There was a big fight in the kitchen compound, which lasted until Political Commissar Ding Deyi rushed to the scene after hearing the news.
The scene was a mess, with everyone grimacing, bruised and swollen, with a lot of minor injuries. What surprised Ding De the most was that Uncle Niu was also holding a long wooden spoon, standing in the crowd with a red face and thick neck, while Gao Yidao, covered in slop, was sitting on the ground next to him, with his head drooping and full of bruises.
The Second Company, the Ninth Squad, the Kitchen Squad, and the Regimental Headquarters were also involved. Ding Deyi was so angry that he sighed to the sky. What a shame, what a failure. All these years as a political commissar were in vain. Not to mention in the entire division, even in the entire Eighth Route Army, no unit could be so messed up, right? Half a regiment was involved in this nonsense. I am ashamed of the organization.
No matter whether they were injured or not, or whether their noses were still bleeding, Ding Deyi started training them on the spot, reprimanding them bitterly and shouting at them in indignation. He talked about the atmosphere and awareness, discipline and principles, and finally even the new recruits who came to watch the fun were not spared. He scolded them all and continued training them for a very long time.
One room, one door, one window, and one bed. Gao Yidao suddenly sat up from the bed and shouted to the outside of the door: "Bring me a basin of water!"
After spending a night in the confinement cell, the swill on his tattered military uniform had not yet completely dried out, and his body was so sour and smelly that he could not stand it anymore. He decided to take it off and wash, but there was no response from outside the door.
"Are you dead? Speak to me."
"What did you say?" Xiao Bing, who was sitting against the wall outside the door with a bruised face and nose, took a long time to speak.
"Bring me a basin of water."
"This is a detention room, not a bathhouse."
Gao Yidao got angry immediately after being confronted by Xiao Bing outside the door, and jumped off the bed: "You little bastard, are you trying to kill me?"
The door opened with a bang. Xiao Bing leaned against the door outside and replied calmly, "In the Second Company, you are the company commander; here, it's useless."
Gao Yidao was so angry that he took two big steps to the door, and found that Xiao Bing in front of him neither closed the door nor dodged. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the threshold in front of Gao Yidao's toes.
Gao Yidao stared at Xiao Bing for a while with a cold face. He didn't step out of the door, not because he didn't dare, but because it was not worth it. If he stepped out, it would be a violation of the law, which would be a greater crime. At this moment, Gao Yidao thought of a saying in his heart: A tiger in troubled times is bullied by a dog.
Trying hard to suppress his anger, Gao Yidao asked again: "I heard that Hu Za Sui can live a comfortable life here. Let me ask you, what's the reason? Huh?"
"That was delivered by Team Nine themselves. What does it have to do with me? There's no point in looking at me."
"Well, go tell the second company to get me some water and some bedding. Is this bare bed suitable for sleeping?"
"Hehe, I'm sorry, Captain Gao, I'm on guard duty now. If I leave, it will be a violation of discipline. You figure out what to do."
Bang—as soon as the words fell, the door closed.
The medical team was packed with wounded soldiers. Bao Si led Xiao Hongkuihua and three other male medical workers, who were sweating profusely. Two more were carried out last night. All the medical workers could do was disinfect, use some Chinese herbal medicine, and try to comfort the wounded who were struggling in pain, pinning their hopes on their physical fitness and fate...
"Damn it, he's too arrogant. He doesn't even know his own weight. Even Hu Za Sui is no match for the company commander. How can he think he's invincible just because he's strong?"
"I think the punishment was too lenient. Next time I must teach him a lesson so that he will remember it well."
"It's a pity that we are all lying here now and have missed the opportunity to punish them."
Several wounded soldiers from the Second Company kept chattering about the battle that took place in the kitchen compound yesterday. The wounded soldiers from the First and Third Companies listened with smiles on their faces, treating it as a joke to amuse themselves.
Liu Jianqiang couldn't bear it any longer, and sat up from the stretcher with his hands on the ground: "Are you done yet? You didn't hit me lightly, right? You missed the chance, right?" He raised his right hand and pounded his chest hard: "See? There's another person from Class 9 here. You want to beat him up, right? Come over here!"
"Hey, I said I had a runny nose. Did you take the wrong medicine? I didn't say anything about you, why are you so anxious?"
Another wounded soldier followed suit and said, "Yeah, Runny Nose, stop being so naughty. Don't forget that we in the Second Company have been very supportive of you. Do you think you are an ungrateful person
"You're right, so what if I'm an ungrateful person?" Liu Jianqiang began to shout at the top of his voice, and everyone in the rooms of the medical team could hear him.
"You bear, if I hadn't seen that you were injured and couldn't get up, I would have beaten you up right now, do you believe it?"
Liu Jianqiang snatched a crutch made of a tree branch from a nearby wounded man, frowned, gritted his teeth, and stood up staggeringly with the crutch.
"Come along, you guys. If you don't come, you're my grandson."
"Shut up!" The sanitation captain Bao Si came over hurriedly and said, "You think there are not enough people being carried out here? You have a runny nose, lie down.
The room fell silent, and the wounded stopped talking.
Liu Jianqiang seemed not to have heard Bao Si's words. He endured the pain and started to move towards the door with his crutches.
Seeing the stubborn behavior, Bao Si shouted angrily: "Stop right there!"
Kuihua, who was nearby, ran over and tried to support Liu Jianqiang, but he pushed her away: "No one is allowed to control me. I want to die and go back to Class 9." His voice was hysterical and he looked like a powder keg that could explode at any time.
