Chapter 561: Shaking Hands and Making Peace
After eating a meal of military sticks, the brothers immediately became honest, and although both recruits and veterans did not say anything, their resentment with each other had long since disappeared.
Qin Shou, the deputy battalion commander, was regarded as a typical example of killing chickens and monkeys, and he was really beaten with thirty military sticks, but he was also a tough man, and he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word throughout the whole process, and was finally carried back to the tent.
The recruits had complained about these bullying veterans before, but seeing their scars all over their bodies and their brave appearance without blinking in the face of the military sticks, their mentality has quietly changed, and their feelings have changed from resentment to admiration.
Due to the incident of group beating in the afternoon's training, after all the brothers were beaten with military sticks, it was already dark, and the training was forced to end.
"We really blamed the company commander for this time, seeing the wounds on their bodies, I'm afraid they have played with the devil."
Although the recruits were also beaten with military sticks, although their buttocks hurt, the ten military sticks did not hurt their muscles and bones, and after returning to the tent, they felt a little remorse for the reckless fight with the veterans.
"But no, I saw that our squad leader had several bullet holes, and a bayonet wound was still new......"
Chen Ming deliberately asked them to strip off their clothes and be beaten with military sticks, the purpose was to let the recruits see that they were not the troops that were about to collapse as rumored, but they had fought hard with devils, and they had also shed blood and died.
"I was dazed, damn it." Some recruits had scars on the veterans' thin bodies in their minds, and they couldn't help but slap their mouths.
"It's useless to say anything now, this beam is over."
The recruits were dejected, and they were frustrated by the mistakes they had made.
"Why don't we go and apologize to our platoon leader?" Some recruits felt tormented and couldn't help but propose.
His proposal was unanimously echoed by the rest of the recruits: "But they almost got shot because of us, can they forgive us?" ”
Hearing this, the recruits immediately became depressed again.
"It doesn't matter if he can do it or not, let's go first."
There were also impatient recruits who immediately stood up, they misunderstood the veterans, and let the veterans be implicated and beaten with military sticks, and they didn't want to do anything.
The recruits were all simple farmers before they became soldiers, and what they were most afraid of was owing favors.
"We can't go empty-handed." Someone grabbed the recruit who was about to come out of the tent and spoke.
"But we don't have anything?"
A recruit took out a few silver dollars from the package and said, "This was given to me by my mother when she left, let's go to the village to see and buy something, and then go and apologize." ”
"That's okay, I'll pay you back the military salary."
The recruits limped out of their tents and walked to the village to buy something.
But when they came out of the tent, they found that many people who had the same idea as them were upset and wanted to buy something to apologize.
The recruits' actions naturally can't escape the eyes of the sentinels, but the sentinels also turn a blind eye, as long as they don't desert, they don't bother to care what they do.
Qin Shou was sturdy with thirty military sticks, lying in the tent and humming in pain, and the first battalion commander Lu Xing opened the tent with dinner and walked in.
"Brother Qin, haven't eaten yet?" Lu Xing looked at Qin Shou, who had turned his face, and put the rice bowl next to him with a smile.
Seeing Qin Shou's puffed up, Lu Xing also knew that he was complaining about himself in his heart, and he was not angry, so he found a place to sit down.
"Brother Qin, I can't help you during the day, I know that you must resent me in your heart, but I also have a last resort, I hope you can understand me." Lu Xing also sighed.
When Qin Shou heard Lu Xing's words, he immediately became angry, turned over and asked, "It was they who provoked first, although it was my fault to fight, but what is the matter with you going to shoot our old brother as soon as you come up, I can't figure it out." ”
Hearing Qin Shou speak, Lu Xing shook his head: "The deputy of the regiment just left, you have such a large-scale brawl, the surrounding villagers are all watching, you don't know how bad the impact is, if you don't punish it severely, I'm afraid our regiment will be even more miasma in the future." Fight every day, so can you fight devils? ”
"But as soon as you open your mouth, you want to shoot us, why don't you shoot those recruits who make trouble, it's not fair for you to do this, I don't accept it in my heart."
