Gu Qingqing looked at him with her big watery eyes without saying a word.
The atmosphere remained tense.
"Captain Chu..." Zhao Ze came over to change his bandages and saw Gu Qingqing was there too, so he exclaimed, "Ah."
"Sister Qingqing, did you sleep well last night?" There was a hint of resentment in these words.
Gu Qingqing looked up and saw a pair of dark eyes under his glasses. She was shocked: "Brother Zhao? Did you have cupping on your eyes?"
Zhao Ze was both angry and amused, and motioned Chu Dai to untie his shirt so that he could change the bandages for him.
Chu Dai glanced at Gu Qingqing beside him, hesitating. Zhao Ze directly unbuttoned his white shirt.
"It's all thanks to you that you worked the whole night last night." Zhao Ze cut the white bandage wrapped around his chest. Gu Qingqing took a sneak peek and saw a bloody mess, her eyes instantly reddened.
"It's okay," Chu Dai saw that she was about to cry, so he pulled her shirt over to cover her eyes, "It doesn't hurt."
Gu Qingqing cried even harder, not only because of his injury, but also because he was about to go to the island and might never see her again.
The leader said that this guy needs to be tamed slowly, but now he is almost dead, how can we tame him?!
Chu Dai and Zhao Ze looked at each other. Both grown men were a little helpless. Zhao Ze quickly changed the medicine for Chu Dai and said without looking back: "Qingqing, I don't mean to blame you. Don't tell your sister Anian when you go back. I still have to go to the wounded camp..."
The voice disappeared at the door along with his back. Gu Qingqing didn't want him to see her miserable state, so she turned around and cried with her back to him, wiping her tears with her left and right hands alternately.
Chu Dai sat on the bed, listening to the girl's sobs. He leaned his head back against the wall, his fingers touched the cigarette box in the pocket of his coat beside the bed. He subconsciously opened the lid of the cigarette box, glanced at her back, and closed it again.
In the ward, the girl's soft sobs could be heard. The man closed his eyes and covered his eyes with the back of his right hand to hide the pain in his eyes.
His Adam's apple moved up and down, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
After crying, Gu Qingqing wiped her face with her sleeve, turned around and saw the pumpkin porridge on the bedside table that had not been touched. She picked it up, moved her chair forward, scooped a mouthful and put it to the man's mouth.
Chu Dai put down his hand, opened his eyes and looked at her, his eyes full of unclear emotions.
"Aren't you going to live on the island? How can you go to the island if you don't eat? Your wound won't heal quickly." She suppressed her sadness and reluctance, looked at the handsome face of the man in front of her, and said, "Eat, brother. After you finish eating, I'll send the lunch box to the cafeteria, and my brother will bring you lunch at noon."
Chu Dai looked at her without blinking and understood what she meant.
"You won't bring me food anymore?"
"Yeah." Gu Qingqing tried to put on a smile: "I won't see you off."
Chu Dai was stunned, looking down at the spoon at his lips.
"Okay," he said.
The only sound in the ward was the man drinking porridge. Gu Qingqing fed him quietly. After he finished the last mouthful, she stood up to pack up the lunch box. She forced herself not to look at him and hurriedly left the clinic with the lunch box.
"Uncle Yu." After returning to the cafeteria, Gu Qingqing washed the lunch box and put it aside: "Did the Corps send comrades to teach the people in the border town to build greenhouses and grow vegetables? Can I go with them?"
Yu Fugui had peeled half of the pumpkin in his hand. He was surprised: "What happened? Did you have a fight with Captain Chu?"
"No." Gu Qingqing thought to herself, how could he and I quarrel? He didn't take me seriously at all. "I was the one who proposed growing vegetables in greenhouses. I was afraid that there were still some imperfections. The soil in each place is different. The people in the border town live in the city center. The sandstorms there are not as serious as those in the Corps. As long as the fertilizer in the soil is retained, more varieties of vegetables should be able to be grown..."
Yu Fugui felt a headache as he listened to her endless chatter: "What about Captain Chu's meal? Aren't you going to deliver it?"
"No." Gu Qingqing shook off the water droplets on her hands and said expressionlessly, "I'll tell my brother and let him send it."
"...Okay." Not knowing what was wrong with this young lady, whether Captain Chu had said something unpleasant to her, Yu Fugui sighed and thought about asking Gu Qinglie to ask her later.
