Chapter 19 Chapter 16 Encounter

In the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain, there are high mountains and dangerous roads, deep ditches and dense forests, and there are many wild animals.After coming out of the bandit den, Li Hanzhang heard wolves howling and leopards howling in the distance from time to time.Like a wild animal chasing after him, Li Hanzhang ran for twenty or thirty miles in one breath, and finally went down the mountain and out of the dense forest.It was a little safer, and he realized that his chest was pressed against his back, and he was already dizzy from hunger.It is the time when the sky is freezing and there are no people around. Where can I find food?Where should I live tonight?Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, Li Hanzhang could only move forward gropingly.I don't know how long I walked, and finally saw a light in the distance vaguely, Li Hanzhang thought to himself, this is good, there are people when there is light.He mustered up his energy and walked towards the bright place.

After finally reaching a hillside, there was the family below. Li Hanzhang leaned out to look for the road, but it was dark in front of his eyes, and he fell down and rolled into a bamboo forest.Just when he was about to get up, a dirt dog jumped out from under the eaves next to it, but it didn't bark, but kept digging the bamboo shoot shells in the bamboo forest with its front paws. "Rhubarb, don't dig, there's only one person, I'm afraid it's not the second best." An old man came over, holding a torch in his hand, and asked, "Which one is it?" When Li Hanzhang heard the old man say this, he couldn't laugh or cry: Bang's second child is also a human being, and this dog is actually afraid of people!Seeing the dog wagging its tail and circling around the old man, Li Hanzhang stood up and said, "Grandpa, I'm a passerby. I accidentally fell from the top while walking at night, and the strap disappeared."

"Oh, my son was beaten badly by Mr. Bang, his arm was broken, and he almost lost his life. I am in a hurry to save people, and I will help you find them when I come back." The old man sighed, holding a torch, and was about to leave. Hearing this, Li Hanzhang remembered the first-aid kit in his backpack, and hurriedly said, "Master, I have medicine to stop bleeding and set bones in my backpack. Help me find it. I'll go save your son." "Are you a doctor? Your medicine is more effective than this?" The old man held up a torch in one hand and a bundle of cypress branches in the other.When Li Hanzhang was a child, he learned medicine from his husband in the family medical center, "Arborvitae leaves can disperse blood and apply to sores, and beat with a piece of sugar to treat bruises." Knowing that cypress leaves can stop traumatic bleeding, he was convinced that the old man's words were true. He hurriedly said, "Although I am not a doctor, there is Baiyao in my bag, which can treat trauma and stop bleeding. It is definitely more effective than the cypress leaves in your hand."

As soon as the old man heard that there was Baiyao in Li Hanzhang's back strap, he hurried down the slope and searched for the back strap in the bamboo forest with Li Hanzhang.Fortunately, the back sling rolled four or five meters away from Li Hanzhang, blocked by two thick bamboos.Li Hanzhang picked up the strap and looked at the torch in the old man's hand.Fortunately, what he was carrying was a small silk clip, and the things inside were tightly bound, so the strap was intact and nothing fell out. The two left the bamboo forest and arrived at the old man's house within a short distance.In the light of the fire, Li Hanzhang saw that the house was made of logs, and the door was also made of logs tied with rattan, and then tied with straw curtains.

"Let's warm up in the room first." The old man said, pushing the door open with great effort. A fire was lit in the middle of the room, and when Li Hanzhang entered the room, he immediately felt a warmth surrounding him.He stomped his feet that were numb from the cold, trying to activate his stiff body, when he suddenly heard a voice he was all too familiar with: "Master... oh, Boss Zhou? Boss Zhou—why are you here?" Li Hanzhang was shocked: the person who spoke was actually Zhou Yungang! When Zhou Yun just jumped in front of Li Hanzhang, he raised his right hand subconsciously, then put it down again, and hurriedly helped Li Hanzhang put the back strap on the ground.

"Do you know each other? My family has such a good fortune. I have met good people." The old man saw that the two were so affectionate, so he hurriedly pulled a wooden block and let Li Hanzhang sit by the fire. "Let's take a look at your son first." From what the old man said just now, Li Hanzhang knew that his son was seriously injured.Saving people is the most important thing, he doesn't care about being hungry or cold at this moment. Under the weak light, Zhou Yungang pointed to a corner of this simple wooden house.At this time, Li Hanzhang had adapted to the weak light in the room. Looking through the light of the fire, he realized that there was a bed over there covered with hay.

