Chapter 52: Enlistment and Parting
For Zhang Chengyuan's rudeness, the four Fin.k.l girls didn't really get angry in the end, but just repaired him again, and then after learning that Zhang Chengyuan had no other itinerary that day, they forced him to be their follower, and let him accompany them to practice singing and dancing for a day, and take free errands.
In the blink of an eye, the time to enlist in the army has come. After saying goodbye to some friends who had come to see him off at the Seoul train station, Jang Sung-won, accompanied by his father Jang Dong-ho and his agent Park Byung-yeol, took a train to the Nonsan Railway Station in South Chungcheong Province, and then transferred to a taxi to the Army Training Center in Jupyeong-ri, Yeonmu-eup.
Most of Zhang Chengyuan's friends are popular artists, and most of them have busy schedules and have no time to separate. Li Xiaoli's four daughters were also busy playing songs on major TV stations to promote the new album, although they also wanted to interrupt their day's trip to send Zhang Chengyuan to the army training center, but Zhang Chengyuan sternly refused. Because he was afraid that the situation he was with them would be photographed by reporters, and then there would be a scandal.
Although it is a good thing for him to have an affair when he is about to disappear from the public eye, it is definitely an extremely troublesome thing for Fin.k.l, who is promoting a new record and will start separate activities next month.
In addition, Xiao Jing didn't come to send Zhang Chengyuan, she didn't know that Zhang Chengyuan was going to join the army. Zhang Chengyuan was afraid that she would be sad and cry after knowing that she would break her nose, and he was afraid that it would delay her studies, so he asked Xiao Jing's parents and sister to hide the matter for the time being, and when the matter passed, Xiao Jing wanted to see him and tell her again.
It was her sister Zheng Xiuyan who got up early in the morning on this day, took the subway to Jang Sung-won's new apartment, accompanied him to the Seoul train station, and did not turn around and leave until the train left. She was silent during the whole process, but when Zhang Chengyuan asked her why she wanted to send him off, she replied: "I came to send you for Xiujing, otherwise she will definitely blame me when she knows what she said." ”
As for Zhang Chengyuan's father, Zhang Donghu, it is very interesting, he usually runs business abroad, and he seems to be indifferent to his son who earns money early and is independent, but he will appear in front of Zhang Chengyuan at every critical moment. This is the case when I took the college entrance examination, when I was admitted to college, and now when I enlist in the army, I still do the same. It can be seen from his actions that he is still very concerned about his son Zhang Chengyuan. Zhang Chengyuan saw this in his eyes early, otherwise he would not have notified him every time there was a major event, although it was still Zhang Chengyuan himself who really made a decision every time something happened, but at least it showed Zhang Chengyuan's respect for this cheap father.
By the time we arrived at the Army Training Center, several thousand people had already gathered near the reporting site. The number of young and strong men who have joined the army is already in the thousands, and the number of family members and friends is more than three times. Here and now, you can see the sad scenes of relatives parting and lovers parting everywhere. Zhang Chengyuan's mood was also inexplicably sad, and he was irritable for a while, so he hurriedly went to the queue to go through the enlistment procedures, received a military uniform, military boots and nameplates, shaved his hair short, and took a few photos...... After everything was ready, he went out of the camp and found a small restaurant to have a parting meal with Zhang Donghu and Park Byungyeol.
During the meal, he handed over the two letters that he had already written to Park Byungyeol, asking him to pass them on to Fin.k.l and Xiao Jing's family tomorrow as a parting word. As Jang Sung-won's agent, Park Byung-yeol naturally knows Jang Sung-won's friends well, and it is very appropriate to entrust him with this kind of thing, and Jang Sung-won also trusts him very much, and is not afraid that he will interfere in the private life of artists like some agents.
In the letter to Fin.k.l, he wrote several paragraphs like this: "The four sisters of Hyo-ri, Joo-hyun, Jin'er, and Yo-ri, I am very grateful to you for treating me as my own brother in the past few years, and maybe even closer than my own brother, at least I know that Sister Do-joo-hyun is much better to me than her own brother, which may be because I am more well-behaved and handsome." Either way, I am very grateful for your friendship and will always remember it. ”
"I also earnestly hope that my sisters can always be so good to me and be good to me for the rest of their lives! But at this moment, I am very worried that one day you will stop liking me. I'm afraid that during the two years I have served, you will be seduced by other men and become someone else's girlfriend, and you will forget about me. Therefore, I implore my sisters to be picky in their eyes, to be rational in their spirits, and not to fall for the stinking man easily, at least, if the appearance is worse than me, the character is not as good as mine, and the potential is not as good as mine, you must not agree! Otherwise, I will feel very shameless, and of course, I will be very sad! ”
"Don't be careful that you will not be able to marry in the future, you will be unhappy, with me, I promise that you will not encounter this kind of thing in the future, the big deal in the future I will join the nationality of a small African country, let you all marry me...... There are words that I would not normally be able to say when I am face to face with you, and now I solemnly declare to you by this letter: Sisters, I love you! Forever! May we be together for the rest of our lives. ”
It's a pity that the feelings described in Zhang Chengyuan's graffiti work this time were regarded by the four daughters of Fin.k.l as the younger brother's reluctance to attach himself to his sister, so he didn't pay much attention to it. The only thing he wished was that their vision was indeed much higher, and the idle men couldn't look at it at all. But this is not the credit of this letter, but they have been in the entertainment industry for a long time over the years, and they are used to seeing handsome guys and handsome men, especially because they often have aesthetic fatigue in front of Zhang Chengyuan's almost perfect face.
In another letter to Xiao Jingjing, Zhang Chengyuan simply wrote a few sentences, telling the fact that he was a soldier and explaining why he didn't tell her in time. At the end, he wrote: "My dearest sister Xiao Jing, when the recruit training is over in 5 weeks, I will go back to Seoul to reunite with you, and I will ask you to eat steak and apologize to you." Love your brother Jang Sung-won forever. ”
Two days later, after Xiao Jing saw this dry and almost unliterary letter, in addition to sadness, she suddenly thought: "Brother Cheng Yuan is too uneducated, he can't even write a letter well, and he doesn't know how he was admitted to Seoul National University." And he wrote so little, about the same number of words as I usually write, it's really insincere, and when he comes back in the future, he must let him write 10,000 words. As everyone knows, Zhang Chengyuan was afraid that she wouldn't understand, so he picked up the most simple and easy-to-understand expression, and was afraid that she would get bored if she read too much, so he didn't dare to write more.
After handing over the letter and having lunch, Jang Sung-won asked his father and Park Byungyeol to go back, and he entered the training center again with his luggage and reported to the dormitory of his squad. Looking at his resolute departure, Zhang Donghu and Park Byungyeol were very reluctant. a reluctant son to endure hardships in a hierarchical and disease-ridden barracks; A machine that was reluctant to make money was temporarily stopped, so that he lost countless money.
Whatever the reason, they complained in their hearts about the damn conscription system, which had made generations of good young people suffer so much, ready to fight against their compatriots in the north. The Cold War between the two superpowers a few decades ago, and the struggle of a handful of political careerists, made a good country and a nation suffer from division and separation for generations.