Chen Ming took the high-speed train alone and embarked on the road back to the military region.

At this time, it was the spring of March, although it was the peak tourist season, but there were not many passengers on the high-speed rail, so he was able to enjoy a rare tranquility in a quiet environment.

Thinking about the arrangements for returning to the unit, Tao Sheng, the chief instructor of the Dragon's Tooth Commando, had invited him to go to the commando for training for two months and give him the rank of captain.

At that time, he didn't think about it so much, so he agreed, and now that more than half a year has passed, I don't know if he can do it or not.

Reaching out and touching a star on his shoulder, Chen Ming fell into deep thought.

He himself was comfortable, but because of the news he posted in the circle of friends when he took his graduation photos in the morning, it caused an uproar.

Especially the former classmates, there has been no movement for a year and a half, and now the fast-paced life has made many people forget Chen Ming, who was in the limelight as soon as he joined the army.

Today, around ten o'clock in the morning, that is, the time when Chen Ming just arrived at the high-speed rail station.

Class 6 in the third year of high school, class group.

A student with a Mickey Mouse avatar saved the nine-square grid posted in Chen Ming's circle of friends one by one, reposted it to the group, and wrote: "I'm a good girl, extra, extra, big news, let's take a look, Chen Ming has graduated from the National Defense University of Science and Technology?" Looks like he's an official. ”

Drip!

Drip!

Drip!

The news appeared in the group, and the former classmates, who had been scattered all over the country to study in college, received the news.

The third group of high school, after graduation, is basically responsible for receiving a hack link, or completing the sharing task, and advertising the place, and there is usually no "living person" at all.

Today it is boiling again, and it is because of Chen Ming.

"Damn. Is this Chen Ming? How do you feel that the dead memories suddenly began to attack me again, if you don't send it, I will forget that there is such a classmate as Chen Ming, this kid is really an officer? Where did you see the message, why didn't I have it? ”

"It's really Chen Ming, this kid is really lucky, when I was a freshman, a buddy in the dormitory also retained his student status to be a soldier, I contacted some time ago, he said that he would come back for two years to continue studying, I also mentioned to him about Chen Ming, my classmate said that it was a brigade, five or six thousand people may not be able to come out of a few types, want to be promoted in the army, the difficulty is no less than taking the college entrance examination again."

"I don't know, I haven't been a soldier, anyway, I feel that Chen Ming is quite awesome, where did you all see the news, why can't I see it?"

"It should be a WeChat circle of friends, we didn't add Chen Ming's WeChat, so we can't see it."

"It's not that I didn't add it, but I deleted it, that kid's circle of friends is refreshed more diligently than micro-business, and at every turn it's a small gift, a small selfie, and then it's not to show affection, every time I see my egg hurt."

"I'll rub, let's zoom in on the picture, isn't the one with the brightest smile standing in the middle Chen Ming? Carrying a star on his shoulder, what level is this? Why are so many people carrying the stars? Do you understand? ”

"This is a second lieutenant, it belongs to the platoon commander level in the army, although the officer is not big, but he is an officer, awesome, this is really awesome, we are only sophomores, and Chen Ming graduated from the University of Science and Technology?"

"I'll go, this is the first time I've seen Chen Ming's photos after graduating from high school, there are no pictures of him in the group before, and some of the projected videos are also very blurry, but this time it's quite clear."

"Damn, please don't send this kind of thing to the group in the future, Chen Ming became an officer, this news is not as good as me, it makes me feel bad, they are all peers, I still feel like I'm a child, why did he become an officer??"

"Nima, give me a critical strike when you wake up in the morning? Did you come out to explain why Chen Ming graduated so quickly, didn't he say that he went to the National Defense University of Science and Technology? Don't talk about it, I don't understand it, and you definitely don't understand it. ”

"Fuck, I'm hanging and mopping the floor, I can't understand it, I also went to Chen Ming's house just after the New Year last year, and the scene of the second-class merit at that time is still fresh in my memory, how long has it been, and I graduated this year?"

"Seconded the proposal, I hung all over my waist and wrapped it around eight times, and I couldn't understand it, why did I graduate inexplicably? According to the time calculation, he must not have studied at the National Defense University of Science and Technology earlier than I did in college, he went to serve in the army in my freshman year, and now I am a sophomore, and he graduated? ”

"Big brothers, this is a class group, pay attention to whether the influence is good or not, don't say three sentences, two sentences are hung on the mouth, colonizers, here are not only our old men, but also girls, and teachers."

