After a week of relaxing work in the pump room, I returned to the class to participate in busy farming work with everyone.

I was so tired of planting rice seedlings in the field for half a day. On the way back to the camp to have a meal, my back made my comrades laugh. A soldier from Quanzhou, Fujian came up and patted me on the shoulder and joked: "Hey buddy, look at you like a bear, it's so embarrassing to our buddy soldiers. Follow my order: stand at attention, hold your head up and hold your chest up."

I shook his arm and said, "Go to you, I am a farmer with a face facing the loess and backs facing the sky. What's the shame? Who dares to say that he doesn't eat food? Humph?"

As I was speaking, a cool stream appeared in front of me. The gurgling sound of the stream water seemed to be a clear spring floating from the sky. I suddenly felt much more comfortable. I went to the stream in two steps, took off my trousers and short-sleeved sea soul shirt, and wore only green military shorts and jumped into the stream "splashed" and shouted: "Oh, it's so cool."

Seeing this, several other comrades took off their clothes and prepared to go into the water. Suddenly, someone on the shore shouted: "Hey, who asked you to take a bath in the stream? Have you never learned the internal affairs regulations? What are you doing? Which army?"

I looked up and saw an army cadre put his hands on his hips and looked at us majestic. The other comrades who were about to go into the water stopped and put on their military uniforms again. Hear me, come up quickly.

My good mood that I just came up was destroyed in a flash, and the boss was dissatisfied: What do you mean? We are the navy, you are the army, you can keep it aside, hum...

Thinking of this, I stood up slowly, pointed to my sea soul shirt on the shore and said, "Chief, I am the navy, I am not yours."

Who knew that when he heard this, he became even more angry: "What did you say? Are there any divisions and branches of the internal affairs regulations? Are you a soldier? Answer me!"

Me? Well, they are right, but I am wrong. So I saluted the army cadres and said, "I'm sorry, Chief, I'm wrong."

After saying that, he climbed to the shore. At this time, the army cadre told me in a gentle tone: "We are all soldiers, we must consciously maintain the image of soldiers. I was not good at speaking just now. I apologized to you, don't mind." After saying that, he saluted and turned around and left.

The midsummer afternoon was so hot that the cicadas were chirping tirelessly on the willow trees, and the long weeping willows were still motionless. I couldn't sleep so hot that I walked out of the dormitory, sat under the willow trees and napped tiredly against the big tree, but I couldn't sleep at all. I thought I couldn't sleep anyway, so I went out for a walk. After asking the squad leader, I walked slowly along the tea tree path all over the mountain, picked a grass and held it in my mouth, observing the movement of the grass, trying to find a place where the wind moved.

Before I knew it, I arrived at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly a cool wind blew over my face. Oh, it was so good, I quickly left with the wind.

A drizzle drizzled above my head, haha, it was raining, and when I looked up, it turned out to be raindrops sprayed by a waterfall on the mountain. I stood in the rain and looked up in the air, enjoying the sweet rain of midsummer to the fullest, and was unwilling to leave.

A crystal light passed by my eyes. I was so happy that I saw it that there was a stream here.

I think it's lunch break now, and it's far from the camp, so no one noticed it. So I glanced quietly around and just made a complete look. I stripped my clothes and jumped into the stream. The heat all over my body was swept away, and it was still a word of pleasure. I shouted loudly and let out a wolf howl.

"Hey, who asked you to go into the water privately, which unit?"

What happened? Who? I always can't get along with me. Isn't it just the same stream? I took a shower and came up. What's it? It's really disappointing. I was about to get angry, but I turned my head and saw a fully armed sentry appear by the stream. I was about to get up when I remembered that I was still naked, so I hurriedly squatted down. I stood up and looked, hey, it's another army. Today is unlucky. What does it mean to destroy the army? Why are they everywhere? It's annoying. There are cadres in front of me, and now they are also a big-headed soldier. Can you control our navy? Medicate more.

The Army sentry also saw the sea soul shirt and blue sailor pants on the shore. They stared at me for a while and turned around and walked over, throwing a sentence: "This stream is the drinking water of the fellow villagers at the foot of the mountain."

Ah, my face instantly turned red like ripe persimmons, and I wish I could dig a hole to drill in.

I secretly got ashore like a thief, put on my military uniform, and returned to the company shamelessly. The squad leader looked at me and asked, "Why are you not feeling so angry after going out for a walk?" I was speechless.

It was midnight when I stood guard again. I walked along the path I walked by in the daytime with a gun on my back and walked slowly along the stream. I remembered the ugly things during the day, but when I touched it, my face was still hot.

I stood by the stream blankly, looking at the clear stream water, and suddenly saw the honest and honest old man from the former Kuomintang army appearing in the water, looking at me happily, my whole body trembled, I didn't know how to explain to the old man, but in a trance, the old man disappeared. For the first time, I realized what it means to have a ghost in my heart.

Suddenly, a shaking figure appeared on the other side of the stream. I knew it should be the sentinel of the army, so I moved closer to the other side.

"Hey, buddy, stand guard?" I asked without saying a word.

