What a beautiful white lotus

Early the next morning, everyone in the machinery repair factory woke up, and Ye Rongqiu was no longer in the room.They entered the factory after breakfast and saw Ye Rongqiu sitting in front of the machine and working.

Kang Qi stepped forward and saw Ye Rongqiu was concentrating on drawing the blueprint in his hand.He glanced at the drawing and was taken aback - this drawing was only half drawn when he was resting last night, and it is almost finished now!You must know that this kind of complicated mechanical drawing is not so easy to draw, and it requires very precise. Each line must be carefully measured with a ruler to measure the length and angle. If you make a mistake, it will cause a lot of trouble.It seems that Ye Rongqiu has been working for a long time.

Kang Qi asked: "Political Commissar, have you had breakfast yet?"

Ye Rongqiu didn't raise his head, he responded perfunctorily, and continued to draw lines on the drawing with the tip of his pen in his hand.He is lying down very low, his face is almost pasted on the blueprint, Kang Qi can see his exhaustion just by looking at his side face - to be able to rush to work to this extent, it seems that Ye Rong will get up to work before the light of autumn .

At this time, several soldiers came over, Kang Qi pulled them and motioned them to look at Ye Rongqiu.

A soldier named Li Tie stepped forward and was surprised when he saw Ye Rongqiu's drawings, and asked, "Political Commissar, when did you get up?"

Ye Rongqiu still didn't look up: "Not long."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.Although Ye Rongqiu said so, everyone knew that if it didn't take a few hours, Tu couldn't reach this level.

Li Tie said: "Political commissar, go and eat something first, this picture is not in time for this moment." In fact, everyone hopes that the machine repair factory and the arsenal can grow up immediately, and it is best to acquire new technologies every day to produce More weapons and explosives, so that more brothers in the same robe can survive in the battle, and expel the invaders as soon as possible.But the war has not been fought for a year or two. If you want to talk about urgency, it is really not something that can be rushed out in a day or two.

Everyone also came up to persuade, Ye Rongqiu finally put down the pencil, and straightened up with his sore waist hanging down for a long time.When he raised his head, everyone was startled again: Ye Rongqiu's face was extremely haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and the dark circles under his eyes almost fell down to his nose!

Kang Qi remembered Ye Rongqiu sitting up suddenly last night, and quickly asked: "Brother Ye, you haven't slept all night, have you?"

Others also started talking about Ye Rongqiu's body.

Ye Rongqiu rubbed his temples: "Okay, leave me alone. Since you are all here to work, then start working quickly. Fix the machine as soon as possible, so that I don't worry so much, I will have time to rest .”

Several people looked at each other and had to spread out to work.

Kang Qi looked at Ye Rongqiu hesitantly.He always felt that something was wrong with the political commissar today, and what he said just now sounded weird. What do you mean he shouldn't worry so much?It was as if he was leaving the arsenal to do something else.But how is it possible to leave the arsenal?This factory was pulled together by Ye Rongqiu and Huang Mu with nails and screws. It can be said that all of Ye Rongqiu's painstaking efforts were concentrated. Where else could he go?

Under Ye Rongqiu's full supervision, the efficiency of the workers has improved a lot. Everyone worked together to find a way, and the damaged machine was repaired within two days.

After the machine was in normal operation, the workers made a few more grenades. Huang Mu was very concerned about this matter, so he personally led people to try out these batches of grenades. He picked three of them for trial use, and all of them exploded. The power was not bad.

The machine was repaired, and the arsenal began to operate normally. Huang Mu was very happy, so he ordered someone to kill a chicken that day, and then asked someone to buy some wine, and invited Ye Rongqiu to drink and eat roast chicken.

This is the era of war, not to mention eating meat, but it is not easy to eat rice, especially for teams like theirs who fought in the front line of the Anti-Japanese War, and they are so poor that they don't even have a pair of complete underpants.Huang Mu spent almost all of his funds on the arsenal.But even though the conditions were so difficult, Huang Mu always tried to give Ye Rongqiu the best treatment, even if he didn't have enough to eat, he had to let Ye Rongqiu have enough to eat.He has seen Ye Rongqiu's hard work recently. Ye Rongqiu went to rest every day in the middle of the night when there was no lighting conditions. He got up to work at dawn and ate his meals in the workshop. He lost weight within a few days. lock up.Ye Rongqiu has always worked hard and dedicated himself to his work, but recently he was too diligent. One day, he passed out from exhaustion as soon as he left the factory. After being carried back to sleep for a few hours, he got up to work again.Although he didn't know where Ye Rongqiu's motivation came from, Huang Mu felt sorry for his body, so he specially exchanged a few grenades for a chicken with the friendly army to replenish Ye Rongqiu's oil and water.

