Text Chapter 2 Barracks My New Home
"Comrade Xiao Wang, hello! Excuse me, where is my home? Hearing me ask such a question, people who don't know think I have amnesia. Since my wife and I were separated at the grassland base, we have never met each other, and we have never been in contact with each other, and I have never known about the Huangsha military base. Actually, I was here a few years ago, when the mechanized elite army was just established, but then it was expanded, and everything changed drastically.
It's not a crowded metropolis, so there are no schools or supermarkets. In addition to the rows of barracks buildings and blocks of training grounds, there are wide aprons and shooting ranges. "Comrade Liu Yun, get in the car, I'll take you home!" After returning from Comrade Huangya's memorial service, in the dormitory of the barracks, everyone changed into new military uniforms, and after a brief meal, I was very anxious to go home to have a look, so I made an appointment with Luo Xiaoming, Tariq, Shen Guojian, and old comrades-in-arms Xiao Li, Xiao Wang, and Xiao Zhang. Xiao Wang, who had been a communicator, brought an open-top military off-road vehicle and drove several of us straight to the military living quarters in the northernmost part of the barracks. On the wide road lined with aspen forests, we occasionally encounter a few banyan and tamarisk trees, and the pink corollas are blooming brightly, and the warm sunlight is shining on several of us. A few days in the mountains, the world has been thousands of years, and after returning from the battlefield of Saturn in just a few days, I didn't expect that it was the early summer of the second year on Earth. Deep in the woods there is a large field of lilacs, and the rich floral fragrance makes us forget that it is now a time of war when the country is tense.
The old comrades-in-arms tried to tell some jokes along the way to distract a few of us, hoping that we would not leave the sequelae of the war, not to mention, in Xiao Li's words, Comrade Liu Yun was in a hurry to go home to see the bride and her family reunited! You all have to put a smile on my face! The words made the big guy laugh.
I learned that my wife, children, and Aunt Liu lived in the living quarters of the military headquarters, where there were various cinemas, libraries, vegetable gardens, orchards, gymnasiums, Internet cafes, and even nightclubs for the entertainment of the soldiers. Although we do not feel the hustle and bustle of the metropolis in the army, in the barracks, such living conditions can be said to be extremely luxurious.
Xiao Zhang, who sat in the back row, is a naughty ghost, usually slippery, and always speaks with a bit of meat. At this time, the Type 89 heavy machine gun on his head was constantly knocking on his head under the slight bump of the off-road vehicle. Xiao Zhang twisted the barrel of the gun to the side and said, "Lao Liu! Do you know that our daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy or a girl for you? His extremely boring words caused everyone to laugh a few times out of boredom. I patted my chest and said, "With our old Liu's ability, at least we have to let my wife give birth to a handle!" ”
Comrade Xiao Zhang still asked endlessly, "Do you think your baby looks like you or like your daughter-in-law?" The laughter of the crowd was very happy in the warm breeze. I deliberately said in an angry tone, "Of course it's like me!" Not only do I want to look like me, but I also want my son to be a PLA like me in the future and be loyal to the country......"
Before I could finish my words, Xiao Zhang grabbed the words and said: "I have seen my sister-in-law take my nephew out for a walk a few times, how I saw that our nephew and son didn't look like you at that time, it seems that there is something different...... "Looks like you!" I deliberately shouted, "Are you satisfied with this answer?" After that, when you have a son, you will look like me, so let's get even! My words made everyone crane their necks and laugh, but Xiao Zhang stared at him and froze behind. The off-road vehicle was parked under a row of tall buildings, which were where the heads of the military districts and some of the fighters lived, and sometimes some activities such as study were carried out here. Around the south-facing buildings is a large green belt with pools and plants of various colors, beyond this green belt is a large area of pine and cypress, and further north is the barracks living quarters, with orchards and vegetable gardens. "It's here! Xiao Wang was the first to jump out of the car and looked up at the tall building and said. Everyone got out of the car, but I hesitated to go upstairs. Xiao Zhang pushed me behind me and said loudly: "Comrade Liu Yun, look at your virtue, now I didn't ask you to go on a blind date, why are you still shy!" With that, he pushed me upstairs with everyone. While we climbed the stairs, we asked our old comrades-in-arms about the base, and Xiao Li, who had participated in the expansion of the unit, said: "Our army's mechanized elite unit now has only this headquarters unit, and all the soldiers of our army who were scattered in various regions have been assembled here. This is actually the Taklamakan Desert in my country - the second largest desert in the world, I didn't expect it!? Colonel Tulik exclaimed in astonishment: "Oh! So why don't you see desert here? ”
"Yes! ......" Shen Guojian, Shen Guojian, and Luo Xiaoming asked puzzled.
