Free Web NovelChapter 66: Chapter 29: The Deputy Squad Leader Can Carry, That’s Normal!_2
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After lunch, we returned to the dormitory, and the squad leader began distributing the clothes.
Winter service dress.
Once Hao Chengbin had collected his clothes, he dumped a pile of them and a large white cardboard box onto his bed and started grumbling.
"You guys are lucky, just in time for this year’s reforms, getting the new issue of bedding! 07 style! We haven’t even been issued ours yet!
The new winter service dress feels thicker than what we have.
The state is getting richer now, and you lot have come along at the right time!"
Yue Tao was curious but didn’t dare to touch without permission, so he could only ask, "Squad leader, what’s ’service dress’?"
Hao Chengbin was momentarily taken aback.
"Service dress... it’s the clothes you wear on a regular basis! For meetings, parade drills, formal occasions, you’re required to wear service dress! There is winter and spring-autumn service dress! You’ll also be issued new summer shirts later!
What we’ve been wearing before are all mixed and matched, 85, 87, 99 styles! This time, for the 80th anniversary of the army establishment, everything has been replaced!
All 07 style! You guys are the first batch of soldiers after the military uniform reform, everything is new for you!"
Everyone was a bit excited when they heard this.
These days, whether you’re in the barracks or outside, getting new clothes is always a happy event, and since everything in the barracks is uniform, dull, and mundane, a new item can easily ignite tremendous enthusiasm.
It’s like the folding stool that’s almost been played to destruction by the bored new recruits over the past couple of days. Ever since it was issued, everyone has been exploring its various functions.
"Squad leader, can we wear it today?"
Hao Chengbin looked at them disdainfully and lectured, "We’ll change this afternoon! Let me tell you, service dress doesn’t dry easily, so take care when you wear it!
It wasn’t for the Chief of Staff’s word, we would have waited until after you guys had showered to issue them!
Also, later you all are going to change your socks, take them to the washroom and scrub them clean!"
As he spoke, Hao Chengbin untied the rope bundling the clothes.
"Size L! Come get it!"
A bunch of people rushed up.
"With the service dress, there are matching national defense service Chapters, firefighting breast badges, a pair of collar tabs! The wide-brimmed hat has the police emblem! Don’t rush! Wait until everything is distributed, then I’ll teach you how to wear it!
There are also the hard shoulder boards, which will be issued after you guys are ranked!
Strictly speaking, you don’t even deserve to wear this uniform yet! Only after you’re promoted to Soldier can you be called a true new recruit!"
Hao Chengbin explained as he distributed the clothes and various hardware from the box.
Listening to this topic, the new recruits in the class looked at the brave soldier from Fujian with full anticipation.
Yue Tao did not let them down.
"Squad leader... when will we be promoted?"
That question sparked Hao Chengbin’s irritation.
The Brigade Department arranged it, you ask me, who the hell do I ask?
Unable to help himself, he bluffed, "The principle is within three months! Specifically, it will depend on your training performance!
If it were up to the Chief of Staff, you are still far from the standards of a competent soldier, and the New Training Group wouldn’t even consider promoting you!
Moreover, for the promotion, you need to memorize the military oath, which has been in this trunk for two days. Let me ask you, does anyone know it?"
Yue Tao, being a considerate person, immediately slapped his chest.
"Fang Huai definitely knows it!"
The new recruits’ gazes instantly turned to Fang Huai.
Fang Huai inwardly cursed.
I’ve only read it a few times the day I received it, how could I know it by heart? I can only remember the first few lines!
Hao Chengbin too became curious, "Fang Huai, have you memorized it?"
Fang Huai sighed.
Being a newly appointed Deputy Squad Leader, I should stand out a bit!
He raised his hand, clenched his fist, and declared, "I swear, to obey the leadership of the Party, serve the people wholeheartedly, follow orders, observe strict discipline, be loyal to..."
"Stop!"
That was a timely interruption.
A couple more lines and Fang Huai would have been utterly stuck.
Hao Chengbin realized Fang Huai was actually reciting and instantly felt he had tested the wrong person.
This kid is talented. He can talk for minutes about the news without any repetition, all about guiding principles, so what’s memorizing these 100-plus words to him?
"Fang Huai as Deputy Squad Leader knowing it is normal! The rest of you, does any of you know it?"
The entire class was at a loss for words.
Realistically, the only one with a chance of bluffing his way through was Fang Huai. If anyone else dared to speak up, Hao Chengbin would challenge them with the People’s Armed Police oath right to the end.
"Which is to say, you guys aren’t up to standards yet!" Hao Chengbin quickly summarized.
"Fang Huai! Just in time for the weekend, start tonight, supervise them in memorizing the ’Regulations’! And you memorize it too!
When you guys have mastered the regulations, come and ask me about promotion!"
A crowd of new recruits were all dumbstruck.
"Squad leader, is the regulations handbook you’re talking about the one in the desk drawer?"
"The two-centimeter-thick, red one?"
