Strongest Worker

The time goes back to 3 p.m. on the 27th.

The Yao River was turbulent. Li Qing stretched out her head from the water, grabbed the weeds on the bank with her hands and gasped.

Looking around, the danger was temporarily eliminated. With a little peace of mind, Li Qing called another big breath, and then dived into the water again, more than ten meters below the water surface, and pulled Qin WuChao out of the pipe embedded under the river bank with Deng Shi.

After that, Zhong Ruoxi pulled out Shi Yinghui, Yang Xun, Wen Yang and Gu Yue, and they swam to the water.

"You can't stay here for a long time." Li Qing carried Qin Wu Dynasty ashore. "Xilong Army knows where the exit is and will send someone soon."

"Qin WuChao! Qin WuChao!" master Deng patted Qin WuChao on the cheek, "can you hold it!"

Qin Wu Dynasty vaguely opened his eyes and grinned: "it's nothing to break a hand. Captain, put me down and I can go by myself."

"Too much blood loss." master Deng stared at the pale cheeks of Qin and Wu dynasties, his eyes slightly coagulated, and then suddenly turned around and shouted, "how's brigade commander Shi?"

"Already fainted." Zhong Ruoxi answered coldly.

Li Qing said in a deep voice, "there's no time to delay. Lift him up and go on."

Yang Xun's face turned blue: "we must cross the Yao River on the West Bank to meet Ji Wenbin."

"Now crossing the river?" master Deng's face changed. "No, it will kill Qin Wu Dynasty and brigade commander Shi."

Li Qingmei frowned: "master Deng, do you know our specific location?"

After hesitating for a while, Mr. Deng shook his head: "I don't know, but our current position should be upstream of the chain bridge."

Zhong Ruoxi checked Shi Yinghui's injury and said, "send a man across the river to contact Ji Wenbin, and the rest continue to swim up the Yao River."

"Yes." master Deng nodded quickly. "Yao River is a tributary of the ancient Bailing River. In this way, we will make more detours, but it is definitely the safest way to go."

Li Qing nodded and said, "Wenyang, go to find Ji Wenbin and take him and old Feng up the river bank. Wait until we cross the river and meet again. Be careful all the way."

"I see."

Wen Yang should leave the team and swim across the Yao River to find Ji Wenbin. Others took the wounded and swam all the way up the Bank of the Yao River.

The sky is still raining. In the flood season, the banks of the Yao River are muddy, and many places even need to wade through. After a fight in the hall, all the members of the action team have reached their limits. At this time, they are eager to run under extremely bad conditions, and each step is quite difficult.

In the evening, master Deng caught up with Li Qing from behind, raised his hand and touched the forehead of Qin and Wu Dynasties: "Captain, both of them are having a fever. We must stop, otherwise they won't last long."

Li Qing asked, "go ahead and pay attention to it to see if there is a place that can be used to shelter from the rain."

At about six o'clock that night, the action team found a mud cave on the cliff beside the river bank. Yang Xun broke a branch and poked it in. A large group of bats got up and rushed out of the mud cave.

The mud hole is very shallow. Adults have to bend down to drill in. There are only three or four people to avoid the wind and rain.

Yang Xun put his head in, and a pungent smell came to his face, which made him almost collapse. He couldn't help retching: "it's really smelly..."

"Anyway, it's also a place to live." Li Qing whispered, "carry Qin Wu Dynasty and Shi Yinghui in, let them rest for a night, and we'll go tomorrow morning."

I had planned to risk making a fire, but the weather was so bad that it was wet everywhere. I couldn't find anything to ignite the fire, so I had to give it up in the end.

Li Qing asked Deng Shi to go into the cave to take care of the Qin and Wu dynasties and Shi Yinghui. The rest stayed outside the cave. Anyway, I'm already wet, and I don't care if I get caught in the rain all night.

"Come in!" master Deng suddenly stretched his head out of the hole and shouted.

Li Qing said to Zhong Ruoxi, "go, brigade commander Shi is seriously injured. I guess... If he wakes up, let him explain."

"Well." nodded gently, Zhong Ruoxi also lowered her head and climbed into the mud hole.

There are bat droppings and the remains of some small animals and insects everywhere, emitting a strong fishy smell. Zhong Ruoxi resisted the nausea from his stomach and asked in a low voice, "how's the situation?"

Master Deng lit the lighter, and his voice was a little difficult: "come and see for yourself."

Through the dim yellow light, Zhong Ruoxi looked at the two wounded in the mud cave at the moment, and her pupils couldn't help shrinking.

Master Deng has untied the jackets of the two men and exposed their injuries. Shi Yinghui is still unconscious. His abdomen is covered with knife edges, and half of his sternum has completely collapsed. Qin Wu Dynasty broke a right hand, and there was a serious blunt injury on his body. Deng Shi raised his hand and pressed it on his chest. He had pinched a broken rib.

