Five, fold quilts and sing military songs

  The second day was Sunday, and there was no formal military training, but the class leaders taught everyone to tidy up their dormitories, especially learning how to fold blankets.

  This is how to stack the tofu blocks into squares, Lin Fanghua is not unfamiliar at all, and also knows various tricks such as patting, pressing flat, wetting the quilt, pinching the corners, and sewing on buttons. However, at that time, they were all stacking military quilts uniformly issued by the troops, which was easy to stack. Now, everyone brings their own quilts from home, with only a military green quilt cover issued by the troops on the outside, with varying sizes and thicknesses. Lin Fanghua looked at Little Bear's squad leader, who was sweating profusely while pressing the quilts one by one for the female soldiers, and truly felt sympathetic.

  She turned around to look at the neatly folded quilt, and couldn't help but feel a little proud: I specially brought this woolen blanket, which is even better than the regular army blanket. Looking again at Wang Ju's quilt on the lower bunk, which she had helped fold, it was also quite neat. This bed was one of the first things that caught her eye when she entered Class 9, and now only her and Wang Ju's quilts were worthy of being placed here.

  At this time, a girl with slightly disheveled hair and a flushed face walked over and said: "Lin Fanghua, are you free now? Can you help me tidy up my bedding? Just now the class monitor helped me tidy it up a bit and said it wasn't easy to do, so I had to wait until last. I saw that your bedding is neatly folded, can you help me tidy mine?"

  The girl's name is Zhao Yuling, ordinary in appearance, living in an external dormitory. Lin Fanghua knew that although she wasn't very familiar with her, she was a very intelligent and hardworking student. Although her grades weren't particularly outstanding when she first entered school, five years later she went on to pursue master's and doctoral studies, and later worked in Munich, Germany. Lin Fanghua nodded at her and pulled Wang Ju along, saying: "Let's go, we'll help you together!"

  When Lin Fanghua came to Zhao Yuling's bed, she saw her quilt and couldn't help but take a cold breath, understanding why Bear Classmate said it was not easy to handle. Each student brought their own quilt from home, although some were thick and some were thin, but estimated to be at most six pounds. Zhao Yuling's parents didn't know if they were afraid of the child catching a chill, but they had made such a thick and heavy quilt for her, which was almost ten pounds. This layer of quilt was as thick as two layers of other people's quilts, and almost as thick as Lin Fanghua's three-layer wool blanket.

  Lin Fanghua could only try her best, she asked Zhao Yuling and Wang Juhua to spread the quilt on the already cleaned floor, knelt down, and patted the quilt with the back of her forearms. The three of them worked hard for half a day, and the quilts of other classmates in the class had been shaped one after another. Class leader Xiong also came over to join the ranks of pressing the quilt. Several people were busy for more than half an hour, exhausted, but looking at that quilt, it still seemed so thick and didn't press down much. Other people's quilts were stacked like tofu blocks, while Zhao's quilt was stacked like a big bread.

  Xiao Xiong class monitor also cried and said to Zhao Yuling with a sad face: "My aunt, your family grows cotton, this cotton is free, right? Finished, I have no way with this quilt of yours, our class's internal affairs will be dragged down by this quilt of yours!"

  Lin Fanghua certainly knows how much the troops value collective honor, and any competitive project will be contested; even the loudness of singing voices, the speed of eating, these trivial matters must be compared, let alone the internal affairs and hygiene that are included in the daily assessment projects. Although sometimes it seems a bit formalistic, the spirit and style of a troop is cultivated in this kind of competition.

  Lin Fanghua looked at Little Bear Classmate sympathetically, nagging that he was going to be punished, and couldn't help but say: "It's not that there's no way out, it's just that Little Zhao is going to have to suffer a bit!" Zhao Yuling was feeling guilty for being the last one in the whole class, and when she heard this, it was like hearing good news: "What method? You tell me! It's okay, I'm not afraid of suffering!"

  Lin Fanghua hesitated and said: "It's just pouring water on the whole quilt, but then this quilt can't be covered..." Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by the disappointed class leader: "That won't do! Absolutely not!"

  Lin Fanghua continued: "This quilt can't be covered, let Zhao Yuling and I cover a quilt together at night, we'll squeeze in to sleep!"

  Huang Ban Chang listened and it seemed to make some sense, but somehow didn't seem quite right: "I see...it seems okay, but still doesn't feel quite right!"

  Suddenly a loud male voice came from behind: "Nonsense, of course it's not right! Sleeping squeezed together, does that look like a barracks?"

  Xiong Ban Chang was shocked: "Ah——, Jiang Pai, how did you come?"

  Jiang Tao glared at Bear Class Leader, then looked at Lin Fanghua who was looking down in embarrassment and Zhao Yuling whose face had turned red like Guan Gong. He also glanced at the blanket that looked like a loaf of bread in the middle of the room, and couldn't help but shake his head. Finally, he walked forward, rolled up the blanket and said: "Alright, I'll take this blanket away first. Ninth Class Leader, follow me and bring my blanket to give to this girl to use for now."

  Xiong Ban Zhang was overjoyed and hastily chased after the platoon leader, saying: "Platoon Leader, let me do it, let me do it! Why take your quilt? How can we take your quilt?"

  Jiang Tao has already walked out the door: "Alright, stop bothering me, Li Ge Lang. You several class leaders' internal affairs and hygiene are also to be inspected, I'll just go find Old Wang in logistics to get another blanket! What's the big deal......"

