The clear blue sky and flattened earth, weeds that are more than 10 feet tall extend into the distance, and the horizon between heaven and earth seems to be a clear dividing line between green and white.

When you enter the water grassland, you can clearly see the weeds and puddles. But the more you go in, the deeper the puddles are hidden. Sometimes you can't even see the puddles, but everyone understands that anything exposed is not the most dangerous.

The weeds under your feet are connected in a row. Some of the lands are covered with black mud. If you step on them with your feet, the ground and grass will move within a few feet. In order to prevent them from falling, the three of them can only go side by side, but in order to prevent them from being rescued in time, they should not be too far apart, and the horses must also take a detour and cannot follow directly. Because these aquatic plants have no fixed foundation, if they step on too many piles of weeds, the people behind will fall into their feet directly.

The three of them carefully stepped on the soft grass, and the explorers moved forward step by step, and they had to pay attention to the dynamics of the people around them at any time so that they could rescue them in time at any time.

At this time, straw sandals are obviously more adaptable than cowhide boots. Sometimes, barefoot is the most suitable one, just because sometimes, when you step on your feet, you step into the mud. The progress of your feet with high feet and low feet is particularly exhausting and also tests everyone's perseverance.

When Tashi left, the three of them were a little reluctant and worried about the future, and no one was intent to speak. But now, the three of them also had no intention of talking. Not only because the road was difficult to walk, but also because it was too quiet, even the wind could not make the sound they deserved. It seemed that only the three of them were left in the world, which caused a calm depression in the three of them, causing the three of them to lose interest in talking. Even the most lively Zhou Baoyu stared at her feet because she was always worried about the consequences of the swamp, completely forgot about anything else.

"Old Zhou, Baoyu, this is too quiet. The more you walk, you feel more and more depressed. Otherwise, let's sing to relieve it?" Zhang Qingshan, who was walking in the middle, bent down and picked up the rare dead branches of the festival, looked in front, then glanced at the two people beside him, and asked Zhou Ping on the right.

"Okay, you start."

"Just sing the songs of our Red Army." Although Zhang Qingshan could sing a few songs of the Red Army, but because of his limited level and he had been fighting after participating in the revolution, he didn't have much time to learn, so he didn't care about these. Therefore, there were really not many songs of the Red Army. The reason why he sang this song of the Red Army was because he joined the Red Army by listening to this song, and it was also the song he learned after joining the revolution.

"Everyone who serves in the army must be the Red Army to prepare and sing!"

"If you join the army, you must be a red army. If you cooperate with the workers and peasants to fight the enemy, and to fight all the reactionaries, everyone will have land. Those who can work have work, those who can plow the fields have land, those who can beat the local tyrants, catch bad gentry, and kill him without mercy!"

It’s true that when I started singing, the depression made people feel heavy and heavy anger in my heart immediately swept away, and I felt that my steps were full of energy.

But only Zhang Qingshan and Zhou Ping started singing, Zhou Baoyu also sang a few lines, but since he didn't step on it and almost fell down, he never started singing again.

After listening carefully, Zhou Baoyu rolled his eyes the more he listened. After finally waiting for them to finish singing twice, he saw that Zhang Qingshan became more and more active and was as if he was singing the third time, he quickly spoke up and stopped him: "Brother, please stop singing, the more I listened, the more uncomfortable I felt."

Zhang Qingshan thought he had a physical problem, so he quickly looked at him and asked, "What's wrong? Where is it uncomfortable?"

"It's not that I feel uncomfortable in my body, but because Lao Zhou's voice is even worse than that of a male duck, I feel more and more wanting to vomit."

"Get out!" Zhou Pingyi saw Zhou Baoyu deliberately retching, and immediately cursed in anger: "I sing to you. That's the blessing you have cultivated in eight lifetimes. Don't be ungrateful."

"Then I beg you, for the sake of my eighth lifetime, I finally want to vomit, please, Lao Zhou, don't make me feel uncomfortable and want to become the ninth lifetime, will it be?"

Old Zhou's face was red, but he was still dissatisfied. He glared at Zhou Baoyu in anger and said, "Okay, come on, you guys sing for me, so that I can also see it."

"Aren't you making things difficult for someone? I can't sing at all."

"Then what more do you have to say?"

Seeing that the two of them became more and more angry, Zhang Qingshan had to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, Lao Zhou, Baoyu is still a child, what are you doing with him?"

Zhou Ping then hummed and ended the bickering.

"Or why do we tell a story or something else?"

After Zhou Baoyu finished speaking, Zhou Ping smiled at him and said, "Take it down quickly! Who doesn't know that you like to listen to stories, but you can't tell them if you want to listen to stories. If you want to make me happy, tell you a battle story you have never heard of."

Zhou Baoyu was so happy that he was about to speak, but Zhang Qingshan took the lead.

