Outside the parking lot of the Never Sleep City Nightclub, Zhu/Dekang's Toyota Prado was parked in the parking space.

Zhuangyan took out his cell phone and dialed Wang Dazui's phone number.

"Big Mouth, are you still at work?"

The sound of ghosts and wolves crying and howling vaguely came from the other end of the phone.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm still at work. Didn't you agree to have two points? You've arrived?"

Zhuang Yan wanted to say it, but for some reason, he didn't say it in the end.

"No, I'm still talking at nine o'clock. Today I met an old squad leader. In the past, our 8th Company is also working in Linhai. Everyone gathers to have a drink later."

Wang Dazui looked very happy on the other end of the phone: "Okay, okay, I haven't seen our comrades in the 1st Division in some days. Oh, I miss you very much."

"Okay, you can work hard first, I'll come to you at two o'clock."

"You can come at half past one. I think I'll talk to the manager and leave early."

"Okay, you're busy first."

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Dekang, who was standing beside him, asked Zhuang Yan: "Why didn't you tell him directly that you have arrived?"

Zhuangyan said: "Bigou is still at work and doesn't want to make things difficult for him."

"Go to work?" Zhu/Dekang stretched his head and looked at the gate of the city that never sleeps and said, "Hey, what else are you working here! Don't say that, when you see him later, you tell him not to work, just go to my company to work. Speaking of which, I still lack a driver. Follow me and get to know more bosses. In the future, I will give him a clear way. It is much better to do a business in the ocean than to be a security guard here..."

Zhuangyan smiled and said, "You haven't known Datong yet, can you trust him?"

Zhu/Dekang disagreed and said, "I don't know him, but I know you. I know how your solemn character is. Birds of a feather flock together. People can't find out what kind of character can be your friend."

Zhuang Yan said: "The old squad leader is talking a lot now, it seems that he has read a lot of books."

He knew that Zhu Dekang's educational level was not high.

When he was in the Eighth Company of Laozi, if he had a higher level of education, he would have been in the military academy for a long time, and he would not have been looking forward to the end of the day when he was carrying a backpack and leaving.

After meeting again tonight, Zhuang Yan felt that Zhu Dekang had become a different person in his conversation.

In short, Zhu/Dekang retired from the army at the end of the year when he went to the teaching team and has been back to the local area for eight years.

In eight years, the hardships of society are enough to change a person.

Hearing Zhu/Dekang talked about his changes, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, took out a pack of Chinese cigarette from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Zhuangyan.

Zhuang Yan shook her head: "I quit. Later, when I went to the Red Arrow Team, I became a sniper and could not smoke."

"You are really a professional soldier now." Zhu/Dekang knocked the cigarette on the cigarette box, then rolled down the car window, picked up the lighter and clicked it.

He sprayed a mouthful of white smoke and watched the smoke rise from the edge of the bed, and then blown away by the night wind, his expression became deeper.

"Zhuangyan, you don't know how many uneducated losses I suffered when I first came back... When I was in the army, I was not so brave enough to take the military academy because I was not educated. When I returned to the place, I found that there were college students everywhere. Why can you, a junior high school student, find a good job? Do you think I want to set up a stall to sell fruits? What should I do if I don't sell fruits? When I came back, a relative worked in the Port Authority and said that the container company under their place was recruiting workers, saying that veterans were given priority. When I went there, someone looked at the files and said that you didn't even graduate from high school. I was sorry, I would at least graduate from high school, and junior colleges were given priority."

Speaking of this, I took a deep breath of cigarettes and continued, "I said, I have been a soldier for several years, so how can I have time to study? Didn't you say that veterans are preferred? They shook their heads and laughed, saying sorry, you don't meet our conditions."

"I was driven out like this... Later my relative told me that it was actually a priority for veterans, but in fact it was just a cover. In order to keep the signboard of the model unit of the military support, and just look for a few veterans with high education. I am a person who serves overtime... I don't like it..."

Zhuang Yan felt a lot after hearing this, and she didn't know how to comfort Zhu/Dekang.

Zhu Dekang said: "I figured it out later. I was better off working for others in a tone. So I went to set up a stall. I didn't say some words in front of Deputy Mayor Wang just now. Don't look at me as a bullshit township entrepreneur in front of him now, that's because I succeeded. If you succeed, people will respect you. Don't ask the source of heroes. If I don't succeed, today do you think he, Deputy Mayor Wang, will know who I am? Can I still sit with him for dinner? Don't even think about it!"

He became more and more excited as he spoke, and solemnly advised: "Old squad leader, don't think about the past. If you think too much, you will get angry and you will be unworthy of it."

"Sanctuary." Zhu Dekang raised his head and looked at the night sky with a flash of light at the corner of his eyes: "I haven't found a close friend to talk about these things to myself for many years. I don't tell anyone in front of others, because I'm shameful. I think I was so embarrassed in the past. I set up a stall and collected it for me. I took my retirement certificate, my military medal and my flood control seal to deal with it. I said that I didn't have much retirement fee when I returned from the army, and all the money was put into fruit stalls and tricycles. I said, I could see if we have been a soldier for so many years, and we have sweated and bleeding for the country and the people. We have calculated the minimum standard of punishment."

