Chapter 161

Sun Manning came over.

This girl seemed to have been here for a good while, watching Li Heng help Li Xian press her acupoints quietly without making a sound.

It wasn't until Li Xian couldn't help but pull on Li Heng's hem in surprise that Sun Manning coughed lightly behind the crowd.

Following the cough, everyone turned their heads to look behind them in unison.

Seeing that it was Sun Manning, Liu Yue, Zhou Min, and Chen Guifen looked at each other, then cast their gazes onto Li Heng and Li Xian, the meaning in their eyes self-evident.

Li Heng raised his head and shouted happily: "Yo! Comrade Manning, a rare guest! You finally thought of coming to greet me."

Sun Manning curled her lips, staring fixedly at Li Xian.

Back in the country, this was the first time Li Xian had been sized up like this by a girl, her scalp tingling a bit, and she asked in a strange tone:

"Your name is Sun Manning, right? I've heard people mention you. Do you also like my Master?"

Once these nonsensical words were out, Liu Yue and the four guys including Zhang Bing collectively fell silent.

Because of her language barrier and the Western education she had received since childhood, Princess Xian's thinking was too different; she really wasn't on the same channel as everyone else, often speaking nonsense and responding inappropriately.

"I've also heard people mention you, but I don't like your Master."

Sun Manning paused when she reached this point, then said meaningfully: "And I'm not worthy of liking your Master; your Master only likes big beauties."

What is this and what is that?

What do you mean he only likes big beauties!

Damn it, she's just stating facts, and saying it in front of the class; does this old man still want his face?

Li Heng smiled at Li Xian and the other girls, then exchanged a few pleasantries with Zhang Bing before pulling Sun Manning away.

Watching the two walk away, Li Xian's brain gradually reacted, and she asked angrily: "Yueyue, Minmin, Guifen, help me analyze, what does this woman mean?

Is she saying I'm not pretty enough? Huh? Am I not prettier than her? What's the use of her being so tall, her chest isn't even as big as mine!"

Liu Yue: "..."

Zhou Min: "..."

Zhang Bing felt embarrassed to keep listening, so he walked away with a flushed face.

Chen Guifen glanced at Li Xian's chest, which was indeed bulging, at least a C-cup, and comforted her: "A great teacher produces a great student; our Princess Xian's language comprehension ability has indeed made a leap this month. Let's go, don't worry about her, let's go eat, otherwise, if we go late, the food will be gone."

Li Xian was still angry, and as she walked, she suddenly asked: "My Master only likes big beauties, is it true or false?"

Chen Guifen guessed: "I haven't seen Li Heng like anyone; maybe the other party was tricking you."

Li Xian remembered that Li Heng had personally admitted he liked a girl, yet he had rejected her three times—once with dark chocolate and twice explicitly. She was very frustrated.

Zhou Min felt her mood drop to the bottom: "What's wrong? You've always been optimistic and generous; you wouldn't be hit by a single sentence from a stranger, would you?"

"No."

Li Xian shook her head in distress, then looked at Liu Yue: "What kind of person is a big beauty? Must they be as pretty as Sister Yueyue?"

As a beauty herself, Zhou Min had self-awareness and knew she was far behind Liu Yue. This could be felt from the attention and lingering gazes of the boys in the class.

The girls in Statistics Class 1 were vaguely aware that during military training, whether it was the boys in their own class or the boys in the opposite phalanx, few didn't secretly look at Liu Yue.

Wherever Liu Yue's gaze inadvertently fell, the boys there would hurriedly shift their gaze. And when Liu Yue's gaze left that area, the boys' gazes would secretly swarm back.

Zhou Min was very aware of this phenomenon. Because of the repulsion between the same sex, she was a bit jealous at first, but after a month of military training, she slowly got used to it and accurately found her own positioning.

Zhou Min smiled half-jokingly: "Probably. Only someone one-in-ten-thousand like Yueyue can be called a big beauty."

Chen Guifen joked: "One-in-ten-thousand is an understatement; it has to be one-in-a-hundred-thousand to be a match."

Hearing the girls joking, Liu Yue didn't have much feeling in her heart.

Although she had a clear understanding of her beauty and knew that wherever she went, boys would secretly look at her, Li Heng was an exception.

How should she put it?

They stood face-to-face for military posture for at least 4 hours every day, which meant that after a month, they had spent over 120 hours looking at each other, but she hadn't seen any strangeness in Li Heng's eyes, nor any emotional ripples.

