The army welcomes recruits, and the busiest unit is the cooking class, and I have long known that the recruits will arrive today, and the chefs of the cooking class have started to prepare early. Now it is the time for veterans to retire from the army, a considerable number of veterans have been discharged home, and there are two soldiers in the cooking class who have been discharged. I thought that the recruits would be in place at one or two o'clock in the afternoon at most, but until the sun went down, there was no one to be seen, so the meal was hot and hot.

It wasn't until the sound of the "musicians" arranged by the seventh squad leader came from outside that the secretary and the cooking squad leader immediately realized that these recruits had finally arrived in place. The secretary chief, who was originally sitting at the table in the dining room and fiddling with nail clippers, jumped up like a rabbit that had been shot, and yelled: "Coming, coming, squad leader Yu, hurry up, move things out, see if there is anything cold, and if there is cold, it will be hot again." ”

The so-called squad leader Yu is the cooking squad leader, a Shanghainese, but he is very different from the kind of little man in Shanghai who is staged in the sketch, and he is in a hurry to do his work. As soon as the secretary's voice was opened, the squad leader was already busy, and while carrying things out, he shouted: "Secretary, this thing has been hot three or four times, and it can't be hot anymore." If it's hot, you won't be able to eat it anymore. ”

"......," the expression on the secretary's face froze, "Have you been hot three or four times?" ”

"If you don't believe me, come and see for yourself, the green peppers are all hot and yellow."

"Forget it, put it on, you can't blame us, who made those recruits late." The secretary stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, said curtly, and turned around and walked out of the cafeteria.

The sound of gongs and drums outside the cafeteria had stopped, and more than 100 recruits were noisily lining up in a line, ready to be assigned to each class. Speaking of Guo Peng, the recruit company commander, he is actually quite efficient, and in less than twenty minutes, these recruits have been divided. Beside him, there were more than a dozen veterans standing upright, Cheng Zhichao and Zhao Jiyong knew in their hearts, these veterans were the legendary recruit squad leader, that is, the first squad leader who entered the barracks.

Guo Peng put his hands behind his back, coughed twice, and said loudly: "Listen to it, now the squad leaders have begun to roll call, and those who hear their names will stand up." Those who are not named are not allowed to move. Do you hear that? ”

After finishing speaking, his two eyes stared at Cheng Zhichao and the others without blinking. But after waiting for a long time, I didn't hear the response of these recruits, and the company commander's brows furrowed again, and he crossed his hands on his hips and shouted: "I talk to you, are you deaf or dumb?" ”

A group of recruits were startled, the first reaction was that the company commander was angry, and the second reaction was that the consequences were very strict. These people usually have little contact with the soldiers at home, and even if they claim to know something, most of them are familiar with movies and television. In everyone's impression, the average recruit company commander is the kind of master who can kill a group of raw melons and eggs with just his eyes, Guo Peng roared like this, no matter whether he understood the rules or not, he immediately raised his chest high, and responded loudly: "I heard it"

More than a hundred people shouted these three words at the same time, which sounded quite imposing, Guo Peng's eyebrows jumped twice, his tense face relaxed slightly, and waved his hand to the recruit squad leaders beside him: "You guys start ordering people, move quickly, and finish ordering people to eat." The first squad leader came first. ”

As he spoke, a squad leader stepped forward. Cheng Zhichao fixed his eyes and saw that this squad leader was Gu Chuancheng, who was quite unpleasant with him in the car, watching his eyes sweep around the crowd, and when he turned to Cheng Zhichao, he snorted lightly, lowered his head and glanced at the list in his hand, raised his head and fell on Cheng Zhichao's body, with a helpless face, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Cheng Zhichao ......"

"I x" Cheng Zhichao's heart beat wildly, he was really afraid of something. He knew that Gu Chuancheng didn't treat him very well, and at the same time, he didn't have a good impression of Gu Chuancheng, just now when Guo Peng and Instructor Lin Haitao were discussing the distribution of the list together, he secretly prayed that he could be assigned to any class, as long as he was not assigned to Gu Chuancheng's hands, it would be OK. Unexpectedly, the sky was eyeless, and Guo Peng didn't know whether it was unintentional or unintentional, so he assigned him to Gu Chuancheng's men.

