Xu Rong, the deputy squad leader, was very tired, before the recruits arrived, the whole class was full of soldiers of the same year, and there was an "old calf" who had been soldiers for three years, which made him very difficult.

The soldiers in the squad were also very unconvinced by Xu Rong, what ability does this thorn have to lead the whole class to do a good job. Since the squad leader visited his home, someone in the first class has asked Xu Rong to challenge him from time to time, and the result will be that each other's noses and faces are swollen, this is the characteristic of the non-staple food base soldiers, and they are harder than their fists.

Xu Rong didn't care about the challenges that outsiders gave him, since he dared to be the deputy squad leader, he was mentally prepared. Whenever he "sparred" with his powerful comrades-in-arms, he would grit his teeth, his eyes were as wide as light bulbs, and he wanted to eat his opponent. After the last, everyone saw that Xu Rong couldn't take advantage of it, so everyone relented and obeyed the command of this half-baked deputy squad leader.

After becoming the deputy squad leader, Xu Rong also wanted to learn from the old soldiers in the C regiment who bullied the recruits and engage in the style of "soldier ruffian", but looking at the fierce and vicious appearance of his comrades in the same year, he had to keep one eye open when he slept, in case everyone had a "surprise attack" on him.

Finally, the recruits got out of the company, Xu Rong and their class were assigned two recruits, Xu Rong set a rule for them, they had to get up an hour earlier than others every day, get up and clean the outdoor sharing area in the class first, and make the washing water before everyone got up, and squeeze the toothpaste on the toothbrush, which won the unanimous approval of the veterans in the class.

Within a few days, trouble came, two recruits went on strike due to lack of sleep, and Xu Rong held a squad meeting when the platoon commander was away. Two recruits were criticized at the meeting. The two were still a little dissatisfied and defended themselves, and Xu Rong commanded other veterans to "suppress" the two. As you can imagine, both of them were injured, and the matter was reported to the director of the base. Xu Rong's position as deputy squad leader was also abolished, and he became an ordinary soldier again.

At the same time as Xu Rong's deputy squad leader was dismissed, a new squad leader was also sent to the first class, this squad leader is a three-year soldier, and of course coming to the first squad is also convincing, he is very kind to his comrades, and he also respects Xu Rong, the former deputy squad leader, so that Xu Rong is a little embarrassed. After that, as long as it was the squad leader's words, he obeyed 100% of the time. The squad leader was also happy to summon Xu Rong, and when he was away, he asked Xu Rong to act as his own agent, and the base did not send a new deputy squad leader to the class, and Xu Rong became the deputy squad leader without the position of deputy squad leader.

At the beginning of spring, a new batch of walk-behind tractors were added to the non-staple food base, and Xu Rong volunteered to find the director and wanted to be a "walk-behind tractor driver". Because he knew that after becoming this driver. Tired and tired, he left him, he is such a "traitor".

The director has always looked down on Xu Rong, don't look at him as a prick, but he still looks good at his work. So ten tractor drivers were selected in the whole base, and Xu Rong was among them.

Although he is a second-year soldier, Xu Rong's body is still very "weak", when he sits in the driver's seat. The tractor head in front is either facing up or downward, and the land that is ploughed out is even more east. In the west, the comrades-in-arms of the whole class were very annoyed, Xu Rong was plowing the ground in front, and they had to do "follow-up work" for him in the back, what is this called.

But the director was very happy on the side, "This Xu Rong, if you don't know how to open it, you really dare to open it, just this fierce energy, sooner or later, it will be successful." ”

In order to drive the tractor well, Xu Rong added a bell to himself, practiced physical fitness, and his arm strength was not enough, so he lifted the stone lock every day and did push-ups. From time to time, he also practiced lighting with an empty "shaker", and the recruits in the squad thought he was a "devil" and did not dare to come forward to ask him to eat.

In some places, tractors can be used to plough the land, but in the mountains, the tractor cannot go up. The platoon was assigned a new task, which was to reclaim the wasteland in the mountains not far from them. Due to the huge workload, the platoon leader, as a cadre, also divided a "ridge" for himself to turn over the soil.

The soldiers of the first platoon saw that the platoon commander had done it himself, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader had nothing to say, so they all picked up their tools and came to the hillside.

Xu Rong looked at the mountain from the foot of the mountain, and he said earnestly, "What is this, this little work will be done in half an hour, and it is not a matter at all." ”

When they walked to the mountain, Xu Rong's face turned green all of a sudden, and he saw that the land that could not be seen at a glance was overgrown with weeds, and he regretted saying that big thing.

After clearing the weeds, the ploughing began, and on the first day they had only opened a small half of their furrow. The next day, in order to step up the work, the platoon leader woke everyone up at half past four o'clock, and carried out a "surprise" on this task when the sky was dark.

Xu Rong is a competitive person, and he doesn't want to fall behind his other comrades. While he was working, he had to observe the movements of others. See who runs ahead of him, and how many are behind him.

