Chapter 815 Camellia oleifera, locusts, dogs blocking the road
In the jungle about a mile away from the mountain road, under the watch of squad leader Liang and others, Wei Ran dug a smoke diffuser he learned from the Zhaoxian battlefield next to a big rock.
As a small cup of kerosene was poured on the collected firewood, Luke, the British businessman who had just allowed Squad Leader Liang to help bandage the wound, also took out a zippo lighter and reached out to light the wet branches sprinkled with kerosene.
The moment the flames burst out, Squad Leader Liang immediately placed the enamel kettle on the stove mouth, then reached out and took out a bamboo tube from his backpack, opened it, took out the small bamboo spoon with a long handle inside, and dug out his little fingernail.
A glob of white grease the size of a squirt was thrown into the enamel kettle.
Before he could close the lid of the bamboo tube again, Qin Shouzheng, who had been waiting for a long time, poured out a handful of coarse tea leaves that had been broken into dregs from another opened bamboo tube and threw them into the pot.
Fry.
At the same time, Squad Leader Liang also opened a bamboo tube, pinched a pinch of salt from it and threw it into the pot. At the same time, he pulled out a dry old ginger slice that was only the size of a little finger and threw it in.
In an enamel pot.
When everyone smelled the unique aroma of tea, Qin Shouzheng also untied two kettles from the wooden stands on the donkey, pulled out the wooden stoppers, and poured all the water inside into the enamel kettles.
Accompanied by a soft sneer, the aroma of tea became stronger and stronger. However, before Wei Ran and the other two took a deep breath, Squad Leader Liang had already closed the lid of the kettle, and then personally untied the cloth bag in the backpack.
He grabbed a handful of fried rice and distributed it evenly among the bamboo cups or lunch box lids that Qin Shouzheng pulled out.
While waiting for the water to boil, Squad Leader Liang and Qin Shouzheng placed a pot on another stove, then brought a bucket of water from a creek not far away, poured it in, and covered it with a
A wooden pot lid held together by a wooden frame on the donkey's body.
At the same time, Wei Ran had already put away the gravity knife again and brought several small fish with their internal organs removed to the stream to clean them. Zhou Guochang used banana leaves to put them together with some unknown tropical plants.
Wrap them up layer by layer and throw them into the stove.
It wasn't until everything was done that Wei Ran sat on a stone far enough away from the mouth of the stove and exclaimed, "Squad leader Liang, our things are really complete!"
“It’s not easy to get these things together.”
Squad leader Liang said with emotion, "Our company is all from Guizhou Province. When many people are homesick, they rely on this bowl of Camellia oleifera to survive."
"The second platoon leader specially exchanged the captured Japanese wine bottles for glutinous rice."
Qin Shouzheng said as if he were familiar with a treasure, "The deputy company commander led his men to catch a wild boar in the forest and used the pig to boil a bamboo tube of lard."
"I bought the tea with a silver dollar before I went abroad."
Squad Leader Liang looked at the bamboo tubes in the basket with fascination, "At that time, I replaced two full bamboo tubes of tea leaves and one bamboo tube of tobacco leaves, but now only half of them are left."
"In the past, every time we won a battle, the whole company would gather around two big pots to drink oil tea."
Qin Shouzheng stared blankly at the dancing flames of the stove and murmured, "We will drink camellia together even if we lose the battle. No matter we win or lose, there will always be fewer people drinking camellia each time than the last time."
"We are the only ones left now."
Squad Leader Liang bent down, took out a wooden stick with flames from the stove, lit the pipe pot, and muttered in the same ecstasy, "Those teeth must be homesick..."
Next to the large moss-covered rocks, smoke carrying a large amount of water vapor floats forward along the flue, and at the same time becomes more and more bleak due to condensation, and a little smoke that sticks to the surface also acts as a repel for mosquitoes.
It acts like an ever-expanding firewall, driving away those big poisonous mosquitoes.
In the center of this firewall, Zhou Guochang sighed secretly, and then simply turned around, as if avoiding the smoke that was not enough to make people choke to tears.
The British businessman Luke took out a pipe and lit it from his bag, and then silently took out a Minghai brand rangefinder camera produced by the Japanese during World War II, and took out the four people surrounding the smoke stove.
All included in the viewfinder frame.
"Why do you have a camera?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"robbed"
Luke put away the camera and explained with a hint of satisfaction, "Zhou and I first escaped from Oxygen. In order to leave there safely, we hijacked a recruitment reporter. I got this camera from him.
Robbed."
"Why do I seem to have done this job before?" Wei Ran couldn't help but muttered.
"What did you say?" Luke asked, leaning closer.
