gray love

My name is Hui Hao.

In the New Year of 2017, I was at a phone booth in a small town on Hainan Island, and I heard the confession of my beloved.

At that time, the sound of firecrackers was strong, the road was deserted, and the sky was full of stars talking softly. At that time, there was the smell of the sea from all directions, the fragrance of freshly cooked dumplings, and the hard-working countdown by the host on the TV station. At that time, no one paid attention to our love.

Confession from afar, I am in the ends of the earth, shed tears for a sea mile.

"Why did you call me?" Xiao was still struggling with this question.

I woke up suddenly and said in a panic: "I'm sorry, teacher, I let you down, I, I became a deserter..."

"I guessed it, so, now... where are you going to escape to?" I couldn't hear whether there was sullenness or... other emotions in her tone, I hesitated for a long time but couldn't say a word.

"Where are you running to!" she suddenly shouted, her voice sharp and rapid.

"I...I'll go back, don't be angry, I was wrong, I was wrong, I'll go back right away..." I said in horror.

"If you haven't trained to become a Chinese soldier, don't let me see you like a bear again!" Xiao, who has never cursed, swears again.

"Okay, I'll go back now."

I quickly hung up the phone, picked up the T-shirt and ran to the barracks.

Back to the dormitory smoothly, lying on the bed tiredly, the sound of the beating heart circling in my ears.

The next day, I came to the training ground early, and the instructor was already waiting there unexpectedly.

Military posture, salute.

The instructor nodded at me, I put down my hands, and continued to stand in a military posture. The instructor stared at me and kept walking. After a while, he said, "Where did you go last night?"

I opened my eyes wide, did not dare to move, and still maintained a military posture.

"say!"

With an order, I moved my lips: "Report to the instructor, I have escaped."

The instructor snorted softly and said, "I knew it, but...why did you come back again?"

"I..." I hesitated and said, "Because, I want to fulfill my promise."

"Promise? Ha ha." He smiled, "A deserter like you still has a promise?"

I didn't speak, I had nothing to say.

"Go to that car and wait." The instructor pointed to the military off-road vehicle parked at the door.

I froze for a moment, thinking that I must be fired.

"Go! What are you doing in a daze!" The instructor roared, and I ran over quickly.

The instructor drove me to the beach, and then boarded a military speedboat.

The sea wind was very strong and the waves were also very fast. I sat in the side seat in a well-behaved manner, not daring to make a sound.

We arrived at an island. The island was small but there were many soldiers guarding it.

The instructor took me close to those soldiers, and after saluting and greeting them, he pointed to these soldiers and said to me: "This one, I haven't been home for four years, and the children don't know my father anymore. This one, don't you come home?" Look at him, he is only 25 years old, when he came here he was getting married with his fiancée Zhang Luozhuo, but when the army ordered him to come here to guard the island, he came here, and his fiancée also ran away..."

"Oh, Dabao, what are you talking about? Don't bring up the sad things." They joked beside them, and the instructor still said sternly: "That big tall one."

He pointed to the soldiers working in the distance.

"When the situation in the South China Sea was severe, his mother passed away, and he was sent to guard a border island. He didn't say a word, and went with the obituary letter. One night, his comrades went out to breathe and saw him on duty. Standing at his post, motionless, facing the sea, weeping, a man who is only 1.8 meters high is crying like a woman!"

The atmosphere was silent, and there were no more jokers, and my tears fell.

"Did you see that dog?" He pointed to a police dog led by another soldier.

"It wasn't just this one, but the other dogs were all crazy, driven crazy by this island!"

"They also have family members, they also want to celebrate the New Year, they also want to go back and date their girlfriends, and they also want to reunite with their wives and children, but! When the country needs them, they rush forward without hesitation. Only a country can have a home. Chinese soldiers , no deserters!"

Eight days later, I retired.

From a distance, I saw Xiao who was waiting at the airport pick-up gate. Her dignified, beautiful and elegant charm had deeply infected me even when we were far away from her.

