Chapter 7

The so-called patrol of border guards refers to patrolling the border of the motherland.

The post is located on the northwest border of China. The border line responsible for patrolling and defending is about 56 kilometers. Of course, this is only a theoretical straight-line distance. If you go up and down the mountain, beat around the Bush and take a detour, you don't know the specific distance that border soldiers need to measure step by step with their legs.

The first time he followed the Veterans' squad leaders on patrol, Cheng Chong was very excited and even vaguely proud.

Look! This is the border of our great motherland. Behind us are the people of the whole country. If you cross this line, you can go abroad. We are at the edge and forefront of the motherland. We are guarding the northwest gate of the motherland. We are the first line of defense of the motherland. Really, as the slogan on the post says: I am at the outpost of the motherland, and the motherland is in my heart.

Along the way, I climbed snow mountains, waded in ice water, crossed dangerous beaches and barren slopes. The environment was dangerous and the road was not easy to walk at all. A group of people walked blushing, thick necked and panting.

Cheng Chong was very happy and excited. It was as if grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. Look at this and ask that. She was very interested. Although he still had altitude sickness, so that he had a slight chest tightness and headache, he couldn't take it into account.

In fact, on this plateau, the eyes are basically the same barren mountains and snow mountains. Just as the poem says: it's a mountain, it's a mountain, and it's still a mountain on the other side of the mountain.

However, this is much better than standing straight in the post and playing the sculpture.

"What are you excited about, what are you excited about? Do you believe it? In a short time, you will have a headache about our patrol route. You know, our patrol is on duty now, not out to play. You are willing to go, whether you are willing to go or not. Hey! When I first went to our checkpoint, I was just like you. I didn't see anything It's fresh. I'm curious about everything. In fact, what's there! No matter where you go, it's almost the same. The plateau scenery! I'm tired of watching it every day. It's probably only attractive to those who sit on the inner wall of the office all day. " Wei Jiangong, the monitor, looked at Cheng Chong, who was very excited. He gasped and said.

"How can you be excited? HMM! Monitor! You've been in the army for ten years, you've been at our checkpoint, and then you've walked back and forth along this border for ten years?" Cheng Chong followed the monitor and asked curiously with wide eyes.

"Yes, it's been ten years now. Inadvertently, it's been ten years walking back and forth on this border. From a teenager to a man who is almost thirty now, eh! A mature man! Think about how you would feel if you insisted on walking on this border for ten years? Would you still feel excited and excited?" Wei Jiangong took a breath and looked obliquely at the sky, as if the distant sky had stolen his precious ten years of youth.

"Ah! Ten years! There are several decades in life, and I was still..." Cheng Chong couldn't imagine. It's not too much to say that he was still wearing open crotch pants ten years ago. At the moment, his admiration for the monitor arises spontaneously, and he is full of admiration for the veteran who has dedicated ten years of youth to the border of the motherland.

"Hey, hey! He! The old revolution. Speaking of it, it was all in the last century! Isn't it! Mr. Ban!" There is no suspense. It was ma Xiaodong, the Deputy monitor, who answered. He and monitor Wei Jiangong stayed together for seven or eight years, and each other carried the bars for seven or eight years. They were not too tired. In short, as long as one of them built the platform, the other must dismantle it immediately, which was very appropriate.

This is also a very helpless thing. Life on the plateau is extremely monotonous. How can we endure this boring and long day without raising quarrels and talking nonsense!

"Just pull the calf! Do you know why the air on our plateau is so thin? It's all for you to blow, isn't it? But anyway, you'll always be just a recruit's egg in my eyes, ha ha! You have to admit that." Wei Jiangong looked back and smiled, tit for tat and did not give in.

The army ranks according to seniority and is also very strict. Even if the other party becomes a soldier a day earlier than himself, it is also early. I dare not say I must stand at attention and salute when I meet, but it is necessary to ask hello in a regular manner.

Wei Jiangong said, and the others laughed. In fact, there are only four people patrolling the line today, and the other four stay behind. The four include the head and deputy squad leaders and Cheng Chong, with a veteran outside. The veteran's surname is Liu. He can't fart with three slaps. It is said that veteran Liu was not such a character before. He was suffocated by this damn plateau.

