Preface: Usually, people who have lived for most of their lives but have not achieved anything and are not motivated will blame their mediocrity. Because the previous generation failed to leave considerable wealth for themselves or did not leave good resources and platforms for themselves, they will lose at the starting line to excuse themselves for their incompetence and incompetence, so as to comfort themselves that they can continue to do nothing. This mentality of giving up will never understand the meaning of the sentence "Born origin cannot determine destiny".

Although we cannot choose our origin, we can change our destiny through acquired efforts. From the day when we know that we feel sorry for our parents and want to share the burden for our family, know how to start thinking about the future, know how to spend all our efforts to change the status quo and make a brave choice, until the next ten years, it is the best time for us to change our destiny. This is the "overshooting period" that can win life through acquired efforts. This is also the "first decade" that officially begins in our life. The fairness of our destiny is, so don't complain or complain.

The person who gave you flesh and blood will be enough to be grateful for. As for the future path, we have to walk ourselves. On this road, we have to bear all the fruits we plant ourselves.

Feng Yan, Hei Zi Mo, Yang Sao, Lin Luo, they are very good friends. This time they were blocked, they didn't have to think about it. Yang Sao caused trouble. The other three followed him as cannon fodder. They were implicated by him since the first day they met Yang Sao. Since then, they have wiped Yang Sao's butt every now and then as cannon fodder, so they have long been used to it. In Yang Sao's words, "Who made us brothers?",,,,,, The four of them dared to get up after looking at the vicious background.

"Flea, what's wrong with you? I'll be scolded again this time." Lin Luo, the most honest of the four, covered half of the face with one hand and looked at Yang Sao, who was bent down and slapped his footprints on his body with a complaining look.

"It's okay?" The oldest Heizi Mo hurriedly reached out and helped Feng Yan up, and then taught Yang Sao a lesson:

"You dead flea, do you think you are so old, can you calm down? Our medical expenses this year can be much higher than the tuition fee." Heizimo has long had an opinion on Yang Sao's character of repeatedly persuading others to persuade him.

Yang Sao curled his lips at Heizimo and saw that only Feng Yan did not blame him. He hugged Feng Yan's neck, which had not yet stood firm. He was about to speak and was criticized by Feng Yan's words: Get up and go back:

"Tsk, three girls." Yang Sao shook his arms and walked without looking back, muttering in a low voice. In exchange for the three of them chasing them.

The four brothers who had just been beaten chased Xiang Fengyan, and Heizimo and Yang Sao went to the rental house where Heizimo lived together. The landlord of the rental house was an 80-year-old veteran who participated in the Jinan Battle and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. Feng Yan and the others called him Grandpa Dong. Grandpa Dong had a daughter at the age of 45. His wife died of dyspa. His only daughter held a house in the city, an hour away from the county town. His grandson was ten years old this year. His daughter and son-in-law felt that Grandpa Dong was old and he was worried that he would live again and again. However, Grandpa Dong refused every time. It happened that the Feng Yan brothers and the three met Grandpa Dong while looking for a temporary rental house near the school for the sake of the accommodation fee for hotels. From then on, the fate of the grandpa and the grandpa began.

Yang Sao carefully opened the door and glanced secretly into the yard. Seeing Grandpa Dong lying on the chair and was asleep, he turned around and waved to the three people outside to signal that they could come in. When the four people just entered the yard and were about to go upstairs, a lazy but resolute voice fixed the four people: "The old problem has happened again,,," Grandpa Dong didn't even make any effort to shake the fan in his hand to signal them to come over. Seeing this, the four people could only walk over obediently.

Four people stood in front of Grandpa Dong in a row. Grandpa Dong leaned on the rocking chair and opened his eyes slightly to see the dirt-faced people in front of him, feeling distressed and angry.

: "You three stand there." Grandpa Dong pointed at Heizi Mo Fengyan and Lin Luo and asked them to stop away from Yang Saoyuan and then looked at Yang Saoqing's face, "Are you addicted to fighting?,,, You don't eat alone, you are beaten and even take your own brothers."

"Old Chief,"

"I think you're being beaten lightly, I'm not a good person all day long." Grandpa Dong interrupted Yang Sao's words

"Grandpa, I,,," Yang Sao lowered his head and secretly glanced at Grandpa Dong as soon as he was about to say something, but Grandpa Dong reached out to stop him. Grandpa Dong turned his face to look at the other three: "Look at you, you are all ten** years old,,,,,,,,,"

"Yang Sao, don't you feel sorry for your brother? How many times have I told you that this is a few skin trauma. If something really happens, it will be too late to regret it."

