The streets of Tangshan, although still uneven, have regained a little vitality.

The surrounding coal mines and iron ore factories have been started one after another. The teams from the major military regions that came to provide disaster relief were evacuated one after another. Basically every division of the Huacheng Military Region sent a company over. The rest of the troops have already left, and the reconnaissance company of the mountain division is still on standby in the military division.

The morning exercise must be carried out as usual, led by several platoon leaders. The rest of the time is free, but must observe the discipline of the troops.

Wu Qingbo was a soldier in the second platoon and one squad, and on the night of the earthquake, he and another soldier in the first squad, Ran Dexing, escorted Li Xiaohong home. When it arrived, there was rubble everywhere, some people were crying and some were screaming, and there was no way to rescue them.

Wu Qingbo immediately began to organize: "Comrades, we are the Chinese People's Liberation Army, now, please stand in the middle of the road and beware of aftershocks." "These words are usually taught by the instructors.

At dawn, everyone finally found Li Xiaohong's parents, probably running out in quilts, and both were killed. In the evening, they accompanied Li Xiaohong, whose eyes were red from crying, and Zhang Chaodong, who kept comforting them, dragging their tired legs back to the grain depot. Immediately, they heard the news that the instructor was injured and his life and death were unknown. The fighters were silent, silently obeying the orders of the instructors every day in the grain depot.

Later, the unit was placed under the management of the local military division. Together with the rest of his comrades-in-arms in the company, he worked hard to vent his inner depression.

After that, there are not many places where troops are needed, and even if they do, it is the business of the engineering troops.

Today, two comrades-in-arms were playing chess, and a group of people were coaxing there: "Quick, pawn cross the river." ”

"What are you messing about?" The comrade-in-arms next to him shouted: "Big brother, don't tell me if you don't know how to play chess." Well, if you let him arch his pawn, the red horse will surely die. See the right, what are you doing when people eat horses! ”

The neck of the first speaker stalked: "I ate the car!" ”

"Bombardment!"

"I'm on horseback!"

"Comrade brother, he still has a cannon here!"

"Dead memorized!" The comrades-in-arms on the side immediately coaxed.

The man who was playing chess turned around and burst into a chestnut: "Yang Xingming, you stinky boy, if you don't make trouble with me, you have to let him do at least ten push-ups." ”

Looking at the gray sky, Wu Qingbo was a little listless: "Ran Dexing, go, go to the grain depot." ”

"Yo, Comrade Qingbo, your mind is not healthy, do you have a crush on that beautiful grain depot manager?" A comrade-in-arms next to him quipped.

"Go, come less. People have objects, don't you know Zhang Chaodong's kid? Is it good for us to call it a military and civilian fish and water situation? ”

"I've been a little tired for the past two days, and I don't want to move, so I'll just watch them play chess, you can go." Ran Dexing stuck out his head.

Zhang Chaodong's wife accompanies Li Xiaohong all day long, and he runs the production team and the grain depot every day. His house is gone, but it's being rebuilt. The grain in the middle of the granary is covered with canvas.

"Auntie, I'm here to see you." Wu Qingbo greeted him from afar.

"Comrade Qingbo is here?" Li Xiaohong smiled: "Auntie's ears themselves are not good, it seems to have been more serious in the past two days, she can't hear you." ”

"Wu Qingbo!" A voice sounded in the back. This? He was a little surprised, turned his head to look, tears welled up at once, and he turned around and stood upright: "Here, instructor." ”

Wu Shan returned the salute and looked at it with a smile: "Young man, what are you crying about." He patted Wu Qingbo on the back vigorously.

"No, instructor, I'm so happy."

"Comrade PLA is coming?" Zhang Chaodong actually got on his bicycle and just came back from the team with some food.

"Yes, fellow, you have a bicycle? Yo, permanently? Good brand. Wu Shan patted the sturdy young man on the back.

"Hehe," Zhang Chaodong smiled embarrassedly: "My family is in the suburbs, and it's inconvenient to come here every day, so I bought one with Xiaohong." ”

"Oh? You're not an employee here? Wu Shan furrowed his eyebrows.

Zhang Chaodong smiled: "No, my home is in the suburbs of the steep river reservoir." Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, there is time to come to us to eat fish, the fish in the lake are big and fat. ”

"Oh? Is the fish bought or what? "Wushan also wants the troops to improve their food, and southerners like to eat fish.

"Huh? No, quietly go and catch it yourself. Zhang Chaodong smiled embarrassedly.