  As a result, the old quilt that Jiang Pailang had used for many years, with its green cover washed yellow, was placed on Zhao Yuling's bed. This incident made all the girls feel that Jiang Pailang was actually cold-faced and warm-hearted, and still had some human touch.

  However, something happened before dinner that made Jiang Pai Chang very unhappy. The reason was that the second row captain Zhu Mingzhi had a surprise lesson in the afternoon to teach the male soldiers of the second row to sing military songs. As a result, when the pre-dinner assembly gathered, the neat and loud military song voices of the second-row male soldiers shocked even the neighboring Second Battalion. The delighted First Battalion Captain couldn't close his mouth and praised the Second Row Captain for a while, allowing the Second Row to enter the cafeteria first. When Jiang Tao saw the Second Row Captain leading his soldiers into the cafeteria with his head held high, he felt very unhappy in his heart - it's just singing, who can't do that?! You little pig, you used all sorts of tricks to suppress me once, including secretly crossing the river and taking the initiative! I don't believe our female row will be worse than you in terms of literature and art, internal affairs! Let you enjoy this moment for now.

  Lian Chang saw the expressions of several platoon leaders during meals and secretly laughed to himself: I'm not afraid you'll fight, just afraid you won't fight! Guo Mei teacher was going down to the troops for the first time, and after a few words of emotion, she said that singing a song before meals was a good way to boost morale. Lian Chang took the opportunity to arrange for Zhu Platoon Leader to be in charge of teaching everyone in the company to sing military songs.

  After dinner, the whole class rested for half an hour and then gathered in the cafeteria to learn songs. Everyone brought their notebooks to record the lyrics. It's true that the class leader has a keen eye for talent. Although Zhu was not tall or handsome, he had a very lively personality and was extremely infectious when singing. When he explained the song with rich expressions and gestures, the college students felt it was both novel and interesting, as well as exciting. The classmates followed his command, clapping in rhythm while shouting out the lyrics of the song - "One, two, three, four, five! We've waited so hard!" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! We're so anxious!" "One, two, three! Three, two, one! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!" "You're called to sing, just sing! Don't be shy and awkward! What's it like? It's like a big girl!"

  The most interesting thing is to pull the song with the tune of "Great Production in Liberated Areas": "Second Regiment - yeah, mahou hei! Come on - yeah, mahou hei! Your singing voice - xili liri liu la la la suo luoluose! Sing well - yeah, mahou hei!"

  There were neat applause "patter patter" ——clap clap! Clap clap! Clap clap clap clap clap! Clap——! Clap——! Clap——!

  Various interesting methods made everyone's mood for learning military songs high. Next, Zhu Piao Long took advantage of the situation to teach several commonly used military songs.

  At this time, the girls' artistic talent was revealed, because they all learned songs that were often heard on the radio, such as "The Liberation Army Song", "Returning from Target Practice", "Unity is Strength", "Learning from Lei Feng is a Good Example" and "The Sky of the Liberated Area". Everyone basically mastered them after one or two lessons. The girls' enthusiasm was very high, they didn't get tired even after almost two hours, and they all asked Captain Zhu to continue teaching songs. Captain Zhu saw that morale was high, so he was also willing to strike while the iron was hot, and taught "The Fifteenth Moon" and "Little White Willow" among others, even teaching "The Anti-Japanese Military and Political University School Song".

  The female soldiers still didn't think it was enough and wanted to learn more. Zhu Mingzhi couldn't help but sweat, this wasn't going to end anytime soon. Actually, there were some military songs that they also knew, but generally weren't suitable for singing along to, such as "I Love the Blue Sky of My Motherland" and "The People's Navy Advances Forward". Several platoon leaders were gathered together, thinking hard about what other military songs would be suitable to teach.

  Lin Fanghua sat in the team, following the familiar songs that had been sung for a long time, but didn't feel bored at all. Originally, the military song was about the atmosphere, and how well it was sung or even what was being sung was not important, as long as there was momentum and loudness, it was fine. The passionate enthusiasm of the troops was something that had not been felt for a long time, and suddenly made one's mindset younger, and the hot blood seemed to be boiling up!

  Finally, Zhu Pai Zhang taught everyone a military song "Motherland, Please Review". This is a song that has been passed down by the troops fighting in the south, and the original author can no longer be verified. The melody of the song is stirring and majestic yet elegant and pleasant to listen to, the lyrics are concise and simple yet full of deep emotions:

  We come from Nanchang city, we come from the Long March road, we come from the battlefield, we come from the rolling smoke and fire.

  Fatherland, review your mighty army; Fatherland, review your brave soldiers.

  Look at the fluttering military flag, our names are written in blood; look at the glorious history book, our merits are recorded.

  Look at us from the training ground, look at us from the marching road, look at us from the garrison, look at us from the ruins of the rolling flood.

  Fatherland, review your iron ramparts; Fatherland, review your excellent soldiers.

  "On the fluttering military flag, our oath is inscribed; in the peaceful sunshine, we are striding forward."

  This excellent military song quickly captured the hearts of young students. Probably because of the love for the country and the army revealed in it, it resonated with everyone. After all, these young people born in the 1970s grew up under the orthodox education of "Five Lectures, Four Beauties, Three Loves", they are more simple and passionate than their peers twenty years later.

  Lin Fanghua had never heard of this military song that was only spread among the combat troops (later became the school song of a certain army academy), but she also liked it as soon as everyone else did. She followed everyone to learn and sing together, feeling the youthful passion overflowing from her classmates around her, as if she were in a hot crucible. Her heart was warm and full, her whole body was hot and burning, and all four limbs seemed to be filled with strength and passion!

  Young, great!