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Chapter 19: Birthday Celebration

"Hahaha……"

Everyone got up together.

Health officer Yu Deben began to conduct physical examinations on each officer and soldier in the command platoon. Except for the telephone squad leader's blood pressure was a little high and the wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe had some stomach discomfort, the whole squad leader was very normal.

After hearing the report of health officer Yu Deben, deputy company commander Lu Zeran was still quite satisfied.

In the evening, the command platoon held a grand dinner. The so-called grand is the liquor brought by the deputy company commander of the trip, Lu Zeran. The telephone squad leader got busy from four o'clock in the afternoon. He prepared four cold dishes: fried sparrows, fried peanuts, white-cut sausages, spinach and shredded beans. He also cooked four hot dishes: braised pork, spicy loach, stewed turtle, and stewed cabbage with dog meat.

Four dishes can make people feel greedy after just listening to the name. Especially the soldiers who lack oil and salt for half a month, who have never seen green vegetables, soy products and staple foods, are simply fried. Even fried peanuts are particularly fragrant. They put them in their mouths and chew them slowly. The rice is also eaten in small bites, and they are reluctant to leave a grain of rice next to the bowl.

What's more, there is also white wine for dinner.

After drinking, the squad leader Yueyang and the squad leader were a little drunk. If the platoon leader Hu Zhijun had not stopped him, several people would have been drunk.

As we were about to finish, Wang Ke held the bowl in his hands and walked to the telephone squad leader: "Squad leader, today's double happiness is coming. First, we successfully escaped with the care of the army leader, and second, I wish you a happy birthday. You have drunk this little wine!"

Everyone was stunned, including the telephone squad leader. "Today is my birthday?! What day is today?"

Everyone doesn't know what day it is today and what day of the week.

"Today is January 6th," said sanitation worker Yu Deshui.

"Ah, today is really my birthday." The telephone squad leader excitedly took the bowl. The people in the room immediately stood up, applauded together, and sang a birthday song: "Happy birthday, wish you a birthday..."

In this room, there were three people who were singing and looked at Wang Ke at the same time.

That is Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran, Health Staff Yu Deben, and Platoon Commander Hu Zhijun.

How could Wang Ke know that today is the birthday of the telephone squad leader, and he also remembers the days clearly. During these days at the division farm, everyone forgot about time, everything, and were fighting for survival. But he gave the telephone squad leader and gave the whole squad leader a surprise.

"Brother, sincerity is revealed in times of adversity, I am also a veteran. This time I am trapped, my brother admires you the most is you, Wang Ke. It is rare that you remember my birthday. I will give you one on behalf of our class." The telephone squad leader stood up, and behind him were all the soldiers of the telephone squad standing. Several of them followed the telephone squad leader every day and accompanied Wang Ke to find food.

Everyone applauded again. As the saying goes, people who do not forget to dig wells when they eat water, let alone eat it. Who has not received the favor of Wang Ke?

The platoon leader of Hu Zhijun stood up and said, "Wang Ke, I also thank you on behalf of the entire platoon. You are our platoon and my proudest soldier. Come and kill him."

Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran sat there, smiling with his lips pursed. He could see that Wang Ke was in this platoon and won trust with his own strength and respect from everyone.

After the meal, you will report the performance.

The first program is the harvest drums and drums.

Seven comrades in the row came on stage, Yueyang squad leader Si Gu, Wang Ke played the gong, and Hu sergeant beat the gong, and for a moment, the gongs and drums were loud and almost washed away the roof.

Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran covered his ears with his hands and shouted loudly. No one listened to him, and he couldn't hear him at all. He beat him for ten minutes. He was very well-behaved, not inferior to a professional theater troupe at all.

The bells and drums were just about to stop, and after a long time, everyone's ears recovered and they laughed together.

These gongs and drums are catharsis and celebration.

Next, there was the suona and Banhu Lianji by the reconnaissance squad leader Yueyang. He played and pulled as well. Even the driver of the division headquarters who drove the snowmobile praised that all your commands and ranks were talents, and it would be a pity that his talents were not adjusted to the division propaganda team.

Until the end, it was the hard qigong performed by the telephone squad leader.

Perhaps because he was drinking a little too much, the hidden telephone squad leader took off his shirt and wrapped a few wires around his waist. Then there was luck. He clasped his fists with his hands, squatted down and stood upright. The blue veins on his neck suddenly burst out. With the "one, two, three", the three wires on his waist were all broken, and there were cheers and applause in the room.

Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran was stunned. He never thought that the commander of the platoon, who could only cook, had such a skill.

According to the arrangement, Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran will bring his car tomorrow and return with the division headquarters' snowmobile, and bring the soon-retired squad leader Yueyang and the telephone squad leader back to the company.

In the evening, Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran and platoon commander Hu Zhijun walked along the snowy road in front of the door while conducting work exchanges.

"Old Hu, we will try to go back tomorrow. The division headquarters and regiment headquarters are waiting for our reply. The other two squad leader will be demobilized. How will your platoon arrange for the demobilization?" Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran was soliciting opinions from commanding platoon leader Hu Zhijun.

