Chapter 68 Taotao's lucky incense for Brother Nansheng... (1)
On New Year's Eve, the whole family was busy.
The exceptions are Bai Zhenggan, who has a bad back, Bai Dongsheng, who just had a vasectomy, and Tan Fenghui, who is pregnant with her fourth child. So the three of them sat on the kang, chatting while shelling peanuts, cracking walnuts and taking out the kernels. Everyone else was busy in the kitchen, and Song Zhi was also called to help.
Today, Tang Liren and Xingxing are responsible for the main dishes of the New Year's Eve dinner, Lili is responsible for desserts and soups, and Taotao is in charge of overall planning.
Song Zhi was sent by Tang Liren to wait at the entrance of the village.
——Early in the morning before daybreak, Uncle Tan took the list made by the villagers and the money given by them, and drove a ox cart to the town to buy things for the New Year's Eve dinner.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Song Zhi and the other women finally waited for Uncle Tan.
Song Zhi received the twenty pounds of pork with bones, a pig's trotter, a pair of pig's large intestines, half a page of pig's liver, two live chickens, two geese, a lively grass carp weighing four or five pounds, and a whole board of water-ground tofu ordered by Tang Liren!
He carried the load in a basket on a shoulder pole and staggered back home.
When everyone saw Song Zhi coming back, they smiled happily and hurried over to look through the things in the shoulder pole.
In fact, Tang Liren also asked Uncle Tan to go to the town to buy meat yesterday. But it’s the Spring Festival, so it’s okay to eat more meat! Last time I made stir-fried pork intestines with chopped peppers at home, and my family loved it with red beans and yellow beans. They kept clamoring to have more, so Tang Liren ordered another serving. As for live chickens and geese, we raise them for a while and then kill them and eat them when relatives come to visit.
Taotao has already discussed today's dishes with her mother and sisters.
There are four main dishes: braised pork, braised pork with sauce, boiled chicken and sweet and sour fish.
There are also four semi-vegetarian dishes: stir-fried pork liver with green and red peppers and perilla leaves, stir-fried pork belly with garlic sprouts and homemade tofu, steamed egg with minced meat, and sweet and sour crispy pork.
There are also four vegetarian dishes: tiger skin green peppers with preserved eggs, braised eggplant in soy sauce, potato slices with red oil and a portion of stir-fried cabbage.
In addition, Taotao had already stewed a large pot of thick pork bone soup last night.
Her thought was that the weather was cold now. There are so many dishes to cook at home, but there is only one stove and two charcoal stoves. I have to make so many dishes, cook rice, and stew the braised pork for a long time...
I’m afraid that by the time we have the New Year’s Eve dinner, all the dishes will be cold.
Taotao suggested that they set up a small charcoal stove and put a pot of pork bone soup in it. If the dishes are cold, either pour them directly into the pork bone soup to heat them up, or put them into a bowl and pour hot soup over them...
It’s better than eating cold and greasy meat!
Everyone agreed.
At that moment, everyone became busy.
At lunchtime, everyone had a simple meal of bone soup noodles and then continued to work.
By around four o'clock in the afternoon, all the dishes were finally ready.
At this time, Tang Liren took out several large bowls, put two chopsticks of each of the delicious dishes in the house, handed them to her daughters, Song Zhi, and Hongdou, and instructed them one by one -
"Li Li, take three bowls, one for Uncle Nine, one for your Uncle Eight, and one for Grandmother Seven!"
"Taotao, take two bowls too, one for Grandma Liu and one for Zhou Xiaonier!"
"Xingxing, you should also go and deliver two bowls, one for your Fourth Uncle and one for the Eleventh Madam!"
"Song Zhi, you can help run some errands too! You have long legs and can run fast, so go a little further and deliver one bowl to Huang Sitai's house at the end of the village. Also, deliver two bowls to the ancestral house, one bowl each for your third uncle and fourth uncle!"
"Hongdou, you should also take a bowl and send it to your second grandfather's house at the foot of the mountain!"
——During the New Year and other festivals, it is a tradition in Ruyi Village to send some delicious food to the lonely and elderly in the village, or to exchange some hard food with close relatives.