After counting Cheng Zhichao's name, Gu Chuancheng's roll call was obviously much faster, and in less than half a minute, there were more than a dozen recruits of different heights standing next to Gu Da's squad leader. and Cheng Zhichao were assigned to a class together with Xu Dashan, which is relatively familiar, in the entire first class, only Cheng Zhichao and Xu Dashan were soldiers in the Northeast, and the others were Tangshan soldiers. When Zhao Jiyong took the college entrance examination, he was not as lucky as Cheng Zhichao, but now he is much luckier than Cheng Zhichao, and this guy was assigned to Class 5. ,

Judging from the physiognomy, the fifth squad leader is definitely much easier to get along with than Gu Chuancheng, Cheng Zhichao stood in the crowd and peeked at Zhao Jiyong's triumphant appearance, and he couldn't wait to rush out and kick him hard in the ass.

More than 100 people, say too much, say a lot less, and it took more than ten minutes before the grouping was completed.

During this period, Guo Peng kept his waist crossed without saying a word, until after the grouping was completed, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, clapped his hands, and said: "Okay, okay, the division of classes means that one of your feet has entered the barracks, please note that it is just one foot entering." In the next few months, it will be the time for the real competition, whether it is a hero or a bad seed, it will be clear at a glance. Welcome, everyone, now the meal is open, after eating, the squad leaders will take their own people back to the dormitory to sleep, but I have to remind you first, this is the south, but there is no heating, you must be mentally prepared. Okay, line up to the cafeteria, start eating. ”

Tossing up to now, only this sentence has greatly boosted the morale of Cheng Zhichao and others, and under the leadership of the squad leader, they walked into the canteen in a line. At this time, the comrades of the cooking class had already put the meal on the table, hot and cold, and six dishes, although there were not many dishes, but they were all packed in pots, full of portions, and a pot of tomato and egg soup was taken out.

These people have been hanging in the car for several days, and they have been feeding their hunger on boxed lunches, and they have long been sick to their stomachs. Now when they see the steaming meal, both eyes emit a wolf-like light, and it is at this time that they learn the first rule they have learned since joining the army - when eating, they must wait for the squad leader to start using chopsticks before they can eat. And once the squad leader puts down the chopsticks, no matter whether they are full or not, others must also put down the chopsticks.

In this way, it will be difficult for these new recruits who have just entered the barracks, the veterans are already eating fast, and before Xu Dashan and others can react, Gu Chuancheng's bowl has already gone down halfway. After they finished half a bowl of rice, Gu Chuancheng had eaten and drunk enough and put down his chopsticks.

He put down his chopsticks, and the others had to follow suit, puffing out their cheeks and chewing on what was in their mouths, while staring at him with wide eyes.

Gu Chuancheng looked around, and finally looked at the empty bowl in front of Cheng Zhichao, and actually laughed: "I can't see it, you eat quite fast." ”

Cheng Zhichao was not to be outdone, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his mouth, and said with a smile: "I understand the rules, eating is fighting." Since I am determined to dedicate myself to national defense, of course I must do everything well. ”

"You know the." Gu Chuancheng snorted coldly, and turned his gaze to others again. When he was talking to Cheng Zhichao, although he was smiling, his eyes were full of cold light. But when he looked at others, his eyes softened a lot: "You have just come to the army, and you are not yet used to the rhythm of the army, don't waste food, eat all the rice in the bowl first." Next time, remember to eat as much as you want. ”

A group of recruits are about to be amnesty, and they have picked up their jobs again. Gu Chuancheng looked at Cheng Zhichao obliquely: "After taking the train for several days, I can't eat or sleep, I can't finally eat a full meal, and you won't eat a bowl anymore?" ”

Cheng Zhichao was secretly alert in his heart, and shook his head: "Report to the squad leader, I have a small amount of rice, and a bowl of rice is enough." ”

Gu Chuancheng nodded and did not speak.

