Climbing the cliff is a risky move, but fortunately, Qiao Nan did not make a mistake. The accurate judgment of the navigator and the decisive command of the commander finally brought the hope of victory to everyone. The joy is like discovering an oasis in the desert and seeing someone come to the rescue on a vast island. If it were on weekdays, Qiao Nan would have jumped three feet high like a monkey. But now the victory is not in his hands, he just said very calmly, "God help me".

The more you get to this moment, the more you have to calm down, Qiao Nan knows this truth well. After he climbed up with great effort and nine deaths, the other team members also climbed up along the rope. They didn't even catch their breath and rushed to the finish line with confidence. In the end, it took an hour, and it came in second place.

When they saw that the first place was "Lu Yuan", it was as if they had fallen into a glacier.

However, the difference of three or four minutes is enough for them to be in the sky and underground.

The group of young soldiers were cheering, but Qiao Nan and the others were stunned.

How could they fly? Otherwise, how could they run ahead of them?

Do you really want to surrender to them this time?

Qiao Nan was so depressed that he couldn't raise his head, and the other team members lost their strength and collapsed to the ground.

"Get up, even if you lose, you have to stand and lose!

After listening to Qiao Nan's words, even though this group of boys was reluctant, they also supported their bodies and stood straight like they were standing in a military posture. The captain is right, you have to stand and lose if you lose!

The results of other teams have also been shown, Qiao Nan has no time to take care of it, no one is more sad than him, but he still has to behave more calmly than everyone.

Maybe no one knows, Qiao Nan is now full of thoughts about going back to write applications, quitting school and going home! It was he who made the military order, but he did not complete the task and was willing to accept any punishment.

When the competition was over, Instructor Zhu of the University of Science and Technology patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Good job." ”

Qiao Nan knew that the instructor was comforting herself, so she barely squeezed out a smile, and her smile was more ugly than crying: "After the award, I will write a withdrawal application when I go back, and I will not have the face to stay in school anymore." ”

Instructor Zhu looked surprised, but the group of young men around Qiao Nan let out a deafening cheer, and several team members pounced on Qiao Nan and shouted incoherently: "Captain, we are the first!"

Qiao Nan suspected that they were all comforting themselves, but when they looked at the display screen, the comprehensive ranking of HKUST was indeed ranked first, only 2 points higher than the second place.

"Won't we? we're obviously not as fast as them!" Qiao Nan was surprised and delighted, but he was afraid that this was an empty dream, and he didn't know what to do.

Instructor Zhu couldn't cry or laugh, and slapped him on the back of the head: "I said why do you kid look like you are wilting and drooping! Do you think that Lu Yuan has surpassed you?"

"Isn't it?"

"Our school sent two teams over, so we don't allow other schools to send two teams over? The second group of the Lu Academy took a more dangerous road, and only won this one project, and one group was half an hour slower than you!"

Qiao Nan suddenly realized, all the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and a bright beam of sunlight shone on him, he could no longer suppress his joy, knelt on the ground, and shouted at the sky: "We won!!"

Since the training camp, he has always been the captain Qiao Nan, not the twenty-year-old Qiao Nan. At this moment, the tight strings can finally be loosened, and the tired body and mind can finally rest. Captain Qiao Nan finally relieved all the pressure and worries, forgot all the anxiety, and cried and laughed as much as he could, just like the bright and naughty teenager before joining the army.

"It's not easy, it's really not easy!" Instructor Zhu watched from the side, and the corners of his eyes were moist.

Although Lu Yuan was very unconvinced, before parting, they still shouted three times according to the pre-game agreement, "HKUST is the best, HKUST is the strongest, USTC is the champion!"

Qiao Nan was very satisfied, but he expressed his respect to the other party without losing his grace: "You guys are also great, if we don't gamble, I'm afraid this championship will be yours." ”

The captain of the Lu Academy said with regret: "We suspected that the cliff was a trap, and we hesitated and didn't dare to go." It seems that the leaders really want to tell us that on the battlefield, following the rules does not necessarily lead to victory, and at critical moments, we still have to go off the rails! You understand this truth, and of course you will win. ”

"But this doesn't mean that we are convinced, there will be a joint exercise of the military academy when we graduate, if I can still meet you, I will definitely not lose to you at that time!" the captain of the Lu Academy added with confidence.

