Hu Yi guessed Wang Peng's intention to keep Chen Chong in the platoon, so he did not shy away from doing the work of the Ninth Company if he ate the Ninth Company's food. The sentry duty, sentry and patrol duty in the second half of the night were the most difficult of the four shifts during the day, and Hu Yi left them to Chen Chong.
Chen Chong not only did not feel aggrieved, but was happy about it. He did not want to be a guest in the Ninth Company. Compared with his biological company commander Wang Peng, he cared more about the attention of the Ninth Company Commander Hu Yi. He felt that he began to have value in the wine station.
Tonight is Chen Chong's first night on duty. He was very alert and finished his assigned duty early. Before midnight, he led a patrol team to start the shift change in advance to replace the soldiers of the 9th Company. However, some of his new soldiers did not have the same sense of pride as Chen Chong, and only thought that this was the treatment of being raised by a stepmother and discrimination.
Two sentries who had just finished changing shifts were swaying alternately at the woods on the northeast side of the wine station. Soon, the two sentries gathered together and chatted in low voices in the dark.
"I don't understand why the platoon leader is so happy to be here and suffer this kind of humiliation. Why should we work like slaves for the Ninth Company?"
"The platoon leader said that his abilities were acquired in the Ninth Company. I am also puzzled. How can one become a main platoon leader by staying up late?"
Then the two sentries chuckled in the darkness, completely unaware that only twenty or thirty meters away from them, there was a burly black shadow, crawling in the dark grass like a fat lizard, taking advantage of the occasional sound of the wind.
After a conversation with Xiao Hongying, the awakened Luo Fugui decided to check his treasure. He prayed to the Buddha in his heart, hoping that Fan Erniu was also an idiot and that the treasure had not been moved away by her.
But the bear didn't know that there was a sneaky little thief figure not far behind him, following the bear's movements quietly like a mouse. When the bear moved, she moved too, and when the bear stopped, she stopped too. She controlled the rhythm very accurately, as if she could guess the bear's heart hidden in the night.
However, the little thief who was concentrating on searching for her target did not notice that a potato-like black shadow had just hidden behind a tree not far behind her. Its movements were as stiff as a ghost, but it was able to do it without any sound, as if it didn't even breathe. It was probably a ghost.
Accompanied by the sentinels' whispers, five sturdy black shadows crawled out of the warning range. Soon the thief also slipped into the darkness in the east. Soon after, the third ghost figure also floated out of the danger range. However... there was actually a fourth vague figure not far behind, following as lightly as a civet cat, forming a chain!
Luo Fugui finally arrived half a mile east of the wine station, not far from the river. He panted excitedly and tried to observe the darkness around him. Then he pulled out a short-handled engineer shovel and started digging. There was a loud crashing sound, and with the first shovel, a hole appeared in the ground. Xiong was stunned on the spot. This location had been dug by someone. It was an extremely precise hole in the ground, and they didn't cover it afterwards. They just laid some branches. Reluctantly, he reached into the bottom of the pit, but there was nothing.
I felt my chest getting stuffy and my vision going dark. Countless ferocious images of Fan Erniu flashed through my mind. I made up my mind and was about to cry when suddenly there was a cracking sound from behind. Although the sound was very subtle, it sounded like thunder to my ears. It was a twig being broken not far away!
Pretending not to hear, he did not look back, quickly stood up, picked up the engineer shovel, stepped over the deep pit on the ground and continued walking forward, faster and faster.
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Su Qing couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned on Hu Yi's bed. The bedding had been dried in the sun and smelled pleasant. Hu Yi was a neat man. His bedding and utensils were like heaven and hell compared to those of his roommates Luo Fugui and Wu Shitou. And Su Qing's so-called cleaning did not include the other two beds.
But what really made her feel incredible was the other smell under the pillow. For this reason, she thought that she no longer had the habit of mysophobia. However, when she opened her eyes and saw the other empty bed, she firmly denied this idea. It turned out that he just regarded this bed as his own, just like his other utensils, which she could directly occupy as her own without disinfection. In fact, she had never scalded Hu Yi's broken teacup, but she did not feel repulsed.
She really wanted to know when it started, and she remembered drifting in the turbulent river with him, walking with him on the windy road, the city where she lived with him, and the bloody embrace she had with him. It turned out that she had become unable to reject it a long, long time ago.
