Chapter 58 Housekeeping
As everyone knows, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has three major regulations, namely, queue regulations, discipline regulations, and internal affairs regulations, of which internal affairs regulations are used to regulate the internal order of life, including the food and living mentioned above, in addition to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, internal and external exchanges, dress and grooming, and so on.
The recruit company has only been for three months, and its housekeeping management, with the purpose of providing qualified soldiers for the old company, is a little urgent and a little mechanical, they are all young people in society, they have not been subject to such strict management, they have not experienced the omnipresent constraints, they do not understand and adapt to it at first, and they feel nervous and depressed everywhere.
In the words of the troops, it is necessary to complete two changes, the first is the transformation from a young man in society to a new recruit; after the completion of the recruit company, it is necessary to carry out a centralized management and training in the old company, which is called the transformation from a new recruit to a soldier of the company.
The initial discomfort was a haircut, no longer a shaving master, but the veterans took a shave, directly cut us, to the first day of the recruit company, all of them were bald, not to talk about whether it would be, not to talk about skills, to push repeatedly against the scalp, just can't see the hair.
Some veterans don't know how to cut hair, they are completely novices, they use us as experiments, they use shaving incorrectly, they often clip their hair, they are pulled up, and they still push it back and forth, so painful that tears can come out, and they dare not cry out in pain, dare not speak.
Some veterans have experience, not only shave fast but also do not pick up their hair, after going down to the old company, I found that the company is generally their own haircut, there are always a few skillful people to undertake this task, using their spare time to give everyone a haircut, and later I also learned, with a comb, can be particularly smooth.
Another inappropriate is the title, recruits can be called by name, but for veterans, they must be called squad leader, and whenever they see it, they must immediately stand up and shout loudly "Hello squad leader", and it is not okay if the voice is low.
The squad leader of the recruit company has the responsibility of training and educating us, and sometimes he deliberately says that he didn't hear it, and he will not be satisfied until he shouts a few times at the top of his throat.
The requirements of the voice, not only reflected in the salutation, but also reflected in the roll call answer, and the task to answer yes, must be loud, must be high, if you participate in the company roll call, the answer is not loud enough, the roll call is over, the squad leader will generally be severely punished, the way of punishment is often a continuous shouting "to" or "yes".
The recruit company is required to speak Mandarin, and it is not allowed to speak the native dialect, and many children from the countryside have never spoken Mandarin, and they are very blunt at first, but then they slowly get used to it, and some of them are punished for running and stopping.
By the end of the recruit company, he was familiar with the squad leader, and the requirements were not so strict, and some bold and naughty people talked in their hometown dialect, talking and laughing, as if they were communicating with each other, but in fact they were scolding the squad leader, venting and having fun with it.
This kind of thing later sparked a real joke among our fellow villagers, the two went out together, and when they were on a transport, they met a beautiful girl who made fun of her hometown dialect unscrupulously, and when she was about to get out of the car, the girl raised her head and said to them, "You are also from Fengxin?" The two of them were so ashamed that their faces were red.
An important part of housekeeping is environmental hygiene, the company will organize inspections every morning, and then at the roll call every day, as an important content of the commentary, if there is praise for this, the squad leader will feel that there is a light on his face, and some of the criticism will be regarded as a smear to the whole class, and may not be able to rest at night.
Therefore, there is not a single piece of garbage around the barracks, no dust in the windows and glass, and the squad leader often wipes his fingers in the corners, and if there is a little dust, he will clean it again, and at worst he will face all kinds of punishments.
The sheets must be flat, not even a trace of wrinkles, and the quilt should be like a cut out of the tofu block, the surface is flat, the edges are straight, and the corners are at right angles.
In order to fix the quilt, some recruits do not dare to spread too much when they sleep at night, and even spread them directly on their bodies, for fear of destroying the edges and corners and lines.
Once I may have been talking a little louder, affecting the ninth squad leader opposite, making him dissatisfied with me, let me hold the folded quilt, shouting the password to command me to go outside, just after the rain, there is water on the cement road in front of the door, go to the water and shout to put down, the quilt is a little closer to the water, looking at him with begging eyes, hoping that he can shout to stop, at the moment when he just got wet, he finally shouted to stop, not to mention more grievances.
There are such high requirements for tidying up a quilt, and I couldn't understand it at first, but later I learned that this is closely combined with the general requirements of the army's neat and uniform coordination, this is the case for the recruit company, and it is also the case after the company, and it is like this when you are admitted to the military academy to become an officer, as long as you wear this military uniform, the quilt is connected to the tofu block.
The neat and uniform requirements, not only the quilt, but also the placement of items, the bedside satchel, used to put the study notebook, the corners should also be erected, as straight as the quilt surface, and it should be done without stuffing into the cardboard support.
Put the backpack rope and kettle behind the satchel, the rope is uniformly rolled into a circle, the string is wide in the inner and outer band, padd under the kettle, and the shoulder strap on the kettle should be wrapped around the mouth of the kettle, and there can be no scattering.
The tooth jar, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap box, and towel placed in front of the bed are all exquisite, and each has its own order and can not be messed up, the tooth jar is facing outward, the toothbrush is placed in the tooth jar on the left side of the toothpaste diagonally on the right, the toothbrush bristles are facing down, the toothpaste mouth is facing up, and the towel is folded into a square and placed on the soap box.
