Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen

The east is already dawning. White smoke rose from another soldier's head. This small army is really at the end of its strength.They looked the same as Xu Sanduo and the others, just as dirty, just as tired, just as hungry, just as miserable and in the same understanding.The last firepower point was finally marked on the map. At this time, there were only three of them left.One jumped up to cover fire, and two retreated.The roaring gunfire finally fell silent, and the cover soldier was also shot. The two soldiers took one last look and began their exhausting run. Xu Sanduo and the other three were also running wildly. Wu Liuyi, who was at the front at the beginning, had already fallen to the end, because the two people in front couldn't see him, and he was already exerting strength with only one foot.

Xu Sanduo stopped again, and then ran towards Wu Liuyi, Cheng Cai also stopped, but stayed where he was. Xu Sanduo ran up to Wu Liuyi: "What's wrong with your feet?" "I'm fine, you guys run first." Cheng Cai looked, looked ahead, and looked back, with an anxious expression on his face. "Let you run first! I'm fine!" Wu Liuyi started sprinting as if to show off, and fell heavily on the ground at the first step. Then, he began to struggle, trying his best to avoid Xu Sanduo and Chengcai who were coming to help him. Wu Liuyi shook his head and said, "I'm fine! I know I'm fine!"

Xu Sanduo was almost wrestling with this man, and then tore off his trouser legs. He was stupid, Wu Liuyi's ankle was twisted out of shape, and his whole calf was swollen. Xu Sanduo's lips trembled a little: "You just use this leg to run!" "It's still a leg! Isn't it? It grows on me and I know it!" Hoarse, both frustrated and angry. Cheng Cai's face suddenly darkened, and he saw the two soldiers rushing over on the horizon. "They're coming!" he yelled at them. Wu Liuyi desperately pushed Xu Sanduo away, and he said, "Let me go!"

Xu Sanduo signaled for success, grabbed Wu Liuyi's hand, and dragged him forward. Wu Liuyi became angry: "What are you doing? Can you run like this? Let go!" Success: "Three people, three positions, and three positions are all ours." Xu Sanduo said to him calmly: "Run hard, don't shout hard." Wu Liuyi stopped shouting, he tried his best to keep up with their pace, every time his injured leg touched the ground, his face was distorted in pain, but an injury was an injury, he slowed down the speed of those two people up. The two soldiers behind were also running precariously, but they had no burden, and they shortened the distance with Xu Sanduo and the others little by little.

The sky had already fully dawned, and it was hard to tell what the five people running on the hill looked like now.Covered in mud and sweat, the expressions on each face were close to exhaustion. After two days and three nights of hard work without food or drink, plus the last crazy sprint, everyone was already on the verge of their limit. They were parallel for a while, and this parallel lasted for a long time, because no one had the ability to speed up their steps, but the latecomer finally advanced half a body, and then a body, in the long stalemate. One meter, two meters... Wu Liuyi was angry again, he shouted hoarsely: "You let me go! I will run by myself!"

This sound is equivalent to no effect. "I can't do it! Let me go!" Chengcai started to roar, and in the roar, he shouted out his last strength, and the five of them gradually shortened the distance. "I run by myself, I can reach it by myself! Xu Sanduo, Chengcai, I beg you!" "A live oak forest! That's a live live oak forest!" What Cheng Cai said was right, there was a oak forest in front, an off-road vehicle and an ambulance were parked beside the forest, Yuan Lang and several health guards were waiting there. Cheng Cai gritted his teeth and shouted: "Just work harder and we'll be there! Three of us! Three of us!"

The three of them cheered up somewhat. They overtook the two soldiers who had run out of fuel and pulled them down dozens of meters in one breath. The end point was only about 800 meters away. Suddenly, a stumbling soldier ran out of the live oak forest and fell to Yuan Lang's feet. He was the first soldier to arrive, and the medical staff immediately stepped forward to rescue him. The pace of the three slowed down, and the three looked at each other.Wu Liuyi began to struggle again, this time his struggle was close to a fight, and he slammed the two of them away. "There are only two places left! Why are you still dragging me? Three people! Only three people!"

