"Ping'er, how are you now, I heard that you passed out." An anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Mom, I'm fine, I'm just overusing my brain, I'll pay attention to it later." Xin Ping hurriedly said, he knew that his mother cared too much about him, and sure enough. Another burst of words came into my ears, "Stinky boy, I'm worried to death, do you know that I have already bought a plane ticket and will board the plane in an hour, let's meet and talk." ”

"Don't, Mom, if you have something to do, you should be busy first, I will go back to the barracks later, I want to trouble you with something."

"Anything, as long as it does not harm the interests of the motherland, my son will help you with whatever your mother does." An answer came from the other side without hesitation.

So, Xin Ping told Li Xiaoming's story to his mother, and her mother was silent for a minute after hearing it, and said, "Ping'er, I will deal with this matter, in addition, I heard from my subordinates that the Fengcheng sub-director wants to frame you, what do you think should be done?" Mom tentatively asked Xin Ping's opinion.

"Mom, I think we should check it, if he doesn't have any big mistakes, let him go, and if he has a big mistake, dismiss him as soon as possible, so that he is also responsible for the people." Xin Ping did not take advantage of the situation to eradicate because of a small plot against him by the other party. Xin Ping came out of Taoism, and his outlook on life and world view was much larger than before.

As a result, Xin Ping's mother began to mobilize her forces, and she herself did not come. Just three days after Xin Ping left Fengcheng, Director Zhang was found to have embezzled hundreds of millions of yuan, and several murder cases were implicated, and other small cases were even hundreds. I don't know if I don't investigate, the director of a sub-bureau has been so frenzied and corrupt in just 10 years, some criminals he harbored have also been arrested, the truth of some unjust and wrongful cases has been revealed to the world, and the wronged masses have been able to wash away their grievances and shout long live the Communist Party!! The demands of the people have always been simple, and some people who serve the people often secretly steal men and prostitutes, which is deeply hated by upright people. Director Zhang was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscated bribe-taking property. And Li Xiaoming and his sister Li Hailu were mysteriously picked up.

Xin Ping finished the call, breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the two comrades-in-arms not far away, the gloom in his heart dissipated, and secretly thought; Calm down, what are the hurdles in life that you can't get over? Walking back to Lihong and his comrades-in-arms with a relaxed face, Jiao Si and Xiao Liu were grinning and didn't notice anything. Li Hong was thoughtful, and when Li Xiaoming was mysteriously picked up, Li Hong was really sure of his guess.

On the playground of the Northwest Army, at noon, a round of fiery sun, baking everything on the earth, a neat array of troops stood on the ground, mighty and majestic, and all kinds of weapons emitted light of different sizes under the illumination of the sun, with different strengths and weaknesses. There are three soldiers doing push-ups in front of these standing soldiers, they are Xin Ping, Jiao Si, Xiao Liu, in front of them is the expressionless company commander Wang Tie, Wang Tie, a big black man of one meter eight, the muscles on his body are bulging, he usually trains with the soldiers and eats together, at the moment he is expressionless.

"Do you three know the mistake?" Wang Tie roared a little hoarsely, "Although you helped the police catch the criminals, you didn't return to the camp on time. The iron law in the army, merit is merit, and passing is merit, the three of you will record one third-class merit, and then today each person will do 200 prone lifts, 10 kilometers of cross-country, and then you will be punished to go to the pig farm to raise pigs. ”

Suddenly, the recruits and veterans below were talking. Raising pigs, in the army, this is the most unpromising place, where some soldiers without fighting spirit go. "Company commander, they just came back late, isn't this punishment too heavy." A loud voice came from the ranks of recruits.

"Speak out of the ranks." Wang Tie roared loudly.

Zhang Jianguo, a tall and thin man of about 1.85 meters, stood up and looked at Wang Tie with a simple face. Wang Tie looked at Zhang Jianguo, who was half a head taller than himself, and seemed even more angry, "Zhang Jianguo, you dare to come forward if you think your recruits have good grades." ”

"Report to the company commander, I just think your punishment for the three of them is too severe." Zhang Jianguo's loud voice spread throughout the field.

"Jianguo, don't mess around, Company Commander Wang, the three of us will be punished." Xin Ping whispered to Zhang Jianguo, then turned his head to Wang Tie and said.

"It's late, aren't you angry, go and accept punishment with them." Wang Tie shouted loudly.

"Yes, company commander." Zhang Jianguo trotted to the three of them and lay down. Xin Ping and the three of them were a little moved in their hearts, and Xiao Liu scolded, "Stupid big man, you will ruin your future like this, you want to go home and farm." ”

Zhang Jianguo smirked and didn't speak. Jiao Si also said, "Silly big man, you are good, if we can't get along here, I promise to find you a good job." Zhang Jianguo then spoke, "Hehe, I don't want a good job, if the army doesn't want me, I'll go back to the village, marry my classmate Yingzi, and guard those lands every day, plus the country's land subsidies, I can live well, and then give birth to a lot of babies." ”

Xin Ping sighed, seeing that he couldn't do anything, he didn't say anything more, and continued to do push-ups, four people, like four springs full of tendons. In the past month or so of getting along, Xin Ping has gradually become the core of the four people by virtue of his perseverance and way of doing things.

