Early in the morning, when the rooster crowed, it was still dark in the tent propped up on the bed, and he opened his eyes and could not think of any difference between this day and the old days. The house was silent, and I could no longer hear my father's faint cough. Daddy's room was at the other end of the hall, opposite his and his brother's room.

A few years ago, every morning, when he woke up every morning, the first thing he heard was a cough from there, three years ago in the winter, his father was sick, and he couldn't afford to be sick for several months. He and his brother used to lie in bed listening to his father's painful cough, which had been ringing for months before finally stopping at the beginning of spring three years ago.

My father died!

In the past, when my father was alive, relying on the small business in the family, this day was quite passable, and I was able to read private acquaintance, although it was particularly valued by Mr., but this family with only the old mother and young brother left, I could no longer afford two people to read private acquaintance, looking at the younger brother of Zhengxiang who was asleep on the small bed over there, thinking of the joy when his father sent him into private acquaintance last year, he closed his eyes again.

Since his father has passed away, then this family has to rely on him as the eldest son to support it, useless is a scholar, this sentence is really true, he can not do business, and can not do farm work, how to support the family? How to honor the old mother and raise the younger brother?

Forced to make a living, he persuaded his mother to spend more than 20 taels or so to enter the sailor camp at the age of 14 and pretend to be 18 years old, and became a student soldier of the sailor battalion.

Jiaodong people have a saying that has been passed down for thousands of years: "If you can go up to Nanshan to be a donkey, you can't go down to the North Sea to fish." "The hardships of life at sea can be seen, as an errand boy in the sailor camp, you have to endure the pain of seasickness and fight with the sea, and in case of storms and other weather, there are also worries for your life.

However, the student soldiers he was in were diligent and miscellaneous, and they had no worries about getting on the ship, and their salaries were much less than those of the sailors.

It's just that...... Thinking of the years of his studies that had been wasted, he couldn't help but sigh.

While sighing, he thought of another thing - three days ago, the master named Shang Dequan came to the sailor camp and set up a recruiting point outside the sailor camp, and this recruitment notice was pasted not only all over the city, but also in the township.

It was a notice from the minister stationed in the court to recruit brave guards, and there were not many people called, but more than 300 people, but like the government recruited brave in the past, they sat in a certain village and picked out a group of strong men who were worried about their stomachs. According to what the merchant sat down in the notice, "This time the minister stationed in the court recruited Yong to serve as a guard, which is related to the dignity of the heavenly kingdom", so the requirements for Ding Yong were extremely strict. The recruited soldiers must have a certain place of origin, a clean family background, and a land guarantee, and even require Ding Yong to be able to write his own name and write rough words.

Not only that, the conscripts also have to test their physical endurance, in short, it looks extremely fresh, the average scholar can't pass it, and the ordinary idlers, but they are illiterate, although they have been paid a high salary of three or five dollars, but in the past three days, there are only more than two hundred people who are qualified.

"Three, two, five...... If you have an extra five dollars of silver a month, you can also give it a try......"

Thinking like this in his heart, he listened to the squeak of the door opening over there, and his mother got up.

When the mother got up, he also got up, and pushed the tent on the bed aside, it was a hazy, reddish dawn, and the wind blew a piece of untorn window paper on the window, and through the square hole of the window, revealing a glowing sky.

When he came to the yard, he listened to his mother's sigh in the kitchen.

"This vat has bottomed out again!"

The sorghum rice in the tank bottomed out again, and there was no food at home, listening to his mother's words, he remembered that when he came back from the camp, he forgot to buy food, so he hurriedly said.

"Mother, the camp will be paid tomorrow, or not, I'll go out and buy some fruit or something!"

"Fu'er, you can't waste that money! The money will be saved for your brother and sister to study! ”

Mother's words made his face suddenly darken, reading is his father's last wish, but this family's situation.

"Mother, these days, someone has come to us to recruit soldiers, recruiting the personal guards of the minister stationed in Korea, I have inquired, if a student soldier like me is reinvested, at least he can be a shed......"

While the family was sitting and eating, he looked at his mother and said his thoughts.

"What is a shed, isn't that shed still a soldier!"

"There are four taels of monthly salary in the shed, and there is no official deduction, if this is the case, if you save for another two years, you may be able to leave thirty or forty taels of silver, and when the time comes, you can naturally vote for Mr. and get kung fu!"

As soon as he said this, the woman, who had been drinking gruel with a bowl of rice, looked at her son.

"Then you have to think about it, don't delay your future! When your father was angry, he was still thinking about how famous he would be in the future! ”

Fame, is fame so easy to take? I've been out of school for so many years......

Thinking like this in his heart, his footsteps walked quickly, and soon he left the county seat, and when it was almost noon, he finally returned to the sailor camp, and outside the gate of the sailor camp, there were still people lining up to recruit.

