After graduation, David became a soldier. After three months of recruit training, David didn't complain, but became an excellent soldier. Of course, good soldiers should be used where they are most needed. The lieutenant drove him to a vegetable field on the Gobi desert 50 miles away from the army and told him to take over from the retired veteran-planting vegetables from today. When the company commander left, David looked at the jeep that was getting farther and farther away and shouted, I don't grow vegetables, but I resolutely chased the smoke and ran to the Gobi. David ran back to the station sweating profusely. The lieutenant took him back to the post, showed him the pile of cans that the soldiers ate, and told him that the army station and post were the basic points, the base was the center, and you were in the center of the company. David began to grow vegetables. When the veteran left, he told him: I don't think this kind of tomato has been planted for three years. You can continue to plant it. The veteran left, leaving Dawei, who began to learn to live alone.
The company welcomes a general to inspect the work. David plays the horn in this small military band, and his eyes are fixed on the stars on the general's shoulder. Looking at the stars, David fantasized that he had become a general ... The band had long since disbanded, and David had just woken up from his dream and was reprimanded by the company commander, but he still didn't take the trumpet. On the way back to the vegetable field, David met the general again. The general recognized him, too, and they chatted very speculatively. David was very happy to learn that the general also planted vegetables. The general helped him find his horn, and from then on, David's mood was as good as his vegetable field.
Suddenly one day, a sandstorm came. David was swallowed up by the sandstorm to save the dark clouds and his sheep. When he woke up, he was lying in a hospital bed with a shiny third-class military medal beside his bed.
In order to celebrate the August 1st Army Day, the company invited a dozen military wives to have dinner together. David had an accident with a camel on the way to deliver vegetables, but he accidentally fell down and got hurt. He struggled to run to the army ... the soldiers and military wives of the whole company each had a bowl of vegetable soup in front of them. The company commander told everyone that this is David's vegetable soup, which is made of six tomatoes. The military wives drank the soup, but there were tears in their eyes.
David was a soldier for three years and a volunteer for two years. David didn't grow vegetables as a general, and he is about to leave the army. He stood on the red flag of hunting dance and gave his last military salute. The company commander gave David the horn, and the familiar songs of the soldiers started again: eighteen years old, eighteen years old, I was a soldier in the army, and I have never regretted it all my life. ...