The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Before Feng Baisui could speak, Thrush, who had been neglected all this time, suddenly flew down, and when he landed on the ground, he had already turned into the previous man.

"Since the person you want to see is gone, let me drink it." He said, picking up the bottle.

The soldiers were taken aback and asked Qi Mu, "What is that?"

"A thrush that has lived for a long time." Qi Mu replied, "Claims to be a fairy."

"What is a thing!" The man said dissatisfiedly: "And why did you call yourself?"

"Isn't that what you claim to be?" Qi Mu asked suspiciously, "Then how did you say it?"

"..."

"Thrush..." The group leader stroked his chin thoughtfully, and said, "I seem to have seen this bird before."

Qi Mu looked at the man who was drinking, thought for a while and said, "The one you saw may be another one, the thrushes are all similar in shape."

"makes sense."

"Head, Brother Bang is here!" A soldier floated over to report.

"Ah, he's here." The leader immediately turned around and returned to his own grave.

A man in a military uniform with a scruffy face walked over slowly. When he saw Qi Mu and the stranger beside him holding a wine bottle, he was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Xiao Mu, are you here too?"

Qi Mu nodded.

He glanced at the thrush monster, and turned to the head's tomb without asking any questions.

The man took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, put it on the headstone's tombstone, sat down, and lit a cigarette for himself.

Taking a deep breath, the man said to the tombstone, "Huanhuan, I managed to get this pack of cigarettes, do you like it?"

"Hee hee... Huanhuan..." A few soldiers next to him burst into laughter, and the regiment leader floated in front of him in embarrassment, his face flushed slightly.

The man said again: "I'm sorry, I haven't come to see you for a long time. These days I helped others and made a fortune. Look, what a good cigarette..."

He showed the cigarette case and smiled.

"I came here recently, and I feel that the garden is much quieter. Has another brother left? Are you almost there?"

After waiting for a while, no one answered, he turned to Qi Mu and asked, "Xiao Mu, has Huanhuan been reincarnated?"

Qi Mu glanced at the leader with some embarrassment, the latter nodded to him, Qi Mu thought for a while, but said: "No."

The man grinned and looked at the tombstone with gentle eyes, "I knew you wouldn't go, you boy can't bear to part with me."

The little soldiers booed for a while, and they all laughed and pushed the leader, who blushed even more.

After sitting for a while, the cigarette was almost burnt out, and the man said, "Huanhuan, it's not good for you to stay alone..." He took a deep breath on the cigarette butt, stood up and said, "When the last brother is about to leave , you go too, vote for a good family."

Then he patted the tombstone lightly, turned and left.

The group leader looked at his back, seemed to want to call him, hesitated for a moment, then lowered his hand, silently looking at the extinguished cigarette on the stele.

Feng Baisui asked Qi Mu: "Who is that person?"

"Zhao Xingbang, also their comrade-in-arms, survived."

"What's the relationship between him and that leader?" Feng Baisui felt that the relationship between the two was more than just friends.

"Well..." Qi Mu said, "I haven't asked, but everyone seems to know."

Thrush next to him didn't care about human problems at all, he drank up the bottle and asked Qi Mu if he had any more.

"It's gone." Qi Mu spread his hands.

"You're so stingy..." The thrush muttered unhappily, then turned into a thrush again, flapped its wings and flew away.

Qi Mu looked at the ungrateful bird and wanted to smash it down with a wine bottle.

After walking out of the cemetery, Qi Mu looked at his watch. It was still early, so he said to Feng Baisui: "Do you want to go and see Zhao Xingbang, he is a very interesting person."

Feng Baisui was not interested in Zhao Xingbang, but was interested in his relationship with the leader, so he agreed.

Qi Mu drove into the city and led him to the movie theater. Feng Baisui was still wondering if that Zhao Xingbang was an employee of the movie theater?I saw Qi Mu pointing down the stairs at the back door of the cinema, "Here, it's right there."

Zhao Xingbang was squatting alone in the corner, with a chessboard in front of him, he picked up a chess piece and took a step, thought carefully for a while, then picked up the other chess piece and took a step.

"Play chess with yourself?"

Qi Mu nodded and said: "He often does this, one day at a time. When I was a child, I went to watch movies, and the proprietress of the rice noodle restaurant next door asked him to help carry briquettes from the truck. It cost ten yuan a truck. After finishing it, he ran back to play chess. The proprietress asked him why he didn’t continue to move, and he said that the money he earned was enough for today’s meals.”

