Chapter Fifty-Four: Life Stops, Fighting Continues

There is an old Chinese saying that "the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change", which refers to those who are extremely vicious, no matter how many years have passed, the essence of the bad people will never change. However, Hong Bing's performance made my understanding of this sentence more and more confused.

"Wantian, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, your performance in the special operations selection is obvious to everyone, unfortunately out of the game, you don't have too many ideas, you must not be arrogant in victory, not discouraged in defeat, I will truthfully report the situation to the division leaders" When Hong Bing said this, his mouth was full of flattery, I really couldn't imagine that he was a nobody, what was worthy of him as a powerful cadre.

"Thank you, Hong Shen," I said politely, and I had to be vigilant against this guy who seemed to be friend or foe.

"Hehe, it should be, it should be" Hong Shen smiled wryly, then turned his head to look out the car window.

Almost all the people in the car stuck their heads out of the window, some of the soldiers with lively personalities had already whistled, and on the cement road outside the division headquarters, troop carriers full of soldiers roared past, rolling up the dust, and the double flashing lights of all colors dazzled people, looking from afar, as if they were a long blue-green dragon that could not be seen at a glance.

The driver of our car hurriedly parked the car on the side of the road, and the people in the car rushed down, such a large-scale operation, since I joined the army, I have seen it twice, once on the day of the memorial service for the captain and Meng Feng, and the other time when Yan Song was arrested, this is the third time, and it must be another earth-shattering mission.

"Lao Zhang, look at the third division of the people, how majestic, isn't your kid also a soldier, is he like them/" A middle-aged worker in a navy blue overalls happily teased the workers around him.

The ridiculed worker put his hand on the helmet buckled above his head, leisurely lit a cigarette, and threw one to the person next to him.

"Lao Li, don't just look at the majesty of others, you don't see it when you endure hardship, sweat on sunny days, mud on rainy days, I don't know how many kilometers of road you have to run a day, on your waist, on your back, more tired than the work of our brick factory, how can my boy endure this hardship, when he joined the army, he said that as long as he is not in the third division, any other army can do, I also hate iron and steel, by the way, what happened to your boy?" The worker wearing a hard hat suddenly became interested, and even forgot to smoke the cigarette in his mouth.

"My kid doesn't know what to think, after this year's college entrance examination, he refuses to go to college, with my son's grades, it is more than enough to go to a three-class undergraduate, but the child says that he doesn't go to school, all blame our family conditions are not good, the wife suffers from rheumatism all the year round, almost never cut off the medicine all year round, I don't have any ability, I don't have any skills, I don't have a day in the brick factory, I suffer the child, and then I went to be a soldier, and I was in this third division, maybe I was lucky enough to see him" The man in overalls had an expectant look on his face, and the soldiers in the car were all wearing camouflage uniforms and bulletproof steel helmets, and it was too difficult to find his son among the thousands of people.

"Oh, Lao Li, this is what you don't mean enough, why don't you say a word to us old guys when your son is such a big thing as being a soldier, don't you look down on us old workers?"

"No, no, everyone is a poor worker, it's too wasteful to set up a banquet or something, and it's not a big deal to be a soldier, it's almost the same as working outside, but it's stronger than a part-time job, eat the country, use the country, and the wife has saved almost the same instinct in a few years, and when my son gets married, I will definitely notify you" Lao Li's face was covered with laugh lines, and it could be seen that he was very satisfied with his son's future.

"Hehe, it must be" Lao Zhang Meizi took a puff of his cigarette, and then remembered his son who was a soldier in the field. He doesn't envy Lao Li's son, whether it's a hero or a bear, as long as his son is safe and sound, save some money and come back to marry her a beautiful daughter-in-law, and then add a white and chubby grandson, it would be great.

I listened carefully to the conversation between the two workers, and the comrades-in-arms next to me were also in deep thought, some of them abandoned the competition in the selection of the Yunnan Sea Pass, and then could not get out of the shadow of cowardice, deserter, is a word that makes people ashamed, from the moment they abandoned the competition, they imposed a shameful identity on themselves - deserters. The dialogue between the two migrant workers seems to provide them with a bubble to support their souls, so that they will not completely sink into the cold Yunnan Sea. We live not only for ourselves, but also for our own parents, they don't need a dead martyr, they just need a living son. Thinking of this, I can't help but feel sad for the few loyal bones buried under the martyr's monument.

"Hey, stupid?" a rough voice interrupted my musings, and there was more than a thousand pounds of pressure on my shoulders, and I couldn't help but roll my eyes, except for the reckless man of the Iron Tower, I really couldn't think of anyone more rude than him, at this time, he was cracking his mouth and laughing, as if it was a very interesting thing to watch me eat deflated.

"Is this going to war?" I pointed to the heavily armed soldiers in the car, compared to those people, the two people behind the tower were as shabby as two beggars. Chen Xiaolong and Xiaojie each held a plastic fake gun in their hands, posing as if they were in trouble, after seeing me see through it, Chen Xiaolong's old face turned red, and he made a careful gesture to me, "Shhh, get in the car and talk about it", and looked at me nervously.

Tie Ta said something in front of Hong Bing, Hong Bing turned his head to look at me, and immediately squeezed out an ugly smile on his face, and after a while, Tie Ta ran over, and kept muttering, "Hong Bing, this kid has changed his sex?

"He's transgender or not" Xiaojie spoke more and more gentlemanly, and I doubted that I had really called him a.

The tower smiled noncommittally, beckoning us to climb to the last car, this car was very spacious, the carriage was empty, Chen Xiaolong and Xiaojie, like thieves, cats were in the carriage, my arrival made the cold carriage a little more life.

"Why is it just the two of you?" I asked, surprised.

"For such an important task, do the recruit companies have the qualifications to participate? Xiaojie and I don't know how much effort we have wasted, so to say that we finally got the consent of the iron tower, in order not to arouse the suspicion of others, we specially carried out camouflage" Chen Xiaolong finished speaking, pointing to the red epaulettes on his shoulders, obliquely on two crutches, senior soldiers, and the plastic fake gun in his hand is difficult to distinguish if it is far away. Wang Xiaojie after the last battle, completely detonated the combat factor hidden in the body, the whole person began to be keen on fighting and fighting, if according to his original life trajectory, the recruit company will be assigned to the division health team after the end, to be a clean health officer, but everything has changed in the last battle, his goal now is to be a soldier, a real warrior, the kind that can fight with the enemy with real swords and guns, this time, he is determined to go to the front line to see. Iron Tower himself was a radical, and he was naturally very pleased with a fighter like him who had "big ambitions", and he agreed to their request as soon as his head was hot.

"You have to wear these too, if others ask, just say that it is the special training squad leader of the recruit company, and follow the platoon commander to carry out the task" Chen Xiaolong finished speaking, and threw over a pair of epaulettes that were exactly the same as those on his shoulders, I couldn't help but feel a little excited in my heart, these two guys can really cause trouble, but it's too exciting, perhaps, this is the life I want, life is not stopped, and the battle is endless、、、、、、、