Yun Su listened to the Cantonese Mandarin of Squad Leader Mo while learning from the first few recruits to grind the quilt.

"When I was in a meeting, I said that it was quite standard, but when I was free, the tone changed. Why are these Cantonese Yankees so tired of speaking Mandarin? As he spoke, his voice became hoarse, and he coughed incessantly. "I was wandering when a whistle sounded outside.

"It's time to eat. The east (west) system is collected, and the board is hidden under the quilt. The speed should be fast, gather outside, hurry up, Cheng Bingsheng, you stand first, Yunsu second, Luo Ji third, Liang Gao fourth, Huang Yong fifth, Wu Bofei sixth, Fang Ruiyu seventh, Li Yingwei eighth, Zhang Qing last. Look to the right, look forward, turn right, turn right and run and walk, one-two-one. Squad Leader Mo estimated that he was hungry, and in less than two minutes, a series of orders were issued, and he rushed to the cafeteria with the recruits of the fifth squad.

"Sit!" After entering the cafeteria, squad leader Mo skillfully led the recruits to stand around a round table, and only after all the soldiers had arrived did the company leader give instructions. All this is spontaneous, not to mention how smart it is to be a soldier, at least there are no fools, the squad leader does not sit, you dare to sit? Why don't you sit down and give it a try?

"Will there be a worm feast? There are many insects and snakes in this Baiyue land, although I am not taboo, I also swallowed snake gall bladder when I was a child, but I have never eaten insects, I have seen some related introductions in books and TV before, what fried maggots, fried scorpions, braised snake meat or something, well, snake meat is not bad, but it is too stiff, and there is no umami to eat. Yun Su looked at the greasy round table in front of him and thought blindly.

Soon a soldier served the dish, the four vegetables and one meat were all normal, a flat fish like a Wuchang fish was lying in the middle of the dish, a few vegetarian dishes next to it, but there was a dish, Yunsu had never seen it, looking at the hollow green inside was very much like a plastic pipe in a plant. The rice is also served by others, and a large pot of rice can top Yunsu's daily meal at home.

"Today's situation is special, I have to add it by myself when there is less rice, there are rice buckets at the door, and there are soup buckets. After a while of the extra meal, I went out and poured it out, and there was a swill bucket outside. Starting tomorrow every day before eating, two people from each class will go to the cafeteria to prepare dishes and chopsticks and meals, and then they will have to send people to help cook every once in a while. Squad Leader Mo put a piece of fish meat into the bowl, and after saying it quickly, he stopped talking and buried himself in the fight.

The quality of the recruits in the fifth class is okay, they are very harmonious when eating, and there is no phenomenon of wind and clouds, probably because they have not yet started training, and they have just come to a new place, and they all have their own personalities and want to give a good impression on the new squad leader. The people who finished eating first did not leave, and those who finished eating later also ate like a market, and everything revolved around the squad leader's unhurried and slow eating speed. When Squad Leader Mo finished eating and put down the dishes and chopsticks with satisfaction, the others also put down the dishes and chopsticks one after another.

"Tomorrow, Fang Ruiyu and Liang Gao will come over twenty minutes in advance to prepare the dishes and chopsticks, after eating, the two of you will put away the dishes and chopsticks, and I will discharge the attendance list for the others, you just follow the table." Gone, someone here is here to clean up today. After Squad Leader Mo finished speaking, he found a toothpick and walked out of the cafeteria while picking his teeth. Yunsu and the others hurriedly followed.

There was nothing to say in the afternoon, and the routine training, because all the recruits arrived, the company specially arranged for the squad leader to take the recruits of each class to chat in the lounge to promote the recruits to know each other and understand each other. In fact, basically all classes have carried out a vigorous quilt grinding movement, for a time the company was silent, where can you hear the sound of chatter, you can only see recruits from time to time with cups out to receive water, hear the sound of Slasla's quilt grinding.

From the afternoon to the evening, after dinner, the squad leaders still consciously returned to the squad with the recruits, and did not follow the activity time stipulated by the company. It wasn't until more than ten days later that Yunsu learned that every year the recruit company of the Longcheng detachment had recruits fleeing the unit because of the poor training ground and the instructor's training being too serious.

In addition, in the past few years, the armed forces have been disarmed, and the central authorities have demanded that the quality of military personnel be improved, not only to have excellent military quality, but also to have a connotation higher than that of ordinary people, not to engage in business, and not to disturb the people. At the same time, we should lay a solid foundation and use the training of new recruits as a template to train a new generation of high-quality basic companies that meet the requirements of modern warfare. In these contexts, the squad leaders of the recruit company took care of the recruits in the palm of their hands like the girls of their own family, and even watched them in the room.

Before coming to be a soldier, Yunsu also heard from his father's friends who had been soldiers that it was normal for veterans to beat new recruits in the army, and if the training was not good, they would fight; disobedient, hit; Doing things procrastinately, fighting; Deserter...... Close the small black house. In short, in their descriptions, the treatment of recruits in the army is that of inhuman third-class citizens...... As for the comradeship, steel feelings, the uncles are also full of praise, praising the past green years.

