, but He Manxiang was!

His first love with He Manxiang, he told Yusuo in the No.40 letter, it was the pain of He Manxiang betraying him and elope with the little six sons in the village that made him leave Huaowan and puff up his chest. soldier.But when he arrived at the Northwest Army where the yellow dust hit his face, missing He Manxiang became the only way for him to live in a boring military camp. It was precisely because of his tearful confession that Song Daming forgave him for his mistakes in training and gave him the set of difficulties. It was the theory of the wind in his ears that made him slowly walk out of the shadow of longing.

Yu Suo leaned against the back of the chair, the more he kept thinking, the more he felt that he was a contradiction.Exhausted thinking brought her into a hazy sleep, and she was spinning again in the workshop where the machines were roaring.With the story of her weaving through letters, she hung the flowing machine tools like a waterfall...

(End of this chapter)