Chapter 22 Raising the Flag
After a long whistle, the train slowly entered the Berlin Zoo station, and Captain Lang Jiancheng, who was sitting by the window, saw that there were many people standing on the platform who were ready to pick up the station, and he was still a little uncomfortable when he finally arrived in Berlin. Captain Lang Jiancheng is like this, but Captain Han Zhaolin and Captain Huang Tingshu, who were traveling with him, did not think that there was anything surprising about Berlin, they were just annoyed that they did not go to Britain, as we all know: the British Royal Navy is the first in the world, and the German Navy once galloped across the ocean, but after all, it was defeated, and now the German Navy is very weak, and they are not very happy to come to such a country to learn the navy or submarines.
After a shock caused by emergency braking, the train finally came to a standstill. At this time, all the Germans in the carriage stood up and got off the train, and after a while, the three of them walked to the porch and saw Major Li Kongrong and two second lieutenants, a second lieutenant and an elderly army second lieutenant on the platform.
Lang Jiancheng ...... I've seen the sir. Lang Jiancheng and the three of them saluted Major Li Kongrong, and at the same time, the platform kept ringing 'Hey! Hitler's German greetings, the platform was bustling everywhere, after all, this was an international train from the Netherlands, and there were many people picking up the station.
"Good work." Li Kongrong said. The three of Lang Jiancheng are all Fujian, but Major Li Kongrong has recently become accustomed to speaking Chinese, so there is a strange landscape where the commander speaks Chinese and his subordinates speak Hokkien. "Let's go. Jiang Jing, you help them get some luggage. Li Kongrong instructed the young naval lieutenant, who had just come from China a few days ago.
Following Li Kongrong out of the train station, past a long line of taxis, and then through the bus stop, the group arrived at the parking lot, where a swarthy and shiny sedan with a rear compartment was parked. The second lieutenant of the army helped open the car door, Lang Jiancheng and the second lieutenant Jiang Jing sat in the back compartment, and Li Kongrong got into the passenger cab. After the second lieutenant started the ignition, the car quickly drove out of the parking lot.
"What kind of car is this?" In the back compartment, Captain Huang Tingshu, who has always been interested in cars, asked the second lieutenant of the navy, he was worried that the other party could not understand Hokkien, so he asked again in Chinese, "Where are you from?" ”
"Fuzhou's." Jiang Jing smiled brightly. He immediately said: "The chief said that this is an Audi DKW, the model is F5, and I just bought it the day before yesterday." After he said that, he snickered and whispered, "It was Miss Kong who asked her to buy it, but it will be used by our navy in the future." ”
"Miss Kong?" The three captains were a little confused, but when they heard that the car would be for the exclusive use of the Navy in the future, they felt that it was very good.
"No wonder it's a van, so it can hold a few more people." Captain Lang Jiancheng also looked at this navy special car, and felt that everything was good. "This car is going to be thousands, right?" He asked, touching the leather couch in the car.
"Hehe......" Jiang Jing immediately laughed, then raised two fingers, and finally said proudly: "Twenty-two thousand marks, this is an authentic German car, or a luxury car, not an American road car." ”
"Jiang Jing! What to say?! Jiang Jing hadn't finished being proud, and Li Kongrong, who had closed his eyes and recuperated in front of him, drank a sentence. Hearing the chief's displeasure, Jiang Jing immediately shrank her head and sat down. After that, only the smooth roar of the eight-cylinder engine was heard in the car, and it didn't take long for the car to slow down after a few turns and drive into a garden.
"This is our ......" Captain Lang Jiancheng obviously couldn't accept it after getting off the bus, they thought it was a student dormitory, but they didn't want it to be a luxury villa with a swimming pool and garden. The villa looks like a four-storey, stone-built Western-style house, which is extraordinary. On the wooden flagpole in front of the house is a blue sky and white sun flag.
