When I joined the army, I carried two valuable items at any time. One was a purple-red Shanghai brand luminous watch. This was given to me by my father before joining the army. I like this watch very much. Watches of this color were rare in that era. Luminous light was specially chosen by my father, the veteran, and said it was for the convenience of night movement. Since I arrived at the army, I have been wearing the watch on my wrist. Whenever I raise my wrist to look at the watch, I always think of my father's kind gaze and my heart is warm.

The other one is a mini semiconductor, the size of a palm, which is just the size of a handful. It just happens to be put in our warrior's upper pocket. The most awesome is that this semiconductor also has a pair of headphones. Many times, in order not to affect the fact that I put the semiconductor into the pocket of my military uniform, put the headphones on and listen to the news or current news that I like. This feels similar to today's fashionable young people wearing headphones and listening to music. It's cool.

I knew that the army had strict discipline and requirements, and these two things were considered luxury goods at that time and in those days, they would be regarded as showing off by their comrades, so I was particularly careful.

In spring and autumn, I hide my watch in my sleeves. I usually don’t raise my wrist to look at the watch when there are too many people. This will cause some misunderstandings from my rural comrades. Even if I have to look at the time, I finally open my cuffs and take a quick look when no one is paying attention to it. When summer comes, I hide my watch in my pocket and take it out to take a look when needed. Therefore, for a long time, my comrades have not noticed that I have a watch with good colors and functions.

I also carefully store semiconductors. I will only open them when I am free to go after lunch or dinner. For example, during lunch break, everyone slept quietly. At this time, I lay on the bed, put on my headphones and listened quietly to the radio. Since I was on the upper bunk and had pillows and towels as cover, I was not discovered.

When I was free to move at night, I walked and listened while walking along the camp. When I found someone, I quickly took off the headphones and stuffed them into the round collar of the Haihun shirt. It was not easy to be discovered in the night. I put them on and listened when someone left. Sometimes I felt it was troublesome to wear them on for a while, so I simply took off the headphones, turned the sound to the minimum level, and put them in my pocket to listen.

Once when I was still wearing winter clothes, I went to help the kitchen squad feed pigs early in the morning. When I thought the pigpen smelled so bad, I turned on the semiconductor in my top pocket, and cleaned the interlude of the movie "Little Characters" played on the radio. I was completely moved by the soft singing, forgot the smell of the pigpen, and couldn't help humming. Suddenly someone patted me behind the back, which scared me. I quickly turned around and saw that it was the kitchen squad leader. He stared at me with his eyes and asked strangely: "I just heard a girl singing, where did the voice come from?"

I casually pointed to the army's barracks across the stream and said, "It's probably because they are broadcasting." The squad leader nodded in anger and exclaimed: "It's really good, it sounds nice, but unfortunately the sound is too small to hear clearly."

I quickly turned around and wanted to escape, but the squad leader found that the voice came from me: "Stop, you can wait."

I turned my back to him, turned off the semiconductor in my pocket as fast as possible, and then turned around and asked, "Is there anything else to do?"

The squad leader circled me and put his ears on me exaggeratedly, but he didn't find any secrets. So he said to himself, "Hey, it's strange. I clearly heard that you were singing, and it was that nice girl, but why did it disappear in the blink of an eye? What the hell are you doing?"

I couldn't help it anymore, and laughed to the sky, making the squad leader laugh even more inconspicuously. After a while, I was so angry that I joked: "I said squad leader, do you miss your wife? There is no female singing on me? Maybe the sow is your wife who knows that you miss her, so she turns into a sow and comes to you to sing for you."

The squad leader was a cheerful person. He scratched his head and said mockingly: "Is it because I was dreaming during the day or as you guy said, it's really a ghost." After that, he was also happy.

After that, the squad leader paid special attention to me. When he saw me, he always looked at me up and down, but I couldn't help laughing, confused my comrades and kept asking us what was going on, but none of us could tell, which made me mysteriously.

Finally one day after changing into a sailor's uniform, I went to the kitchen squad to help the kitchen. Since the sailor's uniform had no pockets, I could only say that the semiconductor was placed in the pocket of my pants. Unexpectedly, when I was squatting down to pick up vegetables, the baby slipped out of his pants and fell to the ground. I hurried to pick it up, but the sharp-eyed squad leader found out: "Wait a minute!"

My heart tightened. Now that I was finished, I was finally exposed and it was over.

The squad leader snatched the semiconductor from my hand, held it in the front and back of my hand and watched it all the time. He turned on the switch and heard the song "My Motherland" which happened to be a female solo. The squad leader squinted his eyes and listened to Guo Lanying's tactful singing. It felt so good. I took the opportunity to say, "Squad leader, this was just sent to me by my family yesterday, saying that he was afraid that I would work hard to farm and listen to the radio and forget it."

