After the exercise, Qin Xiao became Ma Jinshan's celebrity, and his comrades-in-arms also changed his opinion when he first entered the barracks.

On the weekend, Ma Jinshan invited Luo Chuan and Qin Xiao to his home for dinner, and Luo Chuan asked:

"Where's my sister-in-law?"

Head Ma said:

"I sent your sister-in-law back to her parents' house, what is it for her to get involved when the three of us are drinking together?"

Then Ma Jinshan took out two small boxes from his pocket, gave them to Qin Xiao and Luo Chuan, and said:

"This is the award I have applied for with the commissar. I was going to give it to you officially, but I discussed with the political commissar that it would be better to give it to you like this, so that you don't have to be proud, this thing is all on behalf of the past. ”

When the two of them saw that each of them was a second-class meritorious medal, they immediately stood up and saluted, but their hearts were also beautiful.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Ma Jinshan said:

"Come to Luochuan, Qin Xiao, let's have this drink, and Qin Xiao, when you last conducted a military exercise, Song Jindong asked you to go to the special operations team, but you didn't go, I am very grateful, grateful for your trust in me. Come on, do it! Saying that, Ma Jinshan swallowed it all, and Qin Xiao and Luo Chuan saw that the head of the regiment was in good spirits, and they also followed the cup.

Ma Jinshan continued: "Actually, there is one more thing, you are a college student enlisted in the army, I naturally know this, and I can also see that your kid has a good brain, and he has ghost ideas, the key is a little word bank, many people have a lot of eyes, but without the accumulation of this aspect, they can't think of good tactics at all, and some people have stiffened their brains after years of learning tactical tactics, and they are useless." Ma Jinshan paused and continued:

"I want to say, let you go to the military academy for two years of further study, like Luo Chuan, come back and lead a company, or come to me to be a staff officer, are you willing?"

When Luo Chuan heard this, he was very excited, firstly, he thought that Qin Xiao could get such a good opportunity so quickly, and he was happy for him, and secondly, he was able to become a colleague with his good buddies since childhood, and he was also very happy, and he was busy dancing with his hands.

When Qin Xiao heard this, he didn't feel very conflicted in his heart, he had just drunk a whole cup, and now his face was flushed, but he didn't see much turmoil in his heart, he actually wanted to seize this opportunity, even if he joined the army as a soldier and became a professional soldier, his family would not object, but his grandfather would be very happy, because there has never been a soldier in the family for several generations, and he is an officer who can be promoted. But looking back, when he thought about it, he was conscripted from college to experience his military career, and he didn't want to give life a regret, but if he put his whole youth into it, he couldn't help but feel a great loss. Thinking about this, he decided that it was better not to go, but it was not good to refuse, especially when everyone was happy. So he said softly:

"Feelings are a good thing, I'll toast you first, this is me going back to call my grandfather, discuss with him and then decide, after all, I lost my parents when I was a child, and I only have one relative, my grandfather, I decided by myself, so I don't take my grandfather seriously."

Ma Jinshan saw that Qin Xiao didn't agree, saying that he was discussing with his grandfather, and felt that it was reasonable to do so, and he thought that his grandfather would not disagree, so he readily agreed.

Luo Chuan saw the clue, and when he left the regiment leader's house, he asked Qin Xiao anxiously:

"What's the matter with you, why don't you agree to the kindness of the regiment commander, what a great opportunity this is, let's fight side by side together, isn't it? Don't tell me that you have to discuss with your grandfather, I know you best, no one can stop what you want to do, what you don't do, it's an excuse to talk to anyone. ”

Qin Xiao couldn't hide this good buddy from him, so he said:

"Luo Chuan, I don't want to be a soldier for the rest of my life, because this is not what I want, military service is my obligation, so I signed up for the army, but there are many things in the world that we have not experienced yet, and we need to experience it for ourselves, maybe you feel a little frivolous when I say this, but this is my true thought. In fact, during the exercise, I thought, I like the training every day, I like the battle with my comrades-in-arms every day, and I like this kind of exercise, but if I train every day, I know that I can't run, and I practice every month, and I practice every year. Can I guarantee that there will still be passion? Obviously I can't do it, and since I can't do it, I can't do it well, and since I can't do it, I should let someone else do it, especially those who dream of it. Please think about it for me from my point of view, are you right? ”

Luo Chuan smiled bitterly twice and said:

"For so many years, I haven't been able to guess you, but it's because I can't guess you that I'm willing to be a buddy with you, think about it if others understand it at a glance, then what else do you think."

