Chapter 20 Hedong and Hexi
Fate was so dramatic, but Qiao Nianchao didn't understand this feeling of going from hell to heaven. He felt that things were a little incredible, when he fed the pigs, he was not utilitarian at all, he just wanted to end the process of being a soldier perfectly, he didn't care about being told by others that he had been a soldier for three years and had been feeding pigs for three years. He doesn't feel that feeding pigs is inferior to others. This dramatic result really came as a surprise to him, and he could only deal with it with calm.
Before reporting to the Army Academy, he went home once, which was the first time he had returned home in more than two years since he had been away from the military compound. Everything is so familiar, it's just that people are changing. When his father saw him, he looked at him for a long time and did not speak, and he saw a layer of tears in his father's eyes. During the meal, my father made an exception and took out a bottle of Moutai. What surprised him even more was that his father, who was the deputy chief of staff of the military region, poured him a glass, and his hand holding the cup was a little shaky.
Father commanded: it.
And he dried, and the strong wine rolled into his stomach.
The father said, "Son, you are an adult." His father filled him with another glass. Qiao Nianchao knew that his father was happy, for his performance in the army.
The father said, "Remember, whatever you do in the future, don't forget that you are the son of Old Joe." Your dad has never done anything embarrassing, and you won't allow it in the future.
My father dried the glass of wine again. He also followed his father's example and drank the wine in his glass. The father stopped talking, and soon finished eating, put down his chopsticks, and went about his own business. Qiao Nianchao hadn't fully understood his father's words at that time, but he had already felt the weight on his shoulders. He didn't know that on the road of life in the future, he would pay a lot for his father's words.
Fang Wei also went home at the same time, and she and Qiao Nianchao met at the door of the military auditorium. A movie was being shown in the auditorium of the military region that day, and Qiao Nianchao wanted to go to the movie when he was idle, but he didn't expect to meet Fang Wei here. He hadn't seen her since that time, and had forgotten about her. It was impossible to forget it, and he could feel the humiliation all the time. When he thought of that humiliation, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Fang Wei didn't seem to realize all this, and when he saw him, it was as if nothing had happened, and exclaimed: Qiao Nianchao, are you back too?
He replied lightly: I'm back.
She said: You know, I was admitted to nursing school, and I heard that you were sent to the Army Academy by the division?
He said: I'm a pig feeder, isn't it the same if I don't go to school?
Fang Wei's face flushed slightly, and said coquettishly: "Are you still angry with me, wasn't I joking with you before?"
He stopped talking, and there was nothing more to say.
She said: The movie is about to start, let's go in.
He said, "I don't want to see it." After saying that, he turned around and left.
She called out to him from behind, and he walked towards the house as if he hadn't heard.
Qiao Nianchao knew that more than two years of army life had allowed him to see through some things and understand some things. For example, he and Fang Wei, and everything they used to have, everything was over, and he realized that he and Fang Wei were not the same kind of people, and they had different aspirations but did not agree, so there was no need to recount any old fate. That fate is long gone. Since then, he and Fang Wei have really broken off contact.
At the beginning of September, he came to the Army Command College and began a three-year study and life in the military academy.
One day, Qiao Nianchao was reading a book in the library, and a female student sat boldly opposite him, he only glanced at her with his eyes, and found that it was a very beautiful girl, so he buried his head in reading again.
The girl stretched out a jade hand and covered the book he was reading, and he saw one of her hands first, white, clean, and round, and he looked up at the hand, and the girl was smiling.
He was stunned, thinking that the girl in front of him was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
The girl said: You have been a soldier for two years and you are stupid, you don't even know me?
He stared at her blankly, unable to remember where he had seen her.
She said, "I'm Ma Fela, Ma Quan's sister."
Now he remembered that Ma Feila was the girl with a ponytail, Ma Quan's sister, who went to the same school as them, three years lower than them. He and Ma Quan were enlisted in a group, and after the recruit company ended, Ma Quan was assigned to another regiment. When he left the army, he heard that Ma Quan was the squad leader. He talked to Ma Quan on the phone once, and scolded for a while.
