Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

Three people, two flags, such a strange combination walked through the corridor of the regiment headquarters, it had to be noticed. The star officer rushed out of the house.Ask Gao Cheng: "Seventh Company Commander, what are you doing?" Gao Cheng didn't even look back, he went straight forward and pushed open the door of the group newspaper's editorial room. Officer Zhang and Li Meng were surprised when they saw Gao Cheng and the others coming in.No one has ever seen such a posture. "Yes, what's the matter?" Officer Zhang looked at Gao Cheng.Gao Cheng was very calm, first took out a regiment newspaper and smoothed it on the table, then gave a military salute, then took the "Bloody Pioneer Steel Seventh Company" from Xu Sanduo's hand, put it on the table, and then , and asked word by word: "Officer Zhang, your newspaper says Meng Lianggu's first battle with his six consecutive fights?"

Officer Zhang silently admitted, and Gao Cheng said: "In that battle of Steel Qilian, fifty-seven people and fifty-seven lives were killed. In exchange for this flag, there are these seven characters on the flag." Director Zhang was a little dumbfounded, "Blood Pioneer", that is naturally for the first battle company. "Even if you fought the first battle well?" Officer Zhang knew his purpose. Gao Cheng suddenly became angry: "Forget it? Okay?" Officer Zhang said: "What do you want me to do? The newspapers have been sent out!" Officer Zhang wanted to play tricks.

The people around gathered more and more, and the fire between the two became bigger and bigger.One is that he can't save face, and the other is that he can't listen to the other party's understatement. "I ask you to make a public apology in this issue of the group newspaper!" Li Meng interjected: "That's funny, are you okay?" His tone was too bad, Xu Sanduo was okay, Gao Cheng and Wu Liuyi immediately saw Li Meng fighting. "You don't have to apologize. I have two soldiers here. What do you want to compare? Fighting, mountain climbing, climbing with bare hands, even if the machine gun is facing Tutu, we will accompany you all. If you feel that playing rough is demeaning, we As long as you are not a sissy, I will accompany you in the debate on essays on the regiment's local area network, army, sea and air forces, and armored infantry tactics."

Where did Director Zhang suffer from this? He yelled: "Aren't you making use of the problem? It's not my idea that you guys even disbanded, so go argue with the manager!" Gao Cheng refused to give up an inch: "First, the Seventh Company hasn't disbanded yet; second, the number is still there after the disbandment, that's called adaptation, not disbandment; third, this matter has nothing to do with whether the Seventh Company is disbanded or not." Officer Zhang avoided Gao Cheng's gaze, looked around for help, and finally saw one, and called over, "Officer Huang, do you think they are making use of the problem?" Staff Officer Huang was annoyed, and said, "I think it's you who are too upset. Understand the scriptures of the field company." Li Meng saw that it was not reasonable to go on like this, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Okay, okay, you go back, we will discuss it."

That's all for Li Meng to talk about, the fault was that he pushed people, and it was Gao Cheng who pushed.Gao Cheng didn't move at all, Wu Liu shook his hand, Li Meng's hand was pinched, and his body was so painful that he hunched down. Officer Zhang became anxious when he saw it, and scolded: "What do you mean, do you want to do it?" Gao Cheng lowered his eyes and said, "Qilian never likes to be talkative." Officer Zhang finally realized that this could not be solved with the majesty of the regiment, and his face turned pale.Gao Cheng didn't intend to do anything, but he grabbed something in his hand, as if he was about to defend himself, and what he grabbed was a seal stone.

The onlookers suddenly separated, and it was Wang Qingrui, the head of the group, who walked in. He frowned and looked at Gao Cheng for a while and asked, "What are you doing here?" Before Gao Cheng could speak, Staff Officer Huang behind him first said: "Report to the head of the regiment, our regiment reported a clerical error, and the company came to the door! The regiment report said that it was the first battle of Meng Lianggu, who fought six times in a row..." Director Zhang thought that the savior had come, and hurriedly said: "I didn't see it when I was proofreading the draft. Don't you think this is causing trouble for nothing?"

The leader nodded, looking at this and then at that.Wu Liuyi had already let go of Li Meng, the head of the group didn't seem to notice, walked a few steps among the few people, and suddenly slapped the table hard. "Much ado about nothing?" The group leader roared angrily, "You told me it was much ado about nothing, but I would like to ask what is worth your trouble?" The group leader suddenly took an engraved seal and looked at it: "Is this it?" Officer Zhang watched with trepidation. The team leader obviously wanted to smash it, looked at it and put it down again, and said: "The engraving is really good. But a talent like you... I won't be sorry if I lose it... Staff Officer Huang."

Staff Officer Huang agreed: "Yes!" "Arrange for Director Zhang to live in Silian for a month." Officer Zhang's face suddenly became bitter. The head of the regiment walked up to Gaocheng and watched, Gaocheng stared at each other without giving in.The head of the group sighed slightly, and just after he said the word Gang Qilian, Gao Cheng who was next to him saluted silently.Looking at Gao Cheng's straight gestures, his medal, his hat brim, his black hair... the head of the group couldn't help asking softly, "Is your sense of honor in your blood?"

"In the bone marrow." Gao Cheng replied flatly. The head's eye sockets were moist for a moment, and he really wanted to reach out and touch this rebellious subordinate. "Does the Seventh Steel Company have any requirements for the regiment headquarters?" asked the regiment leader. "The statement in the group newspaper was misprinted, and nothing else." Gao Cheng said. "Soldiers who have left, soldiers who want to leave, do they have any requirements?" asked the regiment leader. "No." Gao Cheng said. "Tell me something."

