Chapter 7 Chapter 07

The seven-day confinement is the 70,000-mile long march in the heart of the company commander and instructor.There is an unarmed sentry at the door, and you have to ask for leave from the battalion commander through the sentry when you go out. It is extremely unbearable not to go out, and the depression is as flustering as the head swells.The sun is gone, the autumn wind is no longer blowing, and the sky shrinks into three thick slabs buckled overhead.The brick walls on all four walls seemed to collapse at any moment.You can't see the soldiers of the third company, you can't see the big playground, you can't see the sunrise and sunset, and the only thing you can see is the sentry at the door.They suddenly understood that the confinement room was actually a prison for people to save trouble.Of course, the most unbearable thing is not the prison-like hut, but their mutual estrangement and hostility. This situation is like letting a pair of friends cross a single-plank bridge relative to each other, and no one needs to give way to the other.

At first, they talked to each other, but then naturally they didn't.That night, the head of the regiment, the battalion commander and the security officer came to talk to them and asked who Xia Luo's good friend was. They said that Xia Luo had no good friends.Ask who has a lot of contact with Xia Luo, they say that Xia Luo usually does not have contact with anyone, like a lone goose alone on the river beach.I asked Xia Xia if he had taken leave to go to the city on Sunday. They said that Xia Luo's home is the provincial capital, and he never goes to the county seat. On Sundays or when he has nothing to do, he likes to find a quiet place to lie down and look at the sky.In the end, the regiment leader said that the soldiers in Zhengzhou like to drink, will Xia Luoxia drink with them?They say that they don't smoke or drink at sunset in summer, which is rare among urban soldiers.Later, the head of the regiment and the battalion left.The team leader is the task force leader of the Xia Luo case, the battalion commander is the deputy team leader, and the security officer is a member. Xia Luo committed suicide by stealing a gun, which is as clear as water.The task of the task force is to find out why he committed suicide by stealing a gun, and write a report on the handling opinions of the main responsible persons.After the task force left, the door of the hut was closed, and the company commander and the instructor each lay on their backs on the bed.The two floor slits extruded from the three floor slabs on the house are as straight as silk.The walls are clean, not even a spider web.They were desperate for a crawling spider or something, but they couldn't find anything after searching the walls.Outside the closed door, temporary sentries cut off the air entering the room, and the cabin was as dull as a coffin.The head of the regiment told me not to open the curtains on the small window, and not to talk to the soldiers outside.They also stopped pulling.Pulling apart the task force, they really thought that they had said something to the soldiers outside, that they had directly harmed Xia Luo, colluding with the soldiers to make a confession or something.So, they just lay on their backs, each pillowing on his hand.The light was white, turning their faces pale yellow from lack of blood, and the watches on their respective wrists were ticking crisply, competing loudly.So bored in the dead silence, the instructor turned over on the bed until after the lights-out signal sounded, making the wire bed make extremely harsh noises.

"Old Zhao," he said, "Did the head talk to you alone?" The company commander didn't move, "We've talked about it." The instructor moved an inch toward the edge of the bed. "Ask something?" "Why did Xia Sunset commit suicide?" "How do you explain that?" "I said that maybe this group didn't join the regiment, so I couldn't think about it for a while." "that's it?" "A good man is a good man when he does things." The company commander suddenly sat up from the bed and stared at the instructor. "I said that the main reason is that your ideological work has not kept up. He shouldn't talk about it. If we talk about it, maybe he won't commit suicide."

The instructor turned over and lay on his back looking at the ceiling.Say: "You deliberately shifted the responsibility to ideological and political work and killed me, Gao Baoxin." The company commander twisted his buttocks and straightened his back. "I wanted to harm you, so I told the team leader that you plan to give me 8,000 or 10,000 yuan and let me take responsibility." The instructor sat up from the bed. "How do you know that I haven't talked to Xia Luo?" The company commander rolled his upper eyelids. "How do you know that Xia Luoxi was criticized to tears by me?"

The instructor gave the company commander a cold look, suddenly took off the quilt on his legs, pulled his legs off the bed, put on his shoes, sat on the edge of the bed, and said, Lao Zhao, don’t forget how you did it. On the southern front, our platoon was all dead. I stood alone in the position, and I was hit by two bullets in my left leg. The blown head of the platoon leader was placed on my head. Do you think it is easy for me to survive?But you didn't hurt anything except a piece of shrapnel stuck in your waist. No one in your platoon was killed. The whole battalion and the whole regiment were only three platoons of us who had to be repaired. But one company was divided into one second-class merit. about you.You clap your hands on your chest and think about it, you didn't graduate from junior high school, and you were over half a year old when you were promoted. I didn't let you give you the second-class military exploits, so could you be promoted?can you have todayDon't you still have to go home to farm and face the loess with your back turned to the sky, maybe you won't even be able to get a wife.But today I asked you to take more responsibilities and you actually acted like this. Not only did you not take more responsibilities, but you also pushed the responsibilities six, two, five. Do you think you, Zhao Lin, have any conscience?I won't say, just pat your chest and think about it!The instructor spoke very quickly, then suddenly took off his shoes, pulled his legs out on the bed, pulled the quilt to cover him, lay down on his back, faced the wall, and said, "Think about it, and keep saying that you are a farmer, you are a farmer." No conscience at all.

