Chapter 3 Chapter 03

Instructor Gao Baoxin went to ask the clerk, "No one is going out?"When the clerk said there was no one, he felt disappointed.One thing is very clear, if he really can't find this gun, the third company will become the only accident company in the whole regiment, and when the positions of the battalion and company cadres are adjusted at the end of the year, he will empty the gun again.He has been squatting in the position of Zhenglian for four years.A year ago, the positions of cadres in the government were promoted proportionally, and there were seven regular company officers in the Political Department of the regiment.Three can be promoted to deputy battalion, but four are enough for promotion.He worked for the cadres and was in charge of the promotion work. He was busy day and night. Of course he should join the ranks of deputy battalion officers.He smiled, he should move.The political commissar said that there must be someone who does not move.He smiled, the chief decided.The political commissar said, don't move this time, and stay in Zhenglian for a while.He froze for a moment, smiled again, and listened to the chief.He thought that the political commissar was testing him, but it turned out that he was stuck in Zhenglian.This missed opportunity for promotion was rewarded with a group award at the end of the year.With a smile on his face, he went to the stage to receive the award certificate and the stipulated bonus of ten yuan. When he returned to the dormitory, he tore up the certificate and threw it into the toilet. He used the ten yuan to buy a bottle of wine on the street.This time, the opportunity for promotion was just around the corner, and the company threw another gun.He left the document and came to the company dormitory, thinking about the soldier who wanted to ask for leave to go home, but because he had three urgent telegrams and didn't ask for leave, he also gave up the idea of ​​asking for leave. Counting from the first squad, there were about seven soldiers. .He thought about the positions of the seven soldiers' beds, tiptoed into the dormitory, stood in front of the first soldier's bed, reached out and patted the soldier's shoulder, saying hello, it's your turn to be sentry.The soldier fell asleep and didn't move.

Then pat the second soldier on the shoulder, hey - it's time for you to be on the sentry post, the soldier snored. Take the third one, it's time for you to ring... Take the fourth one, it's your turn to be on the call... Take the fifth shot, it's your turn to be on the whistle... Shoot the sixth, it's your turn to be on the call... Shoot the seventh, it's your turn to be on the call... In the early hours of the morning, the soldiers were all sleeping soundly, and the sound of snoring filled the dormitory with a sweet and warm smell.Three companies, four platoons, four large dormitories, two rows of red houses, he went to each dormitory, and patted the shoulders of twenty-one soldiers in total.Zhang Yuanzi, a recruit from the fourth row of the company, had the worst political theory test in the whole company, with a score of 98. He said that your brain can't turn?How did you not know that Deng Xiaoping was no longer the chairman of the Military Commission?Jiang Zemin is now the chairman of the Military Commission.You have to fill in this blank to be 100% correct for everyone in our company.This is not offending Xiao Zhang, right?Saying this, Xiao Zhang also kept it in his heart, so today's political cadres can't do political work.Even so, he still tiptoed, sneaked to Xiao Zhang's bed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's time for you to be on the sentry post." Stride out of the bedroom.

Time to find a breeder. The pigsty is far away from Lianyuan, under the west wall of the barracks, through a tung tree garden.The paulownia tree is a unique product in eastern Henan. The celebrity Jiao Yulu planted this kind of tree in Lankao to cure the wind and sand.Paulownia trees are suitable for dry sandy land, and there is no other tree except paulownia in this military camp.Tung tree is light in weight and not eaten by moths. It is a good material for making furniture and coffins.In the war on the southern front ten years ago, a batch was felled here, the boards were unpacked and dried, and transported to the southern front by train, and now it is still a small forest.The instructor walked through this woodland, and the path stepped on by the breeder was twisted like chicken intestines and entangled among the trees.At night in late autumn, tung leaves swirl and fall in the wind, each piece is yellow and big, like a face swollen due to illness.The instructor has a flashlight and a stick of light, shining in the forest.The morning dew kept falling from the trees, hitting his body, hands, or leaves in the forest, pounding, like the hail of bullets he experienced ten years ago.Thinking of ten years ago, he felt a shiver in his body, and he didn't realize that there was also a sound of wind under his feet.

He slowed down at the keeper's door. In the pigsty not far away, there was suddenly the humming of a herd of pigs. He shined the light of the flashlight in the pigsty, and saw a few pigs woke up by him, humming and looking at him. He turned off the light, and it was immediately dark in front of him. The door of the breeder's house opened with a bang. "Who?!" "I." The instructor turned on the flashlight, and the breeder was barebacked and barefoot, wearing a trouser fork, holding a shovel in front of him. "What are you doing!" "Don't recognize me as an instructor?" He moved the light away from the breeder's face and shone on the shovel in the breeder's hand.

