Zhou Huping was neatly dressed, sitting on a small bench, and was shining his shoes in the small bungalow of his family home.

Later, he will go to the late roll call.

On the table next to him, there was his officer's belt and large-brimmed hat, as well as a squadron roster.

This is the last roll call of the pre-promotion squad leader training of the third squadron of this teaching brigade, and Zhou Huping feels that this kind of thing must have a sense of ceremony.

At this time of year, he puts on his scalded regular clothes and polished leather shoes to make a final roll call himself.

Tuk Tuk Tuk –

There was a knock at the door.

Zhou Huping was stunned, he thought that he had missed the time of the roll call, and the clerk Liao Huang came over to urge him to go over immediately.

Raised his hand and looked at his watch.

Nine o'clock sharp.

There is still half an hour before the roll call.

I didn't make a mistake.

"Liao Huang? I didn't miss it! ”

Outside the door, quietly, no one responded.

Zhou Huping wiped his leather shoes twice, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and asked again: "Who is it?" ”

"Captain...... It's me, solemn. ”

A familiar voice came from the crack in the door, and Zhou Huping was stunned.

Then he got up, put on his leather shoes, and stepped forward to open the door.

Standing solemnly and wet at the door, like an embarrassed chicken in soup.

"What are you doing?" He looked at the sky suspiciously, the moon was hanging high, the clouds were light and the wind was clear, not to mention the rain, the wind was not there.

The solemn urn said angrily: "Captain, I want to ask you something." ”

Zhou Huping thought about it, and immediately understood what the soldier in front of him was going to say, so he said, "Are you talking about staying in the team?" ”

Marea didn't squeak, just nodded a few times.

"It's good to stay in the team, no matter how many people want to stay, they can't stay." Zhou Huping said: "The coach of the teaching team is the squad leader of the squad leader, and not anyone who is quite capable of being the squad leader. ”

solemnly said: "However, I want to go back to the old company......"

Zhou Huping's face suddenly sank, and he said, "Back to the old company? What are you going back for? Isn't there a squad leader here for you? You join the party without a party ticket? No indicators for you to get into a military school? ”

Solemnly shook his head and said: "It's not these, I think I stayed, Xu Xingguo had a big misunderstanding, he thought that I robbed him of his indicators, and when the company commander sent me, he said, how many people come, how many people go back......"

"!" Zhou Huping was furious, "Do you think this is buying vegetables on the street?" Drive a hard bargain? What is this place? Is it where you bargain? Tell you! Keeping you down is not only the decision of the teaching team, but also the decision of the division, if you really have an opinion, you go to the division to find Deputy Division Commander Cai and say, find Deputy Chief of Staff Cui and say, they agree to let you go back, I, Zhou Huping, have nothing to say, and immediately sign to let you go! ”

solemnly was taught a lesson by Zhou Huping, and his heart was naturally uneasy.

After a year of training, he knew very well that the army could only obey the orders of his superiors and could never negotiate the price.

However, when he thought of Xu Xingguo's disgusted gaze, he couldn't help it.

He didn't want to be an unkind, unrighteous and disloyal person in the eyes of others, and he didn't want his former good comrades-in-arms to feel that he had betrayed him behind his back.

"Captain, I don't want to stay." He plucked up his courage, "Tomorrow I will follow the car back to my company." ”

"Wow!" Zhou Huping looked at Zhuang Zhuang in surprise and said, "You are very temperamental and characterful!" Do you think you'll go back when you say you're going back? Tell you, as long as you are still in the army, as long as you are still a soldier in the 1st Division, you will not be able to escape. If you dare to go, everything in the file will be detained in the division headquarters, and you will be a black soldier when you go back, nothing! ”

Cold sweat oozed from his solemn forehead.

Zhou Huping's style of acting has never been the same, he must do what he says, he will definitely deduct it.

Seeing that Zhuang Zhuang was silent, Zhou Huping's tone finally softened, and said: "Zhuang Zheng, don't think about it too much, stay in the division headquarters, make a lot of achievements, it is estimated that early next year, our army will be reorganized, and the military service system will also be reformed, back to the company, you have so many soldiers in the same year, it is not good for you, stay in the teaching team, there are more opportunities." ”

Zhuang Zhuang wanted to tell Zhou Huping that he had never thought about any long-term development in the army when he came to be a soldier, let alone a professional soldier.

However, he also seems to feel that things in the world often don't develop according to your personal preferences.

It's like writing a script, it's just written by yourself, and people may not shoot it according to you.

Perhaps, this is the so-called fate.

From the beginning of being a soldier, at first he was solemn and even wanted to be a deserter, but he took over the mistakes, and someone ran away before him on the night he planned to escape.

Later, I wanted to be quietly in Tieba for three years, but I didn't expect to meet Chen Qingming, Niu Dali and Xu Xingguo, but I came to the teaching team in order to be angry.

When I arrived at the teaching team, I thought that after surviving the past six months, I would go back to be a squad leader and three years would pass safely.

Who would have thought that Zhou Huping, the squadron leader, would ask him to stay in the team again, but now he wants to leave, but he can't.

None of these piles, one by one, acted according to their own wishes.

Fate is unconsciously enveloping itself, walking in an unfamiliar direction, and it seems that he can't stop.

After returning from the family home, he solemnly changed his clothes and came to the basketball court to wait for the roll call.

Xu Xingguo also changed into clean clothes, sat next to the basketball hoop, smoked a stuffy cigarette, others didn't talk to him, and he didn't talk to others.

came over solemnly and said goodbye solemnly, and comforted him: "Don't worry about this, Lao Xu is a bull temper, after a while, it's okay to figure it out." ”

In fact, even fools can hear that this is a comforting polite word.

Zhuang Zhuang knew that he and Xu Xingguo really couldn't be good comrades-in-arms.

Early the next morning, the various infantry regiments really sent their vehicles.

The students loaded their luggage into the car one after another, and only Wang Dazui and himself were left in the third district team, and even Qian Zhongjun and Pei Quan, the two squad leaders who were transferred from the regiment, left.

Zhuang Yan stood on the second floor of the barracks with Wang Dazui, Yang Songlin and other coaches and squad leaders who stayed in the team, as well as other veteran squad leaders who were originally teaching teams, and indifferently watched the soldiers move all the bits and pieces onto the car as if they were moving.

When each car had just left the gate, the soldiers sitting in the carriage would stand up, huddle on the tailgate, and shout to the barracks of the teaching team: "To hell! I'm never coming back! ”

A veteran standing beside Zhuang Yan shook his head with a wry smile, glanced at Zheng Zheng and said: "See, being the coach squad leader is like this, you are strict, people don't like you after graduation, don't be strict, they stupid people don't learn anything after they go back, and they will hate you." ”

After speaking, he took a cigarette and lit the fire, and walked towards his row house while smoking.

Standing solemnly on the balcony aisle on the second floor, looking at the back of the veteran squad leader leaving, he didn't speak for a long time.

The wind made its way through the hallway, blowing up the confetti on the ground that the cadets had left behind when they left, dancing in the air.

The once lively teaching brigade was as silent as death.

Empty training ground, empty row houses, empty basketball court, empty lawn......

Everything is empty.

For solemnity, a period of military years is over, and a period of military career has begun again.