Chapter 52

Hot spring bath

From Director Guo to the members of the security team, everyone was drunk at this point. Sun Dabao seemed to be reeking of alcohol, but he was not drunk at all. He quietly poured out all the wine.

"So, have all the members and people in the cowshed been notified? It's time for us to leave now." Sun Dabao sneaked out after leaving the security team members to drink with Director Guo and said to a few of his thugs.

"We've notified every household, now we just need to drive the car," said the thugs.

"We'll follow the planned route and gather at the back gate of the farm. When the time comes, we'll just rush open the gate, follow the convoy, and run into the desert together," said Sun Dabao.

When the thugs heard this, they immediately ran to drive the car.

When Gou Ersao received the notice to evacuate immediately, she immediately informed Chen Lina, "Little Chen, you should also hurry up and get ready. It's time for us to leave."

Every second counts, but Liu Han hasn't arrived yet.

"Wei Min, take Erdan, Sandan, Xiaohong and the others to Uncle Gou's house next door first."

"No, Comrade Xiao Chen, we should go together."

Chen Lina winked at the child and said, "I'll be right there. Hurry up now."

Erdan and Sandan still refused to leave, so Liu Xiaohong picked up the skinny Sandan and said, "Hurry, let's go."

Nie Weimin walked to the door and saw that Chen Lina had a brick in her hand. He said, "Oh, you are going to use illegal means and hit me."

"Because the leader said that we should treat our comrades as warmly as spring, and treat our enemies as ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. My responsibility is to ensure your safety, but not hers."

Sun Xiaoai obviously wanted to fight back, so Chen Lina pulled her hair, pointed at her nose and said, "I'm going to beat you to death on a brick wall right now, and then I'll get out in the chaos. No one will know how you died. You'd better be obedient so that I can bear it and not kill you."

Sun Xiaoai was probably frightened by the viciousness in Chen Lina's eyes, and finally stopped moving.

Chen Lina was determined and hit her on the head with a brick. This woman was as slippery as a mouse in the desert. If she was asked to run away again, she would definitely keep on going everywhere and never stop.

In the wilderness, the sound of a truck engine was particularly loud. After a while, a car stopped outside the cave and honked.

"Dad, that's my dad coming, everyone get ready."

"There are several large trucks on the farm. How do you know this is your father?" Nie Weimin was still very cautious.

"When my father plays the trumpet for me, it's always one long note and one short note," said Liu Xiaohong.

Sure enough, the horn sounded long at first and then short, twice.

At this time, Gou Ersao and her friends had just packed their packages. When they saw a truck coming with huge packages, they climbed onto the truck.

"Are we really planning to escape into the desert and go to the Soviet Union?" said Gou Ersao.

Liu Han rolled down the window and just shouted, "Get in the car."

Chen Lina lost her brick and ran out of the cave.

She took the children and got into the driver's seat first.

Gou Ercai, his family and children, of course sat in the back. They thought it was a truck going to the Soviet Union.

At this time, Gu Dacai started to cry, "Oh, brother, this is inhumane. I also have three children. Your sister-in-law has been drinking cornmeal for several days to buy you a big white steamed bun. She is so hungry that her trouser belt is much shorter than before. How can you take your brother to the Soviet Union?"

"Brother, there is food to eat and women in the Soviet Union. I will find one for you when you go there."

Gou Dacai came to see his brother happily, but he didn't know that his brother actually wanted to take him to the Soviet Union. He was so angry that he wanted to jump out of the car, but Gou Ercai held him down.

The Jiefang truck roared into life and rammed straight into the gate of Loulan Farm. The security team was only equipped with ordinary hunting rifles, and by the time they pulled the bolt, the truck was already ramming the gate.

Chen Lina had been in a car accident in her previous life, so she knew the force of this kind of collision. Steel and human flesh are like stone and tofu. She restrained the children with seat belts, turned her back to the driver's seat, stretched out her hands to protect them, and waited for the collision.

The moment it rushed through the door, there was a sudden crash, and the carriage behind was filled with cries of grief.

Sand pellets swept over, making a clanging sound on the truck body and splashing with flames.

She suddenly felt warm behind her. She turned around and saw Liu Xiaohong, whom she had never noticed before, lying on her back.

"Silly girl, are you crazy? Why did you unbuckle your seat belt? Do you know it's dangerous?"

Liu Xiaohong didn't say anything, she just smiled foolishly with her teeth gritted.

The sand balls were sweeping around. Chen Lina couldn't push the child away, and was afraid that the sand balls would hit her, so she pulled her from the front seat to the back seat and tucked her into the back seat.

The truck left Loulan Farm and drove a short distance before we saw yellow smoke and lights in the distance, and large trucks of the Eastern Red Army speeding towards us.