Li Hanzhang walked over and took a look by the light of the fire. The grass on the bed was stained red with blood. The young man's right arm and forearm were clamped with two pieces of bamboo and tied with rags, and his left thigh was tied with a straw rope. Li Hanzhang knew it was to stop the bleeding, because there was a wound on the outside of his thigh near his knee, which looked like a penetrating wound.Because of the excessive blood loss, the young man closed his eyes tightly, and his breath was like gossamer. Obviously, the young man's right forearm was broken and his left thigh was pierced by a gun.The current rescue method is a routine first aid method in the field, but the rescue supplies used are too simple.Without even thinking about it, Li Hanzhang was sure that it was Zhou Yungang who did it.

Li Hanzhang pointed to the wound on the young man's left thigh and asked, "Why wasn't it bandaged?" Zhou Yungang said: "Ge Laozi's, an artery was punctured. Although he was bandaged to stop the bleeding, the bleeding still couldn't be completely stopped. Besides, this leg has been tied for a long time, and I'm afraid it will die." As soon as the old man and the old lady heard Zhou Yungang's words, they immediately dragged Li Hanzhang and Zhou Yungang to cry: "We are both old and born, and there is only such a son. Let him take a drink of water and hope that he will pick it. Two benefactors, listening to what you said, seems to understand Those who treat illnesses and wounds, save my son!"

"Don't worry, I'll take a look first." Li Hanzhang sat down, took the young man's hand, closed his eyes and checked his pulse for a while, and saw that the Cunguan ruler was floating and soft, and the string was as urgent as a pulse on the skin of a drum. It is a typical pulse of sudden excessive blood loss, which shows that Zhou Yungang's judgment of "the artery was punctured" is correct.Letting go of the young man's hand, Li Hanzhang told the old man, "Master, is there any salt at home? Quickly boil some hot water, add salt, and let this brother pour it down."

Then, he immediately opened the back strap, took out the green first-aid kit, first pulled out a place on the side of the bed, and put the small medical scissors, tweezers, medical sanitary napkins, two rolls of bandages, and four packs of Yunnan Baiyao inside. The small porcelain gourds, rubber medical alcohol jugs, cuffs and tourniquets for heavy bleeding were quickly laid out. Seeing the situation, the old man and the old lady knelt down to Li Hanzhang with a "plop" and said, "You are really a doctor! My son's life is good. I will meet two life-saving Bodhisattvas a day!"

Li Hanzhang didn't care about answering them, so he first took a piece of bandage, soaked it in alcohol, twisted it into a twist, and said to Zhou Yungang, "Press him!" while carefully holding it with tweezers, and inserted it into the young man's wound.The severe pain immediately woke up the young man from his coma. He let out a scream of "ah" and was about to sit up.Seeing this, Zhou Yun quickly pressed him tightly. "I'm sorry bro, there's no anesthetic, just hold on!" Li Hanzhang said, gritted his teeth, and poked the tweezers holding the gauze into the wound, pulled out the bandage from the other end, and pulled it back and forth a few times. Only then did I gently pull out the twisted bandage that was stained red by blood, throw it away, and immediately use cotton wool soaked in alcohol to clean and clean the wounds on both sides of the thighs, after that, I opened two white porcelain gourds in succession, Sprinkle the powder all over the wounds on both sides, then unwrap another roll of bandages to wrap up the wounds. After the penetrating injury was treated, the young man passed out again.Li Hanzhang pointed to the rag wrapped around the base of his thigh and asked Zhou Yungang, "How long has it been tied?" "It's been over an hour." "Untie it quickly, and tie it again after stopping a cigarette; every hour or so later, you must untie it and let the blood out, otherwise, the boy's leg will die from ischemia!" After Li Hanzhang finished speaking, he turned He asked over his head, "Master, is the salt water ready?" "Ready!" said the old man, turning sideways to let the old lady bring over a broken rough porcelain bowl. Li Hanzhang pinched the young man, woke him up from the state of shock, took a bowl, and poured him three bowls of boiled salt water in one go.Seeing that the young man gradually regained his energy, moaning and shouting for pain, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief. After these first aid measures were completed, Li Hanzhang pointed to the young man and said to the two old men, "The bleeding has stopped, and his life may be saved. I'll take a