Heart fire

Since I raised my opinion last time, the food in the cafeteria has become much lighter in the past two days.It's hard for Lao Fang, an authentic northerner, to think hard and learn several Huaiyang dishes, such as boiled dried shredded silk, salted goose, whitebait soup, etc. He made three ding buns yesterday, and brought a few cooks with him today Although the lion's head is made loose and loose, it is no different from large meatballs, and there are no ingredients such as shrimp and crab powder, but it is better to use chicken soup to thicken it, and it has also won the unanimous agreement of the trainer. praise.

The army has strict regulations on the dining standards of soldiers. There are at least six dishes with meat and vegetables, and extra meals are required on weekends or holidays.Zhou Tong ate three bowls of rice and five big meatballs in one go, one of which was secretly entrusted to him by the instructor.After eating, I went back to take a nap contentedly. I had no other arrangements in the afternoon, so I went to play table tennis with Wu Wei and the others.

The boys exercise a lot of physical energy every day, and Zhou Tong is not the only one who can eat.On the contrary, Wen Yue ate this meal more reservedly than usual. He only ate half a bowl of rice and vegetables without any meat.Zhou Tong wondered what else he could do besides washing clothes, and then thought that he was preparing to apply for the correspondence examination recently, and he probably wanted to study by himself, so he didn't ask any more questions and let him go.

After dinner, Xi Yang took the USB drive back to the dormitory, intending to take a rest before going to the office to read the contents.When he entered the door, Tu Ke was paralyzed on the bed with his arm under his pillow, his boots still on, one foot on the ground, the other standing on the end of the bed, and he was looking at something with his mobile phone.

"Why don't you go to eat?" Xi Yang took off his T-shirt, went into the bathroom with his bare upper body and washed his face, came out to see Tu Ke and didn't respond, changed into clean clothes and went to the bed, bent down and poked him on the shoulder, Asked: "What are you looking at? So focused."

Tu Ke realized that someone had come in, took off the earphones and said "Huh?" After Xi Yang pulled the chair and sat down, he turned the phone in front of him, dragged the progress bar to the beginning, and turned on the sound output .

The quality of the video is not very clear, it looks like it was shot at a dinner party.On the opposite side of the camera, a young man with dark skin and a lean figure is sitting in the middle, with his arms naturally resting on the back of the chair next to him. The woman surrounded her, chatting with her in a low voice from time to time, behaving intimately.

And on the other side of them, there was a man with a square face wearing glasses, who ate the food in front of him in silence the whole time, pouring himself a drink, and even everyone booed and asked the person next to him to sing a song to cheer everyone up. , and never looked up.

"All right, all right, let's sing a song!" The young man couldn't bear the instigation, so he put down his chopsticks and stood up, looked at the woman beside him a little shyly, and said to everyone: "Sing you a song of love between me and my lover." .”

When the surroundings became quiet, he took a sip of tea from his cup, straightened his clothes and cleared his throat, and sang: "When time passes, it will never come back, and the past can only be reminisced. I recall my childhood as a bamboo horse and green plum. My childhood sweethearts accompany us day and night... ...."

I was embarrassed just now, and then I got into the mood while singing, became serious and affectionate, and held my wife's hand as if confessing.Now the people around were excited again, applause and whistle continued, and before he finished singing, they shouted loudly: "Oh, I'm so sour! Back then, if we knew that Xiao Tu secretly learned this kind of music, we should report him !"

"That's right!" The others immediately echoed with a smile: "I reported the novel together, this is covering up and conniving with 'Feng Zixiu'!" Then they asked: "Sister and sister, you are too easy to deceive! You are so deceived by him! You got it with a song?"

The singers yelled back one by one, pretending to be annoyed.The woman smiled without saying a word, a pair of amber-like and star-like eyeballs shimmered, and the other person saw them all.

......

The two people who live together day and night with sincerity and sincerity do not know each other's past very well. Occasionally, they talk lightly and briefly, as if the unhappiness and pain they experienced happened to others.Xi Yang didn't know what made Tu Ke suddenly want to dig out the accumulated past and invite him to share it. He expected to be lonely if he recalled it alone for a long time.

"Are these Auntie and Uncle Tu?" He asked Tu Ke.

Tu Ke said: "Well, this is a gathering of educated youths who went to the countryside together. It was recorded on a video camera many years ago. I was still very young at that time."

"Auntie is so beautiful, is she a Uyghur?" Xi Yang took a closer look and said, "The speaker team is quite recognizable. It hasn't changed much from now, but it's a little fatter."

Tu Ke didn't express any opinion on Jiang Xu when he was young, but explained lightly: "Tajik. Have you seen it? It tells the story of Tajik border guards. It's an old movie more than five years old."

Xi Yang shook his head, and said seriously: "I haven't seen it, let's organize everyone to watch it together when I have a chance."