"You have been surrounded. Lay down your weapons and surrender. We are the armed forces of the mining area. We guarantee that as long as you surrender, we will not harm anyone." The loudspeaker shouted loudly.

Chen Lina took out the white shirt she had prepared long ago, which she wore when she came, tied it to a stick and stretched it out.

"Mom, why do you want to shake your shirt outside? Isn't this your favorite shirt?" Erdan asked.

Nie Weimin was excited and always liked to twist his brother's face, "Little fool, raise the white flag and surrender, otherwise the uncles in the army will regard us as enemies. Did you watch the movie in vain?"

The military Beijing 212 off-road command vehicle was moving through the convoy like a land patrol ship.

Minister Gao and Nie Bozhao sat side by side in the back, with the Chief of Staff sitting in the co-pilot's seat. Good fellow, Minister Gao didn't mention the bet just now at all.

"Hey, Minister Gao, are your family members pretty?"

"Oh, Comrade Lao Nie, your thoughts are so reactionary. It is because of people like you that Chiang Kai-shek said every day that the Republic is a communist country with public wives and a group of bandits. What does it have to do with you whether my family members are beautiful or not?"

"Minister Gao's sister-in-law is indeed very beautiful. As the deputy director of our mining area's art troupe, Nie Gong, I can testify that you won today." Chief of Staff Yu added insult to injury.

"Nie Gong, I have to tell you something too. Chief of Staff Yu is not married yet, but his girlfriend is the lead dancer of the "Women's Army" in our mining area's art troupe. When the mission is completed, you can have an arm wrestling match with him. I will be your witness and ask him to give his girlfriend to you. Is that okay?"

"Come on, how about we wrestle now?" Chief of Staff Yu was still a young man. He thought he could not lose to an engineer in hand wrestling, so he turned around and came over.

"That's enough. You always make fun of your family members. This shows disrespect for women. Besides, I have a family of my own, so I don't need to know how beautiful your family members are. However, you have to pay back the bet you made. Minister Gao, I like your watch." Nie Bozhao said directly.

Minister Gao has a watch on his wrist. It is not an ordinary military watch. It is brand new and shiny with a silver luster.

He grabbed her wrist and said with great pain, "Old Nie, you have a very sharp eye. This is a Club brand. Although it is 180 yuan, it is an old watch. Don't look at it anymore."

"Forget it, this is a ladies' watch, and you can tell at a glance that you bought it for your family. Plum watches use the original gear oil when they leave the factory, which contains a very high level of isobutylene sulfide and smells faintly of sulfur. But rough guys like you like to use military gear oil to lubricate your watches, which is rough and has a low sulfur content, so it doesn't have such a strong smell.

So you bought this watch two days ago at most. You probably wanted to wait until May Day to give it to your family. Now you take it out to show it off and wear it yourself first."

Minister Gao was convinced by these words and took off his watch to show Nie Bozhao, "My God, Old Nie, I asked someone to buy this watch from a state-owned store in Beijing a while ago. I plan to enjoy it today and give it to my family tomorrow. You have a dog nose, you must have been staring at my watch for a long time, right?"

"Minister Gao, I'm sorry to say that. It belongs to me now."

"Hey, old Nie, I don't believe you have the nerve to take away something I want to give to my family."

However, the cheeky Nie Bozhao really put the watch on his hand, tried it on, and said, "Very good, I like it very much, but I won't take your watch for nothing. The engine oil you are using now has very poor performance, so when it reaches below minus 30 degrees, these light off-road vehicles always break down. Send the engine oil to my laboratory someday, and I will adjust the ratio for you, and the car will not break down again."

Hey, do we have to say that he has his own code of conduct when stealing now?

"Commander, there is a civilian truck ahead with someone waving a white flag. They must be our comrades who escaped from the farm."

"Okay, that must be my family. Stop the car quickly and I'll go take a look."

Surrounded by several military vehicles, Chen Lina got off the vehicle with her children. Some were held in her hands, some were pulled by her clothes, and some were held in her arms. All of them were children.

"Staff Officer Yu, is your girlfriend, the one who danced in the Red Army of Women, really that pretty?"

"No, my skin is not as white as hers, and her long hair is so beautiful."

The woman with long wavy hair that had been permed and a white shirt that had been tied up with a rubber band, so she was only wearing a small army green homespun vest, had fair skin and long wavy hair that fluttered in the wind. She walked over slowly with her arms outstretched, holding four children.

Car exhaust, yellow dust, and an array of steel gears.

She is the snow lotus on the Tianshan Mountains, the rose in the flames of war, and the most beautiful touch of tenderness in this iron armor.

"I can't believe that Nie Gong, an engineer, can find such a beautiful family member."

