CHAPTER XXII

"Qiao Jinghui, there is your letter!" Roommate Mei went to get the letter, and when she saw Qiao Jinghui's by the way, she helped her get it.

Qiao Jinghui was mending her clothes, when she heard the sound, she stopped what she was doing, stood up and took the envelope, and said, "Thank you!" "I saw that the sender turned out to be Hong Chen.

"It's okay! It's handy! Mei sat down next to her, and said as she opened her letter, "Who is Hongchen, your boyfriend?" ”

Qiao Jinghui shook her head: "I'm a senior." ”

Mei nodded, she just remembered that Qiao Jinghui said that she didn't have a boyfriend, and she only called her parents when she usually called, and she never had any passion when she occasionally sang together with male soldiers. Now that a man finally appeared, and he wrote directly, May would of course have a preconceived idea that the two had something to do with each other.

Qiao Jinghui casually put the letter on her top bunk, and then continued to mend Mei's clothes.

Before the lights went out at night, Qiao Jinghui sat on the bed and opened the letter.

Benefits:

I heard that you are going to join the army, do you want to be so thorough? People want to say that they came to see you on vacation, but now you have run to the barracks, a randomly assigned area! It's a good thing I asked your parents and knew you were here, otherwise I wouldn't have known where to send this letter.

Before joining the army, he said that he felt that studying this thing was boring, and it was not that he was not good at studying, except for high mathematics, he did not fail the subject, but he felt that learning itself was meaningless to him, so he wanted to be a soldier for two years and then come back to continue studying.

What about you? How did you come up with the idea of becoming a soldier?

It doesn't matter if you don't want to answer, after all, everyone should have their own secrets, we have such a good relationship, although I don't want to believe that you should have secrets, even for me, but I must admit that you have the right to keep secrets from anyone, even to me.

In fact, I haven't told you for so long, what I appreciate most about you is your independence and your strength, but you don't know that you often make people feel that you actually need protection and care.

I really want to care about you, but you always refuse my approach: ask you to eat but you refuse, buy you breakfast and share it with your roommate, you have a problem with your computer and would rather send it directly to the repair shop than ask me for help, and after your department dinner, I asked you to have a drink, but you also refused...... In the face of my constant rejection, I expressed my helplessness.

You're really a thorny rose, don't admit it, you're much more stubborn than Hua Wenke.

I'm not writing to you to talk about that nonsense, but mainly to tell you some things, these are all told to me by the senior who joined the army, but I heard him say that female soldiers are better than male soldiers, and the training intensity will not be as great as theirs, so I am still very relieved of you.

It's just that you have to pay attention to your temper, I know that many times conflicts don't happen what you want, but your temperament is really very straight, what to say, not in the barracks, you can only watch many things but can't say you know? Once it is said, no matter how reliable people are, they will become unreliable.

……

When the lights were about to go out, Qiao Jinghui put the letter back in the envelope, put it aside, and lay down to sleep.

The training is really not as cruel as she imagined, although sometimes it is still physically unbearable, but it is much easier than what she thought before she came, her company is all college students, and girls are always much weaker than boys, both psychologically and physically.

Everything is much better than expected, and it is not as terrifying as Qiao's mother and roommates said before coming, every day is just some ordinary training, eating, drinking, going to the toilet, bathing have to queue up, there is no longer a need for an alarm clock in the morning, sometimes there will be an emergency assembly in the early morning, and the company will be organized to go out camping and simulate operations every few days.

"Qiao Jinghui!"

"Here!"

"Get out of the line!"

Qiao Jinghui strode out of the ranks, holding her head high, neither humble nor arrogant - she respected these people who fought for the country, but she did not look up to her, she was sure that she did not belong here, but this was indeed an excellent place to train herself.

"Do you remember the password I just taught?"

"Nope!" Memory is her weakness, and it is really difficult for her to remember it in such a short period of time when she has taught ten passwords in a row and only teaches them once, and when the instructor starts to say the fourth, she has almost forgotten the first one.

The female instructor's expression was very serious: "Why didn't you remember clearly?" ”

"I don't have a good brain, it takes time and practice." Qiao Jinghui replied sincerely.

