Two years ago.

At nine o'clock in the night, in the southwest corner of the sugar factory's staff dormitory building, the north wind poured in through the hole in the window was so cold that Li Mu's hairs stood up. Cursing at the sudden cold air, he reluctantly left the warm bed and found a magazine to block the hole.

Turning back to the bed, the Nokia bricks on the desk called coldly. He rubbed his hands vigorously and took his phone, an unfamiliar number.

"Hey, hello?"

"Is it Li Mu?" a loud middle-aged male voice.

Li Mu frowned, "I am, may I ask who you are?"

"I'm Minister Hong of the Armed Forces Department of the county organ, it's such a thing, you should prepare for it and participate in the physical examination of the Hong Kong garrison tomorrow. Tomorrow morning at half past five at the gate of the county armed forces. Did you write it down?"

"Hello Minister Hong. Li Mu didn't have time to think, and subconsciously asked, "Where can I go for a physical examination?"

"Naval Hospital, don't be late, so be it. ”

"Oh, thank you. ”

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu lost his sleepiness and couldn't feel the cold.

Physical examination of the Hong Kong Garrison?

What's that?

The initial inspection and re-inspection, coupled with the fact that the city conscription leading group came down for random inspection a few days ago, was pulled by the county as a "sample" to draw blood for the third time, which has participated in three physical examinations, and still needs a physical examination?

Is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Hong Kong Garrison also special?

What's more, Li Mu trembled and got into the bed.

I couldn't think of a reason, and a cold wind came in.

He looked out the window and wondered when the magazine had been blown aside, and the palm-sized hole was revealed. Li Mu reluctantly got up again, cursed in a low voice, found a few textbooks, and blocked the place tightly, and then climbed into bed trembling again.

Pillowed his arm and thought for a while, picked up his mobile phone and called Zhang Haichao.

"Haichao, have you slept?"

After finishing speaking, I heard the sound of shaking dice on the other end of the phone, and then I remembered that Zhang Haichao said that he would go to get together with a few friends and drink some wine in the evening, saying that he would have no chance if he left as a soldier. Li Mu was not happy, so he didn't go.

"Brother Mu," Zhang Haichao spoke with a big tongue, "Are you out? Come here, I'm going to miss you." ”

"If you don't go, you won't go, and if you don't go, you won't go. Li Mu said impatiently, "Let me ask you something, are you sober now?"

"What's the matter?"

"I just received a call from Minister Hong, who is it? Minister Hong, the Humpty Dumpty man who is in charge of the recruitment of troops in the enterprise units directly under us! I-! You can't drink less? What kind of wine do you learn to spell with your little drink? What did he say? Oh, you made me so angry that I almost forgot to get down to business. That's what happened, he asked me to go to the Hong Kong Garrison tomorrow for a physical examination. I said, 'What's going on?'

On the other end of the phone, Zhang Haichao was stunned for a moment, half of his wine was sober, and he found a quiet place.

"Brother Mu, this is a good thing, you don't know it, right?"

"What do I know, where do I know where to go, I just don't want the second elder in the family to say this and sigh, so that they can die of this heart. I don't want to be a soldier at all, you know that. ”

Zhang Haichao was silent, and comforted insincerely: "It's good to be a soldier, besides, Brother Mu, what can you do if you don't go to be a soldier?"

Li Mu was silent.

"Brother Mu, if you are chosen, can you still go?"

"I'll go! I can't go to you in this situation! Hey, I said Zhang Haichao, are you making small moves behind my back? You kid dare! I can't spare you!"

"No, no, no, I didn't! Really, I didn't. You've warned me again and again, do you think I'm still daring? Really, really not!"

"It's good if you don't have it. Alas, if God didn't open his eyes and let me be selected, I would have nothing to say. By the way, tell me what happened to the Hong Kong garrison, so that your kid almost forgot about it!"

"That's right, this year our county has 15 places for the troops stationed in Hong Kong. Hey, I'm fighting for those fifty qualifications. However, the requirements of this Hong Kong garrison are particularly strict, no, no, it is not quite the same as the requirements of special forces. Listen to me tell you what the requirements are, a height of more than 1.72 meters, good facial features, and being able to speak English and Cantonese are preferred. Just these three points, everything else is the same. And this meter 72 is a hard requirement, this alone has brushed off more than half of the people, for example, I am 1.7 meters and hang zero, no matter how my Lao Tzu moves, it just can't work. You're fine, you didn't do anything, and the call notification arrived. ”

"Hmm......" Li Mu muttered, "I heard something meaningful." It's strange that these facial features are upright, and the conscription is not a draft, so what's the point?"

"Brother Mu, you don't know about this. What kind of unit is the Hong Kong Garrison?"

"He is the army stationed in Japan, and he is also a soldier, you hurry up and say, don't hang Lao Tzu's appetite!"

"Don't worry, the place where the Hong Kong Garrison stays is Hong Kong, and that place is the window of the world, and if you don't have a good figure in the past, won't it seem that I Chinese no one in the People's Liberation Army? According to my understanding, having good facial features means being handsome, and as for those who can speak English and Cantonese, it is better to understand that Hong Kong has been ruled by the British, and it is under the crotch of Cantonese that most of the people who speak English and Cantonese...... Hey, I said Brother Mu, how did I find out that you are so good?"

"It's useless to talk less, Lao Tzu has always been very good!" Li Mu was not ashamed, "I said Hai Chao, why does your kid sound sour when he speaks? Why, you really want to go to the Hong Kong Garrison? Let you Lao Tzu operate it, I will give you a quota." ”

"Alas, in fact, I still want to be a special soldier, but the old man of our family said that my body is very good...... The Hong Kong Garrison is also good, with double allowances, and it is very simple to come back for two years and mix up as a civil servant or something. But there's no way, people's requests are there, and it's useless to operate. It's you, Brother Mu, seriously, the Hong Kong Garrison is a good place to go, you are going to be selected, remember to put a few Hong Kong girls on paper, so that my brother and I can open my eyes. ”

"Take your sister, how can you think about something useless. It is not uncommon for the troops stationed in Hong Kong and the troops stationed in Japan to go!"

"Don't, brother, this is a good opportunity, you said that you want to go, uncle and aunt may be so happy. Don't you just want them to worry less!"

Li Mu was silent for a long time and said, "Hmph, let's go, it's probably not that simple." Needless to say, I slept, and the ghost weather was so cold. ”

"Okay, you sleep, by the way, don't forget to have a bright sky belly, don't let you eat according to the ultrasound......"

Li Mu took the phone away, and Zhang Haichao's voice was still coming.

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu slammed his head on the pillow and stared at the top of the mosquito net. A little spider was crawling around and crawling around......

"Awake?"

Li Mu slowly opened his eyes and saw Zhao Yiyun sitting on the edge of his bed, smoking a cigarette, "Let's go, the first batch of veterans is leaving." ”

Hurriedly got up, Li Mu shook his head, the focus of his eyes had not yet fully recovered, and he suddenly smiled strangely at the corner of his mouth.

"Are you alright?" asked Zhao Yiyun.

"It's okay, I just had a dream and remembered what happened before I was a soldier. Li Mu stood up and walked out.

Zhao Yiyun got up and followed Li Mu out, saying, "That's not a dream, it's a real thing." ”