At half past nine in the evening, the whistle sounded, and the assembly was called. The roll call is located on the small playground outside the cafeteria. There are twelve squads of recruits in the new third company of the Longcheng detachment, and the small playground is packed. The roll call alone took several minutes.

The company commander and instructor made a few requests. The company captain has a flat head, is not tall, has a Chinese face, knife eyebrows, a collapsed nose bridge, wide and thick lips, and a powerful force. The instructor, looking at his face, was forty years old, as tall as the company commander, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and did not smile, and the tone of the two supervisors was diametrically opposed. The company commander was fast and urgent, like a machine gun sweeping short and powerful, and everyone could not raise their heads. The instructor is slow and methodical, like a dark cloud covering the sun, and there is nowhere to escape if you want to. The two sang and harmonized, and a few simple words showed their level. The recruits below also have a general understanding of the attitudes of the two dragon leaders. To sum it up, it is a sentence, "The company is a family, and the creation depends on everyone." ”

Back in the dormitory, the recruits naturally chatted together according to the regional relationship, although Squad Leader Mo deliberately broke up the bed, but the accent was familiar, which naturally made the recruits close to their fellow countrymen. As a last resort, squad leader Mo had no choice but to let the recruits wash up in advance and prepare for bed.

At ten o'clock, the whistle blew. Three long sounds, which means the end of the day. The lively compound suddenly fell silent. The moonlight shone obliquely on the eaves and shadowed the branches of the elm trees, casting mottled shadows on the glass, like the barbed wire of a prison. With the autumn wind blowing in the night, the branches swayed, and those mottled shadows also shook, Yunsu lay on the bed and couldn't sleep, he was eliminated in the exam-oriented education, in order to find another way out, came to the army, and was lying in the barracks more than a thousand kilometers away from home at this time. Looking at the shaking tree shadows, thinking of the big hand raised by the old father outside the train station, the tree shadows swayed, rubbing repeatedly on Yunsu's heart, grinding away his fragile strength, tears ...... Fall silently.

On the second day, early in the morning, the sky was not yet bright, the morning star had just set, the bright moon hung obliquely, and there was no brightness at night. A huge shadow blocks the place where the sun comes out, it is a lonely mountain outside the compound, this lonely mountain stands on the side of the Longjiang River, opposite to the compound of the recruit company, the sun will rise from behind this lonely mountain every morning, so this lonely mountain will always be gilded by the sun in the early morning, which is extraordinarily magnificent. In mid-October, the weather turned cooler and getting colder. Although Longcheng is in the south, the weather is hot and dry during the day, but the temperature difference between morning and evening is quite large, and the temperature in the early morning is more than ten degrees. It was the best temperature for sleep, and the barracks was quiet, only a few squad leaders who got up early washed there, and occasionally the sound of water could be heard.

Yunsu has also woken up, lying on the bed with his eyes open and looking at the elm tree outside the window, listening to the chatter of the people who are washing outside, intentionally or unintentionally, feeling the leisure and quiet of the early morning, he sighed softly, and then pulled the quilt, buried his head in the quilt, looking back at what his father said to him in the dream last night, mixed feelings, very strange, I dreamed in the past, I always can't remember, and last night's dream is so clear, as if it really happened.

"Son, your mother and I are fine, you have to work hard in the barracks, you may hate me for being so ruthless, send you to be a soldier, I don't expect you to forgive me, as long as you can be safe in the barracks, you can find a job when you come back, and live a life of worry-free food and clothing for a lifetime, your father and I are incompetent, and I can't give you better conditions, only this ability, send you to be a soldier." After speaking, his father turned around and left, Yunsu called out to his father, trying to hold him, but he couldn't walk, until he woke up, only to find that it was a dream.

At six o'clock, the wake-up call sounded, melodious and tactful, and the squad leader Mo, who had already finished washing, stood at the door and banged on the door, shouting loudly: "Get up!" "There was a rush in the room, dressing, folding quilts, babbling, full of panic, busyness and all kinds of emotions among the recruits. Yun Su sat up silently, wiped away the tears from last night, rubbed his swollen eyes, and joined the army of getting up.

"What else to fold the quilt, hurry up and get dressed, hurry, hurry, come back and clean up the bed after the morning exercise." Squad Leader Mo shouted Cantonese Mandarin at the top of his voice, and his voice began to be hoarse again.

"Look to the right, look forward, count, turn right, turn right and run and walk, one-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-three-four!" In less than two minutes, the recruits in the squad were pulled out by Squad Leader Mo, and they were taken to the square before their clothes were neatly dressed.

This is Yunsu's first day of exercise after enlisting in the army, he doesn't understand what it means, he just feels curious, Squad Leader Mo is so urging, even more urgent than yesterday's noon before dinner, it must be very important. The fifth class came very early, and there was a squad standing on the playground, and squad leader Mo took the fifth squad to the side of the squad to stand up, and then turned back and signaled the recruits to tidy up their clothes and appearance. After about five minutes, the playground was full of people, and all twelve classes of recruits had arrived.