"Actually, I don't know much. I haven't seen any relatives from my grandparents." Tu Ke put down his phone and sat up, leaning against the wall and looking out the window: "Tajiks are a small tribe living on the Pamirs. , with a total population of just over 3, is the only Caucasian minority in China, so they look like Europeans."

Xi Yang turned around and picked up the water glass on the table, making a questioning expression, Tu Ke waved his hand to signal no need.

"My dad and Jiang Xu grew up in the same yard. In the early 70s, we went to Taku together in Zhibian, where we lived in the homes of fellow villagers to help them earn work points. Later, when the college entrance examination resumed, Jiang Xu returned to the city to take the military academy exam. My dad Did not leave, stayed there to enlist in the army and married a fellow villager's daughter."

"The conditions there are very difficult, and they couldn't be transferred back to Beilin without Dao Xu's help, so my dad has always been very grateful and let me recognize him as a godfather." Speaking of this, Tu Ke smiled contemptuously. "It's ridiculous to think about it now. His motives were not pure from the beginning."

"I was in elementary school when my dad was sent to Cambodia in [-]. He didn't understand anything. He just left, and then he ran to my house with nothing to do. He even took me to the amusement park and bought me snacks and new products. Clothes. I liked him a lot then."

"[-]?" Xi Yang recalled, a little surprised. "Is it 'Blue Helmet'?"

"En." Tu Ke sighed, his eyes darkened. "It should be regarded as China's first real peacekeeping force. It was called the 'Military Engineering Brigade' at that time. My father's batch was peacekeeping police, and the other batch was engineering soldiers."

Xi Yang didn't want to ask any more about what happened afterwards, but Tu Ke continued to talk.

"I died in May of the following year, and the local armed forces attacked their camp with rockets. Ten days later, the body was sent back to China, and Dao Xu accompanied my mother to pick it up. The teacher called me to the office at noon that day. Without telling me what was the matter, he bought me a bowl full of rice and braised pork ribs, and bought me a bottle of Wahaha AD calcium milk. The principal and dean were there, and everyone watched me eat while crying.”

Xi Yang leaned forward and reached out to pat Tu Ke's knee.

"It's not easy to raise a child by yourself, don't hate your mother."

"There are too many children who are alone. She is a family member of a martyr. She has a unit and organizes to take care of her. It's not like she can't survive. Besides, if you can't find someone, you have to talk to Xu? Are you worthy of my dad?"

Tu Ke became more and more angry, and vomited like pouring beans.

"To be honest, I have always suspected that the two of them got married a long time ago. At that time, it was not easy to transfer. How many people have spent half their lives and tried their best to rely on relationships but couldn't come back. Why did Jiang Xu put in so much effort to help? How could she not Know the reason? My dad still trusts him so foolishly that he doesn’t even know if he lured wolves into the house.”

"My good brother stayed at someone's house before his bones were cold, and took over his wife. My grandma didn't like my mother in the first place. After knowing it, she was so angry that she couldn't get sick, and she doesn't let them in. This kind of moral corruption and treachery People who are worthy of climbing to today's position? Ha ha."

It is impossible to untie such a knot in the heart for a while, and it is impossible for others to persuade.Feeling the hatred in Tu Ke's eyes, Xi Yang heard him scolding "dog man and woman" in a low voice, so he asked: "You hate the lecture team so much and you don't want to see him, why do you come to do firefighting?"

"I want to be a special police officer like my dad." Tu Ke said nonchalantly: "But I can't swallow this breath. They are already married, and I can't break them up. I just come here to add trouble to him and see how angry he is." I feel very comfortable in my heart even if I don’t dare to get angry.”

Childish...Xi Yang smiled helplessly: "Why bother."

"Oh, that's fine, don't talk about me." Tu Ke took off the glove hanging at the end of the bed, put it on and punched the air twice. "What about you? Why did you give up going to the art troupe at that time? How quickly the art troupe got promoted, danced, participated in a competition and made meritorious deeds, by now you must be a teacher."

Xi Yang caught the other glove thrown by him, and said with a smile: "I have enough memories today, let me digest it first. My things are not interesting, they are all in the past, so don't mention them."

Tu Ke didn't ask any more questions. He glanced at the clock on the wall, dropped his gloves, got up and changed into a pair of sports shorts.

"Where are you going?" Xi Yang took out the USB flash drive and shook it in front of him. "Qunfang sent over the information, do you want to have a look?"

"Later." Tu Ke put on his pants, then bent down to fasten the loose shoelaces. "I'm going to the training room."

"Going to practice boxing again?"

Tu Ke put his hands in his pockets and wandered to the door: "Go teach the little raccoon how to punch." He opened the door, took half a step and then turned around and asked, "Hey, are you doing laundry today? Wash two for me too." ah."

As soon as he spoke, he was hit by a flying glove on the back. Xi Yang looked at him coldly: "I can only help share the copywriting work and housekeeping. You choose."