"Okay, I hope to see you at the graduation exercise. Remember my name, my name is Qiao Nan, class 03, studying communication, graduating next year. ”

"Lu Hao, with you, I will graduate next year if I study computer science. ”

The two captains shook hands, quite a bit of sympathy, and after cherishing each other, they embarked on their respective return journeys.

Qiao Nan led the team back with honors, which made the whole school very excited. It was the 28th of the month when they returned to school, and except for a few students who were watching the school, everyone else had gone home, and the commendation meeting could not be held until after the school started. That's fine, because from the time he took the bus back to school, Qiao Nan fell asleep all the way and went directly to the hospital.

The comrades-in-arms who participated in the competition were going home one after another, and before going home, they did not forget to come to the hospital to see the captain lying on the hospital bed. Everyone has large and small injuries on their bodies, and scars are pieces of military merit. However, Qiao Nan's condition is more serious, his right leg and thigh are strained, and he has to recuperate for a while.

I don't know if anyone has experienced a muscle strain, this injury is not a serious injury, but it hurts terribly when you move. After the doctor finished the examination, he shook his head vigorously: "Are you an iron man?

The scars are shocking, and Tsering is even more guilty - the captain has long been injured, and he has demonstrated him again and again, and participated in all the games, which is simply an interpretation of the word "tenacious" with life!

After winning, Qiao Nan didn't care about everything, even if he was lying in the hospital, he said with a smile: "As long as you are nervous, you don't feel pain." ”

"Since it doesn't hurt, let's go, and don't come in the future. ”

The doctor is the most annoying patient who is disobedient. As soon as he saw that the doctor was angry, Qiao Nan immediately put away his smiling face and said with a bitter face: "But it hurts now." ”

Qiao Nan's expression was sincere, his tone was sincere, and his eyes were as clear as a child. The doctor was also amused by him: "Then take care of it, and if you don't obey, you will be kicked out." ”

As soon as Qiao Nan heard that he was going to be hospitalized, he immediately became anxious: "No, I told my family that I want to go back for the New Year! I went to school last year, but I couldn't go back to my hometown to sweep the graves of my grandparents, and I hope to go back this year!"

The doctor sneered: "You just use this leg to go home?"

"Isn't it okay?" Qiao Nan pleaded.

"If you want to leave sequelae, then go back, and I won't be cured in the future. "The medic is tsundere and tries to make a long story short.

Qiao Nan had to lie back on the bed obediently, feeling very uncomfortable, especially when she thought of the dumplings stuffed with mackerel in her hometown, her saliva was about to flow out.

Port City is a coastal city with the freshest mackerel. The mackerel stuffed dumplings, the main filling is fresh and tender mackerel meat, plus a small amount of leeks and pork belly, it is simply delicious and incomparable, and outsiders will never forget it as long as they eat it once. In the past few years since leaving his hometown, whenever he thinks of the mackerel dumplings in his hometown, Qiao Nan always wants to put on his wings and fly back. But the doctor locked him up here, and he could only taste mackerel dumplings in his fantasy.

Unthinkable, he lay on the bed sullen, and he didn't know who was angry.

On the evening of the 28th of the lunar month, Instructor Zhu of the training team gave him some delicious food and revealed some words to him: "You know that the school is going to organize a special combat team of cadets, right?"

Qiao Nan was at a loss, shaking his head like a rattle: "I don't know, no one has revealed it to me." ”

……

Instructor Zhu was speechless all of a sudden.

After calming down for a while, he said to Qiao Nan: "Everyone else is doing everything possible to inquire about the opportunity to get ahead, why are you like a piece of wood, don't care about anything? Do you have a little elite consciousness and awareness? Have you considered a way out after graduation?"

Qiao Nan was very ashamed: "I really don't understand, I don't usually inquire about things that the instructor didn't say." ”

"Then listen up now, although it's not completely certain, but the cadet special combat team may be established in the next year. In the new era, the requirements for the personal qualities of special combat personnel are certainly different from those in the past, and we have to keep pace with the times. If nothing else, you're going to be recruited, so do you have the confidence to do a good job?"

This news came too suddenly, Qiao Nan couldn't come back to his senses at once, but he didn't have to think too much, and almost blurted out: "I, can I enter? As long as I can enter, I won't embarrass you even if I try my best!"

