My Little Poplar - Chap 28
After they walked out of the office building, Bai Xinyu jumped out of the way, pointing at Yu Fengcheng and shouting: “You’re so narrow minded, just because I let you get bitten by a mosquito when I was a kid, you take revenge on me like that? I wasn’t even ten years old then, what do I know.”
Yu Fengcheng looked at him with raised eyebrows, “I’m that narrow minded, is that the first day you know?”
Bai Xinyu was dumbfounded, that was an impeccable answer, remembering Yu Fengcheng’s sunny and upright appearance in front of Huo Qiao, he was a far cry from the scoundrel he was now. Bai Xinyu swallowed and said, “My… Is it too late to apologise?”
Yu Fengcheng patted his face, smiled and said: “It’s too late.”
Bai Xinyu said angrily: “Just wait, I’ll find a chance to talk to your uncle about it today.”
Yu Fengcheng smiled and said: “Go ahead, just don’t forget that I’m sleeping in the bed next to you.”
Bai Xinyu stared at him sadly.
Yu Fengcheng stretched out, looking in a good mood and said smugly: “My uncle is handsome, isn’t he?”
“Yes, handsome.” Bai Xinyu said sullenly.
“A soldier is supposed to be like him, not like you.” Yu Fengcheng picked him up by the collar flirtatiously and said, “A soldier like you, is a joke.”
Bai Xinyu slapped his hand away and said with clenched teeth, “As if I wanted to be here.”
“Since you can’t leave, train well, don’t bring down the overall standard of our troops.”
Bai Xinyu grunted and asked: “How come your uncle is so young, I thought he’d be in his thirties at least.”
“The youngest son on my mother’s side, what’s so strange about that.”
“Which company is he from?”
“He’s not in any company, he’s directly under the Regimental Army .”
“Why?”
“He’s from the special brigade of our military district.”
Bai Xinyu said in surprise: “The Snowleopard Brigade?” Ever since he came to the army, he had heard all sorts of awesome legends about the Snowleopard Brigade in their military district, it was an unbeatable and invincible beast in the Kunlun Mountains, the men in it were all said to be gods, any one of them was a super killing machine.
Yu Fengcheng with a gleam in his eye, “One day I will be one of them.”
Bai Xinyu scratched his hair and said, “Your uncle… He doesn’t look like much.”
Yu Fengcheng stared at him and said, “What do you mean?”
“They say the Snowleopard Brigade is mysterious and trained to the limits of inhumanity, your uncle looks normal.”
Yu Fengcheng sneered, “What you see is not the real him, no, it’s hard to say which is the real him, it’s because he’s a better interpersonal person, or rather, he acts like a normal person, so the Snowleopard Brigade A lot of the outreach stuff is handled by him.”
Bai Xinyu nodded, his heart filled with curiosity and reverence for Huo Qiao too, it was human nature to worship and fear the strong. He remembered what he had heard before he left, “So, your uncle wants the bandmaster to go to the Snowleopard brigade?”
“They ask for men from the ground every once in a while, most of them are nominated by the regiment, the sergeant does well, so he gets picked up.”
“Wow, so the sergeant is going to be in the Snowleopard brigade soon?”
“It’s not that easy, my uncle says, over sixty top best soldiers have been sent up in the last six months, only two of those sixty men have passed the test, the sergeant is not particularly qualified, even if he goes he might not get to pass.”
“Why do I think the sergeant is very good.” Although Chen Jing was nagging and serious, he was really nice to them, even Bai Xinyu, who was often punished, didn’t hate Chen Jing, on the contrary, he found Chen Jing’s seriousness sometimes quite cute.
“I’m better than you.”
“I’m top three in my class in shooting!”
Yu Fengcheng gave him a blank look, “If they train for a few days, most people will be able to reach your level, then what advantage will you have left.”
“I’m training too, you’ll see, I’ll get high marks in the shooting test.”
Yu Fengcheng urged: “Then can you hurry up, you want me to be punished for being late with you.”
Bai Xinyu said back: “Who asked you to wait for me?”
Yu Fengcheng slapped him on the head and said, “Talking back?”
Bai Xinyu was too angry to say anything, he was hurting inside.
Yu Fengcheng hooked his neck and whispered in his ear: “My uncle will definitely call you again for dinner tonight, keep your mouth shut, or you won’t have an easy time of it.”
Bai Xinyu cursed in his mind, it wasn’t easy now.
After the afternoon training, Yu Fengcheng and Bai Xinyu went straight to the cafeteria, the cafeteria was in the office building, it was where the leaders invited people to eat, it was the first time Bai Xinyu had been there, when he entered the room, it was just a dining table in the office.
Only Chen Jing was waiting for them in the room. Bai Xinyu complained as soon as he entered the room: “Why haven’t you been here all afternoon, Sergeant?
Chen Jing said: “I was busy.”
Bai Xinyu came up to Chen Jing and said with a wink: “Sergeant, are you going to the Snowleopard brigade?”
Chen Jing frowned, “Who told you that.”
“Him.” Bai Xinyu pointed to Yu Fengcheng.
Yu Fengcheng gave him a blank look and said, “That’s not what I said, you guessed it yourself.”
Bai Xinyu glared at him and whispered: “Sergeant, isn’t that right?”
Chen Jing squeezed his face and said, “You’re the boss, I haven’t brought you out yet, how can you leave, don’t worry about it.”
Bai Xinyu was a little disappointed.
After a while, Xu Chuang, Shun Shunwei and Huo Qiao came in, Huo Qiao smiled and said: “It’s been two years since I’ve been here, it’s changed a lot.”
Xu Chuang said: “Yes, it’s not like when we first came here, now the bathing water comes straight from the tap, these new recruits, their living conditions are great.”
Bai Xinyu mumbled with a sigh of relief, it was still icy water.
Huo Qiao saw them and said, “Yo, here they are, been training all afternoon, are they starving.”
Bai Xinyu nodded and said, “I’m starving.” He thought that the canteen was for the leaders after all, there must be something good to eat.
Huo Qiao smiled and said, “Come on, let them serve the food, Lao Xu, we agreed not to drink today.”
Xu Chuang said with a “Tsk”, “Why are you here if you’re not drinking, to amuse me.”
“We have to drive back tonight, the roads are bad, I have to switch with the driver, can’t drink.”
“Can’t you just leave tomorrow?” Xu Chuang slammed a bottle of white wine on the table, “I have to finish this bottle no matter what.”
Yu Fengcheng echoed: “Little Uncle, you’re staying here tonight, I’ll talk to you.”
Huo Qiao laughed loudly: “OK, OK, OK, I’ll leave in the morning.”
Bai Xinyu looked at Yu Fengcheng’s good student face when he looked at Huo Qiao, he was soo disgusted that he couldn’t eat any more.
