Chapter Twenty-Four: Training Base

  Bai Mulan, who ran out of Xu Bin's room, did not run outside the mountain stronghold, but instead covered her face and returned to the guest room arranged for her by the Xu family. For this white jade of the Bai family, who might become the future mistress of the Xu family, Xu Yizhong was still very considerate, and the room he arranged was also one of the more comfortable second-floor buildings in the mountain stronghold.

  Late at night, a girl rushed out of Xu Bin's room with tears streaming down her face. Many bandits in the Black Wind Stockade who witnessed this scene secretly cursed Xu Bin, the great master, for being a 'beast'. He even harmed such a young girl! However, thinking about it, the body of the eldest miss of the Bai family didn't seem that small after all!

  If she were a village girl living at the foot of the mountain, Bai Mulan would be about the right age to get married. But Xu Bin didn't choose a good day, instead choosing the day of Father's burial to make his move, and on top of that, he did it when the other family's father was present. Isn't this a bit too rushed?

  But thinking about the age of this master, it's still a impulsive time. This lonely man and woman staying in one room, really have the possibility to do something 'thunderbolt and fire'. But can't be forced!

  Who doesn't know that this girl is the young mistress of the White family in Juzi Xiang City? If something really happens, will her father let Heifeng Village off the hook?

  The bandits' gossip in their hearts, Xu Bin and Bai Mulan naturally didn't know. Compared to Bai Mulan returning to her room and stopping crying, she instead began to recall everything that happened earlier in Xu Bin's room. Although the two had only been in contact for a short time, they had only touched each other a few times.

  It turned out that, for the first time, Bai Mulan, who had always been fearless and disdainful of everything except her father, felt that Xu Bin was not only annoying but also seemed to be not as useless as before.

  At least for tonight, the self-proclaimed unbeatable White Family Village bandit, Bai Mulan, was miserably defeated by Xu Bin. This is completely different from their encounter a few months ago, which makes Bai Mulan wonder if Xu Bin let her win last time or if she lost to him this time due to carelessness?

  Love is born at such an unexpected time, when a young girl in her flower season begins to take an interest in a boy, it means that she is not far from falling. But none of this was known to Xu Bin, nor did Bai Mulan realize as she returned to her room that tonight's commotion would bring their originally opposing hearts closer together.

  If someone were in the room with Byakuren at that moment, they would be surprised to see the normally tomboyish Byakuren reveal a shy and youthful expression on her face for the first time.

  When Bai Mulan cried and ran out of her room, Xu Bin didn't care or pay much attention to it. In his opinion, a girl as stubborn as this was better off running away. Because she wasn't his type, compared to the girl's face and figure, Xu Bin preferred girls with gentle and elegant hearts.

  If it weren't for this marriage, it was the old man of his own family who had passed away and set it up. With this marriage, Heifeng Gang also has an advantage in standing on the ground of Juxiang. As for what Bai Mulan did tonight, Xu Bin hated to kick that girl flying.

  After putting aside his worries about Bai Mulan, Xu Bin began to arrange the military training that would start tomorrow. Yes, it was military training. In Xu Bin's view, these bandits were all good seedlings for soldiers, and they didn't need to be taught much about shooting guns or hiding, the most important thing was to let them form discipline.

  There is a saying that "thugs are not scary, what's scary is if thugs have culture". This can be applied to bandits, but Xu Bin thinks "bandits are not scary, what's scary is if bandits understand military tactics". Only when these bandits know the difference between right and wrong, and the difference between being a soldier and being a bandit, does it mean that his work in reforming the bandits has seen some initial results.

  If he didn't have a team with strict discipline, all his ideas and ideals would be castles in the air. He would rather spend more effort training these people than spend more money and resources to recruit so-called talents. The principle of 'soldiers are precious for their quality, not their quantity' was clearer to him than anyone else in the special forces of the previous generation.

  Moreover, the mountain stronghold is also recruiting people and needs to consume materials and money. For Xu Bin, whose mountain stronghold funds are already somewhat insufficient, he would not waste his money on these things.

  Xu Bin, who had been perfecting his plan until late at night, also felt that his eyelids were a bit heavy and wanted to sleep. It seemed that this body still needed to strengthen its physical training. In the past, when he was in the special forces, not to mention today's energy consumption, even after several days and nights of long-distance combat, he was still full of energy and felt more than enough. But now, just staying up a little late made him feel exhausted, this kind of physical quality was not what he wanted.

  Xu Bin, who had been sleeping with the lamp on, woke up as soon as it got light and crawled out of bed to run to the valley behind the mountain stronghold to familiarize himself with the training ground. Although these things were built by Xu Yizhong according to his instructions, compared to the special forces training ground in his previous life, the training ground in this valley was undoubtedly much simpler.

