Tan Xiaoqing, the deputy squad leader of the driver squad, calculated accurately. Before dawn, the platoon leader Hu Zhijun came with a car.

When they found it, seven people were gathering next to the fire five or six meters away from the car. Several tree branches were swaying handles and roasted wolf meat! One of the wolves had eaten the skeletons left, while the other one had eaten half.

"What's the matter with you guys? You're eating roasted whole lamb here!" When the car headlights shone on these seven people, Wang Ke knew that the rescuers were coming, so he quickly stood up.

When the platoon leader Hu Zhijun jumped out of the car and shouted, Wang Ke smiled happily, hurriedly ran forward, carrying a wolf rib in his hand. "Report to the platoon leader, it's not roasting the whole lamb, but roasting the whole wolf!"

"Grill all wolf, are you roasting wolf meat?"

Wang Ke immediately handed the wolf platoon leader Hu Zhijun, "Platform Commander, try it, it's fragrant!"

"Wait, there is wine in my car." Platoon leader Hu Zhijun waved to the car he brought and shouted to the driver: "Take my wine down, come over, don't turn off the engine, don't turn off the headlights, come over and eat wolf meat."

Usually, I roasted whole lamb, beef, suckling pig, and fish fillets... The platoon leader Hu Zhijun has eaten it, but this is the first time this whole wolf was roasted. When I arrived next to the fire, I didn’t ask if Tan Xiaoqing’s car broke down. I pulled down a wolf’s leg and started to chew.

"Well, this meat is quite fragrant, but it's a bit of wood. The meat on the legs is like straw and has a little smell of horse meat." The platoon leader Hu Zhijun commented while gnawing. The wind blew the clouds and gnawing a wolf's leg for a while. Then he turned around and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Tan Xiaoqing, deputy squad leader of the driver squad, then told the cause and effect of the car breaking down. Of course, it was inevitable to add fuel to the fire and talked about the siege of a group of wolves. He did not see the recruit Niu Suozhu knocked down a group of wolves in an instant and killed two. He could only say vaguely that Wang Ke and the others killed two.

Wang Ke was unwilling to embarrass him, and he didn't want to tell the story of locking the cow in his entirety. He just slapped his eyes, "Come on, it happened that he stabbed two of them with a bayonet."

Platoon leader Hu Zhijun was not surprised. During the period when food was out of stock in the division farm, one night wouldn't he have a few wild dogs? He knew Wang Ke's power well, so he didn't go into it.

"Don't eat it anymore. I have to bring this remaining wolf leg to Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran, who also participates in training at our place. It is probably the first time I'm eating a roasted whole wolf, just like me."

Everyone laughed, stood up and slapped the dirt on their butts, and started to trailer.

At dawn, they arrived at Tunliuzhuang where they were stationed in training.

Tunliu Village is difficult to find on the map, it is very small. There are only three or five hundred people in the village, sandwiched in a valley.

But the people in this village have been proud for thousands of years. Why? Legend has it that when Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, he set out from here. A large group of dead soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers hid in this village. Just when Jing Ke was successfully assassinated, he immediately responded and killed the Qin camp in Zhao State.

Unfortunately, the assassination failed. Some of these soldiers had no place to go, and they stayed in this village from generation to generation. So strictly speaking, they were also descendants of the Yan people.

The wind is whistling and the Yishui is cold, and the heroes will never return.

Therefore, the old and young men in this village all think they are descendants of heroes. When fighting the Japanese, many people in this village participated in the guerrillas and made a lot of efforts for the War of Resistance. It is said that several Eighth Route Army soldiers set out from here, leading the Japanese to the cliff step by step, and finally jumped off the cliff and died.

The troops were stationed in the training and came to this village, and they all lived in the homes of fellow villagers.

There were six people in the reconnaissance squad, living in the house of an uncle named Geng. The uncle named Geng lived on the hillside and had never been married in his life, without children. He had three rooms and lived in the east room by himself. The reconnaissance squad passed the house numbered in the village and lived in the west room with the uncle's consent.

The uncle doesn't cook on weekdays because his niece-wife lives at the foot of the mountain more than 200 meters away from his house. He lives with two young children. Her husband died of illness the previous year and never remarries. Uncle Geng will work with his niece-wife and his family, looking at a few acres of orchards, and usually goes down the mountain for three meals. After eating, he is busy in the orchard, and his house is not too long.

Because it came late, most of the company lived in the village, and only the reconnaissance squad lived a little remote. Although the mountain road was not high, it was a little hard to climb around every day. The first day was quite fresh, and the next day was OK, but when a week passed, after dinner that day, Hu Xinrui started to scream.

"Squad leader, Lang's mountain road is winding and he can't bear to walk hard. Let's talk to the company commander. If you change to the village to stay in the sun, it will be convenient to get up at night."

Wang Ke smiled. He understood what Hu Xinrui meant by saying "It's convenient to get up at night". Everything in this village is good, but it's water shortage.

How scarce is this water shortage? Let me first describe it. There is only one well in the whole village. As long as it does not rain, every household has to get up at midnight to get water. The burden of the water carrier is probably no one has seen it from the south of the world to the north of the sea. One end carries a hundred-meter long rope and the other end is a big bucket.

