Written by Mt. Xiao
Jin Cunxin and Wang Liushun were soldiers who enlisted at the same time in 1973, and although they were not fellow villagers in the same county, they also took a stuffy tanker truck to a certain engineering corps deep in the Taihang Mountains. In the same recruit company, they were still in the same squad, and it happened that after the recruit company finished training, they were assigned to the same squad in the "air gun company" at the same time.
Jin Cunxin graduated from junior high school with a little culture, and he can be regarded as an "intellectual" in the class. Every time the class organizes a study, he comes to read the newspaper, read "Mao Xuan" and so on. Wang Liushun only went to the first grade of primary school, and only knew his own name and simple Arabic numerals, and in his words, the production team could only recognize the name by pressing a note on top of the pile of sweet potatoes to divide rations. Then I know how many catties I have divided and how much work I have earned in the "work book" every day.
Jin Cunxin is not only educated, but also "not afraid of hardship and death", and really works with a wind gun. Because he has a cultural heart and a lively eye, he constantly engaged in some "innovations" in the construction, and soon became the technical backbone of the squad, platoon, and company.
Wang Liushun is real, diligent and hard-working, and is a typical "old scalper" in Lianli. His "bold words" of "doing whatever the party tells you to do, and doing what you do well" have been praised many times by the political commissar of the regiment and have become the slogan of the regiment.
Jin Cunxin and Wang Liushun joined the regiment at the same time, joined the party at the same time, and became squad leaders at the same time, and also spoke at the "advanced elements" meetings of the company, battalion, and regiment at the same time, and at the same time made third-class meritorious service.
Jin Cunxin was promoted to a platoon commander after four years as a soldier. Wang Liushun served as a soldier for four years and was demobilized and returned home. In four years, the two of them became iron buddies, "iron comrades". Every year when Jin Cunxin visits his home, he has to visit Wang Liushun. Soon after Wang Liushun went home, he served as the captain of the production team, and he drank a lot of alcohol, and every time he made Jin Cunxin's stomach "full of wine", he was smoky and dizzy. Every time, he would smash the neat "local specialty peach shortbread" wrapped in red paper that Wang Liushun gave him.
After Jin Cunxin changed jobs, he worked in the county industrial bureau, and soon went to sea in the wave of reform and opening up, resigned and went to Shenzhen, and after a short time, he used his inventions and creations in the army's technological innovation to successfully test the "Cunxin" brand "wind drill", and successively developed a series of products with high technical content. After it is put into production, the supply exceeds demand, and the economic benefits are very considerable. He called and sent a letter to ask Wang Liushun to come to Shenzhen to start a business together, and later learned that Wang Liushun was sick and had to send money to Wang Liushun every year to see a doctor.
Before the Spring Festival this year, Jin Cunxin asked his son to drive, and he specially loaded a box of Moutai and a box of Wuliangye for Wang Liushun, and also bought a Chinese cigarette and Guangdong specialties to visit his old comrades-in-arms.
When he came to Wang Liushun's house, Jin Cunxin was stunned: a dilapidated yard and a dilapidated house. He shouted several times before he heard the kicking and collapsing. When Wang Liushun appeared in front of him, he was stunned! Wang Liushun's long, messy gray-white hair, rice grains stuck to his beard that he hadn't shaved for a long time, and his skinny left leg that couldn't take a step leaned on the door frame! His crooked mouth couldn't hear what he was saying clearly, only his eyes were shining!
Jin Cunxin burst into the house with tears streaming down his face, but Wang Liushun raised his cane to block the door, and kept saying vague words of "dirty, dirty and smelly".
"Liushun, you, what's wrong with you?"
Wang Liushun's sad face trembled, and he straightened his chest hard.
At this time, the person next to him told Jin Cunxin that last summer, Wang Liushun suddenly had a cerebral infarction and hemiplegia, and his daughter-in-law suffered a car accident on the way to get medicine.
Wang Liushun shouted "woo" to stop the person's explanation, try to stand up straighter, and his eyes became resolute.
Jin Cunxin stopped talking, took a few steps forward and picked up Wang Liushun and put him in the Mercedes-Benz car, asked about the location of the "bathing center", took out a wad of money and handed it to the person who introduced the situation, and asked him to find someone to help clean Wang Liushun's home inside and out before driving away.
After a short time, the Mercedes-Benz drove back, and Jin Cunxin slowly hugged Wang Liushun down. At this time, Wang Liushun took a bath, his hair was cut, his beard was shaved, and he wore a brand-new suit and shiny leather shoes. Wang Liushun struggled to stand, saluted Jin Cunxin and the villagers in the courtyard, and then resolutely moved to his door. Jin Cunxin asked his son to bring the contents of the trunk into the house, and he stretched out his two hands on Wang Liushun's back.
Wang Liushun moved but walked firmly towards a cupboard, opened the cabinet door, picked up a package of "peach shortbread" wrapped in red paper that had been soaked in oil, and handed it to Jin Cunxin. Jin Cunxin took it with both hands gently, put the "peach shortbread" on the table, unpacked it and soaked it, picked up a piece of peach shortbread and put it in his mouth and chewed and swallowed with tears, and then took out a bank card wrapped in white paper from his jacket pocket and put it on the table, on which 197612 six-digit password (their enlistment time) was written......
(Picture from the Internet)
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