Chapter 48: Self-reliance

"As I said earlier, since you are all students, your task is to study hard. Anyway, we are going to Kunming, and we will send you to school when the time comes, and now you just need to eat well and recover your body, I don't want you to have any more problems on the way, and I don't think you want to fall ill halfway, we don't have much medicine. Gao Hai once again brought his classmates to Tang Cheng and asked to train with Liu Shishi and them, but this time Tang Cheng didn't have such a good face, so he directly refused.

Seeing Mu Lianshan looking at him quite puzzled, Tang Cheng said the reason, "We are too close to the town here, and they are still young, so it's time to be playful." You also know that the locals in the town are already afraid of us, but it doesn't mean that all the locals are afraid of us. I trained them just to keep them in place, afraid that they would run into the town and cause trouble, after all, we are not locals here. ”

Although Tang Cheng calculated everything in the worst direction first, Mu Lianshan couldn't say that Tang Cheng's worries were wrong, after all, these locals even dared to intercept those students. "Anyway, it's half a month, and the stones will pass after they get through it, and when they get to Kunming, they will take a few days off as compensation." The Huang family's affairs in Kunming, Tang Cheng only Liu Shi and Mu Lianshan knew about it, although he didn't know why Tang Cheng had to go to Kunming, but Mu Lianshan knew that with the care of the Huang family, they should not have a bad life in Kunming.

It is also strange to say that after Tang Cheng led people to storm the town, although the locals in the town did not dare to come to the courtyard to look and wander around, and the families who were taught by Tang Cheng still lived in the town, the counterattack that Tang Cheng was worried about did not appear. However, Tang Cheng relaxed his vigilance because of this, but quietly strengthened his vigilance, whether it was day or night, there were soldiers patrolling the courtyard and the temporary camp outside the courtyard, and the two machine guns brought along the way were also set up on the courtyard wall and guarded by special personnel.

"Don't be afraid of 10,000 in case, as long as we haven't left here, the sentry can't be removed for a day, especially at night, we have to strengthen vigilance, our people are expensive, and it's not worth it if you are dead or injured." Tang Cheng knew that these people from the Dian army knew the severity, and what he said was mainly about the students and the civilians who followed along the way. No matter when, as long as there are more people, there will be such and such things, after living in the temporary camp for a few days, there are already civilians who secretly go to the town, saying that they are buying daily necessities, but Tang Cheng knows that they are going to inquire about the distance to Guiyang.

Gujiao Town is actually not very far from Guiyang, it only takes half a day to arrive at Guiyang City by car, Tang Cheng repeatedly said that he would stay for half a month and then leave with these wounded soldiers, but some of those civilians could not bear the hardships of the temporary camp, and planned to part ways with Tang Cheng and leave first. Although no one had mentioned this matter in front of Tang Cheng yet, the civilians in the camp had already secretly gathered to discuss the matter, and Mu Lianshan, who had been in charge of recuperating the injured, had also reminded Tang Cheng, but the latter did not take this seriously at all.

"As the old saying goes, it's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, we can't keep what we should go, and we can't leave if we don't want to go. I originally planned to speed up after passing Guiyang, and I was worried that those civilians would not be able to keep up with our speed, but now that we are all gone, we are left, so I can travel a hundred miles a day. During the meal, Mu Lianshan mentioned this matter again, but Tang Cheng gave an answer that Mu Lianshan didn't expect.

"Originally, we let those civilians pretend to be soldiers because of the bandits that might appear on the road, but now that you think about it, although the wounded soldiers in this courtyard are all new soldiers, they are better than ordinary people. It only takes half a month to recover, and we have dozens of real soldiers to escort us, not to mention Kunming, even if we walk thousands of miles, I am not afraid that bandits will come to rob the road. ”

"That is, it doesn't have to be who robs whom." Liu Shishi will always be Tang Cheng's staunchest supporter, although Tang Cheng has tossed them very hard during this time, but Liu Shishi agrees with Tang Cheng's words just now. If these civilians really have something to do, they won't be of any use at all, except for dragging their feet, Liu Shishi can no longer think of what use they have.

"That's fine, anyway, it's not bad when they get to Guiyang, as for whether they will be in trouble in the future, that's their own business, we are not old mothers, and we can care about them for the rest of their lives." Liu Shishi's statement caused controversy, but everyone finally agreed with Liu Shishi's statement. In the end, everyone is just going on the same road, since these civilians want to leave first, this is also their own business, and they can't really force them to stay here with guns.

