When they finished their work and returned to the corps, the sun was only a glimmer of afterglow left in the sky.
When they went out they did not take a car but walked. A platoon of soldiers all carried hoes and pickaxes, and some carried paring knives.
Today, we helped the production team build five greenhouses. Gu Qingqing repeatedly reminded them of the important matters, especially the need to dig deep at the bottom of the soil and then lay a layer of plastic film to prevent water and fertilizer leakage. The members of the production team assured that they had learned it, and they helped to compost the soil before leaving.
Walking on the sunny avenue with dust on the surface, I don’t know who started to sing the military song first: “I am a soldier, I love my country and my people~”
Immediately, a soldier sang: "The revolutionary war has tested me, and my stand has become more firm. Hey, I hold the gun tightly and see clearly..."
Gu Qingqing didn't mention anything, but she put in a bag of wild fruits that she couldn't name, all of which were picked for her by the soldiers from the roadside.
While she was in a daze, the platoon leader leading the team in front of her grinned and turned around to call her, "Sister Qingqing! Can you sing?"
Gu Qingqing took a small red fruit from her pocket and ate it. The sour and sweet taste made her shiver and she woke up immediately.
Her eyebrows curved and her voice was loud and clear: "Whoever dares to start a war will be beaten without mercy!"
"Hahaha, great singing," the platoon leader led the applause: "Comrades! How do our girls sing?"
"Great!" The soldiers shouted in unison, and all their energetic faces looked at Gu Qingqing with smiles.
Gu Qingqing put all her worries behind her, smiled and bowed in a pretentious manner: "Thank you brothers for your support, I wish you a happy new year!"
"Haha~" The hearty and brilliant laughter hovered in the air and echoed in the valley.
Gu Qingqing's heart was filled with intense excitement. She followed the group of soldiers wearing green uniforms and five-pointed red stars, crossed the barren valley, walked through the sandy land with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and returned to the Corps' base.
The soldiers had to go to the Quartermaster Department to return the farm tools first. Gu Qingqing moved her nose and smelled the aroma of pork shanks in the air. She went directly to the cafeteria without going back to the military compound.
"Oh, our sweetheart is back." Yu Fugui was scooping potato and bone soup out of the pot, "Uncle, can I give you a spoonful?"
"Give me a big spoonful!" Gu Qingqing was in a good mood, smiling coquettishly, "I'm so hungry! Uncle Yu, you don't know how many sheds I helped build today! I can even carve bamboo bows!"
"You are so capable." Yu Fugui picked up a piece of meaty bone for her, "Eat well, your brother's food money is enough."
"Okay~" Gu Qingqing didn't take the food to the table to eat. Instead, she lay on the table and blew air along the edge with her little mouth. The little warrior next to her handed her a spoon.
"Thank you, brother~"
"We are the two of us, right, sister?" The little warrior laughed and continued to pretend to be a vegetable.
"Yeah, we are the two of us." Gu Qinglie just came from the bathroom, put down his aluminum lunch box, and put his hand on the girl's face, "Where did your good brothers take you to play? Your little face is so black, I thought Uncle Yu smeared soot on your face."
He was listless and depressed before, but after going out he came back smiling and chatting with others. This guy is really heartless!
"Didn't I tell you to build a shed?" Gu Qingqing tried to pull his hand away, but couldn't move it. "It's too heavy, don't put it on my shoulders. It's all your fault if I don't grow tall."
"Blame me, blame me. I'll give you my bowl of pork bone soup, okay?" Gu Qinglie picked up a steamed sweet potato from the side and started chewing on it.
Yu Fugui listened to the quarrel between the brother and sister and said, "I didn't smear the soot on her face. The whole regiment is her family. How dare I do that?"
"Uncle Yu, you're making fun of me again!" Gu Qingqing angrily took a big sip of soup, "I don't care, I want to drink my brother's bowl of soup!"
"I'll give you mine too." The man came from nowhere and placed a bowl of bone soup in front of her.
Gu Qingqing stared blankly at Chu Dai, who was wearing a neat military uniform and looking at her with a smile. She blinked, thinking it was an illusion.
"Why did you get out of bed?" Gu Qinglie said depressedly: "Didn't I tell you to wait and I'll bring the person to you."
"I can't wait any longer." Chu Dai smiled silently, staring at the girl with his dark eyes, and said, "I'm afraid you'll send her back overnight."
Gu Qingqing listened to the two people's riddles with a bewildered look on her face. Yu Fugui just stepped back from the charcoal fire behind the stove. When he looked up, he saw Chu Dai coming. He patted the dust off his hands and said, "Captain Chu, your injury hasn't healed yet. If you want to eat, we can send it to you. Qingqing won't send it, but Qinglie will, right, Captain Gu?"
Gu Qinglie saw the girl turn her head away, and his ears turned red with embarrassment. He didn't dare to join in the fun. He glanced at Zhao Ze, who was wearing glasses and getting food with his wife in the distance, and waved at them.
"Mr. Zhao, would you like some steamed sweet potatoes?"
Zhao Ze lowered his head and whispered something in his wife's ear. Xu Nian pursed her lips and smiled shyly, then followed her husband to the kitchen.
"Captain Chu, why are you here? You can't get out of bed and walk now. The wound will easily burst open and get inflamed." When Zhao Ze said this, he deliberately raised his voice so that Gu Qingqing, who was lying on his back, could hear it.
