Many soldiers visiting their relatives tried their best to stay at home for a few more days, some saying that they could not buy tickets to return to the city, and some said that they were seriously ill and even took out hospital diagnosis certificates or something. The officers all understood that these soldiers had only visited such a family once in the three years they had been soldiers, and they could be at home for a few days. It's not a time of war anyway, so stay a few more days.

Returning to the team a week early, the leaders naturally want to grasp this model, and they attribute this action to a signal that they want to ask for progress. The platoon commander gave a grand commendation to *** at the platoon meeting, and the company commander and instructor also gave a vigorous praise to *** during the roll call.

He didn't take this praise to heart, thinking to himself, this is crooked, he didn't want to return to the team so soon, it was all because of the osmanthus incident, if there was no osmanthus, maybe he would still stay at home, standing on the village street to his father and fellow villagers over and over again to describe the things in the army.

As soon as I think of osmanthus flowers, there are endless thoughts in my heart, the warm fire in the health center, and the smell of alcohol, faintly wafting in the air. The most tempting thing for him is, of course, the body of osmanthus flowers. Smooth, warm, and firm, at this time, he spent his whole body reviewing the osmanthus over and over again, tasting the osmanthus flowers, and imagination and memories are sometimes more worth reminiscing than reality. On the bed in the collective dormitory, or on a one-person sentry post, when I think of osmanthus, my heart is full of delicate tenderness and longing. His thoughts will be a rushing river for a while, and then it will become a trickling stream, flowing day and night, until it flows to his hometown and flows to the side of the osmanthus.

turned his thoughts about osmanthus into letters one after another and sent them to the hands of osmanthus. He was afraid that these letters would be withheld by the Wang branch secretary, so he did not write his unit number on the envelope, but only wrote the words "internal details", so one after another letters with internal details fell on the hands of osmanthus like snowflakes. At the beginning, a few letters were written about missing or something, but later the content went deeper, and he didn't forget to let Osmanthus come to the army, so that he could "clean up" her. As long as raw rice is cooked into mature rice, Wang Zhishu has great ability and can't help him.

As soon as the Spring Festival passed, the veterans who visited their relatives all returned to the team, and before the spring began, some anxious fiancées had already come to the army to visit relatives. The company has several guest houses, which are specially used to entertain company cadres and soldiers' families. The soldiers knew that as long as the soldier's fiancée came, the guest house was very special.

Anxiously describing to Osmanthus the mystery of the troops, and all the benefits, he hoped to lure Osmanthus into the troops.

When Osmanthus replied to the letter, she always seemed very calm, and she called *** at the beginning of the letter: Comrade Xuejun. It has a bit of the flavor of Wang Zhishu, and most of the time the content of the letter talks about revolutionary ideas, what good men are determined to be in all directions, the army has made great achievements in this university, and what first joined the party and then promoted to completely leave the countryside or something. Every time I received a letter from Osmanthus, I was enthusiastic at first, and when I read the content, I was disheartened again. Osmanthus did not despair to the end, at the end of the letter, the pen turned sharply, and another line was raised, writing: Xuejun, I miss you too. Just such a tender sentence, and then a revolutionary salute.

The letter of osmanthus and the letter of ***, one is like a basin of cold water, and the other is a pot of strong charcoal fire.

Spring arrives, the buds begin to curl, followed by summer, and as soon as summer passes, it becomes autumn. In the autumn of October, it was time for the veterans to be demobilized, *** counted the time, and by October, he would have been a soldier for three years, and if there was no special reason, he should be demobilized. Back to Gushantun, he will live there forever.

As soon as I think of this, *** is anxious. During this period, if he didn't get the osmanthus and returned to the backer, the osmanthus would always be his dream. He had already read it in Osmanthus's letter, and she hoped that he would join the party and be promoted, and that when she married him, it would be a smooth sail and would not take much effort. If *** is demobilized like this, Osmanthus doesn't like it. Osmanthus has already explained in the letter that she likes ambitious young people. What does it mean to be ambitious? The understanding is to join the party and be promoted.

More than 100 soldiers in the whole company all want to join the party and promote cadres, some of them get up before dawn to sweep the yard and feed the pigs, the pigs are sleeping, but they also want to bang up, in order to snatch the limited broom, some people secretly hide the broom in the bed when they go to bed the night before, and sleep with the broom in their arms. After a week of hard work, when the company is late for roll call, it will be exchanged for a verbal praise from the company commander or instructor, and then work hard for the next week.

This is in labor and politics, and some people have been able to memorize most of the articles in several volumes of "Mao's Selected Works".

In the atmosphere of everyone's hard work, it is neither good nor bad, in short, his performance is mediocre. Sometimes he doesn't get a single compliment a month. The most brilliant time he was when he returned to the team early. In this way, it is very far from what osmanthus expects of him.

wrote to Osmanthus more diligently, hoping to impress her and let her come to the army in the name of her fiancée, and then completely "clean up" her, and at that time, even if he returned to Shantun, he would be the quasi-son-in-law of the Wang branch secretary. Wang Zhishu will not treat his daughter badly for the sake of his daughter's face. That was his future and the way out. Over and over again, she begged Osmanthus in the letter, hoping that she would come to the army to inspect and guide. In the letter, he also said that in that case, it would spur him to actively move closer to the organization, and at the same time, it would also give him a strong push to the officer corps. Even he took the trouble to describe to Osmanthus the route from the backer to the army, how to take the car first, then the train, and then the car, all of which were sincere and detailed.