"And do you remember what I taught yesterday?"

"Remember!"

"Okay, I'll say you make one, and the others will show me carefully!"

This conversation basically has to appear every few days, in fact, the instructor didn't bother to ask Qiao Jinghui if she remembered what she just taught, because although Qiao Jinghui has a bad memory and can't remember a lot of things right away, she works very hard, she can practice all the things she has taught well, and among all the female soldiers, she is the most particular about posture, so she is also a model among female soldiers.

"Good! You're back in the team, have you seen it clearly? ”

Everyone replied in unison: "See clearly!" ”

"If you see it clearly, do it for me now!" After yesterday's password practice, the instructor ordered to run circles around the training ground, as usual, ten laps, and then gather and disband to eat.

At the beginning, it was a run-in-unison, and after three laps, some people obviously couldn't keep up, so the instructor let everyone run freely, Qiao Jinghui ran a marathon around the city in order to relieve the pressure of studying in the third year of high school, and it felt like running ten laps of the training ground.

Mei was originally following Qiao Jinghui, but after running freely, she was gradually left behind by Qiao Jinghui, ten laps is really a terrible length, and the instructor's requirements are not allowed to pause, every time you pause, you have to do ten push-ups, the instructor often says: "Being cruel to you now is to be cruel to you after you go to the battlefield, the enemy is not cruel to you!" ”

Mei heard this kind of words, Mei was almost calloused in her ears, but she couldn't show the slightest look of disdain, the instructor's eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and she couldn't hide anything.

After ten long laps, one or two more people were guilty and started doing push-ups, some did ten, some did more than twenty, and after the slow push-up punishment time passed, the sun was already hanging high in front of her, and Mei was glad that she had never done push-ups for this after that, except for one or two times when she had just arrived.

But so far, what she admires the most except for the instructor is Qiao Jinghui, and when Qiao Jinghui came, it happened to be when a few people in this class returned to school, so except for her and the other two girls, they were all female soldiers who had been here for a year.

Of the three new girls in the class, she was the most silent, but she was very kind and reliable, and she was often a model in the mouth of the instructor - of course, in addition to her memory, the instructor called her out so often in order to exercise her memory. Especially the commonplace ten-lap run, Qiao Jinghui has never done push-ups since the first time, and she was really unaccustomed to it at first, but after a few times, she became the first in the ten-lap run.

The company organized a chorus competition, and the instructor asked if anyone volunteered, and she raised her hand and said if she could try it, because she sang Yingshanhong in her freshman year, and then she also sang the middle ** soul of the class chorus in her sophomore year.

The instructor said one day that there was something wrong with her computer, and asked if anyone was in this major to take a look, and several people went at that time, but in vain, Qiao Jinghui thought about it and tried it, and it was triumphant! As a result, Mei asked, she was embarrassed to say that the instructor turned on the computer mode by mistake, and that mode was not unusable, but the instructor thought there was a problem so he asked them to help, she just changed the mode when she restarted.

But Mei was impressed by her, as a liberal arts student, Mei deeply respected engineering students, and no tricky problem was a problem in front of them!

So, Mei decided to find Qiao Jinghui if there was a problem with the electronic equipment in the future! This technology, leverage!

Mei and Qiao Jinghui sat together at noon, Mei's plate was always mostly cabbage and eggs, while Qiao Jinghui's plate was a variety of meats, sometimes a vegetable cake or something.

At first, Mei also asked her why she ate so much meat, which was not nutritious, it was full of fatty acids, but Qiao Jinghui said: "Training every day is so tiring, eat more meat to replenish your strength." ”

"Eggs are fine, too." Mei retorted unwillingly, obviously she has been here for a long time, okay, who knows the situation better? But after sneaking a glance at Qiao Jinghui's sturdy calves, Mei stopped talking.

Mei casually accosted: "You are the first in ten laps today!" ”

Qiao Jinghui didn't care and teased her: "You eat more meat, you can too." ”

"Don't, after people go back to school, they still have to be a soft girl!" Mei is talking about the voice of most girls, who would rather not be excellent than maintain a perfect body.

