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阎连科

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Chapter 1 Chapter 01

summer sunset 阎连科 2855Words 2018-03-19
At the beginning of November in the Year of the Goat, the third infantry company had a serious case: first, a gun was lost, and then another soldier died.The gun is a new gun with a fully automatic iron handle; the soldier is a recruit with the rank of corporal, a native of Erqi District, Zhengzhou, his father is a primary school teacher, and his mother is a sanitation worker.Things happened suddenly, and the barracks were bombed.All of a sudden, the ground was boiling, the vegetation was startled, the air in the barracks was thin, and the whole barracks trembled with the case. At the time of the incident, the company commander Zhao Lin and the instructor Gao Baoxin were having a heart-to-heart conversation on the playground. It was the end of summer and the world was connected to the Internet at dusk.This season, the sky and the earth are quite boring. At 5:30, the sun begins to set, but it is muddy, and I am in love with Gao Tian and refuse to hide.You see the heat of the sun fade away, like a raging fire being doused by rain.The ground is fresh and bright, and the dry air that has been stored for a day slowly dissipates.You think the cool nights will come at once, but they, like the peaceful days after the war, never wait.From sunset to dusk, this short and long period of time is a weekend in a day in the military camp.The camp behind the sentinel is also a corner of the world, whether it is ancient or modern, or Chinese and foreign.

The camp of the 3rd Infantry Company was set up in the eastern part of Henan Province. It was far away from the city, with no mountains for hundreds of miles.After dinner, the soldiers gathered together and sat on the ground in the big playground. They said things that were inconvenient for officials to know, and did things that were inconvenient for officials to see. They were all grouped in the village.In such a situation, the mosquitoes are still abundant, and the house is depressed, which is indeed unbearable. It happens to be Saturday, and the soldiers are not in the company.Zhao Lin went to each row of dormitories to inspect for a week, and when he came out to stand at the entrance of the company gate, he saw the battalion commander's wife riding a bicycle passing in front of him, shed the scent all the way, and his heart was immediately empty.Needless to say, the battalion commander, instructor, and deputy battalion commander will all go home to enjoy family relationships tonight.She came to pick up the battalion commander by bicycle, and when she squeezed past Zhao Lin, Zhao Lin called sister-in-law, maybe she didn't hear it at all, maybe she answered, Zhao Lin didn't hear it, anyway, Zhao Lin didn't see her when she called In response, Zhao Lin bit his lower lip, took out a match to dig out his ears and eyes, and looked out from the wall of the barracks.The horizon outside the barracks is fresh and ruddy, like an undulating river, and the setting sun is round, like a boat floating on a leaf.Needless to say, this is a beautiful scenery.Zhao Lin stared at the scenery, but saw the battalion commander's wife tied her bicycle to the side of the road behind him, swinging her skirt towards the battalion headquarters.So, Zhao Lin dug out his ears and eyes, swayed to the bicycle, blew the air out of the rear tire of the bicycle, and poked the matchstick into the hole of the valve.After finishing this, he kicked the rear tire hard before getting up, saying that my wife Zhao Lin will join the army one day!But when he was about to turn around and walk away, he suddenly saw the instructor standing behind him.

"Old Zhao, how can you do such a thing!" "Grandma, her man and I enlisted in the army one year, so why the hell did he get the battalion commander's position?" There are two ways to be an official, depending on whether you can find it or not. The instructor said that it is not difficult to become an official if you really want to.Ming Dao is based on talent and hard work, but secretly Dao only has three words: Shameless.The instructor was originally a cadre and officer. When he said this, he blurted out like a sage preaching the scriptures, casually, as if his eyes had penetrated into the city of Beijing from the Eastern Henan Barracks, and the company commander Zhao Lin was stunned.He said which one did you say the battalion commander took?The instructor said that smart people walk here and there.After hearing this, the company commander widened his eyes, stitched his gaze on the instructor's face, and said, instructor, go for a walk?The instructor said let's go.

They walked along the road in the camp, from east to west, from south to north, stepping on the setting sun from their feet.They both entered the army step by step from the countryside, and the steps were naturally very consistent. They talked about the difficulties of enlisting in the army, the difficulties of being promoted, and finally talked about self-defense counterattacks. The two came to the big playground.The playground is in the center of the barracks, with a square area of ​​tens of acres, planted with grasses, dyed with the last touch of lavender and light brown from the sun, exuding a thin and warm smell of algae.There are piles of soldiers chatting or drinking.beer.A dark blue wine bottle with a wooden handle was buried among the leather trees like a grenade.Over the playground, there is a loose yellow wind, carrying the sweetness of late autumn outside the barracks.Zhao Lin and the instructor avoided the soldiers, came to the southernmost corner of the playground, and lay on their backs on the thick grass of the playground.Behind them is a wide shooting range, and their heads are resting on the foot of the target embankment.At this moment, the sunset finally fell, and the dusk disappeared in a blink of an eye. They were surrounded by silence, and the last quarter moon hung with a few strands of white clouds moving around, like a piece of loose silk hanging a blade floating on the water.The cricket's cries flowed through their ears like a stream of fine water, their bodies were soaked with moisture, and their hearts seemed to be washed very clean.Looking at the bright and clear Gao Yuan, Zhao Linmo said for a while, and said, the instructor, I have been the company commander of the third company for five years, and I have had three clerks, and I have never had such a heart-to-heart relationship with them like tonight.The instructor turned over, faced Zhao Lin, and asked why?Zhao Lin said, damn it, they are all urbanites, thieves, glib and liars, I doubt that they would sleep with their wives in bed.The instructor said, Zhao Lin, we all joined the army from the countryside, and we all served in the same company. What are you doing?The company commander pinched a piece of dead grass and put it in his mouth, saying it was good, really good.Then chew the hay to give it a black taste.

