Chapter 22: A real man can bend and stretch and can deceive
One lap, two laps, three laps...five laps!
At first, everyone was still able to blame Xu Yan, but later they ran out of energy. After finally running five laps, their feet were dizzy. Luo Yifei, Yuan Guoqing and others took a few breaths and walked towards Xu Yan, ready to go. However, before they could reach him, the assembly horn sounded again, the rest time was over, and training began again.
"Oh my god, this is going to kill us!"
A group of people wailed weakly, dragged their tired bodies, and threw themselves into the next training.
After finally getting to the end of the training, everyone was tired and hungry. They didn't bother to pursue Xu Yan and hurried to the restaurant under the leadership of Sun Xin. After eating most of the meal, everyone regained some spirits.
Luo Yifei saw a moment when Sun Xin was not around and could not help but speak out, "Xu Yan, you are a black sheep. You just didn't fold the quilt yourself. You should just accept the punishment. Why did you make so much trouble and even make us suffer with you?"
Seeing Luo Yifei's unfriendly look, and everyone looking at him, Xu Yan rolled his eyes and said, "You can't say that. I'm fighting for everyone's rights. If I succeed, you won't have to fold your quilts anymore."
"You'd better forget about it. This is simply impossible." Luo Yifei curled his lips and sneered at Xu Yan's words. It is simply a fantasy for soldiers not to fold their quilts in the army.
"Many things have changed from impossible to possible." Xu Yan first refuted, and seeing that everyone curled their lips in disbelief, he continued to deceive: "Moreover, looking back over thousands of years, the road of reform has never been smooth sailing. It has always been accompanied by twists and turns, obstacles, and even blood..."
Seeing Xu Yan shamelessly comparing not making the quilt with the great changes in history, Luo Yifei rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Come on, stop talking about so much useless stuff. Just say that you caused us to be fined, so how are you going to compensate us for this matter?"
Xu Yan's face turned serious, and he said, "We are comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms who are connected by broken bones..."
"If I remember correctly, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected, that's used to describe close brothers," Yuan Guoqing interrupted.
"Yes, it is used to describe brothers. We are not brothers, but we are better than brothers. We eat and live together, train together, receive punishment together, and fight together on the battlefield. We are comrades and brothers who can trust each other's backs. We are an inseparable whole."
Xu Yan was talking nonstop, and seeing that everyone was stunned, he changed the subject and said, "It wasn't me who made you run laps, it was the evil squad leader. He is our common enemy. We must unite and face the outside world together. We must resist oppression and exploitation..."
Luo Yifei and others were stunned. They knew that Xu Yan was good at fooling people, but they didn't expect him to be so good at it. It was as if he was trying to say the dead were alive and black was white.
Luo Yifei explained: "The monitor punished you because you did something wrong, and we were punished because we were implicated by you."
"We should distinguish the primary and secondary contradictions. The contradiction between us and the squad leader is the primary contradiction, a class contradiction. The contradictions between us are contradictions among the people, and are secondary and insignificant..."
As Xu Yan was speaking, Yuan Guoqing suddenly reminded him in a low voice: "The squad leader is here!"
When Xu Yan heard this, he immediately fell silent, and the group of people started to eat.
Sun Xin sat down opposite Xu Yan. Seeing everyone lowering their heads to eat, he asked curiously, "I saw you guys mumbling from a distance. What are you talking about? Tell me what you are talking about."
Xu Yan stood up from his seat. He forgot all about class contradictions, unity against foreign enemies, and opposition to oppression. "Sergeant, I am reflecting on what you said before. I think you are right. If you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the world? As a qualified soldier, no matter whether you will go to the battlefield in the future, you must first take care of your own house. I was just asking Comrade Luo Yifei about some techniques for folding the quilt."
Swish!
Everyone looked at Xu Yan in unison, staring at him in disbelief, their eyes almost falling to the ground.
Some people even rubbed their eyes. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would have thought that a different person had appeared in front of them. The change of expression was too fast. One moment he was instigating everyone to resist the oppression of the squad leader, and the next moment he seriously admitted his mistakes. With such a fast change of expression and acting skills, it would be a pity if he didn't go to act in a movie.
"Really?" Sun Xin asked doubtfully.
"That must be it!" Xu Yan patted his chest.
"I'm glad you think this way. In order to satisfy your eagerness to make progress, I decided to put some pressure on you. Tomorrow morning, you must learn to fold your quilt. It should be square and like a piece of tofu. If you can't do it, you will be punished." Sun Xin said with a smirk. Without giving Xu Yan a chance to refute, he named him, "Luo Yifei, keep an eye on him and teach him how to fold the quilt."
"Yes!" Luo Yifei was stunned for a moment, then he became excited. He asked him to stare at Xu Yan and see how he would control him and avenge himself for being implicated before.
After a day of training, the recruits returned to the dormitory.
Everyone in Class 3 went to wash up, leaving only Xu Yan and Luo Yifei in the dormitory. Xu Yan pulled Luo Yifei and asked him to teach him how to fold the quilt.
Luo Yifei spread out his quilt, turned his back to Xu Yan, and folded, pressed and pulled it. In a few seconds, the quilt was folded up, like a square block of tofu, showing his unique skill in folding quilts.
Xu Yan did it again, but because he didn't see some of the movements clearly and had no idea about the size, he felt that the folding was a little asymmetrical. Thinking that the squad leader would check it tomorrow morning, he asked, "How did you fold it? Teach me."
"Brother Fei has practiced this unique skill for a long time. I won't tell others about it easily." Luo Yifei said deliberately.
Xu Yan was so smart that he understood what Luo Yifei said immediately. He tried to get closer to him with a drooling face, "Brother Fei, we are comrades-in-arms like brothers. You won't hide anything from me, right?"
After being flattered by Xu Yan, Luo Yifei suddenly felt a little elated. He said "watch it", took apart the quilt, and demonstrated it again, folding, pressing, imprinting the strips, trimming the edges... and soon folded the quilt again.
This time Xu Yan saw the key points of the movements clearly, but some of the measurements were still unclear. He could definitely figure them out by groping on his own, but that would inevitably waste a lot of time. Xu Yan certainly would not do such a thankless task, so he asked Luo Yifei directly, "Brother Fei, your skills are really amazing . I didn't even see how you did it, but you folded the quilt. Can you show me again?"
"I've been training for a whole day. My back and waist are sore. My arms are sore even when I fold a quilt. My health is getting worse and worse..." Luo Yifei rolled his eyes, said something, and deliberately tapped his shoulders a few times.
Damn it, you are taking advantage of me!
Xu Yan cursed in his heart, but thinking that he had not yet learned how to fold the quilt, it was not appropriate to make trouble, so he suppressed his anger and said: "Brother Fei, if you don't mind, I will give you a shoulder massage."
uh-huh!
Luo Yifei agreed without hesitation, sat down on the stool with his arms and legs stretched out, and let Xu Yan massage his shoulders, saying things like "not enough force" or "too much force" in his disapproval.
Xu Yan's eyes flashed coldly, and he thought to himself, "Just wait for me, I'll ask you to pay me back double when I learn how to fold quilts."
