Tamura, who was assigned to work in the police communication company, felt a strong sense of loneliness. In his heart, he did not admit that after three months of training in the recruit company, soldiers like Liu Dong were qualified soldiers, not only Liu Dong was unqualified, but many people were not qualified in his eyes, including those veterans and cadres. Tamura saw too many peasant traits in these people, such as the self-rolled paper cigarettes they smoked, their jacket pockets turned into cigarette purses, their left pockets filled with crumpled tobacco leaves, their right pockets filled with cut cigarette paper, and their trouser pockets filled with matches. As soon as he was free, he squatted at the root of the wall or under the tree, rolled cigarettes in twos and threes, and often spitted on the ground, regardless of the occasion and place, and then rubbed it with his feet. The military uniform on his body did not look like a soldier, but like a peasant in a military uniform. In short, all this, in the eyes of Tamura, is not a characteristic of a standard soldier.

Liu Dong also has all kinds of bad deeds, such as Liu Dong uses the kind of graph paper used by primary school students to practice calligraphy every time he writes a letter, and he does not use glue when pasting stamps, but uses his tongue to lick the glue on the stamps, and then slaps and hits the envelope. The seven yuan allowance paid each month has to be sewn into the pillow for five yuan. Liu Dong's pillows were carefully dismantled after the monthly allowance was paid, and then sewn them with great difficulty. The remaining two yuan, he will not carry in one pocket, but one in the left pocket, and another in the right pocket. Liu Dong's behavior made Tamura feel very ashamed.

As a result, Tamura felt very lonely, and for the first time he felt how far apart he had known about the military compound and the grassroots company. As soon as Tamura thought of this, his heart felt pimples and he was very uncomfortable.

The draft of the newsletter written by Liu Dong was published in the newspaper of the military region, and Tamura also read the article, but he did not see anything outstanding about it, and he felt that Liu Dong was speculating or grandstanding. In his eyes, he and Liu Dong are completely two different people.

In the recruit company, he was the temporary deputy squad leader, and after being assigned to the police company, he was just an ordinary soldier like Liu Dong. The sense of superiority that I had in the recruit company also disappeared little by little. Tamura felt strongly that he was in the company of these people, and he felt from the bottom of his heart that he was buried.

Not long after Tamura was assigned to the police communication company, Yang Peipei came to the 13th Division. The 13th Division was the most remote division in the whole army, and the conditions were also the worst, and Yang Peipei took the train and car several times before reaching the 13th Division. She was arranged to live in a guest house at the division headquarters.

When Tamura appeared in front of her mother, she had already run to the door to look at her son several times. Tears flowed down her eyes when her son's figure appeared in her sight, and Tamura had only been separated for a few months, but it felt as if they had been separated for a century. When Tamura was still in the recruit company, she wanted to come and see him, but Tian Liaoshen didn't let her, so she couldn't bear it; Now that the recruit company training is over, she can't wait to come.

She hugged her son in her arms, leaned on his shoulder and murmured: Son, you make your mother want to die. Then he looked at his son back and forth, left and right, saying that he was thin for a while, and dark for a while, as if his son's army life in the past few months had been suffered and tempered.

Tamura was not as excited as his mother, he sat on a chair in the guest house, looked at his mother and said, "Mom, is my dad okay?"

Your dad misses you too, he doesn't say it, but I can see it. Your father shouldn't have let you come to the Thirteenth Division in the first place, this place is so far away from the military headquarters, and it is so remote, it is not easy to come and see you.

Tamura took the opportunity to say: Mom, go back and talk to my dad, let him help me change a unit, I'm not used to being here.

Listening to Tamura's words, Yang Peipei was a little anxious: What's wrong son? Is it because the food here is not good, or is it because the leaders have prejudices against you?

Tamura shook his head and said with a disdainful expression: That's not it. I don't think the military here look like the military at all, it's just a bunch of peasants. I don't want to be with farmers.

Yang Peipei listened to Tamura's words, was stunned, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: Take your time, if you really don't adapt, your father and I will find a way.

Yang Peipei stayed in the 13th Division for two days, and during these two days, Tamura accompanied his mother around the division. When they came to the police company, the company commander and instructor were all hugging each other, and they knew that Tamura's mother was the director of the outpatient department of the military department, and Tamura's father was deputy commander Tian. It was an honor for Tamura's mother to come to the police company to inspect the work. She first looked at the company department, and then at Tamura's dormitory, and when they came to the dormitory, Liu Dong was cleaning in the dormitory.

Liu Dong stood up and reported to Yang Peipei, the company commander, and the instructor: Report to the chief, Liu Dong, a soldier of the fifth squad of the first platoon of the police communication company, is sorting out internal affairs.

