Chapter 18 Liu Dong

Brother Liu Shu wrote to Liu Dong about her sister's marriage.After Liu Dong received the letter from his brother, he hid in the woods behind the playground and cried bitterly. He knew that his sister and Hu Xiaohu got married entirely for himself.With her elder sister's heart, she would not fall in love with Hu Xiaohu.In school, Hu Xiaohu was the worst student in the class. He liked to chase girls, but no girl liked him.The elder sister Liu Cao is the best student and the most beautiful. Because of her high heart and arrogance, others say she is a "cold beauty". The elder sister married Hu Xiaohu reluctantly and reluctantly, and Liu Dong felt distressed.When he first signed up to join the army, he didn't want to sacrifice his sister to fulfill himself. In this matter, if his brother didn't let him interfere, he could only let it go.Ever since his sister agreed to the marriage, he felt very sad; he was in the army that day, and his sister got married, and he felt extremely uncomfortable; at this time, he read the situation of his sister's marriage in his brother's letter, and his heart was broken .

For a moment, he felt an invisible weight on his shoulders.The whole family wanted him to be successful, and his words and deeds in the army not only represented himself, but also represented the whole family. There were more than 200 recruits in the 13th Division. Every time they lined up on the playground, it was a dark place. This was an invisible pressure for Liu Dong.Among the more than 200 recruits, there is no one who does not want to improve. How easy is it for him to stand out among the more than 200 recruits? Liu Dong understood his position. Among the more than 200 people, in terms of body, he was inferior; in terms of mind, he felt that he was not as good as those urban soldiers in Tiancun.If you can't stand out, you can't talk about progress.Leaders often only have a deep memory of the top soldiers, such as the best or the worst. Now Liu Dong is at best a middle-level player, and such people will not receive special care in any group.

Liu Dong has already realized his position in this brand-new group, and it seems that he can only outwit him.After analyzing the strengths of others, he also saw his own weaknesses. He searched and searched, thinking that he was a high school graduate, and his academic performance was good, especially composition, which was often read by teachers as model essays in class.The advantage of composition is completely influenced by my brother. My brother loves to read, not only reading, but also reading. He also reads his brother's books when he is free. He gradually fell in love with reading. Later, he also read books that his brother had never read. up.When he was in high school, he loved to read and fell in love with writing.

In the recruit company, each squad has a military newspaper. Liu Dong is the one who reads the newspaper most seriously. Others read the newspaper at a glance, or just glance at the headline, but he has to read every word.The newspapers published all the new things in the various units of the military region, which reminded him of his recruit company.Many things that happened to the recruit company were no worse than those reported in the newspapers, why not write about them?So the title of his first article was set as "The Recruit Squad Leader Taught Us to Progress".The deeds are true. Every weekend, Squad Leader Guan always brings their third class to the playground. Everyone sits in a circle, let everyone speak, and find out what progress he has made in the past week.After looking around like this, many people found their own progress, and the low self-esteem recruits also puffed up their chests.Liu Dong wrote this matter into an article, which was well-founded and thought-provoking, and then sent it to the newspaper office of the military region according to the address on the newspaper.

About ten days later, the newspaper of the military region suddenly published Liu Dong's article, signed by Liu Dong, a soldier from the recruit company of a certain army.All of a sudden, the recruit company became a sensation. Almost everyone knew Liu Dong's name, and many recruits pointed at him behind their backs and said: He is Liu Dong, from the third class. During the roll call of the recruit company, the company commander took the newspaper that published Liu Dong's article, and praised the third class severely, and of course he also praised Liu Dong in the end.Squad leader Guan was as happy as Liu Dong. That day, the squad leader invited Liu Dong to the playground, and the two walked and chatted for a long time.The central theme of Squad Leader Guan was to encourage Liu Dong to keep writing. He emphasized the importance of propaganda work in the army, and asked Liu Dong to keep working hard, and maybe he could become a news officer in the future.News officers are of course cadres, just like journalists, who go to the army to conduct interviews, write articles about the things they interview, and then publish them in newspapers.No matter where the news officers go, they will be welcomed by cadres and soldiers.

It was the first time Liu Dong heard the term news officer from Squad Leader Guan. From that moment on, becoming a news officer became his goal and direction. Sure enough, Liu Dong continued his efforts and wrote some short stories about the training of the recruit company into articles, and sent them to the newspapers of the military region, and then two more articles were published.If Liu Dong only published one article, it might have passed after a while, but Liu Dong published two more, which is not a coincidence.At that time, let alone a recruit who could publish three articles in the newspaper of the military region in a short period of time, even a full-time news officer could publish three articles in a row in the newspaper of the military region in a quarter, which can also be said to be a good achievement.

One afternoon, a jeep drove quickly to the courtyard of the recruit company.Two officers got out of the car, and they went straight into the company headquarters.After a while, the company commander went to the training ground in person and called Liu Dong to the company headquarters.When Liu Dong arrived at the company headquarters, he found out that the person who came was the head of the division's propaganda section and the news officer.The head of the Propaganda Section, surnamed Wei, is nearly forty years old, and a deputy regimental cadre. This is the highest-ranking leader Liu Dong has ever met face to face in the rear of the army.After Liu Dong saluted Section Chief Wei and the press officer with a flushed face, he didn't know what to do next.

Chief Wei grabbed Liu Dong's hand and said, "Your name is Liu Dong?" yes! Chief Wei said: Yes, I have read all the manuscripts you wrote, and the ideas are very accurate. Chief Wei spoke to him a few more words, and the company commander asked Liu Dong to go back to training. That afternoon, Liu Dong was in a trance, recalling the meeting with Section Chief Wei over and over again. Before leaving, Section Chief Wei explained to Company Commander Li of the Recruit Company: This recruit is a seedling for news, and the Propaganda Section will focus on training in the future. He hopes that Liu Dong will be left in the division when the recruits are assigned, so that they can be trained in the future.

The recruit company commander will naturally take seriously what the publicity section chief explained, and in the company commander's eyes, Liu Dong is really a talent. Soon, the recruit company training was over. Liu Dong was assigned to the Police Communication Company of the division, and Tian Cun was also assigned to the Police Communication Company with him. The police communication company is a company directly under the division organization, responsible for the communication and security work of the organization.Right under the eyes of the division's organs, the special car of the division head can be seen coming in and out in front of the camp gate every day.That is, since then, Liu Dong's fate has changed.