Chapter 56: Young Master of a Noble Family
Twenty laps? You must be kidding!
The young masters of the aristocratic families looked at the circular road that had been clearly cleared in front of them. Under the arrangement of Coach Guo, they lined up in a row of ten and stood back one by one. Soon, they formed a scattered square formation.
Those who were originally still interested in being active also lost interest when they saw the row of strong men disappear for a moment and then come back with sticks in their hands.
What kind of place have they entered?!
Should I say that they are indeed worthy of being sent here as hostages...
"When I get out, I'm going to burn this place down and chop off their heads!" a dandy said angrily.
Although they are not favored at home, the family is there and everyone has to be polite to them. How could they have been threatened and treated like this!
The young man named Zhao Jingshi - the one who had just been used as an example by Coach Liu, was rubbing his sore arm with the support of the people around him. He immediately received a lot of sympathetic looks, of course there were also some mocking looks.
But now they have all become lambs to be slaughtered, and there is a sense of sympathy between them.
Before coming here, most people were mentally prepared to be locked up, but they didn’t expect to find out now that it was not the worst outcome, but the best. The current situation is the worst!
"Coach Guo is in the front, and these assistant coaches and I are behind. If anyone wants to be lazy and fall behind or not run..." Coach Liu gestured with the stick in his hand with a serious face.
More than a hundred people managed to create some quietness for a few people.
"Run!" Coach Liu gave the order.
The young masters' team ran loosely.
“Ah——!” A loud cry of pain pierced the sky.
Everyone looked back in panic and saw Wang Min at the end of the team, lying on the ground and screaming in pain.
Coach Liu was like a ghost behind them. "Wang Min? You thought I couldn't see you hiding behind them and not running away, did you?"
"Next time, it won't be so easy. Get up and keep up with the team!"
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After five laps, some people were already rolling their eyes.
After eight laps...
"Brother Huang!! Brother Huang, what's wrong with you?"
"Jingshi... pull me up... huhu..."
"Someone's dead! Someone ran away and died!"
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"I really am..." Looking at the group of people in front of him who were howling and stumbling around, Coach Liu slapped his head.
What about the upbringing and manners of a young man from a noble family!
It’s a pity that he can’t use “speechless” to describe his mood at the moment!
Running twenty laps was arranged by the higher-ups, but when he saw it, he thought it was not enough!
It can’t be that something really goes wrong on the first day!
Coach Liu winked at the people around him, who quickly understood his meaning and retreated quietly.
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When the young masters were dizzy and their eyes were full of stars, and they could no longer lift their legs, they suddenly heard a voice like the sound of nature -
"stop!"
It was almost as if they had agreed on it. What manners and nobility? There were people lying on the ground everywhere!
Ming Chengyu was almost unable to hold on any longer. Fortunately, An Yuliang pulled him a few times when he could no longer run, thus saving him from the attack of sticks from behind.
Thinking of this, he looked at An Yuliang gratefully - but found that the other party was already lying on the ground!
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"Stand up! Don't lie down after running!" Coach Liu's stern voice sounded.
Everyone had to help each other to stand up.
The assistant instructor who had just left returned and exchanged a glance with Coach Liu. Coach Liu announced, "Because today is your first day here, and we still have issues with dormitory assignments, I won't let you run any further. From now on, you must gather here at this time every day, just like today."
After he finished speaking, he looked around at the group of people in front of him, and the disgust in his eyes became more and more obvious.
"Did you hear everything?"
Coach Guo said, "When Coach Liu says this, you should loudly answer 'I hear you'!"
Everyone: “…”
What kind of place is this?
Why are there always endless ways to humiliate them!
....
Did you hear everything?!" Coach Liu asked again.
"I heard..."
Only a few people answered sparsely and reluctantly.
"If you didn't hear it, just keep standing here." Coach Liu said without any expression.
The young masters of the aristocratic families watched as these coaches ran the same number of laps as they did, but none of them felt embarrassed or nervous. The coaches could bear it, but they couldn't!
Although the weather is not hot now, everyone is sweating after running for such a long time. It can be said that it is like a world of ice and fire. Now they are sore and tired all over, and there is really no need to confront Coach Liu.
Having said that, they were no strangers to the expressions on others' faces. Although they still didn't speak loudly, they at least answered "I heard it".