look at his arm now." When Li Hanzhang was a child studying medicine with his master in the family medical clinic, he accidentally read an ancient book called "Bone Clinic". He learned "bone diagnosis", and later he wanted to join the army. He also treated General Cheng with this skill at the front line, and met some brothers in the Qing Gang with this skill.Now, he lightly touched the young man's shoulder and knew that his right arm was not only broken but also dislocated, and his heart sank. Although Li Hanzhang has studied medicine and specialized in "skeletal diagnosis", in order to reset the dislocation, he had to pull his right arm vigorously with reset techniques.But now his right arm has been fractured. If it is forced to reset, the broken bones will be torn into "non-union", and it will be difficult for the stubble of the broken bone to grow together; It may be that the broken bone in the forearm will still be misplaced, which will be even more troublesome; besides, if the whitening cannot be reset, and after the fracture has healed, there is no way to reset it after a long time, then this arm will still be disabled. How to do it?Li Hanzhang frowned, and circled around the fire.The old man, the old lady and Zhou Yungang all looked at him, not knowing why he was in trouble, even Rhubarb whimpered and whirred around the room, as if he was worried about his master, hoping that Li Hanzhang would come up with a solution soon. After wandering around for a while, Li Hanzhang decided to tell the two old people the specific situation and his doubts: "This brother not only broke his little arm, but also dislocated his entire arm. Now, if the dislocation is treated, the bone may not grow well; if the dislocation is not treated, even if the bone grows, this arm will be useless." "God, what should I do?" The old lady burst into tears when she heard this, "Those goddamn great dicks are so ruthless, they hit five lightning strikes! My son's arm is crippled!" If we die, we won’t be able to work, so how can we support us in the old age.” "You two old people, don't worry," Zhou Yungang asked Li Hanzhang while persuading the old lady, "Boss Zhou, think again and see if there is any other way?" Li Hanzhang didn't answer, he was still circling around.After turning around for a while, he suddenly turned his head and said to Zhou Yungang, "Go find four more bamboo pieces that are as long as his arms, and they will be slightly wider than the two you used." Then he turned his head to the two old people Said, "I haven't used this method before. I don't know if it can heal my brother's arm. If something goes wrong, don't blame me." "Not to blame, not to blame. To save my son's life, I burned high incense. How can I blame you? Boss Zhou, just try. If it is cured, it is his fate; if it is not cured, it is also his fate ’” said the old man hastily. Soon, Zhou Yungang found four bamboo pieces according to Li Hanzhang's request.Li Hanzhang first untied the two short bamboo pieces that Zhou Yungang had fixed before, and then asked Zhou Yungang to help him carefully wrap the young man's right arm with the four bamboo pieces that he had just found, and then wrapped the boy's right arm with a bandage. Wrapping it around and around, it took a lot of strength to wrap it tightly.The young man was sweating profusely from the pain, but he kept his eyes closed and his jaw was bleeding from biting, so he refused to yell again. "He's a man!" Li Hanzhang wiped the sweat from his brow until the young man's entire right arm was twisted into a straight stick, and said to the young man, "Brother, hold on!" Put his left arm in the young man's armpit, grab the elbow of the young man's right arm with his right hand, yank it inward, then yank it down, grab the young man's palm exposed outside the bamboo board, and yank it Pushing it upwards... There was a "cracking" sound, and the young man screamed a few times, and passed out again. Li Hanzhang didn't pay attention to whether the young man had fainted, just took his left arm away from under the young man's armpit, and then touched the young man's right shoulder with his hand, then let out a long breath, and began to carefully untie the A bandage with four bamboo strips.After the bandage was removed, the four bamboo pieces were removed, exposing the young man's fractured right forearm.Li Hanzhang gently touched the broken part of the young man's right forearm, and then slowly pinched, pushed, and kneaded... After a while, Li Hanzhang stood up and said to Zhou Yungang: "According to the conventional first aid fracture bandaging method, bandage him. The broken bone has been reset. This brother is young, in good health, and has a good foundation. In less than two months, his arm will be broken." I can