Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The next day, the weather was good, the deafening sound of the military bugle echoed up and down the camp, and a military off-road vehicle slowly drove in.
Lian Qing got out of the car, took off his military cap, and saluted the officer who led the way, “Thank you for your hard work, comrade.”
“Second Lieutenant Xiao’s dormitory is on the second floor of Building B, No. 206.”
Lian Qing took out the box from the passenger seat and walked straight in the direction pointed by the officer who had just led the way. Along the way, there were many special forces soldiers practicing, which made Lian Qing feel energetic.
The smooth movements and the perfect one-shot performance, almost every step was textbook-like and pleasing to the eye.
Lian Qing couldn’t help smacking his lips. They really deserved to be the legendary special forces elite, but he had really wronged his comrade Xiao Jing. Among this group of rough men, he was so thin and weak, how much bullying must he have had to endure. Fortunately, he didn’t sign up to show off his ability. This kind of life was not suitable for him.
Thinking of this, Lian Qing couldn’t help but give himself a thumbs up. He was so smart.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
Xiao Jing lifted the quilt. She felt a little dazed after a good sleep. Didn’t the captain say last night that she could rest for half a day today? Everyone should be training at this time, and no one should disturb her rest.
“Knock, knock, knock.” The knock on the door sounded again.
Xiao Jing, wrapped in the quilt, walked to the door of the room with a sluggish look. With a click, she had just opened the door a slit, when the person outside the door pushed the door in forcefully.
Lian Qing smiled and said, “You are indeed an elite from 525. Others are sweating and strengthening their training, but our Comrade Xiao Jing is sleeping soundly. You have completely inherited the spirit of our 525th Regiment. I am very pleased that you have sworn to live a life of idleness until retirement.”
“…” Xiao Jing couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Lian Qing who was talking nonstop.
“Comrade Xiao, Lieutenant, I haven’t seen you for a few days. I found that you have become much stronger.” Lian Qing pinched Xiao Jing’s face and grinned, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.
Xiao Jing opened Lian Qing’s hand, looked him up and down, and said, “Captain, what are you doing here? Has there been another instruction from above to appoint another person from the 525th Regiment?”
“What unlucky words are you saying? I’m here to deliver something to you. Doesn’t Mrs. Xiao deliver a package to you every two months? She didn’t know that you have moved to a new place, and she was afraid that you might need it urgently, so she brought it to you personally. Tell me, what is in here? Why did Mrs. Xiao always say that you must open it when she delivered it?”
Xiao Jing saw the express box in Lian Qing’s hand, rushed over and snatched it away, hid it behind her, and said, “Of course it’s something good from my home.”
“So mysterious, could it be that Mrs. Xiao sent you some delicious food? No, it’s been so many days, and the food should have gone bad.” Lian Qing twirled his chin pretending to be profound, and finally set his gaze behind Xiao Jing again.
Xiao Jing moved his feet inconspicuously, hid the box under the bed, and snorted, “The things have been delivered. Captain, if you have nothing else to do, don’t disturb my sleep.”
“Tsk tsk.” Lian Qing shook his head, “Look at how decadent you are. How can you waste such a good time? Come on, go out for a run with me, and let me see the majesty of the special forces.”
“I’m not energetic.” Xiao Jing turned sideways and fell asleep directly under the quilt.
Lian Qing squatted beside the bed, carefully trying to figure out Xiao Jing’s complexion, and suddenly realized: “What’s wrong with you? Are you sick?”
“I have gastroenteritis. Don’t pay attention to me. Let me sleep for a day.” Xiao Jing pushed his hand away and turned over.
Lian Qing sighed, “I told you to eat on time, but you just won’t listen to me. There are a few days every month when you feel stomach discomfort. It was okay in the 525th Regiment, where everyone is the same anyway. But it’s different here, where elites gather together and everyone is as excited as they are. No one will love you as much as I do and serve you like I do these days.”
“Captain, when have you ever served me?” Xiao Jing interrupted his self-flattering behavior.
