When Xu Rong arrived at the non-staple food base, the director of the base and some veterans were all welcoming their new comrades-in-arms at the door. Looking at the degree of fading of the military uniforms of those veterans, Xu Rong secretly thought, these people will definitely rush to bully the recruits, he has seen it in the C regiment a long time ago, and now that he is here, he must not let these people look down on him, let alone let them be pinched as soft persimmons, how they want to pinch them.

The non-staple food base was expanded on the basis of the original division farm, and the director of the farm remained due to his strong youth, and was promoted to the deputy battalion director of the base. The squad leader in the soldiers is served by the original veterans, in order to win over these old calves, the director suddenly sealed more than 20 squad leaders, as long as there are no demobilized people, they are all promoted to squad leaders, squad leaders who have not joined the party, in principle, arrange the first batch to join the party, this cola is bad for these veterans who usually raise pigs and grow vegetables, which don't want to have an official addiction, which doesn't want to mix a party ticket before demobilization.

Besides, the soldiers in the non-staple food base, it is conceivable that they are all thorns like Xu Rong, who usually do not obey in the combat unit, in order to strip these black sheep. It is the common opinion of the chief officials to send it here. The soldiers who come here are all recruits, and there are some two-year, three-year soldiers, I heard that these people are some old sick numbers, recruits have been in the hospital during the period, and have not been cured, and when the veterans are old, their physical fitness and various functions can not keep up, and they don't go to the non-staple food base to go anywhere, this is simply the best place to settle them.

The first batch of new soldiers arrived with more than 60 people, and the director divided them into three platoons, a total of 10 squads, led by the squad leader here, with seven people in each squad, to carry out daily labor. Xu Rong was assigned to a row and a class, and Xu Rong personally thought that it must be something written on his own file that made him so valuable, and he was assigned to a class to strengthen his management.

It is said that the predecessor of the division's non-staple food base was an army farm. Further on, there is the farm of the local correctional center. After the reform and opening up, eligible prisoners were put in prison, and the correctional home was deserted, and now it is still wartime, so the local government has allocated half of the land of the correctional home farm to the army, so this farm has been created.

The squad leader of Xu Rong's squad is a veteran volunteer, and according to other squad leaders in the platoon, he was the car driver of the division commander in his early years, but the division leader was promoted and left. It didn't take him away, and it may be because he usually knows too many things. The new chief brought his own driver, he was a volunteer soldier, and he had not reached the age of changing jobs, but it happened that the farm was newly formed, so he sent this "red man" here that year.

Xu Rong was a little stunned when he saw his squad leader, and he was very scary when he saw him, especially when he was eating, when others ate the second steamed bun. He's already eaten the fourth and fifth. Xu Rong is a person who loves to pick vegetables, but he still has to restrain himself in front of the squad leader, and when his chopsticks touch the meat in the rice bowl, a pair of chopsticks stop in front of him.

"You've eaten a few pieces, kid. This piece is not yours anymore. ”

Hearing the squad leader's reprimand, Xu Rong simply put down the chopsticks in his hand and nibbled on the steamed buns.

"The immediate difficulties are secondary, as long as we do a good job. There will be everything, and when everyone arrives, we will add dozens of big fat pigs. Next year, there will be meat to eat. ”

The platoon leader lives in the first class, and naturally eats in the first class, seeing the first squad leader teach Xu Rong a lesson, he also stood up and spoke to everyone, so he wanted to break this embarrassing atmosphere.

"The long line is right, I promise you that in the first half of the year, everyone will be able to eat meat vigorously." The director also spoke, as if the meal time had become the time to speak slogans.

"You're Xu Rong, come here.

As soon as Xu Rong saw that the director called himself, he came to the dinner table at the station.

"Sitting here to eat, we have fewer people and more vegetables, and we can't finish eating."

Xu Rong was also not polite, holding a snow-white steamed bun in one hand, and constantly eating the meat in the vegetable bowl with chopsticks in the other.

"You're too unruly, the leader hasn't eaten yet, so you just pick meat to eat." The clerk at the base is a veteran, and he has been with the director since he was a recruit.

"He asked me to eat, are you so hypocritical, you are allowed to eat at the end of the day, not allowed to eat."

"Let you eat, let you eat, what you love to eat is all yours." The director didn't eat, and stopped to watch Xu Rong eat.

After that, Xu Rong would sit on the table at the station when it was time to eat, but he knew the rules very well, if one of the people at the table did not move the chopsticks, he would not move the chopsticks first. But as long as someone eats the meat in the basin, he will eliminate the meat in the basin as soon as possible. The correspondents and clerks were full of complaints, but they were soft-spoken, and Xu Rong didn't "hang" them at all.

The labor began, looking at the fields to be cultivated, Xu Rong and the other newcomers were weak, but seeing that the platoon commander and squad leader were dividing their respective fields, what they expected finally happened. Previously, they thought that coming to the non-staple food base was to grow vegetables and raise pigs, but after the arrival of a large number of soldiers in the second and third groups, they realized that their future life was not so easy at all, and this was simply a labor reform.

