Chapter 5: Mother's Worries
"Uh......" Zuo Ya looked at Chen Bin who was gradually moving away, with a black line on his face.
As if fleeing for his life, Chen Bin rode the two-wheeled bicycle as an airplane.
But he couldn't ride the speed of sound after all, and the sound of his left tooth came from the back of his head.
"You're running away now, I'll visit your house in a moment. This is called running monks, and they can't run away from the temple. ”
"Shhhh
Chen Bin braked urgently.
This scarred man is really deceitful!
Chen Bin rode back honestly.
"I don't want to go. Chen Bin said with a bitter face.
"You have to go. Left Tooth's unmistakable tone.
"Why force someone to do something he doesn't want to do?"
"That's what it says. With great power comes great responsibility. ”
"With great responsibility comes great risk. I'm still young......"
Zuo Ya frowned: "For more than a hundred years, countless predecessors and martyrs, fearless of hardships and dangers, fearless of sacrifice, used their lives to pile up the current boundaries of mankind, what a glory-"
Chen Bin interrupted: "I understand, but I'm different from them. I'm a coward, I don't want any glory, I just want to live, carefree. ”
Zuo Ya Zhengse said: "When people live, they should pursue the stars and the sea." ”
"No, I just want to survive. ”
Left Tooth looked at Chen Bin. This child, whose height is less than his shoulders, is extremely serious in tone and attitude, so serious that it even gives him an illusion, as if standing in front of him is not a junior high school student, but a person who has gone through life and death to look down on honor.
He was silent.
Chen Bin struck while the iron was hot and said: "Actually, you think, even if you force me to enlist in the army, I will be in a mess in the army every day, and it will be useless to you if I deal with things, right......?
"Your concept is too different from the beliefs we upheld on our voyage!" said Zuo Ya suddenly.
Chen Bin was stunned: "Yes, that's right." So...... The Tao is not the same, do not conspire?"
"No!" Zuo Fang laughed wickedly, "I mean, before you enlist in the army, you have to get an ideological education. ”
"Poof!" Chen Bin almost didn't faint, "Ideological education, are you serious?"
Zuo Ya's tone was relaxed: "Either you sign up for this year's selection." ”
"Registration is already closed!"
"It's okay, I can open a back door for you. After the unified inspection is completed, you will be tested separately. ”
“......”
M, you've thought it through.
"Do you have to enlist in the army no matter what?" Chen Bin still wanted to struggle.
Left Fang nodded.
"Even if you grind foreign workers in the army?"
Zuo Ya smiled: "It's not my business, just don't be caught by the instructor by the pigtails." ”
"Then, can I choose to work in logistics and not go to sea?" Chen Bin looked at Zuo Ya pitifully.
Left Tooth smiled innocently back: "What do you think?"
Chen Bin immediately withered, and the last straw was ruthlessly pulled out.
He got on the bike, dejected.
"The phone is always on, I'll contact you. ”
Chen Bin didn't seem to hear it, turned around and left. rode out for more than ten meters, suddenly stopped, turned his head and said, "Senior, there is something I forgot to tell you!"
Zuo Ya had already turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard such a sentence, he immediately turned around and asked seriously, "What's the matter?"
"You're so ugly when you laugh!
After Chen Bin finished speaking, he got on the car and turned his back to escape, and the whole alleyway was filled with his wild laughter.
Zuo Fang shook his head and smiled bitterly: This kid is really unpredictable......
He walked to the location where Chen Bin was attacked, and there was still some broken ice on the ground. He bent down, picked up one of the pieces, and held it in his hand. He squinted slightly, carefully feeling the subtle elemental power that permeated his palm.
"It's pure...... The hardness of ice crystals is around the third order. Oh, it seems that I usually practice a lot. It's a good seedling, and this time I returned to my hometown, and I finally gained a little. ”
With a little force, he popped the crushed ice in his hand. The third-order ice crystals crush diamonds, but in his eyes, they are no different from tofu.
Chen Bin returned home sullenly.
When I opened the door, I was greeted by the familiar smell of food. Mom had already prepared lunch, which was her son's favorite celery beef and steamed eggplant.
"It's back. Why is it so late today?"
