Xin Zhai

The four girls were a little tired at the moment, and the backpacks on their shoulders were getting heavier and heavier. They trotted a few steps and kept up with the team.

"Which one of you is tired, you can give me your backpack." Tong Yan asked, "Liu Na?"

"no need."

"Lin Congshan? Are you tired?"

Lin Congshan shook her head, but her pace was obviously slow, she refused for a long time, but Tong Yan still took the backpack away and carried it on her shoulder.He walked quickly to the front of the line.

Ye Li walked in the front of the team, the flag on his shoulder fluttering in the wind.Tong Yan looked at the boys in the team and shouted, "Pu Liang, help Ye Li resist the flag."

"okay."

Pu Liang walked to Ye Li's side and said in a low voice, "Look, Teacher Tong has already spoken, I should have replaced you just now."

"Give it to me when you're tired."

Ye Li gave the flag to Pu Liang, and took out water from the side of the backpack to drink.The temperature was not high at night, but after walking for so long, Ye Li was still sweating a little.He moved his arms again, relaxing his stiff shoulders.

"Is it heavy?" Tong Yan asked beside him.

Ye Li said "It's okay".This flag is indeed not light, and when the sea breeze blows, it is even more vigorous, and the pressure on the collarbone hurts.

Tong Yan didn't speak, and followed Ye Li.Ye Li is relatively introverted and doesn't know much about talking.The group of girls just now seemed to have been chatting with Tong Yan, but he didn't know what to say to the head teacher he hadn't known for a long time when he came to him, so he had to lower his head and look at the feet of the person in front of him as he walked forward.

"Teacher Tong, what time does it take to finish the walk? I just asked the instructor and he ignored me." Shi Jingchen asked.

"It's early."

"Ah!" Shi Jingchen shouted, "My feet hurt."

Tong Yan ignored him, and asked Ye Li in a low voice: "At the class meeting after the military training, you should run for class leader."

Ye Li was startled: "I've never been a monitor before."

"In fact, it is to serve everyone. I said last time that I was running for class cadres. I don't think everyone is very active."

"Why don't you let Pu Liang come... He is very popular, and within a few days he even knows people from other classes."

"I want you to be you." Tong Yan glared, and his tone suddenly became serious, "It's because you don't like talking that you need to exercise more."

Ye Li let out an "oh", and seeing him with a sullen face, he thought for a while that the squad leader was really not good, he was just running errands to spread the word.It's not that he doesn't want to do these things, so he regretted the refusal he made just now, and quickly said, "Then I will."

Tong Yan's tone softened, and he said, "I want to let Liu Na come first, the party secretary. If there is anything like this, both boys and girls will be in charge. You should communicate with her more."

"Ah."

At this moment, Liu Na shouted from behind: "Teacher Tong, two girls have fallen behind."

Tong Yan stopped, and instructor Zhang said next to him: "Try not to fall behind. After the end, we need to gather the number of people and count them into the results. I'll go and see."

Ye Li turned around and saw that Tong Yan and the instructor were gone.He breathed a sigh of relief, talking to the class teacher, his heart was always tense.

At this time, they had been walking for nearly two hours, and students who fell behind began to appear on both sides of the line.Ye Li walked to the front, replaced Pu Liang, and carried the flag again.

At some point, there was a boy from a different class in front of the team, and an old-fashioned player was stuffed into his backpack.The singing came from inside. Although the sound quality was poor, it sounded particularly pleasant in the early morning training team.

"One step, two steps, three steps, four steps

looking at the sky and the stars

One, two, three, and four are connected into a line..."

Shi Jingchen who was on the side suddenly shouted: "My God, can I change this old song!"

Ye Li subconsciously looked up at the sky, there were many stars hanging in the blue night sky.He had never thought this song was so good, as if he suddenly heard a lot of hidden melodies.

"Turn left ahead, keep up and don't fall behind." The instructor shouted from behind.

A crossroad appeared ahead, and the whole team turned left along the intersection and entered another wider road.

Ye Li looked at his watch, it was two twenty in the morning.

