696: Special Recruitment
But even though he didn't dare to teach, he had to bite the bullet and do it. Yu Erye could only work silently, occasionally looking up at his apprentice and saying a few words.
Originally, the apprentice was quite polite to the young master because he was the uncle of the headmaster. However, when he saw that the master was not speaking clearly and incoherently, the apprentice's true nature was revealed and he kept asking questions with cursing.
Throughout the whole process, the master did not say a single harsh word to the apprentice, but instead suffered a lot of scolding from the apprentice.
Yu Erye passed on his half-baked skills to his apprentice with great difficulty and reluctance.
By the end of summer, all the courtyard houses in the county town were completed.
Yu Xiaoye also finished the military consolation performance and returned to Mishan. A small episode happened in the middle. Yu Xiaoye almost joined the army as a soldier.
Wherever "The Pioneer Sisters" went, it caused a sensation. This refreshing program was very impactful to everyone and was the most popular program in almost every camp.
A leader of the army art troupe witnessed the performance of the show with his own eyes and took a liking to the pioneering sisters Yu Xiaoye and Ming Jiajia. He wanted to recruit them into the army as art soldiers.
Joining the army was an extremely exciting thing in the 1970s, including for Yu Xiaoye.
Yu Xiaoye never thought that he would have the hope of becoming a cultural and art soldier!
Ming Jiajia was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.
However, Yu Xiaoye calmed down and thought about it. She was a married woman now. If she joined the army, she would have to obey orders in all her actions and stay in the army for a long time. She would definitely have to separate from Zhou Ziheng.
Can Zhou Ziheng endure the long-term separation between husband and wife?
This is a big problem.
She did not make a decision on her own. She wrote to Zhou Ziheng to discuss the matter and asked for his opinion.
After Zhou Ziheng saw the news in the letter, he could not calm down for a long time.
Zhou Ziheng understood that almost everyone admired and yearned for military life, thinking it was sacred and noble, and Yu Xiaoye was no exception.
However, for Zhou Ziheng, he lived in the army with his parents since he was a child, joined the army to fight when he grew up, and has spent 10% of his life in the army. To him, army life has no mystery and no halo. It is as ordinary as a daily meal.
Because of this, he was able to look at this issue more rationally. He understood that Yu Xiaoye was actually more influenced and instigated by that kind of thinking, and was looking at the army through a filter.
Before Yu Xiaoye makes the choice she really wants, Zhou Ziheng must let her tear off this filter first.
Zhou Ziheng put down his work and went to visit Yu Xiaoye in the unit where she was performing.
The newlyweds who had not seen each other for a long time were so excited when they met each other that they could not express it in words.
However, because they were outside, both of them tried their best to restrain themselves and not do anything excessive.
Zhou Ziheng asked her if she really wanted to join the army, and Yu Xiaoye said she was not sure.
Yu Xiaoye asked Zhou Ziheng for his opinion, and Zhou Ziheng told the truth that he didn't want to and didn't suggest it.
Joining the military is not the only option, nor is it the best option.
He knew that Yu Xiaoye was a person with a casual nature and her own ideas. She liked a free and unrestrained life. If such a person was subjected to strict discipline for a long time, it would hurt her spirituality and make her gradually lose her original brilliance.
Zhou Ziheng hopes that she can maintain that precious innocence and freedom.
The strict and cruel training in the army day after day was not suitable for her, and Zhou Ziheng couldn't bear to let her suffer that kind of hardship.
Moreover, Yu Xiaoye doesn't need to regard joining the army as a stepping stone in life, because he is her stepping stone.
Also, selfishly speaking, Zhou Ziheng did not want to be separated from his wife. He longed to be an ordinary couple with Yu Xiaoye, having three meals a day and accompanying each other day and night, instead of being separated and missing each other for a long time.
The time that Yu Xiaoye spent performing for the troops was already the limit of what he could endure, and he could not accept the torment of being separated for any longer.
Therefore, no matter from which perspective, being a cultural soldier is not a wise move.
Zhou Ziheng told Yu Xiaoye his true thoughts, pouring cold water on the hot-headed Yu Xiaoye.
Zhou Ziheng knew her very well, sometimes even better than she knew herself. Every word Zhou Ziheng said touched her heart.
After calming down and thinking about it, Yu Xiaoye began to feel that he was indeed not suitable to be an arts soldier, and it would be better for him to stay outside.
On the one hand, she was not suitable for life in the army, on the other hand, she did not want to be separated from her husband and wife. There was another thing that Zhou Ziheng did not know. In two years, she would take the college entrance examination. Taking the college entrance examination was also a smooth road. By then, the sea would be wide enough for fish to leap and the sky would be high enough for birds to fly. There would be many opportunities, and she did not necessarily have to join the army.
After figuring this out, Yu Xiaoye calmed down and refused the army's special recruitment.
The army knew Yu Xiaoye's background and that she was Zhou Ziheng's wife, so they didn't make things difficult for her.
However, this program still made Ming Jiajia successful. In the end, Ming Jiajia joined the army alone and became an art soldier.
After the consolation performance, Yu Xiaoye returned to his lover and parents.
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Life here is quietly undergoing tremendous changes.
In the forest farm of the second branch of Mishan Farm, the relationship between two people is also quietly changing.
In the early spring of that year, Yu Zhengxian came to the forest farm with a cane and Chen Ci, who was three months pregnant.
When I first arrived at the forest farm, the situation was a bit miserable. Although the living conditions there had improved a lot compared to when I was in the previous logging company, they were still not comparable to those in the lower companies. Everything was under construction, and there was not even decent housing. There were only temporary sheds.
But soon, wooden houses and adobe houses began to rise from the ground.
The lumberjacks and engineering teams moved into the dormitories one after another.
However, because there were more men than women in the forest farm, there were not many women, let alone couples, so all the female employees still lived together and no separate rooms were allocated for Yu Zhengxian and Shen Ci.
So, for a long time, this "contract couple" still lived separately.
This made Yu Zhengxian feel uncomfortable.
He had always wanted to move in with Chen Ci as soon as possible. He was worried about Chen Ci hanging out with those old women all day long. He was afraid that those old women would lead Chen Ci astray, and he was even more afraid that those short-sighted old men would hook up with their young educated youth.
So Yu Zhengxian has been thinking about moving the sunken porcelain out as soon as possible.
Since the forest farm had no intention of preparing separate housing for them, Yu Zhengxian started building the house himself.
Building a house is difficult to accomplish alone, so you have to ask for help from others.
So Yu Zhengxian further won over the people.
After working in the forest farm canteen for a while, his leg injury recovered and he slowly threw away his crutches. Then, he put into use the skill he had secretly learned from the skinny monkey: hunting.
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