His eyes widened and he said, "Mafira, you are here too?"
She said: I graduated from high school this year and was admitted to the military academy to study communications.
Not long after the resumption of the college entrance examination, military academies and academies have not yet recruited students in large quantities in the society, but have only tentatively recruited some children of military units.
He said, "I didn't expect you to be so old."
She said: Don't look at people through the crack in the door, aren't you older than me, and you think you are amazing.
She spoke so loudly that many of the students looked at them, and he made a shushing gesture at her, and the two of them slipped out of the library and outside.
He said, "Why did you come here to go to school?"
She said, "Why, if you come, you won't let me come?"
He said, "No, I didn't mean that."
She said, "I heard that you were going to go to school here, so I came."
He smiled and said, "Be serious, what does it have to do with you that I came to school?"
She said seriously: Of course it matters.
He grimaced at her, lit a cigarette and said, "Is there any news from your brother recently?"
She said: The ghost believed his words, he wrote a letter one moment saying that he was going to join the party, and another time he said that he was going to be promoted, but he still hasn't fulfilled it.
And he laughed at Mephilah. Ma Quan is a person he understands, everything is a great success, and he says the impossible as if it were true.
She snatched the cigarette from his hand, and he thought she didn't like him to smoke and was going to throw it away. Unexpectedly, after she took his cigarette, she actually put it in her mouth, and as soon as she took a puff, she choked on snot and tears.
He hurriedly snatched the flue: how can a girl smoke. Don't forget, you're a soldier now.
She coughed and said: What's wrong with smoking, if you male soldiers smoke, don't allow female soldiers to smoke?
Qiao Nianchao remembered the nickname of Ma Feila at this time, her nickname was "Little Pepper", she was unforgiving, and she was competitive like a boy. When she was a child, their eldest child secretly drilled into a bomb shelter to prevent her from going, and she was not allowed to go. Later, the boy got in, and she got in, but she couldn't get out and got lost. The fighters of the guard company were mobilized, and she was finally found. In this way, she and the boy shouted reluctantly that they would call her next time they played.
At that time, Little Pepper was very thin, her hair was very short, and she was about the same as a boy, but now it is different, she is really a female college eighteen, she is already a plump and round girl.
He said, "I really didn't expect to meet you here."
She said: There are many things that I didn't expect, and you will know everything in the future.
He said, "Why are you still the same as before, nothing has changed?"
She laughed and said: If it changes, it won't be me.
He said, "But I didn't recognize you at a glance."
She suddenly twisted his ear and said, "You damn it, it seems that you have forgotten about me a long time ago."
The reason why Ma Feila was admitted to the army school was really because of Qiao Nianchao. She has liked Qiao Nianchao since she was a child, and in order to get Qiao Nianchao's attention to herself, she ran like a boy with Qiao Nianchao and these boys. When she felt this way, she was still in junior high school, and Qiao Nianchao had already graduated and went to the army. At that time, she secretly decided that when she graduated from high school, she would also go to the army and go to Qiao Nianchao.
There were many times when she silently followed Qiao Nianchao, and later she found out that Qiao Nianchao and Fang Wei were in love, they hid in the tunnel to kiss and hug, and she saw them all. She was very sad at that time. Later, she watched Qiao Nianchao and Fang Wei leave on the train to pull the recruits. At that time, she swore that she would definitely take Qiao Nianchao back from Fang Wei. A girl's vows of love have been buried in her heart for many years. Later, she began to pay attention to the news about Qiao Nianchao, first she heard that Qiao Nianchao had fed the pigs, and then she heard that Qiao Nianchao had received an award for meritorious service, and then he was going to go to school at the Army Academy, which was before she graduated. She resolutely applied for the communications major of the Army Academy, because only this major recruited female soldiers, and she was admitted. It was to come to Qiao Nianchao's side that she went to the Army Academy.
Of course, Qiao Nianchao didn't know anything about all this, and he still regarded Ma Feila as a child who hadn't grown up as before, and he didn't take her words seriously. At such a time, it is impossible to take her words seriously. There is a Maphila school in the army, three years of study life, will be lively and pleasant.