Chapter 2 Recall: Does he look like a good person to take over? ...
The desert is a famous sandy city, and deep in the yellow sand stands a real shooting range.
The wind and sand rose, and gun smoke and gravel rolled through the alleys. Two teams of camouflage uniforms shuttled between the mottled brick walls like cheetahs.
Jiang Xueyi stood on a high place and looked down, having a panoramic view.
Although I knew from bits and pieces in the novel that He Chengze and others were training here, I didn't expect the scale to be so large.
The buildings, streets, street lights and signs in the shooting range are all a one-to-one reproduction of the urban area, and are obviously carefully built by the army for street fighting training.
As she was thinking, the two groups had already exchanged fire.
Because it was a training session, no real guns and bullets were used. Everyone wore a bulletproof vest and was eliminated after being hit by paintballs three times.
Suddenly, several streams of white smoke rose in the wind and sand, followed by a series of gunshots.
"Damn it! Who's so steady, accurate, and ruthless? I'm out in less than half a minute!"
"I've been hiding so secretly, how could I be discovered?"
"Could it be... that it was the captain of the regiment named He who did it? Only he has such accurate shooting skills - damn it!" Before the soldier could finish his words, he was blown in the head by a paintball.
"Didn't they say that only one group would come out? Why do I feel like there are ten groups of people in the alley?" He took off his helmet in frustration.
"Come on, others may not know the strength of the First Regiment, but don't you know? One of them is worth ten men. Otherwise, how could they be called the First Regiment? People say their 'First' is second to none."
"Captain, it's so funny that those stupid guys actually thought we sent out ten teams." Chen Lang, the deputy commander of the first regiment, put away his gun.
"If it were you, you would think so too. It's because our commander has excellent marksmanship and proper tactics. He used a small pocket formation to beat the enemy's vanguards into pieces." Chen Lang's adjutant retorted proudly.
"Okay." He Chengze narrowed his eyes slightly, his jaw was tense, his high nose bridge and thin lip line outlined a cold line, and his wheat-colored skin shone with a charming luster in the sun.
"Don't let me hear such words again. Respecting your opponent's fists is respecting your own armor. Without the hard work of the Second Regiment, we wouldn't have our hard-earned victory. We must learn to respect others."
Chen Lang and his adjutant Liang Xiaodong's faces turned serious as they saluted: "Yes, Commander!"
"Yeah." He Chengze nodded his chin lightly, "I still have a document to sign. You can organize the rest of the training."
"Yes!" Chen answered loudly.
Looking at He Chengze's departing back, he couldn't help but mutter: "The majesty of our leader is becoming more and more important."
Liang Xiaodong nudged him with his elbow: "How dare you say bad things about the leader behind his back? You're going to die."
Chen Lang blinked and closed his mouth with a zipper-like motion.
He Chengze left the shooting range and walked towards the camp.
The yellow sand swirled and rushed towards the sky. Some sand grains were thrown into the air and then fell down with the sound of the wind. Some were carried by the wind and danced wildly like golden ribbons, outlining irregular arcs.
A woman appeared in the wind and sand. She was wearing a red long dress, and her ink-black hair was flying freely. The long dress fluttered in the wind, like a dancing flame fighting against the raging yellow sand. Her long hair was entangled with sand and slapped on her smooth and slender neck, making her skin look whiter than snow.
The woman raised her hand and gently stroked her eyes that were blurred by the wind and sand. Her willow-shaped eyebrows were slightly furrowed, her phoenix eyes were watery, her eyelashes cast trembling shadows under her eyes, and the curve of her nose was like a piece of jade.
She walked against the wind and sand, like a fairy in the desert, breathtakingly beautiful.
He Chengze was stunned for a moment, and only came to his senses when the woman walked in front of him.
He narrowed his eyes warily, took a step back, and planned to walk in another direction.
The woman spoke, her soft voice like mountain stream water lapping against smooth pebbles, clear and piercing her eardrums: "He Chengze?"
Her voice was very beautiful, but the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is, whether in the plant or animal kingdom.
He Chengze's heart was alarmed and he asked, "Who are you?"
The woman smiled slightly, raised her rosy lips and said, "Jiang Xueyi." She added, "The mother of your child."
He Chengze glanced at her slightly bulging belly, and it looked like she was indeed pregnant.
He said coldly: "Madam, you are wrong."
Does he look like a good guy to take over?
Jiang Xueyi's eyes curved, and every tone of her voice was like a pearl wrapped in soft velvet, round and soft: "You're not wrong."
She held her waist and stepped forward. "Let me ask you, between February 16th and 21st of this year, did you accompany your comrade Jiang Daming to visit relatives in Xiaohe Village, Jingyang Town?"
He Chengze's eyebrows twitched slightly.
Jiang Xueyi continued, "I'm Jiang Daming's distant cousin. You stayed at our Jiang family's ancestral home while visiting. On the evening of March 18th, you enjoyed a meal warmly hosted by the elder Jiang couple. Afterward, you took some medicine and became drowsy. Do you remember what happened after that?"
He Chengze's brows were cold, as if covered with frost. He tightly grasped Jiang Xueyi's arm and said, "What do you want to say?"
"It hurts!" Jiang Xueyi bit her lower lip lightly, and soon, a bright red tooth mark was left.
He Chengze loosened his grip slightly, but his tone remained cold and hard: "Speak."