Limping with a cane, he slowly moved out of the door of the medical team, enduring the pain but unable to stop the sweat from dripping down his forehead. Looking at the yellow earth under the sun, Liu Jianqiang fell into his old habit again and cried.
In fact, he was a good squad leader. He dared to save the second company and he dared to be a grenade for the girl. Before he fell, he was still arranging Ma Liang to stand guard and counting the names of the brothers in the ninth squad in the dark.
Regiment headquarters.
Seeing that Ding Deyi looked unhappy, Su Qing poured him a cup of hot water.
"Political Commissar, are you still angry about what happened yesterday?"
Ding Deyi took the water cup and said, "I can't afford to get angry with them. It's good that there are no accidental casualties." He paused and said, "Do you think... my treatment was too lenient?"
All the participants were only criticized on the spot, and Gao Yidao was the only one who was punished with solitary confinement. Su Qing did think that this punishment was too light, and she believed that the political commissar's approach should be based on the four words "the law does not punish the masses", so she nodded.
Ding Deyi sighed, "Our regiment is the smallest with the fewest people, and we are closest to the devils, so it's difficult. You and I have revolutionary beliefs, but the soldiers are different. It is not enough to rely on strict discipline, but we must also make them develop a tenacious style. Yesterday's incident showed me not only the bad side, but also the good side, that is, the bloodiness and fighting spirit of the soldiers, as well as the collective sense of honor and belonging. This is the source of courage and the unique wealth of our regiment. To be honest, I still haven't figured out how to deal with this matter so that I can have both... Oh, forget it, let's not talk about this. I called you here because I want you to go to Class 9 to take a look. Without Hu Yi, those unattended guys might make trouble. After all, you are the counselor of Class 9 and you have to take care of it."
Before reaching the gate, Su Qing smelled a burning smell in the air and heard a series of muttering sounds coming from behind the courtyard wall.
"Big ghosts, small ghosts, and all kinds of good ghosts, I want to honor you on behalf of our boss Hu. If you see him, please spare his soul and let him go... You can't take the money and not do the job, otherwise don't blame me for filing a lawsuit with the King of Hell..."
When I pushed open the door, I saw a bear with a bruised face and nose squatting beside a brazier, burning paper money. The whole yard was filled with smoke and paper ashes flying everywhere.
"Put out the fire quickly"
"Uh... Su Yushi? Look... it's almost done. Can you wait until I finish burning these two?"
Su Qing, with a frosty face, looked at Luo Fugui who was bargaining, and didn't say anything else, and walked directly to the door of the house. Before he took a few steps, he suddenly heard a series of knocking sounds from the other side of the yard, and then he noticed a pile of fresh soil over there.
Turning around and walking over, I saw a deep hole at my feet. Looking down, I saw that it had been dug very deep. Wu Shitou was swinging a pickaxe at the bottom, making a loud digging sound.
"What are you doing?"
"Dig a well."
"Who asked you to dig a well?"
"The deputy squad leader asked me to dig a well."
Su Qing was speechless. She turned around and went back into the house. She looked around inside and outside the house, but there was no one there. So she went out to the yard again, her eyebrows knitted tightly, her eyes icy, "Are you done yet, Luo Fugui? Come here!"
Hearing Su Qing's unfriendly tone, Luo Fugui reluctantly threw all the paper money in his arms into the brazier. Instantly, the flames rose and the floating embers filled the yard. Then he clapped his hands and wandered to Su Qing.
"Let me ask you, where is Ma Liang?"
"He... How would I know? Maybe... He was fishing in the river?"
"You asked Wu Shitou to dig the well?"
"Yeah, that's right. That idiot, like a living dead, keeps following me around. Who can stand that, right? Find him something to do, and I'll be relieved. Look how happy he is. Listen to how excited he is."
"Luo-Fu-Gui-" Seeing Luo Fugui's tough behavior, Su Qing was so angry that her lungs almost exploded. The situation was exactly as the political commissar expected. If he continued to let it go, it would be strange if he didn't cause trouble.
"You don't want to be the deputy squad leader anymore. Do you believe me, I can withdraw now?"
"I didn't want to leave in the first place. It was Boss Hu who forced me to leave. Isn't this unfair to me?" Facing Su Qing, whose face turned blue with anger, Luo Fugui forced a look of grievance.
"you-"
At this moment, there was a sudden bang and the door opened. He was wearing a tattered military uniform, with blood-stained bandages on his legs, a wooden crutch under his armpit, and a dirty face with tear stains and snot running for two and a half inches. He looked as ugly as he could be. Liu Jianqiang said loudly to Su Qing: "I request to temporarily take over as the squad leader of the ninth squad."
Luo Fugui twisted his neck and curled his lips: "Runny nose? Go to hell with you, I'm not going down the ditch with you."
Liu Jianqiang, who was enduring the pain and suppressing his emotions, did not hesitate any longer after hearing this. He threw the crutch towards Luo Fugui. He felt a sharp pain in his leg instantly and fell to the ground at the door, screaming in pain.
Luo Fugui dodged the flying object, but heard a scream behind him.
The crutch fell to the ground with a clang, and Su Qing fell down, holding his head.
At this moment, Wu Shitou shouted excitedly from the nearby wellhead: "I, I found water... I got water..."
There was a sudden gushing sound.
"I know how to dig a well... I... cough cough... water... cough..."
"Go and save them!" Su Qing roared at the end...