In the 80s of the last century, most of the families in the countryside were very poor, because they were young women who came over during the turmoil, although they had not read for a few years, but they were very "political", in the village she was the director of women, and she was even more 'discerning' when she spoke, of course, this was inseparable from her man's progress in the army, she believed, 'It is glorious to be a soldier's family, a man has a career in the army, meritorious service awards, and military merit medals also have her share of credit.' She thinks so and does this, in her hometown, whether it is taking care of her in-laws and children, anyone who is related to Chief Zhang finds her, she will try her best to help as a sister-in-law, as if this is her "career".

Since "following the army", this woman, who usually can't stay in the village, has also panicked, what happened to the child in her hometown, and the pigs in the pigsty at home are not sick, this is all what she thinks. Coupled with Chief Zhang's "Gao Feng Liang Festival", she naturally "hung up", doing the so-called housework all day long, she was diligent, she had a day's work, two or three hours to get it done, today she cooked the meal early, and waited for Chief Zhang to come back, drink two cups with her husband, and then talk about her own thoughts.

Unit Chief Zhang has a characteristic, that is, when he goes home, he always has to cough twice when he enters the small courtyard, the reason is that he has cultivated in the army, he doesn't want to intentionally or unintentionally hear something he doesn't want to hear, with this move, others will know that someone is coming, and they won't say anything more.

"Where have you been? Why did you come back so late? ”

"Nothing, I met a tenant and had a few words and a drink."

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that the table was full of my favorite food, "You haven't eaten yet, don't wait for me in the future, you eat first." ”

"What credit do I have, stay at home all day, I'm not hungry. If you don't even have a rule at home, you're a foreigner. ”

Seeing his wife say this, the depression in Chief Zhang's heart disappeared at once, and the two chatted about some family matters while eating and drinking.

"Look, I went to the auditorium with you a few days ago to watch a movie, do you remember?"

"Remember, "Shining Red Star", you still cry, do you still want to watch it again?"

"I said that the educational film before the official start was to teach people to raise small-tailed cold sheep."

"Yes. Nowadays, people can really study it, and they have all kinds of skills, and they have made films. ”

"That's what I want to say, you see, although I'm in the army, I'm a rural woman, I don't know a few big characters, and it's not easy to arrange for me, so I'll try to raise this together. Do you think it's okay? ”

"Yes, yes, but we don't have a place here, don't we have to build a sheepfold to raise sheep?"

"I want to go back, I miss me. He goes to school alone in his hometown, and his in-laws are old, so I'm afraid that he won't be motivated and will study badly. I want to go back and watch him, and I can also take care of my in-laws. ”

"The formalities for accompanying the army have been completed, and the household registration has also been moved. What do you live on in your hometown? ”

"Don't you have any land at home? Wouldn't it be okay for you to send me back the money I received with the army every month? ”

Looking at his simple wife, Chief Zhang had nothing to say, although he had his wife by his side to take care of himself, he could relieve the boredom at night, but compared with his father and son, he needed her more, "Sleep, I'll add it up." ”

The next day, Unit Chief Zhang reported his thoughts to the political commissar of the regiment, and the political commissar also said with deep feelings, "That's it, your wife is really a sensible woman, and the conditions of the army are still very poor, and she will not be able to be arranged for a while, so let's do it, or you let her go back for a year or two, and then bring her back when the conditions on our side are good, and I will write a letter to the civil affairs department of your hometown and ask her to take it back, maybe it will work." ”

"Then Xie Lu Xie political commissar, I don't have anything else to do."

Chief Zhang was just about to leave, but the political commissar of the regiment stopped him, "Don't leave yet, I still have two more words to say." ”

"Please instruct."

"You have been in our regiment for a short time, I and the regiment commander can see it, you are a person who does things, do a good job, next year your director will change jobs, and you will be arranged to take over his class, and your acting unit chief's order is down, and the word acting is gone."

"It's true, great, I will definitely work hard in the future and live up to the chief's expectations."

"Don't be complacent."

"That's for sure."

Chief Zhang accelerated the pace of sending his wife back, this is very simple, it is for outsiders to see, he is so high-spirited, his wife is also a simple and unpretentious woman, just like that, without waiting for Chief Zhang's wife to sit on his kang to sit hot, he returned to his hometown again and raised a "small-tailed cold sheep".

In the blink of an eye, in June, the weather in Jingbei this year was surprisingly hot, and when the soldiers were training to "lie down" on the tactical field, they would lazily lie down for a while, "the legs of the infantry, the mouths of the artillerymen", and the squad leaders were reciting the "command subjects" while lying on their stomachs, while joking, they could always find plots with green sprouts, and when the company commanders and platoon commanders walked away, everyone slept beautifully.

Although he appointed a deputy director of the center, he still did not feel at ease, after all, this year was his most important year, just as the political commissar of the regiment had promised him in private, as long as he performed well in his work, the position of the director of the logistics department would be his.

"There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky", just when Unit Commander Zhang fantasized about the big dream of being promoted, the artillery regiment suddenly parachuted a deputy director of the logistics department. This person has a lot of background, it is said that he came down from the military department of the R army, not only is he young, but he is also knowledgeable, and he is a high-achieving student who graduated from the Logistics College. Obviously, he has come to take over the position of the director.

As soon as I saw the newcomers, a lot of people who usually "slipped" Chief Zhang, all turned to the door of the deputy director, several times in a row, every time the head Zhang went to the canteen to eat, he would always meet the deputy director on the road, only to see that he was always followed by a few people, most of them were the heads of the various units under the logistics department, and the head of Zhang was very unfamiliar with this technique because he was usually not good at communicating, and he slowly formed an "alternative".

