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He Shaotang patrolled the mountains and returned to the camp, and successfully hunted back the little wolf. He carried a gun and whistled, while the fifth brother herded the sheep.

The man told the leader on the phone: "He brought it back, he is not injured or in pain, he is recovering, and he will send it back to the factory tomorrow morning."

Their company commander said: "You send me back now."

He Shaotang said: "It's midnight now, I won't sleep until I go back."

Zheng Pai snatched the receiver over there, and shouted in a low voice: "You kid is fucking talented, and you are still arguing with the leader and negotiating conditions? Are you talking?"

He Shaotang had a slightly cheeky nasal voice on the phone: "I've made a meritorious deed again—you write it down for me."

The platoon leader scolded: "I'll give you a bullshit!!! Hurry up and drive the child back, and the parents will be relieved!"

He Shaotang was not afraid at all, and said poorly: "This baby is fun, I still keep it for teasing, I am a ghost place where birds don't shit, it's rare to be lively, take it for a night and then send it back as it is."

When the poverty was over, he added a serious sentence: "Since this child ran away from home, he must have something on his mind. If he is in a hurry to send him back, he has to run away? I advise you."

The company commander scolded his mother on the other end of the phone, and the platoon leader cursed eight generations of ancestors at the same time, but they all took the surname He and died.

Among the soldiers of the entire Mechanic Corps, He Shaotang is the most special and the most capable, and everyone knows the way of it.

Old Zheng scolded: "You look at this bear, in a few years it will be on my head."

The company commander said: "It won't be a few years, and I will return it to Beijing, and say that I don't want him."

The platoon leader said: "If you want to retreat, you should report to the battalion commander. We brothers, I can't tell."

The company commander said: "Your brother, you can control it? Just say that our temple is too small to fit this Bodhisattva, so we can't control it!"

Old Zheng shook his head: "He's been like this since he was a child, and he hasn't missed any major events anyway, what about the small details of life... Forget it, he's just like that!"

He Shaotang is a difficult thorn, such a "personal" character, who can be poked in the barracks, must have his uniqueness.He is a soldier, he goes out to do business and carry out missions, their mechanics are strengthened, and even the sentries of the reconnaissance platoon are all equipped with unique skills and excellent physical fitness. , are sharpshooters.If you can't do it alone, you can't do this job, you can't bear this hardship.When He Shaotang first joined the army, he was a top player in the new barracks. He practiced for [-] kilometers in Gannan, crossing valleys and climbing swamps. He was the first one to climb to the finish line and plant the flag for the Blue Army.Later, several forest rescues were rushed, but every time they came back alive from the fire or flood ditch.In the words of their company commander, the more desperate the one, the tougher the fate...

After searching for the child in the forest all day, Shaotang was really hungry and tired, and he called for wine, wanting to take a sip.

Their outpost was hidden in the woods in a half-mountain ravine, and the sturdy hut made of bricks and stones could block the impact of jackals and wild bears.The roof is rather low, and when a few big men entered, it immediately seemed narrow and cramped, with broad shoulders filling the space, and people were next to each other.Meng Xiaobei was in the middle of a group of rough men, and when he raised his elbow, he stabbed Uncle Shaotang in the back of the crotch. As soon as the other party turned around, his face was immediately covered in heat. The room was both crowded and indescribably warm and intimate.

He Shaotang's eyebrows and eyes were as black as ink under the lamp, and he was adding coal with a steel fork, the brilliance of the flames reflected on his face.Soldiers from a squad gathered together in the house to warm up by the fire. It was Lao Shan's habit to squat around the fire and drink hot water from a large porcelain bowl.

Meng Xiaobei was caught and came back, knowing that he was "doomed", he was already mentally prepared to fight a protracted battle, squatting in a corner, staring at him vigilantly, like a hedgehog with fried hair.

Meng Xiaobei said: "If I don't go home, you don't want to send me back."

Shaotang asked: "Aren't you going home?"

Meng Xiaobei said stubbornly: "I won't go back. Since I came out, I don't want to go back."

Shaotang smiled lightly: "If you don't return, you won't return, it's up to you!"

