The truck shook and finally arrived at the camp at noon.
Before Shi got off the car, he saw a banner hung outside the camp: Warmly welcome the new comrades to the Northwest Frontier Defense Corps!
The banner was whistling in the howling north wind, and Shi Ye touched his face, it was icy cold.
There was a guard post outside the camp. When they saw the familiar truck, they all cheered. A team from the camp in military uniforms trotted towards the truck. The leader and the instructor saluted each other and had some negotiations.
Then the instructor came over and said, "This is the squad leader of the 14th Company of the 7th Regiment of the 1st Division of the Northwest Frontier Defense Corps. He is in charge of welcoming you. Get off the bus. We will go directly to the dormitory for educated youths. After the dormitory is assigned, we can go to the cafeteria."
When they heard the word "canteen", the eyes of several people in the car lit up.
All along the way they had been eating dry food and frozen bread and buns, which were a little hard to chew and left their stomachs full of coldness. But the thought of the hot meals and soups in the cafeteria made them excited and dispelled the fatigue of the journey.
The border guards responsible for welcoming them smiled kindly when they saw their expressions.
Just as Makiya and others got off the car, another truck slowly drove to the entrance of the camp.
There were about seven or eight people on the bus, all of them educated youth from other places who had also come here to work in the border area. Among these seven or eight people, five were female educated youth. Before they got off the bus, they felt the howling cold north wind and the snow-covered mountains in the distance. Tears were streaming down their faces, but the tears were so painful when they met the wind that the delicate faces of the female educated youth turned red in an instant.
Shiye took down his luggage and placed it at his feet. He looked up and then calmly looked away.
Those who came to the countryside to work in the fields in this era were young men and women who were full of ideals, enthusiasm, education and aspirations.
They all came here from bustling and noisy big cities. The green mountains, green waters and rolling wheat fields that they imagined became bubbles. Faced with a strange and cruel environment, one can imagine how they feel. It is normal for them to cry.
The five of them came from the Yandu Naval Compound because they knew the situation in the Northwest in advance. Although the actual situation was worse than expected, at least they did not have any expectations at the beginning, so their ability to accept was still relatively high.
The instructor got off the bus, looked at the crying female educated youth, and reprimanded them, "Going to the Northwest Frontier is an honorable thing. What is there to cry about? When you come to the Northwest Frontier Defense Corps, your mission is to settle and guard the border and protect the border construction!"
"get off!"
As the crying female educated youth got off the bus, the team leader saluted everyone and said, "Everyone follow me."
Shiya carried his luggage with great effort, followed the team leader, and entered the camp with the bustling crowd of educated youth.
[Ding——Trigger event——Go to the Northwest, become an educated youth soldier in the Corps, and shine in the company. ]
[Reward: A physique as strong as an ox. ]
The good news came the moment Shi entered the camp. Before he could react, he felt that the luggage in his hands and the bag on his back suddenly became as heavy as goose feathers. He exerted too much force and almost fell to the ground due to lack of habit.
Shi also blinked, clenched his hands, and felt that he could knock down a cow with one punch, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
She instantly turned into a drama queen, a green tea girl, and then into a Barbie doll with strong body?
The educated youth dormitory was not far away, and Shi could see the old educated youth gathered in front of the dormitory from a distance.
The old educated youth also saw them and were very excited. They rushed over and rushed to help with the luggage. The cold atmosphere suddenly became lively and festive.
The person who helped Shiye carry the luggage was a young man. He had a healthy wheat-colored skin, but perhaps because he had stayed in the Northwest for too long, his skin was a little cracked and red. After lifting the heavy luggage, he looked at Shiye with a little surprise.
He had never expected that such a delicate and weak female comrade could be so strong.
However, when she met Makiya's clear eyes, her face turned even redder.
"I, I'll help you with your luggage!" He was very embarrassed, and Shi smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Hearing her reply, the young man smiled. After the instructor assigned the dormitories, he helped deliver Shi Ye's luggage to the dormitory. As soon as he entered the room, he saw the bunk beds in the cramped dormitory that accommodated thirty or forty people, and Shi Ye fell silent.
Although she had long known that conditions in the Northwest were poor, thirty or forty people in one room was really too crowded.
What's more, she has a secret and it is really not suitable for her to be with so many people.
However, now that she is here, given the current situation, even if she asks to change dormitories, no one would pay attention. If there were extra places, she would not have been assigned here. She came here to suffer, there is nothing to say.
Shi was also silent, and Qian Ling'er exploded directly.
Although Qian Linger's family was only average in the Navy compound, she was the only daughter in the family and was pampered on weekdays. Suddenly she came to the Northwest and had to sleep in a crowded room with thirty or forty strangers. How could she bear it?
"No! The accommodation environment is really too bad, instructor, I want to apply to move to a less crowded dormitory!" Qian Ling'er didn't even stand firmly on her feet and came out again with her luggage. She stood in front of the instructor, her eyes red with anxiety.
She said it readily, but it made the old educated youth look embarrassed.
Shi also watched coldly. If Qian Ling'er still regarded herself as a young lady after coming here, she would be totally wrong.
As expected, her words of disdain were met with a round of rebuke from the instructor: "The conditions in the Northwest are tough, and it was the border guards who worked so hard to build a dormitory for the educated youth! Do you think this is your home? Why did you sign up if you couldn't bear this hardship? Seeking pleasure is a capitalist ideology!"
Being scolded in front of so many people, the tears that had been accumulating in Qian Linger's eyes instantly burst out.
She squatted on the ground, hugging her luggage and burst into tears. The instructor's face became even uglier.
The squad leader of the 14th Company was about to speak when he suddenly saw a car coming. He frowned and drove towards it.
The arrival of the car instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the educated youth dormitory. Everyone put down their busy work, and even Qian Ling'er, who had been crying bitterly, raised her head with sobs.
The passenger door of the car opened and a man got out.
Seeing him, the captain of the 14th Company was surprised for a moment, then stood at attention and saluted him: "Captain Xiao!"
The man nodded, glanced in the direction of the educated youth dormitory, and asked loudly, "Who is Shiya?"
The educated youth dormitory was completely silent. Everyone looked at each other, but no one moved.
Shi Ye paused for a moment, and then walked out of the crowd.
"Reporting to the commander! I am Maki!" He imitated their military salute and gave a very official answer.
In between answers, Makiya's gaze fell solemnly on this man who was both familiar and unfamiliar.
He was wearing a military coat, and the straight military uniform underneath outlined his handsome figure. He had strong brow bones and eyebrows that flew into his temples. There was a smile in his black phoenix eyes, his eyebrows were curved, and his thin red lips were curled, as if he had a very good temper.
This person was the male protagonist Xiao Yue, and he looked almost the same as she remembered, but it was too long ago.
She looked at Xiao Yue with some curiosity, and he was just as described in the book, gentle and warm to others.
Xiao Yue walked towards her, looked at her seriously for a few times, nodded and said, "Take your luggage and follow me."
Shi was also slightly surprised. He turned around to look at the educated youth who were staring at them. Without asking any more questions, he turned back to get his luggage.
Xiao Yue looked at Shi Ye's small body carrying so much luggage, sighed lightly, stepped forward to take it, then took the instructor aside and said a few words to him, then took Shi Ye into the car, and the car quickly left the educated youth dormitory.
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