Wei Ran smoothly pushed the corn stalks from the mouth of the stove into the stove, while his eyes were wandering around blindly.
There are four stoves lined up in this room, some are frying pancakes, some are simmering a large pot full of beef offal, and there is another small pot simmering a small amount of hot stew.
Next to another stove, someone was using a frying spoon to reach into the stove. When the oil inside was heated, he poured it into a large bowl with chili powder.
This food is too good...
Wei Ran muttered secretly, and at the same time couldn't help but swallow again.
He didn't know what was going on. He was really hungry now, and he was also greedy. He was also hungry for the large pancakes that were almost half a meter thick and stacked on the curtain not far away.
A big pot full of beef offal.
Of course, being greedy will not affect his judgment.
Not to mention anything else, he could roughly guess from the calm movements of the noodle maker, the not-so-large piece of dough and the small half pot of hot stew that could feed up to four or five people.
I'm probably trying to make a small fuss for someone.
"Xiaowei, hurry up and get a bucket of cold water. You want it fresh from the well, not from the vat." As the noodle maker ordered, he didn't forget to kick a wooden bucket next to him.
"Okay!"
Wei Ran, who had already been burned by the fire and was dripping with sweat, stood up before he finished speaking, picked up the barrel and walked outside.
Leaving the hot kitchen, Wei Ran immediately saw a well in the corner of the yard and a leafy jujube tree growing diagonally against the wall, with half-sized fruits already hanging on it.
May or June? Wei Ran walked to the edge of the well muttering secretly.
He first looked into the well mouth and saw that the end of the windlass rope had sunk into the water. He immediately reached out and shook the handle of the windlass.
After a while, the wet hemp rope pulled a tin bucket that was constantly leaking up little by little.
When the bucket of water was poured into the wooden bucket, only half of the bucket was leaking.
Throwing it back into the well, Wei Ran swung the rope to let the bucket sink while also looking at his outfit.
On her feet, she wears a pair of round-mouth cloth shoes with her big toes exposed, and leggings on her calves. There is also a big patch sewn on her pants, especially from the crotch to the inner thighs and even the buttocks.
In addition, there is a cloth rope belt tied around his waist, and his upper body is covered with a double-breasted white cloth jacket that is see-through on both sides and is extra cool. Even around his neck, there is a white towel soaked in sweat.
Is it really a cavalry this time? A cavalry on the stove?
Wei Ran murmured secretly, while vigorously shaking the windlass to carry the second bucket of water and fill the wooden bucket.
"Gululu..."
Before he could pick up the bucket of water, his stomach once again made a series of noises, seduced by the aroma of food wafting from the east wing.
What the hell, he's a stove cavalry who was reincarnated as a starving ghost...
Wei Ran muttered something mockingly to himself, picked up the wooden bucket filled with water, and glanced at the main room of the courtyard.
The three main houses were built with gray bricks and gray tiles, but the doors were closed, and there were two men standing guard at the door with guns on their backs.
Without looking further, he decisively carried the water back to the east wing.
"Pour it all into the basin and bring another bucket over."
The noodle-slicing master instructed. In such a short time, the dough he held on the wooden board was almost gone.
Wei Ran simply poured the bucket of water into the large wooden basin next to him, turned around and walked out with the bucket.
This time, before he could reach the edge of the well, a soldier ran in quickly and asked, "Wei Ran, which one is Wei Ran?"
"I am!" Wei Ran said quickly.
"Come with me!" Before the soldier could finish his words, he had already turned around and ran out.
Glancing at the noodle maker who came out of the east wing to watch the fun, Wei Ran waited for the latter to nod, then put down the barrel in his hand and ran out of the yard, which was not that big.
It wasn't until he passed through the door that he realized that this seemed to be a cross-yard.
"Follow up quickly," urged the soldier who had already walked out more than ten meters.
Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't have time to take a closer look and quickened his pace to keep up with him.
Led by the hurried soldier, Wei Ran almost jogged all the way to another adjacent yard.
