Chapter 3 Chapter Two

Bai Su read the novel first, the situation of the novel is a bit strange, it has not been printed yet, but it is written very beautifully.The tiny characters are written on specially printed manuscript paper. The grid on the manuscript paper is extremely small, only about a quarter of that on ordinary manuscripts, but each word is neat and clear, right on the grid. In the middle, the novel seems to be quite long, because the manuscript paper has a very thick stack, thicker than a brick.The source of the novel is also very special, it was brought back from a long way by a friend of Bai Su who lived abroad.

I was there when her friend came to visit that day. The friend was a mezzo-soprano and her voice was extremely pleasant, but after some pleasantries, what she said was not pleasant at all. To be polite, I have already covered my ears and hurried away. She first said: "It turns out that there is someone with the surname Jun, the gentleman's gentleman." Bai Su smiled: "Surnamed Jun? It's called Junzi. It's a very unique name, and it's better to be a female." I interjected: "It's probably another strange surname left by the Manchurians." Bai Su glared at me: "Don't be ignorant. Emperor Yao had a teacher named Junchou. This surname is very ancient."

I stuck out my tongue, not daring to say anything more. The singer said again: "This female writer is surnamed Jun, and her single name is Hua." I dare not say: "I have never heard of such a female writer", but Bai Su said: "The name is very strange." The singer laughed: "Of course, she has only written one novel in total, and it has not been published yet. It is impossible for you to be familiar with her name." When she said this, she glanced at me, and as soon as I met her gaze, I felt bad, afraid that she would ask me to read the manuscript of a novel that was mostly incomprehensible, which is one of the countless painful events in the world. one.

I hurriedly and secretly made a gesture to Bai Su, asking Bai Su to prepare mentally and reject all the demands of the singer.Sure enough, as expected, the singer continued: "I read it, it's very interesting, I hope Mr. Wei can also take a look and give some advice." My face was expressionless, as if wearing a human skin mask: "I'm not good at criticizing novels." The singer refused to retreat: "It's a story worth reading, Junhua said, it's her own experience." At that time, I intended to cover my ears and walk away, but I didn't leave. Bai Su glared at me, and also stared back at the few words I wanted to say. However, if you want me to pretend to be interested, I'm really sorry, it's not that I don't want to, but because of my facial nerves, six of the seven nerves refused to cooperate, and one of them worked, making the corners of my mouth droop.

Personal experience, I don’t know how many people are self-indulgent, or self-inflated to think that their life experience can be turned into a novel.Most of these novels are only read with gusto by themselves, why would others want to read them?People who really want to have extraordinary experiences, like Dr. Yuan Zhenxia and Luo Kai, known as the Eagle of Asia, their adventure lives are the subject of the novel. Of course, one should not be arrogant, nor should one underestimate one's own self, for example, one's experience can be written into a novel. Bai Su is more kind. As soon as the singer saw my expression, he knew that she couldn't achieve her goal, so she turned to look at Bai Su. Bai Su didn't hesitate at all, and said, "Okay, I'll read it."

The singer was very happy, opened the travel bag, and took out the large stack of manuscripts. I glanced at it and saw two very beautiful words written on the self-bound cover: Betrayal, it seems to be Zhong Shaojing's inspiration. flying body. Bai Su took it, flipped through it, and I also saw the neatly written words on the manuscript paper, and remembered an old joke: Someone took the manuscript to ask others for advice, and asked: How about my article?People's answer is: the handwriting is very good. This stack of novel manuscripts, probably the comment of "the writing is extremely good", can definitely be used.

The singer left after sitting for a short time. It was just after lunch, and Bai Su started to read the novel. I was busy with my business. At two o'clock in the afternoon, I saw Bai Su was still reading, engrossed, obviously The plot of the novel is quite attractive to her. This can't help but surprise me, Bai Su's appreciation ability is extremely high, it's hard for her to catch casual novels, so is this really a good novel?I pretended to cough, and she didn't raise her head until the third cough, and as soon as she saw my expression, she knew what I meant: "You should read it, the novel is very well written."