After a long time, Gao Cheng nodded.For him, that was the last resistance of his company commander. From then on, the fate of the Seventh Company was decided. After batches of lists were made and batches of people left, his company seemed to be killed by an invisible force. His gun was aimed, one shot at a time, never missing, but he didn't know where to fight back.Company Commander Gao suddenly realized what guilt is. People from the Seventh Company walked through the corridor in full view, they were the winners. The two company flags drooped feebly on the shoulders of Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi, and they were defeated again.

Several school officers stepped aside in front of the lieutenant and several soldiers, with regret and respect in their eyes. Anyway, we are losers.The last moment can show the final strength and express the final tragedy, but the last is the last, the company commander knows, even I know, it is the last. The Seventh Company on the playground has shortened its queue by less than half, but it still stands. Gao Cheng was like a trapped beast, there were too few people, and he was personally instructing the students how to stand in line. "Put your chest up! Hold your head up! Even if it's a bullet, you have to stick to it with your chest up and your head up!" As he said this, he punched Ma Xiaoshuai twice in the eye sockets, and he stopped every time he got close to Ma Xiaoshuai's eyebrows. .Ma Xiaoshuai did not disappoint him, Ma Xiaoshuai didn't even blink.Gao Cheng backed away in satisfaction, signaling Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi to come out with flags. The ancient recruiting ceremony of Steel Seventh Company will be held today for the new student soldier Ma Xiaoshuai. The Seventh Steel Company can have fewer and fewer people, but the spirit of the Seventh Steel Company cannot be lost. "Ma Xiaoshuai, how many people are there in Steel Seventh Company?" Xu Sanduo, the squad leader, asked. "The Seventh Steel Company has a history of fifty-three years! In the history of the fifty-three company, a total of 5,000 people have become members of the Seventh Steel Company!" "Ma Xiaoshuai, how many soldiers are you from Steel Seventh Company?" "I am the 5,000th soldier of the Seventh Steel Company! I am proud of myself! Proud of the 4,999 soldiers before me!" "Ma Xiaoshuai, do you still remember those seniors who sacrificed their lives for the country in the Seventh Steel Company?" "I remember the 1,104 seniors of the Seventh Steel Company who died for the country!" The sound of the motor of a three-wheeled motorcycle temporarily interrupted the ongoing ceremony.The instructor of the Red Sanlian came galloping on a motorcycle.Sitting on it is Chengcai, with a pile of luggage next to him.This is another person who is leaving. He will be sent to the fifth squad in the desert to guard the oil pipeline. Before leaving, he thought of his steel seven company. His Seventh Steel Company... As soon as the sound of the motor stopped, the question and answer between Xu Sanduo and Ma Xiaoshuai continued: "Ma Xiaoshuai, when the battle is the last one, do you have the courage to carry the company flag?" "I am the 5,000th soldier of the Seventh Steel Company! I have the courage to carry this flag! But I have the courage to be the first to die!" "Ma Xiaoshuai, do you have the courage to sacrifice for your comrades?" "They were my brothers. I died for my brothers." Suddenly, Chengcai stood up from the truck, he was crying, and shouted at the company he had abandoned, but now he had the face to call out only one person's name: "Xu Sanduo! I'm leaving! Xu Sanduo! You are good!" Xu Sanduo, you remember me!" The instructor of the Red Third Company seemed to know that there was an accident, so he accelerated the speed of the car, and flew out of sight with Chengcai and his words in an instant. Gaocheng's team didn't move at all.The sound of the flag is hunting.Xu Sanduo continued their ceremony. "Ma Xiaoshuai, no matter who it is, whether it's a general or a private, as long as he was a member of the Seventh Steel Company, you have the right to ask him to remember the ancestors of the Seventh Steel Company!" "I will ask him to remember the predecessors of the Seventh Steel Company, and I will also remember every word I said today." "Ma Xiaoshuai, now recite this song without a song with us. The seniors who can sing this song have all died, and only the soldiers of the Seventh Steel Company are left here to recite the lyrics, but I hope..." Before Xu Sanduo finished speaking, Gao Cheng saw something on his face, he quietly approached Xu Sanduo, and said softly, "Wipe away the tears." Those were the two tear stains at the corners of Xu Sanduo's eyes, which Cheng Cai had just shouted out.But Xu Sanduo didn't move, he continued his words: "But I hope, you can hear the singing voice roaring out of five thousand throats!" The soldiers of the Seventh Steel Company began to shout out the lyrics of their songless song: With a thunderbolt and a sword, a group of fierce tigers steel seven companies; The will of steel is the iron man, the iron and blood guards the country and protects the homeland. The sound of killing frightens the enemy's courage, and the reputation of being victorious in every battle is passed on. The attack must be conquered, the defense must be strong, and the enemy's bones must be stepped on to sing a triumphant return. Xu Sanduo wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes while roaring. First year in the military, I would respond regardless.When I served in the army in the second year, I would get angry and break discipline.But now it seems that they have been soldiers all their lives, and those who have been soldiers all their lives can only wipe away their tears after yelling orders. Twilight fell.The chariot has been parked in the warehouse for a while and hasn't