Credits: Amanda & Kathrien.
Original Author: 牛油果桃儿.
Zhang Jiuling looked at the little girl who lowered her head again, not daring to look at him. He couldn’t help but be amused.
On the first day, hadn’t she said that he had quite dark skin? How come she was so afraid and cowardly now?
He glanced at her, only to see the little girl’s head with a military cap. She was afraid and lowering her head, revealing only a white neck, which was so white that she was eye-catching.
After so many days of military training, other classmates had become a bit darker, but it was only her who hadn’t changed much?
Li Jiao lowered her head and pretended to be stunned. After a while, a slender hand appeared in her sight. The knuckles were well-proportioned and distinct, and it was incredibly beautiful.
She held her white shoes in her hand and placed them on the ground. At the same time, she heard a deep and cold voice.
“These are Cinderella crystal shoes, put them on.”
If it weren’t for his voice that was still so cold, Li Jiao would’ve thought that the instructor was mocking her.
She was stunned, and when she raised her head again, Zhang Jiuling had already walked away.
Suddenly, Li Jiao’s ears turned red again.
She squatted down, put her shoes on, and quickly stood up again.
Zhang Jiuling glanced at her and was about to speak when the chief instructor’s loud whistle sounded.
Those who were sitting on the ground stood up quickly. Those who were standing also quickly faced the person that was blowing the whistle.
The entire military training field was quiet.
The chief instructor yelled with a loud blow-horn: “Everyone, rest for fifteen minutes!”
After speaking, another whistle was blown, and the military training field resumed as usual.
Some classes decided to rest and disband on the spot. Other classes chose to continue training and remain unmoved…
In Class 1, Zhang Jiuling withdrew his sight and continued.
“Everyone, stand at attention, ten minutes.”
“Start!”
No one dared to cry, no one even dared to speak. Everyone stood upright obediently.
They were all used to it. In the class of living Yama, they had to have the spirit of someone who wasn’t afraid of death.
As long as they didn’t die, they had to practice it!
The whole class was neat and tidy, and their postures were tall and straight, which was particularly prominent in the scattered military training field.
Many classmates that passed by, looked at them sympathetically, seeing that they were still training.
Class 1: If we don’t die, then who will?
“The last one in the first row.” Zhang Jiuling said suddenly.
Li Jiao was a little dazed. She didn’t move but still replied obediently.
“Here!”
“Come stand in the front.”
“Alright.”
Li Jiao got out of the line, walked to the front of the team, and stood still.
Her heart was scared. It was over, it was over. Was the instructor going to train her?
Zhang Jiuling glanced at the direction of the sun, which was on the left, shining diagonally. The light was a little dazzling.
“To the left!”
“One, two!” Li Jiao said.
“Stand at attention.”
“Alright.”
In this way, Li Jiao was called out by herself and stood in the opposite direction to her classmates, standing facing the hot sun. The dazzling light made her squint her eyes involuntarily.
This sunlight blinded her eyes…
She was very puzzled. Why did the instructor pick me alone, was it that I did not stand well?
Why was I chosen out of everyone? Was the instructor angry?
…
As time passed, the whole class stood straight and motionless.
Some of the classmates who had a rest came back after going to the restroom, and come from drinking water. Seeing that they were still training, they couldn’t help but sigh. Thankfully, their instructors were not as cruel.
About five minutes later, Zhang Jiuling said suddenly.
“Last in the first row, turn to the back.”
Li Jiao: “One, two!”
Hu-
Finally, she changed her direction. She was almost in tears after directly facing the sun.
Ever since this day, Li Jiao seemed to have become especially remembered by Zhang Jiuling. Oftentimes, when she stood at attention, she would be picked out alone.
At first, Li Jiao had thought that she had made a mistake but later found out that she was only taken out of the team to stand at attention, and the instructor didn’t punish her either.
That was, often, after standing for a while, the instructor would tell her to turn to the back and continue in another direction.
As for why, Li Jiao didn’t understand.
Moreover, Li Jiao found that the instructor would call her more and more often.
“The last one in the first row, quick march and demonstrate.”
“The last one in the first row, goose step and demonstrate.”
“Last in the first row, turn to the back.”