Qiao Jinghui shook her head helplessly, she couldn't casually say whether other people's ideas were right or wrong, even if she felt that it was better for girls to be tougher, so that they would not be bullied and would not have to rely on others to live.

"By the way, the instructor is really interested in you, every time he has to pump you out, you are about to become a pacesetter, you know?"

"Really? Whatever. She thinks that it would be nice if she could give more of this kind of "heart" to others, and she doesn't like to be constantly reminded that she has a bad memory.

"What's whatever, how can this be casual, you don't know that we didn't have time to catch our breath when we were training before you came, now it's okay," Mei Chaoqiao Jinghui frowned, "Now that you're here, it's our rest time when the instructor is training you!" She doesn't care what little actions she makes, we can laugh out loud even when we laugh! ”

Qiao Jinghui Khan, is this something to be happy about? Was it really okay for her to tell her about it......

"What do you say, laughing so happily." The instructor sat opposite the two of them with his own dinner plate, and in a serious tone during different trainings, the instructor in private was actually a very small woman.

Mei quickly stopped the topic and said with a grin: "We're talking about other people's instructors!" ”

"Oh? Which one? ”

"I just like you!" Mei squeezed her eyebrows at the instructor this time, and Qiao Jinghui smiled cooperatively while eating.

"Come less! Be careful, I'll punish you for doing push-ups later. The instructor threatened Mei with corporal punishment, and Mei immediately obediently shut her mouth, but her eyes showed that she was not dead yet.

"I seem to have asked you last time, I forgot, which school are you?" The instructor asked Qiao Jinghui.

Qiao Jinghui said: "Chengdu Institute of Information Engineering. ”

"Yes, yes, I just can't remember it all of a sudden."

Mei immediately interjected: "Instructor, you still said that people have a bad memory, and your memory is not good!" ”

"I remember so many things every day, it's normal to forget one or two things once in a while!"

"Well, I just forgot that someone had a crush, ah no, it's a clear love for you~"

Qiao Jinghui ate silently, Mei, you are dying, didn't you just say not to mention it? As a result, the instructor said, "Very good, you can't run thirty push-ups in the afternoon." ”

"Don't! Your memory shouldn't be spent on such trivial things, forget it! ”

"That's not good, I don't necessarily remember everything else so clearly, but I just remember the punishment or something, haha!"

In fact, life in the barracks is not boring, but most of the time is repeating what was done yesterday, like a workshop, constantly repeating an action. But it is not simply a workshop, because the talents it produces are not the same, everyone will have their own strengths and weaknesses, and more importantly, it is not only an individual who goes out here, but also the embodiment of a group.

Their female instructors are good-looking, and it is rare to get a white skin, the so-called white covers a hundred ugliness, there are actually several people who like instructors, and the most powerful is the instructor of another male soldier class.

The two enlisted in the army together, divided into different units, and the male instructor often sent some food and drink to the female instructor, but the female instructor had a light attitude towards him.

As for the reason, Qiao Jinghui felt that she should not be wrong, that's right, it's her looks!

She remembers that when she was in her junior year, Qiao's mother talked to her about falling in love on QQ, and Qiao's mother said: "There are good handsome people to talk about." ”

Qiao Jinghui said: "The good ones are basically not handsome, and I haven't met anyone who is good, handsome and likes me." ”

Qiao's mother: "There will be, I will meet it slowly, at least it must be pleasing to the eye, not short, dark and ugly." ”

Qiao Jinghui smiled, she felt that she was picky enough, what if she really liked the short, black and ugly one in the future? Dump it, others say that you love vanity, you may not meet it in the future, and you will be so good to you again, if you don't dump it, you and your mother can't get over it.

Then Qiao Jinghui knocked herself, can't it be over if you don't look for it? She's a bachelor anyway.

But why did she think of such a thing as falling in love, is she crazy? Or maybe it's because I haven't remembered someone for too long.