been driven out, but it still needs maintenance.Xu Sanduo was busy in the garage alone.He tried to remove a certain part of the chariot, which was another job that required steel drills and hammers, and it was difficult for one person to do it. At this time, a person came in and helped him grab the steel rod. It's Wu Liuyi.Xu Sanduo looked up at Wu Liuyi, Wu Liuyi was expressionless, even so, Xu Sanduo was still flattered.Because of Wu Liuyi's help, this work was quickly finished. Xu Sanduo came over with half a bucket of water to wash his hands, but Wu Liuyi didn't accept the favor, but just rubbed the oil on his hands vigorously.Xu Sanduo groveled and waited, that word was appropriate, because his posture was almost as if he was kneeling in front of Wu Liuyi. "The third batch of lists is also down, twenty-seven." Wu Liuyi said in a deep voice when he sat down. Xu Sanduo's body shook slightly, but it was just a shock rather than a surprise. Qilian people would no longer be surprised by this kind of thing: "There are only twenty-nine people left in the whole company, and there are only two left after this batch." He took a deep breath of the cigarette, and Xu Sanduo looked at him leaning his head on the track, and swallowed the cigarette deeply, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth: "I used to be afraid to say goodbye, but now, the one who stays is naturally the worst." Wu June 11 has always been very thoughtful, but it has never been like this. "Is that you, Liuyi?...No, you are great!" "Is it better than you?" Wu Liuyi turned around, eyes full of disdain. "I just try my best not to be laughed at. You know, I can't catch up with you. I never have the sense of honor you have. I tried my best. I stayed for the monitor at first. You know, a stupid thing. Later, it happened. Hold on, hold on, I don’t know why.” Xu Sanduo replied subconsciously. "Then why am I holding on?" "You, you and the squad leader, are people who really understand the honor of soldiers." Wu Liuyi grinned, it could be regarded as touching, or it could be regarded as still showing disdain: "What if I, a person who understands honor, have to stay?" Xu Sanduo believed his assumption, and felt deeply sad: "Let's make up, Liu Yi." He stretched out his hand. "Don't get me wrong, I have no grudge against you. Three words, I can't look down on you. I can't look down on your muddleheadedness, half in the sky and half in the ground. Can you just shake hands and look up to me? This person did it too easily." And Xu Sanduo's hand was still stretched out stubbornly, and Wu Liu opened it. "I know you don't think I'm a friend...but, if we're not friends, what are we?" "I have no friends since the squad leader left." Xu Sanduo nodded and began to clean the removed parts.Wu Liuyi looked at him, he was very preoccupied, and even looked a little embarrassed. "He said thank you!" Wu Liuyi looked at Xu Sanduo calmly. "Who?" "He said you were so sad, it made him feel so sad that he was going to die. He died and came back to life. Suddenly, he saw that the world is so big, and he can live very interestingly. He said thank you, some things can only be understood after being hurt. .” "Who?" "He said when we got there, think about it..." Wu Liuyi suddenly began to rub his face hard, then dragged Xu Sanduo's half bucket of water over, stuffed his whole head in, and washed his face. When he raised his head from the bucket, he found that Xu Sanduo had stopped working. Xu Sanduo was sitting quietly in front of him, looking at him with bated breath: "Who?" "The person who took care of me, the person who let me take care of you, the person who was pushed away by us, made me what I am now, who made you what I am now, who else?" Xu Sanduo didn't speak, but at that moment, his heart seemed to be broken. "Know why I hate you?" Xu Sanduo was silent, he was powerless to answer now. "Because the first time I saw you, I knew he would put all his thoughts on you. Because you are more pitiful, more like a lump of mud than when I first came here. There is no way, he will put us The mud has been squeezed into a human shape, so that the mud can also love and respect itself. How much I want to be like you... shamelessly following behind his ass, taking up all his time and friendship... But my only friend was also killed You snatched it away." Wu Liuyi stood up, he was about to leave, the atmosphere here had been made so sad by him that he couldn't stay any longer. "I'm leaving. I don't want to mention him, but I think of him when I see you... This may be the reason why I hate you." Xu Sanduo opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't even have the strength to speak. "I'm going to tell you about the business. I'm assigned to the Jibu Company, or the third class, and the third class leader...you and the company commander are the ones left to watch... I don't know why, but what do I know now?... …Don’t remember my bad points, just like you said, remembering a person’s good points is better than remembering his bad points.” He left, and Xu Sanduo sat beside the chariot in a daze. Xu Sanduo opened the door of the chariot, got in, closed the door, and screwed it to death.He sat down on a seat with his head in his arms, and sometimes he looked at the empty seat next to it, which was the fixed seat for the head of the first class. It was a secluded enough setting for someone looking for a place to grieve. In the scattered three squads, only a few soldiers were packing their luggage, and almost everyone was about to leave. When Xu Sanduo came in, everyone stopped what they were doing. Ma Xiaoshuai was the first to secretly kick the bag under the bed, and then everyone except Wu Liuyi did the same. Because everyone knew that Xu Sanduo was the only one with nowhere to go. Xu Sanduo smiled gently: "You guys go on with your work first, and when you're done, we'll have a class meeting. It might be our