In winter, as the weather gets colder day by day, the leaves of the big poplar trees in the barracks gradually fall off, the green vegetable fields have gradually turned into white flowers, and the meals on the tables of the officers and soldiers have become more and more single. The soldiers could not afford to eat at all with less than 2 yuan per person per day. For a long time, officers and soldiers could only eat cabbage and turnips. In order to improve the quality of food for officers and men at the grassroots level, the logistics department of the military region decided to start the vegetable basket project and build plastic greenhouses by the troops themselves. The 3235 Regiment was designated by the Military Region as a pilot unit for building plastic greenhouses, and the Second Artillery Company, as the combat readiness construction company of the 3235 Regiment, was duty-bound to undertake the heavy task of building a model of plastic greenhouses.

Once the company had a task, Sun Jiashu and Li Xiwa, the two "rivals", began to dart hard, and asked the company commander for help. The company commander looked embarrassed, the task to a class, the people of the fourth class must have an opinion, to the fourth class, to the first class and can not be said, simply give each of the two classes a plastic greenhouse model project indicators, by the way let the seventh and eighth classes build greenhouses at the same time, and finally choose one of the best models in two or four plastic greenhouses. In this way, it did not offend the squad leaders of the two squads, but also ensured the quality of the model project, killing two birds with one stone.

After receiving the task of the model project, Li Xiwa secretly said in her heart: If you lose on the training ground, you will definitely be better than you on the labor field.

And Sun Jiashu does not show weakness, since you Li Xiwa always embarrass me, I will not let you feel better, no matter what you do, you must suppress your anger and let you know that my Sun Jiashu is not easy to mess with.

The drawings of the greenhouse are specially designed by experts from agricultural universities, the size of the shed, the width of the wall, and the thickness of the roof of the shed are all strict size, and make full use of local raw materials: in the vegetable field in situ soil and mud wall, the roof of the shed is used in the corn stalk in the people's field, smeared with a layer of mud to insulate the top, the internal frame is made of bamboo poles, this material is easy to buy in the market, and it is also very cheap, which is economical and affordable, is very labor-intensive, but this is not a problem for the troops, because the troops do not have anything else, that is, there are people.

As soon as the location of the greenhouse was determined, Sun Jiashu and Li Xiwa's two classes began to compete openly and secretly. Especially in the first class, the red flag of the pacesetter was lost, and it was really not good to build a greenhouse and not pick up the face. It can be said that the soldiers of the whole class are full of energy, and everything is required by high standards, and strive to build a high-standard plastic greenhouse. On the first day of building a greenhouse, a class first impressed the whole company, and looked at the foundation to know how high the standard of the first class was, and they all completed the task beyond the standard. When Sun Jiashu was constructing, he strictly followed the size of the drawings on time, and almost didn't do it at all, when the wall was half high, the wall rose by 10 centimeters, and he should have ordered the soldiers in the squad to cut off the extra part, wasting half an hour in vain. In the eyes of others, these are things that are in vain, but Sun Jiashu insists on doing so. Li Xiwa is diametrically opposed, no matter what he does, he has always exceeded the standard, the drawing requires the wall to be 80 centimeters wide, he asked to widen it to one meter, and after the actual completion, the width of the wall reached 1. 2 meters. Moreover, he is going to double the thickness of the roof of the shed, which will be warmer. Every time he worked, Li Xiwa always took the lead, he took the lead in taking off his shoes and socks, and was the first to jump into the cold mud to step on the mud.

When the project was halfway through, the fourth class slowly caught up, because the standard required by the first class was too high, and the progress would definitely be affected in the same time, and the long-term high-intensity labor, the first class felt a little exhausted.

"Comrades, since we have won the task of seeing the model project, all the comrades in our class are working very hard, especially Comrade Xu Chengshan, the deputy squad leader, although he is an old comrade who should be discharged from the army, but the enthusiasm for work is the highest, every time he is the first to go down, the last one to come up, his hands are blistered, he is a good example for our whole class to learn, and Comrade Liu Hui, we know that his leg was sprained during the exercise, and he still insisted on participating in labor, and he did not do less than others, in general, Every comrade in our class has done a good job, but in recent days, the construction progress of our class has obviously lagged behind by four classes. ”

A veteran stood up and said: "squad leader, the reason is obvious, because our standard is higher than the fourth class, the same height, we have a lot more than the fourth class, if it is a short period of construction, everyone is still unbearable, but the construction of plastic greenhouses is a long-term project, do this every day, the physical strength of our squad soldiers is obviously not able to keep up, if we want to speed up the progress, only lower the standard, so that we can catch up with or exceed the fourth class." ”

"The standard must not be lowered, everyone think about it, see if there is any other way?" Li Xiwa immediately denied it.