"That night, the two of us...we had a child." Jiang Xueyi raised her voice slightly. "Don't you remember any of this?"
"Impossible!" He Chengze said without thinking.
He closed his eyes and gently pressed his furrowed brows with his thumb and index finger.
Even though the words were so confident, the body's reaction would not lie.
It's like a key suddenly opens the lock of memories.
When he saw Jiang Xueyi's delicate collarbone, he remembered the series of light red kiss marks left that night.
Holding her snow-white and smooth arms, I remembered the warm and soft touch of her skin.
Hearing her voice, it was as if her rapid breathing that night was echoing in my ears. The sound was wrapped in the rustling sound of cloth, which was pleasant and irritating.
The worst thing was that when he saw her long, white legs, he remembered how those legs had tightly wrapped around him and dragged him into the abyss that night when she cried and begged for mercy.
These images played continuously in his mind, the woman that night and the woman in the red dress in front of him intertwined and overlapped.
Finally it was fixed as one.
Jiang Xueyi smiled sweetly and said, "Did you remember?"
He Chengze stroked the wrinkles on the cuffs of his military uniform, his Adam's apple rolling twice before he spoke: "That night..."
The tail end of his voice was shattered by the whistling sound of the wind and sand. His fingers clenched and unclenched under his camouflage uniform. He was silent for a long time before saying, "I thought it was a dream."
"What about now?" Jiang Xueyi took a step forward, straightened her waist, and her belly bulged slightly, which made her look more mature and beautiful, which only appeared during a special period like pregnancy.
He Chengze lowered his eyes and stared at the mud stains on his military boots, his Adam's apple rolling: "The army taught me that if you do something wrong, you have to take responsibility."
Every word seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of his chest: "Since it has happened, I will report it according to the procedures and file a marriage certificate..."
"Okay, dad." Jiang Xueyi smiled and waved to He Chengze.
Child’s father?
Are you calling him?
In the first half of his life, he was called a son, a soldier, a regimental commander, etc., but no one ever called him "dad".
The change of identity made He Chengze's heart move slightly.
He looked at Jiang Xueyi with a complicated expression, but in the end he said nothing.
Jiang Xueyi looked at He Chengze's back and raised her beautiful eyebrows.
It is said that the factors that attract women to men are none other than the five elements of 'Pan Lu, Deng Xiaoxian'.
"Pan" refers to a handsome face like Pan An. Obviously, He Chengze exceeds the standard in terms of appearance.
'Donkey'... Jiang Xueyi's eyes moved around He Chengze's buttocks. This is debatable, but since he was able to hit the mark, it seems that he should be good in this aspect.
"Deng" means as rich as Deng Tong, a big businessman in the Western Han Dynasty. Considering He Chengze's position and family background, his income must be not low.
As for "small" and "leisure", let's wait and see.
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A military jeep suddenly drove into the quiet Xiaohe Village. The body of the jeep was painted dark green, with simple and smooth lines without excessive decorations and curves. The canvas hood rustled in the wind, making a wanton and ostentatious sound and raising a cloud of dust.
"My goodness, what kind of car is this? The tires are bigger than my lamb." The old farmer on the mountain road stared with his mouth open, looking at the military jeep speeding past. He almost swallowed a mouthful of dust and was so scared that he quickly shut his mouth.
The driver's surname was Wang. While driving, he was distractedly looking at Jiang Xueyi through the rearview mirror.
Captain He was well-known in their army for not being interested in women. Countless leaders wanted to introduce their daughters and nieces to him, but he rejected them all.
Out of the blue, he suddenly reported his marriage to his superiors, and there was a pregnant woman by his side. It was so strange no matter how you looked at it.
"Sister-in-law, how did you get to know He Tuan?" The driver couldn't help but ask one more question while steering.
Jiang Xueyi withdrew her gaze from the window and smiled slightly, "My cousin is Jiang Daming, also in your army, but he retired a while ago. About half a year ago, Chengze accompanied him back to his hometown to visit relatives, and that's when we met."
She sighed slowly, "In our country, as long as we have a wedding ceremony, we are husband and wife, and we don't care about the marriage certificate." She touched her belly, "It's just that my body is getting heavier, and Chengze is worried about us and wants to take us to live in the family compound. If we want to accompany the army, we have to go through the procedures, so we filed a marriage report with the army. Now that I'm gone, I don't know when I can come back, so he asked for leave to accompany me to visit my parents' home."
With just a few words, driver Wang's doubts were dispelled one by one.
He Chengze's tense back gradually relaxed. He glanced at Jiang Xueyi with a bit of surprise and a hint of imperceptible admiration. He didn't expect that she could answer so appropriately.
Jiang Xueyi smiled sweetly at He Chengze through the rearview mirror.
Meeting her gaze, He Chengze looked away uncomfortably.
Driver Wang also comes from the countryside. He slapped his thigh and spoke with a hint of his rural accent: "It's the same in our area. Take my brother and sister-in-law, for example. We just had a wedding ceremony but didn't get a marriage certificate. Now we are doing well and have three children. Who dares to say they are not husband and wife?"
Thinking that asking about personal matters might offend his superiors, Driver Wang quickly said, "Team He is very considerate. He knew you were pregnant and even asked the team for a car, fearing you might feel uncomfortable on the road."
"Really?" Jiang Xueyi's eyes curved slightly.
He Chengze coughed and said, "Drive carefully."
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