To Li Yunlong's surprise, Ma Tiansheng didn't seem to hold a grudge since he had a big fight with him last time, and he always greeted him pleasantly every day when they met, looking very self-contained, as if there had never been any unpleasantness between the two. In contrast, Li Yunlong has done much worse, he is a person who does not hide his inner activities, and if he is unhappy in his heart, he must show it. The former old political commissar Sun Tai'an was a good man, with a good temper and no ambition, he always followed Li Yunlong in everything, and maintained Li Yunlong's prestige everywhere, so there was never a quarrel between the two, and they were at peace with each other. In a sense, Li Yunlong was "habitual" by Sun Tai'an.

And Ma was born different, he thinks that he is a person who adheres to principles, and he will never allow others to interfere in all the work that belongs to him, and he will never ask Li Yunlong's opinion if there is anything that needs to be done, and he will make his own decisions. When he and Li Yunlong met for the first time, he politely called Li Yunlong an old comrade, hoping to help him a lot, and Li Yunlong was quite useful in his heart, but after a long time, Li Yunlong found that Ma Tiansheng's original words were just polite, and he didn't need Li Yunlong's "help" at all, but he just treated Li Yunlong as a cadre at the same level, neither showing alienation nor special respect. He didn't even call him "Captain Li" as he did at the beginning, but called him "Old Li" very casually. This lack of politeness made Li Yunlong very dissatisfied, and he always muttered in his heart: Lao Li? Is that what you called? Damn, a little major is now on an equal footing with Lao Tzu. Where the fuck are you going to reason?

Ma Tiansheng was very busy all day, and his work was very cumbersome, such as organizing a lecture on Mao's ideology, the company's "one gang of one, one pair of red" activities, focusing on cultivating some grassroots companies to study "Mao's writings" activists, and organizing troops to help peasants carry out spring planting and autumn harvests, and fight drought and floods. According to the reports of grassroots cadres, Political Commissar Ma did take the lead in helping the people, and once he was so tired that he fainted in the field. He has a strong spirit of self-discipline, does not smoke or drink, does not have any personal hobbies, except for major occasions, he usually wears an old military uniform with patches. In the eyes of the soldiers, he was like an amiable company instructor, talking with the soldiers, asking for warmth, personally bringing the sick meal to the bed of the sick soldier, and the soldier was so moved that he shouted "Long live Mao**" over and over again with tears. There are also some soldiers whose families are in difficulty, who have received letters from their families, claiming that they have received remittances, that their family difficulties have been resolved, and that they hope to serve with peace of mind. The fighters whose families were helped believed that the remitter was most likely the work of the Ma commissar who came down to the camp. Because only Commissar Ma had a heart-to-heart conversation with them and asked about the family situation. There are also some soldiers who work at night, and they have seen the lights in the house of the political commissar Ma still on late at night, and some good deeds have visited by the window, and they have seen the political commissar Ma holding Mao's ** work and reading it attentively.

Secretary Zheng once went to Ma Tiansheng's house to deliver documents, and when he came back, he told Li Yunlong that Ma's political commissar's house was empty, except for a few pieces of furniture distributed by the government, there was almost nothing, even the bedding on the bed was patched, but he had a lot of books, Zheng Bo glanced at it, and only remembered a few, including "Dialectics of Nature", "History of the Commune of 1871", "Imperialism is the Highest Stage of Capitalism", "State and Revolution", and it seems that there are works by Hegel and Spinoza, and the titles of the books are not clear. Zheng Bo commented: "It can be seen that Political Commissar Ma is a theoretical cadre with a very high level of education, and it can be seen from the collection of books, I have also been to the house of the old political commissar Sun Tai'an before, and the political commissar Sun has no book collection, except for the 'four volumes', only Ben Aisiqi's "Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism", from the theoretical level, these two political commissars are incomparable. ”