This courtyard is larger than the small courtyard just now. There are also many soldiers in the courtyard who are cleaning their guns, polishing their sabers, or simply mending clothes or smoking dry cigarettes.
In the corner, there is even a stove like a blacksmith shop, which is clanging and hammering red horseshoes.
"Follow up quickly"
The soldier leading the way urged again, and led Wei Ran, who quickened his pace, into the westmost room in the row of main rooms.
"Report!"
The soldier stood outside the door and shouted loudly.
"Come in! Come in quickly!"
Before he finished speaking, the bamboo curtain was opened from the inside, and a soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes greeted enthusiastically with a slight Shanxi accent, "Are you Wei Ran? Come on, come on! Look at these two, do you recognize them?"
I don’t know him!”
After bending down and getting into the relatively cool room, Wei Ran couldn't help but be startled when he saw the other two young people standing up in the room.
The two men each wore a new military uniform, with a nine-dragon belt on their chests, and each also had a box cannon.
The man on the left wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and has a bookish air about him, but the man on the right has a completely opposite temperament.
"Brother Wei!" The two of them shouted the same title almost in unison.
"Follow...Xiao Li!"
When Wei Ran came back to his senses, he couldn't help but shiver, and hugged Li Sui'an in his arms - he finally saw someone he had seen before! And he also recognized himself!
"There's me too!" Zhao Jinyu laughed and said.
Compared with Bai Guang before, this Zhao Jinyu is not only much stronger, but also taller, with more than half his head taller.
As for Li Sui'an, he is also a bit stronger than he looked in his memory. At the same time, although the bookish aura about him is still there, it has faded a lot.
"Is your kid's injury healed?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
"Okay! After raising it for more than half a year, it's finally healed!"
As Zhao Jinyu spoke, he had already unbuttoned his Nine Dragon Belt and unbuttoned it, showing the horrific scar left on his stomach after it had healed, "No root cause of the disease was left!"
"And you?"
Li Sui'an also asked, "Brother Wei, how did you survive?"
Hearing this, Wei Ran couldn't help but tremble, and deliberately patted the other party's shoulder with his left arm that was shot off by a machine gun in Teng County. Seeing that he didn't look surprised at all, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
.
He had already guessed that the reason why he appeared here with all his hair and tail must be because the metal book slightly changed some of Li Sui'an's memories.
"I survived by hiding among the corpses," Wei Ran sighed.
"My third brother..."
"He...he didn't survive." Wei Ran sighed, "He and the Japanese died together."
For a moment, the room, which was not that big, became quiet, but the soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes left silently, and whispered instructions to the soldier who came with the guard outside the door.
"It's okay, it's okay." Li Sui'an wiped his face, "At least I didn't become a deserter."
"How did you two meet?"
Wei Ran took the initiative to change the topic and asked.
"It's a long story."
Zhao Jinyu asked the two of them to sit down first, pointed to the door and said, "That was my brother-in-law's brother just now. His name is Ma Jintao, and he is also the commander of this cavalry company."
After introducing the identity of the soldier just now, Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an also exchanged words with each other, mixed with Wei Ran's random fabrications, and briefly described their respective experiences.
According to Wei Ran's information, after Yang Shiyi blackmailed her uncle into sending the two of them to prison, Wei Ran left first on the pretext of delivering a letter.
After the separation, Zhao Jinyu traveled all the way on the Yang family's horse team and finally arrived in Shanxi and was sent to the home of his second sister Zhao Jinlan.
Since then, Zhao Jinyu has been waiting for news about his eldest brother Zhao Jinge. This wait lasted until May of the next year.
By that time, Zhao Jinyu's injury had already healed, and he even temporarily found a job as a nurse at his brother-in-law's house.
But he couldn't settle down at all, and he really couldn't dream of going back as soon as possible. In the middle of May of this year, Yang Shiyi entrusted the Yang family's caravan to bring him a letter.
