The low sobbing sound from the blanket next to her could still be heard, but this time, Ye Jian did not ask Xu Wen what was wrong, nor did she ask if she needed a set of warm clothes. She did not ask anything but kept her eyes closed and waited quietly for Xu Wen to stop crying.
Xu Wen was used to being taken care of. She was used to someone taking the initiative to help her when something happened, and in the end, it became a terrible habit, which obliterated her sense of responsibility.
Listening to her cry, Ye Jian was also reflecting on whether she had helped her too much. Perhaps the more she helped her, the worse she became.
Thinking about it slowly and then realizing the problem, Ye Jian gradually found the problem in herself.
She could help Xu Wen. However, the help couldn’t be the same as the help she did for her classmates in high school.
The military academy paid more attention to personal independence. Helping too much would prevent Xu Wen from growing up and making her dependent.
Her help was not to solve the problem for Xu Wen but to let Xu Wen discover the problem and solve it herself.
Like what Major Xia did to her, he never took the initiative to help her; he was even called cold during her training.
He would directly watch her make a mistake and then use another cruel way to let her remember what the mistake was and what its effect was.
It was the same with Grandpa Gen and Uncle Chen. They both chose to stand by and never take the initiative to remind her that she was wrong or telling her that she should do this or that.
The corners of Ye Jian’s closed eyes, who realized that she was wrong, became a little cold, Xu Wen needed to change, and so was she (Ye Jian).
After about half an hour, Xu Wen’s sobbing finally stopped. Ye Jian heard He Jing let out a breath, and she did the same.
There was a faint sound of someone turning over. Ye Jian tilted her head and looked towards Xu Wen’s sleeping direction. She stretched out her hand slowly and patted Xu Wen’s shoulder lightly, “Go to sleep; we still have to train tomorrow. “
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After a while, Xu Wen made a heavy “um” sound from her nose and closed her eyes, feeling a mess in her heart.
Ye Jian’s behavior just now made Xu Wen, who had finally stopped crying, almost burst into tears again. Fortunately, she bit the blanket in time to keep the tears from falling.
She couldn’t think about it anymore, she couldn’t cry anymore, she had to train tomorrow, and she couldn’t affect Ye Jian and He Jing.
With her teeth clenched on the blanket, Xu Wen forced herself to fall asleep as soon as possible.
The sound of wind and rain came from outside, and the light rain hit the tent like a beautiful lullaby. It was quiet in the middle of the night, the best time to sleep.
Ye Jian slept soundly, but most freshmen couldn’t sleep well. Participating in the exercise for the first time kept their cerebral cortex very active. At night, they kept thinking about all kinds of things during the day. While feeling emotional, they also summarized their own shortcomings. In this way, their spirit was better.
After the energy was over, the drowsiness came up, and they fell asleep. Because the place where they slept was uneven, in the middle of the night, they were either woken up by a brother or was pressed by the brother beside them and directly woken up. They had never known how hard it was to sleep in such circumstances, so they slept painfully.
At 5 o’clock in the morning, Ye Jian, whose biological clock was already awake at this time, opened her eyes. As soon as her body moved, Xu Wen, who was sleeping next to her, also got up and said softly, “I will get up early for morning exercises with you from now onwards.”
There was a faint light in the mountains at 5 o’clock, but there was not much light in the tent. Ye Jian was getting ready, smiled, and nodded, “Okay, but you have to take the initiative to do so.”
Ye Jian was very relieved. So Xu Wen was not persuaded by the school to leave; perhaps she was just under observation temporarily.