After going down to the old company, there are more requirements for vegetable fields, each piece of furrow, are straightened by pulling the line, planting vegetable fields are not called vegetable fields, but called whole vegetable fields, and the flat requirements of the corners are higher than the requirements for vegetable survival. The extracurricular activities mentioned during the service in the army were crowded out of the vast majority.
Quilts, satchels, kettles, and tooth tanks, toothbrushes, and towels are all things that must be carried in the backpack, and the placing sequence winding method is to be able to build a backpack in the shortest possible time, and the emergency assembly of the recruit company must be packed.
There are requirements for internal and external exchanges, and the recruits of the recruit company are not allowed to go out alone, either in the line of sight of the squad leader, or in the room, and some parents come to visit, but they can only meet with the company cadres, and they are still not allowed to go out with them, and at most they can talk alone in the barracks.
You can't go out, it's okay to write letters, there are confidentiality requirements, and you won't check unless you suspect that you're confidential. Young people are full of emotions and can't speak to each other, and letters become the only way to express themselves.
The company stipulates that the lights go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening, and during the lunch break and evening time, the veterans can rest in bed or walk around, but we can't, if there is no other activity, we can only sit on a small stool in front of the bed.
You can write letters, you can also memorize political education content or regulations, of course, you can also secretly doze off, and you can't be discovered by veterans.
The content of political education was basically touched in schools before, and most of them were the party's history and military traditions, and the content of the regulations was commonly used, and it took not much time to memorize them, and more time to write letters, pour out feelings and express thoughts.
The time is long, as a practice of calligraphy, as a composition, written very carefully and neatly, describing the mood of lovesickness, not so enough to pass the time, not enough to dispel boredom and loneliness.
Therefore, I was moved by many people, including parents, classmates, relatives and the leaders of the school, who felt the importance of the school to me as a soldier, and specially wrote a letter of thanks to the school.
At that time, Jiangxi TV had a column of "Colorful Bridge", you can order songs, 30 yuan per song, and after asking, several fellow villagers in the same class actually knew, so we privately scraped together enough money and wrote a letter to the host Zhu Yin at the time, and ordered a song called "Mother and Child Love in Two Places", so special to express our thoughts about our parents and relatives in our hometown.
Because the recruits couldn't go out, and we were afraid that the squad leader would embezzle our money, we chose to put the money in an envelope and explained the reason in the letter. After the letter was sent, we all wrote a letter to our families, reminding them to tune in.
The letter was sent smoothly, and the host read the letter we wrote before broadcasting the song, and we wrote in the letter that we will definitely work hard and work hard to repay our relatives with greater achievements.
Our parents and relatives also heard this song and this letter from TV, which made them very moved, and the teachers at the bath school also organized to watch it after learning about it, which became the most profound and meaningful thing in the life of our recruits.
Write a lot of letters, receive a lot of replies, become the greatest happiness, the eldest uncle replied to the letter the deepest impression, there is a great man's famous saying, "with the sky to fight its fun, with the earth to fight its fun, with people to fight its fun", there are many big truths, can read for a long time.
My father's replies were frequent, but the most frequent were Yiyang's youngest cousin, who was studying as a teacher, and my letters were circulated in their class, and almost everyone of his classmates, male and female, wrote to me, making me the most receptive person.
Some recruits are not highly educated and are not good at writing letters, such as Xiaohu, Leng Tou Leng Brain, and I only have a few letters from home, and I want to help him write them.
Sleeping next to me, the relationship is deeper, and there are a lot of jokes. In the most serious case, he took away my liberation shoes and left a pair of slippers, causing me to go out in slippers, and was reprimanded by the squad leader, which caused my comrades to laugh.
I don't know how to write letters, I don't want to memorize the content of the class, I become the most boring one, I often sit alone and smoke cigarettes one by one, there is a veteran in the car company next to him, and the back window is facing the recruit company, and the cigarettes are bought there, the brand is octagonal Hangzhou, two yuan a pack, I don't want money while smoking, and I don't want to smoke while sending it to me, the habit of smoking is formed by him one by one, and it can't be changed for many years.
In order to strengthen the management of internal affairs, each squad of the recruit company will select a deputy squad leader from among the recruits to cooperate with the squad leader to improve the hygienic environment.
Born in the same generation, perhaps his experience is the same as mine, with the moral adherence to growing up under the red flag, as well as the invasion of bad social trends.
After the recruits from other parts of the squad arrived, he organized the first class meeting, which had only one content, that is, to select a deputy squad leader from among the recruits, and the voting method was adopted, and the votes were more elected.
Seeing that he behaved so justly and fairly, we all seriously wrote down the recommended candidates, and the election results were implicitly in line with my efforts, and eight of the nine recruits chose me, and I was the only one who did not choose myself.
However, the election results did not meet the wishes of the squad leader, perhaps because of the "keeping" of the "Walkman", he tried his best to dismiss the public opinion, scrapped the ballots, and let Xiaohu serve as the deputy squad leader, perhaps felt inappropriate, and appointed another loyal and honest person as the deputy squad leader, saying that one was in charge of the queue and one in charge of housekeeping, and I, the one who was elected with a high vote, finally lost the election.
This made me speechless, I can't say disgusted, at that time I just felt that he damaged the image of the PLA soldiers, the recruit company was short-lived, just excessive, had no effect, and did not care too much, did not dare to show it, let alone have a seizure, for fear that he would wear "small shoes" because of this, as if there was nothing at all, he clearly stated that he had no opinions, no ideas, and fully accepted, fully supported, and fully agreed.