Chapter 32: The Fate of Class Five (Part 2)
Li Meng knew the ending of Lao Ma.
Retired.
Since ancient times, he has been a soldier who has been fighting for iron and flowing through the camp, but Li Meng has never understood this sentence. He did not realize it until he was about to leave the fifth squad.
It turns out that this is the parting in the army...
This...isn't it retirement yet!
He thought a lot.
Later, when he was in bed, he recalled everything about Lao Ma in his memory. In the end, he decided to do his best to help Lao Ma.
After he "rratically" broke into Class 5, he rushed to Xu Sanduo and influenced Class 5 to enter a new trajectory. That was his credit.
But if you say that this is his credit alone, that is nonsense!
When he first met He Hongtao and Wang Yue for the first time, Li Meng naturally said that the credit was collective - although he spoke fluently at that time, only he knew what he thought in his heart.
But later, Li Meng gradually understood the true meaning of this sentence.
Li Meng made a suggestion for the four hundred meters crossing ground, which is more than 20 meters wide and more than 100 meters long, but every shovel of soil in this crossing ground was shoveled out by everyone in the fifth group!
The five-pointed star-shaped pattern in the yard, the main road and the auxiliary roads, and every stone on the road was all from the fifth class, carrying back one by one with backpacks from two kilometers away.
And is it Li Meng, the soul who really allows this collective to do all this?
no!
It's Lao Ma!
It was the old horse who taught them during training and dragged everyone to participate in the Nirvana of the Five Classes.
When parting is about to happen, looking back at the days that flash by, you can discover who the person who truly reborn in this period of time - not Li Meng who just made suggestions, nor Li Meng who performed better than everyone in training.
It is the class leader who can organize the whole class and tie it together!
What Li Meng had to do was to remove the glory that had been sprinkled on him in the fifth squad, so that he could see the achievements made by a veteran, an old squad leader who was like a soul, after waking up.
He told Officer Zhang a lot about what happened during this period. Old Wei, Xue Lin and Xu Sanduo added the loss on the side and restored an excellent old squad leader to Officer Zhang's eyes.
...
In the yard, He Hongtao, the instructor who had been talking to Lao Ma for a long time, walked to the edge of the yard and saw the five people talking on the obstacle course, and said curiously:
"What are those four boys dragging Zhang to do? This Zhang is really doing. She doesn't interview the soul characters of Class 5, but she just talks endlessly with these four boys."
In the end, He Hongtao couldn't help but mutter.
Lao Ma smiled and said, "Instructor, don't you think the story of the transformation of four bad soldiers in the eyes of everyone is very attractive?"
"You..." He Hongtao pointed at Lao Ma, feeling helpless of not "fighting", but as an instructor, he could not speak thoroughly after all. Looking at Lao Ma's smile and disregard, He Hongtao could only say:
"Old Ma, thank you for your hard work in the pilot program of Class 5, and you are wronged."
Lao Ma shook his head: "Instructor, there is no grievance or hard work. I have been in our Red Three Company for so long, so I have to do something for her. Are you right?"
The more Lao Ma said this, the more He Hongtao felt sorry for Lao Ma. At this moment, he wanted to face the old Ma who used to laugh and scattered smoke when he saw him, rather than the old Ma who is now worthy of his heart.
He was about to speak, but he saw the five people on the obstacle course ending the conversation and walking back, so he took Lao Ma down to greet him. After all, Officer Zhang is the "mouth tongue", and the Third Company still hopes Officer Zhang will promote the second shift in the league report.
"Squad Leader Ma, Squad Leader Ma," When Officer Zhang saw Lao Ma, he seemed to have changed his body and eagerly came forward, grabbing Lao Ma's hand with both hands:
"I, I almost missed such an excellent deed of you, and I still have more time, let's have a good chat!"
"Talk?" Lao Ma was confused.
"You, don't do this with me! They told me about your affairs. Come on, let's go to the stone pier over there to talk to you!"
Officer Zhang pulled the confused old horse away. He Hongtao looked at the four people who were smirking at the old horse, thinking about something.
He Hongtao smiled and waved to Li Meng and the other two: "Don't be idle either, tell me about our Class 5 daily life with 'New Comrade' and talk to them. Our Class 5 is not a place to live!"
