Qin Dachuan's Recruit Life (2)
When we were first assigned to the guard communications company, we recruits were eager to make progress, and we were very active, and it was not long before all the young people in society submitted applications to the organization to join the league, and all the members of the Communist Youth League submitted applications to the organization to join the party. www.biquge.info Whoever soaks a basin of dirty clothes in the bathroom at night will find that someone else helped to wash and dry it up the next morning. Before we eat, we have to line up at the door of the canteen to sing a song first, and the most sung is "Chairman Mao's quotation song", such as "the core force leading our cause", "we communists are like seeds", "make up your mind", and so on, and sometimes also sing "I am a soldier", "return from target shooting" and other songs, some soldiers wait for the end of the singing revolutionary song, as soon as the door of the canteen is opened, they rush in first, or read the newspaper, or read the "supreme instructions" (that is, Chairman Mao's quotations). In order to help the cooking class wash the dishes, some soldiers took a place next to the dishwashing sink before they had enough to eat.
Children who grew up in the countryside feel new to everything when they arrive in the city, and every Sunday the company arranges for a certain proportion of new soldiers to be taken to the city by veterans to have a look.
As soon as we got on the bus, we began to read aloud the "Supreme Directive" or read the newspaper to the passengers, "If the proletariat does not occupy the ideological front, the bourgeoisie will inevitably occupy it." "Sitting on the bus, no one's head can be idle.
The passengers have become accustomed to this phenomenon, sitting or standing blankly, expressionless, allowing the high or low south and north tones to hit the eardrums, no one dares to say anything, and no one wants to say anything.
One day, a veteran who brought new recruits into the city reported to Squad Leader Cui: Liang Jiting was reckless, and when he saw others reading the "Supreme Instructions" and reading newspapers on the bus, he also wanted to show himself. He read a commentator's article in the People's Daily, which not only read it in a slur and unsentenced, but also read the "dog shit pile" in "The bourgeois establishment has become a dog shit pile that despises human beings" as a "dog urine pile".
Squad leader Cui was shocked after listening to the veteran's report, after Liang Jiting arrived in the army, although he worked very hard to learn culture, he was still far from the level of being able to read newspapers in public. Although mispronouncing the party newspaper is not as likely to be said to be a "********" as mispronouncing the "supreme directive," it is not an ordinary trivial matter.
Squad leader Cui was just stunned for a moment, and immediately pretended to be indifferent and said to the veteran: "**** dog urine is all dog excrement, not a good taste, Liang Jiting read the newspaper this time is not wrong, let's not mention this matter again in the future." ”
After this incident, Squad Leader Cui had a very serious conversation with Liang Jiting, probably giving him a warning such as "no gold and steel drills, don't do magnetic work", and I found that Liang Jiting later studied culture more attentively.
Outside the wall of the barracks, there is a construction site called the "Third Work Zone" that is building an "Exhibition Hall of Educational Achievements in Class Struggle," and loudspeakers sound on time at 8 o'clock in the morning and 2 o'clock in the afternoon every day: "The radio station of the Third Work District will start broadcasting now------ either reading the 'supreme instructions,' reading the challenge book, the war response book, or the propaganda of good people and good deeds." ”
One Monday morning, we had just had breakfast, and a few words from the loudspeaker in the third work area attracted everyone's attention: "The red flag flutters in the east wind, and the great era produces heroes." Wang Zhenguo, a soldier of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army, and several of his comrades-in-arms yesterday gave up their rest time and went to the construction site to participate in voluntary labor ------"
Everyone dedicated their admiring eyes to Wang Zhenguo, a row of soldiers.
Wang Zhenguo was a recruit who joined the army at the same time as me, and he was the first of our recruits to submit an application to join the party.
The loudspeaker continued to broadcast: "------ Wang Zhenguo and his comrades-in-arms picked up the burden and walked like flying, they remembered Huang Jiguang who stood up to block the enemy's gunhole, Dong Cunrui who blew up the enemy's pillbox with an explosive bag in his hand, Liu Hulan who would rather die under the enemy's guillotine, and remembered ------."
The words on the radio amused everyone, and a veteran touched Wang Zhenguo with his elbow: "Hey, what are you thinking about doing your work?" Don't forget to pour out the dirt from the burden on your shoulders! ”
"I was thinking about working until the end of the day, coming back for dinner as soon as possible, and I didn't think about anything else!" Wang Zhenguo said with a smile.
At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, the loudspeaker on the construction site of the third work area sounded on time: "The radio station of the third work area will start broadcasting now------
A naughty veteran whispered in the announcer's tone: "Bastard of the third work area, now start talking nonsense------"
There is a new soldier named Hu Xiaobing in our class, who has done the most good deeds for helping others, and is often praised by company commanders, platoon commanders, and squad leaders.
Hu Xiaobing was transferred to the company headquarters as a communications officer after less than half a year of standing guard in our squad, and the other new soldiers were very envious.
There was a dormitory for each squad of the guard communications company, and the soldiers slept on wooden beds on wooden benches. Several cadres of the company lived in a dormitory, sleeping on wooden beds with legs, and the cadres and soldiers of the whole company shared a washroom. On the morning of the second day when Hu Xiaobing arrived at the company headquarters, he got up early, tiptoed to make the water in the washbasin of the company cadres, squeezed everyone's toothpaste on the toothbrush, and then quietly went outside to clean up.
Our company commander was a veteran who knocked out a tooth on a mission and later had a denture fitted. The company commander likes to remove the dentures and soak them in the gargle jar every night before going to bed, and then install them on the gums when he gets up the next morning.
After the wake-up horn sounded, the company commander shouted to Hu Xiaobing outside the courtyard in the dormitory: "Hu Xiaobing, where is the water in my tank?" ”
Hu Xiaohou hurriedly ran into the room and said to the company commander: "I poured the leftover water from yesterday in your tank on the grass outside the window, and I changed the water for you today." ”
"Ah, there's my dentures in the water!"
After the efforts of several people, the company commander's dentures were finally found on the grass, but the company commander was unhappy in his heart.
On a Sunday in the first autumn harvest season after we joined the army, except for the cadres and soldiers of the guard and communications company, the others went to the nearby production team to participate in the labor of helping the people. When I was working, everyone worked very hard, took off their shirts and was sweaty.
Three hours later, the company commander announced the end of the labor of helping the people, and asked everyone to get dressed and gather on the side of the road to give a commentary.
When he went to the roadside to assemble, Hu Xiaobing took the initiative to put the company commander's shirt in the crook of his arm and put it together with his shirt. After the team was assembled, he handed one of the two shirts to the company commander and kept one for himself.
At that time, the cadres and soldiers of the army were all wearing the same green uniforms, liberation shoes, red hat badges and red collar badges, called "a red star on the head, and the red flag of the revolution on both sides", the difference was that the cadres' shirts were four pockets, and the soldiers' shirts were two pockets.
When the company commander was about to give a speech to everyone, everyone realized that he was wearing a soldier's shirt with two pockets. The company commander and Hu Xiaobing were about the same height, fat and thin, and he didn't find that what Hu Xiaobing handed him was not his own clothes.
At that time, everyone wanted to laugh, and Hu Xiaobing wanted to cry.
Hu Xiaobing only served as a communications officer in the company headquarters for more than a month before he returned to our squad to stand guard and take duty. (To be continued.) )