In 1972, I was drafted into the army and became a new soldier.
After three months in the recruit company, he was assigned to the engineering unit and became a professional engineering soldier.
In that special era, troop movements were very frequent.
We were transferred by a transfer order to the Qilian Mountains, which is closest to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, to conduct a secret exploration mission.
The winter of 1972 was extremely cold. An intensive class of us, plus exploration personnel, a total of twelve people, were sent to the depths of the Qilian Mountains for exploration.
The altitude of the Qilian Mountains is over 4,000 meters. It is the time when the weather is freezing and teeth are baring, and our target is above the snow line, so we are all covering ourselves up like cotton-wool monkeys, knee-deep in the snow.
Every time I walk, I have to breathe for a long time.
We trudged in this white world until noon on the tenth day, when the glaciers of the Qilian Mountains hung above our heads like a huge ice crystal palace.
Walking under the ice cap, everyone walked very lightly, for fear of accidentally shaking the huge ice block above their heads.
We took a temporary rest under the glacier. I glanced over and saw Lang Qing bowing and kowtowing to the glacier, muttering something in his mouth.
Lang Qing is a local man who joined the army in the same year as me. He looks wild and untamable. He sticks out his teeth when he gets angry. He looks like a mad dog.
Every time I see him getting angry, I think to myself, I wonder if this kid is a crossbreed. Calling him Langqing is not unfair at all.
I know Lang Qing best. He has always looked fearless. When he was a recruit in the company, he even dared to bare his teeth at the company commander.
It's a little strange to see him blabbering at this moment: "Old Wolf, what are you trying to do? It's like looking at the sky and worshiping the moon. Are you going to show your true colors?"
If I had heard this before, this kid would have jumped up and beat me up.
But at this time, he seemed to be completing a set of sacred rituals and turned a deaf ear to my words.
After a long time, until he finished the last move, this guy jumped up and kicked me on the thigh: "Get out of here and stop talking like this."
Lang Qing is Mongolian, but has become Chinese. He stirred rice in a horse spoon with me, and in less than half a year, he actually learned a few Beijing movies.
I said: "You just knelt down and knelt down here, making it look like feudal superstition, and you ignored me."
Lang Qing was different from his usual nonchalant attitude, with a solemn expression on his face: "I'm worshiping God."
I thought to myself, why don’t you bow to the ground?
He continued: "Our family has been living in Mongolia for a long time, but we are descendants of the ancient Xiongnu. Qilian means the Mountain of Heaven in the ancient Xiongnu language. When translated into Chinese, it means Kunlun."
When I heard him talk about the Xiongnu, I was still thinking, no wonder this boy is so wild and untamable. It turns out that he is a descendant of the Xiongnu, and his ancestors are so unteachable.
Later, when I heard him mention Kunlun, my eyes suddenly jumped, and then I remembered that in ancient books, Qilian Mountain was indeed the birthplace of ancient Kunlun and the beginning of the entire Chinese mythological era.
When I was about to educate him on how to eliminate monsters and monsters, I heard our squad leader shouting: "You two little brats, why don't you come here quickly?"
The squad leader is from the Northeast, his nickname is Lao Hei, and he is usually the most protective of others, but when he teaches us "cowards" a lesson, his hands are also dirty.
As soon as I heard what Lao Hei said, I said something stupid. I guess he wanted to beat someone. We two didn’t want to be beaten by him, so we ran towards him: "What about the monitor? I heard Lao Lang (Lang Qing) say
There are Eskimos living on the glaciers of the Qilian Mountains all year round. The girls there are very beautiful. Old Wolf wants to introduce an Eskimo girl to you as your wife. I am criticizing you for not being determined enough to find a wife before the battle."
Lao Hei was stunned when he heard this, and a trace of yearning appeared on his face.
He is in his thirties, and his mouth watered when he heard that he was looking for a wife.
In fact, I heard about Eskimos from the surveyor Xiao Zhang, and I had no idea what the hell they were.
After Lang Qing heard what I said, he suppressed a bad smile on his face.
Lao Hei was the first to listen to what I said seriously, and he was quite fascinated at first. When he turned around and saw Lang Qing's happy face, like a husky, he knew that we were not holding back anything good, so he kicked me in the butt.
: "You little bastard, you are trying to cut me off!"
When I was about to continue stimulating him, I suddenly heard a click.
The sound was too familiar. It was the sound of the Type 63 automatic rifle pulling the bolt.
Hearing this sound, everyone was stunned and immediately loaded their guns.
There was no movement around for a long time, then Lao Hei growled: "What's going on?"
Lang Qing glanced around and said, "It was the hairy monkey who pulled the bolt first. Ask him."
The original surname of Maohou'er is Hou, but this kid's development is a bit atavistic, and his hair is as thick as a monkey, so he got the nickname Maohou'er.
Lao Heicai scolded angrily: "Maohouer, you little brat, what are you talking about?"
The hairy monkey's eyes were full of vigilance: "Squad leader, there is a pair of eyes staring at us over there."
We looked in the direction of the hairy monkey's finger, and in an extremely hidden corner, there was indeed a pair of green triangular eyes flashing, with sharp eyes, piercing directly towards us.
We couldn't figure out what was going on, and our nerves immediately became tense.
The king engineer in the team was a pure technician. Seeing us pretending to use guns, he hurriedly said: "Comrades, put down your guns, put down your guns. A fire here is not a joke. If there is an avalanche, there will be an avalanche."
Well, all of us (we) are dead."
Although Wang Gong tried his best to speak Mandarin, he still had a strong flavor of northern Shaanxi.
But what he said made sense. We looked up at the ice caps above our heads, which were covered with millions of tons of snow. When it poured down, it was like a white storm. We didn't even have a chance to run.
At that time, the biggest slogan was that man can conquer nature.
But in the face of the oppressive momentum of the ancient glacier, we can't say this anyway.
I saw Lang Qing frowning and staring at the pair of green triangular eyes in the corner. He seemed to have remembered something and said in a low voice: "I tell you guys, when the snowy mountains are so big, anything can happen.
It’s better to be careful.”
I was secretly wondering, thinking that Lang Qing, who has a bad temper, is sometimes afraid of getting into trouble?
But he saw Lao Hei wave his hand: "Lang Qing is right, be careful in sailing the ten thousand year ship, clean up this guy, and let's go."
The cook had already started boiling water on the stove, but he left immediately after hearing the squad leader's instructions, so he had no choice but to unplug the stove.
But the stove was hot and stuck to the cold and hard ice surface, and the base was already stuck. The cook carried it like a hunched shrimp for a long time, but failed to lift it up.
"Damn it, you're pretty cool." After saying that, he waved his big foot and kicked him up.
The stove didn't move at all, but we heard a sudden crunching sound from under our feet.