Diary: February 3, 1980 (sunny day)

"I'll be divided tomorrow. I'm in a bad mood these two days. I heard that the quota for the team of the regiment's film team was given to me. Although I haven't made up my mind yet, I still have a glimmer of hope, but the overall situation is basically decided. I really don't understand that the troops also opened the back door like this, which is heartbreaking."

Although it means that you have a talent for division, you have basically decided whoever is assigned. What's ridiculous is that it is not based on your expertise. The consistent performance after joining the army is related to military and political qualities, but whether you have anything to do with it. Even if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. You are brave enough to give gifts to the company's leaders and walk through the back door. This trend has become popular in the military camps in the early 1980s. It's not surprising to think about it now. Everyone felt very uncomfortable that night. Although their comrades were not familiar with them, they had just three months of military life and had been together day and night. This deep comrades-in-arms had long been rooted in their hearts. Now they are about to part, saying that they are in a regiment, but the nature of the naval engineers determines that the troops are not only dispersed, but most of them are located on the border of the island. This trip is very likely to be unable to meet during the entire service period. We, the new recruits who left home, have felt pain for us, and we have to have another pain of separation from our brothers.

The night sky, where the moon was always bright, suddenly dark clouds were covered with dark clouds, and it started to rain heavily in an instant. I stared at the heavy rain outside the house, and was in a bad mood. The platoon leader came to me and signaled me to sit down. I looked at the platoon leader and said, "I already know, tell me, the platoon leader, I can hold on." The platoon leader patted my shoulder and told me an unexpected and unexpected news. The quota for the film team of the Propaganda Division of the regiment headquarters had been replaced. Not only that, I was likely to be assigned to the worst logistics department farm in the entire regiment, and asked me to be mentally prepared. Not only me, but also our deputy squad leader Qin Zhongfa

I was told that the engineering company in Zhoushan was not the original nonsense that the deputy squad leaders and model soldiers of each squad were all talking about. My fire suddenly surged to my forehead, and when I turned around, I was about to rush out of the door. Behind me, the squad leader shouted: "Don't go, it's useless." The squad leader hugged me: "Don't be impulsive, I know you are wronged, I'm sending fire to me, don't make trouble again." The squad leader even had a pleading smell in his words. When I thought of the honest squad leader, I couldn't move my legs away. My comrades surrounded me, but no one advised me, just patted my shoulder silently.

I sighed to the sky: Is this the army I have longed for since I was a child? Why did I perform so well, but I was replaced by someone in the end and threw it to the farm to be a farmer. I was crying without tears. The platoon leader came over and took out a pack of cigarettes, opened it and handed it to me first. I looked at my respectable, cute and sad platoon leader with a little strange look, and his nose was sore, and tears couldn't stop flowing down. I took the platoon leader's cigarette speechlessly and smoked the second time in my life. The platoon leader stuffed a piece of his mouth and slashed a match for me to light it first. I took a sucking suck, feeling that it was not as choking as a veteran in Northeast China last time when he was on the construction site. When the veteran left, his words rang in his ears. I suddenly missed this unknown veteran very much.

The platoon leader handed the cigarette to the squad leader and said, "Give everyone a cigarette, it's a separate cigarette. Smoke one of the cigarettes that can be smoked, which is a new beginning of our brotherhood." Hey, the platoon leader regarded us as brothers. Thinking that he was sadder than us, he was still comforting us, and admired him arises. The whole class comrades basically lit it, and even Huang Buqing, who never smoked, lit it, leaving only the deputy squad leader Qin Zhongfa and Ye Meng. They didn't smoke at first. Ye Meng hesitated for a moment and took the cigarette and lit it. Qin Zhong smiled bitterly and lit it.

The 10th squad leader and the 12th squad leader also took out cigarettes from his bags and sent them to his soldiers. The 10th squad leader said while smoking: "No matter whether the squad leader is good or bad, don't forget to be in your heart. But after a few years, don't forget that there were so many veterans who have served as squad leader for you who have served as squad leader for the recruit company for you, and the platoon leader is enough." More than 40 people in the platoon all lit cigarettes, and the whole house was filled with thick smoke. The curling smoke of the blue smoke and the dim lights intertwined, indicating that our upcoming military career will be extremely uneven.

