In Ye Ying’s mind, she believed that if she apologized, an apology with her dignity on the line, then everything that had happened would be written off.
“I’m sorry, instructor, I shouldn’t have rambled off. I’m sorry, would you please forgive me?” This was more or less Ye Ying’s first time apologizing since young. It was also an apology under public scrutiny, so her voice was also filled with grief, “Ye Jian didn’t even tell us that she even knew how to shoot targets, that’s why, I thought she was lying, I’m sorry instructor, I shouldn’t have caused you so much trouble.”
In front of her apology, even the Political Commissar furrowed his eyebrows with discontent, why does it seem like the words coming from this young lady have multiple meanings behind them? He does not hear it wrong, right!
“What you’re saying is, Ye Jian was wrong in the first place, and her wrong was not telling you beforehand that she knew how to shoot a gun? That’s why you also made such a mistake?” As a political instructor, he couldn’t stand soldiers like this who were unrepentant and took to finding faults in other soldiers as if it was natural. No matter if Ye Ying wasn’t a soldier, he still couldn’t stand it, with a stern expression, he bellowed: “I think you haven’t even realized where you have erred! You repeat your errors again and again, without knowing when to repent!”
The political commissar was the leader who was responsible for the thousands of soldiers in the Anti-Chemical Unit. Compared to a teacher or a principal, he held more authority. With a stern expression and a low voice, his magnificent soldier’s authority surged outwards, “From what I see, there’s no need for this matter to be resolved, go and invite their school teacher over! I’m going to see for myself how these educators were teaching their students! For them to bring up such a failure of a student!”
There still would be some apprehensions when a teacher wanted to criticize their students. However, when a Political Commissar wanted to slam his soldiers, he wouldn’t care about your pride and whatnot.
The burdens of your mistakes are yours to bear; you have made a mistake and did not carry your responsibilities. You’re still making excuses and believe the reason you have made a mistake was because of someone else, that behavior is irresponsible, it was cowardly, and that must be brutally criticized!
Such a brutal and straightforward criticism, Ye Ying was tempted to just faint on the spot. At least that’s still better than being mocked at by everyone here, and disgraced in front of others!
“Did I say anything wrong? If she had said that, then I wouldn’t have thought this way! And I wouldn’t have misunderstood the instructor liking Ye Jian! If she had told me that, then I wouldn’t have thought those things! Then everything today wouldn’t have happened!”
Ye Ying truly felt wrong, when the Political commissar criticized her mercilessly, her feelings of being wronged and anger washed over her with earth-shattering force, instantly smacking away all signs of rationality.
She wailed with a shrill voice, even the veins on her neck were bunching up, after putting too much force in her piercing wails, the tiny green veins around her temple were bulging up, her face was flushing red, with green veins bunching around her face. The features of her face seemed to be extraordinarily sinister.
After she had wailed off those words, everyone was stunned, they were stunned in place by her shameless actions of putting up false arguments, what in the heavens… there’s actually someone who was that self-righteous, even if they were wrong at every step, their wrongs were still right, someone that shameless exists?
Some of the boys even rubbed their faces forcefully; they started rubbing their fists and wiping their palms away from the limelight, what should we do, there’s a sudden urge… to beat someone up!
“Political Commissar, can we bring her down, I really can’t stand this anymore! Fancy that Ye Jian could still listen to it, I can’t take it anymore, else, I’d already start throwing rocks!”
“Scram off! We don’t have a classmate like you!”
“Ye Ying, can you stop disgusting us even more! Scram, scram! If you scram slowly, I’m scared I won’t be able to hold myself back from beating you up!”
Some rocks were thrown from the group of students. However, they weren’t overhead throws. Instead, they tumbled along the ground over to her, it was a warning to Ye Ying, if she doesn’t leave soon, they’ll really throw rocks at her.
