The cooking squad lit a fire in several empty oil drums with dry firewood, and quite a few soldiers were already baking clothes. The crowd gathered around the fire, baking clothes and chatting with each other.

Xu Fei saw that Zhang Xiaodong was adding firewood to it, and there was a vacant seat next to him, so he immediately leaned over, put up his pants, sat down beside him and said:

"David Zhang, you kid is comfortable, the wind can't blow and the rain can't get wet."

"Hey, hey!" Zhang Xiaodong smiled and said, "Xu Curry, how do you feel?" ”

"Alas, tired!" Xu Fei groaned, his back hurt at the end of the day, and his palms were blistered, so it was strange to say that he was not tired!

"Hard work, hard work! Come roast and roast, warm! Hey Xu Curry, do you know the Erlong Mountain in the back? I heard that there was a black blind man in the mountains! ”

"Black blind?" Xu Fei said while rubbing his frozen hands and reaching out to the fire to keep warm.

"Really! Today we went to the back to collect firewood, and listened to the local villagers say that someone has seen it. ”

"Hey, what's wrong with the black blind man! Isn't the black blind man hibernating in the middle of winter......?"

While the two were talking, Wu Dasong came to him.

"Xu Fei! You're here! ”

"Squad leader, what's the matter?"

"The slogan in the morning was wet, and the instructor said to rewrite it and post it tomorrow!"

"Oh! David help me look at the dots! Xu Fei had no choice but to get up.

Finally went to write the slogan with Wu Dasong, Xu Fei hurriedly returned to the fire barrel, the soldiers were not there, Zhang Xiaodong was nowhere to be seen, and the trouser leg actually burned!

Xu Fei hurriedly went to extinguish the fire, but the trouser leg had already been burned off!

Nima ......

Xu Fei turned around and rushed to the cooking class and saw Zhang Xiaodong moving things.

"Zhang Xiaodong! You fat man! Tell you to help me look at some pants! You see! ”

He showed his pants to Zhang Xiaodong. Zhang Xiaodong looked innocent:

"Alas, I'm sorry, Xu Curry, squad leader Liu asked me to move things just now!"

What to do? Xu Fei wanted to cry without tears.

The next day, the changed pants were also wet, and Xu Fei had no choice but to wear that one, but one trouser leg was long and the other trouser leg was short, how awkward it looked.

The others couldn't help laughing when they saw it, Zhang Guangzhi poked Hu Xingguo beside him and said, "Hey, look, don't you look like a dog?" ”

Xu Fei had already heard this, and it broke out on the spot:

"Your mom B, you're like a dog!"

Zhang Guangzhi didn't dare to speak, Xu Fei didn't dare to provoke now, he was a kung fu master, and he was no longer the weak chicken recruit he used to be!

Xu Fei was angry, thinking that this was really ugly, he simply ran to the cooking class to find a pair of scissors, and cut the other trouser leg short by dividing it by two, so that the camouflage pants became cropped pants, which were better than dog legs!

Xu Fei wore cropped pants and worked hard all day, and there were a lot of stones under this section of the road today, and he didn't finish work until seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

After returning to Quanguan Town Primary School, he had a hasty dinner, and lay in bed at night, but Xu Fei couldn't sleep at all.

After several days of high-intensity labor, I saw that the optical cable trench was digging farther and farther, but the physical load was not light, and the most uncomfortable thing was that there was no place to take a bath, and there were circles of sweat stains on my clothes, and there was a smell on my body, which made Xu Fei, who loves clean, not to mention how uncomfortable!

If only I could take a shower!

My whole body is sore, obviously I am very tired, but I can't sleep after tossing and turning!

Scenes from the time he became a soldier came to mind.

Qin Lin beside him was snoring, and there was a smell of sweat and feet in the classroom, Xu Fei became more and more uncomfortable the more he slept, so he simply sat up.

"What are you doing?" Wen Hongkun was in the outermost place, sleeping vigilantly, and raised his head to ask him at the moment.

"Squad leader, this stinks too much, I'll go out to breathe!"