carry things." "Boss Zhou, you mean to say that you cured my son's arm, don't you?" The old man's eyes lit up when he heard what Li Hanzhang said.Seeing Li Hanzhang nod his head, he shouted excitedly to the other corner of the room, "Old lady, old lady, Boss Zhou said that he saved our son's arm!" Rhubarb also seemed to know that his master was rescued, so he ran up to Li Hanzhang, wagging his tail and rubbing against his legs. Li Hanzhang watched Zhou Yungang bandage the young man's right arm, and felt relieved. Suddenly, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground.Zhou Yungang saw Li Hanzhang sitting slumped on the ground, his face was ashen, his eyes were dull, and he didn't even have the strength to breathe, so he shouted anxiously: "Master, hurry up, hurry up! Do you have anything to eat? Bring some, Boss Zhou." It's starving." Li Hanzhang was sitting beside the fire in a daze, when he heard footsteps in a daze, and someone whispered in his ear: "Boss Zhou, benefactor, please make it easy." Li Hanzhang opened his eyes and saw a large bowl of corn porridge and a small bowl of pickle leaves on the small table next to him. He swallowed his saliva, grabbed the chopsticks, and shoveled the corn porridge into his mouth.Stretching out his chopsticks, he found that there were actually a few pieces of sweet potatoes inside. "Boss Zhou, eat slowly, the rice just scooped out is still hot." The old lady stood behind Li Hanzhang and said softly.Li Hanzhang couldn't listen to it, he even blew and drank, and poured a bowl of porridge into his stomach like a storm. At this time, the sky is almost dawn. After breaking into the bandit's den in Maoliping alone, walking across the mountains for a day, and rescuing the young man just now, after a whole day and a night of tossing, Li Hanzhang's stomach was full and his spirit relaxed.Originally, I really wanted to ask Zhou Yungang: why are you here?How did the lad get hurt?How did you meet again?But now, no matter how hard he opened his eyes, he couldn't be his own master. The voice of Zhou Yungang talking to the old man and the old lady was getting farther and farther... He sat by the fire and fell asleep.In the wooden room before dawn, his even and peaceful snoring sounded. When Li Hanzhang woke up, the sunlight shining through the gaps between the logs in the wooden house just hit his face, making him feel dizzy for a while.In Wumeng Mountain, where "the sky is not sunny for three days, and the land is not flat for three miles", it is really rare to encounter such a good weather.Li Hanzhang's mood unfolded with the sunshine and the singing of birds in the woods outside the house. He couldn't remember how he got from next to the fire to the warm pile of wormwood last night. Zhou Yungang and the old couple must have moved themselves here, right?This time, he slept very soundly, more soundly than at home in Shanghai, Nanjing, or Chongqing. It turns out that he can feel so comfortable when he understands the dangers of others, and the dangers of strangers. Taking a deep breath, Li Hanzhang smelled a strong smell of meat.Recalling what I saw last night, the family was so poor that they couldn't even afford food. Where did the meat come from?Li Hanzhang narrowed his eyes and thought. "Director, are you awake?" Zhou Yun just stood in front of him and greeted him as before when he heard the movement. "I'm not Li Hanzhang now, let alone your director. I'm Zhang Shiming, a small ironware dealer in Chengdu! Do you understand?" Li Hanzhang rubbed his eyes, and said to Zhou Yungang with a serious face. "Oh, Mr. Ge, then most of the time now I am Li Simao, a soldier of the 182nd Division, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 1st Company of the 61st Army of the 18th Corps of the North China Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army! Zhou Fushan, a hunter hunting in the dense forests of Mengshan Mountain!" Zhou Yungang immediately understood what was going on when he heard Li Hanzhang's words, and announced his current "identity" in one breath. "Hehe, you kid, you've been playing hide-and-seek with me, and I'll settle accounts with you later!" Li Hanzhang suddenly laughed after hearing Zhou Yungang's serious "self-reported family name", and asked, "Where does the smell of meat come from?" Zhou Yungang gave an irrelevant answer: "Then... should I call you Boss Zhou or Boss Zhang?" "Didn't you call 'Boss Zhou, Boss Zhou' last night? Go ahead! How about you?" "I'm Orion Zhou Fushan now!" "Oh, Orion Zhou, what good prey did you catch? It smells so good?" Li Hanzhang joked with Zhou Yungang, he was still thinking about the smell of meat. Zhou Yungang's face darkened suddenly: "Boss Zhou, when you came last night, did you remember that there