Sure enough, although Gu Qingqing didn't say anything, she tilted her head slightly, glanced secretly in their direction, and listened with her ears perked up.
Chu Dai was amused by her cute look. He took the meal that Yu Fugui had prepared for him and said, "Go to the front and eat in front of the quartermaster."
"Hey, Captain Chu, I'm not used to your politeness," Yu Fugui was afraid that Chu Dai would ask him to help buy Daqianmen cigarettes tomorrow. It's not easy to get these cigarettes now. The supply and marketing cooperative has been out of stock for more than a month. "Just call me Lao Yu. It makes me feel less nervous."
Chu Dai and Gu Qinglie smiled at each other. Gu Qinglie put his arm around the girl's shoulders and led her to the front hall.
"My soup! Dog..." She swallowed the words back when she remembered her brother's words that she should save face for her brothers in front of others. "My soup is stewed potatoes with bones!"
"Don't worry, someone will serve you. You won't be left out."
Chu Dai followed the siblings lazily, holding an aluminum lunch box in one hand and a bowl of soup on the stove in the other. Gu Qingqing was worried about her soup, so she turned around and met the man's dark eyes, then quickly turned her head away.
The man behind her laughed softly, and her face became even angrier.
They found a seat against the wall, and the tables next to them were filled with soldiers.
"Captain Chu, Platoon Leader Gu, Military Doctor Zhao, sister-in-law!" The soldiers greeted one by one. When it came to Gu Qingqing, the tone was more casual: "This is our sister. Tomorrow it is the turn of the brothers of our third battalion to go to the south of the city to teach the people how to build greenhouses and grow vegetables. Sister, do you want to join the brothers?"
"Okay." Gu Qingqing responded with clear eyes and a smile.
"What's good about that?" Gu Qinglie grabbed her collar and asked her to sit against the wall. "Look at your face, it's so dark. I can't find you even if I stand under the moon at night. You are not allowed to go."
After hearing his words, there were scattered laughs nearby, and then they became more and more outrageous. A platoon leader drank a sip of soup and said with a smile: "The girl can't go out with us anymore. Even the quartermaster's straw hat can't block the sun."
Gu Qingqing glanced at Goudan who had walked around and sat down opposite her, then raised her foot and stomped hard on him.
Gu Qinglie suddenly grinned.
One side of the table was against the wall, and three sides were for seating, with six armchairs. The chairs in the cafeteria were all made by the soldiers themselves during their spare time from training.
Gu Qingqing sat against the wall, Gu Qinglie sat opposite her, and Xu Nian originally wanted to sit next to her, but Zhao Ze gently held her wrist, and the two of them sat on the outside aisle.
Gu Qingqing didn't care. If Chu Dai wanted to sit, he would definitely sit with her brother. She only cared about her potato and bone soup, staring at the large bowl in the man's hand.
This is what Uncle Yu specially served for her! It's not even in an aluminum lunch box.
Chu Dai's fair and thin wrist passed in front of her. Because of his movement, his sleeve was pulled up, and Gu Qingqing saw the man's slender wrist bones.
In addition to the blue veins, there are also thin purple blood vessels.
The man put down the bowl, pulled out a chair, and sat down next to her, with the aluminum lunch box placed side by side with the bowl.
Gu Qingqing blinked.
Gu Qinglie seemed unaware. When the young soldier from the kitchen squad brought his lunch box over, he took out the small aluminum box on the second layer of the lunch box and pushed it in front of her.
It's a delicious stew of potatoes and pork bones.
Gu Qingqing was puzzled: "You really don't want to eat? Give it all to me?"
Gu Qinglie leaned back in his chair and waved his hands: "I still can't get over the soup you had last night. I can't drink it."
Zhao Ze was somewhat gloating: "There is nothing I can do. This is the treatment only for wounded soldiers. How is your arm? I'll take a look at it later. If it doesn't work, I'll make you some soup. As the saying goes, heal the wound."
Gu Qinglie glanced at Chu Dai who was quietly chewing a sweet potato and said, "If anyone needs to be healed, it should be our Captain Chu. He is seriously injured and has lost so much blood that he can't be healed for ten days or half a month, right, Chief?"
Now their military uniforms are all the same, with a red star on their heads and revolutionary red flags on both sides. If you look at the uniforms, you really can't tell the military titles.
From the company commander to the regiment commander, they can all be called the chief, and they all have four pockets.
Chu Dai glanced at the girl who was drinking soup as if she wished she could turn herself into a quail, and gave Gu Qinglie a warning look, indicating that they should stop.
This girl must still be feeling guilty about killing hundreds of wounded soldiers last night.
Gu Qinglie let out a "ho" in his heart.
You haven't even entered the door yet, but you're already protecting me.
Zhao Ze picked out the big bone with meat from the lunch box and gave it to Xu Nian. While drinking soup, he said to Gu Qinglie who was eating potatoes: "I heard that you all are going to live on the island?"
Gu Qinglie and Chu Dai turned their gazes to him at the same time. Gu Qinglie asked, "Who told you that?"
"You two were arguing in the ward this afternoon. I could hear you from half the corps with your loud voice. The pigs in the pig farm were scared and kept groaning." Zhao Ze smacked his lips, as if he was savoring the delicious bone soup. "I overheard it when I passed by the ward. If you want to go, take me with you. You need a military doctor wherever you go. Otherwise, who would you go to if you have a headache or a fever? When you get to Baisha Island, a place where no one shits, you look up and call the sky? Who will care about you?"
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