Chapter 842 On the day of returning home, toast to drink together
In the drizzle, the big rooster raised in the temple woke up the hungover crowd with its loud voice.
"Let's go see Squad Leader Liang today and bring back Mr. Luke by the way?" Qin Shou was lying on his back on the mat, looking at the wooden beams on the roof in trance and suggested.
"We have to leave early," Zhou Guochang and the young monk Sehao said in unison.
“Really need to leave early”
Qin Shouzheng yawned, changed the subject and asked, "Wei Ran, you brought two jars of wine, right?"
"Yes, do you want to bring it with you?" Wei Ran nodded, "There is still more than half of the jar that I opened yesterday."
"Take it with you"
Qin Shouzheng thought for a while and continued, "But instead of opening the jar of wine, how about we just put it in the cave? When there is no more war in the country, we will open it again when we have the opportunity to send them home.
That jar of wine is for everyone to practice."
"In this case, let's bring some extra wine to Squad Leader Liang." Zhou Guochang, who was also staring at the roof, suggested.
"Everyone, get up, have a bowl of oil tea and let's go!" Before Qin Shouzheng finished speaking, he was the first to sit up and staggered towards the outside of the temple.
Just like they did in Savage Mountain, they worked together to cook a pot of oil tea to fill their stomachs. However, Qin Shouzheng rummaged through the boxes and found a P44 kettle that had been distributed in small quantities by the British army.
"Do you still keep it?" Zhou Guochang asked with a smile.
"Of course I'll keep it," Qin Shouzheng said with a smile.
"What riddles are you playing?" Wei Ran looked at the two men in confusion.
"When we were fighting Bamo, Zhou Guochang stole a pot of wine from somewhere and gave it to me." Qin Shouzheng unscrewed the metal pot lid as he spoke, "He told me that it was British wine. I still remember it now."
, that wine smells like gasoline, as if it’s called something awesome.”
"whisky"
While Zhou Guochang was talking, he had already found his canvas bag, took out a stainless steel M1942 kettle once issued by the US military and handed it to Qin Shouzheng, "At that time, he often secretly brewed rice wine to drink. I specially stole the British chief's wine and his
The replacement, even the kettle, was stolen from the British governor."
"Are you keeping it too?" Qin Shouzheng took the kettle and returned the kettle in his hand to the other party.
"Didn't we agree that we would change the kettle back the next time we drink together?" Zhou Guochang said with a smile.
"Yes, it was agreed upon at that time."
Qin Shouzheng smiled and said in a sly manner, "It's because I drank so much that I lost my arm."
"Can you blame me for this?" Zhou Guochang said angrily.
"Thanks to your jug of wine"
Qin Shouzheng said while pouring wine into the stainless steel kettle he had exchanged with a wine grapevine, "At that time, my feet were weak and I only lost one arm. Otherwise, my head would be in ruins. Wei Ran, Se Hao, you guys come find me quickly."
Fill a kettle with some wine and we'll drink on the way."
Hearing this, Wei Ran walked around and found the English enamel kettle that he had used as a pillow last night. Soon after, the young monk Sehao also found an enamel kettle and a funnel made of iron.
After Qin Shouzheng filled the three of them's water bottles with the leftover wine from yesterday, Qin Shouzheng found three more enamel water bottles and filled them with wine.
"Bring more food"
Before the young monk Sehao finished speaking, he had already gotten into the chicken coop not far away and caught two big roosters and a duck among the flying feathers.
"Master Sehao has finally accomplished this for this monk," Tan Shouzheng joked gloatingly, "I heard that he has fallen in love with a girl from Manxi Town."
"No wonder"
Wei Ran looked at the little monk who was busy catching chickens with great joy, "Shou Zheng, I heard that you are going to become the abbot of this temple?"
"I have this plan"
Qin Shouzheng nodded, looked at the dragon boat flowers in the distance and said, "More than 1,500 people... A whole group of people are buried here. They can't leave, go back, or wake up."
I am a soldier in the cooking class, and I should be in charge of their food and drink. I burn a few pieces of yellow paper for them during the holidays, and sprinkle a few cups of rice wine for them from time to time. No matter what, there must be someone to take care of them. This kind of thing cannot be done to Sehao.
The little master is here and he has already helped us a lot.
On the other hand, I heard from Little Master Sehao that being an abbot is actually pretty good, and you don’t have to do much, and the village will often send you food and drink."
"I will come often in the future," Zhou Guochang promised, patting his chest.
"You came to me for a drink, right?"
Qin Shouzheng said jokingly, but no matter his tone, expression or even mentality, there was a maturity and vicissitudes that did not match his age.
"Not just drinking, but also taking care of food." Zhou Guochang said with a smile.
"Little Master said yesterday that you are going to move them all to that cave?" Wei Ran asked, looking at the patch of flowers.
