"I'll pay! I'll pay, okay?"
Suddenly, a little boy's voice came from the crowd.
Shi Yue looked in the direction of the sound and saw Chen Mingli, who had visited her home before.
Chen Mingli changed his clothes; today he was wearing a white undershirt.
But the white undershirt was stained with something, black and mottled, and was filthy beyond belief.
Perhaps because his voice was too loud, the group of military family members suddenly fell silent, and all the adults and children turned to look at him.
Chen Mingli wasn't afraid of trouble. Faced with so many eyes on him, he simply stepped out from the group.
He walked through the crowd to the front and stood face to face with Wu He.
He looked at Wu He and asked, "If I return everything I took, will you stop chasing us away?"
Chen Mingli was thin and small; his face was smaller than the palm of his hand.
But he has a pair of exceptionally large eyes, with clear black and white pupils.
He was probably genuinely frightened by what Wu He had said earlier, and his eyes were filled with tears.
But he stubbornly held back, tilting his head back, determined not to let a single tear fall.
He looked up and met Wu He's gaze, who was much taller than him, and asked again, "If I pay it back, you won't kick us out, right?"
Wu He clearly doesn't have much experience interacting with children.
After all, his own son, Xiaofei, was raised by his wife before, and he could only see his son once a year.
By the time his wife and son arrived with him at the military base, Xiao Fei had grown into a teenager and was no longer a little child.
So, just moments ago, he had been stern-faced and had everyone present trembling with fear, but when he met Chen Mingli's gaze, he suddenly seemed at a loss for what to do.
He nodded slightly, almost subconsciously.
"Okay, you keep your word!" Chen Mingli's tears suddenly fell.
He wiped his face haphazardly with his arm, then turned and ran.
They ran and shouted, "Go home and get it! If you bring it back, we won't be chased away!"
His shout seemed to awaken everyone from a dream.
First, the children in the group scattered and ran towards their own homes.
Immediately afterwards, some adults also began to move along hesitantly.
They tentatively took a step outside and, finding that Wu He didn't seem to mind, immediately ran out as well.
Before long, most of the new recruits in the team had left, leaving only the original veterans and a few people who looked like they were honest and wouldn't dare to cause trouble.
After waiting a while longer, Shiyue realized there wasn't much to see, so she told Liang Yueming to go back together.
They still have lunch to prepare.
When Shiyue and the others went to deliver lunch at noon, they noticed that there were fewer people eating in the experts' building than usual.
She quietly asked her husband, He Lixuan, and he told her that those people had all gone home for lunch today.
Shiyue immediately understood.
This isn't about going home for dinner; it's clearly about rushing back to handle household chores after hearing about what happened this morning.
Shiyue felt a little sorry for Wu He and Qi Feng at this moment.
As the two leaders of the Sixth Iron Battalion, their original task was simply to maintain the discipline of their officers and soldiers.
But now, we also have to take care of the local people who have come to the island.
The key issue is that these people who came to the island have a large age gap and their previous living environments are very different.
At the same time, they have not received any formal management.
After all, the training time before going to the island is too short, and it is too difficult to make people completely change from just one or two days of training.
Managing such a group of people would probably cause these two officials to lose a lot of hair.
In the evening, Cui Yun brought Hu Zi and Niu Niu over for a visit. When talking about what happened that morning, she was still shaken.
Clearly, despite being Qi Feng's family member and having served in the Sixth Iron Battalion for so long, she had never seen Wu He and his men lose their temper like this.
Speaking of which, Cui Yun is really unlucky.
She was an employee working in the cafeteria, and normally she would eat in the kitchen.
But she happened to be on leave today, and then this happened.
Even now, Cui Yun still feels incredibly emotional when she talks about it, realizing how unlucky she really is.
Cui Yunlai is fine; she's just too shocked by what happened today and needs to talk to someone to clear her head.
But unfortunately, she couldn't say these things to her own man.
Her husband was very busy today, dealing with the aftermath of this matter, and didn't have time to listen to her rambling.
So she brought her two children to visit Shiyue.
After a few words, the group had dispersed and was almost completely evacuated. Then they prepared to leave and go home.
Just then, Qi Feng and Wu He arrived.
Qi Feng was surprised to see Cui Yun and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Why can't we be here?
They weren't in the square right now, and Shiyue and the others weren't outsiders, so Cui Yun didn't bother to give Qi Feng any face.
She said irritably, "I brought the kids over to chat and play together. Niu Niu was so scared at noon today that she cried, and Hu Zi was terrified too."
I'm afraid they'll have nightmares if they don't express it!
Qi Feng immediately felt embarrassed by those words.
He also witnessed his little girl being frightened to tears.
But there was nothing he could do at the time.
Wu He's expression also turned awkward.
Although he had to give them a hard time that morning, he knew that the two families in front of him were just unlucky because of him; they hadn't done anything wrong.
He reached out and patted Niu Niu's head, saying, "Niu Niu, when we go to Uncle's house later, I'll ask Aunt Mei Ying to get you some mints."
Niu Niu looked up at him, her eyes filled with caution.
She looked at Wu He, then at her father, and then nodded gently.
Clearly, they had more regular contact, and the girl quickly accepted Wu He again.
Wu He and Qi Feng came here today to do some ideological work with Shi Yue and her sister-in-law Liang Yueming.
They hope that these two individuals can take the lead tomorrow and actively participate in military training.
Because there were also many female comrades present this time.
They know how to train the men, but when the women are passive-aggressive or find various reasons to resist training, they really don't know how to deal with it.
Cui Yun and Mei Ying would of course train with them, but they were still under the title of family members of cadres.
Wu He and his colleagues were afraid that the family members would be resistant to them and unwilling to listen to them.
But Shiyue and Liang Yueming are different.
Like other family members who came to the island, they were genuine family members of experts, and it was naturally easy to get close to them.
So the two leaders came here today hoping that the two sisters-in-law could set an example.
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