Chapter 13 will be clear

The shift station is the first, and the roll call is the last to be called. This is Huiming.The world this person lives in is not a wonderful world.Some iron pots, some big baskets, some rice bags, and some dry firewood, took thirty years of his life away.In these things he made people into ordinary people among ordinary people.He used to be a farmer, but changed his job after the Revolution of 1911.After changing his career, he worked as a fireman in the army.In a unit of a certain division of a certain army in Yunnan, there is nothing else to do besides lighting fires, carrying water, and carrying burdens for long distances.

He looks so— He is four feet eight inches tall.Long hands, long feet, and a long face, and the nose on his face is heavier than other people's.On the lower part of the long face, a beard grew. It originally looked like weeds, but because it was cut off, it couldn't sag, but it spread horizontally and developed into a piece. If this appearance is commensurate with his status, he should be a general.If a beard is one of the necessary conditions for a general, this person's beard has two general benefits.Many people, at another time, because of something outstanding on their bodies or on their heads, it is very common for them to leap from the ordinary to become important people of an era; photo books often describe many famous kings and generals in history as relatives. mentioned.But this person seems to have ruined his life precisely because of these traits in appearance.

He is now a fireman in the 33rd Company of the 47th Regiment of the Army.When mentioning the Thirty-Third Company, it is easy to remind people of the bloody battle along the border between Guizhou and Hunan when the National Army fought against Yuan during the Hongxian Monarchy.It's been ten years.At that time, he would obviously be a fireman, cooking and cooking when there was nothing to do, and transporting bullets when there was a war, and running with the company commander.Up to this time, he was still serving in his original position, and he did not fail to do what a fireman should do, and his title income was still the same as that of other firemen.

In today's 33rd Company, there is only one Huiming who shares the same banner in the entire company. He participated in the Revolutionary War ten years ago, and the 33rd Company of the Revolution seems to exist only for him.The flag was carefully wrapped around Huiming's body, and Huiming was doing heavy and dirty chores in accordance with the rules in the post of fireman. Even the new commander of the company seems to have forgotten the past history of this company for a long time . If the expansion of ambition is directly proportional to the person himself, there will be a clear hope of being a commander.

However, the person who presides over the existence of human beings seems to be a person who controls everything with his hands. Sometimes, for the sake of happiness, he often endows a person with a particularly exaggerated physique, but places a mediocre body on this majestic torso. heart of.Huiming is a person who is dealt with in this way: on the one hand, he is developed to the point where people see him in awe of gods and ghosts, but on the other hand, he is as innocent as a puppy and as loyal and docile as a cow.If someone wants to find out the root of the misfortune in this person's life, this innocence and kindness is a very justified reason why this person will always be a firefighter.Physically he is a fireman, but mentally he is a good man.When people are good, it is inevitable that people will often be used as idiots.When provoked, he is in a generous mood, seeing no reason to be angry.But this character who is not easy to get angry, in another sense, it seems that everyone is smarter than him, so he can only be a fireman forever.

In any army, there is always a shortage of companions with short limbs like a hozen, but also as smart as a hozen.With such a companion, Hui Ming will appear more dull and vigorous.This kind of person started, followed by 108 heroes in the whole company. While shedding blood for the warlord, everyone treated him as an idiot, called him by various nicknames, and tortured him with various jobs. Gradually, It made him taste the treatment of idiots in the world one by one.There was no other way, and he naturally became more and more distant from being smart. It has been ten years since the discussion of Yuan.In the past ten years, many things in the world have changed. Thousands of horses and gangsters have become high-ranking officials; in the eyes of others, he has only grown into his place, and there is no change at all other than that.He is just like a big-leaf poplar that is very easy to grow, and it is born on the ground of this world. All the wind, rain, cold and heat cannot destroy it, but instead promote its solid growth.He put all the teasing behind him, and all he could see and think about was a vast forest, in which there were no military laws who could tell jokes, no lieutenants who loved Peugeot, no medals, no money, and there was no sneer or pettiness in the woods.The impression of the woods was created from a lecture by the governor Cai E.This forest refers to the border of China, or it can be said to be overseas. In this seemingly far away place, the army is stationed to defend the country and is doing a great cause. At the same time, it reclaims wasteland and produces food. , while defending the border.