Before the roast chicken was served at the dinner table, Ye Rongqiu took out a document and handed it to Huang Mu: "Tuan Zuo, take a look, this is my plan for the development of the arsenal for the next year."

Huang Mu was a little surprised, and took the document from Ye Rongqiu.About how to develop the arsenal, they have been planning this matter. The ideal is very full, but often the plan is not very useful, because even if you have money in troubled times, you can’t buy the materials they need, such as iron and gunpowder for making grenades. They are all used firearms and bullets that they picked up from the battlefield or eliminated by the team. The gunpowder needed to make a grenade requires more than a dozen bullets.

Ye Rongqiu said: "It is difficult to improve the hardware conditions of our arsenal now. There is no way to do it. But there is a lot of room for improvement in technology. I have been training apprentices for the past few years. I hope they can be independent and quickly. Take my class. Now Kang Qi is doing very well. He is a very savvy child. He is naturally good at mechanics. He can figure out some things that I don’t understand. Even when I am not around, he can take care of himself. I think the main thing is to cultivate talents. It’s too hard for me alone. Apprentices can lead apprentices, and they can teach as much as they can. Even if they can’t start making gunpowder right away, at least let more people learn how to repair weapons. It takes less time. This plan is mainly a training plan.”

Huang Mu casually flipped through the plan Ye Rongqiu gave him.He didn't know many characters, so Ye Rongqiu and the regiment secretary had to deal with such things, and he could only take care of the war and training.It stands to reason that Huang Mu should be very happy that Ye Rongqiu has any plan that is beneficial to the development of the arsenal and the team, but now he is not happy.Ye Rongqiu's attitude gave him a bad premonition, as if he was asking Gu Gu.Let Kang Qi be alone, what is Ye Rongqiu going to do with the time he saves?His high-intensity and desperate work certainly cannot last for too long.

Sure enough, Ye Rongqiu took a sip of wine, and said: "I have repaired the machine in the past few days, and I have also drawn the structural diagrams of common firearms and artillery. As long as you can learn to read pictures, it shouldn't be too slow to get started. Even if I'm not around, the arsenal won't be out of action."

At this time the chicken was roasted and served, Huang Mu tore a chicken leg and handed it to Ye Rongqiu: "What do you mean you're not here?"

Ye Rongqiu took the chicken leg from Huang Mu's hand, didn't eat it right away, but put it on the plate in front of him.He lowered his head, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, Ye Rongqiu finally raised his head and looked directly into Huang Mu's eyes: "Regimental Commander, I want to work in the war zone."

Huang Mu was startled.In fact, Ye Rongqiu's weird attitude today had given Huang Mu a premonition that Ye Rongqiu might want to put aside the matter of the arsenal temporarily.He also knows that many teams are wooing Ye Rongqiu, but he is not too worried about this. This arsenal was run by Ye Rongqiu single-handedly, and he is not willing to give up gold and silver for him.He guessed that Ye Rongqiu might be too tired and wanted to rest for a while, but he never thought that Ye Rongqiu would say such a thing.

Huang Mu's eyes widened: "Are you crazy?" Where is the war zone? Ye Rongqiu's name was registered by the Japanese devils and Kuomintang agents. Although Huang Mu kept him well hidden, not many enemies knew about it. Ye Rongqiu's appearance, let alone he is the elite of the Communist Party, the war zone is so chaotic, there are armed fights happening every now and then, ordinary people walking on the road may be hit by stray bullets at any time or captured by the Japanese army to build fortifications , living a precarious life, let Ye Rongqiu enter the war zone, this is undoubtedly a matter of sending a sheep into a tiger's mouth!

Ye Rongqiu was very calm, he was a little guilty, and his voice was very soft, but his attitude was extremely firm: "I'm not crazy. Tuan Zuo, I'm a political commissar. I can go to the theater to do united front work, mobilize the masses, and develop the revolutionary cause."

Huang Mu laughed angrily: "You? Do united front work?" Ye Rongqiu is not a fighting talent. He hasn't even fired a gun for almost a year. Ye Rongqiu also participated in a whole regiment training. He, who deals with guns every day, shoots His grades are not as good as those of a recruit who touched a gun for the first time. Let him shoot and kill the enemy, maybe he will shoot his own people first.When doing united front work, fighting may occur at any time.What's more, people who do united front work must have certain communication skills and sufficient revolutionary enthusiasm. Ye Rongqiu is not good at this. He is actually a relatively introverted person. He seldom actively communicates with others. He has always been lacking in enthusiasm for other things, especially the things on the scene that he has always been able to hide.In such a situation, he also said that he wanted to do united front work?

Ye Rongqiu thought that Huang Mu would be furious after hearing his words, but to his surprise, Huang Mu only expressed that he thought his thoughts were ridiculous, but he didn't get angry.

——Huang Mu knew Ye Rongqiu's shortcomings, and it was impossible for Ye Rongqiu not to know.He is not a fool, he must have his reasons for saying this.