It's time to call again, Qiao Jinghui called Su Ling this time, the last time she called Hua Wen, she actually said that the service was suspended, it couldn't be in arrears, Hua Wen's parents would charge her account at any time, so I thought of asking Su Ling.

"Hey, who's that?"

Thankfully, fortunately she answered, Qiao Jinghui said, "It's me, I haven't contacted you for a long time, call me to ask." ”

Su Ling was stunned for a second, and then became excited: "Tell me how long it has been before you called me?" It's been more than half a year, and you haven't heard from you at all, and we don't even know where you've been assigned! Can you be a little responsible? Can you be a little self-conscious? Now you know how to call me! ”

Qiao Jinghui took the microphone away from her sonic bombardment, and then waited for her to finish speaking and came up to explain: "She didn't answer the phone call with Hua Wen last time, so I'll call you this time-"

"Hua Wen didn't answer you before she called me! Then if Hua Wen picks up, aren't you going to call me?! Su Ling was excited again.

"Oh, do you know her temper, if I call you first and then call her, she will definitely have an awkward situation again, you are tolerant, beautiful and kind, you won't care about this with me, right?" Qiao Jinghui tried to extinguish the flames.

"That's pretty much it." The flames were successfully extinguished.

"Is Hua Wen next to you?"

"No, I'm alone in the dormitory now."

"They went out shopping and haven't come back yet?" It's so late, and Xiaoqi doesn't look like he's going to go shopping with Hua Wen until that late.

"It's not." There was no trace of a smile in Su Ling's voice, "Hua Wen went to study abroad, so it's normal that you can't get through to her." ”

Qiao Jinghui was shocked, no one even told her what happened.

Su Ling continued: "This happened very suddenly, we didn't expect that one in the dormitory would go to another one soon, and when we came back after the summer vacation, Hua Wen's dormitory things were long gone, and then she called us and said to invite us to dinner, we learned that she had already completed all kinds of procedures to go to Italy during the summer vacation, and the things in the dormitory were also sent by her family to clean up during the summer vacation, and after eating, she asked the driver to take us back to school, and then we never saw her again." ”

It turned out that Hua Wen had planned to go to Italy during the summer vacation, but why didn't she tell her? At that time, they could still be contacted.

However, she still chooses to believe Hua Wen, after all, she has been together day and night for three years, and she still believes that the relationship between them is real and indestructible, so even if Hua Wen says goodbye, she can't guess, after all, everyone has a reason to make a decision, since Hua Wen didn't say that she didn't force it, just like she suddenly said that she didn't give any reason to come to the army, but everyone still blessed her, so as long as Hua Wen is good, it doesn't matter what the reason is.

Taking a deep breath, Qiao Jinghui forced herself to accept the sudden news as soon as possible, and then asked, "Did Xiaoqi go out with Wang Xiaoxi and haven't come back yet?" It's so late and it's not safe outside. ”

Su Ling shook her head on the other end of the phone, but she quickly realized that Qiao Jinghui couldn't see her shaking her head, so she said, "No, Xiaoqi is home." ”

"Home?" It's not a holiday now, what kind of home are you going to?

"Xiaoqi met an opportunity to go back to her hometown to work, so I went to try, these two days have just passed, first do it there for two months and then come back, after that, I will pack up my things and go directly to work, if not, I will probably stay in Sichuan."

"Well, what about you?"

"I," Su Ling smiled, "I don't have any lofty ideals, I'm going to take the graduate school entrance examination and then see what arrangements my family has, and I'm too lazy to change schools, so I'll take the graduate school entrance examination in our school, anyway, the requirements for this school are lower." ”

"So you're going to live alone now?"

"So what's not? There is no shortage of dormitories in the school, I will not be driven away until I graduate from my senior year, and I will move out when I graduate. ”

"Then if you want to find someone to share a house, you should be optimistic about people, and don't be cheated by others at that time."

