Break out of the courtyard

"Peace, I seem to hear the sound of a car horn!" Zhao Jianguo looked to the dense forest on the right, but could not see any vehicles or roads at all.

When he looked back, Zhang Heping had already walked out a long way. "Oh! Just wait for me!"

"It's more than 40 kilometers, you really don't want to take a car!"

"Brother, you are my brother, okay! Can you take a rest?"

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After walking more than ten kilometers on the mountain road and making Zhao Jianguo tired enough to stop beeping, Zhang Heping chose a big tree for camping next to a stream.

Make a fire, drive away insects, collect stones to build a stove...

"Go to the stream and filter two lunch boxes of clean water and come back!" Zhang Heping took out a bamboo tube filled with bamboo charcoal and gave it to Zhao Jianguo with a large aluminum lunch box.

"When filling the water, be careful around you! You will be making noises along the way. If you were placed on the battlefield on the Vietnam Peninsula in the south, you would have died countless times!"

Zhang Heping said, tied a thumb-thick rope to a stone, threw it onto the branch of the big tree next to him, and then climbed up the rope along the big tree where eight people could hug each other.

Then, I saw him take off the rolled sleeping bag from his backpack, unfold it, tie the two ends to the branches on both sides, and build a hammock on the tree.

"Aren't you... a sleeping bag?" Zhao Jianguo came back with two lunch boxes and a bamboo tube for filtering water, and looked at the hammock on the tree in surprise.

"Nonsense, how can you use a sleeping bag in the rainforest? There isn't even a tent." Zhang Heping sprinkled a little sulfur on the tree trunk, left his backpack in the hammock, and then followed the rope down the tree.

"You're just a hot-headed kid, so you just ran over here as a matter of course." Zhang Heping took the lunch box angrily, "Can you climb up?"

"You're looking down on me, buddy!" Zhao Jianguo put down his backpack and other items, then grabbed the rope and swung there, like a large weight hanging from a thin rope.

Zhang Heping took out his slingshot and suddenly hit a stone into the grass. Then he saw him go over and pick up a venomous snake with gold and black stripes.

"Forget it, you deal with this snake." Zhang Heping pulled out the dagger in his boot and chopped off the snake's head, then threw the krait at Zhao Jianguo's feet.

Then, he took off the rope and tied the knot next to the big tree while watching Zhao Jianguo skillfully skin the snake.

After Zhao Jianguo cut the snake meat into pieces and put them into two lunch boxes, he saw him take out ginger and salt from his backpack...

More than an hour later, after Zhang Heping took a bite of the snake soup made by Zhao Laoliu, he joked: "You also said that you are not a cook."

"No!" Zhao Jianguo said firmly, "I am the deputy company commander."

"That's the deputy company commander in charge of food."

As soon as Zhang Heping said this, Zhao Jianguo stopped refuting, put the lunch box on his fat face, and drank tons of hot soup.

In fact, when Zhang Heping saw Zhao Jianguo's fat figure, he was sure that he had become a cook.

Then, you can imagine why he ran back to Banna.

After the meal, Zhang Heping asked Zhao Jianguo to step on the knots, climb up the trunk of the big tree branch, and sleep in the hammock.

But Zhang Heping leaned against the big tree and sat cross-legged on the branches to rest. Under the tree, there was only a fire and a native dog chewing snake bones.

Late at night, Zhao Jianguo was awakened by the sound of a gunshot, and then heard the screams of countless birds and the friction of wild beasts scurrying into the grass.

"You're on the tree!" When Zhang Heping spoke, he had already come down from the tree.

Not long after, I saw Zhang Heping dragging a tiger back from the stream.

At noon the next day, when Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo dragged an Indochinese tiger into the 7th Battalion of the 20th Regiment, they attracted many people to watch.

Then, he successfully registered and entered the camp and moved into the thatched house of the educated youth.

In the afternoon, Zhang Heping guided Zhao Jianguo to peel the tiger skin in front of many educated youths.

Then, surrounded by a group of educated youth, he went to the camp canteen and handed over the tiger meat to the cooking team to add vegetables to dinner, which made the group of educated youth cheer.