"There will be a group of soldiers coming to teach us how to build greenhouses and make manure. Just follow them. I'll prepare some dry food for you. Eat it for lunch. Come back early in the afternoon and we'll have potatoes and bones stewed with them."
Listening to his rambling, Gu Qingqing felt warm in her heart: "Okay. Thank you, Uncle Yu."
"Why are you being so polite to me, kid? Remember to put on your straw hat. The midday sun is very scorching."
"I know." Gu Qingqing raised her hands without looking back, and her back looked a bit frivolous.
At noon, Gu Qinglie took food from the cafeteria to deliver to Chu Dai.
Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Chu Dai turned his head to look.
Sure enough, she didn't come to deliver the meal.
The man's lips straightened.
Gu Qinglie guessed that something might have gone wrong between the two of them, so he gave the meal to Chu Dai, pulled out a chair and sat next to him, then took the other portion and started eating.
Seeing that he was wolfing down the food but had no intention of speaking, Chu Dai took the initiative to say, "Old customer."
"Hmm?" Gu Qinglie said vaguely: "What's wrong? Does the wound hurt? Or do you have no appetite?"
"Qingqing knows that I'm going to live on the island."
"Oh." Gu Qinglie responded casually, then widened his eyes and raised his voice: "What did you say? Stationed on the island?!"
"Chu Dai, please make it clear. Are we brothers? Why didn't you tell me such a big thing? Two days ago, the instructor said that he would select people from several corps to form a company to go to Baisha Island. You were not there at that time, and you were still lying in bed recuperating. Who told you? Did you submit the application report?"
"I have submitted it." Chu Dai said softly, "Old Guan approved it."
"Fuck." Gu Qinglie cursed for the first time. He put down the lunch box in his hand, stood up, touched his head, and walked around the ward with his hands on his hips.
He was tall and strong, and he walked to the window, blocking most of the light.
"Chu Dai, you are really good."
He finally understood why his sister didn't come to bring him food, but instead followed the soldiers outside to build a shed. He was also very angry because they were blocking him.
Gu Qinglie didn't want to hide it anymore, he said bluntly: "Mr. Chu, my sister didn't come to the Corps to visit relatives. I sent back the photo of you and I taken at the photo studio, and she saw it and came straight north to find you."
"My sister has never suffered any injustice since she was a child. Her family gave her all the good things. This time, she followed us to the border town and suffered from the wind and sand for a month, but she didn't complain at all."
Gu Qinglie wiped his face and said irritably, "During this period of time, she has been helping the army to grow vegetables in the greenhouse and coming to your place with a lunch box. My sister can do this for you. The world can see her feelings for you, right?"
Chu Dai didn't say anything. His hand that was holding the quilt suddenly tightened, and the veins on the back of his hand were exposed.
"Captain Chu," Gu Qinglie's tone turned cold, "It's true that you blocked the bullet for me, I owe you a life. I will definitely stand in front of you in the next charge."
"My sister doesn't have to pay for what happened between us."
"Her care for you during this period is not compensation for me. You don't have to waste her kindness like this."
Gu Qinglie gave him a strong prescription: "It's not easy for a girl to do this for you. Since you are going to Baisha to guard the island, I will take a leave tomorrow to send her home."
When Chu Dai heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly.
"I just want to ask you one question," Gu Qinglie looked at him with a gloomy face, "Do you have her in your heart?"
“…”
There was a long silence.
"Okay." Gu Qinglie sneered, "Okay."
"I really feel sorry for my sister."
He grabbed the lunch box and strode towards the door, full of anger, completely different from the usual smiling and carefree man.
"have."
The man's hoarse voice suddenly rang out as he was about to step out of the room: "She is in my heart."
Chu Daihun seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He leaned sloppily against the iron bed with a dull look on his face.
In fact, he had heard about it since she first came to the Corps.
She told Gu Qinglie that she was there to find a partner.
Over the past month, she often moved closer to him and looked at him secretly. When she was discovered, she avoided his gaze like a guilty thief.
A few days ago, Lao Guan told him that on the night he was sent back from the front line, she was in the vegetable garden with Yu Fugui, happily looking at the newly sprouted spinach seedlings. When she heard the guard say that he was shot, she stumbled to the bathroom, and when she saw the gauze he had changed, her little face turned pale with fright.
