After lying on the branch for nearly two hours, Guo Kaiqing fell ill with a severe cold, and Platoon Commander Zhang Jian helped him turn on the water and take medicine.

"It's better for you, I've only been lying on my stomach for a while and I'm catching a cold."

"The temperature difference between our climate here is too big, so I asked people to go to the market to buy ginger, and I'll get you some ginger syrup later."

The seventh brother criticized the soldiers in the platoon by name, "Okay, stand guard at night to sleep for Lao Tzu, you are fooling foreign devils, it's too unlikely." ”

The 'sleeping sentry' is still a veteran at the level of deputy squad leader, probably to justify what he has done wrong, "Seventh brother, you said that the two gates sit on the sentry, is it really that important, sitting there in a coat, it is difficult not to be sleepy, or next time you put me in the swimming post, then I can't fall asleep." ”

"You still have a good idea, punish you for running 30 laps in the yard with full armor."

"Yes." Far from being unhappy, the 'sleeping sentry veteran' seemed happy, and he put on all his equipment and ran around the yard.

At noon, Guo Kaiqing felt that there was no taste, he got up from the bed, said hello to Zhang Jian, and walked to the teahouse opposite.

"Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, here you are."

"Here, come to a pot of tea, plus a plate of melon seeds."

"I'm tired."

Guo Kaiqing saw that there were a lot of guests on the first floor, so he didn't go up to the second floor, so he found a position by the window and sat down, looking at the scenery outside the window while listening to the guests' chat.

"Do you know that the police of the police station went door-to-door this morning to check the household registration, saying that it was the number of census takers and the family situation, but I don't see it. Usually they don't carry guns with them, but today they still carry guns. ”

"I've also gone to our village, and you see, the one sitting over there is the new soldier on the other side." After a villager finished speaking, the guests at the same table all looked at Guo Kaiqing in unison.

"Comrade, do you have a cold?" The boss put the pot and bowl away for Guo Kaiqing, and added two more jujubes to him.

"Yes, it's windy at night. Maybe it's cold. ”

"That's just right. My pot of tea also has the effect of protecting the liver and removing fire, you didn't eat at noon, did you? ”

"I can't eat it, it's uncomfortable."

"Then you wait, I'll ask my wife to make you a bowl of noodles." didn't wait for Guo Kaiqing to speak. The boss left in a hurry.

This teahouse is the best tea. Not the average person can afford to drink. The guests at the table may have smelled the fragrance of tea, and they also looked at Guo Kaiqing. Guo Kaiqing looked very generous, he lit a cigarette, and shook it at the person who was watching him with a cigarette case, meaning to ask him if he wanted it.

The man did not speak, waved his hand, and turned his head back again.

The proprietress of the 'oily noodles', the top also put a lot of spicy seeds for Guo Kaiqing, Guo Kaiqing took a bite, felt from the top of his head down, even his nose involuntarily flowed out of the 'green runt', after eating a few bites, he was suddenly mixed with sweat, the guest at the table, walked over, and he held his own cup of 'tea' in his hand.

"Northerners, can't you eat spicy food?"

"Yes, I didn't see how many chili peppers there were, how~", Guo Kaiqing wanted to say something, the words came to his mouth, his throat seemed to be on fire, he quickly poured his tea into his mouth, but this tea not only did not have the effect of relieving spicy, but also made his throat more painful.

"Drink slowly, drink slowly." The guests at the table brought the kettle and refilled Guo Kaiqing's teacup, and then he sat opposite Guo Kaiqing, as if he wanted to talk to him.

A bowl of noodles under the stomach, Guo Kaiqing became light, it seems that this spicy man really has some effect, he took the initiative to talk with the guests opposite.

"Big brother, do you often come here for tea?"

The man nodded and looked at Guo Kaiqing with a smile.

"Boss, have something to eat." His own small plate of melon seeds, eating is almost done, seeing the guests on the other side, Guo Kaiqing seems very generous.

The boss took two small plates of food to eat, plus a plate of small snacks, "It's a lot, I forgot to tell my mother-in-law, you are a foreigner, let her put less spicy food." ”

"It's good, I'm sweating, okay." Guo Kaiqing stood up and showed off his physique.

"As a soldier, train every day, and if you are good, you talk, I'll go first."

"Officer?"

Guo Kaiqing shook his head.

"Professional soldiers?"

Guo Kaiqing nodded.

"I have a relative in my family who is also a professional soldier, and he originally had the opportunity to be promoted, but now that the army has been reformed, and the officers have to come out of the military academy, he doesn't want to come back, so he has become a professional soldier."

"That's a pity, he must have done a good job."

"I've been on the battlefield and I've been wounded, so it's good to come back alive."

"Oh."

"Have you ever fought?"

"I've been on the battlefield, but it's just a turn, and I haven't even seen the face of the devil in country Y."

"Then did you come here to change guards?"

"Big brother, you know a lot, you know a lot of words, we don't change guards, we live here for a few days, and leave in a few days."

"Oh, no wonder the people in the faction are very nervous, I heard that you invited the police to dinner last night?"

Guo Kaiqing felt a little strange, when he came to the teahouse to drink tea in the afternoon, he hadn't seen this person, how could he know that Lu Dao was treated in the evening, "I don't know Lu Dao, maybe it was invited by the cadres, we are soldiers, and we eat the same as usual." ”

"Also, what used to say that the officers and soldiers were unanimous, but now it doesn't work, the officials eat and drink spicy, they can let the soldiers see it? Grandmother. ”

"You're right, I hate them too." Guo Kaiqing pretended to understand the soldier's mood very well, and he looked at this "old brother" carefully.

After sitting for a while, the guest may have something to do and left.

Guo Kaiqing saw that the tea had no taste, so he proposed to have another cup.

In the eighties of the last century, it was good for the countrymen to drink a cup of tea for eight cents, and at this time, Guo Kaiqing asked for another cup of tea, which rarely happened, and the boss happily made a cup of tea and put it on Guo Kaiqing's table.

He saw that there were not many guests, so he sat down and wanted to chat with Guo Kaiqing.

"What did that person tell you just now?"

"It's nothing, let's talk about family things, he said he has a relative who is also in the army."

"Oh, don't listen to his nonsense, let me tell you, he used to be a soldier, and I heard that there was still a chance to be promoted, but somehow, he let the troops return, he has a problem here." The boss pointed to his temple.

"You know him well?"

"Familiar, we are still our own family, our head is not good, I have never married a daughter-in-law, I come to drink tea, and I never give money, my wife is annoyed to him."

"Did he ever fight?"

"What did he tell you?"

"No, I guessed for myself."

"I fought, the Sino-Indian self-defense counterattack, and his head was injured there, but the government treated him very well, and the township chief didn't drive as much as him."

"What's his name?"

"Chu Shan, if he comes every day, you can call him Old Chu."

"Is Chu a surname?"

"It's a surname, we didn't have this here, more than 2,000 years ago, it was a county, and there were many people, during the Republic of China, we changed it to a township here, and there were many people with the surname Chu, but it was not a family."

"The surname Chu is not a family? How do you say this? ”

"Haven't you heard that there was a Chu State during the Warring States Period, I heard the elders say that most of our people here are refugees from the Chu State who fled here, so they take Chu as their surname, in fact, they are all people who can't hit with eight poles, don't say it, I'm going upstairs."

The boss saw that two guests had walked up the bamboo ladder, so he carried the kettle upstairs. (To be continued......)