It’s just a coincidence that Jiang Xuan sent Lin Zimao a calming spray.
Lin Zimao contacted He Ling, the calming spray is the medicine prepared by the school.
In previous years, there were many new students suffered severe sunburn due to insufficient preparation, moreover, most of the new students came from other planets, and there are signs of acclimatization1水土不服 (shuǐ tǔ bù fú): to be unaccustomed to a new place; to not be acclimatized; be unaccustomed to the situation or type of weather of a new place; Can not adapt to the climate conditions or eating habits of a place., He Ling is also afraid that something will happen to the class she is in charge of.
She is very responsible, as soon as Lin Zimao said he was sunburned, she immediately prepared to give him medicine, but before delivering the medicine, she had a terrible stomachache, and she had to rest for a night because her menstrual period came, so she gave the medicine to Jiang Xuan, and incidentally also mentioned the matter of buying sunscreen for Lin Zimao.
Jiang Xuan has no reason to shirk when his classmates are unwell.
However, he really didn’t expect that Lin Zimao didn’t even prepare sunscreen, but thinking that he didn’t even remember to bring cold medicine, it seemed reasonable that he didn’t bring sunscreen, it’s rare to see people who are so inattentive to themselves.
As a result, it was Jiang Xuan who sent the spray to Lin Zimao.
Other than the sound of explanations in the documentary and the booming sound in the war clips on the training ground, there are also the voices of new students whispering below.
He pointed to his neck and whispered: “Senior, I can’t see it, you do a good man to the end.”
Looking closely at Lin Zimao, Jiang Xuan noticed that his eyes were very bright, took the spray and said: “Turn around, bow your head.”
Lin Zimao turned around obediently, lowered his head and exposed his sunburnt neck, Jiang Xuan gently pressed the spray and sprayed it on his slender neck.
The white spray sticks to Lin Zimao’s neck little by little, he only felt that his neck was very cool, no longer itchy nor painful, very comfortable.
Jiang Xuan asked him after spraying: “Where else”
Lin Zimao shook his head: “No more, thank you.”
Jiang Xuan handed him the spray, then quietly left.
Probably because the entire training ground was dimly lit, no one has noticed that Jiang Xuan has been here.
Lin Zimao turned his head to look at his leaving back, then turned back and continued watching the documentary.
The documentary was edited passionately, but it is also tragic, the beginning is the war, the middle is the explanation, and ends with statistics on casualties and weapons consumption.
The unification of the Alliance is not so easy, the world was conquered by the ancestors, and a hundred years of peace is hard-won2來之不易 (lái zhī bù yì): to not come easily; to be hard-won or hard-earned; not easily come by; not be easily achieved/obtained/got..
This documentary can’t be found on the Internet, and it contains many unreleased footage.
After returning to the dormitory, Lin Zimao’s roommates were still immersed in the tragic atmosphere of the documentary, but soon, the news just sent by the class group completely pierced their feelings.
Jiang Xuan: Please don’t forget to write a letter of self-criticism for the students involved in fighting today, submit it to me during training at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.
Lin Zimao, who began to feel sleepy in bed: “…”
Forgot about writing the letter of self-criticism.
They came to military training with only communicators, didn’t bring a laptop, can only write the letter of self-criticism by hand.
Everyone in their dormitory was involved in the fight, write, what else can they do.
Lin Zimao took out his usual pen and notebook from his bag, leaned against the wall with his notebook on his lap and wrote slowly.
After writing for half an hour, he only managed to grind out two or three hundred words, and he became sleepy.
It’s really difficult to write a letter of self-criticism, so he put his notebook aside and prepared to sleep.
Just laying down, another notification popped up on the social software on the communicator.
[Jiang Xuan applied to add you as a friend through mecha maintenance class two.]
Lin Zimao was so sleepy that his eyes were tearing up, after clicking through his application, he fell asleep with his head tilted while holding the communicator.
Someone’s alarm is ringing, and Lin Zimao was woken up.
As soon as his eyes opened, the sky is already bright.
It’s time for a morning run soon, everyone goes to wash up like a walking dead, too many things happened yesterday, the whole body is sore, can’t lift their legs.
Lin Zimao’s body was neither sore nor painful, his cold was better, but the sunburned nape of his neck is not only itchy, but also painful.
When it was touched, the skin peels off.
Before going out, he asked Wang Yi to spray a calming spray on his neck, it should be able to last for a while, he’ll put the spray on after after eating.
Didn’t see Jiang Xuan this morning, only Yu Laoshi, who has dark circles on his face and hasn’t slept enough, Senior Sister He Ling is not here either.
During the morning training, everyone in Guo Xingwei’s dormitory was late and was punished by the instructor to run an extra lap.
Lin Zimao looks very comfortable.
Yesterday’s ointment is very effective, the corners of Lin Zimao’s damaged mouth were scabbed and not swollen, so he can eat breakfast properly.
He finished his breakfast, went back to the dormitory to get a water cup and spray, and also put on Wang Yi’s sunscreen.