“…”
She was often called out to demonstrate, and then, due to her postures not being correct, she was punished every time.
“Your feet have no energy, run a lap around the track and then come back.”
“Your feet are not stretched up straight, twenty push-ups.”
“…”
What exactly did she do?
Was the instructor angry because of the shoes?
At night, Li Jiao looked at her suffering feet bitterly, crying without tears.
Was the instructor holding a grudge?
She really didn’t throw the shoes out on purpose.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the sun was high. It was when the sun was the strongest during the day. The scorching temperature was like a pot of boiling water, pouring down, covering the whole earth.
The heat sprinkled on the ground and then rebounded into the air under force. Between the sky and the earth, it seemed to be as if it was a huge steamer, filled with steam and boiling hot soup.
The students on the military training field were wearing their camouflage military uniforms, like countless tiny ants, moving or stopping. Just like a flower in a kaleidoscope, it kept turning, making people feel dizzy.
It was time for a break, and many people chose to go to the restroom or to drink water. Familiar classmates walked in groups and walked to the tent outside the military training field for resting.
The rest of the people, seeing that the tent for resting was so far away, simply didn’t bother to move. They bent their knees, placed their butts directly down, and sat on the natural grass. Many female classmates leaned back in twos, covering their faces with hats, and nestled limply together.
“It’s warm, ah~~”
The male students’ ideas were relatively vivid. Some took off their military camouflage jackets and put them on top of their heads, pretending to be the Bodhisattva’s gauze drapes, and after sitting cross-legged, their hands shaped themselves into orchid shaped fingers and told themselves to calm down coldly.
The male student next to him gave him a look that told him he felt that he was mentally retarded, and silently unbuttoned his clothes.
Then, he left a space to turn the hem of his clothes over his head, acting handsome, unruly, and sharp.
The green commander’s tent that was on the high platform, like a bright and dazzling mushroom, stood there.
The chief instructor and several other instructors that were wearing military camouflage uniforms were talking, and several people stopped from time to time to wipe the sweat from their foreheads, which was like rain.
“The training content for this afternoon will mainly consist of queuing exercises.”
The chief instructor took out the towel, wiped the sweat from his forehead and neck, and continued.
“The weather is quite warm, so the training time and intensity of each class should be appropriately reduced, and also, try to avoid the heat.”
“Do you all understand?”
“Understood!”
Several male instructors were full of anger and replied with deep voices.
“Okay then, disband.”
“Alright!”
“Ah, Jiuling, stay here for a bit.”
The chief instructor looked at Zhang Jiuling who turned to leave and said.
Hearing the sound, Zhang Jiuling, who had just turned around, turned his black army boots on the ground and looked at the chief instructor, standing upright and facing the other.
Under his jet-black eyebrows, the tail of the eyes rose slightly, and his cold black pupils were clear and quiet. He looked at the person, with a hint of questioning in his eyes.
Was there anything going on?
The chief instructor, who always showed a stern face, rarely smiled. With a big grin on his majestic Chinese character face, he walked over, patted Zhang Jiuling’s shoulder, and smiled.
Editor’s note: A majestic Chinese character face is a face that is very strict.
“There’s nothing wrong. I just wanted to tell you that it’s quite warm right now, you might want to let the students rest for a while.”
“Understood.” Zhang Jiuling nodded slightly, his voice clear and warm.
Seeing this, the chief instructor touched his nose, as if pondering about how to speak, and after hesitating for a while, said.
“Jiuling, I know that you came from the special first team. The requirements there are strict. But the students are not soldiers. Their fitness levels are different, and you cannot treat them the same way you treat those soldiers.”
Zhang Jiuling tilted his head lightly, looking sideways, with deep and clear eyes. He spoke, coldly saying,
“My requirements for them have already been reduced a lot.”
In the army, mistakes were punished, push-ups always started from the hundred, and laps were always measured in kilometers. In comparison, he was very kind to these children.
“This, I know,” the chief instructor’s solemn face showed a similar anxious expression for the first time ever since the military training.
He didn’t know how to tell Zhang Jiuling to be less strict with these students.
After all, students had complained to him many times, saying that Zhang Jiuling was too strict. Basically, they were not allowed to rest, and if they made a mistake, then they had to run laps. The students were no better than the soldiers. If this went on, it would be too much.
