Chapter 19 9
The rainy season is approaching, and the educated youths are digging trenches around the houses.Tsui Hark asked: "Company Commander, when the rainy season comes, can the water on the meadow really overflow from all directions?"
The company commander replied while digging: "It is very possible, so we have to dig a drainage trench in advance."
The old soldier driving the tractor came and stood on the edge of the ditch and whispered to the company commander: "Company commander, the rations are only enough for two days. What if the rainy season arrives early and the roads are flooded, what should we do?"
The company commander looked around and saw Tsui Hark eavesdropping, and warned him: "Don't spread!"
He also said to the veterans, "You immediately send someone to drive a tractor to the camp to fetch food."
"Okay..." The old soldier got up and left.
The company commander thought about it, jumped into the ditch, caught up with the old soldier and said: "The ration problem is not a joke. I don't feel relieved to send someone else. I will go in person!"
Dirty, heavy clouds quickly swallowed the last bits of clear sky.
The dull sound of suppressed thunder came from a distance...
The world is hazy, chaotic, haze like smoke, gray like fog...
Everyone in the male educated youth dormitory held a steamed bun and a head of garlic.
Wang Xiaosong said: "Do you know why each person only sold one steamed bun this morning? Almost all the two drawers of steamed buns in the cafeteria last night were stolen in the night! I don't think it was the veterans who did it. It will be done by the female educated youths."
Han Debao said: "Squad leader, are you saying that one of us stole it?"
Wu Zhenqing suddenly stood up: "Then do you still need to ask? Search! Xiao Song, start searching from my box!"
Tsui Hark said: "Yes, search! If you don't get to the bottom of the damn thing, you will never let it go!"
Han Debao said: "Squad leader, this method of searching the box is not very good, is it?"
Wu Zhenqing said, "What's wrong?"
Everyone shouted in unison: "I agree to the search!"
"I agree too! You can't be a thief alone, everyone will be blamed!"
Tsui Hark opened his own box first: "Squad leader, start searching!"
Wang Xiaosong: "No, I don't search. I also think this method is not good. You may not know that the company's rations are only enough for two days. But don't panic, the company commander went to the camp to collect food. The boss will definitely not let us go hungry. So, I hope that the person who stole the steamed buns will take the initiative to admit his mistake to me, and I will promise to keep the secret strictly for him and will not be held accountable."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they suspected that the other party was a thief.
Wu Zhenqing said: "The squad leader won't steal! I won't steal either! He, he! None of you will steal! The thieves must be among you!"—he refers to Tsui Hark and Han Debao.
Han Debao said: "Zhenqing, don't say that without foundation."
One of the people on the other side was annoyed by being humiliated, and he said: "I think you are still among the few of you!" He pointed at Han Debao and said, "None of them object to searching the box, but he is the only one who opposes it! Are you a guilty conscience?"
All eyes turned to Han Debao.
"I didn't steal it!"
Wu Zhenqing stared at Han Debao for a while, then suddenly dragged him out.
"What are you doing?!" Han Debao's steamed bun fell to the ground.
Tsui Hark picked up the buns for him and peeled the skin.
Wu Zhenqing had already pulled Han Debao outside, grabbed him by the collar, pushed him to stand by the wall, and said in a low voice but sternly: "Why do I feel like you? Tell me the truth, is it really you?"
Wang Xiaosong followed and scolded Wu Zhenqing, "Let him go! I'm the squad leader, it's not your turn to do this to him!"
Wu Zhenqing let go of Han Debao, and glared at Wang Xiaosong: "Successor, are you starting to speak to me in this tone? Hmph, let me see how you can explain to everyone!" He turned around and entered the dormitory resentfully.
Han Debao said: "He, why did he suspect me!"
Wang Xiaosong patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry about him, he has been unhappy these days. I didn't think about you at all."
"Then, who do you know?"
