The Female General Dominates All After Transmigration-Chapter 248 - 235: Recruitment, Illusory Dreams

Wang Liansheng pressed Ling Chengyan down, turned over and got out of bed: "You sleep for a while, I’ll go buy."

Ling Chengyan said: "I need to go for morning exercises..."

Wang Liansheng’s hand rested on her shoulder, not forcefully, yet it halted Ling Chengyan’s action to rise.

He softly said: "You just finished three days of field training, it’s okay to rest for a day. You’re human, not a deity. For me and the kids, you need to take care of your own body too."

Ling Chengyan was stupefied, and Wang Liansheng gently pushed her back onto the bed, even pulling up the blanket for her, before he smiled at her and turned to leave.

Ling Chengyan sat silent for a moment, shedding various inexplicable emotions, and began to think about matters again.

She did not go for morning exercises that day.

Perhaps because she stayed up too late thinking the night before, she fell asleep again unexpectedly. Rarely having a nap, she slept until Wang Liansheng came back with breakfast and woke her up.

Looking at the time, she only slept for half an hour, but felt less fatigued and weary than before, with her spirits lifted considerably.

After breakfast, Ling Chengyan put on a hat and led young Wang Wenzhang out. She headed to work, dropping off little Wang Wenzhang at kindergarten along the way.

The Special Service Company had been established for nearly half a year. After countless exercises and practical training, the soldiers, who were selected from the best, had improved their endurance and physical skills significantly.

After three days crossing the tidal flats, yesterday saw everyone return, and the previous day’s exhaustion had completely dissipated following a night’s rest.

Ling Chengyan even saw the joyful expression on Yang Hua’s and several youngsters’ faces, clearly having received letters from their girlfriends, perhaps even contacting them.

Looks like it won’t be long before she receives a ’marriage application’.

For field trainings, the drills in the training ground were child’s play, a group of young men trained routinely as Ling Chengyan took a turn around and returned to her office.

Xu Dong had already cleaned and even brewed tea for her.

"Captain, about the job recruitment plan you asked about earlier, I managed to ask around..." Xu Dong craned his neck, reporting good news to Ling Chengyan over two tables.

Xu Dong’s information was timely; even two recruitment plans had been approved but not yet announced.

The two units were the district hospital and the teacher’s college, both recruiting support staff requiring specialized skills including electricians, carpenters, and drivers. Interestingly, both were looking for drivers in higher numbers; the school was hiring to drive for leaders, while the hospital for ambulance drivers.

Ling Chengyan couldn’t help but smile upon hearing this: "Thank you; I’ll treat you to a meal someday."

Xu Dong, thick-skinned, immediately moved closer with a cheeky grin: "No need for another day; how about the weekend? I happened to taste Chief Wang’s clams recently, they’re truly a delight. How enviable your good fortune is, Captain!"

Ling Chengyan gave him a glance and calmly said: "Just find yourself a wife who can cook, no need to envy me."

Xu Dong seemed instantly deflated, sat back into his chair glumly, and said: "Not only can I not find one who can cook, I can’t find anyone at all!"

This time, Ling Chengyan didn’t bother looking at him, casually remarked: "If you put as much effort into finding someone as you do into organizing things, your kids would be asking if you had soy sauce to spare."

Xu Dong was indeed not young anymore; back during her militia training at the commune, she assumed he was ready for marriage. Who would have thought, two years later as colleagues, that Xu Dong still wasn’t married?

He was already twenty-eight, genuinely a single youth of advanced age.

Xu Dong looked at Ling Chengyan bitterly; she happened to look up, almost provoked to slap him! Such aggravation!

"What kind of look is that, behave yourself!" Ling Chengyan scolded, and Xu Dong shivered, obediently collecting his mischievous expression and putting on a serious face.

"Not that I don’t want to find someone, but there’s no one willing," Xu Dong sighed; then he changed the topic with a smile, "I also heard that a driving training class is soon to be held in the district, do you know which unit is commissioned for instructing?"

This time, Ling Chengyan looked up and said: "Our Automobile Company?"

Xu Dong smiled, giving a thumbs up: "That’s why you’re the Captain, hit the nail right on the head."

Ling Chengyan shook her head smiling: "Throughout Huicheng, apart from the district’s car fleet, it’s only our Automobile Company that’s more driver-centralized. But their fleet’s technical level clearly can’t compare to ours."

Although there were skilled drivers in the Huicheng car fleet, veterans from the army, among its thirty or forty drivers, only five or six are veteran drivers. The rest are trained through apprenticeships. While their skills are decent, the fleet’s training standards don’t compare to the Company’s, naturally producing different results."

By midday, Ling Chengyan visited the Ling Family’s small courtyard to discuss this matter with Ling Father and Ling Er.

"Driving...not bad, at least learn a skill," Ling Father, with this single remark, affirmed the plan.

A day later, Ling Chengyan accompanied Ling Er to visit Company Captain Jiang and Instructor Wu, decisively signing up both brothers.

Ling Brother had already reached Jiang Province and was pleased to hear about opportunities to learn driving and possibly work in hospitals or schools.

Ling Chengyan whispered to Ling Er with a laugh: "I was worried they wouldn’t want to drive ambulances."

Ling Er laughed and shook his head: "Why would they not? You should know their personalities better. When have they ever cared? Besides, it’s just driving ambulances. Helping others is a virtuous deed. What’s to worry about?"

He laughed further, joking in a whisper: "Don’t fret; whether it’s ambulances or hearse jobs, neither I nor Brother are afraid."

Ling Chengyan gave him a sideways look and pointed to Ling Father’s room, startling Ling Er until he pleaded for mercy, promising to personally make ling regular bread for Ling Chengyan as a resolution.

"Speaking of, when I first reached Jiang Province, I truly couldn’t adjust to their diet. Six, seven months without vegetables, meat wasn’t lacking, but all there’s highly aromatic mutton. Eating it, you find a layer of solid fat in your bowl halfway through, even a lump of lard on your chopstick tips... But after all these years, I’ve gotten used to it. Even their local specialties like baked naan, baked buns, and hand-grabbed rice are now missed after returning."

Ling Chengyan listened quietly, not interrupting.

Indeed, humans easily adapt to their surroundings.

When she first arrived here, she too felt laden with discomfort, thinking back to when she brought two kids, cramped in those two tiny chambers of the old Wang Family, never satiated nor warmly dressed... Leaving old Wang’s place, leaving the Nanli Team, enlisting, being promoted, joining the Special Service Company... she adapted to the society, embraced various aspects here; thinking back now, past life feels like an unreal dream.