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Chapter 340 Things are becoming more and more troublesome

Company Commander He Mingyu and Instructor Lao Lin personally approached Duke, the sharpshooter from the Guard Company. "Duke, your squad will have a new sharpshooter. I hope you can help him get familiar with sniper weapons as soon as possible."

"Yes! Company commander!"

"Well! Our 302th Company of the nd Regiment is short of a squad leader, and the superiors want you to be the squad leader.

After all, you've been the deputy monitor for almost two years."

"Thank you, company commander! Thank you, instructor!
But I still want to leave our company after this competition."

"This..." Hearing Duke's request, Company Commander He Mingyu and Instructor Lao Lin looked at each other with some embarrassment.

"Duke, this time we plan to send the newcomer Jiang Changyi to participate in this competition."

"Huh? What?" Duke's eyes widened in surprise and he said in disbelief, "Captain, Jiang Changyi is just a new recruit?

No matter how good his shooting skills are, it will be difficult for him to stand out in this competition, let alone he represents our entire guard company."

"Well, Duke, your consideration makes sense." The company commander and the instructor nodded in understanding of Duke's concern and shock. "But leaders naturally have their own considerations, so we just need to execute."

"Yes! Company commander!"

Suning was assigned to the third squad of the first row of the guard company. As soon as he entered the third squad, he knew his next mission. Seeing the unhappy look on the face of the sniper deputy squad leader Duke, Suning sighed helplessly.

As a new recruit who had just reported in and had not yet received everyone's recognition, he was forced to accept that he would represent them in the competition. Their feelings must have been quite complicated.

However, in this army where the camp is permanent but the soldiers are constantly changing, this phenomenon is the most common, so the first thing the army requires everyone to learn is to obey.

"Jiang Changyi!"

"To!"

"I'm your squad leader Liu Ming."

"Hello, monitor!"

“Well, next you need to familiarize yourself with the sniper rifle as soon as possible with Deputy Squad Leader Duke.

I hope you can win honor for our class and our guard company in the next competition."

"Yes! Squad Leader!" Suning responded loudly, "I will ensure that the mission is successfully completed."

In the following days, under the personal guidance of the veteran deputy squad leader Duke, Suning, who was already an excellent marksman, made rapid progress. After applying for several live-fire shooting exercises, deputy squad leader Duke no longer questioned Suning.

In the mid-1970s, the so-called sniper rifle was just a Mosin-Nagant rifle. It was not until the late 1970s that we had a real sniper rifle, so the troops were particularly looking forward to sharpshooters.

"Jiang Changyi, you are one of the few good soldiers I have ever met. I hope you can remain humble and keep working hard."

"Deputy monitor, I will!

"Well, seeing how strong you are, I can now report to my new class with peace of mind."

"Ah? Vice-class leader, didn't you say you would leave after the competition?"

"Haha, the reason I suggested leaving after the competition is because I wanted to continue being your substitute." Vice-President Duke smiled at Su Ning and explained, "Since you've become so strong now, I should be able to leave now."

"I'm sorry, deputy squad leader!" Su Ning was still somewhat ashamed. After all, the changes were caused by his arrival. "If it weren't for my arrival, you wouldn't have left the guard company."

"Haha, I'm leaving this time to become a squad leader, which is a real promotion." Seeing the embarrassed Su Ning, Duke laughed, "Besides, our army is constantly changing, so that we can always maintain our combat effectiveness."

"Deputy monitor, I wish you a bright future!"

"Thank you! Please bring us a good result in this competition, and let everyone recognize your strength as a soldier king."

"Yes! Deputy monitor!"

Seeing that the deputy squad leader Duke left, Suning once again devoted himself to training. Because sharpshooters are fed with bullets, Suning had a great time during the period before the game.

Suning's physical fitness was definitely tested in the military. When he stood at the competition venue and picked up the Mosin-Nagant rifle in his hand, he once again felt that blood connection.

Suning knew that this was a magical skill from the gun god Xu Haifeng, and he also knew that today was the critical moment for him to make a breakthrough. After all, there were many big guys from the Ningbo base watching on the stage.

As long as he can make a big splash this time, he will definitely leave a mark in the hearts of the big shots, and his future will be smooth sailing. He will no longer need to be a "scheming man" and absorb nutrients from the Jiang family.

"bang bang bang bang"

With five crisp gunshots, Suning lived up to expectations and won the first place in shooting at the naval competition, truly solidifying his reputation as a sharpshooter. When Suning stepped onto the podium, an old man in the leadership group looked at Suning's dark face in surprise.

The old man saw the unit number of Suning and called the commander of the 302nd Regiment, "Xiao Meng, is this child from your regiment?"