"Don’t even mention a whole book! Just one page could push us over the edge! Do you understand?"
The new recruits were internally ranting and raving, even Jiang Peng, who always wanted to surpass Fang Huai, dared not utter a word at this moment.
Memorizing the military oath is, at most, a morning task, but reciting "Regulations," just the discipline section alone is twenty to thirty thousand characters! Plus, there’s Internal Affairs and drill regulations. Memorizing that, you think you have too much time on your hands?
Of course, Fang Huai wouldn’t get tangled up with Hao Chengbin on this issue right now. Never mind their squad, the entire new recruit group, from the leadership down to the soldiers, whoever could master the regulations handbook, or even just be able to recite how many rules there are, admit his defeat.
Hao Chengbin just didn’t want anyone to ask him when they would get their ranks anymore, so he shut everyone up.
"How could the old squad leader not know? You guys just aren’t qualified to ask yet!"
With that, he slyly shifted the topic and smoothly arranged the "entertainment activities" for the weekend.
In the past few days, the new recruits had developed some unrealistic fantasies about the weekend.
But the truth was that the core task of the new recruit group was to keep the recruits busy every moment they weren’t sleeping.
Hao Chengbin looked at the stunned expressions of the new recruits with great satisfaction.
"Fang Huai, run over to the Brigade Department and fetch a cap!"
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After a trip to the Brigade Department, Fang Huai had completely escaped the bitter sea of hardship.
"Squad leader, I’m afraid I won’t be able to supervise them tonight."
"What happened?" Hao Chengbin frowned.
"The Brigade Department wants me to help them with some statistical reports tonight, and some slides for next week’s evening classes... It might take all night to finish."
"All night and you still can’t finish? Clerk Huang there? Resting? He’s making you do all the work, what is he doing? That’s his job, doesn’t he have any sense of responsibility?"
"He said he wanted to learn from me and asked me to spare some time to teach him," said Fang Huai with an incredulous expression.
Hao Chengbin initially felt indignant, thinking the Brigade Department was exploiting the new recruit, but after hearing such a straightforward answer, he had no choice but to let it go.
"Forget it, you’re good with computers, teach him more, to avoid always grasping your labor in the future."
The new recruits were shaken upon hearing this.
They knew Fang Huai was skilled and was able to get work at the Brigade Department, but they didn’t have a specific idea of his abilities.
Clerk Huang needs him to teach?
Awesome!
Deputy Squad Leader Fang’s image grew even more impressive.
Fang Huai was also well aware that regardless of whether he could teach or not, he was still the Brigade Department’s spare labor force.
That Squad Leader Huang was nothing more than a third-year soldier with no real sense of revolutionary consciousness. Faced with a cheap labor force like him, who only needed a late-night snack for a hundred kilometers of work, it would be strange if they didn’t exploit him to death.
"Fine, since Fang Huai is unavailable, I’ll personally oversee you guys reciting the regulations! Tonight... let’s just start with the first three pages of the discipline section!" Hao Chengbin said lightly, and the recruits’ expressions turned uglier than if they had eaten pickled seagulls.
"Fang Huai... doesn’t he have to memorize it?" Jiang Peng was overwhelmed with jealousy to the point of not being able to contain himself. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Brigade Department work was supposed to be his!
These past nights, smelling the delicious scents wafting from across the way, how could he not know what was happening at the Brigade Department?
Delicious little barbecues every meal, and come weekend, probably even barbecued fish!
After a few days like this, nobody had any oil left in their stomachs. Just thinking about Fang Huai enjoying a feast that night made him miserably uncomfortable.
The squad leader was taken from him, the barbecue was taken from him, and there might even be cigarettes!
But as soon as Jiang Peng opened his mouth, not just Hao Chengbin, the other new recruits also felt a bit speechless.
"Jiang Peng, why are you always targeting Fang Huai! He’s got work at the Brigade Department and has to stay up late, how could he possibly have time to memorize?"
The speaker was the fiercest warrior from Fujian, the pointy-headed Yue Tao.
"That’s just how he is, he can’t stand seeing others do well," Lu Zexian pitched in without hesitation.
"Yeah, Fang Huai’s working so hard, let’s not make him recite the regulations," the always amiable Zhao Bing said with a grin.
Hao Chengbin sat on the bed, watching Jiang Peng with a smile on his face.
Do you see the situation clearly now?
I’m not favoring Fang Huai, and you’re not getting off easy.
Jiang Peng was on the verge of tears, finding himself in a mood much like Lu Zexian’s not long ago.
The world owed him justice!
Finally, Fang Huai patted Jiang Peng on the shoulder with a grin and twisted the knife a little deeper.
"Jiang Peng, my work for the Company is the Company’s business. In the squad, as the Deputy Squad Leader, I will certainly set a good example! As for the regulations, I will recite them! I won’t recite any less than you, rest assured!"
Why did Fang Huai speak up in the end?
Because he had just checked!
In military knowledge, the Three Major Decrees, each only costs two points of military merit!
He could exchange!
