Chapter 32(1/2)
Bai Xinyu returned to the dormitory with his luggage. The dormitory was empty, and it was obvious that they were all busy in the kitchen. As soon as he found an empty bed, Feng Dongyuan and Qian Liang's heads came in from outside the door.
"Xinyu!" Feng Dongyuan said with a smile: "Our dormitory is on the first floor. I am in the same class as Yu Fengcheng, and Qian Liang is in the next class."
Qian Liang smiled and said, "It's no difference to be so close. You can still have dinner together in the future. Xinyu, what kind of shift are you doing?"
Bai Xinyu said weakly: "Cook class."
"What?"
Bai Xinyu threw his luggage on the ground in anger and said loudly: "Cooking Team!"
The two of them were stunned for a moment, then looked at each other.
Feng Dongyuan walked over and looked at Bai Xinyu carefully, "Actually... there is nothing wrong with the kitchen squad, the army..."
"The army is not distinguished from the high and low. I have heard this many times, stop saying it." Bai Xinyu sat on the bed, feeling that he couldn't raise his head in front of the two of them.
Qian Liang grabbed his head, "Well, you should like the kitchen team. You don't have to do morning exercises, you can control everything. Haven't you always wanted to go home? It's much easier in the kitchen team."
Feng Dongyuan pushed him, and Qian Liang lowered his head awkwardly.
Bai Xinyu whispered: "I thought so before, but..."
Feng Dongyuan sat next to him and hugged his shoulder, "Xinyu, don't be discouraged. As long as you perform well, the company commander will transfer you back. I heard the squad leader and the company commander quarreled that day, but I didn't know what happened at that time. Now thinking about it, it's probably for your business. The squad leader is so good and cares about everyone. As long as you perform well, we will definitely be able to have a class."
Bai Xinyu felt more and more uncomfortable as he heard it. His nose was sore. He hugged Feng Dongyuan and sucked his nose and said, "It's impossible. Xu Chuang is so annoying to me. He has been annoying to me since the first day he boarded the train. He deliberately squeezed me!"
Feng Dongyuan gently patted his back, "Xinyu, don't say that, I don't think the company commander is that..."
"You're still talking to him!"
"Okay, okay, don't say it anymore." Feng Dongyuan gently touched his head, "Don't cry, the company commander likes good soldiers. As long as you become a good soldier, he will not bury you."
"Wuwuwu..." Bai Xinyu couldn't help crying, "I want to go home, it's so fucking boring. I asked me to cook. Why should I cook for them? I don't want to do it, I don't want to go home..."
Feng Dongyuan sighed and comforted him, "Xinyu, you can't think so. What you lack is motivation. You should think about training hard and let the company commander look at him with admiration."
Bai Xinyu shook his head, tears and snot rubbed Feng Dongyuan's shoulders everywhere.
Qian Liang also looked helpless next to him.
When it was time for dinner, the two of them could not stay for a long time. They comforted him and left. Bai Xinyu slowly packed his luggage. Although he was unwilling to do so, he still went to the kitchen with his teeth.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, he was almost choked by the smell of oil smoke inside.
"Hey, recruit, why are you here now? We're almost done."
Bai Xinyu muttered, "Pack up your luggage."
The thin man pulled him to the corner and pointed to a large pot of cabbage on the ground, "Pick the cabbage and wash it, hurry up."
Bai Xinyu was stunned when he looked at the pot of cabbage.
The thin man pushed him, "Quick."
Bai Xinyu squatted, grabbed a big cabbage and swayed in the basin.
"Oh my god." The man slapped his forehead, "Are you washing cabbage or teaching cabbage to swim? You have to break the cabbage apart."
Bai Xinyu let out a "oh" sound, pulled down the cabbage leaves one by one, soaked them in a basin and washed them.
"Oh." The man squatted down, "Look at your tender skin, you are a soldier in the city. You haven't done any work, right?" He picked the cabbage quickly, "My name is Cheng Wangwang, just call me Wangwang, what are you calling?"
"Bai Xinyu."
Cheng Wangwang poked his head over, "Cry?"
Bai Xinyu turned his head.
"Oh, what's the big deal? After a while, you will know that the kitchen class is good. Now you learn some skills and open a small restaurant by yourself after you transfer."
Bai Xinyu didn't say anything.
"I've found out, I just need to buy a store there..."