last class meeting." No one moved. Xu Sanduo spread his hands and said, "Hurry up, I'll give you five minutes. I'll wait for you here." This is tantamount to an order, and several soldiers started to tidy up again. "It's time to select advanced individuals again. Class 3 has never done a single outrageous thing in the past, but this time I want to do one. You don't need to nominate the advanced individuals this time, I will mention them myself. I want to choose all of you. Yes , I just sent it to the company like this, because this class representative thinks everyone is very good. Good job..." Xu Sanduo is a little abnormal today, he has never been such a talkative person. Wu Liuyi ruthlessly stuffed the last thing into the bag, stuffed the bag into the locker, and slammed the door shut. The sun was scorching, and the seventh company, which had been reduced again and again, still stood in a hashed square team on the playground. Several vehicles belonging to each regiment and each company were parked in the open space of the playground in the distance, and they were here to pick up the soldiers. Standing at the door of the Seventh Company, Gao Cheng read aloud the last list in his hand: "Wang Lei, the Seventh Company of the A Regiment; Chen Hao, the Second Company of the C Regiment; Peng Xiaodong, the Seventh Company of the B Regiment; Wu Liuyi , Regiment B's 1st Mech Company; Ma Xiaoshuai, C Regiment's 3rd Mechanized Company; Liu Jian, C Regiment's 5th Tank Company; Li Ye, Artillery Regiment's Engineer Company..." In the eyes of a soldier, this is the last knife.Qilian is a person, and each soldier is a drop of blood spattered after Qilian was cut down. There is a bag under each soldier's feet, and every soldier whose name is read has a slight sense of relief, followed by deep sadness. Gao Cheng finally closed the roster in his hand: "That's all for this batch of rosters." He raised his hand and raised his voice: "I want to say..." He looked at the young soldiers standing upright in front of him, from the first line to the last line, he was suddenly speechless. "Disband!" he yelled flatly. The queue disbanded silently, and the company commanders and instructors who had been waiting by the side stepped into the queue and took away their own soldiers.There was no words, just a light pat on the shoulder of the soldier, and the soldier walked away behind them. Gao Cheng looked at the divided army and stood motionless. The company commander of the Mechanized Step Company and the instructor of the Red Third Company approached each other reluctantly. One took out a cigarette, and the other also took out a cigarette. on the ground. Gao Chengqiang was smiling. He wanted to make a joke, but the cigarette on his mouth was shaking so badly that he had no choice but to bite the cigarette holder hard to prevent it from falling to the ground. Gao Cheng said: "It's better to treat Lao Tzu's soldiers, otherwise I will kill... don't care... Get out! The guy who digs the wall." The instructor of the Red Third Company and the commander of the First Machine Step Company had no choice but to smile wryly. What could they say?I could only pat him on the shoulder regretfully and walk away. Gao Cheng's cigarette was cut in two in his hand, and finally he couldn't help but want to see how his soldiers were doing.He followed blankly behind those who went their separate ways. The former Seventh Company dissipated in the sound of vehicle engines, and the people in the vehicle and those attracted by them scattered to every corner of the entire division in the smoke and dust of the moving military vehicles. Gao Cheng wanders between cars and people like a ghost, sometimes meeting Wu Liuyi's iron-like face, and sometimes meeting Ma Xiaoshuai's damp eyes.The soldier looked at the soldier, the soldier looked at the former squad leader, and the company commander stumbled among them. When the last car also disappeared at the corner of the playground, the last trace of Qilian was only a Gaocheng who suddenly looked rickety. Wu Liuyi glanced at Qilian's dormitory for the last time, and followed the company leader Jibuyi without looking back. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, only the sound of the wind passing through Zhuan Tianyang. Gao Cheng looked blankly. He probably never thought that the once-prominent Seventh Steel Company would be so silent when it disbanded. Standing alone in the open space of the Seventh Company, he was submerged in the chaos, but when everyone was gone, he stood out like a tree stump in the desert.We can't see this person, we can only see his shadow from the line of sight of this person, stretched very long by the sunlight, in the most strict posture of standing at attention. In his line of sight, Gao Cheng swayed back. The word "sway" was rarely used on Gao Cheng, but after the last moment, the Seventh Company Commander finally started to sway.His hands are in his trouser pockets, his shoes are rubbing against the ground, his back is hunched, his shoulders are swaying, the soldier who has always walked like a dragon and a tiger walks like a man who has been idle for half his life today, opening the windows of the seventh company one by one, meaningless He carefully inspected Qilian's empty room, and then closed it meaninglessly.As he looked around, he finally saw a long shadow on the concrete floor, and then traced back to the source and saw the person standing at attention. Gao Cheng's expression was like crying and laughing, like sleepwalking. Gao Cheng was even a little surprised: "Is there anyone else who hasn't left?...Xu Sanduo?" "By the way, it's you and I guarding the barracks. But why do I feel like I'm the only one? Because you don't speak, and you hardly care about other people...with you, it's the same as without you." He himself was not good looking, but he looked at Xu Sanduo very critically, and this pickiness