Li Yunlong didn't hear it much, so he said with a gloomy face: "Secretary Zheng, shouldn't I say hello to the cadres and transfer you to work with Political Commissar Ma?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zheng Bo stopped talking, and never mentioned the book collection and theoretical level of Political Commissar Ma again.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Ma Tiansheng made a political mobilization at a meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level, proposing to have a "revolutionary Spring Festival." Li Yunlong interjected on the side: "Comrades should correctly understand what Political Commissar Ma meant. It's hard and simple, you are not allowed to eat good, you have seven dishes and eight bowls, big fish and big meat, can you still be revolutionary? Let me tell you, that's how revisionism came out, can you not repair it if you eat fucking potatoes and roast beef all day long? Therefore, this year's Spring Festival should give prominence to politics, remember the bitter and sweet, and don't think about the big fish and meat, and all divisions and regiments should eat bitter rice with the company as a unit, and invite the old poor peasants and old workers to remember the bitterness and pour out the bitter water. Well, there is another thing, the political work cadres of all units must be strictly controlled, the old poor peasants, the old workers are not educated, and the brain is easy to get confused when they talk and talk, I heard that there was a problem in the last time the artillery regiment held a meeting to remember the bitterness, and after remembering it for a long time, I just remembered 1960. Does this sound like a word? Fortunately, it was an uneducated old poor peasant, and if it came out of the mouth of the educated political commissar Ma, wouldn't it be a counter-revolutionary? Don't laugh, comrades, what's so funny about that? Is the tip of the needle big? If it's political, it's heavier than a fucking millstone. Don't believe it, for example, maybe you are a good person, but you usually offend people, and some people hate you, so they always think about you, but you don't have long eyes, you don't pay attention to what you say, and you cause political trouble. Who keeps you from having long eyes? Who should you be responsible for this counter-revolution? If you really get to this point, I, the army commander, will not be able to save you. You deserve it. Okay, I'll just say that, what else does Commissar Ma have to say? ”

As a political commissar, Ma Tiansheng was originally the presiding officer of the meeting, but who knew that Li Yunlong's noisy and unrestrained nonsense turned him into an observer, and Li Yunlong became the presiding officer of the meeting, and he pretended to ask him if he had anything to say. He didn't have much to say, and his heart said that you said so much, what else could I say? Didn't you say it all? Ma Tiansheng cleared his throat and said: "Just now the army commander gave instructions, I raised my hands in favor, the form of eating bitter rice is very good, everyone should realize the superiority of our socialist system through this form, today's happy life is not easy to come by, I hope that everyone can turn the bittersweet memories into a driving force in work, have a new atmosphere in the new year, and carry out the 'Cultural Revolution' movement in depth." Okay, I think that's it, adjournment! ”

Li Yunlong came again: "The cadres of the headquarters and the political department are all staying, and the others are retreating quickly." ”

Ma Tiansheng sat still, staring at Li Yunlong coldly, wanting to see what else he was going to do.

"Everyone sit together, don't sit so scattered, Deputy Director Lu, what are you two muttering in the back? If you have something to say on the table, there is no class enemy here for the time being, so you don't need to think ......about it all day long," Li Yunlong greeted angrily. The officers all laughed, and Lu Shan, deputy director of the Political Department, blushed and pleaded: "Commander, I was asking about the method of remembering bitter rice, and I didn't think about people's ......."

"It doesn't matter if you just ponder, isn't this what your political department does? Without further ado, let's get down to business. Today's bitter rice, the headquarters and the political department put together, after the meal, we must organize study, learn the 'old three articles', the revolutionary Spring Festival, we have to live like this, no one wants to get two mouthfuls of bitter rice and go home to eat fish and meat, this is a deceptive organization, there is no door. Aren't everyone right? What to laugh at? 'A gang of one, a pair of red', what is not a pair? Don't think crookedly, when studying, take the pair as a unit, the advanced help the backward, and become red together, and you can't let the backward pull the advanced into the water, and become a level, that is called 'the two of them are better than ** - a bird'. ”

The officers laughed, they had long been accustomed to hearing the commander's foul words, and they all felt that it was very vivid and not boring at all, only Ma Tiansheng and Lu Shan frowned slightly. "Since everyone is matched, I am no exception, and I have to be matched, who will I match? It seems that we can only find the political commissar Ma......" There was laughter below.

