Dad kidnapped me to join the army, and the whole army asked me to be their instructor.

The three walked down the road.

Footprints were stepped on the soft red mud road.

The village will be empty and there will be no one in sight.

Only plainly dressed children were chasing and playing there.

The three of Lin Hui walked along the gravel road, and there was a rustling sound on the ground.

Walking across a small bridge paved with bluestone slabs, this bridge does not know how many years it has been built and how much wind and sun it has experienced.

Moss had accumulated on the handrail.

Flowing water under the bridge.

After crossing the bridge, the heart of the village is ahead.

Lin Hui looked around, and there was a small road on the left and right in front of him.

These houses are built successively along the road, leading to the mountains.

Most of these houses are made of stone and bricks, which have local characteristics, but there are also some shadows of rural bungalows.

Concrete telephone poles two to three meters high stand on the side of the road.

Strips of old wires hung from it.

Seeing the promotional slogans on the wall promoting family planning and banning logging, all three of them looked at each other and smiled.

Wang Yong rubbed his chin: "It's even behind my house, it really is in the mountains."

Chen Erhu shook his head: "I think the scenery here is pretty good, even better than ours. It would be nice to live here."

Wang Yong rolled his eyes: "What a hammer! Look, there's nothing you want, there's no cement road."

He pointed around: "Look at every household, let alone a big pot, there is not even an old-fashioned antenna. Anyway, we also have a black and white TV set in our house."

"There are probably many families here who don't have many electrical appliances at home."

Lin Hui waved his hand: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, first find out where the old squad leader's house is."

The three of them continued walking, just in time to see an old woman washing clothes by the river.

The river was clear, and the old woman beat the clothes with a wooden stick.

Lin Hui took a deep breath, the fresh smell of river water filled his nostrils.

He hurried over to say hello: "Old lady, may I ask, do you know where Xu Da's family lives?"

"what?"

The old woman chattered a lot, but no one understood.

The three of them had question marks all over their heads, and Chen Erhu asked, "What did she say?"

Lin Hui: "It seems to be a dialect."

Wang Yong looked confident: "I'll tell her!"

He walked over with a smile and gestured at the old lady from top to bottom, and the old lady was dumbfounded.

"Fuck you!" Lin Hui pulled him aside: "Are you treating him as a deaf-mute? I can't even understand what the gestures are, but can they understand?"

"I come!"

The two watched him walk over seriously, and Lin Hui asked with a smile on his face: "Old Lailai, we...we...si unit drip ganhuo..."

The two bastards looked speechless: "Brother Hui, are you not as good as us?"

The corners of Lin Hui's mouth twitched, and he noticed that the old lady was looking at him like an idiot.

He sighed helplessly: "Forget it, give up, the language is barrier, let's find a young man to ask."

Just in time to see a group of children chasing and running around, he quickly waved and shouted: "Little friends."

But the children just squinted at them, ignored them at all, and continued to play with themselves.

The three immediately went up and surrounded them. A group of children looked at him in horror.

Wang Yong laughed and said, "Little friend, don't be afraid."

The children all blinked and stared at them, as if they didn't understand.

Lin Hui frowned slightly: "Don't you understand?"

Chen Erhu scratched his head: "Don't the locals learn Mandarin?"

Wang Yong nodded and analyzed: "There is this possibility. These children have never been out of the mountains, nor have they gone to school. It is normal that they cannot speak Mandarin."

Lin Hui looked at them with some sympathy: "The children in the deep mountains are really miserable. They don't have the opportunity to go to school. There are too many areas where our country needs to improve."

The two nodded: "Brother Hui, what should we do now, we can't teach them Mandarin on the spot, right?"

Lin Hui shook his head: "Forget it, we can only ask door to door. People here can't understand us, and we can't understand them either."

Just as the two bastards were about to leave, Lin Hui called out, "Wait a minute."

He took out a pack of chocolates from the bag: "These children are also very poor, and they may not have eaten these things, let's share them with them, it can be regarded as..."

"Chocolate!" a child exclaimed suddenly.

The other children also came over immediately, excited and anxious: "It's still Dove! There is also white chocolate, this is delicious!"

The three of Lin Hui were all dumbfounded for a moment.

Looking at them blankly: "Do you speak Mandarin?"

"Nonsense!" A child said angrily, "Are you all idiots? How old are you, and there are still people who can't speak Mandarin?"

"Besides, we have an elementary school here, and we also go to school!"

The three of them have black lines all over their heads, you can speak Mandarin, don't say it earlier!

