Chapter 23: The Officer of the Heterogeneous Kind

  The front of the barracks was extremely quiet, with everyone staring blankly at Gao Yuan, this unusual officer, it was their first time seeing him, even He Lanxiong who was locked in the house and peeking through the window was wide-eyed, speechless.

  "What's wrong with losing to us? My big brother is a hero of the Xiongnu, and it's not shameful to lose to him!" Suddenly, a clear voice rang out from the sidelines, "We Xiongnu people are the most powerful."

  Everyone turned their heads at once, and the speaker was He Lan Yan.

  Gao Yuan burst out laughing and pointed at the window where He Lan Xiong's three men were standing, "Where is the hero you have in your eyes locked up? He's the most formidable one. I think he looks quite pathetic."

  He Lan Yan's face suddenly turned red, "I lost to you because...because...you're a pervert!" She was speechless for a while, and finally shouted loudly.

  Gao Yuan looked at her appearance and couldn't help but sneer, thinking of scolding her a few more times to knock down her arrogance, when suddenly a burst of curses erupted from the side, as dozens of soldiers opened their mouths in unison.

  Just now took the soldier's money, at this time the soldier was scolded as a pervert, naturally everyone wanted to come out and show their loyalty, in an instant, all kinds of dirty words and curses poured out, asking about people's ancestors for eighteen generations, these people were all rough men, scolding people was a work of art, He Lan Yan wanted to retort, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was shut up by dozens of big mouths, wanting to scold, couldn't scold, wanting to rush over and fight, also couldn't fight, suddenly felt both angry and anxious, tears instantly welled up in her eyes, seeing that she was about to cry.

  "Shut up!" Gao Yuan shouted loudly, and immediately fell silent beside his ear.

  "Dozens of big men bullying a woman, what kind of hero are you? I think all of you deserve to be beaten!" Gaoyuan was so angry that he kept humming.

  Everyone looked at each other in dismay, originally wanted to pat the horse's hoof, but didn't expect to pat the horse's hoof instead.

  "Xiao Sun, have you thought it through this time?" Gao Yuan turned his head to ask Xiao Sun, ignoring the tearful He Lanyan on the other side.

  "Alright, alright!" This time, Sun Xiao was thoroughly convinced. It wasn't because he went to fight, but because he lost the fight.

  "What's going on?"

  Either don't fight, or win.

  "Speak louder, I didn't hear clearly!" Gaoyuan shouted sternly.

  "Either don't fight or win!" Sun Xiao shouted with all his might.

  Gao Yuan nodded in satisfaction, turned around, and swept his gaze over everyone. "Is everything clear?"

  "Either don't fight or win the fight!" Dozens of people shouted in unison. If you still didn't understand the meaning of the newly appointed squad leader, then your head must have been pinched by a door. The squad leader wasn't afraid of people fighting, but they had to win. Winning might not be a big deal, but losing would definitely lead to trouble. Everyone firmly remembered this hobby of Gao Yuan's in their hearts.

  Gao Yuan naturally didn't know that his first speech when he joined the army would make his subordinates gain a group of desperate people, who would fight to win no matter what, whether in battle or in a fight. Provoking them was like stirring up a hornet's nest.

  Gao Yuan nodded slightly and waved his hand. With a sudden snap, the rope binding Sun Xiao broke, startling him. This hemp rope was quite sturdy, yet Gao Bingcao had broken it with just one pull of his hand, displaying an unexpectedly great strength. Looking into Gao Yuan's eyes, he felt both respect and fear. In reality, he had no idea that when Gao Yuan stretched out his hand, a small knife as thin as a cicada's wing had already popped out under the cover of his palm. It first cut one strand, and the rope, which was already 70-80% broken, naturally snapped with just one pull.

  "Alright, nothing's wrong, Cao Tou, let's get ready for dinner!" After the commotion, several big-headed soldiers were busy cooking and had already put a pot of sliced noodles into the soup pot, while the mutton that had been slaughtered was being boiled in another pot, emitting a fragrant aroma.

  Is that it? Sun Xiao glanced at Gao Yuan, and he was going to let himself off like this? Cao Tiancheng hastily pulled Sun Xiao to the table. "Sun Tou, come quickly to receive your salary!"

  A group of soldiers were busy preparing dinner, but Gao Yuan took down a quilt roll from the car. "Cao Tiancheng!" he shouted.

  Cao Tian hastily ran in front of him and asked, "Where is my room?"

