Chapter 43
After Zhao Xiyan sent District Chief Ding and others out of the yard, he was about to go to the market to see if there were any recliners to buy, but Director Zhang and Captain Chen came back unexpectedly.
"Where are you going again?" Captain Chen said unhappily.
"You were planning to go out for a walk, why are you back?" Zhao Xiyan said helplessly.
"It's all for you."
Director Zhang said unhappily, "Just now Deputy District Chief Ding..."
"Deputy?"
Zhao Xiyan was stunned.
"It's not the deputy, the district chief is so busy, how can he care about your trivial matters?" Director Zhang was angry and amused, "The street office advised you to go to work, but you didn't go. Now you're fine, right? You've even alarmed the district."
"I want to ask, how can I, a commoner, alarm the district?" Zhao Xiyan said painfully.
There are many people in the city of Sijiu, at least millions of people, right?
Millions of people, only five districts, the district chief is a powerful person.
How can the district care about his trivial matters?
"It's all because of the reports." Captain Chen laughed and scolded, "You are a big shot, with dozens of reports, saying that you do nothing at home every day... either hooking up with young wives or stealing and cheating."
"Thanks to Director Zhang and I for testifying for you, the district didn't send anyone to investigate you... But the district also thinks you are a restless person. An ordinary person? How can there be dozens of reports?"
"Fuck, these beasts."
Zhao Xiyan really lost his temper.
He just closed the door and lived his own life. Who did he offend?
"It was fun to beat people, but now they are taking revenge on you, what do you say?" Director Zhang laughed, "You told Deputy District Chief Ding that you were going to the steel mill. If you don't go... then you can only work in the factory as a worker."
It's not that she looks down on workers, after all, there is no distinction between high and low jobs.
But if you have to choose between being a cadre and being a worker, who wouldn't want to be a cadre, no matter in terms of status or treatment?
"Can't I not work?" Zhao Xiyan said with a wry smile.
"We know that you are just trying to please Deputy District Chief Ding, so we came to warn you." Captain Chen chuckled, "He just told Director Zhang to take you to the steel mill to report tomorrow..."
Damn it.
Zhao Xiyan cursed inwardly.
"But if you really don't want to go, there is still a way." Director Zhang said leisurely.
"What is it?"
Zhao Xiyan immediately became energetic.
"There is a war in the north now, why don't you join the army and join the army." Director Zhang joked.
Fight?
Zhao Xiyan was slightly stunned, and then fell into deep thought.
How could he not know about this battle between one and seventeen to establish a country?
Although he is not from this world, his feelings for China are the same.
"What? Do you really want to go to war?" Captain Chen said in surprise.
"I'm willing to go."
Zhao Xiyan said in a deep voice, "Director Zhang, Captain Chen, if you have any connections, please help me sign up..."
"No, that's a war, people will die."
Director Zhang was immediately anxious. She was just teasing this kid, but why did he take it seriously?
"Who is not someone's son, who is not someone's husband." Zhao Xiyan said self-deprecatingly, "If they die, I will die too..."
"Stop it, you can't even shoot a gun, and you'll die if you're sent to the battlefield." Captain Chen said helplessly.
"Captain Chen, I really want to go to the battlefield." Zhao Xiyan said seriously, "It is said that 'one inch of land and one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand soldiers', even if I go to the kitchen team, I am willing..."
"You are kidding."
Director Zhang glared, "Now the conscription has stopped, even if you want to sign up... you are not qualified."
"Why?" Zhao Xiyan frowned.
"You are Zhao Shan's only son, and you have no descendants. The army won't want you."
Captain Chen shook his head, but he looked up to him in his heart.
Although this kid is lazy, he is very brave.
He never doubted the truth of Zhao Xiyan's words. After all, you can't just say you want to join the army. Once you say it, you must go.
If you don't go, you'll be a deserter.
"What's wrong with being an only son?"
Zhao Xiyan sneered, "I don't know how many of our ancestors had only sons... Director Zhang, Captain Chen, please sign up for me. I really want to join the army."
"Okay, I'll take you there."
Director Zhang said with a gloomy face, "But once you go, you can't regret it..."
"Never regret it."
Zhao Xiyan said this loudly, "Director Zhang, once I join the army, if I die, then you will divorce Qin Huairu and me. My house and assets are hers."
"Okay."
Director Zhang agreed, and then took Zhao Xiyan out.
Captain Chen couldn't help laughing. Zhao Xiyan was making trouble, and Director Zhang was also making trouble.
More than an hour later.
Zhao Xiyan returned to the courtyard with a depressed face, and Director Zhang and Captain Chen looked at him with a sneer.
People were very happy to hear that he came to join the army, but when they heard Director Zhang introduce that his parents were both dead, he was the only son, and he had just got married and had no offspring, they drove him out without saying a word.
No matter how Zhao Xiyan begged, they didn't want him.
And they said that if he came to make trouble again, he would be arrested.
"Aren't there only sons joining the army?" Zhao Xiyan frowned.
"It's true that there are only sons joining the army, but you just got married and don't even have a child... If you really die, what will happen to your wife? How can you face your parents?" Captain Chen sighed.
Even when the war was at its worst, the policy of "one out of three men, two out of five men, and no conscription for only sons" was implemented.
Zhao Xiyan did not meet the conscription policy in any of the following ways.
"Xiao Zhao, don't think about it." Director Zhang touched his head, "Although you are lazy, you are not afraid of righteousness... We all know that people are needed on the battlefield and in national construction."
"You are an intellectual, so you should serve the country. Even if you are just a worker or a grassroots cadre, you have made contributions to the country."
...
Zhao Xiyan remained silent.
People in this era are very pure.
They rarely care about their own gains and losses, and they all have lofty ideals in their work.
"Why, you still don't want to work?" Captain Chen smiled.
"Let's go to work." Zhao Xiyan sighed.
"That's right."
Director Zhang said happily, "I will go back to the street office to write a letter of recommendation, and I will take it to the steel rolling mill to report in the afternoon..."
"Okay."
Zhao Xiyan nodded.
He has no choice but to accept his fate.
He can't go to the district, and the street office is not an option either, after all, he has a good relationship with Director Zhang, and he will probably keep an eye on him every day.
The joint defense office is even less an option, not to mention whether the public security is good or not.
Just look at Captain Chen, he has to come on a mission in the middle of the night, and he can't stand that.