Behind the small building of the Officers Club is the dormitory for senior officers of the Peace Army fleet. After Li Liwen joined the Peace Army, he also got a villa here as a residence when he was not on duty in the fleet and when he was on the lighthouse planet.
The sentry at the gate saluted Li Liwen and prepared a convertible for him in accordance with the regulations. But Li Liwen declined. On this evening, he was more willing to walk a little more.
After passing the guard post, there is a straight road. On both sides of the road, there are small villas of uniform shape. The villas are separated by gardens and trees, so the houses are hidden among the flowers and trees. At this time, everything was buzzing, and only the soft light of the street lamps reflected the shadows of trees, flowers, plants and houses, which was very quiet. The senior officers' dormitory at the Peace Corps headquarters is always deserted all year round. Most generals are on their ships, commanding cruises or operations, and rarely land on the ground. Even if I occasionally return to the Lighthouse Star for meetings or work reports, I often come and go in a hurry, or even stay for a few hours before leaving. It is as if a person who has been wandering in the sea of stars all year round is full of urgency once he returns to the atmosphere, just like wearing the wrong clothes of others. and anxious, wishing they could immediately escape back to the artificial gravity and artificial air they were accustomed to. Only when they have a rare vacation, these senior generals whose work and rest routines are infinitely close to those of pirates will come back here to have a few home-cooked meals and sleep that no longer distinguishes between morning and dusk. But they still couldn't stay in their rooms. They often went out to party, gambled and had fun all night long in the officers' club, until they returned to the dormitory drunk.
"Is this the terrible life of these ignorant Tianming, is it going to end like this? From now on, I will be a man of good family, no, tomorrow, tomorrow I will become a serious person." Li Liwen thought silently, "This is really weird..."
All the lights in the duty room at the door were turned off. The work had been handed over a few days ago. The deputy guards had nothing to do and did not have to be on duty. They had probably left work early or had gone to rest. Li Liwen did not wake up the concierge. He opened the gate himself, walked through the garden, and entered the main building. The lights in every room in the main building were on, and everything was bright upstairs and downstairs. Packed and half-packed suitcases that were still half open were scattered in the living room, on the carpet, on the table, and even on the sofa. There are various miscellaneous items that have not yet been classified and packed on the stairs, from the first floor to the second floor.
"General?" The young man's voice came from the room upstairs.
"I haven't put the bath water in yet. I didn't expect you to come home so early from today's banquet. I'm cleaning up the dressing room." He said, "Wait a minute, it'll be ready soon. Do you need a late-night snack? There will only be takeout and fast food tonight." It’s heating stuff. I’ve asked someone to clean up the kitchen in the afternoon, and I’ve asked the chef to get off work in advance. I’ve ordered food delivery from the central canteen for tomorrow’s breakfast.”
"Oh, no, no need for late-night snacks. You can go about your business. I don't want to sleep just yet." Li Liwen responded, then unbuttoned, took off the military uniform coat for the banquet together with the ribbon and medal, folded it in half and put it on Lean the chair against the wall and walk to the wine cellar next door.
But when he opened the door, he was immediately surprised. The wine cellar seemed to have been ransacked. The wine shelves were empty except for a few large wooden boxes on the floor. All the delicious wines he had obtained over the years have probably been packed into boxes, and the wooden boxes have also been nailed. Li Liwen hesitated for a few seconds between finding a crowbar and splitting the wooden box with one hand, then silently exited the wine cellar.
However, Li Liwen, who returned to the living room, was still at a loss. The place was so chaotic that he could hardly find a place to sit. He stood among the countless suitcases for a few seconds, then rolled up his shirt sleeves, lifted a large suitcase at his feet, carried it to the hall, then came back and stacked another one on top of the previous one. Just like that, Major General Li, who had already moved his hands, quickly spread his arms and fucked passionately. Not long after, the messy room changed its appearance. All the packed boxes were transported to the foyer, stacked in three layers and placed in a neat row against the wall. All the unpacked suitcases were placed behind the stairs, arranged one after another, like soldiers in a queue, with the lids opened facing the same side.
"Let me go!"
When Major General Li reached the last box, a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old rushed downstairs with a large armful of clothes. He stood between Li Liwen and the box queue, grabbed the box and accused him fiercely: "General, you How can you do this?" Then he threw the big armful of clothes on the floor, pulled one here and there among the open suitcases, rummaged through and picked them up, and soon, the clothes were arranged neatly. The box became twisted again.
Li Liwen saw that half of his hard work for a long time was destroyed in an instant without changing his expression. He followed the boy's instructions and took a few steps back to sit on the sofa. He said: "It's nothing. I actually did things like this often when I was young. As long as It’s okay if I don’t do you any favors…”
"No way," the young man immersed himself in looking through the suitcases. Hearing Li Liwen's words, he just said "haha" indifferently, "General, you are lying to me. You were a noble before. I have heard about this, and later you also He has always been a senior officer. How could he have made such foul language? Please stop teasing me..."
