Mantra

Chapter 186

In the shaking of the train, we set off from Hebei to Guiyang, the first stop of the itinerary.

During this period, Lin Shaosong once again demonstrated his excellent leadership skills and ability to spend money.He set up high-end soft sleepers for all of us, and also bought a separate box with a washroom for Hongye.

It may be the reason we are here, Lin Shaosong rarely takes the initiative to court Hongye, and Hongye also plunges into the pile of old papers left by his grandfather and does not come out often.

During the trip to Guizhou, the most excited person was me, Wang Hou and Ba Tulu, three comrades in arms. We used to meet each other often, and we had mutual favors. This trip is to go to Guizhou, the "old place" where we served as soldiers. , It is inevitable to recall some joys and sorrows when they were soldiers.

Speaking of Guizhou, that is the place where I once fought, and I also have special feelings for that piece of laterite plateau.

During the period, seeing that I knew Guizhou so well, Xian Hongye pestered me to tell me some basic images of Guizhou, so that everyone could have a general impression and preparation for it.

I took the opportunity to tell everyone: "I have a lot of impressions of Guizhou, such as the black and thin mountain people and the climate like spring all year round, but the deepest image is still two things...poverty and food."

The poverty in the mountainous areas of Guizhou is the kind of extreme poverty. I don’t mean to belittle Guizhou. On the contrary, I sincerely sympathize with it. The poverty caused by comprehensive factors such as transportation, land, and ethnic recognition is really shocking. I have to The image is profound.

And because of the unique climate and complex ethnic situation there, my second impression of Guizhou is that there are many local foods and "weird". It opened my eyes.

And that kind of poverty is intertwined with local characteristics, ethnic groups, and food, and it has become my complicated memory of there.

While talking, I looked at Batulu and asked him: "Sheng Meng Seafood, do you still remember what happened when you first engaged in 'military-civilian mutual aid' in our company?"

What I said made the black face of this Mongolian boy turn red at that time. He waved his hands again and again, with a disgusted look on his face, begging me not to say it.

I ignored him, but continued to tell everyone about the "fantasy journey" at that time.

I first said: "When I was in the army, there was a military-civilian mutual aid activity every year. In fact, the army went to the mountain people's homes to do some volunteer work and gave some money. The mountain people stayed with the soldiers to have dinner at home, and everyone promoted the relationship."

During the event that year, Zhao Hong, Ba Tulu, Xiaojiao and other comrades-in-arms were assigned to a place called Maoshizhai.

Maybe my old squad leader had a premonition, so before our small team set off, the old squad leader repeatedly told the comrades in the cooking class and the machine-stepping class: "Maoshizhai is a village of few people. You go to respect other people's customs, understand?" ?”

In that squad, I was the oldest soldier, and I didn't realize what the old squad leader meant at the time, so I didn't even think about it, so I took the lead and promised, Don't worry, we will definitely do it, and we will successfully complete the task. After expressing our attitude, A few of us got on the company's truck and staggered all the way to the place called Maoshizhai.

The reason why it is called "Cat Shi Village" is such a shabby name. I didn't realize it until I arrived. It turned out that the roads in the Mao Shi Village were closed and difficult. "Cats don't come here to shit." We got out of the military vehicle and walked again. After advancing two kilometers, we arrived at the village an hour later than the scheduled time.

It was almost noon.

To be honest, the Maoshizhai village is not big, but it is still clean.When we arrived, the 23 people in the whole Miao village had received the "news" and were all waiting for the arrival of us soldiers.

The village head of the Miao village is very old, and he was the only "highly talented student" who had attended elementary school before the 90s. The old man was very excited when he saw us guys, and quickly brought us bowls of hot soup to welcome us. Tai Lisuo's Chinese praised us for our hard work.

Seeing that the villagers were so enthusiastic, we couldn't resist anything. At that time, a few station staff took up the bowl...but no one dared to drink it.

Among the comrades-in-arms, I was the last one to carry the bowl. I was surprised by everyone's expressions before, but when I picked up the bowl, I didn't dare to drink.

Because everyone suddenly saw that there was nothing else in the bowl, but a bowl of... hot cow blood!

I know by feeling that this thing must be for entertaining distinguished guests, but the problem is that looking at the bright red and bubbling blood soup, each of us is scared by the smell of blood that chokes our noses. Drinking, even smelling it requires an ideological struggle.

Among the comrades-in-arms, Batulu was the fiercest fresh seafood. This Mongolian recruit hadn't been hit by the white-eating Gu at the time, and it was the "heyday" period when he saw meat and raw food and would not die.

Baturu's eyes lit up, he howled "Yi and Bai Yirila!"

He was very happy, leaving only a few of us, and there were no people inside and out.

In the end, I took the lead, and everyone held their noses and drank half a bowl before passing the first level.

After receiving the wind, I read some slogans and impromptu speeches such as military and civilian fish and water conditions as usual, and then handed over the funds, textbooks, clothes and other things to support Maoshi Village to the village chief, and then started to clean and repair the inside and outside of the village. bullpen.

During this period, we were once again shocked by the poverty of the entire Mao Shi Village.

In the words of Han, a house with only four walls is the most embarrassing state, but in the cat shit house, I really saw people who didn’t even have four walls. Some people’s whole family lived in a shack with only three logs. There are basically only three electrical appliances in households, namely radio, light bulb and flashlight.In addition, it seems that the only connection between the village and the outside world is the phone of the village chief's house plus a broken mobile phone with intermittent signal.

When the soldiers saw it, they felt a little bit sad and weeping at the time, maybe because of this, we worked very hard at that time, and we did our best to help Mao Shizhai do some infrastructure work within our ability.

After the task was completed, I looked at my watch and suddenly felt something was wrong.

At that time, it was already six o'clock, but according to the agreement between us and the company, they should send a car to pick us up as early as 05:30, why there is no movement at six o'clock?It's too weird.

In desperation, I asked for a military phone number from the communications officer, and after calling several times, I learned a very embarrassing reality from the company instructor on duty.

Because Maoshizhai is too remote, the car we sent to pick us up broke down on the way. Because of signal isolation, the car has not been found until now. Now everyone is busy looking for a car, so they can't take care of picking us up. .

So the instructor gave an order to let us stand by.At most tomorrow, not later than the day after tomorrow, they will pick us up.

After a wry smile, I hung up the phone, briefly explained the situation with my comrades, and then went to the village chief to discuss the matter of staying overnight.

At that time, the village head was a little embarrassed when he heard that we were going to stay overnight. He told me in broken Chinese: "You can stay overnight, but you must remember one thing! You must not go out in the middle of the night."

"Why?!" I asked without thinking.

(End of this chapter)