"Instructor, this comrade Adong is very good. You don't know what to say, we were here to rescue and rescue the disaster those days. He had to take care of his girlfriend and mother, and he went out with us to help out and came back every day to help us cook. It seems that Zhang Chaodong has won Wu Qingbo's favor.

"Comrade, good." Wu Shan turned his head and asked, "Where is our camp?" ”

Wu Qingbo was waiting for Wushan's reply, but he couldn't think of changing the topic, and replied in a daze: "I moved to the military subdivision six days ago." ”

Wushan, who is familiar with history, after getting married, went home to see his parents and enjoyed a normal life as a person of this age. As for Sally, for well-known reasons, Wushan can't take her back to the mainland yet.

Wu Licui and his family have laid a good enough foundation in the market in Yixian County, and now they should go to Hong Kong Island to study. In fact, it is very simple, the material scarcity of this era, industrial products, especially light industrial products, are few and simple.

Wu Lixing's actions in the Yixian area have swept away a lot of poison in the special period, and their development speed is naturally rapid. However, the handicraft workshop could not keep up with the great industrial age. In the future, with the advent of reform and opening up, they will first learn things, and they will learn as much as they can.

If you want to come back, pull it down if you don't want to come back.

He was almost at home, and his body returned to the state it was in before the injury, and even he was surprised.

Taizu's death, Wushan wanted to experience it in person. Although as an ordinary soldier, the possibility that he can go in person is very small, and he will not even have a chance to look at it from afar.

People in Tangshan are always much closer than in Huacheng.

In the camp of the reconnaissance company, there was a lot of noise. Several fighters were washing clothes outside, and a familiar voice came from behind: "Why don't you put laundry detergent?" ”

"Soak it first, soak the dust up and put a little soap, and it will be clean when you rub it." As the soldier spoke, he turned his head and his voice changed: "Instructor! ”

Wu Shan nodded at them, put the whistle in his mouth and blew hard: "Urgently assemble!" ”

In less than a minute, the troops were assembled.

"Comrade instructor, our department should have 150 people, but it has reached 147 people, please instruct." Li Yuanjun was in charge of sorting out the queue.

"What's the situation?"

"Report instructor, Comrades Zhang Chengmu and Zhong Dayou sacrificed, and Comrade Li Qingbai amputated!"

"Homecoming!" Wushan's throat was a little choked, in the face of natural disasters, even he almost died, his life was so fragile. "Comrades, let us first observe a three-minute silence for our fallen comrades." Many comrades-in-arms are twitching their noses.

"Comrades," Wu Shan put on his hat: "My comrades-in-arms are there for the people, and I am as heavy as everyone else's heart." In the future, we must carry on their legacy and forge ahead. ”

"Comrade Wushan!" A voice interrupted Wu Shan's words, Xiao Jun came. After all, he is the head snake here, and he must know the Tao as soon as Wushan comes back. "Telegram from the Huacheng Military Region: The reconnaissance company of our mountain division is hereby ordered to stand by in place, and the Tangshan Military Division will make overall arrangements for the time being."

"Yes!"

"Then you go on with your own business, and we won't interfere with the usual training." Xiao Jun was very busy, and he didn't even have time to catch up with Wushan. As soon as the words fell, he hurried away.

The ambition when Wushan came back had been diluted by the death of his comrades.

Zhang Chengmu, a native of Zhaoqing District, East Guangdong Province, lives in the suburbs of Zhaoqing City. He is the second eldest in the family, the elder brother above is married, and there are two younger brothers and two younger sisters below, and his grandparents are alive, and the family is living a tight life.

On the day Wu Shan first became an instructor, he went to talk to the soldiers. When this honest southern man talked about the purpose of being a soldier, he scratched the back of his head for a long time, and finally said: "Instructor, my family is poor, and I come to serve as a soldier to reduce the burden on my family." At the same time, some allowances can be sent home every month to support the family. ”

Many soldiers were laughing and coaxing, although many of them came to serve as soldiers for the same purpose, but only this upright man said it. Our peasants are too poor.

Zhong Dayou, a native of Guigang, western Guangdong Province. The situation of his family is much better than that of Zhang Chengmu, because he has a father who is the secretary of the brigade. Of the three sons in the family, he is the eldest and the only one who has not started a family. His purpose as a soldier is very simple, that is, he wants to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and become a hero.

Wushan has never believed in ghosts and gods, at this moment, I hope that there will be ghosts and gods, and there will be a next life, and I can meet them at that time. What are comrades-in-arms? It's the one you trust to charge in front and the one who can block bullets in the back.

Handing over the troops to Li Yuanjun, Wushan walked aimlessly on the streets.

