Chapter 42: Opinions Behind One’s Back
After saluting, Gu Qingjiu put her hands on the sides of her thighs, looking very obedient.
Her eyes were lowered and she did not look at He Niancheng.
It was silent for a while.
The air around seemed to have become thin and oppressive, and it was Huo Yingcheng who broke this silence.
“Don’t tell me you thought that she’s following you? We’ve been here for an hour and you don’t have to show such an expression while pointing out the way…”
It seemed that there was a teasing tone behind his words.
Gu Qingjiu had her eyes lowered and still did not look up, but she could feel her scalp tingling. She could guess that He Niancheng’s expression must be very frightening at that moment.
After about a minute, without any emotion in his tone of voice, He Niancheng said, “If you walk 273 meters to the west, you’ll see the nearest road. Just follow the road if you want to go up and down the mountain.”
Gu Qingjiu said nothing.
Huo Yingcheng was silent as well. It was crazy. How did he measure such a precise distance?
Gu Qingjiu did not want to bother this chief instructor anymore, but she had no choice but to say, “I’m sorry, Chief Instructor. I can’t tell which is North, South, East, and West. I only know left, right, up and down!”
The more she said it, the more confident she got.
People from Gu Qingjiu’s generation basically would not care if it was the North, South, East or West when they went out. The only navigation they could distinguish was left, right, up, and down, even though they knew the words North, South, East, and West.
Up was North, down was South, left was West, and right was East. But who knew how to tell which direction it was?
Huo Yingcheng could not hold it in and laughed.
“You can’t even tell the direction. How do your instructors teach you? Walk up!”
There was a trace of fierceness in his cold voice, and Gu Qingjiu shivered hearing it.
However, she still felt that if he told her to walk up from the start, she would not have asked.
Her instructor did not teach them these!
“Thank you, Chief Instructor!”
Gu Qingjiu still thanked him politely and then strode upwards.
Huo Yingcheng saw that she was walking in a hurry and was amused. “I think she must be criticizing you in her heart. Isn’t it easier to have told her to walk up? How many children now understand directions?”
Normally, if you asked a passer-by for directions, they would say go left or turn right. Who would say turn West and then walk South?
He Niancheng looked over with cold eyes. “She’s a high school student.”
“What high school student? She’s in the military now! No, I mean…” Huo Yingcheng then realized what He Niancheng had implied. “I told you I’m not interested in her. She’s not the type I like. I just find her interesting after seeing her a few times. Major-general, why do you like to create rumors?”
Gu Qinjiu, who had already walked a distance away, fortunately, could not hear their argument.
Perhaps after hearing He Niancheng said 273 meters, she silently counted the distance as she walked. In the end, she found that she could not measure how long she had walked. But she found the way and kept going upwards.
She saw a cross-section path.
There were soldiers from the training camp passing her by in groups.
Gathering the clothes in her hands, she looked up at the sky then walked up.
Not far away from the mountain peak, Gu Qingjiu saw Yu Bao’er, who was sitting on a big stone with several male soldiers. She was laughing happily. She was about to go forward when she heard a snort beside her. “Shameless.”
Gu Qingjiu paused and looked over. She saw that there were two female soldiers beside her, looking at Yu Bao’er’s direction with a mixture of disgust and jealousy on their faces.