The surrounding columns of soldiers looked at the four people who had been punished, and no one stood up again. Xin Ping's squad leader Zhao Tiezhu didn't have a taste in his heart, there were a total of eight people in a class except for the class deputy and himself, and now he went to the four with the best grades at once. However, Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Tie had a good relationship, and secretly asked Wang Tie Company Commander why Xin Ping and the others were punished so severely, and Company Commander Wang Tie said to Zhao Tiezhu meaningfully, "Good soldiers need to be honed to grow faster." Zhao Tiezhu returned satisfied.

When the four of them dragged their heavy steps, felt the sweat-soaked clothes on their bodies, and entered the gate of the pig farm, a strong smell of pig manure came to their nostrils. Xiao Liu couldn't stop scolding and said, "What a fucking fuck, send us to this bird place." ”

How can Xin Ping, Jiaosi, and Zhang Jianguo have the strength to say these things, Xin Ping can't say it, Jiaosi disdains to say it, and Zhang Jianguo is sullen. Xiao Liu saw that the three of them didn't speak, and they didn't bother to say anything, passing through the pigsty one by one, listening to the ensemble of countless pigs, even Xin Ping, who was calm, couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, and he would have to deal with these in the future, as for what ideals and ambitions, they are not within his reach now.

"What are you doing", a lazy voice came, Xin Ping looked at the voice, not far away a thirty-year-old veteran, who was holding a scoop and sprinkling pig bran into the trough in the pigsty, staring at Xin Ping and others, but this veteran seemed to have no energy, his eyes were scattered and dull, and he was typical of eating and waiting for death.

Xiao Liu glanced at Xin Ping, and saw that Xin Ping had no intention of speaking, so he hurriedly said, "We were sent by Company Commander Wang." ”

Before Xiao Liu could continue, the middle-aged veteran turned around and fed the pigs, without looking at Xin Ping and the four of them, and pointed to a row of small houses located in the southeast corner of the pigsty with his left hand while feeding the pigs, "Counting from the left, the second is the squad leader's office, you go to him to report." After saying that, he fed the pigs with a focused face.

Xin Ping stopped Xiao Liu, who was still talking, and the four of them walked towards the southeast corner. I came to the second room on the left that the veteran said, and on the top right of the room was written five red letters in the squad leader's office. Xin Ping walked over to the door and knocked lightly.

"Come in." A loud voice came. Xin Ping and the four pushed the door in, the office was very clean, and the information inside was also neatly organized, an old man in his fifties was wearing a camouflage uniform, and his eyes looked at Xin Ping and the four of them carefully like a sharp blade.

"Company Commander Wang sent you here?"

"Yes, squad leader." Xin Ping replied succinctly.

"Why?" The old man looked at the embarrassed four people and asked with some curiosity.

Speaking of which, the four of them are all unconvinced, Xiaoliu's personality is more talkative, and he said first, "My class leader, you can judge it." So how did the three of them encounter profiteers in Fengcheng and how they helped the police solve the case. Although most of it was Jiao Si who told him, Xiao Liu's eloquence was really good, and he said it again, Jiao Si didn't add a sentence on the side, but the old man was also angry when he heard it, and finally the old man slapped the table, "You go out first, I'll help you ask what's going on." Xin Ping saw that the old man was speaking very hard, and his heart couldn't help but move.

"Hey, Xiao Tie, I'm very good 、、、、、、 what, I'm sorry, I know", hung up the phone, the old man smiled a little, and whispered softly, "This little rabbit cub, give me the old man something to do, it's really not big or small, forget it, I haven't seen such a good talent and beauty for a long time, old man, I'm exerting my residual heat." ’

Xin Ping and the four did not wait for what they thought was fair, when the old squad leader summoned the four of them to the office again, he did not mention them at all, but called the other four members of the pig farm, Yang Guodong, who had just said hello, and the other three had two veterans in their forties, the family was very poor, and their parents had passed away, so they had nothing to worry about, and they planned to dedicate their lives here. There is only one person who is about twenty-five years old, named Zhang Shaogang, about 1.73 meters, who originally had some scattered eyes, and when he saw Xin Ping and them, he showed curiosity and excitement. Yang Guodong still stood listlessly aside, and although the other two veterans had spirit, they had no desire to move forward. Under the organization of the old squad leader, they introduced each other. The old man said to Xin Ping and the others, "My surname is Shi, and the four of you will be the same as them in the future, so you will call me Shi squad leader." ”

"Shi squad leader," Xiao Liu muttered in a low voice, feeling a little weird, Xin Ping was very close to Xiao Liu, naturally hearing Xiao Liu's muttering, Xin Ping knew that this Shi squad leader was not simple, so he couldn't help but secretly pull Xiao Liu, which stopped Xiao Liu's whispering. Squad leader Shi saw Xin Ping's movements, pretended not to see it, and assigned the work to eight people. In this way, the four of Xin Ping began the life of a pig farm.