Around the time of 2018, a game of eating chicken became popular. For the circle of Jixianglu, first the Internet celebrity anchor "Little Sun" played with it, and then Qiao Nan's brother-in-law also started to play with itchy hands.

At the family gathering, the brother-in-law proudly talked about his achievements in PUBG, but his wife complained again and again: "Brother, he played this game like crazy, and what else did he say to fill the regrets of his youth......?" Why didn't I see it, he still wanted to be a soldier when he was a teenager? I've had enough of arguing with him, you just snapped him out with a gun. ”

……

Qiao Nan glanced at his brother-in-law sympathetically, and silently thought in his heart, being his brother-in-law is really a high-risk profession.

Of course, Qiao Nan can't surprise his brother-in-law, and he can't turn a blind eye to his fried sister, at a certain moment when he was noisy by his own child to the point of headache, Qiao Nan patted his brother-in-law on the shoulder and said: "Boy, what's the point of the game? Come to PLA to join the eldest brother! As long as you join our army, I will take you to eat chicken every day." ”

Qiao Nan didn't brag, his brother-in-law really thought about it, but his wife was reluctant. She would rather her husband stay up all night playing games than let him suffer from his brother.

For Qiao Nan, the earliest firearms game of their generation was CS, and the popularity at that time absolutely crushed today's PUBG. When it was the most popular, the first generation of post-80s generations were still blood-soaked teenagers, because of their existence, the Internet café was filled with gunsmoke every day.

When he was a teenager, Qiao Nan occasionally went to an Internet café to play, but he never expected that in the years that followed, he would actually experience the live-action version of CS every day, as well as the live-action version of PUBG. He repeatedly emphasized to his sister that his degree of hard work can be regarded as a hundred times that of ordinary people, the degree of stimulation can be multiplied by hundreds of squares, the degree of handsomeness can be multiplied by hundreds of cubes, and the sense of achievement is infinite.

Needless to say, even the usual drills are definitely a dream scene for many boys. Think about it, wearing camouflage, carrying a steel gun, running in the vast wilderness. Jolene imagined, if nothing else, that just changing the magazine with one hand would be enough to cause a group of people to scream. It's no wonder that her high school classmates pestered her all day long and asked her about her brother.

Qiao Nan has participated in countless drills, and at the beginning of 2009, he also participated in a group confrontation, which was another 48 hours like a devil. Some scenes were too bitter, Qiao Nan didn't want to think about them, and only said them lightly when pretending to be ×.

For example, sleeping in the open in an environment of more than ten degrees below zero, and getting up before dawn to eat a mouthful of tasteless dry food is the most comfortable scene for them. At that time, the common people of Hong Kong City were eating a bland and warm breakfast in the auspicious wonton restaurant, and senior white-collar workers like Huang Jinzi might be eating a luxurious buffet breakfast in a five-star hotel on a business trip. And Qiao Nan and they sat in the icy wilderness, just in the cold wind, mixed with dust, swallowing dry rations, all for survival.

Qiao Nan still remembers that time he was on the side of the Blues and was still the captain of the squad. When he was the captain, the eyes of others were still a little weird, after all, he had just gotten rid of the suspicion of "mental illness" at that time. But Qiao Nan's qualities are still very good, no one doubts this, he led the nine-person team to play a triumphant song all the way, and finally he "died" in the link of climbing the high wall.

Later, Qiao Nan told his lover that he was lying in the mud and looking at the sky in frustration. There happened to be a crow hovering in the sky, and a lot of nonsense flashed through his mind - maybe he was an angel with broken wings in his previous life, and he fell to his death as he flew. I still can't cross this threshold in this life, and every time I climb over a high wall, something will inevitably happen.

His lover laughed so hard that his stomach hurt and beat him desperately, only to hit him until his hand hurt. Qiao Nan still said seriously: "The first time we climbed over the high wall in college, I was athletic, and I was usually the first to climb up, and I pulled them on it. But at first they didn't make any effort, they kicked their legs around, have you ever seen a fly leg entangled in a spider's web? When I saw that, I remembered the fly's legs...... Then I laughed, I smiled, and the people below didn't try to climb up...... The instructor scolded me severely, but I still had fly legs in my head, so I lowered my head and laughed. The instructor kicked me hard again and yelled at me: Qiao Nan, can training be a child's play? If you laugh again, I will use duct tape to seal your mouth! I asked him, will they laugh even more so that way? The instructor didn't hold back, and I laughed angrily. ”

His lover burst into tears of laughter and said, "I can't laugh anymore, my stomach hurts......"

Qiao Nan hugged her and sighed: "Since then, I have never been the first to climb up, but used as a human ladder below." On the first day, my neck was trampled through several layers of skin, and it hurt so much that I had to lie on my stomach when I slew, and I no longer had the heart to think about fly legs. ”

In this way, his lover was told by him to cry and laugh, and finally snuggled into his arms and said, "You are still the funniest!"