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The nearly one hundred to two hundred people were no longer the same as when they first arrived here. None of them even wanted to take their luggage with them. In particular, many of them had hidden gold and silver. Of course, they couldn't say it openly, but now they had to get it themselves. I didn't know who to scold!
Coach Guo was still leading the way, with Coach Liu and others following behind.
"This is where you'll be having classes from now on. It's divided into four rooms. How exactly will they be divided..." Coach Guo glanced at them and smiled, "We'll talk about it tomorrow."
Due to time and other reasons, the military academy was not very big, and the buildings inside were simple and practical. In short...it made these young masters look down on it.
When they thought about being locked up here and having to run inhumanely like today, it was almost like letting them die!
Most people think so.
Another group of people were speculating in their hearts. As they listened to Coach Guo introduce these buildings, they had the absurd idea that the other party really wanted to build a good school.
The buildings were relatively simple but very complete, and there were even many that they had never seen before.
"This is the cafeteria. From now on, you must eat your three meals a day here within the specified time."
With Coach Liu and others watching them closely from behind, they dared not speak out even if they were dissatisfied. They could only listen quietly - they didn't have the energy to speak.
The "dormitory building" that Coach Guo mentioned is where they will live in the future.
"Even the servants in this mansion wouldn't live in a place like this." Someone muttered.
As soon as he finished speaking, the man felt a cold gaze from behind him falling on him, and he immediately shrank his neck.
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Coach Guo asked everyone to line up and then started to divide the dormitories.
People who know each other must stand together, so he didn't care too much and just pulled six people together, gave them a key, and told them which room it was.
Fortunately, there are not so many people sent to military academies, otherwise it would not be as easy to manage as it is now.
Coach Liu's idea was to follow the military practice, pull out a few disobedient troublemakers and teach them a lesson, and the others would then behave themselves.
The most domineering among these people became Coach Liu's targets.
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After being sent here early in the morning and being driven for such a long time, these young masters were exhausted.
After Coach Guo finished assigning the dormitories and told everyone to go back and pack up and reunite in two hours, the group of people who had refused to leave without being chased away left quickly.
But it was another chaotic scene.
...
Of course Ming Chengyu and An Yuliang were in the same room, and there were four other people besides them.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but the man named Zhao Jingshi was also in their dormitory.
But after what happened, no one wanted to talk, not to mention that the young masters were already in a bad mood because they had to squeeze six people into one room.
Ming Chengyu felt okay. He felt it didn't matter where he lived. What he didn't say was that after running for such a long time, the depression that had accumulated in his heart seemed to have dissipated a lot. The heavy things that had been accumulating in his heart were temporarily put behind his mind after arriving at the military academy.
He and An Yuliang were the first to walk into the place where they would live in the future, and found that it was unexpectedly clean and tidy!
"What is this... a bed?!" Ming Chengyu walked over and examined the wooden two-story structure for a moment. "You can sleep on either side."
"I heard that the palace maids use this kind of bed." An Yuliang put down his things. He brought very little with him, just a few pieces of clothing.
"There is a window here." Ming Chengyu was not looking at the window, but a long table in front of the window, with six wooden stools around the table.
"These... are beddings, let's divide them up." Ming Chengyu said.
The other four people had no objection. Of course they had to share the space. How could they sleep without it?
"After coming here, do I have to do everything by myself?" One of them said with a sad face, holding the bedding.
This man's name is Kong Yan. Judging from the casual name, he is not the most valued one in the family. But after all, he has servants to serve him.
As for making the bed?! When have these young masters ever done that?
"I think it's much freer here." Ming Chengyu said in a low voice.
He had just finished dividing the things and then dragged his tired body to make the bed. He was now sitting on the edge of the bed to rest.
No matter how low he spoke, the room was small and everyone else heard what he said. Everyone except An Yuliang looked at him in shock.
Ming Chengyu said with a smile, "Why are you all looking at me like that? There are fewer people living here than in a prison cell, and it's much freer."
An Yuliang laughed heartily, and the other four suddenly realized what was going on and laughed dryly, "That's exactly it."
Isn’t it much better than a prison cell?
After hearing what Ming Chengyu said, Kong Yan and the other three made their beds peacefully.
Kong Yan was quiet for a moment, then suddenly shouted, "That's not right! The people in the cell won't torture us like that Coach Liu did!"
...
Ming Chengyu really doesn't care whether she needs to make her own bed or do everything by herself.