The two stared blankly at Wu Liuyi, and the two soldiers behind him were slowly but persistently catching up. Cheng Cai suddenly turned around and ran towards the finish line. Xu Sanduo didn't even look at Chengcai running away, he put his backpack in front of his body, grabbed Wu Liuyi, he didn't want to leave him, he wanted to carry him away.Wu Liuyiqiang struggled but refused to give in, but that leg was no longer able to exert strength, and most of his heavy body was supported by Xu Sanduo on his shoulders. Xu Sanduo dragged Wu Liuyi and sprinted desperately towards the finish line.

A backpack of thirty kilograms, plus most of the weight of a grown man, will overwhelm even a strong man with plenty of energy.Xu Sanduo was surprisingly slow, but he didn't give up, he rushed forward step by step. Wu Liuyi didn't dare to earn any more, he jumped forward with one leg as hard as he could, because the speed was very important now, he had to think about Xu Sanduo. The two soldiers behind slowly passed them. Wu Liuyi couldn't take it anymore, he started to roar angrily again: "They surpassed you! Let go! What are you going to do? Do you still want to be a guard in that empty house? Just watch when we are busy!" Crying while covering the quilt at night? You are a natural miscellaneous soldier!"

There was crying in Wu Liuyi's voice. The two soldiers in front were getting further and further away from them. Chengcai had already reached the end of the oak forest, and the rushing force made him almost bump into Yuan Lang's body. Yuan Lang grabbed his backpack strap, Cheng Cai stopped. The exhausted Chengcai did not fall down, he immediately turned around and looked at his two comrades-in-arms: "Xu Sanduo, run! Xu Sanduo, come on!" Yuan Lang looked at him meaningfully, then at Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi in the distance, his eyes were full of admiration. For the four people who are still running in the scramble, the remaining hundreds of meters are simply out of reach. The speed of several people is surprisingly slow, and several people are staring at their opponents. difficult.

"Cultivation has arrived! There is only one place left! Did you see that?!" Wu Liuyi said to Xu Sanduo, looking at the lush and green live oak forest. Xu Sanduo didn't look up at all, his strength was still used to drag Wu Liuyi. "There's only one spot left! It doesn't count if you dragged me there! My brain is flooded!" "Keep it up... work harder." Wu Liuyi stared at the sweaty and exhausted face, and suddenly realized: "I know what you are going to do? You want to drag me to the end, and you pretend to be lying down, don't you?" Xu Sanduo still didn't make a sound, he just tried hard on his feet. Wu Liuyi wanted to break free from him suddenly, but found that the boy's hands were surprisingly strong, and the arm that was slung across his shoulder was almost pinched into the flesh by Xu Sanduo's hand. "Idiot...you are either stupid or stupid...do I need your charity?...I will sue you!...you let go...please let go...we won't eat any steamed buns that are in our mouths , why do such a thing now?" Wu Liuyi was already crying. "I ran a long way... I ran from home to here... you all pushed and carried it in front of me... this last time... if I help, what's the matter?" Wu Liuyi was completely exhausted, he could only watch Xu Sanduo struggling forward step by step. Wu Liuyi's furious and helpless eyes gradually calmed down, and he said, "Xu Sanduo, we are friends." Xu Sanduo was taken aback by the sound of gunshots that were so close at hand. It was the flare gun in Wu Liuyi's hand, and the muzzle was still smoking. The signal flare is slowly rising into the sky. Wu Liuyi limped and raised his arms high, waving towards the finish line. He said, "I can't run anymore! I abstain!" He really couldn't run anymore, and just took two steps before he fell to the ground. An ambulance is always ready, and several health soldiers have started their cars to come. Xu Sanduo stared blankly at Wu Liuyi. Wu Liuyi stared at him, waved his fist and shouted, "Run! Xu Sanduo!" Xu Sanduo turned around and started his last run.The two leading soldiers realized the threat behind them, and ran with their last strength. Xu Sanduo yelled, and he started an impossible acceleration while yelling, and he passed the two of them in the first acceleration. A soldier who was overtaken finally lost his confidence and fell to the ground when Xu Sanduo overtook him.However, his comrade-in-arms turned around and pulled him up regardless. Xu Sanduo was still shouting, and the ambulances passed by him during the shouting, Xu Sanduo's voice drowned out everyone's