Wang Xiaosong shook his head: "No. I don't know who it is."
night.Male educated youth dormitory.It's raining heavily outside... A figure fell anxiously and said: "Get up! Follow me to pick up your company commander!" It was a woman's voice. A group of figures left the company and ran through the mud and water in the rain. On the way to transport food.Under the light of a few flashlights—the tractor was stuck by a puddle, the company commander was not in waist-deep water, with his back against the wooden sledge—it seemed that the sledge would have turned over if he hadn't held it on his back. into a puddle. The company commander shouted: "Don't worry about me now! Focus on food first!" People jumped on the sledge to move grain. Tsui Hark jumped into the water and said, "Company Commander, I will replace you!" The company commander glanced at him and smiled: "Let's face it together!" In the dormitory that is both the company headquarters and the company commander, the company commander squatted on the ground smoking - behind him was a hanging plastic sheet. The plastic sheeting is suddenly pulled aside - and a woman in her thirties appears.Apparently she was changing clothes just now.Her hair was still wet. The company commander stood up, threw away the cigarette, stomped hard with his foot, and looked at the woman. The woman asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?" "I miss you so much." The woman said: "Several new companies discovered hemorrhagic fever. The battalion wanted to send a male doctor, but I insisted on coming with you." She said while tidying up the medicine box. The company commander put his arms around her waist from behind, and she leaned her head back, leaning on the company commander's shoulder... The company commander said: "With you here, I feel more at ease." The woman said, "I miss you too." The company commander turned off the lantern... The old soldier who drove the tractor got into the male educated youth dormitory, sat down next to Wang Xiaosong's pillow, took off his shoes and said, "Educated youth leader, I will requisition your bed tonight!" Wang Xiaosong was stunned for a moment, but squeezed into Han Debao's bed without saying anything. Han Debao asked: "Old Zhang, why don't you sleep with the company commander?" "The company commander's snoring is too good!" "That's not exactly the reason, is it?" "You kid! Don't ask more questions than you should!" The old soldier got into Wang Xiaosong's bed. Wu Zhenqing asked, "Who is that woman?" The veteran replied: "It's the one of our company commander." "Isn't the company commander unmarried? Then how can they 'that'?" "I didn't mention theirs! I just said that she is the company commander's. She is not married, so she is not a wife. When we build a new house next year, she will come to settle down. At that time, you should all Call her the eldest sister-in-law!" "Next year, we will build a tall and spacious house for the company commander." "Hey, that sounds like what a good soldier of the company commander said!"
Three days later. Wu Zhenqing was lying on his back in the male educated youth dormitory, in a coma state——Tsui Hark and Han Debao stood beside him sadly.On the kang opposite, there were also two male educated youths lying unconscious on their backs—Wang Xiaosong and Hao Mei were changing the towels they put on their foreheads. The company commander walked in with the woman. Wang Xiaosong and the others looked at the woman. The company commander said: "Everyone, don't be nervous, Dr. Qiao is very experienced." Dr. Qiao started with Wu Zhenqing, checking his eyelids, tongue coating, and the skin on his chest... After that, she fell silent... Wang Xiaosong said: "The two of them didn't check it!" Dr. Qiao said: "I will check in a moment, and now I ask you three to stand in front of me." Wang Xiaosong, Xu Ke, and Han Debao stood in front of her. Dr. Joe said, "Undress!" They took off their shirts, but they all wore vests. "Take off the vest and pants!" The company commander said: "Hurry up! Just do what the doctor says!" Hao Mei slipped out quietly and eavesdropped outside the door. Han Debao said, "Do you even take off your shorts?" Dr. Qiao's voice: "Take it off!... Stick out your tongue, raise your arms..." Hao Mei returned to the female educated youth dormitory—all the female educated youth's eyes were on her. Hao Mei slowly sat on the edge of the kang, and said to herself: "I'm checking whether the chest is flushed, whether there are bleeding spots under the armpits, whether the red bayberry is enlarged..." The female educated youths became uneasy... A female educated youth asked: "What is red bayberry on a person's body?" Hao Mei said, "I don't know either." Another female educated youth said: "I know, it's a small thorn on the tongue... Didn't you hear the doctor tell me it's hemorrhagic fever?" Hao Mei shook her head: "The doctor didn't say anything." The female educated youth who asked what "Yangmeizi" was, upon hearing this, terrified and avoided another female educated youth who was lying unconscious on the kang. She rummaged around