After hearing what Tang Liren said, all the children and grandchildren agreed.
Tang Liren instructed again: "Remember! Bring the bowls back! Otherwise we won't have enough bowls to eat later!"
Everyone went out laughing.
Each girl carried a basket and put the bowls full of vegetables in the basket; Song Zhi found a backpack to carry the vegetables, and Hongdou held them directly in her hands, and everyone went out together.
During this period, every household is preparing New Year’s Eve dinner, and the village is filled with curling smoke and the aroma of food.
For villagers like Taotao who come out to deliver vegetables, they can meet one every hundred steps.
Everyone greeted each other with a smile. One asked what you eat at home, and the other asked what I eat at home...
Taotao rushed to Sixth Grandma's house.
Maybe there were too many people coming to deliver food to her house, so Guan Haishan set up a table in the yard with seven or eight bowls on it, and four or five of them were already full.
Taotao greeted the Sixth Grandma, "Grandma, Happy New Year!"
"Great! This year's New Year is the happiest!" said Grandma Liu with a smile.
——Because Shanshan will be there to celebrate the New Year with her this year!
Guan Haishan was also smiling, "I really didn't expect that your village still has such a custom... Just now when Bai Qisao brought the food over, I told her no, I would prepare it myself... It was such a joke!"
Taotao laughed out loud.
Guan Haishan called Taotao again, "Put the dishes upside down in the bowl, and then take whatever you want! Grandma Liu and I can't finish all these dishes!"
Taotao smiled and took out a bowl of food, put it into an empty bowl on the table, then looked at the other bowls, picked up a few dishes that her family didn't have, put the bowl back into the basket, and waved to Sixth Grandma and Guan Haishan, "Grandma! I'm leaving now, I'll come to wish you a happy new year tomorrow! Shanshan, let's go out and play together tomorrow!"
Then she rushed to Zhou Xiaoni's house.
The gate of Zhou Xiaoni's house was wide open. When the little yellow dog Lai Fu saw someone coming, he barked twice.
"Little Ni'er!" Taotao called her loudly.
Zhou Xiaoni ran out from the yard with a look of surprise on her face, "Sister Taotao, you are here too?"
Tao Tao, "My mother sent me to bring you food!"
Zhou Xiaoni's eyes were red, "Thank you!"
She pulled Taotao into the yard...
Taotao also saw a table in the yard with seven or eight bowls on it, four of which were already filled with dishes.
Zhou Xiaoni wiped her eyes and said, "This is my first time... Woohoo, in previous years when they were at home, I never had such treatment. I didn't expect this year..."
Tao Tao, "It's because everyone recognizes you! Do you want to come to my house for dinner? We have a big family, it's lively!"
Zhou Xiaoni smiled with tears in her eyes and shook her head, "No, I'll have the New Year's Eve dinner at home. We'll talk about it later."
Taotao didn't force it. She put the bowl of food she brought into the empty bowl on the table, and then picked a few dishes from other bowls full of food and put them into her own bowl.
"Xiao Ni, I'm leaving. Let's go out and play together tomorrow!" Taotao greeted Zhou Xiaoni and left with a smile.
Taotao returned home, and everyone was back except Song Zhi.
Xingxing brought out a large plate, put all the dishes together, and took away the bowl that Taotao brought back, washed it, and brought it back.
At this time Song Zhi also came back.
He frowned.
Tang Liren asked, "What's wrong?"
Song Zhi, "I went to the ancestral house, and my third uncle gave me a bottle of wine and a snake..."
"Snake???" Tang Liren was startled.
Song Zhi quickly explained, "It's a dead rat snake, quite fat. I picked it up and weighed it. It weighs about three or four pounds. Uncle San said he found it in a trap this morning. It was still alive, and he killed it with a stone. He said he was too lazy to deal with it, so he asked me to take it and said that if we didn't want to deal with it, we could just throw it away!"
Bai Dongsheng asked, "Where did you put it?"
"Just put it in the yard, in a net bag." Song Zhi replied.
