Ye Jian’s pace was swift. After walking a few steps, she saw the faces of four young boys behind her; she couldn’t help but smile: “If you walk any faster, you guys will be with me all afternoon to complete the test.”
“I asked the monitor. If I finish my morning test within an hour and a half, I will be just in time to catch up with the test with our class. The test is about to start soon. If we walk faster, we can catch up with the gathering.”
The other classes on the training ground were doing their 1500-meter light run test. Two girls stood in the forefront. They shouted, and the entire class started to run.
One lap, two laps, three laps… The girls shouted the slogans, gradually fell behind, and the boys gradually distanced themselves.
The sun continued to radiate heat, and every student was soaked in sweat. While running, they could see their sweat bouncing off their body.
No one gave up; every one of them ran for their lives. Only by persistence could they achieve victory.
At 3 p.m. in the afternoon, the sun was no worse than that at noon. The students who ran in their training uniforms could squeeze out the sweat from their uniforms; they felt their bodies were burning dry. The boys who ran fiercely ran while pulling their neckline down gently, revealing two distinct skin tones, tan above the neck and pale below the neck!
The boys, who were closer to Ye Jian, inadvertently glanced at the back of her neck. She had a sunburn on her neck; the skin was even peeling off.
The boy who first spotted this stared blankly at it. He even thought that he had made a mistake, so he took a closer look. After confirming that it was a sunburn, he motioned to the other three boys to look.
Ye Jian noticed the boys’ small movements; she raised her hand and touched the sunburn that hadn’t recovered, “It’s due to long exposure under the sun. I guess it will still need another half a month to recover.”
“Did you… train elsewhere?” Finally, a boy asked. He immediately introduced himself after that, “I. I am Qian Yanjun from Datong.”
“I am Wei Jiaming from Shijia in Zhejiang Province.”
“I am Hu Huan from Xi’an.”
“I am Ge Jinglin from Dalian.”
After introducing themselves one by one, the distance seemed to be shortened a lot. Ye Jian introduced: “I am Ye Jian, a native of Yunnan Province. I am very glad to meet you.”
“Hehe, we all know you. You’re the champion of the national university entrance examination. I saw your name in the newspaper a long time ago, but I didn’t know that you would be our classmate and even be in the same class as us.”
“Yeah, I really didn’t expect that. Why did you even think about applying for the military academy?”
They chatted casually as they returned to their other classmates at the meeting place. The four boys also didn’t push further to question whether Ye Jian had training elsewhere.
Ye Jian didn’t want to answer, but she also didn’t want to lie to her classmates, so the best way to solve this was to change the topic.
Five of them returned to the team and followed the squad leader’s command to complete 3 horizontal bars and 3 parallel bars one by one.
Single-tool four exercises include pull-ups, reversing the upper bar, and two-handed support bars with one foot across the bar. At the same time, they must complete a certain number of laps in horizontal bar pull-ups in order to be qualified.
The students took turns to start their test first at the four horizontal bars. The atmosphere suddenly became tense and serious.
One month’s military training was for today’s test. This test was to determine whether they were qualified or not, so no matter what, they had to grit their teeth, endure the hardships, and pass this test.
“Ye Jian, go!” The student, who was in charge of scoring and counting, called Ye Jian’s name. In an instant, she went out and held the horizontal bar with her forehand. Ye Jian once again became the focus of the class.
