Beijing recruit Danzi Xiaowei was not aiming at the target, but at the tall water tower next to him, which made the veteran squad leader dumbfounded and said, "I am convinced by your look."
I joined the army in November 1983. The branch of the armed police force was the armed police. The armed police force was established in April 1983. I was one of the first batch of armed police recruited after the establishment of the armed police force. I was also one of the first batch of female armed police soldiers.
Our army recruited 55 female soldiers, mainly for the armed police hospital in our area. Most of the soldiers came from this province, and a small number of them were soldiers from Beijing.
I was assigned to a class with soldiers from Beijing. There was a girl named Wei among the soldiers from Beijing. We called her Xiao Wei. Xiao Wei was about 1.65 meters tall and weighed about 180 kilograms. She was white and fat, with thick legs. , the pants issued by the army were fat enough, so the large pants made her buttocks and legs full. She swayed when she walked, and her left leg and the right leg were wheezing.
Her face is white and rosy, delicate, smooth, and tender, and can be broken by blows. She looks like the over-nourished chubby little ones in kindergartens and campuses nowadays.
Xiaowei joined the army after graduating from junior high school. He was 15 or 6 years old when he joined the army. He was young and his family was worried. When he came to our recruit company , his family bought all the daily necessities that he could think of. Her luggage was huge, with more than a dozen packets of toilet paper stuffed in it.
The military training began. Xiaowei was heavy. After standing on the playground for a long time, her blood circulation was not smooth. Her legs and feet were swollen. At night When she soaked her feet in warm water and covered her swollen feet with military rubber shoes, she found that the skin on her feet had become white and started to fester. We felt so sad when we saw it, but Xiaowei didn't say a word and continued to train.
Xiaowei is short-sighted and wears glasses every day. He never says hello when he meets the platoon leader in the corridor. The platoon leader once asked our class deputy why Xiaowei doesn't like to talk. The class deputy said she didn't want to talk to you. When talking, Xiaowei said that she couldn't see clearly who you are.
The recruit training brigade we are in is trained by our hospital's resident detachment. That is, the 55 soldiers in our hospital are counted as a platoon and assigned to other detachments for training. The brigade is training with the newly recruited soldiers from other detachments this year.
The local detachment sent out a training squad leader, and everything on the playground was under the control of the detachment squad leader. Since we were female soldiers, the male squad leader of the detachment could not manage the internal affairs, so there was a female cadre and two female soldiers sent by the hospital to take care of our new recruits. Company female soldier internal affairs.
Our 55 soldiers were counted as a platoon and divided into 5 squads. Each squad designated a recruit from among the recruits to be the shift deputy.
Xiaowei is very tired after training on the playground every day. After returning to the dormitory, he immediately wants to lie down and lie down. During the day, in order to make the bed surface flat and the quilt has edges and corners so as not to be damaged, he is reluctant to open it at noon. Quilt.
The deputy head of our class is responsible for the internal affairs of our class. In order to get a good ranking in the class evaluation, we are not allowed to sit or lie on the sheets, let alone open the quilt to rest.
One time, Xiaowei was too tired to care about so much. He lay down on his bed without even taking off his armed belt . The class deputy said, Xiaowei, get up quickly. The housekeeper will be in our class soon. , you made a hole in the bed, how can you fix it?
The class deputy motioned for us to get Fat Weiwei off the bed together, because one person really couldn’t move her, so two of us pulled her arms and one pushed her head, pulling and pulling her off the bed. Putting her on the mattress, a comrade quickly smoothed her crumpled bed. Fortunately, we finished sorting it out before the internal affairs inspection arrived, and it did not affect our class's grades.
In the winter of 1983, in a small third-tier town in North China, I wonder if God was favoring our group of soldiers. During the entire recruit training period, our recruits It never snowed even once. So the veteran squad leader said, you don't have to lie down on the snow to practice shooting. How lucky you are. He said that when they were new recruits, they practiced aiming on the snow and their hands were frozen.
I feel like I’m pretty good at shooting, at least my eyesight is good.
The worst thing is that the fat Weiwei in our class is severely short-sighted and wears two pairs of glasses when practicing shooting.
The squad leader got down on the ground and corrected our movements one by one, teaching each recruit step by step. Except for Xiao Wei, everyone in our class was basically pretty good, and their aim was in place.
When the squad leader lay down next to Xiao Wei, he felt something was wrong and asked Xiao Wei to get out of the way to see how well she was aiming. The squad leader lay down next to Xiao Wei's gun, took aim in front of him, looked back at Xiao Wei and said, Comrade Xiaowei, how can I say hello to you? Is that your target? You're aiming for the water tower. Indeed, further in front of the target, there is a tall water tower standing tall in the distance.
The squad leader said, you are wearing two glasses, but you are still aiming at the water tower. I can't do anything. Xiaowei's comrade who was practicing aiming nearby was lying on the ground with uncontrollable joy, and even the crosshairs were shaking together.
When the training of the recruit company was coming to an end, there were often rumors that an emergency assembly would be held that night. One day, someone said that this time the news was absolutely accurate, and that an emergency assembly was designated that night.
Xiaowei really believed it. That night, those of us were just a little more alert, and everyone went to sleep as usual. But Xiaowei packed her backpack at night, so she couldn't get into bed to sleep. She was wearing a cotton coat and trousers. Sleeping, relying on the packed backpack, Xiao Wei waited in a daze until dawn but did not wait for the emergency call.
After a few days, everyone relaxed. One day, the emergency rally call was actually sounded. I don’t know who heard the scream. Everyone rushed to pack their backpacks. Although some had disheveled hair, some grabbed shoes, and some backpacks were not strong. But everyone ran out on time, including the cute fat Weiwei from our class.
It has been almost forty years, and it is still vivid in my mind. The soldiers from Beijing returned to their homes after serving for three years. Little fat Weiwei, are you okay in Beijing? Your old comrades in the same class think of you... .