When she first met her in the car, she saw that his wrist was grazed by a bullet and he also had a frightened expression.
He thought the girl was afraid of blood, so he pulled down her sleeves to cover her face.
Only now did I understand that she was heartbroken.
It turned out to be love at first sight.
How could he have such virtue?
Gu Qinglie had his back to him, the corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably, but soon he restrained his expression and turned around.
Still with that indifferent expression, she pulled out a chair and sat next to him.
"Tell me." Gu Qinglie looked at him: "What do you want to do?"
Chu Dai looked up at the ceiling. The ceiling was painted with a layer of putty and was bare. He just pulled a string and hung a light bulb.
Maybe because the words had already been spoken, the man blurted out what he had been hiding in his heart: "I had no intention of signing up to live on the island."
"Hmm?" Gu Qinglie raised his eyebrows: "Then why do you want to apply?"
"Maybe he's scared." Chu Dai covered his heart-wrenching chest and smiled lightly, "I used to think no one cared about my life or death, and dying on the battlefield was a worthy death for my country."
Gu Qinglie frowned and listened to him.
"Now that I have her blood flowing in my body, how can I not like her?"
Chu Dai stretched out his right hand, his eyes fell on the white back of his hand, the blue veins crisscrossed vertically and horizontally: "I want to go to the island, leave us a possibility."
Although the conditions on the island were harsh, there were not as many battles to fight as in the border towns.
In fact, he despised himself in his heart. For a little selfishness, he even wanted to retreat.
"I never planned to get married and have children. By my generation, all the Chu family members except me died in the war. My cousins became widows and raised their children alone."
"Even from my father's generation, he is the only one left." Chu Dai felt sad and bitter when he thought of his uncles and cousins who had died.
"In a border town, war is inevitable. I will most likely be buried under the national flag. I have no right to drag her down."
After hearing this, Gu Qinglie finally understood why he had been indifferent to the matter of his girlfriend getting married.
With his arms resting on the back of the chair, Gu Qinglie did not ask him why he didn't go to the back if he liked his sister so much.
Now there are many things they must do, even if it means shedding blood and sacrificing their lives.
He was used to staying in the border town. After fighting so many battles, he knew that only by completely quelling the war could the country be peaceful and the people be safe. If he was transferred to the rear with an order now, Gu Qinglie would not be able to accept it.
He could understand Chu Dai.
Raising his hand and patting the man on the bed's shoulder, Gu Qinglie sighed: "The island is not stable either. From time to time, enemy warships come to harass us, and there are enemy spies pretending to be fishermen. The conditions are also difficult. I am worried about my sister going with you."
Chu Dai nodded. "For a moment, I thought about taking her to the island, but then I gave up."
"Boss, I don't know what to do."
Gu Qinglie was stunned. This was the first time he heard Chu Dai, who was full of vigor and ambition, say that he didn't know what to do.
He never frowned even when he was surrounded by bullets on the battlefield, but now he was at a loss.
Girl, this is the man you found.
Your brother is really at a loss as to what to do.
Gu Qinglie and the man on the bed looked at each other, and the two brothers looked at each other in silence and sighed silently.
After about half an hour, Gu Qinglie couldn't sit still any longer: "Shouldn't you tell my sister these things? What's the point of telling me?"
Chu Dai raised his hands to cover his face, a faint smile escaped from his throat, and said with a headache: "Fuck, how can I say such hypocritical words to your sister?"
"Then you can tell me." Gu Qinglie gave him a thumbs up, and after a long while of swearing, he said, "If Qingqing knew, she would definitely go to the island with you without hesitation."
"Are you relieved?" Chu Dai leaned back and pulled the quilt. "Even if you are relieved, I still can't bear to leave."
"Are you really going to watch me send her back to Yancheng? Guarding the island will take at least ten or eight years, right? Chu Dai, you really think you are a hot commodity. Who the hell would wait for you for so long?"
Gu Qinglie looked him up and down with a look of disdain: "Don't think that just because you are good-looking, countless people will rush to chase you. Let me tell you straight, my sister definitely can't wait. My eldest brother Gu Canyang is an air force officer in your father's southern military region. Before we joined the army, we brothers agreed that whoever finds a suitable one will send a photo to his sister. This time you are lucky, I got there first, and now my brother may have already found a pilot who is better looking than you in the military region and sent a photo home."