Xu Chengshan stood up and said: "I think, only to increase the construction time, the four classes of boys are not vegetarians, they are also working hard, it can be seen that they are deliberately working against our class, if we do not increase the construction time, it is impossible to catch up with the fourth shift." Xu Chengshan will be ready to retire from the army in a few months, and Li Xiwa promised him that if there is a third-class meritorious service quota in the class this year, he will report him, so he will work very hard no matter what he does.

"Deputy squad leader Xu said well, in the case of the standard is not lowered, only to increase the time of construction, during the day, we work overtime, the four shifts are also working overtime, their standards are low, the process is obviously faster than our class, it seems that if you want to catch up with the four shifts, only the night battle of the lantern, our class can not afford to lose now, and then lose, we can't afford to stand up in the whole company, I suggest, our class works overtime for four hours at night, do you see any different opinions?"

A squad of soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, at this time, who will stand up and say different opinions? When the time comes, the first class will go to the first class and lose, then it will be a class of sinners, because the first class really can't afford to lose.

"Since there is no disagreement, it is so decided, we will do what we say, after the class meeting, we are led by Deputy Squad Leader Xu, everyone brings tools to the construction site, I will look for the company commander, see if I can pull the electric light line over, you can't work in the dark, right? Okay, now that the meeting is adjourned, let's all hurry up and get ready to go. After Li Xiwa finished speaking, she went to the company headquarters,

Seeing Li Xiwa leaving, Xu Chengshan said to everyone: "Everyone bring tools and set off." After saying that, he took the lead and went out with a shovel on his back, and the other soldiers also hurriedly took their tools and lined up to follow Xu Chengshan.

The next day, the first class came to the construction site, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up: good guys! The walls of the first class are a lot higher than the fourth class. Could it be that there are gods to help a class? Seeing the listless appearance of the soldiers in the first squad, the soldiers of the fourth squad all counted in their hearts: the first squad worked in the middle of the night last night.

The company commander was very moved when he saw how fast the progress of the first squad was, and heard that they had done it at night last night, and immediately gathered the backbone of the whole company, stood on the construction site of the first squad and held an on-site meeting, praised the first squad leader, and said that the other squad leaders were ashamed, and several squad leaders immediately expressed their attitude: work overtime and strive to complete the construction task with high standards. On the same day, the whole company set off a big labor boom, and the construction progress was significantly accelerated.

The construction soldiers are working overtime, and the soldiers of the cooking class are also idle, they carry the boiled mung bean tea directly to the construction site, and anyone who is thirsty can scoop up a scoop and drink it at any time. On a cold day, the soldiers are shirtless, dealing with the soil, and inevitably their bodies are covered with mud, but they are in full swing, especially the third-year veterans, after the greenhouse is built, I am afraid that they will not see the vegetable seedlings and should be discharged, but they are still like recruits, picking the dirtiest and most tiring work to do. The construction progress of the entire company progressed rapidly, and in only half a month, four model greenhouses were erected in the vegetable field.

The regimental logistics department specially sent people to come to accept, after several people carefully accepted, the four greenhouses are all qualified, but the regiment needs a greenhouse as a model, which will be used as the standard of the whole regiment in the future, and now there are four greenhouses, which one is used as a model? Everyone fell in love with the greenhouses built by the first class at a glance, and the greenhouses built by the first class naturally became the model project of the whole regiment, and all companies of the whole regiment also began to start construction according to this standard. Several squad leaders of the Second Artillery Company were robbed by each company to serve as technical advisers because of their experience.

Hearing that the greenhouse built by the first class was set as the standard, Sun Jiashu was anxious, he ran to the company headquarters and asked the company commander: "The drawings for building the greenhouse have very strict requirements for various data indicators. At the beginning, when Lian Li sent a few of us to the agricultural university to learn the theoretical knowledge of building greenhouses, the experts of the university specially reminded us that we must build according to the data on the drawings, not small nor large. ”

After hearing this, the company commander criticized Sun Jiashu and said: "Fourth squad leader, the greenhouse in your class has not been rated as a model project, and the mood is understandable, but you can't deliberately find fault with others, right?" Good is good, bad is bad, in order to build this greenhouse, a squad leader did work hard, look at the day when the shed was built to be solid, that is, the wall is a little wider, the top is thicker, what will happen? There will only be benefits, there will be no harm, and the warmth is strong! ”

"But ......?"

"No, this time everyone can see it." The company commander looked a little impatient.

When it came to this, Sun Jiashu had nothing to say, he turned around and walked out of the company.