Chapter Eighty-Nine: Two Pick-ups
The army is divided into two categories: military cadres and political work cadres, and since I served as a company commander in a cadet company in a military academy, it seems that I have decided that I will follow the road of military cadres in the future.
In the second year of serving as a platoon commander, about the beginning of November, he was arranged by the regiment headquarters to receive troops, and when he received the notice from the battalion headquarters, he felt a little sudden, because receiving troops was considered a beautiful difference, which was equivalent to taking a vacation, and he would be warmly received by the local armed forces department.
Some people have bad intentions, take the opportunity to ask the families of the soldiers for money and things, in order to get some care, smoothly enlist in the army, after arriving in the army, promise to give care, because of the national policy, the source of soldiers at that time, basically only children, family care, who will not agree.
Perhaps it was for this purpose that the regiment headquarters thought that cadres should be selected to go there, and brought in excellent soldiers, and there were no adverse reactions, so they accepted an inspection as a successful completion of the task.
Zhangzhou Film only arranged for two people to pick up the troops, one of whom was the platoon commander who had just served for one year, and the other brought some care factors, arranging for another battalion to be transferred to the battalion headquarters staff officer.
What I didn't expect even more was that the regiment headquarters designated me as the commander of the receiving company, and the staff officer served as the instructor of the receiving company, and finally signed the commander of the receiving company.
To go to Lin'an, you have to pass through Hangzhou, and the distance between the two cities is not far, so I went to the old company again on the way, and the company commander I saw last time is still there, and I am very happy to see it.
When he arrived at the company, the roadside water pipe ruptured, and one of the apprentices was transferred to the non-commissioned officer, in his words, the company had been picking up water from the bottom of the mountain for many days, and in order to save the amount of water, they ate steamed buns and pickles every day.
The company had no conditions, and the company commander specially took me to the battalion headquarters to meet the battalion commander, and held a sumptuous dinner at the battalion headquarters, during which he smiled and said to everyone, "The soldiers I led are now company commanders like me."
The laughter is mellow, it sounds very cordial, and a trace of regret rises unconsciously, if you were like two Jiangsu army students, you would have brought the files to the old army, maybe you could really stay here, and maybe you could return to the first company.
I saw the orderly soldier who was admitted to school again, and the love object of the year, who had already married, and I still remember the scene of visiting the college that year, in the guest house, special wine and food were arranged, and I participated in the booze between him and several of his good classmates.
He served as the commander of the platoon of the battalion headquarters, as always, with honesty and hospitality, said that his hometown was Zhangzhou, took out seven wolves to each other, and drank wine bottles to each other, and in his enthusiasm, the battalion headquarters guest house stayed for two nights.
Enthusiastically sign up, compete for places, I enlisted in the army that year, the urgent excitement I had experienced, did not appear as expected, Zhejiang has become a dragon of rapid economic development, even if it is an ordinary county, I don't know how many times stronger than an inland county like my hometown.
Only child, the conditions are superior, growing up in a honeypot, the enthusiasm of young guys to join the army is not high, and some even deliberately tattoo in order to evade military service.
There are not many active applicants, there are not enough qualified people, and the conscription task cannot be completed, which is related to the advanced evaluation of a place, so the local armed forces department also has tricks, linked to preferential policies, school-age youth, and the families of those who do not sign up cannot enjoy it, and force the laser to remove the tattoo, so reluctantly complete the conscription task.
We are mainly responsible for the final home visit to ensure that we are politically qualified, but we can raise objections, and once we resolutely do not want to, we will not be able to join the troops, and the local armed forces department will also have a headache, so the importance of receiving cadres is highlighted.
At the beginning of the conscription, the families of the soldiers did not attach much importance to us, but the armed forces department attached great importance to it, and the armed forces ministers of the townships and towns would often come to visit, shouting about the cold and asking for warmth, and still in the process of physical examination.