At this moment, Wang Yi is biting his pencil and asking others in distress: “Have you finished writing your letter of self-criticism?”
The four students with higher student numbers nodded unanimously.
No. 1 Su Ran said: “Finished writing last night.”
Wang Yi asked him for the letter of self-criticism, then copy it, he doesn’t like writing essays.
Finally, he made up a thousand words, Wang Yi asked Lin Zimao who was sitting on the chair indifferently: “Have you finished writing? I see you went to bed very early last night.”
Lin Zimao shrugged and said: “Haven’t finished writing.”
Wang Yi asked him: “Then why don’t you write?”
Lin Zimao said as a matter of course: “Isn’t this because falling asleep?”
Wang Yi urged him: “There are still twenty minutes before training start, we have to hand it over to Senior Jiang later, you hurry up and finish it.”
Lin Zimao nodded: “You’re right, I’d better write a few more lines.”
He took out his notebook again, wrote and drew on it, then tore off a page, folded it in half, and put it into his training uniform.
Wang Yi still wanted to read what he wrote, but he didn’t see a single word.
The sun hangs high again, heralding the official start of the next morning’s training.
The Student Council was very busy today, they were busy in the training ground early in the morning.
Half an hour before the start of the military training, the instructors were already in place and helped the students of the Student Council put up the sun umbrellas one by one.
When the new students arrived at the training ground, they found a sun umbrella erected in front of each class, a table, several chairs, as well as a water dispenser were placed under each sun umbrella.
There is a place for the new student’s water cups, so they don’t have to put them on the ground randomly, they also don’t have to run far to fetch water.
Jiang Xuan came over on time at nine o’clock to collect the letter of self-criticism, when Lin Zimao handed the folded paper to him, he unfolded it and glanced at it, the one with the least writing was his.
Director Liang obviously didn’t forget this matter, he called each of them by name during break time and let them read the self-criticism in front of the broadcast.
Guo Xingwei was the first one.
Wang Yi complained to Lin Zimao while drinking water: “Director’s move is too ruthless, during training, no one dared to laugh, specially choose the rest time to let everyone laugh at us, I don’t want to go up and read the manuscript, so shameful.”
Boys at the age of eighteen or nineteen just want to save face, Director Liang is giving them a display of strength at the first encounter3下馬威 (xià mǎ wēi): (figurative, historical) display of power immediately upon assuming office (in order to warn against insubordination); (figurative) initial show of strength; display of strength at the first encounter; Originally refers to the prestige that an official showed to his subordinates when he first arrived, and later generally refers to showing his power to the opponent from the beginning., whoever won’t give him face, he won’t give face to anyone, even fighting when they are in college!
Lin Zimao patted him and said encouragingly: “Calm down, you will be famous after reading it, still afraid that you won’t be able to get a girlfriend in the future?”
Wang Yi thought for a moment: “It seems reasonable when you say it like that.” Suddenly aroused his interest in reading the self-criticism.
Wang Yi the second to last to go up, everyone’s self-criticisms are similar4大同小異 (dà tóng xiǎo yì): almost the same; almost identical; similar in most respects; virtually the same; differing only on small points; be more alike than different; be very much the same but with minor differences; be more or less the same., with a good attitude of admitting mistakes, and the laughter is gradually decreasing.
Lin Zimao was the last in line, he stood in front of the black microphone and cleared his throat.
“Hello everyone, my name is Lin Zimao. The wind breeze is gentle and the sunshine is bright5風和日麗 (fēng hé rì lì): moderate wind, beautiful sun (idiom); with the breeze gently blowing and the sun shining; fine sunny weather, esp. in springtime; the bright sunshine and gentle breezes; warm and sunny weather., the autumn sky is clear and the air is crisp6秋高氣爽 (qiū gāo qì shuǎng): clear and refreshing autumn weather; the autumn sky is clear and the air is crisp; the sky in autumn is high and the air brisk―invigorating autumn climate., I’m very glad that everyone is sitting here and listening to me read the self-criticism. I know that fighting is wrong, now I have deeply realized the seriousness of fighting, and I will never make the same mistake again in the future, I will definitely change it next time, and change it to a healthy activity, such as…”
Someone below jokingly asked: “Like what, falling in love?”
Lin Zimao smiled gently: “Good idea.”
The people below asked again: “Do you mind if I be your boyfriend?”
Lin Zimao said bluntly: “You’re not on my list of options.”
The person who asked the question turned red, this is embarrassing!
The new students below who were bored listening to the review immediately burst into laughter!
The more Director Liang listened, the more wrong he felt, isn’t this going up to read self-criticism? It’s not a dating press conference!
“Someone go pull him away from the stage for me, he is going to read a self-criticism, what is this for?”
However, the new students were all laughing, the exhaustion brought by the military training seemed to be swept away7一掃而空 (yī sǎo ér kōng): to sweep clean; to be swept clean away; to clean out; sweep clean all at once; clear off., Yu Laoshi personally went to take Lin Zimao away.
Lin Zimao’s self-criticism was read less than a hundred words, and it just so happens that he writes very little.
