Chapter 67: The Stabilizing Forces of the Militia

The next morning, when Gao Zhendong arrived at the militia training ground, it was still quite early and not all the militiamen had arrived yet. However, Section Chief Li had arrived. This was his job, so he was naturally more concerned.

After chatting with Section Chief Li and the Director of Security for a while, Deputy Director Li also arrived and several people greeted him from a distance.

Seeing Gao Zhendong, Deputy Director Li half-jokingly and half-seriously said, "Zhendong, if you have time, can you show off your skills during the militia performance report?"

Gao Zhendong did not refuse: "Okay, individual combat skills, let's shoot at a target, bayonet fighting is too bullying, haha."

People from outside the factory are also coming. At this time, it is not a good look for the training department to have a one-on-ten fight like last time.

Almost everyone present knew that he had taken on twelve people without taking any damage during the last training session, so no one was dissatisfied with what he said.

Not long after, people from the People's Armed Forces Department also arrived. Gao Zhendong, as the deputy captain of the militia, marched in a formation with Chief Li and others, and the overall procession looked quite good.

Although he had not been on the battlefield for a long time, many things had been engraved in his bones, so he could still march the determinant better than these militiamen who had only been trained for a short time. After all, the militiamen's training time was limited, and not all of it was used to practice the determinant.

During the performance, Gao Zhendong actually demonstrated his individual combat skills and gave a shooting show, which made the people in the People's Armed Forces Department's eyes light up.

At the end of the performance, the leader of the People's Armed Forces Department gave a speech in high spirits, repeatedly praising the effective training of the basic militia of the Third Steel Rolling Plant, fully keeping up with the new situation, new requirements, and new characteristics of the struggle, and focusing on the "nuclear, biological, and chemical" defense training. He integrated combat skills and combat services into the militia training very well, and trained a backbone militia team that can be called out, rush forward, capture the enemy, and win battles.

This naturally made the people in the Security Department and the Training Department proud. This is their job and their achievement.

Similarly, within the scope of the People's Armed Forces Department, in response to the call from their superiors, they organized and guided the Third Rolling Mill to train such an elite team, which shows that their work in the People's Armed Forces is also conscientious and down-to-earth.

Deputy Factory Director Li also introduced Gao Zhendong to the leaders of the People's Armed Forces Department. When they learned that Gao Zhendong had returned from the battlefield with meritorious service many times, was admitted to university, and was doing technical work in the factory with remarkable achievements, while at the same time not forgetting his original intention and vigorously supporting the basic militia training work in the factory, the leaders of the People's Armed Forces Department felt both admiration and happiness for Gao Zhendong.

After listening to Deputy Director Li's introduction, the people from the People's Armed Forces Department said to Gao Zhendong: "Comrade Zhendong, now we need talents like you who can carry a gun and pick up a pen, who can defend the country with military skills and benefit the people with literary skills. Director Li, you should make full use of such dual-use talents. Although he is mainly working on local construction now, Comrade Zhendong, as the mainstay of the basic militia, should play his role in a timely manner."

Military and civilian dual-use talents? This term sounded familiar, and Gao Zhendong couldn't help but think of a set of books.

Gao Zhendong expressed his modesty repeatedly, Deputy Director Li nodded in agreement, the leaders of the People's Armed Forces Department laughed heartily, and both the host and the guests were having a great time.
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Time flies and it's Sunday morning.

Gao Zhendong finished his exercise, meal, and wash. Before he had time to wash his hands and draw the lottery, he heard the door open. He knew without opening the door that Lou Xiaoe was coming. Gao Zhendong's ears were very familiar with the sound of her footsteps.

Gao Zhendong opened the door and welcomed her in.

The weather was already cold, so Lou Xiao'e threw herself into Gao Zhendong's arms and, as usual, curled up for a while to keep warm before untying her scarf.

While stamping her feet, Lou Xiaoe kept muttering: "I'm freezing. I'm freezing."

Gao Zhendong stroked her hair and said, "Why don't you just take one of my keys? That way you can come in directly and don't have to stand in the cold at the door. If you happen to come and I'm away for something urgent, you don't have to stand in the cold outside the door."

Lou Xiao'e stopped stomping her feet abruptly. She looked at Gao Zhendong with red eyes but an unusually cheerful voice: "Okay~~~"

Gao Zhendong did not waste any time. He went to the inner room, took out the key and handed it to Lou Xiaoe.

Lou Xiao'e took the key and looked at him steadily: "Zhendong, I missed you these days." Gao Zhendong put his hand on hers: "Me too."

The two of them stayed together for a while, and Lou Xiaoe suddenly remembered something: "Oh, Zhendong, my dad said that the matter you discussed with him should have some results within half a month. What's it about? You two are so secretive."

Gao Zhendong touched her head and said, "It's hard to explain right now, but you'll know when the time comes."

Lou Xiao'e wrinkled her nose: "You won't tell me, right? You're being stingy."

Gao Zhendong laughed: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go out and play today. I happen to be free. Let's eat outside at noon and come back to eat in the afternoon. My job title has been promoted to a higher level. After get off work yesterday, I invited Lao Wang and his family to come over to have fun together."

"Ah, you've been promoted to another level? It's only been a few days? Come, let me touch your head to see how you've grown." Lou Xiao'e was happy and surprised to hear that Gao Zhendong was promoted to level 9 engineer only a few days ago, and he was already level 8.

"Two eyes and a nose, that's all it is. Come on, let's go out and play."

After hearing about Gao Zhendong's promotion, Lou Xiao'e became very excited and followed Gao Zhendong out.

Before leaving the yard, Gao Zhendong went to Sha Zhu's house and left his house key with him. Sha Zhu would be cooking soon, so it would be more convenient to give the key to him first. He kept all the important things that could not be seen by others in his own storage, and he was not worried that Sha Zhu would see something that people of this age should not see.

Gao Zhendong and Lou Xiao'e went out, and Lou Xiao'e asked, "Where are you going?"

Gao Zhendong didn't care at all: "Whatever, you are from Old Sijiu City, you can recommend one."

Lou Xiao'e thought for a while and remembered a place: "Let's go to Panjiayuan. There are strange things there. My father took me there. It was quite interesting."

When Gao Zhendong heard this, he realized that this place would become very famous in the future and would be often mentioned in online articles. However, Gao Zhendong was not very interested in it. The reason was very simple: he did not understand it and was not interested in it.

But since Lou Xiao'e wants to go, then let's go.

The two rode about 10 kilometers to Panjiayuan. Lou Xiao'e was in high spirits and Gao Zhendong was happy to accompany her. Although they didn't buy anything, it looked really fun.

The two of them walked around Panjiayuan for half a day and found a place to have lunch there.

Finally, Lou Xiao'e bought a Huanghuali dressing box which was said to be from the Ming Dynasty. It looked quite rustic and the copper work was also well done. I don't know whether it was genuine or not, but as long as Lou Xiao'e was happy, she spent 5 yuan on it.

Maybe it was the purpose of this thing that made her think a lot and she bought it without hesitation.

Gao Zhendong did not gain nothing. Although he was not interested in other things, he had to admit that Panjiayuan really had all kinds of strange things. He bought a few sets of thread-bound books, which were said to be quite old and looked quite old. Are they old? I don't know.

Estimating the time, the two of them rode back to the yard with their harvest, panting.

　There is another chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)