These words are the words that Niu Zhiyuan and his sister learned from the seven sets of military programs in the central government in front of their TV for several days, and every sentence is very correct, but Niu Zhiyuan said it while looking at Wang Yang's stunned expression, the more he said, the more he had no confidence, there was a feeling of being caught cheating in the exam, and finally stopped with a red face.

Wang Yang coughed lightly, smiled slightly and said, "Niu Zhiyuan, you don't have to be nervous, what you said just now is very right, but ...... All you have to do is say what's really in your heart. ”

The shame in Niu Zhiyuan's heart eased slightly, and he hesitated a little and said: "I joined the army because I wanted to go to the army to break through, see if I could mix up my personal appearance, and let my mother and little sister live a good life." ”

Wang Yang, who was actually only five or six years older than Niu Zhiyuan, stood up and patted Niu Zhiyuan on the shoulder and said, "It's a good boy." ”

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Niu Zhiyuan's father's grave is on a barren mountain more than ten miles west of the village, and the cow's mother put a plate of fruit, a small bottle of liquor and a few white steamed buns in front of the cow's father's grave, and the mother and son knelt down against the grave.

Niu's mother said: "His father, he is becoming more and more sensible, and now he has grown up and is going to be a soldier, you can rest assured, he will definitely work hard in the army and become more and more promising." ”

Speaking of this, Mother Niu retracted her gaze, looked at Niu Zhiyuan and said solemnly: "Yuanzi, you swear in front of your father and me." ”

"What swear?" Niu Zhiyuan had a bad premonition.

"Let's just say that if you don't mix up in the army, you will never come back." The cow mother gritted her teeth with a look of hatred and said.

"Mom, if I don't come back, what will you do with your sister?" Niu Zhiyuan was stunned.

"If you still want to care about the life and death of me and your sister, just endure hardships in the army and come back as a mixed person. If you swear an oath, you will say it. There was a sternness in the cow mother's expression that she had never seen before.

Niu Zhiyuan understood that his mother was worried that he would be a soldier for two years and would not succeed, and finally came back disgraced, because she wanted to use his filial piety to put pressure on him, forcing him to work hard in the army, and even didn't want to leave him a way out, so she forced him to swear.

Niu Zhiyuan had no choice, coupled with his stubborn personality, he also held back a sense of unwillingness in his heart, so he gritted his teeth and swore an oath: "Dad!" Mother! I'm going to be a soldier the day after tomorrow, and I swear I'm going to come out in style......"

"No! Let's just say that if you don't mix up as a person, you will never come back! ”

"Mom, what if I do that...... If you can't come back, who will give you a pension. ”

"Then you mix up your personal appearance and come back to support me for the elderly?"

"I'm ...... I don't know how long it will take to mix up the person, what if I miss you and my little sister? ”

"When the time comes, your sister and I will go to the army to see you, okay?"

Niu Zhiyuan had nothing to say at all, so he had to say: "Dad! Mother! I'm going to be a soldier, and if I don't mix up as a person, I'll ...... in the future I'll never come back......"

Speaking of this, Niu Zhiyuan was already in tears, and at this moment, he suddenly felt that he had grown up and had an extra burden on his shoulders......

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In the early morning of 28 November, the young recruits, wearing big red flowers on their chests and brand-new but crumpled winter training uniforms, gathered at the Pingchuan County Armed Forces Headquarters from various towns and villages.

In this process, it was not lively, the sound of talking, crying, broadcasting, and firecrackers were intertwined, forming an atmosphere of festivity and sadness.

The cadres of various units were busy greeting their recruits, some shouting to assemble, some urging them to get dressed, and of course some recruits and their relatives hugged each other and wept...... Many of the relatives and friends who saw them off were red and swollen with their eyes, especially the women of all sizes, who were in tears, holding the half-grown children who were a little overwhelmed for the first time to experience this kind of thing, wiping their noses and wiping their tears, or their voices whimpering and repeatedly telling those words that they had said many times these days.

Wang Yang was alone in charge of picking up thirty recruits, Niu Zhiyuan was one of them, at this time Wang Yang shouted the team to a corner of the small square in front of the gate of the Ministry of Armed Forces, stood on a step, holding a roster with personnel photos, and checked them one by one to prevent someone from impersonating.

After the roll call, Wang Yang didn't want to introduce his unit so early, but when he saw that the cadres of other units next to him introduced his troops with a stinky face, he also attracted the eyes and ears of his recruits, and the bus that sent them away had not yet come, so he coughed lightly and briefly introduced his troops.

"Our unit is stationed in Xixia Province in the northwest, and it is a Red Army division unit, and it is also the only emergency mobile combat quick reaction division in our military region, which is not a few units in the whole army, and the so-called fast reaction division is a rapid reaction division, and it is the ace unit and sharp knife unit of the military region."

When he said these words, Wang Yang's face was very proud, but Niu Zhiyuan looked ignorant when he heard it, and he looked at the other recruits around him with an expression.

Wang Yang saw that the recruits did not show the expressions he imagined were refreshed and their eyes were shining, he was stunned for a moment, his eyes swept over the thirty recruits who did not react much, and said solemnly: "The training of the troops you are going to is much harder than that of most troops, and you must be prepared to endure hardships. ”

"It's so mysterious, can the hard work of the troops be compared to farming in the countryside?" Niu Zhiyuan muttered to himself in his heart, he grew up in the countryside since he was a child, and he has followed his mother to work in the fields since he was sensible, and he thinks that he has suffered a lot, and he still doesn't take the hardships of the army to heart, or he doesn't know what the hard training in Wang Yang's mouth looks like.

"But the Red Army Division and the Ace Division sound like they are very powerful, and it should be easier to mix up in such a unit, right?" Niu Zhiyuan's heart is full of expectations and imagination for the future.

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Women are worthy of being made of water, and when the mother holds her son and asks her thousands of instructions, she cries either soundly or silently, as if she is parting from life and death. And when the father pretends to be indifferent, but there is sadness and reluctance in the depths of his eyes, especially those families with urban hukou, many of whom are only children.

Mother Niu and Sister Niu naturally came early, perhaps because they didn't want their son to worry about the family, although Mother Niu had red eyes, she couldn't bear to cry, but Niu Zhiyuan's little sister hugged her brother and cried sadly, crying and saying: "Brother! After you're gone, what if someone bullies me? ”

"What else can I do? It's up to you, and you have to take care of your mother. "From childhood to adulthood, Niu Zhiyuan has fought with others a lot in order to protect his sister.

Niu Xiaomei wanted to say something, so Niu Mu reprimanded her, and then reluctantly left from her brother's arms.