There is nothing wrong here. Even if the emperor takes them as hostages and kills them in the end, it doesn't matter. Ming Chengyu's only worry is the Wei family who is still in Ming Mansion.
I wonder if Zhao will continue to torture her after he leaves... I don't think so, after all, he came here for his two sons.
Ming Chengyu originally thought that she would feel uncomfortable sharing a room with so many people, but the layout of this dormitory was quite good. There was a wall between each bed - it seemed as if the room was divided into several rooms.
An Yuliang chose the bed above Ming Chengyu. There was a ladder next to it, making it convenient to go up and down.
"There seems to be a mechanism here." Ming Chengyu called An Yuliang to come and see.
Ming Chengyu also saw this by accident. He reached out and pulled it, and a curtain was pulled out, just enough to cover the entire bed.
He pulled down the curtain and lay down on the bed with his clothes on.
The pillow was different from the ones we usually use nowadays. I don’t know what was stuffed inside it, so it was softer. Ming Chengyu lay down and stared at it. Maybe he was very tired, and he slowly fell asleep.
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Ming Chengyu was awakened by a burst of rapid gong and drum sounds!
The sound made him breathe faster. He hurriedly opened the curtain, put on his shoes, and went outside to ask, "What happened?"
"I don't know." An Yuliang and the others also came over.
"Assemble! Assemble!" Coach Liu's voice came from outside.
The rapid sound of gongs and drums continued, and Ming Chengyu felt a tightness in his heart.
Many people opened the door and looked out, and Ming Chengyu pulled the people in his room out.
"Knock four more times, and those who don't come out will run five laps around the playground!" Coach Liu roared.
Now everyone is out.
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As expected, the unruly playboys need to be suppressed by people like Coach Liu, not to mention that many of them have unstable minds - to put it bluntly, they are bad.
In short, a group of people gathered at the place designated by Coach Liu.
After Coach Liu's tricks, they finally understood the rules here.
It’s not that some people have their own ulterior motives, but looking at the current situation, the opponents are all ferocious and strong men, while they are young men who live a life of luxury!
A group of people with different moods.
Kong Yan's communication skills were remarkable, and he brought the latest news soon - it was said that Wang Mian kicked the table to vent his anger as soon as he arrived at his residence, and the table was too hard and injured his foot.
"You're really wasting your talent in the capital. You're more suitable to be a spy." Even An Yuliang praised.
Kong Yan quickly said modestly, "Brother An, you are too kind."
But An Yuliang's words satisfied his vanity greatly. He told another story. A young man named Yang and a young man named Chen started fighting because they both didn't want to sleep on the top. However, they were both sore from running, so they knelt on the ground before the fight started.
"This is really..." Ming Chengyu didn't know what to say.
There are many young masters from wealthy families who come here. Ming Chengyu doesn't know the saying "the filter is broken"...
"I called you all here to discuss tomorrow's class schedule. Tomorrow morning, Coach Guo and I will conduct weighted running training. At noon, Master Han will teach..." Coach Liu paused. "Anyway, it's Master Han's class. In the afternoon, you can arrange yourselves for an hour, and then there will be endurance training with my assistants behind you."
"Did you hear everything?"
“I heard…”
I answered all of them this time, which is considered progress.
"In addition, the canteen opening hours are..." Coach Liu listed the opening hours for three periods.
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Today is clearly the first day here, but Ming Chengyu feels as if he has been here for many days.
"Brother, please let me pass..." Ming Chengyu walked out while holding something called "roujiamo" that he had just received from the cafeteria.
There are so many people...
The young man who was standing still looked at Ming Chengyu with contempt and did not move.
Ming Chengyu was about to speak when she heard An Yuliang's voice from the other side: "Please make way."
The young man raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry, but when he turned around and saw An Yuliang, who was a lot older than him, he immediately walked away embarrassedly.
Ming Chengyu came out from the path he had made way for.
Food is the most important thing for people. Even the most noble person will be exposed after eating a bite of food.
Especially the young masters who have fallen to such a state now...
Ming Chengyu took a look at the golden crispy pastry wrapped in oil paper in his hand, which was filled with meat and covered with some unknown sauce. The roujiamo was still steaming, and waves of fragrance penetrated his nose.
"This kind of food is not available in the capital!" Kong Yan and the other three came over.