Bai Xinyu didn't listen to what Cheng Wangwang said later. He felt that he did not belong here. He felt like this when he first arrived at the army. But he finally adapted to the life of the recruit camp, but was pushed here by a stick. He didn't know how long it would take to adapt to the life of cooking, farming and feeding pigs all day long. Maybe he would really get used to it one day... But he was really used to this kind of life, and it was not a good thing no matter how you thought about it. Who would learn to cook, farm and feed pigs! How would he help his brother when he went back? Open a farm?
Wu Qing came over and kicked Cheng Wangwang's butt, "You are not idle all day except for eating and sleeping. Why don't you talk about it? Wash it quickly."
Cheng Wangwang laughed, "Squad leader, I'm communicating with the recruits. Look at this kid, he is handsome and shy, don't scare others."
Wu Qing snorted and went to stir-fry the meat with a big fried spoon.
Cheng Wangwang pushed Bai Xinyu and whispered: "The kitchen team is so cool. You have food and drink. Listen to me, you promise you like it."
Bai Xinyu was skeptical. After washing the vegetables, he was assigned to cut meat by Cheng Wangwang. He grew up so old that it was the first time he had done such a job. It could even be said that it was the first time he touched raw meat. The greasy and soft feeling of a large piece of raw meat made him feel a little disgusting. He held the knife and was at a loss.
Cheng Wangwang snatched the knife and cut a piece for him to demonstrate, "How easy, cut it quickly."
Bai Xinyu swallowed and cut it down on the meat, but the meat was too soft and easy to get out of the knife. Bai Xinyu didn't cut a few pieces, and it slashed on his finger with one knife, and the blood came out in an instant.
"I-Fuck..." Bai Xinyu cursed angrily.
"Oh, you are really..." Cheng Wangwang pulled him aside helplessly, "Okay, okay, just watch it today and learn more."
Bai Xinyu washed his hands. Although the wound was not deep, the blood could not be stopped. He could only hold his fingers in his mouth and silently watched several people working in the kitchen. Everyone performed their own duties and cooperated well. That big pot of dishes was fried like this. He looked at Wu Qing's majestic back and thought to himself how much arm strength he had to turn so many dishes.
Bai Xinyu was suddenly hit by someone, and a veteran gave him a blank look, "Don't stand here to block the way if you don't work."
Bai Xinyu curled his lips and thought to himself that I would be here. He simply walked outside the kitchen and squatted on the ground and sighed.
Lunch was finished like a war, and it was their turn to have dinner after all the people in the company had finished their meal.
Bai Xinyu made a meal, sat with the people in the cooking squad, and started eating. They made two bottles of beer and started drinking with laughter.
The kitchen squad is indeed different from other soldiers. You can drink at noon. Although you also need training, no one cares if you are lazy. It is the most suitable place to live here.
After dinner, a veteran threw a pair of plastic gloves to Bai Xinyu and patted his shoulder with a smile, "The rules here are, new dishes, how can you clean the dishes? It's just to clean the pots and pans."
Bai Xinyu glared at her eyes, "I am alone?" He asked hundreds of people to brush the tableware alone? It would cost him his life.
"Oh, it's nothing difficult. It's done in the afternoon. Everyone comes here like this. Go, otherwise they won't be able to make dinner."
Cheng Wangwang smiled and said, "I have made a quick experience."
Bai Xinyu grabbed his gloves and turned around and left.
He walked to the kitchen and looked at the dining carts piled up, tears began to fall again. What exactly did he do here? Did his parents send him into the army to let him do these things? What is the meaning of these miscellaneous tasks? Can they temper their will and turn him into a real man? Nonsense!
While crying in grievance, he grabbed the plate and started to brush it up like venting his anger. All the work he had never done and things he had never done in his life had been experienced in the army, and he just wanted to go home.
He brushed the plates in the kitchen for the afternoon, and he had not finished it until he was about to prepare supper. The people in the kitchen thought he was delaying the matter, so they helped him clean the rest and asked him to do other work.
When he returned to the dormitory in the evening, Bai Xinyu was lying on the bed and felt that he could not move. He felt that this was the most tiring day since he entered the army. Not only was he tired in his body, but his heart was even more tired. However, there was also an advantage of being so tired, that was, until he lay calmly on the bed, he remembered again what happened between him and Yu Fengcheng last night.
If Yu Fengcheng knew that he was really here in the kitchen, he would definitely say "It's true" in a mocking tone. Yu Fengcheng looked down on him while talking to him... What are they now? They just touch a bird or something. He shouldn't take his open personality too much, but he just felt awkward and ashamed, as if he had done something very shameful. Even when he thought of meeting Yu Fengcheng, he felt extremely embarrassed.
