Chapter Seven: Lightness Skill

  Qin Si Hai is also a lazy person who would rather sit than stand, and like Murong Liu Nian, he pursues the most effortless way of life. Unlike Murong Liu Nian, however, Qin Si Hai is very proper and won't show off his exceptional lightness skills or run to Zhang Da Ye's place to smoke. When he does smoke, it's with a few friends, and they take turns smoking one cigarette at a time. This doesn't mean Qin Si Hai is an ordinary person - he's not ordinary because he's the only one besides Ma Lian Cheng who can accurately see Murong Liu Nian's strengths. Others think Murong Liu Nian is crazy, but Qin Si Hai thinks he's interesting and enjoyable to watch. So now when he looks at Murong Liu Nian, it's with admiration. He can see that Murong Liu Nian's ordinary behavior has an inexplicable charm. Just like this time, he inadvertently helped Xu San Duo avoid suffering from running. More importantly, in the third class, Murong Liu Nian is the only one who gets along well with Xu San Duo, which is rare. Qin Si Hai thinks Murong Liu Nian is a master of pretending to be a fool, but his actions are actually very clever and he has the potential to swallow a tiger at any moment.

  Tonight is the new recruit regiment's collective grand dinner, which was decided by the troop department. It's a normal thing for each new recruit regiment to have several such activities. The strings are always tight and need to be loosened. Each time there is such an activity, it's necessary to make some arrangements, so the venue layout is also very particular. The more particular the layout, the more people are needed, so the third class of the seventh company was arranged to come over. I heard that this year's new recruit regiment also recruited female soldiers, and although their training grounds and content are different, they will also appear tonight to add to the excitement. When Qin Si Hai heard this information, Mu Rong Liu Nian's lazy and scattered eyes suddenly became radiant. It turned out that he was also a romantic at heart, and Qin Si Hai suddenly felt a sense of defeat.

  Ma Liancheng didn't know that such a casual arrangement could brew up such good emotional effects, otherwise he would have to study it carefully.

  Qin Si Hai was not interested in the spring songs, but he was interested in the little tune that Mu Rong Liu Nian hummed. Qin Si Hai was interested because he had never heard it before. Not to mention that every place has its own unique folk tunes, and there are so many types of music in the world, Qin Si Hai, although having some knowledge of music, hadn't heard this one before, which wasn't surprising. The key point was that Qin Si Hai was very confident that this tune wasn't a local folk song, he didn't dare to confirm whether it was created by Mu Rong Liu Nian or not, but he was certain that it wasn't a popular tune circulating in the market. Mu Rong Liu Nian's tone was very special, giving people an ethereal feeling, paired with this lively little tune, it was a perfect match and very pleasant to listen to. It seemed that Mu Rong Liu Nian indeed had some talent, Qin Si Hai's defeated heart got some comfort.

  Qin Si Hai took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it up. Then he took out another one and tossed it to Murong Liu Nian, saying: "Here."

  Murong Liuyan caught the cigarette that was tossed over, his eyebrows furrowing slightly. This tiny movement, however, did not escape Qin Sihai's notice. Murong Liuyan then smiled faintly and said, "Not bad."

  Qin Si Hai's eyes lit up and he said: "Do you know this smoke?"

  Murong Liunian's smile was very good-looking. Qin Sihai had never seen such a good-looking smile, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it enchanting. Murong Liunian continued to smile casually: "The cigarette you smoke is not bad."

  So that's how it is. Qin Si Hai nodded vaguely, not saying anything immediately. After a while, he felt his mind was still quite muddled, so he leaned against the table, sat down and looked up at the sky, not intending to speak.

  Murong Liunian glanced at Qin Sihai and then focused on the work in his hands. The same smoke in Murong Liunian's mouth was more impressive than Qin Sihai's, but unfortunately, Qin Sihai was too busy pondering Murong Liunian's words to notice.

  The weather is nice today.

  After brewing for most of the day, Qin Si Hai finally managed to organize a sentence. He looked around and didn't see Mu Rong Liu Nian anywhere. Then he held his cigarette in his left hand and rubbed his head with his right hand, feeling like something was stuck somewhere and couldn't figure it out. It's getting muddled.

  Qin Si Hai stood up, patted his clothes and stopped thinking about it. He then blew out a mouthful of mist-like smoke and muttered: "Why haven't those guys finished running yet?"

  Yu Bo suddenly heard the word "run" and his nervous system quickly fed back the information of running, and he couldn't help but throw up. After running 20 laps, Lao Zhang said that someone else had run 40 laps in the same amount of time as him, so he was told to run another 20 laps. In short, Yu Bo now has a conditioned reflex phobia related to running, and anything related to running makes him want to vomit. Li Ming Jie and Huang Xin saw Yu Bo still having to run and didn't dare leave without being dismissed, as a result Ma Lian Cheng said they were very loyal, so they also ran together. The two of them were okay, not to the point where they would throw up upon hearing the word "run", but they also felt that today's running route was longer than all the previous days combined.