Since she was a child, her beauty had encountered a cold shoulder for the first time.

It was also the first time she had doubts about her own charm and felt a sense of frustration.

If it were an ordinary boy, when she looked at him, he would panic and avoid her gaze.

But she had looked at Li Heng intently for over 100 hours, and not only was Li Heng not shy, but he looked back at her generously.

Sometimes, when she felt time was dragging and she was about to give up on the military posture, they would occasionally compare who would blink first.

Well, this scene only happened recently when they were more familiar; it was a little secret between the two, and although no one said it explicitly, everything was understood, but they really had compared.

As for the result, it was about fifty-fifty.

Walking a hundred meters, Sun Manning said with a smile: "Your name is really famous."

Li Heng asked: "What's wrong?"

Sun Manning put her hands behind her back: "In the nearby companies, who doesn't know that the 9th Company has produced two big handsome guys?

When we chat in our dormitory at night, my roommates often talk about you two."

Seeing Li Heng didn't speak, Sun Manning leaned in: "Aren't you curious about how the girls discuss you behind your back? Don't you want to know who is more handsome between you and that Hu Ping in your class?"

Li Heng walked forward calmly: "I have to criticize you for this; you're superficial, classmate Sun Manning. At my level, I haven't relied on looks to make a living for a long time."

Sun Manning scanned him up and down several times and nodded seriously: "That's true. They say beauty is in the bones, not the skin; this saying is especially suitable for you.

Your literary temperament is too lethal to girls.

No wonder Chen Zijin has been so devoted to liking you for so many years, and no wonder you can entangle with big beauties like Song Yu and Xiao Han at the same time."

Li Heng didn't want to discuss the topic of the three girls and asked her: "Since you discovered I was in the 9th Company long ago, why didn't you come find me?"

Sun Manning asked back: "Then why didn't you come find me?"

After asking, both of them laughed out loud.

Li Heng said: "Let's go, let's go eat."

Sun Manning looked at his back and clicked her tongue: "Li Heng, you'd better show off less in public in the future; you were targeted by girls on the second day of school. What if your identity as a big writer is exposed later? I'm so worried you'll be knocked unconscious on the road and taken home by girls."

Li Heng said: "It's just one Li Xian, how could it be so exaggerated? If Li Xian had grown up in the country, there wouldn't be this drama."

During military training, everyone's appetite would increase significantly, some even doubling. The girl in the class who ate 5 bowls of rice was definitely not an exception.

Even for Li Heng, his appetite changed from his usual one and a half bowls to two and a half. Even so, not only did he not gain weight, but he actually lost three jin.

Sun Manning also served half a bowl more rice and said worriedly: "Will my stomach be stretched after military training, having to eat so much every day? I'm so afraid of getting fat."

Li Heng looked at her: "With your figure, gaining another ten jin wouldn't be a problem; what are you afraid of?"

Sun Manning looked down at her chest: "You're saying my chest is small, right? Li Xian's chest is bigger than mine."

Li Heng: "..."

It was indeed a bit small, but he wouldn't be stupid enough to say it. Furthermore, the identities of the two weren't suitable for mentioning it.

Sun Manning asked: "This month, have you gone to find Mai Sui?"

Li Heng shook his head: "No."

Sun Manning said: "You really have no conscience, not looking for me, not looking for Mai Sui. Hey, if Xiao Han and Song Yu were here, you'd definitely treasure them like something, and you'd definitely run over every day."

Li Heng wasn't hypocritical at all: "That's right, who told me to like them."

"Them?!!! You really have no shame." Sun Manning despised him fiercely twice, and after eating, she left without any hesitation.

Morning of the 28th.

After finishing breakfast following the training, the daily military posture training started again on the training ground.

Face-to-face, looking at this clean and flawless oval face at close range again, Li Heng had to admire that she indeed had extraordinary capital. She was very pretty, and the sunlight falling on her slightly curled eyelashes gave her pitch-black eyes a refreshing taste.

Suddenly, Liu Yue, who had always been calm and expressionless this month, blinked her eyes.

She blinked at him!

Li Heng was stunned, thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yue opened her mouth slightly again and said silently with lip-reading: "Am I pretty?"

Well, he saw it clearly this time.

Li Heng finally understood; this Liu Yue might be cold, but she was definitely not a rule-abiding good girl.

