Upon hearing this, Qin Daqiang patted his son on the shoulder. This boy was not a bad boy. Although he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, he already had the bearing of a real man.
"Guoqing, you were injured this time, but I can't give you a reward. It's because what we did was viewed differently by the leaders above."
"What do the leaders above think?"
"People with broad minds will think that we are self-reliant and will not cause trouble to the country, while people with narrow minds will think that we are selfish and that good things should be shared by everyone."
"Why? Brother Huan and Brother Shouhou worked very hard to collect supplies. This time I saw Brother Shouhou pulling a cart of corn kernels. His face was covered with sweat in such a cold day."
Qin Daqiang imagined the scene and sighed, "Silly boy, since you were beaten this time, it will be impossible to reward you openly, but dad will avenge you."
"Li Bing, you heard what we just said, right? We quietly organized a company to go to which bend on the Panshan Highway..."
"The ninth path from the bottom."
Qin Guoqing's eyes lit up, his father wanted to help him get revenge.
"Understood. I'll go right away."
"Remember, you must use someone you can trust and charge directly into their lair."
Li Bing nodded resolutely. Since he couldn't find the traitor in the garrison, he could only get information from these unruly people. If that didn't work, he would do as Cheng Qiao did and kill a few of the most rampant robbers.
"Assemble, everyone, change into civilian clothes, and follow the platoon leader's orders. Enter the eighth, ninth, and tenth bends on the winding mountain road in batches at midnight. Leave one squad at each bend, and the others will enter Guangrong Village at the foot of the mountain from three directions."
The one hundred and twenty officers and soldiers were all excited. Are they finally going to take action? These unruly people were so rampant that they had robbed countless passing vehicles. Every time they went out to arrest someone, there would always be someone who would tip them off.
This time, the kid Guoqing was injured, and the regiment commander finally couldn't stand it anymore. Not only could the regiment commander not stand it anymore, they couldn't stand it either, after all, the supplies that Guoqing got belonged to their corps.
In Guangrong Village, the village chief Yang Guangrong held a long pipe in his mouth but did not smoke. He watched one man freeze to death due to urinary incontinence, while another had a black face, obviously killed by poisoning.
This time they received news that Qin Guoqing would be returning with a truckload of scarce supplies. Finally, unable to resist their greed, they sent out five people to intercept him.
Yang Guangrong had already calculated that Qin Guoqing was alone, and no matter how good his kung fu was, he could not beat the five of them. Besides, soldiers could not shoot at will, and all they wanted was supplies.
As long as Qin Guoqing doesn't resist, they will never hurt anyone. After all, he is a soldier and his father is the regiment commander. It's just stealing some supplies. I believe that Commander Qin will not be so stingy.
But no one expected that five people went there and did not come back until dark. So four more people were sent out, but they found two bodies. What happened in between
"Village chief, I think that beast Qin Guoqing fired the gun."
Yang Guangrong shook his head. These soldiers would never open fire. They had strict discipline and could not shoot at civilians unless there was solid evidence of a wanted murderer.
But no one in their village had ever killed anyone. They just robbed some supplies and it was not even their turn to eat peanuts.
"What about the pillar and the pile? It's understandable that the pillar urinated on himself and froze to death, but what about the pile, with a black face, how did he die? And what about the other three people?"
"Take off his clothes and see if there are any wounds on his body."
"Village Chief, there is a snake bite wound in the throat."
"Snakes? Impossible. It's so cold that snakes are hibernating. How can they come out? Besides, snakes only appear in the Qilian Mountains. How can they come here?"
Although Yang Guangrong said he didn't believe it, he still stood up. With the help of the firelight, he could see clearly the two holes in the throat. There were dark bloodstains at the holes, which showed that he was poisoned.
"Village chief, what should we do? Should we seek revenge on Qin Guoqing?"
Yang Guangrong shook his head. He was just a village chief. There were only fifty or sixty able-bodied laborers in the village, and the rest were the elderly, the weak, women and children. Why should he seek revenge on Qin Guoqing
"If we want to take revenge, we have to wait until he shows up, and only when he's alone. Let's bury him. Ergou and the others might have been captured by Qin Guoqing. Let's wait for news."
"Village chief, something bad has happened. Someone has entered the village to arrest people. Erniu has been arrested. I escaped and informed you."
In the middle of the night, Yang Guangrong was sleeping soundly when someone knocked on the door. Yang Guangrong was startled and quickly put on his clothes and went to open the door.
Originally, there were a few dogs in the village. The dogs would bark when strangers entered the village, but the people were almost starving to death, so there was no food to feed the dogs, so they had to slaughter the dogs and eat them.
So Yang Guangrong organized a team to take turns guarding the village entrance every day and ring a gong when a stranger came in. Unexpectedly, the gong didn't sound and the person had already been caught.
"Yang Guangrong, put on your clothes and follow us."
Li Bing rushed in with a dozen people. Yang Guangrong saw in the bright moonlight that these people were all in plain clothes, and his heart sank.
"Where are you taking me?"
“Go plant trees in the desert.”
"Why?"
"Because you have committed all kinds of evil, and you have injured soldiers and killed your own brothers."
"How can you say that? Whoever injures a soldier is harming his own brothers."
"Didn't the two people who escaped tell you how they escaped? They grabbed a pound of egg cake and tried to eat it right away. The other three people also wanted to grab some, but they were pushed off the road by the two people who escaped."
Yang Guangrong was stunned for a moment. The three men were pushed down by the pillars and stakes. He looked at Li Bing suspiciously, with a look of disbelief on his face.
In fact, he already believed in his heart that the pillar and the pile were brothers, and it was possible for them to push someone down for a bite of food, let alone an egg cake.
"Our people wanted to catch the murderer, but one of them injured their legs. If you don't believe me, you can call the person out and ask him carefully."
"The pillar and the stake are dead. One was killed by a snake and the other was frozen to death."
"Nonsense! How could a snake come out of nowhere in such a cold weather? You are full of lies! Come on, arrest him."
"Don't arrest me. I know what you want. I'll tell you who told me the news. I promise that as long as I am still the village chief, I will never let the villagers come out to rob again."
"Tell me, who told you that our car would be back today."
"She only told me that Qin Guoqing's car would be back in the next two days, but didn't tell me the date. I asked someone to guard it every day."
"who is he."