Chapter 6 Technical class for reserve soldiers

My family heard that once I went there, since I had the opportunity to take a ration test, and knew that the rules were extremely strict, they thought it would be better for me to be trained as a reserve soldier than to let me play wild outside. Ben couldn't avoid the danger of falling from the overpass, but it was better for someone to see the fall with his own eyes than to fall off the high cliff in those empty mountains without anyone to take care of him, so he agreed at that time. My mother even sewed me a suit Gray cloth uniform. When I told the news to the squad leader Liang at the school, the military uniform had not been sewn, so he took me to see the instructor surnamed Chen. The first time I saw the man with the chest out, I was a little scared, but But because I heard that his lever technique once won the provincial championship, he can walk a dragonfly on the bridge four or five times with his hands, and he can turn a big wheel on the lever forty times. Huang Tianba, so even though he is afraid of him, he also likes him.

The instructor gave me a good impression the first time, and the impression after that was also very good. He seems to be satisfied with me. First of all, I am so small, and I am always the last in line. When I am running in the playground, I will be kicked out , when I went forward and turned back, my steps were smaller, and I tried to save me from disadvantages. But after ten days, my ability and bravery were fully recognized by him, and I should do everything that everyone should do. There is always a copy on the head. I am very grateful to the instructor. Because of his selflessness and strictness, he forced me to learn a technique of climbing a lever. Later, I used this technique to save my life. For such a long time, I was able to survive the 40-day high fever of severe typhoid fever, not necessarily without the help of a solid physique trained in a technical class. My body is fragile due to malnutrition since childhood, and my personality has always remained the same. I have a bit of a solid soldier's flavor, no matter what I do, I always do it, and I don't care much about success or failure. It seems that it was cultivated in the nearly one year of training.

After I entered the military service cram school, I knew that Liang Fengsheng, who was the class monitor at the school, was also our class monitor in the technical class. I got a lot of help from him in it. He was the one-person coach when I entered. I was my teacher. When each of us went to learn to somersault on the sandy ground of the small playground, they tied my waist with a belt, and each of them held the belt tightly with their hands. When I want to turn my body over and straighten it up again, he quickly pulls it with his hand to prevent me from twisting my waist and legs. Sometimes I climb up on the lever and hang it backwards with my arms, preparing to carry the car for a while. He is always the one who takes care of me carefully. Sometimes I accidentally fall on the sandy ground, and my throat becomes hoarse. I want to speak no matter how hard I try, but I can’t speak anymore. As soon as he sees me, he quickly picks me up and supports me. If I run around, I have to run for a long time, so that I can speak, so that there will be no sequelae.

This person reads very well in school, always comes first in every exam, and also gets very good grades in technical classes. His mother is a widow who takes care of her three sons and helps others to sew some clothes to get by. , then ran back, took the basket that had already been cut into countless sugar canes, and had already been distributed well, and took it to the street to sell it everywhere. After selling the sugar cane, he earned back thirty or fifty small coins. For ten renminbi, you have to walk through the streets and alleys every night. But when you meet your classmates and friends in any place, you will always come to you without saying a word, and take a section of sugar cane worth five yuan and a section, suddenly Throw it into your hand, and it will run away quickly. I met him twice like this, and I was really moved. I didn't want to eat the sugarcane, but because of his generosity, when I saw him in the daytime It just made me very ashamed.

Although this friend treats me very well, in school, my best classmate is named Zhaolin Chen. In terms of technical classes, my good friend is also surnamed Chen and named Jiying. This Chen Jiying’s family is only next door to mine Wuhu, according to the local custom, eats dinner at three o'clock in the afternoon. Every day after dinner with me, he and I put on gray cloth military uniforms and walk out of the city proudly side by side on the street. Every time we go out of the city to the gate , the butcher who sells beef is cleaning up his business, and he always deliberately teases us and calls us to be platoon leaders. A veteran guarding the city also always makes a funny face on purpose and tells a few harmless jokes. I thought it was a joke, we went to school to do great things in the future, of course we don't need to care about these small things.

