Chapter III
The sea entered the troops with a tragic and desolate mood. The moment he said goodbye to his parents was full of ambition, he stepped into the military column, and he didn't even look back once, and at this moment his heart hated to fly to Xinjiang immediately, where after the quenching of life, he immediately became a good piece of steel. At that time, Hai already knew theoretically what it was like to live to be a writer.
There is always a gap between the ideal and the reality, and when the sea group of soldiers stepped off the train and faced the vast Gobi Desert, the sea was dumbfounded. He had had countless fantasies about Xinjiang before, and he thought more about the grapes and beautiful girls in Xinjiang, as well as the people singing and dancing, and even the white snow-capped mountains and herds of cattle and sheep in Xinjiang. Hai's previous understanding of Xinjiang was limited to books, and when he was young, he even wanted to marry a Xinjiang girl for a while. When the sea faced the vast Gobi Desert, he realized that his ideal Xinjiang was different from the actual Xinjiang. Their recruits were at the foot of a lonely mountain, which was a lonely mountain in the true sense of the word, and there was no shop in front of the village or behind it. It is said that there is no grass or trees in the mountains, and it should be more accurately called a huge dune bun. As long as there is wind, the surrounding wind and sand will cover the sky and the sun.
The recruits lived in a large bunk, and more than a dozen or twenty people lived in a large bed. The content of the recruit company is the same: drilling, running, standing in line, assembling, marching in unison, and stepping forward. In other words, in the short period of three months of the recruit company, the student soldiers of Hai will become soldiers in the true sense of the word. The training was monotonous and brutal. On the vast Gobi Desert, the monotonous but powerful slogans and footsteps of the sea were left.
Whenever Hai stood in the queue, repeating this monotonous military action, he always wanted to cry, want to shout, want to scream. At that time, his mood was very complicated, and he could not vent his suppressed youthful restlessness on the vast Gobi Desert.
When Hai stood guard late one night, he finally shed tears. He came out of the hot quilt and stood on the Gobi Desert with a steel gun without bullets on his back, the sky was a crescent moon, and the crescent moon was accompanied by a sky full of stars, and the scenery of the sky was rare in the mainland. When the wind blew, Hai stood there, his mind very active, and at this moment, he thought of his father, his mother, and his sister Jing. Lin also thought about it, but it was not unforgettable. Lin left home when he was very young, and Hai had become accustomed to the days when Lin was not around.
In the middle of the night in the Gobi Desert, the sea from parents, all the way to their room. There was a bed, a table, and in retrospect, it was so intimate and unforgettable. Thinking about it, the sea burst into tears. When tears blurred his vision, he suddenly squatted down, and he shouted at the vast Gobi Desert: Dad, Mom, sister, I miss you!
His shouts were absorbed by the Gobi Desert, leaving only a wisp of echo. His shout was so weak, Hai knelt down, the steel gun was in his arms, at this moment, he seemed so lonely, and then tore his throat and shouted: When will my Shi Hai get out of the head!
At this time, he had forgotten the idea of breaking thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, and becoming a writer. That night, Haijiao took up his post and hid in the water room to write a letter to his mother. The content of the letter was full of longing and loneliness, and of course he also wrote the desolation of the Gobi Desert into the letter, and at the end of the letter, he said to his mother with a thousand calls: Mom, help me, I can't stay here for a day.
His idea is exactly the same as Lin's original idea, but the difference is that this happened more than ten years later. When the mother received the letter, she couldn't stand it again, no matter where the child went, it was the flesh of the mother's heart, and her fingers were connected to her heart. This time, the mother did not carry her father behind her back, but found her father with the letter in tears. As soon as the father saw the mother's appearance, he understood everything.
Father snorted: What? Your son complained again, he can't stand it anymore, and he wants to be transferred back?
This time, the mother said in a very low voice: Lao Shi, the sea is different from the forest, I look at his letter, the child really can't stand it.
The father didn't say anything, took the letter from the sea, naturally did not forget to put on reading glasses, and patiently read the letter from the sea. After reading the letter, my father did not say anything, but looked at the map of the country on the wall for a long time, staring at the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Mother was standing behind my father, looking at the map. She seemed to be looking through the map, watching the sea suffer on the Gobi Desert.
After a long time, my father turned his head and asked my mother one by one: Do you think that if I don't agree to let him be transferred back, will he hate me for so many years like Lin?
Mother said: The forest is the forest, and the sea is the sea. I'm not afraid that he will hate you, but I am afraid that he will go crazy.
When the father heard this, he took off his hat and slammed it on the table. Father looked up to the sky and sighed, and said helplessly: Why did my old stone raise such a bad seed!