I walked in front of her, and before I had time to smile, I suddenly gave her a military salute.

She smiled moved and said softly, "Welcome back."

I put down my hand, looked at her with clear eyes, and smiled slightly.

"Oh." She suddenly pinched my cheek and said distressedly, "How did Wuli Xiaoxian become a Baogong? Oh, he's still skinny."

"Teacher, have you watched too many Korean dramas this winter vacation?" I rubbed my aching face.

She stared at me dotingly, then suddenly stretched out a hand to wrap around my arm and said, "Let's go, go back and cook something delicious for you."

When I got home, she went to work in the kitchen. I took a shower, changed my clothes, and walked to her side.

"May I help, teacher."

She took one look at me and said, "You'd be doing me a favor by going to bed or sitting on the couch for a while."

"No, how could I have the heart..." I paused and said slyly, "Let my wife work here alone?"

"Are you going?" She suddenly picked up the kitchen knife in her hand, threatening me.

I ran out in a hurry and sat on the sofa obediently.

A table of sumptuous meals seduced my gluttons, I put a piece of meat in my mouth, full of praise.

"I didn't expect classmate Yu Xiao, who is 23 years old, to have such superb cooking skills. Why didn't I find out before?"

"You were blind before." Xiao Bian angrily walked to the kitchen to pick up a can of beer.

"Hey, teacher wants to drink?" I was surprised.

"What's wrong? Can't you celebrate that you haven't trained like a bear? Don't you dare to drink?" She handed a can of beer to my eyes.

I reached out to take it, pulled the tab, raised my head and drank it chicly.

"Hey! Don't drink so hard, your stomach won't work." She stepped forward to grab the beer in my hand in panic.

As soon as I snatched the beer away, I suddenly put my other hand around her waist, and when we were only a finger away, I buried my head and kissed her.

Her body trembled slightly, her amber pupils dilated slightly, her hand that snatched the beer was still in the air, but the hormones spread quietly around her.

Just a superficial touch, trembling, gently touching the beauty's tenderness, I quietly left her.

"Linglong dice An Hongdou, do you know about lovesickness?" I said lightly, and she exhaled like blue.

"Forcibly kissing me and saying such tiresome words again, are you disgusted?" She tapped my forehead with her finger.

I smiled and said: "You are fragrant like jade, jade is clean and ice-clear, beautiful and unconventional, even though I am ugly and hideous, I can still be fascinated by you, subtly influenced by you."

"Okay, okay, let's eat." She handed me the beer, and just as I was about to catch it, she suddenly pulled her hand away, "The flowers are half-opened, and the wine is slightly drunk, Mr. Hui must not be drunk Crazy, crazy and impermanent."

I reached for a beer and put it on the table and said, "What the teacher teaches is that the students follow the instruction."

"Eat quickly, don't eat cold anymore." She said and sat down.

I also sat down and said: "Actually, I have always had a question. You became one of the head teachers of our provincial key school at such a young age. How did you do it?"

She raised her head and thought for a while and said, "First, I go to school early, second, I have a high IQ, and third, I am hardworking."

"It's not like you," she pointed at me, "you're stupid, you haven't graduated from high school yet."

"Hey, it's because...you know..." I said aggrievedly.

"Because you're flirting with girls all day long, so you don't focus on your studies, do you?" She said intentionally.

"Ah!" I sighed, "Fortunately, I got one, otherwise it would be a waste of time to get nothing."

"Eating can't stop your mouth!" Xiao Xiao took a quail egg and stuffed it into my mouth.

The next day, the first Chinese class on the first day of school.

"Today, I don't give lectures."

Xiao Xiao's first sentence on the podium caused quite a stir in the audience, but her second sentence caused a huge stir in me.

"I decided to ask Huihao to give this class and tell her life as a special soldier this winter vacation. Everyone applauds."

There was a story to listen to, and the students in the audience applauded vigorously, and I stood up blankly.

Riding a tiger is hard to get off, Xiao tricked me onto the back of the tiger, and it was hard for me to refuse.So, I strode to the podium.