voices during the shouting, and the tears Xu Sanduo just shed were dried by the wind during the shouting, and he crossed the road amidst the shouting end. Amid the yelling, Xu Sanduo slammed his hands on the bumper of the off-road vehicle. Cheng Cai ran over happily, he wanted to hug Xu Sanduo, Xu Sanduo raised his head, Cheng Cai was stunned by the indifference in those eyes. Xu Sanduo looked back at the road he just ran, and he saw the two soldiers crossing the finish line supporting each other. Wu Liuyi in the distance has been carried into the ambulance on a stretcher by the medical soldiers.Wu Liuyi smiled like a big boy, and kept waving to this side. There is no joy to share, only suffering to bear alone.Your current weakness just proves that you have always been so strong. Xu Sanduo slowly sat down on the ground. The ambulance had driven over the ridge and disappeared.Yuan Lang has been standing by the side of the car waiting for a few finishers to recover, and then lightly knocked on the car like knocking on the door. "You three, please get in the car and hand in your surveying and mapping homework. If you can still withstand the next test, you are probably my subordinates." He said, and he opened the car door for them. Yuan Lang's car drove away, and at this moment, the two soldiers who supported each other finally reached the finish line. They burst into tears as they fell. A few old A waited quietly for these soldiers, and a few exhausted soldiers ran towards them in the distance. The health guard cut open Wu Liuyi's trouser legs, exposing his swollen, black and blue muscles.He quickly understood the soldier's injury and said: "The dislocation of the right ankle is okay, but the ligament of your right leg is completely torn. ?” Wu Liuyi's eyes immediately went blank: "It's been five years." Gao Cheng stood in the car, watching the ambulance drive away, but didn't realize who was in the car. Behind his car, a tired soldier is making a final effort, the last soldier to reach the finish line in this race. Before the car stopped, Gao Cheng jumped out of the car and strode towards the soldiers who were still crying in the crowd.He looked at the soldiers and was speechless for a while. Gao Cheng: "I'm here to lead people, I thought my mission was to bring back the defeated soldiers..." Finally, the soldier crashed into the crowd, and Gao Cheng grabbed him and stabilized his wobbly body. Gao Cheng looked at the tired and delirious face: "I'm ashamed when I get here, my entire well-equipped reconnaissance battalion has lost to you." He picked up the soldier who kept falling and walked away to his car.Those officers also began to imitate him, or put the soldiers on the car with their arms or backs or on the ground.Gao Cheng turned around to look at the delirious soldier in his car. "If it is such a defeat, let it be more, it is more honorable than a pompous victory." Yuan Lang, who was driving, had already forgotten about Xu Sanduo and the others' hard journey for three days and three nights. "Homework." Yuan Lang said calmly to them. The soldier took out the surveying and mapping map in his arms, but Chengcai looked at Xu Sanduo, because he was responsible for the sniper cover mission, and his surveying and mapping work was drawn by Xu Sanduo. Xu Sanduo took out the map from his pocket, and handed it to Cheng Cai without looking at it. Cheng Cai's eyes were a little vacant, and one of them missed, and the map fell on the seat. Yuan Lang looked in the rearview mirror. Chengcai gritted his teeth, picked up two assignments and handed them to Yuan Lang, he didn't dare to look at Xu Sanduo any more. "Why do you both have only one homework?" Chengcai: "The two of us act as a team." Xu Sanduo: "The three of us act as a team." Yuan Lang: "Three?" Xu Sanduo: "Three! We sneaked into the position to survey and map, and he acted as cover fire. We couldn't get out without him." "It seems that you trust each other?" Yuan Lang asked Chengcai. Being a talented person is like receiving amnesty, he said: "We are fellow villagers, friends, and soldiers of the same class and same year." Yuan Lang nodded, and had finished reading the three assignments while speaking: "I am very satisfied. Although it is a bit rough, it can meet the needs of actual combat." He turned the car past the simulated position, and said: "These three days have been hard enough, don't blame me. Combatants especially require comprehensive quality. The so-called comprehensive quality is not only physical fitness and skills, intelligence and reaction, but also you heart, your people, everything." Xu Sanduo looked out the window coldly. In the regiment compound, the