was a Shiba dog? It was yellow-haired." Li Hanzhang suddenly came to his senses: "This family killed that yellow dog?" "I was focusing on saving people, but I didn't catch any prey. They want to repay their life-saving grace, and they have nothing else to offer. When I woke up in the morning, I was already skinning..." Zhou Yungang stood there, talking He looked at a leather bag thrown in the corner. It is a kind of leather bag commonly used by local hunters in Sichuan. It looks small, but it has nothing to hold dozens of rabbits or bamboo chickens.But it is clear that it is loaded with weapons at this moment.Li Hanzhang watched without speaking, and stood up silently from the pile of velvet grass. Two old people were serving food on the table in the main room from a small stove next to the wooden house. Seeing them, they bowed their heads and nodded and said, "Boss Zhou woke up? The family is poor and there is no extra quilt." , let Boss Zhou feel wronged." Sitting at the table, staring at a big bowl of stewed dog meat in front of him, Li Hanzhang thought of his Uncle Hei, the Uncle Hei who died at the gunpoint of his gun... He turned his face away, wiped away his tears, and turned back Going too far, but didn't dare to face up to the night of dog meat in front of him, and asked in a low voice: "There are no dogs anymore, who will look after your home in the future?" "Rhubarb is a good dog. Last time when the bandits came to rob food, they chased after it and shot it. It escaped, but since then, it dare not bark when it sees strangers, and only dares to surround the family members all day long." Turn, how can you expect it to look after the home? Those great dicks are fierce, even the dogs are afraid of them, and they committed crimes." The old lady lifted up her apron and said while wiping her tears, "What's wrong with the world? My guts were all terrified." "It's all right. I heard that the Red Army has already entered Bijie City. The tails of rabbits can't grow. There will be no more bandits, and the world will be peaceful, so there is no need to keep dogs." The old man pointed at the corn in the middle of the table. Momo, said to Li Hanzhang, "Eat, let's eat." Everyone chatted while eating. Zhou Yungang continued what the old man said just now: "The Red Army is now called the People's Liberation Army." The old man said embarrassedly: "When they passed by here in the early years, they were called the Red Army. I can't change it for a while." "Oh," Zhou Yungang said with a smile: "It's the same, it's all those people anyway." The old man saw that Li Hanzhang only ate two buns, and the bowl of dog meat in front of him did not move with his chopsticks. He thought he was being polite, and persuaded him, "Boss Zhou, my family is poor, and there is nothing good to repay you. Eat more meat." If my son hadn't been for you and this brother Zhou, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to walk back on Huangquan Road. You can stay here for a few more days. The bandits just came here. I heard gunshots from Maoliping yesterday. In the battle for the top of the mountain, the fire will not come again." The old man only wanted to be grateful and wanted to stay with him for a few more days to continue healing his son, but how did he know what was on Li Hanzhang's mind?Zhou Yungang looked at Li Hanzhang's expression from the side, and naturally understood what he was thinking at the moment, so he said, "Master, don't persuade him to eat meat. Our Boss Zhou believes in Buddhism and is a vegetarian, so he doesn't like meat." "Amitabha, the Buddha blesses you. Good people are rewarded with good deeds!" The old lady put down her chopsticks, put her palms together, and muttered aloud. Since I didn’t go to bed until it was almost dawn yesterday, I woke up late today, and after eating, it was already noon.Li Hanzhang saw the old man's son lying on the bed and fell asleep, and suddenly remembered that there was still a problem that he hadn't figured out, so he asked, "Where is the great second son who is so fierce and beat him like this?" "Where else can it be? It's those bastards from Maoliping." The old man gritted his teeth when he said this. Li Hanzhang was taken aback when he heard this: If so, the young man was rescued by Zhou Yungang near Maoliping... Could it be that he has been following him secretly? Just thinking about this, the old man went on to say: "In the past, relying on the number of people and guns, and the backing of that 'Damn Jiang', they collected food and taxes, bullied men and women, and did all kinds of bad things; now the Red Army is coming. I have no choice but to curl up in the mountain nest and play tricks. It is worse than before. I always say that I want to find the Communist army