"I will send Qingqing back tomorrow, and you will see the photo the day after tomorrow. You know she is a person who is tempted by beauty and will forget you in the heat of the moment. As for you, you can go to a deserted island and live your life guarding your rocks and sand."
"That's impossible." Chu Dai said in a provocative tone, "I've seen all the pilots in the military region. Not to mention the pilots, there's no one else in the entire military region who's as good-looking as me."
"Get lost." Gu Qinglie was amused: "You still have the mood to flatter yourself."
"Chu Dai, I'm not kidding you. My sister will be eighteen next year. If it weren't for the pressure from us two brothers, people from all over the country would have already come to her for marriage proposals. You want her to wait for you for eight or ten years? No chance!"
"Let's not talk about whether she is willing or not. Even if she is willing, our Gu family will not agree."
Chu Dai said nothing.
Gu Qinglie said bluntly: "Brother, I'll give you a trick. If you can do it, then you two can forget it."
"You say."
"You reported your marriage right away because you were worried that my sister would suffer on the island. I will go to the island with you."
"Are you crazy?" Chu Dai frowned. "As soon as I left, you were promoted to deputy company commander. In two years, you'll be a company commander. Why do we fight? Besides defending our country, we want to achieve success. No way."
"It's not up to you to decide whether it's okay or not. Oh, I allow you, Captain Chu, to put aside your personal feelings for the sake of the country. Now the higher-ups have called on us to go to the island to build and prepare for the landing of warships in the future. You, Old Chu, can do it, but I, Gu Qinglie, can't?"
"Alright, stop wasting time. Wait for Qingqing to come back and tell her straight. If she wants to go with you to guard the island, we won't stop her. Her elder and second brothers can protect the country, so there's nothing wrong with her joining the army to guard the island."
"Chu Dai, I'm telling you, if you have something to say, just say it, don't keep it in your heart. You can reject her directly, or you can ask her to go with you to guard the island, but you can't keep her hanging and make her wait for you."
"She's a stubborn person. There are too many variables when we are soldiers. If she goes to the island with you and you are attacked and killed by the enemy, it will be her fate. At least she has gotten it, which is far better than an illusory hope."
Seeing him talking about his death in a serious manner, Chu Dai couldn't help laughing: "Can't you just wish me good luck?"
"I really hope you can live longer." Gu Qinglie hit his arm: "Be nice to my sister."
"Okay." Chu Dai suppressed his smile and said seriously, "If I treat her badly, I will die without a complete body and will never be able to return to my homeland."
Gu Qinglie muttered, "It doesn't have to be that tragic."
Now that everything was made clear, the two of them relaxed and no longer had the tension they had before.
He was in a very serious condition yesterday. Deputy Company Commander Feng Tianya knew that he had stayed in the toilet all night, so he gave him a day off.
There was no need for training in the afternoon, so Gu Qinglie simply stayed here to accompany him.
Chu Dai hesitated for a moment, then said, "Regarding the matter of stationing on the island, I hope you will reconsider it."
"I will take good care of Qingqing. There will definitely be other warriors from our regiment going with you. They will treat Qingqing no worse than you do."
"Alright, alright." Gu Qinglie waved his hands lazily, his eyelids drooping. "Let's see what Qingqing says. Let me get some sleep. I still haven't recovered from the deadly soup I drank last night."
When Chu Dai heard him mention this, he also felt a little pain in his stomach.
Gu Qingqing followed the officers and soldiers of the Corps to the Fanrong Production Team. The production team leader knew that they were there to teach the members how to grow vegetables, so he ran around the village with a loud speaker and called all the villagers over.
When I saw the production team leader Gu Qingqing, I couldn't help but think of her father. I wondered how the medicinal herb planting was going now. My father was planning to compete with the Red Flag Production Team in the year-end financial statements.
She really missed home a little. The man's handsome face appeared in her mind and she sighed.
If he wants to stay on the island, then let him stay there. Since he has no interest in her, then he won't have to endure it. When the greenhouse planting here is almost done, she will go back to Datunzi Village.
Uncle and Da Mi must miss her.
"Sister Qingqing." The round-faced little warrior next to her took out a green tangerine from his pocket and gave it to her: "Quench your thirst."
This was picked from the roadside on the way to the Corps.
Gu Qingqing's eyes were filled with tears, and she pursed her lips while holding the tangerine.
What can she do? She really can’t bear to leave the Corps.
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