Chapter 365: Indeed, there's quite a story behind it

Oh, giggle giggle; oh, giggle giggle…

At the Division production base, a woman wearing rubber boots carried a bucket of feed and came to the pigpen.

She tapped the iron bucket with a big spoon, making a "giggle giggle" sound from her mouth.

The several hybrid pigs of various colors that were snoring loudly asleep in the pigpen immediately sprang up, crowding together to the feeding trough and waiting.

The woman scooped the feed out with the big spoon spoonful by spoonful, finally pouring all the feed from the bucket into the trough, and she lightly scraped it around to make sure no other pig missed out.

"Cui Fen."

Hearing someone call her, Wang Cui Fen immediately turned her head.

Coming into view was a large bouquet of bright red roses, and then Guo Yongwen's smiling face peeked out from behind.

"It's for you."

"Ah?"

Wang Cui Fen froze.

She involuntarily covered her mouth.

She could hardly believe it was meant for her.

Having lived this long, she had never received flowers before, let alone such a big bouquet; she had only seen others get them in idol dramas.

"How much does this cost? Is it expensive?"

Wang Cui Fen happily took it, her face full of delight.

No woman dislikes fresh flowers, especially when they are roses symbolizing love, and they come from the man she adores.

Guo Yongwen scratched his head, looking sincere: "No money needed."

Wang Cui Fen exclaimed in surprise: "Where did it come from?"

"Lu Yang gave it to me; someone gave it to him, he didn't want it, so he gave it to me."

Guo Yongwen scratched his head: "Then I took it over to give you. But, but…"

He quickly pulled out a bag of chicken egg cake from behind his back, plus some sliced pineapple and some small snacks.

"These are what I bought; I still think food is more practical, and they're all things you like to eat."

"Annoying."

Wang Cui Fen didn't mind at all and wasn't angry.

She is inherently a pragmatic person; if Guo Yongwen really spent that much money buying such a big bouquet of fresh flowers, she would instead feel heartache.

For a girl who came out of a poor county, poor village, only what can be eaten and put into the stomach is truly substantial.

So she wouldn't mind at all if the flowers came from someone else, even if they were picked up from beside a trash can; as long as Guo Yongwen handed them to her, she would be happy.

"Yo, little Guo has learned to be romantic, even buying such a big bouquet of fresh flowers."

"It couldn't be a proposal, could it? You're really bad at picking places—who proposes outside a pigpen?"

"I heard your regiment is going to switch to the navy, congratulations congratulations, from now on you'll be able to eat seafood every day…"

On the way to the rest room, there were constantly veterans from the production base joking with Guo Yongwen.

Guo Yongwen has served in the military for not a short time, so he naturally knows quite a few people.

Moreover, whenever he has free time, he comes here to help out and keep his partner company, so over time everyone's relationships have become familiar.

"Have some water."

In the rest room, Wang Cui Fen poured him a cup of water, then asked.

"Your regiment, when are you setting out?"

"Early next month, maybe; the exact date isn't clear yet, we'll start from the Sixth Company and then go in batches."

"Then when you go to the seaside, what am I to do?"

Wang Cui Fen's words left Guo Yongwen momentarily speechless.

He scratched his head, unable to come up with a good response for a while.

Because the work here had finally stabilized, Cui Fen also became familiar with the workflow and made some progress.

If she followed along, it would be hard to have such good treatment again.

After all, the quota for family members to accompany the troops is limited, and job positions aren't readily available; this was only because, in recognition of his diligent service for over a decade to the troops, the Regiment Commander managed to get special consideration from the Division.

If he went to the navy, Guo Yongwen would have to start everything from scratch, and naturally it wouldn't be easy to secure a position to accompany the troops.

"You want to dump me!"

"I haven't!"

Guo Yongwen hurriedly explained, citing troop development needs, worrying she wouldn't adapt, etc.

But Wang Cui Fen shook her head: "I've run away from home; do you think I'm staying here just for work?"

