War Military: From 1978

Chapter 36 Twelve taels of gold!
"stop!"

"No more running and gun shooting!"

In the recruit barracks, the other two people were now running towards the temporary dormitory where Chu An and his group had lived when they first entered the camp.

Here, next to this dormitory is the wall.

Obviously this is the goal of these two people.

And now, behind them followed three veterans holding shoulder poles and scales.
En didn't have a gun, and the kitchen staff didn't have a gun either.

They were shouting like that just to scare the two people in front of them under the cover of darkness.

After all, it's pitch black here now, with only a little moonlight appearing in the sky after the rain, so visibility is not high.

"Quick, over there!"

When the new recruits in the company heard the shouts of the veterans in the kitchen squad, they immediately rushed towards the direction of the sound as if they were injected with chicken blood.

"You, you leave quickly, I'll stay and hold them off!"

Under the wall, one of the thieves threw a bag in his arms directly over the wall, and then helped push his accomplice who had already grabbed the wall to the top.

"elder brother!"

The accomplice on the wall leaned down anxiously and stretched out his hand: "Brother, let's go together!"

"No, no one can stop them. None of us can escape. You go first and bring the food back. Quick!"

"elder brother!"

The man riding on the wall was immediately anxious, but when he saw the figures constantly emerging from the darkness, he gritted his teeth and could only climb down the wall and run away with the two bags of rice thrown to him.

At the same time, Chu An on the other side was running as hard as he could.

But he had to admit that under the stimulation of making meritorious service, both new recruits and veterans could unleash their potential.

Now, even if he runs at full speed, there are still seven or eight new recruits and veterans in front of him!

However, to Chu An and the others' disappointment, when they ran to the wall, they were still a step too late.

The three veterans from the kitchen squad have already caught the man.

In other words, he was not caught by them, but stayed here on his own initiative.

"We are also from the flower-growing family. We really have no other choice. Please have mercy on us. We haven't eaten for two or three days. If we don't have to, we won't steal rice from you!"

In front, the thief who was caught was crying and shouting at the same time. He struggled to break free from the restraints of the old soldier in the kitchen squad and knelt down.

"This"

Chu An stopped.

The same applies to everyone else, whether they are new recruits or veterans.

"Get up, get up, and explain clearly why you haven't eaten for two or three days?" The veteran squad leader of the kitchen squad hurriedly pulled him up.

Stealing is abominable, but if the food is stolen, and the reason for stealing the food is that they have not eaten for two days, and the person is just an ordinary citizen from a flower-growing family who comes to the military camp to steal, then it is not stealing.

You have to know that the Flower Country is now a planned economy. Although the whole nation may not have enough to eat, it is impossible for them to go without food for two or three days, right? It's not like there's a disaster.

The group of veterans and new recruits who were originally eager to catch the thief slowed down their pace and approached, while the thief in front of them, crying, began to tell his story.

"We are overseas Chinese. Vietnam is implementing a policy to purify its border areas. Since the beginning of last year, they have been forcing us to register as Vietnamese citizens in the name of a census.

If we don’t change, we will be deprived of our rights to employment and further education, and we will be fired without reason, and our household registration and food rations will be cancelled.

As for us, although we were forced to register as Vietnamese citizens, we were targeted everywhere afterwards. All our assets were embezzled in various ways. If we wanted to survive or leave, we had to pay 12 taels of gold. If we didn't have it, we would be arrested and sent to labor camps.

We really had no other choice, so we secretly returned to the flower-growing country from the mountains.

It’s just that we are so hungry now. We have finished the dry food we brought with us. We haven’t had anything to eat in the past two days. We can only eat tree bark and roots. Then we finally came out from here and found your camp. We...

"You could just ask us for help openly, why are you doing this?"

After hearing what he said, a squad leader couldn't help but speak directly.

In fact, the veterans all know that Vietnam is currently expelling the Chinese.

After all, they are only so far apart, and their actions started last year and are basically open.

Even veterans know that in the streets and alleys of Yue State, various slogans are openly posted saying that anyone who sees a flower-growing family should be beaten.

However, this is only for veterans.

The new recruits, including Chu An who came from the future, actually didn't know about this.

There has been no publicity about this matter in the country yet. The first time Chu An and other recruits learned about the conflict between the Kingdom of Yue and us was when they entered the camp, the recruiting officer quietly informed them.

But at that time, the officer who received the soldiers only said that Vietnam was causing trouble on the border, but did not mention that they were carrying out these anti-Chinese activities in their country.

Therefore, many of the new recruits who gathered around now felt incredible.

"How could this happen? What does Yue want to do?"

"Did I hear correctly? Twelve taels of gold? Why don't they just rob it?"

"Nonsense, they are just robbing!"

"It's not that much to rob, it's gold, not dog shit!"

"They're rebelling! Beat them to death! This is too much of a bully!"

“Doesn’t our country care?”

"Go ahead, attack directly and rescue our compatriots!"

There was a lot of discussion around, Chu An looked at them and suddenly understood why it was not being promoted in the country anymore.

Look at these new recruits, they all shouted for fighting as soon as they knew about this. Now everyone knows about it. I'm afraid the war will start early next year, right?
But is it really time to fight now?
From the perspective of a future person, Chu An believes that our country is obviously not suitable at this time.

The evil neighbor to the north is about to put a knife to our necks, and the domestic people's livelihood and the overall economy are not good now. If we go to war at this time, not to mention the northern neighbor, even if we only consider the cost and loss of money in the war itself, it will make the already poor country even worse.

"We... We're scared!" At this time, the captured man spoke again: "The Yueyue Country is now promoting that the Flower-Growing Country is our biggest enemy, and they also said that those of us who have registered our nationality will be arrested if we sneak over there, and..."

The man hesitated and had not yet finished his next words when the instructor's voice suddenly rang out behind Chu An and the other recruits.

"What's going on? Has the person been caught?"

Soon, the instructor came to the front of the road where the recruits had separated themselves.

"Report, instructor, the situation is a bit complicated, they..." The cook squad leader who was holding the person has now let go.

Now he raised his hand to salute, and in a few words he told everything that had just happened and what the man had said.

Immediately, the instructor fell silent.

He glanced at the captured man, then turned around and said, "Squad leaders, take your men back first!"

"Yes!"

A group of veteran squad leaders responded, although they didn't really want to leave.

As for the new recruits, there is no need to mention them.

The man hadn't even finished speaking yet, and everyone wanted to hear what other reasons he had for not coming to him openly for help.

But now the instructor has spoken, and we have to leave even if we don’t want to.

(End of this chapter)