Chapter 103: Auspiciousness

After a while,

the others who went on patrol also returned.

Everyone gathered in front of the campfire to warm themselves.

"Captain, what exactly are we doing here?"

Long Haochen asked with some confusion.

"Other than the big snowy mountains, there are only a few small villages at the foot of the mountain."

"We don't have any significance here."

"Every time I go home and see videos of other brother units on TV,"

"I'm really envious and drooling."

Long Haochen said with some loneliness.

When he joined the army to serve the country, he thought about becoming an imposing armored soldier, driving a tank, and killing enemies in the enemy's pile.

The gap between this current appearance and his dream was truly too big.

"Why?"

"That's really a good question."

Jiao Xingchen's eyes were full of memories.

"When I first came here, I had the same thoughts as you."

"Hahaha, at that time, I was like 'Heaven is number one, I am number two'."

"My spirit was very high."

Jiao Xingchen said.

At this time, everyone heard that the squad leader was going to talk about the past.

They immediately leaned in to listen together.

"When I first came up, I found out, what kind of place is this where birds don't lay eggs."

"I came to make a contribution to the motherland."

"Not to guard this desolate place."

"Do you know what changed me later?"

Jiao Xingchen looked at everyone.

They shook their heads repeatedly.

They said in unison: "Don't know."

"Then I'll tell you."

Jiao Xingchen leaned against the wall,

talking while recalling.

"At that time, our conditions were even more difficult."

"Where were there any of these things, any electric heaters, any heaters, and the like?"

"Only this old, broken firewood stove in front of us."

"Life, keeping warm, eating, bathing, everything had to rely on it."

"If it broke, a group of us had to find a way to fix it."

"To be honest, the military treats us well."

"When I was a soldier, the conditions at home weren't as good as yours."

"At that time, at home, we couldn't even get enough to eat."

Jiao Xingchen said with a smile.

"At that time, I was hungry, hungry to the point of no return, and heard that being a soldier meant having enough to eat."

"So I went to be a soldier."

"Only after arriving here did I find out."

"Meat is enough, eat until you vomit."

"At that time, I ate meat every day, ate meat every day. I was afraid of waking up several times in my dreams at night, afraid that such a life would be gone one day."

"Later I found out that only troops stationed at border plateaus, deserts, and small islands could eat meat."

"Other brother units could only eat a little staple food, green vegetables, and meat would only be served during large gatherings."

"At that time, it wasn't as convenient as it is now."

"All supplies needed us to go down the mountain and up the mountain, one trip after another."

"Carried up on our shoulders."

After Jiao Xingchen finished speaking, he showed them the scars on his back.

Those were two marks pressed out.

"Then why don't we need to now?"

Long Haochen asked with some confusion.

"Isn't that what I'm about to say?"

Jiao Xingchen said.

A comrade on the side pounced and covered Long Haochen's mouth.

The two played together.

Jiao Xingchen looked at them, as if he saw his younger self.

The two quickly finished playing, separated, and stared at Jiao Xingchen to continue telling his story.

"At that time, it wasn't just us, but also those common people, they were also like this, basket by basket, using people, using horses, walking over the mountain roads."

Jiao Xingchen said.

"You should have walked that road, right?"

Jiao Xingchen's words immediately evoked memories from the soldiers.

That road was built along the mountain, not a cement road, not even a hardened road, just generations walking on the mountain.

A dirt road walked out by feet.

This road could only be walked from April to August each year; at other times, it was all buried by snow.

Even from April to August, the road after the snow melted was wet and slippery, extremely difficult to walk, and there were landslides from time to time.

It could be said that basically every year someone had to pass away on this road.

"That year, we weren't very familiar with the local villagers."

"Their guard was very heavy, and ordinary people couldn't communicate with them."

Jiao Xingchen recalled the situation that year.

"That year, in the cold winter, the heavy snow had already blocked the mountains. The whole mountain was covered by snow."

"Suddenly one day, we found a woman holding a child coming to our station."

"Knocking on our squad's door."

"My squad leader at that time saw the woman and hurriedly dragged her and the child into the room."

"The snow at that time almost covered both of them."

"The squad leader hurriedly asked what exactly happened?"

"The woman cried and said her child was sick."

"Her husband met with an accident on that mountain road that year and passed away."

"She came to beg us to help her child."

"At that time, she knelt down to us with a 'plop'."

"We hurriedly helped her up."

"The weather at that time was extremely dangerous, the temperature outside was a full minus thirty-plus degrees."

"The heavy snow fell fiercely, and the ground was buried. We couldn't see the road at all."

"The squad leader didn't say a word, directly used the military dedicated line to call down the mountain."

"Let them prepare an ambulance."

"Then..."

Jiao Xingchen paused, as if recalling something.

This made the little soldiers next to him anxious.

"What happened later?"

Hearing this voice, Jiao Xingchen came back to his senses.

"Then we left the personnel behind."

"After the others reported to the division headquarters,"

"brought supplies and cold-proof things, took the woman, and the child in her arms, and went down the mountain through the heavy snow."

Hearing this, Long Haochen immediately asked: "With such heavy snow, could you see the road?"

"And it was just when it was snowing, weren't you afraid of an avalanche or the snow sliding down?"

"Afraid, how could we not be afraid."

Jiao Xingchen said, continuing to talk in a trance.

It was as if he had already returned to that day.

"We walked carefully, walked and walked."

"The woman was too cold, and the baby in her arms was also frozen red."

"The squad leader took off a coat."

"Covered the little baby."

"At that time, we were all heartbroken."

"We rushed and rushed all the way."

"Until a small road."

"The squad leader's foot suddenly slipped."

"We all know this situation is unavoidable."

"The snow was truly too big."

"We grabbed the squad leader."

"I was the one who grabbed him at that time."

"But I didn't expect that. The squad leader saw that I also had signs of slipping down."

"He directly let go."

Jiao Xingchen said here, crying uncontrollably.

Other soldiers also cried empathetically.

"I squatted there blankly, watching the squad leader fall down the mountain."

"I was stunned for a few seconds."

"I told myself, don't cry, if you cry, the tears will freeze into ice. Then I won't be able to see the road ahead."

"I stood up, took the team and the woman and the child in her arms."

"Maybe the squad leader was blessing us."

"We didn't have any accidents on the road ahead."

"Successfully went down the mountain. Sent the child to the hospital as soon as possible."

"The child lived."

"The squad leader could only be found after the snow melted the following year."

"And after that, the villagers here truly accepted us."

"Our supplies now are all sent up by them when they are grazing."

"What happened to that child later?"

"You can see him tomorrow."

Jiao Xingchen said.

"His name is Tashi Dondrup, meaning, auspiciousness." ===== CHAPTER 104 =====