"Nothing." Wei Ran waved his hand and asked, following the topic, "Where is that reporter?"
"Um...he..."
"He died because Mr. Luke's pistol went off."
Zhou Guochang wiped the corners of his eyes and said with some complaint, "We hadn't even discussed how to use the Japanese reporter to leave the oxygen light, and he was hit in the throat by Mr. Luke's pistol.
If it hadn't been for that gunshot, we wouldn't have been trapped in the oxygen light for so long before escaping, let alone the quinine we had hoarded, and we wouldn't have been chased by those Japanese for so long."
Wei Ran glanced at the apologetic Luke without leaving any trace, but Wei Ran's heart was already full of doubts. The fire happened and he happened to hit his throat. This excuse can only be used to deceive a young boy like Zhou Guochang. Don't
He said he didn't believe it, even Squad Leader Liang was obviously a little doubtful.
Just when Wei Ran was about to ask something, the oil tea water in the enamel kettle had already boiled. Qin Shouzheng, who was smoking, immediately stood up and patted his butt, carrying the kettle and filling each bamboo cup with fried rice.
There was turbid tea with an oily sheen floating around.
At the same time, Squad Leader Liang also pulled out the burnt banana leaf package from the stove and opened it layer by layer, revealing the steamed small fish inside.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although such pitiful small fish are not enough for everyone, and the seasoning is only coarse salt, no matter Zhou Guochang has been hungry all day
Or the British businessman Luke, both ate extra deliciously.
And even Wei Ran had to admit that even though the conditions were a bit rudimentary, the bowl of oil tea that was made from scratch was still particularly delicious.
However, just like those few small fish that are not enough to fit between teeth, these cups of oil tea can only be regarded as filling up with water and adding some salt, because starting from the second bowl, no matter whether the British businessman
No matter how much Luke begged, Squad Leader Liang and Qin Shouzheng stopped adding even one piece of fried rice to anyone's bamboo cup.
The group of five people almost ate the fish and drank the oil tea with their fingers, but squad leader Liang picked out the boiled ginger slices from the kettle and tied them to the backpack with two twisted grass ropes. Obviously
I'm planning on using it next time.
After pouring the boiling water into everyone's kettles, Qin Shouzheng grabbed Wei Ran and signaled him not to move.
"Unbutton your collar, it looks like there's a leech on your back."
While Qin Shouzheng was speaking, he reached out and pulled out a wooden stick with charcoal remaining from the stove that had not yet been turned off.
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately handed the rifle in his hand to Zhou Guochang who was standing next to him.
This small, sudden trust made Zhou Guochang stunned. After he reacted, he immediately took the rifle with both hands.
"Can you use it?" Wei Ran asked while unbuttoning his collar.
"will use"
Zhou Guochang said confidently, "I had one before, it was a gift from Mr. Luke. If it were in an open field, I could hit a wine bottle forty miles away!"
"In that case, this gun is for you to use." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already unbuttoned all the buttons on his jacket and took off his clothes.
However, before he could lower his head, Zhou Guochang subconsciously took a step back as if he was startled.
Wei Ran lowered his head slowly, and his heart skipped a beat. At this time, there were already three or four large leech locusts hanging on his chest and abdomen that were full of blood and swollen like purple grapes!
"You have them on your back too, more than on your front."
Qin Shouzheng said with some gloating, while at the same time he tapped one of the locusts with the small wooden stick in his hand.
Stimulated by the high temperature, the locust immediately let go and landed on a stone at Wei Ran's feet.
"puff!"
When Wei Ran raised his foot and stomped on the leech, a stream of dark red blood also exploded under his feet, successfully staining the stone with a trace like a red maple leaf.
Before he could raise his head, both Squad Leader Liang, Luke, and even Zhou Guochang, who had just been shocked, were each holding their own cigarette bags, pipes, or even dry cigarettes, as if they were treating the cigarette smoke as an ashtray.
I immediately burned those disgusting little bugs that had filled my stomach.
Under this operation, a dozen large leeches fell down around his body.
"Take off your pants"
Squad Leader Liang said without any doubt, and then took a sip from the pipe pot, "You guys too, take off all your clothes and check them carefully."
Before he finished speaking, Squad Leader Liang himself began to take off his tattered British military uniform.
This inspection doesn't matter, just on Wei Ran's thigh, there are four or five big leech lying on it, and even in the small exposed gap between the leggings and socks, there is a locust that is no bigger than a melon seed shell.
A large circle of leech.
Therefore, he naturally had to be surrounded by several other people to scald bugs. Of course, the other people were not much better, and the most serious one among them was Luke.
