Late at night, the border guard post at the Half Moon bend on the Northwest Plateau of China.

A dazzling flash of lightning rose in the air, like a flying fire dragon, with teeth and claws, and a ferocious face.

Snap Boom

Then, a series of heavy thunder burst into the vast sky like a large-diameter heavy gun. The movement and noise was large enough to shake the mountains, as if to tear the whole world to pieces.

With the flash of lightning, you can vaguely see the outline of the half moon checkpoint and its surroundings.

Like the catcher in the wheat field, the half moon checkpoint stands alone on the peak of the plateau, covered with snow, and the north wind blows happily, at least ten meters per second. Under the circumstance of lightning and thunder, it gives people an illusion that winter and spring coexist peacefully.

"Are the windows closed? Shit! It\'s almost summer. The north wind is still blowing. Maybe there will be a blizzard in the evening." A third sergeant, dressed in a washed yellow army coat, looked around and asked himself.

To those who prefer romance, the half moon checkpoint seems to be romantic. In fact, it is not. The checkpoint has nothing to do with romance, but the peak is called half moon, which gives it its name. But the soldiers stationed at the outpost often call this place hopeless Valley, lihentian and youth harvester when they are bored and complain.

The post is not big. You can walk around the post three times when you light a cigarette. There is only one class stationed at the whole post, and there are only eight people.

The third sergeant who spoke just now is the monitor of the checkpoint and the highest "officer" stationed at the checkpoint. His name is Wei Jiangong. He is a soldier of the tenth year, with dark skin, round head and collapsed nose. After ten years as a soldier, I have worked hard on this plateau post for ten years. I can be regarded as an old plateau and an old frontier guard.

"Just put your heart into it! My class members! They are all locked up. Hey! This bird place is like this. It only blows twice a year, once for half a year, once for snow, and once for the next half a year." The second Sergeant then held out two fingers and broke one finger. He smiled and talked seriously.

The second sergeant is Ma Xiaodong. He is the deputy squad leader. His skin is black as usual. He looks surprisingly anxious. People in their twenties look like middle-aged people. He also served as a soldier for eight years, and stayed in this deserted plateau post where birds don\'t shit and rabbits come hungry for eight years.

"Do you want to send Cheng Chong, who is on the sentry, an army coat. The weather on the plateau changes as the wind blows. It will probably change at night." Wei Jiangong is still talkative and pays close attention to all kinds of details. He is like a mother with many children and always has an endless heart.

"No need! Monitor! It\'s warm in the post, and the military coat he wears in winter is still there, so he can\'t freeze the boy. Besides, the boy is still a strong goods and doesn\'t matter. Monitor, do you remember? When he came to our post, we made a bet that he would cry in two days, but now it\'s almost two months, and the boy still hasn\'t shed a tear, I washed your clothes for a week, didn\'t I? " Ma Xiaodong shrugged and said half truely.

After saying that, he was unwilling to add: "unlike another recruit\'s egg distributed together, he cried and fainted directly."

"Do you remember? It\'s called altitude sickness. I fainted." Wei Jiangong glared at him with a smile and continued: "when it comes to washing clothes, you\'re okay to say! In fact, I didn\'t wash clothes that week. Alas! All of them are 17-year-old recruits. As children, they went to our plateau checkpoint. It\'s really difficult for them."

"Don\'t mention it, Mr. Ban, who was not 17 or 18 when he was a fucking soldier. When he joined the army, he was still a handsome boy with natural beauty and fair skin! As a result, he was exposed to the murderous ultraviolet rays on the plateau and became an uncle who seemed to be over half a hundred years old. Brother, I\'m only 26 years old, 26 years old!" Ma Xiaodong is sad and complacent. Today, he is very nostalgic for the time when his skin was still very white before he went to the checkpoint.

"Don\'t fucking stink, I don\'t know what you look like when you come to our checkpoint? You just fool those recruits later than you and boast about your fictional revolutionary stories. What elephant and calf are you putting in front of me? It\'s natural beauty! Ha ha! Ah yo! Your big teeth are going to fall out." Wei Jiangong pretended to hide his face and smiled. While laughing, he tucked in the quilt for the other soldiers in the class who had gone to bed.

