Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 3: Starting over again, joining the army again
Chen Mo took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

Then he stood up from his seat and slowly walked to the corridor outside the classroom. Young faces in school uniforms passed by him, talking and laughing.

He lowered his head and saw that he was also wearing a school uniform.

Come to the corridor outside.

Chen Mo reached out and touched the edge of the railing covered with white tiles. The icy feeling was very real. He looked up and saw that the sun was shining brightly outside and the sky was blue.

The sunshine shining on the campus seems to be filled with the scent of youth.

“I am truly reborn.”

Although his head was still a little dizzy, Chen Mo had gradually sorted out the difference between dreams and reality.

"Chen Mo, the break is almost over, what are you doing out here again?"

At the other end of the corridor, a boy with greasy hair sticking to his scalp and a patch of acne on his face was shaking the water stains off his hands while greeting himself.

When Chen Mo heard the voice, he looked at the person who came with a confused look on his face.

"I came out to get some fresh air!" Chen Mo replied casually.

This person looks familiar, but I can't remember his name.

"Breathe? What's wrong? Did you just sleep and feel confused?"

"Hurry up and get into the classroom. The next period is the old witch's class. Don't let her see you idle."

"Yeah." Chen Mo responded simply.

The other person stared at Chen Mo, then naturally leaned against the wall. He didn't even know if he had shaken off the water on his hands, and just put them directly into his pockets.

When he got closer, Chen Mo realized that the collar of the boy's school uniform was pitch black, as if it had not been washed for two months.

"Let's go. We really can't delay any longer."

The boy leaning against the wall turned his head to look behind him, then straightened up with a guilty conscience, as if he was afraid of being discovered by the "old witch" he mentioned. He then pulled Chen Mo and tried to enter the classroom.

"Dong Keyang"

Chen Mo Ran really thought about it and this name popped up in his mind.

Yes, that's him!
He vaguely remembered that the two were from the same village, but one lived in the east end of the village and the other in the west end.

As far as I can remember, Dong Keyang went to work in the south after graduating from high school. He rarely went home and we gradually lost contact.

In their senior year of high school, they were desk mates, but they hadn't seen each other for so many years that they couldn't recognize each other for a moment.

After returning to the classroom, Chen Mo did not sit back in his seat. Instead, he leaned against the table with his arms folded across his chest, staring at the figure faintly reflected in the window, a little dazed.

Although the reflection in the window was faint and blurry, Chen Mo could still see clearly that it was also a young boy, familiar yet unfamiliar.

half an hour.

He turned around and looked at the blackboard at the back of the classroom, where a line of conspicuous large words was written in red chalk - 253 days left until the college entrance examination.

"There are still more than 200 days until the college entrance examination."

Chen Mo repeated it softly, then turned his head and looked at the words "Class 1, Grade 3" on the textbook again.

Lenovo just woke up to its own recess singing.

That’s right, this year is 1998.

Wasn’t 1998 the year when I signed up to join the army in my previous life?

Chen Mo glanced around the classroom and saw that other students were either chatting or staring at their books. Of course, some were like Dong Keyang, bending over and rummaging through the desk drawers.

Suppress your inner emotional fluctuations.

Chen Mo quickly sat back in his chair and began to fall into deep thought.

1998 was a crucial year in his life, a turning point. In those days, even after graduating from high school, few people truly expected to go to college.

Firstly, it is too difficult to get into university.

These days, colleges and universities have not yet expanded their enrollment, and taking the college entrance exam is truly like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Most people have not even finished junior high school, and graduating from high school is considered a high level of education.

Secondly, even if a child is admitted to university, most families cannot afford it. The little money a rural child's family has can hardly cover the expenses of a college student.

For example, the founder of an e-commerce platform went to college with the entire village donating 500 yuan to pay for his tuition.

Chen Mo is from Fu County, Yingcheng, Henan Province. In their area, many children start to ask others for help and use their connections to help their children make a living after they reach their third year of high school.

Some can make it to graduation, while others simply go to work in big cities like Shenzhen or Yangcheng after finishing their second year of high school.

These days, going south to work is a newly emerging trend. The wages earned in a factory are much more than what you can earn from working in the fields and selling crops for a whole year.

Chen Mo's family is very ordinary. His father is a carpenter, but his health has always been poor. He can't do much farm work, so he usually helps others do odd jobs to supplement the family income. His mother is an authentic farmer.

I think it was around this time.

Seeing that some children from the neighboring village had joined the army and returned strong, my family wanted me to join the army too so that I could at least have enough food to eat.

Chen Mo didn't have any intuitive idea at the time, so he just went.

After my parents begged and pleaded with everyone, ran around everywhere, and gave gifts and favors, they finally managed to get a place in the town to join the army.

After joining the army, Chen Mo lived up to his parents' expectations. He was able to endure hardships and work hard, and soon made meritorious service and got the opportunity to be promoted.

He even made his mark in a war theory debate competition in the army, was valued by his leaders, and became very successful.

It’s a pity that things don’t always go as planned.

In his previous life, in the dead of night, facing the mess of his second half of life, Chen Mo had imagined countless times how great it would be if God could give him another chance to start over.

Unexpectedly, this opportunity really came.

In 1998, everything was still in time, and everything returned to the starting point. Now in the army, his mentor was still there, his comrades were still there, and the people and things he was familiar with, all the regrets buried in his heart for twenty years, had not yet happened.

The belief of joining the army and raising the sail of life again is deeply rooted in Chen Mo's heart.

It’s not that Chen Mo is stubborn. He insists on joining the army after being reborn. Others who are reborn make money and pick up girls, but he seems to be an exception.

In fact, whether it is making money or joining the army, being reborn gives you one more choice, and the most important thing is to reflect the value of life.

What's more, Chen Mo had wasted twenty years in his previous life in a muddle. To put it bluntly, there are many ways to make money in this era, but most of them have little to do with ordinary people.

Especially Chen Mo, whose face is cleaner than his pocket.

He doesn't understand business operations, lottery numbers and the like. Who would bother to memorize that kind of stuff?

What's more, it's useless even if you remember it. This thing is known as the nemesis of the reborn, and it's not groundless.

As for the World Cup, real estate and the like, Chen Mo had spent the latter half of his life muddling along and didn't understand these things at all.

His ideals are in the army, his soul, his obsession, his spirit, and the people and things he is familiar with are all in the army.

So in this life, Chen Mo still chose to join the army.

What's more, after being reborn and joining the army again, with his own knowledge, he will definitely achieve more impressive results than in his previous life.

After sorting out his thoughts, Chen Mo sat in the classroom and began to think silently.

It is true that 1998 was the year when he joined the army in his previous life, but this was also the time when the army was undergoing large-scale disarmament.

The number of enlistment quotas has been reduced, and local authorities are very strict in enlistment. Otherwise, parents wouldn't have to beg for a spot with such great difficulty.

But can this little difficulty stump him now?

After all, he had worked as a secretary for his old leader. If he joined the army in this life, he would have to make his family run around.

Doesn't this make our Secretary Chen seem too incompetent?
(End of this chapter)