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The exchanges between the armed police fraternal units and the 7th Steel Company were friendly and candid.

The two sides had a great conversation.

After the dinner party that night, the friendship between the two parties deepened, and both parties agreed to strengthen communication and increase their feelings in the future.

As the time approaches day by day, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival in Steel Seventh Company gradually becomes stronger.

On the one hand, Gang No. 7 Company was kept spotless, extremely clean, and extremely tidy. On the other hand, some conspicuous places were pasted with bright red blessing characters or couplets.

The New Year atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger.

So the life of the soldiers is getting better and better.

The training basically stopped, I ate all the good wine and meat, and watched some good shows.

For the soldiers in the army, this is a day like heaven.

But for Su Qi, these two days have been a bit miserable.

First of all, he must seize the time to help Wu Liuyi with his homework.

It has been several years since Wu Liuyi graduated from high school. He has forgotten many things, especially English words. Two-thirds of them were returned to the teacher, so his journey to prepare for the exam was very miserable.

Fortunately, he had already made up his mind to give it a try, so he studied very hard and took the initiative. He basically got up at five o'clock every morning to read and memorize, and he had to work hard until about eleven o'clock at night before resting, so his progress was still good.

Pretty big.

Su Qi's main task is to help him map out the key points.

Based on Wu Liuyi's foundation, Su Qi decided on a strategy, which was to maintain the foundation and lose the difficult problems.

Those basic things must be remembered and understood by Wu Liuyi, while those that are more difficult and have smaller points should be discarded without review.

As a result, Wu Liuyi's review scope has been greatly reduced. In addition, the military school exams are simpler than the college entrance examination, so overall, Wu Liuyi's hope of getting into the military academy is quite high.

Su Qi was very dedicated to this matter, so it took him a lot of time.

Secondly, Su Qi has to help in the cooking class.

The cooking class had a lot of things to do in the past two days, and it was extremely busy. After Su Qi left, he was directly assigned the task of cooking a few hard dishes, which made his scalp numb.

Cooking in the army and cooking in a restaurant are two completely different things. When cooking in a restaurant, even if it is a large quantity, it is just a big plate, and it is very simple to stir-fry. However, in the army, due to the large number of people,

Every dish is made in one pot, and the cooking tools are not spatulas, but shovels.

To be honest, it was Su Qi's first time cooking such a dish, and he felt a little guilty. He originally wanted to shirk it and just do it, but after looking at it, there were really not many people in the cooking class who could really take on important responsibilities.

Therefore, he had to swallow those words back into his stomach and bite the bullet and start doing it.

Fortunately, after making the first dish, he asked someone to taste it. It tasted okay, even better than what Li Bin cooked. When he heard this, his heart dropped.

By the time Su Qi had prepared all the hard dishes, it was already New Year's Eve.

On this day, Su Qi came early to wait outside the phone booth at the company headquarters.

There was only one public phone booth in Gang No. 7 Company, but on that day, everyone wanted to call home, so they had to queue up.

Most of the soldiers of the 7th Steel Company came from rural areas and did not have the means to install telephones at home, so only a few were able to line up outside the phone booth. Most of them were urban soldiers or a few rural soldiers with very good family conditions.

But even so, on this day, every soldier will talk more to his family, so all in all, the queue time is still very long.

"Brother Qi, it's your turn!" Bai Tiejun came out of the phone booth and said to Su Qi with a smile.

Su Qi nodded, walked into the phone booth, inserted the magnetic card, and after being connected, dialed the familiar number.

After a few beeps, the call was connected.

"Hello -" a familiar voice came from the receiver of the phone.

"mom!"

"Son? Is that your son? Lao Su, come on, it's your son! Lao Su——"

"Son, son, is it really you?" Su Qi's father's voice came from the receiver, and he was trembling with excitement.

"Dad! Mom!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Why are you crying? Today is New Year's Eve, so you can't cry! Besides, my son called you. You just want to be happy. Why are you crying..."