The squad leader stared at me and sneered, "I sent it yesterday? It seems to be the same as my wife's singing in the pigpen. I want to lie to me, you little bastard."

After saying that, I put the semiconductor into my pocket and said, "I will confiscate it for a few days first and keep it for you." I nodded helplessly.

After the summer farming season, we were busy every day and almost forgot about time. At that time, not to mention soldiers, even the cadres had watches. Like our company commander, we didn’t need any watches at all. Just like the old farmer, when or what time it was, we could guess the approximate time just by looking up at the location of the sky and the sun.

One afternoon, we had been busy in the rice fields for a long time, but we didn't hear the rest whistle of the platoon leader on duty. I quietly took out my watch and looked at the time. It was almost four o'clock. At this moment, the deputy company commander who led the team asked us: "When is the second platoon leader? Let the soldiers take a break."

Our platoon leader looked up at Tian and suggested, "Deputy Company Commander, I think the weather is getting late, so why don't you rest? Let's go back to the barracks for a while. The soldiers are all tired."

I blurted out: "Yes, the deputy company commander, it's almost four o'clock. The platoon leader is right. He can go back until 4:30." As soon as I said it, I felt bad. Isn't this exposing myself? It's true.

Sure enough, the deputy company commander, platoon leader, and his comrades around were looking at me. The deputy company commander looked at me and asked, "How did you know that it's almost four o'clock? Are you not a city soldier? Do you still look at the sky?"

After the ball was finished, I was speechless to the deputy company commander's words and could only remain silent.

Our squad leader stared at me and asked, "Do you have a watch? Hand it over quickly."

When I heard this, I became anxious: "Why are the squad leader? He has a watch but has not violated discipline. Why do you have to hand it over?"

The squad leader said with a smile: "You guy, you didn't say you hand in hand, but the troops do not recommend soldiers to wear watches. Do you know?"

I took out my watch from my pocket, and the squad leader and his comrades surrounded me and suddenly burst into flames: "Wow, such a beautiful watch, purple-red, how much does it cost? What brand is it?"

"Show me." The words of the deputy company commander came from outside the crowd. The squad leader hurriedly handed the watch to the deputy company commander. Several platoon leaders and the deputy company commander surrounded me and looked at my watch. After a while, the deputy company commander weighed my watch and handed it to me, "This watch is good, Shanghai brand, it must be hundreds, right?"

I nodded silently, and the squad leader took the watch from me and said to the platoon leader: "I said platoon leader, aren't you going back to visit relatives soon? Then put on Xiaohuang's watch and go back to ensure the cow."

When I heard this, I immediately said, "Yes, platoon leader, no problem. Not only you, but also our cadres and veterans can borrow them."

The platoon leader turned his attention to the deputy company commander, and he waved his hand readily and said, "Our company headquarters will not care about this. Don't you have a military management committee? You decide for yourself."

In this way, our platoon leader was the first to go back to visit relatives with my watch. When I was transferred from the company, several veterans had already returned with my watch, reflecting the strong comrade-in-arms.

Postcards became popular in the early 1980s. After I joined the army, I was often sent by postcards from classmates or friends. I treasured them in my notebooks. I took them out and looked them out like playing cards when I had time. My comrades also liked to surround me and read them together.

However, on the eve of the birthday of the July 1st Party, the company suddenly received a notice from its superiors, requiring all troops to inspect the items carried by the soldiers, focusing on semiconductors, watches and postcards. The superiors explained that because it is located at the forefront of the East China Sea, semiconductors can hear enemy special radio in Taiwan at night, and the superiors strictly ordered all cadres and soldiers below the battalion to send semiconductors home. Watches were also regarded as typical items for private republics of the bourgeoisie, requiring soldiers not to wear them, and they must be sent back. The funnyest thing is the postcard, because almost all the photos of female celebrities from the movies of that year were photographed by the army, and they were also considered to be items that disrupted the morale of the troops.

Of course, I am the main inspection target of the entire company. Although the company cadres and soldiers stood up for me, since they were discovered by the kitchen squad leader, they have almost become a public asset of the company, just like watches. When they encounter rest days or free activities, many comrades often gather in our fifth squad dormitory to listen to my semiconductor radio. Everyone generally thinks it is very good and enriches the amateur cultural life of the soldiers. In addition to veterans visiting relatives, watches stand guard at night, and soldiers go out on Sundays, etc., they also ask me to borrow watches. As for postcards, soldiers generally have them. Everyone thinks that in that boring era, there are no other spare time in the military camp, let alone lesbians, so looking at the female stars on the postcard is also a pleasure.

Military orders are as high as a mountain, and I must strictly implement them. So with the help of my comrades, I made a small wooden box and packed my beloved semiconductors, watches and a stack of postcards and sent them home. Oh, that innocent and somewhat extreme left-wing era...
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