Bai Dongsheng, "It's okay, let's eat the New Year's Eve dinner first. I'll clean up after dinner..."
No one else can do this job except him.
Mainly because the women didn’t dare to do it.
Tang Liren arranged for her daughters to prepare dinner, and then asked Song Zhi, "What did your third and fourth uncles eat?"
Song Zhi, "Uncle San didn't eat with Uncle Si's family. He ate alone. He had a bottle of Lao Baigan, a plate of roasted peanuts, and a pot of steamed bacon with rice. I brought the food over, and he kept a small portion, and gave the rest to Uncle Si."
After a pause, he continued, "The food at Fourth Uncle's house is about the same as usual."
Tang Liren understood.
——Usually, the fourth room eats bean rice and wild vegetables, and I guess it’s the same today.
Song Zhi added, "Ai Min from my second uncle's family also went over to deliver food, and my third uncle also gave me a bottle of Lao Baigan in return, but my fourth uncle didn't give me anything."
"Okay, let's not worry about that!" Tang Liren said, "Come on, let's take our seats... No, Song Zhi, you should go wash your hands again. You just carried that snake, and I'm scared."
Song Zhi washed his hands as he was told, and even used soap, rubbing and washing his hands vigorously for a while.
When he returned to the table, the bowl in front of him was already filled with rice.
Look at the crowd again——
In front of each person there was a bowl full of white rice; everyone sat properly and no one touched their bowls or chopsticks; everyone stared closely at the sumptuous dishes on the table.
Song Zhi got on the kang bed and sat next to Taotao, with a smile on his face.
——The Bai family will wait for him to have dinner together.
This little touch of emotion will be engraved in his heart.
After Song Zhi sat down, Bai Zhenggan picked up the chopsticks and said with a smile: "Today——"
Huang Dou couldn't wait to cheer, "Ohhhh eat!"
Suddenly you realize that everyone is sitting there quietly and not moving?
Huang Doumian lowered his head with a red face.
Bai Zhenggan: ...
Everyone burst into laughter.
Tan Fenghui smiled and poked her son's forehead with her finger, "You, all you think about is eating!"
Bai Zheng laughed dryly, "Nothing much, I just want to say a few words! The first sentence is... In the past year, everyone in our family has been great! Everyone has worked hard! Everyone has contributed to this concerted effort, and your mother and I have seen it all... After we finish eating the New Year's Eve dinner and stay up all night, I will give you red envelopes!"
Taotao led the applause!
For red envelopes!
The whole family applauded excitedly.
Bai Zhenggan added: "The second thing I want to say is that I hope everyone will keep up the good work in the new year! However, everyone should take care of themselves first. Students should study hard, pregnant women should take good care of their bodies, those who want to get that good job should work hard to improve their skills, and those who want to compete for the workers, peasants and soldiers students should strive to be advanced... In short, you must understand one thing, it is not that your family is good, but that your family will be good only when you are good... Do you understand?"
Everyone nodded.
Hongdou, "Grandpa, I need to eat well and work hard to grow taller!"
Huang Dou gritted his teeth and said, "I...will...speak properly!"
Bai Zhenggan laughed loudly, "Yes! That's it! Okay, let's eat!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone cheered and picked up their chopsticks to pick up the dishes they had already chosen.
Taotao quickly picked up a piece of braised eggplant and threw it into Song Zhi's bowl. Then she picked up a piece of fried crispy pork, dipped it in the sweet and sour sauce of sweet and sour fish, stuffed it into her mouth and started chewing.
Uh, what she picked up was not fried crispy pork, but fried radish balls?
Although they are vegetarian fried radish balls, the batter has been seasoned and they are still delicious when dipped in sweet and sour sauce.
Taotao picked up another fried meatball, dipped it in the sweet and sour sauce again, and put it in her mouth to chew...
Ah, it’s so delicious!
Taotao squinted her eyes in enjoyment.
Song Zhi, who was sitting next to Taotao, stared at the piece of marinated eggplant in the bowl in a daze.
——This is the marinated eggplant that Taotao gave him.
The first thing she did after dinner was to pick this up and put it in his bowl.