Behind the head of the other people, they all chewed their tongues in front of the deputy director, saying that he had no one in his eyes, did not take the leader seriously, relied on a little background, and yelled at his colleagues and comrades-in-arms, and did not take the deputy director in his eyes at all.

The Deputy Commissioner heard these words every time. will smile reluctantly, "I don't think there's anything wrong with this, Chief Zhang is much better than some flattering people, after all, I haven't seen him speak ill of people behind his back." ”

Women, the indispensable animals in this world, are indispensable without her. Whenever Chief Zhang got off work and returned to the cold kang, he would think of his wife who was thousands of miles away. I don't know how she is doing, how is the child. What happened to Mom and Dad, he was looking at the second-hand black and white TV, while thinking about his future, it seemed that there were not many options to meet him, if he couldn't mention the director, it would be the fate of the job change three years later, he was really unwilling, the original ironclad thing, has now changed the market. It has nothing to do with him.

"Dangdang".

"Who?"

"It's me, Brother Zhang."

This voice is very familiar, and when Chief Zhang heard it, he was the "demobilized soldier" of Huahua.

After inviting the "demobilized soldiers" into the room, he did not wait for Unit Chief Zhang to speak. He spoke, "Brother Zhang, you're very good, it's hot outside." You're freezing to death, what's the matter, you haven't lit a fire for many days. The house was so damp that the cold walls were about to be frosted. ”

"Is it so evil as you say? Is there something wrong with me? ”

"It's really a bit of a thing, isn't it, the lease is coming soon, and the day before yesterday I received a notice from your group, saying that the rent will be raised, and it will be 100 yuan a month if it rises, which will not let people live."

"Why don't you let you live, for more than a year, you have made a lot of money in the construction of the regiment, I have heard of it, not to mention tens of thousands of yuan, it is okay to rise."

"Brother, you are really a clear-eyed person, you haven't eaten, let's go, go and have a drink with my brother."

Originally, Chief Zhang didn't care about this kid, but recently he didn't like it, so he replied directly, "Okay, but I don't have any money." ”

"Don't worry, it won't cost you."

The "point" of the "demobilized soldiers" is a well-known hotel near the artillery regiment, and the specialty of this store is not how good its dishes are, but the "three escorts" here.

The manager of the hotel is a southern man, very short, about forty years old, he is hired from outside, because the identity of the host family is very special, it is inconvenient to show up, he is also introduced by acquaintances, he came here to develop. Since then, this hotel has changed from a single catering service to "eating, dancing, chatting, and drinking".

As soon as I saw the private room, a waiter stepped forward to ask Chief Zhang and the "demobilized soldiers" to order, "Brother, are you here, what are you going to eat?" ”

"How old are you, by the way, is Sister Zhang here today? Ask her to come and drink with me. ”

"No need, let's just drink, if you find someone to accompany you, I'll go." Although Chief Zhang has never been here, he knows that this place is under his jurisdiction, and it is not good to say that it is rumored to be good.

"What's wrong with this brother, the guests who come to our store are all looking for a little sister to accompany them, how can the service fee be calculated if they don't accompany them?" The background of the hotel is profound, and the waiters are also full of confidence.

"You go out first, and I'll call you later." Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was not right, the "demobilized soldiers" drove away the waiters.

"Brother, why are you so real, I'm looking for someone else, it's the little sister who watched the video last time, and you're a family, nothing else, just drink and chat for a while."

"How did she come here? Her husband doesn't know what to do? ”

"Don't mention it, just after watching the video with you that day, I don't know which deflated calf said the trouble, the two of them fought for several days, isn't it, leaving, she doesn't want to go back to her hometown, so she did this job, I just look at her pitiful, take care of her business, there is nothing else today, do you say call her?"

Chief Zhang thought for a while, and also felt that it was too much to cut off the woman's wealth, so he said, "I said okay, if you look for me or not, please make it clear to you in advance, this land is a military property, if you study it carefully, it can be regarded as the boundary of my artillery regiment, that kid just now is too arrogant, sooner or later I will clean him up." ”

"I know Brother Lu Dao's methods, this is a dog, don't pay attention to him."

The speed at which the food was served in the hotel was really amazing, and just after the "demobilized soldier" and Chief Zhang had two beers, the woman surnamed Zhang appeared.

I saw that the woman was wearing a pink dress today, and the gauze fabric made her figure looming.

"Dead ghost, long time no see, where have you been playing lately?"

"Look at what you said, the artillery regiment repaired the road teeth, I worked for three months, watching the workers all day long, if I leave, they will immediately be lazy and not do it, you see, who is here today?"

The woman looked at Unit Chief Zhang who was sitting in the main seat, the new-style military uniform was worn on Unit Chief Zhang's body, which looked particularly "style", and it could be seen from the quality of the clothes that this was an officer above the deputy battalion level, because Unit Chief Zhang was wearing a "general colonel", the so-called "regular uniform", which can also be called a "dress".

"Who should I be, it turned out to be Brother Zhang, on such a hot day, you wear so much, you are not afraid of the heat, you should wear sleeves now."

Just as the woman said, you should wear "short sleeves" now, because the head of the unit Zhang is the official head of the unit, and the current row is the "cloth", the battalion-level "yarn", he has not received it, and there is no level of him, the new summer clothes are given to him, and his body is now considered nondescript.

"I'm not hot, I'm cold."

"Your brother Zhang is joking with you, sit down, sit quickly, sit among us."

The woman deserved to be the "hero" on the wine table, neither Chief Zhang nor the "demobilized soldier" had drunk her, but she frequently toasted to the two men, and when the men drank up, her wine glass was empty.

Looking at the young woman, Chief Zhang was "sad" about her life experience, without her husband's care, the woman was just like what was said in the novel, "fallen into the dust". (To be continued......)