"I... I'm not actually a qualified soldier. I can only be considered a deserter. I ran away the night before the Chinese New Year. I thought I was the one who suffered the most. In the barracks, I was the only one who was training endlessly. , Get up at 05:30 every morning, run 10 meters with a load of 5000 kg, train up and down the hook ladder 100 times at 30 o'clock, cross the 100-meter barbed wire back and forth 01 times, go to the open-air pool to practice swimming in military uniform at 30 o'clock, and do sun exposure at 47:2 in the afternoon Physical training: hold the Ak1 flat, hang a brick with a rope at the muzzle of the gun, and sit in the sun for 10 hours without moving. Target for 5000 hour, and then practice inverted skills, Sanda, equipment fighting, etc. Half an hour after the meal, continue to run 1000 meters with a weight of [-] kg. After returning, I will do fighting training. I will not be allowed to sleep until the instructor is satisfied. During the day when I was a deserter, I just did a simplified version of the Chinese-style triathlon. It is said that the simplified version actually shortens the swimming distance by [-] meters. I trained like a real soldier. In the end, I couldn’t hold on and ran away, but halfway I found my conscience , went back again. The next day, the first day of the Lunar New Year, I thought that I escaped without anyone noticing and then abandoned, but I was wrong, my instructor saw me through, and he didn’t beat me. He didn’t scold me, he took me to an island, that island, hehe, was so barren that there were no residents, it was the border of China, guarded by soldiers, my instructor pointed at those soldiers, and told me about them one by one The story, they... haven't been home for a long time, many of them can't see the last side of their parents, can't see the first side of their children, what they can see is the imaginary mainland of the motherland and the vast endless ocean. The South China Sea, every inch of China's land is guarded by them with their iron bones and endless blood. They are there wherever the country needs them. There are no deserters in Chinese soldiers. This is what I have seen with my own eyes. They were also deeply fused into their own flesh and blood. Although I am not a real soldier, I almost humiliated the Chinese soldiers when I escaped. Therefore, I am not a soldier. I am ashamed of my motherland! I listen to articles on the Internet that misinterpret Chinese soldiers out of context. There are trolls everywhere, but Chinese soldiers are always ready to sacrifice everything in times of crisis. If there is a day when the country is in trouble and the territory is stared at by robbers and bandits, I will definitely be obliged At that time, I believed that I would be a good soldier and would not make the same mistakes I made when I was young and ignorant. I would definitely destroy my family to relieve difficulties and serve the country faithfully! The last few days are mostly field survival training, bring a day Survive in the wild for two days with only enough food, and carry □□@ ammunition and survival supplies for training. On the way, you have to perform the breakout, counter-breakout, and enemy reconnaissance prepared by the instructor. After returning successfully, I thought the last day would be Ordinary training and farewell meeting, but unexpectedly, when I woke up, I was kidnapped. On a boat, my hands and feet were tightly bound. I realized that this should be training. So when I regained my strength, I clearly Remembering the advice given to me by the instructor, I squirmed and crawled, grinding the rope with the edge of the corner of the table. Later, I found that it was impossible, the rope did not move at all. At this moment, I suddenly discovered that there were glass windows on this fishing boat. I stood up vigorously and used it. I smashed the glass with my head and cut the rope with glass stubble. After running out, I was almost stunned, surrounded by the sea. Judging the position of the land based on the wind direction and ocean currents, I suddenly realized, jumped into the sea without hesitation, and swam in one direction.I made it.Unexpectedly, my head was not punctured by the glass stubble, and I came back without any injuries.Everyone in the barracks gave me a farewell farewell. Before leaving, I gave a military salute to the instructor. At that moment, I saw a Chinese soldier and a passionate man with red eyes for the first time. At that moment, I knew that my instructor , the unsmiling instructor on weekdays, he hasn't been home for... six years. "

I raised my head to hold back my tears, and there was thunderous applause from the audience.

"thank you all."

I performed the military salute again, and the last military salute brought my military life to an end.