Chapter 10 Chapter Four

Pandora surprised the gods and people. ——"Ancient Greek Myths and Legends" I have never seen such a beautiful radiance from a flesh and blood body.The golden sun shines on her face, and you can even see the fluffy hair on her ruddy skin.The short hair with short ears and a round face show an innocent childishness; shoulders, chest, arms and hands are thick and plump, as if they are about to overflow with vitality.She was a typical rural girl who often appeared in the painter's works at that time, plump, charming and dignified.She was carrying a seven-nine rifle, and was wearing a green military uniform that had been washed yellow.And even this kind of attire looks like an angel in our eyes, standing at the gate of hell with a serene, comforting, and somewhat apologetic smile.

All the "prisoners", including Xiao Shunzi, lined up obediently to look at her and obey her orders. The first thing to do is drain.Wherever it can be drained out, we will dig a ditch, and the ten people will be scattered.Probably, she and the female soldiers she led had already discussed: the three "criminals" should be led by two older female soldiers; Dr. Li and the "remnants" of old men should be led by a frail girl; Xiao Shunzi and Xiao Chen were two young men under the command of a "Sun Erniang" female soldier (but Xiao Shunzi immediately complained of a stomachache and went back to the cell to sleep); She was guarded alone by a "Sister-in-Law Gu"-style female soldier; "Mr. Messy", a depressed mental patient, and me, a white-faced scholar, belonged to the category of being both honest and physically strong, and she led them personally.

what!This is the arrangement of fate! The air is fresh and cool.Coming out of the ammonia-smelling cell, I was dizzy and stumbled.She shouted from behind: "Be careful!" She cared more than scolded.At this time, as long as two peaceful words can give people warmth.I felt better, and when I gathered myself together, I realized that the disaster was indeed serious.As far as the eye can see, there are only mud-drenched adobe houses and crumbling trees surrounding the houses; the collapsed houses have long been soaked into piles of desolate barren mounds (our adobe prison cell did not collapse. , an inexplicable miracle).Other than that, it's a vast ocean.However, the sky is blue and blue, without a cloud; the morning breeze blows countless fine scales on the water.Nature regards everything as a straw dog. She doesn't think this is a disaster for people, and she still shows off her beauty everywhere.I sighed unconsciously.

"Why? Is it hard to walk?" She thought I was sighing about the difficulty of the journey, "Come on, let me go ahead. I know the way well." The rosy and well-proportioned calf waded in front of me vigorously.Circles of beautiful arc-shaped ripples lightly ripple around the calf.This impression seems to be starting to dispel the dark clouds hanging over my heart.I felt the heat of youth pulsating, and I felt the stimulation of the beauty of the opposite sex.I couldn't help puffing out my chest - I'm also a young man. In the distance, several other female fighters walked behind or beside the "prisoner" according to regulations.She was the only one with a gun on her back, using a branch to explore the way in front of our two "prisoners" with full concentration.I suddenly had a whimsical idea: If there were really criminals hacking like this with a shovel from behind...

"Hey, monitor," I thought, I'm a man after all, "I'll go ahead." "No," she didn't turn her head, "You don't know the way. There is a big puddle several feet deep..." "what!--" Before she could finish her sentence, there was a scream.Seventy or eighty meters ahead, there was a shadow in green clothes, and then sank into the water. "Not good!" I yelled, threw down the shovel, and ran forward with all my strength.After running more than half of the distance, I also slipped into the big pit, and then I switched to freestyle swimming to the accident site.At this time, a piece of women's long hair was floating on the water surface like algae. I grabbed it and swam another three or four meters, then climbed up the slope where she had slid down, and dragged her up.

This is a woman in her thirties, wearing a green military uniform with patches, her eyes closed tightly, her face livid, her head covered with messy hair dripping with water, and her two skinny and dark hands are tightly clutching two lumps of sludge.I couldn't put her in the water, so I had to squat on the water with her in my arms. "Ah! It's your fault!" The female squad leader came running out of breath, "This is Lianchang Liu's lover. She probably came back to get a pee mat for the baby, what should we do? Let's carry her to the sheepfold. Hey—— Hey--"

She greeted a few female soldiers, and the group of "prisoners" remained in the distance, looking at us inexplicably. This is Mrs. "Company Chief"!I saw the general poverty of our living conditions, and the family life of such an imposing figure was not rich.My goodwill, which has not been completely wiped out, sprouted unconsciously. "First aid first." I said, "It will take at least half an hour to wade from here to the sheep pen, and there will be no one there. Call Dr. Li, Li Fangwu. He has a solution." "Okay, okay..." She nodded to me trustingly, with some kindness in it, "Li Fangwu—Dr. Li—come here—"

Dr. Li stumbled in the water, and after a while, the wife of the "company chief" woke up. "Ah! Big sister! I've passed the gate of hell this trip..." Mrs. "Commander" cried with tears and snot, "That dead ghost doesn't care about his family! You know how to make a fucking revolution! Revolution! He doesn't care if the whole fucking family dies..." "Okay, sister-in-law! Okay, sister-in-law!..." She pouted her plump lips and comforted her like a child; she smoothed the hair of Mrs. "Commander" with her round, beautiful fingers, " Okay, sister-in-law! What the company commander is doing is a revolution and a major national event, so don't blame him..."