hastily. Everyone silently looked for her. She found nothing, and suddenly burst into tears: "Who has a small mirror? Who has a small mirror? Lend me to take a picture..." In the male educated youth dormitory, the company commander and Wang Xiaosong were waiting to get dressed. After examining the other two unconscious educated youths, Dr. Qiao looked at them and said, "Hemorrhagic fever is spreading in your company. It is infected by rats." Tsui Hark suddenly screamed: "Rat!" He took one of his shoes and slammed it into the corner of the wall. In an instant, countless shoes, including a pillow, were thrown towards the corner. The half-naked company commander and Wang Xiaosong rushed to that corner, bumped into each other, stomped on the pillow with their bare feet, and beat them blindly with something they picked up. Dr. Qiao said, "Okay! The mouse has already left." Wang Xiaosong lifted the pillow by the corner of the pillow, and used a poker to pick apart the shoes, but there was no sign of a mouse. They looked at Dr. Joe breathlessly. Dr. Qiao said: "Except for the initial symptoms of these three comrades, you guys are very lucky not to be infected." Dr. Qiao and the company commander left the male educated youth dormitory one after the other, and walked towards the female educated youth dormitory... The horse snorted in the stable. Doctor Qiao stopped, walked into the stable, looked closely at the horse's eyes and body. After she left the stable, she opened the medicine box, took out alcohol and cotton pads to wipe her hands, and said calmly, "Let's dispose of it." The company commander said: "However, there is only one horse in the company! And it has followed me for many years and saved my life." "It's infected. There's no more medicine for it." They looked at the horse with pity, and the horse seemed to look at them beggingly. In the female educated youth dormitory, except those lying down, all stood in front of the doctor, and the doctor examined them in turn. Dr. Qiao looked at the female educated youth who cried just now and said, "Cry for the fate of others, or cry for your own fate?" The female educated youth was speechless and lowered her head. Dr. Joe said, "There's no point in crying, whether for others or for yourself. Keep your head up." The female educated youth raised her head. Dr. Qiao took out a handkerchief and handed it to her: "Wipe away your tears! When I came to the Great Northern Wilderness, I was the same age as you. From my experience, men are sometimes more fragile than us women, and are more likely to be pessimistic and disappointed. Fear is more likely to arise in the heart...so, sometimes they need us to use smiling faces and singing to arouse their strength. Daughters should also cry...I want to choose an assistant from among you now, who will volunteer?" Seeing that no one said anything, Hao Mei whispered, "I..." "Okay, so it's you. I need you..." "Singing..." "No. You and I need to separately guard the sick people. If they vomit or have incontinence, they have to be wiped clean, and you have to be careful not to get infected, understand?" Hao Mei's voice suddenly became extremely quiet: "Understood..." "Now, you undress..." Then there was a gunshot. Some female educated youths trembled in shock. Wang Xiaosong, Tsui Hark, and Han Debao lay on the window and looked out—the company commander stood blankly holding a gun—the tractor pulled the horse into the distance... it's dark. The company commander sat smoking in the shadows beyond the lantern.The cigarette butts flashed red and red. Dr. Qiao was spreading the quilt, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him: "Stop smoking..." The company commander extinguished the cigarette butt on the sole of his shoe. "Your body temperature is at least 38.5 degrees, and your heart rate is at least 90 beats. Quanlian's symptoms are the most obvious. You also have the most bleeding spots on your body. What are you pretending? Don't... lie down for me." She sobbed. The company commander came up to her and put his hands lightly on her shoulders. She couldn't help but hugged him by the waist, leaned against his chest and said, "You promised me that when the first wheat harvest is next year, you will bring me here and marry you." The company commander said: "Yes, I promised you. You have waited for me for several years, and I really feel sorry for you... Can you keep my situation a secret from the whole company for me?" Dr. Qiao looked up at him and nodded. Outside the door—the figure of an old soldier driving a tractor stands. Under the moonlight, he wiped away the tears from his face and walked towards the wilderness...
Dr. Qiao was sitting by the stove in the male educated youth dormitory—the syringe was boiling on the stove. Hao Mei broke in suddenly and shouted: "It's not good! The company commander vomited blood!" Doctor Qiao stood up abruptly. Wang Xiaosong woke up startled.
Hao Mei stopped Wang Xiaosong and others outside the company headquarters and said, "Doctor Qiao said that no one is allowed to enter." Wang Xiaosong and others looked anxious.
