Throw it away to feed pigs

  "What a rookie! Hit his chin and almost died of pain!" The female soldier's words were slightly slurred, apparently Tang Ao had hit her quite hard.

  Tang Ao finally reacted, realizing that the chin he had bumped into was Tian Meizi's. Apologetic, he quickly stood up and pulled out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears and snot: "Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to!"

  "What's wrong with you, annoying!"

  Tian Meizi seemed ungrateful and angrily pushed away the hand on her face, turning around and running off.

  Tang Ao was left stunned, unable to touch his head, while Dan Feng's eyes sparkled with innocence as she stared blankly at the slender figure disappearing into the train carriage. Meanwhile, Wang Hu beside her shook his head, "What a bold move, touching someone's face as soon as you meet!"

  Tang Ao loudly replied: "I didn't do it on purpose."

  "Grab your luggage and follow me!"

  Wang Hu led Tang Ao out of the carriage, and a refreshing breeze blew towards them. Tang Ao couldn't help but shiver, and his last bit of fatigue disappeared.

  As soon as they left the station, the two of them got on a military jeep. The car drove for a very long time, from daytime to nighttime, and according to Tang Ao's calculation, it was at least six or seven hours. In a daze, the jeep arrived in front of a high-rise building covered with camouflage paint. Still in a daze, Tang Ao was thrown by Wang Hu onto a bed in one of the dormitories.

  There are already over ten new recruits in the dormitory!

  "Haha, don't I look super cool in this?"

  A new recruit with a thick Tangshan accent, wearing winter training clothes, tried to show off a few powerful kung fu moves and shouted triumphantly.

  A dozen new recruits heard his Tangshan-flavored dialect and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "So cool, haha!"

  "What are you laughing at? What's so funny? Be careful or I'll hit you!" The young man was laughed at by the crowd, his face turning red.

  A tall and thin new recruit, imitating his accent, said: "Can you beat the ten of us? If you can beat us, then go ahead!"

  The young man coolly made a 'one-word-to-heaven-kick' pose, with an arrogant expression on his face, and said: "Needless to say, I'm the martial arts champion, beating you guys would only take three punches and two kicks!"

  "Go ahead and brag, anyway you don't have to pay taxes!" The new recruits all looked at each other in disdain.

  Still that skinny new recruit, he was only seen 'clanging' the bed frame to get everyone's attention: "Let me introduce myself, my name is Hong Xiang, you can just call me Xiao Pang from now on!"

  "You're still a skinny little kid, how can you be called small and fat?!" Tangshan guy teased Hong Yu with a sentence, then introduced himself: "My name is Lin Zijian, just call me Sword Brother!"

  Next was a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, who said politely: "My name is Yuan Li, I hope everyone will take care of me!"

  The dormitory had eight beds for fifteen people, the eighth bed was covered with gifts from new recruits, and the lower bunk had someone sleeping in it, but that person seemed to have no intention of introducing himself, he just lay sideways facing the wall, seemingly asleep.

  Everyone's attention was drawn to him, the lively dormitory fell into a brief silence. Tang Ao, who was closest to him, couldn't help but push his shoulder and shouted: "Brother, get up and introduce yourself!"

  Don't move, don't move at all!

  "Hey, are you asleep?" Tang Ao stood by his bed and shouted again.

  A young man, seemingly enraged, suddenly flipped over and got out of bed. He was quite tall and robust. Tang Ao, who was standing in front of him and was fairly satisfied with his own height, instantly felt like a malnourished child with rickets. The young man towered over Tang Ao, yelling at the top of his head: "Are you looking for death?"

  "Ah...!"

  Tang Ao's height was passable in the dorm, but looking at the 'giant' in front of him, everyone in the dorm couldn't help but take a deep breath: What did this kid eat to grow like that!

  Tang Ao was spat on his face with a mouthful of saliva, and he was furious: "You said I'm looking for death?"

  "You're asking for it!"

  "I'll beat you up for eighteen generations!" Tang Ao shouted and cursed, his fist already hitting the big man's nose.

  "Dare to hit me? Trash! Bang!"

  Dai Ge wasn't a stingy person, and with a loud roar, he punched Tang Ao's nose.

  Two people's noses were bleeding simultaneously, and after a moment of stunned silence, they both grabbed each other's collars and started fighting.

  "Go run 10 laps around the barracks!!!"

  A class monitor's angry roar was heard as two people with bruised noses and swollen faces rushed out of their dormitory.

  The event ended with Da Ge being assigned to another dorm!

  The lights went out, the door closed, and that self-proclaimed "Little Fatty" Hong Erye, a thin young man with a mysterious face, took out an iron box from his storage cabinet and came to Tang Ao's bedside: "Tang Ao, right? You dare to fight with such a 'giant baby', you're quite something, I, Hong Erye, admire you! This is for you!"

  Tang Ao, who hadn't eaten anything for a day, swallowed his saliva and looked at the iron box with shining eyes: "Is it mooncake?"

  "No!" Little fatty shook his head.