He is also a big person, and he knows that if he does it too fast, after turning over his own ditch, even if he rests for a while, he will let the squad leader or platoon leader call to help other comrades. So when he ran too far from the people behind him, he would crouch down and pretend to clean the dirt from the shovel, and only when others came close to him, he would go back on.

After the whole day, the soldiers of a platoon only completed the reclamation work of one ridge of land, and after the work, the assistant of the base came to inspect and measured the ditch with a ruler. ”

After hearing the news, the soldiers in the platoon cheered, their combat effectiveness was affirmed, and Xu Rong, a rural boy who grew up in the city, became a complete "peasant" for the first time.

Not far from the non-staple food base is the city's "re-education through labor center", where many "labor camps" are held.

Spring is coming, and it's time to clean up the land on the Correctional Home Farm. At eight o'clock in the morning, I saw a carload of "re-education through labor prisoners" coming to the fields one after another to start a day's work.

The land of Xu Rong's non-staple food base was originally separated from the correctional home, and the place where they sometimes worked was only a ditch away from these "labor prisoners". When people look at it from afar, they really don't make much difference. They are all black figures, but Xu Rong's clothes are green, the clothes of the "labor prisoners" are gray, and the captains of the "labor prisoners" who take the lead have an orange vest.

Now the staff of the non-staple food base has expanded again. Now there are six platoons, about two hundred people smaller. They lined up for the "mobile pennant" and kept comparing. They got up early and worked in the dark, and before dawn in the morning, they went to the field, and the men of the cooking class brought them here with tractors for breakfast and lunch.

Xu Rong, an unconvinced kid, was already disheartened by now, and the incessant whining words came out of his mouth, "Look at it, the person on the other side is much happier than us, and we will get up at five o'clock." People came after eating at eight o'clock, and they went back at four o'clock in the afternoon, and they left in the car if they didn't finish it. ”

After listening to Xu Rong's words, everyone also felt that there was some truth. There's no way, who made them "prisoners of labor reform", and they were soldiers.

A new day has begun, and Xu Rong's work is quite leisurely. After plowing the field with his tractor, he sat down on the hillside and smoked.

At this moment, a captain of a "labor camp" wearing a vest outside the ditch on the opposite side whispered hello to him. "Hey, brother, hey. Over here. ”

At first, Xu Rong thought that the person was calling someone else, and he didn't pay attention to it, but when the person shouted at this side in a low voice, Xu Rong thought that it was calling himself.

"What's the matter?" Xu Rong's voice was very loud.

The captain of the "labor prisoner" gestured with his finger at the corner of his mouth, meaning to make Xu Rong quiet.

"You're in trouble."

The man did not talk to Xu Rong, but used his index finger and middle finger to make a gesture on the side of his mouth, and Xu Rong analyzed that he wanted to ask for a cigarette from him.

Xu Rong had never buckled, took out the cigarette case from his body, looked at it, there were about five or six in it, walked to the ditch, and threw it directly to the man. After the man took the cigarette case, he made a strong gesture towards Xu Rong, making Xu Rong a little embarrassed.

After that, whenever Xu Rong smoked on the dirt slope, there would be "labor prisoners" who followed the man's example and asked Xu Rong for cigarettes. Later, Xu Rong realized that it must be that person who leaked the news, if he didn't give it, those people would be quite pitiful, if he gave it every day, his own allowance was not enough to invite people to smoke. He had no choice but to smoke out a cigarette and throw it to the person who asked for it, because of the distance, sometimes it would be thrown into the ditch, Xu Rong had to throw another one, he was like a savior, every day to help these people who were even more pitiful than him.

But one day, Xu Rong never expected that the cigarette box he threw over was thrown back to him, and there was a small note in it, which read, "Brother Xie Lu, thank you, the cigarettes we sell here are too expensive, and we also know that Brother Lu Dao, you are not rich, there is some money here, please help buy some cigarettes." ”

After Xu Rong read the note, he remembered the "labor prisoner" who threw the cigarette box, and after confirming that it was correct, he went to the service office at the base in the evening to buy the cheapest cigarettes according to the money in the cigarette box and put them in his own satchel.

The next day, Xu Rong specially ran to the side of the hillside, and when he saw the person who threw the money yesterday coming to pick up the "goods", Xu Rong threw the entire schoolbag to him. After the man took out the cigarettes one by one, he was afraid that the schoolbag would be too light, so he put a piece of "Tukara" in it and threw it back to Xu Rong.

Looking at the happy situation of the "labor prisoners", Xu Rong waved his hand to them as if he had done a great deed. Those "re-education through labor prisoners" also interacted with Xu Rong, and some even bowed down for a long time.

The new work began again, and the "labor prisoners" on this side of the ditch were working with their heads bowed, and the soldiers of the non-staple food base on the other side of the ditch were also working hard with their heads bowed. As if they were engaged in a competition, they were divided into two parts, one was the "labor reform detachment" and the other was the "warrior detachment". Many years later, when Xu Rong recalled the scene at that time, he would say, "The first labor reform detachment formed by the prisoners was the first labor reform detachment, and we did more than them, and we were simply the second labor reform detachment." ”

In this way, Xu Rong spent his second year of labor as a soldier. (To be continued......)

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