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The story takes place in the seventies of the last century.

In City A, the capital of the northern province, in front of the armed forces department of a certain district, dozens of recruits who were preparing to enlist in the army were gathered.

They all come from one place, and that is the rural suburbs of City A.

The dilapidated office building of the district armed forces department is a Russian-style building of the old society, the building is divided into three floors, the lights of the offices on the upper floor are on, and there are many people in and out of the office building, and there are many people coming and going.

It was half past four in the morning.

The winter sky is still pitch black, and it is an early morning without moon and sun.

The weather in December made people shiver with cold.

However, in the square in front of the office building, it is bustling with activity.

Rows of military trucks with a Liberation brand are neatly parked, and the headlights in front of the cars illuminate the entire compound very brightly.

The new soldiers, who were about to enlist in the army, were dressed in brand-new regular uniforms, with red flowers on their chests, backpacks on their backs, and each of them carried a suitcase issued by the local government, which was also printed with the words "dedicated to the children of relatives."

The new fighters were young, seventeen or eighteen years old. From their young faces, you can see their youth and immaturity.

In the square in front of the office building, not only recruits, but also hundreds of parents and relatives came to see off their children.

From the office building of the Ministry of Armed Forces, a new soldier came out, his name was Guo Kaishan.

He was less than 160 centimeters tall, and he was not the youngest or the shortest of the dozens of recruits. Guo Kaishan is exactly 16 years old this year, the age of a junior high school student.

Talking about why he wants to be a soldier, Guo Kaishan always tells people that being a soldier is to defend the motherland, defend Chairman Mao, and become an excellent communist fighter is the glory of my Guo Kaishan and the glory of the old Guo family.

In fact, people at that time would say so.

The only difference is that each of them has their own reasons for joining the army, otherwise which parent would be willing to let their children become soldiers.

As the ancient people said: A good man should not be a soldier. Good iron does not hit nails.

Guo Kaishan lives in a rural area on the outskirts of City A, his father is the secretary of the commune, and his mother is an authentic housewife.

They had eight brothers and sisters. They are the eldest sister, the eldest brother, the second sister, the second brother, Guo Kaishan Xingwu, the third brother in the big row, and the three younger brothers below.

The original Guo family was originally from the provincial capital City A.

Guo's father was originally a demobilized soldier, but after the liberation, there was a shortage of local cadres, so he transferred to the district government.

After the beginning of the turbulent period, Guo's father stood on the wrong team and made a matter of principle in a unit decision-making work, so he was sent to the suburbs and villages to train and reform him.

All the members of the old Guo family also followed their father and came to the countryside from the city, when Guo Kaishan was only eight years old.

Years of rural life have made Guo Kaishan feel particularly painful, not because he is afraid of hardship and tiredness, but because of the large population in his family, the food distributed to his family cannot support the food of the whole family at all. It is not at all obvious from their faces that they have lived in the city before.

Guo Kaishan's reason for joining the army is very simple, that is, to reduce the burden on his family. One less young man can eat a little more for the rest of the family.

In this turbulent era, the entrance examination is no longer everyone's goal, and being a soldier and eating food is the mainstream of society at that time.

The eldest brother's name is Guo Kaiwei, and now he works as a commune as a commune, which is quite stable.

The second brother's name is Guo Kaiming, who is an accountant of the district construction company, and they also used to have the idea of serving as soldiers to protect their families and defend the country, but in the end, for various reasons, they failed to pass the physical examination.

This year, it is Guo Kaishan's turn, although he is small, but he has passed all the physical examinations, and his father is the secretary of the commune, so the village party secretary said a lot of good things in front of the cadres who received the soldiers, hoping to send one more soldier away, so that there would be one less food in the village, and his usual work would be easier.

When the cadres who received the troops saw Guo Kaishan at first, they thought he was very thin. "This child is too small, less than 1.6 meters, and his forehead is so big, is there a lack of calcium?"

I don't know if it was the identity of his father's commune secretary or the strong recommendation of the village party secretary, Guo Kaishan still got the enlistment notice as he wished among hundreds of people who passed the physical examination.

Guo Kaishan was in the hands of the village party secretary, and when he received the notice, he felt extremely excited. Because he finally got the opportunity to leave the countryside, the life in the countryside is too much for this young man who has lived in the city, he can't bear it, he doesn't want to live a life of not having enough to eat every day, he no longer wants to live a life where the whole family lives on a kang, only a few quilts, and no longer imagines that many rural people are the same, become a step-by-step person, get married and have a baby when they are old, farm to earn work, and then give the baby a life of marriage and childbirth, he has his illusions about the army, he wants to stay in the army, and become an officer in the future, Riding in a jeep with great spirits, fantasizing about everything, the 16-year-old man felt extremely excited. He immediately went to the commune to inform his father of the news as soon as possible.