company commander of Jiyi Company was waiting for their return by the playground as before.But only Xu Sanduo got out of the car, Ma Xiaoshuai, Gan Xiaoning, but not Wu Liuyi. The first company commander said, "What about June 1st? Are you running away with the special forces?" Xu Sanduo said softly, "I'm hospitalized." "How could you be hospitalized? You should explain it clearly!" Xu Sanduo didn't say anything, he walked away without looking back. Qilian dormitory.A very quiet dormitory, an empty dormitory. Xu Sanduo was mopping the floor, very meticulously, the concrete floor was mopped so hard that people could be seen.Cheng Cai next to him was waiting for him blankly, and he had been waiting for a long time. Cheng Cai said, "You have to talk! I've been waiting for you for ten minutes!" Xu Sanduo said, "I won't go." Cheng Cai said, "Why don't you go? Of course you have to see him!" Xu Sanduo said, "I won't go with you." Chengcai said, "Why don't you go with me? The three of us have been together!" Xu Sanduo took a look at Cheng Cai, only took one look, and continued to drag him. Chengcai was so wronged that he yelled: "Why did I offend you? What did I do wrong? You don't want me to run away first, do you? But there are only two places, the three of us! Anyone can do this! Besides His legs are like this, even if he runs to the finish line, he won't be able to enter Team A!" Xu Sanduo knocked over the bucket with the mop, then threw the mop out.No one had seen him get so angry before, Cheng Cai took a step back in shock.Wu Liuyi's leg injury is a restricted area that Xu Sanduo is now carefully guarding. "What are you doing, want to fight?" "You just said the worst thing you should have said!" "Calm down and remember carefully. At that time, if there were three places, I would carry him to the finish line!" Xu Sanduo sighed, and went to clean up everything he messed up just now. Chengcai followed angrily, and said, "Do you think so? Let me tell you, I have a very good impression of Liuyi now, not worse than you, and I feel bad too." Xu Sanduo stopped suddenly, he turned around and asked, "Is it because of guilt?" "Why am I guilty?... Well, because of guilt, inexplicable guilt." Cheng Cai didn't want to argue any further. Xu Sanduo dragged himself on the floor and sighed: "You always let yourself take advantage of it." "You're sure you won't go with me, are you?" Xu Sanduo didn't speak.Chengcai turned around and turned around at the door, unable to bear the anger, "You can't ask everyone to be like you! Because you're a fool!" Xu Sanduo appeared in front of him at once, Chengcai took a step back in fright, Xu Sanduo went out to adjust his military cap in front of the military mirror, which for a soldier meant going out. Cheng Cai hurriedly followed behind. Wu Liuyi lived in an army hospital.Xu Sanduo and Chengcai were shopping in a store opposite. In the shopping bag in front of Chengcai, there are a lot of cigarettes, fruits, milk powder, and juices. The smoke is Hongta Mountain, and the fruit is a rare local variety. For a soldier, it is close to extravagance. Chengcai: "Is there anything else... yak bone strengthening powder?" Salesperson: "Yes, the price is..." Chengcai: "Five boxes!" As Xu Sanduo watched, he was not enthusiastic about this: "Is it useful?" Chengcai: "You don't understand, that thing is easy to use." Xu Sanduo: "He tore his ligaments, but not his bones." Salesperson: "A total of one thousand four hundred and twenty." Xu Sanduo: "Too many." "Don't worry about it! I bought it for myself, okay?" Cheng Cai paid the bill, and after paying out the money, there was no more than one hundred bills left in the wad of banknotes in his hand. Xu Sanduo sighed: "Chengcai, you can't blame you for what happened on June 1st. I was the bastard just now, okay?" "Don't worry about it." Chengcai carried all the shopping bags and went out. Chengcai rushed straight to the information desk with his things in his hands, looking stunned: "Three Five Three, Wu Liuyi." The nurse looked indifferent: "1022." Cheng Cai left without turning a corner, and Xu Sanduo followed. The door was ajar, and with some wind, it opened slowly.A sentence came out loudly, that belonged to Wu Liuyi's machine company commander. The first company commander: "I'm not here to visit the sick, I'm here to scold people!" Both Chengcai and Xu Sanduo froze outside the door. Wu Liuyi was lying on the bed, and the company commander of Jiyi was pacing up and down beside him in annoyance. Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo stood outside the door anxiously. The first company commander said: "If the ligament is broken, how can a person break a ligament?" Wu Liuyi on the bed had a playful smile on his face: "It's too much running, and the road is too far." "What do you mean by smiling like that? Do you think that leg is on my body?" "If one loses his temper and the other is crying, it doesn't look good." Yi Lianchang stared at him, then looked at his legs, and his voice gradually dropped. The first company commander said: "I'm not here to scold people, but to visit a sick person. Let's discuss the future. This incident is a special case, and the regiment headquarters decided to give special care..." Wu Liuyi: "Did Deputy Battalion Commander Gao of the division's reconnaissance battalion tell you something?" The first company commander: "It's not just with me? He has used all available relationships. What's your opinion, the first company chief?" Wu Liuyi said indifferently: "Thanks, it's against the rules." "Don't be mother-in-law!" The company commander turned and went out. After Lianchang left, Xu Sanduo and Chengcai approached.They bought a lot of things in their hands, and they piled them all over Wu Liuyi's bedside.Wu Liuyi was still sitting on the bed, he looked at the two of them, and said softly, "Have you both passed?" Xu Sanduo nodded and said it."Get ready to leave next week," he said. Wu Liuyi said: "Happy next week. New recruits will come next week, and you will also change places to be recruits. The place you are going to must be very interesting. I can't even lie down when I think about it." Xu Sanduo: "I don't think so. To be honest, I don't want to leave now." Wu Liuyi: "Chengcai, I'm inconvenient right now, help me K him." Chengcai smiled stiffly. Wu Liuyi: "I'm serious." Cheng Cai had no choice but to pat the base of Xu Sanduo's neck. Wu Liuyi: "Thank you, Chengcai. This trip is really worth it, and I found out that my two fellow villagers are people who can be friends for a lifetime." Xu Sanduo: "What about your legs?" Wu Liuyi: "Put a steel bar in and use it as a ligament. Xu Sanduo, be careful with this leg when you fight with me in the future. One leg is enough for you to lie down for a day." For a moment, all three of them looked at that leg, a little dazed.Finally, Wu Liuyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, let's go, and be your soldiers." Chengcai stood up and left, turned around at the door and saw Xu Sanduo took out an envelope from his pocket and put it on Wu Liuyi's bed.Wu Liuyi asked, "What is that?" Xu Sanduo said softly, "Money." Wu Liuyi asked, "How much?" Xu Sanduo said, "Not much, three thousand." Wu Liuyi pushed the envelope out, and he said, "Can I not want it?" Xu Sanduo said: "Take it first, and return it to me when you don't need it." Hearing this, Wu Liuyi stopped pushing, and said, "Okay. I know how difficult it is for soldiers to save this money. And you, Chengcai, I emptied your pockets. I will pay you back. let's go." Wu Liuyi's categorical decision made Xu Sanduo and Chengcai choke to the point that they had nothing to say, so they really had to leave.Just as Xu Sanduo disappeared from the door, Wu Liuyi who was behind suddenly shouted: "Xu Sanduo! Don't start as a poor soldier when you go to a new place, no one will pamper you anymore." He got into bed and lay down.Xu Sanduo closed the door, shutting himself and Cheng Cai out. Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo walked past the regiment compound in a row, and were cast envious eyes by Lu Bing from time to time. Now Chengcai and I are more famous in Sanwusan than Liuyi. People always like to hear the good news and forget the bad news. Whether they like it or not, they walked through the camp dejectedly and covered the Liuyi on the hospital bed. Chengcai: "Do you feel, what do they think of us? He is radiant, and all his hard work has finally paid off." Xu Sanduo: "It's like watching aliens." Wang Qingrui was sitting at his desk with Xu Sanduo and Chengcai's files in his hand, and Yuan Lang was sitting next to him. At this moment, Xu Sanduo and Chengcai walked in: "Xu Sanduo, a first-class non-commissioned officer of the Seventh Company, reports for duty!" "Report for duty as a first-class non-commissioned officer of the third company!" They all saw Yuan Lang, but they didn't dare to look sideways. The regiment leader flipped through the files in front of him, and then looked at the two soldiers in front of him, as if he hadn't discovered anything until then.Asked in surprise: "You two, are you from the same village?" "The report belongs to one village!" Cheng Cai replied. The head of the regiment sighed regretfully, then looked at Yuan Lang, and said, "Look, I let you take advantage again. Two soldiers from the same