Chapter 16 Section 7

Sunlight poured in from the skylight, and Xiao Zhuang sat on the floor wearily, flipping through the old photo albums.The comrades-in-arms of the special forces Lao Pao and Qiang Zi in the photo are all in high spirits. Xiaozhuang stared at it for a while, then took the open laptop beside him, and started typing on the keyboard, and he began to fall into infinite memories again... In the large playground of the military camp in my memory, a group of recruits stood in the middle of the playground in a military posture. Lao Pao wore his armed belt and looked at his watch expressionlessly.The faces of the recruits showed pain to varying degrees.

A recruit shouted weakly: "Report..." Before he finished speaking, he fainted.Two veterans ran over, lifted them up and left. Old Pao was unmoved: "Who else recognizes the bear? Make a report yourself." No one said anything. "No one recognizes bears? Everyone thinks they are tough guys? Wrong, you are a bunch of trash! Not even dog shit, because dog shit can also be used as fertilizer!" Xiao Zhuang stared at Lao Pao with fire in his eyes, and he shouted loudly: "Report!" Lao Pao turned to Xiao Zhuang and sneered: "You bear, get out!" "Report! I'm not a bear, I have a question for the monitor!"

"speak!" Xiao Zhuang asked loudly: "If we are garbage, then what are you?" Old Pao froze for a moment.The recruits all grimaced and held back their laughter. "Trash squad leader!" Xiaozhuang said the answer loudly. The recruits couldn't help laughing.Lao Pao stared at Xiao Zhuang: "Do you think it's funny? Attention everyone, from now on you will be in military posture for one hour!" "Stop! What are you saying?" Xiao Zhuang turned back unhurriedly: "I said - it's too inhumane! We are here to serve as soldiers, not to be tortured!"

"humane?" "Yes, it's inhumane! Why do other recruits spend half an hour in military posture, while we have to stand until we faint?" "Why? Because you are my recruit!" "Then I quit, you are abusing recruits!" Old Pao's face was livid: "Everyone has it - 100 push-ups! Get ready!" The recruits looked at each other, not knowing whether it was true or not. "Prepare!" The recruits get down. "start!" The recruits start doing push-ups. Xiao Zhuang looked at his comrades guiltily, and glared at Lao Pao: "Why punish them?"

"You are a group, if one person makes a mistake, all of you will be punished!" Old Pao didn't change his face, "They are punished because you made a mistake! Now you have two choices, one, get out, and they will continue to be punished; two, you go back Be punished together, because they are punished for you!" Xiao Zhuang looked at Lao Pao bitterly, strode back, and did push-ups with the recruits. Old Pao sneered and said: "The first rule of survival of the Dagong Group - in the recruit company, you are not human beings, but animals! So don't mention the word 'humane' to the squad leader!"

Xiao Zhuang bit his lip, lowered his head and continued to do push-ups. ... Outside the dormitory in my memory, Lao Pao was lecturing to a group of disgraced recruits: "The five-kilometer unarmed cross-country training just now, I only have two words for your evaluation-garbage! After running five kilometers, you still feel like a sheep. Shit, it's still unarmed! What if it's armed to go off-road? What if it goes to war?" Xiaozhuang concealed his unconvinced. Old Pao squinted his eyes: "Some comrades still stare, why stare? You don't usually suffer, you are the one who dies first!"

Xiao Zhuang held back his silence. Lao Pao looked at his watch: "There is still 30 minutes until the dinner meeting! Go back and clean yourself up, don't lose my people! Disband!" Everyone dispersed tiredly and entered the dormitory. The recruits who entered the house took washbasins or something to wash their faces by the sink outside.Xiao Zhuang fell directly on his bed, unable to move. After washing, Xiwa came in with a washbasin: "Are you lying down at this time? What if the monitor is here?" "I can't control that much anymore. Even if you point a gun at me, I can't get up. Is Lao Pao a psychopath? Why do other squad leaders treat recruits well, and he is the only one to torment us?"

As soon as the voice fell, the recruit at the door suddenly shouted: "Stand up!" There was a mess of washbasins, and the recruits all stood up.Xiaozhuang stood in front of the messy bed, and Xiwa stood beside him. Old Pao came in with a sullen face, pointing at Xiao Zhuang's bed with the armed belt in his hand: "What's going on?" Xiaozhuang wasn't afraid either: "Report! I'm lying down!" "Where did you lie down? How did I make the rules?" "Isn't the bed just for people to sleep?" Old Pao narrowed his eyes: "Who told you to sleep now?"

