Chapter 60: Veterans from the Country
In the eastern sky, the morning star hangs high.
In the darkness of the night, He Yuanchao took Xue Zhen's hand and walked forward in the dark. Although the road under their feet has been rolled by the roller and is relatively smooth, it is not possible to prevent people from littering on it, and they walk very slowly.
"Aid Korea, we don't have to go so early, I heard that the official recruitment of new recruits began at eight o'clock in the morning, and now I go, people haven't opened the door yet." With He Yuanchao exploring the way ahead, Xue Zhen walked more at ease, but it was dark everywhere, and the black shadows formed by the mountains and hills were sufficient, which made people a little frightened.
"You don't know, I heard that there aren't many recruits this time. I'll do the math for you, it's good if the army sets up a military communications network, and there are about forty or fifty operators. The art troupe heard that it was going to recruit more than 100 people, half men and half women. I don't know how many people the communication station wants, but you think, how many announcers do you want? The propaganda department has to recruit those who can draw pictures and write articles, and the conditions are relatively high. Speaking of which, there are only about 100 indicators suitable for you female soldiers. I don't care, it doesn't matter to the field troops, the engineering troops, the artillery, and the trial armored company, I can go there, the road is much wider than yours. This time, there are a total of 1,000 soldiers, and there are countless people who want to go, and six of the eight people in our dormitory are ready to sign up! "He Yuanchao is very concerned about Xue Zhen's affairs, and he has already inquired about all the twists and turns.
"Can we be chosen, then?" Xue Zhen heard that everyone wanted to enter the army, and she was a little unconfident and worried.
"Always give it a try! Anyway, I'm desperate to join the army! There are too many advantages to joining the army, and you can get an allowance of 20 yuan for one of the troops, which is much higher than our current 5 yuan. In addition, there is no need to worry about the major, formal pre-job training will be carried out, and the salary is 20% higher than that of others at ......the same level. He Yuanchao said categorically.
"Hmmm! I also want to be selected, as long as I join the army, Ling Chen, as a family member of a soldier, will be able to enjoy the treatment of a regular worker immediately, and he can also participate in the first batch of room divisions! As soon as Xue Zhen thought that after joining the army, Kong Lingchen's salary would immediately increase by a large amount, and she didn't have to save so much, she felt sweet in her heart.
"It's better to buy a house than to divide a house!"
He Yuanchao listened to her Kong Lingchen all the time, and his heart was sour, so he had to find a reason to twist himself and sing against her.
"Where can I afford a house now, a minimum single room of 35 square meters will cost 400 yuan. Ling Chen and I hope to have a child as soon as possible, so we have to set aside a room for the child, at least one set of two, the price is more than 600 yuan, and we must save it for at least three or five years to afford it. However, I have discussed with Ling Chen, we are going to adopt a rent-sell method, pay eight yuan of rent a month, rent enough for ten years, and then the house will be ours......" Xue Zhen thought of the beautiful elevator apartment, beautiful community environment, complete public facilities, and supporting services on the colorful leaflet, thinking that she and Kong Lingchen would live here for the rest of their lives in the future, and felt that the whole heart was about to melt, and she was wrapped in a feeling called happiness, and she was intoxicated.
Since the last time I participated in the volunteer labor in Xincheng, everyone often took time to go and see. The foundation was poured on May 20, and since then it has been one floor a week, and now in mid-July, eight stories have been built in eight weeks, and there is still a month to go before it can be capped.
Then there is the construction of the exterior wall and the division of the space of the internal wall, and I heard that dozens of construction teams will enter each building to repair it, and it will take half a month at most.
Then come to the exterior wall decoration, water and electricity pipeline construction, community sewer construction, and greening, it is estimated that it will be ironclad to move in by October.
Therefore, when everyone got the propaganda materials distributed by the military sub-district, everyone was very excited.
This is the house!
For Chinese people, the house is the lifeblood! "The land without a piece of tiles", in ancient poems, all show a trace of pity for the poor who are so poor that they don't even have a house.
Most families in China, several generations of a family can only be squeezed into a narrow space, and there are many people who live in the same house for three generations and four generations!
They never dreamed that for the sake of a chance to study, they would have the opportunity to get a house of their own for life! When the policy was announced, many people still couldn't believe their ears, and they grabbed the staff who conveyed the policy and asked it countless times, and then it caused a sensation in the whole school.
Sensational!
The students were excited, and so were the teachers – and they were eligible for a room!
Houses can be rented or bought.
If you don't want to live for a long time, the rent is three dollars per month. If you pay all at once, the smallest single room will cost more than 400 yuan, the smallest two suites will cost more than 600, and the smallest three-bedroom apartment will cost more than 1,200 yuan - each house has its own bathroom!
There are also a variety of house types, a single room with two types of units, a set of two or two bedrooms with four types of units, and a set of three houses with three types of units.