The manuscript of the novel was bound in six volumes. As she spoke, she threw the first volume to me. At this time, she had already read the fourth volume. I took it and started watching. What I saw was what was written earlier, how Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng met, two completely unrelated people. Just when I finished the first book and put down my hands, Bai Su asked, "How is it?" I expressed my opinion and noticed that Bai Su was already reading the fifth volume. She also agreed with my opinion: "Yes, some places are written in too much detail, which is completely written in the way of a large number of literary novels, but in some places, the relationship between people is written, but it is very obscure and ambiguous. .”

I picked up the second volume: "This novel is definitely worth publishing. At the beginning, I thought it must be terrible." Bai Su sighed: "And it must be the author's personal experience. She wrote about the wars, how she was killed and wounded in the hail of bullets, fought bloody, how she woke up among the dead, and her body was soaked in a pool of blood. , Alas, I don’t really have such an experience, I’m afraid I can’t write it.” I waved my hand: "Novels are mainly based on imagination, not experience. The most obvious proof is that everyone has experiences, and not everyone can write novels."

Bai Su sighed: "Wouldn't it be better to have experience and imagination?" I didn't argue any further, just asked, "If it's from personal experience, what does a woman do in the army?" Bai Su pursed her lips, did not answer my question, and concentrated on reading the novel again. I continued with my opinion: "The novel is called 'Betrayal,' and it's not very good." Bai Su didn't look up: "Why? This is a very powerful novel title, with strong condemnation." I laughed "haha": "Novels, good-looking novels, always have a certain suspense. She wrote two iron encounters from the beginning. At that time, the status of the two people was so far apart, but it was obvious that one became Teacher, one has become a deputy teacher."

