Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 36 The Inescapable Law of Internal Affairs
Influenced by Chen Mo's serious approach to folding military blankets, several other people in the dormitory also rolled up their sleeves and got to work with great interest.

For a while, everyone was quite serious about it, like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing off their magical powers.

Some people were turning and moving, some were lying or squatting, and they were putting in a lot of effort.

Chen Mo himself was not lacking in experience, and his quilt had been trimmed and polished by Team Leader Guo yesterday, and had been repeatedly crushed for most of the day.

It only took more than twenty minutes, and a bed of tofu that was not perfect but had few flaws appeared before my eyes.

The quilt looks almost finished.

Chen Mo stood up and checked from every angle. After making sure there was no problem, he moved the quilt to his bed with his hands as if he was holding a fine work of art.

That’s not the end. After moving, Chen Mo continued to squat on the ground and slowly used his fingers to pick the corners, smooth the edges, and smooth the quilt cover.

Time passed little by little.

Near noon, the originally quiet dormitory building suddenly became lively.

The veterans' roars passed through the wall and were clearly heard in Class 8.

"Who folded this quilt? Ah!! Did you fold it by hand? I can fold it better with my feet."

"Ah, Lu Jun, you have a pretty good brain. Damn it, you're using all your cleverness on me? Is this your quilt? Get out of here and stand outside."

The sudden noise broke the peace of Class 8.

Chen Mo was fixing the quilt when he heard the noise and just looked up to see what was going on.

Zhu Gaituan, Yang Dali and the skinny Feng Junling, the three most restless students in Class 8, stood up and ran towards the dormitory door.

Judging from his appearance, he's probably here to join in the fun.

But before they reached the door, Lao Pao appeared in the corridor. The three of them who were originally running towards the door stopped abruptly, turned around and came back dejectedly.

"stand up!"

Seeing Lao Pao coming, Chen Mo shouted and was the first to stand at attention beside the bed.

After all, the class next door has started roaring. It's easy to imagine that Lao Pao definitely didn't have much good intentions when he came here at this time.

It’s better to behave honestly.

Accompanied by a muffled "clang" sound.

Zhou Yongjie pushed the door open and walked into the dormitory. He glanced at the new recruits standing in the dormitory and said coldly:
"Everyone is here, assemble!"

After hearing the order, no one dared to neglect it and they all lined up in a row with solemn expressions.

"I said this morning that I want to see qualified military blankets before noon. Now I'm checking your half-day results."

"Everyone, listen to the command."

"Take your left foot and step forward."

"turn back!"

Since the new recruits have not yet been exposed to the formation, they cannot follow the instructions at all just based on the military training they have received in school.

The queue was moving in a very chaotic manner, but Lao Pao's attention was not on this at all. He put his hands behind his back and began to check the beds one by one in front of all the new recruits in Class 8.

During inspection.

Although Lao Pao didn't say anything harsh, Chen Mo could still feel that the whole dormitory was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.

Even Yang Dali, who was standing next to him, could clearly hear the sound of him swallowing his saliva.

Lao Pao deliberately slowed down his pace. He first looked at the quilt on the bunk above him, which was Li Zhiang's.

That guy, the folded quilt looks like Lazy Sheep’s hairstyle placed on the bed.

I found that Lao Pao didn't say anything about this standard and walked straight to the next bed.

Yang Dali raised his hand and patted his chest, suppressing the fluttering in his heart and blinking at Chen Mo, feeling quite excited about surviving a disaster.

After all, he felt safe since he could pass the test even with a quilt that was folded like shit.

The back is really stable.

No matter whose quilt Lao Pao sees in the dormitory, no matter how it is folded, whether it is round like a submarine or flat at the bottom and pointed at the top like a grave mound.

He let them all go.

Just when Chen Mo thought that Lao Pao had a really good temper and that after years of training in the army, he no longer had the aggressive temper of ordinary squad leaders.

He then realized that he had guessed wrong, and was extremely wrong.

When Lao Pao walked to Chen Mo's quilt at the innermost side, he stopped for a moment, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhu Gaituan's quilt on the upper bunk. With a whoosh, he threw it toward the window next to him.

You know, the windows of Class 8's dormitory are the old-fashioned type that slide outwards. Although the windows are old and the lock noses are too severely rusted to be locked from the inside, you still need to use some force to push them open.

Lao Pao threw the quilt away, which broke the window open and flew freely outside the second-floor window.

This is not over yet.

As everyone stared in astonishment, the scene of distributing military uniforms yesterday was repeated, except that this time it was clothes that were lost.

Now, what is lost is the quilt.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" the quilts one after another hit the window and fell into the distance with the protagonist's shock and reluctance.

The new recruits had never seen such a scene before. They stared with their mouths open, looking out the window reluctantly and hesitantly.

In just a few breaths, the only things left in the dormitory were Lao Pao and Chen Mo's quilts, lying safely on the beds.

The old man still looked young, and walked to the front of the queue as if the masterpiece just now had nothing to do with him.

"Is this the result of your half-day work?"

"I'll repeat it again." Lao Pao's voice rose in vain, and he glared and said sternly: "Put on this uniform, become a soldier, what I need is execution."

"Same teaching, same learning, same time, Chen Mo can fold the quilt to 80 points, I hope you can at least do 60 points."

"Whether folding a military blanket is easy or not, I know better than you, but I also know who is doing it seriously or not."

"Now everyone get downstairs and start folding."

"Chen Mo."

"To!"

"As the class vice-chairman, you are the only one who has folded the quilt properly. This is your ability, but also your dereliction of duty."

"Take your quilt and go down with them to fold it. Come back when everyone has reached the same standard as you."

"If you can't fold the lunch properly at noon, lunch will be cancelled. If you can't fold the lunch properly in the afternoon, lunch break will be cancelled. If you still can't fold the lunch properly in the evening, dinner will be cancelled."

"I just want the final result."

"Any comments?"

"Report, no!!"

"Then go ahead and execute it. Disband."

"Yes!"

Chen Mo responded, quickly ran to his bed, and strode out with the quilt in his arms.

Seeing that everyone in the class was still in a daze and hadn't reacted, Chen Mo, with his hands occupied, kicked Yang Dali and then took the lead to leave.

The people in Class 8 originally thought they were miserable enough, but when they came to the corridor, they found that there were new recruits standing against the wall between Classes 7 and 6.

They looked quite strange, with a rolled-up quilt covering each head, with only two eyeballs sticking out.

Knowing that everyone was punished, everyone felt much more relieved.

Passing by the corridor, seeing the "big-headed kids" standing in the corner as punishment, Chen Mo couldn't help but think of the Pyramid Head Warrior in Silent Hill.

It can't even be said to be similar, it's exactly the same.

When they came downstairs.

The scene was even more spectacular. The ground, the washroom, the toilet, everywhere was littered with quilts.

Chen Mo couldn't help but sigh after seeing this. It seems that no unit can escape the laws of internal affairs.

A recruit’s quilt can appear in the washroom, the toilet, or even in the green belt, but it will never appear on the bed.

Chen Mo knew that the army was starting to temper the new recruits.

He was holding his quilt in his hands and was not panicking, but Feng Junling who was following behind him was dumbfounded.

Seeing the dormitory floor covered with quilts everywhere, Old Feng smacked his lips and said, "Holy crap, so many quilts, which one is mine?"

"you still need to ask?"

Chen Mo heard this and looked up at the quilts in the distance. He said as a matter of course, "Look at which one is the newest."

"Which one is yours?"

(End of this chapter)