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Xiao Li's pretentious speech was quite effective; it could be considered a highly successful "Xiao Li One-Man Show." After the speech, the entire camp, from the leadership down to the soldiers, knew that the 5th Squad, 9th Platoon, 7th Battalion, 303rd Regiment, had a top student who had returned from studying with the Russians. He was even more impressive than Platoon Leader Dong, who had graduated from Yenching University.
It is easy to find soldiers nowadays, but there are very few educated people in the army. Many of them are illiterate and cannot recognize a single word. Even if they have participated in simple literacy classes after joining the army and learned a few words, they can only recognize a few words haltingly and can barely be considered half-blind.
In fact, there were many scholars who joined the army at the beginning. However, due to the long wars, the national situation was unstable and many people of military age chose to join the army. Gradually, education began to stagnate, and an educational gap appeared, which also caused many young men to become illiterate and blind.
The name of the top student Xiao Li quickly came into everyone's eyes as a cultured person, and the attitude of the people in Class 5 towards Xiao Li also slowly began to change. After all, scholars have held a high status in people's hearts since ancient times, and as a top student who returned from studying abroad, he was naturally looked at differently by the soldiers.
"Go, send Xiao Li to the kitchen squad to temper his temper." There are many talented people in the army, but very few can read. The army is in urgent need of educated young people, and Xiao Li just caught the attention of the leaders after this incident.
In the eyes of Captain Wang of 303, although Xiao Li's personality is a bit flamboyant, he is also a young man with ambitions and ideals, just like a young person should be. He laughed and showed off for a while before giving orders.
Xiao Li was ecstatic after receiving the notice. He looked at his comrade-in-arms, whom he had just met, with reluctance, but he did not slow down at all as he packed his backpack. Under the envious gaze of everyone, he went to report to the kitchen team, looking back every step of the way.
Captain Wang of 303 originally thought that Xiao Li's character was too flamboyant, and was afraid that such a good seedling would fail halfway, so he wanted to send him to the kitchen squad where there were many talented people to temper his temper, and at the same time give him a warning and hit his inflated self-confidence. However, he didn't expect that it was exactly what Xiao Li wanted, and he was so happy that he almost forgot his own last name.
"Report, Xiao Li, 5th Squad, 9th Platoon, 7th Battalion, 303rd Regiment, Iron and Steel Company, reports in!"
A tall and strong "military chef" wearing a military uniform and holding a large soup spoon glanced at Xiao Li who was standing aside and saluting, and continued to do his work without saying a word.
Because of the war, there was no formal kitchen in the army, so the kitchen team simply found a shady place to camp, and the stove was set up on an open space outside the camp.
When Xiao Li arrived, the soldiers in the kitchen were busy cooking. Everyone was busy doing their own work to ensure that the soldiers could eat on time. No one paid attention to this weak top student who was "airdropped".
Xiao Li had never been a soldier in later life, but he had watched many military-themed TV dramas and knew that the hand that saluted must never be lowered at this time. So he stood there and saluted motionlessly, feeling complacent about his own cleverness.
Hey!
Fortunately, I have watched a lot of military-themed TV shows. This kitchen squad is also strange. A small cook comes to report and I have to give him a show of power. He must be jealous of my handsomeness.
As they stood for longer and longer periods of time, about ten minutes later, Xiao's hand began to tremble unconsciously while saluting, and his body began to shake.
After all, he is not the original owner. Although he has obtained the original owner's memory, his mentality is so different that he cannot maintain the most basic military posture for long.
The original owner, Xiao Li, chose the path of killing enemies on the battlefield because he liked being a soldier and wanted to make achievements. But now Xiao Li is just a coward who wants to escape from the battlefield. The original owner could salute and stand at attention for hours without moving, but he can't do it.
Liu Zhi, the head of the kitchen squad who finally caught Xiao Li's trick, exploded:
"Who told you to move? That top student from Dragon Academy can't even do a basic military salute!"
"Don't think you're a dragon just because you know a few words. Boasting and talking nonsense in front of the soldiers is nothing but bullshit to me!"
"Soldiers are meant to fight on the front lines! The leader once said that the body is the capital of revolution. Only those with a healthy body, a strong will, courage and strategy can accomplish great things. How can someone like you, who can't even stand at the most basic military posture, have the nerve to show off among the soldiers?"
"Since you have come to my kitchen squad, you must abide by its rules! Be a loyal, clean, and responsible cook!"
"Yes!" He answered crisply, but he felt a little disapproving in his heart. How could he clean a cook covered in fumes? He was kidding.