Lian Qing raised his head and laughed, “Doesn’t it count if I bring you tea and water?”
“Did you bring me drinks? Every time you keep talking, and then you get thirsty again, and after drinking my bottle of water, you pat your butt and leave? Then you still have to let me, a patient, go to the cafeteria to get water, which is a 500-meter distance, even when it’s raining and snowing. Don’t you feel guilty when you say this?”
Lian Qing covered his mouth and coughed lightly, “Then shall I pour you some water now?”
“Forget it, I’m afraid I’ll have indigestion after drinking it.” Xiao Jing sat up, scratched her head, and pointed to the water glass on the table, “On second thought, I suddenly want to drink some.”
Lian Qing trotted over, poured a glass of water, and after confirming that it was warm water, he turned back and said with a smile, “Drink it.”
Xiao Jing finished a glass of water, stared at Lian Qing who was looking around with a sharp gaze, and said, “Captain, you can go back.”
“No, I plan to stay here for two days. It’s a rare opportunity to come to the special forces team, so I have to learn.” Lian Qing poked Xiao Jing’s body, motioning him to sleep in a little.
Xiao Jing was motionless, glancing at his moving hands, and said unclearly: “What do you want to say, Captain?”
“Don’t book a dormitory specially for me, I’ll just squeeze in here with you.”
“…”
“You really deserve to be someone from a special forces team. I found that your bed is bigger than all the beds in our 525th Regiment.” Lian Qing pressed the bed board with both hands, which was quite solid.
“Captain, do you think this 1.2 meter single bed can squeeze two big men like us?” Xiao Jing opened her hands, coughed lightly, and continued: “If you want to stay here for two days, you must first apply to our captain. You can continue to stay here after the captain approves it.”
“So troublesome?” Lian Qing shook his head, “The special forces are too impersonal.”
“If you have nothing else to do, go out and play by yourself. I rarely have half a day off.” Xiao Jing pretended to lie down.
Lian Qing grabbed his arm, his eyes sparkling, “How can you bear to let me go out alone? I’m unfamiliar with the place, what if I get lost? You’ll feel bad for hurting me like this.”
Xiao Jing pulled his fingers apart one by one, smiling, “No, my conscience is alive and well, go and have fun by yourself.”
“…” Lian Qing stood up straight, and seeing Xiao Jing’s pale face, he didn’t ask for anything more, and walked out of the dormitory with low footsteps.
The sun was bright, and when it shone on the earth, it was covered with layers of heat waves.
Lian Qing stood at the edge of the playground, staring at the group of heroic and enthusiastic men running all the way.
“When did Captain Lian come?”
Lian Qing heard a voice coming from behind him, and hurriedly turned his head, only to see Shen Chengfeng, who was wrapped tightly all over his body, walking straight towards him. He hurriedly stood in a military posture, saluted with his head held high, and said, “Sir.”
Shen Chengfeng looked over along his line of sight and asked again, “Are you here to see Xiao Jing?”
“The Xiao family had sent a package. Because it must be delivered to Xiao Jing in person every two months, but she suddenly changed regiments and hasn’t had time to tell the Xiao family. I had no choice but to deliver it in person.”
“Package?” Shen Chengfeng hinted, “It seems that the Xiao family cares a lot about the fourth young master Xiao.”
“Of course, Madam Xiao has repeatedly asked me to take good care of Xiao Jing. In the 525th Regiment, I treated him like a prince. I fed him more when he was hungry, put on more clothes for him when he was cold, let him rest when he was tired, and sent him to the hospital immediately when he was injured. Especially for a few days every month when he had stomach discomfort, he would vomit whatever he ate, and I had to take care of him day and night.”
“Stomach discomfort?”
“Yeah, isn’t he lying in the dormitory? His little face is as white as flour. No wonder Madam Xiao asked me to take care of him so carefully. This child is malnourished to begin with, and he came to the special operations team to suffer. He doesn’t have a reasonable captain like me to take care of him, but instead got a cold captain. He is so pitiful.”