Under Tang Cheng's hint, Mu Lianshan and Ma Fatzi mentioned this matter intentionally or unintentionally in front of those civilians from the next day, and sure enough, someone wanted to leave first, and by lunchtime, there were already many civilians who had dragged their families together to talk about it. "Chief Tang, please take care of you and the military masters along the way, we are a little more careful about this matter, please accept it, this place is not far from Guiyang City, since your son still has a military here, then we will go first." Someone found Tang Cheng, took out a cloth bag containing the ocean, and said that he would leave in the afternoon.

Tang Cheng naturally wouldn't accept the ocean sent by these people, but he didn't stop him from leaving, and Tang Cheng even personally sent the two people who left in front of him to the side of the road. After lunch, more and more civilians left the camp, and Liu Shishi and the others, who had already been instructed by Tang Cheng, did not stop them at all, although they did not stop these civilians from leaving, but the cart and a miscellaneous belongings that Tang Cheng had spent money on the way had to be left behind. There were fewer and fewer civilians in the camp, and by the time it was time for dinner, the entire camp was already empty, and only large and small shacks remained.

Gao Hai and the others had nowhere to go, so they had to follow Tang Cheng and the others on the road to Kunming after half a month, watching the civilians in the camp leave one by one, Gao Hai and the others were full of doubts, they didn't understand why Tang Cheng didn't stop these civilians from leaving. "What are they going to do? Could it be that we have too much food to rot? It's good to run out, sir, I can still eat a few more full meals. Liu Shishi, who was holding the bowl and gobbling it up, didn't want to laugh at Gao Hai and they were stupid, what he said just now was what he said in his heart.

"When we were trapped by the rain in the middle of the road, all the dry food was given to the company commander to those people, and a few of us could only eat raw rice, but fortunately, it only rained for two days, otherwise we would have become corpses on the road." Zhang Xiaobao didn't want to mention that the two days he spent eating raw rice were if it weren't for the fact that those people didn't know how to prepare dry food, they wouldn't have suffered that sin to eat raw rice to live.

The people in the camp are gone, Mu Lianshan and Hou San have no one to call, and the four Gao Hai, who have nothing to do, have become miscellaneous servants in the barracks, although Gao Hai has never regarded this dilapidated courtyard as a military camp, but Mu Lianshan and Hou San have already regarded them as miscellaneous servants. In fact, Gao Hai didn't need much work for them, they only needed to follow Wu Laosan up the mountain every day to chop firewood and prepare the grass necessary for the mules and horses, and as for the sewing and mending and washing clothes in the barracks, it was handed over to Lin Ying and the two female students.

"Why don't they have to work?" Wu Laosan looked in the direction of Gao Hai's finger, and happened to see Hou San taking Liu Shi and a few of them into the mountain, Liu Shishi and they only brought guns but no knives, axes and ropes, obviously not into the mountains to cut wood.

"The people in the town don't want to deal with us, so that's all there left for us to eat? What if you don't go into the mountains to hunt? Is it possible to eat only pickles? Wu Laosan turned around and glared at Gao Hai, if it weren't for Tang Cheng forcing these four students to himself, Wu Laosan would rather go into the mountains to chop wood by himself, but someone in the province would be noisy in his ears. It's called self-reliance, you know, those locals are waiting to see our jokes, we have guns and bullets in our hands, it's hard to starve to death. ”

Wu Laosan said it well, the matter of hunting in the mountains was mentioned by Tang Cheng, on the one hand, he could replenish some meat for the wounded soldiers, and on the other hand, he also asked Hou San to train Liu Shishi in their ability to march in the mountains. Tang Cheng didn't think about going to war, he just felt that it was not a bad thing to let Liu Shishi and them learn more self-defense skills, and besides, there were fewer people in the barracks, and Tang Cheng, who was irritable, didn't want to look at Liu Shishi and them, who were always dangling in front of his eyes, and when they got out, they couldn't see or be upset.

Labor is the best way to exercise a person's heart, and as the days go by, all of them sit down in their own ways. By the time Tang Cheng was so injured that he could walk on his own, most of the deserters from the Yunnan Army in the barracks had already recovered from their injuries, and Gao Hai and the others, who were originally scrawny, also looked a little angry, at least when they followed Wu Laosan into the mountain, they wouldn't be so troublesome as having to stop and take a few breaths after walking a few steps.

If you want to say that the biggest change is not Liu Shishi, who can already walk like a fly in the mountains and forests, but Lin Ying, who has been with the two female students all day long. Lin Ying, who had experienced the destruction of her family, was accepted as a righteous daughter by Mu Lianshan, but Mu Lianshan spent most of her time studying herbal medicine, and she didn't have much time to really teach Lin Ying. After only half a month with those two female students, Lin Ying had already learned to read and write more than 300 words, and this unexpected change was joyful Mu Lianshan's old tears, and he pulled Tang Chenglian and said that he would send Lin Ying to the school when he arrived in Kunming.