"Xuejuan and Xiaotang are also going to be admitted to graduate school, so the three of us will go out to rent a house together. However, Xiaotang was admitted to Southwest University of Science and Technology, Xuejuan and I are the same, speaking of which, this Southwest University of Science and Technology is in your Mianyang! ”

"That's right, but I was still a little short of getting in, otherwise I would have stayed at Xi'an University of Science and Technology." Qiao Jinghui glanced at her watch, "The time is coming, don't talk about it, as for the rest, I'll see if there is a chance to log on to QQ on the instructor's computer next time to tell you, I'll hang up first." ”

"Well, bye-bye." After all, Qiao Jinghui went to be a soldier and was very strict in everything, but when she heard her say that she still had a chance to get the instructor's computer, it seemed that she was still mixing well over there, so she was relieved.

Hanging up the phone, Qiao Jinghui couldn't help but sigh with emotion, but it has only been more than half a year, and it has changed so much, everyone is busy with everything, the world keeps moving forward, you are rotating while others are also turning, no one remains in place, but she always hopes to go hand in hand with the person she wants to keep.

"Who was that?" May touched her shoulder.

"My roommate, I'm a senior now."

"Are you only a soldier for one year?"

Qiao Jinghui nodded, and Mei smiled: "I'll go with you~"

Qiao Jinghui smiled reluctantly and asked casually, "Then are you going to go back to college?" ”

"Sophomore, hee-hee!" Mei is always innocent, often reminds Qiao Jinghui of her cousin, youth is strength, "But I like you in Sichuan, I used to read a book called "Old Chengdu", I don't know who wrote it, I saw it in the school library, it's pretty good, I'm very impressed." ”

"Well, Chengdu is indeed a livable city, but I will recommend Mianyang to you, although there is no prosperous Chengdu, no Chengdu territory, no Chengdu passenger flow, and there are not so many scenic spots, but Mianyang traffic is better than Chengdu, the price is not as high as Chengdu, you can walk directly from Fucheng District to the city center, and we also have a very high admission rate, take the college entrance examination as an example, we Mianyang is the city with the most advancements and the highest admission rate, in terms of popularity, even many Chengdu people know Mianyang Middle School, Nanshan Middle School, Science City No. 1 Middle School, Dongchen is in Mianyang. Mianyang is also easily accessible by train and plane, and has a large passenger flow. ”

Mei looked at Qiao Jinghui in surprise and said so much in one breath, this was the first time she had taken the initiative to say so many things since she came here for so long, Mei said, "Are you homesick?" ”

"If you are thinking about the city to settle in, you might as well consider our Chengdu and Mianyang." Qiao Jinghui smiled and said that she was really homesick when it came to homesickness, but she didn't want to put everything on her face.

Mei patted her on the shoulder embarrassedly: "What are you talking about!" People are still in their sophomore year! ”

"If you weren't going to stay here for two years, you'd already be a senior......

"Then it's not so quick to think about these things." May pouted.

Qiao Jinghui teased her while crawling on the bed: "Look at you like this, you have someone you like." ”

"Hey! What nonsense! Be careful, I keep you awake. Mei slept under Qiao Jinghui's bed, as long as she shook the bed underneath, Qiao Jinghui would definitely not be able to sleep.

"Okay, let's go to bed quickly, I have to run tomorrow morning, and getting up so early every day is completely opposite to my previous life." Qiao Jinghui couldn't help but complain in order to divert Mei's attention.

"Like you program apes, you must be day and night, and your life is extremely chaotic!"

"You know ...... again"

"That's what people say."

Qiao Jinghui was silent, forget it, let's sleep.

At half past three in the morning, the whistle of the emergency assembly sounded, Qiao Jinghui and all the girls in the dormitory were all turned up, quickly put on clothes, pants, and combat boots, and the squad leader walked in and said: "Everyone bring your carrying equipment, hurry up!" ”

Qiao Jinghui quickly packed up all the things that should be brought and strode out of the door, and after everyone was assembled, the instructor said: "There is a certain scale of riots on the Tibetan border, because our company is relatively close, so we sent our troops over to support, although we are female soldiers, but we are not lagging behind, you know!" ”

"Yes!" The female soldiers replied in unison, uplifting, without the slightest feeling of sleepiness.

Tibet, Qiao Jinghui remembers that Hongchen is in Tibet......