The next morning, I felt that my injury was much better. I don't know whether it was because of the effect of the medicine or because I felt comfortable living here... Anyway, it just felt like a little injury on my back, nothing serious.
This idea scared me a little. There are two reasons. First, if it was a few days ago... I was asked to live in this house with only one hospital bed and four walls, it would be a torture for me, and I
Now I feel like this is paradise. Another one...my attitude towards injuries was not like this before. I remember one time I had a little argument with my friends, and we started fighting...but it was just a little scratched.
I just stayed in the hospital for a week.
But now, with such a big injury on my back, I feel it’s nothing!
This also proves the saying: "When you come back from the Five Mountains, you don't see the mountains, and when you come back from Huangshan, you don't see the mountains." In the past, I thought fighting and other things were embarrassing. Now I think... that's just a child running a house!
"Hey! Xiaofeng is here!" Seeing me approaching, Old Yutou quickly made way for me and said, "Sit down..."
I just can't sit still, so I visited the whole village in just one day after arriving at the field hospital, and I also made friends with a group of sick and wounded patients.
"That's so embarrassing!" I said.
Old Fish Head is the middle-aged soldier who rescued me yesterday. Because he loves eating fish heads most of his life, he got the nickname Old Fish Head.
He was injured while attacking the Red River. He said that when he was kayaking across the river, a shell exploded not far from them. Everyone on the boat was fine, so he just let the shrapnel disappear.
Several fingers hit his backpack and he was stunned and fell into the river. All his comrades thought he had been sacrificed so they continued to fight... If the containment team hadn't found him in time, he might have been drowned long ago.
It is said that... Old Fish Head thought this was retribution from the river god for eating too many fish heads, so he vowed never to eat fish heads again.
"Hey! Why are you so polite?" Old Yutou used his uninjured right hand to help me sit down and said, "Aren't you seriously injured? What does it mean to give you a seat? Besides, you are still a hero who fights Japanese devils.
, it should be!”
What Old Yutou said made me sweat in my heart.
"You're such a damn lucky kid!" Huang Duanzi grinned and handed me a cigarette: "You've killed so many Japanese and still come back alive... I haven't even seen the Japanese in person, so I almost...
We're dead! We're already old, and we've never even touched a woman... If we lose our lives like this, our life will be in vain."
Huang Duanzi's surname is not Huang, and I don't know what his surname is. Because he can't say more than three sentences, there must be a Huang Duanzi, so he got this name.
"I'm pretty good!" The leader calmly found a stone to sit next to us and continued: "I'm pretty good at killing two Yue Japanese, but now that I think about it...it's better that I didn't kill anyone.
So I really don’t understand... Xiaofeng, you have killed so many Japanese, how can you stand it?"
Of course, the leader was not the real leader. China was not that fashionable at that time, and there were not many believers in Christianity. The reason why there was a "leader" was because he did not care how hot the gunfire was outside, and he would just throw his hands on the ground casually.
You can fall asleep as soon as you lie down. So it is actually "the master of sleep".
However, it can be said that he, the leader, is a foolish man. It is said that his company was stationed on an unknown highland that day. It was attacked and occupied by Vietnamese Japs at night, and was recaptured by our army soon after. This highland is so easy.
The leader once, but the leader slept until dawn as if nothing was wrong. Not only did he know nothing about the battle last night, but what was even more amazing was that there was no injury at all on his body.
Because of this, some people said that he was protected by the God of Sleep, but in the blink of an eye, the Japanese bamboo sticks pierced the soles of his feet...
Our Jiefang shoes are sandwiched with steel plates and bamboo stick arrays specially used to prevent Japanese invaders. However, some shoes that are not of good quality still cannot bear the weight of Juezhu, which weighs nearly 200 kilograms!
"I'm not used to it either!" I took a puff of my cigarette and said, "I often dream about bloody things at night... But what can I do? If you want to survive, you have to kill, otherwise you can still talk here?"
I am telling the truth. Although I know that I am safe here, and I am very satisfied with the quilt, bed, ward...everything here, I still often wake up from nightmares. When I wake up, I am covered in cold sweat, and even
Sometimes I thought I was on the battlefield.
"How many Japs have Xiaofeng killed?" Old Yutou raised the newspaper in his hand and said, "I heard that the Yue Japs have a group... I'll attack you on a hill. I'm afraid I'll kill a lot of them!"
I don't know how to answer, because I can't even remember how many Yue Japanese soldiers died under my hands.
"At least there must be dozens of them!" the leader asked tentatively.
"Yes!" I nodded and said hesitantly: "Two, thirty... almost!"
With a cry of "Coax!", the surrounding soldiers were all amazed by my words.
In fact... I have killed more than two or thirty Japanese, but I am not willing to tell the number. Firstly, people will think that I am bragging, and secondly, even if they believe me, they will regard me as an executioner.
