"Cooper, you're here. I've been looking for you for a long time." A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties walked over quickly. He was wearing a popular gray coarse cloth jacket, which looked a bit bloated.

"What's wrong, Uncle Dyna?" Cooper looked at his mother's younger brother, who was also his uncle.

"You've seen the notice in the square just now, right?" The uncle patted Cooper's shoulder with his rough hand, on which the wrinkles and marks of years of hard work were clearly visible.

“I see.”

Cooper nodded. He could clearly smell the pungent odor of paint on his uncle. His uncle usually worked in a furniture factory, living a very hard life. It wasn't until Clancy was established that he started earning his own salary and began to live a more comfortable life.

"Do you want to go?"

"Yes." Cooper's eyes were full of fighting spirit.

"Good boy, you have ambition! Haha." Dyna patted Cooper's shoulder again, then held his wrist and pulled him to the side.

"A lot of people want to go and want to pass the assessment. The competition will be fierce this time." He walked in front, and the rough calluses on the palms of his hands made Cooper feel like dry bark.

"I, your uncle, don't have any special abilities. I was taken care of by your mother when I was little. Later, your mother got married, and sometimes she would secretly help me."

"Those years, your family didn't have a good life. Your father even beat your mother several times because of this. I've always felt guilty after I found out." He sighed, his voice a little bleak.

"After your father passed away, life at home became even more difficult. I worked in a furniture factory, doing hard labor for very little money. I wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do."

"I can only blame myself for not having any ability." He slowly recounted the past years.

"Fortunately, that benevolent sage came, and later, when Clancy was founded, I benefited from it, and my life gradually got better."

"Looking back now, there are still too many regrets and remorse in life, but there is nothing you can do if you miss it."

Dyna held Cooper's hand and talked as they walked, and finally stopped in front of a store with a pattern of several grilled sausages hanging on the sign.

"You've been in good health since you were a child, but that's not enough. You need to eat more meat. Now is the time to grow."

"After work every day, come to my house. I will prepare delicious food for you and try to make you stronger so that you can be better than others."

"But meat is not cheap..." Cooper hesitated. Even though life is much better now than before, it is still a luxury for ordinary people to eat meat every day.

"It's okay, uncle, I can handle it." Dyna comforted Cooper. He has never been married in his life and only has this nephew, who is his sister's son. Now, even if he has to tighten his belt, he will help him take care of his health and strive to get a place.

As a poor man who had never left Seabuckthorn County in his life, he did not have much experience and could not provide Cooper with any help in training and practice. The only thing he could do was to help him lay a good foundation and strive to gain a little advantage in the subsequent election assessment.

"Also, don't tell your mother. She's been thrifty all her life and she'll be upset if you tell her that."

"Yeah, I know, Uncle Dyna."

Perhaps before, Cooper looked down on this elder with a wretched figure, but now his nose felt a little sour, and he secretly vowed in his heart that he must exercise well and not let this elder down.

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As the recruitment orders spread to all directions, batches of outstanding reservists and military academy graduates were selected and sent to Solander, where a new military academy was now established.

The students who graduated from the National Central Military Academy gradually grew into the backbone of the new generation of this country, and many brilliant generals emerged in history.