country can beat at least six soldiers from other countries on the battlefield!" Yuan Lang smiled noncommittally.The regiment leader clapped his hands and said, "This is the file of the two of you. I will give it to the major, and you will have to go with me." The two silently looked at the file handed over by the group leader, as if seeing their lives being transferred from one hand to another.They stood at attention without moving. "Are you willing to take the mecha regiment?" asked the regiment leader suddenly. Chengcai's answer was: "Report, soldiers take obeying orders as their bounden duty!" The team leader looked at Xu Sanduo: "What about you?" Xu Sanduo said: "Report!...Can I not go?" Wang Qingrui smiled wryly and looked at Yuan Lang. Yuan Lang: "Yes. I said earlier that I would not force important people." Xu Sanduo then looked at Wang Qingrui, and Chengcai looked at him sideways, as if he wanted to kick him. Wang Qingrui: "If you don't go, you will participate in the selection again?" Yuan Lang smiled, it was because he provoked him behind his back. Xu Sanduo: "No. Because I want to... go, and I can carry out missions with everyone." Wang Qingrui: "Yes, you have been guarding the barracks by yourself for half a year. It was my arrangement. At that time, you were a good soldier, but not a good person. In the reorganized army, I need such a person. He can Mobilize a group of people.” Xu Sanduo: "I...have never been able to be a human being." Wang Qingrui: "No no. Let me correct you, people don't have to do it, they live it out on their own. I think in the past six months, you are not only looking at the barracks, but also looking at yourself." Xu Sanduo: "Yes." Wang Qingrui: "You are already. You have become the kind of soldier I respect the most. The value of such a soldier is even more than that of a company commander." He looked at Xu Sanduo for a long time, he was really reluctant to let this person go, and then turned around - facing Yuan Lang. Wang Qingrui: "Let him go with you, he has the ability to fly. In all fairness, there are more soldiers like this in your country." Yuan Lang: "In this way, I will send several subordinates to assist in the training of 353." Wang Qingrui: "This is what I wish for." Xu Sanduo and Chengcai were still standing at attention, watching Wang Qingrui finally pat the two files on his hands, and then handed them to Yuan Lang.Cheng Cai heaved a sigh of relief, and the loss in Xu Sanduo's eyes became heavier. Wang Qingrui: "Go. Soldiers like you will one day be beyond our reach." Xu Sanduo and Chengcai saluted, and remained silent. The leader's words were already an irresistible order. Yuan Lang: "Then I will take my leave." Wang Qingrui: "Goodbye....Xu Sanduo, take this." He solemnly picked up the hand-cast chariot model on the window sill and sent it to Xu Sanduo. Xu Sanduo: "This will not work, Captain." Wang Qingrui: "I said it was for you." Xu Sanduo: "You said you gave it to me because you did something worthwhile. I didn't do anything...you spent a year doing it." Wang Qingrui: "I didn't give it to you because of something, but because of you. Take it!" Yuan Lang: "Take it, Xu Sanduo. If I give someone a gift that took a year to give, it will definitely make me regret another year if he doesn't accept it." Xu Sanduo accepted it blankly. The three of them left the head's office.Yuan Lang was followed by Xu Sanduo and Chengcai, he stopped and turned around: "Is one day enough?" Chengcai: "Report, enough!" Xu Sanduo: "One day, what are you doing?" He looked at Chengcai, trying to find an answer from Chengcai, but it seemed that Chengcai, who was categorical enough, didn't know the answer. Cheng Cai winks at him. Yuan Lang smiled: "Clean up, farewell. Your division has recruited three soldiers, and that one has arrived at the base now." Chengcai: "Enough! We can start in five minutes!" Xu Sanduo: "I want to go to see Children's Day, and go to the grassland to see the fifth class, and..." Yuan Lang: "That's not going to happen. It's tomorrow morning." Xu Sanduo stopped talking. Yuan Lang: "Now, treat you to dinner, how can I make you hungry for two days?" While eating, Xu Sanduo was still staring at the infantry chariot in a daze, or in other words felt uncomfortable. Chengcai seemed to be in high spirits, and soon he and Yuan Lang were half drunk.Yuan Lang looked at Xu Sanduo, patted him with a smile, and said, "Okay, let's eat quickly. The captain probably took the first place to the base, and we're still here!" "Where is the base?" Cheng Cai asked curiously. "Temporarily confidential." Yuan Lang poured another glass of beer for Cheng Cai, and at the same time looked at