In that kind of place, according to the notes, there should be Chinese New Year and festivals, guards, guns and cannons, and grass and tobacco, but it seems that it is not the situation in the current barracks. When and how that life appeared, it was inconclusive when asked about him.Or ask him why this matter is more meaningful than getting promoted and getting rich, and he can't explain clearly.He still didn't forget the words that Du Dushang said "plant your military flag on the fort".The military flag has a side on him, so he kept it carefully because he believed that it would be useful one day.When that day came, he was prepared to do what the governor said.He likes his superior and worships him not because of his majesty, but because of his simplicity, like a man and not like an official.Yuan Shikai wanted to be emperor, and he was the one who told the people that "the Republic of China should no longer have an emperor sitting in the golden palace to bully people", and everyone overthrew Yuan Shikai.

Being posthumously called "Stay", the military flag of the treasure, and the rootless ideals are all partly responsible.He also seems to understand that until recently, the matter of the flag has never been mentioned to anyone.His great desire, except for his own enjoyment, is not shared by others. Because of overthrowing warlords and counter-revolutionaries, the 33rd Company was transferred to the front line in Huangzhou, Hubei. What he was talking about at this time was the situation when he went to the front line. Fighting is not a terrible thing.Serving as a soldier in China since the Republic of China, no matter how timid you are, you will inevitably have the opportunity to go to the front line within a year.This fireman has more than ten years of experience in civil wars. These ten years or so have been an era in which Chinese officials have nothing to do but fight with each other all day long in this new century.The record of the new era is to shed the blood of some fools and promote the officials of some wise people.He has seen too many things, and the dead are not a big deal.If he had the opportunity to know the words "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen", he would laugh all day long at what people who read "Ziyue" said about "compassion".Sweating, starving, bleeding, and rotting, is this life worthy of sympathy outside the army?He is not for sympathy, not for the relocation of the country's capital or the unification of the government-he is almost the same as many people, just for "the three-month allowance can be paid if you rush forward", this idiot, he really follows a lot of appearances and is very smart The officer rushed forward.

After arriving at the front, his position was still a fireman.He intends to still participate in this lively event in his job.He had already knitted three pairs of straw sandals.There are also ropes, iron rice bowls, and bundles of grass tobacco, all fully prepared.He also added a fire sickle, the steel fire was very good, and he bought it from a firewood seller at a high price.He figured the excitement was coming soon.Seeing the vehicles transporting luggage passing by very heavily, the vehicles were deeply buried in the sand, he shouted and laughed at the useless horses pulling the carts.On the way he was driving forward, the weight on his shoulders sometimes weighed no less than one hundred and twenty catties, but he still sang along the way.As soon as he rests, he speaks with a big throat.

There has been no contact between the two sides of the army, and the troops are stationed in companies as units, and the 33rd company is stationed on the side of a small mountain.He is the same as usual, carrying water, washing vegetables, cooking, everything is done by him, and he always has a share in everything he does.After the work was over, when the chief of staff was happy, he mocked the overly conspicuous big body and called him a "gun target". He asked in a loud voice: "Company commander, when will we do it?" Why did he do it but he didn't ask.Because the boss has already said it many times, it is natural to "defeat the warlords" before there is a war, and you don't need to ask.In fact, his boss's boss is a warlord.This person, in some places, he has not completely stayed.