The instructor's gaze projected like an eagle and asked loudly: "Who made a mistake, step out yourself."

Seeing the instructor staring fixedly at him, Li Heng was speechless.

Seeing that military training was about to end, and things had been smooth sailing without being caught, except for running 5 laps with Hu Ping last time, he had basically never been punished. He didn't expect to drop the chain at the last moment.

He even speculated that this girl in front of him might have done it on purpose to get him punished.

Li Heng glanced at Liu Yue, who looked like it was none of her business, and raised his hand.

The instructor said: "Come to the front."

This era wasn't like later generations; no one would go against the instructor, so Li Heng had to walk to the open space between the two phalanxes.

The instructor asked: "Civil or martial?"

It was noon, who would choose martial? Wouldn't running laps be exhausting?

Li Heng said: "Civil."

The instructor asked: "Singing or dancing?"

Of course it was singing; he was good at this. Before the college entrance examination, he had even led 225 to make a fool of himself on the command platform.

The instructor personally chose the song: "Revolutionary song, can you sing 'Honghu Water Waves'?"

In this era, if anyone said they couldn't sing revolutionary songs, it would definitely be a political error. Whether they sang well was another matter; of course, he said he could.

Facing the attention of the two phalanxes, Li Heng, who was used to big scenes, wasn't nervous.

He saw him brew his emotions, cleared his throat, and started singing:

Honghu water, waves, waves, waves, waves...

On the banks of Honghu, it is, ah, it is my hometown...

Early in the morning, the boat goes, ah, to cast the net...

At night, it returns with a full hold of fish, ah, ah...

Li Heng started with a bang. Not only was his singing excellent, but his emotions were delicate and in place, expressing the nostalgia for his hometown and the yearning for a better life in the song vividly.

After the song, not only did the two instructors shout loudly: "Well sung!"

The applause from the two phalanxes lasted for a long time with "papa-papa".

Li Heng glanced at the culprit, Liu Yue, and found that the corner of this girl's mouth actually hooked, revealing a hint of triumphant smile.

Even though this smile flashed and disappeared, very briefly, and even though this smile wasn't so obvious, it was still captured by Li Heng.

Damn it!

She really thought he was living too comfortably and framed him.

Returning to the team, Li Heng kept staring fiercely at Liu Yue.

But who was Liu Yue?

She had been stared at by the opposite sex since she was a child; she was long used to it. Facing Li Heng's malicious gaze, she was completely unmoved.

Li Heng looked for a long time until his eyes were tired, and in the end, he gained nothing. This girl didn't show any flaws, so he had to give up.

During the political exam at night to test the month's learning results, although Li Heng didn't listen carefully in class, he was definitely the fastest at doing the questions. After finishing and checking once, there was still a small half of the time left.

Seeing him get up to hand in his paper and leave, Liu Yue tilted her head and stared at his back for a while, then followed him to hand in her paper and leave the classroom.

When they reached the corner of the stairs one after another, Liu Yue behind him called him: "Li Heng, wait a moment."

Li Heng was a bit surprised; he didn't expect her to hand in her paper too, so he turned sideways and asked: "Company Commander, what's the matter?"

Liu Yue came closer, her hands folded on her lower abdomen, stood obediently, and introduced herself softly: "My name is Liu Yue."

Li Heng said: "I know, Company Commander."

Hearing this, Liu Yue's eyes narrowed with a smile: "During the class meeting last time, you introduced yourself and said you could play the flute and erhu.

The day after tomorrow afternoon, after the military training competition, there will be an art performance. You represent our 9th Company and perform a program."

Looking at each other for a long time, Li Heng asked: "There are so many people in the class who have talents, why find me?"

Liu Yue didn't avoid it: "You have a good image, good temperament, and your talents are also outstanding."

Li Heng waved his hand: "Find Hu Ping; his image is also not bad, and he plays the guitar well."

Liu Yue said: "The military camp can't find a guitar, but there are quite a few erhus."

Li Heng turned to leave.

Liu Yue scanned the surroundings, and seeing that there was no one in the stairwell, she simply walked in front of him in two steps and blocked him: "Hu Ping is unreliable; I don't want to find him."

Why is Hu Ping unreliable?

Once the matter of him swapping seats with her during military training was exposed, who in the class didn't know Hu Ping's wolfish ambition?

I remember Liu Yue even turned back and gave him a cold look at the time.

