Chapter 332: Visiting relatives and being targeted by a pickpocket?

Chapter 332: Visiting relatives and being targeted by a pickpocket?

Chen Jun, Gao Cheng and others returned from the war zone with a full load. All the way from the army group, division headquarters to the regiment, the routine operation of a celebration banquet was naturally inevitable.

There will be a round every time we go to a place.

It’s just that because Chen Jun has won too many honors for the army group and the division in the past three years, he has become accustomed to holding celebration banquets too frequently.

Although the scene was still as grand as before, it was no longer as shocking as before.

Being able to make a celebratory banquet, which is a rare opportunity for many people, feel like a common meal at home, I have to say that Chen Jun is already quite awesome for this reason alone.

As for Chen Jun himself, he was really a little tired of it.

It took nearly a week to go from the army group to the division, regiment, and then to the battalion. I was not tired physically, but I was mentally exhausted.

Chen Jun also used this as an excuse to start his next synthetic group layout.

I reported to the regiment that I wanted to take a home visit leave, because the matter of the combined battalion had come to an end and all I had to do next was to continue training step by step. I hadn't had a rest for several years and wanted to apply for a month's leave.

The head of the group, Wang Qingrui, was very considerate and readily gave Chen Jun two months of leave.

The reason why a sixty-day holiday is given at one time is mainly because there is really nothing major to deal with in the 7th Steel Battalion now, and what will follow will be a long period of stability.

It will take at least half a year to a year for everything the 7th Steel Battalion has learned during the one-year special training to stabilize.

Whether Chen Jun was present or not during this period did not actually have much impact on the 7th Steel Battalion. In any case, Chen Jun had already provided a detailed training outline.

Secondly, it is out of Captain Wang’s love for him.

Chen Jun has been working intensively in recent years, either developing a combined force or preparing for confrontation exercises. He also went abroad to participate in international competitions.

It has been nearly five years since Chen Jun joined the company, and he has never taken a home leave.

It is perfectly reasonable to give him two months' leave.

Not only did the team leader feel that Chen Jun must take a vacation, but he also felt that he should take this opportunity to take a long vacation and completely adjust his body and mind.

Even old friends like Gao Cheng and Shi Jin were happy for Chen Jun's family visit leave.

Chen Jun didn't even have to do anything, everyone was busy.

Gao Cheng prepared a suit for Chen Jun, and said that he had asked his mother to have it custom-made in a store. He asked Chen Jun to take the opportunity to find some girls when he returned, as he would look more energetic and handsome in a suit.

Shi Jin is a meticulous person. He helped Chen Jun prepare food for the way home, even preparing toothpaste, toothbrush and socks.

Man Guangzhi, Tuo Yonggang and other familiar people also prepared various gifts for Chen Jun.

Some people gave Chen Jun casual clothes to wear back home, some gave him travel shoes and leather shoes, and some gave him some small gifts unique to the army.

It means that Chen Jun just submitted a leave report and he doesn’t have to worry about anything else.

Someone helped him prepare everything!

On the day Chen Jun officially set out, the entire leadership team of the 7th Steel Battalion came, even the regiment commander Wang Qingrui came in person.

So many people can send someone for a home visit leave, and I think only Chen Jun can have such an honor.

Since the Steel Battalion 7 base was located in a remote area, Wang Qingrui specially sent a Cheetah off-road vehicle to take Chen Jun to the nearest town to take a minibus.

After taking a minibus to the capital, transfer to a domestic flight directly to the Magic City.

Chen Jun has been in the army for so many years and has basically no place to spend his salary. Although flying is expensive these days, he can still afford it.

The minibus in the small town goes very slowly, and it takes two hours to get to the capital.

The environment inside the car was very ordinary, but there were quite a lot of people. Almost every passenger was looking at, or secretly looking at, Chen Jun.

It’s not about how handsome or unique Chen Jun is.

The main reason is that Chen Jun is 1.89 meters tall, and he still has a strong body even when wearing a short-sleeved shirt. He sits there with his body habitually straight, exuding the unique masculine aura of a soldier.

I was so out of place with everyone in the car that it was hard not to attract attention.

Fortunately, Chen Jun has a strong heart and has seen all kinds of big scenes. Being secretly stared at by a dozen people has no effect on him at all.

It’s just that riding in the car is really boring. I’m tired of seeing the yellow sand outside the window and there is no beautiful scenery to appreciate.