Grandpa Dong was a little excited at this time. In the past two years, the other three were implicated because of Yang Sao. Every time, Grandpa Dong patiently advised them not to do this next time. However, Grandpa Dong had been hardworking for two years and had no effect at all. He couldn't help but feel a little angry. However, facing the four young men in front of him who already had independent thinking and were in adolescence, Grandpa Dong was also helpless and didn't know where to start to educate them.,,,

Grandpa Dong saw that several people were lowering their heads and waving their hands to signal them to sit down: "Grandpa usually talks about you, are you annoying?"

"Don't say that grandpa, we are not children, we know you are doing it for our own good." Heizimo said while signaling Yang Sao with his eyes. The clever Yang Sao quickly echoed: "Grandpa, I was wrong, don't be angry, I promise to change it in the future." Yang Sao's words were exchanged for the unanimous contempt of the other brothers and three. It can be seen that Yang Sao's image in the hearts of other brothers and three is not ordinary jokes.

Grandpa Dong paused thoughtfully: "Grandpa knows that you are all children with good personalities. You are young, and grandpa has been young. Grandpa also had a group of good brothers in the army when you were as old as you, and they were good brothers who lived and died."

"Is that so? I haven't heard you say it, Grandpa."

"Yes, grandpa, you have never told us about your military service. Let me tell us."

Grandpa Dong saw that they had become curious and was secretly happy. In fact, Grandpa Dong was reluctant to mention the past and even had some taboos. So even his daughter had never heard of his father's experience in the army. However, facing these young and frivolous young men, Grandpa Dong loved him, for fear that they would go the wrong way, so he wanted to try to indirectly transmit the correct values ​​to them in this way.

"You really want to hear it?"

"We want to hear it," the four of them replied in unison.

"Okay, grandpa will tell you today,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

remember:

"Dong Wu"

"arrive"

"Zhang Shijie"

"arrive"

"Wang An"

"arrive"

"Li Gui"

"arrive"

"You four will go to the dormitory with the third squad leader and he will arrange beds for you."

"Hello squad leader"

The third squad leader saluted to the four thin boys who were also facing him: "Everyone has, stand at attention, rest,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

"Hey, my name is Zhang Shijie, nineteen years old, what are your names?" The tall and thin man who walked in the front secretly turned his face back while kicking his irregular stance.

"My name is Wang An, twenty-two years old"

"My name is Dong Wu, eighteen years old"

"My name is Li Gui, eighteen years old"

"Wang An, why did you become a soldier when you are so old?"

"I'm happy, can I control it?"

"You can't escape the marriage, haha, oh!"

"What are you doing? Let's go well!" The Manjushri squad leader who was walking in front stopped hearing Zhang Shijie's screams, turned around and glared at Zhang Shijie.

Zhang Shijie was suddenly kicked by Wang An behind and lost his interest in teasing people before. He rubbed his butt with his hands while walking.

The Manjushri squad leader assigned the four people a bed and was talking about the placement of daily necessities and clothes. His work and rest time was interrupted by Zhang Shijie after he was kicked.

"Report to the squad leader, I, I'm a little hungry, haha,,,"

The Manjushri squad leader looked at the few people who were busy folding the quilt according to his oral tutorial and the boy who looked at him with big eyes and smiled. "Okay, everyone is there, stand at attention, prepare to gather at the door two minutes later." The Manjushri squad leader said that and turned around and walked out.

The few people standing on the floor looked at each other when they saw the squad leader going out and didn't know what to do.

"Hey, brothers, what do the squad leader asks us to prepare?" It was Zhang Shijie who broke the tranquility again.

"Of course I took the guys to the cafeteria to take the meal." Li Gui, who seemed to suddenly react, said while running towards a row of rusty iron jars placed on the stone platform next to the door. The other three people imitated Li Gui and rushed forward without thinking. Each of the four people stood in front of Manjushri's squad leader with an iron jar in their hands.

"What are you holding in your hand? Those born in the Year of the Pig, you know how to eat. I won't give you some rules. You think I'm a nurse. Everyone has it. Stand at attention, turn left, aim, and wash the bathroom in front. Use the thing in your hands to fill me with water. Run to the training ground to run twenty laps each person. He is not allowed to eat even if he can't finish running. I heard that he didn't hear it!!!"

"I heard it"

"Didn't you eat? Be louder!!!"

