Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

"Doctor Wang, this is a fruit from Jiaozhi, rambutan. Try some! It's delicious!"

"Doctor Yang, you should try the passion fruit too. It tastes delicious when you add some water!"

"Doctor Lin, even though this mangosteen may not look good, it tastes very sweet and fragrant!"

After the enemy troops in Jiaozhi learned that Ruan Qunjian had successfully removed the gallbladder pierced by a bullet in the hands of Li Xiangnan and other doctors, their attitude towards Li Xiangnan and others had taken a 180-degree turn. They took the initiative to contribute some of the fruits they picked in the woods, and their relationship with our soldiers quickly became closer.

Wang Defa happily held the fruits they contributed, and even made a cup of passion fruit tea in an enamel pot to show off to Li Xiangnan.

"Xiao Li, look, what's going on? Let's start to maintain our health! You may not know that several sisters in my medical school used to like to drink passion fruit juice. I have heard about it countless times, but I have never drunk it! Now I drink it, wow, this taste..."

"How does it taste?" Li Xiangnan snatched the enamel cup from his hand and took a sip.

"It tastes just like that!" Wang De rolled his eyes at him.

Li Xiangnan couldn't help laughing, but he didn't expose his eager eyes and handed over the enamel cup.

The fat man took it and drank it with a grin.

He smacked his lips and came out with a look of being unsatisfied.

"If you want to drink it, ask someone else for it! The climate here is quite unique, and there is no shortage of these fruits!" Li Xiangnan urged him.

"Hey, if I eat these fruits as marching rations every day, I will definitely grow up like a white baby. Look at them, each of them is pale and skinny, so ugly!" Wang Defa sighed while drinking passion fruit tea.

Li Xiangnan smiled but did not refute.

The climate in Jiaozhi is very different in the north and south, so there is no shortage of fruit production.

However, the agricultural and industrial levels in Jiaozhi were extremely poor. Take the Gantang phosphate mine for example, its export value accounted for 5% of the entire Jiaozhi's foreign exchange!

Don’t underestimate this number, but when it comes to the national level, it’s a terrifying number!

This is a small phosphate mine!

It can be seen how backward the industrialization level of Jiaozhi is!

Moreover, because Jiaozhi is long from north to south and narrow from east to west, the country's agricultural development is restricted by the terrain and is extremely backward.

Most of their food supplies in these years were solved by plundering from the Khmer Rouge!

Having no food to eat was a common situation for the people of Jiaozhi!

If ordinary people don’t hand in food, the troops will have no food to use.

The country has little foreign exchange and no funds for imports, so the troops naturally cannot be replenished in a timely manner.

Do you think we can count on such an army to win a battle with us?

We will win this battle, that’s for sure.

As the two were talking, Wang Defa caught a glimpse of Wu Can standing not far away, looking as if hesitant to say something, as if he really wanted to come over and talk.

"Xiao Li, guess what Wu Can is going to give you?"

When Li Xiangnan heard what he said, he turned around and saw Wu Can's reserved look, so he whispered, "Whatever you think, just talk to yourselves. Don't say it in front of others. They have self-respect too!"

"I'm not a fool!" Wang Defa pouted and waved at Wu Can, "Instructor Wu, what do you want?"

"Doctor Wang! Doctor Li!"

Wu Can, who was a little nervous at first, had no choice but to come over when Wang Defa waved his hand. He made up his mind, walked over and took out the backpack on his back.

Li Xiangnan smiled and said, "Instructor Wu..."

As soon as he shouted, Wu Can quickly shook his hand and said, "Doctor Li, we are no longer soldiers! Don't call me instructor, Wu Can, just call me Wu Can!"

"Okay, Wu Can, what are you doing?"

Wu Can scratched his head, sat down, opened his worn-out backpack, and took out an oil-paper bag from it. After opening it, he said shyly, "This is a screw cake. It's made by smashing the screws from the stream, digging out the meat, and mixing it with corn to make the cake..."

"Oh? Screw cake?" Li Xiangnan asked in surprise: "This is the first time I've heard of it! Is it delicious?"

"How about you try it?" Wu Can asked tentatively.

"Hey, how can I be missing?" Wang Defa grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth. As he bit it, his eyes lit up, "Hey..."

Wu Can stood up nervously in an instant and looked at Wang Defa anxiously, fearing that the cake would not taste good.

Seeing Wang Defa squinting his eyes in a mean way, Li Xiangnan kicked him and said, "It tastes good if it tastes good, and it doesn't taste good if it doesn't! What are you wasting your time on..."

"Dr. Li, who is not as good as chicken!" Wu Can quickly waved his hands.

