As soon as Niu's mother finished telling her, Niu Zhiyuan and a few good classmates came to see him off, but there didn't seem to be much sadness among the teenagers, of course, if she didn't come to see him off.

She was referring to Wang Jiayue, his classmate and ......tablemate in elementary, junior and high school.

The two are not in a relationship, but there are some inexplicable feelings between each other, which may be regarded as the ignorance and love of adolescence. If in addition to his mother and sister, who Niu Zhiyuan wants to send him the most, it must be Wang Jiayue.

"Why didn't she come to see me off? Do I have to invite her to come? Niu Zhiyuan had a faint disappointment in his heart.

His disappointment was expressed in his face as loss, and several of his classmates mistook it for their sadness, and left contentedly after saying a few words of goodbye.

In Niu Zhiyuan's slightly lost look, until he got on the bus to the train station, Wang Jiayue did not appear.

Niu Zhiyuan and his group of thirty recruits will next take a train to a third-tier city in Northwest Xixia Province.

What made Niu Zhiyuan secretly glad was that he did not go to the army in a stuffy tank as a veteran in the village said, and because the trip took a day and a night, each recruit had a hard bed.

When Niu Zhiyuan was about to get on the train, he saw Wang Jiayue, who came directly to the platform, and when he looked at him, his eyes were a little evasive and his expression was a little shy.

"Wang Jiayue, you ...... There you are. Niu Zhiyuan was surprised, regardless of Wang Yang's dissatisfied eyes, ran out of the queue to get on the train, came to Wang Jiayue, and looked at her with a smirk.

Wang Jiayue didn't say anything, just blushed and took out a harmonica from his trouser pocket and stuffed it into his hand, lowered his head and grabbed the corner of his clothes and whispered: "Niu Zhiyuan, if you have time, you have to write to me, I heard your sister say that you won't come back for a long time." ”

Looking at the blush on Wang Jiayue's neck, Niu Zhiyuan felt a wonderful feeling in his heart that he had never felt before, nodded vigorously, and said seriously: "Wang Jiayue, I will definitely write to you." ”

Wang Jiayue plucked up her courage, raised her head, looked at Niu Zhiyuan, and said, "You are very handsome in a military uniform and wearing a big red flower......

Niu Zhiyuan was happy to hear it, and he smiled, looking a little silly.

Under Wang Yang's urging, after Niu Zhiyuan smirked, he said goodbye to Wang Jiayue with some reluctance, and then got on the train with a tight harmonica.

When he got on the train, he saw that a small number of mothers who had entered the platform began to shed tears again, and some even ran after the train. Then he saw that his companions, who had not been crying in the train, had finally begun to cry quietly.

Niu Mu and Niu Xiaomei did not enter the platform, so Niu Zhiyuan did not cry, and Wang Jiayue was not among the women who were chasing the train...... After all, they are just male and female classmates who have a better relationship, strictly speaking, they are not even their first love.

The ruthless and cold-blooded train is getting faster and faster, and soon all the women who are trying to match him are far behind, and Niu Zhiyuan notices that many recruits are pressing their faces against the car window, watching the figure of their mother or lover gradually shrink and even disappear. The image, he thought, might be something many of them will remember for the rest of their lives.

After all, it was a group of teenagers who had just reached adulthood, and they were manly, and sadness and tears would never be their norm, and it didn't take long for thirty recruits to start packing up their things and beds under the command of Wang Yang.

Niu Zhiyuan put the things away very carefully according to Wang Yangti's requirements, and couldn't wait to take out the gift given by the first girl in his life and take a closer look, this is a very delicate harmonica, Niu Zhiyuan remembered that Wang Jiayue went to the provincial capital a few days ago, and couldn't help but wonder if she went to the provincial capital to buy it for him.

Then, he found that there was a letter folded into a five-pointed star in the leather case containing the harmonica, Niu Zhiyuan opened it, and Wang Jiayue used her delicate pen words on the letter paper to tell Niu Zhiyuan a sincere feeling: "Separation, even if it is far away and long, our hearts will not be separated, but will slowly and gently melt in the torrent of time." Dawn or night, my heart is always watching you, often there. I walked anew through the path you and I walked together, the stone bridge, the bus......"

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Niu Zhiyuan took the train for the first time, he was still a little excited and curious, after reading the harmonica and the letter, he was cranky and stunned for a while, then climbed on the window and looked out, he had a strong sense of direction from a young age, and found that the train went all the way to the northwest.

Half a day later, Niu Zhiyuan pulled open the quilt on the sleeper, covered his body, curled up, and thought: This latitude is getting higher and higher, the temperature is naturally getting lower and lower, and there is no heating on this green train.

Under Wang Yang's reminder, Niu Zhiyuan and his companions' clothes became thicker and thicker, even when they slept under the quilt at night, they only took off their coats, and when they got up the next day, they put on cotton clothes issued by the army, which looked a little bloated, Niu Zhiyuan had never worn such thick clothes before.

When the train arrived in Wu City, Xixia Province, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, this season, at this point in time, the temperature in Wu City was around minus 16 degrees, and it was much drier than Niu Zhiyuan's hometown, which was an experience and feeling that Niu Zhiyuan and his companions had never had before.

Even though Wang Yang was very worried and told everyone to wear a lot, Niu Zhiyuan was still shivering from the cold the moment he got off the train, and then until he got on a military truck, his whole body was shivering, and the cold wind that had existed in Wu City as long as it was winter penetrated into his neck and cuffs.

The journey of nearly one day and one night is also the first experience for the vast majority of recruits, and even many rural recruits like Niu Zhiyuan are taking the train for the first time. Eating bread and instant noodles along the way had already exhausted them, and at this moment they were really hungry and cold.

After Wang Yang nodded, the thirty recruits helped each other, and some clumsily got into the two military trucks, the carriages blocked the cold wind, so that they were a little warmer, but there was no seat in the cold and hard and empty carriages, and the recruits naturally sat on the carrying bags, which were issued to them by the armed forces department of the place where they were enlisted to carry bedding. And the cold made them curse the weather in their native dialect while sticking their hands in their pockets and snuggling up to each other to keep warm.

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The Infantry Regiment A is located in a small town 50 miles south of Wu City, and a new barracks has already been set up in the regiment, and at this time, a group of recruit platoon leaders and squad leaders are already waiting in front of the auditorium to welcome the first two batches of recruits this year.