  Cao Tiānchéng was taken aback, "Military Officer Cao, you want to stay here?"

  "I'm your quartermaster, of course I'll live wherever you live, what's strange about that?" Gao Yuan said impatiently. Cao Tiancheng was stunned for a moment, "The previous quartermasters didn't live here."

  "It was in the past!" Gaoyuan hummed, "Where did I live?"

  "Bing Cao, if you really want to live here, I'll immediately vacate a room for you, the one where Sun Xiao and I are living, what do you think? Cao Tiancheng pointed at the room that Zhang Yan had kicked a big hole in."

  "Go, and I'll live wherever!"

  "I'll go and clear a room for you right away!" Cao Tiancheng hurried off.

  "Where will you two live?" Gaoyuan asked.

  "General Cao has moved here, so Sun Xiao and I naturally came to live with them!" said Cao Tiancheng.

  "Think about it for a while," "Alright, let's just leave it like that for now!" Zhang Yi, go give him a hand.

  "Master, you really want to live here? I think it's no different from a pigsty." Zhang Yi said in a low voice, "It's not far from home anyway, you'd better stay at home."

  Gao Yuan glanced at him and said, "When did you become so talkative?"

  All along, Zhang Yi always thought that Gao Yuan didn't have the air of a young master, but today after seeing how Gao Yuan handled those soldiers, he was already somewhat intimidated. Being glared at by Gao Yuan again, he immediately shrank his neck and said, "Yes, Young Master, I'll go clean up the house right away."

  There's nothing much to clean up in the house either. In a moment, Cao Tiancheng and Sun Xiao had each taken out a quilt roll and casually thrown it into another room next door. Zhang Yi was still busy inside, but in Cao Tiancheng's eyes, the already very clean house was, in Zhang Yi's eyes, dirty and messy.

  It's already dinnertime outside, and these big-headed soldiers really do look like they haven't eaten a full meal in a long time. Each of them is holding a bowl, squatting somewhere, wolfing down their food, the entire military camp filled with the sound of slurping and chattering.

  They were having a great time eating here, and on the other side, He Lan Yan also felt her stomach growling. She looked at the sun and saw that it was already past noon, no wonder she was hungry. Looking at Gao Yuan, He Lan Yan suddenly called out, "Hey, sir."

  Gao Yuan was crouching there eating knife-cut noodles when he heard He Lan Yan's shout. He raised his head and said, "Are you calling me?"

  "Who did I ask you to call?"

  "What's going on?" Gaoyuan asked.

  "You just care about your food? Even if we are prisoners, there should be some rules for prisoners, and we're starving too." He Lan Yan said with a humph.

  Gao Yuan looked at her appearance, huffing and puffing like a mother tigress, couldn't help but laugh, waved his hand, "Give them a few bowls too."

  Several big-headed soldiers walked by with several large bowls filled with knife-cut noodles, and a spoonful of mutton soup was ladled onto the surface of the noodles. The mutton was naturally not enough, one sheep could not be divided among so many people. The one who rushed to the front handed the noodles to He Lan Yan, "You're welcome, it's all thanks to the adults' kindness, or else you would have starved to death." One sentence made He Lan Yan so angry that she almost fainted, and when she took the noodles, looking at the dirty bowl rim, she suddenly felt a wave of nausea. There was no appetite left, but He Lan Xiong and several others who were locked in the house, after being untied, picked up their bowls and started eating eagerly.

  He's not afraid of them running away either. From the way he caught them earlier, this leader seems to know what's going on and won't do anything meaningless. Of course, if they want to make a scene, he wouldn't mind beating them up again.

  He Lan Yan couldn't eat anymore and walked to Gao Yuan with her bowl, at this time she also figured out that among these people, only Gao Yuan was slightly easier to talk to, although his methods were a bit vicious.

  "Hey!" she shouted.

  "My name is Gao Yuan, I'm a soldier here, don't call me 'hey'!" Gao Yuan said seriously, looking up.

  The distant look made He Lan Yan burst out laughing uncontrollably, completely forgetting that she was still a prisoner of the man in front of her.

  "Alright, Officer Cao, you're not going to keep us locked up here forever, are you? Today's incident wasn't our fault, and didn't you say you were a reasonable person? If you're reasonable, then you shouldn't be arresting us."

  "Great!" Gaoyuan stood up, "Having eaten and drunk enough, it's just right to come and reason with you all!"