When I saw Mrs. Fu, her legs were already completely flexible.
As soon as she saw Wang Ke, Mrs. Fu's eyes widened. No matter what she said, she wanted to keep Wang Ke for dinner. She went to the chicken coop regardless of what happened, caught a chicken laying eggs, and chopped off its head with a knife. Lose.
This is embarrassing. Wang Ke and the village chief both know how important a chicken that lays eggs is to a farmer's family. The village chief exchanged pleasantries for a while, then found an excuse to leave first. The village chief felt that it might be better for Mrs. Fu to talk to Wang Ke directly about some things.
It was just eleven o'clock, and Li Xueying was out of school. It's almost winter vacation, so school ends early today.
When she saw Wang Ke sitting in the room, she was as excited as her mother. She jumped up and hugged Wang Ke's neck. Now she is much taller than before, almost as tall as her mother.
The girl next door has just grown up and is already a big girl, which makes Wang Ke feel a little embarrassed.
Wang Ke took out his schoolbag and stationery, and placed a total of 70 yuan donated by deputy company commander Lu Zeran and all comrades of the command platoon on the table. In that era, the annual tuition for a junior high school student was less than ten yuan, and the remaining sixty yuan could buy hundreds of kilograms of grain.
Li Xueying jumped around the room holding her new schoolbag. This gift made her so happy.
While Mrs. Fu was cooking, she actually took out an apple from the cabinet. After she washed it, she carefully peeled off the skin with a knife. Wang Ke took it and took a bite. It was very sweet.
Then Wang Ke walked to the courtyard with an apple in his mouth and looked at the newly renovated courtyard. The newly built house is very beautiful, with five rooms in a row, and all the collapsed walls have been reinforced. There are more than twenty fruit trees planted in a corner of the yard, but they are still small and I don’t know if they can bear fruit.
Wang Ke finished the apple and threw the core into the pig pen. However, when he turned around, he was stunned.
It turned out that Li Xueying was picking up the apple peels on the table and eating them in big mouthfuls. They tasted so sweet. It turns out that the apple she just ate was the most important gift for this family to entertain guests, and the apple peel was left by Mrs. Fu for her daughter who is in junior high school.
A sense of guilt immediately came to Wang Ke's heart. He didn't know how to remedy it? How could I still swallow the egg-laying hen I just killed?
Tears immediately welled up in Wang Ke's eyes. This was the most difficult moment in the countryside, and there was no call for help.
The rice is already being cooked. It is the best second rice in the countryside, which is to add a little rice to millet. At that time, rice could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. Wang Ke thought that a family like Mrs. Fu could only store three to five kilograms a year.
In addition to a scrambled egg with green onions, the other dish is the hen, with many potato pieces added to it.
"Xue Ying, your uncle Wang Ke is here. Let's celebrate the New Year early today!" Mrs. Fu warned Li Xueying.
"Mom, I know!"
While eating, Wang Ke pretended that he had just eaten when he came here and filled up a small half bowl of rice. Mrs. Fu tried her best to put the chicken in his bowl, but Wang Ke couldn't stop it by blocking her left and right, so she changed her hands and put it in his bowl. Li Xueying.
Li Xueying handed it back to Wang Ke. Wang Ke gave it to her, and she handed it to her mother.
Mom refused to eat, so she gave it to Li Xueying. Li Xueying looked at Mrs. Fu helplessly, and Mrs. Fu nodded. Then Li Xueying picked up the piece of chicken that had been turned around a few times, carefully pursed her lips, and gently bit a piece. . Then he closed his eyes, as if savoring the taste, "Mom, it's delicious! It's so fragrant."
Wang Ke put down the bowl, picked up a chicken leg and put it in Li Xueying's bowl. He said to Mrs. Fu, "Sister-in-law, I will be responsible for Li Xueying's tuition and miscellaneous fees starting from this semester."
As soon as the words fell, the mother and son looked at Wang Ke blankly. What does this mean?
Wang Ke added seriously: "Sister-in-law, you must let Li Xueying go to high school and enter college. Don't let down the hopes of our deputy company commander and all the comrades in our command platoon."
Wang Ke couldn't bear to eat any more. He pushed the bowl aside, stood up and left. Tears were already welling up in his eyes.
"Brother, you can't leave. You have to finish your meal before leaving."
Wang Ke choked and said, "I can't eat it. I appreciate how good you are to me. Remember my words, you must let her study!" After saying that, Wang Ke ran outside the house, pushed up his bicycle and ran away.
Mrs. Fu's voice came from behind the house, "Hey, I'll boil the eggs for you. You can take them with you...be careful on the road..."
Wang Ke kept wiping his tears with his hands while riding. He never imagined that the poverty in Mrs. Fu's family was worse than he thought.
Wang Ke rode for more than four hours at a stretch and arrived at the station train station at four o'clock in the afternoon. He set up his bicycle and waited until the train left, but did not see the Yanjiao platoon leader coming out.
Oops, he made a mistake and asked Instructor Ding to do the waxing.
So, he prepared to ride back and quickly return to the company. At this time, he suddenly saw a young man wearing a military cotton-padded coat with a bare head running past him with a "swish" sound. A voice came from behind: "Stop!", and then he heard "Stop!" behind him. Bang! There was a gunshot.
