This is too much!
Hu Yanlou didn't want to think about it anymore. How dare he openly violate military discipline and take advantage of someone else's little widow?
Wang Ke followed up on tiptoe. He wanted to see what Hu Yanlou was doing.
Hu Yanlou entered the small courtyard of Uncle Geng's nephew's wife and came out soon. Carrying a bucket and rope on his shoulders. It turns out that this kid is really stubborn and insists on getting the fourth bucket of water.
Wang Ke sat on the roadside and waited for nearly 20 minutes, and finally saw Hu Yanlou returning with water.
After a while, Hu Yanlou came out of the small courtyard of Uncle Geng's nephew's wife and walked towards this side.
"Hu Yanlou, stop!" Wang Ke stood up and stopped Hu Yanlou, "You new recruit, why are you disobedient? Why do you insist on fetching the fourth bucket of water? Do you know, if the people in the village know that you sabotaged the fetching of water? Rules, what do you think of us?"
Hu Yanlou was startled by Wang Ke who stood up halfway. He took a closer look and quickly explained: "Squad leader, I know I was wrong. I will be careful in the future so that no one in the village finds out."
"What, you still want to fetch water? Isn't his 6 buckets of water enough?"
"Report to the monitor, that's not the case."
"What's that like?" Wang Ke gets angrier as he talks. After getting off work, this batch of recruits, especially this Hu Yanlou, have no choice in their work and training attitudes. They are also very proactive in small tasks, but they are a little stubborn. They are very stubborn about things. Can't pull it back. In this regard, it is exactly the same as myself.
"I told you, monitor, you can't criticize me."
"I criticize you lightly. I've been observing you being sneaky. What are you hiding from me?"
Hu Yanlou stood there silently. It could be seen that he was having an ideological struggle. "Then I said..."
"Tell me quickly, why do you want to fetch an extra bucket of water?" Wang Ke was a little anxious. He and his soldiers stood on the mountain road in the middle of the night and shouted, and it was inevitable that someone would hear them.
"Her house has a big crack and is very dangerous. I want to pour some adobe into her house so that it can be rebuilt in the summer."
"What, you picked up an extra bucket of water just to pour adobe for her house?"
"Yeah! There's not much water today, so I wanted to pick another bucket."
"Bastard!" Wang Ke cursed. It’s so bad that you’ve basically never seen it among young urban youths these days. That is to find yellow mud, mix it with wheat hay, mix it with water and mud, beat it until it becomes tough, put it in a wooden frame one foot long and half a foot wide, smooth it and remove the frame, and dry it to become an adobe the size of a city wall. Bricks are the material used by people in the mountains and rural areas to build houses.
But the most troublesome thing about pouring adobe is that it requires water. If two pieces of soil are damaged, you will need a bucket of water. To build a house, you need at least several thousand pieces of adobe. How much water will be used? It is difficult to get water in this village now. Do you still want to use it every day? Isn't it crazy to fetch an extra bucket of water to pour the adobe?
Wang Ke's scolding of nonsense is unreasonable and should be scolded. This guy is stubborn and does things without regard for the consequences. “How many adobes have you poured now?”
"It's dozens of dollars."
"It's dozens of dollars? Where is it?"
"In her backyard."
You nonsense guy, no wonder you run to the little widow's house every day. It turns out that this is not the first time to fetch the fourth bucket of water. It seems that you have already started taking action, but what are you doing this for?
"Go back and go to sleep. I'll go take a look at noon tomorrow."
"Um."
The two of them returned to the room one after another, took off their clothes again and got on the kang to sleep.
The next morning was spent studying the three major regulations. The company gathered on the only flat ground in the village, the theater stage. The lecture was given by instructor Ding.
What are the three major regulations? That is the "Internal Affairs Order", "Discipline Order" and "Queue Order", also known as the three major orders, which mainly stipulate the basic responsibilities, rights, mutual relations, living system, activities, queue actions, duty methods, rewards, punishments and disciplines of soldiers, etc. .
Soldiers who don't know these three major regulations are like farmers who don't know how to plow, and people who drive can't find the accelerator.
After a break, Wang Ke took Hu Yanlou and ran to the little widow's house. When they came to the backyard, they saw two rows of neatly stacked adobe bricks.
Hu Yanlou didn't lie, but this approach still made Wang Ke extremely angry. The troops have been stationed here for training for half a year. It is calculated very clearly that for one hundred and eighty-three days, if you pour 5 pieces of adobe every day, it will cost about 900 yuan. This means you have to carry three to four hundred more barrels of water.
"Can you help me a little bit, monitor? I am a widow with two children." Hu Yanlou said plausibly.
There are many disputes in the widow's house. If word spreads about your nonsense, it will not simply be a good deed. People will suspect you of bad motives.
"Let me think about this matter carefully." Wang Ke felt that he still needed to report this matter to the platoon leader Hu Zhijun.
At noon, Wang Ke went to the platoon leader Hu Zhijun and reported that recruit Hu Yanlou secretly fetched water and helped the little widow pour adobe bricks.
Platoon leader Hu Zhijun pondered for a long time before saying: "We can't simply suspect that he has bad motives. Maybe he is helping the little widow out of sympathy. Please let me think about what to do about this matter."
The two grown men were stumped by something that seemed like nothing today. But another thing happened that night, which completely broke the peace of the whole platoon.
