The hope of mankind is like an eternal star, and dark clouds cannot cover its light. Especially today, peace is not an ideal, a dream, it is the wish of thousands of people.——Ba Jin

Li Baoqiang asked Li Dayong to continue searching for every room and come to the sacrificed team members himself. This was the first team member to sacrifice since the establishment of the armed team. Li Baoqiang looked at the familiar faces of the team members and kept regretting it, and he made a big mistake.

The mistake is that I think these team members are still those Marines who have been through a lot of battles, and it should be quite easy to solve these mobs. But I have ignored the most important problem, that is, these team members are not the real team of battles, they are a group of farmers and workers who have just put down their hoes and tools.

Seeing Li Baoqiang's self-blame look, the team members surrounded him and persuaded Li Baoqiang: "Captain, we have already lived again. You saved us. This time we saved so many people, and it's worth it if we die!" Li Baoqiang raised his head silently and looked at the group of young team members.

Li Baoqiang felt their sincere feelings for the first time. In the past, they were farmers and workers at the bottom. Their existence was small and not valued by others. But now they are willing to sacrifice their lives to save others. What a kind and lovely group of people, they are the real backbone of the nation.

Li Baoqiang secretly swore that he must train the team well, reduce casualties, and be worthy of the trust of the team members.

Li Dayong had finished searching and reported to Li Baoqiang about the situation. Fifteen bandits were killed in the three villas and six were captured. A total of forty Type 56 semi-automatic rifles and sixty boxes of rifle bullets were found; four Type 54 pistols and two boxes of pistol bullets were found. Li Baoqiang nodded with satisfaction. From the weapons alone, this operation still gained something.

The survivors also bravely gathered around Li Baoqiang and others. Some people suddenly recognized a few familiar team members and shouted and greeted them. The team members also greeted them. The survivors gradually relaxed their fear.

Li Baoqiang asked the team leader Zhao Jian and several team members to comfort the survivors and tell them the situation of Hope Village, hoping that they could follow Li Baoqiang back to Hope Village.

Li Baoqiang and Li Dayong came to the warehouse to observe the situation inside. When Li Baoqiang saw it, his first feeling was that he had developed this time.

The warehouse area is about 400 square meters and is about ten meters high. There are piles of various goods placed in it, including rice, flour, cooking oil, sugar and other main edible items, as well as various department stores, clothing, etc., which is simply a small supermarket.

"This deputy mayor is also a talent, it's a pity." Li Baoqiang sighed. At this time, a team member ran in, "Captain, the deputy of the fat team are here." Li Baoqiang hurried out of the warehouse and saw the fat man Wang Zhiming and Zhang Juncai walking towards him.

Li Baoqiang was stunned for a moment.

The fat man and the others rushed over from Hope Village overnight, and their tired expressions hung on everyone's face, but their eyes revealed concern and excitement. Li Baoqiang was moved, and the eyes of the team members reminded him of the feelings of the comrades in the army in the past, which was a relationship of going through life and death, and working together.

Li Baoqiang stepped forward and held the hands of Fatty and Zhang Juncai tightly, nodded, everything was silent. The fat man patted Li Dayong's shoulder and teased happily: "I heard that you caught a few bad guys alive this time, and my respect for you is..."

The thin man Li Dayong raised his chest and said proudly: "You didn't come to this action, do you regret it? Go back to Mars, the earth is very dangerous." Everyone smiled and realized the danger of this action.

Li Baoqiang asked Zhang Juncai to organize people to transport grain, oil and non-staple food, which was the most important thing. The rescued survivors also unanimously asked to follow and return to Hope Village. Zhang Juncai was a little embarrassed. After all, there were more than 200 people in front of him, so why didn’t you have to consider eating? The place where you live must be covered urgently, and it would be difficult to do it in less than three or five days.

Li Baoqiang thought about it and decided temporarily that Fatty man led some team members to guard the Survivor Base of Songlin Town. This base is about twenty kilometers away from Hope Village. There are walls and residences in the base, and the basic facilities are quite complete. It can be used as a forward base for Hope Village.

There were several cars in the base and more than twenty barrels of gasoline. Zhang Juncai used his genius to inspire and organize his talents. He asked the villagers from Hope Village to lead the survivors to drive the supplies in the warehouse one by one. Seeing his ear-catching smile, Li Baoqiang kept thinking: "This is a good housekeeper."

Li Baoqiang didn't care about these matters. He saw that all the armed team members had basically arrived and redistributed the collected guns. Each team member was assigned a five-six semi-automatic rifle, with 100 bullets, and allocated the pistols to the fat man and other captains. "There is finally a gun, and the team is like that." Li Baoqiang sighed deeply.

The team members had practiced shooting during training before. Although they had shot several shots, they now couldn't let go of their own guns. They held the rifle and aimed at them. Li Baoqiang gathered the team and came to the door of the main villa. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to train the team well.

Li Baoqiang carefully talked about the incident when touching his tongue, and used the most relaxed time for people to launch an attack. Then he talked about the battle in the villa. Li Baoqiang walked and demonstrated, how to open the door, how to arrange the team members, who is responsible for the main attack, who is responsible for the deputy attacker, and the team members followed Li Baoqiang and slowly walked upstairs.