Li Heng pondered: "Then you go up yourself; your conditions are not bad."

Liu Yue said: "I am the host of the art performance."

Seeing his surprise, Liu Yue smiled: "Watch the News Broadcast on Shanghai TV; my mother is a broadcaster, and I've been influenced by it since I was a child."

Li Heng went downstairs, and she followed.

Li Heng continued to walk for a while, and she still followed.

Li Heng was finally helpless: "Alright, stop following; help me prepare an erhu."

Liu Yue said: "I've already helped you prepare it."

Li Heng's eyes widened: "Heh, so you're playing this act of acting first and reporting later with me?"

Liu Yue explained: "I analyzed the list of art performances carefully. There are singing, sketches, recitations, magic, and dance programs, but we are missing an instrumental performer like you.

There are girls who can play the piano, but there is no piano in the military camp, so I came to find you. Also..."

Li Heng asked casually: "Also what?"

Liu Yue said: "Before we set off, the counselor told me that if I couldn't find anyone for the art performance, I should find you."

Li Heng was surprised: "You and the counselor are very familiar?"

Liu Yue said: "Not very familiar, but I've known him since I was a child."

Li Heng asked again: "Is the erhu easy to find?"

Liu Yue said: "Some leaders' hobbies are playing the erhu. Not only that, but traditional instruments like harmonicas and flutes are all available in the military art troupe."

Li Heng nodded and walked toward the dormitory.

Liu Yue shouted from behind: "What repertoire do you plan to perform? I'll write it down."

Li Heng didn't speak.

Seeing this, Liu Yue took a bottle of soda from her bag, caught up, and stuffed it to him.

Li Heng glanced at her; she still had some sincerity, knowing that after pitting him, she had prepared soda. After pondering for a moment, he said: "Let's do 'Erquan Yingyue'."

"'Erquan Yingyue'?"

This time it was Liu Yue's turn to be a bit surprised. Her implication was whether he should change to another piece.

After all, the difficulty of playing a classic piece like 'Erquan Yingyue' well is not small; it's not something an ordinary person can grasp.

Li Heng waved his hand: "I've been in contact with the erhu since I was 7. If you don't trust me, change to someone else."

After saying that, Li Heng didn't pay any more attention to her and went straight back to the dormitory.

At night, when Hu Ping and the others returned, Li Heng, who was reading literature materials, stretched and remembered something, so he asked:

"By the way, Old Hu, let me ask you something."

Hu Ping took off his shoes and got on the bed: "Old Li, what is it?"

Li Heng asked: "Do you usually watch TV? Do you know who the female broadcaster of the Shanghai News Broadcast is?"

Hu Ping asked: "Are you asking about a man? Or a woman?"

Li Heng said: "A woman."

Hu Ping replied: "There are two. One is from my own clan, named Hu Yue, and the other is named Huang Xuqing."

When he reached this point, Hu Ping added with a thief's eyes: "This Huang Xuqing is very cultured and very famous in our Shanghai. Many big men in our area love to watch the 'News Broadcast' she reports the most."

At this time, Li Guoyi, who entered the door last, chimed in: "I know, I've seen this Huang Xuqing. During the summer vacation, I went to play at my uncle's house and saw this woman on TV. She is indeed a middle-aged stunner."

Tang Dailing said: "She's already middle-aged, old enough to be your mother, yet you still talk about her like that. Accumulate some virtue."

Li Guoyi raised his hands in surrender: "Old Tang, I'm praising her, praising her. Do you understand praise? Can an ordinary woman compare to a middle-aged stunner?"

"If I were over 40 and you sincerely praised me as a stunner, I would immediately kneel down and call you Dad."

Everyone laughed until they fell over; this guy is a living treasure.

Seeing that military training was only one day away from ending, a feeling of reluctance suddenly spread in the dormitory.

Zhou Zhangming said: "It's tiring, and my feet are worn out, but the harvest is not small. I feel like I've become stronger."

Li Guang said: "I weighed myself yesterday; I lost 8 jin."

Li Heng asked: "How could you lose so much?"

Li Guang said: "I don't know. I eat no less than you guys every day, but I'm losing weight rapidly. Damn it! I finally gained some meat during the summer vacation, and now it's all gone."

Hu Ping said: "My biggest harvest is being punished to run 150 laps, seeing all the girls in the school."

