Chapter VIII Recruit Company
"Everyone has noticed! Take your things and prepare to get off the car. All that has nothing to do with the army will give up! What does giving up? It means either throwing it away or packing it up at the railway station to check it back; remember! It's all, everything!" The recruiting cadre shouted in the aisle of the carriage.
"Oh, ah, get up! Stop sleeping! Go to the place!" Wei Chen was sleeping soundly, and was woken up by the person sitting next to him.
Wei Chen rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, and said to the man:
"Thank you!"
"What are you polite? Maybe we will be in the same company! Get it clean!" The man said while packing his things. So Wei Chen looked at the man carefully: his skin was dark, his head was flat, and his eyes were very vivid. When he noticed that Wei Chen was looking at him, the young man grinned and said honestly:
"Hello! My name is Yu Tianbao! I call me Xiaobao at home, so just call me Xiaobao!"
"My name is Wei Chen, just call me Wei Chen!" Wei Chen also introduced himself with a smile.
"How old are you? I am on the 18th, the twelfth lunar month!" Yu Xiaobao was infected by Wei Chen's smile and said happily.
"Oh! Then I'm a little older than you, I'm from November!"
"Then I will call you Brother Wei from now on. What are you looking at?" Yu Xiaobao asked when he saw Wei Chen looking around.
"No! Don't call me brother! It is prohibited to form cliques in the army, especially in the recruit company! I was watching the train arrive at the station. If there is no one, I want to go to the toilet!" After that, I got up and walked towards the bathroom.
Wei Chen is still in the bathroom here, and the recruiting cadre has already risen up in the aisle and shouted:
"Everyone should pay attention! They each hold their own things and stand in the aisle, get off the bus in ten minutes! Follow me to the railway station square to meet. Do you understand? Go out with me! Don't be like herding sheep, you'll get messed up as soon as you go out, OK! Get ready!"
So the people in the entire car were ready and began to organize their own things. Yu Xiaobao anxiously looked at the direction of the bathroom. After seeing Wei Chen coming out of the bathroom, he hurriedly shouted to him:
"Quick! Pack up! Get off the car soon!"
Wei Chen then returned to his seat quickly and packed up his own things! As soon as he finished packing, the train slowed down. Wei Chen then thought to himself: "It's finally here!"
"Everyone should pay attention! Move towards the door collectively, get off the car and gather. What formation is the same now, and see who is around you!" The cadre of the army shouted, putting on a military cap.
The crowd gradually moved towards the car door, and Wei Chen got out of the car with the "flow" and did not forget to instruct Yu Xiaobao behind him:
"Remember! If someone in a military uniform and has a slap, he or she should first shout 'report', and then you will talk! Don't ask me why, remembering this will be good for you!"
"Oh! I understand!" Yu Xiaobaomu responded.
After the two of them gathered on the platform with the crowd, the soldiers took their group of people out of the station in a mighty manner. Of course, they didn't need to check tickets.
After walking out of the station and coming to the square, Wei Chen looked up at the station's big clock and realized that the train had been driving for nearly eight hours. After looking at the station name, he knew that he had arrived in Q City next to the province. It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. While Wei Chen was looking around, the cadres who received the troops had already started to complete the team. After the team was finished, they shouted to the team:
"People are careful! Open your backpacks, handbags, suitcases, carry bags, shoulder bags, etc.! Start the inspection immediately, the purpose is to check whether you carry dangerous goods, contraband, and personal items that are not necessary; in order to enable you to adapt to the army as soon as possible, you must strictly demand yourself as a soldier, so you must remove all the things you bring from the local area. From now on, you will no longer be young people in society, you are soldiers, and the reserve force of a country!"
Then, the soldiers' cadres began to check each person's bag one by one, searching one by one; Wei Chen and Yu Xiaobao stood in the last row, and when it was their turn, it had almost an hour passed; when the soldiers' cadres opened Wei Chen's bag, they found several books prepared by their aunt from it, all about famous generals in World War II and modern warfare. When they saw that they were about to take these books away, Wei Chen whispered:
"These books are not contraband, can you leave them for me?"
"Why? You may not have time to read books, so it may not be useful?" asked the soldier cadre.
"Maybe there is no time, but I can squeeze out time!" Wei Chen then straightened his chest and replied, "A great man once said, 'Knowledge is the ladder of human progress'. If the troops I am going to are a place where I don't even have time to study, then I would rather withdraw. Only by constantly learning can I better master advanced military skills and better remember military theory!"
"Well, the young man is good! Well said!" The soldier-received cadre nodded in approval, so he put the book back in his bag.
"I have ordered so many people to check things, food, drink, play, everything! There are even people who bring wine! You are the only one who brings harmonica. Can you tell me why you have to bring a harmonica?" When Yu Xiaobao was inspected, the cadre of the army picked up the harmonica and asked in surprise.
"Report! A combat hero from the former Soviet Union said: 'War is temporary, and music is eternal!' Music can make me more morale, make me forget the pain, and encourage me to meet all difficulties!" Yu Xiaobao replied loudly, revealing his perseverance in his tone. Wei Chen also discovered something different from some people from Yu Xiaobao's firm eyes.
"You are right: the war is temporary! Then, take the harmonica with you!" said the leader to Xiaobao.
After the point verification was completed, the leading cadres ordered to the team:
"Everyone get on the bus immediately, move more quickly! Don't talk, keep quiet!" So everyone was caught up with the truck waiting in the station square in advance, and then the vehicles started and drove towards the destination lined up.
The road was bumpy, and Wei Chen and the others didn't know how long they had been walking, but they only knew that when they arrived, it was completely dark.
"Welcome! This is where you work, train, study, eat and sleep in the next few months or even years; the two buildings behind me are your temporary dormitory tonight. Someone will wake you up tomorrow and will distribute the company to you; someone will take you to dinner later, and then wash and sleep; cherish it! Tonight will be the last night you are an ordinary local youth! Disband! Let the veterans take you to dinner!" After the soldiers said that, the cadre turned around and left.
So Wei Chen and Yu Xiaobao walked into the building behind him with things, found a room casually, put down their backpacks, and began to make the bed; at this time, a veteran came in and said to them:
"Hurry up and clean up, eat first, come back and clean up after dinner! The veterans have finished their meals, and now they are the food they cook for you. Go quickly. If you slow down, you won't be able to eat. Go quickly!"
"Thank you, the squad leader! Please, the squad leader!" Wei Chen was the chief of the army dean after all, and had good eyesight! So he quickly put down his work and pulled Yu Xiaobao downstairs with the veteran downstairs and walked towards the cafeteria.
The veteran brought him to the cafeteria. The veteran made a meal for them and said to him:
"This is the tableware for you Liangling, and it will be yours in the future. Don't waste it as much as you can eat. If you are found to be wasted, you will be punished!"
Chapter completed!