Chapter 46: Ancestors Come
Outside Nanning City, a middle-aged man in an officer's uniform was sitting in a room drinking tea slowly, but his eyes looked at the empty door from time to time.
"Dongdong! Dadong!" After knocking on the door quickly and slowly, an old man pushed the door and walked in.
"Uncle." The middle-aged man hurriedly put down the tea bowl and stood up to greet him.
"Aphid is sitting down quickly. Aphid is now promising. You don't have to be so polite and polite to me, a useless old guy." The uncle in the middle-aged man said that there was no trace of elder's tone to the younger generation, but was full of respect and opposite politeness.
"In front of Uncle, the aphids will always be your little aphid. Without you, there would be no aphids today. I wonder what Uncle Uncle asked me to do today? What happened to my family again? Is my aunt in good health?"
"No, no, everything is good at home. Since you became a soldier, you have been helping us frequently over the years. Our lives have been much better now. Your aunt was injured two years ago and her legs were not very good. However, she couldn't take a rest after walking around frequently. Now she is much more energetic."
"Oh, that's good, that's good!" The middle-aged officer who had been nervous finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aphid, this time I came because the ancestors asked me to bring something." The old man said as he took out a dozen stones as big as a thumb from his arms.
Hearing the words "Zhu Family" the middle-aged officer stared at the stones in the old man's hand intently and listened carefully to the old man's explanation below.
"The people from the Zu family said that you want you to throw these things into the well in the military camp."
"Poison?!" The middle-aged officer's pupils suddenly shrank several times, and he asked in shock.
"No." The old man didn't explain much, so he picked up the tea bowl on the table and threw more than a dozen stones into the bowl and soaked it in tea. After a while, the old man picked up the tea bowl and drank all the remaining tea in the tea bowl in one breath.
"Uncle, you?"
"I don't know why. The people from the Zu family also told me this way. He said this was not poisoning, nor was it a life-threatening thing."
"Uncle..." Although the old man proved with practice that these dozens of small stones were not poison, the middle-aged officer was still worried.
"Aphid, although I don't know what these little stones are, I know that the Zu family will not harm us. Besides, we owe the Zu family too much..." The old man said earnestly to the man in front of him.
"I understand, uncle." After hearing this, the middle-aged officer did not hesitate anymore. He grabbed the things in the tea bowl and put them in his pocket. Before leaving the door, the old man suddenly called him.
“Aphid.”
"Uncle, do you have any instructions?"
"The people from the Zu family said that if you drink well water, you should smoke less and drink less."
"I understand, uncle."
Ma San was standing in the guard booth with a gun on his back. Although he was still facing the outside of the compound and observing every move on the road, his mind was no longer here. He was cursing Wang Liu, who was changing the guard, why did he not come to change himself for a long time? He was praying that the chefs in the canteen could see that they often honored cigarettes for themselves, otherwise he would be hungry tonight to tomorrow.
Although it is said that if you are fighting the gun and eat the imperial grain, when you really have no way out, you will know that the imperial grain cannot be full every meal. You have to eat two meals at 10:00 in the morning and 4:00 in the afternoon every day. Even these two meals are mixed with sand, bran, rattan, and rat shit. The vegetables are pickles, sauerkraut or vegetables, and sometimes there is not even this. Therefore, although you eat these things every day, you really have to miss such a meal and not be able to eat them. If you don’t have training or something, you can still bear it. But once you can’t keep up with the training or do something wrong, the punishment for hunger will make you lose half your life!
Finally, when he greeted Wang Liu's family and his ancestors in his belly, Wang Liu finally walked over with a toothpick made of unknown wood, humming a tune.
"Wang Liu, come here quickly!!" Ma San could not help but curse after observing everywhere without any movement or any commander passing by.
"What's the hurry?" Wang Liu's expression was owed to the point of explaining the meaning of a full man who didn't know the hungry man.