In the early morning, Hao Mei peeled a big carrot with a knife in the dormitory and cut it into small pieces. A female educated youth is washing a canning jar. A female educated youth was pouring sugar water into the water and stirring it with a spoon. Wang Xiaosong came in and asked, "How is the company commander?" Hao Mei said: "Just now I woke up and wanted to eat canned fruit... Where can I get it? Everyone came up with an idea and had to lie to him." "What else did the commander say?" "Say... Oak wood... Dr. Qiao doesn't understand what it means..." Pour the radish cubes and sugar into the canning jar. Tsui Hark and Han Debao broke in. Tsui Hark said: "Squad leader! Lao Zhang is gone! I can't find him anywhere." Han Debao said: "He must have run for his life! It's shameful! What the hell is he claiming to be from the Great Northern Wilderness!" "Shut up!" Wang Xiaosong said, "Don't talk nonsense until you understand the situation!" Hao Mei walked in front with cans in both hands, and the educated youths followed behind, walking into the company headquarters... Dr. Qiao was sitting on the bed, the company commander was covered with a quilt, his head rested on Dr. Qiao's lap, and Dr. Qiao was touching the company commander's bearded face. Everyone walked in one after another. With tears in her eyes, Dr. Qiao said, "You... bid farewell to your company commander." The canning bottle in Hao Mei's hand fell to the ground and broke. Hao Mei cried silently. Everyone rushed over and shouted: "Company commander...company commander...we won't let you die!" Wang Xiaosong wept. Wu Zhenqing wept. Tsui Hark wept. Han Debao wept. At this time, the "old soldier" walked in with a leather bag on his back, and he was stunned. Wu Zhenqing accused the veteran: "Old Zhang, where did you go last night?" Tsui Hark asked: "Did you run away in fright?!" Lao Zhang pushed away the crowd, knelt down in front of the company commander, held up the leather bag, and said, "Company commander, company commander, medicine! I got it for you, I got it..." He also cried. The company commander "sleeped" quietly. Dr. Joe looked at him. Wu Zhenqing woke up. Tsui Hark looked back at Lao Zhang. Wang Xiaosong walked out sadly. In the sky, a group of wild geese are singing away. The educated youths were all standing outside the company headquarters, next to them were two huge bulldozers. The exhaust pipe of the bulldozer was belching thick smoke. Inside the cab were the silent faces of Wang Xiaosong and the driver, Lao Zhang. The educated youths lowered their heads. The bulldozer slowly moved towards the company headquarters... The company collapsed. Smoke and ash rose into the sky. Wu Zhenqing searched in the birch forest - he found the poplar tree with a special "eye". He stood on tiptoe and stroked the frost and snow from his "eyes" with his hand. He said in his heart: "Zhang Meng, I want to forget you. Just like the company commander forgot the girl he loved back then...I want to forget more thoroughly than the company commander..." His hand that was in his bosom was drawn out—he held a small tit in his hand—and around its neck was the head portrait of Zhang Meng transformed from the chairman's badge. He slowly let go of his hand, and the little tit didn't fly. "Go..." The little tit still doesn't fly. He raised his hand, and the little tit finally flew away. He left without looking back. Xu Ke pulled out a bag made of a coat from the horse straw, and was about to go out with it when Wang Xiaosong appeared at the door of the stable. Wang Xiaosong said, "Open it." Tsui Hark opened it silently—there were steamed buns inside, but they were already moldy. Wang Xiaosong asked: "What else do you have to say?" "I... At that time, I also wanted to do things for us, including Hao Mei..." "I won't say anything, but, you swear to me at the company commander's grave that you will never do such a selfish thing again!" Tsui Hark nodded in shame. Snowing. Snow covered a grave. A man was kneeling in front of the grave—it was Wu Zhenqing. Not far behind him was Tsui Hark, holding the package of moldy steamed buns in his hands. Tsui Hark walked over and knelt in front of the grave. Wu Zhenqing looked strange when he saw the bag of steamed buns in Xu Hark's hand; but here, at this moment, there was no need to say anything.
