For three days and two nights, Yang Ke and I stayed in the sleeper car and slept stupidly, as if we wanted to make up for the sleepiness that we hadn't slept enough for two years in these three days and two nights?

When the long-distance bus stopped in Urumqi, Yang Ke and I were a little dumbfounded.

Before joining the army, both of us grew up in the city, and it is not surprising that we have seen a lot of bright lights, strictly speaking, we should have seen a small piece of blue sky at the bottom of the well.

But under the cover of the night in Urumqi, when we stood in front of the neon lights on the street, we felt an unprecedented blankness.

Is this the night view of the city that we have been separated from for two years?

I'll just look at Yang Ke's stupid look and say, brother, let's find the soldier and stay first, right? It's not like the two gentlemen are sleeping on the street tonight, right?

Yang Ke looked at me stupidly and said bald, I don't want to stay in the military station today, I want to stay in a hotel.

I can't see that Yang Ke, this little guy, is still quite serious? It's only been a few days since I came out, and I don't want to stay in a hotel without staying at the military station? Then in another ten days and a half months, will you not live in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse?

Besides, with the vinegar money of the three melons and two dates in our hands, we just want to be able to live in a hotel, right?

Yang Ke looked at me, and he looked at him as if he was looking at a neuropath, and he smirked.

And then I said that there was something about the bald head, and I didn't tell you the truth. Before the liberation, the famous family of Leng Hejiang in my family almost owned half of the county's real estate, so the brothers were relatively rich, at least not much less than the landlord's buddy's money.

Hotel, we still live.

After finishing speaking, Yang Ke took out a peony card from his arms and shook it at me, saying bald, there can be about three or five hundred thousand in this card, let's have a luxury today, you don't know, I dreamed of soaking in the bathtub, and there is a cup of superb Biluo Chun next to it......

As soon as Yang Ke mentioned this bath, my heart and eyes began to move vigorously.

Before I became a soldier, I really liked to go to the Xinhua bathhouse in Changsha to bubble, a pool of hot water soaked and then wiped my back, and then lay on the recliner to watch TV and drink strong tea, it was really a kind of stealing half a day of leisurely enjoyment.

But as soon as you become a soldier, let alone take a bath, you bump into a field subject, and you don't take a bath for ten days and half a month, which is a common thing. I remember one time I went to the desert to train for 19 days, and when I came back, 90 percent of my brothers were infected with pubic lice.

The veterans have taught to shave their hair to prevent lice, but no one has said how to protect them from the next three roads......

In desperation, there were a large number of light pole commanders among our brothers, which was a great victory in the bathhouse left behind that year, and none of the brothers who saw it did not smile!

I'll just snort twice and say that's okay, but you pay for the room and I'll soak in the bath first!

Yang Ke nodded violently and said, Okay, let's walk, but you brought a map of Urumqi, no, we don't know the road, how do you go?

I took a slap of Yang Ke and pointed to the taxis all over the street and said, It seems that you kid is also stupid, since we are all luxurious enough to stay in a hotel, then can't we add a taxi?

Jumping into a taxi, Yang Ke's kid probably recalled the style of the ** year, and waved his hand and said to go to the best hotel in Urumqi!

The taxi driver looked at me and Yang Ke from the rearview mirror, and said that there are several, and the road is far away, I said, brothers, are you going home to visit your family, then you still live in the military station, the place is not expensive and clean.

Yang Ke and I just looked at the driver, and figured out some taste, so we asked, "You were also a soldier?"

The driver nodded and said yes, ah, I retired last year and went home to get a rental to support my family, I used to be the brothers of Altay Gold, which mountain?

We looked at the driver and felt a little awe-inspiring in our hearts.

The gold armed police, to put it bluntly, is a force that increases the hard currency of the treasury for the country to find gold mines, mine gold mines, and increase the hard currency of the treasury.

As the old saying goes, wealth moves people's hearts, not to mention guarding piles of gold every day?