Meng Xiaobei: "..."

Shaotang was expressionless: "Where do you want to go, the mountains are high and the water is far away, I will give you a ride tomorrow morning; or simply stay here with me, go to the deep mountains to watch wolves during the day, drink cold water to eat pot helmets, and sleep at the guard post to eat at night." Noodle soup, you don’t have to go home anymore, what are you doing at home?!”

Meng Xiaobei frowned and pouted, "I...I..."

Never have to go home again?

Are you no longer with your parents, Xiao Jing? ...The family compound is used to living in it.

The young master hasn't brought the bedroll yet, and there are military caps, magnets, wax and comic books in my "treasure box".

Your Grandpa Bei still has a group of minion soldiers waiting for me to go back and fight devils.

Meng Xiaobei slowly lowered his proud head...

He Shaotang's expression was very cool and cold: "Hungry? Want to eat steamed buns? The wheat is in the back mountain, the stone mill and water mill are behind the house, the pot is under the bed, and the pot is on the shelf. This is a stove in front of you—you first Go to the back mountain to cut the wheat."

Meng Xiaobei completely retreated into the corner...

He Shaotang squinted at the frustrated little wolf cub, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was also bad.

In winter, there is no wheat in the field.

Little one, how many thorns do you have, how many thorns do you have?

The soldiers in the squad thought it was new, carried Meng Xiaobei as usual and made fun of it again, and recounted the thrilling process of how Meng Xiaobei leaked out of his mother's belly and knocked out a sky eye, the whole Xigou Arsenal was famous .

Meng Xiaobei drooped his eyes, sat cross-legged on the kang, and was about to slap the lotus finger again.He also had a cool expression: "Don't keep talking about my past."

Dayao and Yao Guangli in their class asked, "Why can't we say you?"

Meng Xiaobei: "That's what happened when I was a child, and I'm all grown up now!"

Guangli said, "little man, how old are you?"

Meng Xiaobei's voice was rough: "I'm already a man!... I was young and inexperienced, and if I didn't pay attention, I didn't drill well, and I fell to the ground!"

A squad of soldiers squatted on the ground and laughed loudly, spraying hot water all over the floor.

He Shaotang narrowed his eyes, and wrinkled the corners of his eyes: "No one has experience in this matter."

Meng Xiaobei: "Next time I won't hit the ground."

He Shaotang laughed: "You won't do it again! Guangli, how did you get into it back then?"

Guangli: "Don't ask."

He Shaotang only teased honest people: "Don't be embarrassed, just give us a kiss."

Guangli lowered his head and snapped his fingers, and said in a rough voice, "I don't know if I'm hungry! Go back and ask my mother!"

Meng Xiaobei finally couldn't hold back anymore, he stopped pretending, and came out with joy, revealing his domineering and cowardly nature.At this moment, He Shaotang boiled a large pot of hot ginger water, filled half of Meng Xiaobei's stomach, soaked the other half, and squatted down to rub the child's feet.After the white face is finished, it's time to sing the red face. After the hard tricks, then come to the tender offensive. This is called a heart attack...

Meng Xiaobei let this man rub his body, and his whole body became hot immediately. Beads of sweat soaked the cotton-padded jacket, and a drop of hot sweat dripped from the tip of his nose onto Shaotang's nose.

He sat on the bed and looked down, just as He Shaotang raised his head, wiped his sweat, and continued to rub his feet for fear that he would freeze to death in the mountains.

When Shaotang isn't being snarky and working hard, his eyes are quiet and the corners of his mouth are silent...

Soldiers in the army eat simply and hard. One large aluminum basin is full of steamed buns and pot helmets, which is enough food.

He Shaotang saw it, and asked, "Meng Xiaobei, don't you like carrots?"

Meng Xiaobei curled his lips, expressing his abhorrence for all radishes, potatoes, and root vegetables: "...Uncle, don't you have mutton?"

He Shaotang said: "Mutton? No."

"The few of us don't herd sheep, we 'release wolves'. There are quite a few wolves, and there are plenty on the back hills. Do you eat wolf meat?"

