War Military: From 1978

Chapter 3: The happiness of the era!

"Little intellectual, wake up, it's time for dinner!"

On the train, Chu An himself didn't know when he fell asleep.

Originally, he was still trying to study his "golden finger" in his mind.

But after all his research, not only did he not come up with anything, he even slept until dinner time.

"Oh well!"

Looking back at Li Guoping, Chu An rubbed his eyes and asked, "Where are we?"

"Who knows? The chief just told us to get ready to get off the bus and eat!"

"All right!"

Chu An didn't ask any further questions.

sat up.

At this time he also noticed that the train was slowing down significantly.

"It should still be some distance away, and I don't see any military stations outside."

On the side, other recruits stood up and looked out through the ventilation window above Chu An's head.

Just then, Tong Lianzhong spoke up: "Alright, sit down, everyone! I told you to get ready, not to stand up!"

Amid the clanging sounds, Chu An waited for about ten minutes.

"It smells so good!"

"I smell meat and noodles!"

The train hadn't stopped yet, and through the iron door that wasn't closed tightly, I could see that there were no buildings outside yet.

But the train had slowed down, and at the same time, the fragrance drifted into everyone's nostrils along the spring breeze.

"Goo~"

Chu An rubbed his stomach.

He didn't notice it when he was asleep, but now that he smelled the aroma of meat and noodles, he immediately swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

He didn't know if it was because he had gone to the toilet before or because he was too young and had a strong digestive ability, but now he felt very hungry when he was tempted by the fragrance.

"Being a soldier is so good! Before I joined the army, the last time I ate meat was on the fifteenth day of the lunar year. After that day, I couldn't smell meat anymore. Look at today, we can smell it morning, noon, and night. I'm so happy!"

On the side, Li Guoping was also looking forward to it.

Chu An glanced at him, feeling a sense of sadness in his heart.

Is this the sense of happiness in this era?

Meat?
If I remember correctly, we had porridge with vegetables and meat for breakfast. The camp pot was full of vegetables, but the meat was just a condiment.

There was only a little bit of minced meat mixed in, giving the porridge a slightly meaty smell.

At noon, we had steamed bread, fried dough sticks and a bowl of seaweed and egg soup. The meat was just some meat crumbs floating on the egg soup.

The kind of minced meat that can't even cover a fingernail if you scoop out five or six pieces.

And this is enough to make everyone shout happiness.

Suddenly, Chu An's expression changed slightly.

He is a meat lover.

Before his rebirth, he had never thought about what to do if he couldn't eat meat?
And now?

All of a sudden, Chu An was no longer in the mood to care about Li Guoping's happiness.

He was wondering how he would live his life from now on.
The days of eating meat and drinking all kinds of fat boy happy water are simply unrealistic in this era.

In fact, according to my memory, I used to eat sweet potato rice every day at home.

It's not that he likes to eat sweet potatoes, but the family doesn't have enough work points and the rice allocated is not enough to eat. They can only rely on their grandmother's family who live in the mountains and have a lot of private plots and can grow more sweet potatoes to support them.

Naturally, with all this chaos, there was no need to talk about meat. The only time I could smell meat was during festivals, and my staple food was a bowl of sweet potato rice and a plate of pickles.

And this is only available at noon. For dinner and morning, there is basically only sweet potato and vegetable porridge. After drinking the thin porridge, my stomach makes rumbling sounds when I walk.

To be honest, just looking at these memories now makes Chu An feel sad.

These days are so fucking hard!

It was a hardship that he, a young man of the 21st century, could not believe.

In the past, he occasionally heard from his elders about the hardships they had experienced in the past, and knew that they did not have enough to eat or eat well, but he had never thought about how hard life was back then.

And now, the memories integrated in his mind explained it to him clearly.

This bitterness, just when he recalled it, he felt the bitterness penetrated his heart.

"Luckily I joined the army!"

Looking around at the excited recruits and the sincere smiles on everyone's faces, Chu An couldn't help but have this thought.

When he was in the army, he knew from memory that although it was impossible to have meat for every meal, at least he had to plan his meals if he didn't have sweet potato rice, and it was even more impossible for the dish to be just a plate of pickles.

To put it bluntly, these days, joining the army is one thing, serving the motherland is one thing, and being able to have three meals a day in the army and eat better than at home is another.

For Chu An, being in the army allows him to eat slightly decent meals. Even if there is less meat, as long as he doesn't eat sweet potato rice every day, it is better than staying in the countryside!

Now Chu An recalled his original memory. He really didn’t want to see the sweet potato rice that ran through his entire memory, let alone eat it.

Chu An stood up and leaned against the iron sheet of the carriage, looking at the smiles of the other people around him. At this time, he could already empathize with their feelings.

At that moment, another officer who was receiving the soldiers stood up and said, "This isn't the first time. The train will stop later. Everyone, please observe discipline and get off the train in an orderly manner. Line up for meals in an orderly manner. Follow all instructions. If you need to use the restroom, get off the train and gather with Squad Leader Liu!"

There were two cadres and a veteran squad leader who came to pick up Chu An and his group this time. The man who spoke now said his surname was Ma and he was a platoon leader. Besides him, there was also a veteran squad leader who had been a soldier for five years.

"it is good!"

"Promise to obey the commander's orders!"

Inside the carriage, the new recruits waiting for their meals responded very positively.

The responses were a bit chaotic and unorganized, but Platoon Leader Ma didn't say anything. Only Squad Leader Liu stood up and shouted, "Anyone who needs to go to the toilet, report to me after you get off the bus!"

After that, after waiting for about two minutes, the train finally slowly pulled into the military station.

This military station is actually a group of low-rise bungalows, painted white with a layer of lime on the outside.

It is obvious that this military station is quite old. Not only is the white exterior wall a bit yellow, but many parts of the wall are cracked and peeling off, revealing the earthen brick structure behind it.

"Beep beep~"

A whistle sounded outside the car.

"New recruits have arrived, please pay attention to discipline!"

Through the sound of the sealed truck, Chu An also heard a loud and powerful roar coming from outside.

"There are veterans returning from military service inside the station. Everyone, cheer up and let these veterans who are about to return to their hometowns see your youthful energy."

Tong Lianzhong was now standing at the door. When he turned around and said something, many new recruits looked out through the half-open iron gate.

Not only on the iron gate side, many new recruits could not contain their excitement and quietly stood up to look out through the ventilation windows on the sealed car.

But Chu An is not in the mood for that now.

We are all human beings, with a head on two shoulders. What's so good about that?

He is now rubbing his stomach and wants to get off the car and eat.

After the hunger was aroused just now, he now felt hungrier and hungrier, as if he had not eaten for two or three days.

Was it caused by the previous "premonition" situation?

Chu An frowned, because in his fused memories he had clearly eaten in the morning and at noon, but now he was so hungry.

But no matter how he thought about it, it was impossible to come to a conclusion now. He could only guess and then wait to get off the bus and eat.

(End of this chapter)