After patting the cheek of Qin Wu Dynasty, Deng Shishen said in a voice, "didn't you say you only broke one hand? What's the matter with the injury on your body?"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Qin WuChao said with a smile.

Zhong Ruoxi stared at Shi Yinghui, pursed her lips and asked, "what about him...?"

"You know what you're asking." master Deng answered lightly, "I just stuffed brigade commander Shi's leaking intestines back. Fortunately, he hurt his right sternum. If his left chest collapses and compresses his heart, he will be killed on the spot."

"Can you save it?"

Master Deng looked at Zhong Ruoxi and didn't answer.

Zhong Ruoxi doesn't need to know the answer at all.

The light suddenly disappeared. When the lighter lit up again, master Deng had taken off his wet coat.

He rolled up his clothes, and master Deng handed them to Qin WuChao: "bite."

Qin WuChao picked up master Deng's clothes with his left hand, sniffed them under his nose, and immediately frowned: "shit! Master Deng, what's the smell on your clothes? It's disgusting."

"Don't talk nonsense, bite." Deng Shiyi glared. "If you don't agree, I still have a shoe."

"Hurry up." Qin WuChao pulled the corners of his mouth, took the dress in his mouth, frowned and nodded at master Deng.

The cloth strip wrapped carelessly on the arms of the Qin and Wu Dynasties was carefully opened. Master Deng stared at the white fracture soaked by the rain, ruthlessly put the lighter close to it and burned it.

Among the fishy smell in the mud hole, there is a trace of burnt skin and meat. The Qin and Wu dynasties gave a stuffy hum, widened their eyes, bared their eyes to crack, and the green veins on their foreheads burst up, looking particularly ferocious and terrible.

After a while, Qin WuChao softened and fainted.

Master Deng burned the wound, then hung down his hand and held the hot lighter tightly. He felt the burning pain rising from the palm of his hand, and tears flowed silently in the dark.

"You accompany brigade commander Shi." Deng Shi's voice was dry. After saying this, he groped in the dark, stuffed the lighter into Zhong Ruoxi's hand, and then climbed out of the hole on his knees.

After midnight, Shi Yinghui finally woke up.

Zhong Ruoxi lit the lighter, leaned over and put his ears to Shi Yinghui's mouth: "brigade commander Shi, what are you talking about?"

Shi Yinghui's lips wriggled, but he didn't make a sound.

"Brigade commander Shi, I can't hear..."

Shi Yinghui moved his lips again. This time, Zhong Ruoxi heard clearly. Shi Yinghui was asking if he had any help.

Zhong Ruoxi was silent for a moment, and Shi Yinghui blinked slowly. He already understood.

"I... I want to see... See Li Qing..."

Zhong Ruoxi shouted out of the cave, "Li Qing! Li Qing!"

Li Qing shrunk under a big tree and held the trembling ancient moon. When he heard Zhong Ruoxi calling his name, he suddenly got up and climbed into the mud hole.

"Brigade commander Shi wants to talk to you." Zhong Ruoxi said softly, biting her bloodless lips.

"Brigadier Shi, I'm here." Li Qing came up to Shi Yinghui, "what's wrong? Tell me."

"Li... Li Qing." Shi Yinghui suddenly grasped Li Qing's hand and raised his head. "I've been ordered by the military to bring director Zhong back to Longxi safely. You... You have to help me..."

Li Qing nodded: "don't worry, I will ensure Ruoxi's safety."

Shi Yinghui nodded his head, wheezed heavily, and a smile slowly appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"I thought I just lost a finger, but I didn't expect to leave the whole person..."

In the bleak light of the lighter, Shi Yinghui stared round his eyes and seemed to be staring at something. He maintained such a state and had no sound anymore.

Trembling, Zhong Ruoxi stretched out her jade hand and stroked Shi Yinghui's eyes. She put out the lighter and the sound of teeth fighting came from the darkness.

"We... Did we do wrong, Li Qing, did we do wrong?"

Li Qing knew that Zhong Ruoxi at this time needed someone to hold her in his arms, and then firmly told her that there was nothing wrong with this action. Although the action team paid a heavy price, the losses of the Xilong army were even more heavy. They put a knife in the enemy's heart. They ended the sixth Longxi war. They saved the two countries from war. They saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians. They exchanged pain and blood for a long-term peace.

Li Qing knows what he should do, but Li Qing can't. He is an ordinary person, not only ordinary, but also selfish. He has neither the ambition of worrying about the country and the people, nor the heroic spirit of righteousness. At this time, he was already unable to protect himself, and he had no ability to give Zhong Ruoxi any comfort.

"I don't know," Li Qing said softly, his cheeks stiff and without any expression. He knelt and crawled out of the cave, like a hastily fleeing bereaved dog, leaving Zhong Ruoxi alone in the boundless darkness, facing the unconscious Qin and Wu dynasties and an increasingly cold body.

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