Chen Jun could only take out the Nokia 6110 that his father Chen Zhenhua had mailed to him at the beginning of this year, turned it on and played the Snake game to kill time.

This phone is the highest-end model available today and is also the first phone with built-in games.

A mobile phone that could only be used to crack walnuts twenty years ago is definitely a rare item nowadays, attracting the attention of other passengers in the car.

Most people were just wondering what rare treasure Chen Jun was holding in his hand.

The only one among them was a man with small inverted triangle eyes, as thin as a bamboo pole, wearing a Dacron short-sleeved shirt, and looking around since he got on the car.

When he saw Chen Jun take out a high-end mobile phone, his eyes started to roll around.

The woman sitting next to him seemed to understand a lot. When she saw the man's shifty look, she knew he had three hands and quickly tightened the cloth bag in her hand.

He wanted to remind Chen Jun behind him on the left not to let his money get out of his pocket when he was out, so as to avoid being targeted by thieves.

But the man with triangular eyes glared at the woman fiercely, and deliberately touched his trouser pocket, and found a long rectangular object sticking out, which scared the woman so much that she shivered.

During the period around the millennium, domestic security was not very peaceful.

Things like biker gangs robbing things on the street, blackmailing people by stepping on leather shoes at train stations, three-handed gangs operating and beating people when they are discovered, etc. are basically commonplace.

A woman is a woman who goes out alone, so she naturally dare not offend a pickpocket.

It's urgent.

They really dare to stab you.

Chen Jun was a tough guy from the army, tall and strong, and he was a professional special forces soldier in his previous life. He never thought that anyone would dare to rob him.

In addition, it was a rare chance for me to go home for a family visit, and I didn’t want to be as tense as I was in the army, so I was very relaxed.

So he didn't expect anyone to be so bold as to target him after seeing his cell phone.

After playing Snake for an hour or so, we had already entered the suburbs of the capital.

The mobile phone, which had no 2G signal for a long time, finally got a signal. Less than two minutes after the signal was restored, the phone started ringing.

Someone called.

The word "father" was automatically displayed on it. It was obvious that when Chen Zhenhua sent the phone to me, he had already saved the number in it.

"The old man is quite attentive."

Chen Jun smiled and pressed the answer button, starting his first mobile phone call in his life.

"Xiaojun, it's Xiaojun, I guess. I finally got through..."

Chen Zhenhua on the other end of the phone spoke in an urgent tone. After confirming that it was Chen Jun who answered the call, he started talking like a machine gun, firing rapid-fire shots.

Chen Jun thought it was a big deal at first, but after hearing it, he held his forehead with his right hand and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It turned out to be the same old thing. The last time Chen Zhenhua came to the army to visit Chen Jun, he mentioned that he wanted to arrange for Liao Qiuxue to come out for Chen Jun, so that the two who were "arranged to be married" could meet each other, but something unexpected happened and it didn't happen.

Chen Zhenhua really cares about this childhood marriage that he arranged for him.

A few days ago, I received a call from Chen Jun’s army unit, saying that the unit had approved his home visit leave and he would be able to go home to visit his family.

While Chen Zhenhua was happy that his son had returned home, he was also thinking about the child marriage.

I specially called my old friend and learned that Liao Qiuxue had returned to China and was doing business in the capital these days.

Chen Zhenhua felt that this was a godsend opportunity and immediately helped Chen Jun to do it.

As a result, after Chen Zhenhua had finalized all the arrangements and determined the specific meeting place for the two, he made a call to the external line of the Seventh Steel Battalion.

The answer I got was that Chen Jun had already set off and was now on his way to visit his relatives.

Chen Zhenhua has already arranged everything. If Chen Jun cannot arrive at the meeting place on time and misses their first "date", their marriage may be over.

Chen Zhenhua was really anxious now!

In order not to miss this wonderful marriage which Chen Zhenhua thought was made in heaven, he had to try his luck.

He frantically called the mobile phone that had been mailed to Chen Jun and recharged on time.

Hit every two or three minutes.

At first, all he heard was the prompt tone "The user you dialed is powered off, please call again later", which made Chen Zhenhua feel very disappointed.

It seemed as if I saw my daughter-in-law had gone far away.

But just when he was about to give up, the prompt tone suddenly changed.

"The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

As one of the first mobile phone users, Chen Zhenhua knew better than anyone what the change in the prompt tone meant, and all the haze was immediately swept away.