The new students all knew that Lin Zimao’s speech on stage was a joke, so they didn’t take it seriously.
When Lin Zimao returned, he also received applause from many classmates, who thought he was funny.
The serious military training had a moment of relaxation, breaking the dullness of their class for the past two days, the fight incident was temporarily over.
When Lin Zimao passed by Jiang Xuan, he glanced at him, Jiang Xuan didn’t say anything.
It’s worth mentioning that Jiang Xuan’s clothes today are not covered with cat hair.
He Ling said to Jiang Xuan with a smile: “This junior is a bit cute.”
Jiang Xuan unscrewed his own canteen to drink water, where is it cute, troublesome one.
Then, he took out a sunscreen from his bag and handed it to He Ling: “You give it to him.”
He Ling said: “Thank you, I was going to buy it, didn’t expect to trouble you, I’ll let the junior to send you the money.”
Jiang Xuan said: “No, don’t say I bought it.”
He Ling thought that Jiang Xuan might not want to be misunderstood by his juniors, he was afraid of incurring peach blossom debt8桃花債 (táo huā zhài): T/N: Peach blossoms are used as a symbol of love in Chinese culture, so it can also be translated as love debt; There’s also a popular danmei novel, Peach Blossom Debt, the storyline is Song Yao’s long journey through transmigrations, to and fro between immortal and mortal world. The fiction depicts the struggling of several main characters and their entangled destinations (their “debts” to each other) and finally comes to a happy end., so she agreed.
Then Jiang Xuan fell silent, he looked down at the social messages.
It’s from Cheng Chen, probably because it’s break time, still have time to send him a message.
Cheng Chen:
[Brother Jiang Xuan, are you free this evening? I want to tell you something.]
Jiang Xuan:
[What is it?]
Cheng Chen:
[It’s not convenient to say on the social account, I’ll wait for you under the crooked ginkgo tree in the small building at half past eight in the evening, it’s very important.]
Jiang Xuan:
[Fine.]
After the morning training, Lin Zimao got the sunscreen bought by He Ling, he immediately wanted to transfer the money to the other party, but He Ling said no, it’s not worth a lot of money, just treat it as a gift for her junior.
Seeing that she didn’t say anything, Lin Zimao had no choice but to invite her to dinner next time, He Ling said yes.
The military training in the morning was about to kill half of Lin Zimao’s life, as soon as he touched the bed, he fell asleep without even taking a shower.
Afternoon training is still the same, the new students are exhausted like a dog.
However, Wang Yi was in good spirits, during the break, he quietly asked Lin Zimao: “Can you accompany me to a place tonight?”
Lin Zimao is not very enthusiastic: “What place, what are you going to do?”
Wang Yi said shyly: “Didn’t we read a self-criticism today, someone add my social account and ask me out.”
Lin Zimao didn’t understand: “Someone asks you out, you just go? Be reserved, boy.”
Wang Yi said excitedly: “It’s not important, what’s important is to know who asked me out, what’s the point of being reserved at this time.”
Lin Zimao squints at him: “I don’t want to delay my bedtime.” He doesn’t want to go.
Wang Yi said: “Come with me, it’s the first time in my life, a big event!”
Lin Zimao was thunderstruck by the brawny man acting like a baby: “Not going, tired.”
Wang Yi shook his arm and said: “Let’s go, let’s go.”
Lin Zimao was thunderstruck again, he shook off his hand: “Fine, fine, fine, I’ll accompany you, go where?”
Wang Yi was afraid of others know, said in a small voice: “There is a crooked ginkgo tree just behind the smallest building, at half past eight in the evening, the evening activities just ended.”
Lin Zimao was not very interested, so he gave a perfunctory oh.
Because Wang Yi was too excited, he performed well in the afternoon military training, and was pulled out by the instructor to demonstrate.
While Lin Zimao raised his legs lazily, his movements were very irregular, and was pulled out by the instructor as a negative example.
Someone laughed at Lin Zimao, and was pulled out by the instructor to be Lin Zimao’s training partner.
Lin Zimao mocked the other party.
That’s right, the person who laughed at Lin Zimao was Guo Xingwei.
The two mock each other while training.
Jiang Xuan went out for a small meeting, when he came back, he saw Lin Zimao and Guo Xingwei practicing kicking goose step9正步 (zhèng bù): Goose step (for military parades), a special marching step which is performed during formal military parades and other ceremonies. While marching in parade formation, troops swing their legs in unison off the ground while keeping each leg rigidly straight..
With great difficulty, they stay up until the end of training in the afternoon, there’s still another hour in the evening to sing songs to each other.
Lin Zimao was about to sneak back to the dormitory, but was grabbed by Wang Yi: “Brother Zimao, under the ginkgo tree, under the ginkgo tree!”
Lin Zimao who was dragged away: What does your falling in love have to do with me.
The author has something to say:
Jiang Xuan: Under the ginkgo tree, you, me, him, him.
LoL, for some reason, that reminds me of a song from 2012 Taiwanese-Chinese romance film, Love.
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