Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 5: Writing a Letter (Thanks to Mo Shang Xue Ruyuan for sending the leader, I will add another chapter!)

Chen Mo was just thinking about how to bring up the matter of joining the army, but he didn't expect his father to bring it up first.

Just what he wanted.

Liu Fenglan, who had walked to the kitchen door, paused, turned around and said hesitantly: "Xuejun, Xiaomo is still young, why don't we wait a little longer, wait until he graduates from high school next year, and then we can join the army, okay?"

"It's not small anymore."

Chen Xuejun placed a dry towel on the rope, pulled over a chair, and sat at the doorway to the main hall. He pulled a small bag of tobacco from his jacket pocket, lowered his head, and rolled a pipe while saying, "Do you think being a soldier is that easy?"

"His fourth master also said today that the child wants to join the army. His fourth master also wants to help our family go to the county to ask around. He knows someone in the city who can at least have some influence."

"What if I finish my studies next year and they stop recruiting soldiers?"

"When I was his age, I had already learned a trade. Serving in the army can feed you. You don't know anything."

Chen Mo didn't interrupt his parents while listening to their discussion, but he understood a little bit.

My dad helped someone make a new set of furniture. I guess Fourth Grandpa's family didn't pay him, so he wanted to help this younger generation find a way out.

In fact, even though the family members call him the Fourth Master, if we really think about it, they are at most from the same village and have the same surname, and their relationship is probably beyond the fifth degree of kinship.

My father wanted to take this opportunity to try it out. After all, after this year, it would be inappropriate to bring up this matter at other people's house again.

Seeing that his mother was about to argue a few more times, Chen Mo took the initiative to express his opinion: "Dad, I am willing to join the army."

"It's good to be a soldier. The soldiers are provided with clothes and food. I heard that the army also provides allowances. I want to be a soldier."

"You kid." Liu Fenglan's eyes suddenly turned red when she heard her son agree: "Don't listen to your father's nonsense. Being a soldier is not that good."

"I've heard that life in the army is tough, with training and scolding. If you go there, you're heading for a place of hardship."

"Oh, mom."

Chen Mo smiled and walked over to Liu Fenglan, comforting her: "Mom, you only heard those things from others. How could you be scolded for no reason?"

"Besides, I'm not stupid, your son. As long as I have a little vision, I can get by anywhere. Don't worry, Mom, I will definitely be able to adapt."

"Mom, you cook first. My little sister has made the fire jump over the stove."

Chen Mo comforted his mother with words, and after watching Liu Fenglan enter the kitchen, he moved a chair and sat in front of Chen Xuejun.

"Have you made up your mind?"

Chen Xuejun looked up at his son and then sighed.

Chen Mo is the eldest in the family. Chen Xuejun is reluctant to send him to the army, but what can he do?

The child is older.

The second child is doing well in his studies and should have no problem passing the high school entrance exam. Now he is about to go to high school and my little daughter also needs to go to school, which means expenses all over the place.

Chen Xuejun is not as physically strong as other farmers in the countryside, and can't do much work in the fields. He relies on his carpentry skills to do odd jobs and can earn one or two hundred yuan a month, but this is not stable.

"Child, it's also your father's fault that I'm incompetent, otherwise..."

Chen Xuejun's voice became low as he smoked. He felt that his children volunteered to join the army just to reduce the burden on the family.

Otherwise, how could a rural kid who had never even left the county town know how hard life was outside?

"dad."

Chen Mo pulled the stool and sat closer to his father, looking at his father who looked much younger than he remembered.

Chen Mo suppressed his complicated emotions and said, "Dad, didn't you just say that I'm not a child anymore, it's time for me to go out and try my luck."

"The army is great. I really want to join the army."

"But you don't need Fourth Grandfather's family to help, and you and my mom don't have to worry about this. I will go and enlist on my own."

"I won't go to school. I'll just bring back my books and bedding when I have time."