"Yes, Commander!" the 302nd Regiment commander replied with a smile, "This soldier's name is Jiang Changyi."

"Jiang Changyi?" The old man's thoughts went back to his military academy days, and he couldn't help but think of those two funny names. "Jiang Changlong? Jiang Changfeng? So he's Jiang Defu's?"

"Yes! Leader! Jiang Changyi is Mr. Jiang's son."

"Hey! This old Jiang, his son is in my army, and he didn't even tell me in advance."

"Leader, after the game is over, should we call him over?"

"Well, they should be tired after today's competition." The old man thought about it for a while after hearing Captain Meng's suggestion. "Tomorrow is the weekend, I'll have my driver drive to your headquarters to pick him up."

"Yes! Leader!"

After Captain Meng left, the old man looked at the familiar dark face again, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, "It really looks like him! He's a complete replica of Jiang Defu!"

The next day, Suning was called to the regiment headquarters, and then got on a GAZ-69 military vehicle in confusion. When the vehicle stopped at a villa area, Suning realized that it was probably the influence of his "father" Jiang Defu again.

To be honest, Su Ning was really at a loss at this time. After all, the favors he owed to the Jiang family were getting bigger and bigger, which might not be a good thing for him, nor was it in line with the principles of life he had always liked.

In the original drama, Jiang Defu hated this "son" very much. Suning guessed that he just helped him to contact the enlistment procedures, which made him feel at ease and bold to continue Jiang Changyi's "scheme". He didn't expect that he might have really predicted wrongly.

The driver took Su Ning into the villa, and then saw an old man and an old woman in a wheelchair, looking at him with a smile, "Jiang Changyi, I am Li Zhicheng, an old classmate of your father Jiang Defu."

"Hello, Uncle Li!"

"Haha, Changyi, this is your aunt."

"Hello, aunt!"

"Good! Good!" The old woman in the wheelchair also smiled, and then kept looking at Su Ning's dark face, and then looked at Li Zhicheng in surprise, "This child looks so much like Old Jiang!"

"Yeah! Yesterday at the skills competition, as soon as I saw Chang Yi's sullen face, I guessed his relationship with Old Jiang." Hearing his wife's sigh, Li Zhicheng remembered his own surprise yesterday and couldn't help laughing. "Old Jiang, his son is serving in the army under me, and he didn't even tell me in advance."

"Changyi, when your Uncle Li and your father were studying at the artillery school, I also stayed there for a while." Perhaps seeing Su Ning's confusion, Li Zhicheng's wife explained with a smile.

"Oh! So that's it!"

"Changyi, come and sit here." Li Zhicheng hurriedly pushed his wife, and then invited Su Ning to sit on the sofa in the living room.

"Thank you, uncle. How about I push Auntie?" "Haha, okay!" Seeing Suning offering to help, Li Zhicheng and his wife were all smiling.

Li Zhicheng's wife patted the back of Su Ning's hand, then said with a smile, "Chang Yi is so sensible!"

The three of them had just sat down when a girl in an apron came out of the kitchen, holding tea and placing it in front of them. "Please have some tea!"

"Ah? It's you!" Suning couldn't help but look at the girl in surprise.

"Ah?" The girl was actually very surprised.

Seeing the two people who were surprised by each other, Li Zhicheng and his wife also looked at each other in surprise. When Xiaolin returned to the kitchen again, Li Zhicheng looked at Su Ning with a smile, "Changyi, do you know Xiaolin?"

"Huh? Uncle Li, I met her in the recruit company a while ago." Su Ning quickly explained with a smile after hearing Li Zhicheng's question, "I even bought a complete set of junior high and high school textbooks from her at that time."

"Oh? Why did you buy the textbooks?"

"Uncle, aunt, I only graduated from junior high school, so I want to take advantage of the time I have to learn some culture by myself."

"Yes, Not Bad!"

"Changyi, Xiaolin is the nanny we hired." Li Zhicheng's wife also explained with a smile, "As you can see, my aunt is not in good health, and your uncle is busy with work, so we asked Xiaolin to come to our house to help."

"Oh! So that's how it is." Suning finally revealed an expression of understanding, "I thought she was my uncle and aunt's daughter."

Hearing Su Ning's words, Li Zhicheng and his wife actually showed a sad expression, "Your uncle and I only have one daughter. Because she has been blind since she was a child, she has always stayed in her room."

"Ah? Is there any possibility of recovery?"

"Hey! I've tried several major hospitals, and they said it was a cornea problem. I used my connections to send him to Hong Kong for surgery a while ago, but it failed."