his disappointed expression with interest: "To make up for it, let me tell you something else, our army sometimes participates in actual combat." These words really stunned Xu Sanduo and Chengcai.Xu Sanduo asked cautiously: "The actual combat you are talking about is..." Yuan Lang said: "Real guns and ammunition, the real enemy really wants to kill you." "Then have you ever killed someone?" Cheng Cai also asked cautiously. Yuan Lang smiled, then rolled up his sleeves to show them a scar on his arm.Said: "Did you see this? M16A2, SS109 bullet drilled out, penetrating wound, fortunately did not touch the bone, the health guard took a piece of cotton wool from one end to the other and sterilized it." The two soldiers in the peaceful era were surprised, admired and dubiously looked at the scar that didn't know where it was. Xu Sanduo thought he had heard something, and asked suspiciously, "M16? U.S. military?" Yuan Lang smiled: "Then it's a world war, and the M16 sells worse than the AK47 on the overseas black market." Chengcai: "Which foreign country? Is it cross-border combat? Why actual combat? What scale of actual combat?" Yuan Lang: "I'm going to say those two words again. Keep it secret." Chengcai: "That means you have killed someone, right?" Yuan Lang: "I don't want to answer for personal reasons." He drank with a smile, "This cup is for you to celebrate." Chengcai returned to the topic just now and said, "What does it feel like to kill someone?" Yuan Lang frowned and said, "Don't yearn for this. Even killing an enemy is killing someone. I hope the whole world is full of soldiers who have never killed anyone. It's a pity." Taking advantage of the drunkenness, Chengcai refused to give up and said, "All right. Let me ask you another question, okay?" Yuan Lang said: "I knew I would have dinner with my old comrade-in-arms like this." Cheng Cai said, "Do you have our files in your bag?" Yuan Lang said, "Yes." Chengcai: "Can I take a look?" He looked at Yuan Lang with a smile and said, "You don't know, how much I want to see my file! It is said that the evaluation of us is stored in it, and after paying such a high price, I want to know what people think of it." Yuan Lang: "What price do you pay?" Chengcai: "Look at Xu Sanduo, he is regarded as a fool in our village. Now..." Xu Sanduo was picking vegetables for himself, glanced at him, and ate. Yuan Lang: "Even if he...is really a fool, he's grown up now, which is a good thing." Success: "It's the price. You don't know how far we've come." Yuan Lang: "I won't show it, because I have traveled farther than you. Guess how far it is from the private to the lieutenant colonel?" He left Chengcai who had to drink by himself and looked at Xu Sanduo. Yuan Lang: "You rarely speak today. Why?" Xu Sanduo: "I don't know what to say." Yuan Lang: "I let you not know what to say?" Xu Sanduo looked at him, and said after a while: "I don't know what to do... Also, my friend is still in the hospital... I always remember... always remember..." He remembered that Wu Liuyi fired the signal flare and sat down, while Yuan Lang watched with folded arms at the finish line.He remembered that the ambulance drove away, and Yuan Lang drove the car in the other direction as if nothing had happened. Yuan Lang: "I know what you remember, you hate me now?" Xu Sanduo: "No... I can't tell." He picked another chopstick dish for Xu Sanduo, and never mentioned this matter again. Xu Sanduo chewed the rice in silence.The beer froth floated in the glass, and the voices beside him gradually faded away. Chengcai drank a lot that night and asked a lot. Both Chengcai and I were exhausted and had the right to relax, but I forgot how to relax. It's time to leave, Qilian's dormitory, all the bedding in this room has been put away, and the bunk beds in the dormitory are finally left with bare boards.Xu Sanduo did the last cleaning, which was an extremely meticulous cleaning, because for him, even a corner of a table, the back of a medal, and the gap under a bed board were all part of the Seventh Steel Company.He found a cigarette from the crack of the bed board that was attached to Wu Liuyi. I can't go anywhere for a day, and recruits will move in tomorrow. I can't go to the hospital, let alone the fifth squad on the grassland.The spotless barracks will consume my last time in the 353 Regiment. It was already late at night outside, and Xu Sanduo was cleaning. One person did the work that usually took the entire company to do. One can imagine how long it was.From Xu Sanduo's expression, you can't tell it's been a long time. How can I say how well he cleans, he even cherishes it.The last light in the light-off sign was