After being stationed at the front for three days, nothing happened.This matter seemed to have too much to do with him, and he always missed it all day long.Tired during the day, he fell asleep in the haystack, but when he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, his ears seemed to be awakened by the sound of gunshots.He could no longer sleep by this time.He thought, maybe the outpost has already ordered to arrive at this time?Or has there been a night raid?Or some places have already moved their hands, hacking each other with sabers, stabbing each other with spears—?He shivered, got up, and quietly went out to look at the weather outside the tent. At the same time, he saw the sentry soldiers standing in front, or walking back and forth with guns on their shoulders. He didn't want to disturb this person, and he seemed unable to say a word to this person, so he coughed and delivered a notice.Everyone knew about his cough, and naturally the sentry guards knew it right away.At this time, if the watchman is a joker, he must deliberately say "slogan!" He will not forget the slogan of the night at any time.But what he promised was "the fireman will know".It is natural for the army to have different slogans, but this man's slogan is always the words "The fireman will be clear". Asked about the slogan, no problem, and approached the sentinel.He always asked with a very cautious look: "Master, brother, how are you doing? Is there anything wrong?" "No." "I seem to hear gunshots." "I know you're dreaming." "I've been awake for a long time." "You're talking nonsense." Wen promised to stop for a while, and the man opened his ears to listen to the distance again.However, after a while, he still wants to say "Listen, listen, brother, it seems a little different, don't you notice?" If the answer is still "no", he whispers like a stubborn child: "I Suspicious, I heard the horse neighing." The one who answered said, "This is your venting." After being scolded, he still seemed worried and wanted to say it. ... Or, in addition, a little more about the statistics of the war dead, and anecdotes about life and death struggles.The fireman didn't answer until he felt a little chilly all over his body. After he looked at the sky, the sky was full of big and small stars, and he couldn't see any changes, so he got into the tent again. War is also, so to speak, beneficial to him, for in any operation he always gets some weariness and hunger, and also some nervous joy.Even fleeing, retreating, seeing that kind of disorderly dispute, ridiculous panic, and frightening dullness, all seem to be something for him.However, he was looking forward to the front-line contact, but not because of these things.He always thought that since the fight was going to be fought and the two were already prepared, then it would be better if the weather was right and people's spirits would be better.He still remembers what happened in western Hubei last year. The time was May and June. As soon as the person fell down, the breath continued, and the erosion would stink; another day later, there would be small maggots crawling all over his body.The dead head and face were purple, swollen like a bucket, and the belly was swollen and high, and it burst open within a few days.Although a soldier should disregard his own life and death, but after death it is so ugly, smells so bad, and maggots grow in the running water. Although he is an "enemy", he still uses a gun to draw his own head as a target at another time. After all, it is not very interesting. thing!Now the weather is obviously getting hotter every day. If we don't fight, after a while, it will really be like last year's situation. For the ugly and unfit June situation, the order he was willing to do was given immediately. However, the situation on the front line cannot change as Huiming hoped.First, there was news that the brigade was concentrated in ××. After the concentration, the situation became much more peaceful, and it seemed that there was still a glimmer of hope for the future. This peace, if it came to pass, was something that displeased him very much.Merely to prepare him for the dream of service after the war, the beginning of the war, to prolong the days, is something that many people find intolerable.No one in the army likes to fight a civil war.But they all hope to get a solution from the war: if you win, you will win; if you lose, you will retreat.All in all, when it comes to conflict, real peace will come very quickly.As for the two sides supporting the original status, it seems very boring to the soldiers.He was in the same mood as them, that is, it was better to solve it immediately.It is impossible to maintain the original defense and not advance or retreat.No one knows that the weather in June will not work like this! Huiming naturally has another plan for the war.He really wants to fight and fight, it seems that every time he fights, he is one step closer to the fact that he used to think of soldiers going to the border to defend the country, so he asked everyone he met during the day. When to fire.His kind of concern seems to be able to promote the battalion commander after firing.But no one is clear about this, and no one can give a definitive answer.Everyone wanted to know about this, but as usual, no soldier had the right to ask about this day, including the company commander, until the order came here.It seems that we must spend June here. Five days later, still nothing. Fifteen days later, everything was the same as it had been the past few days. one After more than ten days without any change, he gradually became less concerned about what happened at night. When I woke up in the middle of the night and went out of the tent to unwind, the number of conversations with the sentry gradually decreased. There is a small village not far from their garrison. Because of the flat terrain, there is no need to fight for this village, so no soldiers are stationed.However, all the country people living in the village have been forced to move to the deep mountains.Over the past few days, it seems that the situation is not very tense. Gradually, many of the country people