Half an hour later, Xu Jianguo put down his bowl and chopsticks and left the restaurant in the shocked gaze of the waiter.
The two dishes and one soup he had ordered had already been eaten up by him, and even the shredded carrots and ginger on the plate that served as side dishes were not left.
After finishing his meal, Xu Jianguo opened the map in his mind. When he was sure that there was a post office near Central Street, he walked towards it.
Less than ten minutes later, after turning a corner, Xu Jianguo saw the familiar dark green color.
After entering the post office, Xu Jianguo found the staff and explained his purpose. After showing his ID and letter of introduction, he was taken to the communications room.
After the staff left, he picked up the phone on the table and said, "Hello, comrade, please put me through to the telephone company at the headquarters of the Davari base!"
"Okay, please wait!"
After receiving the response, Xu Jianguo hung up the phone and waited patiently.
In less than a minute, the phone on the table rang. Seeing this, Xu Jianguo quickly picked up the phone.
"Hello, this is the telephone operator company of the Dawali base of the Bingcheng Military Region. Where do you want to go?" The voice of a female operator came from the receiver.
"I'm Xu Jianguo from the 523rd Institute. Please connect me to the commander's office!"
"Okay, Colonel Xu, please wait!"
After waiting for a while, Ma Guoliang's voice rang through the receiver: "Jianguo, what's going on? I've already prepared letters of introduction for your wife and children. I'll have them delivered to them later. However, there are no trains to Bingcheng today. There's only one tomorrow morning."
"It's okay, Commander, tomorrow morning will be fine!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll arrange a car to take Xiaowen and the kids to the station tomorrow morning. Don't go to the Bingcheng Railway Station to pick them up. Go to the freight station we met last time."
"Okay, I got it!"
"Anything else? I have to go to a meeting soon. If you don't have anything else, I'll just leave!"
"There really is something!"
"Oh? You talk, I'm listening!"
So Xu Jianguo told Ma Guoliang exactly what happened in the school cafeteria today, but because he was not at the scene, what he said was just a retelling of the information sent back by Du Yu, without any exaggeration.
While Xu Jianguo was speaking, Ma Guoliang on the other end of the phone did not interrupt or ask any questions, but his face had already turned gloomy.
Ever since their entire base was transferred from Binhai to Wari, all of their former comrades have been affected by the "storm" to varying degrees, and quite a few have been liquidated.
Many people who thought Ma Guoliang was confused when they knew he had volunteered to go to the Dawali base have now changed their minds, and almost everyone admires his perspective on the situation.
Moreover, when the news that the troops were going to rotate to Dawari spread in Binhai, many people who were weak-willed or unwilling to endure hardships chose to retire, leave the job or transfer out of the Binhai base through their own connections. The most typical among them were the director and deputy director of the 523 Institute at that time.
Because of this, Ma Guoliang and Dong Jixiang were a little depressed at the time, and talked about this matter with Xu Jianguo more than once.
However, Xu Jianguo only used one sentence to turn the two people's originally depressed mood into "cloudy to sunny".
Xu Jianguo's meaning was very simple. From another perspective, this was not actually a bad thing. Instead, it would invisibly help the base screen out many wavering speculators, thereby ensuring that after the entire base was transferred to Davari, the grassroots officers and soldiers would not be shaken by the negative remarks of these people.
And this is exactly the case. The base went extremely smoothly during the entire rotation process. All the officers and soldiers who stayed behind continued to fulfill their duties and missions in a down-to-earth manner. This also made the entire Dawali base unprecedentedly united, as if it were an iron wall.
Even when the Revolutionary Committee of the Jingzhou Military Research Institute later wanted to come to the 523 Institute to reap the benefits, all officers and soldiers were united and unconditionally obeyed all decisions and orders of the base commander.
However, what Ma Guoliang never expected was that such a thing would happen in the logistics department not long after things had stabilized.
Although it seemed that this was just a conflict between Erya and Funiu and the new chef, according to what Wen Sitian learned at the scene, the new chef actually tried to satisfy his own selfish desires by withholding the rations of teachers and students. In the eyes of him, the commander of the Longxia Kingdom who had fought for half his life, this was absolutely unforgivable.
You must know that all the students in the Dawali Children's School are children of the base cadres. If this matter is not dealt with seriously, it will definitely chill everyone's hearts.
"Jianguo, I know about this matter. You can call Xiaowen later and tell Erya and Funniu that I will definitely take care of this matter for them!" Ma Guoliang said.
"Okay, Commander, I will definitely pass it on." Xu Jianguo agreed, knowing in his heart that the people in the logistics department would be in trouble.
Although Ma Guoliang always smiles when talking to him, Xu Jianguo knows that both he and Dong Jixiang have actually walked out of the war. It is not an exaggeration to say that they crawled out of a pile of dead bodies. Their current appearance only means that they have hidden their knives, not that they can no longer lift them.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Jianguo called his home again and told Wen Sitian that the commander had arranged a car to take them to the train station early tomorrow morning, and also told her that he would make the decision for Erya and Funniu.
When Wen Sitian received a call from Xu Jianguo, the five little ones who were reading and playing in the house immediately came over. Xu Jianguo could even hear Lele's babyish and somewhat anxious voice, and his heart softened immediately.
So in the next ten minutes or so, Xu Jianguo talked to each child for a while and said that they would be able to meet after tomorrow. This made the five little ones very happy and they were also very excited.
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