When Qiao Nianchao learned that Fang Wei's mother did not agree with her joining the army, there were only two days left before the registration deadline. At the entrance of the neighborhood committee of the military compound, a big red piece of paper was posted, on which the name of every young man of school age who signed up was honorably written. Qiao Nianchao was the first to report the name, his father Qiao, deputy chief of staff, did not encourage, of course, he would not stop him, three of his four children were already in the army, Nian Liao, Nian Ping, and Nian Huai were already glorious PLA soldiers. They both naturally joined the army after graduating from high school, and their father felt that all this was taken for granted, and there was nothing to make a fuss about. When it was Nianchao's turn, everything went naturally, just like their mother gave birth to them, when Nianchao was born, Deputy Chief of Staff Qiao was still working in the office building, and when he got home from work, his mother had returned home from the clinic after giving birth to Nianchao. When he entered the house, he poked his head into the bed and asked, "Raw?" Mother nodded. He asked, "Is it a boy?" Boy! Mother replied. It's as simple as that, and everything falls into place. Qiao Nianchao graduated from high school, and in his father's concept, he was the material to be a soldier, and he left when he said he would, no different from the first three children.

When Qiao Nianchao learned that Fang Wei's mother did not allow her to join the army, his eyes widened in surprise, he didn't expect that someone would stop Fang Wei from joining the army.

Fang Wei had no idea at all at this time, she could only wipe her tears in front of Nian Chao. As soon as Qiao Nianchao saw Fang Wei's tears, his heart was in turmoil. He loves Fang Wei and likes her, his original intention was to join the army with her, the two of them were in the same army, and then they were promoted together. Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a problem on Fang Wei's side.

He said, "If your mother won't let you go, won't you go?"

She said: My mother won't give me the household registration book, what can I do?

He said, "You won't steal the household registration book?"

She said: The household registration book is on my mother, how do you say I stole it?

Qiao Nianchao stopped talking, he began to think like Zhang Weiping, he secretly bought a box of cigarettes at the military service club in the past two days, and smoked like Zhang Weiping when no one was around. At the beginning, he choked his snot and tears, but he still insisted, especially smoking as dashing as Zhang Weiping, which Qiao Nianchao envied from the bottom of his heart. At this time, he was already familiar with smoking, holding a cigarette in his right hand, and waving it so chicly, he did not look like smoking, but like a commander doing pre-war mobilization.

When the cigarette was halfway burned, he stopped thinking, threw the cigarette on the ground very decisively, stepped on it again, and then said: I will help you steal the household registration book.

Fang Wei's eyes widened in surprise and said, "How did you steal it?"

Qiao Nianchao put his mouth on Fang Wei's ear and said for a while, causing Fang Wei's eyes to light up. Fang Wei happily went home to prepare. She first found the key to the lock of her house's authentic door, put it in her pocket, and began to look forward to the arrival of the night.

In the middle of the night, Fang Wei slipped out of his room and sat on the sofa in the living room waiting for Qiao Nianchao. Sure enough, after a while, there was a regular knocking sound at the tunnel entrance, and Fang Wei couldn't wait to walk over and open the lock on the tunnel entrance. Qiao Nianchao came out, neither of them spoke, and Fang Wei pointed to his mother's room with his finger. The mother had slept in a separate bed with the father, and the father had a problem with snoring, and the mother couldn't stand it anymore and separated.

Fang Wei's mother had just fallen asleep at this time, and her faux leather handbag was on the bedside table. By the moonlight outside the window, Qiao Nianchao quickly took Fang Wei's mother's handbag in his hand, and the next thing was to take the household registration book outside. The household registration book was in hand, but when she put it back in the handbag, she still woke up Fang Wei's mother. For a moment, she froze, thinking she was dreaming.

Qiao Nianchao reacted first, and ran into the tunnel at once. Qiao Nian ran away, Fang Wei's mother came to her senses, and she exclaimed: Oh no, Lao Fang, there are thieves in our family!

By the time Minister Fang came over, Qiao Nianchao had already run away. It was Minister Fang who calmed down first and hurriedly ran to call the Ministry of Security. After a while, the security department came, first checked the front and back of the house, found no abnormality, and checked the contents of Fang Wei's mother's handbag. Fang Wei's mother, who was frightened, only forgot that the household registration book was missing. After a false alarm, the security department took pictures again, and left the sentries to stand guard, etc., and it took most of the night to quiet down. In the process, Fang Wei had already relocked the lock on the tunnel and slipped back to his room to sleep.

The next day, Qiao Nianchao and Fang Wei appeared at the recruitment office of the neighborhood committee, and when Fang Wei signed up, the people from the neighborhood committee also asked: I heard that there are thieves in your house? What have you lost?

Fang Wei glanced at Qiao Nianchao, wanted to laugh and held back, then replied: It's nothing, my mother is in a daze.

Fang Wei registered very smoothly, and the two of them laughed after walking out of the door of the neighborhood committee.

That night, Fang Wei secretly put the household registration book back in his mother's handbag. The next thing went very smoothly, physical examination, political examination and so on. In fact, political trials, physical examinations, and so on, are all going through the motions. There is an unwritten rule when recruiting children in military compounds, as many as they want, and they should be soldiers of their own military region, and their own children should be taken care of when they become soldiers.