"There was a delay on the way. Chen Bin scratched his head, looked at the steaming meal on the table, and lifted his spirits, "Mom, today is very rich! Beef is so expensive, are you willing to do it?"
My mother smiled and said, "If you grow your body, you have to eat it." Come on, the dish will be cold in a while. ”
"Okay!"
After passing by the stall on the road, Chen Bin happened to be hungry too, so he picked up his rice bowl and devoured it. In his previous life, he loved to eat these two dishes, but in this life, he was reincarnated in another world, and his preference for food has not changed at all.
Although this mother is not his mother, her cooking skills are very suitable for his appetite, and he does not run two large bowls of rice every time.
"Eat more, eat less. Don't eat too fast and don't digest. My mother chattered, paused, and said seemingly unintentionally, "The principal called me today." ”
Chen Bin's chopsticks paused in the air: "You want to find your mother to be a lobbyist, right?"
My mother was noncommittal, but said, "I told him clearly, that you can call the shots about your affairs." ”
Chen Bin smiled: "My mother still understands me." But if your son messes up, he may be forced to become a prostitute. As he spoke, he briefly recounted the sneak attack by the left fang.
The more my mother listened, the more her face looked, and when she heard the last slap on the table, she scolded: "How can he make a move on an ordinary person!
Chen Bin's face darkened: "Mom, you are angry, you died early in the morning, and Wang Fa is naturally gone." However, according to the military regulations of the voyage, he will definitely be punished. ”
My mother immediately said, "Then I'll go on a long voyage in the afternoon and report him!"
"Mom, Mom, don't get excited, no-"
"What's not!" said my mother angrily, "I raised you so hard by myself, is it easy for me! If something happens to you, who will I talk to!"
"Mom, listen to me. Chen Bin swallowed the last bite of food and put down his rice bowl, "Left Tooth is indeed a bastard, let's not be like a bastard first, he didn't really hurt me after all." Now the problem is, I'm exposed. I'm going to get caught. ”
Mom was silent. In fact, at the beginning, she did not object to her son going on a voyage, and even when she learned of her son's super high elemental closeness, she was so excited that she didn't sleep all night.
People living in this world have been educated and nurtured since childhood to conquer the sea, open up frontiers, explore the unknown, and work for the benefit of mankind. It's not appropriate to say that it's brainwashing, but this has indeed become a deeply rooted concept, just like people on the earth, who generally believe that being admitted to Qingbei is equivalent to a promising future.
In the long time of more than 100 years, the association has been equated with honor, and the number one organization affiliated to the association, Yuanhang, is the representative and symbol of honor.
So when Chen Bin expressed his reluctance to enter the voyage, and even wanted to escape the call-up of the voyage, his mother was stunned. She couldn't understand why her son, who was only seven years old at the time, would have such thoughts.
But Chen Bin quickly persuaded his mother. The way of persuasion is simple and crude, that is, on the data.
Chen Bin operated on the computer and called up the relevant information that had already been checked. The voyage data of the voyage over the years are in it.
The mother was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth, not because of her son's skillful shortcut key operation, but because these data, although not particularly confidential, are also the internal data of Yuanhang, how did her son get it?
But as I browsed page after page, my mother's doubts gradually disappeared, replaced by more and more solemn expressions, and deep worries that could not be hidden.
The mortality rate of long-distance voyages is frighteningly high.
As one of the three major institutions of the association, since its establishment 170 years ago, Yuanhai has made a total of 337 voyages, an average of two times a year, of which only 48 have successfully returned, with a return rate of less than 15%. The mortality rate is even higher, 90 percent! That is, on average, 90 percent of people die at sea on every voyage, and there are no bones left!
Chen Bin then called up another internal research report of Yuanhang. The report's conclusions are simple and crude, but they are shocking: no more than 70 percent of the soldiers who live past the age of 20, less than 20 percent at the age of 30 to 40, only 3 percent at the age of 40 to 50, and those over 50 years old can be counted on ten fingers.
After reading these materials, my mother was silent for half an hour. Chen Bin didn't bother her, just quietly doing his homework on the side, although it was just a low-level operation problem such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he also did it very carefully.
Then, the old mother spoke, her tone was full of tiredness, but she was extremely firm: "Son, we won't go on this voyage." ”