Seeing a group of children looking forward to the chocolate in his hand.

The corners of Lin Hui's eyes twitched, and he held things in front of their eyes: "As long as you tell me where Xu Da's house is, I will give you these."

"Are you his enemies?" A child asked warily.

Lin Hui was speechless: "Look at my clothes, do you look like an enemy? We are comrades in arms."

A group of children blinked and looked at the three of them: "Is he really his comrade in arms? Didn't he come to trouble him?"

The three of Lin Hui looked at each other and smiled wryly. It seemed that they had wrongly blamed these children.

The reason why they didn't speak was because they were protecting Xu Da.

This kind of vigilance is the same as that of little soldiers in war.

Compared with those children in the city who grew up in honeypots without any vigilance, they were much better.

Lin Hui took out his ID, and the two bastards also hurriedly took out their ID: "Kids, take a good look, we are all serious soldiers."

"We came here to look for him because we were on vacation."

A few children stared at it, taking a closer look.

The leading child smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry, we rarely come here. Xu Da's house is over there. However, brother Xu is not at home now, and has gone to work in the fields."

Another child pointed in one direction and said, "The field is over there. You have to turn over the mountain in front, and it's behind the mountain."

Lin Hui smiled and said thank you, and then distributed the chocolates to them.

The children didn't take it at all, and ran away with a smile: "Thank you uncle, we have eaten chocolate, you can keep it for yourself."

In a blink of an eye, a group of children ran away laughing and laughing.

"Little bastard." Wang Yong next to him said with a smile.

Lin Hui looked at the backs of these children and heaved a long sigh.

Children in the mountains are simple and honest, they don't take advantage of others casually, and they don't take other people's things casually.

Their kind hearts are the most precious thing in this mountain, much cleaner than most adults.

"Let's go, let's go to the field to find the old squad leader."

"okay."

The three of them turned over the mountain in front of them according to the direction they had just pointed out.

Go all the way to the back of the village and turn over a hill.

Soon I saw a large area of ​​terraced fields at the foot of a mountain.

There are people working in every field.

Chen Erhu suddenly realized: "No wonder I didn't see anyone in the village just now, so they are all busy here?"

Lin Hui nodded: "This is the south. It's different from ours. They can plant three seasons a year. Now is the harvest time, so they must be busy."

Everyone nodded and walked all the way down.

After a while, everyone was stunned.

It is not easy to find Xu Da in one go.

Almost all of those working in the fields were dressed in military uniforms.

But to say that it is a military uniform is somewhat inaccurate.

Because some people are wearing physical training clothes, some are wearing summer uniforms, and some are wearing autumn clothes.

In short, at a glance, green is everywhere.

Lin Hui smiled slightly: "I finally know why when the old squad leader left, he brought so many old clothes back in big bags and small bags. Is it because he wants to give the village a set?"

Wang Yong and Erhu looked at each other, somewhat ashamed.

One of them just wanted to go back with military medals all over his body to show off.

The other is to bring back the old military uniform to show off to Dad.

But Xu Da took the old clothes back to the hometown where he was born and raised him, thinking about giving something back to his parents and folks.

Although they are all old clothes that no one wants, for the people in the mountains, they are all precious thoughts and the most practical things.

Compared with Xu Da, their realm is really far behind.

"Three comrades." An old man walked over with a cow and asked with a smile, "Are you here to look for Xu Da?"

The three nodded together, and Lin Hui asked, "Master, do you know where Xu Da is?"

"Here, look." The uncle nuzzled: "Isn't he the busiest one in the field?"

The three of them turned their heads to look at the past together.

Sure enough, I saw a figure in a terraced field, busy quickly.

The action is much faster than other busy people.

The old man laughed and said, "Dazi is so kind. He not only gave us a lot of things when he came back, but also helped the whole village with the farm work."

"If there are only old people in a family and no young adults, he will take care of all the work."

"Your army is really good at cultivating talents."

The old man smiled and led the cow away.

The three of them turned their heads together and looked towards the distance, facing the loess and back to the sky, the hardworking figure, with some inexplicable moisture in their eyes.

Xu Da had worked hard enough in the army.

He has a straighter mind and is older, which leads to poorer physical fitness than others.

To be able to get to this day, he has put in much more effort than anyone else.

Originally, he was supposed to go home to rest during the holidays, but he didn't expect that he would still be so busy after returning.

This labor intensity is no worse than training in the army.

The three looked at each other, then took a deep breath, and ran towards him together: "Old squad leader!"