Chen Jun is in the wilderness, and the last time Chen Zhenhua went there his cell phone turned into a brick.

Now the prompt tone proves that Chen Jun has turned on his phone and the car he is riding in is approaching the capital, and the signal may be restored at any time.

This means that it is only a matter of time to get through to Chen Jun on his cell phone.

……

After listening to his father's words, Chen Jun knew that if he didn't go to meet Liao Qiuxue, this matter would probably stick to him.

Besides, he is now the deputy battalion commander, and once the combined regiment is established, he will be promoted to the regimental level.

If you want to be promoted from deputy battalion commander to deputy regiment commander, there are two whole levels involved.

Assuming that the war zone conference is passed within a year, it will take another half a year from the beginning of preparation to completion, plus the subsequent one and a half years of training.

This means that Chen Jun only has three years left.

Chen Jun has only been the deputy battalion commander for more than half a year. It is actually a bit difficult for him to be promoted twice in the next three years.

In order to reduce the difficulty of this promotion and increase the probability of being elected as the deputy head of the synthetic regiment.

Getting a wife and starting a family can indeed add a lot of points.

Therefore, Chen Jun is not opposed to starting a family now. If he can meet a really suitable woman, it is not impossible to get married.

The last thing that impressed Chen Jun the most was that Liao Qiuxue studied software development in the United States.

Nowadays, technologies such as software development are indeed at the forefront in the world in the United States, and Microsoft and Silicon Valley are synonymous with the top level.

Liao Qiuxue must know some experts in this field. If she could introduce a few domestic experts and allow them to join the army and be responsible for developing a digital command system, that would solve a big problem for Chen Jun.

With these three needs and considerations in mind, Chen Jun decided to take this trip.

And you do it very seriously, not just going through the process.

By the time the minibus wobbled into the capital and stopped at a bus station that Chen Jun wasn't familiar with, it was already past ten in the morning.

There is only more than an hour left before the time Chen Zhenhua and Liao Haidong agreed to meet.

It would take another hour to take a taxi from the bus station to the Shihua Coffee Shop where we had agreed to meet, so there was not much time left.

Fortunately, Gao Cheng, an old friend, was far-sighted and solved a big problem for Chen Jun.

Chen Jun, who already has a neat short flat haircut and pays great attention to military appearance and discipline and has a clean-shaven beard, can go on a blind date in a respectable manner by simply putting on a suit and leather shoes.

There is no need to waste time buying clothes, otherwise there will not be enough time after running around.

"We need to find a place to change clothes."

Chen Jun dragged a suitcase in his right hand and carried a travel bag in his left hand. He stood outside the station and looked around. He quickly chose a place where he could change clothes.

The toilet at the station!

As a result, I ran over to take a look, and found that the environment inside was hard to describe. It was completely incomparable to the clean public toilets in the 21st century.

If you change clothes in here, you will definitely smell something when you go out.

What's the point of kissing then?

Chen Jun couldn't change clothes in public, so he could only carry his things out of the station and go outside to see if he could think of any solution.

When Chen Jun went to the restroom at the station, the man with triangular eyes who got off the same train ran to the public telephone booth nearby and left a message on his pager.

When Chen Jun started walking out of the station with his luggage, he immediately followed him quietly.

Chen Jun used his sensory ability condensed on the battlefield to actually notice the triangular eyes staring at him in the car, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time because he was on the phone with his father.

Now he found that Triangle Eyes was following him again, and he had an idea in his mind after a moment's attention.

Realizing that he had encountered the most difficult and inferior product of this era for ordinary people, Chen Jun smiled and didn't care.

The main thing is to find a place quickly and change into a suit.

After walking about a hundred meters from the station, Chen Jun saw a small shop selling men's clothing on the side of the road. He immediately set his sights on this shop.

In exchange for buying a suitable tie, he was given the use of the store's changing room.

Although Chen Jun believed that as long as he said a few nice words, the boss would not refuse even if the customer did not buy anything, Chen Jun did not want to waste his breath on trivial matters.

Buying an extra tie won't cause any trouble and can kill two birds with one stone.

However, just as Chen Jun entered the dressing room with his tie and bag to change his clothes, the man with triangular eyes followed him and ran into the alley next to him.

soon.

Five men with unfriendly faces, dressed in ragtag styles, and who specialized in causing trouble near the bus station, ran into the alley one after another.

(End of this chapter)