"Speak louder, haven't you eaten yet?"
"Yes!" Alas, when you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
"Speak louder! Even a mosquito is louder than you!"
"Yes!" Xiao Li answered loudly at the top of his voice. The veins on his forehead popped out because of the loud voice. A blush appeared on his fair face, and he looked much more ferocious.
Hold on, hold on, don’t be angry. For your own bright future, you must hold on.
Xiao Li, who kept saluting, kept telling himself in his heart that it didn't matter if he was scolded a few times just to get into the kitchen team as a cook. He had suffered a lot before, so he could also endure the hardship today.
"Bring the things over here!"
Liu Zhi waved his hand, and saw a young soldier running towards him hurriedly with a big iron pot in his hand. The pot seemed to have no weight in the young soldier's hand. In the blink of an eye, the young soldier stood in front of Xiao Li with the thing in his hand and saluted solemnly.
Xiao Li was so happy that his eyes were about to squint. The more than ten minutes he stood there were really worth it. The head of the guy who didn't cook was finally delivered. How long was it for him to join the team?
"Take the pot!"
Liu Zhi felt annoyed as he watched the "airborne troops" standing before him. Although they were in the kitchen all day, they were constantly training. They carried heavy loads like flipping pots and spoons, carrying large iron pots, and delivering meals under heavy gunfire. Their physical fitness was better than that of ordinary soldiers. Each one was a top-notch soldier with excellent military skills. This was the first time he had accepted a soldier who couldn't even stand at attention properly. How could such a soldier flip a pot?
Thinking of the commander's words, Liu Zhi decided that he must not let the commander down and quickly train the pretty boy in front of him into a fierce god on the battlefield.
He took the large iron pot weighing more than 40 kilograms in his hand. The heavy feeling in his hand seemed to temporarily press Xiao Li's floating heart into his stomach. He held the iron pot in his hand, waiting for the next order.
"Listen to my command~~Take the blame!"
"Take...take the blame?" Xiao Li thought he had misheard and asked unconsciously.
"Take the blame! Did they ask you to speak?"
Looking at the tall and strong 'military chef' in front of him, Xiao Li was too timid to say another word. He put his backpack at his feet and picked up the big iron pot tied with a rope.
I secretly glanced at the busy 'military chefs' and sneered in my heart, haha!
Good job, a group of people bullied him alone.
He said that he had been standing there for more than ten minutes, but no one seemed to notice him. It seemed that the group of people had already planned to give him a warning.
Who is afraid of who!
Xiaoli is a professional at pretending to be a grandson.
In order to avoid being a cook on the battlefield, Xiao Li accepted the challenge with high arrogance.
A few minutes later, Xiao Li, carrying a backpack on his chest and a large iron pot on his back, began to move forward around the military camp. From time to time, he could hear a roar from behind him urging him to speed up.
Xiao, the cook who dared not speak out, could only speed up and sprint forward.
Hope everything will be fine tomorrow.
After finishing his meal, Xiao Li lay on the camp bed with sore body all over, muttering to himself that he was too tired after running all day, and fell asleep within a few minutes of lying down.
After he fell asleep, someone who was still awake whispered:
"Did you hear what the new recruit said? I hope everything will be fine tomorrow! I think this kid will probably cry for his parents tomorrow."
"With his small body, I hope he can get up on time tomorrow."
"I don't know what the commander was thinking, letting a woman into our kitchen. Forget it, let's go to sleep quickly, we have to get up early tomorrow."
“Get up, get up!”
Before the wake-up call sounded at three in the morning, the soldiers in the kitchen squad had already gotten up. Xiao Li got up with sleepy eyes. The aftereffects of yesterday's weighted running seemed to have disappeared. His legs didn't hurt anymore, his waist didn't feel sore anymore, and his body felt extremely relaxed.
When Xiao Li followed them out to gather, it was still dark. Except for a tungsten filament lamp on the open space where the big pot was placed, the surroundings were pitch black.
The people in the kitchen team started to cook in an orderly manner. Liu Zhi walked over to Xiao Li, looked him up and down, and gave an order: "Start cooking."
The orphan Xiaoli was a good cook. After watching for a while, he started to cook properly. After the meal for the whole team was ready, the wake-up call sounded at five in the morning. The soldiers got up and washed, and then the drill call sounded.
