Chapter 190
The next few days were filled with routine drills, housekeeping, singing military songs, etc. Military training during the day and self-study at night, making life busy and fulfilling.
The sun in Yongcheng in September is much more ambitious than Su Miao. Everyone is tanned so dark that even their parents can hardly recognize their own children when they go home on weekends.
After school on Friday afternoon, Su Miao and Ye Jiayin saw Su Yuan sitting on a tricycle as soon as they walked out of the school gate. He looked over here and smiled and waved when he saw them.
"dad!"
"Uncle Yuan!"
"Hurry up and get in the car! Your brother Yu is still cooking at home. We closed the store early tonight and prepared a big table of delicious food to reward our young soldiers. Oh, right! Jiayin! There's a surprise! You'll know when you get home!"
Surprise? What surprise?
Su Miao and Ye Jiayin looked at each other, then climbed into the car without knowing why.
Everyone in the family was busy preparing the large table of dishes. Ye Han came over and carefully examined the two children. He smiled and said, "They've become a little darker and look healthier, but they haven't lost weight."
Then he put his arms around their shoulders and walked into the yard. A tall, broad-shouldered man squatted under a tree, cleaning hairy crabs. Ye Jiayin was stunned for a moment, then shouted in surprise, "Old Ye!"
The man looked up, his eyes sparkling at his daughter, then he raised the crab in his hand and said with a smile, "Look, the young ladies are back!"
It turned out that this was Ye's father, named Ye Guoan. He had just finished a work task at the unit and came to see his wife and daughter without stopping. By the way, he also got to know the father and daughter of the Su family who took good care of his daughter.
It happened to be the weekend and the two children could leave school, so Su Yuanzheng simply prepared a big dinner to welcome Ye Guoan.
Ye Jiayin pulled Su Miao over to introduce him to his father. Su Miao talked with Ye's father for a while and felt that his aura was very similar to that of Aunt Ye, both giving people a very warm and comfortable feeling.
However, she slipped away to the kitchen to find her father at the right time, leaving the space for the Ye family father and daughter whom she had not seen for a long time.
Su Yuan was preparing braised pork belly. When he saw his daughter come in, he said happily, "Did you see Jiayin's dad? He's so handsome and tall, a little taller than me. I rarely see anyone taller than me!"
Su Miao smiled: "Dad, why are you so excited that Uncle Ye is here?"
"Then shouldn't I be happy for Jiayin? It's so rare to see her normally, she must be missing her dad! Besides, we haven't even met Jiayin's dad yet, and she's already received gifts from him several times. This time we finally have the chance, we have to treat him well."
The two families sat at the same table in a lively atmosphere. Ye Guoan raised his glass and said, "Lao Su, you are so kind! Thank you so much for preparing so many dishes! And to Ayu and Ahui! Thank you for your hard work!"
"Oh! You finally came here! This is what I should do! Besides, you are just being polite!"
"Okay, okay! No more talking, let's drink and eat!"
There was no such thing as not talking while eating when we were sitting around the table. You talked and I talked, and the conversation never stopped. Naturally, the topic we talked about the most was the military training of the two girls at school.
"Dad, after six months of training, I haven't let myself down. I even survived a 10km run. Nothing can faze me anymore."
"Wow! My girl has made it big! She ran 10 kilometers! That's awesome!"
Jiayin said leisurely beside him, "We have to crawl in the mud next week."
Su Miao paused while picking up the food and said pitifully to her father, "Dad, can I bring the clothes back and throw them in the washing machine?"
Su Yuanzheng: "Of course, but do you have two sets of military training uniforms?"
Su Miao: “…”
Su Miao slept in on Saturday. When he went to the restaurant to drink porridge, he saw his father talking happily to a diner.
Seeing Su Miao coming out, he said to her, "Miao Miao, wake up. What do you want to eat?"
"Dad, I can just have porridge in the store."
Su Miao took the porridge and ate it. He watched his father talk to the regular customer for a while before going back to work.
The diner was quite young, probably in his twenties or early thirties. He was dressed smartly and even in the hottest weather he wore a shirt, trousers and leather shoes, looking very serious.
The diner even said hello to Su Yuanzheng before leaving. Su Miao went over and asked his father, "Dad, was that someone you knew just now?"
"Oh! Um, he just came in for dinner and after chatting, I found out that he is also from Ning County. He is our fellow villager! He is only two years older than Ayu."
"I see, what does that guy do? He looks quite respectable."
"He's working in Shanghai! I heard he's doing some kind of charity work or something. He's a college student! Oh! I should have introduced you guys to him earlier. You don't see many college students like him!"
There are not many college students nowadays, and it is even rarer to see them doing charity work. In the 1980s, there were probably less than a hundred charity organizations of all sizes across the country. If this person is really a volunteer for a charity organization, he is indeed a talent.
The weekend was over quickly. Su Miao was fascinated by watching TV these two days. The 1987 version of Dream of Red Mansions was truly a classic among classics. From the costumes to the scenes, to the actors' character portrayals, they were all carefully crafted.
It’s a pity that I have to go back to school for a week and can’t watch TV series every day.
This week's training was noticeably more intense, with us rolling in the mud and carrying classmates on our backs. We even went to the armed forces department for live-fire shooting on Wednesday.
Several large military trucks took them to the armed forces department like piglets. Most of the students were seeing real guns and live ammunition for the first time and were extremely excited.
They used a Type 81 automatic rifle and conducted horizontal shooting at a 100-meter chest ring target.
The instructors first demonstrated and explained. To hold the gun, hold the gun body with your left hand upwards, with the butt resting on the right shoulder socket. While holding the handle with your right hand, place your index finger on the outer edge of the trigger and aim.
"Everyone, pay attention! Keep your body tense when shooting because there will be recoil! Alright! Each person fires two shots, follow the team order!"
There are 10 guns, and each gun is guarded by an instructor. The students lie down, and the instructor guides the posture before they shoot independently.
Ye Jiayin grew up in a military compound. When she was little, she often followed the adults to shoot guns. This was not difficult for her, and both shots hit the bull's eye.
Su Miao didn't have this ability, but she had fired live ammunition during military training in her previous life, and she didn't miss the target. However, she once again felt the strong recoil of the gun, which made her shoulders numb, making her admire the soldiers who defended her country even more.
Finally, it was the last day of the drill. The leaders were excited to review the students' military training results for the past half month, but the students didn't feel anything at all because they were already exhausted. The only thing that kept them going was the two days of the weekend after the drill.
Su Miao looked up at the sky. Finally... it was over! In two hours I could go home and rest. I could watch drama again tonight!!!
Suddenly, she felt an itch in her ear. She raised her hand and touched it, and found a small piece of dead skin that had fallen off her sunburned ear.
Woohoo! It's finally... over!
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