The company commander sat on the bed without moving, his face was blue and hard, he stared at the instructor's mouth for a long time, and suddenly showed a very broad-minded demeanor, listening to the instructor carefully, just like the third company. The soldiers listened to the very touching political education lectures given by the instructor. He didn't lick his dry lips with his tongue until the instructor turned over and lay on the bed, and said in a slow voice, Gao Baoxin is the one who has no conscience, and it is you Gao Baoxin who should be patting his chest. The instructor turned over on the bed again.

"I think? Thinking of what?!" Think about who took your platoon leader's head off your head.The company commander said who dragged the three corpses away from you.Who carried you off the battlefield, carried you seven miles in one breath, and sent you to the division hospital.At that time, the blood on your body was still wet, and it was all on me, and it was connected with my combat uniform, and I couldn't tear it apart.When I went to the division hospital, I put you on the wounded bed. You woke up and took my hand and said, deputy of Class 9, are you from Henan?I said that I am from Western Henan, and you immediately burst into tears, saying that I am also from Western Henan.I said I know.You said you enlisted from the countryside?I said yes.You said me too, although my father is a cadre, but my mother is at home, and the whole family farms.I said I'm leaving, the company is still cleaning the battlefield.You held my hand and refused to let me go, saying Zhao Lin, I am very homesick, and I want to retire after the war.I said you need to heal your wounds first. Anyway, the battle is over, so you will withdraw immediately, and a large number of cadres will be promoted when you go back.You say you don't want to be an official, but your father will find you a job when you get home anyway.You said a lot to me back then, have you forgotten now?Zhao Lin became excited as he spoke, straightened his body a little more, sat on the pillow with his butt twisted, and tried to make himself as tall as he was standing.Say I have no conscience, but who is Gao Baoxin who has no conscience?At that time, the wounded in the division hospital had a large area of ​​crops, and the minor injuries were put aside, and the serious injuries were put aside.You Gao Baoxin was hit by two bullets in his left leg, but he didn't even hurt the side of the bone, which is probably a minor injury among minor injuries.There are few doctors and few operating tables in the division hospital, so they are too busy to operate on serious injuries first, and then on minor injuries.When I was about to leave, you stopped me and refused to let me go, saying that the pain was unbearable.At that time, I was like a thief, wandering around among the wounded, taking advantage of the doctor's unpreparedness, I carried you from the lightly wounded to the side of the seriously wounded, and put you at the end of a row of unconscious seriously wounded Front.The doctor saw that you were injured so lightly, and you were on the operating table within two hours after arriving at the hospital, so they thought you had some background.I said Gao Baoxin, have you forgotten all this?Should I pat my chest and think about it, or should you pat my chest and think about it? (Mouth security) Tell me!Who has no conscience, who should pat his chest and think about it!

The instructor didn't move on the bed, his eyes were still staring at the wall.There was a crack on the wall, as thin as a hair, which started to crack from the edge of the bed, twisted and curved, and extended to the roof like a roundworm.He looked at the slit and snorted, saying that if I had no conscience, I, Gao Baoxin, would not give you the only second-class merit.The second-class work is not new to me in Gaoyuan, it is from all of us.The whole platoon was dead, so Gao Baoxin earned such a second-class merit.But I, Gao Baoxin, didn't even hesitate. As soon as the company commander said it, I gave it to you.Why are you?Although the only ones who survived and were injured in the whole company were you and me, but I voted for merit three times more than you, and you don't know this.

Three more votes is good, and the merit is not fake.Zhao Lin had a smile on his lips, but didn't you, Gao Baoxin, get written into the article and hit the headlines of the military newspaper because of your meritorious deeds?Has he become a role model among heroes?Did you enter the agency as soon as you mention it? The instructor moves on the bed. "What does this have to do with you, Zhao Lin?" "It has nothing to do with me?" "Did you give these to me?" "You don't let the functions have these?" "It's unreasonable... It seems that without you, Zhao Lin, I wouldn't be where I am today!"

Zhao Lin lifted the quilt slowly and lay down slowly. "Think for yourself." The instructor pulled the quilt upwards and covered his head. "Yes. Think for yourself!" Zhao Lin didn't answer, just like the instructor just now, he also snorted. The instructor heard Zhao Lin snort, and followed closely. Zhao Lin stopped snorting, turned over and made extremely harsh noises on the bed. The instructor also made the bed noisy. As if Zhao Lin couldn't bear it anymore, he jumped up from the bed again and stared at the instructor, as if he was about to fight or quarrel endlessly.

The instructor stretched out his arm and pulled the switch.The light went out, and the hut was immediately pitch black, covering the two of them like a tomb, and the instructor was lying on the bed, motionless, as if he had fallen asleep, and Zhao Lin deliberately made Zhao Lin angry that he fell asleep.Zhao Lin sat quietly with his red back, waiting for a word or a movement from the instructor, but before he finally got there, he lay down again and pulled the quilt back.In the late autumn season, the night has a strong coolness. When the night is quiet, no matter how tight the house is, the cracks in the door and window can squeeze in the breath of night.The footsteps of the sentries changing outside the door, even though they were intentionally quieter, still sounded loud. Needless to say, both Zhao Lin and the instructor stayed up all night.As soon as the wake-up call rang the next day, they all got up in a panic.The head of the regiment sleeps in the camp, if he gets up and walks into the house and sees someone still asleep, it is time to investigate the case, and it will not be good for anyone.After getting up, they wash up separately, go back to the house and sit quietly on their respective beds, without speaking to each other, the gap is as mountainous as forest, and even death is impenetrable.