Less than two hundred people had already developed a sense of "dormitory consciousness." Besides the rules established by Coach Liu and the others, they were afraid that they would also develop an unspoken order among themselves in the future. Therefore, it was best for them to stay together. After all, they were isolated in this small military academy, and they couldn't even contact the outside world, let alone call for help.
"Yes, it smells so good." Qi Ren, who was standing behind Kong Yan, had little presence, but ever since he got the Roujiamo first and quickly ate half of it, he couldn't stop praising the food called Roujiamo!
“Not only is the crust crispy, but the meat dipped in sauce inside is even more delicious…” Qi Ren comes from a prominent family in the capital, which is much higher than ordinary families. There is no delicacy in the capital that he has not tasted. Even he praises it highly, so you can imagine how delicious it is!
As the six of them walked back, An Yuliang said to Ming Chengyu, "You don't have to be so polite to others. It will only lead to their bullying."
After returning to the dormitory and finishing their respective dinners, they realized a serious problem.
There is no hot water!
"There is hot water. It's in the hot water room next to the cafeteria. There's hot water there 24 hours a day," Kong Yan said. "Each dormitory has two kettles that can hold plenty of hot water."
An Yuliang stood up and said, "I'll go. We'll take turns."
He has always been a straightforward person and does things in a hurry, otherwise he would not have hit the eldest son of the Ming family in a fit of rage.
As expected of a "spy," Ming Chengyu was stunned. How could he not know all this?
"You'll see it when you open the cabinet." Kong Yan walked over and opened the cabinet. There were not only two pots with handles, but also six tea cups of the same size and appearance...?
"This teacup is really weird. There's something on the side of it for no apparent reason."
There are three other people in the dormitory, namely Lu Xing, Sun Shitao and Wu Yingze. The one who is speaking now is Wu Yingze.
"This is where you should hold it with your hands." Ming Chengyu took it and looked at it for a while before saying, "Look."
“It is indeed so!”
"This isn't a teacup, it's a cup with a handle!"
While they were talking, An Yuliang had already returned.
Ming Chengyu put the six cups away, then took the kettle and poured water into them one by one.
It's still a bit damp and cold at night, and a cup of hot tea can warm you up.
"There are not many people getting water in the hot water room. I guess no one has gone there," said An Yuliang.
It’s understandable that they are tired after a day, but they don’t know how long they will be here in the future, so they can’t go without washing every day!
Ming Chengyu just thought about it but didn't say anything.
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Ming Chengyu's worries were unnecessary. The next day, Coach Guo said that he would check the appearance of each young master every day, including whether there was any strange smell on the body!
This really irritated many people, and they shouted, "We're all from aristocratic families, who's so uncouth?!"
Someone else sneered, "You keep calling us Young Master, but do you really treat us like Young Masters?"
However, these voices were just for their own pleasure; they naturally didn't want to be hit by Coach Liu's fists...
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Today was a day that shocked them once again.
Someone who wasn't too afraid of death asked, "Master Liu, what's the point of us learning all this?"
Coach Liu showed his sharp white teeth: "To find something for you to do."
What Coach Liu meant by finding something to do was to place many obstacles on the flat ground and let them climb up and down, with Coach Liu naturally chasing them with a stick from behind. He called it "practicing adaptability and endurance", but Ming Chengyu liked today's weapons class more. Although it was called a weapons class, they actually only "played" with "darts" hidden weapons for a while.
The interesting thing about this class is that the wooden disk in front can rotate. Each area has a different score. Just throw darts at it.
However, in order to prevent anyone from using the darts to do something bad, under the control of Coach Liu and others, each person only has a moment to touch the dart.
Ming Chengyu felt that if the morning was fun, then Master Han’s class in the afternoon would be thought-provoking.
“Before you worry about the world’s worries, you will be happy after the world is happy.”
"What nonsense! I'm just amused... Ouch!" Someone scoffed in class. Before he could finish his words, he felt a pain in his head. He turned around in panic and saw the teaching assistant patrolling...
The teaching assistant lowered his head and quickly wrote a few words, saying, "Xu Xingman from Class 2 was disrespectful to the teacher during class. You will be punished by running four laps after class."
The young man named Xu Xingman no longer had the arrogance he had just had, and his face was filled with despair...
Han Shidong and the teaching assistant nodded to each other and continued the class.