"I have this plan"
Qin Shouzheng nodded, "Let's wait a little longer. When the situation becomes more stable, we need to find opportunities to take this matter slowly."
"I will help you" Zhou Guochang expressed his attitude seriously.
"I won't be polite when I need your help."
Qin Shouzheng picked up the kettle filled with wine and carefully sealed the jar that still had a lot of wine left. Then he took out several enamel kettles, filled them with water and a bag of rice, and carefully put them all into the bamboo basket.
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When Wei Ran and Zhou Guochang put the other jar of wine they had brought down yesterday into the bamboo basket and hung it on the donkey's back, the little master Sehao, who was called a wine and meat monk, also put the few chickens and ducks he had caught into a bamboo basket.
inside the cage, and not forgetting to cover it with a layer of tattered monk's robes.
At the same time, Qin Shouzheng also put some vegetables grown in the temple into the bamboo basket containing wine and rice, and then asked Wei Ran and Zhou Guochang to help hang them on the donkey's back, but he turned around and walked in
The innermost room of the temple.
Soon after, when he came out again, he had put on a British expeditionary force uniform without a rank, and there was also a slightly worn CBI theater armband on the arm of his uniform.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The only difference is that this armband seems to have been contaminated by blood, so it inevitably has black stains that cannot be washed away.
"Let's go"
As he spoke, Qin Shouzheng patted the wooden gun case slung around his waist and said with nostalgia, "I remember this gun belonged to Mr. Luke."
"How about a change?"
As Zhou Guochang spoke, he picked up an almost identical wooden gun case from the jeep, "This gun is mine, and it's also a Canadian gun. I'll exchange it for the one in your hand."
Hearing this, Qin Shouzheng happily took off the gun case and handed it to the other party. Then he took the other person's gun case and put it on his shoulder.
"Let's also get weapons. We haven't fought in these years, and there are more ferocious beasts in the Savage Mountains." Before the young monk finished speaking, he had already lifted the tablecloth at the foot of the Buddha statue and pulled out two Enfields from it.
A rifle, and several magazines.
"You're a monk..." Wei Ran muttered in a dumbfounded voice, and reached out to take the rifle handed to him.
With everything ready, a group of four people and one donkey followed the road they had walked before, avoiding the villagers and entering Savage Mountain.
Compared with the rush to rush back then, this time there was only a calm look on their faces, and their words were mostly about memories of that time and lamentations about regrets.
After traveling tirelessly all the way, as dusk approached, everyone once again saw the cave where they stayed the first night after entering Savage Mountain.
Nowadays, there is a small door made of bamboo at the entrance of the cave. Although this door is not locked, it is tied extremely firmly with a rope.
Waiting for Master Se Hao to untie the rope on the bamboo door, Wei Ran also led the donkey through the hole, which was not that big. After a while, Master Se Hao, who followed him, lit a few sticks hanging on the rock wall with familiarity.
An oil lamp.
When the mixed yellow light completely illuminated the cave, Wei Ran was surprised to find that compared with the original, although the unfinished Buddha statue still had not completed the final carvings, there were more sculptures near the entrance of the cave.
A stove was set up, and on the stove stood a large 20-inch iron pot that Wei Ran and others were very familiar with, and bundles of firewood were hung above the stove.
Continuing inside, there are two more tombs repaired side by side near the rock wall on one side of the unfinished Buddha statue.
Although these two tombs are not big, there are some tributes placed in front of the tombs. On the stone tombstones, the identity of the person buried in the tombs is clearly carved - "The tomb of my mentor Liang Yimin, the 22nd Division of the Fifth Army of Yicheng"
", and "Mr. Luke Campbell".
In addition to the two extra tombs in this cave, in front of the unfinished Buddha statue, there are also a few bamboo baskets that are very familiar to Wei Ran and others hanging with iron chains.
These bamboo baskets were all wrapped with floating bags from the Japanese plane's life rafts, and there were also several pairs of tattered straw sandals fixed to each bamboo basket.
"This is the backpack used by Squad Leader Liang"
Qin Shouzheng said one by one, "The bamboo basket next to it contains the things we put in Squad Leader Liang's tomb. Little Master Sehao took them back."
Before he could finish his words, Master Se Hao had already taken off the basket belonging to Squad Leader Liang. Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and Zhou Guochang came to their senses and immediately helped take down the bamboo basket next to them.
"Take off the other one too," Qin Shouzheng said while comforting the donkey.
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Zhou Guochang simply took down the remaining backpacks and unwrapped the rainproof cloth one by one.
"You put all these things here?"
Wei Ran asked in surprise. There were only six backpacks in total. Except for the two that Qin Shouzheng just introduced separately, the remaining four contained barrels of kerosene, two American medical backpacks and countless mosquito repellent oils.
, anti-locust powder and quinine drugs.
