Chapter 48 - 43: The Joyful Military Training Life

Returning to college life was certainly wonderful, but undergoing military training again was not, so Zhou Yuwen had gone to the hospital yesterday to get a medical certificate—real or fake didn’t matter as long as it excused him from military training. A few years earlier, the instructor might have been stubborn enough not to approve it, but these days, with the increasing number of students fainting, the school was more anxious than the students themselves and wouldn’t deny leave requests with a legitimate reason. Of course, getting leave was one thing, but wandering off was another.Nôv(el)B\\jnn "Go and stay in the medical room." "Okay." Seeing the medical certificate from the hospital, the instructor did not make things difficult for Zhou Yuwen. Under the watchful eyes of many, Zhou Yuwen thus left the main troop. Chang Hao, still squatting in the distance, was dumbfounded. At this point on the field, the training squads were one after another, so Zhou Yuwen’s departure was particularly conspicuous. In fact, from the moment Chang Hao was dragged away, Shen Yu’s squad had noticed. Shen Yu asked Zheng Yanyan, "Isn’t that Chang Hao squatting over there?" Zheng Yanyan glanced over, "Yeah, that’s indeed Chang Hao." Shen Yu jokingly said, "Your Chang Hao is squatting as a punishment, don’t you feel heartbroken?" Zheng Yanyan immediately became unhappy and said, "Your Chang Hao! Your whole family’s Chang Hao!" Hearing Zheng Yanyan’s remark, several girls nearby burst into laughter. At that moment, Zheng Yanyan noticed, "Eh? Isn’t that Zhou Yuwen?" Everyone noticed a tall and big boy leaving the squad. Su Qing noticed it was Zhou Yuwen and frowned slightly, "Where is he going?" Considering the direction he was walking, he seemed to be heading to the medical room. Is he not feeling well? The so-called medical room was just a green military tent set up in the southeast corner of the field; it was quite large and even air-conditioned inside, adorned with a red cross emblem on top. Zheng Yanyan chuckled upon seeing this scene, "Zhou Yuwen is really too delicate, backing out even before the military training started?" Su Qing also frowned, because this scene did not happen in her previous life. At this moment, Zheng Yanyan did not realize the seriousness of the situation and mocked Zhou Yuwen for being delicate, but she soon couldn’t laugh anymore. Although the girls’ military training was slightly less intense than the boys, they still had to endure a whole day under the sun and perform basic military drills. Twenty minutes later, Chang Hao felt his legs trembling, barely able to stand. Barely back with his troop, because he was whispering, he was caught again. "Damn it, he talked for so long," Chang Hao lost it, "why the hell just pick on me! I just saw others talking without getting into trouble, and I took a big risk to speak again, and damn it, I’m the one who gets caught?" "I didn’t see them, I only saw you. Fall out!" said the instructor matter-of-factly. Chang Hao was fuming as he stared at the instructor, filled with immense anger. Zheng Yanyan immediately cheered up; when leaving, her stomach ache miraculously disappeared, and she ran off to the infirmary with a bounce in her step. Having been squatting all day, Chang Hao felt his legs were almost giving out, and seeing Zheng Yanyan leave, he quickly followed suit, complaining of a stomach ache. "Oh, you have a stomach ache now?" The instructor said sarcastically. "Ouch, reporting, Instructor, I really do have a stomach ache." "Even with a stomach ache, keep squatting!" "Then I’m gonna shit myself." "Shit in your pants, and I’ll catch it for you!" Chang Hao was speechless, but his exchange with the instructor made a bunch of students chuckle. Zheng Yanyan thought this military training was too boring, and it was better to go to the infirmary and chat with Zhou Yuwen, but to her disappointment, Zhou Yuwen wasn’t there at all. What a joke, at such a good time, why would Zhou Yuwen waste it in the infirmary? He simply made up an excuse and slipped away, the school had said to sequester all freshmen during military training, but this didn’t stop Zhou Yuwen. There wasn’t a place in the school that Zhou Yuwen didn’t know; finding any gap, he would sneak out. Today he still went to the service center to help with card registration, but after the military training began, the number of students coming to register dropped. Fortunately, several nearby schools hadn’t started yet, so Zhou Yuwen continued his promotion there, Liu Shuo was quite impressed by Zhou Yuwen and felt that the campus card business was good, and joined him, thereby securing the card registration business for their school as well. Having experienced yesterday’s incident, the agents from the surrounding schools didn’t dare to compete with Zhou Yuwen anymore, and he easily processed over two hundred cards today. After accounting for some commission for the sub-agents, Zhou Yuwen pocketed more than ten thousand. Around four in the afternoon, Zhou Yuwen barely made it back to the infirmary. "Zhou Yuwen, where have you been?" Zhou Yuwen looked up, spotted Zheng Yanyan, and couldn’t help asking, "What are you doing here slacking off?" Upon hearing this, Zheng Yanyan rolled her eyes, "Slacking off? You have the nerve to say that about me?" Today the two had barely exchanged a few words when the instructor called the students back as today’s training had ended. At five-thirty, with the sun setting in the west, the sky over the field was at its most beautiful, golden and fiery red, with the huge sun hanging on the horizon. Chang Hao had been squatting all day; though not exactly squatting, he could sneak in some laziness, but he truly felt utterly defeated. The students were also feeling quite depressed after experiencing military training for the first time, and the instructor kept antagonizing them, saying, "This is nothing, what comes next will really test you." With dismissal imminent, the instructor briefly spoke a few sentences, then said: "Ok, nothing else, we’ll dismiss for today." "You, what is your name?" "Damn, Instructor, stop screwing with me, isn’t it enough that I admit my mistake?" Chang Hao really knew he was in the wrong, damn, his legs were numb. "Cut the nonsense, what’s your name?" "Chang Hao." Chang Hao was speechless. "During the military training, you’ll serve as the monitor for Class 2 of Company 4." "???" Chang Hao was dumbfounded.