Outside the parking lot of the Nightless City nightclub, Zhu/Dekang's Toyota overbearing parked in the parking space.

solemnly took out his mobile phone and dialed Wang Dazui's number.

"Big mouth, are you still at work?"

There was a faint sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling on the other end of the phone.

"Solemn, I'm sorry, I'm still at work, didn't I say two good points? You've arrived? ”

Zhuang Zheng wanted to say it, but he didn't know why, so he didn't say it in the end.

"No, I'm still talking about things at nine o'clock, and today I met an old squad leader, who used to be from our old Eighth Company, and now we are also doing things in Linhai, so let's get together later and have a drink."

Wang Dazui looked very happy on the other end of the phone: "Okay, okay, I haven't seen our comrades in the 1st Division for some days, alas, I miss it a lot." ”

"Okay, you get busy first, I'll come to you at two o'clock."

"You can come at half past one, I think talk to the manager and leave early."

"Okay, you get busy first."

Hanging up the phone, Zhu Dekang on the side asked solemnly: "Why don't you tell him directly that you have arrived?" ”

Zhuang Zhuang said: "Big Mouth is still at work, I don't want him to be embarrassed." ”

"Going to work?" Zhu/Dekang stretched out his head to look at the gate of the city that never sleeps, and said, "Hey, what kind of class are you still doing here!" Don't say it, I'll see him later, you ask him to stop doing it, go directly to work in my company, speaking of which, I still lack a driver, follow me, get to know more bosses, in the future I will show him the way, and it is much better to engage in sea production than he is here to work as a security guard......"

Solemn smiled: "You don't know Datong yet, can you trust him?" ”

Zhu / Dekang said disapprerovingly: "I don't know him, but I know you, I know what your solemn character is." Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. can be your friend, and the character can't be found anywhere. ”

solemnly said: "The old squad leader is talking a lot now, it seems that he has read a lot of books." ”

He knew that Zhu Dekang's cultural level was not high.

Back then, in the old Eighth Company, if he had a higher level of education, it is estimated that he would have been admitted to the military academy a long time ago, and he would not have been looking forward to working until the point of finally rolling up his backpack and leaving.

After the reunion tonight, solemnly felt that Zhu Dekang had changed in conversation.

In total, Zhu/Dekang was discharged from the army at the end of the year he went to the teaching team, and it has been eight years since he returned to the local government.

Eight years, the grinding of society is enough to change a person.

Hearing solemnly talk about his changes, Zhu/Dekang couldn't help but sigh with emotion, took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Zhuang Yan.

solemnly shook his head: "Quit it, and later when I went to the Red Arrow Brigade, I became a sniper, and I can't smoke anymore." ”

"You're a professional soldier now." Zhu/Dekang tapped the cigarette on the cigarette case, then rolled down the window, picked up the lighter and lit it.

He took a puff of white smoke and watched the smoke curl up from the side of the bed, and then be blown away by the night wind, and his expression became deep.

"Solemnly, don't you know how much I suffered from being uneducated when I first came back...... When I was in the army, didn't I have the courage to take the military school because I was uneducated, and when I returned to the place, I found that there were college students everywhere, why could you find a good job as a junior high school student? You think I want to set up a stall to sell fruit? What if you don't sell fruit? When I came back, a relative worked in the port authority, and said that their container company was recruiting workers, saying that it was a priority for veterans. I'm sorry I have to graduate from at least high school here, and junior college is preferred. ”

Speaking of this, You took a puff of cigarette and continued: "I just said, once I have been a soldier for several years, how can I have time to study? Didn't you say veterans first? People shook their heads and laughed and said I'm sorry, you don't meet our qualifications. ”

"I was kicked out like that...... Later, my relatives told me that in fact, they said that they were priority veterans, but in fact, it was just a disguise, in order to keep the signboard of the model unit that supported the army, and to make a show, just find a few veterans with a high level of education. I'm a ...... who has overstayed my service People don't look down on ......."

Zhuang Zhuang listened to it and felt a lot in his heart, and he didn't know how to comfort Zhu/Dekang.

Zhu Dekang said: "I later figured it out, my tone is to work for others, it is better to do it myself." So I went to set up a stall, and I didn't say anything in front of Vice Mayor Wang just now. Don't look at me now that I'm still a bullshit township entrepreneur in front of him, that's because I've succeeded. If you succeed, people will look up to you, and heroes don't ask where they come from. If I don't succeed, today do you think he, Vice Mayor Wang, will know who I am? Can I still sit down with him for dinner? Don't even think about it! ”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and solemnly persuaded: "Old squad leader, don't think about the past, think too much about yourself, you will be angry with yourself, and it is not worth it." ”

"Solemn." Zhu Dekang raised his head and looked at the night sky, with a little light flashing in the corners of his eyes: "I haven't found a confidant to talk to me about these things for many years." I don't say it in front of others, because I want face, and I think I'm ashamed of what I used to be. I set up a stall, people collected it for me, I took my discharge certificate and my military merit medal and my flood medal to deal with it, I said that I didn't have much discharge pay when I came back from the army, and the money was put into the fruit stand and tricycle, I said can we see that we have been soldiers for so many years, and we have sweated and shed blood for the country and the people, and we will be punished according to the minimum standards. ”

"I didn't think that other cadres would look at it, saying that during the creation of the guard, you went to the street to set up a stall, you knowingly committed a crime, how many times has this been publicized, saying that you can't go to the street to set up a stall recently, you are just adding chaos to the government, why is the ideological consciousness of your veterans so low?"

The solemn heart is extremely shocking.

