Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 554 - 0554: Sprouting of Spring Heart 2_1

Chapter 554: Chapter 0554: Sprouting of Spring Heart 2_1

Upon hearing Gao Yuzhu’s words, Wu Heng and Sang Hong’s heads bobbed nonstop like chicks pecking grains.

"I remember when the country asked them what they wished for, they only replied with a wish to get married," Sang Hong, who was the cleverest among them, said. He loved reading books and was full of street-smarts. He knew about many reports from the nearby military area, "Actually, we have wishes too. Our wish is to get a wife so that we don’t remain single forever."

What he referred to happened several years ago, related to the placement of prostitutes at the beginning of the republic.

Early after the founding of the country, the state shut down many brothels in Shanghai and many other parts of the country, including the capital. As the majority of the prostitutes had sexually transmitted diseases, the state provided a billion worth of imported penicillin for their treatment. After their recovery, people were appointed to reform them— to discard their unhealthy habits— and engage them in regular work.

During the major constructions in the Northwest military area, most of the soldiers were single. Those most were between twenty and forty years old. When the state asked about their wishes, their only desire was to get married.

The country conscripted about eight or nine thousand female high school students from the leaders’ hometown and also conscripted some from Shanghai and other places.

Even widows weren’t rejected.

Despite all this, the number of women still couldn’t match the number of bachelors in the army. Hence, a significant portion of the reformed prostitutes was allocated to the bachelors of the Northwest Military Area, where they permanently resided.

"Commissar, when things calm down, could you speak to the Commander about this issue? It’s not just Commander Su’s single status problem that needs to be solved, but also ours," said Gao Yuzhu, who could no longer contain his desire, "Commissar, I am turning twenty-eight after the New Year; I am not eighteen, but twenty-eight. By now, I could have already fathered several children!"

Lu Jiang laughed and mocked him: "Several children? Are you even human? You sound like a sow giving birth to piglets."

"Commissar..." Three pairs of eyes were fixated on him, their mouths uttering the word simultaneously. One could tell that they were indeed longing for a wife upon seeing the female soldiers from the arts troupe.

Lu Jiang nodded, "Okay, I will report the problem to the Commander first thing tomorrow."

It was indeed a serious matter, as soldiers with wavering minds were detrimental.

It would have been better if the arts troupe hadn’t shown up. Apart from the corpsmen, there were no other females in the army. Corpswomen like Wang Xinru and Guo Xiuying already had revolutionary companions and thus, were off the market. But, the presence of unmarried female soldiers in the arts troupe and their singing and dancing were bound to ignite feelings not just in these three soldiers.

The marriage of Su Junlin and Bai Xue had given other soldiers a hint that marrying a female soldier from the arts troupe and escaping singlehood was also possible for them.

Things in the world indeed had their pros and cons.

The arts troupe had accepted their dispatched task from the country to comfort the border soldiers but ended up stirring up feelings amongst the latter.

The next morning, before Lu Jiang could report this issue to Commander Chen, an incident exploded. Someone reported that a female member from the arts troupe was secretly communicating with a male soldier and that they had written letters to each other.

All the high-ranking officers were alarmed and ordered a thorough investigation.

The issue was concerning their lifestyle and no one wanted to tolerate any shortcomings.

An inspection was ordered for all the soldiers’ belongings, especially their letters. All the belongings of the female members of the arts troupe were to be checked too, especially their letters. The members of the troupe such as Commander Bai were not allowed to interfere. Guo Xiuying, Wang Xinru and others from the corps were ordered to carry out the inspection. Feng Qingxue was also called upon to thoroughly check the belongings of the female soldiers from the arts troupe.

...Chapter 12, Dead Tired