Li Guoyi slapped his thigh fiercely and lamented: "Old Hu, you're not righteous. Why didn't you tell me about such a good thing earlier? We are brothers; I'd be willing to accompany you to be punished and run. We share blessings and hardships together."

Hu Ping poked his head out from the bed: "I won't miss you. I've already made contact with that girl from the 11th Company. When the time comes, our two dormitories will strive to become a joint dormitory."

Li Heng asked: "Old Hu, you made your move so fast?"

Hu Ping said smugly: "It's not that I made my move fast. Two days ago, when I was walking outside, I happened to run into her. I found that the classmate next to her looked familiar. After some introduction, I realized she was my junior high school classmate."

"Damn! You stepped on dog shit luck when you went out." Li Guang was extremely jealous.

Tang Dailing asked: "Don't you like Liu Yue? Why are you fickle?"

Before Hu Ping could speak, Li Guoyi had already started to expose his old bottom: "During military training, Old Hu wrote three love letters to Liu Yue, and all of them were thrown into the trash can by Liu Yue intact. So sad!"

Everyone was stunned and looked at Hu Ping in confusion. They didn't expect this dog thing to have done so many things without a sound.

Zhou Zhangming was curious: "Old Li, how do you know so clearly?"

Li Guoyi spoke with spit flying: "20 days ago, when I came back from the toilet, I happened to see Old Hu sneaking out with a letter, so I followed him out of curiosity. I didn't expect him to be handing a love letter to Liu Yue."

At this time, Hu Ping's face was livid: "Did you really see Liu Yue throw the love letter into the trash can?"

"Absolutely true, I really saw it. Every time you handed over the love letter and left, Liu Yue would reappear and throw the love letter into the trash can. I was afraid of being discovered by you, so I hid behind the bushes and waited for you to leave before coming out. I saw the whole process clearly."

Saying this, Li Guoyi lewdly fished out three love letters from under the pillow and placed them on Hu Ping's bed: "Old Hu, your handwriting is quite atmospheric; it's a waste to throw it in the trash can, so I helped you pick it back up."

"Don't worry! I swear to the Wang Run, I haven't opened them; I don't know what you wrote!"

After Hu Ping checked the three letters, they were indeed intact, and then he fell onto the bed without making any sound.

This topic was a bit damaging to the atmosphere, so Li Heng shifted the topic at the right time: "People swear to Heaven, to God, or at worst to the Bodhisattva or the Jade Emperor. Why do you swear to the Wang Run?"

Li Guoyi patted his chest and said reasonably: "I am a dignified youth of China, why would I swear to a bunch of old vegetables in my prime?"

"Of course, I'm looking for a woman, and the most powerful and beautiful woman at that."

Zhang Bing asked: "How do you know the Wang Run is the most beautiful? Shouldn't Chang'e be the prettiest?"

Li Guoyi said: "Brother Bing, you are ignorant. Think about the ancient empresses; which one wasn't the mother of the world? Which one wasn't the most beautiful among the three thousand beauties in the harem? If she wasn't beautiful, would the Jade Emperor have taken a fancy to her?"

Zhou Zhangming couldn't listen anymore: "You hammer! The Jade Emperor and the Wang Run are not husband and wife. In the Taoist system, the Wang Run is also known as the Western Queen Mother and is the leader of all female immortals."

Li Guoyi stiffened his neck: "Hehehe, Old Zhou, you don't understand. I don't care if they are husband and wife; it's enough that she is the head of all immortals, proving that I swore to the right person, grabbing the biggest one."

Hearing this nonsense, Li Heng and the others were collectively speechless.

Unknowingly, military training came to an end.

During this process, although it was very tiring and bitter, looking back again, a feeling that couldn't be described in words arose in Li Heng's heart.

University military training was over, and it would never happen again; he felt dazed and lost.

On September 29th, all freshmen participated in live-fire target practice, with 5 bullets each. Li Heng scored 37 rings, a decent result.

The most awesome one was Tang Dailing, who hit an incredible 45 rings, the only seedling in the 9th Company to hit over 40 rings. The instructor even said that his talent would be promising in the army, and perhaps he could become a special forces soldier after systematic training.

On the morning of the 30th, the 9th Company participated in the military training competition as scheduled and won a good result of 3rd place. The military leaders specially issued a prize flag.

When Company Commander Liu Yue received the prize flag on behalf of the 9th Company, the whole company boiled over, applause thundered and lasted for more than two minutes; their hands were truly red and swollen from clapping.

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