Xiao Zhang rushed to speak: "The reason for this is actually because after the major earthquake a few years ago, the densely populated areas of the country have suffered serious losses, and the state has worked hard to transform sparsely populated areas and uninhabited areas into livable ecological regions at all costs...... After several years of construction, this desert has finally been conquered by our military and civilian cooperation! ......”
Oh, my God! What a huge undertaking it would be! This shows the great spirit of the Chinese nation in fighting the heavens and the earth! I couldn't help but sigh, "Yes! This is the tenacious and unyielding spirit of our army! It is a spirit that cannot be conquered by any force! ......” "The desert has now been home to several freshwater rivers, artificial forests have been created on a large scale, and the state has opened up large areas of wetlands in lower terrain, attracting a large number of rare species of birds from all over the world that have nowhere to live. There are lakes, meadows, and herds......"
I stopped climbing the stairs and remembered the heavenly beauty I saw in the Mongolian steppes. Unexpectedly, after the catastrophe that swept the world, the tenacious and unyielding Chinese nation overcame the catastrophe and transformed the lifeless death zone into a vibrant paradise. "I'll have to go out and walk around when I have time," I said to the group excitedly, "I've been tired of being in the desolate universe these days, and I really want to go back to the prairie to relax!" ”
"Good! I'm for it! Otherwise, if we receive a task in the future, we may not be able to see this land that we have conquered again......" Luo Xiaoming cheered. While talking, I have already gone up to the 7th floor, (there was originally an elevator, everyone was so bored that they panicked, so they climbed the stairs), everyone stopped and stood on the left and right sides of the stairs to make a passage for me. "Lao Liu, it's time to your house!" Xiao Wang called to me in a low voice. Everyone's eyes were so excited, even more excited than I was. I couldn't hold back the beating of my heart, and my trembling heart was shaking my legs. This is my home? Right! It's my home! Because my family lives here! My wife, my children, and Aunt Liu. I'm home. The door of my house was in the east unit, the door was open, and from the open red door came the innocent, happy, and cheerful laughter of a little boy. My tears were already pouring out, and I quickly wiped them with the back of my hand, and finally mustered up the courage to walk in. The furniture in the living room is neatly arranged, and there are all kinds of delicate children's toys scattered on the floor. My arrival caught the attention of my wife, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor playing with her son. Her delicate eyes were full of anticipation of what I missed. And just like that, we stared at each other for a long time. She has become beautiful and mature, and her former strong woman's temperament has also been lost by this mischievous son. The clever little guy suddenly noticed a stranger coming in the house, and immediately broke away from his mother's arms and picked up the toy gun on the ground and fired at me, with the sound of machine gun shooting in his mouth: "Da Da, why is the enemy not dead?" ”
"Hahahaha! Little trickster, do you know who I am? I squatted down and looked at the little guy in front of me, stretched out my arms and wanted to hug him, but unexpectedly, the little guy ran away as soon as he twisted his ass and hid in the room, "Not good, the enemy is catching up, retreat!" My wife has the same name and surname as me, and everyone says that we have a big fate, but in fact, only I know in my heart that a strong woman like Foreman Liu Yun is very picky, if it weren't for my military uniform to add color and fight for me, she would definitely not consider marrying me." Foreman Liu, I'm back! ”
