At night, there is silence in the small bungalows on the hillside.

In the dim light, Zhu Dekang lay on the bed with martial arts as usual and watched with relish.

In the distance, there were various passwords from the training ground, and the soldiers of the Eighth Company were training at night.

When it was almost time to wrap up, Zhuang Zhuang walked into the door sweating profusely in a vest, carrying a bucket and a change of clothes, and was about to take a shower, but was stopped.

"Hey! Wait a minute. ”

Zhu Dekang put it down, sat on the edge of the bed, and pointed to the small bench in front of him.

"Sit down, I've got something to tell you."

Solemnly hesitated for a moment, put down the bucket, and sat down on the small bench in an orderly manner.

Zhu Dekang asked: "You just went to training"

"Well, squad leader Li is also there." Zheng Zheng said: "He said that I am not stable in holding the gun, and there is still something wrong with the standing shooting in the second practice, so I trained my hand strength all night tonight, and my hands are sore." ”

"It's a trivial matter to be sour, and your current training intensity is really a piece of cake." Zhu Dekang stretched out nonchalantly and said, "Today I went to the company commander and asked him to approve the members of the cooking squad to also participate in the selection of the pre-promotion squad leader of the teaching brigade. ”

"What!" Solemnity didn't come back to his senses for a moment.

"I said, I'll go to him and ask him to approve the cooking class to participate in the selection as well, but he hasn't agreed yet." Zhu Dekang said: "This matter is estimated to be discussed with the instructor and the deputy company commander, and it is estimated that there will be results in the next two days, so don't relax, from tomorrow, I will take you to train together, as long as you listen to me and practice hard, I guarantee that you are no worse than any squad platoon!" ”

Solemn understood this time.

But he couldn't understand why Zhu Dekang wanted to help him so much.

If this veteran was provoked just because of Chen Qingming's contempt for the cooking class at noon today, then at that time, he had already completely swollen Chen Qingming's face with his military quality of absolutely dominating the whole company.

There was no need for him to personally go to the company commander for the sake of a recruit who had only known him for more than a week.

"Squad leader ......" solemnity is a little embarrassed, if the cooking class is included in the selection scope of the teaching brigade, the biggest beneficiary is solemn.

"Are you wondering why I helped you," Zhu Dekang asked.

Nodding solemnly, he didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

Zhu Dekang bit his lip, as if making a choice.

After a few seconds, he made up his mind and said, "It's not your fault that the pig is dead." ”

"What" solemn mind couldn't turn again.

How did this suddenly pull from the selection of the teaching brigade to the pigs

"Actually, it's probably my fault that the pigs died...... Zhu Dekang said, "I fed them a little before you came...... Stuffed with something weird...... Actually, I just want to do an experiment......"

Zhuang Zheng looked at Zhu Dekang with a surprised face.

Ate something weird

What the hell is a strange thing

"Old squad leader...... You say those pigs...... I died because I ate something strange."

Zhu Dekang shrugged: "Actually, when I thought about it later, I felt that there was such a possibility. ”

Solemnly asked, "What did they eat?"

Zhu Dekang had an unnatural expression on his face, and said, "My hometown is on an island, and when I went back to visit my home this year, the relatives on the island killed pigs, and the meat was particularly delicious, with a kind of seawater umami......

Zhuang Zheng had already guessed what Zhu Dekang was going to say.

"Old squad leader, you probably fed the pigs something from the sea?"

Zhu Dekang swallowed his saliva and said: "Some time ago, there was a lot of seaweed and other things on the beach in front of the water police station, and a large piece washed up on the coast, I thought that it was similar to grass, so I brought some back by the way when I went there to collect water......

"I see...... Zhuang Zhuang almost didn't laugh out loud, and said, "You got all those things back and gave them to the pigs, right?"

At this time, Zhu Dekang lost the momentum of a veteran, like a schoolboy who did something wrong, scratched his head and said: "Well, I did take it back and feed the pigs, and after feeding them for a while, then the pigs were a little strained, so I didn't feed them again, I thought it was just eating bad stomach, but I didn't expect you to have an accident after that......"

Zhuang remembered that the small pier on the side of the water police station was often docked with some large speedboats with four motors, commonly known as "Da Fei", as well as small gunboats, which were more or less oily and discharged into the seawater.

In general, in this case, the fish in the nearby sea surface look fine, but when you catch it and eat it, it will smell of diesel, and it is estimated that the seaweed and other things are more or less polluted.

Dare to love this Zhu Dekang wanted to raise a group of pigs like their hometown, so he came up with such a bad idea, but it turned out to be self-defeating.

Zhu Dekang said: "Actually, I'm not sure if it's a problem with that thing, but I've been thinking about it over and over again in the past few days, and there is also that possibility." When I yelled at you in front of the company commander and deputy company commander that day, I thought you were quite wronged. ”

Solemnly said: "So you want to make it up to me"

Zhu Dekang shook his head: "No, one yard is one yard, let me tell you this, we do things above board, and we carry our own pots, we can't let you be a recruit and suffer a dumb loss, I will find an opportunity to explain this matter to the deputy company commander." As for helping you fight to get on the coaching team, it has nothing to do with you. I just thought ......"

solemnly looked at Zhu Dekang and waited for him to continue.

Zhu Dekang seemed to organize the next words in his head, but perhaps he himself didn't know where to start.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "Do you know that in the first year of my military career, I was more diligent than anyone else, trained or something, and did not lag behind at all, but in the third year, I failed to take the military academy exam because the cultural class was not good." After that, I knew that I was finished, and I asked to go to the cooking class and became the class leader, and I thought about leaving the army like that, but when I visited my family that year, I ......"

"I came home, but I woke up at half past five every day, and I could dream of waking up numbers, and I felt as if I was not used to life in the place. If you have been a soldier for a long time, the life of the army will seep into your blood, so I applied to stay in the team, and after the fourth year, I will stay for the fifth year, and what I want is to become a volunteer......"

He raised his head and looked at the solemn and said, "But I know that my chances of becoming a volunteer soldier are very small. ”

solemnly comforted him and said, "Old squad leader, your military is so good...... It should be no problem to become a volunteer. ”

Zhu Dekang scolded hatefully: "You rookie knows how to be a bird!" Do you think that volunteers are so good that our kind of combat troops can fight a lot, even if I am good at military affairs, as long as I don't get a name in the competition, I am also a piece of garbage, and if you are a volunteer soldier, unless you are a technical talent, you are a fart! ”

It's a heavy topic.

Zhuang Zhuang suddenly found that he understood Xu Typology a little.

Every year, so many young people come to serve as soldiers, and those who want to take the military academy and want to become volunteers are not a star and a half, but there are only a few indicators for a company's examination and promotion, and the competition is not cruel.

The reason why Xu is so desperate may be that he himself has a sense of crisis.

There was silence for a while.

Zhu Dekang said again: "I saw you practicing single and parallel bars that day, and suddenly felt that you are okay as a soldier, people, if you seriously pursue one thing, it is worthy of others to look up to you, I can't do it, but I can fulfill you, solemn——"

solemnly subconsciously responded: "Here!" ”

Zhu Dekang said: "Remember, if you really go to the teaching team, train hard, be a good soldier, at least don't embarrass our cooking class." ”

Solemnly nodded vigorously and snorted.