The New Army has been training for half a month, and Ma Qianzhuo saw that Wei Aiwen had no intention of starting political training, and was a little anxious: "I said Xiao Wei, when are you going to give political training to everyone?" It's been two weeks since you got out of the company, and the others have already taken action, but you're the benchmark company of the teaching camp, so you have to take the lead! ”

Wei Aiwen smiled slightly, looking confident: "Mr. Ma, just put your heart in your stomach!" We will have a meeting tonight and we are sure to keep you satisfied! ”

"Really? You've got to do it! Ma Qianzhu was skeptical and stopped asking.

In fact, these days, Wei Aiwen has not been idle. In order to do his job well, he racked his brains. Not only did he go deep into the company to understand the situation of the soldiers, but he also did "reconnaissance" work and observed other companies for political training. He found that political training in the New Army was nothing more than these methods: giving speeches, leading speeches, and making political reports; Lectures, literacy campaigns...... Wei Aiwen had an idea: Why don't I do some retro innovation?

It was getting dark, and the stars were shining in the night. Here, it is not like a city in the 21st century, even at night, the street lights are on, in the high-rise buildings, every house is lit with electric lights, televisions, the sky is white, and only the brightest stars can be seen; The air pollution is also very serious, the sky is always foggy, which makes people feel a kind of suffocation, and sometimes when they look at the industrial area at night, the sky is a little red. No one in the station is willing to light the lamp, it consumes expensive electricity, and there is nothing to do except watch AV, so the farmers go to bed early. The surroundings were pitch black, the half moon had just emerged from the east, emitting a silver glow, and the Milky Way overhead was white and bright, and countless stars were densely packed, most of them were concentrated in the Milky Way, and a sense of hierarchy could be seen. Wei Aiwen looked up at the starry sky and was very surprised, the children who grew up in the city had never seen such a landscape!

The recruits were all assembled and sat together trembling in the open air. Lingao is located in the subtropical climate zone, and the winter temperature is also above 20 degrees Celsius, and the bonfire is a little hot, so a foreign oil lamp is placed in the middle. The red flames danced on the cotton core, and the gray-black smoke rose up, making the copper handle blacker and shinier.

The flames were reflected on the faces of the soldiers, and everyone was very curious, what would be the content of today's announcement that the new "chief" would give everyone political training?

Wei Aiwen stood up, looked around, and said: "I gathered everyone here today to do a political training and hold a theme meeting, the theme is yesterday, today, and tomorrow, please tell the truth, speak freely, talk about your past experience, talk about the current situation, and then imagine the future."

Everyone looked at each other, what is this? Everyone didn't know what to do, and no one spoke, and the scene suddenly became cold and quiet.

Wei Aiwen expected this situation, and it takes a process for new things to be accepted! Then he said, "Then start with me." Wei Aiwen had already thought about it, and he took this opportunity to make up a past experience and spread it out to eliminate the gap between him and the soldiers.

"I'll sing a song to everyone first!" As he spoke, Wei Aiwen raised his head slightly, looked at the moon in the eastern sky, took a deep breath, brewed his feelings, and then sang softly:

"The sky is full of stars, and the crescent moon is shining. Let's hold a meeting in the company to complain and redress our grievances. The evil landlords owe the poor blood and tears. A thousand threads, a thousand threads welled up in my heart. Endless sad tears, hanging in my heart. I don't forget that year, the north wind was biting. The landlord broke into my house, and there was a lot of dogs. and said that we owe him a debt, and that we owe him bread. The landlord forced debts, and the landlords forced debts like a living Hades. I don't forget that year, my father was sick in bed. The landlord forced him to work long hours, and he vomited blood in tears. He was skinny and skinny, and his face was yellow from illness. The landlord's black heart, the landlord's black heart forced my father to death. Don't forget that year, suffering has no head. Desperate, he went to the landlord to herd cattle. I got up in the middle of the night and returned to the sunset. Have pity on me, an orphan, to whom do you cry for help? ”

The deep voice, coupled with the crying and trembling singing, is like crying, complaining and crying. The soldiers couldn't help but resonate, some remembered their own background, their eyes turned red, and some even sobbed quietly.

Wei Aiwen himself felt a spiritual shock. This situation, this scene, filled him with a sense of oppressive heaviness. I think that when I saw this song on the Internet, I thought the lyrics were very funny, and I also learned to sing it, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now. Alas, at that time, I didn't feel the sadness, misery, and resentment embodied in this song, but looking at everyone's reactions, I knew that these brothers did not learn Mandarin in vain.

Someone held Wei Aiwen's hand, it was Wang Tao who came together, he was a northerner, tall and big, and he looked majestic among a group of short aborigines. Specially arranged to be used in the team. He said softly: "Company commander, don't be sad, our company is your home, everyone is your brother and your relatives." ”

Wang Tao was so choked that he couldn't go on, he sniffed, and also talked about the past: "My family originally had more than ten acres of land, and the land was good, and it was enough for my family of four to live for a year." The land that attracted our family had to be bought. My dad said he wouldn't sell anything, that's the lifeblood of the whole family! The landlord was always looking for an opportunity to occupy my family's land. One year, my cattle were left unwatched, and they gnawed a few mouthfuls of grass in the graveyard of the landlord's family. The landlord insisted that his family's feng shui was broken, and my father was arrested and beaten badly. My father is too old to stand it, and he will carry it home for three days—" Wang Tao said as he spoke, his throat and eyes seemed to be blocked by something, and he couldn't go on, his expression was sad, and his eyes seemed to be about to shed tears. It took him a long time to breathe, "My mother's health is not very good, and I was frightened, and I went with my father in two days!" He finally couldn't help it, tears rolled down his dark cheeks, and Wei Aiwen was dumbfounded, brother, you can't be from Nortel or Chinese opera, right?