Annoyed, everything is so annoyed!
Bai Xinyu slept very heavily this time because he was really exhausted. However, when the wake-up call rang, he still woke up because the entire kitchen team had gotten up.
Bai Xinyu said in pain: "Don't you have to have morning fucks?"
"I don't have to have morning fucks, but I have to get up and prepare breakfast for them." Cheng Wangwang patted him, "Get up quickly."
Bai Xinyu had been tortured to the point of being out of temper. She got up in a daze and followed them to the kitchen to work hard.
After placing a pot of pepper on the ground and cutting it again, no one dared to let him appear in the kitchen. Cheng Wangwang led him to the vegetable field in the backyard and asked him to water it. The vegetable field was not big or small, but he planted six or seven kinds of vegetables, all covered by a simple greenhouse.
Bai Xinyu looked at the vegetable field and said depressedly: "Don't you have food expenses? Why do you farm by yourself?"
"You don't understand this. Our food expenses are the standard of not being hungry. If you want to eat some fruits, milk, etc., you have to find a way to squeeze in and be self-sufficient. Wouldn't the saved food expenses allow your brothers to eat some good food? It's not easy to be a soldier in Xinjiang."
Bai Xinyu didn't understand what it meant to be difficult at that time. He felt that it would be easier for those who are in the world to join the army.
It was not dawn at that time, and after autumn, the morning in Xinjiang was so cold that it was so cold that Bai Xinyu wrapped in a cotton coat and trembled with a water pipe. He forgot to wear gloves, and his hands became frozen in a short while. Because of his inexperience, he accidentally stepped into the watered soil several times, but he wet his cotton shoes, his hands and feet were cold, and he shivered from the cold.
After the people in the cooking squad finished their breakfast, Wu Qing brought Cheng Wangwang to the field to "inspect". In fact, it was to see if Bai Xinyu had watered all the vegetables to death. As a result, when he saw that Bai Xinyu's shoes were wet and his hands were frozen red, Wu Qing immediately took him out of the greenhouse, "How can you water them? Water them according to your own shoes?"
Bai Xinyu said in a trembling voice: "I accidentally stepped on it."
"Go back to the dormitory and change your shoes."
Bai Xinyu was as if he had been amnesty and hurried back to the dormitory. He was the only one in the dormitory. He changed his shoes. At this time, the sun was coming out and it was not very cold. He was about to go out to bask in the sun, but someone came in from the door. Bai Xinyu was shocked and immediately did not dare to move.
After Yu Fengcheng came in, he kicked the door. He looked at the dormitory, and finally turned his eyes to Bai Xinyu, and smiled sarcastically, "What am I saying? It's true that he's coming to the kitchen team."
Bai Xinyu glared at Yu Fengcheng, "It's my choice to come to the kitchen team. You can eat and drink well, and you can still be lazy."
Yu Fengcheng snorted, "I knew you would think so, and this time I've been satisfied with your heart."
Bai Xinyu felt uncomfortable. Yu Fengcheng's mockery was really lethal. People had some self-esteem. He also wanted to be proud in front of those who looked down on him. However, in front of Yu Fengcheng, he had never succeeded. He had always been the lazy, stupid and unmotivated coward. But what he couldn't understand the most was why Yu Fengcheng looked down on him while provoking him. Although he was not a pure boy, he had at least one common sense, which was the premise of kissing and touching others. He did not hate the other party. Whether he was holding an eternal thought or a simple thought of shooting, if he hated the other party, he could really be hard? Yu Fengcheng's attitude towards him has always been obvious. I really don't know what this person is trying to do.
Yu Fengcheng walked over, bent over slightly, leaned his face close to Bai Xinyu, and whispered: "But why did I hear Qian Liang say you were crying?"
Bai Xinyu retorted: "You listen to him bragging. When did I cry? I don't know how happy I am when I come here. If I want to cry, I will cry with joy."
Yu Fengcheng pinched his chin, "You really want to stay here for two years?"
Bai Xinyu said firmly: "Yes, I will go home after two years of hard work, how great it is."
Yu Fengcheng narrowed his eyes, and a trace of darkness flashed in his pupils, "You really... never disappoint."
Bai Xinyu pushed his hand away, "You are so idle - it hurts. Why don't you go back and rest and run away here?"
To be continued...