But none of the brothers in the Golden Armed Police have ever retired with a penny of gold.

This kind of honesty and observance is no longer something that ordinary people can do.

What's more, almost all of the gold is hidden in the environment of poor mountains and bad waters, especially the location of those big ore veins, and the hardships that the brothers of the gold armed police endure when looking for gold are no longer something that people of my level can describe.

The living and working environment is treacherous, and those who dig gold privately harass and even rob them from time to time, so the brothers of the gold armed police naturally have to have excellent kung fu.

Let's just gossip here, right?

I once saw an Altay gold armed policeman, wearing a pair of gauze gloves and queuing up to buy movie tickets, just happened to bump into a thief stealing a wallet and was found out, and then took out a knife and injured someone.

The brother of the golden armed policeman walked over in a few steps, still holding the change for buying movie tickets in his left hand, and a big slap in his right hand passed, and a piece of skin was pulled off the thief's face alive.

Then I called the police, and when the police came to explain the situation, the buddy bought a ticket and then took his girlfriend to watch a movie, and the thief was still convulsing on the ground for half an hour, and he couldn't get up!

I hurriedly took out a cigarette and lit a fire, and then said that the seniors are good, we are a small font out, it is estimated that the seniors have not heard of it, tonight we want to take a bath, in fact, it is not necessary to go to any hotel, but the military station does not have those bathing things?

The driver tilted his head and thought about it.

It's hard to go home, how can I think of a clean and neat idea to clean up, so as not to let my father and mother watch a son like a son enter the door, doesn't that make the old man sad?

Come on, brothers, don't go to the hotel to waste that money, just go to my house!

I couldn't help but say, the driver drove in a direction on the outskirts of Urumqi in a dozen directions.

Yang Ke and I didn't excuse ourselves, let alone say thank you.

Being a soldier is indeed a bit of a brain that can treat people as a point, but to be precise, it is a real way to treat people.

What you want to say and what you want to do, and it's absolutely not a false style, especially between those brothers who have also been soldiers, it is often the first time they meet, and everyone reports their own mountain names, and they are like old friends who have known each other for many years.

We chatted about it without a match, anyway, everyone wore vests, although the styles were different, but the purpose of the routine was the same, so naturally there were a lot of common topics.

Moreover, there is a veteran in our place who was transferred from the Golden Army, and he is also familiar with the little routines within the Golden Armed Police, and he can't be more familiar with it, and he usually brags to us.

Let's ask the seniors that I heard that three of your soldiers got lost when they went out to take samples in a certain year, and finally struggled in the wasteland for six days before they were found by the troops, is there such a thing?

And we also heard that the three soldiers were fierce men back then, and they didn't lose the sampling ore in their hands at the last moment, and they could carry dozens of pounds of ore on their backs on the Gobi Desert for six days without eating or drinking, that is really a tough guy!

Then the driver laughed.

Let's just say that this old thing is still remembered by anyone, and the brothers in other mountains know about it? Is the guy who told you about this surnamed Luo a big man as black as coal? You should be the brothers of the newly formed mountain, right?

Yang Ke and I were stunned.

We have all learned these confidentiality rules, and we have all strictly followed them. can't stand it, if you say too much, you will lose, especially in front of those seniors who are soldiers and old, you can often hear a lot of things in one or two sentences......

The driver said, "Brothers, don't be surprised, one of the three people who lost it was me."

As we spoke, we arrived at Bagang.

As long as you are a person from Urumqi, you will know what place I am talking about, and you will know what that place is for.

It is certain that you will know how high the proportion of military personnel or retired military personnel in that unit can be.

So when we got out of the car, many of us were so busy with what we were doing that we didn't even look at our vests.

Yang Ke and I followed the driver and turned left and right into his house.

This is an ordinary family that can no longer be ordinary, and it is also an obvious singles' family.

