Zhu Jiabao said, "Old buddy, don't cause trouble. I can only feel at ease when she goes to the Dragon Group. I've had a check-up, and Jing Qian personally took my pulse and said I don't have many years left. I can still protect her now, but you know I've offended quite a few people, and they're all in positions similar to mine. I'm afraid that after I'm gone, someone will cause trouble for her. With her personality, she'll definitely cause trouble."
Xie Minglei assured him, "I'm perfectly healthy! How could I not protect a little girl? Besides, we've been in the military for so many years, surely we have a few trusted confidants? She has people protecting her, your worries are unnecessary."
Zhu Jiabao sighed: "I'm not worried about no one protecting her, I'm worried that she'll lose her temper and do whatever she wants. You know that her special ability made Zhuge Qianxing visit her three times, so you can imagine how destructive she is."
Xie Minglei also fell silent. He only wanted to keep one great general. As a parent, he knew his own child's personality best, but he didn't take it to heart: "Let's not talk about Fanfan for now. Let's talk about your Zixi. He's so old and still not married. You are his elder, so you should take care of him. Before, he was far away and you couldn't reach him. Now that he's right under your nose, you should pay more attention to him."
Zhu Jiabao sighed helplessly, "You know his personality. He's never been married and wants to find someone who isn't married either, but at his age, how many people aren't married? If we find him a young girl, wouldn't that be a waste of her time?"
He knew that was just an excuse Zixi made up. What could he do? It concerned the child's entire life. Could he force him to change his mind?
Xie Minglei asked directly, "What do you think of my Minmin?"
Zhu Jiabao looked at his old friend: "Are you serious? They're almost ten years apart?"
Xie Minglei said, "What are you joking with? You know my Minmin was heartbroken by her ex-husband before, and she focused all her energy on her career. Now that she's older, she's thinking about remarrying, but there's no suitable match. Although she's divorced, she doesn't have any children, otherwise my husband wouldn't be so hung up on her. If you think it's okay, we can let those two kids meet. Most importantly, Minmin stayed at your house for a while when she was arguing with her family, and she has a good relationship with Fanfan, so there won't be any conflicts between sisters-in-law."
Not only will there be no conflicts, but after marriage, he will probably sleep in the same room as Fanfan and send Zhu Zixi to the study. Since his granddaughter came back from the Zhu family, she has been calling Fanfan "sister" this and "sister Fanfan" that, and she thinks of Fanfan "sister" whenever there is something delicious. She doesn't care about her granddaughter as much as he does about his own children.
Zhu Jiabao said, "I'll talk to Zixi in a bit and let the children meet."
When Zhu Fanfan arrived at his territory, he saw a group of girls waiting. Zhu Fanfan said directly, "I don't care who you were before. Once you're in my team, you have to listen to me. If you don't listen, get out of here. This isn't a daycare center. I won't take care of children here. Anyone who can't keep up with me can go cool off somewhere else. Got it?"
The girl opposite, though haughty, still answered loudly, "I heard you!"
Zhu Fanfan was very satisfied that they were obedient. Pointing ahead, she said, "Now let's do the first and most basic step: weighted running. Get ready and follow me."
Immediately, someone protested: "I want to undergo high-intensity training; weighted running is too childish."
Zhu Fanfan said, "Only when you get ahead of me will you have the right to make demands. You should start preparing for everything."
Soon someone had prepared a 20-pound weight, and Zhu Fanfan had prepared a 30-pound weight: "I'll give you a minute's grace, but even if I'm carrying a 30-pound weight, I'll show you what the difference is."
Immediately, someone objected: "I want to change it to thirty jin too."
Zhu Fanfan immediately blew the whistle: "Start!"
A group of people started running, and after a minute Zhu Fanfan started running as well. He quickly caught up with the group, saying as he ran, "Run faster, haven't you eaten yet!"
Spurred on by Zhu Fanfan, they all started sprinting forward. No matter how hard they sprinted, Zhu Fanfan was always one step ahead of them. They ran lap after lap, and soon someone collapsed and was carried to the side. A second person collapsed soon after, and a third person collapsed just as quickly. The rest of them had more stamina and ran easily. Zhu Fanfan led them, lap after lap. Eventually, they didn't know how many laps they had run. They felt exhausted, but they gritted their teeth and persevered. They didn't know how many more laps they had run, only that Zhu Fanfan was always one step ahead of them. In the end, their legs were shaking from exhaustion, while Zhu Fanfan was still as relaxed as at the beginning.
The training didn't end until the last person collapsed from exhaustion. Zhu Fanfan said, "Today's training is over. I'll give you some time to recover. We'll continue tomorrow. My rules are simple: if you can beat me, you can rest. If you can't, you'll have to double the training and walk back on your own. If you don't have the strength to walk, you'll have to crawl back."
When only Tong Ze and a few others remained, Tong Ze said, "Squad leader, who offended you to make you so angry?"
Zhu Fanfan glanced at him sideways: "You're going to avenge me?"
Tong raised both hands: "If I go there, I'll be good only for delivering food, since I can anger the class monitor."
Zhu Fanfan said sternly, "You already know, so why ask? Start cultivating now."
To be able to keep up with her pace and still have so much energy, it seems that their teacher did a great job teaching her while she was away.
Tong Ze quickly said, "Squad leader, I've found out. There are twelve girls here this time. Three of them were recruited through connections and specifically requested to join the army. The higher-ups said that special treatment shouldn't be given during training, but it's obvious they want to take care of them. The other nine are quite capable and work very hard during training. They're known as workaholics and have a high mission completion rate. However, they are straightforward and impulsive. They've made many merits but also caused a lot of trouble. They're also disobedient and notorious troublemakers. I didn't expect you to take them down with just a simple weighted run."
Although the weighted running time was a bit long, I was really too exhausted to move at all. I was completely drained and don't know if I'll be able to recover tomorrow.
Zhu Fanfan didn't understand: "Even if they are troublemakers, they are so outstanding that it's not my place to manage them. Are there others that I don't know about?"
Tong Ze looked around to make sure no one else was there, and even used his special ability to check. He said, "I heard that the old commander made a bet with someone, saying that you can handle troublemakers. The others didn't believe it, so..." The squad leader understood.
Zhu Fanfan asked, "How exactly are they troublemakers?"
Tong replied, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that those guys all talked back to their superiors and even got into fights. They swore at their superiors and acted on their own when carrying out missions, relying on their skills. Although they made a lot of contributions, they also received a lot of punishments, so their promotions were very slow. After fighting bloody battles for decades, they still returned as lowly soldiers."
Zhu Fanfan asked curiously, "Are there any examples?"
Tong said helplessly, "When I went to catch spies, I was dissatisfied with being assigned to logistics and went to the front on my own. Although I caught the spies, I didn't do a good job in logistics, so my merits and demerits cancel each other out. When I was gathering information, I wasn't careful enough and someone followed the trail to my own place. Fortunately, I caught the saboteurs, so my merits and demerits cancel each other out."
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