Li Meng laughed secretly, it seemed that the instructor was very distrustful of the current state of thought of the "newcomer".
In fact, there is nothing to say about the newcomers. The rules for the company's March 1st assessment have long been announced. Class 5, which is completely different from what they imagined, was also shown in front of them.
After all, this person has to rely on self-discipline to be self-improvement.
If even himself gives up on himself, even if the fifth squad has left four soldiers who will not surrender to their "fate", they will still be unable to lead here.
...
Lao Ma and Officer Zhang argued for a long time.
Lao Ma has always emphasized that it was Li Meng who made Class 5 reborn. Class 5 can achieve everything now, and a military man named Li Meng is indispensable.
Whether it is the obstacle crossing or the road in the yard, it is directly related to the soldier named Li Meng.
Secretary Zhang was defeated by Lao Ma's stubbornness and accepted Lao Ma's explanation, but he asked back:
"Comrade Li Meng just said that an excellent group must have a core soul. Squad Leader Ma, who do you think the soul of Class 5 is? Do you think Li Meng?"
"Yes! Class 5 can have the present..."
"No! Whether it is Comrade Li Meng or the other three comrades, they all said that you are the soul of this group, Squad Leader Ma, you just need to answer my questions truthfully, can you do it?"
Lao Ma could not resist it and could only surrender. Although he kept emphasizing in the following interview, how could Officer Zhang, who had long agreed with Li Meng and others, be easily "spoofed"?
As Lao Ma kept telling, the prototype of an article titled "In That Distant Place" was slowly frozen in the mind of Director Zhang.
Time passes by like a white horse.
As Officer Zhang used up the last negative, this interview with Class 5 came to an end, and the end of the interview also meant...
It's leaving.
Six newcomers from fifth squads stood beside Lao Ma, looking at the vehicles in front of him. On the side of the vehicles, four "migrating" soldiers didn't want to get on the train.
People are not just home-loving,
More importantly, home actually represents family.
The station of Class 5 may have nostalgia for the four people who are about to get on the bus, but most importantly, there is one of their family here.
The fifth class with Lao Ma is their home.
Lao Ma waved his hand and urged: "Let's go, if you don't leave, it will be dark if you wait for the place."
He Hongtao also urged: "Get on the bus quickly."
But the four soldiers still did not move.
Li Meng's eyes were so sluggish that she wanted to cry, but he didn't want to go against what he said last night.
After a long time, Old Wei said, "Squad Leader, we're leaving."
"Yeah, let's go." Lao Ma waved.
"Squad leader, I... I can't bear to leave you." Xu Sanduo, who was repeatedly reminded, finally became the first person to violate his "oath", and he finally burst into tears.
"Why are you crying? Don't be too slow, just leave - next company assessment, if you four don't make much progress, don't say they came from Class 5!" Lao Ma first blamed him and then urged him, but in the end, it turned into a "warning".
"Squad leader, we're leaving, we... are leaving." Xue Lin dumbly repeated Lao Wei's words just now, and Lao Ma began to wave impatiently to urge him.
Li Meng's mouth squirmed and wanted to say goodbye again, but she never said anything.
In the end, he couldn't help but salute and said goodbye to the veteran and old squad leader who helped him train.
Lao Wei, Xue Lin and Xu Sanduo saluted together.
"Get on the car!" Li Meng finished speaking in a low voice, and was the first to get on the car. Xue Lin and the other three had to get on the car reluctantly at this time, but as the car started, the three of them stretched their heads out of the window and kept waving towards the old horse that was getting farther and farther away.
Xu Sanduo cried out loud.
Old Wei and Xue Lin couldn't hold it anymore, and tears began to slide down the corners of their eyes.
Li Meng was so stubborn that she didn't look back to see Lao Ma.
He just said in his heart: Squad leader, I don’t know how to be a real soldier, but... I will do my best to do it.
Lao Ma was still saluting.
"Squad leader, the person is gone."
"Oh, the person is gone, he is gone... he is gone." Lao Ma responded randomly.
"Squad leader, are you crying?"
"No, the wind is too strong, and the sand is stunning."
"Squad leader, let's go back."
"You guys go in and pack your bed first, and I'll stand there..." Lao Ma said softly.
Just like he had bid farewell to familiar soldiers countless times before, he knew that there would never be these four familiar guys under his command.
Chapter completed!