Outside the parking lot of the nightclub in the city that never sleeps, Zhu/Dekang's Toyota Domineering is parked in the parking space.

Zhuang Yan took out his mobile phone and dialed Wang Dazui's number.

"Big mouth, are you still at work?"

On the other end of the phone, there was a faint voice of Guikulanghao.

"Zhang Yan, I'm sorry, I'm still at work, didn't I agree at two o'clock? Are you here?"

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

"No, I'm still talking about things at nine o'clock. Today I met an old squad leader. We used to be from the Eighth Company, and now we are also working in Linhai. We will gather later for a drink."

Wang Dazui looked very happy on the other end of the phone: "Okay, okay, I haven't seen our comrades in the 1st division for a few days, alas, I really miss them."

"Okay, you're busy first, I'll come to you at two o'clock."

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

"Okay, you're busy first."

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Dekang asked Zhuangyan, "Why didn't you tell him directly that you are here?"

Zhuang Yan said: "Big mouth is still at work, I don't want to embarrass him."

"Go to work?" Zhu/Dekang stretched out his head and glanced at the gate of the city that never sleeps, and said, "Hey, what kind of work are you still working here! Don't talk about it, see him later, you tell him to stop doing it and come directly to me Let’s go to work in my company. Speaking of which, I still need a driver. Follow me and get to know more bosses. In the future, I will show him a clear way to start a business in the sea, which is much better than his job as a security guard here…”

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "You don't know Datong yet, can you trust him?"

Zhu/Dekang said in disapproval: "I don't know him, but I know you, and I know what your solemn character is. Things gather by like, and people are divided into groups. If you can be your friend, you can't find out your character. "

Zhuang Yan said, "The old monitor is talking a lot now. It seems that he has read a lot of books."

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

Back in the old Eighth Company, if he had a high level of education, he would have been admitted to the military academy long ago, and he wouldn't have been waiting for him to the point where he finally rolled up his backpack and left.

After the reunion tonight, Zhuang Yan felt that Zhu Dekang's conversation had changed as a person.

After all, Zhu/Dekang was discharged at the end of the year when he went to the coaching team, and it has been eight years since he returned to the place.

Eight years, the tempering of society is enough to change a person.

Hearing Zhuang Yan talk about his own changes, Zhu/Dekang sighed with emotion, took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and handed it to Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan shook his head: "Quit, I became a sniper when I went to the Red Arrow brigade, and I can't smoke anymore."

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

After puffing out a mouthful of white smoke, watching the smoke curling up from the bed, and then being blown away by the night wind, his expression darkened.

"Zhengyan, you don't know how much illiterate I suffered when I first came back... When I was in the army, I didn't have the guts to take the military academy because I didn't have culture. After returning to the place, I found out that everywhere They are all college students. How can you get a good job as a junior high school student? Do you think I want to set up a stall to sell fruit? What if I don’t sell fruit? When I came back, a relative worked in the Port Authority and said that they had a The container company recruited workers and said it was a priority for veterans. I went there, and when they looked at the file, they directly said that you didn’t even graduate from high school? I’m sorry, I have to at least graduate from high school here, and priority is given to college students.”

Having said that, You took a deep breath and continued: "I just said, once I have been a soldier for several years, how can I have time to study? Don't you say that veterans are given priority? People shake their heads when they hear it. Laugh and say sorry, you don't meet our criteria."

"I was kicked out like this... Later, my relatives told me that it was actually a priority for veterans, but in fact it was just a pretense. In order to keep the signboard of the model unit that supports the army, I pretended to find a few Just a veteran with a high degree of education. Someone who has served overtime like me... people don't like it..."

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

Zhu Dekang said: "I figured out later that I was working for others, rather than doing it myself. So I went to set up a stall. I didn't say something in front of Vice Mayor Wang just now. Don't look at it now. In front of him, I'm still a **** township entrepreneur, that's because I succeeded. If you succeed, people will look up to you. Don't ask where the hero comes from. If I don't succeed, today you think he, Vice Mayor Wang, will know me. Who? Can I sit and eat with him? Don't even think about it!"

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and solemnly persuaded: "Old monitor, don't think about the past. If you think too much, you will be angry and you will not be worth it."

"Solemn." Zhu Dekang raised his head, looked at the night sky, and the corners of his eyes flickered: "I haven't found a confidant to tell me about these things for many years. I don't say it in front of others, because I want face, I think it's a shame I used to be like that. I set up a stall, and people took it for me. I took my veteran certificate, my military merit badge, and my anti-flood badge to deal with it. I said that I didn't have much discharge fee when I returned from the army. , the money has been put into the fruit stand and tricycle, I said whether it can be seen that we have been a soldier for so many years, and we have sweated and shed blood for the country and the people, and we will be fined according to the minimum standard.

"But I didn't think other cadres would look at it and say that during the period of Chuangwei, you set up a stall on the street, and you knowingly committed it. How many times have this been publicized, saying that you can't set up a stall on the street recently, and you're just creating chaos for the government. Why are you veterans so low-minded?"

The solemn heart is extremely shocked.

For so many years as a soldier, he has been living a somewhat isolated training life in the army.

But he didn't know what happened to the comrades who returned home from the army.