The family has already arranged family affairs, has a girlfriend, established a romantic relationship, an excellent teacher of the school, asked the principal for a few days off, found someone to replace the class, and played in Hangzhou West Lake for a few days.
The subject soon returned, during which he went to Hangzhou again, and my cousin, who was the head of the fire and armed police brigade in Lishui, contacted me, and he was going to Hangzhou for a meeting, and made an appointment to meet in Hangzhou.
A fashionable and tall hotel, towering into the sky, I don't know how many floors, there is a huge sign on the top, the name of the hotel is the same as mine, and they are holding meetings here.
When I arrived, the meeting had ended, and the grassroots officers of the province's fire and armed police regiments gathered together and were having dinner, and my cousin held a wine glass and pulled me to introduce them to his comrades-in-arms one by one.
I haven't met for a long time, I met in a different place, my brotherhood is deep, I don't know how much wine I gave him that day, small bottles of West Lake brand beer, poured out bottle after bottle, it is really a happy event in good spirits, super play, and I have not been drunk.
At the end of the dinner, I went home, my cousin invited me to go forward, the special car of the army, all the way to Lishui, my cousin was already drunk, and fell asleep soundly in the car, maybe because of the strength of the wine, or because of the excitement of seeing each other again, but I was completely sleepy, the road was far away, and I was worried that the driver was sleepy, and I kept searching for topics and talking with the driver.
After lunch, he set out and did not enter the Yeosu area until the evening, and when it was time for dinner, my cousin stopped at a county town, found his subordinate troops, and once again entertained him with great hospitality, praising the amount of alcohol, and he and his subordinates did not know how much beer they drank.
Arrived in Lishui, arranged to stay in the hotel, still not drunk, cousin alcohol has dispersed, accompanied me to chat late at night, during the sister-in-law came to call greetings, belongs to the female man type, particularly bold, listen to my cousin said that I drink a lot, at that time to come, and then supper with me, scared I quickly refused, the next day to visit home.
Young and unworldly, he went empty-handed, but fortunately, his cousin's only son has gone to school, the customs of his hometown, the elders see the younger generations, they want to get a gift, if they see it, they can't take anything, I don't know how embarrassing it will be.
At the beginning of December, the inspection and political examination work was completed, and the final home visit, led by us and accompanied by personnel from the township armed forces, showed that they attached great importance to it, and the minister was usually accompanied by him personally. Going to the nearby masses to learn about the performance of young people, to the families to understand the situation, and to make a final political screening are also the links that the local armed forces are most worried about.
In order to smoothly recruit soldiers, the localities have made a special request that the cadres who receive the troops not be notified to participate in the experience and political examination, so some problems can be concealed, but they cannot stop the mouths of the masses, for fear that we will show our feet when we visit.
It turned out that a young man had been punished by administrative detention, but the parent was eager to send the child to the army, perhaps the child has grown up and is difficult to control, and only in the melting pot of the army can he completely change his bad habits.
Perhaps I was designated by the leaders of the armed forces department, and I really found me that night, and when I saw such eagerness, I remembered that it was not easy to enlist in the army, and my heart softened, and I said to this parent that as long as the county armed forces department agreed, I would not know.
Back to the army, the soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way to Fuzhou, all the way to Zhangzhou, this recruit specially brought to the side, in the recruit company where I served as a platoon commander, so I was worried for a while, but fortunately, this young man was quite obedient, remembered my confession, honestly served for two years, and was honorably discharged home.
When I was about to visit my home, the old staff officer of the battalion headquarters showed eagerness, and nagged in my ear many times that I wanted to give him a few townships and let him visit alone.
As a result, the leader of the county armed forces department specially found me, saying that there was a reaction from the soldiers' families, and they stretched out their hands during the home visit, which had a very bad impact, and reminded us to pay attention to the image, and never dared to let him visit the home alone.
Receiving troops back to the company, everything went well, to the year when the seventh company served as the deputy company commander, at the same time, he was arranged to receive the troops again, this time to northern Jiangsu, a small coastal county in Yancheng.