Seeing Qin Shou's puffed appearance, Lu Xing also said earnestly: "The recruits just arrived in the army and don't understand anything, you are all veterans for many years, and you don't know the rules of the army, you knowingly commit crimes, who will I punish you first?" ”
Although Lu Xing explained, he was almost shot, and Qin Shou's knots in his heart still couldn't be unraveled, and he was sulking.
"If it weren't for Camp Commander Chen's intercession, would you really want to kill us?" Qin Shou raised his head and asked.
When Lu Xing heard this, he laughed: "You are the newly promoted deputy battalion commander of the regiment, and I am just a battalion commander, although I am temporarily in charge of things in the regiment, I don't have that much power to decide your life and death, besides, they are all brothers who rolled over in the trenches, do you think I am so hard-hearted to attack my brother?" ”
Seeing that Lu Xing was solemn and didn't seem to be telling a lie, thinking that they were all brothers rolling over in the trenches, and they knew each other well, Qin Shou also believed most of Lu Xing's words.
"Brother Qin, I'm here to apologize to you, if you're still angry, my gun will be given to you, if you shoot me, we'll be even." Lu Xing said that he was about to pick up the pistol in the holster on his waist.
"Don't, if I really give you a shot, it's strange if the regimental deputy doesn't kill me when he comes back, I want to live a few more years." Qin Shouou hurriedly stopped Lu Xing from drawing his gun, and his face softened.
"Okay, let's eat, it's cold." Lu Xing saw Qin Shou forgiving himself, turned around and handed Qin Shou the rice bowl.
Qin Shou trained the recruits during the day, and fought with the recruits again, and he was also hungry at the moment, so he took the rice bowl and devoured it.
"The recruits are not sensible, you old men should be more patient, be patient, teach them more, don't make trouble with knives and guns when you have nothing to do, they will also be our brothers in the future."
"I know, but these little bunnies are really not bad, they are a piece of material for soldiers." Qin Shou touched his red and swollen cheeks and smiled.
"I can also see that as long as these guys are trained rigorously for a period of time, they must be good soldiers." However, Lu Xing couldn't help but shake his head when he thought that they were about to go to the battlefield.
"This is an anti-inflammatory medicine I bought myself from the black market, it's cheap for you kid, wipe the wound after eating, don't get infected." Lu Xing changed the topic, took out a small medicine bottle from his arms and threw it to Qin Shou.
In this era of medical scarcity and lack of medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs are more expensive than silver dollars, and various countries have imposed embargoes on China, and precious medicines are sometimes not necessarily available with money.
Seeing Lu Xing give him the medicine, Qin Shou's heart suddenly warmed, although his butt still hurt, but the resentment in Lu Xing's heart disappeared invisibly.
"Okay, go to bed early, I still have to go to check the post." Seeing Qin Shou, who wanted to be grateful to him, Lu Xing smiled and waved his hand, turned around and walked out of the tent.
Not long after Lu Xing left, Luo Wencai, a recruit who had a fight with Qin Shou, walked outside Qin Shou's tent and shouted a report with the support of a recruit, carrying food wrapped in oil paper.
"Come in."
Hearing Qin Shou call in, Luo Wen asked the brother to go back, limped open the curtain and walked in with his things.
"Deputy battalion commander, I was wrong during the day, I came to apologize to you, if you feel angry in your heart, I will stand here, I will definitely not fight back if you beat me."
Luo Wencai felt ashamed, Qin Shou, who was harmed, was almost shot, and he also came to apologize at this moment.
Seeing Luo Wencai's swollen nose and face, the anger in Qin Shou's heart had long since disappeared, and he pointed to the thing wrapped in oil paper in his hand and said, "What are you taking?" ”
"Eat."
"Take it and see."