Chapter 9 Early Enlistment

"Let's put on this uniform, it's time for class. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info" After speaking, An Lei handed me a set of uniforms.

"I don't have a belt, you can bring another belt!"

"Okay."

After changing into a uniform, I followed An Lei to the training hall for class.

"Let me introduce, this is Coach Gu Chenggu, a fourth-stage black belt master, and he will take you to train in today's class." An Lei briefly introduced me to everyone.

"Hello classmates, I'm Gu Cheng." I saluted everyone.

"Hello Coach Gu!"

"Since everyone is in the red belt class, everyone knows what I want to do in class and how to train. But for now, I want to ask you a few questions. Think about it, and after doing my preparation activity, share your answers. First: Do you like taekwondo? Second: What did Taekwondo bring you? Third: What do you think is the most important thing to practice taekwondo? There are no right answers to these questions, and there are no wrong answers, so you can just answer them according to what you really think in your heart. Okay, let's get ready for the event! ā€

"I don't know why the red belt class is pressing the legs at this level, are you retaining your strength, or is it really this level? Alright, that's it for the preparation event, come and gather. ā€

Seeing the state of the students, I really understood An Lei's difficulties. "Sit." I sat down myself.

"Okay, now let's answer the first question, students who like taekwondo raise their hands, you don't have to think too much, if you like it, if you like it, if you don't like it, you don't like it." Everyone raised their hands.

"Well, I believe that everyone really likes taekwondo, although the reasons for liking it are different, but the red belt that can be insisted on shows that everyone likes it. Second question, what does Taekwondo bring to you? The second student in the first row, tell me what you think. ā€

"I feel that taekwondo has brought me health, and learning taekwondo has trained my body."

"Okay, the female classmate who raised her hand in the back, you can talk about it."

"Taekwondo has brought me friends, training together and sweating together has made our friendship even deeper."

"Well, who has a different answer? Okay, this male classmate who raised his hand, tell me. ā€

"I feel like taekwondo is painful for me because of the tiredness of training and the pain of opening tendons, but I am also happy because of taekwondo."

"Okay, the third question, what is the most important thing to practice taekwondo? Who's going to talk about their thoughts first. ā€

"Please."

"Hold on! If you can't stick to it, it's definitely not good to practice. ā€

"I think it's understanding, and if you can't comprehend some things, it's hard to practice taekwondo to the next level."

"I think time is the most important thing, and only after the baptism of time can we understand the deeper meaning of taekwondo."

"Everyone's answers are very good, and I'm sure that's what you really think. So, why am I asking you these three questions? Because I think I can tell you something about that. First of all, if you don't like taekwondo, then why would you sign up to learn it? If it's just for exercise, to learn self-defense skills, then you have other options. Therefore, the first truth I want to tell you is: what you like, you should do better. Secondly, if learning taekwondo doesn't bring you anything and doesn't change you, then what's the point of doing something you like? The second lesson is to learn to find the meaning of everything. I don't have any reason to tell you this last question, but I would like to share with you what I think is the most important thing about learning taekwondo. Everyone is right, persistence is very important, understanding is very important, and time is also very important. But I think the most important thing is 'thought', a kind of taekwondo thought that belongs to you, and this idea includes everything you understand about taekwondo. No one can teach you this idea, it can only be formed in your own mind. Maybe you don't know what this kind of thinking means, and you don't know how to cultivate it, but that's okay, just remember the concept, and at some point of transuality, you'll understand. ā€

Looking at the blank looks on the students' faces, I wondered if they understood what I was saying. "I heard Coach An say that he would take you to play in a few days, and I think it will be a good workout for you. Let's start training and teach you some practical skills. Rise. ā€

Before he started training, An Lei walked over. "Someone called you, and I called several, I guess something's wrong. Go call back! An Lei handed me the phone.

"Then you can bring it." With that, I walked outside the museum.

There were three missed calls on the phone, and they were from the same person. The remarks in the phone book are Team Leader Li, and I was also for a while

I can't remember who this Team Leader Li is, but I still dialed back. It didn't take long for a mature and steady baritone voice to come from the other end of the phone: "You are Gu Cheng, right?" He asked.

"Well, who are you?"

"I am Team Leader Li of the Guiyang City Conscription Leading Group."

"Oh, it's Team Leader Li, is there something wrong?" I wondered for a while, what was he looking for me?

"That's the case, there is news from the troops, saying that your newly recruited special forces are going to enter the army half a month in advance, and the specific reason is not said by the troops."

Half a month in advance, wouldn't it be tomorrow to leave, I was wondering in my heart.

"Prepare well, someone will come to pick you up at eight o'clock tomorrow morning." After speaking, Team Leader Li hung up the phone.

Although I had doubts in my heart, since I had chosen to enlist in the army, I had to obey orders. So, I changed my clothes and went to say goodbye to An Lei.

"What's the problem?" Before he could go to An Lei, he walked over.

"The army has received news, saying that they have to enlist in advance and have to leave tomorrow."

"So suddenly."

"That's the matter of the troops."

"I don't have a chance to see you off!"

"It's okay, it's just that I haven't seen the army for a few years! Take care. ā€

"Do a good job in the army and strive to be a general or something." An Lei said with a smile.

"In peacetime, it's good to be a colonel, how can you be a general! Let's go. ā€

"Okay, I still have to go to class, so I can't send you, be careful on the road!"

"Yes." I waved goodbye to An Lei.

Back at home, outside the window, there was a lot of traffic. Everything that is familiar will soon become a memory. There is nothing to prepare for, after all, there is nothing lacking in the troops. It's just that everything about Xirui worries me a lot. In particular, on August 16, 2010, I had a three-year appointment with Ciri.