"A bunch of unseen goods, hahahaha. You don't understand, do you? Promotions are not what we usually understand as escorts, you don't need to study in college for four years, you can generally be directly promoted from a soldier to an officer in a few months, my brother is a soldier, but he is a non-commissioned officer, this year is the second phase, I heard him say that the third phase can't be raised, and he will be discharged after eight years. ”

"One of my cousins is also a non-commissioned officer, and he said that a second lieutenant like Chen Ming doesn't have a sense of existence in the army, but my brother doesn't care about this kind of thing in the army anyway."

"Fart, don't care, you said that you graduated from the college entrance examination, the first time you entered the army, like Chen Ming, who made meritorious service in the army and then became an officer, you give him a face? Xiang can give you a callout. ”

"Indeed, don't pretend to understand, Chen Ming's type of lifting is different from the airborne, ignore it? It doesn't exist, do you think that the second-class officer who went back is so easy to provoke? ”

"I'll go, so the gap between us and Chen Ming is getting bigger and bigger? He's a second lieutenant now, and won't he be promoted to lieutenant when we graduate? If I take the postgraduate exam again, what will I do, Chen Ming will be able to be a company commander? ”

"It's not so easy, Chen Ming went to be a soldier at the age of nineteen, and this year is the same as us, twenty-one, right? It's good to be able to mention the captain before the age of thirty, the captain is the company commander, and the second lieutenant is really not good. ”

"Awesome! Where did you come from such a big face and look down on other people's second lieutenants? No matter how bad it is, it's better than our undergraduate, and a few of us can find a stable job like Chen Ming after graduation, so let's be sober. ”

"Indeed, anyway, I can't look at it, who in our class wants to invite Chen Ming to meet and have a meal now, who can please move? Don't be convinced, that's the reality. ”

"I'm not unconvinced, it's nothing to admit that people are awesome, I've only been in the army for a few months, and I've made meritorious contributions in a row, I can't do it, aren't there several people in our class who also went to serve as soldiers last year? The result? ”

"I don't know, I lost contact, before I left, I said that I wanted to surpass Chen Ming, and I wanted to let the plaque of the first-class meritorious hero's house be hung in my own house, but I didn't believe it when I just went to the army, it's been a year, and I haven't replied to the message, I don't know if I have made a first-class meritorious service."

"Haha, wash and sleep, you have everything in your dreams, and you have first-class skills, if you understand more about the meaning of first-class skills, you won't say that, Chen Ming is awesome enough, right? Even he was promoted to work only with second-class merit, and first-class merit was impossible except during war and peacetime. ”

"Envy, my Zhao Xiaobo's real name is envious, standing at a new starting point in life, from now on holding the sword to defend the rivers and mountains, I will go, Chen Ming's courage is okay, one sentence makes my blood boil."

"Hey, it's useless to be envious, the soldier does have the momentum to swallow mountains and rivers, Chen Ming may be like the head teacher said before, changing the environment is another kind of life, and I don't know where the highlight moments of my life are."

“.”

One message after another in the group keeps emerging, like swiping the screen, fast-paced life, boring.

Any little thing can cause onlookers, not to mention that former classmates can get good results, which is not a trivial matter.

Chen Ming was sitting on the high-speed train and heard the sound of group chat news coming from inside his backpack, and at first he thought it was the guys from the Seventh Sword Group chatting.

took the phone out of the bag, clicked on the chat interface, and saw that the group of classmates was swiping messages, Chen Ming was slightly stunned, and closed it again after reading a few at random.

He didn't have a deep impression of his classmates in high school, and he hadn't even been in contact with the original owner, and at that time, he remembered to go around Jiang Kexin's ass every day, and he was even less familiar with it, and what he talked about couldn't attract his attention at all.

Thinking of Jiang Kexin, Chen Ming suddenly felt that there had been no news from the other party for a long time, as if he had come to HKUST for so long and had never received it, it was time to end it, he had been a soldier for a year and a half, and everything had disappeared.

Chen Ming opened his mobile phone again, found Jiang Kexin's WeChat, clicked on the dialog box, clicked on the three dots above to jump to the home page, and then entered the delete page, and decisively cleared it.

At this time, Jiang Kexin, who was studying at Pengcheng Kyushu College, saw the news in the class group, clicked on the pictures shared in the group, and looked at Chen Ming who was wearing regular clothes inside, with a sunny and resolute face, and his spirit was in a trance for a moment.

He, an officer?

Jiang Kexin looked at it in a daze, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he hurriedly opened his circle of friends, refreshed it little by little, from today, to yesterday, and the day before yesterday, but he never saw those pictures in the group.