"So, he has been eyeing your watch for a long time, Minister Gao. We are just rough guys, and we can't defeat these cunning intellectuals."

"This robber, it turns out that he took the watch and gave it to his family?" Minister Gao came to his senses and looked at Nie Bozhao from a distance. He shook the glass down in anger, used his hand as a gun, and fired a bang.

Well, cunning intellectual, he's dead.

…

Although all the trucks broke down, Sun Dabao led his lackeys to shoot and wound several security guards, broke open the back door of Loulan Farm, and rushed into the desert.

The car stalled after driving two kilometers. They used the car as a shield and started a gun battle with their comrades from the armed forces.

Nie Bozhao was called back to the command car, after all, the bandit leader was his brother-in-law, Sun Dabao.

"Reporting to the commander, we have killed most of the reactionaries, but there is still one hiding in the carriage, armed with a Gatling 134 rapid-fire machine gun, with plenty of bullets.

Moreover, they used the car body as cover and refused to show their heads. Their firepower was too strong and we were badly injured. We couldn't take them down. What should we do?"

"Old Nie, how about another competition?" Minister Gao said.

"What are you competing for?" Nie Bozhao also got out of the car. In the wilderness, a large Liberation tank was standing in the desert, surrounded by enemies. However, the black hole of a machine gun, like the eye of a hunting falcon, was mounted inside the car.

134. Its bullet firing speed ranks first in the world and its firepower is unmatched. It is commonly known as the Vulcan Cannon, which shows how powerful it is.

"Have you ever played with a machine gun? Each bullet has its own unique number. Let's be snipers. Whoever can kill that rascal will get the watch. When the time comes, use the bullets as evidence."

Minister Gao said this and picked up his sniper rifle.

Well, Nie Bozhao was forced into a difficult situation.

Half an hour later, as the thug in the carriage became restless and slightly showed his head, two gunshots were heard at the same time, and the thug was finally shot dead.

Then, the whole desert was reverberating with Minister Gao’s roar, “Give our gear oil to the worker tomorrow. He must make me an oil that is not available in Tibet or in Ali. I want my watch back.”

This was Minister Gao's final roar.

Dushanzi Hot Spring is the only hot spring in the entire mining area. Even though extravagance is not allowed now, and the people and cadres are not allowed to enjoy themselves, and everyone is called upon to work hard, this place is still quietly open.

The last stop of the Nie family’s trip was Dushanzi Hot Spring.

Children love water by nature, so they must be allowed to get close to water.

"This is the only hot spring in our mining area. It's real volcanic rock water, and it's especially good for skin care. I'll take you for a bath today, but you can't always complain that I'm mistreating you, okay?" Nie Bozhao said.

Chen Lina looked at herself in the mirror and said with regret, "Comrade Lao Nie, I found that I have become darker and thinner. I will tell you the truth, when I was fifty years old in my previous life, my skin was better than it is now."

"Does your apricot tree fork grow snow lilies for you to eat every day?"

"At that time, people also needed to eat snow lotus. The essence of snow lotus flowers would be extracted and applied directly to the face, or made into capsules for consumption. The price was very expensive, but he had money and could afford it."

Nie Bozhao had even bought a small box at the state-owned store in Dushanzi Hot Spring Villa to put the watch in. After hearing what she said, he felt a little guilty and said, "Okay, I understand. Xingshu Chazi is a decadent capitalist. Don't worry, I promise I won't live like him."

"No, he is the richest man in the Republic since the reform and opening up. If you continue to develop at your current rate, you can at best make some achievements in industry. It is far from being able to surpass him."

Once again, Comrade Nie Bozhao's self-esteem was smashed to pieces by the Gatling machine gun, and he didn't even take out his watch.

"Oh, this is a watch." Chen Lina has sharp eyes and saw it at once when she opened her handbag while packing her luggage.

"Plum brand, Phoenix mechanical watch, Mr. Nie, let me ask you how much this watch costs?" said Chen Lina.

Nie Bozhao stretched out his hand to indicate "one hundred and twenty." He even said sixty less.

A slap came over him, "You have money to burn, don't you know what we lack most now is money? Weimin is about to go to school, I have to buy him a schoolbag, stationery, homework notebooks and pencils, all of which require money. Erdan's clothes are too short, so I have to buy some cloth to cut them, and I have to use the cloth coupons.

But all they supply is homespun cloth. The supply and marketing cooperative charges fifty cents for a foot of velvet, and your son doesn't eat cloth.

But if a boy is naughty, you must buy him durable velvet. At this time, instead of telling me to keep the money, you actually used it to buy a watch."