Xiao Li stood aside and watched as the soldiers quickly formed a line and began to march in an orderly manner. Slogans reached his ears. Seeing the troops doing drills properly for the first time, Xiao Li was a little stunned. He did not expect that the revolutionary ancestors could still persist in training under such conditions. It was admirable.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and take the blame." Liu Zhi kicked Xiao Li on the calf and yelled.
Xiao Li swallowed his saliva, thinking he hadn't eaten yet and his work was done, so why should he join in the training? But seeing his teammates already joining in the training, the squad leader, with his serious face, swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue and silently picked up his own large iron pot and jumped up. Because he didn't master the technique at first, he fell to the ground several times due to the weight of the pot on his back. Only after he mastered the technique did he start to feel better.
Xiao Li regretted it. If he had known that joining the kitchen team would not only require him to get up early to cook, but also to follow physical training, he would definitely not be so happy to come to this shabby place.
Liu Zhi looked at his cowardly expression, angry but unable to speak, and turned back to report to the commander of the 303rd Regiment: "Commander, this soldier is too cowardly. He has no courage at all and will never amount to anything. I don't think it's possible to expect him to fight in the battlefield. The kitchen squad requests a withdrawal!"
Captain Wang, dressed in military uniform, was about forty years old, of medium build, with a thin face. He was hunched over a topographical map on his desk. He didn't get angry when someone broke in. After seeing who it was, he smiled and cursed, "Get lost! I've told you so many times not to judge a person by their appearance, but you won't listen. He was on the battlefield during the first wave and successfully walked out. He's a cultured treasure. How many captains would want him?"
"Which soldier here hasn't been to the battlefield? Which one isn't in the logistics support department due to injury? Why does the regimental commander look at him differently? What's wrong with educated people? What can educated people do in this day and age when they are weak and sick? They still need us, the rough and tough soldiers, to protect them."
Liu Zhi was a soldier from the countryside who joined the army when he was a teenager. He hung out with a bunch of rough guys in the army, fighting and drinking when he had nothing to do. He never thought that learning culture was a big deal, nor did he think that cultured people were superior to others. On the contrary, what he hated most were people who acted arrogantly just because they knew a few words, like Xiao Li now, who could do nothing but just brag.
Captain Wang obviously knew him well. He walked over to him, patted him on the shoulder, and sighed, "Comrade Liu Zhi, your idea is very dangerous. I finally understand why it is so difficult for you to learn two characters. You, you, when we return after the victory of the war, I will force you to learn them.
Don't say that boy is weak. Although he looks a little weak physically, his physical fitness can be trained. People like you who only have strong physical fitness but can't read a single word will never be able to catch up with the knowledge in his head no matter how much you flatter him in your whole life. You should know that people with knowledge in their heads are more active in thinking and have more ideas.
It is impossible for our Chinese country to fight wars every day. The war will end one day. When the country becomes stable, it will need knowledgeable and cultured people to build it.
No one would say no if we, the rough guys, were asked to go up mountains and down seas to fight the Japanese invaders, but can we use pens to do scientific research and build the country?
You, you, get back here right away and intensify the training of that kid. You must train him into a sharp weapon of our 303rd Regiment. Of course, you can't cripple him during training, otherwise I will hold you accountable.
Okay, think about what I said, and get back to training. Get out of here, get out of here, get out of here!"
The army has talented people who are good at writing. Captain Wang and other leaders hope that Xiao Li can grow up quickly and have the ability to stand on his own. This is why people always say that educated people always have more opportunities than others.
Liu Zhi rolled away silently. On the way back, he was still wondering if their leader would really want him to study. He understood the principles, but forcing him to learn to read and write would be more painful than killing him. It was all that kid's fault. It seemed like they had to increase their efforts.
Xiao Li, who was doing frog jumps with an empty stomach and a load, felt a severe itch in his nose and sneezed several times, but he continued to jump, completely unaware that his hard days would become even more difficult.
While eating breakfast, Xiao Li held a piece of coarse grain that he couldn't name, stretched his neck and tried to swallow it down with force. His throat was sore and he was about to cry.
Xiao Li felt so miserable that he even wanted to die. Maybe after he died he could go home and continue to be his fat otaku.
While eating, I wondered if I had gone to the wrong shift. Why was this cooking class different from what I imagined? This thought in my head led me to ask directly.
A soldier squatting next to him and eating asked curiously: "Isn't it like this in the kitchen?" What else can it be like?
In Xiao Li's impression, the kitchen squad was just like the "Story of the Kitchen Squad" he had seen before, consisting of a group of weak and sick old soldiers. Xiao Li, who came from later generations, had a certain prejudice against cooks. This prejudice made him feel that being assigned to be a cook was an opportunity to escape from the battlefield. This was all due to stereotypes.
