Chapter 18 New Year Noodles and Rolled Egg Dumplings
After talking to Fatty Wei, Hou Jun went to find Zhang Jian.
The two of them had such a conversation by the drainage ditch next to the basketball court.
"Children of the army?" Hou Jun asked.
Zhang Jian replied with some pride: "Yes, platoon leader."
Hou Jun said: "I don't care what position your father holds in the army, but since he is a soldier, he must abide by discipline. Let me ask you, is it right to fight?"
"No." Zhang Jian said, "But he was the one who made the first move just now."
Hou Jun said: "Have you never thought about why he hit you?"
Zhang Jian said: "I haven't thought about reporting to the platoon leader."
Hou Jun could see that Zhang Jian was dissatisfied. The soldier's qualities seemed good, but his arrogant air was like the stench wafting from a septic tank in a toilet. It could be smelled from several feet away.
It's a good material, but it still lacks steel fire.
"I didn't want to think about it later. Everything happens for a reason. I didn't ask Wei Guoxing why he hit you, but I can see that he is very taboo about others mentioning his mother. As an educated person, you
You should know how to advance and retreat. Since you grew up in the army, it is said that you understand the discipline of the army better than them. If you dare to fight in the future, it means that you have too much energy. I have no less than a hundred ways to help you solve the problem of excess energy.
Do you want to try it?"
Zhang Jian quickly shook his head: "I don't want to."
"Hey!" Hou Jun finally smiled: "It's okay if you don't want to. It's okay. You can go back to eat. Remember, don't fight, otherwise I guarantee you will regret it!"
"Yes, Platoon Commander!"
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Li Zheng was sitting in the dining hall, looking at Fatty Wei across from him as he plucked at the noodles in his bowl listlessly, looking like he had no appetite.
"What, you were criticized badly by the platoon leader just now? Have you lost your appetite?"
Fatty Wei stopped pulling the noodles with his chopsticks, shook his head and said, "No...the platoon leader didn't scold me."
Li Zheng said: "Then why do you look like you are attending a funeral?"
Fatty Wei said: "I don't like noodles."
After thinking for a while, he added: "Didn't you say that the food in the army is very good now? It seems that the TV series are all lies."
Li Zheng said: "Noodles are the tradition of the army, don't you know?"
Fatty Wei asked curiously: "Tradition? You mean we have to eat noodles every meal for two years as soldiers?"
Li Zheng smiled, Fatty Wei just liked to be surprised.
It's also crazy.
How could someone like him become a soldier?
Judging from his figure, he is definitely the master of fine clothing and food at home.
No wonder looking at this pot of machine-made noodles makes me feel unappetizing.
"It's not like noodles are served every day." Li Zheng said, "I heard that the army has a saying that noodles are rolled out of dumplings to welcome the new year."
"Ah?" Fatty Wei asked, "What do you mean?"
Li Zheng said: "That is to say, the first meal you eat when you are a soldier must be noodles, and the last meal you eat the day before you are discharged from the army must be dumplings. So it is called the New Year Noodles and Dumplings."
"Scare!" Fatty Wei looked at Li Zheng in surprise: "How come you know everything?"
He felt like he didn't understand anything and was like an idiot.
Li Zheng said: "Who doesn't know these things? They are all available online, haven't you seen them?"
Fatty Wei said: "I only read the entertainment section online..."
Then he asked: "By the way, I think you and that guy Zhang Jian know each other. Are you also a member of the army?"
"It's not like we don't know each other." Li Zheng shook his head, lowered his head and continued eating noodles.
Fatty Wei saw the clues from Li Zheng's expression and concluded that his guess was correct, so he said: "Don't pretend, I'm not good at other things, but I'm pretty good at reading people. You must know him."
Li Zheng was a little impatient by his question, so he could only say seriously: "Believe it or not, I don't really know him, it's just a casual relationship. He is my girlfriend's neighbor. I went there before I joined the army.
I met him once at my girlfriend’s house, just once.”
"Neighbor?" Fatty Wei felt like he had discovered a new world: "So... your girlfriend is also a child of the army?"
Li Zheng had no choice but to nod and admit: "Well, her father is in the army."
