The time goes into June.

The weather is getting hotter and the rainfall is increasing, and the seedlings in the fields are seizing the opportunity to grow quickly.

Outside Xujiazhuang.

"One-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-three-four!"

"Run, run for me, no one is allowed to be left behind!"

"Those who fall to the last place can only eat leftovers, clean the toilets, and wash everyone's stinky shoes and socks."

"Get up quickly!"

In the roar of the instructor on the side.

Thousands of new village guards had to speed up, especially the companies that were left behind, in order to avoid eating leftovers, in order to stay away from the fear of being dominated by the smell, they all took out their strength to eat, trying their best to avoid becoming the last unlucky one.

Recruit Zhang Damao, in the middle of the team, running at a speed that is not fast or slow, running with ease, as the leader, he also takes care of the slower team members from time to time.

Zhang Damao, a native of Xizhang Village, Dashi Township, Baoying County, is 18 years old this year, a young man with a strong physique and dark skin, because he has been wild outside since he was a child, so he went up the tree to dig birds' eggs, went down to the river to fish, and went into the mountains to hunt game.

And because of this specialty, he became a chief, and his monthly salary was 2 silver dollars.

Therefore, the five-kilometer long-distance running training every day is really not difficult for him.

It's just that according to the teamwork concept of "don't abandon, don't give up", it's useless for him to run fast alone, as long as one person falls behind, even if the others run the first place in the collective, it is also calculated according to the running performance of the team members who have fallen behind, and all the staff have to eat leftovers, clean the toilet, and wash smelly shoes and socks.

It's really a blink of an eye.

I still remember that two months ago, he was still an unpopular village slipper in Xizhang Village, he didn't like to work in the fields, he didn't want to do business, he was seventeen or eighteen years old, and there was no matchmaker to help him say goodbye, so he was anxious about his adoptive parents, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to marry a daughter-in-law.

But Zhang Damao felt that he was not the material that could carry hard work, and he worked in the field for several days or dozens of days in a row, and his body really couldn't stand it.

On the contrary, he took a slingshot to look for a circle in the mountains, went down to the river with a fishing net to touch it, or took advantage of the darkness to go around the landlord's field, and coupled with the speed of running so fast that no one could catch up, he could often eat a round belly, and even bring some food to the house for his four younger sisters to eat.

And the adoptive parents work hard in the field, busy all year round, and often go out to do short-term work, only a few hundred catties of food input, can only eat half full, the four younger sisters are often hungry and crying, all skinny as wood.

If it weren't for the fact that he brought some fish, shrimp and game home from time to time and gave it to his four younger sisters to eat, he would have a little blood and his hair would not be so dull and yellow.

Because of this, the four younger sisters all like him, the successor brother, and are willing to be close to him.

That's right, Zhang Damao's biological parents, who have three sons and a daughter, really can't support so many dingkou, so they gave their daughter away and passed Zhang Damao to an uncle's house (that is, adoptive parents), and the adoptive parents gave birth to four daughters in a row, and they didn't dare to have any more daughters, so they were happy to adopt Zhang Damao, the adopted son, and treat him as their own son.

This made Zhang Damao experience a lot of family affection, and secretly decided to repay them well in the future.

It's just that in the past few years, as he has grown older, frequent droughts, and increasing taxes, the life of his family has become more and more difficult.

Even the fish in the river and the game in the mountains have also decreased significantly, and the landlords have also strengthened their guards, and there have been several times when they went to steal things late at night and were almost caught.

Zhang Damao also began to experience the taste of hunger every once in a while.

He realized he couldn't go on like this.

Two months ago in April, the news that Xujiazhuang was going to recruit a family protector and a good salary not only quickly spread throughout Xinghua County, but also spread like wings to Baoying County next door, and through the discussion of the township friends, it reached Zhang Damao's ears.

Opportunity.

Zhang Damao was keenly aware that this was an opportunity, because Xujiazhuang was too famous, not to mention the high-yield new crops that spread to Baoying County, that is, the many novelties from Xujiazhuang used by the landlords, and the reputation of being recognized as "rich in the world" in a short period of time, he knew that Xujiazhuang had money.

Even if he joins Xujiazhuang and becomes an ordinary farmer, it is said that he has a high income of three or five taels of silver per month, which is at least three times that of ordinary farmers, and he does not have to bear any taxes, and it is unimaginable that his life is good.

