Article 19 Chapter 1 Clause (6)

  Half a month later, Xiao Lie's leg injury had mostly healed. During this time, he hadn't fallen too far behind, but what he didn't expect was that just as his leg was getting better, something not big but not small happened.

  That day, Liu Ye turned on the water in the bathroom and accidentally splashed it onto someone standing next to him. He looked up and saw that it was Yang Xian.

  "Can't see far?"

  Liu Ye hadn't even apologized yet when Yang Xian pushed him, Liu Ye's temper was the impatient type, he couldn't calm down whenever something happened.

  "Yes, I don't have long eyes, because my eyes are on my face, some people's eyes are on the back of their head, like a certain something that only jumps in front of people, don't you know it might get burned?" Liu Ye said angrily.

  "Kid, didn't your mom ever teach you to admit when you're wrong? You seem like someone who's never been taught anything."

  "A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory."

  A few words from both of them sparked each other's anger, young people are very hot-headed, plus the daily training has made them feel like they have excess energy to vent, and since they were originally on opposing sides, a few sentences later they started fighting.

  "Xiao Lie, something's wrong! Liu Ye has been beaten up!" Li Yifan shouted as she rushed into the house.

  Xiao Lie didn't say a word and grabbed his clothes to put them on while rushing out, the several soldiers in the room heard that someone from their squad was being beaten and also rushed out.

  When Xiao Lie arrived at the scene, Liu Ye was clearly at a disadvantage. After several rounds, he was knocked to the ground by Yang Xian and was now being pinned under his body.

  "Apologize to me!" Yang Xian shouted.

  "Your grandma is a bird, you go apologize to my mom first." Liu Ye replied.

  Liu Ye struggled down below, and Yang Xian gave Liu Ye a heavy punch from above. The soldiers on the side wanted to mediate, but were stared at fiercely by Yang Xian, so they didn't dare to come up.

  Seeing Liu Ye's current state, Xiao Lie suddenly got angry and shouted:

  "Let him go!"

  Xiao Lie didn't care how fierce Yang Xian was, he went forward and lifted Yang Xian up with one hand. Although he couldn't do strenuous exercise at that time, Xiao Lie did exercise his upper limb strength fiercely.

  Yang Xian was mentioned by Xiao Lie, and when he saw Xiao Lie, he had a look of hatred in his eyes. The two of them immediately started fighting, with both sides exchanging blows and punches.

  When Wu Minghui arrived at the scene, the two were hugging each other on the ground and rolling around, neither of them could knock the other down.

  "Stop it right now!"

  Wu Minghui shouted, and the two of them were stunned, but neither of them let go first. The third class leader and Zhao Zhuangjie immediately went up to pull them apart, then took Wu Minghui, who was following with a dark face, towards the office.

  "Are you guys daring to start a fight now?" Wu Minghui said angrily.

  "When can we fight then?" Xiao Lie suddenly said.

  As soon as he finished speaking, the entire office suddenly fell silent, and Zhao Zhuangjie was even more furious in his heart, scolding Xiao Lie for daring to talk back at this critical moment.

  Wu Minghui was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly reacted and suddenly felt amused in his heart. After all these years, someone actually dared to talk back to him like this.

  "Comrades are like brothers, on the battlefield who else can you rely on besides your comrades? Fighting and arguing with each other is a small matter of using anger to settle scores, but if it's serious then it affects internal unity. Do you want to be laughed at by your enemies and know that you've broken discipline? I'll deal with you later, tell me what happened?"

  After hearing the three people tell their own stories, Wu Minghui scolded again.

  "What's wrong? Is it necessary? Is it necessary?"

  The three of them remained silent.

  "Each of you will write a self-criticism and read it out loud at the meeting tomorrow. This month, the three of you are in charge of cleaning the toilet. If I see even a bit of filth, I'll make all three of you sleep inside."

  "Ah?" The three people cried out involuntarily.

  After leaving the office, Xiao Lie couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Although being punished by Commander Zhao was not easy to accept, it was much lighter than he had imagined. However, after Zhao returned, he severely disciplined Liu Ye and Xiao Lie, making them run ten laps around the playground in full gear, followed by 100 frog jumps. Those who have never been in the military do not understand how cruel this punishment is. Running five kilometers in full gear is already extremely exhausting, and then having to immediately follow it up with 100 frog jumps is unbearable. Even jumping just ten would be very difficult. Yang Xian was also punished along with them. When the three of them met again on the playground, the atmosphere was tense, as if they could have devoured each other if no one else was around. Originally, running five kilometers would have left them extremely fatigued, but neither Yang Xian nor Xiao Lie wanted to show weakness in front of the other. During the frog jumps, although their legs were already out of control, they pretended to be nonchalant, as if they had just finished warming up and still had plenty of energy.