I sat face to face with the deputy squad leader Qin Zhongfa, and no one said anything. Thinking of my usual behavior with him, I couldn't understand why this happened. I have been growing up in the army since I was a child. I hope that when I grow up, I can be a soldier like my father. In my heart, the army is so holy, but the cruel reality gave me a blow. The blessing in disguise was that Huang Buqing, who always liked to show off and took the lead in making trouble in the kitchen the day before the division of the troops. Do you remember the company commander who asked him to talk to him that day? He was originally going to educate him, but he just had the ability, turned passive into initiative, and got involved in the relationship with the company commander. Hey, in the end, this kid was assigned to the car company. Do you think it's annoying?

No one was happy that night. Even Shi Yinlin, who was clearly assigned to the regiment headquarters to be civil servants for the leader, and Huang Buqing and Feng Wenquan, who were assigned to the car company, were not excited. After all, we went out to serve in the army together, and spent three months together, and became good brothers. We are going to part ways now. And those of us who were assigned to the hard-working company, the three of them would not be happy. Everyone was silent. Even Zhou Yousheng, a happy buddy, sat quietly on the floor and thought about his thoughts.

Veterans Wang Gui, Gong Hongxing, Song Yongcai and others also came to our class to say goodbye to us, the Shanghai fellows. They were still sitting cross-legged on the floor as they did when they first arrived at the army, or siege the city, but the atmosphere was completely different. Wang Gui took the lead in breaking the atmosphere of Shenjian: "Hey, brothers, being a soldier is just going out to exercise, and you have to suffer any hardships. Anyway, they are all four years of soldiers, and they will pass by as soon as they grit their teeth. Don't always think about whether the division of troops is good or bad. In fact, they are the same. As long as you work hard, you will be good soldiers everywhere." Song Yongcai took the topic and said, "Yes, we have been three years of veterans in a flash. Soon, all the strong winds and waves have passed, so you are considered men." Gong Hongxing also said in a genius: "Experience is a human wealth. No matter whether it is good or bad, after ten, twenty or even thirty years, when you think about this military life, you may not be resentful, but more missed."

After several veterans in Shanghai left, the platoon leader shook hands and said goodbye to everyone one by one. It can be seen that the platoon leader was also helpless. His order to promote the train was cancelled. After the recruit company ended, he had to go back to be his own squad leader. I understood him very much, but I was so nervous that I shook hands and said goodbye to the platoon leader silently. The platoon leader said something I would remember for the rest of my life: "Remember, no matter what fate is for you, as long as you are a soldier, you can never lose. Stand up straight, like a real man, a pure man!" I excitedly held the platoon leader's hand and shook hard, venting loudly: "Yes, man, we are all pure man!" "Okay!" The comrades behind me applauded and applauded me.

The honest and introverted squad leader came forward and held my hand speechlessly. He didn't know what to say, but I spoke first: "Squad leader, not only wherever I go in the future, I will remember that you are my first squad leader, and I will be my squad leader for the rest of my life." Before I finished speaking, tears were about to come down again. Deputy squad leader Qin Zhongfa said to everyone: "Come on, brothers, let's cheer for the future together." Our twelve comrades surrounded the squad leader in the center, put their arms on each other on their shoulders and shouted loudly: "Come on! Come on!" Then we comforted each other and said goodbye, tears flowed silently, without crying

The voice was only slightly trembling shoulders. The squad leader surrounded by us in the center stroked our heads one by one and murmured: "I'm sorry, the squad leader is incompetent, the squad leader is not good." The deputy squad leader Qin Zhongfa said to everyone: "Come on, let's salute the platoon leader, the squad leader, everyone stand in the order of the queue and follow my command." We stood up quickly, held our heads and chests up, and followed the deputy squad leader's command: "Stand at attention, salute!" We gave a solemn military salute to the first platoon leader of our army, the squad leader, and our platoon leader, stood opposite us and also saluted us in tears.

At this moment, there was no complaint, no anger or sorrow, only the courage to face difficulties and perseverance. The other two classes next to them were moved by our true feelings and couldn't help but applaud. Then, they also said goodbye to their squad leader like us, and the platoon leader became the happiest person. He was surrounded by the soldiers of the three classes, moved, and tears turned into passion.

At this moment, we have really grown up and learned to face difficulties and challenges bravely.
Chapter completed!