She knew he loved eating braised eggplant with sauce.
Song Zhi looked at Taotao.
She was eating happily and didn't pay attention to his gaze. She looked like she was eating with great enthusiasm and her mouth was full of grease, with a kind of innocent and simple beauty.
A pair of chopsticks brought a chicken leg over and piled it in his bowl.
Song Zhi was a little surprised and looked up - it was Tang Liren? !
"What are you standing there for?" Tang Liren scolded, "Eat quickly, this meal tastes better if you rush to eat it!"
Song Zhi stared at the chicken drumstick of the stewed chicken, a little confused, "Aunt, there are only two chicken drumsticks, why not..."
"Eat if I tell you to!" Tang Liren said with a smile, "There's such a big table of food. I want to see... who will be hungry today?"
Song Zhi was even more moved.
A chicken has only two drumsticks, and generally speaking, they are only given to the youngest and most favored child in the family, or to the oldest elder.
But of the braised chicken leg on the table, Tang Liren took one and gave it to Bai Zhenggan and the other to Song Zhi.
Song Zhi had never enjoyed such treatment.
It’s not that he had never eaten chicken legs before, when he was at Guan’s house... Forget it, he had never eaten a proper meal at the table while at Guan’s house. Later, when I started working, I ate in the company cafeteria, but never in an occasion like this...
Someone else picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in Song Zhi's bowl.
Song Zhi looked up and saw Bai Dongsheng's concerned eyes, "What's wrong with you? Eat quickly!"
Song Zhi devoured the delicious and soft braised pork in one bite, took two mouthfuls of rice, then dug a hole in the rice and hid the piece of braised eggplant that Taotao gave him at the bottom of the bowl. Then he started to eat the chicken leg.
The clear-boiled chicken doesn't use too many seasonings, just salt, rice wine and ginger slices.
But this chicken leg is so delicious...thin skin, tender meat, and extremely salty and fresh!
This is the most delicious chicken leg Song Zhi has ever eaten, no doubt about it.
Tang Liren and Bai Zhenggan kept nagging their children and grandchildren to eat more -
Bai Zhenggan, "Eat as much as you can! You've worked hard for a whole year just to have a good New Year! Besides, all this is earned by your own hands, it's worth eating! Eat well! Eat to your heart's content!"
Tang Liren, "I'm telling you, if you're hungry any day, it's not a big deal, but you must not be hungry during the Chinese New Year! If you eat your fill today, you can eat like this every day next year!"
Taotao emptied her rice bowl with a clanging sound.
However, her stomach is only so big. There were 12 dishes in total, and I ate a few bites of each dish, followed by a bowl of white rice, a bowl of thick milky pork bone soup, and reluctantly a piece of braised pork and some sweet and sour fish...
Taotao was so full that she felt worried when she saw the snacks made by her third sister.
——What should I do if I really can’t eat anymore?
Song Zhi was the one who really ate to his heart's content. He ate three large bowls of white rice, countless dishes of various kinds, and finally two large bowls of bone soup. Only then did he sigh with relief.
He couldn't help but think of when he first arrived at the Bai family, Taotao muttered that she wanted the whole family to have meat for every meal, and eat until they were full and couldn't move at all.
Now, hasn’t Taotao’s dream come true?
On a cold winter night, a warm bed, delicious and sumptuous dishes, a family of loving people, and lively conversations...
How come life is so comfortable these days? !
This New Year's Eve dinner lasted from around five o'clock until almost eight o'clock, and everyone was finally satisfied.
Taotao Xingxing is preparing to collect the bowls.
Dongsheng stopped him, "Let me do it! I haven't done anything for the family in the past six months, so I'll wash the dishes today!"
Tang Liren, "Did you just have surgery?"
Dongsheng, "I'm not a lesbian. Do you think I'm in confinement and can't touch cold water?"
Song Zhi, "Brother, let me clean up with you!"
The two grown men cleared the dishes and went to wash them.
Tang Liren shouted with a smile: "Dongsheng, save the leftovers for fried rice tomorrow morning!"
"knew!"
