42. One million crystals

After handing over the matter of Tang Shu to Duan Zhuo, Jian Ling walked out of the office and habitually went to You Jian's ward to take a look. He has now been transferred out of the intensive care unit and is living in a general ward, where internist Tao Wen is responsible for postoperative follow-up and recuperation.

As soon as she walked into the ward, she saw Xia sitting on the edge of the bed, chatting with You Jian.

You Jian was very grateful to this life-saving benefactor who always looked cold, and when he saw her coming, he immediately greeted her with a smile: "Doctor Jian, hello, sit down." ”

"Hello," Jian Ling didn't sit down, just stood at the end of the bed, put his hands in his pockets, and glanced at Xia coldly, "Why are you here?" ”

"You know?" You Jian looked at the two of them, and his surprised mood was all written on his face.

This twenty-nine-year-old young captain has been in the barracks for nine years, and the boring and depressing military life has not made him dull, but has made his personality more cheerful, and he can enjoy himself in any kind of predicament.

- Just like now, knowing that his body could no longer touch the gun and that he had to retreat from the front line, he still smiled at everyone who came to visit him.

Xia didn't answer Jian Ling's question, and reached out to pat You Jian's shoulder: "Don't worry, over the years, your achievements are obvious to all, you are a proud warrior of the empire, and I have applied to the headquarters to transfer you to a civilian position." You have to recover quickly, the clerical job is not as easy as you think, you have to study hard and don't embarrass me as a referee. ”

In the face of the general's encouragement, You Jian seemed a little powerless: "You think too highly of me, in fact, I am a waste person who is thrown everywhere, as long as I don't cause trouble to the empire." ”

Xia's expression suddenly became extremely serious: "No one can say that the soldiers of the empire are waste"

One sentence touched the depths of You Jian's heart, and he was shocked: "Am I still a warrior like this......"

"I have brought a lot of soldiers, many people have come and gone, some of them have become members of Congress, some have gone back to their hometowns to marry their wives and children, and many have died in battle and never returned...... No matter what they are doing, as long as the empire needs them, they can immediately stand up and defend their homeland, this is the warrior of the empire" Xia looked at him quietly, countless stars flashing in his dark eyes, "Tell me, can you?" ”

With tears in his eyes, You Jian raised his right hand to his eyebrows, and replied excitedly and loudly: "Yes"

Xia couldn't help laughing, Yingting's eyebrows softened a lot because of this shallow smile, and a sense of pride mixed with satisfaction arose.

After appeasing You Jian, Xia said that there was still something to do, so he got up and left first.

Looking at You Jian's tightly clenched fists, Jian Ling didn't bother him, turned around and walked out of the ward. Not surprisingly, when she went out, she saw Xia leaning against the wall of the aisle, and the two looked at each other, and he smiled first.

Jian Ling took the door of the ward with his hand, walked over slowly, and looked at him with a smile: "It is worthy of leading soldiers, and it is really clear to fool people." ”

"There's no way, you have to have some real skills to eat this bowl of rice, otherwise I would have been kicked off this position a long time ago."

Jian Ling glanced at him noncommittally: "I just happened to meet you, I have something to tell you." ”

"Huh?"

"Can you lower the amount of training for recruits? Maybe a 10-kilometer trail run is a trivial matter for you, but they are different, many of them are recent graduates from the academy, they have not received such a large amount of exercise before, and suddenly they do such a large amount of strenuous exercise at once, and their bodies are prone to problems. ”

"Is it because a recruit fell in the morning?"

"No, he fainted because of his own problems, but I have been carefully observing in the past few days, and the other recruits have some **** reactions, and I am very worried about whether their bodies can afford to eat."

Xia's gaze slowly sank: "Are you worried that they won't be able to accomplish the goal I set?" You don't have faith in my soldiers? ”

"You know I didn't mean that."

Xia pondered for a while: "Do you know how long the recruit training period is?" ”

The topic changed too quickly, Jian Ling couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and subconsciously replied: "One year." ”

"For a year, they can stay safely on the base, but after a year, they will be ready to be transferred to the front line. If they can run a little faster than others, or be more persistent than others, they can have more vitality than others. ”

The battlefield is a field of struggle with death. He hopes that his soldiers can be stronger, stronger, and that being alive is the premise of all goals, isn't it?