Jiang Kexin was unwilling, and clicked on Chen Ming's circle of friends again, but it was blank.

"He's blocking me?" Jiang Kexin's eyebrows were frowned, and she was slightly flustered, as if there was something that didn't belong to her at all.

For more than a year, she has rarely felt this way.

Jiang Kexin, who was unwilling, tried to send Chen Ming the word "congratulations", but she was greeted by a dazzling red exclamation mark in the dialog box.

Below the exclamation mark, a line of gray small print reminds: Several Spring and Autumn have turned on friend verification, you are not his friend yet, please send a friend verification request.

When she saw these reminders, Jiang Kexin was completely stunned, she didn't relax for a long time, she knew very well what this red exclamation mark represented.

Everything in the past is gone.

Bangziying Village.

Chen Ming's uncle Chen Qiangjiang's house, cousin Chen Ying is nesting at home to watch short videos, bored, open the WeChat circle of friends, and subconsciously slide down to refresh his fingers.

The first circle of friends is Chen Ming's Jiugongge, because the relationship between their cousins and sisters is not good, Chen Ying did not remark, and when she saw the pictures of a group of soldiers, she was subconsciously stunned.

clicked on one of them with interest, and saw that his cousin, who he had never looked down on since he was a child, was wearing a military uniform, with a smile on his face, and a group of people still had a one-star rank on their shoulders.

Chen Ying, who was originally smiling, instantly froze on her face, and then nervously threw her mobile phone on the bed, and left the room angrily.

"Why are you going? Let me tell you Chen Ying, if you still don't go out on a blind date this year, just go out to work, it's really used to you since you were a child, a thirty-year-old person, you can't do anything, you have to eat and your mother waits, look at your brother, and then look at your second uncle's Mingzi, which one is not better than you? The children of your third uncle's family have all been admitted to key high schools this year. ”

"If you continue like this, no one wants you." Chen Qiangjiang had just come back from the town's guest house, he was dizzy from drinking, and when he came home, he saw his daughter slamming the door and leaving, and he was immediately angry.

It's okay not to mention Chen Ming, just mention him.

Chen Ying almost blew up, "I don't want you to care, no one wants me, I don't want to marry yet, I can't marry my brother to support me." ”

"Why do you all look down on me, I'm not eating at home today, I'll go to the city to find my brother."

"If you dare to go, I'll break your legs, your brother works in the land department, where do you think that? Where do you run every day? ”

"If you don't pay attention to the impact, don't delay your brother."

Chen Qiangjiang walked over angrily, snatched the car key from Chen Ying's hand, and stuffed it into his pocket.

Chen Ying was so angry that she couldn't help it, she couldn't pull her face and rode an electric car to go out, she usually walked a few hundred meters, and she drove if she could.

All the grievances she received at home, Chen Ying attributed it to Chen Ming, and returned to the room to forward the news she saw in the circle of friends to her brother Chen Kaifei.

Chen Kaifei was also a little surprised to see his younger brother being promoted to a second lieutenant so quickly, but his style of doing things was different from Chen Ying, and he planned to take something to the second uncle's house after work.

No matter how arrogant he is, he also faintly feels that his cousin is not simple, although he doesn't attach too much importance to it, but he also has to change his previous thoughts.

Inside the troops.

Wang Shuaibing is already a first-class soldier, and at this time he is hiding in the open space behind the canteen and spitting clouds and mist, a real old oilman.

He has lived quite comfortably for most of the year, Qin Chao has no place in the first phase, and the discharge season came in September last year, and the big bastard who often bullied him has left the army.

At that time, a group of veterans in summer clothes in the second battalion of Yuanhuo stood on both sides of the main road in the camp, saluting and seeing the veterans, and others were full of tears in their eyes, quite reluctant.

I cried so much.

Only this cargo stood in the distance and applauded, his hands were almost swollen, from Qin Chao's discharge order to the few days after leaving, the smile on the corner of Wang Shuaibing's mouth never went down.

I can wake up laughing even from a dream.

Now that he was hiding from smoking and playing with his mobile phone, he suddenly saw Chen Ming's circle of friends refreshed his state, and saw a bar and a star hanging on his shoulder, Wang Shuaibing was stunned.

"Fuck, Brother Chen graduated?"

"Haha, I have a backer now."

Wang Shuaibing didn't even have time to ask, threw the cigarette he was smoking into the distance with a "whoosh", and ran away, he was going to tell this information to the squad leader Xi Minghui.

After leaving for more than half a year, I have to hold a reception ceremony for Chen Ming when I come back.

(End of chapter)