Of course, that was a long time later, and at the beginning of 2009, Qiao Nan fell on the subject of high walls again. He thought that he was no better off being trapped on a high wall than a fly trapped in a spider's web.

He was taken to the hospital, where he was given an unconditional recuperation. Because there are still many things to do, Qiao Nan is very anxious, and always wants to go back quickly. Although he yelled every day to leave this broken unit, he still participated in training more seriously than anyone else.

Lying on the hospital bed and chatting in every way, he watched "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", which was still serialized. Comparatively speaking, Qiao Nan still likes to read history books. It's just that he can't find anyone to share his resonance with history books.

Just like when he first got out of the company, the guitar dog didn't listen to him (the rhubarb was picked up by him, and he made it up). But now, he can play some familiar guitar tunes very smoothly. His soldiers used him as a singing platform, but he persistently played "White Birch Forest".

No one understood why he was obsessed with the sad story told in that song, and Qiao Nan didn't intend for others to understand. He stubbornly thought that there would always be someone who understood, even if he was in another world.

He didn't bring a guitar with him during the training, so he couldn't do anything except read, eat, and sleep, and after lying down for two days, he felt unwell. On the third day, he folded the quilt into a work of art, as the phrase in "Soldier Spike" says, "Mosquitoes fly up to split, flies fly up and slip."

Tsk, it's really impossible to get anywhere, you can't do without the legs of flies.

In the past six months, Jinzi has frequently entered Tibet, and he has to fly at the beginning of the year, and when he heard that Qiao Nan was injured, he came to see him and went out to have a meal with him. The moment Qiao Nan picked up his crutches and went out, a picture suddenly flew in front of his eyes - the year he was injured, he really wanted to go home for the Spring Festival. With her help, he escaped from the hospital on crutches.

They were young, poor, and embarrassed, but they smiled brighter than fireworks, and they felt like they had the whole world.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Huang Jinzi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Not ......"

The person in front of him was no longer the thin girl, but a golden man with delicate waves and an expensive woolen coat. Qiao Nan thumped his head - what are you thinking?

Considering Qiao Nan's leg injury, Huang Jinzi was very considerate and found a small restaurant nearby. After taking a seat, she talked about her recent work life. She said that after the Olympics, housing prices in Beijing have risen so much that she has to buy a house.

Qiao Nan didn't think about it that far, and said, "If you are short of money, I will lend it to you." ”

"Come on, my family sponsors a large part of it, you still keep the money and wait for your daughter-in-law!" Huang Jinzi took out the demeanor of an elite in the workplace and said: "Qiao Nan, in the future, the house price will definitely grow higher and higher, longer and faster, much faster than your salary increase." Listen to my advice, be sure to buy a house as soon as possible. Even if you buy a smaller one, you can make a lot of money when you sell it later. ”

Qiao Nan considered buying a house, but he didn't think about it as much as gold, he just thought that a man should have the ability to start a family. The last time he came home from vacation, his parents also talked about buying a house, but now, he doesn't want to accept their help anymore.

Qiao Nan was vaguely sad, since graduating, to be exact, after losing her, he had never discussed those poems and distant places again. The Turgenev he had seen and the Neruda he had copied were all buried in his heart and never mentioned them to anyone else.

He couldn't help but talk about his house and car, and thought again and again about which path was most suitable for him after the end of his service, and was worried about his family's lifelong affairs...... At a certain moment, he will feel very strange, and he can no longer find the original self that still has a little romantic feelings. Su Xue's diagnosis is very accurate, and all his abnormalities come from loneliness.

If you think about it, that's really the case. But not entirely true, at least when he was with another little girl, he was quite carefree, and he didn't think about anything, just wanted to tell her all the funniest stories, and listen to her hearty laughter like a silver bell.

"Hey, Qiao Nan!" In the face of Qiao Nan's repeated distractions, Huang Jinzi couldn't bear it anymore.

"Hmm......" Qiao Nan said with a smile: "It seems that when I landed, the mud was poured into my brain......"

"Poof......" Huang Jinzi couldn't hold back, and almost spit out the juice: "By the way, have you received all the books I bought for you to take the graduate school entrance examination?

"I received it a long time ago, and I'm still swaggering on the table, specifically for my leader!"

"What is your leader's opinion? Can they give you a place to go to graduate school?"

Qiao Nan was deflated all of a sudden: "They turn a blind eye and can only sneer." I guess there are two meanings in this smile. The first is that they don't care about me or not, and my presence is dispensable to this unit, and second, they don't want me to leave at all, and no matter how much I put on a show, they won't agree. ”

Huang Jinzi laughed again: "Comrade Qiao Nan...... You know you're putting on a show!"

Huang Jinzi wanted to ask him how old he was to resist so childishly, but she liked it very much, and in her opinion, it was funny.