The most high-end suite is four bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms, with an area of 150 square meters!
Unfortunately, this unit is also the most expensive, with a price of 3,060 per unit, and it is not allowed to use the rent-to-sell model to buy through a method similar to deferred payment.
However, in the eyes of the students, if they buy it, this house is still very expensive, more expensive than in China, but for those teachers, it is not expensive at all. Their average salary is more than 80 yuan, and the highest Professor Li's monthly salary is as high as more than 280 yuan!
For them, even the most expensive four-bedroom and two-bedroom apartment is only a year's and a half's salary. Moreover, the military sub-district has also implemented a seniority salary system for them, and if they engage in teaching work here for a long time, their salary will increase sharply in the second year, not to mention this money.
I heard that there were several teachers, so I immediately paid the money and bought the house in full. Others who did not pay the money were also hesitant to rent a room and buy a room temporarily. They wanted to go home, which was a long-pent-up belief, but they were a little hesitant when they saw the thriving prospects of the military division. Only a few teachers who decided to go back after three years of teaching did not hesitate to choose to rent a house.
Xue Zhen naturally wants to buy a house, she wants to live with Kong Lingchen in this home of her own, give birth to a child here, raise him to grow up, watch him start a family, and then the two of them will snuggle up to each other, sit and watch the sunrise and sunset, and grow old together.
But they don't have money now, and the monthly subsidy of five yuan for the two of them is only enough to fill their stomachs, and they even have to pick and calculate to buy some school supplies, small scarves and so on.
If she can be admitted to the army, she will have a monthly allowance of twenty yuan. Kong Lingchen will also enjoy the treatment of military dependents, although he has not yet been rated, he can also get the lowest level salary, and the two of them add up to forty yuan, and they have a lot of money on hand.
This desire is so strong, so in order to increase the success rate a little, she is also willing to follow He Yuanchao to the enlistment office after four o'clock in the morning.
The conscription office was in a small valley.
Seeing the light in the valley from afar, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. The military sub-district has good law and order, there are many job opportunities, everyone has a head, and there are very few people who are traitors and criminals. But people's fears are greatly affected by the environment, there is no lighting along the way, and there are monster-like black shadows everywhere, which always makes people nervous.
"Ouch!"
He Yuanchao only relaxed, and he felt that he had stepped on something under his feet, and he was weak and weak. Because his mind was deserted, he didn't grasp his balance well, and his foot twisted outward, and he suddenly felt a pain in his foot and neck.
Oops, twisted to the foot!
Before he could get angry and cover his feet to check the injury, the thing he was stepping on actually stood up and stood in front of him.
"Ahh Hell! ”
Before he could shout, behind him, Xue Zhen was already screaming in fright.
"Hell, you're big! Look at it clearly, I'm human! The man was wrapped in a quilt, shrunk on the side of the road to sleep, was stepped on by someone for some reason, and his stomach was full of anger, and before he could get up and question, he was actually regarded as a ghost by the other party first, and he was even more angry.
"He Yang, what's your name? What's going on? ”
Xue Zhen trembled and covered his mouth, He Yuanchao was furious, and was about to argue with this bastard who was sleeping on the side of the road and twisted his feet and neck, when he saw that the protrusions around him that seemed to be undulating just now moved, and someone even turned on the flashlight and shone it on his face.
I'll go!
How many people slept here!
Although the weather is hot and humid in mid-July, even if it is to cool off, it is also spread out in the dormitory, who would be stupid to run outside to sleep on the side of the road?
The black rumbling sounded, and I couldn't see how many people there were, but looking at the shaking shadow, there were thirty or forty people.
"You're insane! Ran here to sleep, and when you are full, you can find a mountain to jump down, why do you run here to hurt people! He Yuan's vitality was broken, he didn't pay attention to the fact that there were people sleeping here, stepping on the air and twisting his foot, how could he participate in the selection now?
The first person to invite him out!
Bastard!
"What's your attitude? What's wrong with me sleeping here, what's in your way? Lao Tzu likes to sleep here! The person on the other side was sleeping soundly, and he was also angry and anxious when he was stepped on his head, and He Yuanchao was angry, and the other party was also angry and quarreled with him.
There are many people on the other side, but He Yuanchao is not afraid.
It's not far from the conscription office here, no matter how horizontal these people are, can they still turn the sky upside down? He felt that he had fallen eight lifetimes of mold today, and he was full of confidence to sign up for the army, and he twisted his foot before he could enlist, and it was likely that he would not have anything to do with the army.
But before his hand touched the other party's body, the sight in front of him suddenly changed, as if it was spinning, and there was a feeling of weightlessness on his head and feet, and his body fell to the ground, touching the pain in his feet and neck, and he suddenly screamed in pain.