"Not long after, one day his house caught fire, and he falsely accused me of burning it, and wanted to arrest me and sue the official. How did the poor family win the lawsuit against the landlord?! I was in a hurry and ran away overnight. When I arrived in the county seat, I asked someone to go home to take a look, only to know that my family's field was occupied by Zhang Juren, and my little sister was arrested by him and became a maid, saying that it was to compensate him for his losses, and then I don't know where this beast was sold. My little sister, she ......" Wang Tao couldn't cry.

Strong! Looking at Wang Tao's performance, Wei Aiwen secretly admired.

A little soldier couldn't hold back any longer, and said angrily: "It's really a loss of conscience!" ”

"I used to work as a long-term worker in our township Chen Yunkai and put ducks. This black-hearted guy! A little duckling was caught in the weasel's mouth, and he whipped me with a leather whip, and recorded the loss of a large duck. On weekdays, I ate his family's leftovers and glutinous rice, and I was not full, but he recorded all the good dishes and meals. It was cold, and if I was sick and I couldn't give him a chance to live, he pretended to take two shabby shirts and trousers that no one wore for me to wear, and when he turned around, he kept an account of the new ones. Sometimes I was so sick that I gritted my teeth and let him duck out of a fever, and he even remembered that he was absent from work due to illness! When the year came to pass, as soon as he showed his account book, I owed him money! I reasoned with him, but he didn't listen; I cried angrily, and he pretended to say: Are you reluctant to leave me? Let's do it next year. It's infuriating!! The little soldier gritted his teeth, and his eyes reflected the light of the oil lamp, as if he were about to breathe fire.

With the beginning, the warriors also let go, stood up one after another, and rushed to pour out the bitter water in their hearts. One race at a time.

"I'm a military household, and my ancestors are still a small flag. But these generations have been mercenaries who don't need money for the officers! Where is there any love for robes, don't say slack in work, even if you move slowly, you will be beaten half to death, and if you are killed, you will be dragged out, no one asks, and no one dares to ask. If someone dies outside, you have to report to an official, and inside the guard house is like a dead dog. People say that the state and county government offices are black, but I don't know how many times the inside of the guard is darker than the outside! ”

Wei Aiwen knew that he was from a military family, because he wanted to eliminate the fear of these ordinary people for the official army, and deliberately asked: "Did you pay back the war?" ”

"War?" The military household smiled bitterly, "Just us military households, we wear pants and show our cheeks, and we still fight with people?" We are not as good as the common people, and the common people recruited from the town can still get some money and rice, and we, the military households, even give the money and food to hundreds of households and thousands of households to swallow it all, and when we go to the town, we will eat a bowl of rice, and we can't mix with the soldiers and families, and even those who starve to death. He took a sip, "The ghost son is working for the official family!" ”

The more he spoke, the more energetic he became: "Officers and soldiers, it sounds good to have an official, but it's better than a bandit." The scourge of the common people is more ruthless than anyone else, and the fight is more shrugging than anyone else. ”

"Yes, yes, I escaped from the North." Wang Tao hurriedly came to the eye medicine, "I heard that Liaodong and the Tartars are fighting, thousands of people have fought but a few hundred Tartars, and the worst thing is that more than a dozen Tartars chased hundreds of officers and soldiers, and those who fled for their lives were chased to death. Just like this, this battle is still a fart. A brother of mine from the same clan couldn't survive a few years ago, so he went to Liaozhen, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive. He wiped away a few tears as he spoke.

"Alas, which family is not like this, if it were not for the government to force us poor people to have no way to live, who would be willing to take risks. Our family came all the way to Qiongzhou. I thought that there was a lot of wasteland here, and I could always mix food and clothing, but I didn't know that the fields here were not easy to plant, and there was no water to irrigate the land, so I had to buy water from the landlord, which was several times more bitter than farming in my hometown! The whole family was wiped out alive. Became a single! ”

"It's better to be the master here." Wang Tao took the opportunity to play again, "I fled here to carry the work for the old man, and I was well fed and clothed." The old men also pay their salaries. Our commune is so good that the haode brothers live in the building! ”

"Buildings? Is it the kind of brick building that the short-haired old man lives in? Let's talk nonsense. "Some people expressed disbelief.

"Nonsense? You go to the commune with me tomorrow! ”

"If only it were true, I don't want any buildings, and I would be satisfied with a sheltered house." One of the recruits said with a look of fascination.

"Yes." This is a soldier who enlisted in the Commune, "but you have to be a worker." That's why I came to be a soldier, and as soon as I became a soldier, I became an employee. ”

"There's also land to farm." The soldiers of the Commune were particularly interested in their own lands.

"Can we have any of that too?" Someone asked timidly.

Note: The plot of this chapter was provided by Aiwen Wei of the SB Forum. Slightly expanded and modified.