"I heard the squad leader!!!"

"Target washing area running"

The four of them never expected that seeing the kind Manjushri squad leader gave them such a warning. The 800-meter training ground ran twenty laps with a water-filled jar. Although this amount of exercise in the army was nothing, it was simply "devil training" for these four recruits who were already malnourished and incomplete and had never been trained. And when they were hungry,,,,,

"This, this, Manjushri, at the beginning, I saw that he was kind, I didn't expect that, I was a smiling tiger, brothers, we, I fell into the fire pit."

"Shut up and save your energy and run to finish the meal. If you didn't talk too much, we would have suffered this with you." Wang An's words made Zhang Shijie speechless again

"The third squad leader has made innovations this year." A sentence suddenly came from behind the Manjushri squad leader standing on the side of the playground, followed by a middle-aged man wearing a slightly faded but very neat and clean military uniform. Manjushri turned his head and then turned to look at the four new recruits running not far away, "making the first squad leader laugh."

"Brother Manjushri, you came here on the first day of the recruitment. It would be difficult to get along with them in the future."

"What the squad leader said makes sense, but you forgot that when I was a deputy in the class, I used to do a lot of work as a political commissar. I slapped them and gave them a sweet date. I will still be their good squad leader in the future."

"The third squad leader is good at leading troops, and his reputation is well-deserved. I want to have so many colorful things like you. My soldiers will not be like me or tigers."

"Squad Leader, you should drink more ink." Manjushri glanced at the squad leader and didn't say anything again

"I can't do it anymore, my whole body is numb, I can't raise my legs anymore." Zhang Shijie bent down and moved his steps, looking like he was about to collapse to the ground. Wang An and Dong Wu in front turned around and saw that Zhang Shijie could not hold on. They ran to Zhang Shijie on both sides and dragged him up. Zhang Shijie put the jar on his head with his hands in his mouth and put his hands on the shoulders of Wang An and Dong Wu. The three of them snuggled up to each other and moved forward slowly. "Zhang Shijie, I will follow you on the blame on you on the first day of today. If you don't do it for yourself, you will also take care of your mouth." Wang An was panting and did not forget to warn Zhang Shijie.

"It can't be all because of him. This time, the Manjushri squad leader also has a sense of authority. There is a saying in our hometown that 'The wife is not a guest. I'll give you a warning first when you come.' So today, whether Zhang Shijie talks too much or we come out with a jar. This is just a reason why Manjushri squad leader finds. No matter what, we cannot avoid it today." Li Gui ran slowly in front of the three of them, and analyzed without looking back. Zhang Shijie felt that he was so wronged that he was so unfair that he nodded excitedly when he heard Li Gui's words. It took about five hours to complete the task. The four people who were still shouting hungry at noon were not eating dinner and could not get up in the dormitory. The next morning, at 5:00, the four people were sleeping soundly and suddenly woke up by the rapid whistle and deafening urging. "Everyone got up, hurry up, get up in three minutes and put on the quilt, wash in two minutes and then gather at the door."

The four of them were confused and heard someone screaming. Suddenly they realized that they were now in the army and immediately woke up in a hurry to put on their clothes and fold their quilts and wash them. They stood at the door of the dormitory.

"Look at your bears and put on your clothes!!!"

"Do you know what you are here for? Do you know what you are doing?,, defend your country!! Look at you, you don't even have the simplest ability to take care of yourself, how can you defend your country? Let me tell you, our third squad can not only fight tough battles, but also excellent in all aspects. Whoever you want to hold back will see how I deal with you!!!"

"Squad Leader, OK, they are all young, don't scare them." The middle-aged man standing next to the Manjusting squad Leader was not tall, with a thin face and a little sucking his cheeks, but looking at the energetic middle-aged man twisted his head to the Manjusting squad Leader's ear and said a few words in a low voice. The Manjusting squad Leader paused for a while.

"I'll introduce you to you. The one next to me is our deputy squad leader Liu Gang. Yesterday, I didn't pick you up because of a temporary task. Today you will get to know each other."