After dividing the task, the squad leader walked to the middle of the first class, "I don't have much to do today, just harvest the vegetables in the field, you can rest assured, those vacant land will be cleaned up in the spring next year, now is the harvest season, everyone take their own bamboo baskets, harvest autumn." ”

At the end of the day, Xu Rong and other comrades-in-arms couldn't straighten their waists, and they collected a total of more than a dozen acres of beans and chili peppers. The squad leader said that the beans were used to keep the seeds, and the peppers were to be sold at the base, so that they could be exchanged for some funds.

finally mixed in the winter, Xu Rong, like his comrades in the whole base, got up in winter. They studied politics during the day, watched TV leisurely at night, played poker, and from time to time Xu Rong had to write a letter or two to his family and Guo Kaixin, but somehow, the letter to Guo Kaixin was repeatedly returned, and the postmark of the return letter indicated that Guo Kaixin was not at home at this time.

The first squad leader is a strong person, except for the deputy squad leader, he has not been beaten by him, everyone else has seen it, Xu Rong is one of the thorns, he has been beaten the most. At first he tried to do it back, but then he gave up. Because the first squad leader is so powerful, he is simply Guo Kaixin's second. It can be seen from the number of his roads that he doesn't know martial arts, but the punches he made were so hard that once Xu Rong used all his strength to catch him with his fist, but he almost broke his arm, which is a strong man.

The first squad leader still has a problem, that is, he loves to play tricks on people. Every Sunday. He would take the whole class to the woods of the base, and each of them would be given a shovel, so that everyone could dig a big pit in the shortest possible time.

Before the freeze, it is good to say, the shovel goes down to dig is a spade soil, since the winter, the shovel can not dig the frozen soil underground, everyone has to find some pickaxes, a pickaxe and a pickaxe, and then use the shovel to clear the soil.

The deputy squad leader is simply a big fan of the squad leader, so to speak. He is the "dogleg" of the squad leader, after the squad leader arranges the task, he goes back to sleep, and the soldiers in the squad dig the pit under the supervision of the deputy squad leader, and then fill it in after digging, and so on. Some people persuaded the deputy squad leader's subordinates to show mercy and let them go. However, the deputy squad leader told the squad leader about the person who pleaded for mercy, and that person was inevitably subjected to another "electric cannon".

Xu Rong thinks it's nothing, as long as it's fair. If others can do it, he Xu Rong can also do it. In order to complete the task of digging the pit as soon as possible, he also thought of a lot of tricks. When it was not frozen, I made a "bucket shovel". This thing digs very lightly, and it doesn't stick to a shovel.

After freezing. In some places, the soil is too strong, and it is a white spot when planing with a pickaxe, and some people have broken several pickaxes in a row, but they have not been able to achieve the purpose of digging a pit. Xu Rong invented another hard method, first using a shovel to open the unfrozen covered soil, and then using a self-made "knife board" to scrape off the frozen soil one by one. It's a very useful trick. By the time he had dug the pit, the rest of his comrades were using pickaxes to dig through the frozen soil. When the deputy squad leader thinks that he is qualified, he will lend the tools to others and go back to sleep by himself.

The first squad leader heard that Xu Rong had studied several treasures used to dig pits, and proposed to teach Xu Rong a lesson. Xu Rong felt puzzled, it was clear that he wanted to rectify the big guy, why did he go into battle in person. Since the squad leader spoke, he also had to participate in the competition. The reward proposed by the squad leader was a box of "Da Chongjiu" cigarettes, which was Xu Rong's allowance for two months, but Xu Rong still readily agreed. He is already very confident in his skills, and after two or three months of digging training, he is already a strong man in the class, and he does not take the first squad leader, an "old calf" who usually does not like to work, in his eyes.

The pit-digging competition between the two began, and many people came to watch the battle in the woods, and the platoon leader and the director came. They wanted to see who would win between Xu Rong and the first squad leader. When the director learned that there was still a gambling game between the two sides, he was also interested. "I'll add another box of big heavy nines, which is extra."

For the sake of fairness, the pit site chosen by a platoon leader is not the boundary of the permafrost. When the leader of the platoon announced the start with a stopwatch, the two of them quickly ran to their respective laps to do their homework.

Xu Rong's methods have long been practiced, because it is not frozen soil, his "bucket spade" has played a role, every time the bucket shovel stands upright, it will bring out a spade full of soil, Xu Rong looked very proud on his expression.

The first squad leader didn't look at Xu Rong at all, his shovel was very large, obviously it was also polished for a long time, I saw him go down with a spade, and the soil brought out was dozens of catties, and with a gentle flick, the soil flew far away, and after a while, the pit had been dug to the position of the squad leader's waist.