Su Qi listened quietly to the voice on the receiver.

After a while, the other side finally calmed down.

"Son, today is New Year's Eve, how are you doing there? How do you celebrate the New Year in your army? Is there braised pork? Is there beef bought for you? Is there any fruit or something...

"

Su Qi's mother was nagging.

In the past, Su Qi would definitely have found it very annoying, but as a man of two generations, he only felt extremely warm and friendly now.

This is what home feels like.

He quickly smiled and said: "Mom, what era are we in now? How come there is no meat to eat? Our company killed a big wild boar today? Really... This big wild boar belongs to our regiment."

It has been raised by the logistics soldiers for a whole year, but it has become fat. We are planning to have a barbecue party tonight..."

Su Qi spoke in detail.

Just when he was talking happily, there was a knock on the door outside. When he turned around, it was the soldier outside who pointed at his watch, indicating that he had timed out.

Su Qi quickly said into the microphone: "Dad, Mom, I won't say anything anymore!"

"Son, please wait a moment. Don't hang up. Your dad hasn't talked to you yet...Son, I'm your dad. I haven't talked to you yet. You can't favor one over another...

..."

"Dad, Mom, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's that my time has come and others are still waiting to use this phone!"

"Oh - that's it!" A disappointed voice came from the receiver.

"Dad, Mom, then I'm going to die!"

"Okay, okay, son, then go and do your work!"

"Dad, I love you! Mom, I love you. You two should take good care of your health. You will have to help me take care of my son in the future. Do you hear me?"

"..." But there was no sound in the receiver, it was quiet.

Su Qi hesitated for a moment, but finally hung up the phone with a snap.

He knew that across the street, his parents must have been shocked by the words "I love you". They were surprised and happy, and even cried.

"well--"

Su Qi sighed softly, exhaled, calmed down her emotions, then opened the door and walked out of the phone booth.

When he returned to the dormitory, he was in a bad mood.

During this year's Spring Festival, there are only two people at home, my father and mother. They are already old and may be a little lonely...

He thought as he entered the dormitory.

"Suzy!"

"Here we come!" Su Qi stood at attention instinctively.

"Su Qi, take a break, stand at attention! Turn backwards!" Wu Liu shouted the command without expression.

Snapped.

Suzy turned back.

After turning around, he saw Shi Jin holding a bowl of dumplings with a smile.

"Su Qi, this is your first time celebrating the New Year in the army, so Wu Liuyi and I made a few dumplings for you to try. Wu Liuyi and I can't keep up with your skills, but we all followed Li Bin carefully.

The squad leader has been learning for two days and wants to make dumplings that are not too unpalatable. Didn’t you usually say that you are reluctant to put meat in the fillings of the dumplings you have eaten? Today we put a little more for you. Look, they are all meat.

!Here—eat while it’s hot!”

"Squad leader, what about them?" Su Qi turned to look at the other people in the class.

"We have all eaten, this is yours!" Bai Tiejun said.

"Thank you, monitor!" Su Qi took it with a smile, then sat down on the table, exhaled, lowered his head, scooped one out with a small spoon and put it into his mouth.

"How is it?" Shi Jin looked at it eagerly: "It's not too unpalatable, right..."

But he didn't hear Su Qi's answer.

Shi Jin then lowered his head and looked at Su Qi's face from bottom to top.

"Doesn't it taste good? If it doesn't taste good, just say so. Don't be embarrassed. Wu Liuyi and I are not good at cooking. Su Qi, what's wrong with your eyes? Why are they so red?

.....Okay, okay, don't be sad...This is the first time I'm celebrating the Chinese New Year in the army. Who doesn't miss home? Wu Liuyi and I were like this before."

Su Qi was stunned after hearing this, then slowly raised his head and looked at Wu Liuyi with red eyes.

When Wu Liuyi saw Su Qi's eyes, he was dissatisfied and protested strongly: "Squad leader, don't take me with you, I won't cry!"
To be continued...