He begged the urns of the two soldiers from the chief of affairs. The chief of affairs is called Jin Liangyong, a native of Langxi, Wanzhou Province, and a veteran.

In fact, except for Wushan, the vast majority of the reconnaissance units of the former mountain brigade and the current mountain division are veterans.

Officers, especially even first-class officers, don't think much of Wushan and feel that he came up by connections. No matter how hard the relationship is, what is the use, in the army, it depends on solid skills.

On weekdays, between everyone and Wushan, it is all business. Slowly, everyone changed their opinion of this instructor who wanted to ride like a rocket. It is said that the instructor is doing political work, and he trains with the soldiers every day, rain or shine. Today, when I saw that Wushan was going to take the ashes, my good impression of Wushan suddenly rose again.

The relationship between people is like that, simple and unpretentious. Today's soldiers are very simple, like is like, hate is hate.

Ordinary soldiers have a very good impression of Wushan, most of them read little, and their family letters are written by others. They also couldn't read calligraphy, but after Wushan had written a letter according to their meaning, he would read it to them. Easy-to-understand family letters, good-looking words. Quan Lian became a sensation all of a sudden, and almost everyone knew that he would find an instructor to write a letter, and he wrote quickly and well.

The Kailuan Department Store is open again, and Wushan wants to buy some sacrificial supplies: "Comrade, do you have incense to sell?" ”

"What?"

"I'm going to buy incense."

"You southerners just talk for fun, comrades of the People's Liberation Army, you are buying perfume."

Wushan province came over, at this time, the four olds were broken, where is there a sale of incense on the mainland.

"Yes, yes, you said it's almost autumn, and there are still mosquitoes. Perfume is said to repel mosquitoes, so I'll buy some. ”

"Comrade, did someone else lie to you? It may be wormwood, but I would advise you to buy mosquito coils. ”

"That's fine. Then simply take ten boxes of mosquito coils, buy some candles, and have frequent power outages. If you want a bottle of liquor, come to Hengshui Laobaigan, two small wine glasses. ”

Behind the camp, there is a small dirt hill. It took less than a minute for Wushan to go from the barracks to the top of the mountain. The mountains here are so short that they can't be compared with those in the south.

The sun is about to set, the top of the mountain is overgrown with weeds, and there are really a lot of mosquitoes. Moreover, mosquitoes in the wild are more itchy than mosquitoes in the house, and a small pimple rises where they are scratched.

Put Zhang Chengmu's urn on the left and Zhong Dayou's on the right. Wushan lights a plate of mosquito coils in front of an urn. took out a photo with them before, and in the black and white photo, the two of them were smiling so happily. Two more candles were lit.

Wu Shan closed his eyes in pain, and tears flowed like beads of broken threads. He first covered his mouth with his hand and suppressed his crying. Later, I couldn't help it anymore and started crying.

"You two bastards, didn't I say I want everyone to live? Why did you leave so early? Do you know the way, I'm so sad. That's it, my brothers. I miss you so much, it's my fault, I shouldn't have brought you out. "There should be the Wushan factor, the role of this little butterfly is too great.

Wu Shan wiped away his tears, his eyes were hazy, and when he saw the smiling faces of the two people, he couldn't help but continue to cry: "Brother Zhang Chengmu, don't worry, I will help you provide for your family." Help your family repair the house and send your younger siblings to school. Don't you just want them to be successful? I'll help you. Wu Shan slapped his chest with a bang.

"Brother Zhong Dayou, what I am most angry about is you, your marksmanship is the first in the company, you said that you want to go to the battlefield to be a hero."

Wu Shan took out the wine glass and poured two glasses of wine: "Brothers, if there is a spirit in the sky, bless us." We'll help you kill your enemies on the battlefield. Come, I salute you. ”

Wushan drank half of it, and the other half fell to the ground. He choked on the pain in his throat because he had drunk too quickly, and he coughed hard in pain.

"I respect you too, brothers!" Wu Shan opened his swollen eyes from crying, and all of them came!

Jin Liangyong was holding up the wine glass, half of it was spilled on the ground, and half of it was drunk. The soldiers all took off their military caps and let out muffled cries.

"Comrades, brothers, although men shed blood without tears, but if they don't shed tears at this time, then they are not people!" Wu Shan lifted the rest of the wine, and his mood gradually calmed down, after all, he was the supreme commander here.

"Brothers, I honor you on your behalf." Wu Shan drank half of the liquor in one go, and then poured the other half on the ground: "Two of you, go all the way." He immediately put on his hat: "Salute!" ”

One hundred and forty-eight hands were solemnly raised.