spies and the family members of the "communist bandits". The farmers who went up and down have suffered a lot. Otherwise, we will hide in the deep mountains and old forests? Just like this, we couldn’t escape their disaster. My son went to pick winter bamboo shoots yesterday and was caught by Zhang Yanwang’s big nose Stop, I asked for money, but my son couldn't afford it, so they smashed it with guns, broke my arm, and stabbed it with bayonets, almost killing my son. If it wasn't for this brother Zhou who came to the rescue , I'm afraid I have to pay for the corpse now..." The old man told the ins and outs of his son's injury in one breath, and Li Hanzhang's stomach was about to explode. From the old man's words, he concluded that "Zhang Yan Wang" must be Mao Liping's Commander Zhang, and that "big nose" must be the big nose that he had cleaned up. After the young man woke up, the old lady fed the son some dog meat soup.Li Hanzhang saw that the young man's face was turning red, so he left some of the anti-inflammatory drugs and bandages in the first aid kit for the old man. After explaining how to change the dressing and what to pay attention to, he said: " Rhubarb is a good dog, and he cannot die in vain. Dog meat can nourish energy and blood. Let this brother drink more broth. If he can eat, eat more dog meat. Maybe after eating this dog, his physical strength will recover It's almost there." The old man understood that what Li Hanzhang meant was to leave, and he knew in his heart that he couldn't keep him, so he could only say: "Benefactor, the mountains are high and the road is far away... I don't know, old man, can I still live in this life?" Goodbye to the benefactor who saved my son?" "I can see it, I can see it, old man, you have such a strong body and a long life. The mountains will not change, maybe we will pass by here again someday." When Li Hanzhang said this, his heart felt sore: The road ahead is boundless, and now, he doesn't even know where he can drift. Seeing that Zhou Yungang had already carried the shoulder strap for Li Hanzhang, the old man hurriedly said to his son on the bed, "Kneel down and kowtow to your benefactor!" "No way! Little brother's leg is seriously injured and he must not move!" Li Hanzhang hurriedly stopped the young man who was grinning in pain but insisted on getting up. "Then... the old lady and I will thank the two nobles for our son." The old man said, pulling the old lady to kneel on the ground. Li Hanzhang hurriedly stopped them: "Old man, you are as old as my parents, how can I afford to do this?" "Then...how should I thank you?" The old lady wiped her tears and turned around in the empty room anxiously. Li Hanzhang looked at this poor family that didn't even have a quilt, and suddenly remembered something, hurriedly took off the backpack that Zhou Yungang was carrying, grabbed a stack of banknotes from it, and handed it to the old man, saying: "Old man, your son is young, Don’t worry about recovering quickly. It’s just a broken arm, don’t let him do hard work before it fully grows.” Holding the bundle of banknotes, the old man kept shaking his hands and nodded: "Boss Zhou, I remember, I remember. When the Red Army comes back and captures the bandits, the world will be peaceful. I will take the money you gave me and take my son to Bijie City to have a look." The old lady kept muttering: "You are all great nobles just like the Red Army who passed here a while ago. Those Red Army dolls stayed at our house for one night and gave us money. They are good people. You Not only saved my son's life, but also gave us so much money, that is living Bodhisattva. Our ancestors accumulated virtue, and my son met two living Bodhisattvas at once..." Leaving the wooden house of the old man's house, and walking along the mountain road towards Xuyong for two miles, Li Hanzhang didn't say a word.Zhou Yungang carried Li Hanzhang's shoulder straps and followed behind with his leather bag, not daring to make a sound. After walking for a while, Li Hanzhang suddenly turned around and said to Zhou Yungang, "Why don't they spend a lot of time studying Chinese farmers?" Zhou Yungang didn't seem to understand what Li Hanzhang said, and continued to follow behind without responding.On the winding path of Wumeng Mountain, Li Hanzhang and Zhou Yungang walked for more than an hour. Li Hanzhang finally said something that Zhou Yungang could understand: "We are tired from walking, let's rest." Zhou Yungang saw Li Hanzhang sitting down on the side of the road, put down the leather bag in his hand and the sash on his shoulders, suddenly stood at attention, and saluted Li Hanzhang: "Report, sir, the new First Army of the Ministry of National Defense Major General Li of the Political Department