She opened her eyes again and saw that a crack had appeared in the door, which made her dazed for a moment; the crack continued to expand, and her heartbeat immediately quickened. She grabbed the Zhongzheng rifle beside the bed, but did not make a sound. For this, she suddenly felt ashamed because she was actually looking forward to seeing the person she wanted to see!
Not long after, the lantern was lit, and Su Qing was sitting on the bed hugging the Zhongzheng rifle in surprise; the person who came in and stood in the door that had just been carefully closed was Fan Erniu, who was dripping with water, and was also looking at Su Qing in surprise!
"Erniu...you...this is..."
"Sister Su, why... I thought... No, I... I'm here to accompany you."
"Accompany me?" Su Qing was still confused: "Why...are you so wet?"
"I just swam across the river. Um... It's okay, it's okay, it's nothing, you don't have to worry about me, I can sleep in this bed."
Just swam across the river in the middle of the night? Accompany me? Su Qing was still speechless. Fan Erniu didn't care about getting the bed wet. She sat directly on Luo Fugui's empty bed. She twisted her sleeves casually and a puddle of water immediately seeped out. Su Qing was already frozen like a sculpture on the bed.
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At some point, the sky brightened and the mountain range in the east shone with dazzling golden light, dyeing the western mountains and the surrounding water.
A door was pushed open and Xu Xiao rushed out in a panic, holding the bugle and quickly climbing up to the roof along the ladder beside the house, looking very embarrassed; no one was supervising Xu Xiao at all, and Xu Xiao himself was in a hurry as if he had delayed the order.
After the shift change, Chen Chong gathered the soldiers who had just finished their shifts together and asked each group to report their status to him: Post A was normal, Post B was normal, East secret post was normal, West secret post was normal, and the patrol group was normal...
Chen Chong, who had been patrolling for most of the night, was very satisfied after hearing the report. He was thinking about what words of encouragement to use to end his work when he suddenly saw Ma Liang bending over in the sunset glow beside him, washing his teeth and rinsing his mouth with tooth powder, so he greeted him.
"Brother Ma Liang, so early?"
Ma Liang spit out the mouthwash and straightened up. He looked at Chen Chong, then at Chen Chong's subordinates, and asked casually, "Is there anything unusual?"
Although Chen Chong is now also a platoon leader and has the same rank as Ma Liang, Chen Chong knows that he is one rank lower than Ma Liang, so he quickly replied: "Nothing is wrong. Everything is normal."
"The mule was out, did you know that?"
Chen Chong was stunned by this question. He had never heard of it before. How should he answer
At this moment, He Gensheng walked out of his dormitory carrying a medical kit, and walked towards the stone house while saying to a soldier who was greeting him: "I have to go and give the girl medicine. I'm worried about her bandaging herself..."
Chen Chong was stunned. The girl was fine last night, why did He Gensheng go to bandage her so early in the morning? Did a fight happen at night
Before I could figure this out, I saw Wu Shitou walking across an open space in the distance, limping with every step he took, and every two steps he took.
Ma Liang casually said to He Gensheng who was passing by: "Go check on the fool later, he has sprained his ankle."
Chen Chong felt the temperature was dropping and it was a bit cold. She felt like she was listening to a ghost story. She found Tang Dagou walking towards them, with a gloomy face and cursing as he walked: "Who patrolled the river last night? Are they all blind? The one who was shining the flashlight on me must be Wang Xiaosan. He ran into the village in the middle of the night pretending to be a ghost and no one cared? Where is Lao Qin?"
Ma Liang couldn't help but look back and asked: "Did Wang Xiaosan cross the river last night?"
Chen Chong was struck by lightning when he heard this. He was in charge of the river patrol last night. His throat was dry, his eyes were sore, and he felt dizzy. But he heard someone nearby say in surprise: "Hey? You? Why are you here?"
Looking back quickly, Fan Erniu had just walked out of Su Qing's residence, her clothes were still wet, and she ignored the nearby soldiers and asked Ma Liang awkwardly: "Um... Brother Ma Liang, can you take me back to the village on a raft? I need to change my clothes."
The remaining tooth powder and water all flowed down the corners of Ma Liang's mouth. Ma Liang nodded with a frown on his face, turned around woodenly, and walked towards his own residence. He limped with one step, two steps, two limps, three steps, three limps, leaving Chen Chong to continue to turn into a zombie on the spot. His soldiers who had not received the order to disband were no different. They had already turned into zombies...