"By the way, Lao Zhou, Baoyu, I'm thinking about a few things, and now I'm going to discuss with you."

Seeing that neither of them made a sound, Zhang Qingshan continued, "There is the food problem first."

"I remember the instructions mentioned above: the Central Red Army crossed the water and grasslands and walked for more than 20 days."

As soon as Zhang Qingshan said this, Zhou Ping answered: "I remember this too, okay, I won't interrupt, Lao Zhang, please continue talking."

"Think about it, the Central Red Army has passed through the water grassland. Although there are too many people and lack of food and clothing, their advantages are also obvious: they have a lot of people and can help each other, and they can also be accurate in the direction. Our advantages are: we have enough food, and we can carry and move forward easily, but the disadvantages are also very prominent, that is, the manpower is weak, so I won't talk about the direction. The key is that we must always be careful of comparing each other. I think it takes about twenty to thirty days to get out of the water grassland successfully. So, I want to discuss with you two: In order to ensure that the food is constantly being eaten as much as possible, we must change three meals to two meals in the next way. What do you two think?"

"I agree."

"I agree, and I'm also here to say something." Zhou Ping stepped on a few pieces of hard horse manure under his feet, picked it up and put it directly into the cloth bag hanging on the horse behind him for so long. He was used to it and could already catch cattle and horse manure with his hands. He could even find dried cow manure in wet cow manure without any thoughts of being dirty, because everyone realized the meaning of what Zhaxi said at the time: in such a barren place, anything that can make fire is precious. On the contrary, poor people are particular about themselves and others' lives. Yi said calmly: "Don't you two now, the deeper you go to the water and grassland, the harder it will be to find this firewood. Not to mention dead branches, even these dry cow manure, dry horse manure and so on are becoming more and more difficult to collect. Therefore, from the perspective of saving firewood, two meals are more and more reasonable than three meals."

"Okay! This is passed unanimously." Zhang Qingshan nodded and smiled: "Second, when the Central Red Army crossed the grassland, due to long-term fatigue, malnutrition, hunger and illness, many comrades fell behind, and most of them fell here forever, but some comrades who were behind successfully returned to the team because of mutual help. I think we are likely to meet comrades who fell behind. Moreover, I dare to conclude that these comrades who fell behind must have nothing to eat, so in order to give them more food, I think we should save food from now on, and add half of wild vegetables to each meal. Do you two agree?"

"agree."

"Agree!" Zhou Baoyu was also an activist and said first: "We have been resting in the tribe in Lausanne for several days. We have been well prepared for our health. In the past two days, we have eaten beef and barley flour every meal. We are definitely much stronger in physical strength than those comrades who have been hungry for many days. But we are all revolutionary comrades, and we should help each other and overcome difficulties together. Therefore, we should consider other comrades in everything we do."

"Oh! Baoyu, when did your ideological awareness be so high?" Zhou Ping smiled and said, "When I was in the Lausanne tribe, I didn't know who it was. I risked losing my head to the enemy to grab food for a cow bone. At that time, why didn't I consider other comrades who were starving and frozen?"

"Lao Zhou, do you look down on me? Let me tell you that at that time, I was thinking about other comrades, but it was useless to think about it at that time. It would be better to eat and drink enough, take good care of yourself, and find other comrades as soon as possible."

Zhou Ping laughed, but didn't respond because what he said this time was indeed a bit heavy, and it was a bit unkind to a veteran.

"Third, have you noticed that when Zaxi was moving forward, he always held a rope in his hand. According to him, this is to be able to rescue people trapped in the swamp at any time. I think his words make sense. I think the rope tied is too long and it is a bit inconvenient to use when there is an urgent matter. It is better to cut two sections a little. I have something to do with Lao Zhou and I. Wan Yi, I can help at any time. The more I think about it, the more I feel that there is such a possibility, and the more I say it, the more I worry. Lao Zhou, hurry up and cut out two sections of the rope on the horse behind you."

"good!"

"Brother, why don't you give me a section?" This guy is really a clever guy. He immediately heard the truth in Zhang Qingshan's words, but he still raised his neck and shouted in dissatisfaction: "Don't you look down on me, do you think I'm weak?"

"Baoyu, it's not that you think you are weak, but that you don't know how much effort it takes to pull him out in the trap swamp. Just as Tashi said before: I and Lao Zhou are trapped in, and it's probably a lot of effort to pull out the other two. So, if something happened between me and Lao Zhou, I can throw the rope to rescue me in the middle. You or Lao Zhou must wait until you control the sinking of the person who is trapped in, and then use the strength of the horse to pull out the person who is trapped in. Do you understand?"

Zhou Baoyu lowered his head, curled his lips, and muttered: "After all the time, I just thought I was small and had no strength."

Zhang Qingshan just pretended that he didn't hear it and said another thing.

But no one expected that the water and grassland were so dangerous that his worries were fulfilled so quickly
Chapter completed!