The company commander waved his hand: Busy, busy, this is Tamura's mother, come to the dormitory to have a look.

Liu Dong took a serious look at Yang Peipei, this is a middle-aged female soldier, white and clean, with an extraordinary bearing. Before this, Liu Dong only knew that Tamura's parents were both big cadres in the military department, but he didn't know what he did. This time, I was fortunate enough to see Tamura's mother, but he was still stunned for a moment, and he said again: Good chief.

Yang Peipei also looked at Liu Dong carefully, and subconsciously looked at Tamura, she seemed to want to say something to Liu Dong, Tamura said: Mom, you are also tired, go back to the guest house to rest.

In the room of the guest house, Yang Peipei seemed to have something on her mind and looked at Tamura carefully.

Tamura said, "Mom, why do you keep looking at me?"

Yang Peipei stared at him and said: Where is the home of your comrade-in-arms?

It seems to be from Big Willow County.

Yang Peipei asked again: What is his surname?

Mom, why are you asking this? Tamura said with a little unhappiness that he was a typical farmer, with a stipend of seven yuan a month, and people had to sew five yuan into the pillow.

Yang Peipei didn't say anything more, the moment she saw Liu Dong, she actually chuckled in her heart. Although Liu Dong looked dark and thin, she had something very familiar when she looked at Liu Dong's eyebrows, and she seemed to have seen this familiar thing in Tamura's body. When she asked Liu Dong to be from Daliushu County, her heart moved again, but she was quickly denied by herself. How could there be such a coincidence in the world, and she wanted to ask Liu Dong again which commune and which brigade he was from.

Tamura said, "Then I don't remember, if you are interested in him, just ask our company commander and instructor to go."

Yang Peipei naturally didn't want to ask any deeper.

Two days later, Yang Peipei was leaving, and when she left, the division sent a jeep to take her all the way to the train station.

Tian Liaoshen came to the 13th Division more than a month after Yang Peipei left. When he came, he was not alone, but an inspection team, with a deputy chief of staff, and some division chiefs and staff officers, and Tian Liaoshen inspected and implemented the training work of the 13 th Division in the capacity of deputy army commander.

He did not rush to see Tamura, but after the work inspection, he had Tamura notified to come to the guest house to see him.

When Tamura appeared in front of Tian Liaoshen, Tian Liaoshen was not as excited as Yang Peipei, he sat on the sofa and didn't move, looking at Tamura who walked in stunned. It had been a few months since Wadamura had been separated, and this was the first time he had seen his son, who had been in military uniform for several months, and who seemed to be older than before, which made him feel strange and affectionate.

Tamura looked a little excited, and he choked up and shouted: Dad-

My father waved his hand and said, "Sit down."

His gaze still did not leave Tamura, and he looked at his son in front of him with kindness and love.

Dad, you've been here for three days, why did you remember to see me?

Tian Liaoshen frowned slightly, and said quickly: Dad didn't come to see you this time, Dad came to check the work, and the work is over, so take a look at you by the way. Dad left in the afternoon.

Tamura's expression was a little disappointed, and he lowered his head.

Tian Liaoshen said: Listen to your mother, you don't want to work in the 13th Division, you want to be transferred? Tell us what you think.

Tamura seemed to see hope again, he raised his head, stared at his father and said, "Dad, where are the troops here, they are simply some peasants, they are not like soldiers."

Tian Liaoshen stood up, his voice suddenly became higher, and he stopped Tamura and said: Nonsense! This is the 13th Division, our ace division, from the War of Resistance Against Japan to the Korean War, the 13th Division has never discredited the troops, it is a meritorious division, I don't allow you to say that about the 13th Division!

Tamura was a little aggrieved, and he whispered: Dad, what I said is the truth.

Tian Liaoshen was a little excited: What is the truth? Then let me tell you, China's army is an army dominated by peasants, and only such an army can bear hardships and stand hard work, dare to sacrifice, and be invincible. Your father used to be a farmer, and he was a soldier with sorghum flowers on his head. You look down on the peasants now, what's wrong with the peasant soldiers? Dad put you here to let you receive hard training here, so that you know what China's troops and soldiers are.

Tamura looked at his angry father in a daze, he didn't understand why his father was so angry.

Finally, my father waved his hand and said, "Go back to Lianli on duty."

As soon as my father was walking, it was Tamura's turn to stand guard at the gate of the division headquarters. His father's motorcade drove out before his eyes, and he, like an ordinary sentry, saluted the chief's motorcade, and his father returned the salute as he sat down in the car.

His father's motorcade drove by, and Tamura's tears were still in his eyes.