Chapter 240: Twenty Years Ago (2)

(2) Breeding

Twenty years ago, men were most afraid of being called a bad seed. It seems that it was originally aimed at young people who were evading the front line, and it was a self-defense war against Vietnam throughout my high school and college years.

Not long after I arrived at the Youth Times, I began to write back to fighters on the front. The three teachers Wang all said: Your letter may be the last letter this soldier received in the world, write it well!

For this reason, I also started to practice pen calligraphy. In order to achieve the effect of speed, it is practiced with white paper covered with block letters, and the effect of horizontal and vertical force through the back of the paper is achieved in just half a year.

Later, only one scout named Xiaomi kept replying. is talking about the affairs of their whole company, Lao Zhang, Xiao Wang, Da Li... It's all military college students learning Vietnamese, and it's all about life. When I was in high school, the replies were all reviewed by a certain teacher Wang, and they were revised and copied N times. When I went to college, I said that I wrote well and didn't need to be censored, but in fact, it was all the ideas of Youth Digest Magazine and Youth Reference Newspaper, and it had nothing to do with me.

During the Spring Festival of the year I graduated from university, I arrived at the unit that had been withdrawn to Mengzi and wrote a letter of condolence for 5 years, only to know that in fact, Xiaomi died in 1985, and those Vietnamese devils not only crossed the border to lay mines, but also buried a kind of sharpened and poisonous bamboo that they called "bamboo stakes", which could penetrate rubber shoes and poison people to death.

Because Xiaomi practiced Pang Zhonghua characters, the technical reconnaissance company chose a cooking squad leader surnamed Duan who also practiced Pang Zhonghua characters to continue to be responsible for communications, and each letter was read to the soldiers of the whole company. By 89, the squad leader Duan was also a company commander.

After I was injured, it seemed that the second sister informed the company commander Duan, and he asked the family to send a telegram saying "Father died and return quickly", and then came to visit me and took me to Xiaomi's grave. Xiaomi is a first-class combat hero, and his ashes are returned to his hometown. It was a hill with a lot of orange trees.

Lao Duan said that he would accept punishment when he returned, and then he would be discharged from the army. I said I'm sorry.

He said: Actually, I should thank you! I can still get out of the country with all my body, and in the future I can marry a good girl and do my filial piety by my parents' side, how lucky I am! Even if some people think that coming down from the battlefield without military medals and without a single scar is a bad seed, it is better for me and my parents and relatives than to sacrifice my life for the country or go back with missing arms and legs! I will reply to Xiaomi's letter, and I will also do my filial piety for Xiaomi......

He put on a military cap, saluted millet's grave, turned around and saluted me, and left without looking back. Even if his father dies, it is his duty for a soldier to obey orders.

Half a year later, I returned to the unit and received a letter saying that I had become an acting platoon commander in a grassroots company again.

It was around 2001 that I heard Xiaoli say that Lao Duan's retirement was handled by her. Lao Duan knew that we were roommates at the time. But she never heard me talk about it, so she did it exactly as she did.