There was nothing we could do about it. Although the bullet-penetrating wound on his arm was not too serious and had been simply bandaged by Squad Leader Liang, there was still some bloody smell coming out, which naturally attracted more locusts.
After carefully checking their clothes, everyone put them back on and then carefully sprinkled on 666 anti-leech powder, which didn't seem to be very useful.
After everyone put on their anti-mosquito masks, Qin Shouzheng brought a bucket of water to extinguish the charcoal fire in the smokeless stove. Then, under the order of Squad Leader Liang, he walked at the back alone with a gun.
"Brother Wei, did you really lend me this gun?" Zhou Guochang, who was in the middle of the five-man team and only separated from Wei Ran by a donkey, asked excitedly.
"There are not many bullets. Besides, you'd better be able to hit a bottle forty battles away." Wei Ran reminded seriously.
"I can attest to this."
Luke, the British businessman who was walking at the front with Squad Leader Liang, raised three fingers, turned around and whispered with a smile, "I saw this with my own eyes, and more than once."
"To be able to hit so accurately, you must have practiced a lot, right?" Wei Ran asked seemingly casually.
"of course!"
Zhou Guochang replied with a hint of contentment, "Before the Japanese invaded, I would practice shooting with my father every week. I have killed several tigers over the years."
"In this case, this gun is for you to use, but you have to listen to Squad Leader Liang as to whether and when to shoot."
Wei Ran once again made a promise. If a silly boy was willing to carry the gun for him, he would naturally have no problem with it, especially if he could gain the other person's trust.
What's more, in this dense jungle, even an Enfield with a semi-automatic rate of fire might not be as useful as a pistol or submachine gun - not to mention that gun doesn't have many rounds of ammunition.
"No problem! No problem!" Zhou Guochang immediately assured.
After dismissing Zhou Guochang, Wei Ran fell a few steps behind without leaving a trace, switched places with Tan Shouzheng who was behind him, then opened a little distance, and secretly took out the titanium alloy pistol from the metal book.
As expected, there was no silencer on this pistol at all. Not only that, there were only a few rounds of bullets in the magazine.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Taking out the bullets he borrowed from Zhou Guochang's baggage, Wei Ran filled the magazine one after another before putting it away.
When he made all the preparations, they were only ten meters away from the mountain road they left not long ago. The donkey also stopped honestly under the comfort of Squad Leader Liang.
Without even needing to say hello, Wei Ran and Qin Shouzheng carefully walked to the side of the road and looked around.
"There are horse hoof prints. It seems that they were chased." Qin Shouzheng and Wei Ran made their judgment almost at the same time.
"More than that, I guess they may come back soon, or may even have already gone back." Wei Ran lowered his voice and made his own judgment, "Even if they ambush us at the fork in the road ahead, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
"
"There are so many of us..."
"If more people were useful, we would have won long ago."
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and then slowly retreated. Qin Shouzheng curled his lips, spat out the grass leaves in his mouth, and retreated to hide his figure.
The two returned to Squad Leader Liang, and Wei Ran briefly described the situation. Squad Leader Liang also took out a tattered map from his pocket, frowning and looking at it secretly.
Leaning forward and taking a look at the contents of the map, Wei Ran couldn't help but secretly shake his head. This was entirely an English map. The only thing that Squad Leader Liang could understand was probably the red arrow drawn on the map, representing the north.
There are also the town of Mansi and the village of Mo, which are surrounded by red paint, and a white line extending southward connecting the two places.
"Squad leader, what should we do?" Qin Shouzheng came up and asked.
"Wait a little longer," Squad Leader Liang said extremely calmly, "When it gets darker, let's go there with the lights on."
"Go there with the light on?" Zhou Guochang obviously didn't expect Squad Leader Liang to make such a decision.
"Just go there with the light on"
Squad Leader Liang patted the donkey beside him, and after a moment of hesitation he said simply, "Wei Ran, you and Shouzheng are taking Guochang and Mr. Luke to walk in the woods on the roadside, and I am riding the donkey on the road outside.
"
"no!"
Qin Shouzheng, Zhou Guochang and Wei Ran unanimously rejected the former's decision.
"Those medicines are more important than Camellia oleifera!"
Squad leader Liang said very seriously, "If you can't drink the oil tea, the most you can think about is home. But if those medicines are really stolen by the little devils, the brothers will not even have the chance to go home!"
"I'll go with you under the lantern!" Qin Shouzheng said stubbornly.
"Snapped!"
Squad Leader Liang slapped him on the back of the head neither lightly nor hard, "Shou Zheng, even if you die or crawl, you still have to deliver those medicines to me and deliver them to the company commander!"