night.Male educated youth dormitory.It's raining heavily outside... A figure fell anxiously and said: "Get up! Follow me to pick up your company commander!" It was a woman's voice. A group of figures left the company and ran through the mud and water in the rain. On the way to transport food.Under the light of a few flashlights—the tractor was stuck by a puddle, the company commander was not in waist-deep water, with his back against the wooden sledge—it seemed that the sledge would have turned over if he hadn't held it on his back. into a puddle. The company commander shouted: "Don't worry about me now! Focus on food first!" People jumped on the sledge to move grain. Tsui Hark jumped into the water and said, "Company Commander, I will replace you!" The company commander glanced at him and smiled: "Let's face it together!" In the dormitory that is both the company headquarters and the company commander, the company commander squatted on the ground smoking - behind him was a hanging plastic sheet. The plastic sheeting is suddenly pulled aside - and a woman in her thirties appears.Apparently she was changing clothes just now.Her hair was still wet. The company commander stood up, threw away the cigarette, stomped hard with his foot, and looked at the woman. The woman asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?" "I miss you so much." The woman said: "Several new companies discovered hemorrhagic fever. The battalion wanted to send a male doctor, but I insisted on coming with you." She said while tidying up the medicine box. The company commander put his arms around her waist from behind, and she leaned her head back, leaning on the company commander's shoulder... The company commander said: "With you here, I feel more at ease." The woman said, "I miss you too." The company commander turned off the lantern... The old soldier who drove the tractor got into the male educated youth dormitory, sat down next to Wang Xiaosong's pillow, took off his shoes and said, "Educated youth leader, I will requisition your bed tonight!" Wang Xiaosong was stunned for a moment, but squeezed into Han Debao's bed without saying anything. Han Debao asked: "Old Zhang, why don't you sleep with the company commander?" "The company commander's snoring is too good!" "That's not exactly the reason, is it?" "You kid! Don't ask more questions than you should!" The old soldier got into Wang Xiaosong's bed. Wu Zhenqing asked, "Who is that woman?" The veteran replied: "It's the one of our company commander." "Isn't the company commander unmarried? Then how can they 'that'?" "I didn't mention theirs! I just said that she is the company commander's. She is not married, so she is not a wife. When we build a new house next year, she will come to settle down. At that time, you should all Call her the eldest sister-in-law!" "Next year, we will build a tall and spacious house for the company commander." "Hey, that sounds like what a good soldier of the company commander said!"
Three days later. Wu Zhenqing was lying on his back in the male educated youth dormitory, in a coma state——Tsui Hark and Han Debao stood beside him sadly.On the kang opposite, there were also two male educated youths lying unconscious on their backs—Wang Xiaosong and Hao Mei were changing the towels they put on their foreheads. The company commander walked in with the woman. Wang Xiaosong and the others looked at the woman. The company commander said: "Everyone, don't be nervous, Dr. Qiao is very experienced." Dr. Qiao started with Wu Zhenqing, checking his eyelids, tongue coating, and the skin on his chest... After that, she fell silent... Wang Xiaosong said: "The two of them didn't check it!" Dr. Qiao said: "I will check in a moment, and now I ask you three to stand in front of me." Wang Xiaosong, Xu Ke, and Han Debao stood in front of her. Dr. Joe said, "Undress!" They took off their shirts, but they all wore vests. "Take off the vest and pants!" The company commander said: "Hurry up! Just do what the doctor says!" Hao Mei slipped out quietly and eavesdropped outside the door. Han Debao said, "Do you even take off your shorts?" Dr. Qiao's voice: "Take it off!... Stick out your tongue, raise your arms..." Hao Mei returned to the female educated youth dormitory—all the female educated youth's eyes were on her. Hao Mei slowly sat on the edge of the kang, and said to herself: "I'm checking whether the chest is flushed, whether there are bleeding spots under the armpits, whether the red bayberry is enlarged..." The female educated youths became uneasy... A female educated youth asked: "What is red bayberry on a person's body?" Hao Mei said, "I don't know either." Another female educated youth said: "I know, it's a small thorn on the tongue... Didn't you hear the doctor tell me it's hemorrhagic fever?" Hao Mei shook her head: "The doctor didn't say anything." The female educated youth who asked what "Yangmeizi" was, upon hearing this, terrified and avoided another female educated youth