When Qin Xiao heard him say this, he knew that he had understood himself, and felt that it was super cool to have such a friend who could always support him for a lifetime.

In Ma Jinshan's office, Qin Xiao applied for demobilization. It's been nearly two years, Qin Xiao's service period is about to expire, Ma Jinshan didn't expect this kid to discuss and discuss, but he was going to roll up and leave! couldn't help but say angrily:

"Which one are you singing, boy? Lao Tzu just served the food, you are going to the fucking thatched house! ”

Qin Xiao knew that Ma Jinshan's side was not easy to handle, but he had already thought of how to deal with it:

Qin Xiao asked: "Regiment Commander, we are all soldiers, what do you think soldiers do?" ”

"If you don't come to this set, you can let it go if you have a fart." Ma Jinshan wanted to know what he really thought.

"Soldiers are used to fight, and we are actually ready to go to war at all times. But think about it, not only our country, how long do you think this country's active-duty soldiers and active-duty equipment can last? He paused, then continued:

"I don't dare to say, the active equipment is estimated to be exhausted within a week. You see, many countries in the world have a lot of missiles, planes, and tanks, but in fact, they simply cannot support the consumption of a long-term modern war. Within a week of the start of World War I, Britain had exhausted all its stockpiles of artillery shells for more than a decade. This is war, and all wars that are going on in the past have always given people unexpected destructive power and consumption capacity, because people always think about the next war with the same thinking as the previous war. In this sense, we are actually very small, to be precise, in the face of war, we are actually insignificant. I don't mean to say that the state should not build an army, but that it should have a broad war mobilization capacity and war attrition capacity. Japan was a defeated country in World War II, and currently has only a few hundred thousand self-defense forces, but once a general mobilization for war is carried out, it is conservatively estimated that it can rapidly expand to hundreds of thousands or even millions of conventional troops. For me personally, it's like sitting at the dinner table in the morning, chopsticks and spoons in hand, waiting for lunch to come. My idea was that I was going to be demobilized, and if the war suddenly came one day, I would be able to go back to the army, and I would still be a soldier, but if I didn't leave when it was time to go, I would obviously lose a lot. ”

Ma Jinshan didn't expect Qin Xiao to think like this, and after listening to Qin Xiao's words, his feelings eased a little, and said:

"It seems that I can't keep you, the soldier of the iron hard drive, I'm old, I don't have the momentum of you, but I can't be a annoying old man, I won't stay if you want to leave, but remember, no matter where you go in the future, you are a soldier!"

"Yes!" Qin Xiao saluted.

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After re-entering the campus, Qin Xiao had a feeling that he had a hole in the middle of the world for a day, and that he had been in the world for a thousand years. -- He is going back to the hospital for an internship, this time it is also a tertiary hospital in the county, and now Xu Shaoqing has officially worked in the hospital, and the other high school classmates of the year have now graduated. Thinking of seeing Xu Shaoqing, his mood immediately became excited, and he heard that Meng Fan, this kid, actually had pneumonia and was hospitalized in Xu Shaoqing's department, and this time he could be "treated" well.

Back to the last time Xu Shaoqing and Zhai Congying went to see Zhai's father and Zhai's mother, Xu Shaoqing finished appreciating the couplets of the old man Zhai, and entered the courtyard of the Zhai family with Zhai Congying. Xu Shaoqing doesn't like to raise flowers very much, and he can't name most of these flowers. Zhai Congying saw him looking around, so he grabbed his sleeve and entered the house.

It was almost dark, and as soon as the second elder saw Cong Ying coming back, he immediately put down the newspaper and needle and thread in his hand, shh Zhai Congying lowered his head and changed his shoes when he entered the door, and asked Qin Xiao to change them too. At this time, Qin Xiao had already changed into a more formal uniform, and when he saw the second elder, he was busy calling "Hello uncle and aunt", Zhai Congying just lowered his head and said:

"Okay, this is an ordinary friend of mine, named Xu Shaoqing, I invited him to our house for dinner. Mom, did you do anything delicious today? ”

Mother Zhai saw that her daughter was in front of the young man, thinking that she had been together for a long time and was familiar with it, so she hurriedly said:

"Oh, the meal hasn't been cooked yet, just wait for you to come, I'm afraid I'll do it early, and if you don't come, it will be cold."

Xu Shaoqing hurriedly said:

"Auntie, let me help......

"No, no, you talk, you talk......" Zhai Mu hurriedly said.

