两位同村的青年被同一辆列车拉进同一所军营。新兵训练结束后,他们一起被分到连队当卫生员,然后又一起考上军医大学。大学期间,他们在同一个班,学习成绩不分伯仲。大学毕业后,青年甲被分配至人迹罕至的边防哨所做军医。青年乙却如鱼得水地漫步在大城市的大医院里,身边医学名家云集。两年过去了,当青年甲为买一本医学专著而费尽周折时,青年乙正接受权威专家的点拨调教;当青年甲 Two young people in the same village were pulled into the same barracks by the same train. After the boot camp was completed, they were assigned to the company as health workers and then admitted to the Military Medical University. During the college, they are in the same class, academic performance regardless. After graduating from college, Youth A is assigned to a border guard post inaccessible as a medic. Young B is like a duck walking in the big city hospital, gathered around the medical masters. Two years later, when Youth A bought a medical monograph and exhausted, Youth B was accepted by authoritative experts to teach; when Youth A