Chapter 48: Training at All Times

  Lu Tao looked at Sun Qifan's silly smile in front of the military flag and couldn't help but hum a tune as he walked by Sun Qifan.

  When Lu Tao heard the scornful laughter, Sun Qifan couldn't help but put down his hands and calmly turned to look at Lu Tao. He still didn't say anything, but in his heart, he thought Lu Tao was ridiculous.

  "Remember, King Cheng! Defeat the rebels!" Lu Tao said, pointing his hand at Sun Qifan.

  Forget it, leaving Sun Qifan a white eye, he entered the cadet building with his luggage on his back.

  Jiang Yurou saw everything that happened, and when Lu Tao walked into the dormitory building, she also hurried forward to lift Sun Qifan's left hand and pushed up the sleeve of his camouflage jacket.

  Clothes stained with blood tore at the wound, a sharp and piercing pain that made Sun Qifan's mouth open in a hiss.

  "Why don't you fight back?" Jiang Yuru angrily questioned Sun Qifan, her eyes brimming with tears, not just anger but also a hint of sadness.

  Sun Qifan looked down at his scraped elbow and couldn't help but smile, saying: "Do you want to fight or something?"

  "Coward!" As she spoke, Jiang Yuru also quickly took out a tissue from her pocket to wipe away the dirt and grime around the wound, preventing infection and inflammation.

  "So I ask you, if your brother and I were both seriously injured, who would you feel sorry for?"

  Sun Qifan responded to Jiang Yurou's question, and suddenly Jiang Yurou's movements came to an abrupt halt. Jiang Yurou's hand was suspended in mid-air, neither falling onto Sun Qifan's arm nor retracting back.

  The two people stood silently under the military flag for a long time, before Jiang Yurou finally raised her head and asked: "How did you know he was my cousin?"

  Sun Qifan suddenly remembered that he had something else to do and said, "That... I just thought of something I haven't done yet, I have to hurry back." He shouldered his bag, gave Jiang Yurou an awkward smile, turned around and quickly ran into the dormitory building.

  Jiang Yurou couldn't help but furrow her brow, wondering how Sun Qifan knew that Lu Tao was her cousin.

  Jiang Yurou clearly remembered that during the time she had been here, no matter how much grievance she had suffered, she had not let anyone know about her relationship with Lu Tao. The only ones who knew about this relationship were those who could get their hands on her file, and no one else.

  "Could it be..." Jiang Yurou couldn't help but be startled by her own conjecture.

  "It's impossible, no matter how good his relationship with Commander Zhao is, he can't possibly get my information." Jiang Yurou didn't quite believe her own excuse, but she thought it was the best explanation for now, even though it couldn't explain how Sun Qifan knew about her and Lu Tao's relationship.

  The rumbling sound of her stomach brought Jiang Yurou back from her reverie, and she also felt a sudden wave of soreness all over her body.

  Sun Qifan was too tense, and even his own state of mind could be thrown to the back of his head. Jiang Yurou couldn't help but laugh at herself for being overly concerned about Sun Qifan. Turning around, she dragged her heavy legs and limped towards the student dormitory building.

  Back in the dormitory, Jiang Yuru hastily took off her left combat boot.

  The pure white socks had now been stained red in one spot. Jiang Yuru carefully touched the stained area with her finger, and a sharp pain suddenly shot from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, leaving her breathless.

  After calming down, Jiang Yurou carefully rolled down the sock to her heel, where her hand stopped involuntarily.

  Taking a deep breath, gritting her teeth, Jiang Yuru suddenly turned her head to one side and at the same time violently pulled off her sock. A drop of fresh blood was also instantly flung out to a place one meter away, and after blinking another drop of fresh blood dripped down from Jiang Yuru's left heel onto the floor.

  As she opened her eyes, a tear rolled down from Jiang Yuruo's eye corner and slid across her warm cheek into the rosy corner of her mouth.

  She took another deep breath, and Jiang Yuru finally mustered up the courage to look down at her left heel, where a bunion the size of a thumb made her quickly withdraw her gaze.

  Gently putting her left foot back on the ground, Jiang Yuru wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes and turned to look out the window. How much longer until the day she can fly solo? Jiang Yuru eagerly anticipated that day's arrival. Now she was starting to get a little scared, because after becoming a new flyer, the training had become even more grueling than before.

  She felt that in almost two weeks of being here, she had already run a distance greater than the total distance she had run during her university days.

  Although she kept telling herself to persevere, for Yuan Tao and to fulfill the promise she made with Yuan Tao. But at this moment, Jiang Yuruo still felt a sense of fatigue in her heart, and this feeling became more pronounced after being replaced by Qiu Lin as team captain.

  At least as captain, she can still tell herself that she must be strict with herself. Now there is no such pressure, but also no motivation to keep going.

  Thinking about it, Jiang Yurou couldn't help but sigh and limped towards the bathroom. Having not bathed for a night, the stench of sweat on her body was making her almost nauseous.

  As she closed the bathroom door, Qiu Lin also pushed open the dormitory door and walked in. She casually threw her heavy luggage to one side, and Qiu Lin immediately fell onto Jiang Yurou's bed according to the principle of proximity, bursting into fake tears due to her exhaustion.