"Alright, let's find your own room first. You can have one room for three people or one room for one person, but this is only temporary, and if people continue to come from the country, eighteen rooms will not be enough. "Major Li Kongrong, who was standing on the side, didn't care about the reaction of the three of them to this luxurious villa, and only explained what he needed to know." Half an hour later, you guys clean up first, you can ask Jiang Jing if you don't understand, today is his duty. ”
The major left after explaining, and Second Lieutenant Jiang Jing took three of his colleagues to find a room. Unlike the young people, the captains mostly became families, and they chose one room for one person rather than three people. When a few people were cleaning up, Jiang Jing stood in the corridor and talked to everyone. The most problematic was Huang Tingshu, who said, "This house is rented, right?" ”
"It's rented, from an old Jewish lady." Jiang Jing replied, "The chief said that living here is cheaper than living in downtown Berlin, and besides, if you already have a car, it doesn't matter if you live in a different place." ”
"How much does such a big house cost?" Lang Jiancheng also asked, "Also, how far is it from the University of Berlin?" Didn't you say we were going to study German for four months at the University of Berlin? ”
"The house is very cheap, only 800 marks a month." Jiang Jing said, "It's still a long way from the University of Berlin, but the chief said that if the car can't sit down one day, we can ask a German teacher to teach us German here." ”
"Teach here?" The three people who walked out of the room looked at each other, "Isn't it at the University of Berlin?" ”
"The chief looked at it and said that the University of Berlin was also a private training course, and it was not run by the University of Berlin at all. Tuition fees are not expensive, so it is better to go to the training class and find a good teacher to teach here, as long as there are more than 16 people who learn, it is cost-effective. Jiang Jing came many days earlier than Lang Jiancheng and the others, and she was very clear about the situation here. However, Lang Jiancheng was a little unhappy when he heard that he couldn't go to the University of Berlin. They were also ready to brag after returning to China, saying that they had studied at the University of Berlin, but they didn't expect Major Li to invite a German teacher to his home, what was the point of that.
A few people were frustrated, a piano suddenly sounded from a room on the second floor, accompanied by the sound of the piano and the singing voice, of course, the voice is not the most important, the most important is the female voice. "What is this?" Captain Lang Jiancheng, who was electrified, was the first to ask, "Could it be that the Major's family is also in Berlin?" ”
"No, it was a female student invited by the chief, who is also our compatriot, and said that she was here to compose some kind of music." Jiang Jing laughed as she ate. The female student was so beautiful that every time the ten students saw her, they were a little smitter.
"Is that so?" Lang Jiancheng glanced at Jiang Jing, and then at the second-floor window where the sound of the piano floated out, wanting to go up to take a look but didn't dare to go up to look. It was the unmarried Captain Han Zhaolin, who was single, he smiled and said, "I'll take a look." ”
The closer to that room, the clearer and moving the music became, even if it was just an English song, Captain Han Zhaolin still felt that he was intoxicated by the faint melancholy melody, but what made him even more obsessed was the female voice singing this English song, when he was about to reach the door, he hesitated, and when he turned around, he saw Lang Jiancheng looking at him, and then he mustered up the courage to take two steps forward.
A girl with long black hair was sitting in front of the piano playing, she was wearing a green dress, and only the side face was fair and delicate, which suddenly made Han Zhaolin, who was peeking at her, stiff. Who would have thought that there would be such a beauty in the Navy cadet dormitory.
"You...... You are? Han Zhaolin stood stupidly at the door, and the girl who played the piano found out that something was wrong after a while, she thought it was another person, but when she turned her head, she didn't know it. She was a little surprised, but still asked, "You're a student who just arrived today, right?" ”
"Yes." Han Zhaolin's throat was dry, and when he was about to speak, a voice shouted downstairs: "Jiang Ying, come down to eat." ”
Jiang Ying was obviously the girl's name, she replied to the window with a crisp voice, then smiled at Han Zhaolin, and ran downstairs with a gust of fragrant wind. As soon as she ran away like this, Han Zhaolin only felt that her soul was also swept away by her.
In the incomparably large, aristocratic and luxurious dining room downstairs, Major Li Kongrong, Second Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong, and several other naval cadets had already sat down. After Jiang Ying sat down for a while, Lang Jiancheng and the three entered the restaurant under Jiang Jing's beckoning. The major glanced at several of them and said, "Remember! Remember to be punctual when you eat later. ”
Lang Jiancheng and others, who had been eating Western food in the Netherlands, immediately devoured it, and after a while, there were only a few people left in the restaurant where the meal was finished, such as Li Kongrong and Jiang Ying, and then there was a hotel waiter who cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks -- the food was delivered from a Shanghai restaurant a few kilometers away, and I heard that there were more than 10 people eating here, and there would be more people eating in the future.
"You won't be able to compose music here in two days." The major, whose plate was taken away by the waiter at the restaurant, was drinking tea, but Jiang Ying had not finished eating, and the seventeen-year-old girl seemed to be used to chewing slowly.
"Ah, why?" Jiang Ying looked at Major Li Kongrong in confusion, with a girl's admiration in his eyes, but the major deliberately avoided her - he didn't understand where the other self found such a girl, but this girl said that she was a student at the Berlin University of Music. This is just a school, and what makes the major even more uneasy than this is that this woman is the daughter of Jiang Baili, the advisor to Chang Gong. A married man and an unmarried girl who admired him a lot, how could it make people gossip when it was passed out, so whenever he faced Jiang Ying, the major had to be present with several people, so as not to make people crowd.
"The minister will be coming in a few days, and other students will also come, and the room will probably be full." The major lied. "I spoke to the landlady about the piano, and she agreed to lend it to you, but only if it wasn't damaged."
