Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

As Xu Sanduo spoke, he handed a small handful of wild vegetables to Xiao Wenwu, and then muttered, "This is shepherd's purse. It can be eaten raw, used in soups, or made into a cold dish."

This is better than dandelion; it's not bitter at all, and it's even slightly sweet.

This is also a Chinese medicinal herb. It can cool the blood and stop bleeding, clear heat and promote diuresis, clear the liver and improve eyesight, lower blood pressure, strengthen the spleen and promote urination. Moreover, it's okay to eat more of it. It's just that there's too little of this piece. This is all I found.

And this plantain, also called plantain leaf, its tender leaves are also edible…”

Wu Liu was taken aback. The army's wilderness survival training did indeed teach these things, instructing soldiers on what they could and could not eat in the wild.

However, it was definitely not as comprehensive as what Xu Sanduo said, not only about the methods of consumption but also about the properties of various medicines.

This time, not only Wu Liuyi, but almost everyone was stunned.

Even Cheng Cai turned his head and took a good look at Xu Sanduo before turning back to observe the situation.

Wu Liuyi looked at Xu Sanduo, who was still explaining, and asked, "Xu Sanduo, where did you learn all this from?"

"Ah," Xu Sanduo, who was still rambling on, paused for a moment upon hearing Wu Liuyi's question.

He scratched the back of his head and flashed his signature smile again. "This, this, I read it all in a book."

This is from the 2000 edition of the Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines, in the Medicinal Medicine section, pp. 282-62.

Wu Liuyi didn't say anything, but silently gave a thumbs up. If an ordinary person were to recite these contents in such detail from the written form, he might think that this person was showing off or something else.

But since this person was Xu Sanduo, Wu Liuyi thought it was perfectly normal, even though he had revealed the bookshelf number.

Xu Sanduo's memory was tested by the incident in his recruit training class when the whole class copied the secrecy rules, and by the incident in the annual assessment when the armored soldiers answered the tank soldiers' test questions with full marks.

Wu Liuyi still has vivid memories of those scenes. He believes that not only him, but also those who went to the recruit training camp and were present during the annual assessment have vivid memories of these two events.

For most soldiers, the curse of taking the eight sets of theory tests every Saturday is no problem at all for Xu Sanduo. This ability, or rather his memory, is really enviable in the army.

He could understand Xu Sanduo's methodical and textbook-based explanations. Deputy Company Commander Zhang Anbang had also said that Xu Sanduo had an excellent memory, the kind that was super good, but it took him a little longer to integrate knowledge into his mind.

Given time, he will be incredibly talented, not only in military skills and physical fitness, but also in knowledge.

Gan Xiaoning accepted the dandelion handed to her by Xu Sanduo with a bitter expression. "Sanduo, don't even mention stir-fried meat. Just mentioning it makes me even hungrier."

"You guys, I came to this lousy selection process so I could fight alongside you, and who would have thought they'd be such a rip-off? What happened to the promised physical exam?"

(The plant they were holding in the show was houttuynia cordata. I don't know why, but this plant is a typical southern plant that likes moisture. The probability of finding this plant on the northern grasslands is so low that it is almost negligible.)

After saying that, Gan Xiaoning took a dandelion leaf and put it in his mouth. He chewed it for a moment, then spat it out. Having grown up in the city, he had never experienced such hardship.

Although there was wilderness survival experience in the Seventh Steel Company, it was exhausting, but at least there was no food shortage like this. He picked up a dandelion and stuffed another mouthful in, then spat it out.

Gan Xiaoning looked at the dandelion in his hand and cursed angrily, "Bastards, damned Old A, damned reconnaissance battalion."

Xu Sanduo smiled and said, "Company commander, he probably had no choice."

Gan Xiaoning tossed the dandelion to Xu Sanduo, picked up his personal ration bag again, and tapped it hard against his mouth, but unfortunately there was really nothing left inside.

He angrily threw the food packaging bag on the ground.

Wu Liuyi, who had been observing the enemy situation ahead, heard the commotion and said without turning his head, "Pick it up, don't expose our position."

"Fine, I'll just pick it up," Gan Xiaoning said listlessly, reaching out to pick up the food bag and putting it in her pocket, muttering to herself, "I'll dig a hole and crush them both with one hand each."

I buried them all, buried those bastards.

The comrades in the Seventh Company chuckled as they listened to Gan Xiaoning's mutterings. Ever since Bai Tiejun arrived, this guy had picked up a lot more words from him.

In the words of their deputy company commander Zhang Anbang when he was training Bai Tiejun, he said, "You're from Dunhuang? There are so many murals here."

However, they also knew that the two people Gan Xiaoning was referring to were not the food ration bags, but the Old A and the Division Reconnaissance Battalion. At this moment, most of them also had some resentment, as the game had gone too far.

Gan Xiaoning was still not satisfied. She picked up a hard clod of earth and angrily threw it on the ground. "They won't even let us light a fire. How wonderful it would be to roast a pheasant, a rabbit, or a grasshopper."

The order not to light a fire was given by Wu Liuyi. If it were just for survival in the wild, it would be possible to light a fire, but in the current situation, it is definitely not possible.

Wu Liuyi took a bite of wild garlic, glared at Gan Xiaoning, and said nothing.

Cheng Cai, on the contrary, retorted, "What's the difference between lighting an open fire in a place like this and committing suicide?"

Gan Xiaoning understood, of course. He was just very annoyed. He leaned back against his backpack and complained with his eyes closed, "Carrying 30 kilograms of stuff like this, I'm being chased like a mouse all over the mountain."

Upon opening her eyes, Gan Xiaoning saw everyone still eating wild vegetables and advised, "Stop eating, these are for feeding the sheep."

His words only made things worse; Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo started eating even faster.

Cheng Cai swallowed the shepherd's purse in his mouth, turned his head, and said ambiguously, "Xu Sanduo, we just ate all our rations, except for yours. Where are yours?"

Xu Sanduo was stunned for a moment, then looked at Cheng Cai and said, "I ate it."

"You get all worked up when you lie," Cheng Cai said, turning his head back.

Wu Liuyi, who was standing next to him, spoke up directly, his voice full of seriousness, "That's his share, what are you upset about?"

Cheng Cai never expected that Wu Liuyi, who had always looked down on Xu Sanduo, would speak up for him. He rolled his eyes and said, "How could I dare to be indignant? I just admire him. He can endure even more than I can."

As they were talking, the sound of a car engine came from the side. The group quickly lay down on the ground. The sound was coming from their left side, which was obviously the low-lying side.

If you get caught, there's not much you can do to escape except climb the hill. But carrying 30 kilograms on your back and being hungry while climbing a hill is practically suicide.

Just as the group settled down, a convertible jeep roared past them on the dirt road not far away.

Watching the jeep drive away, Cheng Cai said, "Their mealtime must have been delayed too. They're probably heading to the camp for lunch now."