Jian Ling moved the corners of her mouth: "They may not necessarily understand your hard work. ”

"Does it matter?"

Doesn't it matter? Jian Ling thought for a moment, this is like her curing diseases and saving people, if cutting off limbs can make the patient survive, she will definitely be the executioner without hesitation, all she cares about is human life, it doesn't matter whether others understand it or not.

The way he trained his soldiers was crude and brutal, but it was simple, but as a doctor, she still disagreed—there were many ways to train, and there were relatively mild but effective options to choose from, and of course, she knew that he would not agree to it even if she said it.

The two of them live in different worlds and understand each other, but each has its own persistence. This kind of thing is not something that can be changed in a few words.

Forget it, she didn't want to waste any more words, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Wait," Xia stopped her, hesitated, but still smiled cheekily at her, "What, can you lend me some money?" ”

“……”

"All my net worth has been saved in that card, and after giving it to you, I have a few hundred crystal coins left on me, and now I really borrow money to use it, and I will pay you back as soon as I have money." If you don't believe me, I can make an IOU and promise to pay you back in seven days. ”

“…… How much? ”

He held out a finger: "One million crystals." ”

The corners of Jian Ling's eyebrows twitched, there is so much money in the card of this goods? She hadn't used the black gold card since she was stuffed before, and she didn't know how much money it was.

Originally, the money was his, and it didn't matter if he gave it all, but according to Jian Ling's understanding of him, he had a kind of machismo in his bones, and he was definitely not the kind of man who would casually ask a woman to borrow money, which made her a little curious: "What do you want so much money for?" ”

He thought for a moment and slowly said the reason: "You Jian's operation was successful, but it still left sequelae, and according to the regulations, the military department should give a partial pension." However, the boss said that he was not injured on the battlefield, and did not agree to pay the money according to the level of battle wounded, and 50,000 crystal coins was the maximum amount I could fight for You Jian. ”

50,000 Crystals...... When Jian Ling heard this number, he couldn't help frowning, it was indeed too little.

"In addition to You Jian, there are also several soldiers who were injured and disabled or even lost their lives by Major General Zhou before, and the military department in the name of accidents, the injured and the disabled will each be compensated with 30,000 crystals, and the deceased will be compensated with 60,000 crystals each. I fought with the leaders of the military department for a long time, but they only said that this was the number set by the National Assembly, and they could not change it privately. I went to the old guys in the House of Representatives, but it didn't work, they have their principles, and they won't change their principles because of a few unknown soldiers. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but pause, subconsciously took out the cigarette in his pocket, and remembered that this was a hospital, so he could only frown and stuff it back: "I have checked the victimized soldiers, their family background is not very good, one of the deceased is the only son in the family, his parents are the lowest workers, the monthly income does not exceed five hundred crystals, and I am counting on this son to send them to the end in the future, so I want to try my best to help them." ”

"Take it," Jian Ling took out the black gold card from his wallet and looked at him lightly, "If you take it, you don't have to pay it back, I don't need your money." ”

He took the black gold card, and his deep gaze lingered on her for a long time: "I owe you a personal favor again." ”

Jian Ling put his hand back in his pocket and turned away expressionlessly: "If you want to repay my favor, reduce the training volume of the recruits." ”

He smiled dumbly: "These are two different things. ”

Expected answer.

Jian Ling quickly walked away, Xia took the black gold card back to the office, took out a million from it, divided it into several copies according to the accounts of those soldiers, and then called them, informing them of the pension one by one, of course, he didn't say a word about the matter of paying out of his own pocket.

Knowing that the empire had given such a generous pension, the soldiers and their relatives were so moved, especially the parents of the workers, who were so excited that they cried over the communicator.

For them, what they received was not a sum of money, but an important affirmation from the Empire, believing that their son must be watching from heaven and that the Empire to which he was loyal had not forgotten him