After Breaking Off the Engagement, She Went To the Countryside and Was Pinched By a Rough Man and Pa

Chapter 41 A friend in need is a friend indeed

 Xia Zhi helped them untie the ropes from their bodies.

Zhao Hong and the four of them were disheveled, their faces were bruised, and they looked a little dull and dull.

Seeing their miserable appearance, Xia Zhi couldn't say anything else.

This is the reclamation area, which is not so beautiful. The cruel life we ​​have to face here is that no one can stop it after leaving certain areas.

Zhou Zhengan and his comrades dug a hole and buried the male comrade who was guarding the monument with expressions of grief and indignation.

 A new mound of soil was solemnly raised next to the boundary monument.

Comrades guarding the border markers have died too quickly in recent years because the foreign devils on the other side of the border make small moves from time to time.

 The injured **** was bandaged, but she remained unconscious and had to rush back as soon as possible.

 The four female educated youths were terrified.

　　　Camels were not in a wealthy position when they came.

 Can only take three female educated youths back.

 There is one person who cannot go back.

 But at this moment, Zhao Hong and the others were already frightened, and they were holding the hands of the little soldiers tightly.

“Don’t leave us, please, don’t leave us.”

 “We’ll never run away again, we’ll never run away again.”

 “I can’t stay here, I can’t stay here anymore.”

 The four female educated youths cried heartbreakingly.

 One look at this situation and you know that you must not leave the four people behind. If you do, they will probably have a mental breakdown.

 Zhou Zhengan jumped off the camel.

"Xiao Wei, take them back. You are familiar with this road. I will stay here. When you go back, drive over and pick me up."

This is right on the border.

 No matter what, they have to keep one person here.

Xiao Wei complained a little that the captain had been tired for so long, but he left the captain here alone.

At this moment, Xia Zhi also jumped off the camel.

“You go back, Captain Zhou and I are here waiting for you to pick us up.”

 Xia Zhi couldn't bear Zhou Zhengan to stay here alone. This was the border. If something happened, no one could guarantee it.

 At any rate, the two of them were friends, and Zhou Zhengan regarded him as a true friend.

 After all, I have eaten so much food from others, so I can't leave my friend here alone.

When Xiao Wei and others heard this, their eyes couldn't help but become a little more interesting.

“Okay, captain, let’s go back first. You and Comrade Xiaoxia will wait here for us to pick you up.”

Everyone knows that the captain treats Xiaoxia differently from others.

If they had previously thought that the captain was interested in Xiaoxia, a female educated youth from the city, they found it unbelievable. After all, to them, women in the city were coquettish and could not do anything.

 Toss the first place.

Although the ratio of men to women here is imbalanced, for four female educated youths like Zhao Hong, it is estimated that no one will take their chances.

No one wants to marry a wife who will be upset when she comes home.

At this moment, I suddenly understood the advantages of Xiaoxia. Even they could see it, not to mention that the captain was still a good captain. He really struck first and gained the upper hand.

 A group of young men got on the camels laughing.

Zhao Hong and four other female educated youths also got on the camel with the help of the comrades nearby.

 They left without looking back and never wanted to return to this place in their lives.

 Everything here is a nightmare for them.

Zhou Zhengan and Xia Zhi waved to the departing figures.

“Someone just died here, aren’t you afraid to stay?” Zhou Zhengan said while cleaning up the house.

Xia Zhi smiled, rolled up her sleeves and joined in the cleaning process.

"Don't be afraid! The one who died was our comrade. He left his life here forever to guard the national border for us. I am not afraid of our comrades."

I have encountered this kind of thing in my previous life. Everything happens on the border.

 She is not afraid of ghosts.

 If you want to be afraid, you are also afraid of living people.

 At the summer solstice, use a broom to sweep away the fallen leaves next to the wooden house.

 Zhou Zhengan had already taken off his outer uniform.

Wearing the green fleece underneath, Guang was chopping firewood with an axe.

Xia Zhi brought the firewood that had been chopped nearby into the house and lit the stove in the house.

The weather is too cold, so this is not a den, but the cabin is leaky and windy. If they don't light the fire, the two of them will probably freeze to death in just two or three hours.

 The temperature in the past two nights has dropped to nearly 20 degrees below zero.

 The cooperation between the two people can be regarded as a tacit understanding.

Xia Zhi touched her belly and ate a steamed bun. She didn't eat anything when she went out. She had already consumed most of it.

Looking at Zhou Zhengan's back outside the window, he figured out that Zhou Zhengan was probably starving by now.

Zhou Zhengan has a big appetite and can eat several times as much as others in one meal.

I rummaged through the cabinet against the wall and found half a bag of flour, a jar of pickled cabbage and dried vermicelli, as well as some potatoes and cabbage.

There should be about a dozen eggs in the basket, but they are all being touched by the old man at the moment. Two or three of the eggs have been broken, and they are just spread out in the basket.

 Seeing the neat and tidy cabinets, Xia Zhi knew that the couple who lived here must be hard-working people.

I couldn’t help but feel regretful when I thought of this. I looked at the boundary marker outside. In fact, there were several graves behind the boundary marker.

Those are all comrades who sacrificed their lives to guard the boundary monument.

 They spent their lives building this line of defense for their motherland.

Zhou Zhengan broke out in a sweat and took all the chopped firewood back into the house and placed it against the wall so that he didn't have to leave the house at night.

 Actually, I said I didn’t need to go out at night, but it was already late at night.

I wiped the sweat on my forehead with a towel and saw Xia Zhi playing with the batter on the fire.

 “What are you doing?”

“You’re not hungry? Let’s be a stutterer. Anyway, they won’t be able to get anyone here for a while.”

It only took a few hours to get here, and it will probably take a few more hours to get back, and it will take some time to drive back to pick them up.

 Xia Zhi pointed to the big pot on the stove.

There are two pots in the earthen stove. Vermicelli has already been cooked in the other pot. Next, pickled cabbage vermicelli will be fried, and the egg pancake made by yourself will be added.

Of course if conditions permit, I might be able to make some hot soup.

As soon as Zhou Zhengan heard about eating, a joyful smile appeared on his face. It was a joy as if he was about to see his lover.

 Xia Zhi couldn’t help but feel happy, sometimes I couldn’t understand Zhou Zhengan.

 Why is Zhou Zhengan so obsessed with food? Is Captain Zhou also a foodie?

 But no matter what the reason was, she was ready to fill her own stomach and Captain Zhou's.

The hot egg pancakes were served, and the stir-fried vermicelli with pickled cabbage were also placed aside.

 Xia Zhi also put the mixed soup into a bowl.

“I don’t know how many egg pancakes you can eat. Now I’ve baked 12 omelette pancakes. I’ll eat two. The remaining ten are all yours. If there’s not enough, I can still make them with batter.”

Zhou Zhengan stretched his neck and looked at the batter left on the stove.

 “How about we do it all? I’m hungry and I can probably eat a cow.”

 Summer Solstice……

 (End of this chapter)