Meng Xiaobei was not polite: "You know how to cook wolf meat? I'll eat it if you catch it."

Shaotang snorted, "I figured it out, you're a wolf."

A group of people ate steamed buns dipped in chili peppers, and He Shaotang scooped them up with a spoon, chewing chili peppers, mouth full of red oil.

Just at this time, someone came back from outside again, it was Xiaobin, a soldier in their class.

Xiao Bin stood blankly by the door, with his hat thrown away, holding a big motionless wolfdog in his arms, with an extremely sad and depressed expression.

Shaotang stood up slowly from the ground: "Xiaobin, what's wrong?"

Xiaobin's voice was full of tears: "Shaotang... Erbao is dead!"

Everyone in the room stood up, "Er Bao" was the sentry dog ​​raised by their class.

Xiaobin was young, with a round face, and tears welled up in his eyes when he cried: "I went to look for it just now, I fished it out from the pond in the river ditch, it's already dead, woo woo woo..."

Shaotang: "How could it fall into that puddle?"

Xiaobin: "Is there any fish in the water? Maybe I want to catch fish to eat."

Shaotang: "This foodie, won't he swim up by himself?"

Xiao Bin wiped away his tears: "The water is so cold that it's covered with thin ice. Maybe it's cramped and tangled in the fishing line, so I didn't climb up!... woo woo woo..."

This dog is the baby of their class, raised as a child, and every time he gets meat from the team, he saves his brains for the dog to eat.Every time He Shaotang went up the mountain to patrol the mountains, he led his dog to lead the way. He was recognized as the "big treasure" by his class, and his dog was named "Second Treasure" for this reason.

Xiaobin's kid sat by the stove and drank a few drops of horse urine. After Wu warmed up, he asked, "Shaotang, what should we do with this dog? Let's bury it."

He Shaotang hugged and stroked the dead Erbao for a while, squatted down for a long while speechless, his profile was stern and silent, and suddenly said: "It's a pity to be buried."

"Take the pot and stew."

He Shaotang smacked his lips.

With his words, everyone in the house was furious. You want to stew our dog and eat it? !

Xiaobin hugged the dog desperately in his arms, feeling as if there was still a trace of warmth: "He Shaotang, you are a fucking foodie!!!"

"This is the dog that we have been feeding one bite at a time for the past two years!...not a wild dog!"

"You're so good at talking!!!"

He Shaotang shook his head and signaled: "The child doesn't eat carrots and potatoes, he is short of meat."

Xiaobin stared at He Shaotang in disbelief: "Who is that baby? It's not ours, but our dog!"

Shaotang said flatly: "Erbao is dead, and he can't survive."

Xiaobin: "If I can't survive, I will bury it, and we can't eat it either!"

Sometimes people like Xiaobin Guangli really don't understand He Shaotang, what kind of person is this?

You said He Shaotang doesn't like dogs?He likes it, he loves Erbao just like he loves his own cub, he takes it with him when he goes out during the day, he sleeps with him at night, eats at the same table, sleeps in the same bed, going through the wind and fire, he is like a comrade in arms who go through life and death .When the dog saw him, it jumped into its arms happily, wagged its tail, and licked his face.

He Shaotang's expression was cynical, and he laughed at Xiaobin: "Look at you crying, mother-in-law."

Xiao Bin said: "I'm just a mother-in-law, what's the matter!"

Shaotang sneered and said, "You Lin Daiyu, you? Why don't you just 'buy' it, set up a grave, and scatter some flowers?"

"The dog is alive, I love it."

"The dog is dead, before it returns to dust, let it honor us one last time. I will miss its goodness all my life."

Xiaobin: "..."

Xiaobin cursed angrily: "He Shaotang, you are such a person, you are so cold-hearted and inhuman!"

That night, they really stewed the dog. On the stove, there was a pot of fragrant dog meat hot pot on the big aluminum pot.

Xiaobin was determined not to enter the house at first, and stood outside without looking.The others were also sad at first, but they couldn't hold back the rich meaty fragrance that wafted for ten miles. Sadness and sadness all became fleeting, and they all abandoned their integrity in front of a pot of meat...