Xu Fei put on his clothes, wrapped his coat and went out, only to feel that although the air outside was cold, it was so fresh!

Wen Hongkun also came out with a coat on, and saw Xu Fei standing there quietly looking up at the dark night sky.

"Xu Fei, bear with it again! The company commander said that he would finish tomorrow, take a rest the day after tomorrow, and take him to the town to find a place to take a bath. ”

"Oh."

"What's wrong? Got something on your mind? ”

"No ......"

"Homesick?"

"It's not."

"Girlfriend?"

"It's not."

"One?" Wen Hongkun found a cigarette out of nowhere and handed it over.

Xu Fei shook his head, "Thank you!" Don't smoke! ”

Woo woo ......

Outside, the sirens suddenly sounded, and both of them looked over there, only to see a white police car passing by the school gate with its lights flashing.

Wen Hongkun retracted his gaze, lit the fire himself, took a deep breath, and said:

"Actually, I don't smoke much, but I learned it when I came to the army. Sometimes when I feel annoyed, I take a pick-me-up. ”

"The squad leader is also worried?"

"Heh......" Wen Hongkun smiled and said, "There are a lot of worries, you see, I will tell you one by one, I am 25 years old this year, Mu has a girlfriend, and a single dog!" A few days ago, my family's land was expropriated, and I want to move my grave, but I can't go back! Last month, my grandfather had a stroke, and the recruit couldn't walk away just after he got out of the company! Seeing that it's coming to the point, I don't know if I can change it......"

Wen Hongkun leaned on the handrail of the corridor, exhaled a puff of smoke, and looked at the dark night sky, with occasional twinkling stars looming in it.

"Actually, we are soldiers and do our duty, talk about dedication! It's not just talking! ”

"Well, actual......ly," Xu Fei slowly opened his mouth, "I feel a little different from what I thought!" ”

Wen Hongkun didn't speak, turned his head to look at him, and waited for his next step.

"Before I came, I thought that the life in the barracks was all about crawling and rolling all day long, practicing skills, standing guard on duty, military exercises or something......"

"And then? Disappointed, right? ”

"Yes! I didn't expect to spend a lot of time on greeting inspections, cleaning, and taking educational notes, and, you see, now I look like a migrant worker, digging ditches all day long......"

“…… Xu Fei, you are a college student, unlike them......" Wen Hongkun said slowly, "You have more ideas, stand taller and see farther." That's a good thing! ”

"I also know that you have suffered a lot of grievances, and you have no one to talk to! I can understand all of this, we all came this way. ”

"But......" Wen Hongkun flicked the cigarette butt away.

"The army in peacetime is not the same as in wartime! In addition to preparing for war, we have a lot to do besides training! You see, there is a song whose lyrics are well written: 'Be a soldier and always listen to the call!' The artillery fire and gunpowder smoke are heroic, and the disaster relief and rescue shoulder the heavy burden! 'Wherever we are needed, we are there!' This is the duty of our soldiers! ”

"At present, the army advocates regularization and follows the law of generating combat effectiveness, and some things cannot be achieved overnight! Like you, Xu Fei, your military quality is top-notch among recruits, even stronger than veterans, but have you trained it overnight? Do you dare to say that you were so strong when you joined the army? ”

Xu Fei: "......"

"Where does the combat effectiveness of a unit come from? Just in the daily style of cultivation bit by bit! Where does the daily style come from? It's from these inconspicuous folding, wiping tables, and digging trenches! ”

"You don't think there's any point in digging a ditch, do you? But think about it, how many military secrets are passed on by the national defense fiber optic cable below! Can you rest assured that someone in the local area will dig it? If you don't dig, I don't dig, who will? ”

Xu Fei: "......"

Wen Hongkun continued: "Digging a ditch is very hard! But it is also very exercised, and it can exercise our physical strength and will! Believe it or not, after more than a month of construction, it will be like playing with the horizontal bar roll after you go back! Only by participating in non-war military operations such as emergency rescue and disaster relief can we have a strong will and a strong physical ......"