Chapter Fifty-One There Is A Kind Of Love

  A thorny matter has been settled and I'm in a great mood. After sending the White Wolf back to the mountains, the three of us headed straight for the Seafood Mansion, where I'll be treating everyone to a good time of indulgence.

  "Lao Yu, your dog really has a personality, it doesn't even eat roasted duck!" Jin Gang Pao grabbed a big crab and opened its shell. On the way back, Jin Gang Pao bought a roasted duck to please Bai Lang, but he didn't even sniff it.

  "It's used to eating bloody food, the roasted duck you bought from the street stall must not be to its taste." I made an effort to open my mouth and stuffed the peeled shrimp in. Finally, I could barely eat, it felt great.

  "Thanks to you two for your help this time, I'll give you a toast." Wang Yanpei said, raising her glass.

  "It's okay, old cow, you drink one with her." I didn't even lift my head, my target was fixed on the big prawns in front of me.

  Wang Yanpei gave me a glance, then cheerfully clinked glasses with Jinggaopao and downed the drink in one gulp.

  "You eat slowly, I'll go first. The bill has already been overpaid, not enough to order more." Wang Yanpei put down her wine glass and stood up with her backpack.

  "What are you going to do in the future?" As I watched Wang Yanpei about to leave the private room, I finally lifted my head. To be honest, Wang Yanpei's appearance and figure can be considered a great beauty, and her knowledge and temperament are even more impressive as she comes from a scholarly family. But for some reason, I always have a strange feeling towards her, sometimes it's really hard to tell whether she is Wang Yanpei or Xu Zhaopei.

  "I used to think that I knew a lot as a journalist, but after meeting you all, I realized that many things are not what I thought they were. Tomorrow, I'll submit an application to the station to be a correspondent and travel around, just to clear my mind." Wang Yanpei turned around.

  "Oh," he was going to say something else, but thinking about it, didn't know what to say, and after saying "oh" there was no continuation.

  "I'll drive you there." Jin Gang Pao said, grabbing the crab again, without any intention of sending anyone off.

  "It's okay, I'm leaving." Wang Yanpei said softly, glanced at me and then turned around to open the door and walked out.

  "Lao Yu, you still have the face to say that to me?" Jin Gang pao laughed and threw over a crab leg "Look at your beady eyes."

  "Get out!" I cursed. Wang Yanpei's gaze when she was about to leave looked so familiar, where had I seen it before?

  "Waiter, let's see how much money we haven't spent yet." Jin Gang Pao yelled at the top of his lungs to call over the waiter.

  "The young lady just paid two thousand, and there's still over sixteen hundred left." The waiter tapped the bill with his pen.

  "Discount refund, this is enough." Jin Gang Pao didn't even lift his head while eating.

  "Sorry sir, this restaurant does not give cash refunds." All hotels are like this.

  "Never mind, let's have two more plates of crab. By the way, what good wine do you have?" Jin Gang Pao wiped his mouth with his sleeve again.

  "The best has eighty years of Lafite red wine and..." The waiter was like a family member.

  "Let's open a bottle of red wine and give it a try."

  The waiter hesitated for a moment and then backed out.

  "Lao Yu, try some of this red wine. What's with the awful melon flavor?" Jin Gang Pao frowned.

  "I don't drink, otherwise who will drive later." I was crazily sweeping all kinds of seafood on the table, without even having time to speak.

  Finally, neither I nor Jin Gang could sit up straight anymore, so we called over the waiter to settle the bill.

  "Sir, your total consumption is 41,300 yuan. Here's the bill." The waiter handed over a receipt.

  "What?"

  "How much?"

  I and Jin Gang were stunned, how could it be over 40,000?

  "Sir, your beverage consumption is 40,200 and the food bill is 1,100 yuan." The waiter bowed down to point at the bill.

  "Is this wine over 40,000?" Jin Gang Pao asked, picking up and drinking half a bottle of red wine.

  "Yes, sir. If you don't have enough cash on hand, we also accept card payments here!"

  "No need for that, we have cash." I suppressed my anger and opened the box, took out four stacks of bills and threw them on the table. The waiter picked them up and turned to leave.

  "My grass, I'll let you drink, I'll let you drink..." Seeing the waiter walk away, I grabbed a handful of shrimp skin and threw it at the Jin Gang cannon.

  "I had no idea it was going to be this expensive..."

  "Bring me your bad calabaza, take it back and let your dad taste the wine that's over 40,000..."

  A night of insomnia for me after throwing away 40,000 yuan. After dawn broke, I woke up Jin Gang Pao and handed him the box from last night.

  "Lao Yu, where did this money come from?" Jin Gang Pao asked in surprise, looking at the entirely red scene before him.

  "What else can be done, it's a matter of life and death. Go back and settle the family matters quickly, save a little less. After I retire, follow me out for a while. By the way, return the car to Yang Jun, we'll buy another one ourselves, still that kind."

  "It's just in time for me to go back and get a wife for my second brother, I'll return the car to him immediately, he still owes me a month's salary..."

  ……

  Half a year later.

  Name: Yu Chengfeng. Position: Military Region Special Training Brigade Military Dog Training Squadron Instructor, twice awarded Third-Class Merit, four times Excellent Soldier, and six times Commendation. This comrade has trained hard and performed exceptionally well during his five-year service period, making due contributions to the army's construction. Now that his service period is complete, he is approved to leave active duty and is granted the rank of Second Lieutenant in the 207th Reserve Division. Brigade Commander Tian Yonghua! The disciplinary team removes Yu Chengfeng's shoulder badge and military cap, replacing them with a red flower!

  I stood expressionless; at attention; dressed in uniform with a dozen or so comrades standing proudly on the special training ground, watching as two drill instructors removed the shoulder badges and collar pins from their uniforms.

  "Mount and depart!" The patrol team member gave the order.

  I took off my hat with a standard doffing gesture and handed it over!

  From the moment I took off my hat, I was no longer a soldier on the wind. Looking at the comrades crying around me, I held back tears. I was about to bid farewell to the barracks where I had lived for five years and leave behind the comrades with whom I had shared daily life. My heart was truly bitter and sorrowful. What's the use of men crying?

  Just before leaving the troops, I and the captain applied to go see Naluo again, and the captain approved.

  "Naru, I'm leaving." I came to Naru's cage and bid it a gentle farewell.

  At this time, Naro was unusually cold to me. When she saw my arrival, she shook her head and returned to the kennel.

  I suddenly couldn't bear it and burst into tears, holding onto the cage as a wave of sorrow from deep within me caused all my rationality to collapse. "Naru, these past few days I wasn't really trying to hit you, I had no choice, if I didn't hit you, you wouldn't hate me, if you don't hate me, how can you forget about me..." I sat in front of Naru's cage, wailing loudly.

  There is a special handover procedure in the retirement of military dog training team veterans. Three months before the retirement of any soldier with a service dog, they must start to distance themselves from their dogs and even use violence against them so that the assistant trainers can take over. Because military dogs are highly intelligent and extremely loyal, if the handover is not done well, they will miss their old masters, refuse to eat and eventually starve to death. So before my retirement, I beat Naru multiple times until she saw me as a stranger.

  "Na Lu, I'm leaving, I'm really leaving, not coming back!" I shouted at it loudly. Unexpectedly, Na Lu actually walked out of the kennel and cautiously approached me. It's clear that it still has feelings for me, but is just afraid of being hit by me.

  "How dare you come near me after I hit you like that?" I hugged it through the bars, crying so hard I couldn't catch my breath.

  There is a kind of love called hurt!