Volume 7 Wild Dreams Chapter 02 Bribery (Part 2)
"Siqing, you...don't be so ashamed of being your brother. Haha, I admire you so much. But this time, I can't do that. Your sister-in-law is waiting at home. Hehe."
The gun master laughed loudly and said, "I understand, but, having said that, brother, after we meet tonight, you can't play tricks on me anymore. I really don't want to be played by you. Haha, you have to make a promise first!"
Zhao Shiguo was a little stunned. Why did this guy talk so incoherently? What the hell was he doing? However, since the gun captain could raise the white flag so actively, he had nothing to say. He was thinking about what to do with the 1 billion US dollars that the gun captain gave as a filial gift. He was a labor camp prisoner. He was still a cow even if he was taken to Beijing. Although he had been to the United States and even made the New York underworld a mess, he was already afraid. Hehe, he couldn't jump around on this turf. The thought came to his mind quietly, and Zhao Shiguo smiled very generously: "Siqing, what you said is too polite. How can a brother be mean to you? I said it was a misunderstanding! Now your identity is different, so what? Do you want me to help you make connections and invest in something to kill time?" The gun captain's eyes lit up, and his face showed a very happy expression: "That's great! With your backing, of course I am happy. Brother Zhao, I will go wherever you point, haha, we are still the same as before, brothers!"
Zhao Shiguo nodded and said, "Brother!" The two looked at each other and laughed. The spear leader raised his glass and said, "Come on, tonight I have resolved the knot that has been in my heart for more than a year. Let's get drunk!" The latter sentence was a bit vague. Ma Hongxing also smiled with a red face and said, "Congratulations on the reconciliation. As the saying goes, harmony brings wealth. Although this wealth may not necessarily come, at least everyone can live more comfortably." The spear leader slapped Ma Hongxing and said with great certainty, "Brother Hongxing, you said it very straightforwardly. We just want to live comfortably. Not only should we be comfortable, but we should also be happy, just like the heroes in Water Margin, who are looking for a carefree and happy life!" Ma Hongxing nodded hurriedly. Thinking that the 50 million was finally in his hands! The spear leader continued, "No need to say more nonsense. It will be boring if you say too much. I'll host tonight, brothers, let go and enjoy it!"
Zhao Shiguo smiled and said, "Forget about tonight. Once you settle down, you can do whatever you want. I heard that you have a female companion. Haha, it will be difficult to do things if you go back drunk. By the way, Siqing, do you want to buy a place to live in Beijing?"
The spear chief smiled and said, "I don't have such plans at the moment. This time it's all for the chrysanthemum field. I feel so sorry for this girl. Oh, let's not talk about it anymore. At our age, we can't help but worry about our children. I only have this one daughter. Haha, I hope Brother Zhao can be more tolerant and take care of her in the future!" Zhao Shiguo said with a laugh, "That's too polite! Juhua is a good girl. Haha, we brothers love her so much that we can't wait. School will start in a few days. What will the Four Cleanups be like?" The spear chief smiled and said, "What can we plan? This girl has a bit of a stubborn temper. I plan to send her to study abroad. Haha, I have created the conditions. Whether she is a human or a ghost is up to her own fate!" Zhao Shi raised his thumb and said to the spear chief, "Brother, what you said Well said! You and I are both fathers, and you said it well, and it touched my heart. If I hadn't considered the next generation, would I have been so mean to you? As a brother, I was blinded by greed. Fortunately, you are fine, otherwise I would have been at ease for the rest of my life." The spearman moved his chair, leaned close to Zhao Shiguo, put his arm around his shoulders, and said in an extremely sincere and touching tone: "Brother, I called you that before, and I will continue to call you that in the future! As the old saying goes, no one is without faults. If there is, correct it; if there is none, encourage it. You and I are brothers, don't always take small things to heart. Now I have some money and I am rich. Brother, just ask for what you need, and what I said before still counts! One billion! Is it enough? Speak up! Is it enough?"