  "Yu Rong sister, I don't want to be the team leader anymore, you come and do it."

  Jiang Yuruo was talking in the bathroom, Qiu Lin turned over and lay down on Jiang Yuruo's bed, making a big character before falling asleep.

  The sound of water in the bathroom drowned out Qiu Lin's tired voice, and Jiang Yurou didn't even hear Qiu Lin come back, let alone what she said.

  Half an hour later, Jiang Yuru couldn't help but laugh when she saw Qiu Lin sprawled on her bed, snoring loudly. She envied Qiu Lin's carefree nature, living life with no burdens, unencumbered and unrestricted.

  Smiling, Jiang Yurou gently covered Qiu Lin's body with the quilt.

  Qiu Lin suddenly flipped over, a smile spreading across her face as she said: "I want to eat chicken legs, and I also want to eat Orleans roasted chicken wings. And bring me another large cup of Coke! Oh, and add two more packets of pepper powder, no spice no fun!"

  Listening to Qiu Lin's sweet dreams, Jiang Yu Ruo couldn't help but smile again, and fell asleep on Qiu Lin's bed.

  Waking up from a dream, it was already 12:30. Opening my eyes, the room was quiet enough to hear the sound of the air conditioner blades rotating, and outside was so quiet that not even the cicadas made a sound.

  Jiang Yuruo couldn't help but smile as she sat up and looked at the gauze on her left foot, and the food on the bedside table.

  Under the lunchbox, there was a note pressed down. Jiang Yuru couldn't help but pick it up and take a look, only to find that it was Qiu Lin's message: "The internationally renowned number one beauty, Jiang Yuru sister, who is loved by all who see her, must eat properly! Only when you're full can you live happily! Foodie Qiu Lin pays respects!"

  Looking at the tongue-out symbol that fell last, Jiang Yuru suddenly burst out laughing.

  "Legs up!"

  Suddenly, Zhuo Yi's roar came from outside the door, and it seemed to be coming from the student cafeteria downstairs. Jiang Yu Ruo couldn't help but jump onto the corridor, looking down at the floor below, only to see other students sitting in the cafeteria eating.

  But their legs are required to be straightened and kept parallel to the ground until they finish eating.

  "Don't waste! Waste is shameful!"

  Zhuo Yi was walking back and forth between them, holding a ruler in her hand, and as soon as anyone's leg moved down slightly, her ruler would fall on that person's thigh without hesitation.

  Everyone was gobbling down their food like wolves, swallowing whole dates without even chewing. But the dishes on the table really needed time to be savored, all of them were seafood that required peeling before eating. This undoubtedly prolonged everyone's mealtime, and no one expected Zhuo Yi to pull off such a move during dinner.

  Jiang Yuru looked at her own left heel and thought that everyone was rushing to train, while she was slacking off, which made her feel a bit uncomfortable.

  She turned around and walked into the dormitory, Jiang Yuru couldn't care about the unhealed bunion on her foot and decisively put on her combat boots.

  Bearing the pain that pierced her heart with every step, Jiang Yurou quickly arrived at the cadets' hall and shouted towards Zhuo Yi: "Reporting for duty, Cadet Jiang Yurou requests to return to the team!"

  Upon hearing Jiang Yurou's inquiry, Qiu Lin and Zhuo Yi simultaneously turned to look at Jiang Yurou.

  "Remember, you are no longer a student, but a new pilot! Return to your team!"

  "Yes!"

  Zhuo Yi didn't care about Jiang Yu Ruo's foot injury, and Jiang Yu Ruo also didn't mind whether Zhuo Yi was intentionally ignoring her foot injury. After responding to Zhuo Yi's words, she sat down beside Qiu Lin, straightened her legs and started eating.

  Qiu Lin never thought that Jiang Yurou would give up the chance to escape and instead come to suffer voluntarily.

  Although her thigh was already numb at this moment, Qiu Lin still couldn't help but stop the rhythm of eating and leaned into Jiang Yurou's ear to ask in a low voice: "Why did you come down? Didn't you see that we are suffering?"

  Jiang Yurou smiled and leaned in close to Qiu Lin's ear, saying: "It's precisely because it's a suffering that I must come."

  "Are you stupid?" As she spoke, Qiu Lin couldn't help but stare at Jiang Yurou with wide eyes.

  Shaking her head, Jiang Yurou said: "There's a saying that goes, 'To eat the bitterest of bitterness is to be a superior person.' Alright, alright." With that, she smiled knowingly and placed the carefully prepared lobster meat onto Qiu Lin's plate.

  Looking at the lobster meat on her plate, Qiu Lin's heart was suddenly filled with mixed emotions. After a moment of stunned silence, she swallowed the lobster meat in one gulp and quickly reached out to grab other seafood, shelling them for Jiang Yurou to eat. She knew that she really wasn't suited to be the team leader like Jiang Yurou, and she knew that the only thing she could do now was to use her eating skills to quickly clear the table of seafood, so as to reduce Jiang Yurou's suffering a little.