Chapter 2: Joining the Army

A spirit, I woke up from a dream, this dream I have been doing for a long time, and often dream of the days when brothers used to train and fight together, yes, I also used to be a member of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, the Tiger Commando, the Northeast Tiger.

My name is Chen Mo, and I am now a college student at a university in HB Province, in this society where a brick is smashed, seven or eight out of ten people are college students, and one is a graduate student, I am just a nameless, if you have to give me a name, I can only say that I used to be called, Chinese Armed Police.

It had been several years since I left the army, and in the few years since I returned to school from the army, I thought that I had already become accustomed to the current life, and the tribulations of the past were like dreams, and I could not go back when I woke up.

Driving along the long mountain roads, there is no purpose, just to temporarily escape the anxieties of life. "Take a break, stand upright! Align with the right! Look forward! Count! "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight......" Suddenly a familiar password broke into my brain, and I couldn't help but slow down and drive past a company lined up on the side of the mountain road, but my eyes were still staring at the rearview mirror, looking at those vague, former us......

The old soldier does not die, but will gradually die, and the honor will not die, only the old and the new will alternate.

Memories are really a terrible thing, you have obviously deliberately avoided it, to force yourself not to think, but once you touch the scene, those stories that are hidden in the deepest part of your heart, those memories engraved in your bones, like a needle, pierce you all the time, force you to think, make you feel that your seemingly indestructible shell is breaking little by little, those memories are like sunshine, one by one through the cracks to the deepest part of the heart.

I had just graduated from high school that year, and it was a very embarrassing choice for a peasant family like me, to go to college, and my family couldn't come up with so much money at once, but I was unwilling to give up. But in order to lighten the burden on my family, I still resolutely signed up online.

During the political review phase, the head of the town's armed forces department talked to me and asked me about my motivation for joining the army, and my answer was only one word: money. It's realistic, but that's really what motivated me to join the army. The leaders of the Ministry of Armed Forces told me that I could serve with peace of mind, and now that I have policy support, I can come back to continue my studies in college after I am discharged from the army, and there is a reduction in tuition fees.

As a result, joining the army became my only thought at the time.

Although I also like to watch war movies, watch old American blockbusters, and barely be considered a military fan, but movies are movies after all, just like I said a long time ago when I mocked my friends, fools go to be soldiers, and at that time, I actually went to do all kinds of physical examinations in order to become a fool in my mind, and talked to the leaders with a clear eye.

Almost every leader and cadre who reads my resume will come to me and ask me something like this: "If you don't go to college, what kind of soldier will you be?" ”

I don't know what kind of mood it was, but I went to the armed police unit near the nearest prison in the town and received training uniforms, training shoes, bags, satchels, water bottles, hats, and so on. Immediately after the next day, with a large group of shaved heads, the same recruit Danzi as me was guided into the train station by a few people with red titles on their shoulders, all the way were full of farewell people, outside the fence, a group of parents cried pear blossoms with rain, inside the fence, many recruits Danzi was also crying in a mess, and several were originally good, seeing that everyone was crying, he cried for no reason. But people like me really can't cry.

I thought I could just get on the train and leave the city I've lived in for more than a decade and take on the ordeal of what people call me alive with my dreams for the future. But I forgot, some feelings can't be broken up and ended all at once.

Our waiting hall is on the second floor, and the stairs are separated by some fences, but the view can still reach the entire first floor. And my seat was close to the edge of the second floor, and I didn't bother to listen to the big words of the provincial and municipal leaders and military and political cadres on the stage, so I was bored, so I set my eyes on the waiting hall of normal passengers on the first floor. Glancing at random, there was no purpose at all, but inadvertently, I actually saw the girl I used to love the most - Bei Bei in the nearest seat to us.

After receiving the enlistment notice, I resolutely told her to break up, not because of anything else, because I had been gone for at least two years, and I didn't want to delay her, but I viciously told her that I didn't like her for a long time. In fact, I have looked for her more than ten times in front of the train station, but each time it was disappointment, in fact, before I left, what I wanted to see most was not my parents, but her. But now, I saw her, and I was sure that she had seen me and had been watching me, and I turned around and pretended not to see anything, but tears flowed quietly. It was the first time I shed tears since I put on my uniform.

"Chen Mo! I'll wait for you! No matter how long you go to be a soldier, I'll wait for you! Chen Mo, did you hear me! ”

Suddenly there was a hoarse shout from Bei Bei from the loud and noisy train station, and countless people looked over, but I was still facing away from her. Listening to her hoarse cries, accompanied by her crying, accompanied by my heartache. God knows, at this moment, how much I want to rush over and hug her, how much I want to tell her in person, go, for your sake, I don't deserve this soldier! But I know I can't, either for her sake or for myself. So I could only continue to pretend that I didn't see it, that I didn't hear it.

At this moment, the staff of the two train stations walked towards Bei Bei and motioned for her to stop shouting, but she still ignored it, staring at me and shouting hoarsely. Seeing this, the two staff members had no choice but to pull her away.

Danzi, a recruit next to me, suddenly said, "Hey, look, that mushroom was taken away." When I heard this, I immediately jumped up, pointed at the two staff members from the second floor, and roared: "You let her go for me!" This is Lao Tzu's woman, who allowed you to touch her! "I didn't even notice how loud my voice was, and the audience fell silent again. Only I was red-eyed, and Babe burst into tears. Two pickets in white steel helmets pulled me down, and I resisted with all my might, but to no avail.

"Chen Mo, it's enough to have your words, you should be a soldier well, I'll wait for you!" On the first floor, Beibei's voice came again, and I was already in tears after being pulled to death by two pickets. Until one of the pickets said to me: "Okay, brother, your girlfriend is gone, you have to learn to obey orders in this military uniform!" I looked at him and nodded, "Let me go, I'm fine." ”

A whistle sounded, and our group of recruits finally stepped on the train to the barracks.

At this point, I thought that my military life had begun.