Liu Gang looked at the four young people in front of him with a smile and saluted to the four of them, "Hello comrades, the Manjushri squad leader has introduced me just now, I won't repeat it anymore. We can be assigned to a squad as comrades. This is fate. We must cherish it, especially in the future, we will squad together in the trenches, fight the Kuomintang together, and experience life and death together. This comrades-in-arms is precious. The Manjushri squad leader told me that you were punished. Don't resent him. He is for your own good. Our People's Liberation Army has always been a disciplined army. It is said that obeying orders is the duty of soldiers, but observing discipline is the prerequisite for our soldiers to win battles. Why are some soldiers on the Kuomintang robbing the people's things? I

But we have never appeared in our army, because we have discipline, and it is precisely because every soldier in our army strictly abides by discipline that we can get the support of the general public. So since you have become PLA soldiers, from today, no, it should be from the moment when the Manjushri squad leader asked you to run yesterday, you must put aside all the bad habits developed at home, strictly abide by the faulty system in the army, get up on time and rest on time, complete the training tasks with high quality, take the initiative to actively and spare no effort to help the fellow villagers do whatever you can. Finally, our class has a slogan, I will say it, you will repeat to me loudly: Defeat the Kuomintang and liberate the new China

"Down with the Kuomintang and liberate the new China!!!"

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"I was still a little uncomfortable for two months after joining the army. I trained every day, learned culture, worked on the post, helped the fellow villagers carry water and chopped wood, and felt a little overloaded. As time went by, my physical fitness improved, and I became more and more happy. Especially when I was with the squad leader, Zhang Shijie, Li Gui, Wang An and others, I felt like I was with my family. In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival. The four of us have been in the army for more than half a year. On the evening of New Year's Eve, our class gave me a few bowls of leek-filled dumplings together in the dormitory. The squad leader brought a bottle of wine from somewhere. We had a very happy night,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"

"Squad Leader, where did you come from?" Zhang Shijie asked Manjushri's squad leader while pouring wine for his comrades.

"If you drink wine, just drink it. Why do you ask so much? Alas, Li Gui can't drink it, and hey, he has to change his duty in the middle of the night."

"Squad leader, this is the Chinese New Year, so you can let me drink some time. When you sleep for a while, the smell of alcohol will disappear."

"No, the dumplings are enough for you. You can't get a drop of wine. Don't give me a violation of discipline during the Chinese New Year. Pour boiled water yourself."

The Manshu squad leader is a very rigid person. With his repeated insistence, Li Gui could only hold a jar of boiled water toast us. The deputy squad leader Liu Gang, who had always been smiling, took a sip of wine and stood up and walked outside the door and sat on the snowy steps outside the door. The Manshu squad leader saw Liu Gang holding the cup in both hands and was silent. Of course, he and Liu Gang's comrades who had been in contact with each other for many years could understand Liu Gang's actions. The Manshu squad leader walked over and sat next to Liu Gang with the cup.

"Brother, look, we have a few more families this year, Zhang Shijie! Dong Wu! Wang An! Li Gui!"

"Come!" The four of them heard the manju sitting at the door turning their heads and looking at them. They stood up and stood at the right hand.

"Everyone comes over and tell the deputy squad leader if we are a family?"

After hearing what the four of them said, they ran over and cheered, "Deputy Squad Leader, we have no relatives in the army. You and the Squad Leader are so kind to us. You are our relatives. We are a family now and will be a family in the future." Li Gui, who is very clear-headed, seemed to understand and "confess" to Liu Gang.

The other three people threw wine glasses next to Liu Gang and Manshu squad leader, holding their arms around him and wanted to toast to the two of them. Deputy squad leader Liu Gang felt much more relieved at this time, and the sign of a smile appeared on his face. At this moment, Li Gui, who was sitting on the threshold, suddenly started to cry, "I have never left home, I miss home, too,,,,," Zhang Shijie, who was drinking with the squad leader and the deputy squad leader, suddenly saw Li Gui crying and saying that he missed home, maybe it was reminded that they might be under the influence of alcohol and being infected by the atmosphere, and they also started to cry. A good "New Year's Eve dinner" was turned into a "fury scene" by these four people. Manshu squad leader and deputy squad leader Liu Gang watched several out-of-control teenagers "crying and howling" on the snowy New Year's Eve. They did not stop them, but went back to the house, turned off the lights and went to bed,,,,,,,,,,,,

"Slowly we all integrated into this big family, and it was not until August 1948. One morning we got up and gathered together to slogans as usual to train, but this time the Manjushri squad leader told us that the slogan was to be changed, because the above had already issued an order to attack Jinan in September. I don't know which squad soldier proposed the slogan "Strike into Jinan Prefecture and capture Wang Yaowu alive" and was adopted by Commander Su Yu. Since that day, this slogan has been with us until we entered Jinan."

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September 23, 1948 at 5:00 pm
To be continued...