gradually became more and more provocative. "Guess what? I remembered a joke. Every time I leave, I think, I shouldn't have left. You stayed, and I thought, I shouldn't have stayed... Ignore me ?” Xu Sanduo was expressionless. When Gao Cheng swayed in front of him, he looked into Gao Cheng's eyes. When Gao Cheng swayed behind him, he acted as if there was no such person, in a strict queue posture. "I know, you have been waiting for a long time, the moment of revenge has finally arrived. You hate me, the squad leader you value more than your life, did not let you send it. I have already seen it, you want to kill me, division fighting champion All the deadly moves greeted me, imagined." He felt dissatisfied, because as far as Xu Sanduo's expression was concerned, he seemed to be mentioning something that had nothing to do with Xu Sanduo. "Every time someone leaves, you look at me and think, you have today too. Yes, I have today too." He even waved his hand in front of Xu Sanduo's eyes, and Qilian's people would not even blink when they punched them. Naturally, This also doesn't blink, "Ignore me? Well, your revenge, it's your way. Soldier, right?" Xu Sanduo said as usual: "Report to the company commander, I am still in the queue!" "A queue of one person?" Gao Cheng's tone was full of mockery, "Okay, disband!" Xu Sanduo relaxed a little, which means that he just changed his resting position. Gao Cheng looked at this person, and then at the two short shadows on the ground.He turned around and started manic, angry and growling: "You can start now." "Start what?" Xu Sanduo asked. Gao Cheng stared at him fiercely, his eyes seemed to be able to shoot through people. "Crying, laughing, spitting, rolling, swearing... or just punch me. Whatever you want. Qilian doesn't exist anymore, so do whatever you want. I don't blame you, even... together with you." He was looking forward to it, because the depression in his heart needed a little more violent behavior. But Xu Sanduo picked up half of the cigarette on the ground, which was dropped by Gao Cheng after pinching it, and Xu Sanduo put it into the trash can. Gao Cheng stared until he was sure that Xu Sanduo hadn't stepped down. "You... what are you doing?" "Report, Article 22 of the Seventh Company Manual, environmental sanitation is never self-sacrificing, it depends on the self-consciousness of all." "I...fuck. The whole company has disappeared, and what you're thinking of is... the cleaner? Do you know Qilian? Do you know how many times Qilian got up from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, holding the mutilated body of a comrade-in-arms, watching Holding the fragmented banner of the company. Thousands of troops are shouting victory and long live. The Seventh Company has no sound. The Seventh Company who is playing the vanguard just buries his comrades, wraps up the wounds, tells himself that he is alive again, and must continue to fight... ...Do you understand the dignity of being a soldier?" "I don't understand!" This is what Xu Sanduo said the most. "Qilian is a person, standing here, taller than this house, taller than that tree. It is full of scars, but it has never fallen, so it is called steel, the will of steel, the steel man. Now, it has fallen, and the steel has melted , Ironized, today—the last day of fifty-seven years of continuous history...and you, thinking about fucking cleaning." At the end of the sentence, he kicked over the trash can, which was provocative and angry , Gao Cheng wants to do something out of the ordinary right now. The health corner is always stocked with various utensils.Xu Sanduo took the broom and cleaned. This really drove Gao Cheng crazy. "I look down on you. You have a soldier's appearance, but you don't have a soldier. What you do is all for the evaluation of others. People without blood will not understand the honor of the Seventh Company. Like all the places you have been in, Qilian is just a place where you messed around!" Xu Sanduo was still cleaning, but Gao Cheng suddenly realized in his rage: "I understand. This is your revenge, which has been planned for a long time! —— When there are only two people left in the whole company, let me see your life and death —You are my hell!" He turned around angrily, and rushed back to the house angrily.Even here, he could hear the sound of him slamming the door heavily. Xu Sanduo cleaned and returned the rubbish to the trash can until the open space outside Qilian was as spotless as before.He straightened up and wiped his sweat, seeing the two intertwined company flags in the depths of the doorway, there was a kind of grief in his eyes that was deeper than any crying. What does it look like in a room for twelve people, with only eleven empty planks left?It's like a river that has been flowing happily for hundreds of years suddenly bares the river bed.Xu Sanduo silently cleaned the locker, clearing up some things left by the soldiers. In each locker was a postcard filled with wishes to the squad leader that a soldier could remember. Xu Sanduo silently folded them together and put them into a large stack of letters from home in his closet. Wu Liuyi's one reads like this: I can't stand it anymore, write a letter to the monitor.Below is Shi Jin's address. When the supper horn sounded, Xu Sanduo stood outside the gate of Gaocheng and knocked lightly on the door: "Company Commander, it's time for dinner." "The cooking class is gone, eat the lid of the pot!" "The notice is written, let's partner with Liulian." "No!" Xu Sanduo waited for a while, but there was no movement in the room, so he walked away. Xu Sanduo put a lunch box outside the gate of Gaocheng gently after eating, and shouted inside: "Company Commander, I left the meal outside your gate." A heavy object flew over and slammed on the door, Xu Sanduo was startled by the sound outside the door. Three trucks were already parked in the clearing.Soldiers