who moved to the deep mountains a few days ago quietly returned to the village to visit their fields.There are also some country people who dare to display eggs and the like on the side of the road in front of the desolate village, and come to risk doing business with these deputy masters. Huiming, in order to be a fireman, can still move around at any time before firing, except to beware of being captured.There are already people in the village doing business, so he often goes to the village.He walked several times a day. On the one hand, the brothers in Dailian went to buy some things, and on the other hand, he was looking for an elderly farmer in the countryside to talk to.And what makes him more happy in the village is the local tobacco leaf tobacco, the yellow color is almost gold, and the taste is not bad.Since you don't start the fire, you always have to smoke. If you have local cigarettes, when you return to the original defense, the original three bundles of herbal cigarettes will remain the same, and the benefits will indeed be a lot.So although he didn't forget the incident of starting the fire, he went to the village every day to talk and treat the villagers with a little of the very precious herbal tobacco, and it seemed that he could still pass his days. There is also soju in the village, old goods from the cellar.He doesn't drink much, but a small drink is also very pleasant. As soon as he arrived in the village, he found the person who was talking to him, because the full beard had proved that he was a friend who had something to talk to.People always want to know where his beard came from.This good man talked about the story of ten years ago in a very beautiful way.He slipped his words, and sometimes he couldn't help but blow a little bit of harmless cowhide. For example, he only met the governor Cai E twice, but he said it was five times.However, since he said such a thing, it was not a crime for him to forget it before the listener.When he mentioned Cai E, he talked about the great man's voice, the color of the great man's spirit, and then he remembered the flag on his waist. The color of the other person.Originally, in this village, all the people left at this time were people of a certain age, because he saw that the eyes of the other party were completely honest, and he smiled.What he did next was take off the little pennant that was wrapped around his waist. "Look, this guy!" The eyes of the beholder showed surprise, and he was proud. "Look, he gave it to us, and he said 'Hey man, be brave, don't be afraid, get in there!' Do you know where to get in? High, high!" Listen People naturally shook their heads, and they wanted to understand who "he" was and where he was going.He slowly smoked his pipe while telling old stories.The people who heard this seemed to have arrived at that place, and saw this group of brave soldiers living under the set flag, and the corner of the flag was rattled by the wind.If it weren't for the fear of the company commander standing at attention under the scorching sun, this man, in order to make the countryman's impression more clear, had already erected a flag on a mound in the village, so that the flag would really come and wave in the wind. It rang.Sometimes, others may ask, "Is this from Japan to England?" He would tell them, "It doesn't matter which country, in short, it's not Hunan Province, nor Sichuan Province." He thought of the endless forest, where and Nanjing and Wuhan in China are very far away, and I thought that it might not be the United Kingdom, but it would always be on the edge of Japan. As for Russia, he dared not say.Because it is terrible there, as a rule, the army is not allowed to mention the name of this country.What is there to be afraid of?He had no idea. It seemed that because of this generous talk, he and the village people quickly established a wonderful friendship.Once, he suddenly got a hen presented by someone and took it back to the tent.The person who delivered the chicken told him that the chicken would drop a large egg every day from the shitting place. When he took the chicken back with both hands, he placed it with a useless white wood bullet box, and by the next morning , Sure enough, there was an extra chicken egg in the wooden box.He took the eggs away and put them away, fed them some rice, and waited for the second egg, which turned out to be another one on the third day.When he got the eggs, he said "I admire you" to the hen.The hen is also very sensible, and has never been stingy with the eggs she laid. The number of chicken eggs increases by one every day, and he takes the hen to the village once a day to be frivolous with the rooster.Gradually he was attracted by a new interest in production and forgot everything about the war. Since having a hen in the property, this person, in many things, has become close to the care that a mother needs.When he discusses this chicken with others, it is like a mother discussing her children with others.He dreams at night that no matter where he goes, there are always twenty chicks twirling around his feet and chirping, as if calling him "Grandpa".When I woke up from my dream, I was still listening attentively, and what I was paying attention to was no longer the gunshots.He was worried that someone would steal the chicken eggs and a wild cat would drag the chicken. When the eggs arrived, there were indeed twenty eggs. It will be clear that in addition to official business, there are more personal matters.Preparing to hatch the chicks, he looked around, like a father busy watching his son unloaded from his mother's belly.For the hen laying eggs, he also changed his attitude from "I admire you" to "please be patient", which seems to be very polite. Another forty or fifty days were wasted in his anticipation, in the nonsense of others, in the cursing and singing of many in another part of the world.The chick came out of the thin eggshell into the sunlight, covered in tender yellow and milky white fur, and chirping, making Huiming so happy that he almost became a madman.If the place he was sent to at this time was the place he was usually fascinated by, he could take this cage