He suddenly understood why, as a person like Xu Xingguo, he was desperate to put on that military uniform.

different from myself.

Going to the army by yourself was not intended as a path to change one's destiny.

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

For Xu Xingguo.

That's a life-changing way of life!

There are so many people who are discharged from the army every year, except for the officers and non-commissioned officers who meet the arrangement conditions, what about the rest?

What about the conscripts?

There was a rigid placement in the early years, but now there is no such thing, and I have to rely on myself when I go back.

Of course there were good times and bad times.

I am afraid that there are not many people who can be mixed into Zhu/Dekang.

"Old monitor, you won't beat people, right?" Zhuang Yan teased half-jokingly.

He was thinking, if he were himself back then, he might not be able to bear it!

"Beat!"

Zhu/Dekang took another sharp breath.

The cigarette burned behind the filter, and he flicked his two fingers, flicking the **** all the way, then nimbly took out another cigarette and lit it again for himself.

"I really beat that guy up that day. If it wasn't for the crowd, he stopped me. I'm afraid this grandson would have to go to the hospital to lie down for half a month. But now that I think about it, I was impulsive. At that time, something really happened, and I will have it in my life, and I will never be today."

"What happened to you later?" Although Zhuang Yan knew that Zhu Dekang had nothing to do with him, he wouldn't be sitting here and talking to himself today.

Still, I want to hear the end of the story.

Zhu Dekang said: "Someone called the police at the scene. I was arrested by the police and locked in the police station. I thought I was finished, and I didn't beg for mercy. The instructor at the police station was a cadre who was transferred to another job. He happened to be on duty that day. He heard about me from the policeman on duty, and then bought me a box of lunch and a bottle of mineral water, and sent it to the detention room for me to eat. I talked. I found out later that he was a transferred cadre from the 4th division of the local division. He used to be a political worker... Hehe, when I think about it, political workers are quite skilled in their ideological work..."

"He told me that there is no way out of the sky, and he said that I have read your files. The 1st division came out. What kind of troops are the 1st divisions? That's the awesome ace division, the soldiers who came out from there. They should all be good. Why can't you get along with yourself? If you really beat someone to death, you will be shot, is it worth it?"

As he talked, Zhu Dekang's tears could not stop, and swish dripped down from the corner of his eyes.

"I cried that day, I cried so hard, I was pulling the food into my mouth, and I was crying. It was like something was stuck in my throat, and I couldn't swallow it. I was so wronged! I was a soldier for five years. I didn't cry when I was a soldier, I didn't have a chance to go to the military academy, I didn't cry; I didn't mention that I was discharged from the army, I didn't cry; I went to fight the flood and went to rescue, I didn't cry... But I really cried that day, I cried It's not because I think life is hard, I'm not afraid of hardship, it's because I feel like a fool, I, a soldier who has been so good in the army, came back to the place and realized that I'm nothing. I can't do anything but shoot the enemy, sir. If you are like me, I can't even support myself, what kind of man I am!"

He reached out and wiped the corners of his eyes vigorously, letting him take another puff.

The smoke is gone again.

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

Zhuang Yan stopped him: "Don't smoke too much, it's not good for your health."

Zhu Dekang said: "Damn, my grandfather smoked until he was ninety-four years old. My uncle didn't smoke. He said it was scary to see my grandfather smoking, but he quit smoking. At the age of sixty-two, his blood vessels burst suddenly. People say It's gone."

Hearing the words solemnly, he didn't say anything more.

Zhu Dekang's temperament was seen when he was a soldier, and he was as stubborn as a piece of iron.

"Because of this, you later became a fishmonger, and then went into farming?" asked solemnly.

Zhu Dekang said: "Well~lightnovelpub.net~ I chatted with that instructor for a long time that day. Later, he interceded with me. They let me go and only paid a little medical expenses. After I came out, the detained items were gone. The instructor said, "Isn't your hometown from Nanwan Island? There are many fishermen there. You should just go and get some seafood to sell in the urban area every day, anyway, you can earn more than you sell fruit, and it's a ghost place on the wharf." , and no one cares about you."

"He showed me a clear path. After leaving the police station, I took my third-class merit medal and the flood-fighting medal and went to the beach. It was already night by then. I squatted on the beach and thought about it all night. In the end, I threw the third-class medals and medals into the sea, and went home and burned all my discharge documents. I set fire to it... I swear I will do something for others to see, I can't let others I'm flat. What is a man? A man is life. Even if there is a big mountain in front of me, I have to dig a way to walk through it. Even if a sea is made for me, I have to swim through it. I'll give you some color to see! People die in the sky, and they won't die for ten thousand years!"

Looking solemnly at his old monitor, he was completely stunned.

Think about what it means to suffer so much.

Soldiers who have returned from the army are equivalent to entering a new battlefield again.

This battlefield is called "society". Here, there is no gun smoke and no bullets, but there are invisible thorns and jungles. If you are not careful, you will stumble over your head and break your blood, or even fall into a deep valley and shatter your bones.

This veteran who has served the longest in the Eighth Company, this man who was once called "Pig Commander" by the entire Company, uses his stubborn personality to perfectly interpret what it means to be "a tough life needs no explanation"!