from each company and battalion loaded all kinds of imaginable and unexpected household items onto the trucks in an endless stream. This scene looked somewhat bleak.They all came to divide Qilian's property, Gaocheng never showed up during the whole process, only Xu Sanduo explained to them: "I did something wrong, and the company commander is angry with me." After finishing these tasks, Xu Sanduo returned to the dormitory very late, and he stared blankly at the blank letter paper in front of him.Wu Liuyi's postcard was placed next to the letter paper.It's hard to get a handle on this letter. "Squad leader, I wrote you a letter when I said I couldn't stand it on June 1st. I couldn't stand it a long time ago..." After being stunned for a while, he changed another piece of letter paper: "I wrote you a letter when I said I couldn't stand it. I don't know whether I should write it, because I don't know if I can stand it..." Suddenly, he was startled by the sudden sound waves coming from the corridor, and his body bounced a bit. The rhythm of the former Soviet military song bombarded the entire dormitory of the Seventh Company. No one had ever played the music so loudly in the barracks, let alone at such a late hour.Xu Sanduo jumped up because he just thought that it was time to blow out the lights. Because there were only two people left, it was supposed to save electricity, and all the lights in the Qilian aisle were turned off.There was a roaring sound in the dark corridor, and Xu Sanduo, who had just come out from under the lamp, was groping in it. Xu Sanduo: "Company commander! Company commander!" No one responded, and the military song in the dark was so majestic that it made people a little scared.Xu Sanduo was at a loss as two beams of flashlights had already shone on the pitch-black playground outside. Two soldiers on night duty. Soldier on duty: "It's almost time to blow out the lights! Didn't you hear that?" Xu Sanduo could only poke there with a wry smile. Another soldier winked at the first one: "This is the Seventh Company. Just today..." The first soldier hesitated for a moment, looking at the room where the music was coming from, Gaocheng's room.Then turned around. Soldier on duty: "Keep your voice down. This way...we can't justify it." Xu Sanduo watched the two soldiers leave, and tentatively knocked on Gaocheng's door. The lights in Gaocheng's room were dark, only moonlight, and the whole room was bombarded by sound waves. Gao Cheng curled up under the window, this dejected posture was exactly the same as Xu Sanduo's most frustrated time. There was a knock on the door, but it was impossible to be heard under these circumstances. Then, the tape that had been repaired by Shi Jin got stuck again, stuck in the same place again, similarly, when it should have been majestic, it turned into whimpering and crying. Gao Cheng: "To hell with you!!" He threw his fist at it, knocking out everything including the tape recorder on the table, the machine was pulled out of the plug, and the sound stopped abruptly. Xu Sanduo hesitated in front of the door for a while. He heard the strange noises in the room, and then fell silent. The room changed to a faint sound, like the sound of a drowned person squeezed out of his throat.Xu Sanduo tentatively called out to the company commander. There was a bang in the room, as if something had been knocked down.Xu Sanduo took half a step back, and hit the lock with a punch.Xu Sanduo slammed in following the opened door. The room was dark, and after turning on the lights, Xu Sanduo saw that the company commander's room was full of cigarette butts, military uniforms that had been taken off, and hats that had been thrown on the table. . Gao Cheng was lying on the bed crying, his crying came from the pillow, his head was tightly squeezed into the pillow. Xu Sanduo froze for a moment, then watched quietly.Gao Cheng finally realized that another person had entered the room, got up and wiped his face indiscriminately: "I just... have an upset stomach." Xu Sanduo was stunned again, and he murmured: "I'll carry you to the infirmary!" He was already grabbing Gao Cheng's hand and dragging it up his back, and Gao Cheng kicked him away with both hands and feet. Gao Cheng said, "No, no, no! No stomach upset." Xu Sanduo finally understood, and immediately fell silent.Gao Cheng wiped his face again, and there was a purple spot on his hand, which was injured in the dark during the attack just now. Xu Sanduo was stunned for a moment: "Company commander, your hand..." Gao Cheng looked at his hands, then at Xu Sanduo's: "What's going on with you?" Xu Sanduo also broke his hand when he smashed the door. Gao Cheng looked at the slam lock that had come off its tenon: "You smashed the door?" "I made a mistake again..." Xu Sanduo was a little frustrated. After Xu Sanduo finished bandaging Gao Cheng, he got up and went back to the dormitory. Gao Cheng sat upright, absolutely showing no sign of gratitude.He looked at Gao Cheng worriedly, and Gao Cheng glared at him fiercely.He had no choice but to sneak out, and gently closed the door from the outside. Gao Cheng stared blankly at his own room alone. Back in the dormitory, Xu Sanduo stared at the endless letter for a while, and finally put it away. He said he couldn't stand it, so he wrote a letter to the monitor, but the letter was never finished.That night, I realized one thing. Whether we can withstand it or not is a multiple-choice question. We have no right to choose whether we can withstand it. The answer has already been decided on the first day of enlistment. Just when Xu Sanduo started sweeping the floor in his dormitory again, a figure stood anxiously in the darkness at the door. It was Gao Cheng, like a stranger who had just arrived, standing a little distance from the door, looking into the room.He deliberately avoided Xu Sanduo's gaze. Just when Gaocheng was about to