  "They're really interesting, they're clearly at the end of their rope, but they still insist on pretending to be nonchalant. How pathetic, how pathetic." Zhang Mo said as he stood by the window watching the two.

  "It's all about watching them, soldiers need to have a strong competitive spirit and confidence, but they're still young, many things still need to be brought to them. Alas, you say, is it worth it? Is it worth it?" Wu Minghui said.

  "Right, before the new recruits go down to the company, the political commissar will come to inspect them. At that time, recommend some good candidates to him."

  "Xiao Lie, go sweep the toilet?"

  Xiao Lie was carrying a broom towards the toilet when a soldier greeted him with a smile.

  "Yes, I'm going to clean the toilet. Chairman Mao said that labor is glorious. Unlike you guys who only know how to loaf around all day and do nothing. If it weren't for me, you'd all be sent to the mountains to pull carts." Xiao Lie retorted.

  "Haha, yeah, cleaning toilets is labor glorious." Another soldier joked.

  "Right, I said it right, I sweep the toilet, I'm proud." Xiao Lie intentionally emphasized and prolonged the two words "I'm proud".

  Although he said so with his mouth, he also knew that this was not a good thing. Several hundred people urinate and defecate every day, if you say there is no smell at all, it's impossible. Every time he carried water to wipe the floor, Xiao Lie had to be careful, knowing that splashing water on his pants would be very cold in the winter, and also very smelly. Compared to Xiao Lie, Yang Xian was even more miserable. Yang Xian had lived in big cities since childhood, and couldn't bear the kind of toilets built in the 70s and 80s like those in the training camp. Every time he saw the yellowish things below, he felt a nauseating impulse.

  "I asked Liu Ye, why is it that people are so vastly different from one another?" Xiao Lie smiled and said.

  "Why?" Liu Ye knew what Xiao Lie wanted to say and nodded in agreement.

  "Do you take a dump every day?"

  "Necessary."

  "Doesn't it look disgusting?"

  "Definitely."

  "I'm telling you, this is where you're wrong. Do you know what a grateful heart is? Those good words are also the food you ate and digested into that kind of thing. It stayed in your stomach for so long before coming out. Oh, it didn't feel disgusting when it was in your stomach, but now that it's out, you find it disgusting?"

  "It's like that, huh? So everyone has a pile of crap in their stomach?" Liu Ye looked enlightened.

  "It's not just that. You know those yellowish things, they smell a bit stinky and look a bit disgusting, but they're treasures. This is green, non-polluting, natural organic fertilizer. If you use this organic fertilizer to grow vegetables, the vegetables will be both nutritious and delicious. And we eat them every day. So from now on, don't be disgusted by your own feces, got it?"

  "This is true, because we pulled it, then ate it, and finally pulled it again and ate. Now it smells good, looks good." Liu Ye said with a smile.

  After the two finished speaking, they saw Yang Xian's face turn pale, with a faint feeling of wanting to vomit.

  "Liu Ye, let's go fetch some water."

  Xiao Lie and Liu Ye walked out of the toilet and found a secluded spot not far away, where they both started vomiting at the same time.

  "I'm telling you, boss, that joke you just told was a bit too dirty, wasn't it?" Liu Ye spat out a few mouthfuls of water and his eyes turned slightly red.

  "You're also quite heavy-tasting." Xiao Lie is now no better off either.

  "You're quite something, telling some off-color jokes in a place like this." Liu Ye said.

  "It's not like that kid didn't ask for it himself, thinking he can compare to me, but he's still a bit far off. Sigh... I heard we're having tomato scrambled eggs for lunch today. Heh heh..."

  "Haha." Upon hearing Xiao Lie's words, Liu Ye let out a smile of mutual understanding.

  At noon in the cafeteria, when the soldiers saw Xiao Lie and Yan Yuezi greeting Yang Xian with a smile, many people thought they had seen it wrong, knowing that these two were old enemies.

  Xiao Lie saw Yang Xian finish cooking and then went over.

  "These days we've been working together very happily, today you're also tired, it's all my fault for telling so many jokes about Huang Chengcheng. Really shouldn't have, but nothing can be done about it now, don't mind it either. I heard our squad's vegetable garden is that thing too. Ah, look at this tomato scrambled eggs, it looks just like Huang Chengcheng, smells a bit like him too. Won't say anymore, I'm leaving, the class leader is calling me."

  Yang Xian remained silent and hung his head from start to finish, but only Xiao Lie, who was close to him, knew that when Yang Xian spoke, he seemed a bit off. Several times when Yang Xian wanted to stand up, he was pressed down by Xiao Lie. After Xiao Ran finished speaking, she ran away, leaving him facing the plate of tomato scrambled eggs. As soon as he saw the yellow eggs, Yang Xian immediately thought of cleaning the toilet.

  "Wow!"

  Yang Xian suddenly thought of running outside when he could no longer hold it in and vomited all over the table.