Chapter 32: The Other Side of War (6K)_2

Quartermaster waved his big hand as he got hold of the soap: "Alright, hurry up and go take a bath."

The girls excitedly gathered up the utensils, rinsed them off, and then lined up to walk towards the river.

Along the way, girls from other units joined the transport team, and what was originally around a hundred support battalion troops suddenly swelled, becoming unwieldy. A defense observer would likely have sounded a sharp alarm at the sight.

So many people crammed together, still in a single-file formation, a sweeping barrage would mean certain death or injury.

Passing by the laundry team, Aksinya saw an elderly aunt still busy at the wooden barrel.

She whispered to the laundry team, "Why not let the aunt rest?"

"We told her she could rest! But she insisted on washing the last bucket of clothes. She has the longest monthly work hours in the factory! For two years, no one has worked harder than her. And—she seems to have been with the laundry team since the Loktov era."