My father took the enlistment notice and read it for a long time, and he was also a soldier, N years ago. After seeing the notice, he thought about it for a long time, as if he thought of something. "Dad, I really became a soldier, I want to be a good soldier of Chairman Mao, I want to be a good person and an example like Lei Feng."

The father looked at Guo Kaishan, "Go back, tell your mother, cook something delicious at night, call your eldest sister, eldest brother, and second brother back from class, and after dinner in the evening, I will have a meeting."

The dinner of Lao Guo's family finally started on time at six o'clock in the evening, and the members of the family, except for the second sister who was out of town and went to high school, basically arrived.

The eldest sister works as a temporary worker in the commune-run carton factory, and the eldest brother and the second brother also come back from the collective dormitory of the unit, they usually live in the unit, because it is not on the weekend, so they don't want to go home, so that the younger brothers can have a good learning environment, the small three-room earthen house, it really can't accommodate too many people, there are fewer people, the younger brothers who are going to school will have more space, and the study may be better, which everyone knows.

But today is a special situation, the third Guo Kaishan received a notice of enlistment, which is indeed a big deal in a rural family. Today's food is really rich, snow-white steamed buns have only been seen during the New Year, pork stewed beans, this is a meat dish that has not been seen for a long time.

Under the order of his father, everyone started to use chopsticks, but many people eat staple food, in this family the father is the real parent, because he is not in good health, so everyone wants to let the father eat more, he is the backbone of the family. The few pieces of meat on the plate were barely touched, just eating greens and staple food.

The mother looked at it, pinched the meat with chopsticks, and put it into the bowls of each child one by one, which was the rule of the old Guo family.

There are exceptions, I remember one year, the fifth brother Guo Kaiqing was only two years old, and during the New Year, he grabbed a piece of meat with his hand and put it in his mouth, and asked his father to kick it from the kang to the ground, and the small teeth that grew out were knocked out, and the brothers and sisters were frightened, and no one dared to put meat on the plate again.

The sumptuous dinner was eaten smoothly and satisfactorily, for there was nothing left over from the staple food and vegetables. Even the last drop of vegetable soup let Xiao Liu drink it up, what a good dinner this is, everyone is reminiscing, families in this era are generally like this, it is impossible to eat so well with a large population, because today is a special case, just like winning the college entrance examination in ancient times, it is too important for this family, as long as Xiao San looks good in the army, maybe he is the first person in the old Guo family to go out of the countryside, which is also the biggest goal of the old Guo family since it was placed in the countryside.

Because it is a decentralized household, in a period of special turmoil, people who make mistakes must be careful everywhere, and they can't ask people to find any faults, because this will make people point fingers, Lao Guo's family education is very strict, and the children are very afraid of things, or the sentence "Be a man with his tail between his legs".

This enlistment notice seemed to bring hope to the whole family, and no one was not happy about it. After enlisting in the army, he became a military family, and many of the treatment of military families kept up, and the village would send meat and couplets during the New Year. In the eyes of the villagers, this is a glorious and glorious thing.

The father lit a cigarette and spoke first, "Xiao San's time as a soldier is the glory of our old Guo family and the whole family, our family used to have no status in the village and never looked up, but now it is different, our family has become a military family." Three! When you get to the army, you have to do a good job, don't embarrass the whole family, don't make something embarrassing, and be careful that Lao Tzu doesn't let you enter the house."

The mother took over her father's words, "Three, you will have a good time in the future, remember that we have stayed in the city, this time we have gone out, don't come back, what is there to wait in the countryside, you can't eat well, you can't live well." ”

Of course, the eldest sister who loves Guo Kaishan the most, "Third brother, you are the first person in our family to get out of the road, you must take care of your own body, you must work hard in the army, don't let your family worry about you."

After that, the eldest brother and the second brother continued to speak, all of which were exhortations, which will not be detailed. After the whole family bowed three times to the statue of Chairman Mao, the family meeting in the evening ended triumphantly.

After the family meeting, Guo Kaishan went to the playground of the village primary school alone. Sitting down at the podium where the national flag was raised, he was waiting for a man to appear. This person is his best partner and classmate in the village, her name is Guan Yue, and she is a woman.

