When the soldiers celebrated their birthdays, due to the limited conditions of the company, there was no special expression, just an extra dish. This has become a practice every year.

On Xiao Shi's birthday, the dish he added was scrambled cucumber slices with eggs. The cucumbers were from the company's vegetable farm, and the eggs were bought by the cooks at the market. Xiao Shi's birthday that night was very bland, and he didn't mention it.

But speaking of Wang Wang, Wang Wang is Xiao Shi's hometown, they are a one-year soldier, and their hometown is in a town. The two have a good relationship. When Wang Wang celebrated his birthday last year, Xiao Shi happened to drive to the county town to run errands and bought two canned food, one was luncheon meat, the other was luncheon meat, and a bottle of sorghum wine. The company stipulates that non-holiday wine cannot be drunk, even during festivals, and the personnel on duty for combat readiness are also not allowed to drink alcohol. The so-called position is the radar operation room, which is a very large engineering vehicle, and two dormitories have been built next to the studio, where the soldiers on duty live, and there are about 200 meters away from the company's dormitory area.

Because the company has discipline, drinking alcohol is a violation of discipline, and the soldiers can only drink secretly. On Wang Wang's birthday last year, Xiao Shi hid two canned luncheon meat and a bottle of wine until midnight, and the company commander and instructor checked the room. At first, the wine was very bland, and there was no more, just eating, just drinking. After drinking almost the wine, the two talked about friendship and some interesting things from their childhood, and the two really got along. After drinking a bottle of wine, the friendship between the two is already comrades-in-arms and brothers. In the days that followed, the relationship between the two was much closer than before. They don't care if they have a birthday or not, and when they are at home, their parents don't give them a careful birthday. When you go out to be a soldier, you can use your birthday as a reason to vent your excess energy.

That night, Wang Wang found Xiao Shi and said: Don't worry, let's eat dog meat in the middle of the night.

A few days ago, Wang Wang found the dog, which was a yellow dog, very fat, and often came into the yard from the hole in the company's wall at night. The hole in the wall was reserved for the rainwater, and the excessive rainwater flowed away from the hole, and because of the perennial washing, the hole in the wall became bigger and bigger, until the yellow dog, who did not know the height of the sky, could easily climb through the hole to the yard of the company. The reason why the dog wanted to enter the company's yard was because before that, the company had killed a pig, and the water and bones were thrown into the vegetable patch, and the yellow dog smelled such a smell and came to steal food. It seems that the yellow dog often does this kind of thing, so it is unusually fat. According to Wang Wang's analysis, the yellow dog must have belonged to the village not far away, and he couldn't tell whose family it was. No matter whose family it is, in short, Wang Wang is determined to eat Xiao Shi's meat on his birthday.

When it was dark, Wang Wang made a set on the hole in the wall with a telephone line, and then he ambushed in the vegetable field with a stick in his hand, and Wang Wang was like a real warrior ambush in the forward position, ready to go out at any time.

The damn dog really appeared on time shortly after the company's lights-out whistle sounded, the hole in the wall that used to be unobstructed today the yellow dog encountered a lot of trouble, it was caught in the waist by the telephone line, the yellow dog tried his best to tear the telephone line, at this time Wang Wang a vicious tiger pounced and jumped out of the vegetable field, picked up the stick in his hand and smashed it at the dog's head, the poor yellow dog did not understand what was going on, and he died with a whimper.

Xiao Shi has been hiding in the dormitory to observe the movement, Wang Wang has repeatedly explained before the ambush, not to let Xiao Shi come out, so as not to alarm the yellow dog, get a bamboo basket to draw water, in that case, he will feel that he has failed the friendship between him and Xiao Shi's comrades-in-arms and brothers.

After Xiao Shi confirmed Wang Wang's success in the dormitory, he also rushed out under the cover of night. The two worked together to drag the yellow dog into the water room. All the tools Wang Wang has been prepared during the day, the knife is a kitchen knife, borrowed from the cooking class, he borrowed the knife did not say to kill the dog, but said to sharpen the knife for the cooking class, before this, when Wang Wang did good deeds, he often helped the cooking class sharpen the knife. The 1,000-watt electric stove was taken down from the radar position, there was no heating equipment in the engineering vehicle, this electric stove was used for heating in winter, and no one used it in summer, so it was idle there, and today Wang Wang brought it, and no one paid attention to the temporary disappearance of this electric stove.

The knife is a fast knife, and it has been sharpened by Wang Wang. It's just that Wang Wang and Xiao Shi encountered a little trouble when skinning the dog, they had little experience in skinning the dog, so the dog hair was stained on the meat, which did not affect the emotions of the two people, the two of them worked together and finally finished peeling the dog skin.

The electric stove had already been burned, and on it sat Wang Wangsheng's basin full of water, the basin had been washed and looked very clean, and then Wang Wang and Xiao Shi put pieces of cut dog meat into the boiling basin. Finally, he buckled Xiao Shi's basin on it. The water boiled the dog meat in the basin and looked very cheerful, and it gurgled into a piece. While waiting for the dog meat to be cooked, Wang Wang and Xiao Shi quickly cleaned up the scene. Dog skins, bones, water or something were buried in the vegetable field by Wang Wang, and the blood, hair and so on were washed clean by Xiao Shi with water. The rest of the time, it's just waiting, Wine Wang Wang is ready, and he is carrying it in his pocket, bulging, like a **.

