Chapter 020 - Blah, Blah, Blah

Mr. and Mrs. Ye Luo Fei, who were selling milk tea and tea eggs at the intersection, saw Ye Xia riding a horse from afar, galloping towards this side at a fast pace.

Yerofey and Alina stood up at the same time and greeted them.

Ye Xia drew near and strangled the reins to slow the horse down. Seeing her son with a smile on his face, Alina asked with concern, "Son, how did you do on the exam?"

Ye Xia jumped off the horse and said happily while holding it, "I passed all the tests!"

"Yes?" Yelofei's heart that had been hanging in the air dropped, "You passed that ten-lap run too?"

Ye Xia received a cup of coconut milk tea handed over by Alina, took a sip, and replied, "Ten laps running test, twenty people in each group, ten people in our group passed, I ranked eighth."

Ye Luo Fei grinned, repeatedly praised, said, "Good, the enlistment test is not divided into rankings, shortlisted will be fine, into the barracks, and then train hard, and then accumulate merit value, and if you have top grades, you will have the opportunity to enlist as a knight." ...

Three days later, Ye Xia, who was on duty at the milk tea store, received the enlistment notice sent by the Recruitment Office, requesting to gather at the square in front of the Fiorello Church at 8:30 a.m. on April 15, and the Recruitment Office would have a large horse-drawn carriage to uniformly send the enlisted new recruits over to the Field Recruitment Training Battalion.

Ye Xia began to prepare for the work. "Romantic full cup" milk tea store, Ye Xia enlisted in the army, Natasha three will continue to operate, Ye Xia monthly salary will be suspended, but every quarter dividends will be paid to the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Yelofei on time.

Uncle Bogdan and Uncle Boria also promised to pay the royalties due to Mr. and Mrs. Yerofei on time every month.

Ye Xia would have a monthly allowance in the barracks by then, he didn't need his friends to send him that income, so he asked them to just give the money to Mr. and Mrs. Yerofei at that time. Ye Xia's main concern was not the money, but his parents' health and life, he hoped that when Andrei and Tolya were usually on vacation, they could visit his parents when they had time and write to him if they had any problems. Andrei and Tolya patted their chests and promised with their mouths full.

On the morning of this day, April 15, the sun was rising and there were scattered white clouds drifting across the sky.

One by one, people began to arrive from all directions in the square in front of Fiore's church. Some came on foot, some on horseback, some in carriages.

At eight-fifteen, a sturdy male horse pulled a plain carriage to the edge of Fiore Square, and three people came down from the carriage, Ye Xia and his parents, who were dressed in red military uniforms. Ye Xia tied the horse to a stake and assisted his parents toward the center of the square.

As Alina walked, she also patted her son's collar a moment later, and patted the clothes on his arms a moment later. She did not allow even a hair or a speck of dust to rest on her son's garments. She thought her son was handsome. Her son was not afraid of failure, and after two years of hard work, he finally passed the test as he had hoped, and today was the day he was enlisted in the Konstantinov family's outstanding young generation!

Andrei, Tolya, and Natasha's families also came to see Ye Xia off, and the four families gathered and chatted.

At eight twenty-five, the long whistle sounded, and the head of the conscription office stood on a makeshift plank platform and shouted, "All enlisted recruits, there are still five minutes for you to say goodbye to your loved ones. At 8:30, line up promptly in the center of the square, grouping them by township and eleven villages in twelve columns!"

People in the square, hugging hugs, kissing goodbye.

Ye Xia hugged each of the three families, Andrei, Tolya, and Natasha, nine in total, and then hugged his father, Yerofei, and his mother, Alina, respectively.

One by one, the recruits got down on one knee and tearfully extended their hands to their parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Yerofe, like other couples, bid their sons the most affectionate farewell to their loved ones by the children of the Holy Land.

Yelofei grabbed Yeesha's left hand with his left hand and pressed his right hand on Yeesha's left shoulder.

