When Liang Shengdi was young, she wasn't particularly close to her two biological children. However, her four grandchildren all spent time with her to varying degrees, and their grandmother also taught them how to swim.
For Liang Shengdi, she gave all the love she had as an elder to them.
After the car drove away, she was still muttering, why couldn't Guoqing be allowed to be a soldier, but it had to be her grandson.
Lin Guoqing: ...
"Even if I wanted to go, they wouldn't want me. Now the kitchen staff has to be strong young men!"
…
Lin Shugan sat in the carriage, swaying. The new recruits on this carriage were all from their county, and the sorrow of this group of young men came and went quickly.
The young man sitting next to Lin Guoqing wiped his tears and looked at him with interest, "Hey, you were also on the bus from Qingjiang Town? You look quite familiar to me. Which village are you from? I'm from Nanxi Village."
Lin Guoqing took a look at him and recognized that this guy was the one who stood next to him in the big room that day when they were walking the birds together for inspection and said that he didn't want to join the army.
"I'm from Shihe Village."
"Oh! Sihe Village! I..." The young man hesitated for a long time before finally remembering something. "My fourth aunt's eldest sister-in-law's daughter seems to have married in Sihe Village."
"Oh? What's your name?"
Young man: “…I don’t remember either.”
Perhaps feeling embarrassed, he straightened his back and decided to change the subject, "My name is Zhang Shaowen, what's yours?"
"Lin Shu is rushing."
…
Reporting to the army wasn't that simple. The new recruits took a bus to the train station, then a military train to Shanghai, and then a ferry from Shanghai's Shiliupu Wharf to Jiangxi Province. After changing trains again, it was already dusk on the third day when they arrived at the training camp in Jiangxi Province.
Many new recruits who had arrived a few days earlier than them were already standing at the door, applauding and welcoming them. These new recruits were also from several nearby provinces and cities, and were even closer than them.
New recruits had to undergo three months of training. Lin Shugan had thought he had been self-disciplined and able to endure hardships since his school days. But when he actually arrived at the barracks, he realized that it was just a drizzle.
After just one week, he felt like his bones were falling apart. When he got up in the morning to brush his teeth, his hands were shaking.
As soon as we go out, we stand at attention, run, and throw things around.
The backs had to be straight at all times, and there was a proper posture when walking and sitting. One had to go in one by one to the cafeteria, and once inside, one had to shut up. The chairs in the cafeteria could only be sat halfway, and eating was not allowed to drag on. They were all boys, and they chewed their food vigorously.
It finally rained, and at first everyone thought they could take a break, but it turned out that they were either doing abdominal muscle exercises and physical fitness in the dormitory, or taking political classes in the cafeteria with their bags on their backs.
It's already autumn, but there are still a lot of mosquitoes in the training team. When going to the toilet, especially when you need to defecate, you have to spank yourself while squatting. There is a slapping sound in each squat toilet, like applause.
When you come out of the toilet, you have to walk carefully, otherwise you may step on a toad. It is unlikely to kill you, but you will feel disgusted.
Although Lin Shugan was also born in the countryside, he could not bear such a sudden scolding, perhaps because he had lived a good life for too long.
But when he was able to call home, he still said yes.
"It's okay, it's really okay. It's pretty good here. We're all from the same hometown, and we all get along well... The food is good too. The food in the army is much better than the school cafeteria! Really! It's all meat and milk. If you come to the army, you will definitely not want to leave once you sit down...
Leaders? There are many leaders, and they all take good care of us. Um, um, um... You don't have to come over. We will stay here for three months. We will move to another place after the recruit training is over. Yes, yes, I will talk to you when the time comes.
"Huh..." Lin Shugan put down the phone and breathed a long sigh of relief. Without hesitation, he turned and rushed into the rain to return to the gathering.
Who wouldn't miss home? But he was a soldier now, so he had to act like one.
***
Since Lin Shu went to the army, Lin Shuying had to go back to Shanghai to work, and Shumei was in her second year of high school. Like her brothers and sisters, she lived in the school dormitory and came back once a month.
Usually, the third child, Lin Shuchao, is the only child left at home.
Chen Chunhua suddenly felt a little lonely.
Although the second child also came back once a month when she was in school, like last year Shumei also went to high school in the city, the third child sometimes stayed at school at night, so there were only three people in their family eating.
But my mood at that time was completely different.
"Even though none of them are married, why do I feel like they are all married?"
Liang Shengdi picked out the shredded pork from the bowl of stir-fried pork with pickled mustard greens and wild rice stems, and found it tasted like chewing wax. "It feels like there's no popularity at all."
Lin Shuchao: "...Grandma, I'm still here!"
Liang Shengdi raised her eyelids and glanced at him sideways, "Oh, yes, there is still someone here who can't get married."
Lin Shuchao:!!!
"Grandma, facts have proven that not everyone can be too successful, right? Look at my eldest sister, she's so successful. After graduating from university, she stayed in Shanghai to work for a foreign trade company. Shanghai is so far away, and if there's something going on at home, it takes her a whole day to get here."
Second brother! Being drafted into the army is a huge achievement! But it's also like giving this son of our Lin family to the country. He definitely can't help with family matters!
"Little sister! She might do better than big sister in the exams! Tsinghua or Peking University? That's not impossible, right? If she goes to the capital, she won't be able to come back!"
Lin Shuchao patted his chest again and said, "That's still me! Even though I'm not very successful, at least I'm here with you. If you need anything, just tell me and I'll definitely get it done for you!
My second brother said that our family will have to rely on me from now on!"
Chen Chunhua & Lin Guoqing & Liang Shengdi: ...Where did this proud expression of "I am a loser" come from?
"So, you cooked dinner tonight?" Chen Chunhua asked calmly, giving the third brother a card.
"Are you responsible for buying groceries and cloth?"
"Will you wash the clothes from now on?"
"Are you responsible for sweeping and mopping the floor?"
Lin Shuchao: "...No, when the three of them were here, no one helped, right?"
"Didn't you say we'd tell you anything we needed?" Lin Guoqing rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Well, we're old now, and we can't cook or wash clothes anymore. Do we need your help, our good son who stays by our side?"
The good son thought it over and looked up and asked, "I'd like to cook, but do you dare to eat?"
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