Because there is an unwritten convention of this kind of pairing, generally the advanced take the initiative to find backward pairs, the army commander obviously feels that he is advanced, but the political commissar has become a backward element, in the eyes of these officers, the army commander and the political commissar are really "a bird", who helps whom? Ma Tiansheng didn't expect Li Yunlong to take the initiative to pair with him, he knew that Li Yunlong had some opinions about himself, and Ma Tiansheng was not like this, the contradictions between the two were getting deeper and deeper, so that the differences in work were getting bigger and bigger. Ma Tiansheng has not been transferred for a long time, and his foundation is still shallow, so he is still willing to ease the contradiction with Li Yunlong.

He stood up and said sincerely: "I am willing to pair up with Commander Li, and I hope to get Commander Li's help and make progress together." ”

Li Yunlong saw that Ma Tiansheng agreed, so he clapped his hand and said: "Okay, this matter is settled, and I will arrange the bitter meal." Everyone is ready for the 'old three', learn it all night, do you have different opinions? ”

"Nope!" Everyone said in unison. What if the heart says that there is an opinion? Who dares to say that they don't want to have a "revolutionary Spring Festival"?

Li Yunlong found the cooking squad leader of the military canteen and asked, "Do you know how to cook bitter rice?" ”

"Report to the commander, that thing is easy to make, just get some bran, and then cut some cabbage and steam it together."

"What's the pain of eating such a good thing? The poor in the old society can eat bran in the disaster year and will not starve to death, no, you think about Lao Tzu, is there Guanyin soil? ”

"Ouch, there's nowhere to find it."

"By the way, what is your kid's background?"

The leader of the cooking squad puffed up his chest and said: "Hired peasants, 100 percent proletariat." ”

"Then what did your family eat during the disaster year?"

"I heard my father say that you have eaten wild vegetables, elm trees, and tree bark, by the way, military commander, didn't you eat belt grass roots when you marched through the meadows? You are an expert at eating grass, you choose a few kinds of grass, I have a pair of torn leather shoes there, just chop it and cook it. ”

Li Yunlong pointed into the yard: "What kind of plants are they?" Just eat it. The cooking squad leader stretched out his neck to look at it, and gasped: "God, that's the hemp stalks used to make sacks, as well as sunflower stalks and horseradish grass, which are not fresh yet, they are all dry." Commander, you're not kidding, can you eat it? ”

"Who says you can't eat it? Didn't you ask me what I eat when I cross the meadows? Tell you, just eat this. That's it, get some hemp stalks, sunflower stalks, horseradish grass chopped, then some rice husks, and your leather shoes to cook it. Li Yunlong made the final decision.

"But...... Commander, is this done? The rice husk can't be boiled at all, it must be throat-pulling, and there is horseradish grass, which is bitter and astringent, and it is still thin when eaten, and the sack...... No, it's hemp stalks...... Anyway, I have to rely on this for the New Year tonight, so I have to be scolded. The cooking squad leader said in fear.

"Why don't you open your mind? Isn't this a bitter memory? Can eating big fish and meat remember the bitterness? In the old society, did your family eat big fish and meat? ”

"I heard my father say that when he carried the work for the landlord to catch up with the wheat harvest, he had enough steamed buns and meat pipes, and sometimes he gave wine to drink."

"Nonsense! I see that you kid is beautifying the landlord, be careful that Lao Tzu organizes people to criticize you. Just go! Just do it. The cooking squad leader was really unambiguous in carrying out the order, and the "bitter rice" he made was even worse than Li Yunlong imagined. On Chinese New Year's Eve, when the old poor peasants were tearfully complaining on stage, Li Yunlong took a nap and did not hear what to say. It wasn't until everyone sang the "Bitter Song" according to the usual procedure of the Remembrance of Bitterness that they woke up.

The sky is full of stars,

The moon is shining,

The production team held a meeting,

Grievances and grievances......