Alina grabbed Yeesha's right hand with her right hand and pressed her left hand on Yeesha's right shoulder.

Mr. and Mrs. Yerofei said at the same time, "King of Angels Vladimir is above, may your holy light be universal and bless our son Yersha with good health, a successful career, and a courageous and triumphant return to the army. Bless you, my son!"

Ye Xia choked up and stood up while hugging her parents, then took the backpack from her father's shoulder and carried it on her own back, looked at her parents and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm going to get in line!"

Ye Xia waved his hand vigorously to his parents, to his friends, and then turned around, running towards the center of the square.

At 8:30, three men at the recruiting office began walking along the twelve columns of recruits, one by one, asking them their names and then checking off the list in their hands.

At 8:45, a man from the recruiting office took the stage and spoke to the effect of encouraging the recruits to do more war work in the future.

At 8:50, the Lord Mayor took the stage and spoke to the effect of encouraging the recruits to be unafraid of hard work and to defend their country.

At 8:55, Father Gainer took the stage and spoke, "Bathed in the holy light of the King of Angels through the ages, people of the Holy Kingdom, it is with fond farewells that we are here today to send off our ninety-three young lads into military service ... Finally, dear ninety-three young men, I am sure that the holy light of Vladimir, the King of Angels, will always watch over you, bless you, and bless you, and that you will successfully complete your military service, make continuous progress, and return home in triumph. Now, I declare the recruits on board and ready to go!"

Everyone in the square applauded and waved their hands to the priest to thank him. Father Gainer also waved to everyone on stage, and when he saw Ye Xia standing on his tiptoes and waving hard at him, he nodded his head a little too, and with a spring in his face, he waved to Ye Xia.

Ye Xia turned around and waved to her parents and friends and family while running towards the carriage.

When the ninety-three recruits were all aboard the ten large wagons, the head of the recruiting office, with a couple of deputies, rode back and forth to finish the rounds, then blew his whistle, and proceeded to exclaim, "Depart!"

The carriage started, and a growing cry rang out from the crowd of mourners in the square, who waved desperately to bid farewell to the young man in the carriage.

Ye Xia stretched his neck and saw his parents and them also tiptoeing on their heels from time to time, following the crowd to see them off and waving at him. Ye Xia waved at them so vigorously that his eyes blurred, he wiped them off with his other hand and continued to wave vigorously.

The streets were not as wide as the square, and there were so many senders that gradually the crowd of senders could not keep up with the carriages, and the caravan gradually moved away and out of the western city gate. The caravan was to go west first, to meet up with the recruit caravan from another town, and then head south together ...

The caravan is stop-and-go. It starts in the morning, stops for half an hour to eat at noon, then continues on its way, pitching tents and staying overnight at the edge of the villages it passes through. It was escorted by ten regular soldiers on horseback. The regular soldiers wore leather helmets on their heads, leather armor over their upper bodies, broadswords on their waists, and shields on their backs.

Three days later, Ye Xia and the others arrived at a large military camp. The military camp was located on the outskirts of Lupo Fort, the capital of the Bithynia Province, to which Tasco Town belonged.

On the second day of arriving at the barracks, Ye Xia and the rest of the recruits were asked to start a three-month closed training program, with one day off every Sunday, but they could only stay in the barracks and were not allowed to go out of the barracks. In the officer's words, it meant that the enlisted recruits had not completed the three months of training and were not qualified to show their faces in the capital in uniform.

For the first month, Ye Xia and the others were not yet allowed to write home. The officer in charge of military training said that they had to go through at least one month of baptism before they could report their enlistment experience to their families.

In the second week of the second month, Ye Xia received a few letters, and he opened the one from his parents first. Opening the envelope, there were two pieces of letter paper inside, one written by his father and one by his mother. He first read the letter written by Alina's old mom, and only after reading the beginning, Ye Xia started to laugh.