Just after New Year's Day in 1980 in the Gregorian calendar, Xue Ming and a group of professionals left City C to go to all parts of the country.

On the eve of his departure, Xue Ming summoned experts, instructors, and teachers from all over the country to roughly explain the enrollment standards and training ideas, and enumerated the training subjects and training programs set up by the special forces of foreign armies, the quality of the recruits, and the professional skills they possessed. Xue Ming sincerely hopes that everyone will express their opinions and come up with a complete enrollment and training plan.

In view of the psychological characteristics and physical adaptability of the children who are about seven or eight years old to be enrolled, we have made in-depth and detailed discussions and feasibility analysis and careful arguments on the configuration of future training personnel and training subjects. After improvement, the various test standards in the enrollment process have been explained in detail, and at the same time, a lot of plans and coping methods have been made for the difficulties that may be encountered during the period, and finally a complete enrollment and training plan has been reported, and soon got the approval and approval of the superiors, and then they went to the north and south of the motherland according to their respective regions.

Xue Ming and nine other people are in charge of the northeastern region from the Yangtze River to the three eastern provinces, and they are based in a small coastal city. After arriving in the small city, they were divided into three groups, Xue Ming and two others, one was a three-time fighting champion in the army, named Geng Zhijun; The other is a scientific researcher in the army, named Yan Yue, who can make and disassemble all kinds of explosive devices, and the three of them stay in the local area to recruit students, and the other two teams go to other cities to recruit team members, and the remaining team member is responsible for liaising with the relevant departments in various places, so that the enrollment team can be put into work as soon as they arrive in the next city.

A clear discipline for this admissions is not to make a big splash. First of all, they screened out 150 large and medium-sized cities across the country, according to the distance between the cities and the distribution situation, divided into eight regions, each 10 people are responsible for a region, each given target city in the region only chooses to enroll students in one of the main administrative districts, the scope is all the major kindergartens in the district, from which 20 to 30 school-age children are selected, which can not only narrow the scope of influence, but also save unnecessary travel fatigue, and most importantly, can save time.

The main advantage of Xue Ming, who was carrying the sword of Shang Fang, and the members of the selection team in various places was that they could get the full cooperation and support of the local garrison.

When they were still on the road, the team members responsible for coordination had already coordinated with the local city government through the military, and Xue Ming, who was very smooth, got in touch with the education bureau in the district, because the city had already greeted them in advance, and when Xue Ming explained their intentions, the comrades of the education bureau quickly sorted out the information of all the kindergartens in the district, and appointed full-time personnel to accompany them throughout the process, Xue Ming took the first step in their exploration.

In the early morning, the coastal town is bathed in sunlight, and after a short period of busyness, the streets return to calm. The cold wind blew a few dead yellow leaves and rolled them down the side of the road, and there were few pedestrians on the street, and the occasional car passing by would break the silence here.

Lubei District is an old residential area of the city, with more than 20 government-run and enterprise-owned kindergartens of all sizes scattered in the district. A few hundred meters away from the kindergarten, Xue Ming and the others got out of the car and walked to the first kindergarten they were going to today, the fourth kindergarten.

Yesterday they visited four relatively large kindergartens, and at each of them, they did not disturb the children, but just observed.

The kindergarten has been notified by the Education Bureau that the army is going to select some children as training targets for the army's professional talents. Like the Education Bureau, the kindergarten also thought that it was recruiting students in culture and sports, and this kind of thing had happened before, but this time it was different from the past, the comrades in charge of enrollment did not arrange demonstrations such as singing and dancing for the children, but arranged a lot of brain-using and hands-on operation activities, mainly to test the children's reaction and coordination ability.

Seven or eight-year-old children already have considerable judgment and self-awareness, and this time is not only the stage of their rapid growth, but also their most active stage. As the saying goes, 'seven or eight-year-old children are disgusting', and the so-called 'disgusting' refers to their vigorous energy and desire to understand the world at this stage, which makes the elders busy all day long.