When the enlistment notice was sent, Fang Wei's mother found out. She immediately became angry, smashed the dishes and bowls, and didn't cook the meal, so she pointed at Fang Wei's nose and reprimanded: You are a little conscienceless, your brothers and sisters are not by our side, I wanted to refer to you for the elderly, you are good, and you also want to run? But don't think about it, as long as I have a breath, you don't want to be a soldier.

Fang Wei looked at her mother helplessly.

Her mother has been a soldier, fought a war, carried a dead person on the battlefield, she is not afraid of anything, she is the dean of the local area, and the whole hospital is afraid of her, she is as hot as a man. It's the same at home, she is in charge of everything, and she has the final say on what she eats and doesn't eat from a small point of view. Minister Fang, who is white and chubby, ignores the affairs of the family, and always looks cute every day, in his eyes, nothing is a matter, and everything is easy to say. Judging by his temper and appearance, he doesn't look like a soldier at all, let alone a soldier who has fought in a war. On the Korean battlefield, he was in charge of logistics, and in order to send supplies to the front line, he led his men to brave the bombing of enemy planes, rushed through the four blockade lines, and went to the forefront of the position. At a critical moment in a battle, the people on the position were exhausted, and he led the logistics personnel to the position, and the company held out for more than 30 hours until the large army launched a counteroffensive. When there is a war, Minister Fang is a different way, and when he is not fighting, he is like this.

Her mother resolutely disagreed with Fang Wei to become a soldier, and she wanted to send Fang Wei's enlistment notice back to the Ministry of Armed Forces. She did what she said, and she really had to go to the Ministry of Armed Forces with the notice, and her shoes were all on. Just as she was halfway through the door, Minister Fang spoke, and he only said one sentence: Enough!

The voice was not loud, like a lament, and the mother stood there, and she looked at Minister Fang with some surprise.

Minister Fang said to his daughter: Are you really willing to be a soldier?

Fang Wei is not interested in whether to be a soldier, many people become soldiers because they don't know about the army, and they go to the mystery of the army. She has lived in the army compound since she was a child, and the army has long been unattractive to her. She made up her mind to become a soldier, entirely because Qiao Nianchao also wanted to be a soldier, and Nianchao was her lover. In her eighteen-year-old emotion, this is her first love, and it is also the most important part of her life, she can't let go of this emotion at this time, no matter how far she goes, she has to follow. When her father asked her this, she nodded at him firmly.

Minister Fang only then set his eyes on his mother, and his gaze suddenly revealed a kind of majesty. He said unhurriedly: There is nothing wrong with the child wanting to join the army. You have to return the enlistment notice to the family, where is your consciousness? Don't forget, you've been a soldier and you've been born and died.

When Minister Fang said this, he no longer looked at his mother, but looked out the window. The leaves outside the window had already begun to fall, and at this time, a few leaves were falling in Minister Fang's sight.

Mother stopped there, not knowing what to do for a while. She glanced at the notice, and then at Fang Wei who was wiping tears on the side.

Minister Fang said again: If you go to return the notice, what will people think of you? I see that you have been working in the local area for so many years, and your consciousness has been lost.

The mother slammed the enlistment notice to the ground and locked herself in her room crying.

Minister Fang picked up the enlistment notice from the ground, dusted off the dust on it with his hand, and said to his daughter: Take it, go to the army, it's not a big deal.

Fang Wei took the notice and glanced at his father gratefully.

The mother said in the house, "Go, you all go, even if I die of old age, I don't need you to take care of me."

The mother's mood is understandable, the other children are not around, she wants to keep Fang Wei by her side, which is not wrong in itself.

Fang Wei said to his father with tears in his eyes: I will come back after three years of soldiering.

My father waved his hand and said, "Don't listen to your mother, we're still far from old age." You can work in the army as long as you want.

Two days later, a military vehicle pulled the recruits away.

Fang Wei's mother did not come to see Fang Wei, and few parents of the children in these compounds came to send them. Some sent secretaries or guards to help carry the luggage. They giggled and said goodbye, and the troops were like their own home to them, nothing more than moving from here to there.

Finally, Minister Fang appeared, and he came to visit these new fighters who were about to set off on behalf of the head of the military district. He said a few words on the platform of the train station, and the team boarded.

Minister Fang found Fang Wei in a car window, and she was sitting with Qiao Nianchao at that time. Minister Fang beckoned to his daughter and said, "Come to the army to write a letter."

Fang Wei nodded at his father.

At this time, a cadre came over, saluted Minister Fang in the car, and waved his hand: Please rest assured, please rest assured.

Minister Fang waved at the recruits again, turned around and left.

The young cadre withdrew his gaze from Minister Fang's figure, smiled at Fang Wei and said, "You are the chief's daughter?"

Fang Wei didn't nod or shake his head.

The young cadre introduced himself and said: My name is Liu Shuanglin, and I am your recruit platoon commander. After speaking, he stretched out a hand, Fang Wei didn't stretch out his hand, but that hand was held by Qiao Nianchao. Qiao Nianchao took out a box of "Yingchun" brand cigarettes and said: Comrade platoon commander, please smoke. When Qiao Nianchao did all this, he looked old and chic.