My wife's excited eyes were a little moist, she got up from the floor and hugged me tightly, and her soft red lips whispered in my ear: "Husband, I miss me to death, I've been waiting for you for four years!" ......” If it weren't for me and Big Yellow Fang flying the "Mir" super fighter to the present, I would never have thought that four years had passed. "It's so nice to see you, I'm so happy Foreman Liu! ......" I hugged my wife tightly and said with a trembling voice. "Will you ever leave us again?" The wife asked softly. I can't really answer that question. As a soldier, he has a career as a horse, and he is home all over the world, and no one knows when he will go to the front line. I really love my wife and children and my relatives in my hometown, but in front of the motherland, I can only sacrifice my children's affection and fight bravely to defend my family and country. I gently pushed him away, looked at her resentful eyes, and couldn't answer anything for a while. "Ahem!" Xiao Zhang deliberately coughed loudly outside the door, and I quickly separated from my wife, looking at my comrades-in-arms who walked into the room with a red face. "I said that you old Liu is heavy and light on friends! We've been waiting for you for so long, and we didn't say let's go into the house to rest, we just talked about love by ourselves......"
When my wife saw Shen Guojian, Luo Xiaoming, and Tariq, these strange comrades-in-arms, she was stunned at first, and then greeted: "Comrades, come, sit casually, when you come to your own home, you're welcome."...... Then he went to prepare tea. The mischievous son is still playing in the house, he has learned to chat with the children on the Internet, laughing to himself, not caring about us soldiers in military uniforms, or even his own father, me. "Come, comrades, let's drink tea first," "There is a sister-in-law ...... Lao" "Sister-in-law has worked hard...... "My wife is pouring tea, as if she was looking for something in the crowd, suddenly she turned around and asked me puzzledly: "What about Comrade Huangya?" Why didn't I see him? "Big Yellow Fang was the first comrade-in-arms with my wife, and she was very impressed with him, and it was he who witnessed our happy union. When I think of Comrade Huangya now, I can't help but feel very sad in my heart, I stand up, and in the face of my wife's questioning, I can't speak, "Comrade Huangya, Comrade Huangya, he ...... "I can't accept this fact, but it's impossible not to let my wife accept this fact."
Tears of grief flowed from my wife's eyes, and she asked me in a reproachful and stern tone: "Comrade Huangya, is he ......?"
She choked up and didn't finish her sentence, tears already flowing to the corners of her mouth. The comrades-in-arms stood up silently and once again mourned the sacrifice of Comrade Huangya. Xiao Zhang, who has a cheerful temperament, first broke the silence, "Come, let's take a look at the son of the old Liu family," said as he walked towards the back room, "Don't look at Lao Liu so steady, but his son is mischievous and often secretly pees in our chief's teacup......" "Rotten eggs!" Xiao Zhang pushed open the door and called my son's nickname affectionately.
"Uncle Zhang'......"
"Come on, come on, uncle will introduce you to someone," Xiao Zhang said, then picked him up and led him to me, "Do you know who this uncle is?" ”
The little guy pouted and said, "I don't know, there are many uncles in the barracks that I don't know." "Stinky boy! This is your father! The little guy looked at me carefully with wide curious eyes, and then turned his eyes to his mother, and his wife smiled and said, "Mengmeng, this is your father, the father that your mother often points to you in pictures!" "My dad? Is he my dad? The little guy seemed to think and said, "No wonder it's so similar to Dad in the photo!" ”
I looked at the son in front of me, and my heart was really happy, "Come baby, ask Dad to hug!" So he stretched out his hand to hug him, but the little guy shrank into Xiao Zhang's arms and made a condition: "Are there any fun toys?" There's no fun to play with! ”
"Huh? ...... "Faced with my naughty son, I was stunned and didn't know what to do.