"Do cooks need training?" Aren't they supposed to hold a spatula and deal with pots and pans all day long?
"Huh? Do you have some misunderstanding about us cooks? If you ask me, our kitchen squad is the most powerful force in the army. We cooks are the ones who can fight on the battlefield, whether in the kitchen or not. Every soldier in our squad has been selected through numerous rigorous selections." The soldier glanced at Xiao Li and continued slowly, "Except you."
The soldiers around who heard it burst into laughter. Everyone in the country and even in the world knew that China's cooks were not to be trifled with. It was ridiculous that this new recruit actually thought that cooks were cooks who dealt with pots and pans all day long.
"Our company undergoes assessments every year, and only the most capable can join our kitchen squad. So don't think that the cooks are just cooks. We may be the top military talents in the entire company, the best cooks in China."
You're just bragging.
Xiao Li's head was confused and his ears were buzzing. It was not until now that he realized that the kitchen staff, who he thought had nothing to do all day except cooking and feeding pigs, were actually the best soldiers in the entire regiment. The people sitting next to him and smiling were all extraordinary in skills, quick in reaction, well-rounded in qualities, familiar with various weapons and vehicle performance, and had MAX stress resistance, as if each of them was a heavenly soldier who could go to heaven and earth.
Why should a weakling like me be assigned to a group of eagles?
God wants to kill me!
Otherwise, I'd rather die. If that doesn't work, I'll just cut off my legs.
Liu Zhi didn't give him a chance to break his leg. Before he finished his meal, he rushed to Xiao Li and kicked him in the butt, making him stagger: "Carry the burden and move forward."
Just as I finally adjusted my posture, I heard a voice that sounded like a demon from hell.
Oh my god, did I have a grudge against this person in my previous life?
Xiao Li swallowed the food in his mouth with difficulty, looked at the gloating eyes around him, and said helplessly: "Squad leader, I haven't finished my meal yet." It was not time to go to work yet.
"Eat, eat, eat. All you know is to eat. Are you a pig? Hurry up and get up and carry the weight forward. You have to come back to cook after training." He hadn't eaten yet. Liu Zhi snatched the big porcelain pot from Xiao Li's hand without any disgust. He squatted down, picked up the chopsticks and finished all the remaining rice in two bites.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up!"
"Damn, you bandit!" Xiao Li was also a man with a bad temper. He could let him carry the heavy load, but he couldn't steal his food. He yelled at Liu Zhi loudly, took his big pot and ran away, like a thief.
"This kid is quite courageous. He actually dared to scold me." Liu Zhi touched his chin, licked the corner of his mouth and said to the soldiers around him, "We gave him a lot of trouble yesterday. I thought he would not be able to get out of bed today, but I didn't expect him to have any sequelae. This kid has good physical fitness, much better than when you joined the army. It seems that he needs to continue to strengthen his training, otherwise his physical fitness will be a shame."
The soldiers around were laughing and talking about ways to strengthen training. No one thought that Liu Zhi was bullying the newcomers. After all, the current situation was quite tense. They were still in the logistics supply unit behind the battlefield. The next battle could come at any time. It would be irresponsible to the newcomers not to train hard. They also hoped that the new recruits could think this through.
Xiao Li ran away and felt inexplicably cold, his nose itched and he sneezed twice.
Carrying the big iron pot on my back, I felt extremely unbalanced.
You dare to steal my food, you dare to make me do weight training all the time, when I become successful in the future, I will train you to death, you make me so mad!
"Hey~~ Running."
A cold voice reached his ears. Xiao Li looked up and saw Wang Xuemei standing not far away with her arms folded across her chest, looking at him with contempt.
That look made him feel like he was looking at some garbage.
"Hmph." Bitch!
Perhaps it was because the other party saw through his thoughts at a glance last time, Xiao Li always had a guilty feeling that he was about to be seen through at any time when facing this beautiful female military doctor. He would feel nervous and short of breath when facing her.
Xiao Li, who has lived in the lower class since childhood, has his own perception and judgment of dangerous environments and people. As for this female military doctor who inexplicably shows dislike towards him, Xiao Li feels that there is no need for him to contact her.
Without even wanting to look at the other person a second time, he ran away as fast as he could, as if the other person was infected with some infectious disease. Even after he ran far away, the other person's sarcastic words seemed to be still floating in the wind.
"Deserter, coward!"
Xiao Li: ...This woman is unlucky for him!
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