Border Pass Novel: Hill Hill
Chen Zhengcai
Their fellow villagers all said that Qiushan was the most regrettable.
Qiu Shan's original surname was Yue, and his name went to Yi. The brethren felt that the name was sour, and they were embarrassed, so they took his surname and called him Qiu Shan.
Qiu Shan is the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad of the Coopetang Border Defense Company. At that time, the war was tight on the border, and every border defense company had a reconnaissance squad.
Naturally, reconnaissance squads often have to wander around the border. Lurking, jamming, arresting, and when needed, leaving the country. The scouts will then be able to speak the vernacular of the local Sha family (Zhuang clan). Knowing the Sha family dialect, you can play the role of a cattle dealer, play the role of a chicken seller, sell bag valley, sell dried pheasant yellow hair smoke or clam pangolins, and even play the little aunt of the Sha family, and cross the border to string relatives. Most of the people living on both sides of the border are sand people.
Qiu Shan's sand dialect is very well spoken, and it is the second public school in the village under the cowhide pond. Ergong Street Zitian went to the opposite Shangzhai string of relatives to return, and in a white aircraft grass and flowers, I saw QiuShan. Qiu Shan encountered the other side during reconnaissance across the border, was wounded in the gun battle, and was already dying when he ran back. Ergong saved Qiu Shan. Qiu Shan recuperated at the Ergong's house. Qiu Shan followed Ergong to drink sweet rice wine and papaya wine, eat raw chicken blood, smoke shisha pipes, pluck golden fur and dazzling color of chamois, and also learned a mouthful of sand that did not stutter. Ergong often took Qiu shan to the opposite Shangzhai to string relatives to attend the weddings and funerals of the Sha people. When drinking, the second duke asked the most beautiful girl in the village to accompany Qiu Shan to drink. Ergong said that the army liked girls.
With the help of Ergong, Qiu Shan's reconnaissance squad leader deserved a smooth ride. Qiu Shan was originally very smart, bold, high in martial arts, and according to the evaluation of the group, he was mentally stable, mature in personality, exquisite in business, and upright in style. Naturally, during that time, there was a clear Japanese wind blowing among his fellow villagers, saying that Qiu Shan would be promoted to reconnaissance staff officers. The commander of the regimental cadre unit went to the company and specifically asked about the situation of QiuShan.
Qiu Shan himself did not show the strength of complacency. When people asked him, he kept saying that he didn't. However, his enthusiasm for work was higher, and there was an urgent telegram from his home that "his father was critically ill and returned quickly", and he did not ask Lianli for leave. When another telegram came that "the father was buried," he grabbed the telegram, his eyes were red, ran to the side of the vegetable field, and punched a banana tree. The banana tree was covered with scars, and the fishy and viscous silver-white sap splashed everywhere, and finally collapsed with a bang. Qiu Shan let out a wow, and the wolf howled like a wolf.
After crying, Qiu Shan returned to the class as if he were fine. At night, he temporarily changed his plans, pulled up the brethren, and went to lurk.
The reconnaissance squad lurked at the intersection. The summer night in May is very dark, the summer insects are chirping, the birds are chirping, and in the quiet mountains, you can hear the cracking of flowers, the breathing of tender grass stretching out, and even the sound of red clay paths lazily swirling on the hillside can be heard.
In the first half of the night, there was no sound. In the second half of the night, there was a sudden sound of chaotic footsteps. Approaching, Qiu Shan shouted, "What person?" Stop!" The people who came fled in a panic. Qiu Shan shouted again: "If you don't stop, shoot!" A recruit next to him put his arm around the fire. Put over one and the rest run.
Qiu Shan went up, lit the flashlight, and it was the second gong, who was already dead. The back basket contains a few pieces of smoke. The second duke drank a lot of wine, and installed forbidden objects, afraid of inspection, before he ran in a panic.
The sand people who ran back to the village knew that the second duke was dead, so they made a fuss. The whole village people surrounded the company headquarters and asked the qiushan squad leader to arrive. The sand people heard it, and the person who shouted was "Yue Banchang".
The instructor explained to the sand people that Qiu Shan was on duty for the sake of national security, that killing ergong was not intentional, and that the troops were responsible for handling Ergong's pension.
The sand people are not dependent. They said that our Sha family, whose ancestors have lived here for eight generations, want to string relatives, and bring a few packs of tobacco soil will not commit capital crimes. The captain was ungrateful, and we wanted him to die.
The company can't do the work, please come to the camp. The battalion also can't do the work, please come to the regiment. The regiment was still unable to do its work, so the regiment and battalion asked the company to consider the work arrangements for Qiu Shan. After all, maintaining military-civilian relations is an important part of the stability of the defense zone.