Osmanthus is not tempted by ***, every time I reply to the letter, I am very busy with work, spring, I participate in the rodent extermination work, there are many patients, the whole team is a barefoot doctor, I have to go out in the middle of the night. She spoke in a tone that seemed to be as if the whole team had all suffered from an incurable disease overnight, waiting for her to save the dead alone.

Summer is here in a flash, summer is here, will autumn be far away? When I think of autumn, October, *** is disheartened. It seems that Osmanthus will not come, unless he joins the party and is promoted. Thinking about it this way, his thoughts and expectations of osmanthus were discounted, and he understood that he might be busy in vain, and in the end he was fishing for the moon in the water, and he was happy in the air. Calm down***, obviously write fewer letters to osmanthus. Next, *** will have more time to get out of the barracks and go outside for a walk, for a spin.

He often frequents the west of the camp next to the Daqing River, the river is not wide, not urgent, walking on the embankment, looking at the river, the appearance of the river, is in line with the heart, empty, and at the same time not in a hurry. On the embankment of the Daqing River, the grass grows and the warbler flies, telling *** that it is really midsummer at this time, and it will be autumn as soon as the summer passes. Thinking of this, he was lonely and depressed. He regretted that he was not engaged to Hongmei's girl, maybe when he returned home in October, Hongmei's girl would have been engaged to someone else and become someone else's. Thinking about it this way, ***'s mood can be imagined.

As a result, something happened by chance, and a major turning point in ***'s life began.

It rained heavily for several days, and this kind of heavy rain is rare. When it rained, *** did not walk out of the barracks, and in the evening of the sunny day after the rain, *** walked out of the barracks again and walked to the embankment of the Daqing River, the embankment was a little slippery, and there were some sticky feet, and it was not refreshing to walk on it. I didn't see it for a few days, and the Daqing River grew fat several times, and under the effect of rain, the water became turbid, and it became fierce, and it flowed very quickly, rushing downstream with a whirlpool.

Looking at the sun in the west, the mood is unusually depressed, and the rainy season tells *** that summer is about to pass. In this day when he was about to say goodbye to the army, he felt as lost as he was.

At that moment, he saw something floating down from upstream, like a woman's garment, sinking and floating with the current. It was soon that he saw that it was not a piece of clothing, but a person. The man was still struggling in the water, and even shouted indistinctly: Help......

At that moment, he didn't think much about it, and he didn't allow him to think about it, he jumped into the water completely subconsciously, and swam desperately towards the person who fell into the water.

At this moment, *** became the celebrity of the whole group, and it was no one else he rescued, it was the baby daughter of the head of the group, Ma Xiaowei. Ma Xiaowei had just graduated from high school that year and was nineteen years old. After the rain had cleared, she went to the embankment alone to play, but the embankment was slippery and unfortunately she fell into the water. Fortunately, *** appeared by her side in time, and it took a lot of effort to finally get Ma Xiaowei ashore. In this process, he didn't know who Ma Xiaowei was, he only regarded her as a person who fell into the water, in the process of saving people, he choked on countless saliva, and after going ashore, he also fainted.

It's amazing, the story of *** heroic rescue soon spread throughout the regiment and division. Captain Ma personally met with ***, Captain Ma shook ***'s hand, after Captain Ma was frightened, his face had not fully recovered, and he said over and over again: You are the living Lei Feng.

Immediately, *** became the pacesetter of the whole regiment to learn Lei Feng, and when the regiment commander Ma learned that *** had not yet joined the party, he calmly said to the company commander and instructor: You are burying the live Lei Feng.

Another immediately, *** quickly filled out the "Volunteer Letter for Joining the Party", and the company branch held a branch meeting overnight, and all passed the application for joining the party. The next day, the instructor personally sent the "Letter of Willingness to Join the Party" to the Political Department of the League.

The Political Department quickly dispatched officers to ***'s hometown to be transferred.

The deeds and the news of joining the party quickly spread vigorously in the backers. The first to learn the news was Wang Zhishu, and that cadre connected with Wang Zhishu in advance. The secretary shook the hand of the Wang branch secretary and said: Thank you for the branch secretary, for cultivating a good soldier for the troops.

Next, the whole brigade, and even the whole commune, knew about the glorious deeds of ***.

As soon as the cadres who were transferred abroad came back, they received an enthusiastic letter from Osmanthus, in which they were no longer called Comrade Xuejun, but were renamed Xuejun again. Then she said a lot of words of praise and longing, and she also said: I miss you, Xuejun. I want to go to the army to see you day and night, depending on when it is convenient for you, if you agree, I will be in front of your eyes immediately......

All this was something that *** never dreamed of, and at that time he was running from company to company, telling about his glorious deeds. His mentality has changed greatly now, but he is not in a hurry to let the osmanthus come. As if the osmanthus was his, he would come as soon as he was summoned.

Soon the party committee of the regiment approved it, and in the early autumn of that year, *** became a full party member.