At a young and ignorant age, they have a friendship with each other. They both knew that each other was the partner they wanted the most, but they never confessed it, because they were still young, and it was shameful to have a partner at this age in the social environment at that time.

They have always adhered to the bottom line of morality and have never said anything. Usually they talk about how the adults behave, and how many piglets were born in the village. But the good feeling between them makes each other feel very comfortable.

After waiting for a long time, she still hasn't appeared. Guo Kaishan thought: No, there are only three people in the whole village, and the matter of being a soldier has already spread throughout the village in the afternoon of the same day.

Among the three people, the person with the foreign surname who should care about him Guo Kaishan the most should be Guan Yue. They are so like-minded, usually after dinner, they will always be on the playground of the village primary school, chatting for a while, chatting until it is dark and can't see the light, then reluctant to go back to their respective homes, this time I don't know why, today she didn't come.

It turned out that Guan Yue's cousin Guan Jianguo was also going to be a soldier, and Guan Yue's father took the whole family to his brother's house to congratulate him.

Originally, Guan Yue didn't want to go, but Guan Yue's mother looked at her daughter viciously, "Your uncle's family is such a son, being a soldier is a big deal, if you don't go, it will make people feel too uneducated." Guan Yue reluctantly followed his parents and took his younger brother Guan Chao to his uncle's house.

It was past nine o'clock in the evening, and in the seventies in the countryside, many homes did not have electric lights, and the average family had a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, and went to bed before eight o'clock. However, on the school's playground, Guo Kaishan was still waiting for the arrival of his good female classmate, Guan Yue.

During this time, he thought a lot, such as meeting him, what he was going to say, whether to swear to her and let her wait for him to come back. There are so many words, so many things I want to say, I really don't know which sentence to start with. He came at half past five o'clock in the evening, and now it was past nine o'clock, and he was still thinking about those things, as if the extension of time did not interrupt his thoughts, and time passed so quickly.

It's almost ten o'clock, Guan Yue finally came, she and her parents arrived at home at nine o'clock in the evening, after arriving home, she couldn't stay and told her parents that she would go to the same school to play for a while, and she ran out of the house without waiting for her parents' consent.

Guo Kaishan was happy when he saw that Guan Yue was really here. In the dark playground, the bright moon in the sky seemed to be the biggest light bulb for the young couple.

Guo Kaishan looked at Guan Yue silently, "You're here, I'm going to leave in a few days, I really miss you, I'm really reluctant to leave you." After finishing speaking, I wanted to say a lot of words, but I couldn't help but let the tears be interrupted, and the tears flowed down my chin like heavy rain.

Guan Yue's heart was hot when she heard this, and she also cried bitterly. This is from Guo Kaishan moved to this village at the age of eight, and the two want to be together well. When they first moved to the village, they were all ignorant little dolls, but now they are half-adults, and they have been getting along for more than eight years, playing together, and playing together, as if they were playing a movie, as if it was yesterday. The two finally hugged each other on the playground.

On the day of the day, the descendants of the soldiers in the village are about to set off, and the village road is full of people standing on both sides, and everyone is beating gongs and drums to send off their relatives. Look ~ In the middle of the village road, three tall horses, immediately sat three young men with red flowers on their chests and wearing military uniforms.

The first is Guan Jianguo, the eldest of the three, he is 18 years old, the son of the village accountant. The second is Liu Dart, who is physically strong, and he can't tell that he is only 17 years old. The third is Guo Kaishan, the fat military uniform makes people feel that he is so short, but his eyes are bright, yearning for his distant future. For the sake of his family, for her Guan Yue, he also has to work hard. This is his only way out.

The people who led the horses were all landlords and rich peasants, and they were the sons of the original landlords, 40-year-old Guan Yushan, and 35-year-old rich peasant Wang Jinhe. and stinky Lao Jiu, 38-year-old Han Fangtian. These people are all people who can't hold their heads up in the village, and they are called by the village party secretary to lead the horses. No one could have imagined that twenty years later, these people would become big names in the locality, even the province, and even the whole country.

The send-off procession stopped at Shili Pavilion, which was far from the village. The village party secretary said a few words of concern to everyone, and the villagers sent red-skinned eggs, which filled their military schoolbags full of them.

The careful Guo Kaishan found that Guan Yue didn't come, she didn't come for anything, could it be that what she said on the playground that night made her angry? Or is it for some other reason? Guo Kaishan's father didn't come, and he didn't know why Lu Dao didn't come to see his son. Under the transportation of a tractor borrowed from the town's grain depot in advance by Shiliting, several people were pulled to the district armed forces.

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