In short, I don't think killing more people is a glorious thing, nor is it something worth boasting about, even if they are enemies.
Old Yutou is a thoughtful person. He saw something on my face and asked: "You don't seem to like fighting. Why did you become a soldier?"
"Alas! Who likes fighting!" He added without waiting for me to answer the dirty joke: "If possible, who doesn't want to sleep with a woman at home, and who would want to come here to get shot..."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Old Yutou reminded: "Be careful if others hear you... I will punish you."
As he said this, the old fish head glanced at Xiao Wang, who was holding a gun, intentionally or unintentionally.
Xiao Wang was from the security company, so he was holding the gun, but it seemed that the gun had not even fired a bullet, because the butter used to lubricate the gun was not wiped clean.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Xiao Wang said with a smile: "Our mission is to protect your safety, not to be a spy!"
"I'm telling the truth!" Huang Duanzi replied: "Besides, I'll be punished if I'm punished. If you have the guts, I'll be locked up... Then there's no need to go to the battlefield!"
Only then did I realize another kind of lawlessness.
People on the battlefield have their heads stuck to their belts, so they dare to say and do anything. As for the people in the field hospital... it's because if their superiors punish them, they don't have to go to the battlefield. This seems to be the case.
What the soldiers want.
But I think the superiors probably know something about this, so I might as well turn a blind eye to it. Otherwise, if they are really punished... I am afraid that the more they punish the people who "made mistakes", the worse they will be.
many.
Some people may say... aren't we injured? Then there is no need to go to the battlefield?
The fact is that those who were seriously injured and unable to fight again were all sent back home. Only patients like us who were not seriously injured were stranded in this field hospital, waiting to recover and go back to the battlefield!
"I...it's because of my...dad!" In order to break the slightly awkward atmosphere, I explained: "Dad asked me to be a soldier. He is a soldier himself..."
"Oh, no wonder!" Old Yutou nodded and praised: "No wonder Xiaofeng, you have such good military qualities, you are from a military family!"
"I am converting from non-peasants to non-residents!" the leader interjected from the side: "I am not as good at thinking as Xiao Feng. I just want to have a job and make a living after demobilization... I want to learn from Comrade Xiao Feng!"
I can only smile bitterly.
The term "agricultural to non-agricultural registration" may be unfamiliar to us modern people, but it is a very popular term in this era. As the name suggests, it means to convert an agricultural household registration into a non-agricultural household registration.
Some people will say, is this important? Isn’t it better to have an agricultural household registration in modern times? There are subsidies for agricultural household registration, and then if both parents have agricultural household registration and there is only one girl, they can still have a second child... On the contrary, it is very
Agricultural hukou means nothing.
But in this era, no matter how handsome and outstanding the girl with an agricultural household registration is, the girl’s family will look down on you. No matter how ugly the person with a non-agricultural household registration is, there will still be a lot of girls behind her...
I still don't understand why I have to go to the battlefield and risk my life just for this.
Seeing that Huang Duanzi didn't say anything, I kept asking: "Old Huang, why did you become a soldier?"
The dirty joke didn't answer, but the others laughed first, which made me even more confused. Could I have asked the wrong question?
"Why are you laughing?" Huang Duanzi took two deep puffs of a cigarette and cursed: "What's so funny? I only became a soldier because of women. Is that wrong?"
"That's right!" Old Yutou explained to me with a smile: "He... just fell in love with a girl in the village. One day the girl said, 'It's so majestic to be a soldier,' so he
He eagerly signed up to join the army. But the result... As soon as the girl heard that he was going to the front line as a soldier, she immediately broke up with him..."
I was also shocked by this result. I thought to myself that this dirty joke didn't understand women's hearts. This soldier looked majestic, but which girl could bear to be separated from the two places for a long time, and even have to face her sweetheart?
It is possible to die in battle!
It's just like some people in peacetime, the ones who rebel the loudest, the crazier they are, the more upright they are...the more they are scared to death when they really have to go to the battlefield!
"Xiao Feng!" Then the old fish head lowered his voice and said to me: "I have something to say... If you don't like it, don't take it to heart. This injury... you have to heal it slowly, do you understand?
?”
"Old Yutou, what are you talking about?" the leader objected: "Xiao Feng is an advanced thinker. If it weren't for people like Xiao Feng, we might not be able to let the Yue Jap take over! Don't do that.
People have bad teachings!"
I still don’t know how to answer. My psychology is actually similar to that of a soldier. I don’t want to be a soldier, let alone fight. But now... I am being called a "hero", which feels a bit nondescript.
"Yang Xuefeng!" At this time, I heard Xiaofan calling to me from a distance in front of the ward: "It's time to change the dressing!"
"Hey! Just come."
I said hello to the soldiers and walked towards the ward. As I walked, I was thinking about what Old Yutou said just now: "This injury... you have to heal slowly!"