Although the standard of the prime minister in the DPRK to recruit the guard is more difficult than picking a son-in-law, but the salary of three or five dollars a month still makes people rush to work, but in the past, in order to be a soldier, everyone even did not hesitate to treat and give gifts, although this time although the treatment is more generous than in the past to recruit the defense army, but whether it is the land security, the government or the government, few people stuff silver to find a way, the reason is simple, but all the strong men who are recruited, first have to write and read, and then they have to get a number plate, according to the rules of the soldiers to be screened, Only those who know guò can enter the camp, not at all like in the past, as long as the name is thin, they can eat military rations.

Because of his relationship in the sailor camp, he naturally didn't have to queue up, but just signed up in the camp and received the number plate.

“2156！”

Looking at the numbers on the number plate, he is no stranger, in the sailor camp, he has learned this kind of Western numbers, but in three days, more than 2,000 people came to join the army, and maybe only eleven people entered the camp, just like this, among the one or two hundred people, no more than twenty or thirty people can enter the camp.

Crowded in the crowd, he looked at the people around him, most of them looked like strong people, few of them were thin, but there was still one person who caught his attention—unlike most of the others, who wore a light gray robe, which covered the thin body, and only made the figure appear thinner, so that he even felt that a gust of wind might be able to blow this person away, and it seemed to notice him.

"This brother, look at you from the camp, this, what a little school method is this!"

Although it was deliberately almost, the smile that Zu Boyan squeezed out seemed to be a sneer in his eyes.

"Let's run ten miles first!"

As he spoke, he looked at this person carefully, can this person run ten miles?

"Ten miles? Oh, not much, under the surname Zu, the name Boyan, the word Zhusheng, did not ask for advice......"

"It's also bamboo, just call it a bamboo pole, look at your skinny, like a chicken!"

Before Zu Boyan finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter next to him, although he was ridiculed, but he seemed to be fine, looking at the descendant in front of him who was wearing the sailor battalion uniform.

"Under the surname Wu, the name is Peifu, and the word Ziyu."

Wu Peifu hurriedly saluted and introduced himself, and at the same time asked curiously.

"Listening to Brother Zhusheng's accent, it seems that he is not a local? I don't know where Brother Zhusheng lives? ”

"In Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province, this is not four years ago when I first came here......"

When he spoke, Zu Boyan's words carried a hint of evasion, and he was afraid that only he knew the bitterness, although Shandong was thousands of miles away from Shaanxi, but if the creditor got the news, it would be possible.

Just as Zu Boyan was trying to inquire about the contents of the other schools, a piercing scream suddenly came from there, and he saw a senior officer wearing a guerrilla general's uniform holding a copper flute in his mouth, and the piercing scream seemed to be made by the copper flute.

"Everyone listens, this official is here to recruit bravery, is to recruit pro-Yong for the Prime Minister Tang Daren, this pro-Yong is related to the dignity of the country, those who are less than five feet tall are not entered, although you are enough, you still need to school with endurance and physical fitness, this is three passes, one is a ten-mile long-distance run, and those who do not pass in twenty-five minutes can be eliminated,"

Standing on the empty bomb box, Shang Dequan stared at the more than two hundred people in front of him and shouted loudly, at first he didn't think that the three methods of this point school made by Lord Tang had any use, but after trying the knife the day before yesterday, he immediately understood the benefits of running, no more and no less than ten miles, but those who are in good health, if they try their best for twenty-five minutes, it is almost the same, this way down, the weak, smoking smoke can not hold on, naturally it will be eliminated, and the next push-ups or sit-ups will also play a role in elimination. Moreover, in such a large number of public schools, some people want to fake, but they can't do fakes, so as to avoid indiscriminate fillers.

Because of this, only 213 people have been recruited in the past few days, but all of them are one out of ten Jingjian Ding Yong.

"Everyone listen to my whistle, and see the blue flag along the road in front of the camp and turn back into the camp! Twenty-five minutes later, the rampant rope blocked the door, and the person who entered the camp could be Ding Yong, and those outside the camp should return home by themselves,"

As soon as Shang Dequan's words fell, he picked up the whistle, and at the same time as the whistle sounded, more than two hundred people who had just been recruited ran forward like a swarm along the road marked by the soldiers of the sailor battalion, looking at the people who were running wildly, and a staff general in the sailor battalion looked at them, but muttered there.

"That is, his surname Tang wants to give face to the country and the dynasty in North Korea, otherwise according to this school, the country will have an army of one million, and it will be able to give 900,000 points!"

As he spoke, the general yawned, touched his nose, and commanded the soldiers beside him.

"Light the cigarette for the master, since the Lord Zhongtang has an order, let the surnamed Shang make a fuss!"

(There are some trivial matters today, so let's try to fight for the second one, but it is estimated that it may not be after 10 o'clock...... Ask for recommendations)