This well is too deep. It is said that it was passed down from generation to generation in the Warring States Period. It is an ancient well. The old people in the village have a legend of happiness, saying that the head of this ancient well is very prosperous and sweet. I don’t know which dynasty, the head of the water suddenly decreased, began to wither, and it became less and less, forming the current appearance. However, the hometown is hard to leave, and there are fewer waters, but there have been many. For thousands of years, water has limited poverty and imagination. The water used to wash rice and vegetables, and the water used to wash faces, and the water used to wash faces and then feed pigs. The village has not had a strong population, and it has been maintained by only a few hundred people.

On the day I arrived, the whole reconnaissance class did not use water. Wang Ke took the people to the well to draw water, wrapped the rope around the wheel at the wellhead, and put it down for a long time before he heard the sound of the barrel colliding with the bottom of the well. After hitting it, he did not get water. Wang Ke lay on the edge of the well and looked down at the wall of the well. The stones around were naked, and it turned out to be a hole taken out of the middle of the stone, holding the flashlight given to him by Wu Xiangyu, shining downward, unfathomable.

The government once wanted to renovate a well here. But the ancient well was too deep, and the people couldn't get down, and the water head was not strong. I asked a geological team to explore. The geological team took the machines to search all over the village and outside the village. Only then did I find that although the village was in a valley, the underground was full of stones and did not meet the conditions for drilling wells. So I suggested that the whole village be relocated.

Some people don’t believe it, so they dig the well by themselves, and they all failed.

According to the wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe, there is a custom in this village that we must collect water in the middle of the night, and each person can only get one bucket at a time. At the end, we can only get half a bucket at a time. It takes several times in a row to get one bucket. Wang Ke thought, if we want to get three buckets, wouldn’t we have to line up three times, more than an hour before and after, which is more than a night guard.

The reconnaissance squad lived a little farther away, and it was difficult to walk on the mountain in the middle of the night. It was not easy to walk on the dark roads, and bumps were common. Training during the day and water at night made the whole class unable to sleep well, and Hu Xinrui was relieved to call him.

This is an old revolutionary base, with the deep love between the military and the civilians, and the work of carrying water for the fellow villagers has to be done.

At this point, the hardships of the training conditions can be imagined. So from the third day of the reconnaissance squad, Wang Ke drew a water-drawing duty table, with two people making four buckets of water every night, which can generally meet the daily needs of the whole class and Uncle Geng.

However, since I discovered that Uncle Geng had a niece-in-law, Uncle Geng still queued up to help his niece-wife get water at midnight every day, so the reconnaissance team simply sent three people every night, two of whom helped her niece-wife get six buckets of water at home, and only three buckets here.

Hu Yanlou was very enthusiastic. He didn't care whether he was on the water meter or not, and he ran to help Uncle Geng's wife's house to fetch water in the middle of the night. This attracted Wang Ke's attention, so he went to Uncle Geng's niece's house to take a look.

Although Uncle Geng's niece-in-law has two children, she is not very old. Judging from her appearance, she may be twenty-one or two years old. Moreover, in this mountain village, she is relatively well-off and her family is well-organized. In addition to helping Uncle Geng take care of the orchard, she also raises a pig and a dozen sheep. There are several jujube trees, persimmon trees and pear trees in the yard.

It turns out that there is a reason for Hu Yanlou to do this. Did this recruit Danzi fall in love with Uncle Geng’s niece-in-law? If he falls in love with a fellow villager at the station, it would be a serious violation of discipline. Hu Yanlou’s abnormality attracted the attention of Wang Ke, the reconnaissance squad leader. So he decided that starting from tonight, he would fetch water for Uncle Geng’s niece-in-law and stare at him to death with Hu Yanlou, so he would not let him have any unreasonable thoughts and opportunities to take advantage of.

Since there is a man who fetches water at home, women cannot go to bed. Wang Ke and Hu Yanlou carried water and entered the house of Uncle Geng's niece-in-law in turn. Uncle Geng's niece-in-law kept carrying a horse lantern, standing at the gate of the yard, waiting for Liang'er. When they saw the water coming, they hurriedly led the way in front, and welcomed the two and the water into the house like welcoming the head of state.

The water is poured into the tank, and it is a little cloudy. It doesn’t matter. After finishing the water, pick up a piece of alum and stir it in the water for a few times. The water will clear after a while.

After three consecutive trips, Wang Ke and Hu Yanlou went back to sleep. There were only a few words to say to Uncle Geng’s niece-in-law. If you don’t say it today, it doesn’t mean you won’t say it tomorrow. Wang Ke made up his mind and just waste your time with you, Hu Yanlou. He doesn’t say it thoroughly, anyway, I’m monitoring you all the time.

But the next day, Hu Yanlou started to make trouble. He was full of three buckets of water, and he stood there and he was slowing down and unable to go back.

"Let's go, Hu Yanlou, go back to sleep."

"Squad leader, go back first. I will wait until the person who fetches the water is gone, and I will try to get a bucket."

"I've already made six barrels, what else do you want to do?" Wang Ke thought, he was desperate, which means he had to get water until the second half of the night, he would not sleep anymore, he would have to maintain his energy and train tomorrow.

"No, I have to go back to bed."

There was no way, Hu Yanlou put down the bucket and rope and followed Wang Ke back to Uncle Geng’s house on the mountain.

After getting into the quilt, Wang Ke quickly fell asleep. In a daze, he felt that Hu Yanlou had gotten up in the dark with his hands and feet. If it was too early to clean the yard, it was still a little early, and it was only three o'clock, why did he get up?

So he turned over, watched Hu Yanlou leave the yard, quickly put on his clothes and followed him out.
Chapter completed!