Ye Jian encountered a little trouble, though. When the bright flashlight swept over, Ye Jian knew that she had encountered the school’s picket.
Military academy’s pickets were not students. They were soldiers who were assigned to serve in military academies during conscription to maintain the daily order in the academy.
Therefore, the students couldn’t run away from pickets in military academies like ordinary colleges and universities. In ordinary colleges and universities, if the students ran away, the school wouldn’t deliberately look for the runaway student or do any monitoring.
But the pickets in military academies would definitely chase after the runaway student, so if you ran away, your consequences would be fatal.
Ye Jian didn’t run; she didn’t have to. She stood there and had the flashlight keep shining on her face.
Several beams of a flashlight shone on her face at the same time, and she subconsciously raised her hand to cover her face when she couldn’t open her eyes.
“Put your hand down! You’ve been caught; what’s the use of blocking your face? Put your hand down!” The leader of the pickets yelled. He was actually afraid that the student who was caught by him would run away, so he even had a team of five pickets by his side.
Ye Jian heard the leader’s shout and had no choice but to put her hand down, but she kept her eyes closed.
“Take out your ID!” The leader ran over, and the other pickets stood behind him, waiting for Ye Jian to hand over her ID.
When the leader ran over, he immediately recognized the student whom he had caught.
Ye Jian was quite popular in school. People from freshman to senior year all knew her, and so did the pickets. Of course, most of them only knew her name, but not her appearance.
The picket leader took the ID from Ye Jian, and when he opened it,… crap!
From the first day of her freshman year, Ye Jian had been a very fascinating freshman female soldier. When the picket leader realized that the student he caught was Ye Jian, the expression on his face became even colder.
“Ye Jian, you are a role model for many freshman students, and yet you are walking around the campus so late. Did the sentry guarding the gate just change shifts?” The leader asked, his face becoming colder and more serious, “No, the shift was changed long ago. You did not change shifts with them! Why are you just returning to school?”
Ye Jian was very cooperative. She nodded and answered politely, “No, there was no change in shifts. It’s not our team standing guard tonight. I just returned to school from home. I’m sorry to alarm you.”
Pickets were soldiers. The relationship between pickets and military academies was usually very interesting, and sometimes they were like the school police on guard to catch “thieves.”
Naturally, the “thieves” were the students, and the “police” were the pickets. Once the “police” caught the “thief,” the “thief” would definitely not fight back or scold the “police.” Hey, the “police” had to maintain order in school, and they also had a weapon.
It was the second time that Ye Jian met a picket. And she had remained polite in both times, even if the picket was aggressive.
But she was at fault tonight because one, she came back too late, and second, she returned just after May Day. The freshmen didn’t have any vacation at all; all of them were staying in school.
Therefore, it was not normal for her to suddenly appear in the school compound in the middle of the night. It was normal that the picket in charge was questioning her, so she cooperated well with the picket.
As soon as the picket leader heard that she had just returned from home, he closed the ID and handed it to another picket beside him. His tone became more serious, “All freshmen and junior students returned from their three-day exercise and had been staying in school this whole time. I know you must have gotten the leader’s approval to go home, but we still have to settle things according to the rules if you arrived at school so late! No matter who you are, you must register and report!
The picket, who didn’t know the truth, had started registering Ye Jian’s name and ID number.
Ye Jian also didn’t refute because the school knew her situation. The picket wanted to register her name, and Ye Jian was also very cooperative because she knew that even if her name was registered and reported, she would not be criticized by the army.