who was lying unconscious on the kang. She rummaged around hastily. Everyone silently looked for her. She found nothing, and suddenly burst into tears: "Who has a small mirror? Who has a small mirror? Lend me to take a picture..." In the male educated youth dormitory, the company commander and Wang Xiaosong were waiting to get dressed. After examining the other two unconscious educated youths, Dr. Qiao looked at them and said, "Hemorrhagic fever is spreading in your company. It is infected by rats." Tsui Hark suddenly screamed: "Rat!" He took one of his shoes and slammed it into the corner of the wall. In an instant, countless shoes, including a pillow, were thrown towards the corner. The half-naked company commander and Wang Xiaosong rushed to that corner, bumped into each other, stomped on the pillow with their bare feet, and beat them blindly with something they picked up. Dr. Qiao said, "Okay! The mouse has already left." Wang Xiaosong lifted the pillow by the corner of the pillow, and used a poker to pick apart the shoes, but there was no sign of a mouse. They looked at Dr. Joe breathlessly. Dr. Qiao said: "Except for the initial symptoms of these three comrades, you guys are very lucky not to be infected." Dr. Qiao and the company commander left the male educated youth dormitory one after the other, and walked towards the female educated youth dormitory... The horse snorted in the stable. Doctor Qiao stopped, walked into the stable, looked closely at the horse's eyes and body. After she left the stable, she opened the medicine box, took out alcohol and cotton pads to wipe her hands, and said calmly, "Let's dispose of it." The company commander said: "However, there is only one horse in the company! And it has followed me for many years and saved my life." "It's infected. There's no more medicine for it." They looked at the horse with pity, and the horse seemed to look at them beggingly. In the female educated youth dormitory, except those lying down, all stood in front of the doctor, and the doctor examined them in turn. Dr. Qiao looked at the female educated youth who cried just now and said, "Cry for the fate of others, or cry for your own fate?" The female educated youth was speechless and lowered her head. Dr. Joe said, "There's no point in crying, whether for others or for yourself. Keep your head up." The female educated youth raised her head. Dr. Qiao took out a handkerchief and handed it to her: "Wipe away your tears! When I came to the Great Northern Wilderness, I was the same age as you. From my experience, men are sometimes more fragile than us women, and are more likely to be pessimistic and disappointed. Fear is more likely to arise in the heart...so, sometimes they need us to use smiling faces and singing to arouse their strength. Daughters should also cry...I want to choose an assistant from among you now, who will volunteer?" Seeing that no one said anything, Hao Mei whispered, "I..." "Okay, so it's you. I need you..." "Singing..." "No. You and I need to separately guard the sick people. If they vomit or have incontinence, they have to be wiped clean, and you have to be careful not to get infected, understand?" Hao Mei's voice suddenly became extremely quiet: "Understood..." "Now, you undress..." Then there was a gunshot. Some female educated youths trembled in shock. Wang Xiaosong, Tsui Hark, and Han Debao lay on the window and looked out—the company commander stood blankly holding a gun—the tractor pulled the horse into the distance... it's dark. The company commander sat smoking in the shadows beyond the lantern.The cigarette butts flashed red and red. Dr. Qiao was spreading the quilt, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him: "Stop smoking..." The company commander extinguished the cigarette butt on the sole of his shoe. "Your body temperature is at least 38.5 degrees, and your heart rate is at least 90 beats. Quanlian's symptoms are the most obvious. You also have the most bleeding spots on your body. What are you pretending? Don't... lie down for me." She sobbed. The company commander came up to her and put his hands lightly on her shoulders. She couldn't help but hugged him by the waist, leaned against his chest and said, "You promised me that when the first wheat harvest is next year, you will bring me here and marry you." The company commander said: "Yes, I promised you. You have waited for me for several years, and I really feel sorry for you... Can you keep my situation a secret from the whole company for me?" Dr. Qiao looked up at him and nodded. Outside the door—the figure of an old soldier driving a tractor stands. Under the moonlight, he wiped away the tears from his face and walked towards the wilderness...
Dr. Qiao was sitting by the stove in the male educated youth dormitory—the syringe was boiling on the stove. Hao Mei broke in suddenly and shouted: "It's not good! The company commander vomited blood!" Doctor Qiao stood up abruptly. Wang Xiaosong woke up startled.