"I suggest that Wang Ke be the seat of the reconnaissance squad leader. I suggest that Xiao Gao of their squad leader be the seat of the telephone. It's just that Da Guo of the reconnaissance squad doesn't have to be a pity. Can you arrange a seat in the artillery platoon?"

"I will bring your opinions to the company commander and instructor."

"Also, I want to know when the task we scheduled will end and do we need to celebrate the New Year here?"

Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran nodded, "It seems that way at the moment. Only when the spring is coming. The company and farm department that is receiving defense come up can you leave, and go directly to the mountain to participate in the annual field training."

Field training is to station in the local rural areas in Xishan, dozens of kilometers away from the army, and conduct live-fire mountain training.

"Okay, I personally have one thing. Next time the company gives me supplies, can I bring me a few pens and some newspapers?"

"Oh, this time I was just taking care of food and drinks, but I forgot that you didn't even have a newspaper in the past two months. Next time I will bring you a radio and bring your letters. Oh, what do you want to do with your pen? Write Spring Festival couplets?"

"No, I plan to practice brush calligraphy well. My teacher is a descendant of the Jin Dynasty calligraphy saint Wang Xizhi. If I don't practice brush calligraphy, I will be sorry to my teacher."

"Haha, okay, I remember, I'll talk to Wang Ke."

"Okay, Wang Ke, Wang Ke, where are you? Have you seen Wang Ke?" platoon leader Hu Zhijun shouted to the room over there.

At this time, Wang Ke was with the sanitation worker Yu Deben, hiding in the warehouse. The two talked about every bit of the breakup.

"Your body doesn't have a fever again, right? Are your joints still swollen?"

"It's totally better, and my memory and reaction feel better than before." Wang Ke told the truth.

"Hey, I'll ask you, you have to tell me truthfully, how did you know that the telephone squad leader celebrated his birthday today?"

"I've recorded what they said before."

"You didn't tell the truth."

"Believe it or not, I know anyone in the company last time I helped copy the entire company's roster."

"The more I talk, the less I feel. Do you know what I am?"

"Of course I know. Your birthday is two days worse than mine. I am August 16th, and you are August 19th, right?"

"No, it's three days away." Health officer Yu Deben smiled, "But there is one thing that you can't deny." Health officer Yu Deben felt that this time he should be able to catch his dead hand, and he had to admit it if he didn't admit it.

“What’s the matter?”

"It's the mechanized farming station you told me before. It turned out to be a pond behind it. The pond was filled with horse manure, and there were turtles, eels and loaches under the horse manure. This happened many years ago. There was no animal on the farm now, and no one knew about the stables. Why did you think about it this time and take people to dig fish directly?"

Wang Ke was speechless and stared at him blankly. If it weren't for darkness, the sanitation worker Yu Deben would have seen Wang Ke's face full of embarrassment.

"I don't know about Lao Yu. I know about this. You forgot that the old director of the health center in the field department has a good relationship with me. He had caught fish in this fish pond back then." Wang Ke didn't blush when he lied, but he couldn't see it anyway.

"I'll go back tomorrow, do you want me to bring you something?" asked the sanitation worker Yu Deben.

"You can send me a few letters. The Spring Festival is here. I have to report safety to my family and those who care about me. In addition, please give me a greeting to the company commander, instructor, first platoon leader, second platoon leader, agency chief, and clerk, Xiaohou, cook squad leader Zhou Daguang and other comrades who care about us."

"Okay, then next time I come, do you personally need to bring something?"

"Well, bring some toothpaste and soap and give us some sweep."

"What is it just a sweep?"

"The medicine for treating ringworm is that the dampness is heavy here, and many comrades have eczema."

"OK."

In fact, Wang Ke also has a relaxed skin, and he couldn't bear to use it. It was given to him by Wu Xiangyu, and no one else knew about the preciousness of it.

Speaking of this, I only heard the platoon leader Hu Zhijun shouting his name there.

"I'm here!" Wang Ke agreed loudly, and said to the health officer Yu Deben: "The platoon leader looks for me and talks back."

Wang Ke came out of the warehouse, and the deputy company commander Lu Zeran came up. "Wang Ke, it's me who is looking for you."

Wang Ke ran over and stood attentively to salute him. Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran held his hand. "Let's go, accompany me around."

The two turned around and walked outside along the shoveled snow road.

"Wang Ke, you have to strictly demand yourself and actively move closer to the organization. Has that application been written?"

Wang Ke knew that the deputy company commander Lu Zeran was concerned about him and said embarrassedly: "I have written it, I have written several copies." He knew that the deputy company commander Lu Zeran was asking about his application for joining the party.

"Oh, I want to tell you something, don't be surprised after hearing it."

Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran looked very serious, and Wang Ke stopped and looked at him.

"You performed particularly well among your soldiers of the same year. You are the first to earn meritorious service and the company's key training target. However, our branch committee has studied it. Among your soldiers of the same year, you may not be the first group of development targets determined by the organization."

"Ah!" Wang Ke stopped.

"The company has greater training goals for you. I hope you can withstand the test and maintain such a working state."

Wang Ke never expected that Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran would bring him this news.

But after thinking about it, he still said, "Deputy Company Commander, don't worry, joining the organization from an ideological perspective is my lifelong pursuit, and I will accept any test in the organization."

"I'll feel relieved if you say this."?
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