Chapter 70: Unable to bear it, tortured three times in one night
In the middle of the night, the emergency wake-up call sounded for the third time in the boot camp.
The first time was at midnight.
The second time was at one o'clock in the middle of the night.
The third time was... 4am.
At that time, everyone thought that after enduring two or three o'clock in the morning... the torture of the night would be over.
After all, four o'clock in the morning is when night and day intersect, it is the lowest temperature of the day, and it is also the time when ordinary people are most relaxed and sleep the deepest. An hour later, five o'clock is the normal time to get up.
Who would have thought that at the most unlikely time of four in the morning, the wake-up call would ring throughout the entire barracks.
The hearts of the sleeping recruits suddenly contracted violently, as if someone poured a bucket of ice water on them in the biting cold wind, making them completely cold from head to toe.
When the recruits rushed to the training ground and lined up, everyone had a pale face, and either looked worried or sleepy, looking extremely miserable.
Even staying up all night wouldn't be this uncomfortable.
Among them, Xu Feng's high spirits formed a sharp contrast with the soldiers' pain and decadence.
He stood in front of the recruits, giving a speech with a big loudspeaker and laughing as if he was gloating.
"Waking up three times a night? That's all you can't handle? If this were a battlefield, with enemy artillery shells instead of reveille ringing in your ears, you'd all be dead long ago—run thirty kilometers up the mountain, start now!"
In the darkness of the night, the new recruits lined up in neat rows, shouting loud slogans and gasping for breath in the cold wind.
Xu Feng sat in a military jeep, holding a loudspeaker in his hand, staring at everyone in the team with his eagle-like eyes. His eyes were so sharp and terrifying, even more frightening than the wake-up call.
Captain Zhou, who was on a mission with Xu Feng, couldn't help but yawn when he turned sideways.
Captain Zhou whispered to Xu Feng, "Captain Xu, I was tortured three times in one night and I almost couldn't stand it. How come you are so energetic?"
Xu Feng snorted and laughed, "If you eat a pot of delicious iron pot stewed chicken, not to mention three times a night, five or ten times will not be a problem."
Captain Zhou: What? What iron pot chicken?
Lu Zhanlin: What? Five times ten times in one night?
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The next day.
Chu Yue got up very early. It was dim outside the window, with only a little morning light, but there was no one sitting next to her. She reached out and touched the person, and there was faintly some residual body temperature. It was warm. Lu Zhanlin had left not long ago.
She reached out and touched under the pillow again, and the small cooling oil ointment was gone. It seemed that the man was very obedient and put it on obediently when told to. She didn't know if the redness and swelling on Lu Zhanlin's body had gone down.
If she had woken up earlier, she might have been able to take another look and check it out for herself.
After all, with such a strong and outstanding figure, just one more look is a bonus, and no one can resist such temptation.
Chu Yue lay on the bed, curling the corners of her lips into a greedy smile, and stayed in bed for a while before getting up.
After getting up, she started her busy morning. She put the yams aside for the time being and did not need to process them so that they would not go bad in the cold weather. With the help of Lu Zhanlin and Xu Feng, she had peeled off the pine nuts from all the pine cones yesterday.
The pine cones are placed in the yard to dry and can be used as firewood later.
First, rinse the pine nuts one by one in water to clean the blackened surface caused by smoke and fire, then dry them, and finally stir-fry them in an oil-free and water-free iron pan.
This process is similar to roasting melon seeds. Roast the pine nuts together with the pine kernels until cooked, spread them out to dry and then you can eat them.
Pine nuts have a high oil content, so they have very good nutritional value and are much more fragrant than fried melon seeds.
The room was filled with the tempting fragrance inside and outside.
Even people walking by outside the yard would take a deep breath and exclaim, "Why does it smell so good?"
Near noon, Chu Yue finally finished her work and had a large round winnowing basket full of pine nuts. (Picture)
She tied two pieces of wood together to make a small hammer. When she hit the pine nuts with the small hammer, the shell would immediately crack open, revealing the pine nuts inside.
Pine nuts have an outer layer, which can be peeled off with a light touch of the fingers, revealing the round and plump pine nuts inside. They are fragrant and crispy in the mouth. If you bite them carefully, you can taste a hint of sweetness and a mouth full of oily fragrance.
Eating pork is a luxury these days, and we rarely eat fat in our daily lives. The fat in pine nuts is not only not greasy, but also crispy, and is the most exquisite delicacy.
Lu Yuanbao watched Chu Yue's movements, and after learning them, he used a small hammer to crack the pine nuts and eat them.
At first, he couldn't control the strength well. Either he didn't have enough strength and failed to crack the pine nuts open, or he used too much strength and the pine nut shell was shattered, and even the pine nut meat inside was crushed.
Lu Yuanbao frowned in annoyance and couldn't help feeling a little anxious.
Chu Yue said calmly, "Yuanbao, be patient. Try a few more times and feel the strength in your hand."
With Chu Yue's reminder, Lu Yuanbao slowly calmed down. He held the small hammer in his little hand, controlled the strength and knocked slowly. After a while, he learned it. The pine nuts he peeled were intact and tasted delicious.
He looked up happily, his eyes shining.
Chu Yue patted his head and said, "Very good, that's it. Take your time to eat these pine nuts. I'm going to go next door. You stay at home, okay?"
Lu Yuanbao nodded his head seriously, "Yeah, I know."
Before Chu Yue went out, she took out a piece of newspaper, put some hot roasted pine nuts in it, and wrapped it in a square shape with the newspaper.
She walked out of the yard and into the next yard.
"Sister Song, Sister Song, are you there?"
Although Chu Yue asked this, she had actually heard Song Hongmei's movements in the next room since early morning.
Song Hongmei is very busy at work on weekdays. Not only is she responsible for the affairs in the compound, she also moves around in the surrounding villages. Sometimes the journey is too far, so she stays with farmers in the village. She is not in the compound every day.
So Chu Yue came here specially because she knew Song Hongmei was at home.
"It's Chu Yue, come in." Song Hongmei opened the door, smiled when she saw Chu Yue, and asked her to come in and sit down.
She happened to be writing some materials, so she had a pair of reading glasses on her nose. On the table were books, notebooks, pens, and fountain pen ink.
Chu Yue opened the pine nuts she had brought with her and said, "Sister Song, I went up the mountain yesterday and picked some pine nuts. They taste pretty good. Try some."
Song Hongmei smelled a rich aroma, so fragrant that she couldn't help swallowing. "Did you make this? I was wondering why I could smell the aroma all morning. So you were frying pine nuts? It smells so good—mmm, delicious! These pine nuts are delicious. Chu Yue, how are you? Are you used to the fire here?"
"Everything is fine. The environment here is good, the scenery is beautiful, the people in the compound are nice, and the sisters-in-law take good care of me." Chu Yue answered Song Hongmei's question with a smile.
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