Hao Mei stopped Wang Xiaosong and others outside the company headquarters and said, "Doctor Qiao said that no one is allowed to enter." Wang Xiaosong and others looked anxious.
In the early morning, Hao Mei peeled a big carrot with a knife in the dormitory and cut it into small pieces. A female educated youth is washing a canning jar. A female educated youth was pouring sugar water into the water and stirring it with a spoon. Wang Xiaosong came in and asked, "How is the company commander?" Hao Mei said: "Just now I woke up and wanted to eat canned fruit... Where can I get it? Everyone came up with an idea and had to lie to him." "What else did the commander say?" "Say... Oak wood... Dr. Qiao doesn't understand what it means..." Pour the radish cubes and sugar into the canning jar. Tsui Hark and Han Debao broke in. Tsui Hark said: "Squad leader! Lao Zhang is gone! I can't find him anywhere." Han Debao said: "He must have run for his life! It's shameful! What the hell is he claiming to be from the Great Northern Wilderness!" "Shut up!" Wang Xiaosong said, "Don't talk nonsense until you understand the situation!" Hao Mei walked in front with cans in both hands, and the educated youths followed behind, walking into the company headquarters... Dr. Qiao was sitting on the bed, the company commander was covered with a quilt, his head rested on Dr. Qiao's lap, and Dr. Qiao was touching the company commander's bearded face. Everyone walked in one after another. With tears in her eyes, Dr. Qiao said, "You... bid farewell to your company commander." The canning bottle in Hao Mei's hand fell to the ground and broke. Hao Mei cried silently. Everyone rushed over and shouted: "Company commander...company commander...we won't let you die!" Wang Xiaosong wept. Wu Zhenqing wept. Tsui Hark wept. Han Debao wept. At this time, the "old soldier" walked in with a leather bag on his back, and he was stunned. Wu Zhenqing accused the veteran: "Old Zhang, where did you go last night?" Tsui Hark asked: "Did you run away in fright?!" Lao Zhang pushed away the crowd, knelt down in front of the company commander, held up the leather bag, and said, "Company commander, company commander, medicine! I got it for you, I got it..." He also cried. The company commander "sleeped" quietly. Dr. Joe looked at him. Wu Zhenqing woke up. Tsui Hark looked back at Lao Zhang. Wang Xiaosong walked out sadly. In the sky, a group of wild geese are singing away. The educated youths were all standing outside the company headquarters, next to them were two huge bulldozers. The exhaust pipe of the bulldozer was belching thick smoke. Inside the cab were the silent faces of Wang Xiaosong and the driver, Lao Zhang. The educated youths lowered their heads. The bulldozer slowly moved towards the company headquarters... The company collapsed. Smoke and ash rose into the sky. Wu Zhenqing searched in the birch forest - he found the poplar tree with a special "eye". He stood on tiptoe and stroked the frost and snow from his "eyes" with his hand. He said in his heart: "Zhang Meng, I want to forget you. Just like the company commander forgot the girl he loved back then...I want to forget more thoroughly than the company commander..." His hand that was in his bosom was drawn out—he held a small tit in his hand—and around its neck was the head portrait of Zhang Meng transformed from the chairman's badge. He slowly let go of his hand, and the little tit didn't fly. "Go..." The little tit still doesn't fly. He raised his hand, and the little tit finally flew away. He left without looking back. Xu Ke pulled out a bag made of a coat from the horse straw, and was about to go out with it when Wang Xiaosong appeared at the door of the stable. Wang Xiaosong said, "Open it." Tsui Hark opened it silently—there were steamed buns inside, but they were already moldy. Wang Xiaosong asked: "What else do you have to say?" "I... At that time, I also wanted to do things for us, including Hao Mei..." "I won't say anything, but, you swear to me at the company commander's grave that you will never do such a selfish thing again!" Tsui Hark nodded in shame. Snowing. Snow covered a grave. A man was kneeling in front of the grave—it was Wu Zhenqing. Not far behind him was Tsui Hark, holding the package of moldy steamed buns in his hands. Tsui Hark walked over and knelt in front of the grave. Wu Zhenqing looked strange when he saw the bag of steamed buns in Xu Hark's hand; but here, at this moment, there was no need to say anything.