After being a soldier for so many years, he has always lived a somewhat isolated training life in the army.

But he didn't know what happened to his comrades-in-arms who had returned home from the army.

He suddenly understood why Xu Xingguo, a person of his kind, had to wear that officer uniform so desperately.

It's not the same as yourself.

Becoming a soldier on his own was not intended as a path to change one's fate.

Compared with Xu Xingguo, he is actually quite lucky and happy.

For Xu Xingguo.

That's a life-changing way!

What about so many retired and transferred to other jobs every year, except for officers and non-commissioned officers who meet the conditions for arrangement?

What about the conscripts?

In the early years, there was a hard placement, but now there is no more, and you have to rely on yourself to go back.

Of course, there are good and bad ones.

I am afraid there are not many people who can mix it like Zhu/Dekang.

"Old squad leader, you're not going to beat people up, are you?" Solemnly teased half-jokingly.

He was thinking, if he was the same person back then, maybe he would really be unable to bear it!

"Punched!"

Zhu/Dekang took another sharp puff on the cigarette.

The cigarette burned behind the filter, and with a flick of his fingers, he flicked the butt of the cigarette far away, and then quickly took out another cigarette and lit it again for himself.

"I really beat that guy that day, if it wasn't for the large number of people present and stopped me, this grandson was afraid that he would have to go to the hospital to lie down for half a month. But now that I think about it, I was impulsive at that time, and if I really had something wrong at that time, I would have been in this life, and I wouldn't be where I am today. ”

"What happened to you?" Although Zhuang Zhuang knew that Zhu Dekang would definitely have no big things in the future, otherwise he would not have sat here today and talked to himself.

Still, I want to hear the end of this story.

Zhu Dekang said: "Someone at the scene called the police, and I was arrested by the police and locked up in the police station. I thought I was finished, and I didn't beg for mercy, anyway, I could judge how I loved...... Unexpectedly, the instructor of the police station at that time was a demobilized cadre, who happened to be on duty that day, heard about me from the policeman on duty, and then bought me a box of lunch and a bottle of mineral water, sent them to the detention room for me to eat, and talked to me through the iron door. I later learned that he was a demobilized cadre of the local 4th Division, and he used to be a political worker...... Hehe, when I think about it, there is still a lot of ideological work for political workers......"

"He told me, there is no endless road, and said that I have read your files, the 1st Division came out, what kind of unit is the 1st Division? That's a roaring ace division, the soldiers who come out of there should be good, why can't you get along with yourself at this point? If you really kill someone, you're going to be shot, it's worth it? ”

As he spoke, Zhu Dekang's tears couldn't stop and flowed down from the corners of his eyes.

"I cried that day, crying so much, crying while pulling food into my mouth, crying, my throat was like a blockage, I couldn't swallow it, I was so wronged! I have been a soldier for five years, I have never cried in five years of soldiering, I have no chance to take the military school, I have not cried; I didn't mention that I was discharged from the army, and I didn't cry; I didn't cry when I went to fight the flood and rescue it...... But I really cried that day, I didn't cry because I felt that life was hard, I wasn't afraid of hardship, but because I felt like a wretch, I, a soldier who was so good in the army, returned to the place and found that I was nothing, I didn't know anything but shoot and kill the enemy, the big man mixed with me like this, I can't even support myself, what kind of man is I! ”

He reached out and wiped the corners of his eyes vigorously, and then took another puff of his cigarette.

The smoke is gone again.

Zhu/De [fo] Kang flicked it off again, and then went to get the cigarette again.

solemnly stopped him: "Don't smoke too much, it's not good for your health." ”

Zhu Dekang said: "Bullshit, my grandfather smoked and lived to be ninety-four years old, my uncle didn't smoke, saying that my grandfather was too fierce and scared to smoke, but he quit smoking, and when he was sixty-two years old, he suddenly burst his blood veins, and people said that it was gone." “

When he heard this, he said no more.

Zhu Dekang's temperament was seen when he was a soldier, and he was as stubborn as a piece of iron.

"That's why you went to work as a fishmonger and then went into farming?" Solemnly asked.

Zhu Dekang said: "Well, I talked with the instructor for a long time that day, and then he interceded with me, and they let me go, and only paid for some medical expenses." After coming out, the things that had been detained were gone. The instructor said, "Isn't your hometown from Nanwan Island?" There are a lot of fishermen there, so you just go and get some seafood to sell in the city every day, and you can earn more than you sell fruits, and no one cares about you in the ghost place on the dock. ”

"He kind of showed me the way. After leaving the police station, I took my third-class merit medal and flood fighting medal, and went to the beach, it was already night, I squatted on the beach and thought about it by myself all night, and finally I threw the third-class merit medal and medal into the sea, went home and burned all my discharge documents, and burned all the fires...... I swear I'm going to do something to show others, and I can't let anyone else flatten. What is Man? Men are life, even if there is a mountain in front of me, I have to dig a way to walk over, even if I have a whole sea, I have to swim over, life you want to see my foreign appearance, I will give you some color! People die in the sky, and they don't die for thousands of years! ”

Solemnly looked at his old squad leader, who was already completely stunned.

Think about what it means to suffer that little bit?

The soldiers who have returned from the army are equivalent to going back to a new battlefield.

This battlefield is called "Society", and here, there is no smoke or bullets, but there are invisible thorns and jungles, and if you are not careful, you will trip over your head and break your blood, or even fall into the deep valley and break your bones.

This veteran who has served the longest in the eighth company, this man who was once called "Commander Pig" by the whole company, uses his stubborn personality to perfectly interpret what it means to "have a strong life that does not need to be explained"!