After this incident, the names of Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo spread in Qiying.

However, the next day, they followed people from the health center, health workers from the company, and people from the armed duty company into the mountains to catch drugs.

"Once again, no shooting is allowed without an order!" The commander of the armed duty company looked at Zhao Jianguo and Zhang Heping who emphasized again, and then led people to surround the small village in front.

There are a total of 7 thatched houses, 5 skinny men, 7 equally skinny women, and 3 children.

There was a Yao translator accompanying him, and after chatting in Jili Gulu, Zhang Heping learned their language.

These people are border residents within 5 kilometers of the border. According to the policy, they can receive food for free, but they rarely go to nearby communes to receive it.

The reasons are: first, they don’t believe it; second, if they go there they will be forced to detoxify; third, they can fill their stomachs by just planting some corn in the wasteland on the border; fourth, no poisonous weeds can be grown inside the country.

Zhang Heping had previously tried to persuade several poisonous villages in the east of Nanla Town, but he ignored them and ignored them.

In the second half of this year, the higher authorities issued a compulsory drug detoxification directive.

Yishu and the others had already visited the Poison Village in the east of Nanla Town with their militia, but the Poisoners still refused to listen and ran to the village on the other side of the border to take shelter.

Those border residents have no concept of national boundaries. Anyway, the languages ​​​​on both sides of the border are similar, and they are related to each other. They can run over and hide for two days and they will be fine.

Since Zhang Heping's usual style is to give good advice, if you listen, I will take you back to Nanla Town to live a good life; if you don't listen, you will fend for yourself.

Yishu and the others followed Zhang Heping's approach and tried to persuade those addicts to quit drugs. They went out for a while, but in the end, none of them were persuaded to go back.

On the other hand, if you don't listen to the 20th Regiment's good advice, you will have no choice but to be tied up and taken away.

Otherwise, what will you do with those three children in the future?

Two people were divided to take the 15 people back, and then the people with the guns spread out to search.

Soon, someone found a few plots of poisonous weed cultivation outside the border. They didn't care about it and burned it first.

Seeing the black smoke rising, Zhang Heping shook his head secretly, weren't you trying to scare the snake away?

No, in the next few days, everyone lived and ate in the open, and all they encountered were empty villages.

In the end, no more poisonous people were caught, but some poisonous weeds were burned, and everyone went back home.

By the way, among the 15 people brought back before, 5 of them were tied to hospital beds for forced detoxification. The 7 women and 3 children were all arranged in brick houses, which were better than those of Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo.

Seeing that the camp had no plans to place the seven women living near the farm, Zhang Heping guessed that they were only helping people detoxify for a short period of time. He felt that they were doing useless work, so he didn't take it to heart.

On weekdays, Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo would brag and play cards with the educated youths in the camp. Occasionally they would go into the mountains to catch some prey and come back to improve everyone's food. If there was a car on Sunday morning, they would go back to Nanla Town to take a look.

A month later, as Zhang Heping expected, when the five drug addicts stopped and promised not to use drugs in the future, Zhang Heping and Zhao Jianguo were called to set off again.

After sending those 15 people back to the village and leaving some food, they started to arrest the poisonous person in the village.

Because we didn't burn the poisonous weeds this time, we kidnapped three more people from the village and went back, but the number was only 3; among them were 37 poisonous people and 25 teenagers under the age of 4.

What is speechless is that during this period, a mother hid poison in her hair and entered the hospital, secretly giving it to her 12-year-old son...

The educated youth on the farm will not have a holiday this year, which makes Zhang Heping unable to leave, which makes him very unhappy.

In addition, Zhao Jianguo was ignorant and made trouble every day to fight drug dealers. Zhang Heping found an excuse to train him and taught him how to fight on the basketball court in the camp every now and then.

Then I gave him some medicinal liquor for bruises, and then took him into the deep mountains and forests to practice his ability to survive in the wild. This time was passed until February 1973.

On February 2, New Year's Eve, Zhang Heping heard rumors among the educated youth in the camp early in the morning that many parents of educated youth had come to Jingcheng...