Every morning when the soldiers went out to exercise was when the girl on a bicycle went to work, the girl seemed to want to attract the attention of the soldiers, and every time she rode to the door of the company, she began to shake the bell, which attracted the soldiers to look sideways at her, at this time, she never looked at the soldiers, her eyes did not squint, and she looked very proud.

Every time the girl rode a bicycle past the soldiers, the footsteps of the neatly running team were obviously mixed, and the necks of the soldiers were twisted in one direction. Every morning, the company commander went out to lead the team, and before the girl appeared, the company commander seemed to be prepared and shouted the slogan very loudly, and the slogans of the soldiers were surprisingly loud. But every time the girl passed, her footsteps were still mixed. It wasn't until the girl disappeared, the bell disappeared, and the company commander shouted the slogan several times with all his might, that the footsteps were neat again.

There were also occasional times when the soldiers did not see the girl when they went out for exercise. After the exercise, the soldiers' movements were surprisingly quick, and they immediately took the basin to the water room to fetch water, and the water room did not have a few faucets, which could not accommodate more soldiers to wash their faces. In the past, the soldiers who came after would rather wait than wash their faces outside with a basin, but this time it was different, pumping out the water, maintaining a fixed posture, and looking in the direction of the east gate intentionally or unintentionally. Sure enough, the girl's figure appeared, the car bell had already ringed, and the soldiers' movements of washing their faces and brushing their teeth were very exaggerated.

The company commander never rushed to wash his face and brush his teeth every morning, but had to play a flute first, and the company commander loved to play the flute, and it is said that he won the first place in the regimental organ's literary and artistic performance. At that time, the company commander was also related to playing the flute, and in order to retain the backbone of literature and art, the regiment promoted the company commander directly from the soldiers. The company commander's flute is really very good, and if the company commander is in a good mood, the flute sound will naturally be peaceful and clear, making people feel that the birds in the forest are singing. If the company commander is in a bad mood, it makes people feel that the sky is full of dark clouds and thunder. At such a time, the face of the company commander was gloomy all day. The company commander is a person who doesn't like to talk very much, he squats in the corner and thinks about things when he has nothing to do, and no one knows what the company commander thinks, so the soldiers think that the company commander is very deep and not easy to ponder, and they are usually a little afraid of him.

Most of the soldiers' faces were washed, and the company commander shook the flute, threw out the saliva that blew into the flute's body, and then washed his face and brushed his teeth. After the company commander washed his face and brushed his teeth, it was time for breakfast. After breakfast, the day's work officially begins, and everything in the morning is just a foreshadowing, or overture. The day's work is roughly divided into several points, either combat readiness duty, labor, or political or business study, and sometimes these are also alternated.

In this monotonous day, the soldiers look forward to the early evening, and only after dinner can the soldiers have their own disposal, and the important thing is that every day after dinner is also the time when the girl on the bicycle gets off work, and if the weather is good, she will be clothed in the sunset, shaking the bell, and coming back happily. The girl's family lived in a small village not far from the company, the village was not large, there were about 30 or so families, and the company commander was familiar with the village chief of that village, and was often invited by the village chief to drink and study the joint construction of the army and the people, and sometimes the village chief also came to the company, brought a bottle of wine, and drank in the company commander's dormitory. At this time, the company commander asked the cooking squad to fry two dishes and bring them to the dormitory, and no one knew what the company commander and the village chief said. After drinking, the village chief and the company commander staggered, and the company commander would send the village chief out of the east gate of the company, patting each other on the shoulder, and the village chief would walk back to the village all the way uphill.

The road at the east gate of the company, the villagers and the soldiers called the army and the people to build a road, and the village and the company jointly built the road. In the military-civilian joint construction in those years, only this road was regarded as the result of joint construction.

In the summer of that year, several heavy rains fell in a row, washing the road jointly built by the military and civilians into potholes. At first, it did not attract the attention of the soldiers, until one day, when the soldiers went out to exercise, they saw a girl on a bicycle falling out of the car in front of a pothole, and a pair of clean leather shoes were all covered with mud. This is the morning.

At noon, the veteran Li Shengli came to the side of the road with a shovel and staggered to repair the potholed road washed by the rain.

Two more soldiers came with tools and joined the ranks of building the road. Next, almost all the soldiers of the company joined the ranks of building roads, and they said while repairing: The army and the people will build the road together. Soon, the road took on a new look.

That evening, when the girl got off work, the car bell rang loudly, and the soldiers had always thought so.

After watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the evening, the company commander called his name strangely, that is, he called the whole company to stand and hold a meeting, and the company commander praised the veteran Li Shengli fiercely. This is rare in the history of Li Shengli, who has been a soldier for four years and should be demobilized in the autumn. Li Shengli was a soldier who enlisted in the city, and his purpose in joining the army was very practical, that is, he could find a regular job when he went back. When he was a recruit, he also worked hard to join the party or something, but he was only enthusiastic for three minutes, and he couldn't persist in doing good deeds. It is indeed not easy for the military camp in peacetime to perform prominently, and it is not easy to get up earlier than others to sweep the yard, and to be strict with himself in peacetime, and to be a good soldier who listens to the words of the company commander and instructor, these ordinary people can do it, Li Shengli has also done it, but he is not outstanding, and the company commander and instructor rarely praise him. Li Shengli's enthusiasm faded, and with the growth of his military age, Li Shengli became numb to actively asking for progress or something, and the praise of the company commander made him feel not happy, but indescribably uncomfortable.

Lying on the bed, he said to Wang Wang and Xiao Shi, the driver in the same dormitory: Fuck, the sun is coming out of the west.

Wang Wang and Xiao Shi laughed.

Li Shengli said again: I am about to be demobilized, and I have not been hospitalized yet, so I will go to the hospital for two days tomorrow.

Wang Wang said as if he had come over: Go ahead, the hospital is very fun.

Xiao Shi said: Old soldier Li, you also have to "prepare skin".

Li Shengli said in the bed: "Prepare the skin" for surgery, and I don't need surgery.

Wang Wang said dreamily: Nurse Bai Xiao is only eighteen years old.

After Wang Wang finished speaking, no one spoke for a long time.

After a long time, Xiao Shi said again: Is Bai Xiao as beautiful as that girl?

Wang Wang said: I think it's about the same.

After that, no one spoke. The three of them tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, and the bed board rang for a long time before they slowly fell asleep.

It was another evening, and the soldiers all came out of the dormitory, dressed in the sunset, and said something about the weather to the east, and the girl went to work with the bell. Suddenly, the bell stopped ringing, and the girl got out of the car to check, and it turned out that the bicycle was broken. The girl looked very anxious, but she didn't fix it for a while, and the soldiers all looked at the girl with their eyes wide open and their necks stretched. At this time, Li Shengli walked out of the crowd and walked towards the girl with a shrug, and before the soldiers could react, Li Shengli had already walked in front of the girl. He crouched down and began to help the girl fix the car, while talking to the girl. The small fault was that the chain of the car fell off, and it was quickly repaired, and when the girl left, the soldiers really saw that the girl smiled at Li Shengli and beckoned.

When Li Shengli walked back, he held it up so exaggeratedly with an understatement on his face, stained with oil on his hands. Only then did people know from Li Shengli's mouth that the girl's name was Yu Li and she worked at the county post office.

Li Shengli's hands, which had been stained with the oil of the girl's bicycle chain, were exaggerated for several days.

That time, the company commander did not praise Li Shengli, and his face was gloomy and there was no clear sky. didn't look at Li Shengli, Li Shengli muttered to himself: What's wrong with me?