Bai Su said casually: "Yes, I explained it very clearly." I raised my voice: "It's just that the title of the article is not good. Betrayal. You can tell it at a glance. As things go on, it's Fang Tiesheng, who was picked up by Gan Tiesheng from the garbage dump, who betrayed Gan Tiesheng." Bai Su finally raised his head and glanced at me: "This should be how it develops." I clapped my hands: "Look, as expected, the result is all known, and the degree of good looks will naturally decrease." Bai Su shook his head: "Not necessarily. You always like to express your opinions too early. How about you wait until you finish reading it? Although you know the result, you always know why there is such a result after reading it." I snorted: "This method really requires the author to have the ability to write super novels." It must be explained that what I wrote here has been abridged by me.That's why I have the criticism of "some places are too wordy and detailed", and the deleted ones are all irrelevant descriptions. The original author, Junhua, used at least a thousand words to describe it when writing about that garbage dump , All asked me to delete it, a garbage dump is a garbage dump, no matter how you describe it, it is still a garbage dump. Also, many irrelevant passages have also been deleted by me.For example, Gan Tiesheng took Fang Tiesheng to find the head of the regiment, and told Fang Tiesheng to lie that he was seventeen years old. After a long period, it becomes superfluous.There are also many descriptions of wars, which all belong to the "wordy" list. Therefore, when I started to read their stories again, in the second volume, Fang Tiesheng had already put on a military uniform and became an orderly of Gan Tiesheng's platoon company—here, let's condense the story again. Less than a month after Fang Tiesheng joined the army, he went to the battlefield. Their regiment was ambushed and surrounded by the enemy with more than three times the strength, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable to them. After more than half of the officers and soldiers died in battle, the regiment The commander ordered that all the units break through on their own, and one by one escaped—the whole regiment was already defeated at that time.Amidst the explosions of various weapons and ammunition, there was the Ghost Crying God of wounded soldiers, and on a night without stars and moonlight, the place where the battlefield was located was simply the 18th floor of Avici Hell. In the flames from a shell explosion at close range, Gan Tiesheng, who was crawling on the ground, saw that beside him, Fang Tiesheng was carrying a person on his back. The person seemed to be injured, and Fang Tiesheng was crawling forward with difficulty. The two of them were covered in blood, and they didn't know whose blood it was, maybe it wasn't theirs, because there was blood all over the place, and all the low-lying places that could gather blood were thick blood. Gan Tiesheng quickly moved and moved to Fang Tiesheng's side. Although it was dark and in such a chaotic situation, as soon as the two approached, Fang Tiesheng seemed to know who was approaching him, panting, stretched out his hand Come, shake hands with Gan Tiesheng. Gan Tiesheng asked, "Who are you carrying behind your back?" Fang Tiesheng's voice sounded as hard as a young man should be: "I don't know, there is blood all over his body, but he is not dead, so I have to take him away, I can't take so much, alas." As soon as the gunshot rang out, many veterans would panic when they were being attacked, but Fang Tiesheng, a young recruit, was surprisingly calm.Afterwards, he said to Gan Tiesheng: "I thought war was such a profound thing. It turned out that I had to try my best to survive under impossible circumstances. Hey, I have lived like this since I was born, so why is it so difficult?" After this battle, only about one-tenth of the entire regiment escaped the siege, and the rest were all wiped out. Naturally, the losses were extremely heavy. Among those who survived, most of them were slightly injured. It was a miracle that Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng were not injured at all. But when it was daylight, when the friendly troops arrived in a safe area, Fang Tiesheng kept carrying the wounded soldier on his back. The reason why he carried the wounded soldier on his back was because he crawled among the piles of dead bodies, and when he passed the wounded soldier, The wounded soldier's injury may not be serious. He wrapped his arms around his left leg tightly, and Fang Tiesheng first dragged him out a few steps. In such a chaotic and dangerous situation, it was too late for him to take care of himself, but although Fang Tiesheng was young, he was very chivalrous and compassionate. He pulled the man on his back and crawled forward with him on his back. After saying "thank you" in a hoarse voice, he didn't say anything more. It was safe. When the wounded soldier was handed over to the troops taking care of the wounded soldier, the blood-stained wounded soldier suddenly reached out and grabbed Fang Tiesheng's wrist: "You are so brave, you will be a natural born general." Only then did Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng see who the wounded soldier was, and they both exclaimed together: "Regimental Commander." Fang Tiesheng was asked to carry several miles on his back, and the wounded soldier who narrowly escaped from death turned out to be the commander of their regiment. The head of the regiment has been injured for half a month, and the replenishment and reorganization of the troops have also been completed.The regimental commander, who is fully armed and energetic, is naturally the