The unusually tidy things that can be cleaned up, especially those small items such as military quilts and cups, can reflect that the owner of this family has experience in the army.

The senior pushed open a narrow door, unscrewed an air valve, and said, brothers, wait a little, you can take a good bath in a while, you sit down and drink tea first, are you hungry, then I'll get some barbecue naan or something, come over, let's eat first.

He turned around and went out, leaving me and Yang Ke in the house.

Many years later, I often think of the back of the senior who opened the door to get the barbecue.

We had only met once, and we had only been in contact for a few tens of minutes, but the senior trusted us so much that he told us to go to his house and he went out to find us something to eat.

His car keys sit on the table, on the cupboard, along with the income from a day's drive, and two large gemstone rings......

The seniors trusted us, and trusted the vest on us. And to hand over his back to his brother without hesitation, this has long been a tradition in the army!

Eating spicy and fragrant barbecue, drinking cold Xinjiang beer, coupled with the crispy Xinjiang cold dishes and the more you chew the more fragrant naan cakes, Yang Ke and I only felt hot and warm in a few minutes.

Comfortable......

After two years as a soldier, I haven't drunk much, especially this kind of slow drinking, eating meat and chatting, which is very rare.

Naturally, there were more words.

The senior's surname is Ma, it has been two years since he retired, almost the year we went into the army, the seniors went home, the old people in the family are all old people of Bagang, and they have all reached the age of retirement, and they have returned to the mainland to retire, and Brother Ma also lived alone in the old house left by his father.

I retired, and I didn't know what was going on when I was assigned a job, anyway, I assigned Brother Ma to a street to watch bicycles, which is the income of hundreds of oceans every month.

Brother Ma has been working for a year, and he feels aggrieved.

Looking at the bicycle work, how can I say that it is all the jobs of old men and old ladies who earn some pocket money after retirement, right? A young man who is in the prime of life collects parking fees every day, and always feels that it is a cannon to fight mosquitoes, and he can't use his strength to live or die.

I quit my job and came out, got a rental by myself, and opened it.

can be regarded as relying on excellent technology and being a real person, Brother Ma has made a name for himself in driving, and he is also a person who can speak with weight and be the backbone of his brothers in the taxi industry.

There are many brothers and they are all willing to listen to Brother Ma's words, so Brother Ma intentionally or unintentionally takes his brothers to work in accordance with the rules in the army.

If the car is dirty, you can't go on the street, you are absolutely not allowed to rip off customers, and you have to take care of it if you bump into someone and get into trouble......

And so on, in today's view, it has formed a norm or no one has done it at all, all of which are called Brother Ma to form the rules in the industry.

According to Brother Ma's words back then, if you make a few dollars less, you won't die, but if you cheat people's money, that's a lack of morality, not what you should do!

Brother Ma is a typical man in the northwest, he speaks loudly, does things vigorously, drinks and eats meat, which is like a storm.

After eating and drinking, Brother Ma waved his hand and said, brothers, you go to take a bath and rest for a night, tomorrow you go to the station to buy a ticket, and it should not be difficult to buy a ticket at the military window at the station.

I'm going to get out of the car early tomorrow morning, so I won't accompany my brothers, I'll go to bed first.

After saying that, he stood up very virtuously, and went into the back room to sleep regardless of the mess of the cups and plates on the table. It was only two or three minutes, and the snoring was already deafening.

Yang Ke and I soaked in a huge hot water pool, and I felt that the pool was still the same pool used for quenching when making steel and iron......

When we woke up, Brother Ma had already gone out to run the car. On top of the heating pipe were two cups of steaming milk, and a dozen or so browned baked buns.

We never saw Brother Ma again.

It's just that I heard a brother who lives in Urumqi say that there was a taxi driver who was commended at the commendation meeting for advanced workers on TV one year, and the honest and down-to-earth man was also surnamed Ma.

I thought, maybe it's Brother Ma, right?