enter the door, the lights blew at the same time, and the two were stunned for a moment. Xu Sanduo reached out and pulled out the light cord. In the darkness, he heard a person bumping against the door frame, and then Gaocheng's annoyed voice: "You What are you doing!" "Report, it's lights out." "I want to bandage your hands for you, how can I bandage the black and hemp black ones!" "The lights out have blown...tomorrow." "Turn on the lights!" "The duty committee will come to investigate... I have already been here once... I violated discipline..." "I told them! I am the company commander!" The two argued quietly in the dark, Gao Cheng gritted his teeth with hatred, and finally gave up.Turning back to his room, he bumped into something again, and roared angrily, "Why did you turn off the lights in the corridor?!" "I keep talking about saving electricity... just the two of us... do you want to turn on the lights?" "No need!" Gao Cheng angrily lowered the voice that only he could hear, "You'd better die from tetanus." Xu Sanduo stumbled twice when he heard the footsteps, and went far away, he was about to close the door of the third class dormitory. Gao Cheng's voice came again: "Xu Sanduo!" It was so dark that nothing could be seen, and Gao Cheng's voice was all annoyed and resentful, leaving only loss and weakness. "Tonight... can I sleep in your dormitory? I promise, this does not violate the internal affairs regulations of the third class." This time, Xu Sanduo did not object. All the dormitory lights of the first-level units have been extinguished, and the lights that are still on basically belong to the office rooms and residences of officers above the company.Qilian is the darkest place, it is so black that it seems to be able to absorb light in the scattered lights. The only light source for class three was the moonlight outside, Xu Sanduo stood in the room until Gao Cheng stumbled in with his quilt in his arms.He wanted to go up and help. Gao Cheng threw the quilt randomly on a lower bunk: "Don't worry about it. You go to bed and sleep, this is an order. I'm just tired of staying in my own room. I haven't slept in a soldier's dormitory for a long time..." He turned his head and found that Xu Sanduo had already gone to bed. In fact, he had turned to the upper bunk within a few seconds after he said the word "order", and he was in a very standard sleeping position. Gao Cheng: "Why don't you take off your clothes? It's not good for your health." Xu Sanduo then took off his clothes.Gao Cheng looked at him angrily, and then threw his clothes on the freshly made quilt, causing the several adjacent beds to tremble together. In the silence, the flame of the lighter on the lower berth flickered for a moment, and then the cigarette butt shone brightly, and the smoke curled up under the moonlight.Xu Sanduo took a deep breath. Gao Cheng: "Don't say it. I know you want to say that smoking is not allowed in the dormitory." Xu Sanduo: "Yes." Gao Cheng: "I want to smoke. The company is gone, and it would be ridiculous to hold on. I want to find someone who can talk, but I can't even have a third mouth except you. Chat with me, Xu Sanduo." Xu Sanduo: "I can't speak." Gao Cheng: "Maybe it's because I don't know how to talk to you. Xu Sanduo, look at how ridiculous we two are. You are the most stubborn soldier in a company that doesn't exist. I desperately want to get rid of the tone of the company commander... Haha , Inertia, we are more like two flies trying to break free from the flypaper." Xu Sanduo: "It's not appropriate to say that, company commander..." Gao Cheng: "I don't have the ability to keep Qilian, and I don't have the freedom to play tricks?" Xu Sanduo: "Yes." "I've done all the shit tonight, and I'm not the company commander now. Everything, not the company commander." Gao Cheng bit his cigarette butt and got angry with himself, feeling relieved for a while. Gao Cheng desperately wanted Xu Sanduo to put aside the ridiculous internal regulations, and desperately wanted Xu Sanduo to chat with him easily... But Xu Sanduo was calm as usual, and he didn't even answer him with more than three words! He got up angrily, poured himself a glass of water, and blew heavily, staring at the calm person. "Is it really impossible to talk? You hate me so much?" "no!" "Then you give me more than three words!" "It's not like the company commander talking to the acting squad leader..." "Who is talking to you? Chatting! Fart! Nonsense!...I said I am not a company commander! Have you ever seen this unlucky company commander?" Gao Cheng was so angry that he slammed his cup on the table, at least Half of the cup was on him, so he was wearing a tank top and shorts, and Gao Cheng was so hot that he jumped. "Damn it... just today you haven't forgotten to turn on the water!" Xu Sanduo: "In case anyone wants to drink...the way to the brotherhood is far away...I didn't mean it." "Forget it!" Gao Cheng threw himself back on the bunk, "I don't believe we can't talk." "Let me tell you something, I haven't told anyone else." Gao Cheng eased the atmosphere, and deliberately hung his appetite, "I am the kind of person that others call Jiangmen Huzi, let me declare that I have never relied on my father, Few in the whole group know who he is... In fact, my father is..." "Commander of our army." Xu Sanduo answered. "How do you know?" Gao Cheng was stunned. "The whole regiment knows. How can the whole regiment not know about this kind of thing? That is, the company commander, you think that no one else knows..." The sound of Gao Cheng’s loud exhalation and inhalation made him realize that he shouldn’t think about it any further: “So I’m like a monkey? By the way, Chaoyang feels like he’s making progress every day. Vigorous?" "Stop talking! It's a dead body!" Gao Cheng covered his head with the quilt and moaned, "You are my hell." They finally decided to sleep, or rather, they