Zhao Shiguo nodded quickly and said, "That's enough, thank you as your brother! I... let me drink three glasses of wine as punishment, and I will make amends for you!" The gun chief held Zhao Shiguo's hands tightly, wishing he could squeeze out two tears, cursing in his heart: Fuck your ancestors, being an actor is too tiring! "Brother, don't be like this, it makes me feel bad! Okay, okay, I forgive you, okay? If you get drunk, won't you be scolded by your sister-in-law when you go back? We brothers have a long time to live together, today is enough, I will be willing to die if I get an answer from you!" Zhao Shiguo looked at the gun chief with tears in his eyes, which made the gun chief admire him to death. He was really awesome, I squeezed for a long time but couldn't squeeze out any water, but he was already full of tears, damn, there is really some brotherhood between revolutionary soldiers. "Si Qing... Hey... Hey... What's this? Go with me to see Xiao Yun and your seventh brother someday. I... I'm not a fucking human! I'll be his slave and grandson in my next life..." The spearman picked up two glasses of wine, handed one to Zhao Shiguo, looked at him, and said seriously, "Brother, drink this wine. We are still brothers. I don't think the seventh brother wants to see us fighting to the death. Have you drunk it?"
Zhao Shiguo tilted his head back and poured the wine into his mouth, but half of the wine spilled out from the corner of his mouth. The gun captain cursed in his heart: This is too much, fuck your mother, this is good wine, how can you waste food like this? The gun chief slowly picked up the wine, put it in his mouth and took a sip, then drank the wine in the glass with force, and gestured to Zhao Shiguo. The hunchback laughed and said, "In fact, Mr. Chen and our boss have a good relationship. Alas, I just found out today. If the two of you continue to fight, it will be a tragedy. Tonight is almost over. I think if we drink more, we will have to sleep on the street!" The gun chief and Zhao Shiguo both laughed. The gun chief said, "Back then, I went to the military camp with Boss Zhao to compete in shooting. Hehe, everyone was drunk, and then we competed in shooting skills. It was agreed that the loser would have his head shaved and his balls shiny. Hahaha, in the end, Boss Zhao was turned into a 1,000-watt light bulb. I miss him so much. In the future, if we have a chance, let's go to another place and do it again! I like doing this kind of thing the most. How many times can you gamble in your life?" Zhao Shiguo shook his head and smiled bitterly. Ma Hongxing said with his eyes open: "There's such a thing? Could he do that? Could he fool around with everyone like that?" The spearman pointed at Zhao Shiguo and said, "Brother, do you admit it or not? There were probably dozens of people present at the time." Zhao Shiguo could only nod helplessly and said, "He would only do those ridiculous things when he was with you! I don't know what happened at the time. I was tricked by him without knowing what was going on."
The hunchback said in amazement: "Mr. Chen..." The rifle commander waved his hand and said: "I don't like to hear . You are all older than me. Call me Siqing or brother!" The hunchback nodded and smiled: "Brother Siqing. You don't know our Zhao Touer. In the eyes of our brothers, he is a first-class gentleman. I mean when it comes to women! During the Vietnam War, we captured seven female soldiers. Everyone thought that since we were far away from the main force, no one would know as long as we didn't say it. But Zhao Touer would never let us do it!" The rifle commander became excited when he heard the story of the war, and hurriedly asked: "What happened later?" The hunchback smiled: "Later... they were sent to a prisoner-of-war camp." The rifle commander slapped his thigh and shouted: "What a pity! If they fell into my hands, it would be strange if I didn't kill these Vietnamese bitches. Who the hell knows how many of our soldiers were killed by Vietnamese female soldiers?"
When the others heard this, their faces turned pale. Ma Hongxing said with an extremely sad expression: "When I first went to the front line, a squad of brothers rushed to the enemy's defensive position. All the male soldiers inside were dead. There were only a few female soldiers. After seeing them, the female soldiers didn't say anything, but tore off their clothes, revealing their white bodies. Several soldiers were dumbfounded and turned back. They didn't dare to look straight at them. As a result... the Vietnamese female soldiers picked up their submachine guns and killed five of them on the spot!" Zhao Shiguo also said: "Several things like this happened. Later, the troops forcibly issued an order to kill Vietnamese female soldiers on sight. This avoided such casualties." The gun commander asked with two bloodshot eyes: "Is this true!" The three nodded together, and the hunchback sighed: "These brothers died the most unjustly, and some were shot by the supervision team." The gun commander asked with a confused look on his face: "What is the supervision team?"
The hunchback said, "They are the troops supervising the battle. They stand in the rear to prevent the soldiers from fleeing. When the charge is sounded, they will move forward without retreat. Many soldiers saw their companions being blown into pieces by landmines or having their chests torn by bullets. They were afraid and ran back, but were killed by the supervision team!" The rifle commander exclaimed, "No way, haven't our troops always been not afraid of sacrifice and fight bravely?" The hunchback smiled bitterly and said, "Think about it, we haven't fought for decades since the Korean War. We only saw movies at that time, and it can be said that we had no actual combat experience. That was a battlefield, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Alas, how could a human being not be afraid? Hehe!" Seeing the hunchback's gloomy smile, the rifle commander couldn't help but shudder. Indeed, no one is really not afraid of death. Only those who are not afraid are sick when they arrive at a battlefield that is similar to hell on earth.