When Father Zhai saw his wife going to cook, he asked Zhai Congying and Xu Shaoqing to sit down, and then handed a color to his wife in the kitchen, after all, it was a bed that he had slept on for so many years, and his wife immediately understood and shouted:

"Yingying, there are some dishes that I didn't choose, come and help my mother choose." Zhai Congying rolled her eyes, she already knew what it meant, but since she wanted to break her away, she couldn't help it, so she handed Xu Shaoqing a color, which meant "act according to the script well, and don't inquire about things outside the play."

Xu Shaoqing saw that Zhai Congying gave such a look, and immediately understood what it meant, but wanted to deliberately anger her. The old man asked him his age, where he lived, and what he did according to the discussion, but he inquired about Zhai Congying's childhood from time to time, his parents raised their children, and his daughter's troubles when she was a child, and her parents remembered it most clearly, so they couldn't keep the door open, and they leaked out vigorously, and from time to time the two of them laughed, and when they laughed, they looked at Zhai Congying's place in the kitchen. Zhai Congying is also an understanding person, knowing that Xu Shaoqing must have set up a lot of his own troubles from the old man, and he was so angry that he pinched out the vegetable juice from the celery in his hand. Zhai Mu looked at it and hurriedly said:

"Look at you, you haven't cooked since you were a child, so you can choose a dish like this, give it to me, you go and accompany them."

Zhai Congying asked Xu Shaoqing when he got out of the kitchen: "What are you asking about?" Dad, let's talk about your happiness with our own family, and you still talk to outsiders......"

Then speaking of the couplet in front of the door, Xu Shaoqing tried his best to praise the good handwriting, which was neat and neat, and the artistic conception was even more detached. The old man rarely meets a bosom friend, even if someone praises him, it is because of his status as the former director of the Cultural Bureau, and he always feels that others praise him insincerely, but when he saw Xu Shaoqing talking about the Tao, he couldn't help but feel good and wanted to play a game of chess with Xu Shaoqing.

Xu Shaoqing hasn't played chess with anyone for a long time, and he feels that he is playing well, but he doesn't know whether to win or lose, or how to win or how to lose. If Qin Xiao is here, you can consult one or two about this.

However, Xu Shaoqing thought too much, but he didn't expect that his chess skills in the ten streets and eight alleys of the village were not at all in front of Old Man Zhai, and after a while, he was beaten by the old man with a river patrol and only had the ability to parry and not fight back.

At this time, Zhai Congying had been pouring tea and water from the side, while paying attention to the battle situation. Although her chess skills are also good, she is still far behind the old man, but the bystanders are clear, and he knows his father Mo Ruonu, he has long known his father's routines. And she is also a competitive person, this kind of person has a characteristic, that is, she likes to help the weak, and she is proud of it. She saw that Xu Shaoqing's chess game was slowly at a disadvantage, so she reached out to give him a move, and sometimes she picked up the chess pieces and gave him a move without waiting for Xu Shaoqing to speak, which made Xu Shaoqing very faceless, but he didn't care, it was originally a matter of the two of you, I was just a cameo. Coincidentally, Zhai Congying made a move, I don't know if the old man is unbalanced in his heart (being a father, he has a kind of female complex in psychology), and his feelings are affected, or he deliberately released water, and he lost. Old Man Zhai took a sip of water, pretending to be angry and said:

"Before I got out of the cabinet, I started to help outsiders ......"

This made Zhai Congying and Xu Shaoqing feel sour.

The meal is ready, and when eating, Xu Shaoqing still pays attention to cultivation, and he usually has good habits, unlike his brother Qin Xiao, who can't sit for three minutes, so Old Man Qin scolded him a lot, and those who don't know think that Xu Shaoqing and Old Man Qin are more like grandchildren. Xu Shaoqing's questions and answers were also quite decent, which made Zhai's father and Zhai's mother very happy.

After eating, Zhai Congying asked Xu Shaoqing to visit his bedroom. I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, which is this boudoir, which is full of tennis rackets, table tennis rackets, aircraft carrier models, and posters are all Schwarzenegger and Paul? Walker's muscular men, and even the doll is a black gorilla! This made Xu Shaoqing startled.

But Xu Shaoqing also likes Paul? Walker, just asked:

"You also like to watch Fast and Furious?"

"Of course, why else would I post them?" Zhai Congying replied.

Xu Shaoqing smiled evilly:

"Who knows what you're doing looking at these muscular men on the wall when you sleep at night?"