same size as the wounded soldier covered in blood in the pile of dead bodies. He summoned Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng, rubbed his hands, and pointed at Gan Tiesheng: "You are simple, just promote you to be a company commander. Pointing to Fang Tiesheng again: "You are annoying people, so you are a soldier, and you can't be promoted too fast." Gan Tiesheng already had a plan, don't forget that he is both civil and military, he immediately said: "Commander, I don't want to be promoted to company commander, I will still be my platoon leader, and he will be my deputy platoon leader, this arrangement, Everyone is satisfied." The head of the group looked at them with very surprised eyes, You Qi stared at Gan Tiesheng for a while.From platoon leader to company commander, jumping two ranks in a row, this is quite a rare exception in the promotion of low-level officers. But Gan Tiesheng was willing to sacrifice such an opportunity in order to accommodate Fang Tiesheng. The deep relationship between these two, at least the deep relationship between Gan Tiesheng and the other Tiesheng, can be imagined. When the leader watched them, he saw that the two of them were looking at each other. The exchange of eyes was so smooth and natural that it was impossible to distinguish the eyes of two people. It seemed that they were one person with two pairs of eyes. Same. The hands of the two of them are naturally held together, proving that they have absolutely no other ideas, and they all think the same. From then on, no matter how rough the road of life is, the two of them will support each other and join hands Going hand in hand, two people will be as close as one person. The head of the regiment has a fairly high level of education, and vaguely pretends to be a Confucian general. Seeing this situation, he was very moved. He reached out and patted each of them on the shoulder: "Okay, that's it for now." Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng each raised their chests, and approached with a "slap" of the heels of their shoes, and gave a military salute. Gan Tiesheng said loudly, "Report to the regiment commander, I have a request." The head of the regiment made a gesture of "just talk", and Gan Tiesheng said: "From now on, I will only be the principal, and the deputy—" Before he finished speaking, Fang Tiesheng had already called out: "I will take on the deputy position." The head of the regiment was taken aback for a moment, but then he laughed "haha" and said, "Okay, okay, when you get higher and higher, this matter will definitely become a good story in history and in the army." The matter was decided in this way. Although the newly reorganized platoon of soldiers felt that their deputy platoon leader was younger, no matter how much they guessed, they couldn't guess that he would be only twelve years old. Even if there were still dissatisfaction at first, after a battle, the deputy platoon leader Fang Tiesheng heard the sound of the charging horn, and everyone saw the scene of rushing forward like a tiger out of prison. Who would dare to fight for such a warrior? Dissatisfied? Once, he rushed so fast that he jumped over the enemy's trench and turned around to shoot from the enemy's back. Fang Tiesheng was brave in battle, and Gan Tiesheng was also brave, not only brave, but also resourceful. The two of them were almost inseparable. In less than half a year, they became the company commander and deputy company commander. Another year and a half, in the midst of the catastrophe of war, the only one The beneficiaries seem to be the officers, who became battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders. For Gan Tiesheng, nothing has changed in two years, but the changes that have happened to Fang Tiesheng are simply astonishing. Gan Tiesheng was still thin and thin, and he seemed to be well-mannered, more like a scholar than an officer.However, Fang Tiesheng, who was already tall, grew more than half of his head, much taller than Gan Tiesheng. Moreover, the food in the army was good, and the company commanders and battalion commanders were not big or small officials. Once the nutrition is good, to quote the northern dialect: "People are easy to gain weight", he becomes extremely strong, and he is naturally active, so he is fine when he is free. When Gan Tiesheng doesn't want him to study culture, he will wander around the mountains and fields. Not to mention weak beasts like deer and sheep, when he encounters a ferocious beast, I'm afraid he can kill an eye-catching white-fronted tiger with three punches. Fang Tiesheng was still young, but he was already a majestic burly man. He was still inseparable from Gan Tiesheng. When they were promoted to battalion commander and deputy battalion commander, even the commander came down to see them. No matter if they were senior generals or soldiers under them, they could be on their bodies. The harmony of their heart-to-heart communication is almost natural. Such two people are like iron branches that have been twisted together. Power can be divided. The commander really encouraged the two of them, and it was only then that Fang Tiesheng revealed his real age: a fourteen-year-old battalion commander, who can make the enemy famously fearful, and is like a divine help in charging into battle. When the commander described Fang Tiesheng as almost invincible in the war with "if there is God's help", Fang Tiesheng smiled - don't look at him as a tall and bold man, but when he smiled, he still had a childish charm. He said: "No God is helping me, and the battalion commander is helping me." The commander wondered: "How did you join the army?" Fang Tiesheng laughed happily: "I was picked up from the garbage