Looking back, I saw a police comrade holding a pistol and firing a shot into the air, followed by a police officer chasing after him.
Wang Ke looked back at the bald-headed young man, only to see him twisting his body continuously, bending down in a snake-like shape and running forward, running very fast, as if he wanted to avoid possible shots from behind.
This guy's tactical moves were quite neat. Wang Ke got on the car and chased the bald boy.
If you run fast in front, you will catch up quickly behind you! Soon, the boy was on a country road.
There are deep ditches on both sides, more than three people deep. The bald boy in front jumped into the ditch on the right, no longer running in a snake shape, but speeding up. Wang Ke was above the ditch, and he was below the ditch, one behind the other.
Wang Ke pedaled the bicycle so that it spun rapidly, but he had no choice because it had small gears and a small flying disc. No matter how fast he pedaled, the speed could not be increased, so he chased for three or four kilometers in one go. The two policemen behind him had long since disappeared.
While running, the bald boy stopped running. Although he was sweating profusely, he was not panting too much. He turned back and smiled at Wang Ke, "Squad leader, stop chasing me. Why are you chasing me?"
"Hey, you know me? Who are you?"
Wang Ke was stunned. It turned out that the little bald man he had been chasing for a long time actually knew him!
"Squad leader, I am from the machine gun company next door to you! My surname is Gu, and my name is Gu Maolin! I am from the same hometown as your Hu Hailou."
Shit, the machine gun company is also directly under the same regiment, with front and rear dormitories.
It turns out that he is Hu Yanlou's comrade-in-arms. No wonder he didn't know him. Wang Ke cursed secretly, but why was this kid chased by the police? Did he do something bad?
"What's wrong with you? Why were those two policemen chasing you just now?"
"I don't know either! I just ran out secretly to pick up a comrade. I was walking on the platform. They saw something suspicious about me, so they questioned me. I didn't ask for leave and came to the station. What if? If they were caught, they would definitely notify our company. So, I ran away, but I didn’t expect them to dare to shoot, kid!" said the little bald man named Gu Maolin.
It turned out to be a misunderstanding. Wang Ke got out of the car, stood by the ditch, and said to Gu Maolin: "Come up here! If you are shot today, you will be killed unjustly."
"No way! They don't want to hit me."
"You brat, you are lucky today. Bullets don't have eyesight." Wang Ke became angry just thinking about it. This soldier seemed to be a fool. And this guy just didn't tell the truth at all. You came to the train station to pick someone up and came empty-handed? Not even a donkey cart was driven.
The slope of the ditch here is quite steep. Wang Ke took a step or two down, reached out his hand to grab the bald boy, and pulled him up.
After coming up, the man named Gu Maolin stood by the ditch and looked on the other side of the road.
"What are you looking at? It's getting dark. The police know where you have gone. You've gone back a long time ago. Come on, I'll take you back to the army." Wang Ke said as he pushed his bicycle, thinking about returning to the barracks. You should find Hu Yanlou immediately and ask. His little fellow named Gu Maolin didn't seem to be a fuel-efficient person, he was just a troublemaker. If Hu Yanlou had this kind of character, he would not be able to swallow his breath without killing him.
"Squad leader, you also came to the train station to pick me up. Don't take me with you. I'll ride. You are a veteran and the squad leader of Hu Yanlou, which is also my squad leader." After saying that, he took Wang Ke's bicycle. I got on the bike very skillfully and started riding.
Wang Ke quickly jumped into the back seat. After sitting down, he asked: "How come I have never seen you in our class, and I have never heard Hu Yanlou talk about you?"
Although it was dark, Wang Ke took a serious look at the soldier named Gu Maolin just now and felt that he was very strange. Who would have thought that Gu Maolin opened his mouth and said: "With such an excellent squad leader like you, Hu Yanlou is not even better. He doesn't have time to mess around with fellow villagers like us. When he has time, he either trains himself in the room or goes to The cooking class went to help with the cooking."
This sentence is true. After returning to the barracks, several recruits in the reconnaissance class basically ran to the company canteen if they had nothing to do, either to help in the kitchen or to clean up the surroundings of the company. I rarely visit my fellow villagers and rarely ask for leave. Therefore, some people have long said that the soldiers in the reconnaissance squad do not have any hometown concepts.
"Then how do you know me?" Wang Ke thought to himself, I don't even know you, and you don't have much contact with Hu Yanlou, how can you know me.
"Squad leader, you are too humble. You are in our direct team, and there are probably not many recruits in our regiment who don't know you." Gu Maolin unbuttoned his cotton coat while riding, and the smell of sweat from his body immediately drifted to the back. Come.
"Oh, how do you say this?" Wang Ke was confused.
"How many soldiers are there in the whole regiment, who have achieved three meritorious services in two years, and two are second-class meritorious service? How many soldiers are there in the whole regiment, who have participated in the Inner Mongolia training and won the second place in the army?" Wang Ke shrugged. He shrugged his nose and turned his head to the side. The smell of sweat on Gu Maolin's body was too strong. Gu Maolin in front started chatting, then turned around and asked: "Yes, Luo, squad leader, you guys from Inner Mongolia trained so well, why didn't our direct team reward you? The two of them were rewarded, and one of them got it." Squad leader, an acting platoon leader, you are the only one left!"
It seems that Gu Maolin knows everything about everything, which is a bit annoying.