Tang Liren instructed Taotao and Xingxing again, "Hurry up and wipe the table... Taotao, take out your chrysanthemum tea and honeysuckle tea and brew them. Lili, take out the snacks you made. Xingxing, bring out our fried melon seeds and salted peanuts! Huier, take out some of the high-quality candies that Dongsheng brought back from the provincial capital..."
Hongdou shouted, "Grandma, there are still some fresh persimmons in the cellar!"
"Lili, go to the cellar and get the persimmons!" Tang Liren shouted.
Hongdou, "Aunt San, let me light the flashlight for you!"
After a busy period, everyone set up the table again with melon seeds, peanuts, candies and snacks, and started the night watch.
There is no electricity at night in the countryside, so the only way to keep watch is by chatting.
Bai Zhenggan is the main force.
All he told were stories from before liberation: how he and other farmhands colluded to cheat the landlord, Mr. Zhou, when he was a farmhand for him. How he provided cover for underground workers and helped run errands and deliver messages at that time. And the ghosts and spirits he heard from old people when he was a child...
Others are tired of hearing it.
But Taotao, Song Zhi and Hongdou listened with great interest and asked questions from time to time...
Bai Zhenggan spoke eloquently, then Bai Dongsheng talked about what he had seen and heard in the provincial capital, and finally, Song Zhi also spoke nervously.
What he shared were some interesting stories that happened between him and a few of his fellow apprentices after he started working.
Because we are all nerds and don’t know how to do housework. One time, a senior fellow student’s family sent us some bacon. We all studied the bacon for a long time, but no one knew how to eat it.
Finally...
It took a lot of effort to cut the bacon, and then each person was given a piece, and they just... ate it raw.
It was not until everyone went to the teacher's home to pay New Year's greetings and saw the teacher's wife cooked a bowl of bacon to entertain them that everyone realized that bacon requires first using a brush to brush off the thick layer of putty on the outside, then being boiled in water and then fried before eating?
As soon as Song Zhi finished speaking, the Bai family burst into laughter!
Tang Liren: "How did you cut it open?"
Song Zhi, "It was as hard as metal and couldn't be cut. We had to use an electric saw to cut it open."
Everyone laughed.
Bai Zhenggan asked, "So you guys ate the putty too?"
Song Zhi nodded shyly.
Everyone laughed.
Tan Fenghui, "You didn't even cook it before eating? Wouldn't it be salty?"
Song Zhi, "It's salty! But then I thought, maybe they just like it so salty? Besides, everyone else is eating it, so I'd feel bad if I didn't. Besides, no one has the habit of wasting food... bacon is so precious!"
Everyone laughed again.
Song Zhi also laughed.
He likes this feeling of fitting in.
Hongdou and Huangdou couldn't bear it any longer and fell asleep on the kang bed.
Taotao was also very sleepy, and she leaned against Song Zhi and began to snore...
In a trance, she suddenly heard the sound of firecrackers in the distance? ? ?
Brother Dongsheng smiled and said, "Happy New Year! Dad, Mom, Happy New Year!"
Bai Zhenggan, "Okay, okay! Come on, let's go set off the firecrackers!"
Tang Liren, "Song Zhi, you go too. You two should keep an eye on it. Move quickly, don't hurt your hands!"
Taotao opened her eyes immediately, "Happy New Year, Mom and Dad! Where are the red envelopes?"
Everyone laughed.
Even Hongdou and Huangdou woke up, rubbing their eyes and asking, "Grandma, is it the New Year?"
"It's the New Year, it's the New Year!" Tang Liren said with a smile, "After your father and Uncle Song Zhi finish setting off the firecrackers, we will bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and grandma will give you red envelopes, okay?"
Red Bean and Yellow Bean laughed happily, "Okay!"
Dongsheng and Songzhi went out, and Taotao followed them out.
Tang Liren grabbed her and said, "Don't go! The firecrackers are going off, be careful not to hurt your ears!"
"I want to go and take a look!" Taotao stomped her feet and ran away.
She hid inside the door, watching Brother Dongsheng and Song Zhi spread a large roll of firecrackers at the gate of the yard. Then Brother Dongsheng turned on the flashlight, and Song Zhi struck a match and lit the fuse on the firecrackers.
