After dinner, when they returned to the dormitory, the recruits with different accents began to gather together in twos and threes to chatter, and some even took out small notebooks to carefully write down each other's mailing addresses.

Li Xiwa waved her hand to everyone and said: "Everyone be quiet, up to now, all the ten recruits in our class have arrived, let's get to know each other, everyone will introduce themselves first, I'll start first, my surname is Li, my name is Li Xiwa." ”

Hearing this name, several recruits couldn't help but want to laugh, how to choose such a name, it's too vulgar, and my father and mother must be uneducated.

Li Xiwa continued: "I am from Yan'an, Shaanxi, Han nationality, 20 years old this year, enlisted in the army in 88, served as the squad leader of the second artillery company of the 3235 regiment, and is now the squad leader of the first squad of recruits. He turned his face to Sun Jiashu and said, "College student, you can continue, by the way, you should bring the education level when you introduce it again." ”

Sun Jiashu immediately stood up and said, "My name is Sun Jiashu, Han nationality, from Henan, 20 years old this year. "Before coming to the army, my father repeatedly explained to him that he should not be afraid of people when he arrives in the army, and he must be generous, and he may not have the opportunity to come when he comes.

Li Xiwa interrupted Sun Jiashu and said, "Are you 20 years old? We are the same age, but I was a soldier three years earlier than you, I came to the army before graduating from junior high school, and now it seems that it is better to learn more culture, right, college student. ”

"Actually, it's not a college student, at best, it's a prospective college student." Sun Jiashu said modestly.

After everyone laughed for a while, Li Xiwa pointed at Zhang Ran with her finger: "You say." ”

"My name is Zhang Ran." Zhang Ran stood up and said.

"In Mandarin." Li Xiwa's words with a Shaanxi accent interrupted Zhang Ran, in fact, his Mandarin is not standard.

Zhang Ran said again in half-baked Mandarin: "My name is Zhang Ran, from Guangdong, 19 years old, Han nationality, high Chinese. ”

Next is the introduction of the Yi recruit Na Ma Shidu, he said Mandarin is even more unusual, just like foreigners speaking Chinese, everyone pricked up their ears and listened for a long time and did not understand a sentence, but he was in a hurry to sweat, and finally simply wrote crookedly with a pen in a small book.

Li Xiwa tilted her head and looked at it for a long time before saying: "That Ma lost the capital, this name is not easy to remember, you just call Lao Ma Zhitu." ”

There was another burst of laughter.

Li Hai from Harbin spoke to the actor in the Northeast, and it sounded very good, his mouth was as clean as a doll, and he even said that he was 18 years old, and he was a lie when he heard it, and he must be a backdoor soldier.

Li Gui statue of Inner Mongolia recited a poem: "I come from the beautiful prairie, the motherland called, and at the age of eighteen, I put on a green military uniform,......"

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After everyone finished introducing them, Li Xiwa said: "Today, because the comrades who just came are very tired, I think let's rest early, everyone wash their feet first, I have prepared the footwashing water for everyone." I saw him line up the ten basins, first poured cold water, and then divided the hot water in the thermos into the basin evenly, and there was still one basin left without hot water, he tested the water temperature with his hands, and simply divided the remaining hot water into those basins, and watched the recruits begin to wash their feet, so he quietly picked up the basin that was not mixed with hot water and washed it.

After washing the feet, Li Xiwa told the recruits that the water for washing their feet should be poured into the water room, the water room is in the east of the company, and the recruits poured out the water together after washing their feet, and when they came back, they sat on the bed one by one and looked at the angular quilt and were stunned, it was a pity to open it, at this time, there were several long whistles outside, and the recruits didn't know what this whistle was for.

"Open the covers and sleep." Li Xiwa ordered.

The recruits carefully opened the quilt, and then stumbled into the quilt, Li Xiwa reached out and pulled out the light, after a while, the snoring began to rise and fall, Li Xiwa was not at ease, he took the electric light and looked at it one by one, the quilt was about to fall, he tucked it with his hand, the arm was exposed, he put his arm into the quilt, and saw that everything was normal, he lay down with confidence, but he couldn't sleep anyway, the opportunity to dry has been lost, this year is the most critical year for him to become a volunteer, And whether he can bring the recruits well is the key key, and he is thinking, how can he lead this class well?

Li Xiwa comes from a barren village in northern Shaanxi, her hometown is full of bare loess slopes, the loess is flying when the wind blows, squinting so that people can't open their eyes, wearing big pants all day long in summer, but surprisingly cold in winter, wrapped in woolen handkerchiefs on their heads, wearing heavy sheepskin jackets, and feeling cold and biting with ropes tied around their waists, most people have never left this yellow earth in their lives. Like many rural children, junior high school did not graduate, Li Xiwa dropped out of school because the family could not pay the tuition, sensible he picked up the burden of the family at a young age, every day before dawn, he got up to open the sheepfold, and then drove the sheep to the loess high slope to gnaw grass, before dark, he drove the sheep back a lot, the sheep are very clustered, never run around, save a lot of trouble, which makes him feel a little idle, when he is fine, he always lies on the dirt slope and looks at the blue sky in a daze, when he is really bored, He followed his father's example and roared a few times Xintianyou: "The (that) mule (yo) who walked at the head / (that) lamp / brought (that) bell (yo hey) / wow wow (that) sound / ......" After singing, he still looked at the blue sky in a daze. Once, he followed a few older children to Yan'an, which made him a little restless: the high-rise buildings in the city all got into the eyes of the clouds, and the girls on the street were very attractive to wear grease and powder, and they didn't know the cold in clothes that exposed their navels, which were so beautiful and moving, and the dazzling neon lights, which flashed and flashed at night, decorating the sky in various colors. Since then, he has longed to one day be able to get out of the yellow earth. That year, at his strong request, the honest mother went to the secretary's house with a basket of eggs, and the mother didn't come back until midnight, and later, Li Xiwa became a soldier as she wished (a few years later, he learned that his mother used his body to make him a soldier, and he really wanted to go back and kill the branch secretary after he knew, and his mother said, if you dare to kill him, I will die, Li Xiwa had to give up, so he began to hate this village and never wanted to go back). I really didn't expect that after walking out of the loess high slope, the outside world is more exciting, the buildings here are even higher, and the girls are more beautiful. He vowed to do his job in the army and never go back to that poor little village, where there was nothing but poverty and shame. In the second year of being a soldier, he became a squad leader, and he was a squad leader of the Second Artillery Company, the famous "magic artillery squad" squad leader, during the war years, this squad destroyed eight enemy tanks with an artillery, so glorious achievements were recorded in history, and the whole regiment was proud of it, the squad leader of this squad was the object of promotion, and the above two squad leaders were promoted, and became the squad leader of this class, which was equivalent to wearing four pockets, Li Xiwa is the same, he immediately joined the party, this year, the company gave him the task of training recruits, and also gave him the quota for promotion, but he got stuck in the division, because his culture was low, so he put his hope on the transfer of volunteers, the requirements for turning volunteers are not high, according to this development trend, the transfer of volunteers should be nine out of ten.