"Understood, Comrade Instructor!" Tu Ke curled his lips and complained, "It's really inconsiderate" and quickly slipped away before the other glove hit him.

...

At 45:[-], Zhou Tong woke up and went to the playground with his teammates with his table tennis bat.Xiao Bian, who was full of food and drink, followed behind them, found a sunny corner and lay down on his stomach, listening to a few young men laughing and frolicking energetically while taking a nap.Tu Ke thought that Wen Yue would show up on time, but he heard his small but clear singing voice just as he arrived at the door of the training room.

In the hot afternoon, the air was steaming, and Wu Nong's soft words, which I couldn't understand, were like the fragrance of flowers mixed in the heat wave, and also like the trickle of water in summer, flowing straight into the heart of the heart.Tu Ke stopped outside the door until 5 minutes after the appointed time, when the singing stopped abruptly. Then he quickly collected himself, opened the door and saw that Wen Yue, who was wearing a camouflage T-shirt and shorts, was squatting on the ground with a piece of Wipe exercise equipment with a damp cloth.

Tu Ke: "..."

Hearing the movement, Wen Yue got up quickly, clutching the rag, smiling at Tu Ke excitedly but restrainedly.

"Team Tu!"

Tu Ke nodded slightly, avoided his gaze unnaturally, sat down on the bench by the boxing ring, picked up a bundle of skipping ropes and threw it over.

"Didn't you eat much at noon?"

Wen Yue caught the skipping rope, quickly hung the rag aside, and shook her head desperately: "No, I ate half a bowl of rice."

"That's good." Tu Ke looked him over from head to toe. "First jump the rope for 10 minutes. The speed should be fast, and the jumps should be crossed. After the jump, do one hundred push-ups, 25 in a group, and the rest in the middle should not exceed ten seconds."

"Oh." Wen Yue nodded obediently, untied the skipping rope and hung it on his body, moved his wrists and ankles first, and then jumped up and down like a bunny.

Seeing him jump a few times, Tu Ke frowned, got up and called to stop, stretched out his hand to get over the skipping rope, glared at him and said, "Stay away."

After hearing and reading, he realized that he quickly took two steps back, only to see that his feet were alternating, the frequency was so fast that he couldn't see clearly, and he quickly set a demonstration for himself.

"This speed, do you understand?"

"Understood." Wen Yue quickly grasped the essentials, then took a deep breath, took back the skipping rope and turned slightly sideways, and swung it back suddenly to start, but suddenly felt that the rope was caught by something and couldn't be thrown. Looking back, It turned out that it was accidentally caught on Tu Ke who hadn't had time to avoid it.

Tu Ke's back was so painful from the pumping that he gasped, grinding his teeth and wanting to hit someone.

Wen Yue quickly turned around, stood on tiptoe and took off the skipping rope around his head: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Then he said to him very anxiously: "You...stay away."

Tu Ke resisted the urge to kick him away, and cursed in his heart: You just stay away, please!

It only took 10 minutes to do a set of warm-ups. Anyway, I have been a soldier for half a year, and my physical fitness is not too bad.Tu Ke found a pair of foot protectors of the same size for Wen Yue, watched him wear them and said to him: "If you want to learn boxing, you must practice the basic skills well. Strength, speed, flexibility, endurance, and coordination are all indispensable. Nothing much Jumping and skipping rope, one foot, double shaking, high leg raising, etc., mastering the rhythm and constantly changing."

Wen Yue listened and memorized it in my heart.Tu Ke also said: "You have to keep in mind a few points. First, learn to relax. Only when you relax can you maintain explosive power. Second, don't be afraid. Don't close your eyes as soon as you feel danger. You must force yourself to get rid of this habitual nerve. reaction."

When Wen Yue heard it, he immediately widened his eyes subconsciously.

"Third, you can't just attack but not defend. Beginners will make this mistake. They always want to knock down the opponent as soon as possible, which will easily expose their weaknesses and lose their physical strength. Defense is the highest skill in boxing, and the quick counterattack after defense is the most deadly. most beautiful."

"En!" Seeing that Tu Ke was rarely so serious and patient, Wen Yue encouraged himself in his heart. "I remember, and I will work hard. Thank you, Master!"

Just as Tu Ke was about to get up, he almost fell off the bench: "...Who is your master."

"You." Wen Yue grinned, revealing a row of neat white teeth, and asked him, "Do I have any other senior brothers?"

Seeing his innocent and lovely face, Tu Ke couldn't laugh or cry. Just as he wanted to tease him about the big brother, the second senior brother and the third junior brother, you think I am Ip Man or Tang Seng, and this rare interest and relaxed atmosphere was suddenly sharpened. The alarm bells broke.

Wen Yue's reaction was even half a second faster than Tu Ke's.

"Master! The police are out!"