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After eating, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. After Guo Peng handed over the recruits to the squad leaders, he and Lin Haitao disappeared. These squad leaders seemed to have a lot of experience in leading troops, and they didn't need to make arrangements, and directly led their soldiers back to the pre-arranged dormitory. Until this time, there was no call to the black hole, as soon as I entered the house, a cold humidity came to my face, it seems that this dormitory has not been inhabited for a long time, and Cheng Zhichao almost does not feel the slightest popularity.

Gu Chuancheng took out a lighter from his pocket, and while groping for the candle on the table, he said: "You are lucky, you are the first recruit to come here for training, so the dormitory is also the best." If you want to live in such a good dormitory in the future, it will be difficult. ”

Xu Dashan grinned and gasped - such conditions are quite good, then I don't know what other dormitories are like.

While speaking, Gu Chuancheng had already lit the candle, tilted his head and looked at it twice, as if he felt that the room was not bright enough, so he lit another one, and the room finally lit up, Xu Dashan and Cheng Zhichao and others could see the situation in the room clearly. ,

Of course, there are two rows of double bunk beds, the beds are welded with steel pipes, and each bed has a small ladder for people sleeping on the top bunks to climb around. Since no one has moved in yet, there is only a thick straw curtain on the bed board, which looks shocking. In the whole room, there is only one table, located under the window, and this table is needless to say that it is for Gu Chuancheng's exclusive use. In the direction of the door, an iron shelf is placed on one side, and several iron cabinets are placed on the other side. Other than that, there was nothing else in the house.

Gu Chuancheng walked to the table, stretched out his hand and pulled over a chair and sat down, coughed twice, and said: "Now start the timer, ten minutes, put the toiletries on the iron shelf at the door, find an iron cabinet for each change of clothes and put it in, and then find a bed by yourself, untie the backpack, and make the bed." ”

After a pause, he added: "Remember, although you have not been awarded a title now, you have already entered the barracks, and you must demand yourself according to the standards of a soldier, everything is neatly arranged, and the toothbrush handle is always facing the door." ”

Cheng Zhichao touched his head, always felt that something was not right, and was stunned for a while, before he realized that something was wrong, and couldn't help asking: "Squad leader, don't you help us arrange it?" ”

"Arrange what?" Gu Chuancheng didn't even look at him, and said coldly: "Didn't you just graduate from kindergarten, all of you are eighteen or nineteen, and you are in your twenties, and you still don't understand this matter?" I'm tired, take a break, and don't have time to mind your business. ”

"I'm x, this squad leader is too good." Cheng Zhichao pursed his lips, Xu Dashan walked with him all the way, and he also cultivated some feelings, for fear that he would talk more and make Gu Chuancheng angry, so he hurriedly pulled him, gave him a look, and said with a smile: "The squad leader said let us find our own beds, how about it?" Let's sleep in the same bed? ”

"Whatever." Cheng Zhichao was excited. Since he was caught out of the classroom by Cheng Weiguo, until now, Master Cheng's mood can be described as ups and downs. First pain, then loss, and finally resignation, and then I felt that there was nothing bad about being a soldier, especially when I thought that I could become a "comrade-in-arms" with the old man, I felt inexplicably excited. Now seeing Gu Chuancheng's appearance, he suddenly feels that this soldier is really meaningless, even if he doesn't come to be this soldier, as long as he can hold it, he doesn't accept Zheng Huaizhu and Fang Yueyuan's yin, and does things according to his own thoughts, it may not be as terrible as the old man said.