"Hit me with a shovel?" "I thought someone was stealing a pig..." "Don't think about it if you don't join the party." "I can't think of the instructor..." "Not this time, there will be a next time." "Didn't I get a third-class credit for my failure this time? As a pig feeder, I can't even write a letter. It's not bad if I can get a credit... I know enough." When the breeder said this, his body straightened. Trembling, Leng Shan's upper body was covered with goosebumps.Needless to say, the breeder never stole the gun.Look at the eyeballs in the corners of his eyes, the cold appearance of his naked body, the way he talks, will he sleep with eyeballs after stealing a gun?Will you hold a shovel in hand?Will you go to bed naked?Forget it, seeing how cold he is, let him sleep under the covers...

"Did someone steal a pig?" "Erlian lost a head yesterday." "Who stole it?" "Maybe the veterans stole it and sold it, and threw it away every year before leaving the army." "Put the shovel down...you go to the gun store and get an automatic." "With a gun?" The breeder looked at the instructor's face in shock, "If someone stole it, he would not dare to shoot it." "Go to sleep." The instructor took a step back, saying that you are freezing, go to sleep.He closed the door of the breeder's house and let out a long breath.I went to the pigsty for a walk, and if I really went to see if the pig was lost, I turned around and came back.When he came back, the breeder was still standing naked, with the shovel leaning against the door, with his arms around his shoulders, and said, "Go back to sleep too, Instructor, our pigs won't be lost, and I'll wake up when it snorts."The instructor said, then I can rest assured... Don't worry about anything, the next batch of recruiting party members will consider you.

The breeder straightened his shrinking shoulders. "You bother with the instructor. My uncle said that as long as I join the party, I will be the director of security in the village after I get out of the army." The instructor stands still. "What is your uncle?" The breeder is very loud. "Deputy village head. He still has the heart to let me take over the village head's class slowly." Silence for a moment, the instructor wants to ask him, did you join the party just to return to the village as the security director?Criticize him for impure motives for joining the party.But when he thought about throwing the gun, he hurriedly said, go to sleep, I understand, just wait for the next batch to fill out the forms.

The breeder closed the door and fell asleep. The instructor stepped into the small forest again, the sky was almost dawn, and the stars and the moon had receded.The air in the forest is newly thick, as if there is fog flowing, and there is a trace of coolness touching people's faces.In the irradiated light, the stagnant moisture is like frozen water, clear and white.I finally couldn't find it, and the soldiers related to me didn't take it after all.A layer of relief floated in the instructor's heart, like walking in the twelfth lunar month of winter and seeing a pile of wildfires.Let the company commander find it.It's good if he finds it, and he's relieved, and you don't need to share the one-star responsibility.Who made him so greedy for money?Maybe the cooking squad leader stole it, put the gun somewhere, and waited until it was time to transfer to the volunteer army, it would be fine if it got what it wanted, if not, no one would expect good results.And so are you, Lieutenant Commander.He has been a soldier for half his life, and he still has such a fucking peasant spirit. He smokes a pack of cigarettes, drinks a bottle of wine, and gives half a catty of peanuts in his mouth. He is a production leader who is greedy for small profits. When you enter the house and eat half a bowl of noodles, you can assign the same easy work to anyone, and remember to divide the work more.Being a company commander is like being half an emperor. No matter who comes back from vacation, he will go to your room first, and all of them will be picked up in your eyes. If you really want to send a refrigerator or a color TV, that is also It's worth it, but this will be... a big deal, I don't know how much bigger it is than you taking three bags of rice from the company.The lesson... is deeper than a man falling into a well.Gao Baoxin, in your life, you can make any mistakes, but never fall on tobacco, alcohol, rice... The dew hit the instructor's lampshade, and there were a few gray spots in the light cluster. He wiped the lampshade with his hand, and wiped it on his face touch it.A cold air hit his body, he twisted his body violently, and the cold air went away from his body.Find it, he thought, let the company commander find it, the person who stole the gun must have something to do with the company commander, and then swallow the matter to death, deal with the thief and leave the army, and everything will be calm.Because he stole the gun and had something to do with the company commander, and because you didn't make it public, the company commander is grateful to you, he should listen to you on matters and small matters, and he won't let the seventh squad leader join the party like last time. Finding ways to say good things to your company commander is harder than talking to soldiers...