"You TMD is full, I'm still hungry now!!!" Ma Liu said with a vicious look at Wang Liu.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. The boss said, everyone is full of food today, and each person has added a few pieces of meat." Although those pieces of meat are actually shredded pork that are less than the thick shredded pork, for these people who are not full for years, they have added a lot of dishes.
"Really? I said why can I smell the aroma of rice from afar today? It turns out that it is adding vegetables. No... Today is not a festival, but only add vegetables during festivals. What's wrong today? You can't go out to fight a war, right?" Ma San muttered. He is a veteran who has been fighting for several years, and he is still very experienced compared to these.
"No matter whether he is going to fight or what, let's eat enough first. I'll let that guy keep you a portion, so you can go quickly." Wang Liu and Ma San are actually fellow villagers from the same place. Although Ma San was so happy that he was just joking, he wouldn't really harm these old brothers who fought against the gun together.
"Okay, please be careful. Today I saw many officials coming and going here on guard. Keep some gods and don't take a nap when you are full." After all, they are all old brothers. I was not so anxious when I heard that I left a copy of Ma San for myself, but instead warned the old brother.
"Oh! OK!" It would be a fool who could not die for a few years. After hearing this, Wang Liu hurriedly spit out the toothpick in his mouth and stood up with his gun.
The place where Wang Liu and Ma San stood guard was a military camp. Although it was actually not like a military camp, it just fenced with some wooden sticks and fences, which could not be simpler, and then dozens of simple houses were built inside. In this way, thousands of people were eating, drinking, and urinating. However, in the armory, several key departments of the Officer's Building still had enough vigilance personnel and protective measures.
Just after Ma San returned to the canteen and received his big bowl of rice. He said that he would easily fall asleep after eating. When he returned to the dormitory, Ma San felt a little sleepy. In the afternoon, he did not work or train, so he lazily returned to his dormitory and prepared to have a good nap.
But when he opened his eyes with difficulty, he found that his body was soft and could not lift it up at all, and his limbs were as heavy as lead.
In a luxurious villa building in Nanning, several officers in straight military uniforms were standing in front of a graceful old man reporting something.
"Just find out such a little thing?" the old man sitting on the Taishi Chair asked with a few thin pieces of paper in his hand.
"I am incompetent, so I found these." Several officers in military uniforms lowered their heads and replied uneasyly.
"Forget it, you guys go down first." The old man waved his hand to signal the officers to retreat. The officers were furious and hurriedly left the room with no thunder.
"Missary, have you found out what have you found?" the old man asked the strong man who threw the paper to the strong man who had been standing by his side.
"Miss San is incompetent, and the mistress has not found anything useful."
"Oh? I remember that you said this one time two years ago."
"The master is very memorable, but the mistress said this."
"You remember too?"
"Of course I remember that when the eldest young master had an accident, the mistress did not find any valuable clues, which made the master spend money. The mistress would never dare to forget the thing that made the mistress unforgettable."
"That's it... let's not talk about that matter, just talk about your opinion on this matter and what you found."
"Since a large number of soldiers in the barracks were weak and sleepy and lazy, the mistress also went to the barracks where this phenomenon occurred to check. From the purchase of food to transportation, to the distribution of fire and cooking to the soldiers, there is no abnormal phenomenon in any place, which can be ruled out that it is artificial poisoning."
"And there are not only one or two barracks that have this phenomenon, but are stationed in various barracks near Nanning, and villages have this phenomenon. But what is strange is that these soldiers and people in the village who have this strange disease have returned to normal after resting for a few days, but what is even more strange is that they will relapse once they return to normal."
"Miss San had also asked someone to empti the well water in the area where this strange disease had occurred several times and carefully checked it, but no abnormalities were found. After taking some sick soldiers and villagers away to live in other places, this strange disease also occurred in some places. Miss San had used all kinds of methods, but he still couldn't find any clues. But one thing is certain, that is, people who like to drink are the most serious." Miss San reported to the old man without missing a trace of the information he collected and judged.
"...Miss, do you think it's really like the rumors spread by those people outside, and it's a revenge of evil spirits?"
"Missage doesn't know, please forgive me."
Chapter completed!