"Wu Can, I'm not talking about chicken... Never mind!" Li Xiangnan grinned and reached out to take it. Wu Can quickly leaned over and handed it to him. He put it in his mouth and took a bite, then immediately followed with a "tsk" sound, "Hey, Wu Can, this thing tastes good, right? Do you usually eat this? This is delicious!"

"Really?" Wu Can's nervous mood suddenly brightened up, and he said with great joy: "We can't usually get any pork or mutton to eat. As long as there is a river around the place where we are stationed, the chefs will make this for us to eat!"

"You really know how to make use of local materials! Very good, really good!" Wang Defa also praised.

"What are you eating? It smells so good, it attracts me!" Ji Pingfeng patted Wang Defa's shoulder, snatched the half-eaten cake from his hand, and wrapped it in one bite.

"Hey, Captain, you can't play like this! I just ate!" Wang Defa stretched out his hand, and seeing that his whole mouth was filled with it, he retracted it with a resentful look on his face.

"Wow...not bad...tastes great!" Ji Pingfeng licked his fingers after eating.

"I'll ask the soldiers for it!" Wu Can immediately took the bag.

"Then I'll go with you! Hey, I'll pick two for Lao Qin! What kind of cake is this?" Ji Pingfeng put his hand directly on Wu Can's shoulder and followed him.

"They were fighting to the death at night, but now you're like brothers. I give in!" Wang Defa pouted and gave Ji Pingfeng a blank look.

Li Xiangnan smiled, stretched, grabbed his bag and used it as a cushion behind his head, then lay down next to the campfire and stared at the statues of saints on the ceiling of the church.

"Are you planning to spend the night like this?" Wang Defa, who was sleeping opposite him, kicked him when he saw this.

"What else?" Li Xiangnan turned to look at him, his eyes looking across the campfire and seeing Lin Weimin and Lin Muyu sitting together and talking.

"When do you plan to give them Lin Chuqiao's letter?" Wang De asked.

“I haven’t thought about it yet!” Li Xiangnan sat up after saying that, opened his backpack and took a look, and sighed silently, “I wanted to give it to them when we part tomorrow morning! But I’m afraid that we’ll be separated too hastily tomorrow morning, and they’ll get anxious and break away from the team, violating discipline and want to follow us again. If I give it to them now, I’ll let them know in advance that Chu Qiao is here too, and make them worry for nothing…”

Wang Defa hugged his head and lay down, and asked, "Do you know what I looked forward to most when I was a child?"

"What?" Li Xiangnan turned around and asked, but he was more curious about why the fat man was talking about his childhood at this time.

"What I look forward to most is the Chinese New Year! At that time, my grandfather would always tell me at the beginning of the year that my parents would be back during the Chinese New Year! So I looked forward to the Chinese New Year all year long! I was very happy every day! But when the Chinese New Year came, my parents didn't come back, and my grandfather comforted me by saying that my parents missed the train and could only come back next year. Then I started looking forward to the Chinese New Year again! Although my grandfather's reasons were different every year, my expectations for the Chinese New Year were the same!"

"and after?"

"Later, when I was in primary school, my head teacher told me that my parents had actually died during the Korean War..."

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Li Xiangnan took out the envelope.

"Later..." Wang Defa also sat up, "Later I understood a truth! You must learn to give people hope in advance, and don't give them sudden surprises! Because expectation is the most wonderful thing in life! Just like this letter!"

"Just like this letter! Tell them that Chu Qiao's letter can only be opened when they arrive at their base! In this way, they will look forward to the journey and return to their base as soon as possible! And this separation along the way is also the most beautiful! Maybe all the dreams tonight will be sweet!"

Li Xiangnan smiled and said, "Fatty, you are actually a romanticist! If you had a partner, you would surely make people die of sweetness every day!"

"Get lost! Don't I understand? Dreams are always beautiful, but reality is cruel! I can only think about it!"

"But you're right! I have to at least give it a try!"

Li Xiangnan nodded, walked over, squatted in front of Lin Weimin, and shouted, "Brother Weimin!"

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Lin Weimin sat up.

"Aren't you tired? Go to bed quickly! We didn't go to see you because we were afraid of disturbing you!" Lin Muyu also urged.

"I'm here to tell you something!" Li Xiangnan handed over the letter. "Chu Qiao sent you a letter! She hopes that you will open it after you return to your original station!"

"???"

A letter from Xiao Qiao?

Where did the letter come from?

what's the situation? what happened?

Is Xiao Qiao here too?

The two looked at each other in surprise, then suddenly turned around and looked at Li Xiangnan in disbelief.