Chapter 10 New Recruit Training
"Isn't Captain Shen an officer? The army doesn't seem to allow recruits to talk to each other. If the other party is an officer and has filed a love report, it should be okay, right?" Su Xiangwei said.
The three of them shook their heads, "I don't know."
It had nothing to do with them anyway, so I just made a wild guess for a while and then didn't mention it.
The next day began with training for new recruits.
The first item was standing at attention. Lin Shuyin was not afraid of anything else except standing at attention, because as soon as she stood at attention, something was wrong with her, either her nose or her eyelids were itchy.
In junior high school, high school and college, I went through military training three times and couldn't stand each time.
So before standing at attention this time, Lin Shuyin rubbed her face, arms, eyelids, etc. Maybe it was because she had rubbed them before, or maybe it was because the weather was too cold, but after standing at attention, she didn't feel itchy anywhere.
I completed it honestly, it's amazing!
"It's too cold in the north. My hands and feet are numb from the cold."
Back in the dormitory, Li Jinyue rubbed his hands to keep warm.
"My hands are so itchy." Su Xiangwei muttered.
The second finger on her left hand has been itching since this morning.
Sarin, "Does your hand have frostbite?"
Su Xiangwei was shocked, "Frost sores, no way, I was wearing such thick gloves."
Sarin, "It's possible. Look at the red circles on my face. They are scars from frostbite when I was a child. I wore a hat and scarf to cover my face at that time, but they still grew."
Speaking of itchy hands, Lin Shuyin's hands were also a little itchy. Like Su Xiangwei, her fingers were itchy. "I heard that if you get frostbite, it will recur every year. It will appear in winter."
Sarin, "If you handle it properly, it won't grow back the next year. When our recruit training is over, I'll go home and get some eggplant stalks and ask the wives of the soldiers in the cafeteria to cook them. Then, use the water from the boiled eggplant stalks to soak your hands and feet, and the frostbite will be cured."
“That’s how I cured the frostbite on my hands, feet and face.”
"Thank you, Sarin, you know so much." Lin Shuyin admired.
She lived two lifetimes and didn't even know this.
Remember that water boiled in eggplant stems can cure frostbite.
Sarin smiled and said, "You're welcome. Rural people all know this method. It's a folk remedy."
In the evening, after having dinner and washing up, several people fell asleep soon after lying on the bed. When they first arrived yesterday, they were still a little reluctant to fall asleep in bed, but after a whole day of training today, they fell asleep in seconds after lying on the bed.
The next day I got up early again.
Su Xiangwei was very afraid of standing at the military posture. She asked, "Are we still standing at the military posture today?"
"When I stand in military posture, my body itches. It's so uncomfortable."
“I don’t know.”
Being a soldier really tests one's will. When the new recruits first started training, they couldn't stand in military posture or run in the cold wind.
But after two months of intensive training, they actually got used to this intensity of training. Now Lin Shuyin feels that it is nice to go out for a run in the winter to exercise the body.
But the recruits have finished their training, which lasted three months for the recruits and two months for the art troupe. Starting tomorrow they won’t have to go.
They had been in the army for two months and had not sent a single letter home. The regiment understood and gave them a day off the next day so they could go out to mail the letters and do some shopping for personal items.
Li Jinyue, "Why don't we take a photo in this military uniform? My parents have always wanted to see me in military uniform."
"Okay."
No matter what, I think you should take a photo wearing this military uniform and send it back home or keep it for yourself.
So a few of them went to a photo studio, and after a few clicks, Lin Shuyin asked the photo studio to develop two photos. She kept one and sent the other back home.
Although she was not very proud of the Lin family in her heart, she had to put on a show of pretending to be nice. After all, they were a family, and up to now, the Lin family had not done anything excessive to her.
"Master, we will come and get the photos later."
It takes half an hour to an hour to develop the photos. The old teacher at the photo studio said, "Okay, no problem."
After the four of them came out of the photo studio, they went to a department store. The Hohhot department store had a large floor.
"sister in law."
Sarin's sister-in-law works in a department store, and Sarin borrowed a bicycle from her. "My brother was the only high school student in our village. After graduation, he went to work in a machinery factory, and later got to know my sister-in-law."
"The machinery factory allocated a house for them, and they lived in the city."
Lin Shuyin, "Saren, how many children do you have?"
Sarin said, "There are three children in my family. I am the second oldest. I have a younger brother named Ao Dun. Do you know what Ao Dun means?"
"Stars." Lin Shuyin said.
Sarin was surprised and asked, "How did you know?"
Lin Shuyin laughed, "You said your name translates to moon in Chinese, your brother's name is Naren, which means sun, and your younger brother's name is Aodun, which I guess means star."
Actually, no, she just understands Mongolian. In her previous life, she was a mixed-race of Mongolian and Han, and her mother was Mongolian.
"Yes, the names of us three siblings are the sun, moon and stars in the sky." Sarin said with a smile.
Li Jinyue: "It sounds really nice. I think your parents are good at naming."
Sarin, "Well, they don't know how to name things either. Most people in our village name their children after flowers, plants, trees, sun, moon, stars, mountains, and seas."
Su Xiangwei listened and said, "Very good."
"It's better to name it after the sun, moon, or stars than Zhaodi or Daidi or something like that."
"When I was born, my grandmother saw that I was a girl and wanted to name me Zhaodi, but my parents forced her to give it to me."
Lin Shuyin said, "Xiang Wei, your family should be well off."
Being able to afford to learn the violin, he must not be from an ordinary family. Why is he still so pedantic?
Su Xiangwei, "My grandma's family was well off, but my grandpa's family wasn't. They were just an average family, and they were particularly conservative."
Her violin was taught to her by her grandparents.
"Oh oh." Lin Shuyin almost understood.
A few people came out of the department store and went to the photo studio to get the photos. Sarin said, "I'm going home to get some eggplant stalks. Our home is very close, so an hour's round trip is enough. You guys find a place to wait for me."
Lin Shuyin, "How about the state-owned hotel over there in the department store?"
"Okay." Sarin nodded.
After Sarin left, several of them who were away from home went to the post office to send letters and photos to their families, and Li Jinyue also sent money home.
They had been in the army for two months and had received two months' salary, a total of 13.5 yuan, of which Li Jinyue sent them ten yuan.
Lin Shuyin, this unfilial daughter, sent photos and letters without sending a penny. She also complained in the letter that she didn't have enough money and hoped that if her family had any, they could send some.
When Lin's mother received the letter and saw the photo of the lady in military uniform, she was very happy. The military uniform looked particularly good on the lady.
I thought about showing it to my neighbors later, but when I saw the content of the letter, my face suddenly turned dark.
Cursing, "What does a girl do in a month to spend so much money? I gave her ten yuan when she left, and now she has received her salary, and she has spent an extra ten yuan. She has spent twenty yuan in two months."
"What does she do? Eat out every day?"