"Then what do we do next?"

"The proprietress also asked the same question, and he said that we will think about it tomorrow." Qi Mu smiled and said, "Isn't it interesting? I was particularly impressed by this incident. I used to think that he was the most optimistic person in the world."

"..." Feng Baisui thought for a while, and said, "Is his mind normal?"

"I don't know."

While talking, Qi Mu stepped forward to greet Zhao Xingbang: "Uncle Bang."

"Xiao Mu?" Zhao Xingbang turned his head and beckoned, "Come, come, play a game with me."

"I didn't play well." Qi Mu declined.

"It's okay, let's play the next game!" Zhao Xingbang carefully smoothed the chessboard paper and rearranged it.

Feng Baisui pushed Qi Mu, and whispered in his ear, "I'm going."

Qi Mu squatted down in peace.

In the first step, Qi Mu made a safe move and only made one move.

In the second step, replaced by Feng Baisui, he took Qi Mu's hand, picked up the "horse", and danced a matt.

Zhao Xingbang was stunned, and Qi Mu was also stunned, and asked Feng Baisui in a low voice: "What does this mean?"

"Play chess." Feng Baisui replied.

Qi Mu reminded him: "'Horse' follows the Japanese pattern, and 'Xiang' follows the matt pattern!"

"Oh." Feng Baisui took his hand expressionlessly, took the "horse" back, and said flatly: "I remember wrong."

"Will you know how to do it?" Qi Mu glared at him, and said to Zhao Xingbang embarrassedly: "I'm really not very good at it..."

"It's okay." Zhao Xingbang waved his hand and laughed, "I used to play with Huanhuan, and I often regretted chess."

It's not that I want to regret...Qi Mu shouted in his heart, reluctantly taking the blame for Feng Baisui.

Zhao Xingbang saw something strange from Qi Mu's actions, and asked, "Xiao Mu, is there a friend next to you?"

Qi Mu didn't intend to hide any more, so he readily admitted.

Zhao Xingbang said enthusiastically: "Then let him play with me, and I'll see how your friend is doing!"

"His level...is not that great..." Qi Mu whispered.

"Let him try, how will you know if you don't try!" Zhao Xingbang said to the air around Qi Mu: "Come, show Xiao Mu your level."

Feng Baisui gladly accepted the challenge.

Seeing that he couldn't stop them, Qi Mu simply watched from the side.

This game of chess ended quickly, because in the end Feng Baisui flew across the chessboard with the "rook" and killed Zhao Xingbang's "handsome" without hesitation.

This stunned Qi Mu who was watching.

Zhao Xingbang also stayed for a while, and then laughed, "Damn, you are amazing!"

"But he violated the rules..."

Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows and said: "Didn't you say that the 'car' can go anywhere?"

Qi Mu sighed, "You walked too casually..."

"Whether he violated the rules or not, I thought it was fun! I lost." Zhao Xingbang said with a smile: "Xiao Mu, you are a very good friend."

Where is it...

Qi Mu looked at Zhao Xingbang, then at Feng Baisui.

Zhao Xingbang dropped the chess piece in his hand, stopped playing chess, and asked Qi Mu to chat with him.

When Qi Mu talked about the briquette incident at that time, Zhao Xingbang laughed for a long time, "You saw all this? Did you tell Huanhuan?"

Qi Mu shook his head.

"That's good, but don't let him know that I live like this."

"Uncle Bang..." Qi Mu couldn't help asking him, "Why didn't you earn the next day's money together?"

Zhao Xingbang waved his hands smartly and said: "It's still the same sentence, let's talk about tomorrow's matter tomorrow!"

Seeing that Qi Mu still looked puzzled, he took out his cigarette, moved to the side and sat down against the wall, "Did your father tell you about the wars in those years?"

"A counterattack in self-defense?" Qi Mu shook his head, "No."

"Then do you know who you are fighting with?"

"Vietnam?"

Zhao Xingbang nodded and said: "We hadn't fought a war for a long time in those years, and we lacked experience. When the Vietnamese came over, they rushed to fight. Many recruits who had just joined the army were dragged into the army before the training camp was over. "

"At that time, we were all young and our blood was boiling. We watched the comrades next to us fall down one by one, with blood all over their bodies. The scene was so miserable... Later, we didn't care about anything, only knew how to rush forward and kill each other. A few counts, avenges the brothers, and is not afraid of death at all."