Li Yunlong was humming a song out of tune with his eyes half-closed, and suddenly smelled a strange smell that rushed straight to his nose, it turned out that the bitter rice was served, he fixed his eyes, even he was a little stupid, he didn't expect the recipe he set himself to be so bad. It should be admitted that the knife skills of the cooking class are still quite good, all herbs are chopped very much, and the original face cannot be seen, the leather shoes are cut like the thickness of shredded radish, and the most frightening thing is the rice husk, which still maintains the appearance before the pot, and the ridges are in the bowl, which looks very sharp. This is a bowl of yellow not yellow, green not green, slimy, and exuding a pungent smell. Li Yunlong, who has learned to survive in the wild and has eaten countless termites, snakes, earthworms and other things, has a churning stomach.

Everyone may feel the same way, because when the bitter rice was served, the sad singing suddenly became messy, and even Ma Tiansheng stared at the bowl of things in front of him in a daze. Li Yunlong stuck his throat as soon as he tasted it, and it took a lot of effort to swallow it, he secretly complained in his heart, and regretted that this prank was too big. But the matter has come to this point, there is no way back, so let's eat it hard. He knocked on the bowl with chopsticks and said: "Well, it's okay, everyone understands it, the working people in the old society ate this thing, and we eat it today to not forget our roots." Those who are soaked in the honey pot cannot always worry about their own happiness, but also to liberate all mankind and let the poor people of the world be soaked in the honey pot. Isn't it? Commissar Ma, my political mobilization is okay, right? ”

"The commander is right, don't underestimate the significance of this meal, this is politics, and it is the most concrete measure to oppose repair, defense and repair. Come on, everyone! Ma Tiansheng took a bite from the bowl.

Li Yunlong's heart was crossed, and he devoured the contents of the bowl. The army commander and the political commissar all ate it, and the others were naturally stunned anymore, and everyone swallowed the contents of their bowls. Li Yunlong filled another bowl, and said in his mouth: "Political Commissar Ma has another bowl?" Ma Tiansheng replied calmly: "No problem, we are a 'pair of red'." Li Yunlong wiped his mouth after eating the second bowl, patted his stomach, and seemed to be unsatisfied: "I'm full." He didn't panic at all, because he had prepared a "secret weapon" in advance. When learning to survive in the wild, Soviet instructors taught that once you accidentally ate a poisonous plant, you should immediately drink charcoal gray water, which is an emetic agent that can immediately cause vomiting, but who knows that this trick is now used. When Li Yunlong vomited the contents of his stomach in the toilet and returned to the conference room, he found that Ma Tiansheng's face was grayish, his head was sweating, and he seemed to be a little restless.

"Political Commissar Ma, which one should we learn first? How about I suggest that we learn "Serving the People" first? Li Yunlong asked with a spring breeze.

"Okay, I'll read ......" Ma Tiansheng forcibly endured the discomfort and opened the book.

Li Yunlong was secretly surprised, this guy really had a bit of perseverance.

That night, the "pair of reds" read the "old three" several times and discussed them. Li Yunlong claimed to have shook hands with Comrade Bethune, and that several fighters of his Independent Regiment were killed by Comrade Bethune. "You see, I went to Yan'an in the spring of last year, and then I went to work in Wutai Mountain, unfortunately I died in the post, Wutai Mountain is not too far from the territory of our independent regiment, and the seriously injured are sent there, that time I went to send the wounded, and met Comrade Bethune, who is tall, has a big nose, and his eyes seem to be blue...... "Ma Tiansheng didn't say much, his face was very bad, and he sweated a lot, Li Yunlong could hear the bursts of intestinal sounds from Ma Tiansheng's abdominal cavity through the wide conference table. Every ten minutes, Ma Tiansheng threw down the book violently, stopped Li Yunlong's eloquent conversation very impolitely, and jumped into the toilet. The severe diarrhea caused the horse's natural face to turn from gray to green. Li Yunlong didn't seem to pay attention to this, he opened the book again, and asked Ma Tiansheng for his opinion: "Now should we learn "Yugong Moves Mountains"? ”