"Nonsense!!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuejun glared and scolded, then threw the cigarette in his hand to the ground and crushed it, saying, "Do you know what it means to be a soldier?"

"To join the army in the village, you have to go to Shiqiao to register and report, and then report to the county and wait for news. Your fourth grandfather's family has people in the city who can speak with you. What do you, a kid, know?" "I"

Chen Mo originally wanted to argue a few more words, but finally gave up.

Yes.

He had been a soldier and had also served as a confidential secretary to his mentor. Even if he put aside all his identities, it would not be difficult for him to join the army based on his own experience.

He has many ways.

He knows the head of the county's People's Armed Forces Department and the political commissar, and even knows where they live. We have dealt with them many times in our previous life. After all, he was once a powerful person.

There is no need to bring gifts. Chen Mo is confident that he can get a spot if he goes to the political commissar or the minister's house. He knows the temperaments of these two people too well.

But his father didn't think so. In his father's eyes, he was just a kid who had just reached adulthood and didn't even have the ability to survive.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so focused on finding a way to provide himself with food and shelter.

Just when the father and son were arguing, the door was pushed open again, and a young man, also holding a cloth bag in his hand and running vigorously, rushed into the yard.

"Dad, where is my mother?"

"Brother, you're back too. Hehe, I'm so thirsty."

The one who came back this time was Chen Feng, the second son of the Chen family. The kid ran back and shouted twice, then hung the cloth bag on the wall, rushed to the water tank next to him, picked up the ladle, scooped a large ladle of cold water and poured it into his mouth.

"There's hot water in the thermos. If you're not afraid of a stomachache in this winter, go get some hot water."

Chen Xuejun stood up and scolded loudly, and Chen Mo also stood up and watched with a smile.

In fact, the two brothers have similar personalities. They are the type who have thorns on their butts and cannot sit still for half a minute.

If it weren't for this kind of personality, it wouldn't have been so easy for Chen Mo to make a name for himself in the army in his previous life. However, twenty years of wasted time have changed him a lot.

Now when I see my younger brother, I seem to see myself in my past life.

night.

The five members of the Chen family sat in the main room to eat dinner. In front of the other two children, Chen Xuejun did not mention the matter of joining the army again.

But Chen Mo knew that his father had already remembered this matter and might go to Fourth Grandpa's house to discuss it in detail tomorrow, so he had to hurry.

In this life, he didn't want his parents to worry anymore, and he didn't want them to ask others for help.

Dinner was simple. The staple food was sweet potato porridge, which tasted a little sweet. The dish was pickled mustard greens with two drops of sesame oil on it. It tasted crispy and fragrant.

As for steamed buns, forget it. There are three children in the family, and each one is a bigger eater than the other. Even the mixed-flour steamed buns have to be saved for the Chinese New Year. It’s better to use roasted sweet potatoes instead.

Chen Mo really enjoyed the feeling of sitting together with his family to eat. He helped his sister peel the sweet potatoes, and then picked up some shredded mustard greens for his mother.

Although the dinner was simple, it was still a warm experience.

People in the countryside tend to go to bed early, so not long after dinner, my parents took my sister to the west room to sleep.

Chen Mo stood in the main room and hesitated for a while before taking out paper and pen from his cloth bag. He then moved a chair and sat in front of a square table that was so worn out that the paint was almost peeling off.

"Xiao Feng."

"Hey, brother, what's wrong?"

"Do you have an envelope and stamps?"

"No." Chen Feng shook his head and walked over and said, "If you want it, I'll go to the post office counter in town and buy it tomorrow. We don't have that thing at home."

"What's up, brother? You have a pen pal too?"

"What pen pal?"

Chen Mo grinned, put a book on the table, spread the paper on the book, and inserted the pen into the ink to fill it up.

"I'm going to join the army. Write a letter to the county people's armed forces department."

"You go to bed first."

(End of this chapter)