Just now he heard the instructor say that it would be five o'clock to finish the work, so he guessed that now he was going to go back, that is to say, he had only gone half of the journey, and the difficult time had just begun.

He changed his shoulder to resist the flag, and at this time the little toe of his left foot felt a little pain.After long walks, the slightest discomfort in shoes can be multiplied.

Everyone also gradually lost the spirit of the beginning, and their steps began to procrastinate.

"How far is it, instructor?" Zhou Shi asked.

Instructor Zhang said, "It's not far away."

At this time, Tong Yan ran up from behind with Liu Na and Lin Congshan.

Instructor Zhang walked to Liu Na: "Give me the backpack."

Liu Na has always had a bad impression of this devil instructor, and she is very embarrassed at the moment, but the backpack weighs at least five or six catties, and it is indeed unknown whether she can keep up with the team while carrying it like this.

Seeing that she didn't speak, the instructor said again: "Give it to me. The most important thing is that you don't fall behind. Points will be deducted for anyone who loses. At the end of the military training, the whole school will be ranked to commend the outstanding company."

Upon hearing this, Liu Na handed over her backpack to him.When the others heard this, they all stepped up.At this moment, Zhou Lei came over to fight the flag for Ye Li, and everyone began to take out the things they had prepared in advance to replenish their energy.

Tong Yan walked to the front of the line, took out food from his pocket, and handed it to Ye Puliang and Zhou Lei.Then he walked to Ye Li's side and handed the things in his hand to him.Ye Li took it over and saw that it was a piece of chocolate.

Because it is a snack for the class teacher, it naturally has a different meaning.Shi Jingchen shouted: "Teacher Tong, I want it too!"

Tong Yan said: "Then you come and carry the flag."

"Just carry it." Shi Jingchen walked to the front, snatched the flag from Zhou Lei, and cursed as soon as he put it on his shoulder, "Damn, it's so fucking heavy."

Everyone couldn't help laughing at him, and Su Xiaoqian whispered from behind: "Counsel."

Shi Jingchen turned his head: "I wipe, you come?"

"I'll come, I'll come!" Su Xiaoqian was about to go up, but Pu Liang pushed him down.

"Don't bully the children."

Shi Jingchen let out a "cut", and strode up.

I don't know if it was because he was tired, but Ye Li felt that the return journey was dark and long without any scenery.The toes on my left foot are getting more and more painful, and every step I take in the back is pulling my nerves.Many students who fell behind along the way walked with a limp, and most of them had blisters from grinding.Although Pu Liang, Zhou Lei and Shi Jingchen helped him take turns to resist the flag, but because the instructor entrusted him with this job at first, Ye Li secretly made up his mind to fight until the end.

At 03:30 in the morning, few people in the line spoke.Everyone struggles with physical exhaustion and discomfort.Ye Li couldn't feel the pain in his feet anymore, what would torture him was the flag on his shoulder, which pressed his collarbone to the point of cracking.The person who played the music before didn't know where to go now, or the speaker may be out of power.In the team, there are only "dada" footsteps and the occasional voice of the instructor.Among the four girls, Liu Na and Lin Congshan are small, and it has been very painful to follow.

After a while, the sky in the east overflowed with milky white.It's dawn.

The morning delivery trucks appeared on the road that had been empty of cars.Ye Li heard Tong Yan, who was walking behind, say to the girl: "If you can't keep up, go slowly, it's okay."

Pu Liang drank the last bit of water in the bottle and replaced Ye Li.

At this moment, Ye Li's bones began to ache, especially his shoulders and hips.Originally a line of six people, now stretched into a long line.Everyone dropped their helmets and armor one by one and dragged their feet.Instructor Zhang seemed quite relaxed.Ye Li looked back, but couldn't find Tong Yan and Liu Na Lin Congshan, they probably fell down.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, Ye Li saw a familiar intersection. A large reddish-brown school gate stands in the distance.

"Fuck, it's finally here." Shi Jingchen said excitedly when he saw the school gate suddenly after he hadn't spoken for a long time.

The instructor shouted from the side: "The last two kilometers, everyone, come on."