"Ah, hello, Navy Big Brother." A familiar voice came from the other side. Hey, how is this voice so familiar? Is it the sentry in the daytime again? Impossible, hasn't he already stood on duty during the day? Just as he was thinking, the other party spoke.

"Hey, are you washing during the day?" Haha, my enemy is narrow, it's really him, and I feel tight.

"Ah, sorry, I just arrived here, the situation is not familiar with it, I won't know it anymore, so please forgive me." I explained guiltily, and I felt unconfidant.

"Haha, I didn't blame you, you are a recruit, right? You need to adapt, and so do I." The veteran comforted.

"Squad leader, why are you always standing guard?" I asked in confusion.

"Oh, a new recruit in our class who is like you is sick, I'll serve him." The veteran explained easily.

The recruit? Could it be him? The Shanghai fellow who was quite close to me flashed in my mind: "Squad leader, is it a recruit from Changning District, Shanghai who herded cattle?" I blurted out.

"Oh, you know each other?"

"We..." I was about to explain, when suddenly a harsh sound of warlock sounded in the night sky, "Tick tick..."

We both took off the guns on our shoulders almost at the same time and looked in the direction of the warlock.

"It's our company's military number, emergency assembly number, I'm leaving." The veteran ran away. "Hey, squad leader, where are you from? Can I see you?" I asked anxiously.

"Shanghai people", the veteran's echoes came from afar. "We are fellow villagers, take care of the squad leader." I ran with the veteran.

The lights were on the barracks on both sides of the stream. On the other side of the stream, the army company was gathering with extremely fast movements, a series of familiar numbers, name names, whole teams, and report to the commanders. The mobilization speech was completed in just a few minutes. Then the roar of military vehicles, and the army soldiers began to pedal. I rushed to the army camp regardless of everything. When I was out of breath, most of them had finished pedaling, and a few were getting on the car quickly. In the darkness, I found a soldier who was pedaling suddenly turned his head and waved to me. Oh, it was him, didn’t he say he was sick? I also quickly waved his hand and danced in the direction of the car. One after another, military vehicles swayed out of the camp. I stood up and performed a gun-carrying ceremony, watching the military vehicles disappear from the distance.

On this side of the stream, all the comrades in our naval company who were awakened by the sound of the military horns rushed to the stream to watch. Everyone was stunned by the sudden incident in front of them, and everyone automatically lined up to watch the army comrades heading for the front line to fight.

When the military vehicles started to start, our company commander shouted: "There are all there, salute to the big brother of the army!" All of our soldiers saluted the highest military salute to the military vehicles that were leaving, but I was still holding a gun salute at the gate of their camp.

The next morning, several comrades and I hurried to the army camp on the other side of the stream, where a new squad of soldiers guarded the camp and items came. I asked the sentry anxiously: "Where did they go last night? Did you go to southern Xinjiang to fight?"

The sentry smiled at me friendly and said nothing, but I understood everything.

I came to the stream where I was bathing that day and squatted by the stream and recalled the scene of being scolded by the army cadres. At this moment, those words seemed to be so pleasant.

I walked slowly along the stream and came to the waterfall and the waterside at the foot of the mountain, recalling the little things I met with the unknown veteran last night, and the good friend who was very destined to be with me. I stared at the clear stream, trying to recall the veteran's unseen face, and the literary young man with a pretty scholarly face, silently wishing my two Shanghai fellow villagers to turn bad luck into good luck and return safely. At that time, I will definitely take a good look at these two good fellow villagers.

Looking back on that night when I stood guard with the literary youth, he recited the most sensible quote from Ning Ostrovsky's classic book "How Steel Is Made", so I murmured: "A person's life should be spent like this: When a person looks back on the past, he does not regret wasting his years, nor is he ashamed of being mediocre; in this way, when he is dying, he can say that I devoted my whole life and all my energy to the most precious cause in life..."

Suddenly, the words of the Shanghai fellow villager came from his ears: "--Strive for the liberation of mankind!" I quickly got up and searched everywhere, but there was nothing. Tears flashed in my eyes and recited loudly: "-Strive for the liberation of mankind!"

"Hey, brother, what are you thinking?" Suddenly, the veteran's head wearing a steel helmet appeared in the stream, and the bright smiling face of the literary young man behind him.

"Squad leader, are you back?" I looked back happily, but there was nothing.

I looked at the mirror-like stream in disappointment, and two lines of tears rolled down my cheeks.

Since then, I have a different feeling for this stream. Whenever I feel irritated or have something unpleasant, I will come to the quiet stream to sit down, pick a small flower on the roadside, and gently put it into the stream, watch it slowly drifting to the distance without moving, listening to the gurgling sound of the stream water, and often sit for a long time and don't want to leave. The clear stream and gurgling water linger in my heart for a long time.

A few months later, I was transferred from the logistics farm company due to work needs. Before leaving, I came to the stream again, sat cross-legged, staring at the stream in a daze. I silently said to them: "Squad leader, buddy, are you okay in southern Xinjiang? I am leaving soon. When you come back in the future, I will definitely come back to find you and listen to your stories about the war..."

Later, I heard that their company had triumphantly passed away from southern Xinjiang, but neither of my two Shanghai fellow villagers came back, and they stayed in southern Xinjiang forever.
Chapter completed!