The deafening sound of firecrackers rang out!
——This is the first time that Taotao has experienced a New Year with such a lively atmosphere.
After setting off the firecrackers, she followed her elder brother Dongsheng and Song Zhi back to the main room.
Tang Liren asked Taotao, "Are you afraid?"
"Then what's there to be afraid of!" Taotao asked curiously.
Tang Liren laughed and said, "Okay, everyone sit down, your father and I are going to start handing out red envelopes!"
Everyone received two red envelopes, one to Bai Zhenggan and one to Tang Liren.
Even Bai Dongsheng and Tan Fenghui have it.
Dongsheng, "Mom and Dad, I'm almost thirty..."
Tang Liren, "Even if you are almost ninety, you are still my son!"
Tan Fenghui, "Mom and Dad, Dongsheng and I are already a family..."
Bai Zhenggan, "Take it, take it! Now that your mother and I are here, you can just be the younger generation in peace! After we die, even if you want someone to give you a red envelope... that's not possible!"
Tang Liren cursed, "Why are you saying all this nonsense on such a nice day?"
Bai Zhenggan: ...
Tang Liren took out another red envelope and stuffed it into Bai Zhenggan's pocket. "Here! Take this red envelope and use it to suppress all the nonsense you just said!"
Bai Zheng stared with his eyes wide open, "Me too?"
Tang Liren stretched out her hand to him, "Where's mine?"
Bai Zhenggan, "You, you...then aren't you switching your left hand to your right hand?"
Having said that, Bai Zhenggan still took out a red envelope and handed it to Tang Liren.
Tang Liren took it with a smile on her face, and said to her children and grandchildren: "Look, I have grandchildren... I will also receive red envelopes!"
Bai Zhenggan blushed a little, "Just show off!"
Tang Liren muttered again, "There's also Nansheng's. I'll save it for him. When he comes back, I'll give it to him!"
Song Zhi watched the intimate interaction between Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren, and couldn't help but look at Taotao - his and Taotao's future would surely be like her parents, supporting each other and loving each other, right?
Taotao felt as if a hammer suddenly hit her heart hard, causing her heart to ache severely.
She seemed to be thinking about something, looking into the void, and murmured: "Brother Nansheng, you must come back safely..."
The laughter of the crowd gradually died down.
Lili said, "Since he left, he seems to have only replied to two letters to us. I don't know if he received the things we sent him."
Xingxing also fell into deep thought.
——In her dream, Brother Nansheng went to the battlefield after the Double Ninth Festival and then lost contact. It was not until a year later that the troops could not find him and finally announced his death based on a notebook he left in the wilderness, which was regarded as his relic.
Tang Liren said quietly, "On the third day of the New Year, I'll go to the post office in town and call his company to ask what's going on. "
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At this time, Bai Nansheng was lying on the border of southern Xinjiang, gasping for breath.
Three months ago, his company was ordered to go to southern Xinjiang to participate in the war to aid Vietnam and resist the United States.
At that time, he had just received a package from his family, which contained dozens of letters from his family, chili sauce made by his mother, a sweater knitted by his sister-in-law, and a lucky sachet made by his sister Bai Taotao...
Before he had the time to write a letter to his family, he was ordered to climb onto a military vehicle in the middle of the night and traveled hundreds of miles day and night to southern Xinjiang.
Next, he and his comrades immediately joined the battle.
Although it was called a battle, Bai Nansheng and his men were new recruits and did not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and fight the American army.
His and his comrades' mission was to serve as engineers to repair the roads and railways destroyed by the US military in order to ensure that military and supply materials could be smoothly delivered to the front line.
Today is New Year's Eve.
Bai Nansheng and his team stopped working on the 29th day of the lunar year and were originally planning to take a break to celebrate the New Year. As a result, early in the morning on New Year's Eve, the US military sent planes to bomb again, and it seemed that they had also deployed troops nearby.
Bai Nansheng and his companions hid in the dark and counted as several American soldiers jumped out of the plane. When they counted to twenty-five...then the plane flew away.