Huang Mu asked him, "Why?"

Ye Rongqiu pondered for a moment, then said: "Head, do you know Shan Si Xing and Nian Bai?"

Huang Mu was stunned, and nodded: "Who doesn't know this? Shan Sixing is a big traitor, and Nian Bai is our excellent comrade."

Ye Rongqiu said: "I hope to have the opportunity to contact them, so that I can instigate Shansixing, or connect with Nianbai." Although Ye Rongqiu has never met Shansixing or Nianbai, he always feels that these two people have something to do with the black dog.Maybe both of them are the aliases of Heigou, maybe one of them is Heigou, take ten thousand steps back, these two are big men, they have a lot of contacts in the war zone, they may have news about Heigou.But he didn't express his conjecture. After all, conjectures are just conjectures, and he actually gambled a lot by taking this move.But after waiting for four years, the life and death of the black dog is uncertain, and he is already waiting to the point of despair. Even if he spends all he has, he will gamble on this one, and there is no other way to go.

Today, every word Ye Rongqiu said was beyond Huang Mu's expectations, so much so that the leader of the Fifth Independent Regiment, who was always quick to speak, slowed down his reaction.One is a big traitor, and the other is an underground party member who can be called a hero. Not to mention Ye Rongqiu, even Huang Mu himself, the head of the lieutenant colonel, is not qualified to contact them.These things are all in charge of by a special person, it doesn't mean that Ye Rongqiu's great contribution can let him go as he pleases.Besides, Ye Rongqiu has nothing to do with them, why does he want to contact them?

Huang Mu can be the head of the regiment, he not only knows how to fight, but also has brains.He pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it related to the person you are looking for?"

Ye Rongqiu wanted to find someone, this was no secret in the Fifth Independent Regiment or even the entire New Fourth Army.Huang Mu also knew that Ye Rongqiu had been looking for this person for four or five years, and he never gave up for a single day.Huang Mu is confident that he can say that the arsenal is Ye Rongqiu's second life, and the one who can make him give up his second life is probably the person who only exists in Ye Rongqiu's memories.

Ye Rongqiu did not shy away, nodded: "I suspect that he may be in the war zone."

Huang Mu asked: "What does that have to do with Shan Si Xing and Nian Bai?"

Ye Rongqiu was silent for a moment, then said: "I don't know, but maybe we can find him."

Huang Mu sighed, took a sip of wine, and filled the wine glass in front of Ye Rongqiu.The roasted chicken is delicious. Huang Mu, who hasn't seen meat for a long time, was already hungry when the roasted chicken was served, but now that the roasted chicken has cooled down, no one has touched it. No one has the appetite. .

"Xiaoye." Huang Mu asked slowly, "Let me ask you, how long have you known the person you are looking for?"

Ye Rongqiu was startled, and replied: "It's been a year...before we separated."

Huang Mu nodded: "Oh, one year, is he related to you by blood?"

Ye Rongqiu was a little embarrassed.Heigou is his cousin in terms of seniority, but this relative is too far away. At least in his heart, the definition of Heigou is not a blood relative.But he still nodded: "Yes. Cousin."

Huang Mu said: "Then this cousin is quite far away, right? A relative who popped up out of nowhere and has only known you for a year?"

Ye Rongqiu was silent.

"I'll settle accounts with you." Huang Mu said, "You've known him for a year, and it's been almost five years since we separated. They are brothers who grew up together. We haven't seen each other for five years. Everyone lives their own lives. There is no reason why you have to get together, right? This arsenal started with only a pair of tweezers and a file, and now it has grown to its current scale. You have been working for three years, for this person who has known each other for five years. , you don’t even know if he is still alive or where he is, you don’t care about your arsenal, you don’t care about your own life, you are going to find someone in the war zone? Let’s take a step back, even if you are not afraid of death, you know you are dead How many people can’t survive? I don’t need to say how much you are worth! You don’t care about these brothers who have been with you for four or five years?”

"I..." Ye Rongqiu took a deep breath: "I didn't say that I don't care about the arsenal. Now the arsenal can operate by itself. I just take time to work in the theater. If there is any problem with the arsenal, I will always focus on the affairs here. .”

Huang Mu was noncommittal: "You eat the chicken first, it will be cold."

Ye Rongqiu had no choice but to pick up the chicken legs.How many people want to eat a bite of meat in their dreams, but when it comes to his mouth, the food is tasteless and tastes like chewing wax.

Huang Mu watched him eat up a chicken leg, and then said again: "This chicken is yours, you can go back after eating, and have a good rest. As for what you said just now, how ridiculous it is, I have already told you .”

Ye Rongqiu was so anxious that he wanted to say more, but Huang Mu didn't listen to him at all, he finished the wine in front of him in one go, got up and walked away.