dump by the battalion commander." The commander was stunned at first, but after hearing the result, he knew the truth, and he was amazed again and again.Since then, Fang Tiesheng has kept this sentence on his lips to express his wholehearted gratitude to Gan Tiesheng, but Gan Tiesheng has never claimed credit or expressed anything. Whenever Fang Tiesheng said this, he would laugh and say: " Don't talk nonsense, the mouth is full of hair, it's not a child anymore." From the age of fifteen, Fang Tiesheng began to grow dense layers of beard on his cheeks and neck. At first he tried hard to shave, but the harder he shaved, the faster it grew. After another year, he gave up. If he shaves his beard and grows it back, he becomes a majestic bearded man. In another two years, Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng became regimental commanders and deputy regimental commanders, already quite senior officers. At the Paoze Fun Club, "Three Heroes in the Wind and Dust" was performed, with the leader Gan Tiesheng as Li Jing, and the deputy leader Fang Tiesheng, so it was logical that he was a bearded guest.Although this performance was just one of the shows in the evening, at most it left a deep impression on others. However, this performance may have had an inestimable and extremely profound impact on Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng, but it is impossible to be sure whether such an impact happened. I finished reading the second volume, and immediately picked up the third volume, wanting to see how an ordinary performance of military fun would have such a profound impact on Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng. It seems that I can't be sure, and the writing is vague and vague, which makes people want to read it impatiently. But at the beginning of the third volume, it completely narrates other things, and puts down the performance of "Three Heroes". I snorted: "What is that? After acting in a scene, what impact will it have? I mentioned it and then stopped it. Is there any explanation later?" At that time, Bai Su was already reading the last volume, and her answer was the same as not answering: "It can be said that I have explained it, or I can say I have not explained it." I raised my voice: "What kind of talk is this?" Bai Su smiled: "This is the brilliance of the novel author. If there is nothing, if there is nothing, if it is false, it is unpredictable. The more impatient you are, the more the author is secretly laughing. This is called playing hard to get when writing a novel." Law." I bowed to her: "I have learned, female Jin Shengtan." Bai Su sighed suddenly, and covered up the last volume that was still left.This movement of hers is very old-fashioned, calling for "covering the scroll". If there is an allusion, Su Zhe's poems have "there are many feelings in the book, and the scroll is long". At this moment, Bai Su sighed suddenly, it was naturally because he was moved by the plot in the novel. In the past, I was very impatient. When reading novels, especially suspenseful ones, I couldn't read them sequentially.I often read novels with Bai Su (it is one of the joys in life for two like-minded people to read novels together), and she said more than once: "It is a bad habit to read novels like yours." .” Bai Su never speaks heavily, she said "bad habit", that is already a very heavy wording. And since she decided that it was a bad habit, she set out to correct me by hiding the second half of the book.She is very good at hiding things, and she can't find them anymore, so she has to look at them one by one. As time goes by, the bad habit has long since disappeared. At this time, I was staring at the manuscript of the sixth novel still in her hand, and I really wanted to grab it as soon as I reached out. The purpose, of course, was to see the result first. In the two volumes I have read, the author emphasizes every time that the relationship between Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng is harmonious and natural, and there is no possibility of any cracks.I can also see with certainty that the author has written about the relationship between two people in a very obscure, dry, and ambiguous style of writing, which has surpassed the friendship between men and formed a friendship between men. Romance between man and man. The love affair between men may be very strange in the conservative northern China and the strict military discipline at that time, but this kind of behavior has become very common until now. It is what everyone knows as "homosexuality". ". If there is a relationship between Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng, it is even more unlikely that there will be such behavior as betrayal. I want to catch the sixth volume and find out who betrayed whom and why. I stretched my hand forward, and then I remembered that once I quit the bad habit, I shouldn’t relapse, so I retracted my hand again. Bai Su looked up at me, she could see what I wanted to do at a glance, her reaction was very strange, she neither gave me the manuscript, nor stopped me from taking it, she just shook her head slowly: "No, always At the end of the writing, only the fact of the betrayal was written, and there was no reason." I was taken aback for a moment: "I don't believe it, if that's the case, then what kind of novel is it?" Bai Su turned his head and thought for a while: "The author has left many, many questions without an answer. But each one is enough to make people think deeply." I said, "What's the problem?" Bai Su sighed: "When you finish reading, let's discuss together." As she spoke, she picked up the manuscript paper again, flipped through the last few pages, frowning, not knowing what she saw.