The battalion commander immediately divided his men into 25 groups and ordered each group to bring back an enemy paratrooper!
Nansheng also sneaked into the jungle under the leadership of the squad leader.
Soon, Nansheng and his team found the target person.
The American soldiers were not very smart, but they had a lot of weapons in their hands. They fled while firing at Nansheng and his men. Nansheng and his men followed them leisurely from a distance until the weapons in the hands of the American soldiers gradually became useless, and then they caught up with them.
During the pursuit, the squad leader saw through the American soldier's intention - the man wanted to blow up a nearby communication tower!
If we let this man go and the communication tower is destroyed, it will pose a huge safety hazard to the Nansheng Company.
So the squad leader led the others to chase after him.
An American soldier is easy to deal with.
The problem is, during the fight, six American soldiers suddenly appeared?
These people were well-equipped and Nansheng and his men were no match at all. The squad leader was the first to sacrifice, but before he died, he killed an American soldier. His last words were: Don't let an enemy go!
The remaining fighters fought desperately with these people.
Nansheng was relatively experienced in fighting. He knocked down two of them by himself, and his other comrades also knocked down two...
There is only one American soldier left.
But at this time, there were only three people left on Nansheng's side, including him.
Three people chased one, but they couldn't catch up.
Looking again, one was injured in the stomach, the other was injured in the thigh, and Nansheng's head was cut by the blade and blood was gushing out. Perhaps due to excessive blood loss, he felt increasingly exhausted.
The American soldiers ran farther and farther away.
Nansheng thought of what the squad leader said before he died, and the brutality and cruelty hidden in his bones burst out! He looked around and saw that there was a minefield in front of him on the left, so he said to the remaining two comrades: "I'll go after him! You two cover him and force him into the minefield!"
As he said that, he rushed forward in two or three steps.
The two comrades were anxious, "Nansheng, are you crazy?"
"Hurry! We must complete the mission!" Nansheng got angry and chased after him in a few steps.
The two comrades immediately opened fire, blocking the American soldiers’ path with one shot after another…
Plus Nansheng chased after him——
The soldier panicked and ran into the minefield. In less than five minutes, he stepped on a mine and let out a scream. He was blown to pieces!
Bai Nansheng stopped immediately.
He turned around, looked around, and found that he was about twenty meters deep in the minefield.
The two comrades were extremely anxious, "Nansheng, come here quickly... Walk the same way you walked before... Don't take a wrong step!"
Cold sweat broke out on Nansheng's forehead.
He didn't even look where he was going when he chased me.
Let him go back now?
Then every step...
It's all luck!
As a result, at this moment, another American soldier appeared from nowhere! Nansheng saw it, but his two comrades were carrying the American soldier on their backs and did not see it!
Nansheng was anxious and wanted to raise his gun to shoot the man, but he was obviously out of range, so he had to squat down and shout, "There is an enemy behind us, squat down quickly--"
It's too late.
The American soldier has already pulled the trigger.
One of the comrades fell down, and the other rolled over on the ground and fired back...
The two men got into a gunfight.
This already injured comrade had a wound in the abdomen, and now he was shot in the back... He felt that he was dying, so he stumbled towards Nansheng.
Nansheng was very anxious and shouted, "Tao Wei! Stop! What are you doing?"
Tao Wei's face was pale, and he said weakly: "I, I can't do it anymore... Nansheng, I'll make way for you... You, you come here quickly! Remember, you must walk... the path I have walked..."
Before he could finish his words, Tao Wei stepped on a landmine. He had been trained, and when he realized something was wrong he immediately rolled to the side, and suddenly there was a loud bang!
Bai Nansheng's eyes turned red.
At this time, another comrade who had injured his leg, Wang Qinghua, also killed the American soldier. Seeing Tao Wei stepping on the landmine, his eyes turned red and he rushed over desperately, "Tao Wei! Nansheng!"
Bai Nansheng said anxiously: "Don't come over! You just have to come!"
He roared until his throat coughed up blood, and his tone revealed fear, anger and a hint of pleading.