The remaining two backpacks were filled with neatly stacked clothes and flower-machine submachine guns that came from nowhere!
"Except for the weapons, the rest was prepared by little master Sehao."
Qin Shouzheng explained with a smile, "He was always worried that there would be another war in Myanmar and that he would have to walk to Savage Mountain again, so he prepared these things."
"After I return to secular life, I plan to raise an elephant."
Little Master Sehao said a little shyly, "I know a mahout who works in a lumber camp. His elephant will give birth soon. I will buy one by then."
"He wants to buy more than just an elephant"
Qin Shouzheng winked and joked, "He is also planning to marry the mahout's daughter, and he also bought a piece of land not far south of the temple to build a house."
"How old is little Master Sehao this year?" Zhou Guochang asked deliberately.
"19 years old"
Qin Shouzheng rushed to answer this question, "He received a lot of rewards for helping the temple in Manxi Town preserve two Buddha statues and relics."
"Open these things quickly"
Little Master Sehao pointed to the waterproof bag buried with Squad Leader Liang and urged, obviously trying to change the topic that he didn't know how to deal with.
"Yes, yes, let's take it apart." Zhou Guochang said with a smile.
"I took away the relics that were placed here first, and I didn't touch the rest." Young Master Sehao said while untying the rope that bound the waterproof bag, "All your things are here."
"If I had known I would have put myself in it"
Zhou Guochang made a joke, reached out and took out his Japanese lunch box from the waterproof bag, opened it, and said in an extremely cheerful manner, "Those kyats are now useless paper, and these silver coins, gold bars, etc., let's all share them."
"
"You can keep it"
Qin Shou was waving his hands, but did not take anything from the waterproof bag, "This electricity-free temple provides food and drink, and I don't need it at all. I have taken some of Squad Leader Liang's things, and the rest
Just leave it here."
"In that case, let's keep these films here."
Wei Ran picked up the British army lunch box that he had put in with his own hands and looked at it. However, he did not open and check the film canisters inside, but just stuffed them in again.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Don't you want these gold bars and silver coins?" Zhou Guochang asked, looking at the yellow and white things in his hands.
"Give it to the little master, he is getting a wife." Qin Shouzheng made a joke about the sehao little master again.
"that's right!"
When Zhou Guochang saw Wei Ran wave his hand to refuse, he immediately stuffed all the gold bars and silver coins into the hands of the young monk without any explanation, "Consider them our congratulatory gifts."
"I..."
"Keep it," Zhou Guochang insisted, "You can keep this money and spend it."
“Don’t waste time on money matters”
Qin Shouzheng patted the donkey's butt and said, "Come here and help us move this jar of wine down. Then we can cook a good meal like before. Wei Ran, let's use the guy in the basket on the back of Squad Leader Liang, right?"
Before Wei Ran and the other three could respond, Qin Shouzheng had already taken out a gun oil bottle with patina from his pocket and unscrewed it with his teeth. Then he found a brush, dipped it in red paint, and put it on the clay jar.
On it, eight red letters were written: "On the day we return home, raise a glass and drink together."
After he put away the gun oil pot and writing brush, Wei Ran also untied Squad Leader Liang's backpack and took out the pots and pans one by one.
Even Tan Shouzheng, who had been prepared, pulled out a bamboo tube filled with soy sauce and a bamboo tube filled with meat oil from the basket he brought.
At the same time, Zhou Guochang also took out the enamel kettles filled with wine, filled them with wine on the rough porcelain wrists placed in front of the tombstones of Squad Leader Liang and Mr. Luke, and finally lit the white wine bottle brought by Wei Ran.
Candle and yellow paper.
In the slightly choking smoke of fireworks, the 20-yin large pot at the entrance of the cave steamed enough rice for everyone. Under the command of Qin Shouzheng, the small pot operated by Wei Ran also began to fry the same rice.
Side dishes.
However, without the crucial chef Liang, even if they brought more abundant ingredients and seasonings, and even if they had more time and energy, they could no longer make the original taste.
“Take a sip”
Qin Shouzheng was the first to raise the stainless steel kettle filled with wine, "I hope I will never have to fight in the future."
"I hope Guochang will find his family soon" Sehao expressed his wish while holding up an enamel kettle.
"I hope I can drink Master Sehao's wedding wine as soon as possible." Zhou Guochang smiled and raised the kettle.
"I hope every expeditionary force soldier can go home soon." Wei Ran also raised the kettle in his hand.
"Yes, go home! I hope you can all go home soon!" Qin Shouzheng nodded vigorously, "Cheers!"
"Cheers!" Wei Ran and the other three responded in unison, clinking the different styles of kettles in their hands together.
When the warm wine was poured into his mouth, Wei Ran clearly heard a crisp shutter sound, and his eyes were filled with rich white light.