“…”
“…” Lian Qing spoke so fast that he was out of breath and couldn’t help but coughing.
“Captain Lian is right. I treat everyone equally.” Shen Chengfeng spoke in a calm voice as usual.
Lian Qing raised his hand and hooked his tongue. He looked at the sky, the ground, and the group of excited soldiers in front of him awkwardly.
“Comrade Lian Qing, this is the application for temporary stay for one day that you submitted. The captain happens to be here too. Please give it to him in person.” Pei Yi walked over and handed the application back to Lian Qing.
Lian Qing glanced at Shen Chengfeng, who was giving off an aura of “strangers should stay away”. What should he do? Would he smear this application on his face?
“Prepare a dormitory for Captain Lian.” Shen Chengfeng took the application form and wrote his name with a big stroke.
“No need, I’ll just squeeze in with Xiao Jing for one night. It will be bad if we delay the training of our comrades. I’m used to making do and can sleep for one night casually.” Lian Qing was about to take the application.
“Squeeze in for one night?” Shen Chengfeng asked.
Lian Qing nodded, “Yes, Xiao Jing insisted that I sleep with him. He is such a clingy kid. There is no other way, he just loves me.”
In the sunlight, a wisp of white smoke suddenly rose from the flat piece of paper just now, and it finally turned into a pile of ash at the speed of the naked eye!
A pile of ash!
When the wind blew, the pile of ash disappeared completely.
“…” Lian Qing was dumbfounded.
“…” Pei Yi was speechless.
Shen Chengfeng put on his gloves and spoke calmly, “I’m sorry, I seem to have forgotten that I still held your application for a one-day stay. According to the rules, if the application is destroyed, it will be invalid. Captain Lian, please rewrite it and I will approve it at my discretion.”
Lian Qing pointed at Shen Chengfeng who was leaving with a look of arrogance and domineeringness in disbelief. Obviously, he had not recovered from the shock just now, and blurted out, “Captain Shen, his hand–“
Pei Yi patted Lian Qing’s shoulder sympathetically. After seeing their captain’s cheating skills for the first time, everyone would overlook another point, that was, what he just accidentally burned seemed to be a very important thing.
“Ah, my application?” Lian Qing was slow to react. He looked at the swirling ashes on the ground and looked at Pei Yi with a smile and asked, “Do I need to apply again?”
Pei Yi nodded in a businesslike manner, “Yes, Captain Lian, you need to apply again, but judging from the captain’s expression just now, I’m afraid you’ll have to sleep on the playground tonight.”
“…” Was this the passionate special forces team as rumored? Where was the comradeship of sharing weal and woe? Where was the comradeship of sharing the same family?
In the quiet corridor, footsteps came from time to time.
The sunlight rushed in from the end of the corridor and finally fell on a figure standing still.
“Dong Dong Dong.” Shen Chengfeng knocked on the door. After waiting for a while, there was still no movement in the room.
He gave up knocking and pushed the door open.
The room was a little dark and dead silent.
Shen Chengfeng stood by the bed, looking down at the sleeping figure from above.
Xiao Jing felt someone pushing her arm, so she raised her hand and gently hit it, saying in a coquettish tone: “Captain, don’t tickle me.”
Shen Chengfeng’s hand suddenly stopped.
Xiao Jing turned over, facing the person, and snorted again, “If you tickle me again, I will get up and bite your ear.”
The room was eerily quiet.
Xiao Jing continued to close her eyes contentedly, but for some reason, she suddenly felt that the yin energy in the room was very heavy, as if a very sharp eye was staring at her covetously.
With a start, Xiao Jing opened her eyes, and a tall shadow was projected on the wall at the corner of the bed. The man did not move at all, and just stood behind her without saying a word.
Xiao Jing turned her head stiffly and saw the familiar military uniform and the face that seemed to have been declared paralyzed after being rolled by a steamroller countless times.
She swallowed a mouthful of saliva, forced a bitter smile, and called softly, “Captain.”
