1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 230: Youth Deserter
At seven o'clock in the evening, the starry night is bright and you can listen to the chirping of summer cicadas and frogs.

After taking a shower, Cheng Kaiyan changed into a set of shorts and a sweatshirt like an old man, revealing his armpits and two long muscular legs.

He sat on a chair with one foot casually stretched out and the other foot on the chair.

After taking a shower, he looked casual and lazy.

He looked out into the courtyard through the screen window. There was a screen nailed on the window to block out mosquitoes, so the view was a little blurry.

Next to the well, under the paulownia tree.

There were still a few figures lying under the tree, quietly enjoying the cool air.

Others hate mosquitoes and go indoors early to sleep after dark.

The Wutong Courtyard became quiet after a long absence.

In 1980, when there was little entertainment, many people went to bed at around seven or eight in the evening.

The way to kill time at night is probably to read.

But oil lamps consume a lot of oil, and electric lamps consume a lot of electricity, so many people are reluctant to use them.

But it was different in Cheng Kaiyan's family.

In order to support Cheng Kaiyan's writing, Xu Yuxiu allowed him to turn on the lights at night to prevent him from damaging his eyesight by using oil lamps or the like.

Seeing that Cheng Kaiyan was still awake, Xu Yuxiu would get up at night and cook something for him to eat and drink.

Cheng Kaiyan promised Liu Xiaoli not to stay up late today, and he would do it and go to bed before ten o'clock, so he let his mother go to bed early.

The cool night breeze came in through the windows.

The wind took away the heat from Cheng Kaiyan's body. While wiping his dripping hair, he thought about what he was going to write next.

After drying his hair, he stood up to stretch his body, then sat upright at the desk, picked up a pen, and began to write on paper:
……

That night, dark clouds covered the moon, which looked like a silver ditch.

Without the moonlight, the sky was extremely dark and one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

A deserted place in Hebei, totally uninhabited.

In the silent night, a giant steel beast was running quietly on the rails, making only clanging sounds.

It was eerily quiet all around, with only the occasional chirping of cicadas in the forest being heard.

"In the summer of July 1974, I said goodbye to my mother who had worked so hard to raise me, and left my hometown, feeling uneasy as I boarded a conscription train to southern Xinjiang.

In fact, what my mother doesn’t know is that it’s not that I don’t want to talk to her for a while, but I’m worried… I can’t make up my mind, but the conditions at home really can’t support the two of us…”

A dim oil lamp was hung on the roof in the middle, barely illuminating the area within one or two meters.

It's only seven or eight o'clock now and it's just getting dark, but you can't see your hand in front of you.

In the corner of the carriage.

A skinny boy was lying on the floor of the carriage, holding a notebook with his head down. His beautiful big eyes were squinting in the dim environment. He held a pencil in his hand and barely finished writing today's diary.

After doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Before joining the army, he promised his mother that he would record what happened every day and then send it back to her when he had time.

Cheng Lu put away the diary, lifted up his clothes, scraped the sweat off his chest with his arms, and threw it to the ground in disgust.

Only then did she press the diary to her chest, soothing him as if it were a mother's hands.

He leaned weakly against the carriage, looked up at the low roof of the carriage, breathing heavily, and felt extremely irritated.

This carriage is a closed carriage that people jokingly call a stuffy tank.

Due to its large space, it is usually used to transport supplies and soldiers.

It happened that the people being transported this time were soldiers, newly recruited soldiers who had never received any training.

About forty to fifty people squeezed into one carriage, and the originally narrow and spacious carriage became very crowded, with people pressed against each other.

The carriage was terribly hot and stuffy, making the entire carriage feel like a can of herrings.

There were no windows above or below the carriage, only doors on the sides, with large gaps between them to provide fresh air so as not to suffocate them.

Cheng Lu was already sweating profusely from the heat. The army green short-sleeved shirt he was given after joining the army had already been soaked by his sweat and stuck to his back, making him feel sticky and uncomfortable.

He followed the example of his classmates and pressed his back against the carriage behind him. Only the cold metal carriage could bring him a sense of coolness.

But it can't last long, because this coolness will soon be swallowed up by body temperature.

Cheng Lu really wanted to take off his clothes and twist them. He thought that he wouldn't even need to use any force, as he would definitely sweat profusely.

"Is it hot?"

A sturdy young man was sitting not far from Cheng Lu. He turned around and asked him.

His name is Zhou Si and he lives in Meizhaha Hutong.

Cheng Lu and I both went to Wangfujing High School, but we were not in the same class and were not familiar with each other. We could only call each other by name.

But in the afternoon, Zhou Si's behavior of reminding him made Cheng Lu feel a little weird.