"He Yang! Stop it! ”
The group of people saw that the two of them were moving, and hurriedly stopped, but He Yuanchao had already been cleanly thrown by the other party with an over-the-shoulder and fell to the ground fiercely.
"How can you do this! It's obviously your fault, sleeping here in the way, not only did you not apologize but also beat people! Xue Zhen saw that He Yuanchao was knocked down by the other party, and she was so angry that she burst into tears, and shouted with a crying voice.
"What's going on? What's going on over there? ”
There was a sound of footsteps in the valley, and several soldiers rushed over with flashlights when they heard the sound, and a warning sound was sounded from a distance, and some people even loaded their guns and made a vigilant gesture.
"Stand back, stand back on both sides, spread out first!"
Several fighters were on high alert and stood in the outer circle of the crowd. Although the muzzle of the gun is facing the ground, it can be raised and fired at any time. They ordered the two sides to separate, and then they had one party from each side come forward to explain the situation.
He Yuanchao was really stunned when he was fallen, but after the Yamaguchi guards came, he was bold again. If you can, can you still get bullets? When he spoke, his mouth was a little unclean, and two of the three sentences were swearing, and he said something very simple, but he said it for a while before the guards could understand what was going on.
Because they understood, they also looked at each other and felt that something was wrong. Whoever runs to the recruitment office in the middle of the night to sleep, if you want to be the first, you should also come to the door, but it is some distance away.
"What do you do? Why sleep here? Take out the documents and take a look! ”
There were a lot of people on the other side, and the guards and soldiers were also a little weak-hearted, shouting loudly, asking the other party to take out their documents, and another person ran back quickly, ready to call someone.
After the establishment of the military sub-district, everyone was issued with a certificate with a bareheaded photo, name, work unit, and other simple information.
The group of people was sued by the wicked people of He Yuanchao first, and several people wanted to argue at that time, but they were stopped by the leader. At this time, listening to the soldier asking for documents, the man slowly stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "These comrades, we are from China. We used to be soldiers in the army, but we were all discharged, and we heard that the treatment here was very good, so we came here. This is our military discharge card! ”
As he spoke, he took out a reddish plastic document from his chest and handed it over slowly.
Veterans from home?
The guards and soldiers were even more confused about the situation, and a squad leader took the certificate and used a flashlight to illuminate it, only to see that the words "Chinese People's Liberation Army" and "Discharge Certificate" were really printed on the cover, and the issuing unit was still the Ministry of National Defense. In the inner page, the first column is the nationality, the second column is the date of birth, the third column is the time of joining the party and the regiment, the fourth column is the education level, the fifth column is the home address, the family population, the work unit before joining the army, the time and place of enlistment, the number of the unit to which it belongs, the previous positions, etc., and the right side is stamped with the official seal of the army with the bright red August 1 imprint.
It seems to be true.
"Su ...... Peaceful? Are you a deputy company commander? The soldier read out the name of the bearer and said curiously, "Since you are a veteran in China, what are you doing here with us, and sleeping here?" ”
He glanced at He Yuanchao, who was puffing up his anger, and thought it was really funny.
"I was a deputy company commander before I was discharged from the army, so I was arranged to go back to my hometown and ......work in a socially run machinery factory, which was actually an ironsmith shop. These are all comrades-in-arms of one of our troops, and everyone has not been doing very well after being discharged from the army. Last time an acquaintance said that his son was a soldier here, and he had a twenty yuan allowance every month, and after he was discharged from the army, he also paid for distribution, and his income was also high. If there is a chance to return to the troops, we are all happy. I just arrived yesterday, and I heard that you were going to recruit new soldiers, so we didn't look for a place to stay, so we just came over. The mountain pass is windy, so we will rest here for a while in the leeward place, anyway, the troops used to camp and practice in the past, but I didn't expect this to happen, I'm really sorry! ”
That man has a clear mouth, Mandarin is very standard, and he can speak the ins and outs of the future clearly in just a few words, and he is worthy of being a cadre.
"You're still from the Thirty-Eighth Army!" After hearing what he had said, the soldier looked at the official seal of the army again and exclaimed in surprise.
"Which Thirty-Eighth Army?" A soldier on the side didn't understand the situation and asked.
"Which Thirty-Eighth Army are you talking about?" The previous soldier was speechless at this illiterate comrade-in-arms, and glanced at him, "Of course, it was the most combat-effective column of the Northeast Field Army, and the 38th Army of the Korean War fought the American devils!" ”
"I'll go! It's so big! The others gasped and were shocked.
"You are all here?" A cadre who led the team to come over was also a little uncalm when he heard the news.
"Yes! But not all of them are connected. Suning said calmly.
The cadre looked at him, then at the thirty or forty people, and then carefully looked at the discharge certificate with a flashlight, and read it several times, and even the reward received by the other party was repeatedly read, and he was a little undecided.
It seems that this matter has to be notified to the above to deal with it.