decided not to talk anymore.Gao Cheng's efforts ended in total failure. In the early morning, soldiers for morning exercises appeared on the playground.Familiar faces from the Seventh Company mingled among the various companies, including Wu Liuyi, Gan Xiaoning, and Ma Xiaoshuai.There are strangeness and sadness on the faces of these young people. Gao Cheng, who was sleeping in the third class dormitory, didn't open his eyes when he heard Xu Sanduo sweeping away the cigarette butts he dropped yesterday by the bedside.The clothes that Gao Cheng had thrown half in the sky and half in the ground yesterday had been neatly folded. "Is this your revenge? Xu Sanduo. Humiliate me with what I asked you before? Make me feel every second that I'm a piece of mud now!" "No." Xu Sanduo began to wear leggings and a sand vest, which are things for long-distance running with heavy loads. It also teaches people to be responsible, I understand why the monitor used to treat me like that..." Gao Cheng: "But you hate me for one thing. I didn't let you send your squad leader away. Nothing can be erased." Xu Sanduo: "Yes." Gao Cheng clapped his hands, saying that it was true. "Squad leader is gone, I'm sad, you are sad when the seventh company is adapted, this is the only place we are alike. Suddenly everything is gone, and everything has to be found by myself, I know what it feels like. I won't be in this matter Who are you going to take revenge on?" Gao Cheng was dumbfounded, Xu Sanduo stood up, he was already dressed. "And don't let the squad leader be sent off, because people have to bear the consequences for doing something wrong. Company commander, I'm going out if I have nothing to do." Gao Cheng was still dumb, Xu Sanduo took that as tacit consent and went out.Gao Cheng suddenly exploded: "What are you going to do again? Why are you busier than before after the company broke up?" "Running. I haven't run 10,000 meters today." Gao Cheng waved his hand absently, and Xu Sanduo went out. Gao Cheng stared blankly at the sunny dormitory and the traces of his night's mischief. Xu Sanduo was sweating profusely from running, but he didn't stop, he kept running. Suddenly, he found a person passing in front of him. Like him, that person was wearing a sand vest and sand leggings.Xu Sanduo knew that it was Gao Cheng, his company commander.He put in more effort and caught up. Gao Cheng said: "Xu Sanduo, I'm dating you." Xu Sanduo didn't understand. "Whether it's revenge, persistence, stubbornness, or inertia, I'm with you. Two people, if you want to do it as usual, you're welcome. Don't treat me as a company commander." Gao Cheng said while running.But Xu Sanduo said nothing. "You don't believe it?" Gao Cheng didn't hear any reply, so he couldn't help asking again. Xu Sanduo spoke, and he said, "You shouldn't talk while running." "You're right! But can you tell me what you think?" “如果我说我不是兵了您怎么办？没有上下级观念的军队是秋后蚂蚱，您说的。” 高城明显是又被哽了一下子：“好。双人成列，三人成行，衣食住行一切照旧！给你爽！” 高城带着口火气跑开。Xu Sanduo was not in a hurry, and followed him in a double formation. 这两个人与伍六一所在的机步一连交错而过，伍六一看着，忽然爆出几个极响亮而简单的口令来，全连人喊出的口令炸遍了整个操场。 第二天早上，许三多从宿舍里出来，有意在等待，高城终于出来，许三多跟在他身边，间距一尺，保持平行。Gaocheng was a little embarrassed. To be honest, two people in a row and three people in a row are the rules for soldiers. Officers don't abide by that, let alone a captain and a three-year soldier. A few soldiers on the side of the road turned their faces away to hold back their laughter. 高城尴尬地回避着：“喂，许三多……这双人成列是我说错了。” “报告连长，您说得对！” Gao Cheng had no choice but to turn his face away, thinking that he would accidentally miss this formation, but Xu Sanduo has adapted to the formation very well over the past few years. 连队食堂里，歌声和口令声此起彼伏地一路响过来，过六连时却一下断了，由不得大家目光不往这边扫。This is of course the seat of the Seventh Company.Gao Cheng and Xu Sanduo, an officer and a soldier, stood at attention alone. It was called eating a meal and you had to have a lot of ambition, but this also concentrated the nearly 100% return rate of each company. 六连长瞧得难受，轻声劝道：“七连长，要不你俩先进去？” 高城梗着脖子：“没那事。七连番号没撤，那就得排在六连后边。” 他不由得看了许三多一眼，不想，许三多以为是唱歌的暗示，一挥手竟唱起来：“我有一个连队我有一杆枪，预备唱！” 然后就自己唱开了。在众多的合唱中一个独声显得孤单而独特，高城想阻止早就来不及了，只好张着嘴干跟着。 六连长顿时就笑，他说：“老七，快停吧，您就别自虐了。” Gao Cheng suddenly became angry, his voice was louder than Xu Sanduo's. The sixth company commander had no choice but to stop talking, and smiled and tried to turn his head away with his soldiers. 众多的合唱中，两个人的歌声格外孤苦伶仃，最要命的是七连的歌起得比别人晚了至少半曲，几个连队都停了歌声，他两人还在唱着。 After Liu Lian sang the song, he went in.看着高城，六连长再也笑不出来了，他回到高城身边：“兄弟，别唱了，我求你进去。” 高城没理那茬，直着脖子吼得更凶，许三多的歌是种平和的力量，高城却郁愤而苍凉。 一直到把歌唱完。然后：“立正！稍息！齐步走！两人正步地迈进食堂。” 六连的人几乎都在等着，等着这两个为面子耽误吃饭的人。 Gao Cheng and Xu Sanduo almost didn't have the courage to look at other people's eyes, and still thought that the other people's eyes were ridicule and blame.两人径直走到专为他们预备的小桌坐下。六连指导员大声喊道：“通信员，把七连长他们的餐具拿过来！” 高城忙说：“不行，你们那桌是连排长专用的。” 六连指导员的声音大，整个食堂都在回应，他说：“该着的！我抓十次军人风纪还比不上你这一首歌唱得透！” It was only then that Gao Cheng noticed the gaze of the soldier next to him, which was obviously a kind of respect, because what the two of them had just done was something that no one else could do. The sixth company commander took all the tableware from Gao Cheng and Xu Sanduo by himself. 他对高城说：“兄弟，真服了你了，两个人就把我们一个连比下去了！” The two had no choice but to sit with them honestly. During this meal, they chatted for a long time until the soldiers had finished their meal and left.不过今天大家极其齐整，三人成行，双人成列，虽零散也走出了一种风范。 最后两个兵走出食堂之后，指导员回过头来，他说：“瞧见没有？今儿立刻就规范了。我们斗不过七连，可也不能太输给七连。” 高城苦笑着，打扫完最后一口菜，摇摇头：“与天斗，与人斗，其实不过与自己斗。” “老七，你别犯愁。换别人留守我就说没戏了，可你们俩，一个军校优等生，两届优秀连长；一个全能尖兵，奖旗拿了半幅墙，团里肯定是另有深意。” 高城说：“我不要什么深意，我的兵能回来吗？”他有点要火了。 六连长捅了高城一下：“先不说你。好吧，许三多，就说你。” Xu Sanduo was uncomfortable sitting among a group of cadres. 六连长自顾分析着：“许三多，你可是我们几个连打破脑袋想要过来的兵，可最后团里来了个不了了之，你说这正常吗？老七，你也依此类推，一个连不是白撤的，必须要有大变动……” 有了一个公务兵，在门口问话：“请问钢七连连长高城在吗？” 高城回答说：“我是。” 公务兵说：“团部紧急通知，叫你马上去团长办公室！师部的人已经带着命令来了。” 六连长兴高采烈一拳砸到了高城胸膛上。高城疼得咧咧嘴，忽然矜持起来，扣上了风纪扣，然后他看见呆坐在众人之中的许三多，顿时…… 一种淡淡的酸楚，他像是立刻传染了那个兵的孤寂。