Chapter 654 - 261: With him here, do you still lack people?_3

"Eh, heard you took a leave? Just reported in? Which leadership approved it?"

"Promoted in the first year! It’s been a long time since our whole corps had such a young cadre! If you become a big leader in the future, remember to take good care of us!"

Fang Huai chatted with everyone with a cheerful disposition, his tone modest. Zhang Dan also chipped in from time to time, and gradually everyone formed a large circle.

Qiao Xiaole, not being from our whole corps, couldn’t join the conversation and could only watch as Zhang Dan intentionally or unintentionally spoke with Fang Huai, standing there like an abandoned orphan.

Before long, Qiao Xiaole angrily left.

Fang Huai noticed his departure and just laughed silently to himself.

Not bad, lacking some of that second generation official’s self-entitlement.

Tianjin is a vice-military level corps; to be promoted to vice-corps head would mean becoming a divisional level official. So, his dad should also be at the level of a vice divisional officer now. If it were Wen Jingsong, who’s also a child of a vice divisional level cadre, he would never show such tolerance.

At least in this situation, he controlled his temper and didn’t cause trouble, remembering he was a soldier.

He’s someone I can get along with.

When Qiao Xiaole had left, Fang Huai and Zhang Dan immediately distanced themselves and stopped initiating conversations, responding only when spoken to before claiming they had things to do and then leaving.

Zhang Dan wanted to keep him a bit longer but couldn’t find the words to say it.

Qin Ting, who was chatting with others, saw Fang Huai leaving and quickly went to Zhang Dan’s side, whispering:

"Why did he leave? Weren’t you just talking nicely, standing by your side? Did you get his phone number?"

Zhang Dan shook her head blankly, a bit confused.

"I feel like he wasn’t here for me..."

Upon hearing this, Qin Ting got somewhat annoyed: "You fool! If not for you, then who? Surely not for that dullard Qiao Xiaole?"

...

Studying is a more difficult task to stick with than training.

You can be absent-minded during training, but not while studying.

In this life, Fang Huai had been trying to change his past-life habit of becoming restless after just five minutes of sitting down to read or look at newspapers, aiming to study and read seriously.

But doing problems was truly different; math, physics, chemistry, with so much knowledge missing, he had no choice but to refer to materials.

Even with a strong memory, one needed corresponding logical thinking ability and foundational knowledge. When he couldn’t find certain information, he had to trade for it, which made him open the military merit shop several times after studying all day, slowly seeking out those knowledge gaps and using the least military merit value to resolve them.

But even trying to spend as little as possible and striving to learn on his own, military merit value was still a limiting factor.

By noon the next day, he could only grit his teeth and exchange for that First Class Merit.

The First Class Merit turned into 200 military merit points, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief again.

Earn merits, quickly! Police Dispatch just isn’t enough!

Luckily, Friday afternoon was Physical Ability class, temporarily halting the depletion.

Finally, physical training.

At two o’clock in the afternoon, troops from the dormitories came out, being led into the training ground.

Even with training scheduled in different times and batches, the playground still seemed crowded.

That afternoon, the Big Team Captain ordered that Squadron Two not run Three kilometers but Five Kilometers.

Comrades from Squad Nine of Squadron Eight rubbed their hands with glee.

"Hey, Fang Huai, Five Kilometers is Bro Tao’s strong suit!"

"Right! Aren’t you Number 1? We’re soldiers! On the training ground, he who keeps up is Number 1!"

"Exactly! Bro Tao, lap him twice! Squad leader, you just need to lap him once!"

Fang Huai, hearing their boundless enthusiasm, also knew that over the past two days, they had seen him reading and doing problems whenever he was free, classifying him as a "research-oriented talent."

They were waiting to crush him.

Well, let’s give it a try.

At that moment, two middle-aged men slowly entered the playground.

One of them looked anxious.

"Instructor Chen, this school exchange, we must participate? Among this batch of students, there are not many with outstanding physical abilities! How about we just don’t take part this time?"

Principal Chen turned to look at him and smiled.

"How can you say there isn’t anyone? Didn’t one just arrive? With him here, do you still lack people?"