Chapter 26: Diary of a Recruit
My name is Zhao Tiezhu, and now I am a recruit in the Pingyuan Army’s new recruits battalion.
In the past, my family was a farmer outside Guisui City. Originally, my family had six acres of land and lived a pretty good life.
But wars have been everywhere over the years, and the government above is constantly increasing taxes.
The six acres of land in my family are now only two acres left.
And I have two younger brothers, one is eleven years old and the other is only four years old.
As the boss, I am already eighteen years old this year.
I originally thought that my family could only barely maintain it.
As a result, some time ago, the government started to increase taxes because it was going to fight with people from the south.
So I had to come out and find some guys by myself, hoping to survive this difficult winter.
I originally wanted to make my family live, but I found a very good boss!
Really, this owner is very good.
On the first morning I came to work, he invited me to have a good breakfast.
Really, that breakfast is the best breakfast in the world in my opinion.
Usually, because my family is poor, I usually don’t eat breakfast.
The warm smile of the boss made me feel that I was afraid I had met a good boss.
And that's true next.
The boss trusted us very much and gave us the money. We asked us to buy a lot of things.
There is big white noodles, rice, meat and other things.
Then we were taken to Tumot by our boss to mine.
I originally thought mining was a very hard work, but who knew that the boss actually got a lot of machines.
Our guys are not hard.
And every day at noon, the owner would give us meat.
This shocked us, and we were also secretly grateful to our boss.
Now in this world, which boss will eat meat for the people under him? I have never seen it before.
Time passed day by day, and one day I heard that the horse bandits were coming to attack us.
At that time, our souls were scattered.
We hope that the boss can hide with us. We don’t want such a good boss to be killed by the horse bandits like this.
But the boss did not listen to us, but took the recruited guards to fight with those guards.
After a while, the boss brought people back, and the bandits were killed by the boss, and none of them were left behind.
When we went to deal with the body, we were shocked.
Later, I heard that these horse bandits were sent by Li Peiji, the chairman of Guisui.
At that time, all the workers in our group scolded Li Peiji and called him Li Gouzi.
Later I heard that the boss was going to take thousands of people to fight against Li Gouzi.
We were all surprised at that time and didn't know where the boss recruited so many people.
But we all hope that the boss can win.
Life is very good now, and the thirty yuan a month has made the family's life better.
My mother at home sent a letter a few days ago and told me not to spend money randomly. If I could save it for another two months, I could ask for a marriage for me.
The hope of us workers seems to have come true, and the boss really beat Li Gouzi to death.
Now the boss is the chief of Guisui City.
And the boss has paid a lot of attention to us.
Some time ago, someone came to ask us if we would like to join the army.
Because there are many workers now.
Some people can join the army here.
The military pay for joining the army is still very high, although it is only twelve yuan, which is much worse than our thirty yuan.
But the family can be divided into twenty acres of fertile land.
So I wanted to repay my kindness and joined the army.
It is not easy to meet a good boss in the world now. We don’t want such a good boss to be destroyed.
So we have to join the army, become a soldier, and protect our good days.
Many of the workers think so, so many people join the army.
But I heard that the vacant positions are naturally filled.
Today is the first day of our recruit training!
The instructor is a very dull man.
From the first time we saw him, we didn't see him. The expression on our faces was always dull.
He was very strict and he started to let us practice the queue.
Many of us were scolded and whipped by him for this.
But none of us has resentment in our hearts, and we all know that we have not done it well.
On March 10th, the weather is cloudy.
Today is the fifth day of our recruit training. Today the instructor told us that we can finally shoot.
I have always been interested in this kind of gun, and today I can finally touch the gun.
I fired thirty bullets under the guidance of the instructor, which made my shoulders hurt. As for where the bullets flew, I don't know.
The instructor told me: This is the first time, it is like this. It won’t happen in the future.
Although I felt my shoulders hurt, I still felt very happy.
On March 13th, the weather was clear and a little sunshine began to appear in the sky.
This afternoon it's shooting training again.
These days, we have to fire at least thirty bullets every day.
Now I can see where my bullets are flying.
The instructor told me that today we will increase the training volume and each person will fire 60 bullets.
I touched my shoulders. Although it still hurts a little, the adaptation these days has made me a little accustomed to it.
On March 15th, the weather is cloudy.
After we came back from running this morning, we were told that today we were going to help the people sweep the streets, saying that this was the command of the Grand Marshal and that we should integrate with the people.
And we are told that we are not allowed to violate military rules and do not let ordinary people do things.
Although we are not very clear about why we do this, we are not against it. It feels like the army.
March 19th, today is the 14th day of our recruit training.
The troops are about to start selecting squad leader and deputy squad leader.
I was appointed as the class monitor by the instructor, and the instructor said that I was very suitable for this position.
Hehe! I'm so happy that I will be under my control from now on. These two guys from the same village envy them to death.
March 20th, today is the fifteenth day of our recruit training.
We have been here for half a month in training.
Today, the instructor told us that the Grand Marshal gave the order, and today we have half a day to go home to visit relatives.
I must come back to train before nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
It is said that starting from tomorrow, we will enter real training.
Chapter completed!