Automatic rifles are in a recumbent position, and shooting training begins ......”
Before the instructor could finish his words, the smell of gunpowder instantly filled the entire training ground. Lying on the hot sand, the scorching sun scorched the earth, and the sweat on his head rolled down his face. The earth was steaming, and his eyes were a little sore when he looked at the rake position directly in front of the foot of the sand mountain in the distance.
Ready to fire. Bright bullets glittered in the sun. Don't miss one, and then press the bullet into the magazine. The target position was in front of me, and I was nervous and serious. Aim, shoot, three points and one line, I only have the bullseye in my eyes. Aim for the bullseye and keep the essentials in mind. Da da da ......Pull the trigger and bullets whistle out. The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is light in weight and has good shooting accuracy. The recoil of the gun was quite violent. The trainees in the firing position next to him did not put the butt of the gun in the shoulder socket, and after pulling the trigger, the person who was hit turned on his back.
When the shooting was over, I returned the magazine and brought it back. Inspect the gun to ensure the final safety. Aiming, shooting, looking at the results on the target, a lot of joy and a lot of sadness.
This is an unknown shooting training ground in the desert of southern Xinjiang. Winter exercises.
Three. 9. In the summer, there is an armed police force active on the training ground.
Xinjiang is a beautiful and fascinating place in the western border of the motherland, you can go to Altay in January to enjoy the snow, in March you can go to Turgen Xinghuagou to enjoy the flowers, in April you can go to the Kumutag Desert to ride camels and climb sand mountains, in May you can go to the Balikun grassland to enjoy the endless green, in June you can go to the Ili grassland to enjoy the sea of flowers, in August to Turpan to taste grapes, cantaloupe, etc., and in November you can go.
In the vast Gobi, there are people who are born and immortal for thousands of years, and who are immortal for thousands of years after death, but whether they live or die, they always stick to the edge of the desert and resist the poplar forests that fly in the wind and sand.
Xinjiang is a place that people yearn for, not only with beautiful scenery, but also with unique ethnic specialties, which are mouth-watering and evocative. Each national specialty food has life and soul, and has a unique legend.
Xinjiang ** chicken was all the rage in the 80s, and in a Xinjiang specialty restaurant near the army station, the signature dish was ** chicken, and I never had the opportunity to sneak out to try it.
Every time the military car drove out of the barracks, standing in the back of the military truck, I stared at the street scene passing by the side of the road with good eyes, and couldn't help but swallow the spittle. Hey, if you put on a military uniform, you can't be like ordinary people, believing in the reins of horses on the streets, eating and drinking in restaurants.
There is only one place per class for shopping every week. This weekend, someone in the class celebrates their birthday, and the task of buying the ingredients needed for the birthday party falls on the shoulders of those who go out to buy. Who's going to go?In the end, I voted overwhelmingly to allow my squad deputy to go out to complete this arduous task.
After breakfast, I carried the largest travel bag in the school, and rushed out of the barracks gate in anticipation with everyone's expectant eyes.
This time I went out to purchase, and I must buy back Xinjiang's ** chicken.
Along the way, I hurried and hurried, and at lunchtime I visited the Qiyi Road Bazaar in Urumqi.
The food on the bazaar is really dazzling, there are pilaf, grilled buns, lamb skewers, spicy lamb trotters, belly meat, and milk tea, which is really fragrant and fragrant.
After walking around and seeing the meal, I was hungry and planned to rush first. A strong aroma of lamb and the sweetness of carrots greeted you. Oh, a large pot of rice stewed with rice, mutton, carrots, and onions, the oil is shiny and fragrant. When I asked, I found out that it was mutton pilaf.
Pilaf is called "Bolao" in Uyghur language, and it is a favorite meal of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. In addition to using mutton, you can also use dried fruits such as raisins, dried apricots, and dried peaches to make pilaf, which is called sweet pilaf or vegetarian pilaf.
In the midst of a puff of smoke, a barbecue stand was placed. The stall owner cuts the lamb into 3 cm, 06 cm cubes. Wear it with an iron skewer, a string of 7 or 8 pieces, fat and thin. Grill the skewers flat over a charcoal fire and sprinkle with chili peppers as they go. The mutton skewers are bright in color and butter, the meat is tender and crispy, spicy and mellow, and has a unique flavor. Kebabs, known as "kawafu" in Uyghur. Eating mutton skewers, Xinjiang's unique flavor, the most authentic.
I saw a stall full of layers of naan cakes, about 30-40 cm in diameter, thick on the outside, thin and crispy in the middle, sprinkled with sesame seeds, crispy and delicious, chewy.
Naan is made from naan pits, which are shaped like upside-down wide-bellied water tanks. At the bottom of the pit is fiery charcoal or coal, and the pit wall is grilled red, and the rolled dough is pasted on the pit wall, and the naan cake will exude a fragrance after a while.