"I'm not going to lie to you," Li Liwen said, "When I was in college, it was very common for me to be sent to carry things. I also had to sweep the floor and pull weeds. I had to clean the dormitory and wash clothes by myself every day."
The young man was surprised when he heard about it: "How could it be? General, your university is probably the Military Academy. Which country's military academy would be like this? Even if it can't provide handymen, even robots that handle daily transportation and cleaning tasks can't be provided." There's none?"
"It's National University," Li Liwen's voice paused for a moment before continuing: "Datang National Military University."
He didn't know why he mentioned these things today, but at this moment he was very willing to talk about it, so he said to the young man as if he couldn't stop the car: "Datang, Tang Empire, do you know? The vast sea in the inner domain is very large. A vast country. National University should be regarded as the number one higher military institution in the Tang Empire. The lack of money cannot be said to be a lack of money. It’s just that the Tang Dynasty’s military training philosophy believes that these labors will help cultivate the national honor of the emperor’s people. sense and military quality. Therefore, all students in the school have to do these seemingly unnecessary manual labor, no matter what kind of family you come from. The sons of labor slaves have to do it, and the sons of nobles have to do it, even if they are The emperor's son is no exception..."
The young man finally found the suitcase he wanted, put it on a chair, and sat on the floor. While folding the clothes one by one, he listened to Li Liwen and felt very incredible: "Of course I know, Tang." Yes, there are a lot of Tang people in the commercial street, and they are often seen in the projectors. Their capital star is called, um, called New Chang'an. But is Tang Dynasty originally like this? How could there be such a thing in the universe? It’s so unreasonable! The cadets in the Peace Army Military Academy never waste time on such unnecessary things. When we visited, we saw that they even had someone in charge of the plates for eating, and the senior graduates also Orderlies can be arranged in advance to serve as handymen."
Li Liwen listened to the boy's natural incredulity, and suddenly felt some impulse.
"Chili," he called the young man's name and asked him, "have you decided to go with me? Follow me to the earth, maybe even wander in the universe from now on? In fact, if you would rather stay On Beacon Star, it is entirely possible to stay here in the Peace Army. If you are worried about admission to the military academy next year, I will ask the commander to help you with the procedures before I leave."
"General, what are you talking about? Of course I want to be with you. I am your orderly." The young man Chili said without raising his head: "If you leave the Peace Army, how can I still stay here alone? What? Even if you ask for the commander's help and successfully enter the military academy, it will be unaffordable - you don't want to throw me away and don't want to take me away, then you are really going too far. I From the first day I joined the Peace Army as a young soldier, I have been serving as your orderly. This is my third year. Without credit, there is always hard work. Now that you are leaving, you even think about not taking me with you? What should I do? What to do?!”
Li Liwen was asked and couldn't say a word in rebuttal. Looking at the busy figure of this young man Chili, he could not say anything for a long time. Chili was not his personal servant, but a young soldier with official membership and establishment of the United Nations Peace Army, who was assigned to him as an orderly by the logistics department.
——The Peace Army has such a policy that it will recruit qualified young boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 16 who have no means of living to join the army. These young soldiers will then be trained a little and then assigned to senior officers as orderlies. Taking on the role of an officer's personal handyman while on duty is euphemistically called experiencing the baptism of war in advance. This kind of serviceman's job will be maintained until the young soldiers reach the age of sixteen, and then they will be officially incorporated into the combat sequence of the Peace Army fleet. As a bonus to attract young soldiers, senior officers themselves have quotas to recommend young orderlies they admire with outstanding talents to enter the officer schools affiliated with the Peace Corps for further studies when they reach the age of sixteen. Even for young soldiers who have not been recommended, in actual allocation, orderlies who have been responsible for a senior officer's personal chores for a long time are often assigned to the officer's guard, while others who have been circulating in the logistics system for a long time and whose performance is unsatisfactory are not Young soldiers who receive special attention from someone are often assigned as ordinary soldiers by Zhi Nao to supplement the combat teams with vacancies on the front line.
Therefore, this training system for young soldiers makes the orderlies essentially become personal servants of the officers. They not only serve the officers while on duty, but also serve the officers during off-duty periods, and they only serve the officer, even Even the military's logistics system is inconvenient to intervene, showing a strong sense of personal dependence. Often when a high-ranking officer retires, it is not uncommon for several of his close associates, staff adjutants, and guardsmen to also resign and leave the Peace Corps.
Such a thing is almost unimaginable in the place where Li Liwen was born and grew up——
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