Later Xiaobin wished he could cry while eating, and called He a bastard.

He Shaotang disdained: "You can't stop scolding me even if you eat."

Xiaobin gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Surnamed He, you are so hungry, next time we will eat you!"

He Shaotang slapped his legs boldly, not caring at all: "I am rough-skinned and thick-skinned. Is there anyone who likes me? If you like me, you can eat me!"

Shaotang broke the pot helmet into pieces, soaked it in a large bowl of hot broth, and scooped up a spoon full of spicy peppers.Meng Xiaobei ate very deliciously, he ate a whole bowl of dog meat steamed buns, and he wanted a second bowl.Every pore of his body was soothed by the hot air from the inside out, and he was extremely comfortable. He had never eaten such fresh game before, and the broth was covered with a layer of bright and attractive red oil!

Shaotang said to the child: "If you want to eat a decent meal of shabu-shabu, you have to take a half-day car to Xi'an to eat it. There are no other places, so you can't eat it."

Meng Xiaobei's mouth was full, and he nodded vigorously in agreement: "Yes!"

Years spent in the ravines, those thoughts of misery and misery are put away. Those things can't help you live a real life in the turbulent years.This belongs to a specific era, but if it were not for another occasion, He Shaotang probably wouldn't do it in a few years.

After eating for a while, Meng Xiaobei suddenly asked: "Just now in the woods, why didn't you kill that white wolf, stew that wolf and eat it?"

He Shaotang looked into Xiaobei's eyes: "If you kill a wolf, the wolves will look for our scent and footprints and besiege our outpost, so don't fight easily, don't violate the river water, and leave a way for each other to survive."

Meng Xiaobei was surprised, half-understanding.

Shaotang said at that time: "Wolf also has a family. There is a big family, wife and children. If you accidentally kill a wolf, the whole family will seek revenge from you! If you kill the wolf father, the wolf mother will play with you." .If you beat the wolf cub to death, the wolf father and wolf mother will come to play with us, believe it or not? It’s the same cub that both parents love for themselves.”

Meng Xiaobei felt that he understood that day, so he silently stopped talking...

The soldiers took out the secretly hidden rice wine from the "treasure box" under the bed, and used the rice wine to stuff themselves.

Shaotang drank half a bowl of hot rice wine, dipped his chopsticks in the wine and fed it to Meng Xiaobei.

Meng Xiaobei sucked his chopsticks: "Sweet? Delicious."

Shaotang dipped it for him again, with a smile in his eyes: "Take a good bite with me."

The wolf cub greedily picked up the bowl...

Meng Xiaobei recalled many years later that the pot of dog meat soup that He Shaotang stewed was the most delicious thing he had eaten during the turbulent years.The taste has remained on the tip of the tongue and lingered in the heart for many years.He remembers the faithful dog resting with eyes closed, remembers someone.

That night in the stone house in the forest, there were noisy voices, the glass windows were filled with white gas, and the lights warmed the heart.

He Shaotang reported to the company commander that he was exhausted and had to go to bed, but when he was full of wine and food, a group of people regained their energy and played cards on the kang sideways, making it lively.The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the chief is not in front of him. His surname is He is the leader of this back mountain. The wolves in the whole valley are at his command, let alone humans.

He Shaotang flicked the cards, Meng Xiaobei leaned on his lap, watching with great interest.

He Shaotang commanded him: "Wolf cub, come and draw cards for me."

Yao Guangli said, "This kid has strong hands."

Xiao Bin said: "Xiaobei, you stinky boy, we took the kitten and the master away?!"

"The big cat is with you too?!"

Xiao Bin crawled over to snatch it: "Xiao Bei, don't give all the big and small cats to that bastard! Let me tell you, that guy is not a good person!!!"

He Shaotang looked up to the sky arrogantly and laughed, stretched out his hand to stroke Meng Xiaobei's hair, he really liked this kid.

Meng Xiaobei involuntarily mixed up with his uncle Shaotang.He Shaotang pointed at him to play, and leaned on the opponent's chest to help play cards.The two worked hand in hand, fought hard all the way, won a round of cigarettes, and were poked and scolded by the whole house...