The instructor turned over and put his face parallel to the scale. "You speak from your heart." The company commander threw the dead grass in his mouth on the ground. "It's from the heart." The instructor whispered for a while, then fixed his eyes on the crescent moon. "Do you think I can be qualified as a battalion instructor?" The company commander turned sideways and stared at the instructor. "Are you going to arch up?" The instructor let out a faint laugh. "impossible……" The company commander recovered and lay still. "A trainer is better than an instructor."

The instructor suddenly sat up. "Will you listen to me as an instructor?" The company commander also sat up. "You mentioned me as the deputy battalion commander and told me to die, and I didn't look back!" The instructor stared at the company commander for a while, then threw himself on the grass again.The crescent moon moved lightly on his head, stepping on his forehead like blue and bare feet.The sky was dark blue, and suddenly there were no clouds, and the sound of crickets suddenly stopped.This tranquility is very similar to the sudden death silence during the Southern Front War more than ten years ago, which makes people feel a little unbearable.The instructor broke out from the tranquility and said that one day I will really become the instructor of the first battalion, and I will get you to the position of deputy battalion commander if I die.The company commander smiled and said that it is fine to have this sentence. I dream about the deputy battalion position.The instructor said you only want to be a sub-battalion?The company commander said that he only wanted the deputy battalion, and he would not do it for the main battalion.I am very knowledgeable, and the instructor said that I am not too big to be the chairman of the Military Commission.At this point, it seems that they have finished talking, and there is no more privacy to be revealed to each other.However, it was still early and the scene was good. Everyone was in love with the night scene, but they couldn't sit quietly like this, so they chatted nonsense with each other.They didn't know that at this time, the window of the company's gun storage was pushed open, and at this time an iron-handled submachine gun was stolen, and the fate of the third company and them was twisted into a roundworm-like alley.A week later, when the special case team tried them, none of them could recall what they talked about at this time. They only remembered that before the clerk came to report the incident, a sentry on the shooting range swam past them with a gun, and the instructor looked at the company commander. ,Say:

"Old Zhao, what are you thinking?" The company commander said, "I miss my wife." The instructor didn't believe it. "Really, what do you want?" "Really, I miss my wife, and I think about someday when I'll be able to go home with Nuannuanhehe." "No company?" "And you?" "I ask you." "I'm telling the truth, are you telling the truth?" "Say." "I see through you political cadres, they are all fucking real and fake." "Your old Zhao... I'm a grandson for telling a half-truth tonight."

"Well, let me tell you that I have never regarded the company as my home." "You were rated as a grassroots cadre once." "Not all for the deputy battalion position." After a while of silence, the instructor said: "Go back, I will check the sentry tonight." This one stands up. "You haven't said anything yet?" "Say what?" "What are you thinking right now?" "It's different from what you think." "Want to join the team?" "no." "Want to be an instructor?" "What I want most is not the official."

"What?" "Don't fucking go to war." "Are you afraid of death?" "In 1979, I was the only survivor of our platoon. Thirty-two corpses buried me like haystacks, and the platoon leader's skull was covered in blood... After watching the video of the Middle East war, I couldn't sleep every night. " "Then why don't you change jobs?" "Aren't you afraid of war?" "Right now I still have a piece of cannonball clamped around my waist..." It was here that the documents came running.At that time, the moon had gone east, and the playground was hazy.The autumn wind from the field blows over the embankment to the playground, and the red fragrance of autumn corn permeates the barracks.The lights in the barracks are almost extinguished, and there is an occasional window, which is like a yellow paper hanging in the night. The barracks in the night are like a courtyard of a well-off family, and the big playground is like a soil-woven sheet spread in the yard to dry dried vegetables.The secretary sprinted on the playground, and the autumn-yellow dry leather was staggered by him, just like the drying cloth swaying in the wind.Before the person reached the south corner of the playground, the hiss flew over first, the company commander - hurry up!The gun is lost!The gun store window has been pushed open - I've been looking for you all night, even to the restaurant outside the barracks - Come on, the fucking gun has been stolen -

So far, the case of gun throwing has been officially conceived in Sanlian.
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