"Really, the stray bullets whizzed by without blinking. Sometimes I feel that it's better to be dead, instead of living alone without ghosts or ghosts."

Speaking of this, Zhao Xingbang's eyes were a little distracted, and he stared blankly at the front, the cigarette in his hand remained motionless, leaving a large portion of ash.

After a pause, he went on to say: "Many people died in that war. In the end, there were not many survivors left in our regiment. Huanhuan fell in front of me. A bullet hit him..." He pointed to the position of his heart, "By the time I realized it, his clothes were already red. He was still smiling, and told me not to be stupid and hide behind."

"I didn't listen. After he closed his eyes, he raised his gun and rushed to the front, thinking that he would go with him before he was snatched away by the underworld."

Zhao Xingbang smiled self-deprecatingly, and took a puff of cigarette, "But I was lucky, I didn't die, and after the battle was over, I didn't seek death again. Think about it, I didn't die on the battlefield, how could it be so easy to die?" ?”

Qi Mu remained silent. He had known these soldiers for many years, but he had never thought about what kind of battlefield they lost their lives on. He could only imagine the tragic scene based on Zhao Xingbang's description.

He remembered asking his father when he was a child, why those uncles were so happy every day?

The answer was, because they had seen real hell.

Only by revisiting this sentence can we gradually understand the mixed feelings of the person who spoke at that time.

"Then it's peaceful now, why don't you have a better life?" Qi Mu asked.

Zhao Xingbang shook his head, "What counts as a good day?"

"Hmm..." Qi Mu thought for a while, "A leisurely life, do you live a relaxed life every day?"

"That's how I am." Zhao Xingbang spread his hands and said, "I can't be hungry or cold. I just play chess and walk around every day. It couldn't be easier. At the beginning, I often thought of things on the battlefield. I didn't even dare to go to the martyrs' cemetery. Afterwards, I found out that Huanhuan was still there, so I was very satisfied to visit him often.”

"If he goes to reincarnation..."

Zhao Xingbang's eyes darkened, "Just reincarnate, he has been delayed for so many years, he should go."

The two were speechless for a while, and after a while, Qi Mu said, "Uncle Bang, are you still going to the cemetery tomorrow?"

"Go, there are not many days left, of course we will go."

Qi Mu stood up and said goodbye to him.

After leaving the cinema, Feng Baisui asked, "Do you know why he doesn't earn the next day's money?"

"Probably know." Qi Mu turned his head and glanced at the self-entertaining figure under the stairs, "Don't you also know?"

Feng Baisui pouted noncommittally.

Before going out the next day, Qi Mu deliberately picked out a bottle of good wine at home, thinking that if the thrush was still there, he would give it a taste.

After entering the cemetery, the soldiers were singing military songs together, and they were very happy to see Qi Mu coming.

Everyone asked one of them to come out to sing, and the Sichuan soldier looked very embarrassed.

"Sing, sing, sing, what do you look like! It's not easy for Xiao Mu to come here once!"

"Then I'll sing one..." He stood up, cleared his throat, and sang: "Song Youfeng drums and snow wolf reminds..."

"Hahahaha..." There was laughter from the bottom.

Qi Mu asked a soldier in a low voice, "What is he singing?"

The man replied: "The pine is strong and the snow is hard to blow! Isn't it funny? Haha..."

"..."

The head of the regiment patted the soldier's head from the side.

Qi Mu turned his head and asked Feng Baisui: "Do you think that bird is still there?"

Feng Baisui looked up and looked around, and said to him, "Open the lid."

Qi Muyiyan opened the lid of the wine bottle, and after a while, there was the sound of flapping wings, and the thrush flew quickly from the forest to them, and when it landed, it had already taken the shape of a human.

"Little devil, I smell the aroma of wine." He raised the corners of his beautiful eyes and said proudly.

Qi Mu blinked and shook the wine bottle, "Do you want it?"

"Of course!" He rushed over and grabbed the bottle.

Seeing his salivation, Qi Mu couldn't help laughing, "How old are you?"

"I can't remember." He licked the corner of his mouth, "It must be older than you!"

"..."

As I was talking, I heard those little soldiers shouting: "Hey, it's Brother Bang! Brother Bang is here again!"