Chapter 57: Showy But Not Practical
‘Achoo!’
“MD, it’s getting colder recently. It’s so cold here in Hua Nation. I’m about to catch a cold.”
Huo Yingcheng stayed by Nan Yingxuan’s side and rubbed his nose.
It was almost December and it was freezing.
Although he felt fine during training, whenever he stopped, even his heart would feel cold.
Nan Yingxuan brought Huo Yingcheng a cup of tea, then took another cup for himself. He stood at the door of the infirmary and could see the spectacular scenery of the new recruits assembly outside. Taking a sip of the tea, he smiled and said, “Today is the new recruits assembly and your Major-general has to handle it. You’re not going to have a look?”
“Why should I go? What’s there to see!”
Huo Yingcheng waved his hand and did not care about it. “Major-general doesn’t want to manage them. If he does, have you seen any group of men under him having a good life in Beijing?”
“They’re just a group of new recruits. How can they be managed using the method from Beijing?”
Nan Yingxuan turned around. There was a smile on his face. “I wanted to ask if you know that girl who came to my infirmary the other day?”
Huo Yingcheng replied, “You mean that Gu Qingjiu? I don’t really know her, though I’ve met her several times already. It seems like we’re quite fated, heh. We met three times in the street on our way to the military region. I did not expect that she would join the military. She looks like an interesting little girl.”
When Huo Yingcheng saw Gu Qingjiu for the first time, he felt that this girl was extremely calm.
She almost got hit by his car but walked away as if nothing happened.
He had forgotten to ask what Gu Qingjiu was thinking about that day.
After the new recruits assembly, He Niancheng tested Gu Qingjiu and the others.
That was to say, it was to see whether their basic formation was tidy and whether they knew how to do goose steps.
The group of new recruits Gu Qingjiu belonged to had a fighting incident, but they did not come in the last place thus ‘added the fuel over the fire’ in He Niancheng’s heart.
After the assembly, the formal training program in the military would start.
The first was fighting.
As a basic level new recruit, fighting was only fundamental. What the military taught was probably just basic self-defense or had a certain role in actual combat. The main purpose was strengthening the body and soul.
But in this camp, there would be competitions between different squads every month. When the time came, new recruits like Gu Qingjiu would PK each other. The squad that fails would have to face punishment.
The training areas of each squad were different. The place where Gu Qingjiu was assigned to was in an open space on one of the mountains around the camp. It was quiet and no one could disturb them.
The surrounding forest was lush, and rare bird calls could be heard from time to time. Gu Qingjiu and the group of new recruits were training in an open space in the middle of the mountain. They were next to a side peak of the mountain and looking down, there were places where villages that thrived down the mountain.
At the moment, there were still smoke rising up.
This camp was a three hour’s drive from Dayi City. The military camp was in the mountains, but there were villages down below. Sometimes, when the new recruits have no time to visit Dayi City, they’d go down to a small village located down the foot of the mountain to buy some necessities.
“Qingjiu, shall we go to the village this weekend? Staying here all the time is making me bored.”
Without Chen Haoyang’s attention on her, Yu Bao’er took the opportunity to whisper to Gu Qingjiu. At this time, the new recruits were still practicing their fighting postures. Everyone was on their fighting stances and looked as if they were showing off instead of practicing.