Those who came in were all hospitalized members of the 270 detachment.
They are all lightly injured, and those who are seriously injured are still unable to get out of bed.
When they saw Li Zheng, they all came together.
Someone was limping and had a leg injury.
Someone had their hands wrapped around them and their arms were injured.
But they all stood up straight and saluted Li Zheng.
This is respect.
There is no doubt that Li Zheng has the respect of all members of the 270th Squadron.
Salute is just a normal military etiquette, but the content contained in it can be as important as anything.
Several people gathered around Zhao Chuan's hospital bed and chatted for a while. Vice-captain Lu Yi handed Zhao Chuan the large envelope bag he had been carrying.
"Captain, this is a little bit of everyone's thoughts, and it was given to Wang Tao."
Li Zheng took a look at the envelope. It was a large leather envelope, the kind that holds files.
Bulging and heavy.
There are estimated to be tens of thousands.
Zhao Chuan took it, held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then turned to the soldier accompanying him and said, "Go and get my backpack. There is an envelope inside. Take it out."
The soldier did as he was told.
Zhao Chuan took the envelope, poured out 10,000 yuan from it, opened the big envelope, put it in again, and closed it.
"The brigade commander said that our army and the local area have arrangements, and the pension will not be reduced by a penny, so he refused to accept our money."
"This is our little thought, what does it have to do with the army!" Lu Yi said: "Why is the brigade commander so ignorant!"
"That's right! I won't talk about the others, but Wang Tao is different. His family is in trouble!"
"If it doesn't work, we can find someone to deliver it ourselves. We don't want their local armed forces department and our brigade to deliver it ourselves."
"I go!"
"What the hell! Look at your legs. It won't heal in ten and a half months. It's an injury on my hand. I'll tell the doctor tomorrow that it's fine and I'll be discharged from the hospital. I'll go."
"Stop fighting!"
Zhao Chuan suddenly interrupted everyone loudly.
The team members then became quiet.
Zhao Chuan's eyes fell on the envelope and he stared at it for a long time before saying, "Do we still have the nerve to meet Wang Tao's family?"
In a word, it is as heavy as a mountain.
All 270 team members in the ward lowered their heads.
This time, no one was fighting.
None of them spoke.
There was a long silence.
When it came, Lu Yi said: "I had no shame to go. That night the mortar bombs fell next to me. It was he who jumped on top of me to block it for me..."
Others remained silent.
In the room, the only sound was Lu Yi's suppressed sobs.
Zhao Chuanhua: "We all have no shame to go, Lu Yi, don't cry. Speaking of shamelessness, I feel even more ashamed. The responsibility for this action lies with me..."
After a long time, he turned to look at Li Zheng: "Captain Li, on behalf of the brothers here, I would like to make a request to you."
Li Zheng had roughly guessed what the request was.
"You tell me."
"It's like this... Because this operation is confidential, Wang Tao's family will not know the reason for his sacrifice. I estimate that the Ministry of Armed Forces has notified his family by now, and people from our brigade will probably go there after a while. Looking for it, but due to some reasons, I guess there won’t be a ceremony for the time being, and I guess it will take at least half a year until this matter subsides..."
"Wang Tao has the most difficult family situation in our team. His parents have long since passed away, and he has a younger brother. He came to serve as a soldier just to stay, so he works harder than anyone else during training... because he said that his younger brother graduated from college. I relied on him for everything before. I got married the year before last, and I didn’t dare to have children until my younger brother graduated last year. I just became a father some time ago, and he hasn’t had time to go back and see..."
Having said this, Zhao Chuan stopped, took a deep breath to suppress the turbulent emotions, and then continued: "I estimate that his family will be very difficult before the pension is received. In the past, once every month's salary was paid, Except for leaving 300 yuan to buy daily necessities, he went back home. It must be very difficult for the family at this time, so our comrades discussed it and first collected some for him and sent it to him for emergency use. You see... "
After saying that, he raised his head and looked at Li Zheng.
Li Zheng said: "Okay, I still have a few days off. This year's vacation has not been used yet. The troops have just finished their training and there should be no tasks for the time being. I will take care of this."
Zhao Chuan gratefully reached out and grabbed Li Zheng's hand: "Good comrade..."
After only three words, nothing came out.
Sometimes, a thousand words can be contained in one word.
Li Zheng came out of the hospital with the big envelope in his backpack.
He didn't expect that when he came to visit Zhao Chuan, he would receive a special mission.
The army has its own rules, and those who sacrifice their lives will receive corresponding compensation and condolences. There is a set of procedures for these.
It's just a personal sentiment, so you have to give it to yourself.
He looked at his watch and saw that it was already noon, so he found a noodle shop to eat and called his fiancée Shao Xiaoqian to tell her that he could no longer visit her at her work.