  At this age, it's already quite good to have a training base like this. Thinking of setting up an even better one would cost a lot of money. Just thinking about the stingy nature of my second uncle at home, this training ground and facilities can only be temporarily made do with.

  Along the mountain valley, relying on the foot of the mountain, a runway was built. Xu Bin tried running a few laps and felt that one lap should exceed two kilometers. This means that in the future, running ten kilometers would be roughly equivalent to running five laps around the playground. As for other simple obstacle courses and all-wooden fitness equipment, Xu Bin experienced them one by one.

  After experiencing it, Xu Bin felt that although these things were rough in workmanship, they were all nailed together with hardwood from the mountains and had a certain degree of solidity. They could still be used for now. As for the base that needs to be strengthened in the future, Xu Bin thought it was better to train this team first. If you don't even know how to walk on the road, starting to learn how to run is bound to end in loss.

  With the help of these knockoff training facilities, Xu Bin once again found his past life in the team's training field. However, after a lap of exercise, he still felt a bit sore all over his body. Xu Bin knew that today's training was almost done, and if he persisted, he might end up injuring himself, so he quickly ran back to the mountain village.

  When he returned to the mountain stronghold's room, he happened to see Bai Dingtang who had come to bid farewell to him. Upon seeing Xǔ Bīn with a head full of sweat, he praised: "Hm, not bad, young man doesn't sleep in and knows how to exercise his body, handing over Yāo Tóu to you I can also feel at ease."

  Got it! It's another sentence like this, and I really rely on myself as a daughter-in-law.

  After exchanging a few pleasantries with his future father-in-law, Xu Bin soon spotted Bai Mulan standing beside him. Compared to the wild and impulsive girl from last night, today's girl seemed to have changed her temper, listening very obediently to her father's teachings. If Xu Bin hadn't noticed that she occasionally rolled her eyes at him, he would probably have mistaken her for a well-behaved girl.

  Because Baideng Hall is going back to the White House to preside over the mountain stronghold, he is not suitable for staying outside for a long time. After entrusting Xu Bin to take care of his own daughter during this period, he walked away with a very cool pat on the butt. If it wasn't for the fact that this guy came up with such a sentence by his ear at the last moment, Xu Bin would probably still think that this guy is not a bad father.

  "Listen, kiddo, I know you young folks are impulsive, and I don't object to you being with my daughter, but remember one thing: it's gotta be consensual, no forcing. And another thing, don't suddenly give me a grandkid out of the blue! We're all children of the jianghu, although we don't bother with trivialities, basic human decency still applies, got it?"

  What the...! What kind of people are these?! He's only 16 years old, and his sister is only 15 years old. At this age, he actually doesn't object to such behavior. Is this the quality a father should have?

  While despising the guy, Xu Bin still nodded and sent him away from Heifeng Village. Without the presence of the big boss of the local bandits, Xu Bin's plan to reorganize the mountain stronghold could proceed as low-key as possible.

  As soon as Bailan saw her father leave last night, she gave Xu Bin a cold look and went back to her room, not even bothering to talk to him. This made Xu Bin grit his teeth and say, "Indeed, like father, like daughter!"

  However, the other party returned to their room very honestly. Xu Bin also felt that having more people eating in the mountain stronghold wasn't a big deal. Compared to last night when she was causing trouble for him, Xu Bin hoped that during her stay in the stronghold, she would just stay in her room honestly. After all, without this somewhat troublesome girl causing trouble, it would be easier for him to train the bandits.

  Unfortunately, his wish soon turned into disappointment. When gathering the bandits at the mountain stronghold's parade ground, Bai Mulan, who was hiding in her room just a moment ago, was now standing beside her second uncle with an air of indifference, staring provocatively at him as if nothing had happened, inspecting the first batch of selected members of the Xu family army on the parade ground.

  Seeing this girl seemingly taking this place as her own White Family Village, made Xu Bin sigh in regret. Why did his father have to arrange such a terrible wife for him? Even a village girl from the foot of the mountain would be better than this girl who couldn't be beaten or scolded.

  But what he didn't know was that the village girls at the foot of the mountain, really might not look up to Xu Bin, even if he was the head of the Xu family's stronghold, and he looked decent and had some money. After all, he was still a bandit. Which respectable family would dare to marry their daughter to a bandit?

  So his idea was doomed to come to nothing, and for the time being, the only daughter-in-law he could find was a girl from a bandit family like Bai Mulan, which would be considered a good match for him.

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