583 Roots-Seeking Tour

How can a soldier have a personal attachment to another soldier who is the same as him, but who was only once his superior?

In Li Liwen's motherland, all servicemen who are on duty and have military posts are state servicemen, and belong to and only belong to the state, so how can it be possible for a soldier to be assigned to a private person and become his personal appendage without distinguishing between public and private? Even if this soldier belongs to the class of slaves and untouchables, theoretically speaking, he should belong to the state fairly and equally during his service, and no longer have any dependency with his original owner. And any attempt to co-opt and control the military and turn the national army into one's own private army is undoubtedly a rebellion. Whether the man was a high-ranking military officer or a royal nobleman, as long as he did not want to be charged with conspiracy to subvert the state, his family was executed.

And when Li Liwen betrayed his country and came to the universe, he realized that the army could still play like this......

The word "betrayal" suddenly popped up in his mind and made Li Liwen's heart shrink suddenly, as if he had been stabbed by an ice needle.

Yes, that's right, betrayed - he did betray his country, fled from his country.

He thought to himself, a defector.

In any case, he was indeed a defector.

The young man's chattering voice was still chattering in his ears—

"There has been a communication from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and their retirement papers will be delivered to you at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. There is also your pension, the list has also been confirmed, half of it is Cosmic Coin and half of it is a reserve certificate, and it will arrive in your account within a day after the document takes effect. The time to carry the luggage is half past nine in the morning, and I heard that the luggage will be transported directly to Earth, so I will carry it directly to the spaceship tomorrow. Shall we live together on a spaceship, General, shall we set sail to Earth at once?"

"Ah, I don't know what the earth looks like. When we get to Earth, will we be able to enter his inner circle and live on his ground, General? I heard that the taxes for living in the inner circle of Earth are very expensive, and even ordinary nobles can't afford it for a long time. ”

"Will they provide you with dormitories, as they do here in the Peace Army? Or should we buy a house on Earth? If you are thinking about making a home on Earth and living there for a long time, you should buy a bigger house? I've been researching the prices of the planet for the past few days, and it doesn't seem to be as incredibly expensive as rumored, especially since their housing prices are almost cheap. A residential villa with a courtyard can be bought for about 100,000 yuan in reserve vouchers, which is almost cheaper than the Beacon Star, and your deposit can be fully afforded. ”

"And we can also hire a few workers, as well as drivers and cooks to take care of the housework. I found in your study a copy of the Earth Travel Guidebook, do you know what it says, General?The earth has no slaves, so there are no servants, and the only way to do the work of the house is to pay for hired people to do it—it's hard to imagine how awkward and inconvenient it is. Mother Earth, the cradle of our humanity, is still in the backward era of employing hired labor—but fortunately, it can still be hired, and it is not completely useless. ”

"So, are we going to buy a house, General, General, General!"

The young man's voice suddenly raised and Li Liwen came back to his senses.

"Well," he said, "we don't need to live on the ship, the Dawn Trade will arrange a temporary home for us. I'm probably going to have to wait a little longer on Beacon, and the ship is scheduled to take off in three days. ”

"You don't have to worry about the house or the servants at all, dear little lady, for we probably won't be able to buy a house and settle down on Earth. According to the laws of the earth, aliens who have neither the immediate family members of the original inhabitants of the earth nor the nationality of the earth themselves have no right to purchase the earth's land, houses and all other resources, minerals and real estate belonging to the earth. Housing prices on Earth are low only because they are sold only to people on Earth, which is a public good. Alien sojourners like us – aliens like us who are allowed to temporarily reside in the Earth's atmosphere on work visas are called sojourners – and we sojourners can only choose the dormitories provided by our visa work units as our place of residence on Earth. But don't worry, Asaka Trade will provide us with housing. The room will only be bigger than here, not smaller than here. After all, the Earth is far more sparsely populated than the Beacon Star. They are about the same size, and the population of the Lighthouse Star is at least a hundred times that of Earth in the same place. ”

He laughed, "As for the servants who take care of the house, you don't have to worry about that." As far as I know, no earthling would be willing to be hired by an alien to serve him, no matter how poor the earthling is and the alien is rich, in fact, there are very few poor natives of the earth, they are all rich. ”

