“Ye Jian, go put on your military uniform now and show it to the old squad leader who raised you!” The academy leaders had already known that this old man, who was going to leave them soon, was a national treasure-level first-level sergeant major. They handed over the military uniform and hat to Ye Jian and solemnly said: “You can’t let the old squad leader leave with regrets! Go, hurry!”
The ward was very quiet. Commander-in-Chief Xia, who was sitting by the bed and holding the old man’s right hand, said, “Old squad leader, don’t worry, I will only recognize Ye Jian as my daughter-in-law. I won’t recognize anyone else. In the future, if Xia Jinyuan does anything wrong to Ye Jian, even if it is just the slightest bit, I will be the first one to teach him a lesson!”
Ye Jian went to the doctor’s office to change into her military uniform. An Jiaxin, who had not left, quickly pulled up the partition screen, “…Just put your clothes on the bed; I’ll fold them for you.”
Behind the screen, there was the rustling sound of clothes changing. An Jiaxin frowned and bit her lower lip. Instead of crying with Ye Jian, she persuaded: “Don’t cry, my mom said when Grandpa Gen is awake, he always talks about how strong you are, Jian’er, you must be strong.”
In less than a minute, Ye Jian was already in her uniform, wearing a large-brimmed hat; she walked out from behind the screen, “I will be strong, Jiaxin! Thank you!”
This is Ye Jian’s military uniform. The grassy dark green uniform is straight, without any wrinkles, as if it had just been ironed.
The epaulets pressed on her shoulders are not ordinary epaulets, but a three-star captain. The three five-pointed golden stars look majestic; together with the distinctive golden collar, the entire uniform really shows the majesty of a military soldier.
The grassy dark green army pants are also very straight, outlining Ye Jian’s pine-like posture. An Jiaxin couldn’t help breathing softly at the sight of it… Ye Jian, in the military uniform, looked so familiar, but also so strange.
“Ye Jian…” An Jiaxin couldn’t help calling out, making Ye Jian, who was stepping out of the office to stop and turn around. She still had her familiar face, but her eyebrows gave out a different feeling, and when she raised her eyes to look over, the light in her eyes was so cold, it actually scared An Jiaxin a bit.
“Take care. You… still have us.” An Jiaxin said softly, with awe that she didn’t even notice.
Upon receiving her friend’s comfort, Ye Jian nodded and smiled: “I will.” For Grandpa Gen, she would be strong, “I’m going to accompany Grandpa. Jiaxin, let’s talk later.”
It was not until Ye Jian walked out of the office that An Jiaxin placed her hand on the desk to support herself and walked to the office chair step by step. She sat down slowly, with her knees feeling slightly weak.
The familiar Ye Jian has an expression that makes her feel like she doesn’t know her. She once said that she had only one goal at the beginning of the second year of junior high, and that was to work hard to enter the military academy. She said that she had been training in secret, only to join the army in the future…
The friend who had been moving towards her goal had finally put on the military uniform as what she had wished for…Good, really good, the suffering that she had to face would finally be over, and no one would dare to bully her.
That’s great, really great.
Sitting alone in the office, An Jiaxin covered her face with her hands for a while, laughing and crying for a while. She was happy for her friend but sad because her friend’s most beloved relative would pass away soon.