"what?"

"Forget it! Let's not talk about unhappy things." Li Zhicheng smiled and changed the subject, "Changyi, this will be your home from now on. You must come and visit often when you are free."

"Yes! Uncle! I will."

After a while, it was time for dinner, and then Suning saw Li Zhicheng's daughter being supported by Xiaolin. She was wearing a big pair of sunglasses that almost covered half of her face, making it impossible for others to tell what she looked like.

"Xixi, this is your brother Jiang, the son of your father's schoolmate."

"Brother Jiang, hello!"

"Hello!" I was so surprised when I heard the girl's name that I almost bit my tongue.

"Aunt, what's my sister's name?"

"Xixi, Li Xixi! What's wrong?"

"Haha, it's nothing!" Su Ning, who had come to his senses, quickly explained with a smile, "It's just the same nickname as a former classmate of mine."

"Oh? What a coincidence!" The question was asked by the invisible Li Qianqian. "Then where is she now?"

"Huh? She should be married in her hometown!"

At the dinner table, Li Zhicheng once again recalled his years at the artillery academy, and then told Su Ning a lot of embarrassing stories about Jiang Defu, except for the "three washes for husband" joke. It might be because Su Ning was just a child and it was not appropriate for him to discuss the elders' too private matters.

Xiaolin, a farm girl who had met Suning once, also sat at the table to eat, but she kept her head down while eating, occasionally helping Li Zhicheng's daughter to pick up some food.

Suning did not have any communication with Xiaolin at the dinner table. After all, the two were not really acquaintances. After dinner, Li Zhicheng asked the driver to take Suning home.

"Old Li, that's not right!" Li Zhicheng's wife, who was in a wheelchair, suddenly looked at him in confusion. "I remember Jiang Defu and An Jie's eldest son was named Jiang Guoqing. I think the name was given by the principal's wife, right?"

"Well! Jiang Changyi is the son of Jiang Defu and his ex-wife. He has been living with his ex-wife in his hometown." Li Zhicheng explained to his wife with a wry smile.

"Ah? Didn't Jiang Defu say that he and his ex-wife had no children?"

"Huh! Who knows!" Li Zhicheng shook his head helplessly. "Back then, Jiang Defu and Lao Ding were the most mischievous people in the artillery school. Now they're relatives."

"Relatives?" Li Zhicheng's wife was even more surprised. "How could they be relatives?"

"Haha, didn't Lao Ding's ex-wife pass away?

Then when Lao Ding went to work on Songshan Island, he married Jiang Defu’s sister Jiang Dehua.”

"Ah? Jiang Dehua?

Is she the sister-in-law who likes to yell all the time?"

"Yeah! That's her!"

"Oh my god! This is amazing."

“Haha, yes!

Fate is so wonderful."

Xiao Lin sent Li Qianqian back to the bedroom. Just as he was about to leave, the blind girl, Li Qianqian, wearing sunglasses, called out to him, "Xiao Lin, why do I feel like you're a little absent-minded today?"

"Ah? Is there any?"

"Hehe, Xiaolin, are you hiding something from me?"

"No! Absolutely not!" Xiao Lin was worried that Li Qianqian would misunderstand, so he gritted his teeth and explained what happened today. "It's about the guest who came to your house today. I've met him before, and I even extorted one dollar and fifty cents from him."

"Ah? What's going on? Tell me quickly." Although Li Qianqian couldn't see, her curiosity was still very strong.

"Huh? Actually, it's nothing." Seeing Li Qianqian's curious face, Xiao Lin had to explain, "I took a leave of absence to go home a while ago, and I ended up running into him at the Xinhua Bookstore in our town. He was looking for middle and high school textbooks, and I thought I had an old set myself, so I wanted to sell it to him for a little bit."

"Oh? And you asked him for a dollar and a half?"

"Yeah! I'm worried that if your father, Mr. Li, finds out, he might just fire me."

"Haha, no!" Li Qianqian couldn't help laughing, then shook her head nonchalantly, "It's not a big deal. My parents definitely won't care."

"Well! That's good!" Xiaolin finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this job was really important to her.

"By the way, what does Jiang Changyi look like?"

"Huh? It's hard to say." Thinking of Suning's dark face, Xiao Lin was a little troubled. After all, Suning was also a guest of the Li family.

"Tsk! What's so bad about that?

If it looks good, it looks good; if it doesn’t look good, it doesn’t look good.”

"He is too dark, just like the black Bao Gong in the storytelling. He doesn't look good at all." Xiao Lin gritted his teeth and told Su Ning's true appearance.

"Oh no!"

(End of this chapter)