She pointed at Guo Yongwen's nose with her finger: "I'm staying here for you; if you leave, what am I supposed to do alone here?"

"Work can be found anywhere; once you guys settle somewhere, I'll go there and look for a job."

"I'm not unable to endure hardship; I can handle waiting tables in restaurants or cashier work in supermarkets, as long as I stay close to you."

"When the time comes, you'll be busy with your training, I'll be busy with my work; when you have free time, just look for me and give me a call."

The girlfriend's thoughtful concern moved Guo Yongwen deeply.

Many people say that love in the military either turns yellow or green.

Some people's girlfriends argue every few days and threaten to break up at the drop of a hat.

Even some, suspicious and distrustful, suspect that their boyfriends, who train daily in the unit from morning till night, are cheating and doing bad deeds.

But Wang Cui Fen is truly different; her considerate gentleness, down-to-earth diligence—this makes Guo Yongwen's training and work more vigorous and harder-working.

Such a good woman—at first, just a little bit, just a little bit, and he almost lost her.

If it weren't for Lu Yang helping with that letter, if it weren't for him turning the tide, how could I be this happy?

Moreover, even such a large bouquet of flowers was sent by Lu Yang; that kid is practically a timely rain.

Guo Yongwen nodded vigorously: "Alright, when I get back there and things are more or less settled, I'll give you a call."

"Mm." Wang Cuifen fiddled with the bouquet in her hand, curious: "Can this be planted? I want to plant it in the soil for him, so next year it will grow lots of flowers."

Guo Yongwen scratched his head, about to say he didn't really understand this either, probably not?

Suddenly, his phone in his pocket rang; it was Gao Feng calling.

"Hello, Company Commander?"

"Where are you?"

"The production base."

"Wait there for me; I happen to be heading to the Sixth Company and will pick you up along the way."

……

Fifteen minutes later, Gao Feng drove to the base gate.

After a brief greeting to Wang Cuifen, he called Guo Yongwen into the car, with Ding Tengfei already sitting in the back seat.

Gao Feng said directly: "I'm taking you to the Sixth Company to learn from them; I heard they've started adaptive training, so we'll go study and see how they do it."

"Besides, while we're there, let's see how they handle the soldiers' ideological work."

The news that the Special Third Regiment would be reorganized into the Navy is no longer a secret.

Almost every company inevitably encounters some minor problems of varying degrees.

The Seventh Company is no exception, especially the tank crews, who are constantly worried they might be optimized away.

On the contrary, those driving the Type 63 armored personnel carriers are not anxious at all.

Because the Type 63 armored personnel carrier is an amphibious vehicle with water-fording capability.

In other words, after these people go to the Navy, they are likely to be directly absorbed into the vessel units, the Marine Corps, or the coastal defense forces.

Ding Tengfei: "The Sixth Company's problems were probably solved early on by Lu Yang; he's very good at mobilization work?"

Guo Yongwen: "Quite possible; yesterday he even gave me a big bouquet of roses to give to my sweetheart."

"I inquired a bit and found out that supposedly a girl secretly sent him flowers to confess; lately everyone in the Sixth Company has been gossiping about him."

"But I wonder if he deliberately bought flowers for himself to stir discussion, thereby offsetting the anxiety?"

Guo Yongwen's analysis was sound and well-founded; even Gao Feng thought it made sense.

"That's Lu Yang's exceptional trait—using gossip to counteract anxiety; who would've thought? Otherwise I wouldn't have brought you here to learn from him."

"These days they probably don't need to hide it anymore; they're all in the same boat, it's just a matter of time."

Ding Tengfei said: "But I'm curious—how are they supposed to do adaptive training? There's no small river or swimming pool nearby; how would they practice?"

With these questions, the car arrived at the gate of the Sixth Company.

The gate guard saluted and directly let the vehicle in.

The car slowly entered the camp, and from afar one could see an unbelievable scene on the open ground in the distance.

"What, what are they doing?"

"Am I seeing things?"

"We came to the right place; indeed, there's something significant going on!"