At that time, what we thought was really different from this kind of thing. He only wanted to be the commander of the regiment, and I only wanted to go to the Army University. Even if my father hoped to be a general, he would never be able to do it in his life, but he took the glory of his grandfather. , After inputting many sweet stories into this absurd and naughty little brain, unexpectedly, it had a great impact. Books are not what I care about, and the country has revolutionized, and I know that the number one scholar is gone. Hope, but it seems to have the ambition of a general. No other education was given to me at home, and what was given was precisely what I would not use much in the future. The support in my life, which is not conducive to my study, is really of great benefit. I am not very healthy, thanks to the inspiration my father gave me, so that I will never be discouraged in any difficult situation, and I will never be discouraged in any happy life. Pride. Seems more precious and rare than any amount of property given to me.

When the guards in the battalion soon had a few vacancies, and our group should allocate one, I went to take the test as usual. The result of the test was of course a failure. But I finally practiced various techniques. In the small playground, I made a leg-hanging turn-up on the lever, and ten back carts came again. I jumped on the wooden horse again, walked over a bridge, and took a big top from the platform, and threw it down sideways. The drill ground commanded a team of ten people to give commands such as going forward, running, kneeling, and lying down, and when they were done, they ran to the military reviewer to complete a report in a hurried voice. In the presence of many other officers, although it was unavoidable to be a little flustered, all the actions were not bad: no falling, no noise, no wrong procedures. And think about it, I was still a child of thirteen and a half years old! This time, although a student from the art school, Big Brother Tian, ​​got the place of the guard, everyone was not sad (this person was the first in the art school exam, and he has been the captain of our class for a long time. Very well. If the opportunity allowed him to study in any university, this man would certainly be the best student. If the opportunity allowed him to study art abroad, his achievements in painting would be a shining star. But in the end, the opportunity wronged him, the environment restricted him, and his self-sufficiency and pride also hindered him. Ten years later, he ran half of China, and he was still serving as a major idler.) At that time, everyone Although I didn’t get the honor of serving as a soldier, everyone was very happy. I remember that when I went home that day, my family members asked me about everything and smiled kindly at me for a long time. And because I have received awards from the military department, it seems that I I will be a general one day in the future. In order to welcome this future general, I killed a chicken the next day, and the liver and head are all for me.

I took the exam again the second time, but the vacancy of the guard was taken up by a child surnamed Shu. This man was about the same age as me, and his skills were inferior to mine, but he had a unique courage. Very bravely, on a bridge over two feet high, he fell somersaults and fell, and when he landed, he could still stand firmly. Therefore, everyone still had nothing to say. The child died of fever two years later. The third military service was given to a man named Tian Bangchui, who was able to jump high and took the first place in the pole-vaulting examination. Later, this man was sent to another county as a soldier, and died because of the accident.

I took the exam there three times, and the gains and losses did not disappoint my family. The family saw that I was able to put on my military uniform every day, go through the drills of the officer corps, and understand a lot of military etiquette. It seemed that I was on the right track. It treated me a lot better. But the entire technical class was organized, almost entirely presided over by the instructor, and almost all the energy was raised by the instructor alone. Because of that rare service spirit, the guardian envoy took a fancy to it. , when the battalion deputy of his guard regiment was vacant, our instructor was transferred. As soon as the instructor left, the school naturally disintegrated invisible.

This training lasted about eight months, because I started eating mooncakes in August, and I was discharged from the army in March when the peach blossoms bloomed in the following year. I remember that day when I went home from a casual exercise, I picked a big one from a vegetable garden. Bring the peach blossoms home. I lost my second sister that year. She was two years older than me. She was beautiful, proud, smart, and bold. Among the nine brothers and sisters in a group, she was better than any one. Her death was due to that It is necessary to have a strong personality. I was very sad. When I was buried, I secretly took a mountain peach tree and inserted it on the ridge in front of the grave. When I returned to my hometown from Beijing for the first time to go to the grave after almost twenty years, I did not expect that the mountain peach tree had died. It became a big tree more than two feet high.