Ma Xiaodong was not angry when the monitor said he was a recruit. Instead, he had the cheek to laugh, Turn to tender: "That's right! It's said that you are an old revolutionary. What's more? Do you have to compete with the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang? Alas! I said the old revolutionary! You said that you are too old to retire honorably and still stay on this uninhabited plateau to fool around with our young guys? You hum and ha every day. You've been married for three years! With your sister-in-law I haven't seen three! My daughter is almost one year old! It's a pity you haven't seen it yet. If you want to say that my sister-in-law has a good temper, I have to give you a break. "

Cheng Chong smiled almost out of breath. Even the always silent veteran Liu smiled modestly.

"Who says I haven't seen my daughter, isn't that it?" Wei Jiangong retorted, untied his military coat, took out a photo from it, looked at it carefully, and then couldn't help kissing, "look at this lovely little look, this little face is very much like Lao Tzu everywhere."

Cheng Chong hurried forward to have a look. It was a baby photo. The baby in the photo should have been taken at the full moon. It was not nearly one year old at all. It can be seen that this photo was taken almost a year ago.

The little daughter looks white and fat. She doesn't look very much like the dark monitor Wei, but her small nose is like the monitor Wei's nose.

Wei Jiangong takes his daughter's photo with him wherever he goes, and takes it out from time to time to enjoy it with self intoxication.

"You are still young!" Wei Jiangong finally regained his mind, and he would not miss any chance to tease the deputy squad leader: "Oh! It seems that the ultraviolet light on the plateau is not useless. At least it has taken a thick skin on our deputy squad leader, isn't it? Don't you remember how many innocent girls you scared last time you went home for a blind date? You're still young? I'm embarrassed to say!"

"Yes? Do I?" Ma Xiaodong quickly denied that it was related to his face. Of course, he couldn't admit it.

In fact, in this plateau checkpoint, there are only so many people, so many familiar faces, whose idea, caution and little secret Xiaojiu are almost shared. Everyone knows it like the back of his hand and knows it well.

"Cough! Comrade Ma Xiaodong, this is your mistake. As your monitor, I have to criticize you. What do we revolutionary soldiers stress? We stress seeking truth from facts and everything must proceed from reality, right? Those who tell the truth, don't lose face, don't tell the truth and like to argue are ashamed, and they lose their hair." Wei Jiangong pretended to cough and then began to speak in an official voice. It was very funny.

"Didn't I tell the truth? Did I argue?" Ma Xiaodong spread out his hands, turned around and asked Cheng Chong and veteran Liu innocently. But the two men didn't participate in or say anything about the words of the head and deputy squad leaders. They just lowered their heads, turned red and laughed fiercely.

"You two are just unreliable. Neither of you has a sense of right and wrong." Ma Xiaodong saw that the two didn't defend themselves, We had to turn to the squad leader who fought hard again: "Tell you, Mr. Ban, the problem I'm facing now is the problem of choice. What did I make now? Oh! By the way, what's called choice phobia. I now have five objects to choose from, don't you know! There is one object in each direction in the southeast, northwest and Middle East. You say! Who should I choose? It's really too difficult. You say, the long one in the East Beautiful, it seems very good, but the one in the south is also OK, gentle! But the one in the west is very kind, and the one in the north is virtuous. It's a pity! Push around and don't want the one in the middle! I can't bear her cleverness! Hey! Choose phobia! Choose phobia properly! You, who can help me? "

Ma Xiaodong's words haven't dropped yet, and everyone is laughing quickly. Lonely on the plateau, lonely on the plateau, even if you break the sky on the plateau, you can't get any response. Therefore, most soldiers have learned to boast, but there are very few people like Ma Xiaodong who boast so impractically and calm as if nothing had happened. It's true that this person should only be in heaven. It's rare to meet in the world!

My lovely monitor! I am a humorous monitor and Deputy monitor! I'm the head and deputy squad leader who seeks pleasure in hardship! It's a rare treasure in a hundred years! And a couple. Sure enough, it was like the slogan on the sentry post: love the country and the sentry, find laughter in the face of hardship.

Cheng Chong followed the back of the team, laughing and sighing silently in his heart.

Laughter poured all the way on the desolate snowy plateau and on the border of the northwest of the motherland.