Han Shidong smiled and said, "What this student said is not entirely unreasonable. We don't need to ask everyone to do it. But there is a saying that goes, 'Do your job well.' If you are in a high position, you should... My happiness does not refer to... It is also because I have not let my conscience down..."
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Ming Chengyu loved Master Han's classes. He knew Han Shidong was the founder of the military academy and the eldest son of Master Han, and for some reason he had never retired. Ming Chengyu felt that Master Han was infinitely better than the so-called famous teacher that Zhao had hired to show her mother's love. That famous teacher in the capital had only called him "stupid" because he couldn't write a poem. However, not everyone has literary talent, and Master Han's teaching of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" also made Ming Chengyu tremble...
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Ming Chengyu couldn't help but ponder deeply. What was the emperor's purpose in establishing the Capital Military Academy in the name of Han Shidong and bringing these young men from aristocratic families here?
He couldn't figure it out, so he just gave up thinking about it.
On the third day, someone tried to escape but failed and also tried to injure the military academy guards, so he was locked up in the confinement room.
I heard that the "confinement room" is closed and no visitors are allowed. Only water and simple meals are provided every day.
Ming Chengyu was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and then he quickly realized that not everyone could adapt to life here, and not everyone shared the same ideas as them.
Like An Yuliang, who went from being clumsy in the beginning to being able to run briskly on the obstacle course now, and was even praised by the always strict Coach Liu, Ming Chengyu was very envious.
Ming Chengyu was not unaware that they were all undergoing a terrible change, which was gradually adapting to this place, but Ming Chengyu did not reject this change.
However, what he didn't expect was that the person in trouble was someone else, not Wang Mian, who always jumped the highest.
"A barking dog doesn't necessarily bite," said An Yuliang.
Ming Chengyu thought his words were so... crude.
Wang Mian's brother was also a famous figure in the capital. As for why he was famous... it was because Wang Mian's brother was discovered riding a horse and reported to the emperor, causing the emperor to leave the capital.
Wang Mian also followed suit, but his embroidered pillow was nothing but a straw bag.
People like him also have their advantages. They are willing to put aside their pride when they find that it is useless!
For example, although Wang Mi was always finding faults, he had obviously "accepted his fate". In the exam in Master Han's class, the unlearned Wang Mi was not the last one. You know, it was said that when Wang Mi was very old, he couldn't even recognize a single big character!
"Could it be that I'm actually a genius who can learn things quickly and understand everything instantly?"
Ming Chengyu happened to hear Wang Mian's words when he passed by.
Every time after class, the first person to appear in the cafeteria must be... the one who helps Wang Mian buy food.
However, in the military academy, who helps whom is purely based on bribery or out of sheer desire to help. It’s still unknown whether this group of people will survive. Besides, Coach Liu once said, “There is no family background in the military academy!”
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Habits are terrible things.
After more than a month, the young men from the noble families who were sent to the military academy had completely adapted to the various do-it-yourself activities of the academy and the well-fed and comfortable life...
Moreover, their physical fitness has improved to varying degrees. Now, even if they run a dozen more laps, those with the worst physical fitness can still hold on.
As for the obstacle course races that had them complaining at first, they have now gotten the hang of it.
In fact, physical exercise is only part of it, and the knowledge that Han Shidong instilled in them accounts for the majority.
The inculcation of this kind of knowledge is subtle and even changes many small ideas in their minds silently. You know, many small changes may lead to qualitative changes!
But they haven't noticed it yet.
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At the same time, the surrounding cities.
"I wonder how Old Liu and the others are doing in the capital." Today's soldiers' training had just ended, and Yuan Kang thought of his soldiers who had gone to the capital, and couldn't help but ask a few questions.
"Haha, Lao Liu is so stubborn that he can be successful anywhere." Yuan Kang's deputy general laughed.
"I hope so." Yuan Kang sighed.
He was also worried about whether the "military school" that His Majesty mentioned was going smoothly?
Everything will get better and better.
Yuan Kang thought.
He saw with his own eyes that the soldiers in the border town were becoming stronger and more powerful. They seemed eager to charge into battle and demonstrate their current strength...
Just waiting for your Majesty's order.
But reason told Yuan Kang that this was far from enough... he needed to conquer more soldiers and generals.
Yuan Kang strode out of the tent and saw rows of soldiers marching in unison. They were wearing soft armor and holding weapons, all of them full of spirit...
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