At the solemn meeting of the members of the party branch of the company, the members had a very intense and serious discussion. Some members of the CPPCC National Committee maintained that Qiu Shan was on duty normally and was not at fault. Some committee members said that Qiu Shan should not shoot at will and kill people, which is not always a good thing. Some members of the CPPCC National Committee said that Qiu Shan was a good seedling of a reconnaissance cadre, and that the regiment did not intend to promote him. Some members of the CPPCC National Committee said that the nature of the accident was very bad and affected military-civilian relations. We have worked hard for many years to build a joint mile between the military and the people in the border areas, and this time, it has all been ruined. A member of the CPPCC National Committee whose rank and position were the most senior said that this accident was the evil result of Qiu Shan's rise to the limelight and the exploitation of political capital. The committee members said: Comrades, we must have a dialectical point of view when looking at problems and see the essence through phenomena. QiuShan is not for personal purposes, why temporarily go out to set up a dive? Why didn't I go home after receiving a telegram from my father who was critically ill and dead? Think again, why only kill the second husband? The committee member said: According to the group work group, Qiu Shan has more than once gone to Shangzhai with the girl of the Second Gong and the sister of the flower called Dewdrop Flower in the village, and has also spent the night with the girl of the second duke. What does it mean for Qiu Shan to kill ergong? This member solemnly suggested that comrades, if you want to go deeper, think farther, and be more complicated, you should not commit metaphysics.
The differences in opinions of the members of the party branch are really too big. The head of the reconnaissance unit who was entrusted by the regiment to deal with the accident was a military cadre, and the revolutionary theory had a shallow foundation, and it was really impossible to use the dichotomy and the two-point theory. The chief of the unit pondered and pondered, and finally decided, and reported to the regiment for approval, qiushan accidentally killed the masses in the normal duty of the accident, and Qiushan was not dealt with for the time being. However, Qiu Shan's ideological foundation became a problem, and in order to prevent the emergence of new vicious political accidents, such as suicide, murder, and flight, and in order to take care of military-civilian relations, and even more to be responsible for comrades, Qiu Shan was temporarily transferred from the front line to the battalion headquarters mule and horse class, and first avoided it.
Hill hill was transferred to the bottom of the mountain. No weapons, no plainclothes, no sand language, no participation in lurking, jamming, patrolling, reconnaissance. Silently, every day, accompanied by a large flower mule called by soldiers to be "flower girls", the hills and mountains became more numerous. He often cut off mule hay, intercepting it, and a sand sentence came out, which puzzled the brethren. More often, he rode a flower mule and ran wildly on the grassy slopes. As he ran, he beat the mules again. The mule jerked his ass and threw him onto the lawn. He did not cry out in pain, nor did he stand up, crawling on the lawn full of golden cornflowers, looking up at the cowhide pond mountain, grinning, and his eyes were floating with gray and white reed clouds.
Everyone said that the hill was ruined. The regiment did report that he had been mentioned as a cadre, and now it was also yellow. Without waiting for the veteran to retire, he was demobilized and returned home.
After Qiu Shan retired from the army, the recruit who killed the second duke grew into the new reconnaissance squad leader of the company. After two years, the border became more and more relaxed, the reconnaissance squad of the border guard company was abolished, and the new reconnaissance squad leader was discharged.
After a few more years, the relations between the two countries were restored to normal, the reconnaissance team and reconnaissance unit in the regiment were abolished, and even the reconnaissance office of the provincial military district was renamed another name.
The story of the reconnaissance squad leader Qiu Shan, the new soldiers, no one knows. Only the cornflowers on the green grass are still old, innocently blooming golden flowers. There are also reed clouds on the top of the cowhide pond, floating in the sky on the southern border, floating over for a while, and swimming over again for a while.
(Originally published in Border Defense Literature, Autumn/Winter 1994)
Chen Zhengcai: Male, originally from Ba County, Chongqing, born in Xishui, Guizhou. He started his career in 1977. He joined the army in early March 1979 and successively served as a soldier reporter, a propaganda officer of the border defense regiment, a military sub-district, and a provincial military district, an editor of Border Defense Literature, a deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Military District, a deputy director of the Political Department of a military sub-district, a political commissar of the Municipal People's Armed Forces Department, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee. Rank of Colonel. In 2004, he changed careers and served as deputy director of the office of the department, director of the publicity center of the department and chairman of the provincial forestry federation, editor-in-chief of Yunnan Forestry Magazine, and director of the Yunnan reporter station of China Green Times. He is retired. Novellas, poems, essays and other works have been scattered in newspapers and periodicals. There are awards, collections, and reviews. He is the chief editor of the anthology of literary works "Green Man Yunling" and the large-scale literature "Thirty Years of Forestry Reform and Opening Up in Yunnan". The poetry collection "Climbing Branches and Flowers Red, Yellow Oak Tree Green" will be published soon. Member of the 7th Yunnan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He is a member of Yunnan Writers Association. Judge of the First Border Defense Military Literature Award in Yunnan Province. He was selected into the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Young Writers.
