Chapter 29 strange soup (on)
The old sheepskin perennial in the grassland cattle and sheep, but also often encountered vicious wolves, lynx and other beasts attacked from behind the horse, know how to deal with, is worried about not finding the opportunity to clean up it, this guy but their own door to the door, and immediately whistled, the old army horse carrying him and Ding Sistian, in the big centipede pounced to the horse’s hips in the moment, violently forward a owe, the front legs to support the ground, the two hind legs viciously stomped on the centipede pounced on the back of the horse, the force of this stomp is not less than a thousand pounds, the black centipede kicked a few flips in the air, far from the ground rolled out of a The centipede, the force of this stomp was not less than a thousand pounds, the black centipede was kicked in the air and flipped a few times, far from the ground and rolled out a slip and rolled away.
The centipede suffered a big loss, no longer dare to make a mistake, slipped into the deep grass and fled far away, I saw the old sheepskin out of a surprise victory, drank a sound of color from the branches of the tree climbed down, and Ding Sis-Tang together with the fat man who fell to the ground also dragged up, pouncing on the bark of the grass on the pouncing off the body, which remembered that there are two horses into the deep forest, the pastoral cattle did not retrieve, coupled with the centipede just poisoned a jujube-red horse, and now there are four horses left an old army horse. Horses only one old army horse left, the loss is getting bigger and bigger, the old sheepskin even blew a few whistles to greet the horse, waiting for half a day also did not see movement, do not know where the two horses went.
The old sheepskin on this area known as the “hundred eyes cave”, from the bottom of the fear, but sometimes people have no choice, the loss of cattle and horses is more responsible for the two years of struggle so tense, there are so many hats, in case of a few tops to be buckled to the old life. The old sheepskin, after all, is old, just now a burst of fighting has made his heartbeat intensified, chest with a broken bellows like huffing and puffing, coupled with the psychological burden is too large, a burst of blackness.
Dinsi sweet see the old sheepskin body not support several want to faint, hastily help him to sit under the tree, rubbing his heart for him to smooth the air, but the old sheepskin is still even coughing with wheezing, a breath did not fall over, coughed back over the gas, we rushed to rescue, and is the chest and pounding on the back, before he choked a mouthful of sputum out, finally breathing, but people are still dazed, how to greet the waking up can not be.
Ding Si sweet in the prairie insertion, always get the old sheepskin family care, she almost took the old sheepskin as a real grandfather, now see him unconscious, how can not be anxious, tears asked me what to do? I was inserted into the Tuen Mun, there is a barefoot doctor, nicknamed “mix piece”, sometimes I will go to assist him to the mules and horses to see the doctor, I and fat, Ding Sistern in the three, I have a bit of medical knowledge, but I face the unconscious old sheepskin also feel at a loss, even if it is fast to send him back to the pastoral area, but also need to walk nearly a day’s journey, and the hospital is still a day away from the hospital, but the old sheepskin is also a day away from the hospital, and the old sheepskin is also a day away from the hospital. And the pastoral area from the hospital is still a day’s journey, wait to find the big lady early finished.
Unexpectedly or fat man gave a wake-up call, fat man said: “This old man is not hungry ah? We get up from the morning on the wind and fire to go out to catch up with the cattle, until now look at the sun has set half, almost on the water and rice did not touch the teeth, not to mention his age, even my physique is a little bit can’t top it, starving dizziness.”
After the fat man so mentioned, I and Ding Si sweet also feel hungry, has not eaten for a day, during the day focusing on looking for cattle, who did not remember to eat, the old sheepskin must be overworked, coupled with the daytime did not eat, so hungry fainted.
When we were about to set out, the old sheepskin was worried that he would not be able to find all the grazing cattle in a day or two, so he brought some dry food with him, and even carried a pot for boiling water on his horse; he only hung the empty pot and some bits and pieces of lightweight things on his horse in order to take care of the old army horse, the rest of the food and supplies were loaded on the remaining three horses, and unluckily for us we were left with only this old horse before us, with nothing edible on his person. The bad luck is that we only have this old horse left in front of us, without any edible things on it.
Fatty said that there is no way out, slaughter the horse to eat meat, or we can not walk out of the forest. Dinsi sweet hurry to stop, the grassland has been successful in the military livestock can not be slaughtered, they are friends of mankind, would rather starve to death than to eat horse meat, such as the old sheepskin woke up, want to know that some people have slaughtered his horse to eat, will not be playing with life ah.
Wild day dark early, four o’clock in the afternoon, the sun sets, when the sky began to darken, the forest night fog thickens, less and less light, has become night almost, overhead from time to time on the flying objects, I do not know whether it is a bird or a bat, let out a mournful chirping, the sound makes a person feel that the back of the head of every hair are standing up.
We are a little confused about the south-east and west-northwest, fat man and Ding Si-Tian are looking at me, hoping that I get an idea, what should we do now? I hesitated a little, said to them: “Although the old horse know the disciples, but this forest fog, if we do not have a head to go out of the chaos, one to people tired, have not rested for a day, and then continue to go easy to accidents, and two, if you meet again hidden in the deep grass with centipedes and vipers, or encountered wolves and lynx and other fierce beasts, we must not have a good fruit to eat, Chairman Mao teaches us that. Chairman Mao taught us that we should try to minimize unnecessary sacrifices, so I think what we need to do now is that we should set up a campfire on the spot, one to prevent insects and beasts from attacking us, and the other to find something to cook and eat, so that the people and horses have enough strength to wait until tomorrow’s daybreak and then continue to act.”
Fatty said: “This plan is good, but not complete, you see this forest, in addition to grass roots and bark is mud, not to mention food, not even a mouth of clean water, we cook what ah? But if we don’t eat, we really can’t go any further. This situation reminds me of a little poem once written by our revolutionary predecessors, “It’s about to be dark, my hunger is as loud as a drum, I can count the amount of rice I have in my bag, and I can cook the wild vegetables with the water”. When General Chen Yi’s guerrillas were so hard, after all, there were still a few grains of rice in the rice bag that could be boiled and eaten with wild vegetables ……”
I heard Fatty mention rice and wild vegetables, my stomach immediately drummed: “Fatty what do you mean? We are in such a difficult situation still dare to mention cooking wild vegetables porridge, the more hungry is the more you can not mention food, otherwise you will feel even more hungry, think of when the revolutionary predecessors broke food in March, still fighting spirit, how can we not overcome overcome?”
At this time, Ding Sishen suddenly pulled my sleeve: “Eighty-one, you listen to the forest is not the sound of running water?” I thought to myself that this mountain pass in the forest, which will have what river, maybe it is who’s hunger and intestines ringing, so that Dinsi sweet listen to the fork in the road? But I still down to listen, not far away there really is a stream tinkling sound of flowing, there is the sound of water, there is living water, our throat is dry and intolerable, and if it is a stream, there may be fish inside, in addition to go along with the water, in this foggy dense forest, it is not easy to get lost.
We did not delay for a moment, the old army horse satchel has a kerosene lamp, before the liberation of this lamp is called the foreign oil lamp, in fact, the foreign oil is kerosene, pastoral areas do not have pine oil, the night generally to kerosene lamps to illuminate the light, I mentioned the lamp in the front of the road, the fat man put the old sheepskin to the back of the horse pack, he was next to support, Ding Sisian leading the horse, a group of people towards the sound of running water to groping forward.