After rebirth during her second year till now, being in her freshman year, Ye Jian, who was making dumplings, quietly counted and realized that she hadn’t spent New Year in the army before; she was either on the way to training or was in training.
Seeing less than one hundred new recruits and veterans from the sniper base gathered in the cafeteria to make dumplings, her heart gradually became calm. She specifically liked the familiar colors and temperament in this life.
“You are all leisurely making dumplings. Although we still have room in our stomach, if you make one hundred of them, we will have more than one thousand dumplings tonight. Make sure we can finish it. Otherwise, we would really have to carry some back to our dormitory.” A middle-aged man joked, his fingers moved neatly, making a perfect shape dumpling as if it was made by a master.
The middle-aged man’s surname was Deng; he was a captain and the rank of a company. He was the company commander of the sniper base. He was also a soldier with outstanding military service.
The native soldiers laughed loudly; someone replied: “I’m not afraid of eating a lot. I’ll just run three kilometers after this. 100 dumplings are not a problem!”
“Good idea! Comrades, do you think it is a good idea?”
The group of people opposed, some laughed, the place was full of joy.
Ye Jian didn’t have much contact with Company Commander Deng. Firstly, it was because she had just come here for a short time. Secondly, when she was around, Company Commander Deng went out for business and only came back yesterday. Today, she returned to the sniper base and was introduced by Principal Chen, but she only spoke a few words with Company Commander Deng.
Company Commander Deng was from the northeast. He was a well-known Chinese New Year nail householder in the entire sniper base. He had not returned home for eight Spring Festivals; this year was the ninth year.
Originally this year, he planned to go home to visit his wife and children. But a father of an instructor who was supposed to stay on duty during the Spring Festival was seriously ill. Company Commander Deng immediately took over the duty and asked the instructor to return to his hometown to visit his father early this morning.
Principal Chen looked at Company Commander Deng, who was talking and laughing with the soldiers and said to Ye Jian, “He already bought the tickets, and it was the night before his business trip, he told me that he could finally go home this year to see his family and see his daughter whom he hasn’t seen for a long time. He also told me that his old father and mother were so happy that they shed tears knowing that he was going back.”
“I came back yesterday and found out that the father of an instructor was seriously ill. So he gave his train ticket to his comrade. He is a man of true temperament, Ye girl, the most important thing in our army is true temperament.”
At first, Ye Jian thought he was purely talking about Company Commander Deng. When she heard the last sentence, she suddenly understood that Principal Chen had a good intention.
“Did Director Cai… tell you something?” Ye Jian put down her strangely-shaped dumpling in her hand and picked up another dumpling wrapper. She did not look up at Principal Chen. He could see her thin, and long eyelashes trembled slightly, “Can you tell me about it?”
Principal Chen felt that Ye Jian was good at everything, but there was only one thing that she was not so good,… She was too sensitive.
He sighed softly and persuaded, “Ye girl, I now doubt that is it that the old man and I taught you to be too strong…Did we overdo it? You only want to solve everything by yourself, and you even like to settle things secretly? Even Uncle Chen and I don’t know what you did in private.”
If it weren’t for Director Cai’s call this time, how would he know that she was out seeking revenge when she left the base.
Seven days, for a total of seven days, he didn’t even notice anything was wrong with Ye girl!
With her mouth pursed, Ye Jian, who was a bit stubborn, squeezed the dumpling wrapper. Her eyes drooped; she squeezed and replied softly, “You need to take care of your health, I don’t want you to worry about it, so I didn’t tell you.”