With the sound of "dong dong", a master quickly chops the fresh lamb into small pieces on the meat table, and then puts it into a whole lamb belly. After that, seal the mouth of the lamb's belly and insert a hollow reed rod at the seal to exhaust it.
Then put it in the soup pot to stew, during which the lamb belly absorbs the umami of the mutton, absorbs the juice and fresh fragrance of the mutton, and the mutton is mellow and soft after the pot, and the lamb belly eats strong and elastic. That's called a thought!
As I walked forward, I was stunned by the sight of a large basin of about 90 centimeters, stacked with lamb legs about half a meter high, with attractive color and fragrance, which made people stop and salivate.
This is Hu spicy sheep's trotters, the master said, while busy with the work in his hands, I saw him remove the hoof of the sheep's hooves, roast the fine hair, wash it with alkaline water, and scrape off the charred parts. Then put the sheep's trotters in an old soup pot and simmer until cooked. After a pot of lamb leg is marinated, remove it and mix well with chili noodles and other condiments. The taste is fragrant, spicy and delicious.
In front of it is a smoky stall, which is different from kebabs and grilled fish. A large basin, a school of lively fish, swimming happily. A master cuts and washes the fish one by one, uses thicker red willow branches as the main support, passes through the back beam, and then uses three thinner branches to cross through, so that the whole fish is completely stretched. Then stand on the ground and grill it with poplar branches. Sprinkled with seasonings, the taste is delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the aroma is attractive, and there is no fishy smell.
The copper kettle on one stall is eye-catching, steaming hot and fragrant with milk. It is a milk tea stall, a master mashes the brick tea, puts it in a copper kettle to boil, after the tea boils, add fresh milk, constantly use a spoon to raise the tea, continue to boil, remove the tea leaves, add salt and serve. Xinjiang milk tea is mostly salty.
At a stall in the front corner, a master mixes fresh lamb hind legs, lamb fat, and onions with cumin powder seasoning, folds them into a square, and then puts the embryo into a naan pit to roast. When you bite into the baked buns, the filling is fresh and tender, the oil is direct, and the skin is crispy and tender. Baked buns are a favorite food of the Uyghur compatriots. A bowl of milk tea and two baked buns for Uyghurs are a nutritious breakfast.
When I came out in the morning, the squad leader stipulated that I should return to the team before three o'clock. Seeing that the sun was already a little westward, I returned with a full load, carrying lamb skewers, spicy lamb trotters, grilled buns, and milk tea in my backpack, carrying a ** chicken in my left hand and a bag of jade belt noodles in my right hand.
I trotted all the way back to the barracks. Sunday at 3:30 is the time for the roll call. Don't be late, if you are late, it will discredit the class.
I felt the door of the barracks at three o'clock in the car, just as I was proudly and panting to report to the guard, bent down to lay down the ** chicken and noodles, saluted the sentry report, and passed through the gate. The unexpected happened at this moment.
Suddenly, a male student came running from the playground and shouted to me, "Student, don't come in yet, help me buy two ham sausages and a bucket of instant noodles in the small shop at the door."
In this life, being kind-hearted and not knowing how to refuse hurt me. If I could turn back the clock, I would not hesitate to say no, and then walk past him with my head held high and as if no one was around.
However, because of the innate sense of responsibility and compassion within. In addition, when they first arrived in the army, they did not know much about the system and regulations, and did not internalize them in their hearts and externalize them in their actions. And so, we were under the watch's nose, like a relay race that ended in a sacred handful of crumpled bills. Because 20 years ago, there were no 4G mobile phones, let alone online banking and WeChat.
As a result, our words and actions are not very hidden. Our small movements allow for a full view of the standing sentry that does not move at all.
I couldn't predict what would happen next, so I grinned and ran into the kiosk next to the gate and bought a few ham sausages and instant noodles. Then he proudly walked into the barracks and handed it to the male trainee in front of the sentry, and was very grateful to Dixi listening to his continuous thanks.
If it wasn't for a ** chicken in my left hand and a box of jade noodles in my right hand, I would have waved my hand boldly and said you're welcome!Two people who had never known each other happily carried the food in their hands, one after the other, through the grass and towards the training ground.
In fact, walk 800 meters on foot, pass the training ground, and walk into the dormitory building to reach your destination.
I looked up at the window of the dormitory building across from the training ground, and I knew that my comrades must be looking forward to me with joyBecause everyone is looking forward to me coming back to host the birthday party.
What I never expected was that at this moment, the corner of my eye found a strange situation, from my left, front, right, three or four rapidly moving black shadows, the speed was quite fast, taking the form of semi-encirclement, quietly stirring up, saying that it was too late, that fast, there was an ominous premonition that swept through my mind. I immediately stopped and put the ** chicken and sad side in my hand in the grass at my feet.