When Li Baoqiang talked about pushing open the living room door, he felt ashamed. He turned to the team members and said, "At this time, we must not be lenient or want to capture prisoners, because we already know that there are bandits inside, and we must be fatal and never be lenient. Even if we hurt other innocent people in the house, we will do whatever we want, otherwise we will die."

The team members who had experienced it were filled with emotion, and the team members who had not participated in the battle were also thoughtful. Li Baoqiang asked the team members who had participated in the battle to talk about their personal feelings, and finally asked the team leader to lead the team members to practice how to fight in the house over and over again.

After the arrangement was completed, Li Baoqiang turned around and looked at the person on the bed. Now he knew that he was the deputy mayor. Seeing his seemingly upright face, Li Baoqiang was thinking, and Zhao Xiaoxiao was standing beside Li Baoqiang, thinking too. After a while, Li Baoqiang turned his head and spoke to Zhao Xiaoxiao, as if he was talking to himself.

"At the beginning, he was able to play the role of the mayor, lead the victims to save themselves, and protect the victims. But once he realized that his power was more of a way to bring him unlimited enjoyment, he forgot the original intention of power and quickly degenerated and degenerated."

"Power can make people noble or degenerate; it can make people successful or destroy a person. Power is a double-edged sword!" "Zhao Xiaoxiao nodded helplessly.

"Power is a sharp double-edged sword. It can bring supreme glory and pride to people, and it can also bring endless shame and regret. It can build a monument to the interests of the masses in society and dig the grave of human self-destruction. I don't, I will never be like him." Li Baoqiang firmly promised that although Zhao Xiaoxiao was the only one in front of him, Li Baoqiang seemed to be swearing to the whole world.

Two days later, Fatty led his team members to escort the last trucks of supplies from the warehouse back to Hope Village. At this point, the survivor base in Songling Town has been moved empty. Li Baoqiang plans to develop and build Songling Town after the Spring Festival and turn it into a frontier base in Hope Village.

In the past two days, Zhang Juncai organized more than 100 shacks to properly place all the rescued people. The rescued survivors of Songling Town quickly integrated into Hope Village. Now there are more than 500 villagers in Hope Village, and Hope Village walls have begun to become crowded.

At this time, the village of Hope was already very lively because New Year's Eve was already here.

Professor Zhao found a few pieces of red paper and brushes, wrote a couplet and posted it at the school gate. A large word of blessing was pasted upside down on the school gate. The villagers were onlookers muttering in their hearts, "Happiness has arrived" and "Blessing has arrived", and their hearts were filled with yearning for a happy life in the future. Zhao Xiaoxiao and several girls also cut more than a dozen window flowers under the guidance of several old ladies, including wintersweet flowers, Chang'e flying to the moon, flowers, birds, fish and insects, and posted it on the window, and the joy was reflected everywhere.

Several bonfires were burning on the school playground, and the red lights illuminated the entire valley. I hope there is a warm and peaceful atmosphere in the village wall.

Zhang Juncai found more than a dozen firecrackers in the pile of supplies, and was lit up at the school gate. Several children were brave enough to look for squins among the firecrackers. The calcium carbide flames of the firecrackers reflected the excited faces of the villagers. Now they finally felt safe and felt like home.

Several horse lanterns in the conference room emitted bright light, illuminating the whole room with bright tiles. The main people in charge of the Hope Village sat together and started the New Year's Eve dinner. Although it cannot be compared with before, after Zhang Juncai's clever arrangement, there were seven plates and eight large bowls, which filled the table.

White rice, wild boar, canned fish, vacuum fist vegetables, wild vegetable soup, and a bowl of dumplings for each person. Li Baoqiang looked around and didn't find the dumplings. He felt very regretful, but he didn't show it. Zhao Xiaoxiao smiled and looked at Li Baoqiang: "There will be bread, and there will be dumplings." Li Baoqiang felt warm in his heart when he heard it. What a careful lover.

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Li Baoqiang bowed respectfully to Professor Zhao: "I wish you a happy New Year, I wish you good health and longevity!"

Professor Zhao accepted with a smile, looked at his happy daughter beside him, and sighed in his heart, "This is considered a son-in-law's greetings to his father-in-law."

Zhang Juncai, Liu Junsheng and other local people began to set up the dragon gate formation again. Zhang Juncai told a joke: "In the past, the production team killed geese for the New Year. The captain wrote a notice and wrote the word "geese" more scattered, becoming: "In the afternoon, men killed my birds, women pulled my bird feathers, and men and young men came to eat my bird meat at night! You can also eat my bird eggs!" Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this.

The fat man also started to talk and said: In the hospital, the nurse saw the patient drinking in the ward, so she walked over and whispered: "Be careful!" The patient smiled and said, "Little baby." The fat man looked at the female college student he liked. After the lecture, everyone pretended to be tense and did not smile, and stared at the female college student he liked. The girl blushed and ran away.

"Amir, rush!" The thin man Li Dayong teased the fat man. Everyone laughed happily.

At this time, Li Baoqiang took Zhao Xiaoxiao's hand and quietly came to the back of the school. The two wanted to spend this unforgettable New Year's Eve together alone.
Chapter completed!