Xiao Zhuang's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "I'm tired, so I lay down and rested." "Aren't they tired?" Xiao Zhuang remained silent. "Go out and assemble! Another five kilometers!" Xiwa muttered: "Squad leader, dinner is about to start..." The recruits reluctantly went out to assemble.Xiao Zhuang felt ashamed and followed everyone out. A squad of recruits quickly lined up.Old Pao walked to the front of the queue and looked at them indifferently: "What is the army? It is a war machine made of steel discipline! They are all bear soldiers like you, and they want to defeat the invaders? They are all idiots! Eating the army for nothing, Waste of food! You are still babbling down there, it seems that you are not tired?"

Xiao Zhuang remained silent.Everyone is silent. "Five kilometers off-road, let's go—" Xiao Zhuang shouted loudly: "Report! If there is a fault, it is my fault alone! I will accept the punishment myself!" "What did I say? If one person makes a mistake, the whole class will be punished!" "I am willing to be punished instead of the whole class!" "you?" "There are nine recruits in the class, and each of them cross-country for five kilometers, which means forty-five kilometers! I was punished for the whole class and cross-country forty-five kilometers!"

The recruits were all taken aback. Lao Pao was also taken aback: "What do you think this is? Individual heroism? This is a collective!" "Report! I hope the squad leader approves, I can't hurt everyone anymore." Old Pao sneered: "Okay, you still know how not to hurt others. It means that although you are a bear soldier, you are not a bad soldier. Since you asked for it, I have no reason to object. Go, the rest of the comrades are dismissed, Ready to eat!" Xiao Zhuang came out and ran towards the back hill.The recruits all looked at him and did not dismiss. Lao Pao yelled loudly: "What are you still doing in a daze? Disband!" Xiwa came out: "Report!" "speak!" "Squad leader, I run the 5K by myself, I don't want him to do it for me." Lao Pao was a little surprised. Another recruit also came out: "Squad leader, I will run by myself..." The recruits came out one after another: "I also run by myself." "And me." "We are in the same class, we have to run together." Old Pao sneered: "That's right, you're quite righteous? If that's the case, then you all should run away." Everyone turned and ran.A sneer appeared on the corner of Lao Pao's stiff mouth. ... In my memory, at the entrance of the company cafeteria, it was pouring rain. The first class of recruits stood in the rain with their lunch boxes, and everyone was shivering from the cold.The lunch boxes in their hands were neatly lined up, and water was gradually accumulating in them.Old Pao stood across from them, drenched all over, without looking sideways. The lunch box was almost full, but Lao Pao ordered with a deadpan expression: "Drain it!" Crash--a piece of lunch box is down. Old Pao sneered: "Revolutionary soldiers, iron warriors! What is a little rain? Look at your jittery faces, full of displeasure! On the battlefield, are you drenched in this little rain? It's the rain of bullets, the rain of shells. Rain! It’s still the same sentence, when the lunch box is full, go in and eat!” He took off his armed belt, turned around and went in, leaving a row of recruits standing in the rain. Xiao Zhuang trembled: "The whole... a tyrant..." Xiwazhuang was also trembling: "Don't say a few words, I was caught by him... Another good-looking... My mother needs to know that I can't even eat... I have to... cry..." He said As he spoke, he grinned and cried. Xiao Zhuang comforted him: "Don't...don't cry...don't let him look down on us..." Xiwa grinned: "I can't take it anymore..." The sadness of the surrounding recruits was aroused, and the suppressed cries continued to come from the rain. In the reconnaissance department, Miao Lian, who was observing with binoculars, smiled and shook his head.The binoculars swung over, and Xiao Zhuang in sight didn't cry.Miao Lian was a little surprised. "Report!" "Come in!" Miao didn't even look back. Chen Pai opened the door and came in: "Miao Lian, this is a training plan for Pai Pai." "Put it on the table." Chen Pai walked over wonderingly: "What are you looking at?" Miao Lian remained silent.Chen Pai looked at it and said, "Miao Lian, you really have a leisurely heart. What's so interesting about a recruit crying?" "There is one who didn't cry." Chen Pai looked over: "Why, have you taken a fancy to that stabbing soldier?" "Trained by the stabbing soldier, it is a sharp and good knife!" Chen Pai smiled: "You're going crazy. I put the plan on the table. I'll go back first." Miao Lian waved his hand, Chen went out, and he closed the door behind him.Miao Lian said to himself: "Soldier idiot? Without me as a soldier idiot, how can you little bastards have a tomorrow!" He picked up the binoculars and continued to look. At the entrance of the cafeteria, the