While having breakfast, Ye Qingtao noticed that Gu Xiuping was hesitant to speak.

She simply ignored him, put down the bowl and went back to her room to rest.

Not long after, Gu Jingming also returned to the room.

He took out the suitcase from the cabinet and was packing his things carefully.

He put away a bag of things before looking up and asking, "Qingtao, we should leave after dinner. Have you packed your things as well?"

"I have put it away."

Ye Qingtao pointed to the suitcase in the corner and said.

"That's good."

Gu Jingming didn't say much. He put the things he had put away and lay back on the bed to rest.

"You didn't come back last night, did something happen?"

Ye Qingtao didn't want to ask at first, but when she thought about the fact that they were already married, it would seem a bit too cold if she didn't ask anything.

"A retired comrade-in-arms fell seriously ill, and his family came to me, hoping that I could help arrange a hospital."

Ye Qingtao just asked casually, but Gu Jingming answered very seriously.

"So that's how it is."

Ye Qingtao collected his thoughts and continued to calculate on paper.

"Qingtao, I see you are calculating every day, what are you calculating?"

"I'm studying medicine, calculating the ratio of medicinal materials."

“Can one learn to make medicine by oneself?”

Gu Jingming sat up from the bed curiously, as if he had heard something big.

"Of course you can. Just study the theories in the books thoroughly and make the medicine according to the proportions."

“Don’t drugs like this need clinical trials?”

"Of course I do."

Ye Qingtao's laboratory raises many mice and rabbits, which are used to assist them in clinical experiments.

If we could use monkeys for the experiment, the results would be much better.

However, monkeys are expensive, costing more than 200,000 yuan each, so the cost is still a bit high.

Therefore, mice are the most commonly used animals in daily experiments.

"How do you conduct experiments? Do you conduct experiments on yourself or on others?"

"Of course, we use mice for experiments."

"Take a mouse? Aren't you afraid of mice?"

"I was afraid before, but now I am not afraid anymore."

When doing experiments, you often have to deal with mice, and you have to overcome your inner fear.

Although I was very scared at first, I later didn’t allow myself to be afraid.

"Then you are pretty amazing."

Gu Jingming felt that the longer he knew Ye Qingtao, the better he understood her and the more curious he became.

She looks gentle, but what she does is not gentle at all.

"How can you be afraid of doing something you love? You don't know how happy I am when I develop a new drug."

"On the contrary, I have a few things I want to ask you. On our wedding day, everyone called you the chief. Shouldn't the chief be a very important official?"

Gu Jingming asked so many questions, Ye Qingtao felt that she would be at a disadvantage if she didn't ask a few more questions.

This matter has been weighing on her mind for a long time, and she has long wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Ye Qingtao had no knowledge of the ranks of these military officers. In her impression, only those who stood at the pinnacle of politics could be called leaders.

Gu Jingming was just a soldier in the army. Even if he had risen to a certain rank after more than ten years, it would be impossible for him to become a leader.

"Do you think it's impossible for me to be the chief? Or do you think I don't look like a chief?"

Gu Jingming thought her question was somewhat amusing and couldn't help but tease her.

"I just think you're a little too young to be the leader."

"You may have some misunderstanding about the word chief."

Gu Jingming roughly understood what she meant and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Do you think the chief is what the commander meant?"

This is exactly what Ye Qingtao thought, and has always believed so.

"In fact, in the army, soldiers call all higher-ranking leaders "chiefs". In addition to the commander, even the battalion commander, regiment commander, and company commander can be called chiefs."

"In fact, in the eyes of soldiers, the chief is the person with the highest rank within a certain range. Especially for new recruits, because they don't know the situation of the troops, they will directly call the leader "chief" when they meet him, which can effectively avoid the embarrassment of calling the wrong position."

Gu Jingming explained it very clearly, and Ye Qingtao nodded in sudden understanding.

Some things are so different that they are like different worlds. If Gu Jingming didn't explain it to her, she wouldn't understand it no matter how hard she tried.

With such a simple explanation, she immediately had a clear understanding of these names.

"So what is your current position?"

Ye Qingtao asked cautiously, feeling a little worried that Gu Jingming might think she was too ignorant.

Apart from her interest in medical matters, she had only a vague impression of other things.

There are many things I haven't understood in depth, and it feels like there's a knot in my head that I can't untie no matter what I do.

"My current position is the head of the group."

"Oh, regimental commander. Then who has a higher authority, regimental commander, battalion commander, or company commander?"

"I guess you never played chess when you were a kid."

Gu Jingming had a faint smile on his face, and the questions he asked made Ye Qingtao blush.

"I only know how to play chess and checkers, and I'm also okay at Go, but I've never played military chess."

Ye Qingtao had a vague impression of military chess in his mind. The flags in it were of different lengths, and there were also rankings for some positions.

Which leader can eat which leader? If she has played military chess before, she would not be so ignorant as to not even know what rank the regiment commander is.

Ye Qingtao's old face turned red involuntarily, and he was unable to answer for a long time.

"The regiment commander is more important than the battalion commander and company commander, the battalion commander is more important than the company commander, and the company commander is more important than the platoon commander."

Gu Jingming’s explanation was clear and concise. Ye Qingtao made such a big mistake today and took it to heart.

"Okay, I understand."

Ye Qingtao's little face was red and her mind was in a mess.

She calculated several times in succession, but made mistakes every time because she was too nervous.

Gu Jingming did not continue the previous topic, but lay down on the bed and closed his eyes to rest.

The morning passed quickly, and Aunt Liu spent the whole morning preparing a sumptuous meal.

The old lady seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if she had a lot to say to Gu Jingming.

Gu Xiuyuan did not sit at the table to eat this morning and left the room on purpose at noon.

His feet still hurt a little and his ankles were swollen, making it difficult for him to walk. His feet couldn't even touch the ground, so Gu Xiuping and Gu Xiu'an helped him over.

Ye Qingtao put down the bowl and prepared to get up, but Gu Xiuyuan quickly stopped her.

"Sister-in-law, my feet don't hurt that much anymore. I don't blame you. My brother said the wrong thing yesterday in a hurry. He is young and ignorant. I apologize to you on his behalf."

In order to express his sincerity, Gu Xiuyuan was about to stand up and bow to her.

In his current condition, he should just lie in bed and have a good rest.

Ye Qingtao took a step forward and pressed his shoulders to stop him from bowing.

"You don't have to apologize. But if you don't want your leg to be disabled, don't walk for a week. Apply this medicine three times a day, and the pain will naturally go away after the swelling of your ankle goes down."

Ye Qingtao took out a white porcelain bottle from his pocket and handed it over.