I thought, although Zhou Si is ugly, at least he is a nice person.

Cheng Lu planned to be friends with him so that they could take care of each other in the army.

"Of course it's hot." "Why don't you take off your clothes when it's so hot? Are you shy? Hehe, shy girl..."

Zhou Si asked doubtfully, and then made a joke.

"Fuck you."

Cheng Lu rolled his eyes weakly and took back his previous thought.

"Haha, go to bed early, you'll be fine after these two days."

Zhou Si said something comforting, then closed his eyes and pretended to squint.

In the turbid and hot air, the carriage gradually became quiet.

Unconsciously, Cheng Lu's swollen, aching and dizzy head slowly drooped down against the carriage.

When we woke up the next day, the leader opened the door of the carriage.

Fresh air rushed in along with the whistling wind, refreshing everyone.

Once you get through the first day, the rest of the time will be easier.

By the time Cheng Lu and others arrived at the Hekou Railway Station in Nanjiang, it was already noon on the third day.

The leader blew the assembly slogan, calling on the exhausted people who had already been tortured to get off the bus and line up.

This Hekou Railway Station is the starting station of the Yunnan section of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. On March 1910, 3, the entire Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was opened to traffic, becoming an important border port station.

During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Vietnam, Hekou Railway Station undertook important transportation tasks. In the two years from 1964 to 1965 alone, more than 1.2 military vehicles passed through the Sino-Vietnamese Bridge, transporting 18 troops and 23 tons of military supplies.

But in recent years, with the Annan monkeys unifying the territory and becoming hostile to this side, this train station has become much more deserted.

After the team leader introduced the precautions and necessary procedures in the army, he took everyone to the camp near the military railway station to arrange accommodation.

Tomorrow, everyone will be transferred to a real recruit training base by military vehicles to receive one to two months of basic training.

This allows everyone to go from being an ordinary youth to a barely qualified fighter, while the rest of the training will begin after being assigned to a team.

The military training process is very hard and tiring.

Cheng Lu couldn't hold on several times, but although the training instructor was usually very strict, he still let him rest well before training again. Anyway, he had to pass the time and training items.

So the frail Cheng Lu had to wait until the second month, when the rest of the recruits had already been assigned, to complete his training and be officially qualified, becoming one of the worst recruits.

My old classmate Zhou Si had already been assigned to another place, reportedly to an artillery company.

And...Cheng Lu was assigned to an infantry company stationed on the border.

Sharp Knife Company.

A company with a special number, consisting of three platoons, a cooking squad, and a communications squad, with a total of 120 people.

But here, Cheng Lu realized for the first time that the training for new recruits was like child's play here, and he couldn't even last half of it.

And...the old soldiers here are not very friendly either. On the contrary, they look down on him.

I think he is the last one among the recruits.

Especially this middle-aged rural man in his thirties who looks like a skinny monkey and is named Chen Laoer.

They also often bullied and ordered him around, such as buying him alcohol, cigarettes, and washing his smelly socks. If he was caught drinking or smoking, he would be blamed.

"You little bastard, you must be the kind of person who can't stand the hardship of going to the countryside, so you end up joining the army, but find that you can't stand the hardship in the army either. You might even become a deserter."

During one training session, Cheng Lu was exhausted.

Chen Lao Er laughed at him in front of many people, and finally warned him seriously: "Deserter! You are absolutely not allowed to be a deserter, or I will shoot you!"

"No, Lao Chen, the child is only this young, don't bully him."

The company commander was a gentle middle-aged man. When Chen Laoer bullied Cheng Lu, he often helped and spoke for him.

Cheng Lu was very grateful to him, but still very dissatisfied with Chen Laoer and often challenged him to duels.

As a result, he was knocked down in just a few moves and was completely no match for his opponent.

Gradually, Cheng Lu got used to it, or maybe it was because a boy like him who grew up with his mother had a softer temperament.

To put it bluntly, it's cowardice.

After all, the old man Chen Laoer just ordered him around. If other people bullied Cheng Lu, sometimes Chen Laoer would help them out.

In the words of Chen Laoer, I am the only one who can bully my little followers.

Life was going on, and I gradually caught up with the training volume.

Gradually, he got used to it.

Until this day comes.

The war came suddenly. The Annan monkeys provoked incidents in dozens of border areas including Wenshan, and hundreds of bloody incidents broke out in just one year.

The spearhead company went to the front battlefield. Cheng Lu trembled as he carried his gun. He lay in the trench and fired the first shot. He was weak all over, covered in dust and looked extremely embarrassed.

On this day, Cheng Lu's diary was stained with blood, and it read:

I don't want to stay here anymore...

(End of this chapter)