On the way home from school, Liao Tingming stopped Wang Shuning.
"Comrade Wang Shuning, I like you and want to pursue you. Please give me a chance."
Over the past month, Liao Tingming has met Wang Shuning several times, and the other party was not interested during the conversation.
This caused Liao Tingming to become restless during training. Finally, he decided to confess his feelings to Wang Shuning directly, as his success or failure depended on this one move.
Wang Shuning stopped and looked at him. "Captain Liao should have known at the social gathering that I have no interest in you."
Liao Tingming touched his face and said, "But I have become much whiter now. In a few months, my skin will return to its original color."
Wang Shuning frowned and asked, "Who told you that I don't like you because you are dark?"
Liao Tingming's heart was hit hard, "Isn't it because I'm too dark?"
Wang Shuning shook his head, "No."
"Why is that?" I couldn't find the reason and I couldn't give up.
"I don't have any bad qualities. My family and I are both in pretty good shape. If it's not because of my looks, then what is it?"
Wang Shuning said bluntly: "Because I don't like you, I don't have any feelings for you, and I won't like you in the future."
Liao Tingming took a step back and said, "Feelings can be cultivated. Maybe you will like me in the future."
Wang Shuning shook his head. "I can support myself well. If I don't love someone so much that I am willing to devote my whole life to him/her, even to life and death, why would I bother looking for a partner just to get married? If my partner cannot satisfy me emotionally and spiritually, it would be better for me not to have him/her."
Liao Tingming blinked, finding it hard to accept. "What if you never meet someone like that?"
"This world can get along without anyone, and one can live well on his own. I have the confidence."
Looking at Wang Shuning's back as he left cleanly and neatly, Liao Tingming looked in the opposite direction uncomfortably.
Lu Zhouyuan silently poked his head out from behind the tree and happened to see Captain Liao being rejected.
Teacher Wang was really domineering as he rejected the most popular person in the army.
When he returned home, Wang Shuning felt a little uneasy.
Maybe I'm afraid I'll regret it in the future.
It’s not that I regret rejecting Liao Tingming today, but I’m worried that I will never meet someone I truly love in my life.
Family, love, and friendship.
If there is no love in life for decades, isn't it a kind of incompleteness?
Patrol point on the hillside around the island.
"Platoon leader, you didn't see that Captain Liao was extremely depressed after being rejected. This was a heavy blow." Lu Zhouyuan couldn't wait to share the gossip with others.
Zeng Chun was observing the sea. "If you feel you have too much free time, go on patrol twice more."
Lu Zhouyuan shut up and glanced at his platoon leader with distressed eyes. How boring.
"boom."
“Swish.”
Wang Shuning, who was in class, had a piece of chalk in his hand break in half and fall to the ground. He turned his head and looked out the window. "What's that sound?"
The students also looked out the window.
In the distant sky, grayish-white smoke filled the air, from wisps to large sheets.
"boom."
The sound continues.
Teacher Qin, who teaches Chinese to first and second graders, came out from the next classroom and said, "It's a farewell ceremony for the retired soldiers stationed on the island."
Wang Shuning was surprised after hearing this. Retire and leave the army?
“Will veterans be arranged for jobs directly when they return to their hometowns?”
Teacher Qin looked at her and smiled and shook her head. "It was like this before, but it was changed later. When ordinary soldiers are demobilized and return to their hometowns to participate in production, the army will give them a one-time settlement fee and demobilization fee. A small number of outstanding cadres will be arranged to work in some military schools."
Wang Shuning nodded and wondered how much the resettlement allowance and demobilization allowance would be.
"Students, stop looking and continue with the class."
Wang Shuning called all the students back to sit down.
Lv Zhouyuan sent his squad leader off with tears in his eyes, "Platoon Leader, will it be my turn in a few years?"
Zeng Chun stood straight with his hands behind his back. "If you don't perform well in the army and don't have the chance to be promoted, you will be discharged sooner or later."
Lu Zhouyuan was sad. He was used to being in the army and didn't know what he could do after leaving the army.
Feng Yunhao looked at his subordinates. Every year, some comrades retired from the army, but no matter how many times it happened, he couldn't help feeling a little reluctant.
Comrades who ate and lived together with me parted ways, and I don’t know when we will see each other again.
At a glance, the platform of D City Railway Station is filled with new recruits wearing military uniforms and red flowers on their chests.
Qi Jianping's mother tidied her son's clothes with tears in her eyes. "I told you to stay closer to home but you didn't listen. Dashan City is so far away, and we have to go to the island. If we encounter danger, what will your father and I do!"
Qi Jianping was the only son in the family, so his mother naturally couldn't bear to let him go.
"Mom, since you want to join the army, you have to go to the most dangerous place in our motherland." Qi Jianping said in a firm tone.
Qi Yonghao put his hand on his son's shoulder and said, "I know you want to achieve something, but don't forget that your mother and I are still at home while you charge into battle. Protect yourself, use your brain, and don't rush forward impulsively when encountering problems. Military merit is not that easy to earn."
The exposure of the Shan Congyun and Shan Mo incident successfully diverted the attention of the D City leadership team, but after a few months when the matter was resolved, the higher-ups eventually focused their attention on the Chaoyang County Automobile Manufacturing Plant.
The problems of low production efficiency and backward production technology of the manufacturing plant have not been solved for a long time. Although the city leaders did not order the closure of the manufacturing plant, they demanded that half of the workers be laid off.
As the factory director, Qi Yonghao is under increasing pressure.
Which people to lay off becomes a difficult choice.
Factory workers rely on this job to support their families. Isn't this taking their lives?
What's more, Qi Yonghao's son Qi Jianping also works in the factory.
In order to prevent his father from having a reputation for favoritism, Qi Jianping suggested that his father be the first to fire him.
This will shut up the people below and make the layoffs go more quickly and smoothly.
Qi Yonghao originally wanted to arrange for his son to work in other units. After all, he had some connections in Chaoyang County.
But what was unexpected was that Qi Jianping actually wanted to join the army.
The only son was going on a long journey, which made the Qi couple very worried.
Joining the army is also a way out, and it is completely feasible considering my son's height and body shape.
Qi's mother wanted him to join the army directly in City D, but Qi Jianping thought City D was too comfortable.
Qi Jianping had previously learned from newspapers about several areas in China that were currently not very peaceful, and ultimately chose to go to Dashan City.
It seems that Wang Shuning is a teacher on Jinshan Island.
"Ge Nie, after I leave, please help take care of me at home." Qi Jianping looked at his good friend standing beside him.
Qi Jianping was laid off, but Ge Nie stayed in the factory and no one gossiped about him.
Ge Nie hugged Qi Jianping and said, "Jianping, don't worry, I will help you take care of the house."
The train slowly moved away.
Friends and relatives on the platform watched the train go with reluctance on their faces, and some even ran along the platform following the train just to take a few more glances.
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