"Earthlings do not have a tradition of servitude, which may be related to their low fertility rate and small population. They clearly prefer machines to living people. The waiter of the machine, the housekeeping system of the machine, and even the stripper/dancer and bedmate," said Lee, who easily freed himself from the gloomy and frustrated mood of the previous one with the help of this relaxed conversation, he said: "And even the hired workers are often more arrogant and difficult than their employers. If you meet a vicious god in a tourist area of the earth, and perhaps you may be struck by someone whose nose is not a nose and eyes and is not an eye who will slap you to the south wall for a glass of water—in fact, this is often the case—then there is no doubt that this must be an honorable hireling, not an employer. In fact, on the contrary, their employers are more smiling, gentle and more approachable. They must always treat them with a cautious attitude that makes their servants unhappy with their negligence, and sometimes even has to curry favor with them, lest they lose them or cause more serious damage......"

"Is this what it looks like? incredible! incredible!" said two incredibles in a row, obviously shocked by this new strange star sighting, and then worried: "Then what should we do? Do we have to look at the servant's face all the time in the future? Isn't that a terrible life? But I can't without a servant." I can't imagine it, General. We can't afford not to go to Earth now, right?"

Li Liwen was amused by his young orderly: "Well, I don't think we will spend too much time in the dormitory on Earth. Most of the work of the military advisers of the trading company is no different from that of the commander of the armed fleet, and they need to be in the field for a long time, especially the military advisers of the Earth trading company. Of course, if we must have a house as a home, then we can buy one in the earth's heavenly orbit, which is almost indistinguishable from the lighthouse star, a piece of pure land outside the general rules of the earth's civil law, and you will definitely find a servant to guard the home according to your heart. ”

"Is that okay? That's pretty much it. ”

The little orderly was relieved, so he asked casually: "General......, have you ever been to Earth?"

Li Liwen nodded: "I went there once when I was eighteen years old, and I went with many brothers and sisters in the family. In our hometown, there is a custom that when a child grows up, if possible, the family should let him go on a hiking trip to the earth to see the place where his ancestors were born. Some noble families will also carry out special tomb sweeping and memorial ceremonies. They call it a root-seeking trip. ”

"How do you feel?" asked the little orderly, expectantly, "tell me more, General." I've never been to Earth – I never thought I'd be able to go to Earth one day. ”

"Well...... Li Liwen scratched his head, hesitated for a moment and decided to tell the truth: "I think it's very bad...... One attraction follows another, and if you want to see it, you have to keep hurrying, and as a result, you can't play anything, and your energy is exhausted on the way, and you don't have time to look carefully at those supposedly great monuments. The commercial tourism area is full of scammers selling fake drugs, who will be cheated out of all their money if you are not careful, and there is no way to call the police, those earth scammers will call you aliens in a disdainful tone, and the earth police will always guard you with a look that looks at the reserve ticket kidnappers. The food in the restaurant was horribly unpalatable and surprisingly expensive, but the food in the hotel was delicious, at the cost of having to endure all the stares of the waiter. As if the work that should be their job is causing them a lot of trouble, if you want to ask them something, it is even more exaggerated, you have to pay a tip, you have to put up with their bad attitude, and the answer you get may not be correct. ”

"What about tomb sweeping and memorial ceremonies?"

Li Liwen said "ha" and said, "That's even worse." The place where we went to sweep the tomb is called the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, and it is said that our ancestors are buried inside, in a yellow land. Then, after finally arriving, there were at least 20,000 alien tourists queuing at the door to enter the tomb to sweep the tomb, and they had to queue for three hours just to queue, and then they needed to queue for the same amount of time to go out. We spent less than half an hour in total, but we waited in line for seven hours. The inside of the tomb is even more exaggerated, in addition to people or people in a loess hill, all kinds of sacrifices are in full swing, three or five are a group, hundreds of people are a group, and even one person can do it once, all of them come to sweep the tomb, claiming that their ancestors are buried under this loess, and they all have strange skin colors and eyes, and at least speak hundreds of languages of different countries and planets- This is not difficult to understand, after all, it is very fashionable to recognize an earth ancestor in the whole universe, anyway, all human ancestors are from the same earth, no matter which gala horn their real ancestors were born in the universe......"

"Knock-knock-knock-" A knock on the door interrupted the conversation that was likely to slide in an eerie direction.

"Who could it be at such a late hour?"

The orderly put down his half-arranged clothes and ran over to open the door.