Not to be outdone, Zhai Congying said:

"yes, I'm at least looking for a muscular type for lewdness, and I don't want to see some people who like to kick football with bad psoas muscles." (At that time, the Chinese people's abuse of the national football team was intense, saying that they could not fork the psoas muscles)

Xu Shaoqing hurriedly begged for mercy:

"Sister, I was wrong, I won't dare next time."

Now that he is still serving as a soldier in Luochuan in other places, everyone else has graduated and returned to his hometown, although Qin Xiao has not graduated, he is also an intern in the county seat. It's just that they haven't joined the company yet, or they haven't found a job yet - they all have returned from school.

Qin Xiao heard that Meng Fan was sick and lived in the hospital, and after each internship, he visited his ward. Liu Yuxin, Ma Xiaoxi, Su Xiaoman and Tang Ni also knew about it, and they all came to see him. Qin Xiao hasn't seen these female classmates for a long time, and he doesn't know what has come of them, but he has to give them a disappointment when they meet for the first time.

Meng Fan was sick because he didn't have time to find a job after graduation, so he went to the church to sing hymns, because he sang well, so he let him accompany and lead the singing every week, and after a long time, he also liked Christ Jesus, and held the Bible every day to read. The hymns all need to be composed and composed by themselves, maybe Meng Fan has been too devout to the Lord recently, and the creation has been too hard, and he has a constant fever and cough, and he was hospitalized when he checked that it was lobar pneumonia.

On this day, Donny didn't come because of something, so Su Xiaoman contacted two other girls to come to see Meng Fan, and it happened that Meng Fan was sleeping. Qin Xiao led them into the ward.

In fact, when he was in school, several boys knew that Meng Fan liked to lie flat when he slept, and then covered his head with a quilt, and Luo Chuan often said that he "farted and swallowed alone". This time was no exception, he slept soundly with his head covered by the quilt.

But the girls didn't know, as soon as they entered the door, Qin Xiao pretended to exclaim and shouted:

"Shaoqing, what's wrong with Meng Fan? Tell me what's wrong with her? ”

Su Xiaoman knew that Qin Xiao was good at playing tricks, so he stepped forward and lifted most of the quilt with Meng Fan's head covered, due to the suddenness of the incident, Su Xiaoman was startled, took a few steps back, and fell into Qin Xiao's arms all of a sudden, Qin Xiao didn't expect Su Xiaoman to have such a big reaction, so he had to catch his shoulder with his hand.

It turned out that Su Xiaoman saw Meng Fan holding his hands together, and there was a Bible on his left elbow! - Looks serene, calm......

Qin Xiao couldn't help it, laughed, shook vigorously at Meng Fan, who was snoring, and then began to speak for a while:

"Meng Fan, hurry up, don't pretend to be your pope's burial ceremony!"

This is Su Xiaoman's dilemma of remembering the bad power of Qin Xiao just now, and slapped Qin Xiao on the back of the head again, which is an action she often uses to deal with Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao said innocently:

"What's wrong with me, isn't it just a hug? It's good that I didn't sue you for a chance to take advantage of me, why do you blame me! ”

Su Xiaoman was angry and ashamed, and said:

"You still said that you are not afraid of retribution for making such a joke about Meng Fan?"

"How do you say I did it? Why don't you say that Meng Fan did it himself? Qin Xiao continued to quibble.

"No, he now believes in Christ, how can he make such an undignified joke!" Su Xiaoman's sentence made Qin Xiao unable to admit it. But then he said lightly:

"I just put a Bible under his armpit while he wasn't paying attention, and as for covering his head, it's a habit that this kid brought out of his mother's womb, and it's really none of my business. But I didn't expect you to react so much. ”

Xu Shaoqing hurriedly testified:

"Qin Xiao is right, Meng Fan does like to sleep with his head covered, but Qin Xiao, it's a bit too much for you to take Meng Fan like this."

Qin Xiao also felt that it was not good to do this with Meng Fan, and besides, he was hospitalized, so he couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, but Meng Fan's first words when he woke up amused everyone. I saw him sit up and open his eyes, because he covered his head, it was difficult to adapt to the bright light of the day, and what he saw at once was not a doctor or nurse, but so many beauties, and because he hadn't seen Liu Yuxin and Su Xiaoman and Ma Xiaoxi for a long time, in the past few years of college, they have long faded away from the youth of high school students, and they exude the charm of mature women, and he didn't recognize them, he actually said to himself:

"Have I come to heaven, why are so many angels coming to pick me up?"