This letter was ghostwritten by Yang Shiyi, written for Hu Bazhi and Tian Xiaohu. According to what was said in the letter, due to the situation, all the anti-alliance fighters chose to lie dormant, asking him not to come back in a hurry, and to protect the flag.
Seeing that he could not go back to the white mountains and black waters to fight the Japanese together, Zhao Jinyu simply went to his brother-in-law and begged to take him to the battlefield.
Originally, Ma Jintao didn't want to take his brother-in-law with him.
This is not to say that Zhao Jinyu can't stick to the wall, he is really worried that his father-in-law's youngest son will be killed on the battlefield.
Later, it was Zhao Jinyu's second sister, Zhao Jinlan, who spoke, and Ma Jintao made up his mind to put his brother-in-law into his cavalry company as a communications soldier.
Compared with Zhao Jinyu, who joined the cavalry company through "nepotism", Li Sui'an is different.
After Teng County was captured in 1938, he was seriously injured in a shelling and fell into a coma. After being led by the Korean platoon leader from the Beiguan position to break out and escape, he followed him all the way to Xuchang as if he was on the run.
At that time, the First Cavalry Division happened to be transferred to Xuchang to take on the task of river defense. Li Sui'an, who was lucky enough to survive from the ghost gate, was spotted by Ma Jintao for his ability to read and write, and was quietly inserted into his own cavalry company to take charge of the river defense.
He held clerical and orderly duties.
From the words of these two brothers, Wei Ran finally knew how he ended up in that room.
In short, I am a "refugee" who was picked up by the cooking class a few days ago.
As luck would have it, just the day before they were "picked back", Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an had already followed Captain Ma to lead a team out to investigate the enemy's situation.
It was almost noon today, and the entire company had just returned. As the company commander, Ma Jintao heard from the cooking team that he had picked up a refugee named "Wei Ran".
Needless to say, both Li Sui'an and Zhao Jinyu were stunned when they heard this familiar name, and then became ecstatic, and then Wei Ran was brought over to recognize them.
It was only then that Wei Ran realized why he was so hungry. Before he was picked up, he was a refugee who survived the flood caused by the bursting of the Huayuankou embankment!
How can you not be hungry with that special code? That’s really a special bitch’s raw food. Two skinheads don’t bring anything to satisfy their hunger!
What made him secretly look at the book of Living Ancestors with his middle finger and thumb was that even the noodles cooked on the small stove in the kitchen were prepared for Company Commander Ma, Li Sui'an and Zhao Jinyu - they
This investigation was successful.
Correspondingly, Wei Ran also made up a reasonable experience for himself - after the separation at Shanhaiguan, he was busy delivering letters, met Li Sui'an on the way, and followed them from Peiping to Teng County. Later, he was lucky enough to live in Teng County.
After coming down, they went upstream along the Yellow River, and then they suffered a disaster and became a refugee because of the Huayuankou embankment burst.
"I didn't expect, I really didn't expect! The three of us are so destined!"
When the three people finished reminiscing about old times, the soldier who had just brought Wei Ran in had already brought the food to him along with the noodle maker who had asked Wei Ran to fetch water.
"Xiaowei, you are so secretive! Unexpectedly, I, Old Liu, picked up a treasure and came back!"
As the noodle-slicing master spoke, he placed the large pottery basin in his hand in the middle of the table. In the big basin was the sliced noodles soaked in the cold well water.
"I just found out that my two brothers are actually under the company commander."
Wei Ran quickly stood up, and together with Li Sui'an and Zhao Jinyu, from the wooden tray carried by the little soldier, he took the stacked bowls of seaweed and hot braised vegetables, plus two large bowls of beef offal and a large bowl of chili, minced garlic, etc.
Bring them all down.
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Captain Ma, who was following behind, said casually, holding a jar of wine in his hand.
"You guys eat, I have to deliver food to the other soldiers."
Old Liu from the cooking class wiped his hands with his apron and said, "It's so hard, but it's not enough! Xiaobai, don't stay here anymore. Come for a walk, follow me to the kitchen for a drink."
