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The whistle in the police station

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By DanilBosPublished 4 years ago 5 min read

The years flow, time is like a shuttle, the passionate past of the recruiting company has been far away for more than 30 years, that with a suit, with a flag, with a song, with a post, with a pot of rice, with a road, with a large bath, with the sleep bunk scene vividly, can not help but remind me of that has passed away but infinite nostalgia for the police camp time.

  In the winter of 1986, we, Ningbo Cixi and Zhoushan comrades, met together in Zhenhai Qingshuipu Recruit Training Base, our camps were internal security, fire, border police, mainly under the dual leadership of the Armed Police Force and Ningbo Public Security Bureau. When we first entered the recruit company, we only saw a young face full of curiosity and yearning, the youngest was 18 years old, the oldest was 21 years old, and some squad leaders were younger than our recruits. A group of young people gathered together, full of eyes are the color of olive green, in addition to squad leaders above the veterans and cadres, their lapels are decorated with red collar badges, shoulders with double guns guarded by a red five-star shoulder patch, so people can easily distinguish whether you are a rookie or a prawn, huh! Since the police barracks, from the rookie start.

  A hairy young man who just got off the troop carrier, was called by name by the cadres of the recruiting company, and then arranged into a squad. We were assigned to the fourth platoon, the eleventh squad, our platoon leader, and then led away by each squad leader to the barracks site. Our three or four platoons were next to each other, and the camp housing was east of the Yong River, with a pleasant view, a large playground dedicated to training on the south side, and a logistics base and canteen site on the west side. Due to the limited conditions, we lived in an empty house, and the tenth class and our class were squeezed together, all playing on the floor. We had to put down our backpacks and clothing boxes and started to make our own bunks. After arranging and settling our belongings, we went to the training ground under the leadership of the squad leader to clear and organize the weeds and training ground. A field half the size of a soccer field was reclaimed by our olive green comrades, what a sense of accomplishment!

  In the evening, the entire recruit company received notice to meet at the auditorium of Ningbo Fisheries College. In fact, our training site is insufficient, rented from the college, huh! The aquatic college was not far from us, and the concrete playground there would become a good place for us to train for parade! Our team after finishing, marching to the college auditorium, after a burst of intonation, we sat solemnly on the seats of the college. There were several armed police officers sitting on the podium. After a round of applause, an officer from the Ningbo Public Security Bureau Border Guard Branch gave us a report on the mobilization of new recruits for training, and studied the regulations of the army. After that, in order to liven up the atmosphere, we started to sing and rehearse, and the sound of slogans rang through the cold winter night, and the hot police songs rang through the academy auditorium. There are cadres squad leaders new soldiers have performed on stage singing, dancing, skits, martial arts, military boxing and so on, it was our turn to discharge the program, platoon leaders squad leaders and other good people have performed on stage debut, constantly attracted a burst of good-natured laughter. I do not know who called my name, come one ***, *** come one, *** the word represents my name. In the midst of everyone's enthusiastic applause, I stood up, I'll give you a whistle: the song of the grass! "No flowers, no trees, I am a little grass no one knows, never lonely, never bothered, you see my partners throughout the ends of the earth" I sang and with a whistle, singing and whistling the song of the grass rendition, a little nervous but melodious whistling sound throughout the auditorium, did not expect to get a thunderous The applause, the enthusiasm of the comrades, so that we have just left the home of the young guys, forget the worries of leaving home, dispel the homesickness, the hearts of comrades closer together.

  In the future, every day off, the army will always organize libraries, supply and marketing staff, door-to-door to send us spiritual food and necessities, of course, we have to pay our own monthly allowance to buy. There were also mail carriers who took away a large batch of letters from the recruits and delivered a bulging bag of letters from relatives back home. In the recruiting company looking forward to the letters from home became the top priority in our spare time. Whenever we received letters from home, our comrades would gather together and share the messages and wishes of our parents back home, while we wrote in a few words about our training and study in the army, our understanding of the sacred and solemn word "soldier", and the care we received from the police cadres and squad leaders. In between training and learning, comrades will gather together to play the guitar, singing, harmonica, break dancing, fighting fists, reading books, etc., and of course my original show, whistling!

  Speaking of whistling, people who do not understand think it is very simple, as long as the pouting mouth, with the rhythm of the melody of the music can be blown. In fact, here to say whether a person's music cells are naturally formed, the comprehensive coordination ability to control, first of all, to know the music, familiar with the melody of a song; then the whole melody in mind, and then the blowing and inhalation coordination, to skilled use of the lips, tongue, cheeks, of course, whistling is simpler than playing the harmonica, because the harmonica to the score to memorize the syllables, but whistling mainly to the music The general melody of whistling music to remember on the line, do not have to be detailed to do re mi hair shiver la west, as well as remember the tone of CDEFGAB. But to the notes of each section are perfectly articulated, it is not an easy task. So, the comrades ordered songs, as long as I know the melody of the song, I will immediately blow out, some unfamiliar, only the classic section to blow out. Ha ha ha, I just became the god of whistling in the minds of my comrades!

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