The teams that had gone to work in the countryside returned to the station one after another before dinner.

Director Xu bumped into me and Wang Guomin pushing bicycles in, and asked with a smile, "How is Xiao Zhang's car riding, did you fall?" ”

Wang Guomin replied for me: "I ride very well, no problem at all." ”

I also smiled with a red face.

Seeing that we had put the car away, Director Xu asked me to buy catties of soju.

"Go to Shao Kai's house in the back and fill the wine."

The word "pretend" in Xiangshan dialect represents the meaning of doing, getting and doing.

As he spoke, he handed me a 2 yuan bill.

I ran to the dormitory, got a military kettle, called Hua Shenggen, and came to Shaokai's house next to the left back corner of the police station from the path behind the station.

Shao Kai's family opened a small workshop to make bakelite, and also sold a kind of home-baked liquor.

He was polite, took the money, and filled the pot with a full pot. This military kettle can hold a pound and a half of water.

It was a Saturday, the next day was off, and dinner was customary with a dish.

I sat at the same table with Secretary Xu, and he poured some wine for everyone at the table.

Zhang Guoxing also came over from the adjacent table and poured a little.

Everyone is very casual.

The liquor was delicious, and it was the first time I had drunk it since I joined the army.

In the evening, I went to the garrison camp headquarters to watch an open-air movie.

The battalion headquarters is located in the middle of Qiancang and Zhongbao Village, which is locally called "outside the South Gate".

The locals called the local garrison "South Gate Outside the Troops" and called us "outposts" or "dispatch posts".

We lined up to the camp playground, and the troops and civilians were already sitting on the ground.

The commander on duty at the battalion headquarters guided us to sit in the empty row in the middle of the reserved space.

It felt like we were respected.

After watching the movie, I returned to the office and sat for a while in Qian Fagen's support room, where he worked alone and the dormitory, which was also the financial room of the office.

After chatting for a while, I learned that he was from Changshan County, and he had an older brother and younger sister, and he pressed his sister's photo under the tabletop glass.

I said I also have a younger sister, and I feel like I have a lot in common.

At this time, Director Xu also came in, and we changed the topic.

Qian Fagen wanted to get rid of logistics and engage in business.

"Have you ever been an accountant?" Officer Xu asked me.

I nodded.

Director Xu later said: "I'll talk about it when Director Huang comes."

I guess the person who received the troops had already reported the situation, and it seemed that I had to do logistics.

The next morning, the sister of the secretary of Qiancang Village came to help us wash our clothes and quilts with a few girls, who knew the people in the house very well, and the laundry table by the well was very lively.

In the afternoon, Rong Yimin, the director of the village security department, also came to the office to visit the new comrades, and according to the suggestion of everyone, he took five of our recruits to Qiancang Village for a walk.

From the entrance of the village, we followed a "stone bullet road" uphill to the east, passing through the village to the hill to the east. The road was sunk into mud, and the surface was polished smooth like jade.

Standing on the hill, you can see most of the village. The village of nearly 2,000 people is divided into four pieces by a non-square cross, and the arrangement of tiled houses of one color appears to be so chaotic.

There is a thatched house in the northeast corner of the middle intersection, and the color of the mud and grass on the roof is close to the dark black of the tiles, which is not obvious if you don't look closely. From the analysis of the pattern of the whole village, this may have been temporarily built after the original house was destroyed.

Rong Yiming pointed to the end of the ditch on the side of the road we were going up and introduced us: "The current location of the station, hotel, primary school and supply and marketing cooperatives by the pool was originally the main gate of Ganhusai, and there was a water gate on the side at that time. ”

Then he pointed to the stone-paved path that stretched on the two hills in the north and south, and told us that there were the south gate and the north gate respectively.

"The place where we stand is the East City Gate."

"These stones are the traces of the collapse of the city walls."

Along the ridgeline on either side, there are indeed some rocky mounds scattered there.

Rong Yiming turned around and pointed to a small island in the distance: "This is Dongyu Mountain, which also belongs to our Qiancang Village, where there is a tea farm." ”

He pointed to the beach at the foot of the mountain where we were standing, and told us that there was a cadre in the Ming Dynasty who was very loyal and brave, and led his men to fight to the death and died here.

Many years later, I consulted a lot of information and learned that there was a poem written by Jiang Changzhou in the Ming Dynasty:

Dengqian Cangcheng is nostalgic

Chaodu Jinjiling,

Dusk Den Qiancang City,

A few cadres in the city,

The crown and cover meet each other.

This should be the heyday of the money warehouse.

I was also fortunate to find a record of the loyal and brave thousand households in the history of the Ming Dynasty:

Yi Shaozong, Youren (Hunan Youxian), Hongwu joined the army for meritorious service, awarded Xiangshan County Qiancang Thousand Households (Zhengwupin). In the third year of Jianwen (1401), the Japanese landed on the shore and plundered. Shaozong's great book said on the wall: "Set up generals to resist the enemy, set up an army for the people, indulge in the disloyalty of the enemy, and abandon the people is unkind." If you are disloyal and unkind, how can you be a minister! If you are a minister, how can you be a person! "Ordered his wife Li Gu to drink wine, and the trick came out. Secretly ordered the rangers to burn the thief boat. The thieves were rescued, Shaozong fought, chased to the coast, trapped, and dozens of thieves were killed. His wife brought a lonely song to the court, gave a funeral sacrifice, and took the monument to him.

The story of Yi Qianhu's resistance to the Japanese is admirable, especially the few sentences of his book on the wall, which are still deafening and worthy of comparison and consideration by every public official.

To the people, to the country, these can't be done, how can they be people!