guarded Zhou Yungang, who defied the military order and failed to evacuate on the spot, and now reports to you! Please handle it with the director!" Li Hanzhang didn't speak all the way, just waiting for Zhou Yungang to tell him why he didn't obey the order and followed him secretly.Unexpectedly, Zhou Yungang would do this, he was taken aback for a moment, and simply put on a straight face, and asked, "Tell me, what's going on?" Zhou Yungang naturally understood what Li Hanzhang asked about "what's going on", so he still stood at attention and continued to report to his chief: "Reporting to the director, at the Jinjiang River in Chengdu, the director ordered Beizhi and Jiang Huiqijiang's adjutant to be on the spot Evacuated, I immediately obeyed the order and left the director. Although I believe that obeying orders is the bounden duty of a soldier, it is a sacred belief of a soldier to do his duty. As the chief guard, his duty is to protect the safety of the director, so..." "So, you followed me all the way in secret? Are you reporting, or justifying yourself? So, you did the raid on Longquan Station, the riots in Neijiang City, and the surprise attack on Tonggu Mountain?" "Yes! Director!" Zhou Yungang replied blankly, just like in the old days in Li Hanzhang's office in Chongqing. "Good brother!" Li Hanzhang suddenly pulled Zhou Yungang over, and the two men hugged each other tightly in the cold wind of Wumeng Mountain! "Director, along the way, you have lost weight and darkened. How much you have suffered! I have been following you and watching you. Wuwuwu..." Zhou Yungang, a man who had never shed tears in front of Li Hanzhang, actually Like a child, trembling and lying in Li Hanzhang's arms, burst into tears. When Zhou Yungang's mood gradually stabilized, Li Hanzhang realized that the corners of his eyes were also wet. "Brothers are here", Li Hanzhang suddenly thought of a line of poem: Before that, he always felt that the author of this poem was a bit of a headache and acrimonious literati, but at this moment, he suddenly found that he was slowly beginning to understand The man's poems.When they parted in Chengdu, Li Hanzhang thought that he would never see his two subordinates again, but he never thought that Zhou Yungang had never left him at all, and had been secretly protecting him. Appeared like a divine soldier descending from the sky, relieving his life from danger! "Where's Hui Qi? Is there any news about him?" Li Hanzhang sat down on a stone by the roadside, looked at Zhou Yungang and asked. "Reporting Director, after you gave the order to evacuate on the spot, we didn't dare to disobey, so we left the house by the Jinjiang River. Originally, I wanted to persuade Adjutant Jiang to disobey the military order and protect you secretly. Who knows, what happened After that house, I caught up with Adjutant Jiang, but he said, "The military order is like a mountain! Since the director has given the order, we will execute it." I thought he was too heartless and ungrateful. He wanted to execute it as soon as he got the money. The order was used as an excuse, and we just ran for our lives. Because of this, the two of us argued, and the result...the result..." "What's the result? Tell me!" Li Hanzhang was in a hurry, and stood up with a "huh". Zhou Yungang lowered his head and said, "Old man Ge, I beat him, and his big nose was bleeding out with a punch. He stood there, and he didn't fight back, and he didn't fight back. My anger is getting bigger and bigger. Just as he was arguing with him, two patrolling Communist soldiers came from a distance. Jiang Huiqi wiped the blood from his nose and ran away from a side alley. I also hurriedly carried my backpack and ran to another road... " "What happened next? Have you seen him again?" Li Hanzhang continued to ask. "No. Since then, I have never seen Adjutant Jiang again. Director, tell me, is Adjutant Jiang a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death?" Zhou Yungang asked in confusion. "No. Yun Gang, Hui Qi is not that kind of person. In this regard, I can absolutely trust him." Looking at the cliffs and dense forests of Wumeng Mountain under the winter sun in the afternoon, what Li Hanzhang thought in his heart was the way Jiang Huiqi silently packed his luggage when he broke up with him, and the way he carefully pretended to take a photo with Kezhen ... A bird flies through the forest, and its lonely figure makes a dead branch even more lonely. Li Hanzhang sighed, and asked Zhou Yungang: "I've been through a lot of difficulties and dangers on this journey. How can you be like a fairy, and go wherever you want? Otherwise, why can you always follow me in the dark all the way?" , but not be discovered; sneak attack on the opponent, but can slip