Fatty Wei immediately became excited and said with joy, "You can do it! You already have a girlfriend! You're still a member of the army."
Suddenly, the smile on his face disappeared and became serious, with a somewhat mysterious expression.
"However, I heard people say that when a man has a girlfriend and joins the army, the couple will never break up and they will definitely receive a breakup letter."
"Nonsense!" Li Zheng suddenly raised his head and looked at Fatty Wei across from him: "As long as you open your mouth with shit in it, you will be beaten sooner or later. Can you speak human words?"
Fatty Wei muttered: "I don't call it bad-mouthed, I call it frank. In fact, I'm very easy to get along with. People who can't get along with me won't get along well with anyone. I just tell the truth and regard you as my brother."
look."
Li Zheng said: "Okay, I don't have a rich brother like you, and I don't need you to be so honest about disgusting me. My girlfriend also joined the army this year, and we agreed to retire together in two years and go back to university together.
After that, we took the postgraduate entrance examination together and got married within two years after graduating with our master's degree. Everything was planned."
Fatty Wei suddenly sighed in a worldly way and said, "Naive... Life can't be planned, but anything that can be planned is unreliable."
Li Zheng really couldn't stand Fatty Wei's mouth this time. He had seen people with mean mouths, but he had never seen anyone with such a mean mouth.
Thinking about it, I am really in decline. I have a comrade with a vicious tongue like Zhang Jian, and now I have a bad-mouthed Fatty Wei who feeds you shit all the time. Think about it, I will probably have to spend the next two years with these two.
After spending time together, my mind suddenly felt like dark clouds were covering my head...
If you are placed in the same class with two living treasures, sooner or later you will suffer from mania.
"Fat Wei, if you keep your mouth shut and don't speak, no one will think you are mute."
Fatty Wei continued to sigh: "Sigh... These days, there are really not many people who can listen to the truth."
As he spoke, he shook his head, as if he had once been in a difficult situation: "I thought you, a famous college student, should have some wisdom in life, but it seems I overestimated you."
Li Zheng couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Listening to your tone, I haven't been abandoned by more than ten girlfriends and can't express such heart-wrenching feelings. Isn't this a sentimental statement?"
Fatty Wei snorted disdainfully and said, "I'm not bragging. I've always been the only one to say goodbye to people. How can anyone say goodbye to me? The girls chasing me can line up from the archway at the entrance of the village to the park at the end of the village.
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Li Zheng took a look at Fatty Wei's plump figure and said, "Just you? In a dream, right?"
Fatty Wei said seriously: "What's wrong with me? I'm looking down on people, aren't I? I don't believe you can come to our village and ask if you have a chance in the future. Am I, Wei Guoxing, the most beautiful kid in Yinhe Village?"
Li Zheng glanced at Fatty Wei, who was gibbering incoherently across from him, and said, "Well, I suddenly remembered something. You are the stupid son of the village chief's family that Ma Teng mentioned, right?"
Fatty Wei suddenly blushed and quickly looked around like a thief.
Fortunately, there were not many people in the canteen. The few people sitting there were all new recruits. There were only two veterans here to accompany them, and the rest had finished their meal and left.
"How did you know?"
Fatty Wei looked cautious, like an underground party member lurking in the white area.
Li Zheng said: "You slipped up last time, I heard it."
Fatty Wei's face turned even redder and he begged Li Zhengdao: "Don't make this matter public."
Li Zhengqi asked: "What? Is the son of the village chief's family embarrassed?"
Fatty Wei's face was as red as an inflated balloon, and it felt like it would bleed if he poked it.
"Hey, what can I say about this... Wasn't it caused by the dragon boat race? If not, I wouldn't need to be a soldier..."
Li Zheng doesn't like to inquire into the truth. Over the years, because he has past events that cannot be mentioned, Li Zheng has always disliked asking about things that others don't want to talk about.
Since Fatty Wei doesn't want to mention it, he won't ask.
Just as Fatty Wei cannot be mentioned about his mother, there are also places in his heart that cannot be touched.
"Hurry up, you guys! It's been half an hour since I started eating noodles."
Wu Yi suddenly appeared at the door of the dining hall, stretched his head in and shouted.