Xue Ming and two colleagues stood on the second floor of the principal's office through the window to look out, in order to facilitate a comprehensive observation, at ten o'clock in the extracurricular activity time the principal specially extended the activity time for these large classes of children, different from the past is that this time the teachers did not lead the children to activities together according to the dean's instructions, but put some commonly used balls, toys and other things in the basket on the edge of the playground, when the teachers stepped aside, announced that everyone was free to move, many children were stunned there, a little overwhelmed, They are accustomed to listening to their teachers and doing activities.

The brief silence was broken by a child. I saw that the child quickly ran to the basket containing the toy, quickly picked up a leather ball, and shouted happily: "I'm going to shoot the basket", and ran to a children's basket near the wall, and raised his hand to throw the ball into it three or four meters away from the basket. Xue Ming and the others could see clearly that it was indeed thrown in, not when they ran close to it and put it in.

While the other children were still looking, another child walked up to the toy basket and took out two colorful flower balls from it, this time a girl, and she gave the balls to another girl next to her, and the two of them slapped the balls on one side.

At this time, when the children who were standing still saw that the teacher did not blame, but encouraged them with a smile, these children who were watching were 'Ah! With a bang, they all scattered and ran away, some climbed onto the swivel chairs, some jumped into the sand pit, and the remaining toys were instantly divided by the fast-legged children, and the playground was suddenly noisy. Many children who don't have toys are chasing and teasing wildly, and some children who are not willing to be lonely start to beat the ideas of those who are holding toys.

The girl who got the ball first seemed to realize something, and held it in her arms when the ball bounced, and the other girl was still playing with herself, and in a blink of an eye, her ball was in the hands of the boys, who began to chase the ball in the yard, and the girl looked at them aggrievedly. Seeing all this, the girl next to her handed her ball to the boy who rushed up next to her, whispered a few words in the girl's ear, the girl smiled happily, and the two walked to the side together, and the girls who also had nothing to do discussed with each other, and then, the girl shouted to the boy who shot just now: "Yifei, come on, be an eagle for us." ”

The girl shouted that it was the boy who got the ball first, and after the boy had taken the ball and had thrown seven or eight balls, he had already handed the ball to the other children and came to the equipment activity area. Now, he's pushing the swivel chair full of children, round and round. Hearing the girl's shout, he turned his head to look, pushed it twice harder, and the swivel chair turned by inertia. The boy turned and jumped off the equipment area and ran into the playground.

At this point, the girls were already in formation, and the girl was in front with her hands outstretched to protect the girls who looked like chicks in the back. As soon as the boy named 'Yifei' arrived at the field, he quickly rushed to the end of the team, and the girl also followed him quickly to move and block, and after a few rounds, the formation behind the girl could no longer keep up with the rhythm in front, and the boy changed lines sharply, quickly dodged the girl's slender arm, pounced on the last girl who had lost his pace, and grabbed her, and he shouted excitedly when he won.

Xue Ming had been watching everything that was happening below very intently, carefully watching the performance of each child. The director saw Xue Ming staring at the group of children playing "Eagle Catching Chickens", and lost no time in introducing: "That boy's name is Shen Yifei, he is very smart, very likable, and super athletic."

Xue Ming nodded: "I also noticed, when I saw him jump off the merry-go-round just now, I found that his footsteps did not have the erratic feeling after spinning, which means that his body control is very good, and I want to ask, do you understand that girl?" How are you usually? ”

"Oh, I was about to introduce her to you, her name is 'Liang Qing', if she is not smart, then this Liang Qing is not only smart, she can be regarded as a human being, very sensible, especially her memory is particularly good, it can be said that she will never forget, but her family background is not very good, her mother died shortly after she was born, his father is a driver, and he has always taken her alone, because his father often goes out, so compared to other children of the same age, she has a strong self-care ability, which is also the most worry-free child for our teachers." As he spoke, the dean looked lovingly at Liang Qing, who was organizing his own team of chickens.

Downstairs, Yifei urged on the side: "Okay, no, I'm going to start catching?" ”

The girl named Liang Qing stretched out her hand to block Yi Fei, and was about to shout to start, but she stopped, she grabbed Yi Fei's arm, so that he couldn't move, and looked up at the principal's office on the second floor, as if she heard a conversation about her upstairs.