Sharing a Dorm with the Enemy from My Previous Life - Chapter 125.2

Extra 1: Living Together Part 2 (2)

“Eat slower. Be careful that you don’t choke.” Qin Yuan shot him a look.

“No, I’ve formed a habit.” Ruan Qingmu said vaguely, “After a month of training according to the army’s rule, all of them are like newly recruited soldiers. You had to grab the dishes when they came out. If you were late, the meat would be all gone!”

Qin Yuan was distressed and amused. “You couldn’t order your own food?”

“You naturally can when you return to school but not during military training.” Ruan Qingmu huffed and puffed while pushing food into his mouth. “There were also a few times when the assembly call was blown not ten minutes after the meal started. Those who chewed slowly were carried out for drill practice when a large portion of their bowl was left unfinished. Usually, they would be so hungry that they screamed.”

Qin Yuan couldn’t help but burst out laughing. “You must be the one screaming from hunger?”

Ruan Qingmu usually ate slowly and leisurely, picking out whatever he didn’t like to eat. When this happened, he was sure to be the first to suffer.

Ruan Qingmu was speechless and got annoyed. “Speak less nonsense. Eat!”

Qin Yuan laughed but did not say anything, watching him wolf down his food, and chuckled lightly after a long time. “What else did you train for?”

Speaking of this, Ruan Qingmu became proud. “There were so many! We had to get up at 6 am for morning exercises, one hour of physical drills, followed by breakfast. We had to start and place our tableware in unison. If someone broke the discipline, everyone in the team had to be punished together – Fuck!”

Qin Yuan suddenly asked, “Did you ever break the discipline?”

Ruan Qingmu almost choked on his rice and stared at him for a long time. “How come you’re so clairvoyant?”

Qin Yuan sighed. “Someone undisciplined like you must’ve suffered a lot.”

Ruan Qingmu’s eyebrows drooped. “Them going for the collective punishment is simply crazy!”

He said with a sad and bitter face, “I forgot to take off my hat and unbuckle my belt when eating. Once the commander saw it, he told our entire class to stand there and watch other people eat. Fuck… everyone in my class looked at me differently and full of detestment as if I was a zombie, you know?”

Qin Yuan smiled. “And then?”

“Lunchtime was only twenty minutes and we also had to tidy up our dining table. My class finally sat down with great difficulty, but the time was up before eating for a few minutes. During the drill practice in the afternoon, standing at attention* and doing push-ups, I seemed to hear the stomach of my classmates around me. It was like a large-scale act of ventriloquism right on the spot!”

*T/N: A military standing posture.

Qin Yuan finally couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Then, you didn’t dare to do it anymore afterward?”

Ruan Qingmu said resentfully, “Why would I still dare to do it? I don’t care if I receive punishment by myself. I’m not terrified of running with weights or standing at attention, but it’s too much to implicate other people.”

Qin Yuan finished the last few bites of rice and cleaned up the dishes while looking at Ruan Qingmu and smiling. Yes, his Ruan Ruan had always been like this. It didn’t matter what happened to him, but he would immediately get anxious when he got others involved.

Ruan Qingmu suddenly stood up, pushed up his sleeves, and grabbed the dirty bowl he was holding. “Let me do it. You’ve done so much alone. I can do this. I’ve even been punished for helping in the cafeteria for three days!”

Qin Yuan was exasperated and amused, dodging his fight. “Enough. You’re tired enough from military training. In the future, I’ll be in charge of everything on weekends. It’s okay for you to be in charge of lying down.”

Looking at Ruan Qingmu’s suddenly red face, he was stunned for a moment and explained as if nothing had happened. “I didn’t mean that. Lying down… means you don’t need to move. I will do everything else.”

Ruan Qingmu suddenly kicked him over. “Shut up! Don’t explain it!”

The more he explained, the hornier he became and the more he felt it meant something!

Qin Yuan smiled and dodged the fake kick. “Or maybe, you can be in charge of something.”

He pointed out his mouth toward the bedroom. “Your police academy is the best at folding quilts, right? In the future, you’re responsible for folding the quilts into tofu blocks every morning. If you’ve learned something useful, I’ll leave the housekeeping to you.”

Ruan Qingmu was in high spirits. “That’s pretty good! Our class’ scores in the housekeeping competition are average, but tofu blocks are a mandatory skill.”

Looking at Qin Yuan’s doting smile, he suddenly jumped on his feet, ran to the door, and brought over the small bag he had brought with him, dumping it out and picking up one of the shiny, little medals. “I wasn’t only capable of implicating others, ah. I got second place in the physical capability competition and helped my class to raise their eyebrows and exhale*!”

*T/N: Raise eyebrows and exhale: describe the happy look after getting rid of a long-term stressed state.

Qin Yuan took the shiny little medal and his expression was gentle. “So impressive.”

The invisible tail behind Ruan Qingmu’s body was wagging happily. “I couldn’t take first place, but nothing could be done. The guy in the first place is from a police family. His arms and height are twice as strong as Fu Songhua’s. I was a few points behind him in ten events in the final physical fitness competition. Fuck! But my shooting points are higher than that son of a bitch’s. It’s no use coming from a police family. They couldn’t have given him a gun since he was young and fought blind JB*.”

*T/N: Blind JB: It means nonsense or bullshit, but the expression is very vulgar and has a stronger tone.

Qin Yuan quietly paused and his expression suddenly became a bit strange. “Ruan Ruan, you like to swear now.”

Ruan Qingmu exclaimed, “Fuck!”

As soon as he spat out the word, he covered his mouth as an afterthought and couldn’t believe it as he stared into his dark eyes. “It’s true… but it’s not my fault.”

The instructors were all like this, and so were the veterans in charge of their housekeeping and discipline, scolding them every day as if they were cursing their grandsons with every foul word coming out of their mouths. Everyone was so used to hearing it that it became a bit of a Stockholm syndrome and they would only feel comfortable once they heard their instructors scold them daily. When parting, people cried and yelled, “Instructor, scold us a few lines of turtle grandson!”

He scratched his head in embarrassment and went a little red. “Wait for me. I will change it in a few days.”

Qin Yuan’s eyes were deep as he lowered his head, with his lips slowly approaching as if choosing the angle of his mouth. “No problem. They said… it’ll be more exciting if you speak vulgar words at special times.”

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