of chicks there, and even if he had no one else to accompany him, he would put up a flag and live there with a very hardworking person. Knowing that he had a brood of chicks, Ben joined Xiaobing, and people came to see his chicks all day long.There is also the soldier who loves petty things, and something happened to him.For this matter, he used a generous attitude, and he agreed to the person without stinginess, but attached a condition, although he assigned whoever owned the chicken and who owned the chicken, he still managed everything.He made a different mark on each chick, but fed them all equally.He went to any tent, and he had the opportunity to tell others how the chickens were doing, because in every tent, there was always someone who asked him for chickens. During the day when the sun was shining, he would take the chicks and the hen out of the wooden box, and while the mother and the son were playing near the tent, he would watch the chickens play with his shirtless shirt on his pipe, or he would raise an ax to chop wood and chop the freshly chopped wood. The firewood was piled into hollow pagodas.He was very happy to see the flock of chickens circling around the woodpile, and the hen leading the chicks vigilantly to escape into the chai tower while the eagle was flying in the sky. When he went into the village, he took the caged chicken with him.He was going to show the original owner, as if that person was his in-laws.The chick was healthy and lively. After receiving some touching compliments from the old owner, he smiled proudly and proudly with a short pipe in his mouth, and said very modestly: "This is all good for the chicken, it is too sensible, it You're so cute." For this reason, it seems that this honor still belongs to the old master. Realizing this, the old master smiled, and Huiming couldn't help being moved until tears welled up in the corners of his eyes. "Master, are you not fighting yet?" "Well, the order can't come down." "Have you heard anything yet?" "Or it will be played in June." "If you want to fight, how about it?" The old man was referring to the whereabouts of this brood of chicks. Huiming also understood the meaning, and said, "This is owned by Lian Shang." He also pointed out to the countryman one by one that a certain chicken belonged to a certain person. "If you want to fight, you have to take them to the line of fire. They won't be frightened. Don't you believe it? I once took a cat with me, which was black with clouds and snow, but with a white belly and four paws. This cat lived with us in the trench for two months and changed places. " "Aren't cats afraid of gunfire?" "It's like a human, even though it's timid, it won't be afraid when it gets there!" "I heard that foreign dogs fight too!" "Yes, dogs can fight, right? Some dogs are smarter than humans. I have seen a dog with my own eyes. It was as big as a calf and pulled a small cart." He raised his thumb, "Well, this. But after all a dog." Although talking about cats and dogs in the past, it seems that for the development or education of this group of chicks, it is obvious that they will gradually tend to the side of "peaceful doctrine". During the day, Huiming, who had said such things to the old owner of the chickens, returned to the tent and sat smoking by the chicken box, imagining how the chickens would grow up and fly to the top of the tent to fight. , Someone came to deliver a message.Someone came from the company commander and stood at the door, saying that the company had been ordered to retreat tonight.Huiming ran out and grabbed the man, "Hey, you're lying!" The visitor looked at Huiming, ignored the idiot, broke free with all his strength, and walked to another tent.He didn't chase the man, but ran straight to the side of the company commander's tent. In front of the company commander's tent, he met his immediate superior. "Company commander, is this serious?" "What's serious? You're an idiot, so you never say anything serious." "I heard them say we're going to..." He stuck out his big tongue. The company commander was silent.The fireman was panting from running, seeing that the company commander was silent, he looked over the company commander's shoulder, and noticed that someone was packing up things in the tent, rolling up military maps, and dismantling the phone.He pursed his lips, as if to say "I know if you don't tell me, I can't hide anything from me", and ran back proudly to tidy up his chicken coop. The situation of the peace negotiation was mature, all the brains made peace, the land was properly allocated, and it was agreed as usual to retreat the army for 20 miles, and all the curses and slogans were torn down everywhere, so "the world is peaceful".There will be one more wooden box and one more chicken family on Huiming's property. When their team withdrew to the original defense, Huiming's food burden was filled with three bundles of herbal tobacco leaves that had not been used yet, and the children were added to the other end.Everyone who should have seen blood, broken limbs, and rotten intestines thought otherwise!But what I didn't expect was that I made a joke like this, all the busyness, all the energy wasted, all the tragic expectations, the result was peaceful and nothing happened, it was just child's play. On the front line, Huiming is a fireman, but when he returns to the original defense, Huiming is still a fireman.If there is no war, he seems to feel that it is still a long way to go to the edge of the big forest. When he planted a flag on the fort, and saw the day when the flag was rattled by the wind, there was no hope of confirming it for a while. But he feeds the chickens and cooks them very carefully.The excess grass smoke can last at least forty days.All in all he was very happy.June is here and the weather is so hot!Fortunately, none of the company was rotted.When Huiming saw the stupid smiles of these brothers, no one understood the meaning of those smiles.In a few days, once the autumn tiger passes by, those chicks will flap their featherless wings and learn to call "Gougou".All things considered, he was very happy and satisfied. Written in the summer of 1929