away calmly?" "I'm Director Li Hanzhang's guard. I don't have any skills at all. Wouldn't that smear the officer's face? It's nothing to be ashamed of me. It's a big crime to lose face to Director Li..." Zhou Yungang sold it proudly Guanzi. Li Hanzhang couldn't do anything about his complacency, so he had to put on a straight face and said, "Answer me directly, no detours are allowed!" "Yes! Director. I punched Adjutant Jiang. I was afraid that he would take my revenge, so I wanted to apologize to him and persuade him to continue to protect you secretly with me. But I gave up after searching for two days and couldn't find it. In the past two days, I met Li Simao, the "two-pike soldier" of Chen Lanting's 163rd Division at Yanshikou. After he joined the Communist Party, he couldn't stand it because the Communist Army was not allowed to smoke opium. So I made a deal with him, bought his ID card and a full set of outfits with two silver dollars, and then transformed into Li Simao, a soldier of the Communist Army. Therefore, it is more convenient for me to act, 'performing tasks', 'Going home to visit relatives', plus my authentic Sichuan dialect, you can come and go freely for whatever reason you want." As Zhou Yungang said, he turned around, took out a set of People's Liberation Army uniforms from the leather bag, and handed it to Li Hanzhang. This set of rough uniforms can't be compared with the American military uniforms of the national army.Li Hanzhang looked at it, and suddenly asked Zhou Yungang: "When I was in Bijie, you also arrived in Bijie? Are you still walking in the ranks of the Communist Army?" "How is it possible, Director! Ge Laozi, I followed you in the uniform of the People's Liberation Army along the way, but when we arrived in Bijie, there were too many People's Liberation Army. I was afraid that I would meet Li Simao's troops, so I spent some money and made a Orion outfit..." Zhou Yungang laughed when he said this, "Director, do you miss me so much that you misidentified the wrong person?" "Hehe, maybe that People's Liberation Army looks too much like you? I guess I misread it. Good boy! Since you followed me all the way, why didn't you show up in hiding? It made me escape every time. , I thought it was really the heavenly soldiers and generals who jumped down from the Nantian Gate!" After Li Hanzhang understood what was going on, he punched Zhou Yungang, and then asked, "Then why did you save that old man's son?" "Oh, don't mention it, Director. You dared to go to the top of that **** Commander Zhang's hill at that time, which really opened my eyes. I was standing outside a broken wall outside the temple gate, holding a gun, looking at you. What about Li Ping? That courage is unprecedented, and there will be no one to come after!" Zhou Yungang saw that Li Hanzhang's expression was not so serious, and joked with himself, and took the opportunity to flatter Li Hanzhang. "Stop flattering me. I'm asking how did you save that young man?" Li Hanzhang's habit is still the same, always holding on to a question and investigating it to the end. "Hey... Director, I have to blame you for this matter." Zhou Yungang sneered, and played tricks again. "Why is it my fault?" Li Hanzhang asked with wide-eyed eyes. Zhou Yungang said unhurriedly: "Ge Laozi, that big nose, wasn't he beaten up by the fat-headed and big-eared Commander Zhang wielding a civilized stick and kicked out? People vented their anger. The young man deserved it. He just sold herbs from Bijie City and drove home, and the big nose saw it. He brought two guys and bought the road money when he went up. The young man didn’t give it. ，正窝了一肚子邪火没处撒，照着小伙子就是一闷棍，随后一刀穿了他的腿肚子，还要接着下死手，我实在看不下去了，只得跳出来三拳两脚把那三个孙子放倒，扛起小伙子就跑了……” “把别人救走了，就把我撂下不管了？”李涵章听到这里，算是听出了个眉目，故意逗周云刚。 “你当时不是正和张司令称兄道弟嘛，还有那个啥表妹……我还担心你被勾得住在毛栗坪不走了呢，哈哈哈哈！”周云刚很开心地笑着，没发现李涵章正拿很专注的眼神儿看着他。 “云刚啊，你变了。都成了路见不平拔刀相助的梁山好汉了。”李涵章感叹了一声，把那身解放军服装还给了周云刚，说，“穿上，让我看看共军士兵李四毛是个啥样子！” 周云刚接过来，把身上的一身短打很麻利地脱下来，换上了那身解放军士兵服。李涵章围着他转了一圈儿又转了一圈儿，把周云刚转得心里发毛，说：“主任，你别转了，我眼晕。不过，我说句实话……你别生气啊，主任……这身衣服往身上一穿，那感觉就是不一样。” “咋不一样啊？”李涵章不转了，站在周云刚面前问。 “格老子的，穿上这身衣服，我就不是国军中尉周云刚了，真的变成共军李四毛了。你不知道啊主任，我穿着这身皱巴巴的破军装，除了我们的人，还有山里的那些棒老二，不管走到哪儿，老百姓对我都好得很呢，渴了，随便找户人家，他们会拿出家里最好的茶给你喝；饿了，随便找户人家，他们会拿出家里最好的东西给你吃。困了，随便敲开谁家的门，人家像待贵客一般，把最好的床铺让给你……”周云刚说这话的时候，抚摸着身上的军服。 李涵章盯着周云刚看了好一阵儿，问他：“云刚，你记得刚才那位老大爷为啥到现在还把解放军叫'红军'吗？” “为啥啊？我还真搞不懂。”周云刚说。 “不但毕节这一带的老百姓，把解放军叫'红军'，云贵川很多地方，都把解放军叫'红军'。就说这毕节吧，大概是民国二十五年吧，我在中央党部没有呆多久，就被调到中央军事委员会总政治部任上校联络参谋，接触过一些下面报上来的剿共材料。那时候，就是这个把我们赶出成都的贺胡子，带着他们所谓的红二、红六军团进了乌蒙山区的毕节一带，顾祝同以10个师的兵力尾追和侧击，都没把他的部队歼灭。还有，毛泽东指挥的'四渡赤水'，也发生在这一带。我来毕节这几天，一直在想一个问题，为啥当时红军只是一支狼狈不堪、仓皇奔逃的亡命之旅，却能让老百姓至今还把'红军'两个字儿记在心上呢？”李涵章说到这里，停顿了一会儿，叹了口气又说，“当年，是贺胡子在毕节被追得亡命北逃；现在，是我们被贺胡子从成都追得亡命南逃，唉，仅仅十四五年的时间，沧海变桑田。一切看起来就像梦一样，变了天地啊……” 李涵章说完这些话，望着茫茫的乌蒙山，似乎在问这高山、河谷、密林要答案。但乌蒙山回答他的，却只有冬日午后的一片静寂……