Chapter 642 - Giving Her A Surprise
Chapter 642: Giving Her A Surprise
When the students of Grade 11 Class 1 noticed Ye Jian standing underneath the red flag, she looked like an honorable soldier guarding the borders, her body was straight and upright, and she stood at shoulders with the red flag, the aura she was exuding made others revere her, and it was precisely that aura that made everyone else bowled over.
The current Ye Jian, was the unique and unmatched Ye Jian, with such a brave stature, who would be able to compare against her?
Xia Jinyuan stood a distance away while sporting a smile on his handsome face that wore a complex expression; he silently focused his attention on the girl who had grown with time. In his eyes, no one would be able to measure up to her; she managed to hold up a sky of her own with her frail shoulders, little fox, you’re amazing!
Two instructors stopped by her side; then, he noticed they saluted at Ye Jian with smooth motions, who was standing watch underneath the Five-starred red flag. Then he saw the duo tilted their strong chins upwards and saluted at the red flag dancing in the wind, Xia Jinyuan also straightened his body and saluted at the red flag with smooth motions.
At this time, not only was Xia Jinyuan saluting the red flag, all the soldiers that were in sight of the red flag straightened themselves and saluted, gradually, all of the students also saluted at the flag, albeit with imperfect form.
At that moment, nobody amongst the few thousand students was talking, neither was anyone play-fighting, they all wore the same expression, it was one of sternness, solemnity, and sacrosanctity.
A gentle wind breezed in the mountains and delivered the signal of victory, someone started to recite the vows of the military Bootcamp, “I, a student in military training, hereby swear an oath under the National Flag, I have resolved to do the following: study hard, train hard, abide by discipline…, without fear of hardships and sufferings, to unite the students, respect our instructors,… improve our character, to strive as an excellent student, … Jurant Liu Qi, … Wang Jia, Zhang Yuanshang…”
The purpose behind the military Bootcamp was of unity, was of bravery to challenge everything, for the students who had sworn an oath once again, they have completed this military Bootcamp with their own perseverance.
Ye Jian’s oath in her heart was different than theirs; her oath was the oath a recruit makes when they first joined the military, an oath of blood and honor without the fear of laying down their lives, “… Fight bravely, without fear of sacrifice, to protect our motherland, to protect the constructs of socialism. I now swear to perform the above pledges without compromise and violation.”
Ye Jian had already burned the oaths of the People’s Liberation Army into the back of her head and knew it by heart.
Her expression was so dignified that not even Xia Jinyuan was able to walk over and bother her, only when the instructors had called for an assembly did the gaze that was stuck onto her moved aside. He turned towards the soldier from the anti-chemical unit by his side, “Not everyone is taking part in the target shooting at once, right? There are quite some people.”
“Every class is taking part; every student will get three shots, targets are fixed, every round consists of ten students, with soldiers on standby beside them. This wasn’t originally scheduled, too many students, even firing blanks would be dangerous. Still, the Provincial Military Ward made the call, so they arranged for target shooting to be included in the Bootcamp to heighten the excitement of some boys to join the army.”
“First, soldiers will make a target shooting demonstration. After the explanations by the soldier, only then can the students start shooting.”
A few thousand people, even if everyone shot one bullet, that’s already equal to a few thousand rounds, but everyone gets to fire three shots, then that’ll be over ten thousand!
The first military Bootcamp of the whole province, some training drills that could be removed were removed, subjects like target shooting that was able to heighten the interest of students and increase the likeliness of boys to enter the army, even if they had to give out more than ten thousand blanks, the Provincial Military Ward will be glad to do so.
Xia Jinyuan pondered about it for a moment; his thin lips hooked upwards ever so slightly, he just thought of a way… a way to surprise his little fox.
But he wasn’t sure whether or not it was a surprise, after all, this little fox wanted to avoid him…, he had clearly left behind his home’s phone number. She had gone radio-silent after a phone call with Commander Xia, let’s say she was frightened…, Xia Jinyuan wouldn’t believe that.