"That's great." The girl is always easy to be happy and easy to be sad, and when she hears that the piano can be moved back, she should be overjoyed. "Mr. Li, I'm not here, so how are we going to compose music from now on?"
"It's just the weekend." The Major replied in his diary, "We can take one day out of the weekend to compose a piece for you, or as we have said, one piece a week or two for a hundred marks each." ”
"I see." Hearing the Major's dull mention of money, the girl was a little unhappy, she was actually shocked by these songs before agreeing to compose the music, of course, she also fell in love with the Major.
"Let Second Lieutenant Zhong send you in the afternoon." The major didn't care too much about the girl's displeasure, and he said, "I'll have someone send you the piano tomorrow......"
Under the reluctant gaze of Han Zhaolin and others, Jiang Ying got on the 22,000 mark Audi DKW and went all the way. As soon as she left, Captain Han Zhaolin, who had lost her soul, picked up her soul, but he had been inquiring about the family and background of this female student all day, as well as her residence in Berlin, telephone school, and so on. Probably thinking about it so much that he didn't wake up the next morning when the wake-up horn sounded.
Fifteen minutes later, a basin of cold water came to him, and Han Zhaolin, who was in love with a female student in a dream, immediately rolled up with a spirit, not noticing that his underwear had faded to the crook of his legs, and the bottom was upturned.
"You ......" After seeing that it was Major Li Kongrong, Han Zhaolin immediately swallowed the words he wanted to scold.
"Get dressed and run me twenty laps!" The major's face was serious, and he didn't even look at Han Zhaolin's embarrassed appearance, but the officer on duty, Second Lieutenant Qiu Zhongming, couldn't help laughing, and at this time, Han Zhaolin found that his pants did not cover the vital point, and the vital point was erecting a flag.
"One, two, two, two, ......, two, three, four, two, " On the grass outside the villa, a cadre of students, including Major Li Kongrong, were doing exercises, and the morning dawn was beginning to open, and the sun was still below the horizon. Captain Han Zhaolin, who was punished for running 20 laps on one side, circled in the garden one foot at a time, and it was rare for him to get up and run so early in the morning after his horsetail graduated.
After the trainees finished the exercises, washed and ate, Captain Han Zhaolin had to make up for the military exercises, and when he was about to eat after the exercises, the military horn sounded again. It was already eight o'clock, and according to the practice of the Mawei Naval School, he was about to gather to raise the flag at this time, and he immediately dropped his rice bowl and ran to the queue, and the oil on his mouth had not yet been wiped clean.
A small honor guard composed of three cadets walked out of the villa with the blue sky and white sun flag, and when they walked to the flagpole and bolted the flag, the officer on duty, Second Lieutenant Qiu Zhongming, shouted: "Stand up!" Salute, raise the flag! ”
Everyone raised their arms and saluted, and everyone's eyes in the solemn and solemn eyes were fixed on the blue sky and white sun flag that rose higher and higher, flying and fluttering in the morning breeze, although there was no military band accompaniment, but the simple flag-raising ceremony in a foreign country still made everyone excited, this is the national flag of China.
After the flag is raised, it is customary for the commander to give a lecture. Major Li Kongrong stood under the blue sky and white sun flag, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he criticized: "After a long time of graduation, some people forget the rules of the school, and we must take this as a warning." As a punishment, I ordered Captain Han Zhaolin to clean the toilet for a month......"
I woke up early in the morning and was splashed with a large basin of cold water, and I ran 20 laps, and I was taken away before I finished breakfast, and finally I had to clean the toilet for a month. Han Zhaolin, who called himself unlucky and full of grievances, came to Lang Jiancheng's room, and he said with itchy teeth: "You are inside! What is the origin of this surname Li, why haven't I heard of this person? ”
"I haven't heard of this person before." Huang Tingshu said that he was the great-grandson of Huang Enlu, a famous anti-French general, and because of his family's declining background, he married Jia Suyun, the third daughter of Jia Qin, the Secretary of Military Affairs. "Didn't you say that the students studying in Germany are in charge of Zhun Zhi? Why did this surnamed Li come out? ”
"The surname Li used to work as a turbine on the Chuguan, and I don't know how to climb the relationship with the Kong family, so I went abroad." Lang Jiancheng said all over the hearsay and things made up by his own brain, "It's not his business to come here." ”
"That's right." Han Zhaolin immediately touched his head. I didn't want Huang Tingshu to knock him and said, "Don't you think that female student wants to be dizzy, why don't you wake up in the morning?" ”
"I ......" Han Zhaolin was embarrassed when he remembered the scene in the morning, and he argued: "Can't I really like Miss Jiang?" ”
"Do you like it? Do you have a handsome family? Lang Jiancheng chuckled, "Judging from my past experience, this Miss Jiang and the surname Li... Sure...... Hehe...... I said you're going to die of this heart! ”