Chapter 45: Hard work cannot make up for clumsiness
Liu Wei was breathing heavily, feeling extremely furious. He had come to settle accounts with Xu Yan, but not only was he fooled by him, he also didn't gain any advantage in the subsequent fights. Now his arms were sore, numb, swollen and painful that it hurt even to raise his hands. How could he have the nerve to stay any longer? He left in disgrace without even saying a word.
As Liu Wei left, the crowd gradually dispersed. Zhong Ming left first, but did not go far away. Instead, he hid in the dark and continued to observe.
But the people from Class 3 surrounded Xu Yan, and Luo Yifei strode forward and punched Xu Yan in the chest, saying, "Xu Yan, you're amazing. The wounds on your body look real. How did you get them?"
"That's right, these injuries are too realistic. If I hadn't seen you fighting with Liu Wei with my own eyes and knew that he didn't hit you, I would have thought that these injuries were real!" Yuan Guoqing also said, and then he lifted up Xu Yan's clothes and pinched the bruises on his body, full of curiosity.
hiss!
Xu Yan took a deep breath, slapped his hand away and said, "Get lost, what's so real about it? It is real!"
"Really!" Yuan Guoqing exclaimed, and pinched the bruise on Xu Yan's chest again, causing Xu Yan to grimace. He seemed to have discovered a new world and said, "It's a real injury. How did you do it?"
"Really injured? No way?" Hearing Yuan Guoqing's words, Luo Yifei's eyes rolled, and he walked forward pretending to be unbelieving and pinched Xu Yan a few more times.
"Hiss, it hurts so much, you did it on purpose!" Xu Yan glared at Luo Yifei and shouted.
Seeing Xu Yan like this, everyone knew that the scars on his body were real. They immediately became curious. Yuan Guoqing asked, "Xu Yan, how did you get these injuries?"
"Yeah, how did he get these injuries?" Luo Yifei echoed, and a group of people pricked up their ears, equally curious about his injuries.
"Liu Wei beat him!" Xu Yan said.
"Come on, you can fool others with this, but you can't fool us. Tell the truth." Luo Yifei rolled his eyelids and pouted to show his disbelief.
Seeing that he couldn't hide it anymore, Xu Yan rolled his eyes and said, "Well, there's no outsiders here, so I won't hide it from you. In fact, the wound on my body was bitten by a mad dog!"
cut!
Everyone raised their middle fingers. Seeing Xu Yan's serious expression, they thought he could reveal some shocking news, but it turned out to be just nonsense.
The people in Class 3 didn't believe it, but Zhong Ming on the other side raised his eyebrows, clenched his fists involuntarily, and anger appeared in his eyes.
It was bitten by a mad dog. It was bitten by a mad dog!
When Zhong Ming heard this, she almost fainted from anger. The reason why she stayed was that she wanted to see Xu Yan's miserable look. However, she didn't see the miserable look. Instead, she saw Xu Yan calling her a mad dog, which undoubtedly ruined her good mood instantly.
"Asshole, you are the mad dog, your whole family is mad dogs... Just wait, if I don't make you kneel down and beg for mercy, I will not be called Zhong Ming!" Zhong Ming cursed in a low voice and left angrily.
"How did you do it?" Sun Xin raised his eyebrows and asked.
"I was really bitten by a dog." Xu Yan said seriously, "This morning when I went to the toilet, I met a stray military dog. It pounced on me without giving me any explanation and scratched me all over. I used all my strength and managed to escape..."
Before Xu Yan finished speaking, Sun Xin interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Come on, stop talking nonsense. Do you really think I'm blind? You can't even tell the difference between being scratched by a military dog and being beaten by a person? I think you were beaten lightly and the pain in your body is not severe enough!"
Xu Yan took advantage of the situation. As soon as Sun Xin finished speaking, he immediately followed suit: "Ouch, squad leader, my body hurts so much. Every pore in my body hurts. I want to apply for hospitalization."
Sun Xin was speechless for a moment. He stared at Xu Yan for a while before muffledly saying, "No!"
"But I'm in so much pain. All 84,000 pores on my body hurt. I need to be hospitalized for at least a month to recuperate." Xu Yan said with a bitter face.
"It's just a minor skin injury, and you want to stay in the hospital for a month!" Sun Xin widened his eyes and looked at Xu Yan like an idiot.
"How about half a month...at least a week...three days can't be less..." Xu Yan bargained on the side.
Sun Xin's forehead was covered with black lines, and he said unhappily: "Not even one day, and you still have the energy to bargain with me, I don't think the damage is limited."
Although he said so, Sun Xin was still worried. He took Xu Yan to check. After confirming that he was fine, he bought a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao ointment and handed it to him, saying, "Take this bottle of ointment and apply it on yourself."
"Sergeant, I also have an injury on my back and I can't reach it by myself!" Xu Yan said in difficulty.
"If you can't reach it, ask your comrades for help." Sun Xin said.
When Xu Yan heard this, he shook his head like a rattle and protested, "No, they are all rough and rude, it will definitely not do any good. I won't let them do it, I want the medic sister to help me!"
Sun Xin suddenly laughed in anger, and said unhappily: "Do you want me to assign a medical soldier to guard you?"
"This is great!" Xu Yan rubbed his hands, looking expectant.
"Stop dreaming and go back to training." Sun Xin scolded with a smile and raised his leg to kick Xu Yan. He even has a medical soldier with him. He will talk about it after he becomes the leader!
There was no hospitalization for rest, no female medical soldier to serve him personally, and not even half a day's rest. Xu Yan simply applied some ointment and was taken to the playground by Sun Xin for training. His body was numb at the beginning, but gradually he regained some sensation. All kinds of feelings of came over him, washing over his nerves like a tide, making him feel uneasy.
After finally getting through the training, Xu Yan felt completely exhausted. He went back home without even washing up, and lay on the bed like a pile of mud, falling asleep in a moment.
When he woke up again, it was already midnight. He was awakened by the pain in his body. Sitting up carefully from the bed, Xu Yan applied some ointment again and rubbed it evenly until the ointment completely penetrated into the skin. He felt a burning pain on his skin. Then he sat cross-legged on the bed and breathed in and out softly as his father had taught him. As he breathed in and out, his heart gradually calmed down and the pain in his body seemed to subside a little.
I don’t know how long it had been, but when Xu Yan was getting ready to go to bed, he unexpectedly heard some noise coming from under the bed. A moment later, a figure got up and tiptoed out of the door. It was Jiang Daniu.
"What is this guy doing in the middle of the night?" Xu Yan's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but feel curious. After Jiang Danian left, he quietly followed him, only to see him standing in the corridor, with his hands slightly clenched, practicing turning left and right under the dim corridor lights, muttering left, right, left and right to himself.
Seeing Jiang Daniu getting up in the middle of the night just to practice turning left and right, Xu Yan suddenly lost interest. He didn't go out to say hello. He murmured, "This idiot is quite hardworking," shook his head and went back to sleep.
The murmurs and the sound of feet rubbing against the ground continued in the corridor. It did not alarm the other recruits, nor did it leave any impression on Xu Yan's heart, but his diligence lasted through time.
For Xu Yan, seeing Jiang Daniu getting up in the middle of the night to practice, he could only sigh, "This idiot is quite hardworking," but he had no idea how much perseverance and persistence Jiang Daniu had put in for it.
He didn't want to leave the recruit company, didn't want to drag the class down, and for this reason he put in countless times more effort than ordinary people. When everyone was immersed in sleep, he had already gotten up to train. However, even so, he still couldn't distinguish the simplest left and right in the eyes of everyone. The cruel reality was chilling...