"Then I have to take half a day off to drink!" the little soldier who brought Wei Ran said jokingly.
"Go!" Ma Jintao waved his hand easily.
"yes!"
The young warrior named Xiaobai saluted energetically and happily followed Old Liu from the cooking team out of the room.
"That's my hometown party member Bai Yuguang"
Ma Jintao opened the seal of the wine jar and introduced, "He is also a child from a poor family. He has been working as a groom by my side since the 14th Five-Year Plan. Come on, let's meet brothers today. Let's do it first!"
"Dry!"
Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an responded in unison and raised their wine glasses at the same time.
"Do it!" Wei Ran, who was a little behind, also picked up his wine glass and clinked it with the three of them.
After drinking all the white wine in the bowl in one gulp, Wei Ran immediately picked up the Yanli and took the initiative to help Captain Ma fill a bowl of noodles.
"You can come on your own, don't be polite, my cavalry company, Ma Jintao, doesn't have that many rules!"
Before he finished speaking, Captain Ma had already picked up his chopsticks, picked up a large amount of chopped noodles from the bowl and handed it to Wei Ran.
After sitting down again politely, Captain Ma asked while Wei Ran was pouring wine for everyone, "Wei Ran, I entrust you to treat you as my brother."
"That's what you said." Wei Ran poured the wine for the other party and climbed up the pole. "Brother Ma is flattering me."
"Let's stop being so polite. I'm not a cultured person who just wants to be polite."
Captain Ma picked up the rim of the bowl and touched it with Wei Ran and others. After taking a sip of wine, he asked, "Brother Wei, what are your plans next?"
"Brother Ma, why don't you just tell me what you want?" Wei Ran also took a sip of wine and said.
"We are brothers, and we cannot talk about giving orders."
Captain Ma waved his hand, picked up a chopstick and put the offal into his mouth and chewed it. After swallowing it, he continued, "Brother Wei, if you just want a stable life, I will get you a few envelopes of silver coins later. You
Go to Shanxi to find my father, buy land, buy a house, marry a wife and have children, and you will always have a peaceful life."
"Brother Ma, is there any business in killing Japanese soldiers?"
Wei Ran picked up the wine bowl and touched it with Li Sui'an and Zhao Jinyu one after another, "In the winter of 1937, Brother Jinyu and I killed many Japanese in Baishan Heishui. In the spring of 1938, I followed Brother An in Teng County.
I have killed many Japanese."
Having said this, Wei Ran drank up the wine in one gulp, refilled it and touched it with Captain Ma again, "Since I call you big brother, I won't be polite to you. Your family has a big business, can you kill the Japanese?"
Bring me along with you in your business?"
"Okay, haha! Okay!"
Captain Ma drank all the wine in the bowl and laughed loudly and said, "What a coincidence! We are in the business of killing Japanese soldiers!"
"Brother, give Brother Wei a box cannon!"
Li Sui'an suggested, "He is a better shooter than me. I learned hand-to-hand combat from him!"
"No brother-in-law!"
Zhao Jinyu also spoke up and said, "Like Brother Wangchuan, Brother Wei is also literate and serious enough to join our cavalry company."
"It's hard to say! Little...Hi!"
Captain Ma patted his forehead and said, "Xiaobai went out to drink too, so eat first! When you finish eating, let Xiaobai take you to get your gun and a new set of clothes."
"Brother-in-law, can you also give Brother Wei a horse?" Zhao Jinyu said while holding the wine bowl.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Jinyu's proposal to Captain Ma was not as cheerful as before, "Brother Wei Ran, I am not stingy. Our cavalry company has many horses. At this moment, there is no suitable horse."
for you."
"Brother-in-law, how about trying that biting horse in the backyard?" Zhao Jinyu seemed to have a "bad idea" coming out of his mouth.
"No, no!"
Captain Ma waved his hands without thinking, and said with an unlucky look, "That ignorant animal! Damn it, I almost bit off the ear of the Second Company Commander, but no! I have to geld it before I can ride it.
