Chapter 12: Waterloo
The old family said that if you don't go out for seven or don't go home, you won't go home. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I embarked on the journey back to the camp on the second day. The two of them came back together on vacation because of their different vacations, one had already returned to the camp in advance, and the other had a few days of vacation and wanted to leave after taking a break. This time, I had to "fight alone".
The weather was fine on this day, and the weather in the north after the beginning of spring was not so cold. A man dragged his luggage and looked for the ticket gate at the Zhengzhou Railway Station. This time, because it was the first time to go home for vacation, my relatives were very enthusiastic and bought a lot of things for me to take back, and I also had to buy some souvenirs and go back to the camp to taste them for my comrades-in-arms. Looking at the two big bags full of luggage, I still have to buy tickets, my head is big, and with this experience, I think I will never bring so many things next time.
The train station is still a person except for people, and when I stand in the crowd, I feel small. There are long queues at every ticket gate, and the military ticket window is no exception. It's a huge train station, I don't know anyone, and I don't feel at ease who will take care of my luggage. I left my luggage first and walked to the military ticket window to try my luck. As soon as I squeezed forward, I heard shouting from behind, and it was very difficult to hear, and I felt humiliated as a soldier. I squeezed in front of a comrade-in-arms in military uniform and said, "Brother, can you help me buy a ticket on my behalf." "Okay, no problem, where are you going, the soldiers of the world are a family." With that, I stuffed the papers and money into him. After waiting for a long time, it was finally his turn. I quickly thanked him when he got the ticket, and he smiled, picked up his luggage and disappeared into the crowd. He said that "the soldiers of the world are one family", which made my heart warm. But I think that the military and civilians in the world should always be more of a family.
After dozens of hours of turbulence, I finally came to the unit station for the second time.
Business as usual in the barracks. But my mood was very depressed: I was in my third year of being a soldier, and the pressure of studying for school had surged. This vacation seems to be resting, but the expectant eyes and earnest teachings of the relatives are overwhelming.
In March, at the request of my superiors, I signed up and stepped up my review. During this period, I met my comrade-in-arms Fan Zhanqiang, who has been with me for nearly 20 years. He enlisted in the "Baguling Heroes Company". This company is a pacesetter company of the military region, and even the chief officers have been promoted by leapfrogging levels. The company has a training goal, that is, everyone can be a squad leader, and everyone is a backbone. The fact that the soldiers of this company are squad leaders and do not need to go to the teaching team to study, which shows the degree of meticulousness and the high standards and strict requirements for the training of talents. The training in the past two years has become even more rigorous and difficult, and many central news media have interviewed this company. This year, the company is preparing to be awarded by its superiors.
We have all heard of Fan Zhanqiang. When he was a recruit, we didn't understand what it was like to be a soldier, but he was awarded a second-class meritorious service because he won the first place in the speech of the "Green Years Series" of the military region. He is an example for us to learn from. It's also a blessing to be able to take the exam together this time. We encouraged each other and hoped that we would be able to get into the military academy this time.
But fate took a turn for me again. My file was not approved because of the number of years I had been in elementary school: the file showed that I had only been in elementary school for three years, and it was impossible to calculate that I had graduated from high school when I joined the army. Wronged, people who have been in the fifth year of high school actually say that you didn't graduate from high school? It can be seen how important archives are to a person. I asked someone to go to the head of the cadre unit at that time, but I couldn't get my wish if I wanted to be accommodating.
The dream of going to school was stuck here, and my youth was hit in the waist again. It's like fighting a war, before the battlefield is on, you're already condemned to lose. The opportunities of life are sometimes so misleading, they look bright, but the road is not smooth, and even a little dark.
When I think about my own paperwork, it struck me a lot: how important it is to be rigorous and meticulous. Your careless mistake may bring unexpected losses to others, and may even be irreparable for a lifetime. As a company clerk, he is also responsible for the file review and management of his comrades-in-arms, and there must be no problems in this. There are some mistakes that a person must not make.
After failing to do so, I devoted my main energy to my work, and in my spare time I studied news writing seriously, and soon met Mai Feng, a news reporter from the Political Department. He taught me a lot about journalism and how to be a human being. It makes me feel that people can temporarily stand still, but dreams cannot stop, and once the mind is decadent, life will definitely be scrapped.
As a company reporter, my performance in journalism was discovered by Zeng Shan, the information officer of the Political Department. Since then, he has become an important guide in my life. He is a native of Guangdong, not tall, and has a lot of courage in the news. He once interviewed Gao Yubao, the author of "Chicken Crow in the Middle of the Night", when he was a new recruit in the army. He is good at all kinds of genres, poetry, correspondence, reportage, and so on. The place of his creation is a small room of less than 10 square meters on the right hand side of the entrance of the team auditorium, with a table, a bed, a newspaper, a mosquito net, and the window of the room is only 50 centimeters square. The first time I went in, I was blown away. This is the life of struggle, and this is the foundation of growth. Cherries are delicious and difficult to plant, flowers do not bloom without hard work, pies will not fall from the sky, and a happy life cannot wait. He lived in this room for four years, and many of his masterpieces came from here, until he became a cadre. Later, a few years later, when he was transferred to the military region to visit the team, he insisted on going to this place to have a look, because this was the place where he "broke out of the cocoon" and was a place that he would never forget.
It doesn't matter if you encounter a "Waterloo" in life, maybe there is an "olive branch" in "Waterloo". Anyone who works tirelessly can get it. Luckily, I met this "olive branch", and it changed the course of my life. In May 1997, Zeng Shan, who had been transferred to the division headquarters as a press officer, recommended me to my brother team as a reporter. From then on, I came to the "Baitaishan Heroes", which is famous for the Tashan Resistance Battle, and began my life that was different from what I had done before. The people and things here are touching and inspiring. It is in this team that my military life has added a lot of brilliance, and it has also made me have a spiritual understanding and feeling of what is the "Tashan Spirit" and why the "Tashan Spirit" can gather so much strength.
His comrade-in-arms Fan Zhanqiang was escorted to school, and naturally he was admitted to the Army Academy all the way. A few years later, the two of us became good brothers who chased me and worked together.