If you can become the family of Xujiazhuang, the treatment will only be better.

In fact, the traditional concept of people in this era is that "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail", not only military households are generally recognized as 'cheap households', but those recruits who take the initiative to serve as soldiers and eat food are also because they really can't survive, so they have to choose this profession of licking blood from the knife edge, just to be able to eat a few meals and survive for a while.

As long as the successful selection, there will be 30 silver dollars of silver, and at least 10 silver dollars of silver per month, including food and accommodation, and a large amount of meat and fullness, and can get a pension of 500 silver dollars for the disabled, and not only arrange idle work when disabled, but also a subsidy of 3 silver dollars per month, until they are old, if they can serve for 20 years, they can apply for retirement and receive a pension of not less than 500 silver dollars, and will also arrange leisure work......

And so on and so forth.

The benefits are amazing.

And with the wealth and credibility of Xujiazhuang, there is no need to worry about not being able to cash out.

So the young people in Xinghua County went crazy and ran to the recruitment point one after another, took the test, and became the family members of Xujiazhuang.

Zhang Damao from Baoying County also prepared a little entanglement, and together with a few friends in the township, he ran for hundreds of miles overnight, for fear of missing the selection of the family...... It's just that the friends all fell behind, and Zhang Damao arrived smoothly alone.

At the recruitment point in Xujiazhuang, according to the regulations, people outside Xinghua County were not recruited, but Zhang Damao showed off his two unique skills, one is to run fast, no one can compare to him; The second is that the slingshot is accurate, and it hits 100 shots within 30 steps, which is amazing.

These two specialties of his were appreciated by Zhao Yang, the captain of the Huzhuang Brigade, and he was admitted as one of the recruits.

Now, it has been almost two months since I entered the Xujiazhuang Guardian Team.

Zhang Damao has basically adapted to the training and life here, and is about to complete the transformation from a recruit to a qualified recruit.

As a matter of fact!

For Zhang Damao, the physical fitness and basic training every morning, such as five-kilometer running, standing military posture, queue training, stabbing training, fighting training, etc., are very relaxed, and the performance is excellent.

Only the stories told by the storyteller such as "The Biography of Yue Fei", "Qi Jiajun", and "Yang Jiajiang" are very popular and the most exciting.

In addition, there are also military songs to learn to sing, such as "We are the people of the army", "Loyal to the country", "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions", "Military Song", "Camel Bell" and other songs, which are very popular, I don't know how much lively atmosphere it brings, making people forget the hard work of training and the difficulty of reading and literacy.

It's just that the next day will repeat this cycle of 'training and sweating, eating happiness, learning words, pain, singing and listening to stories, happiness'.

But in general, every recruit can adapt to this kind of life, and there is no one who can't bear it and can't persevere.

Finally, after a long time, I will inevitably think of my relatives and parents in my hometown.

In the evening, after finishing today's training and study, lying on the Chase bunk in the recruit dormitory, Zhang Damao couldn't help muttering to himself:

"I don't know how my father and mother are doing, if I leave them like this, can they take care of themselves?"

"Are the four sisters all right? Can you eat enough now? I sent the 30 silver dollars to my family, and I also told my father and mother not to save flowers, to give my sisters more food, to raise their bodies better, and to find a good partner in the future. ”

"There are also 12 taels of silver that I got last month, and I also sent it back to my home, so that people said that they were living very well here, and they didn't have to worry about it, but I didn't expect my father and mother to let people bring back the words, saying that all the silver was saved for me, and I wanted to keep it for my daughter-in-law, and said that there were five or six matchmakers at home who wanted to introduce me to the object, but I didn't know that the girl was good."

Zhang Damao smiled helplessly: "Father, mother, I sent money back to spend for you, to improve the lives of my sisters, don't worry about finding a daughter-in-law, I have become a member of Xujiazhuang's village guard, I am not afraid that I will not find a partner, I am afraid that I will not be able to pick it." ”

However, it is useless for him to complain like this, and it is estimated that it will not have any effect if he asks people to go back and persuade him.

"I heard that after the three-month recruit training, everyone has 10 days of family leave, so I'll go home and talk to them about it."