Xu Dashan didn't know what he was thinking, so he smiled: "Okay, then let's sleep in the same bed, do you sleep in the upper bunk or the lower bunk?" ”

"Let's go to the top bunk." Cheng Zhichao smiled and said: "The upper bunk is so high, you don't seem to have slept on the upper bunk, if it falls, it will be terrible, I don't care, I have slept on the upper bunk, and I will definitely not fall down." ”

Xu Dashan's old face turned red, thinking that Cheng Zhichao was making fun of himself, and he was speechless. He didn't know that Cheng Zhichao was very serious in what he said, the bed was only more than one meter wide, and it was just welded a railing-like thing at each end to resist it slightly. In Cheng Zhichao's impression, there was a Hunan soldier in the guard company, and he didn't know whether he was sleeping or turning over too much at night, and he fell off the top bunk. The bed of the old man who was born was still the one by the window, and I don't know how this one fell, and his foot happened to be inserted into the heating pipe, and the result was that this Hunan brother spent the winter directly in the hospital.

As soon as he saw the top bunk in the future, Cheng Zhichao couldn't help but think of the unlucky Hunan buddy, for fear that Xu Dashan would follow in his footsteps, so he found a bed and hurriedly put his backpack on the top bunk. After Xu Dashan listened to his words, he originally wanted to grab the upper bunk with him, but the action was not as fast as Cheng Zhichao, and when he walked to the bedside, Cheng Zhichao had already unfolded his backpack and had to return to the lower bunk. While making the bed, he looked at Cheng Zhichao.

I saw that after Cheng Zhichao unfolded the backpack, the backpack rope was not put away, but pulled between the two iron railings at the head and foot of the bed. In this way, the two iron railings that were originally a large piece of space in the middle were connected into a whole by him with a backpack rope.

Gu Chuancheng also kept watching him busy and didn't say a word. Until Cheng Zhichao finished tying up all the backpack ropes, clapped his hands, and whispered: "It's done." When he began to tidy up his housework triumphantly, he slowly stood up, walked to Cheng Zhichao's bedside, stretched out two fingers to hook the backpack rope, pulled it twice, and raised his chin: "Cheng Zhichao, what are you doing?" ”,

When he walked to the bedside, Cheng Zhichao already felt that something was wrong, and when he stretched out his hand to pull the backpack rope, Cheng Zhichao was already sure that this guy had something to do. If it were in normal times, he really wouldn't have taken this bullish little non-commissioned officer seriously, but now he is short and has to bow his head. Hearing his question, he hurriedly replied respectfully: "Squad leader, there is such a large piece between these two railings, I am afraid that if I don't pay attention to it when I sleep at night, I will not be afraid to stop it with a backpack rope." ”

Gu Chuancheng pulled the backpack rope twice: "It's hard for you to come up with this idea and learn it from those veteran oilers, right?" ”

Cheng Zhichao said "ah", I don't know what he meant, but he secretly laughed in his heart, no matter whether Gu Chuancheng's sentence "veteran oil" is positive or negative, in short, in Cheng Zhichao's eyes, Gu Chuancheng's military age can barely afford these four words.

I saw that Gu Chuancheng suddenly became stern, and said loudly: "Cheng Zhichao, it is understandable that others do not know, but it is said that you have lived in the army compound since you were a child, and you should have a certain understanding of the life of the army, don't you know that as a soldier, the first element is to keep internal affairs clean and tidy?" In the whole dormitory, no one else does it, just you make it like this, what do you want to do? Immediately dismantled"

Although Cheng Zhichao didn't put him in his eyes in his heart, Gu Chuancheng's last four words were very vigorous, Rao is Cheng Zhichao is well-informed and has experienced countless big scenes, but he was still taken aback, and hurriedly untied the backpack rope again, rolled it into a roll, and put it in his own iron cabinet.

Gu Chuancheng didn't expect him to be so obedient, he was stunned for a moment, snorted coldly, checked around the dormitory, and found that most of the people had already unfolded their luggage and stood by the bed waiting for their instructions. He tossed for several days, and he was so tired that he mustered up his energy to put the squad leader's frame full of energy, and if he was asked to put it down, it wouldn't take long to show his stuffing, sighed, and said: "Okay, okay, don't stand there, training will start tomorrow, let's rest early." ”

Cheng Zhichao didn't say a word, turned over and got into bed, and fell asleep.