The time stipulated for a long line is one hour and thirty minutes, and Xu Rong doesn't know how this time is set, anyway, the same time is fair to them. Just as Xu Rong was digging hard, a squad leader jumped up from the pit and poked the shovel into the soil, "It's over, how long will the platoon leader watch." ”

"Fifty-seven minutes and thirty seconds". The platoon commander reported the time.

When Xu Rong heard the shout, he also put down the shovel in his hand, ran to the pit of the squad leader, and looked at it, only to see that the pit dug by the squad leader went straight up and down, and the soil wall was very clean and smooth, which was deeper and bigger than the pit he dug himself. Looking at the soil dug up by others, it was more than twice as much as his own, and the price he paid for him at this time was "a pack of heavy nine cigarettes." ”

Since then, the first squad leader has never asked the soldiers in the squad to dig pits, which makes the other comrades-in-arms very strange, but the deputy squad leader said, "Are you tight-skinned, it's not good not to dig pits." ”

But Xu Rong didn't think so, he felt that the first squad leader was fooling him, digging the pit was arranged in advance, just trying to deceive him of the "Da Chongjiu" cigarettes, this must be a recruit's two-month allowance money, this cigarette is not easy to buy, watching a squad leader smoke the cigarette that won him, when he tasted it, he wanted to go up and cut him, but he didn't dare, no matter which item he was not the opponent of the first squad leader, because his arm was not as "thick" as his.

The base director has always had a habit of running, and he also came up from among the soldiers. In recent days, every time he runs, he will see Xu Rong get up early in the morning to practice digging a pit in the woods, in order not to disturb Xu Rong, the director is looking at him from afar, and also "pinching the watch" for him, with the passage of time, the director found that Xu Rong's digging speed is getting faster and faster day by day, and after he leaves, the director will walk to the pit he just dug, step on the filled soil, and judge the size and depth of Xu Rong's digging pit.

Xu Rong's revenge psychology is very serious, after December he is already the second year of soldiers, but the new recruits of the non-staple food base have not yet arrived, they are all trained in the recruit company, he found a squad leader, challenged the first squad leader, or than digging a pit, and set the standard of the gambling game at "two boxes of big heavy nine." ”

"I can't stop you from dying, I know that you get up early and dig pits and practice in the dark, but I tell you, it's not my one to practice again, you better forget it, if you want to smoke, I'll give you one as the squad leader." The first squad leader looked down on Xu Rong at all.

"What I want is not one, nor one box, I want two boxes of big heavy nine with interest."

"Hehe, it's beautiful to think about, too, the second year of the army, the allowance has also risen, okay, as long as you win me, I'll buy you two boxes of cigarettes."

At the end of the year, the deputy squad leader was demobilized, there was no deputy squad leader in the class, and the platoon commander was often thinking about the candidate for the deputy squad of the first class, although Xu Rong was a thorn, but he was still an elf, and now he was not afraid of hardship and tiredness.

When the first squad leader and Xu Rong found the platoon leader again and asked him to be the referee, the platoon leader readily agreed.

This time, there was no spectator, but it was among these three. The platoon leader still found a boundary that was not frozen and drew a circle for each of them.

Xu Rong's watch was given to him by his brother before he joined the army, he rarely took it out, but took it out when he practiced digging a pit, he also pinched his own time according to the pit dug by the squad leader at that time, and now he has completed the same size, the same depth and standard of deep pit in fifty minutes.

This time, they completed the task almost at the same time, and the squad leader also knew that if Xu Rong didn't practice well, it would be impossible to take the initiative to challenge him, and he also tried his best to confront Xu Rong today, and the result was evenly matched.

"What about a tie, so let's fill in the dug soil for me, and see who is faster and who wins, how about it."

Both of them agreed with the platoon leader's opinion, and quickly backfilled the excavated soil, which is the story of "digging a pit and filling it". This time, the first squad leader lost, and he lost on purpose, because he was about to go home to arrange a job change. Watching Xu Rong keep backfilling the dirt, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The first squad leader walked to the side of the first platoon leader, "Old platoon, I didn't misread the wrong person, Xu Rong, this kid has a bad temper, but his spirit of not admitting defeat is the same as I did back then." ”

When Xu Rong looked at the squad leader after backfilling the soil, he was long gone. He ran to the platoon commander, "Where did the squad leader go, his hole is only half filled." ”

The platoon leader took out two boxes of "Da Chongjiu" cigarettes from his pocket, put them in Xu Rong's hands, and left without saying anything.

Soon Xu Rong asked the base to be appointed as the deputy squad leader of the first class, and the first squad leader took two months off due to family visits and job transfers, and the work in the class was represented by Xu Rong. After Xu Rong hit that, he still got up early to dig a pit in the woods, and then backfilled it, he didn't know why he wanted to do this, anyway, if he didn't dig a pit one day, he felt like something was missing. In fact, where does he know the Dao, he is also practicing martial arts and soldiers, but he doesn't know the Dao. (To be continued......)

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