This morning passed in a hurry because of this big event, and no one did a shovel job.We went back to the cell with ease.But as soon as I sat down, I felt hungry. I had eaten all the tortillas, so I had to climb up the kang listlessly and lean on the wet and dirty bedding. After a while, the door opened slightly again, and she stood there coyly.We all looked up and stared at her hopefully to see if she had brought us lunch. "Shi Zai, come out for a while," she greeted me.A shy luster shone in his eyes. "What's the matter?" I walked to the corner with her and asked her.

"Here." She took out a tortilla wrapped in a small handkerchief with a cat printed on it. "Just one piece?" I glanced at it. "Just one... one piece." She mumbled, her face seemed to be flushed to the root of her hair. "How will the ten of us divide this piece?" "It's for you. It's mine. You eat it alone." "Hmph," I sneered, "do you think I can eat it all by myself in front of so many pairs of eyes?" "You just eat here, and then go in after eating." "Thank you." I gently pushed her hand away, "I'm not used to this."

got windy.The wind blew slowly across the water, brushing a lock of black hair curving like a crescent moon on her cheek.Only then did I realize that there was a regrettable black mole the size of a mung bean on her left cheek above her lips. "Are you...are you a bad person too?" After a pause, she asked me a little embarrassed. I didn't know how to answer, so I smiled awkwardly. We were relatively silent.She lowered her head again, frowned slightly, and murmured to him as if in embarrassment, "I said, I don't want to come and take care of you...but then..." I looked at her suspiciously, what did she mean by these words?Are they sent to test me?Thinking of this, my heart trembled. "Squad leader, if there is nothing else, I will go in." "Oh," she seemed to wake up from her own thoughts, "you go in..." After a long pause, we heard her tremblingly lock the door. "What's the matter?" Everyone asked me curiously. I don't know where such a ridiculously narrow heroism came from to speak out angrily about what happened just now. "Well, well..." Lao Qin nodded meaningfully. "Hey! Mom! You are really stupid! Eat it." Xiao Shunzi rushed to the window. "Hello—Squad Leader Qiao—" She hurried back again, and asked outside the window, "What's the matter?" "Don't you have a piece of pancake to eat?" Xiao Shunzi smiled playfully, "Come on, we have done work for Shi Zai, and he wants to eat it." "Really?" She happily handed the pancake in through the glass gap that Wang Fuhai shattered. "Okay!" Xiao Shunzi went to the edge of the kang with corn cakes in his hands, "Come on, we buddies share the difficulties and share the blessings together. 'Today we will drink celebration wine together and write the Spring and Autumn Annals with our blood." Come on, this big piece One point, for Shi Zai; this one for Dr. Li..."Mr. Messy", are you still reaching out? Mom! Don't eat it, it will cause more trouble!...Okay, one, two, three, let's start, eat!" After chewing a mouthful of pancakes carefully and swallowing them slowly, he seemed to regain some energy. Old Qin asked, "Xiao Shunzi, how do you know this girl's surname is Qiao?" "Hey! Well, you! A flower in the whole regiment, a beautiful woman in the armed company! No one knows, no one knows! My name is Qiao-An-Ping!" "Then, how did she get here?" Old Qin asked again. "I don't know whose sister-in-law came with her from my hometown. Don't look at her. There are many people who play tricks on her, including our 'company chief'. Why did you ask her to come and detain us? This is to take care of us. Do you understand? Working in the field is very hard, especially now, seeing how relaxed we are, everyone knows that we can't run, with a gun on our backs, we look good!" Xiao Shunzi gushed, "But this The girl was a little foolish, she followed Liu Jun and his group and shouted: "Down, down..." After a while, she argued with them: This is a good person, that is a bad person, and she is too serious, Liu Jun and the others treat her like a toy , look, sooner or later she will fall into the hands of these people..." I went to work in the afternoon and saw that the water was much smaller.It turned out that the company's terrain was relatively high, and the water washed down by the gap in the big canal just overflowed from here and rushed to the deserted beach in the southeast.Although the deep ditches on both sides of the road are filled with water, some sections of the road have surfaced.Correspondents trudged up and down intermittent muddy roads on unsaddled, muddy horses.The telephone wires on the telephone poles on the side of the road began to hum again.After all, it was an armed company with a special mission. Despite such a natural disaster, communications and electricity quickly returned to normal. "Why don't you eat pancakes alone?" She asked me quietly while walking on the road. I didn't answer. "You can do 'no self-interest, only benefit others'." She said without sarcasm, "but you have to eat enough, and if you have food in the future, you will eat alone." "Where can I get food?" I asked her strangely, "Isn't everyone getting one serving?" "Oh, that, that..." She hesitated and smiled at me shyly, then changed the subject again, "They say you are highly educated, don't you?" "Not very educated." I replied cautiously.I couldn't figure out her intentions, and her smile couldn't be reconciled with the seven-nine rifle that was dangling by my waist. "I really like educated people. The people here are wild." She seemed to sigh, "...they like to fool and bully people..." I was as careful as a fox not to fall into any trap, and kept silent. "Hey, hey, troublesome, troublesome..." "Mr. Troublesome" shouted from the side. In the evening, we heard a sharp whistle in the distance, and the brigade called it a day.In the dim twilight, several female soldiers led their respective troops and gathered under a crooked jujube