Meng Xiaobei later slept on He Shaotang's bed, squeezed into a quilt, and covered his body with a military overcoat, carrying the smell of the other party.

He Shaotang took off his coat, put on an army green tight-fitting vest, and big shorts, lying on his back on the bed.

Meng Xiaobei always sleeps on his back, sleeping extremely freely.The sleeping positions of the two of them matched each other, both propped up, blocking each other's hands and feet.Meng Xiaobei arched, He Shaotang moved, Meng Xiaobei arched again, He Shaotang had nowhere to move, and began to bully the small back to arch!Meng Xiaobei was forced to go back to the corner, turned over, unceremoniously, directly lay on the opponent's body, pressed his limbs together, and continued to sleep!

He Shaotang hummed: "Oh, you... are you very comfortable?..."

Meng Xiaobei blew bubbles on his nose: "Huh—huh—"

He Shaotang cheated and kicked him off.The standard bed for troops is very narrow and will sleep a thin person.Looking for warmth, Meng Xiaobei climbed sideways on his upper body, stretched out his hand, and reached out to the other party's baggy shorts suddenly.Between a piece of hard muscle, there is a piece of soft ground, which is just right to hold.

He Shaotang narrowed his eyes and snorted, "What are you touching in your crotch?"

Meng Xiaobei stretched out by mistake, stuck out his tongue, and quickly retracted.

He Shaotang was half asleep and half awake, and hummed: "I took out my bird's nest."

Meng Xiaobei: "What is a bird's nest?"

He Shaotang: "There are birds and eggs, isn't it a nest?"

Xiao Bin slammed down from the upper bunk and said, "He has a few eggs growing in there, Xiao Bei quickly touch them for us!"

Meng Xiaobei said, "I didn't touch anything."

"I didn't see any eggs, I seem to have picked out bird feathers!"

Meng Xiaobei bluntly reported to the class.

Pfft-hahaha!

Everyone in the room burst into laughter in the dark, and Xiao Bin almost rolled directly to the lower berth.The man's smile, with a hint of obscene jokes, is very crazy...

No matter how honest Yao Guangli was, he couldn't hold back any longer. He beat the bed and said, "I guess no eggs hatched from his nest."

Xiao Bin said: "Xiaobei doesn't need to touch it, he didn't grow that at all, because he didn't need it!"

He Shaotang also laughed, and scolded: "Who said I didn't grow!"

"Don't lie to me!"

"Meng Xiaobei's little ancestor! Otherwise, you can check it carefully for me, and don't go out and talk nonsense to me later!"

No one in the room was sleepy at all, you teased me sentence by sentence, or hoarse or rough laughter kept coming and going.

Meng Xiaobei giggled happily, this night was extremely pleasant.He was still young at that time, and he actually didn't understand many jokes with color among grown men, but he was infected by the atmosphere and couldn't help laughing out.

He was usually with his family, and rarely had the opportunity to sleep in his parents' arms.There are two beds in one room. He and his younger brother squeezed into a small bed since childhood, sleeping back to back. He was used to being independent since he was a child. Even though he was not in primary school, he seemed to have forgotten what it was like to be in the arms of his parents.

He Shaotang laughed so hard that his chest heaved, the bed board trembled slightly, his profile was handsome in the dark, his teeth were very white, and his eyelashes fluttered and slender.There was a thin layer of muscle wrapped in this person's vest, and his chest was broad and warm.Meng Xiaobei stared at this person for a long time unknowingly, and he didn't know what to aim at, until his eyes blurred with sleepiness...

In the early morning, Meng Xiaobei peed on the kang.

The dog meat soup and a large bowl of rice wine were drunk, and the stamina was full, without holding back, the desire to urinate was like a galloping spring, and the bed was wet, waking up the people in the bed!

He Shaotang jumped off the bed wearing a vest and shorts, roaring.

The whole room was alarmed, pounding the bed and laughing loudly, Meng Xiaobei, you are such a bear, this time you have avenged Er Bao's revenge for us.

Xiaobin hangs down from the upper bunk, pointing at someone: "He Shaotang, you owe it to me! You have today too!!!"