"Old Gao?" The instructor shone the light, and the company commander was hurrying over. "Grandma, this Xiong Bing..." "found it?" "I didn't find it." The company commander said that the cooking squad leader knelt to death in my room and couldn't get up. You should go there quickly.The instructor asked what was going on, the company commander sighed, and said that I called him into my room, first enlightened him, and then reviewed it, saying that it was very wrong for me to take three bags of rice from the company, unlike the company commander.Said that I have also smoked the two cigarettes you gave me, equivalent to one hundred and twenty yuan.So I returned the three hundred yuan to him, and the bear soldier suddenly knelt down in front of me, hugged my legs and cried, saying that if he couldn't be transferred to the volunteer army, he would die for the rest of his life.I said that this is not the same thing as transferring to a volunteer, and that I, as the company commander, should not be like this.He said that I would refund him 300 yuan, and he would have no future in his life. He said that seven of his eight brothers were farming at home, and that generations of ancestors had been looking forward to producing a person who could eat commercial grain.He also said that it was his grandma. He went home this year and got married secretly, and his wife was pregnant.It is said that he has eight brothers, six of whom are bachelors, and his wife is willing to marry him only because he can become a volunteer.You see what the hell is going on, the baby is about to be born, and we don't know he's married yet.

"Didn't you tell him you lost the gun?" "How dare you?" The instructor turned off the lights, and some soldiers came out of the dormitory to urinate, put on a shirt, and sprinkled it on the corner of the wall as soon as they went out.The company commander pinched his nose and said that Sanlian defeated Lao Gao.The instructor didn't answer the call, and after the soldier finished urinating, he went straight to the company headquarters and entered the company commander's dormitory. Sure enough, the cooking squad leader was still kneeling in the middle of the room, throwing a stack of money on the table.Seeing that it was not the company commander but the instructor who entered the room, the cooking squad leader was stunned for a moment, as if remembering that one leg had already been stretched forward, but he retracted that leg coldly, turned around, faced the instructor, and still walked forward. Kneeling as it was, with his head deeply hooked down, he remained stiff and motionless.

The instructor asked, "What are you doing?" The cooking squad leader remained silent. The instructor said: "If you have something to say, stand up and say it!" The cooking squad leader remained silent. The instructor lowered his voice and said, "I'll make you stand up!" The cooking monitor sneaked a glance at the instructor, but remained silent. The company commander came in and stood behind the instructor. The instructor walked to the table, put a flashlight on the table, and stood behind the cooking squad leader. He suddenly saw the back of the cooking squad leader's neck, which was almost broken.There are two big tendons on both sides of the cave, like two purlins ripped from an old house, stretching thinly and horizontally.From the purlin to the left and right, the water is wet.Beads of sweat rolled out of the stubble, fell into the cave, and diffused into the back under the collar.He remembered that his hometown was flooded that year, all the houses and kilns collapsed, and the scene was like the back of the neck of the cooking squad leader. "No one knows about the three bags of rice that the company commander pulled?" The cooking squad leader didn't move on his knees, but turned his head around, twisting his neck like a red twist.His head was tilted up, and the Adam's apple under his collar was pointed and big, protruding like a sun-dried red date.The lines on the forehead are thin and dense, and the forehead of a newborn baby is no more than this.He didn't speak, just shook his head slightly to the instructor. "Let's go," the instructor said, "It's up to you to eat or drink three times in a row. Do your work with peace of mind... Don't tell anyone about the three times." The cooking squad leader stood up hesitantly, froze, stared at the instructor's face, and glanced at the money on the table. The instructor said: "Let's go, as long as the rice is cooked..." The cooking squad leader left and wiped the company commander's body.The instructor suddenly realized that he was very tall, he was half a head taller than the company commander when he was hunched over, and the pots of the cooking team were no more than his thighs.He has worked in the cooking class for nearly five years. He was 18 years old when he joined the army. Now he is 23, and his back is hunchbacked at 23. He has to cook for another five years, and maybe his back will bend into a bow.The company commander kept watching him go outside the house, and turned around and said that he would not steal the gun if he was killed. The instructor said that he should be transferred to a volunteer soldier in good conscience. The company commander stared blankly at the money on the table. "What about the gun?" "What do you say?" "Search." "Search?" "Emergency assembly to pull the troops out." Accidents or cases are worsened in the emergency assembly.With a gunshot, the barracks where four companies were stationed trembled in the sky of Jiang Xiao, and the third company's summer sunset fell into a pool of blood. The man died, at the age of seventeen, as young as a dandelion, a very good part of life.