Zhao Shiguo interrupted, "Okay, okay, why are you talking about these trivial things? Haha, the hunchback was crippled by a mine when he was charging, and now he has a few bones missing from his back. Let's stop here tonight. Four Cleanups, let's keep in touch in the future. If you need anything from me, just let me know. Don't worry, we've said everything tonight. We're all men. If I'm two-faced again, I'll die a miserable death!" The gun commander was shocked by what the hunchback said just now. He didn't come to his senses for a while, and he was still a little disappointed. He had admired soldiers since he was a child, and admired Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, and Qiu Shaoyun. The images of those with firm eyes and fearlessness in the movies had been deeply rooted in his mind. Our soldiers can't be killed or burned, but the hunchback's words completely confused him. Supervisory team!
Zhao Shiguo patted the spear chief on the shoulder. The spear chief trembled for a moment, then he reacted. Zhao Shiguo said, "Let's go first and get together another day. I'll let the hunchback take you back. Call me if you have anything. The hunchback knows." The spear chief nodded. Zhao Shiguo and Ma Hongxing left first. The spear chief picked up the empty wine glass and was about to put it in his mouth. The hunchback smiled and said, "Brother Siqing, there is no more wine." The spear chief said "oh" and put the glass down again. The hunchback asked tentatively, "What's wrong, brother? Do you still want to drink? Is there something unhappy?" The spear chief sighed with great melancholy and asked, "Humpback, are you telling the truth?" The hunchback was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what the spear chief was asking. He nodded resolutely and said, "It's true. My best comrade-in-arms died in the supervision team. Under the gun, I tried my best to pull but failed. Alas, the enemy's position was full of various mines, American and Soviet. There was no news before the charge. We just ran forward. As a result, people were blown up one after another. My comrade was hit by a leg and a piece of belly meat hung on his shoulder. He went crazy immediately and shouted "Mom, I want to go home!" I tried my best to pull but failed. I watched him being killed behind the position... Let's not talk about this, Siqing, let's go back." The image of the soldier with belly meat hanging on his shoulder, crying to his mother to go home, reverberated in the mind of the gun commander. Suddenly, his heart was chilled, as if his dream lover since childhood was raped. The disappointment, helplessness and grief suddenly surged in his heart, but he was powerless. He felt like a child who had suffered great grievances and could not find his mother's arms to cry or vent.
After the gunner and the hunchback came out, they sat in the taxi without saying a word, their faces full of sadness. He was very confused at the moment. It was really hard to accept that his idol had suddenly become like this. Perhaps this was the most sacred belief in his heart, but this sacred thing was ruthlessly trampled, ruined, and even raped beyond recognition.
The gun commander had no intention of appreciating the layout and decoration of the presidential suite, nor did he have the intention of showing off his wealth and worth. His heart was now filled with resentment and shame. Zhao Meier did not dare to talk to him. Xu Meiyuan quietly followed him into the room. When the gun commander told her what he had heard today, Xu Meiyuan laughed: "I thought it was a big deal! This is very common in the army. It has become a routine in the army since ancient times ." The gun commander sighed. He also understood that this kind of thing was normal, and it could even be said to be understandable. Compared with personal interests and national interests, everything about the individual, including life, is not worth mentioning. The gun commander looked at Xu Meiyuan blankly and said: "My dream since I was a child is to be a soldier!"
Xu Meiyuan took his head into her bosom. She was indeed a considerate, gentle and capable woman. She knew that the gun chief was just like the young people nowadays. For example, those who worshipped Huang Jiaju, but after he died, his songs became more and more popular, and even had a long-lasting popularity. For example, those who liked a certain female star, when they learned that she was willing to be played with by others, or was raped like a bitch, they felt very disappointed. Unfortunately, now is different from the 1980s, when the object of study was Zhang Haidi, a disabled but strong-willed young man who never stopped fighting.
The gun chief put his arm around Xu Meiyuan's waist, and suddenly he felt extremely tired. Maybe I will never be a good person in this life. But I will not be a guy like Zhao Shiguo. What can I do now? Thinking of this, the gun chief opened his eyes and looked at Xu Meiyuan and asked, "If you have tens of billions of dollars, what would you do?"