Woolen cloth."
"That's hard to say!"
Zhao Jinyu seemed to be waiting for this sentence and said, "Give me that biting horse, give my horse to Wei..."
"You kid! I knew what you were planning!" Captain Ma immediately realized.
"No, what's going on?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Almost two months ago, our division brought in a new batch of Qinghai soldiers, and by the way, we also brought in a lot of Choco war horses."
Captain Ma said with a headache, "This time, each company was assigned two extra horses. As a result, our company happened to catch up with Heitian when we went to pick the horses. We didn't look carefully, and we brought back one that had never been gelding. Let's not talk about this.
It’s time to eat, eat first!”
Hearing this, Wei Ran and the other three looked at each other, picked up their wine bowls and paused the conversation.
For more than half an hour, the four of them chatted in the wine bowls and noodle bowls that they picked up again and again. Until they each made three large bowls of shaved noodles, the four of them, who were full of food, finally finished their drinks.
Got that big jar of wine.
"Brother Wei, please follow us to find a place to rest."
Li Sui'an said while cleaning up the mess on the table, "I'll take you to a place to take a bath later."
"Brother Wei asked the two brothers to arrange you."
Company Commander Ma also said, "Jin Yu, go find Xiao Bai and ask him to get Brother Wei new clothes, two spears, one long and one short, and a saber."
"I'll go get it for Brother Wei myself later!"
As Zhao Jinyu spoke, he had already helped pick up the pottery basin with barely all the noodles in it, and left the small room together with Wei Ran and Li Sui'an who were carrying bowls and chopsticks.
"Jin Yu, I never had the chance to ask just now."
Wei Ran walked towards the courtyard where the kitchen was located with a pile of bowls, chopsticks and an empty wine jar in his arms and asked, "Do you know how Brother Hu and Squad Leader Xiaohu are doing now?"
Hearing this, Zhao Jinyu, who had just been immersed in the joy of meeting old friends, couldn't help but look stagnant.
After a brief silence, Zhao Jinyu sighed and said, "In the past two years, I have been exchanging letters with Sister Shiyi. News about Brother Hu and Squad Leader Xiaohu also came through her letters."
"How do you say that?" Wei Ran asked immediately.
"well!"
Zhao Jinyu put what he was holding on the steps, called for him and Li Sui'an to sit down next to him, took out a pack of cigarettes, took out two and gave them to Wei Ran and Li Sui'an.
"Sister Shiyi said in her last letter"
Zhao Jinyu sighed, "The troubles caused by the Japanese in the Northeast are getting more and more serious. The Sun sisters have been helping the Anti-Japanese Alliance pass on information for the past two years. At the beginning of this spring, they even sent a letter from my eldest brother."
"Where are the others?" Wei Ran asked.
"Others..."
Zhao Jinyu slapped his thigh and took a puff of cigarette, "Brother Hu and Squad Leader Xiaohu have lost contact since the beginning of spring. Sister Hongxia left a letter in the end to go to Langcaozigou to find them, but they also lost contact later.
, the same...same difference between life and death."
"You...what did you say?" Wei Ran was stunned for a moment.
"Just wait a little longer"
As Zhao Jinyu spoke, he picked up the pottery basin again, and said worriedly as he walked, "In the middle of every month, sister Shiyi's letters will be delivered. Let's see if there is any letter from them this month."
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Li Sui'an looked at each other, picked up their dishes and followed.
"you..."
Wei Ran opened his mouth, "I just heard the company commander and Jin Yu call you Wangchuan?"
"yes..."
Li Sui'an smiled bitterly and muttered to himself, "Wangchuan, Li Wangchuan, Wangchuan..."
"You haven't been home in the past two years?" Wei Ran asked after a moment of silence.
"No"
Li Sui'an shook his head, "I dare not go back. If it weren't for...if I hadn't met you, no one would know that my name is Li Sui'an. They only know that my name is Li Wangchuan. Li Sui'an... Li Sui'an died in Teng County..."
