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The Lucky Star Control Corporation in the 70s (64)
For the first time, Yin Xu unconditionally trusted the person next to him before he knew the factual details. This person was his wife, his true companion. A strong sense of pride surfaced in his heart, but his face was impassive as he cooperated with Chu Xiang, waiting for Uncle Chai to give them an explanation.
Uncle Chai did not know who had set off what and could not find the pocket watch with the list hidden in it either. He was on the verge of exploding like a volcanic eruption, so angry that he wanted to kill someone, thus, he was in no mood to deal with Chu Xiang. Since it was not their doing, he did not want to keep them any longer and let them pry more into his side of things, so he sent them away that day.
Of course, the promise to deliver the goods had to be done, so he directly signed a single bill with his private seal stamped on it for Chu Xiang. With this, Chu Xiang could directly pick up the goods within his sphere of influence. The amount she could get access to was huge too. This could be considered as his compensation for her as a partner.
This move was to Chu Xiang’s liking, and she left the manor with the rest while keeping up her disgruntled attitude.
Only when the four of them were left alone and they even moved to two cities did they regain their character and showed a happy look. Li Dong excitedly whispered, “Sister Xiang, did you really? How did you do it?”
Chu Xiang raised an eyebrow and smiled, “Secret.”
Li Dong and Liang Jie are very curious. so they nudged Yin Xu with their elbows, “Hey? You don’t want to know? Why aren’t you asking?”
“The completion of the task is enough. There is no need to ask for details. The fewer people know about the secret, the better.” Yin Xu pushed them both away further to keep them from bothering Chu Xiang.
Liang Jie said with wide eyes, “Captain, we are a team. You can’t let us know too?”
“Who told you guys to accomplish nothing?” Yin Xu shrugged his shoulders, “Consider this a practical exercise for you two. Remember the experience this time, and go back to write a summation – one from each of you.”
“What summary? We didn’t even do anything!” The two of them immediately screamed in agony. They could care less about how Chu Xiang did it anymore.
They returned to the unit without incident, and the first thing Chu Xiang did was to turn in the list, with Yin Xu accompanying her as the squad leader and presenting the mission to the commander. However, when Yin Xu saw that the list of partners had so many names on it, he could not help but freeze even though he was usually calm.
That day Chu Xiang said she had found the list in the study and memorized it all. Yin Xu had thought it would be easy to memorize just a few names, but there were hundreds of names! This is the list of all the people Uncle Chai has worked with over the decades!
When the commander asked this question, Chu Xiang replied with a smile, “It’s just good talent, I suppose.”
The regiment commander never expected that this annoying reason that had choked the soldiers countless times would also choke him this time.
Yin Xu pushed the list in front of the regimental commander and said with a smile, “Chu Xiang is the treasure of our regiment. Regimental commander, you can’t let Chu Xiang be treated unfairly in the future.”
The regimental commander’s face reddened and he coughed lightly and said, “What differential treatment? There is no unfairness. Your wife already stole the title of King of Soldiers from you, and you still have the nerve to joke here. Go go go, go out and train!”
Chu Xiang was surprised, “We worked so hard and risked so much to achieve success, shouldn’t we be given a holiday? Or at least let us go to supervise the others’ training. I do not want to train.”
The regimental commander was stunned again and pointed a finger at her, “You, girl, it’s the first time I’ve seen you justify not wanting to train like that. All right, meritorious one, go and supervise the training of others. You can’t be seen in public for the time being, so don’t think about the vacation. When all these people are caught, I’ll give you a long vacation so that you can go back to visit your family. How’s that? That’s not a bad deal, right?”
Chu Xiang and Yin Xu stood up and saluted, “We’ll listen to the commander’s arrangement!”
All the soldiers in the barracks had long lost their will to train. Ever since they got the confirmation of the completion of the mission from Liang Jie’s mouth, they were all in bad mood. Wasn’t it a high-risk mission? Wasn’t it a super difficult mission? Those people have only been out for a few days, so how did they come back unharmed? They also heard that the enemies were not alerted, giving them more time to take action. This accomplishment was beyond miraculous.
They have been waiting to ask, so once they saw Chu Xiang and Yin Xu, they all gathered around and asked them what they had encountered.
Yin Xu quickly pushed them away and said, “All of you stand at attention! Are you supposed to pry into confidential missions? Go back and train well, and try to be selected for the next mission!”
Chu Xiang clapped her hands and smiled, “Don’t you all want to learn my training method? The regimental commander ordered Yin Xu and me to supervise your training. Now I will organize a training regiment for you, how about it?”
“Yes, yes, yes! Sounds good!”
Chu Xiang crossed her arms in front of her chest, surveyed them, and said: “But I’ll say it in advance, if you want to quickly become stronger than others, you must put in ten times, a hundred times the hard work. If there’s anyone that can’t handle it and then want to quit later, you might as well quit now, so as not to affect everyone’s morale.”
“I won’t quit! The one who quits is a loser!”
“Exactly! Whoever withdraws is a loser!”
Everyone’s enthusiasm was instantly ignited. They were really curious about how Chu Xiang became so strong. She was obviously very weak before taking the university entrance exam. So how did she train to this extent within a short time?
They began to train according to Chu Xiang’s arrangements. For six hours in the afternoon, they went up and down the mountain, climbed the wall, and plowed the pit, thoroughly experiencing the “devil’s” training.
By the time the dinner bell rang, each of them actually felt a sense of “liberation.” They finally understood the truth with their wretched appearance – don’t mess with Chu Xiang even if you had to piss off the world. She was really vindictive and would hold a grudge for a long time.
They were so brain-dead to give Chu Xiang a hard time in the first place. If they had the chance to do it all over again, they would have bowed their heads and shouted “Boss” at the first meeting!