  Li Mingjie turned his head back and said to Qin Sihai: "Qin Sihai, give me a pack of cigarettes." These people were all cigarette smugglers. Without cigarettes, their lives would not be perfect. So, someone always had one or two packs of cigarettes in their pockets. However, they still liked to smoke Qin Sihai's cigarettes because the feeling was obviously different when smoking them.

  Qin Si Hai flicked the cigarette butt to the ground, took out a pack of cigarettes and opened it. There were still three left inside. Qin Si Hai looked at Li Ming Jie and said, "Not giving you any?" In the army, although he wouldn't be unable to find cigarettes to smoke, getting his hands on this particular brand wasn't an easy task. Qin Si Hai was very clear that these three cigarettes were all he had left. However, saying that, Qin Si Hai still handed the cigarettes over to Li Ming Jie and Huang Xin, then walked closer to them, looking at Yu Bo's ashen face and said, "Don't think that just because you're putting on a long face, I'll charitably give you this last one."

  Yu Bo made a move that surprised Qin Si Hai. He suddenly knelt on the ground, grabbed Qin Si Hai's clothes and said: "Brother Hai, I'm really not going to make it, please have mercy." The appearance was like that of an addict who had taken too much white powder, very pitiful.

  Qin Sihai felt disgusted and abandoned the cigarette box, kicking Yu Bo in the process. Yu Bo quickly lit up the last cigarette with great enthusiasm. Qin Sihai regretted giving his last cigarette to someone like Yu Bo, feeling psychologically unbalanced: "Why didn't you just run yourself to death?" As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Bo immediately vomited out the smoke, which fell into a filthy substance, making it truly regrettable.

  Li Mingjie and Huang Xin exchanged a glance, smiled in unison, and then focused on smoking. For them, if they couldn't get 1% of the flavor out of this smoke, it would be a waste.

  Qin Si Hai wasn't really stingy, he just got used to a certain flavor and suddenly couldn't enjoy it anymore, so he inevitably felt a little down.

  Although there is now an additional competitor, Ma Liancheng's lightness skill is still unparalleled. So when he quietly arrived behind Qin Sihai and the others, they were still completely unaware.

  Ma Liancheng was very satisfied with this effect. It's always thrilling to be scared from behind. He didn't need to deliberately say, "Not bad."

  Qin Si Hai and the other three were shocked on horseback, while Li Ming Jie and Huang Xin almost choked to death. For so many days, they had heard some rumors about Lian Chang's incredible lightness skills, but only after experiencing it personally did they truly understand its profundity.

  Qin Si Hai and the other three hastily saluted and respectfully shouted: "Good, Commander Lian!"

  Ma Liancheng picked up the cigarette that had fallen beside Li Mingjie's feet and took a puff, saying: "Not bad, where did you get it?"

  Qin Si Hai looked at each other and finally the remaining three people put their eyes on Qin Si Hai. They really didn't want to be punished to run again.

  Qin Sihai's eyes widened immediately, and he secretly thought that these three little ones with pitiful expressions were indeed owed an explanation. He then saluted and said to Ma Liancheng: "Reporting to Captain, it's me."

  Ma Liancheng, puffing on his cigarette, didn't even look at Qin Sihai and said: "Yours? I clearly saw it fall out of Li Mingjie's mouth, how can you say it's yours? Today you'd better explain yourself clearly to me, or else you'll have to go for a run and come back later. Huang Xin, what are you standing there for, why don't you hurry up and pick up the cigarette? Wasting is wrong, you know that!"

  Yu Bo picked up his fallen cigarette faster than Huang Xin, and he couldn't help but want to retrieve the smoke he had just exhaled as well.

  Qin Sihai found this company commander to be a headache, Ma Liancheng was just like Murong Liuliang, his swordsmanship was unorthodox and made him puzzled. Qin Sihai said: "Company Commander, I'm saying that this smoke is what I gave them."

  "What you gave is really good, is there anything else?"

  Qin Si Hai thought to himself "I knew it, Lian Zhang also loves this kind of thing. How could I have given that one to Yu Bo earlier?" He said: "Report to the company commander, it's gone."

  Ma Liancheng's face changed like a chameleon and he asked viciously: "Really gone?"

  Qin Si Hai suddenly felt a chill and hastily pulled out one from his pocket to hand over to Ma Lian Cheng, saying "This is really the last one."

  Ma Liancheng took it over without saying a word and put it in his pocket, saying: "So you really have one. I was thinking of saying no, just forget about it." Ma Liancheng's words were cheap and fearless, but when Qin Sihai heard that he had lost his wife and soldiers. Yu Bo suddenly blew a puff, but the smoke made him tear up.