  Tang Ao Dan Feng Yan glared and said in a daze: "Could it be 'Mao Shu'?"

  "No, no, none of them!"

  Tang Ao was so angry that he directly snatched the iron box away, opened it and took a look. A pungent smell of tobacco wafted up, and it turned out to be a box of tobacco threads!

  "And what's good stuff, a box of tobacco!"

  Xiao Pang shook his head and sighed, saying: "You really don't know what's good for you. This is the 'Dry Smoke Thread' that I brought back from my hometown, it's much better than the 'Great China Fragrant Cigarette' on the market, do you want to try some?"

  "I don't smoke, teach me!"

  Xiao Pang gave him a look of appreciation and said, "You know what's good, I'll give you one!"

  Xiao Pang took out a piece of rice paper from his bedside, tore it into small pieces, sprinkled the tobacco on top, moistened it with saliva, and began to roll it up neatly. At the same time, he explained: "The art of smoking is quite profound. People who don't understand use newspaper to wrap the tobacco, which works but is not elegant. Connoisseurs will say that it's not refined at all. You must use high-quality rice paper to wrap the tobacco. The paper can't be too big or too small. If it's too big, the smoke will taste like paper when you take a puff. If it's too small, the tobacco won't be wrapped enough and it'll be even less satisfying."

  Xiao Pang's words sounded reasonable, Tang Ao didn't know that smoking had so many subtleties, and was stunned by him. After a while, Xiao Pang skillfully rolled two cigarettes, gave one to Tang Ao, and lit one for himself with a matchbox.

  "Hiss!"

  Xiao Pang closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled the smoke from his mouth. His expression, his movements, were just like those of an old smoker with decades of smoking experience!

  Tang Ao looked at Xiao Pang's face of enjoyment and couldn't help but curiously ask: "How is it? What does it feel like?"

  "Just one word!" Little Fatty shook his head and said.

  "What character?"

  "What else can be said? Of course: awesome!"

  Lying in bed, Tang Ao's mouth was dry from smoking, and he naively thought about quickly making a third-class merit or second-class merit, and returning home with honors like Li Lin, the deputy platoon leader of the Second Artillery!

  Tang Ao gradually fell asleep, perhaps because he slept too dead and too heavily. Tang Ao felt that he had just closed his eyes for a moment when suddenly the urgent assembly whistle pierced through the quiet military camp in the dimly lit sky, like throwing a heavy war axe cruise missile on the calm water surface. In an instant, several dormitory buildings boiled over, and the noise was endless.

  Tang Ao sprang up from the bed, but he forgot that he was sleeping on the lower bunk. With a loud "thud", his forehead came into close contact with the upper bunk's bed board, and the huge force even bounced the upper bunk's bed board and the bespectacled man Yuan Li who was sleeping on it!

  "Is it an earthquake?"

  The sudden jolt from under his body startled Yuan Li, the man with glasses, and he sat on the bed in a daze, unsure of what to do.

  Lin Zijian, who was also on the upper bunk, looked at Yuan Li and saw that he still had the nerve to sit on the bed in a daze. He threw one of his socks at Yuan's face and urgently shouted in his Tangshan accent: "Rotten pear (Yuan Li), what are you spacing out for? Emergency assembly, hurry up and get dressed!"

  When Tang Ao arrived at the assembly ground with a dizzy brain, several new recruits had already formed a square array and were waiting in formation.

  The monitor began to tidy up the troops, and several new battalions were merged into a large square formation, with as many as 700 or 800 people, gray and pressing, extremely shocking.

  Wang Hu looked at Tang Ao and saw that he was also among the new recruits who came late, his brow furrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice: "Tang Ao, give me a reason for being late!"

  "Report, got out of bed too quickly and bumped into the bed board!"

  Tang Ao's chest was puffed out as he replied in a loud voice, his bright and clear tone quite impressive.

  "Haha~~!"

  Tang Ao's response immediately triggered a burst of laughter from the crowd, and many new recruits nodded in agreement, touching their own foreheads as if they had experienced similar situations.

  Wang Hu stretched out his hand and grasped Tang Ao's collar, asking coldly: "Are you proud of your own reasons?"

  "Report, I have none!" Tang Ao's reply was much softer than before.

  Ke Wang Hu roared at Tang Ao's face, "Is the mosquito a relative of yours? Answer my question loudly, do you know that?"

  "It is!!!"

  Tang Ao let out a loud roar, using all his strength to shout, and the sound could be heard two miles away. Wang Hu, who was facing him, was even more splashed with saliva by Tang Ao.

  "Does your family sell spray bottles?"

  "No!"

  Wang Hu said to a bald class monitor: "Xu Ziqin, take note of these latecomers. If anyone is late three times, throw them out to feed the pigs!"

  "Yes!" Bald-headed Xu class leader responded coldly!

  "Report, there are 803 people present, actually 803 people, all assembled. Please instruct!" Bald-headed Xu squad leader handed over the new recruits' formation to Wang Hu.

  Wang Hu shouted in a cold voice, "New recruits must undergo training subjects: formation, requirements: strict discipline and seriousness!"