Then he said, "let\'s talk about Cheng Chong! When he came to our checkpoint, the leader said to let him come to us for exercise..."

"Exercise? Exercise five! Exercise six. It\'s all nonsense. Exercise? Why don\'t they come up to exercise! Let me tell you! If they get on our thief ship, ha! If they get on our post, their military career will be over. The soldiers of other troops are training every day and playing with those high-tech weapons. What\'s like us? We carry broken rifles every day, except Going to the sentry is going to the sentry. In addition to going to the sentry, you have to be grateful and sigh for a long time when you can see a living creature within dozens of miles. But also exercise, exercise a ball, who can\'t speak Mandarin... "Ma Xiaodong made a series of complaints by asking questions, and then said," Hey, hey! This boy offended people! Deserve it! "

"Don\'t complain! You\'re all qualified to go to our checkpoints, aren\'t you? There\'s something wrong with your mind. In peacetime, it\'s the most glorious and difficult to be a border guard, especially our Plateau border guard." Wei Jiangong turned back and said something to Ma Xiaodong.

Ma Xiaodong doesn\'t think so. He quickly takes off his clothes and goes to bed. He continues to laugh.

Wei Jiangong tucked in a circle of the class soldiers\' quilts, went to the bedside and took off his army coat, Then he said, "if you want to say that this boy is stubborn, when the recruits company, they actually fought with his monitor. Later, their company commander talked to him and said that as long as he admitted his mistake, wrote a check and handed it in, it would be over. But this boy just refused to agree. He insisted that he was not wrong and resolutely refused to admit his mistake. Do you think this is a tendon or a stubborn donkey?"

"Ha ha! You are kind and bloody. You are a man!" Ma Xiaodong smiled and stood up his thumb.

"Go! Don\'t talk nonsense! Don\'t make a fuss and talk about serious things! It\'s said that the boy\'s military quality is pretty good. If he polished it well, he might become a great soldier. What a pity! He\'ll be abandoned when he goes to our plateau post. He\'ll stay together with our group of old soldiers who don\'t want to make progress and endure such invisible days." Wei Jiangong took off his clothes and lay in bed with a sigh.

"Hi, squad leader! I heard that the recruits fight with his squad leader, but two recruits. Why did you send him alone?" Ma Xiaodong raised his head, twisted his neck and asked the monitor.

"The recruit was smart. As soon as the company commander talked, he immediately admitted his mistake, and the inspection was both emotional and literary. The next company directly assigned the reconnaissance company brought by their company commander. It\'s not like Cheng Chong. He\'s stubborn to the end! Ah ah! He\'s really a hard bone." Wei Jiangong shook his head and smiled.

"What\'s the matter with stubbornness? Stubbornness is good! Stand firm, isn\'t it? There\'s an old saying, what did you say? Oh! By the way, what family has stubbornness but doesn\'t lose the family, and the country\'s stubbornly ministers don\'t perish, isn\'t it?" Ma Xiaodong twisted his neck and said it seriously.

"Ha ha! People call their families. Stubborn sons don\'t lose their families, and state-owned officials don\'t perish. Ha ha! I said don\'t learn from others if you don\'t have culture, okay?" Wei Jiangong laughed and turned to say, "although reason is such a reason, it doesn\'t work in the army. WOW! What\'s important in the army? Obedience, complete obedience, absolute obedience, right? This is the army! Stubbornness doesn\'t work."

"Whether he is stubborn or stubborn, and whether he is a stubborn minister or a frank minister, it\'s not the same meaning. Well, I\'ll sleep!" Ma Xiaodong is depressed because he is said to be illiterate by the monitor, but he also knows that the monitor is joking with himself, which is inconvenient to be serious. So he pulled the quilt in retaliation and buried his head deeply in the quilt.

Then his distant voice came from the quilt: "I sleep! I have to take the whistle of the stubborn minister in a while?" It can be seen that he is also a stubborn guy. He just doesn\'t admit that he is a stubborn son.

The lights in the dormitory finally went out, and the soldiers who were sleeping soundly issued the cadence of snoring and murmuring.