"But I didn't expect that when the cadres saw it, they said that during the period when they were founded, you went to the street to set up stalls, and you knew it was a crime. How many times have they been promoted? They said that they could not go to the street to set up stalls recently, and that you are just causing trouble for the government. Why are your veterans so low in their ideological awareness?"

The solemn heart was extremely shocked.

After so many years in the army, he has been living a training life in the army that is somewhat isolated from the world.

But he didn't know how his comrades who returned home from the army were doing.

He suddenly understood why, as a person like Xu Xingguo, had to wear that officer uniform even if he fought to the death.

Different from yourself.

I had no intention of joining the army myself as a way to change my personal destiny.

Compared to Xu Xingguo, he is actually quite lucky and happy.

For Xu Xingguo.

That is a life path that changes destiny!

What about so many people who have retired and transferred to the army every year, except for officers and non-commissioned officers who meet the arrangement requirements?

What about those conscripts?

I had a hard place in my early years, but now I have no more. I have to rely on myself when I go back.

Of course, there are also good life and bad life.

There are probably not many people who can become Zhu/Dekang like this.

"Old squad leader, you won't beat someone up, are you?" Zhuang Yan teased half-jokingly.

He was thinking, if it were me back then, he might have really couldn't help it!

"Beat it!"

Zhu/Dekang took a sudden breath of cigarette.

The cigarette burned behind the filter. He flicked his fingers and flicked the cigarette's butt far away. Then he quickly took out another cigarette and lit it for himself.

"I really beat that guy up that day. If there weren't many people present and I stopped him, my grandson would probably have to go to the hospital for half a month. But now I think about it, I was impulsive at that time. If something happened to me, I would have done it in my life, and I wouldn't have been there today."

"What happened to you later?" Although Zhuang Yan knew that Zhu Dekang would definitely have nothing to do later, he would not have sat here today and talked with him.

However, I still want to hear the end of this story.

Zhu Dekang said: "Someone called the police at the scene, and I was arrested by the police and locked up in the police station. I thought I was finished, and I didn't beg for mercy. Anyway, I would judge as much as I wanted... Unexpectedly, the instructor of the police station was a demobilized cadre. He happened to be on duty that day. He heard about me from the police on duty, and then bought me a box of lunch and a bottle of mineral water, and sent it to the retention room for me to eat, and talked to me through the iron gate. I later learned that he was a demobilized cadre of the local 4th Division. He used to be a political worker... Hehe, I remember that there is still a good way to do ideological work in politics..."

"He told me, there is no way to go, and I have read your file. What unit is the 1st Division? That is the awesome ace division. The soldiers coming out of there should be good things. Why can't you get along with yourself in this little thing? If you really beat someone to death, you will be shot. Is it worth it?"

As he spoke, Zhu Dekang's tears couldn't stop and it flowed down from the corner of his eyes.

"I cried that day, and I was crying so loudly. I was plucking the food in my mouth and crying. It felt like something was blocked in my throat. I couldn't swallow it. I was so aggrieved! I had been a soldier for five years. I had never cried for five years. I didn't have the chance to take the military academy. I didn't cry. I didn't cry if I didn't give up and let me retire. I didn't cry. I went to fight floods and rescues. I didn't cry... But I really cried that day. I didn't cry because I felt that life was hard, I was not afraid of hardship, but because I felt cowardly. When I returned to the place, I realized that I was nothing. I could not even support myself. "

He reached out and wiped the corners of his eyes hard, and then took another breath of cigarette.

The smoke is gone again.

Zhu/Dekang bounced it off again and then went to get the cigarette.

Zhuangyan stopped him: "Don't smoke too much, it's bad for your health."

Zhu Dekang said: "Bad, my grandfather lived to be 94 when he smoked. My uncle didn't smoke. He said he was too scared to see my grandfather smoking. As a result, he quit smoking. When he was 62 years old, he suddenly burst into blood vessels and said that he would disappear."

When Zhuang Yan heard this, he stopped saying anything.

Zhu Dekang's character was seen when he was in the army. He was as stubborn as iron.

"It's because of this that you went to be a fishmonger and then went to breed?" Zhuang Yan asked.

Zhu Dekang said: "Well, I talked with the instructor for a long time that day. Later, he pleaded with me. The man let me go and only paid some medical expenses. After I came out, the deducted things were gone. The instructor said, "Isn't your hometown from Nanwan Island? There are many fishermen there, so you might as well get some seafood every day and sell it to the city. At least it's more than you earn than selling fruits. And no one cares about you in the ghost place of the dock."

"He pointed me out a clear road. After leaving the police station, I took my third-class merit seal and flood fighting commemorative medal and went to the beach. It was already night. I squatted by the beach and thought about it all night. Finally, I threw the third-class merit seal and commemorative medal into the sea. When I went home, I burned all my retirement certificates and burned a fire... I swear I would do some results for others to show, and I can't let others beat them. What is a man? Even if a man lives a mountain in front of me, I will dig a road to walk over. Even if he has a sea for me, I will swim over. If you want to see me making a fool of yourself, I will give you some colors! People will die and never die for thousands of years!"

Zhuangyan looked at her old squad leader and was completely shocked.

Think about what the little suffering you suffered is actually?

The soldiers who returned from the army were equivalent to re-entering a new battlefield.

This battlefield is called "society". Here, there is no smoke or bullets, but there are invisible thorns and jungles. If you accidentally trip you up, you will even fall into the deep valley and be crushed to pieces.
Chapter completed!