My father knew that the sea was different from Lin, the sea was feminine from childhood to adulthood, shedding tears and crying at every turn, which became a great magic weapon of the sea. In the past, my father always hated the iron and carried the ears of the sea and said: You "seedling" is made of water! At that time, my father thought, why are the three children different, in Lin Hejing's body, my father saw my own shadow, and in Hai's body, my father saw more of my mother's shadow. The father even suspected that Hai was not his own child at all.
Thinking of this, my father turned back to my mother and said angrily: This unfortunate thing was born by you, what do you say?
As my father grew older, he seemed to have seen through some things, and after his retirement, he was not as arbitrary as before, and this time he kicked the difficult ball of the sea to his mother again. The mother looked at the father and tried to say: Why don't you bring the sea back? Just stay close to home.
Father finally couldn't help it, patted the table and said: Tune the tune, you know the tune, I think the sea is the end of my life.
Hearing my father say this, my mother wept, she really missed the sea, and the old mother, like all mothers, hated to protect all her children under her wings, like an eagle snatching a chicken.
My father didn't think about how to solve the problem of the sea. It's not accurate to say that he didn't think about it, but his father was expecting a miracle to happen, maybe a few months later, Haihui suddenly received a letter saying that he had fallen in love with the Gobi and never wanted to leave again. A father's thoughts are always fathers' thoughts, and there is always a gap between reality and father's thoughts.
Something happened on the other side of the sea.
After the recruit company ended, Hai was assigned to a border post along with several recruits. This group of soldiers was a border guard, and after the company of recruits was completed, they were all assigned to the outposts without exception.
A truck carrying their group of recruits drove to the border, and when they passed a post, the company commander took out the list and read out the names of several recruits, and the recruits got out of the car. All the way down, there were fewer and fewer recruits in the car. In the end, only the sea was left.
The truck had been wandering around the border line for two days, and the more it went, the more desolate the scenery became, sometimes for several hours without a human habit, and occasionally only wild rabbits running through the barren grass by the roadside.
Hai was really scared, he couldn't see the future. The more desolate the scenery, the more nervous he became, and when the car turned at a mountain pass, the sea finally couldn't help it and jumped out of the car with a scream. As a result, he broke his left leg in a fall. Hai finally got his wish, he did not go to the outpost, but was admitted to the hospital of the border regiment. As soon as the recruit company ended, something like this happened in the sea, and it was also a big deal for the border regiment. In any case, Hai's behavior has unmistakably told people that he is a deserter. So the problem of the sea was reported level after level.
At noon that day, my mother had a dream while taking a nap that she was climbing a mountain, which was very high, and finally she fell off the mountain. She woke up from her dream with a scream.
My father woke up and was listening to the radio, and my mother's screaming made my father tremble, and when he saw his mother dreaming, he said, "What are you doing, you are shocked, what's wrong?"
The mother caressed her chest with her hands, and still said with palpitations: I was scared to death, I had a dream, don't have something bad.
Just then, the phone rang. Father went to answer the phone. The phone call was from Xinjiang, and when the matter of Hai came from the other end of the phone, my father's face darkened, and he hung up the phone before he could finish listening.
The mother immediately thought of the sea, she jumped out of bed, looked at her father, and said with a bottomless look: Is there something wrong with the sea?
The father said angrily: It's not who he is.
Mother: What's wrong with the sea?
Father: He was a deserter, something that didn't make a profit.
The father stood up, and he began to walk and walk with his hands behind his back.
My mother didn't know the depths, and when she looked at her father walking over and over, she was so confused that she yelled at her father: Don't go, I will be dizzy when I walk.
The father stood still, pointed to his mother's nose and shouted, "This is the son you have born!"
My father's face was feverish. My father has been glorious all his life, and he has always lived with a straight waist as a soldier, and no one has said anything bad about him Shi Guangrong. Unexpectedly, when he was old, he let his children slap his face. His waist bent down little by little, and finally sat down, and said to his mother weakly: If he wants to come back, let him come back, don't be embarrassed outside.
When my mother heard this, it was like a shot in the heart, and she stood up at once and said to her father: Then why don't you call?
The father stretched out his hand, and as soon as he touched the phone, he changed his mind again, and said to his mother: I can't clean up this rabbit cub, so let Lin clean him up.
The mother didn't know what her father meant by this, and looked at her father blankly. So my father called in front of my mother, and my father's phone was to Lin. Lin was already a teacher, and his father simply told him about the situation in the sea, and then said with little spare energy: I will hand over this thing to you. If he doesn't succeed, none of you will come back to see me.
The father put down the phone after speaking. In other words, my father gave Lin the difficult ball of the sea to kick. He couldn't clean up the sea, so let Lin inherit him to clean up the sea.
Anyway, the ending of the sea is a happy one for the mother, although the sea is not transferred to the side, after all, it is transferred to the side of Lin, and the brothers will not be wrong to be together, this is the mother's wishful thinking. Next, Lin and Hai have a story again.