Here I met the cadres who came from the northwest, who were also young, and the troops were stationed in the provincial capital, selected from the organs, and they were a little arrogant everywhere.
At this time, the wages of the troops were greatly increased, perhaps their troops were located in the remote northwest, compared with the inland, and the wages of ordinary families were relatively low, so they had a sense of superiority, and they were brought to the place where they received troops at this time.
Our wages have also increased greatly, but no matter how high they are, they cannot be compared with the local ones, and although Zhangzhou is a little backward, it is still higher than that of the troops compared to Quanzhou and Xiamen.
After several years of construction, Zhangzhou has changed greatly, the urban area has expanded, the streets have been widened, as if there is a modern urban style, stationed in the countryside, taking a motorcycle into the city, dazzling, wearing military uniforms, and not particularly popular with the market.
Accustomed to being despised here, it is still convergent here, but northern Jiangsu is indeed still relatively backward, and it cannot even be compared with its hometown.
The county is slightly better, but it is also scattered, and the power grid transformation of the hometown county has rarely seen open-air poles, but it is everywhere here.
The countryside is even worse, each village seems to have received local financial support, and each house has the same appearance and a roof, but in fact there is only one floor, three rooms, and every house is the same.
At this time, the rural houses were renovated quickly, with green bricks as the walls and cast-in-place as the top, generally built with two floors, with cement railings in front and another kitchen in the back, and poured cement flat roofs as open-air balconies.
The youngest daughter of the third uncle, married in the stone lane near Phoenix Mountain, avoiding family planning, wanted to give birth to a boy, the newly built bungalow was forcibly pulled down, and soon rebuilt, and it was two floors, two industrious can be seen, but it has not been realized to have a son's wish, after four daughters, was punished and feared, and did not dare to give birth again.
There are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, the concept of rural children to support the elderly and inherit the family is quite heavy, similar to the evasion policy of stealing birth from time to time, a cousin of the mother, living in a nearby Berlin village, in order to have a grandson, with the help of his parents, hiding in Song Bu, playing guerrilla tossing, I once led the way, the scene still remembers, under the effort, I really secretly gave birth to a son.
was not discovered, so he was exempted from punishment, and he was not demolished by the valley, in fact, his younger brother was also secretly born, but he was young at that time, and he didn't know it, so his father took a leave of absence and took his mother to hide with his grandmother, until his younger brother was born, and his eldest cousin Yiyang, who was studying in my house, was for this reason instead of his father and taught for a while.
Maybe not only in my hometown, but also in the whole country, there are famous sketch actors, so I made up a "Sketch of Stealing Guerrillas", which was broadcast on CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which can especially reflect the current situation at that time.
Such arrogance, does not hinder communication, a month, gathered together, play around, seems quite lively, for convenience, did not live in a hotel, but chose a private travel agency, food and accommodation, economical.
The desire of young people here to serve as soldiers is stronger than that of Lin'an, Zhejiang, especially our troops, which are located along the coast and close to Xiamen, which make young people yearn for it.
For example, Lin'an, Zhejiang Province appeared reluctant to sign up, deliberately avoided, did not appear here, whether it was young people or families, they were very active.
There is no trouble about not being able to complete the conscription task, but there is a private plan of the local armed forces department, and we will be notified to participate in the physical examination and political examination without pretense, but they often think of ways to let us not go to the scene, and then inform the results later.
Originally, it was not within our scope of responsibility, and they did not want to go in various ways to stop it, but they just made a good pass during the final home visit.
This time the instructor is a new platoon commander who has just graduated for a year, a military student, born in a unit in the north, lively and active, avant-garde thinking, many netizens, the idea of a separate home visit, is also quite strong, learned the lesson of the last time, and did not let him go alone.
After receiving the soldiers, he returned to Fuzhou, immediately found the instructor, and handed in the leave application.
A few days later, an order came from the regiment headquarters to ask me to be the commander of the recruit company of the Fuzhou battalion, and I knew why I didn't approve it.