Originally, Li Zheng planned to buy a high-speed rail ticket after visiting Zhao Chuan here and go to the Southern Theater Command to stay with Shao Xiaoqian for a day or two before returning to the army.
Shao Xiaoqian is now an officer and has her own temporary dormitory. Li Zheng has thought of everything, including eating, shopping, watching movies, and spending time alone like a real young couple.
But his romantic plans couldn't keep up with the changes, and now he could only say sorry.
"Xiaoqian...I'm so sorry. I have something to do here temporarily and have to go to Lincheng."
"What? Something happened in the army?" Shao Xiaoqian was very surprised: "Didn't you finish your training?"
Li Zheng could only tell the story exactly. Of course, he skimmed over the confidential stuff and only said that he was entrusted by someone to go to Lincheng to send some money to a comrade who died in 270.
Shao Xiaoqian was very understanding after hearing this, and even said that you should go to Lincheng first and do your work well. If you can't do it, I have finished explaining the work at hand. I will buy a plane ticket to find you. I will also go to Lincheng to see if there is any place to play. , it’s also good to look at the mountains and rivers.
The two of them talked sweetly to each other on the phone, saying some sweet words between lovers. They didn't hang up the line until they finished eating the noodles and finished talking.
In the afternoon, Li Zheng went to buy a high-speed rail ticket, got on the train and rushed to Lincheng.
Lincheng is actually a small county town. The high-speed train first goes to a nearby big city and then transfers to Lincheng. By the time it arrives, it is already 6:20 pm.
After getting out of the car, Li Zheng took the address and entered the location on his mobile phone, checked the distance, then took a ride-hailing service and went straight to Wang Tao's home address.
The address was in a place called Xincun Industrial Park. After getting off the car, Li Zheng looked for it according to the house numbers. After walking about a few hundred meters, he finally arrived.
"Taotao Hotel..."
Li Zheng saw the plaque and found the place he was looking for.
This is actually a small restaurant of only about 30 square meters. It is a kind of restaurant with a low grade. It is probably a business for workers in the nearby industrial park.
There are four tables placed inside and four outside. Judging from the appearance, it seems that people live inside.
Zhao Chuan told Li Zheng about the situation of Wang Tao's wife.
After getting married, Wang Tao used the little money he saved to continue, and his wife also chipped in. The two opened a small restaurant next to the industrial park, and they worked in the morning, noon and evening, which was very hard work.
Wang Tao liked to go to the cooking class when he was alive. He said that if he couldn't stay in the combat army after the third term, he would go home and run a small restaurant with his wife. Perhaps for this reason, it was called Taotao Restaurant.
It was dinner time, there were already two tables of guests in the restaurant, and people were coming one after another.
There is a cooked food display window in the store, and you can vaguely see a chef chopping cooked food. A young woman in her twenties, with a baby on her back, is busy greeting customers, ordering, placing orders, serving dishes, etc. It's quick.
Li Zheng guessed that this was Wang Tao's lover He Qiaoqiao. He was about to go up and explain his purpose. If the brothers collected the money and handed it over to him, he would have completed his mission.
Just as he was about to move over, he suddenly saw seven or eight arrogant guys coming from a distance. They had big flowery arms and big gold chains. They were all dressed in a promiscuous style. There was a big skull printed on the chest of his T-shirt. Look. It looks very scary.
Several people arrived at the restaurant, divided themselves into tables per person, and occupied all the remaining tables at once.
The extra ones went directly to the table where other people were dining, pulled up a stool opposite the others, sat down, lit their cigarettes, and puffed out smoke.
Li Zheng knew at a glance that these were not good people.
But he studied law, and he thought how old it was, even if Lincheng was a small county, there wouldn't still be such rampant social scum, right?
Moreover, you dare to bully the martyrs?
It's better to come early than to come late.
Once caught up, Li Zheng couldn't ignore it.
What age has it been, and you are still doing this?
You don't dare to write that, right?
But he still wanted to see what these people were going to do!
Suddenly, he remembered something, took out his mobile phone, hid behind the telephone pole across the street, and pointed at the guys...
When He Qiaoqiao saw these people, although he felt something was wrong, he still came up to order.
The leader, the big golden retriever, ordered a few dishes and asked for wine.
Soon after, the food arrived, as did the wine.
The golden retriever and the two brothers at the same table started to feast. Less than five minutes after eating, the golden retriever suddenly covered his stomach and screamed: "Ouch! This dish is not clean!"
Then, the thin man sitting opposite him immediately took over. He stretched out his hand and grabbed a cockroach from the vegetable basin. He raised it with an exaggerated expression and shouted: "There is a cockroach in the vegetable!"
Li Zheng looked across from him and sneered in his heart, "Damn it, I owe each of you a trophy for the Hundred Flowers Award."
Asking for a monthly ticket! ! ! !
(End of chapter)
