On July 21, the whitish sun roasted the earth, making it impossible to open people's eyes. The Wuhan Central Meteorological Observatory www.biquge.info has issued an orange warning for high temperature for three consecutive days.

"Ding".

After lunch, I was lying in bed and falling asleep, and the sound of WeChat woke people up, which was very annoying.

"Clerk, are you busy?" That head was the squad leader when he first joined the veteran class.

"Not busy." I replied slowly.

"Are you still fighting the flood?"

"Nope."

"You're not far from Wuhan?"

"Not far."

"I'm studying in Wuhan now."

"Huh?" I got out of bed, and I sat up and fell asleep, "Is it true, old squad leader?" ”

"I'll send you a spot."

"Okay, I'll go to you in the afternoon and invite you to dinner in the evening." The excitement of the squad leader to come to Han made me make a quick decision.

The squad leader's surname is Tang, everyone calls him "Donald Duck", a native of Guangxi, who has been in the army four years earlier than me, of course I can't call him a nickname, and our new comrades all respectfully call him "old squad leader".

The old squad leader is of medium stature and comes from a poor background. After enlisting in the army in the early 90s, with his excellent military qualities, he became a well-known platoon leader in the company -- a squad leader, and being able to be a squad leader is a symbol of ability, and it is also an honor for recruits to be assigned to a squad after training. When I got out of the veteran platoon, it was already April, and the old squad leader didn't get a commission last year, and now he is holding back a lot of energy in his heart, and he must be admitted to the military academy, which is also his last chance to change his fate in the army. During the day, he took us to train, and at night he went into a small private room alone to read books and study hard, enlisting in the army from the countryside and enduring hardships was nothing to him, what he wanted was that the life theorem of "pay should always be rewarded" can be established. He rarely speaks, giving people a feeling of self-exaltation, and sometimes this is the case, people's prestige and prestige are not spoken, and they are naturally respected and loved if they do well. Wang Ling, the deputy squad leader, is also a soldier led by him, and the daily management of the squad and the cultivation and breeding of sideline land are all pressed on him.

In the evening, I made an appointment with Xiaotao and Dou brothers, who enlisted in the army in the same year as me, and booked the hotel not far from the student dormitory of Wuhan University.

"Where?" Xiaotao was urging and sent me a location to share.

"It's almost there, blocking Zhuo Dao Road." I'm also very anxious, I can't help it when I enter Wuhan, that road, it's troublesome.

Xiaotao and Xiaodou, although they are fellow villagers and also enlisted in the army together, their families have operations in advance, and they both serve near Wuhan. I also joined the army, and the informative ones were assigned to units that they thought were relatively good, and I only met them after I came to Guangxi from exchange. The same group of enlisted in the army, many people don't know that there is a group of fellow villagers here. The contrast between the two is very stark, Wen Tao is smart, Xiaodou is honest, one is lean, the other is stout, a little white, one is dark, one eats with his head, one runs around with physical strength, one works as a driver for the leader, and the other takes off his military uniform early.

"Old squad leader, have you arrived? I've reached the ground floor of the hotel building. ”

"It's here, it's here, I'm already in the 267 private room. Your friends are here too. The squad leader still spoke with a southern accent. Hearing his accent, I thought of the story of a female soldier operator and minister.

First, the logistics minister who had just taken office was a southerner, and he spoke with a strong accent, and once, he called the switchboard class: "Please help me pick up the car battalion." ”

On the other end of the phone was a crisp female soldier's voice: "Hello, operator No. 102, may I ask what you are ......?"

"I'm minister."

"Are you ......?"

"I'm minister."

"Who are you?"

"I'm minister. Tell you that I am the minister" The minister is the leader after all, and he is impatient to speak, aggravating his tone.

"If you don't talk about it, I won't talk about it." The operator was also anxious, how did she know that the other party was the head of the army.

The joke spread quickly. When leaders at the same level see that minister again, they will jokingly say, "I don't talk about (minister)".

"Old squad leader, blessed, how many years haven't we seen each other?" I was so excited that I went up and hugged him.

"You're still in such a standard figure, 11 years, I haven't seen you in 11 years." He patted me the shoulder with his hand.

"Come on, it's all here, take a seat, take a seat, eat and talk." Xiaotao greeted everyone warmly.

"Come, old squad leader, this seat belongs to you." I pointed to a large chair with the only armrests.

"Come, clerk, you sit here. Let's start with three cups. "The old squad leader's arrogance has come up a little.

"Wait a minute, you can't take pictures." As soon as Brother Bean raised his mobile phone, he was stopped by the squad leader.

Everyone, you say a word, I say a word, one person toasts a glass, and the little two or two will have a stomach after a circle.

"Come, old squad leader, I'll toast you again." I'm not good at words, I only know how to toast.

"Clerical, this can't work, change the glass, use the wine dispenser, and pour it full. Xiaodou, with my phone, I can take pictures now. The old squad leader came up and began to "command the troops".

A glass of wine, a drink. I didn't expect people in their forties and fifties to be still as energetic as they were back then. He skillfully shared the photo to the WeChat group of "Steel Knife Four Companies". Someone in the group immediately responded: Old duck, when did you go to Hubei? The squad leader put his mouth on the mobile phone and replied: I am here now, this kid is doing a good job now.

"Old squad leader, you are Brother Guo's squad leader, that is, my squad leader, squad leader, you came from afar, Xiaodou and I are landlords, I respect you." Xiaotao can say that he can't drink it, and the task of drinking a big cup naturally falls on Xiaodou.

"No, don't drink the big glass, wait a minute, get drunk." The squad leader coped and refused.

"My squad leader, the experience was very bumpy, the fourth year of the soldier was promoted, but he failed to succeed for some unspeakable reasons. In the fifth year, the second year of overdue service, it was only by seizing the opportunity of the examination that the turning point of fate was achieved. His influence on me is to persevere to the end, be a down-to-earth person, and eventually succeed. Squad leader, for our not easy past, I'll accompany one. "Maybe I drank a little wine, and I talked a lot. The three of them did it again.

I also failed to pass the military school examination in my third year in the army, and I did not get a commission in my fourth year. The similar experience with the squad leader, the emotions of the blind date, the longing for many years, and the many teachings rushed to my mind, and I drank the fragments after a while.

"Leader, leader, it's home, it's home", the driver's urging voice made my brain have a little reaction. When I woke up the next day, I felt very uncomfortable, and insisted on running three kilometers on the treadmill, sweating profusely, and feeling a little better.

Although I didn't have a long time with the old squad leader, and I forgot most of what I said, he still hooked my mind back to the recruit years more than 20 years ago, which seemed to have just happened yesterday.