The chief instructor had also said to them before that the method of practicing intensity should be appropriate when treating students. Obviously, he had said it well before, but he hadn’t known that the original instructor Wang Haonan would be out for a mission.
The person who came to replace him temporarily was actually Zhang Jiuling, who was once the ace of the special first team. He was cruel to others but even crueler to himself.
After training the students, there was no leniency at all.
How many times had it been seen? Zhang Jiuling’s class did not often take breaks. Sometimes, students who urgently needed to urinate did not dare to ask to go to the restroom.
This was how afraid of him they were.
Under consideration, the chief instructor kept Zhang Jiuling behind today to speak to him. His official military rank was one level higher than Zhang Jiuling. From his heart, he truly admired this boy, who came out of the special forces with excellent ability and became a major.
Being so young, his future would be amazing.
“Jiuling, after all, they are just ordinary children of ages seventeen or eighteen, so the requirements cannot be too high.”
Hearing this, Zhang Jiuling was silent for about three seconds, his handsome sword eyebrows slightly frowned, and then a clear tone, he sounded.
“I understand.”
After finishing speaking, the black army boots lifted up and turned around, leaving only a straight back, wide shoulder, and long legs. While walking, he carried the heroic spirit of a soldier and coldness that belonged to him alone.
When the chief instructor regained consciousness, he had already walked a few steps away. He did not walk down the steps, but instead directly jumped off to the edge of the platform neatly, clean and handsome.
Then he continued to walk to the center of the military training field.
Seeing this, the chief instructor hurriedly shouted to his back.
“Ah, when will Haonan come back?”
From a distance, the chief instructor only heard a cold voice, like a feather tied to an arrow, which came back awe-inspiringly and slowly, with a little authentic Beijing accent.
“He died during the mission.”
Translator’s note: Zhang Jiuling was joking. Dying during the mission just means that he hasn’t come back in a long time yet.
Hearing this, the chief instructor was startled at first, and after a moment of reacting, he burst into laughter, shook his head, and cursed.
“This smelly brat.”
“Jiaojiao, can you resist it?”
Su Linlin touched Li Jiao’s forehead anxiously. Under the sun’s exposure, it had become more and more hot, like a small stove with a temperature of over forty degrees.
Su Linlin shrank her hands from the heat, and then, looking at Li Jiao, who had flushed cheeks, stared at her. Her eyes were wet and drowsy, and she seemed to have lost her consciousness.
“Jiaojiao, how about you let me ask for a leave for you, your forehead is so hot.”
Li Jiao shook her heavy head. Little stars appeared in front of her eyes, but she still grinned and grinned reluctantly.
“It’s okay. I was just shined on by the sun, I don’t have a fever.”
“…”
Su Linlin looked at Li Jiao who was talking to herself in the air, silently and somewhat helpless.
“Jiaojiao, I’m here.”
“Ah?”
Li Jiao regained her consciousness, and then she could see that there was nothing in front of her. Turning her head, Su Linlin was looking at herself with worried eyes. Suddenly, she felt a little embarrassed.
She moved her little bottom and moved a little closer, curving her mouth, revealing a sweet little dimple, and comforted her.
“Linlin, it’s fine, I only became a little dizzy by the sun.”
“What do you mean? Look at your face, it’s as red as a peach.”
Su Linlin didn’t believe her, and you couldn’t see how much she was blushing. Just like a drunk peach, she was all red. She even caught a cold from the air conditioner last night.
Others might have thought that she was drunk.
Didn’t the air conditioner in their dormitory break down the day before yesterday? As a result, the girls who were finally able to enjoy the coolness of the air conditioner drove it all night at 23 degrees last night.
When they got up this morning, they thought that they were lying in an ice coffin.
She and Zhang Yue were in good health, so it was okay, and Tang Yuran was also okay. But Li Jiao liked to kick her quilt when she slept, so she caught a cold.
This morning, her body temperature was almost 38 degrees.
Afraid of delaying military training, they went to the infirmary in the morning to get some anti-fever medicine. As a result, she forgot to take it. At noon, she and Zhang Yue watched her take it.
Now, looking at Li Jiao’s situation, it was estimated that the effect of the medicine had not yet come.
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