Suddenly, he ran towards the target in front of him. After all, when he was about to run into the dormitory building, he was surrounded by several dark shadows. I looked up and took a closer look, and it was five squad leaders. In the distance, the platoon commander glared angrily, and our sixth squad leader pointed to his head with a dark face. Ask the male trainees to throw away the instant noodles and ham sausages as well. I looked at the grass with trepidation.
Pai Zhang ordered us to let us on the playground, face to face, the platoon commander hated iron and said, I have been watching the window for most of the day, and I found you as soon as you entered the door, I am worried that you will hide separately, so let a few squad leaders quickly outflank and arrest you one of you. The army clearly stipulates that male and female cadets are not allowed to engage in matches, and you should go shopping on the streets together, what kind of bad impact will this have on the common people!Didn't you secretly look at each other, now tell you to take a good look and see enough face to face!
It dawned on me at this point, blushing and arguing that I didn't know him at all!I just wanted to say that he secretly went to the door to sell instant noodles, but when he thought about it, this was against the military system, and it was not allowed to buy things at the commissary at the door without permission.
Let the platoon commander ask the sentry at the gate and ask him to prove whether we entered the gate together or not. The platoon commander yelled angrily, I don't know each other again, there were people talking and laughing along the way just now!I'm not blind, and I have to find a convincing reason for making up nonsense. I originally wanted to catch a late, but now I catch you both, and the receipt is not small. At this point, I really understood the meaning of an idiom, which is indisputable, and at this point, any explanation is pale and weak.
Then, the windows of the dormitory building stretched out their heads, and they leaned on the window to see what was going on!There were also some brave people who slowly walked downstairs and watched from the edge of the training ground.
I stood face to face with someone I didn't know, a meter apart, with my head hung in frustration. The platoon commander gives the order, raise his head, hold his chest up, and look straight ahead.
There were more and more onlookers, and the most humiliating were the comrades-in-arms of our class, who looked at me with doubts and hesitations in their eyes, as if they wanted to stop talking. They never expected that this class deputy, who usually looked like a man's wife, would take advantage of the only place in Class 6 to go out for private affairs and go shopping with male students.
Only then did I realize that the male student was close to 1.9 meters tall, and I was less than 1.6 meters tall, which was a big difference from the other party's shoulders.
It also happened to avoid the embarrassment of looking at each other.
I was in a deep mood and discouraged. The students opposite are like monks chanting scriptures, chanting words:"I'm sorry for asking you a small favor, I really didn't expect to cause you so much trouble!I turned my face away with remorse, and said nothing, looking at the vast sky in the distance, not letting the tears flow.
The platoon commander said that you are usually busy with training and have no time to talk, so now have a good chat.
Seeing that there were more and more onlookers, several comrades-in-arms from Class 6 took the opportunity to approach me and quietly asked, what is going on?
I whispered intermittently to them what had happened, and then asked them for help, and quickly explained to the squad leader, so that he could ask the platoon leader to intercede. Then, I gestured with my eyes to where the bag was hidden, and they immediately understood it and quietly slipped out of the crowd.
Maybe it's time to drag on and the meal is about to start, or maybe the platoon commander gave us the sixth squad leader a face. The platoon commander shouted and said, "Punish the two of you for running ten laps on the playground, and you can't go back to the dormitory until you finish running."
As soon as I heard this, I ran away. The onlookers were confused, and they also followed the two of us to run in the inner circle, asking as they ran, what is the situation with you!
I puffed up and said that I didn't know him at all!The person who accompanied him came to his senses and shouted at me, he is from our Chongqing Jiaotong Hospital, and he usually doesn't say much!Did you meet on the street?I happened to enter the door together?
I'm so angry, did your class sleep out today?They followed behind and shouted, yes, the deputy of our squad went out today. He seems to have been sleeping in the dormitory, how could he run out with you?
I was speechless for a moment, and said hatefully that I had met him at the door when I came back!So how did he go to the door?He buys instant noodles and ham sausages. By the way, he said before that he was hungry and asked us to borrow instant noodles. But after earning a circle, there is no food in stock on the weekend. Therefore the demons sent him to buy it from the shop at the door. Oh, there was an exclamation from behind, and it just so happened that you landed in the sight of the platoon leader at the window. I only heard no footsteps behind me, just a sigh: misfortune came too coincidentally!
In the evening, the birthday party was held as scheduled, on the table, there was mutton worn in the candlelight and happy birthday song, I ate ** chicken for the first time, chicken nuggets, potatoes and green peppers, chicken is fragrant, potatoes are soft and glutinous, green peppers are crisp and refreshing, and the fragrance is coming. **Add a plate of jade noodles to the chicken, the ramen noodles are flexible and smooth, soaked in the soup, and the taste is even more delicious. At this point, the door behind me seemed to be quietly pushed open, and a gust of wind passed by the back of my head. I dodged out the door, the corridor was dark, and a figure flashed around the corner, it was the company commander!A chill ran down my spine, as if the muzzle of a dark hole in the dark was always aimed at me......