“I heard from Lian Qing that you are not feeling well. It seems that he was worrying too much.”
“…” Xiao Jing was thinking about how to answer this question. If she said that she was really not feeling well, would he use his sandbag-like fist to make her think about life?
“If you are sick, you can apply for sick leave at any time. Although I am serious, I am not unkind. I still have the most basic morality.” Shen Chengfeng said again.
Xiao Jing hurriedly straightened her back and stood in a military posture, “Yes, Captain.”
“Go to sleep. I will allow you to rest for the full day today.” Shen Chengfeng walked around the room twice, and finally stood in front of the table. His fingertips gently tapped the table. He said again, “I heard from Lian Qing that a package was sent to you.”
“…Yes, yes.”
“Although the army has no explicit regulations requiring that all incoming packages must be registered, they must still be unpacked to check whether the contents are legal. Do you understand what I mean?” Shen Chengfeng turned his head and stared at him without blinking.
Xiao Jing naturally knew what this meant. In the past, when she was in the 525th Regiment, Lian Qing turned a blind eye and would not ask what her mother sent her. But it was different here. There was a captain with an unstable mental state. She didn’t know if he would suddenly get sick and go against her!
“Open the box and let me take a look.” Shen Chengfeng sat on the chair, staring at the figure who didn’t move.
Xiao Jing felt as if her hands and feet were under a spell. She smiled bitterly and said, “Captain, they are just some daily necessities. I guarantee they are not something shameful.”
“Since it is something above board, why do you have to hide it? Huh?” Shen Chengfeng’s low voice echoed in the room with its own special effects, like heavy snow in the cold winter, instantly covering Xiao Jing’s thin body.
Xiao Jing’s hands could not help but tug at her trouser legs. She moved her body and walked towards the closet. As she searched, she said, “Captain, I know I was wrong. I will never ask my mother to send me bread again.”
Shen Chengfeng looked at the pile of broken bread in front of him in silence, including some chocolate.
Xiao Jing hooked her face with her fingers and said with a smile, “I don’t have to hand these in, right?”
“No, just keep them.” Shen Chengfeng stood up and carefully looked at this clever guy in front of him again, then turned around and strode out of the dormitory. Xiao Jing sat back on the chair. As the saying goes, the higher the virtue, the higher the evil. She would not be so stupid as to ask her mother to send the necessities in the original packaging bag.
In the dim night, a figure came stealthily from the stairs.
After Lian Qing looked around, he was sure that there was no suspicious person in front of the dormitory gate, and then he cautiously pushed open a corner of the door.
Xiao Jing sat on the stool and looked at her former captain who appeared with ill intentions.
Lian Qing closed the door carefully, and looked at Xiao Jing, who raised his hand to signal for silence.
“Captain, did you sneak in?” Xiao Jing directly exposed his intention.
Lian Qing walked forward with resentment in his eyes and said with gritted teeth: “If Captain Shen doesn’t allow me to stay temporarily, I must leave before curfew.”
“Company, although I sympathize with your situation, rules are rules. You often say that we are soldiers. In addition to the military spirit, there is more military might. Take care.” Xiao Jing poured a cup of tea, “Just think of it as a practice.”
Lian Qing glanced coldly at this ungrateful guy and said: “Who did I drive thousands of miles here for?”
“Of course, you did it for me.”
“I haven’t even had time to sit on this bench yet, and I’m being driven away by you, a heartless guy who forgets his old love when he has a new one. Don’t you feel guilty?”
“…”
“Come on, I look like a married daughter. The moment before, her mother was still saying affectionately that she is a member of her mother’s family in life and a soul of her mother’s family in death, but in the blink of an eye, she became a member of her husband’s family.” Lian Qing sighed with grief.
Xiao Jing frowned and said, “Captain, you are being too serious.”
Lian Qing snorted coldly, “Am I wrong? You have only been in the special operations team for a few days, and you have completely forgotten the friendship where we have slept in the same bed for two years.”
“Wait, when did we sleep in the same bed?”
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