tree in front of the company.At this time, the tweeter installed on the Quotations Tower was broadcasting the "Mao Zedong Thought Broadcasting Station" special program "Grasp the Revolution, Promote Disaster Response": "...In this anti-disaster struggle, the most outstanding performance is: Comrade Qiao Anping, a female soldier of the armed company. When a family member of a cadre was unfortunately swept away by the flood, Comrade Qiao Anping, a member of the Communist Youth League armed with Mao Zedong Thought, read With the great teaching of "make up your mind, not be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory", he rushed to the front of the flood without changing his face and heart, and saved the lives of class sisters with overwhelming heroism. Comrade Qiao Anping created For his heroic deeds, the regiment reform team decided to give him a second-class merit..." Several female warriors cheered happily around her, but she secretly glanced at me with a look of shame and pain, like a star twinkling in the twilight. The next day, the weather was still sunny.The rain in the sky seemed to have poured out, and the sun was scorching the earth without any shelter.The water has all receded last night, except for the puddles where there is still water, and the land has shown its original landform.It was a bleak sight.As far as I can see, not only is the harvest hopeless for the most part, but the life of the military soldiers—farmers and workers—is about to face difficulties.However, the tweeter of the broadcasting station continued to hear the mobilization of the division and regiment headquarters.Behind the rhetoric, it was nothing more than saying to the peasants and workers not to count on the support of the state, but to "rather live 20 years less than to take down the Dazhai fields", and they even described this natural disaster as a joke. "Good thing".After listening to such cold encouragement, the farmers and workers lined up before starting work, and their dejection was no less than that of us prisoners. Watching them wear ragged, muddy green uniforms, facing the concrete tower of sayings towering above a dilapidated earthen building, reciting the sayings in a low, jagged voice: "Save We must pay close attention to the issue of food. According to the quota, eat more when you are busy, eat less when you are free, eat dry when you are busy, and half dry and half thin when you are free, mixed with sweet potatoes, green vegetables, radishes, melons, and taro. Be sure to hurry up..." After asking for instructions, I held up the chairman's portrait and the quotation card and walked listlessly towards Daejeon, and I couldn't help feeling sad.Having been here for more than a month, I have fully experienced the hardships of life and labor of the peasant workers.They ate coarse grains, lived in shabby houses, and saw no hope of improving their lives.The persistent material deprivation and spiritual poverty made them gradually lose their conscience and compassion, so they blindly vented their anger into inexplicable "revolutionary actions".So sometimes, in all fairness, I feel that there is a reason for their atrocities against the so-called class enemies. On this day, all the "prisoners" repaired a farm canal together, and she had no chance to talk to me alone.In the evening, I finished work and went back, because "Mr. Troublesome" was always slow in moving, and she was dragged behind when I finished work, and she had to be the last to advance, so the two of them broke away from this small reform-through-labor team.In the middle of the walk, she asked me to wait and carry the shovel for "Mr. Troubled".I had to back out of the queue and stand in the mud waiting for them. "I'm not asking you to carry the shovel for the madman," she rushed up with "Mr. Messy," and cast a shy glance at me, "I have something to tell you." I looked at her questioningly. "I didn't... I didn't report it," she said incoherently, "It was reported by the company... That should be your credit, you saved the company commander's family, you should..." "Oh, it turned out to be this matter. What's the point of this? I think there is always a reason for the leadership to attribute the credit to you." I said, "Don't worry, I won't compete with you for this credit. I will get credit for it." What's the use?" "If you have done meritorious deeds, you can go out sooner!" She suddenly changed her caring eyes and tone of concern, ignoring the mud under her feet, and followed my steps, "Didn't you say that you have made meritorious deeds to atone for your sins? This merit is for you." Just write it down, and your sins will be atoned for. You can come out sooner and join us..." For some reason, I felt that this kind of hope, which had been shattered in my heart because of Song Zheng's death, came out of her beautifully contoured mouth, which was particularly inappropriate and harsh.I developed a feeling of self-contempt, which was actually aroused by the discrimination of others, and a bad mood of wanting to destroy something. "Do you know the relationship between the two of us?" I raised my eyebrows and asked her pretending to be mysterious. "Huh?" She smiled innocently, tilting her head to look at me, "What do you think?" "Do you know the dogs that the police got when they solved the case?" She nodded suspiciously. "The two of us are the relationship between the police officer and that dog. Even though the bad guy was caught by the dog and the case was solved by the dog, the credit should be credited to the police officer. This is a matter of course and reason. How can you credit the dog? What about second-class work? Let me tell you again: the two of us, you are the public security officer, and I am the dog!" Seeing her trembling, seeing her chest heaving rapidly with anger, seeing her biting her lower lip with her snow-white teeth... I am happy!What the hell am I venting about.I really want to yell: I want to destroy all the good feelings!