As we said before, there are several fruit trees in the yard of the little widow's house. Among them, there is a crooked-neck jujube tree that is the largest. The jujubes are large and sweet. After spring, the branches bloom in branches. Now the tree is full of jujubes, which makes people like it at first sight.
In the middle of the night, Hu Yanlou picked up two loads in a row. When the third load came in, he didn't know whether he was distracted or didn't see clearly. His head hit the crooked neck jujube tree, and a large piece of flesh was lifted off his head. Wang Ke tore his shirt open without covering the blood on his head, and had to run to the health worker Yu Deben in the middle of the night.
Yu Deben's technique was not just a boast. He applied anesthesia and sewed seven or eight stitches with needle and thread. By the time everything was done, it was almost dawn. At noon, the little widow made a bowl of eggs with sugar water and brought it to the reconnaissance team's room.
Just eat it when it’s delivered. After Hu Yanlou finished eating, Wang Ke washed the bowls and personally delivered them to the little widow. When I approached the little widow's yard, I heard the sound of sawing things coming from a distance. When I entered the yard, I saw a "click" and half of the crooked-neck jujube tree that smashed into Hu Yanlou's head was sawed off. .
It was the little widow who sawed the tree.
"What are you doing?" Wang Ke never expected that she would actually saw off the jujube tree that was used to make money at home. This was no different than killing a chicken that was laying eggs!
This jujube tree can produce at least more than 400 kilograms of dates every year. At 30 cents per kilogram, it can earn about 100 yuan. Wang Ke was heartbroken. The simplicity of these people was beyond words.
Wang Ke felt that Hu Yanlou had gone too far, and the little widow had gone even further. That means that Hu Yanlou will definitely not be hit again when carrying water. He will have to continue carrying this water!
Wang Ke turned around and reported the matter again to the platoon leader Hu Zhijun. Hu Zhijun also realized the seriousness of the problem and took Wang Ke to the company headquarters. The bearded company commander looked at Wang Ke and said, "Look at the soldiers you lead. Are they the same as you?"
"What should the company commander do?" Wang Ke asked.
The bearded company commander Tian also felt that it was difficult to handle. He scratched his head and touched his chin. "It's all about water shortage. Behind this matter is to solve the problem of water for the common people. Hu Yanlou in your class is not wrong for thinking about the common people, but it's not enough to just rely on him to carry water every day and midnight, or to steal water. First of all Let's do this, tell Hu Yanlou that when he returns to the barracks this week, we will bring a cart of bricks back to Lao Geng's family for him."
Company Commander Bearded Tian looked at the two of them and then said: "Either we can help Tunliu Village dig a well."
"Dig a well?" Platoon leader Hu Zhijun was surprised, "Company commander, we don't have this equipment!"
"You old fool, you are so stupid. Did I say that we are responsible for digging the well? We can report it to the regiment and ask the engineer company for support. They have all the equipment and explosives. It will definitely work. Let's talk to the village. , just cooperate.”
"That's it, that's great." Platoon leader Hu Zhijun said excitedly, while Wang Ke on the side frowned. He didn't see the scene, but he had a strange feeling that fleetingly passed through his head.
"Just do it. Your command platoon will find a document and write a report together. I will go back the day after tomorrow and report to the regiment. Otherwise, the troops will encounter the same problems every year when they come here for training." Company Commander Bearded Tian explained.
"Okay, reconnaissance squad leader, your squad is responsible for cooperating with the paperwork and writing this report." Platoon leader Hu Zhijun turned around and gave the task to Wang Ke.
"Yes." Wang Ke went out to write paperwork next door.
I went out and found the paperwork. I just said a few words when the scene appeared. Next to the village drama club, where the three major regulations were learned, a new well was opened. Several cannons were fired. Hu Yanlou and several villagers prepared. Go down the well, but Hu Yanlou suddenly fell down the well, then two villagers fell down one after another, and finally even the squad leader of the engineer company who stepped forward to check fell down. The crowd screamed, "Something's happened, please help!"
The problem is that there is still no water in the well that was bought in exchange for one's life.
Wang Ke shook his head vigorously. He was a little confused. This scene was not a good sign.
It's better to continue writing the report. On the weekend a week later, Company Commander Bearded Tian came back from the barracks. Sure enough, he brought back a load of old bricks and an approval letter to help the people in the area dig wells. The regiment engineer company sent a squad leader. , came with rock drills and explosives.
The news that the army was going to help Tunliu Village dig wells made the people in the whole village rejoice and rush to tell each other. Soon after collective discussion and research, the people in the village decided on a new place to dig a well, which was right next to the village drama club. This surprised Wang Ke. It seemed that the events in the scene were being reproduced step by step.
Today is Saturday, the troops have a day off.
Yesterday, a squad leader from the engineering company came, which already made Wang Ke a little dazed. The location of the well drilling today was confirmed, which made Wang Ke feel even more uneasy. He had to prevent this dangerous scene from happening, at least not to let Hu Yanlou and several villagers die.
But how to stop it? You can’t say that I saw the future or sensed death.
Hu Yanlou's letter of challenge has been handed over to the company headquarters. He insisted on participating in drilling wells on the grounds that he had drilled wells at home and had rich experience.
Surprisingly, surprisingly, the bearded company commander Tian agreed, we need an experienced person to cooperate.