"what……"

Only then did the students realize that the school gate is not the end point, but the playground in the dormitory area is.

People say that half a hundred miles is ninety.It seems that the last two kilometers will never be finished.It is obviously a familiar road, and the end point is waiting there, but every step is very difficult.There are students stopping constantly on the side of the road.When Ye Li entered the school gate, the toes of his left foot suddenly started to hurt sharply.He endured for more than ten meters, and he couldn't stand it anymore, so he wanted to stop and take off his shoes to have a look.As soon as he took off his shoes, he noticed a patch of red on the sock where the little toe of his left foot was.He probably had a blood blister, and then the blister was worn out.

Ye Li glanced at the team in front, Zhou Lei was carrying the flag, while Pu Liang and Su Xiaoqian were looking back at him.

Ye Li gritted his teeth, took off the sock on his left foot, and chased after him with his bare foot.Although stepping on the ground like this is annoying, it is better than being rubbed against the wound.

"Is this okay?" Pu Liang asked.

"No problem, we'll be there soon."

Finally, when we arrived at the assembly playground, the first thing we did was roll call and count the number of people.Everyone sat on the ground and felt nothing when they walked. Once they sat down, they couldn't move anymore.

The roll call ended, and 33 people came back from Class [-] on time, and it turned out that they were short of two girls.

"Okay, there is no training this morning, we will gather at three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone, go back and have a rest."

Everyone unloaded their backpacks, took off their shoes and sat on the playground.The instructor urged everyone to go back and rest.After a while, people with strength began to walk towards the dormitory building one after another.

Ye Li sat on the ground and saw Tong Yan walking over with Liu Na and Lin Congshan.Instructor Zhang and Ye Li returned their backpacks to them.

Lin Congshan asked: "Have you finished the roll call?"

The instructor said: "The order is over."

"Okay, go back to sleep." Tong Yan ordered.

Lin Congshan stood still in front of Tong Yan, with her head lowered, and suddenly reached out her hand and wiped her eyes.

Tong Yan was taken aback for a moment, tilted his head to look at her face carefully, and sure enough, his eyes were full of tears.

He smiled: "Why? As for what? What a big deal."

Lin Congshan raised her head.Ye Li really saw the sparkle in her eyes, he was a little puzzled, why do girls cry so much?

"Teacher Tong helped me carry my backpack from the very beginning, and kept cheering me on..." Lin Congshan was a little excited, and her words twitched, "But I'm still holding back our class..."

"You're great, but you're only a few minutes late. You can see that many boys have already fallen behind." Tong Yan persuaded her.Liu Na on the side also said: "Don't cry, it's okay, I am the same."

After hearing this, Lin Congshan lowered her head again, her shoulders still heaving together.

Tong Yan raised his head, sighed, looked around, saw Ye Li who was sitting beside him, then lowered his head and said to Lin Congshan: "It's only two people who lost, and the final report performance is more important."

Lin Congshan heard that there was still hope, and raised her head to look at Tong Yan.

"Besides, I never asked you to take the excellent group of military training, understand?"

Lin Congshan nodded and said "Understood".

Seeing the two girls turn and leave, Tong Yan walked over.

"What are you doing here?"

Ye Li sat on the ground with his arms on his knees, and looked up at him.At this time, Tong Yan was very tall and was looking at him intently.

Ye Li suddenly didn't know what to say, his brain seemed to be too tired to turn, and finally he said: "I can't move."

Tong Yan glanced at his bare foot, stretched out his right hand, and handed it to Ye Li.

Ye Li had no choice but to extend his hand, and just as he held Tong Yan, he pulled him up.

"Go back." Tong Yan let go of his hand, his voice was a little hoarse, and he didn't have much strength to speak.

Ye Li thought, he also walked for almost five hours like us.

"You should also go back and sleep for a while."

Tong Yan gave a "hmm" and looked down at the socks and shoes on Ye Li's left hand.Ye Li lowered his head and picked up his backpack, smiled at him, turned and walked towards the dormitory building.

After walking a few steps, Ye Li realized that he seemed a little sleepy.