recruits were still crying in the rain.Suddenly, Xiao Zhuang roared: "Don't cry!" The recruits looked at him wiping away tears. "It's already like this, what's the use of crying? Do you have to let this old son of a bitch look down on us? Stop crying! Hold your heads up, let's sing!" The sobbing of the recruits subsided. "Unity is strength - prepare - rise!" "unity is strength……" The singing of the recruits sounded, and gradually became louder amidst the sound of rain. Miao Lian's camera slid across the faces of the recruits who were childish but gradually full of fighting spirit, and stopped on Xiaozhuang, who was singing hoarsely.Miao Lian nodded while holding the binoculars. In front of the glass window in the cafeteria, Lao Pao looked on blankly. He put on his wet military cap, put on his armed belt and opened the door to go out. In the heavy rain, the recruits were still singing hoarsely, and the lunch boxes in their hands were overflowing with rainwater. When the singing ended, the recruits looked at Lao Pao, and Xiao Zhuang's eyes were full of challenge.Lao Pao looked at him expressionlessly: "Xiao Zhuang." "arrive!" "Pour out your water!" Without hesitation, Xiao Zhuang turned over the lunch box in his hand, and the water poured out. "The rest, go in and eat." The recruits didn't move, they looked at Xiaozhuang. "Violation of queue discipline, this is the punishment you deserve. The rest of you, go in and eat!" The recruits froze for a moment and began to walk in silently. Lao Pao looked at Xiao Zhuang: "When the water is full, we will disband on our own." After he finished speaking, he went straight away.Xiaozhuang stood upright in the rain without making a sound. The heavy rain was pouring down, but Xiaozhuang still stood upright. The lunch box in Xiaozhuang's hand is almost full.Xiwa ran over with the cornbread in her arms: "Xiaozhuang, Xiaozhuang! You should eat some first!" Xiao Zhuang didn't speak, but looked down at his lunch box. "The squad leader went back to the dormitory early to change clothes, it's not too late!" Xiao Zhuang still didn't speak. "Oh, why are you so colorful? I've said it all, it's not so bad!" Xiao Zhuang moved his lips to look at the steamed buns with pickled vegetables. He looked at the lunch box, and the water was about to be full. In the bushes behind Xiaozhuang, Old Pao was squatting there, holding a whistle in his hand, watching through the gap.He saw Xiao Zhuang standing there motionless, and Xi Wa was beside him persuading him.Old Pao smiled and put the whistle on his mouth. Xiwa shouted happily: "It's full! It's full! Take two bites!" Just as Xiaozhuang took the steamed buns, the sharp assembly whistle rang.The recruits hurried out to assemble.Old Pao jumped over the bushes and strode over: "Comrades! According to the intelligence of the superiors, the enemy agents have infiltrated into the vicinity of our camp in an attempt to steal military information! Our new recruits are going to search the mountains to catch the enemy agents! Comrades, do you have confidence?! " "Yes..." The voice was dissociated and weak. "Do you have confidence?" "Yes!" The voice was loud. Lao Pao nodded: "Throw away the things in your hand, go at full speed, and go up the mountain!" Everyone threw the lunch boxes in their hands into the muddy water.Xiao Zhuang just took a bite of his steamed bun, but threw it away. Old Pao roared: "Let's go—" The recruits roared as if venting, and ran forward at full speed... I don't know how long it took to toss, but it was already late at night when the recruits returned to the dormitory.Everyone helped each other in.Xiwa went to turn on the light. "Don't turn on the lights!" Lao Pao roared outside. Xiwa turned off the light. Xiaozhuang took off his muddy military uniform and threw it into the washbasin: "We are recruits from the infantry regiment and not a special force. Why are we so ruthless? It's purely a psychopath!" Xiwa asked, "What are special forces?" "Sleep! Don't talk!" The old Pao roared outside, "If you are not tired, get up and search the mountain with me again!" Everyone hurried to bed.Soon there was snoring in the room. Xiao Zhuang lay on the bed, but his eyes were open.Xiwa asked him softly: "Xiao Zhuang, what are special forces?" Xiao Zhuang smiled wryly: "It's a very stupid army. Go to sleep!" He turned and fell asleep. ... Xiao Zhuang wrote on the computer for a long time, the sky had already darkened, he did not turn on the lights, the fluorescent light of the computer screen reflected his face, and he typed: "That was the first time I mentioned the four special forces in the army. It was just a casual word at the time. Later, I learned from the conversations of the squad leaders that Lao Pao had applied for joining the special forces many times, but was eliminated every time. Because what special forces need is not only excellent military quality, but also Quite a cultural quality. This is a scar in his heart..."