Slowly, the aroma of dog meat began to waft out. The stomachs of the two began to rumble under the lure of the fragrance, and the two swallowed saliva while looking at the stars in the distant sky, waiting for the dog meat to boil.

I don't know if it's the smell of dog meat, or the urine, in short, the company commander woke up, and after waking up, the company commander easily found Wang Wang and Xiao Shi, at this time the dog meat was rotten, the two stretched out four hands and were dodging in the basin to tear the dog meat, the wine bottle had been opened, and the water room was full of the smell of wine and the aroma of dog meat.

At this moment, the company commander spotted them, and the beam of the flashlight shone brightly on the two of them, as well as the pot of dog meat among them. Wang Wang and Xiao Shi froze there like shadow puppets.

At that time, the subconscious of the two people was very concerned that the company commander found them. Both of them have just completed two years of service, and according to the instructor's words, there are still a long way to go. The reality of the two in the company is that they can't say good or bad. Both of them really want to progress, if they can't join the party, at the end of the year, it's not bad to be rewarded or something. That's why there are two people who don't know how to be a good freeze frame.

For some reason, the company commander turned on the flashlight, covered the two of them, and said nothing, just took a deep breath and took another deep breath.

Wang Wang, who reacted, said: Today is Xiao Shi's birthday.

Xiao Shi also said: Yes, it's my birthday.

The company commander was silent for a while, then suddenly turned off the flashlight and turned to leave.

The darkness left the two of them pondering in a very hollow space.

Company commander, what's wrong? Wang Wang said.

That is, what is he going to do? Xiao Shi also said.

Will we be punished? Wang Wang said.

It's hard to say. Xiao Shi said.

Next, the two of them took a few more sips from the bottle. I tore the meat and ate two pieces, but I ate and drank it very tastelessly.

Wang Wang said: Why don't you send the dog's leg to the company commander?

Xiao Shi said: Can he either?

Wang Wang said: Anyway, he saw it, don't want it.

Xiao Shi said: It's okay.

Wang Wang took out the two dogs' thighs steaming from the basin, carried them dripping with water, and touched them to the company commander's dormitory through the night.

After a while, Wang Wang returned.

Xiao Shi asked: Accepted?

Wang Wang: I accepted it.

Xiao Shi: What did he say?

Wang Wang: He didn't say anything, he was sitting on the bed in the dark.

Xiao Shi: Then what did you say?

Wang Wang: I said that these are two dog legs, company commander, you can eat them while they are hot.

Xiao Shi: That's all?

Wang Wang: That's all.

Then the two stopped talking, drank wine, and ate meat. When the wine was almost drunk, the two forgot about the company commander. I talked about friendship and birthdays.

Wang Wang said with his tongue wide open: Let's drink it.

Xiao Shi also said: Drink.

Wang Wang said: Whatever, I wish you a happy birthday.

Xiao Shi said: Today's birthday, I will never forget it for the rest of my life.

The two of them didn't care about anything at this time, what progress they had, what kind of company commander or something, they all left behind, and only drank was left.

When it was almost dawn, the wine was drunk, and the pot of dog meat was eaten by the two of them. Many years later, the two recalled the night and marveled at how much they ate. In addition to the two dogs with thighs given to the company commander, they ate almost all of the dogs. When the two of them left the water room, they did not forget to clean everything as if nothing had happened.

The two hardly slept all night, and the next morning, when the two went out to exercise, they both had red eyes, and when they ran, their steps were obviously unsteady, and they almost fell down a few times, which attracted the strange eyes of the company commander.

At noon the next day, neither of them went to the cafeteria to eat.

At noon that day, the company commander walked into the canteen with two dog legs, and said to the cook: This is sent by the village chief last night, cut everything, and divide a few pieces for each person.

At noon that day, the soldiers all ate a few pieces of dog meat.

When Wang Wang and Xiao Shi heard this result, it was the soldiers who told them, and the soldiers regretted that the two did not eat dog meat. The two looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion. They were worried that the company commander would settle accounts with them after the autumn, and in those days, the two behaved unusually well.

The days passed, and another day passed. Many days passed, and there was still no sign of the company commander settling accounts with them. Until one day, the village chief walked into the company with a bottle of wine, and the company commander greeted me warmly from a distance: Lao Li, why don't you wake me up when you send me a dog's thigh.

Village Chief Li said: Company Commander Gong, when will I send you a dog's leg?

The company commander looked at the village chief with a puzzled face.

When Wang Wang and Xiao Shi heard it, they looked at each other again, until a year later, the company commander was inexplicably hospitalized once, and then inexplicably changed jobs. The soldiers learned that the company commander had a problem with night tours. The company commander, who had a problem with night travel, could not cure his illness in the hospital and had to change jobs. Later, the company commander left the company. Of course, that's all for later.

It wasn't until they learned that the company commander had a problem with night tours that Wang Wang and Xiao Shi's anxious hearts were completely down-to-earth.

It turned out that the company commander was on a night tour that night.