Hearing that Qiao Nan was willing to join the special combat team, Instructor Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "It's still a plan, I can't draw the cake too big, so that you can't eat it." Let's heal the wound first, and we'll talk about it later. ”

"Okay, Happy New Year to Instructor Zhu!" Qiao Nan laughed with a mouthful of big white teeth.

"Happy New Year, Stinky Boy!"

At dinnertime, Qiao Nan received a call from his father, and when he saw the caller ID of "Dad", he was nervous, the rice porridge stuck in his throat, and his face turned red with cough.

"Hey, ahem... Dad!"

Qiao Jianjun's tone was calm: "Why do you have a cough?

"It's kind of ...... I choked just now. ”

"It's not a march now, eat slowly. ”

"Hmm. ”

……

There was another awkward silence.

In the end, it was Qiao Jianjun who spoke first: "You won't come back, right?"

"The doctor wouldn't let me go back, so I had to stay in the hospital for a few days. ”

"It's okay, take advantage of these few days to rest. ”

"Hmm. ”

……

Qiao Jianjun glanced at the two fresh mackerel on the board, and thought to himself, this kid can't eat it again this year. He felt very uncomfortable, but said, "Well, when I go back to my hometown tomorrow to go to the grave, do you have anything to say to your grandparents?"

Qiao Nan thought for a while and said, "Say sorry to them, I can't go back to see them this year." ”

"You are outside, you can't come back often, your grandparents will understand when they are there, you just have to talk about it in your heart. ”

"Hmm. ”

……

Qiao Nan scratched his ears and cheeks, not knowing how to carry on the conversation, but fortunately Qiao Jianjun said: "Hang up, I have to be busy with New Year's goods, you can rest well!"

Qiao Nan was relieved and finally hung up the phone. But how to spend the long night? Everyone is gone, and there is not even one to speak. His comrades-in-arms left him a computer, but Qiao Nan vowed to quit gaming, even during the break, he would not play games again.

After dinner, chatting in every way, there was a sense of desolation in my heart, let's sleep! I don't know how long I slept, as if something was wandering on my eyelashes, and a girl muttered: "The eyelashes are dense and long, and they look better than a girl's!"

Qiao Nan closed her eyes, but held her hand coldly. The girl was startled, but her hand was restrained by Qiao Nan, and she couldn't take it out.

"If you want to sneak attack me, it's not that easy!" Qiao Nan still closed his eyes, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The girl laughed, "Who attacked you?

Qiao Nan's heart was sweet, and he immediately turned over, stared at his girlfriend, and smiled like an idiot. Xue Dongmei was still wearing the coat she wore last time, but she looked a little thinner, and her clothes hung empty on her body.

"Why are you here? I'm not dreaming, are I?"

Xue Dongmei said with a smile: "As soon as you finished telling me that you won the first place, you fell asleep holding the phone, and in the end, it was your brother surnamed Zhao who helped you finish the call and told me that you were in this hospital." I didn't think I would tell me about the injury, so I went to the bus station overnight and came by car. ”

After Xue Dongmei finished speaking, she got closer. The girl exhaled like an orchid, but she spoke as delicate as a little woman: "Praise me!"

Qiao Nan scratched her nose with her hand: "You are so good!"

His hands are a little rough.

Also, his hands were ground with layers of blood blisters, and finally they all turned into thick cocoons, how could they not be rough? His palms were still wrapped in gauze, and when they were removed, they were again cocoons.

Qiao Nan comforted her and said, "Each of us is like this, it's not a big deal, it'll be fine in a few days." ”

Xue Dongmei held his hand distressedly and kissed it emotionally: "Thank you for these hands, in exchange for the peace and contentment of the people." ”

Qiao Nan kept telling her interesting stories about the game, and Xue Dongmei listened to it with relish. But after all, she sat in the car for too long, kept dozing, and finally fell asleep in Qiao Nan's arms.

Qiao Nan hugged his girlfriend and wondered again if she had changed her soul, she was studying so hard at that time, but in front of him she was a gentle and lovely little woman, not at all as strong as a scholar, so he wanted to do his best to protect her.

"Dongmei, are you asleep?"

"What's the matter?"

"Are we here for the New Year?" Qiao Nan asked in a low voice.

“……”

Xue Dongmei didn't speak, Qiao Nan showed a wicked smile, and said in her ear: "Why don't you help me escape from here!"