Unfortunately, Wang Qinghua soon stepped on a landmine...
Of course, Wang Qinghua had learned his lesson before. He would immediately jump to the side when he found something wrong, but he did not move after the mine exploded.
Bai Nansheng lost two comrades in an instant, and his eyes were bloodshot!
But he didn't dare to act rashly.
He looked at Tao Wei, then at Wang Qingsong... one was about seven or eight meters away from him, and the other was about thirteen or fourteen meters away from him.
Bai Nansheng took a deep breath.
He vowed to bring these two comrades...
Take it back!
It is now known that the place where Tao Wei fell, seven or eight meters away from him, and the place where the explosion occurred are safe. But he couldn't jump over, so there had to be a place to rest in the middle.
After thinking about it, Bai Nansheng raised the gun in his hand high and smashed it hard three or four meters ahead!
Fine, nothing's wrong.
Bai Nansheng jumped over.
But as soon as his feet touched the ground, he felt dizzy and his vision went dark.
He had lost too much blood and was barely able to hold on.
But now he had already rushed to Tao Wei's side, and touched Tao Wei's neck and nose... It was great that the person was still alive!
Nansheng picked up Tao Wei's gun again and smashed it hard towards the distance between him and Wang Qingsong.
very good! It's okay.
Nansheng carried Tao Wei with great difficulty and called out to him, "Tao Wei! Tao Wei, wake up... wake up!"
Tao Wei didn't react at all.
Nansheng carried him and tried his best to walk to Wang Qingsong's side, then continued to follow the path Wang Qingsong had taken when he came here, walking out step by step until he walked out of the minefield...
Bai Nansheng then breathed a sigh of relief, put Tao Wei on the ground, and went back to drag Wang Qingsong.
Wang Qingsong's body was still warm.
However, Nanshengsheng gritted his teeth and dragged Wang Qingsong out of the minefield. After returning to Tao Wei, he was exhausted due to excessive blood loss and fainted beside Tao Wei.
The sky gradually darkened.
The three seriously wounded soldiers fell unconscious on the ground in the primeval forest, huddled together.
Nansheng, who had lost his will, had a hand-sewn sachet hanging around his neck - it was made by his sister Bai Taotao. She also told him in the letter that he must carry it with him and never leave it for a moment.
Nansheng just treated her as a child.
However, when he received the package from home, he also received an urgent call, and the only thing he could take with him was... this small sachet that took up no space at all.
When the moon was at its zenith, a few tiny buds quietly bloomed from Nansheng's purse.
If you take apart the sachet and look closely, you can see...
Those thin young plant shoots actually sprouted after absorbing Bai Nansheng's blood? !
Nansheng had a deep dream.
In the dream, he, who was seriously injured, and his comrades Tao Wei and Wang Qingsong entered the minefield in order to annihilate the enemy.
After they defeated the enemy, they supported each other and crawled out of the minefield, breathing their last breath. But they did not wait for reinforcements, and due to their serious injuries, they died of thirst and starvation. Even after death, their bodies were eaten by wild beasts...
Nansheng struggled desperately.
——No, he doesn't want to die! He also can't bear to leave his parents and his sisters!
In a daze, he actually returned home.
He floated in the air and saw his parents, brothers and sisters whom he loved deeply.
Today is New Year's Eve, and the family is sitting around on the spacious kang bed to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.
Wow, the New Year’s Eve dinner is so sumptuous!
It’s something Nansheng didn’t even want to think about!
His mouth was watering with greed.
Ah, it’s so nice after the family split up. The house at home is so spacious and grand! They were chatting happily...but my mom was muttering that she owed him a red envelope? And you said that you should save it for him?
Nansheng smiled.
At this time, his sister Bai Taotao seemed to have discovered him floating in the air?
Tears of sorrow appeared in her eyes and she murmured: Brother, you must come back safely!
Nansheng looked at Taotao in a daze.
He smiled and assured her: Okay, I will come back safely.
Bai Nansheng took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
The dazzling light irritated his eyes and made him unable to see anything clearly. After a long while, he regained his sight and found himself lying in the field with two comrades beside him.
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