finally extinguished. Lighting a light in the dark, Xu Sanduo did one of the rare violations for him - he lit the cigarette that should not be able to be smoked again, it was the first time he smoked. He smoked one after another, dusting the ash in his palm.Dried cigarettes are very hot, and Xu Sanduo, who has never smoked, was choked by the smoke and could not stop crying.In tears, I see one self, many selves, all kinds of selves, surrendered self, weak self, pitiful self, sad and angry self, and joyful self. The backpack was already packed, and it was placed on the bare bed.It seemed that Xu Sanduo didn't intend to open it tonight.He wasn't going to sleep. In the morning light, Xu Sanduo sat on a chair all night, and he ushered in the dawn like this.Two simple pieces of luggage were placed on the ground, a camouflage bag, and a tape recorder sent by Gaocheng. When I came, I only brought a belly full of worries about gain and loss. When I left, I had a lot more luggage. The car model Wang Qingduan gave, the portable stereo sent by the company commander, and a future that would be described as luxurious by comrades-in-arms. People who have gone away, I have gone away rich, a man of property. At dawn, Xu Sanduo rushed to the track of the playground and started his last long-distance run on this playground.This time it was no longer a jog, but a full speed, a long-distance sprint. He finished his last long run at 353 and ran in the direction of the company. Xu Sanduo stopped at a distance, although it was still early, there were already two vehicles parked in the open space of Qilian, one was an off-road vehicle with Yuan Lang and Chengcai sitting on it, they were here to pick him up; To receive the barracks, many soldiers are lining up under the car. Xu Sanduo came out with his backpack and stood under his company flag.An officer waited beside him, and his squad of soldiers also stood waiting in the clearing. Xu Sanduo began to salute slowly and solemnly. "Xu Sanduo, tell everyone something." The officer said solemnly. Xu Sanduo froze for a moment, he is not a person who can talk. "I can't speak," he said. "Let's just say, they are all from colleges, you can give them lessons." The officer lowered his voice, "I told them about you, they are all college students, I'm impressed." Xu Sanduo was stunned, he looked at those young faces, his eyes looked like he had known him for a long time. Xu Sanduo looked at those dozens of pairs of eyes, and he said: "Welcome here. I have been waiting for you, and I have already left when you come. From now on, this place will be yours. From now on, for this place, we It's just an old guy... I don't know what to say... This is what I've said the most these years, sometimes because of my clumsy mouth, sometimes... I really think it's better not to say it." He stood there, looking at his company flag, there was a long silence, but not a long silence. "My father told me to live a good life. My squad leader told me to do meaningful things. I am a stupid person, and occasionally doing something right will make people around me feel lucky. I had to say to me— ——Especially when you are about to leave, you have to say to yourself—to live well is to do meaningful things. To do meaningful things is to live well—this is silly words, fools talk to themselves...smart people Maybe not, smart people will ask what is the meaning...I don't know...I really don't know...you can't use it." Xu Sanduo smiled wryly, and was really confused, "You all have culture, of course not. There will be fools like me." "Yes! I am." "me too." "Both." There was a commotion in the queue. Xu Sanduo was stunned for a while, then saluted: "That's good... I'm leaving... I should go, someone is waiting for me." Xu Sanduo walked towards Yuan Lang's car without looking back, he didn't dare to look back. Yuan Lang opened the car door for him and looked at him meaningfully. Xu Sanduo backed into the car instead of getting in, almost at a loss, all the soldiers saluted, and then the most solemn salute, which caused Xu Sanduo's head to hit the roof of the car. Yuan Lang backed the car onto the driveway and started driving. Xu Sanduo numbly turned his head away, avoiding the staring salute. Yuan Lang: "That's very good, I am also taught." Xu Sanduo: "Ah? No way." He watched Gang Qilian leave his sight in frustration and panic. Drive past the saluting sentries and out the gate.On the road in the middle, the two soldiers sat there blankly. There are three roads out of the regiment headquarters, Xu Sanduo and the others still took the middle one.Leading to military stations, military airfields, more troops, more blood, tears, and sweat.