"I just want to ask you if it looks good on you. You've always been talking about how you carry a small alarm clock with you when you go out, and the educated youth on the farm all call you the farm manager. Now that you have a watch, at least you have something to check the time."

"You shouldn't buy such an expensive thing. A piece of Lao Zhongshan only costs ten yuan. You really know how to waste money." But I like it, I really like it, and my mouth is smiling to the corners of my eyes.

As for the worker, he found that soaking in the hot spring was a bad idea, because he became more and more annoyed just by looking at her wearing shorts, let alone relaxing.

Fortunately, men and women bathed in separate pools, so Nie Bozhao temporarily left the child to Chen Lina and separated from her.

Those who come to Dushanzi to soak in the hot springs are basically the families of cadres from the entire mining area.

Chen Lina applied some face cream on herself and put on the swimsuit that the hot spring issued uniformly. It was called a swimsuit, but in fact it was just a pair of boxer shorts with a small tank top. She glanced in the only dressing mirror. Not bad, although her skin was much darker, her figure was perfect and impeccable.

A group of girls from the art troupe came in with chattering.

Because they were dancing, they had those high-cut tight swimsuits issued by their work unit. Haha, each of them had beautiful faces and long legs, and they looked so confident and relaxed.

Chen Lina stood in the middle of them, wearing boxer shorts and a small vest, a girl from the countryside.

"Hey, how's your talk with Chief of Staff Yu from the Armed Forces going? Are you going to get married soon?"

"Yes, it will be soon. However, they were on a mission at Loulan Farm yesterday, and I heard that several people died. They have to report to Uru for work, so it will probably take a few days."

"I heard that Sun Dabao, the younger brother of Sun Gong at Base No. 1, also died. Well, just after Sun Gong got into trouble, her brother was shot dead again. I heard from my old man Yu that the bullet that killed him was shot by his eldest brother-in-law, Nie Gong. You can't tell at ordinary times, but he is actually a sharpshooter."

"After all, he is the brother of my late wife. This move by Nie Gong is extremely cruel."

"Who told him to be so depressed that he wanted to flee to the Soviet Union? Let me tell you, isn't our republic good?"

Chen Lina thought it was strange that Sun Dabao was actually killed by Nie Bozhao. Afterwards, he happily took his family to visit the hot springs as if nothing had happened. This man had a heart as deep as the sea.

"Okay, who told you to talk nonsense? Can't you see there are outsiders here?" A lesbian who was probably in her thirties and had a very well-maintained figure came over and called the group of chattering girls away.

Chen Lina envied the swimsuit on the little girl in the art troupe, but considering that it was the 1970s, she decided to just be as low-key as possible. After all, she had already lost her limelight in her previous life.

"Mom, mom, can I not wear pants?" Erdan asked.

He really wanted to get close to the hot spring water naked, so he started to pick at the crotch of his panties.

"No. Nie Weiguo, you are already a five-year-old adult. Children of your age should understand that your naked body should not be shown to anyone except your parents." Okay, the pants were put back on.

"Mom, can I pee in the hot spring?"

"Sandan, Mommy wants to tell you a story. Come here, and the people of the country and the people of the defense should also come here. Let's all listen together, okay?"

"Okay, Mom, we love listening to stories the most." Nie Weimin was too thin, and his shorts couldn't hold up, so he ran over with his shorts held up in one hand.

The hot indoor hot spring is filled with steam and the stones are hot.

"There was a child in our village named Daniu. One day, his mother took him to the county town to soak in a hot spring. He thought, there is water everywhere, so he would pee in the water and no one would notice. So, when no one was paying attention, he started peeing in the hot spring."

"And then?"

"Then very quickly, he was grabbed out of the pool and thrown out. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Erdan was obviously startled, because he was thinking about peeing in the hot spring. If he was picked up and thrown out, his mother's three dollars would be wasted.

Looking at those innocent eyes, Chen Lina thought that it was really fun to scare children, but she had to restrain herself, otherwise, she would become a mother who did not keep her promise.

"Because, in order to prevent people from peeing in these hot springs, a special powder is added. The powder changes color when it comes into contact with urine. You think you've peed and nothing's wrong, but the water behind you will turn dark blue."

As soon as she finished speaking, several girls from the art troupe turned around and looked behind.

Chen Lina almost died of laughter. Could it be that adults also pee in the swimming pool?

"Comrade Xiao Chen, you are lying again." After a while, Nie Weimin, who was holding an inflatable ring and doing a dog pose in the shallow water, ran over mysteriously and said, "There is no medicine in it. It won't change color even if you urinate."

"Nie Weimin, if you dare to pee in the hot spring again, we will put on our clothes and go home immediately."

"I didn't, I really didn't, I just..." He just scooped some water from the hot spring and urinated into it, wanting to see the miracle of water changing color.