Chapter 30: Sharing the burden of hardship
The final punishment of the Bull Demon King exhausted Yun Ye’s entire body. At the age of fifteen, his body was already on the verge of collapse under the high-intensity military training. He had decided not to get up after falling down many times, but for some reason, he struggled to get up and ran forward in a shaky manner. His legs were numb, his lower abdomen was twitching, his lungs seemed to be on fire, and his heart was right next to his throat. He would vomit if he just opened his mouth. Does he have a tendency to be abused? Usually, when I watch Cheng Yaojin, Niu Jinda, and the soldiers in the camp, it’s as if they’re playing a realistic game.
The pain of falling is real, the bleeding is real, and the sweat running down the chin is also real. I have always hoped to brutalize my physique through intense training, but I can’t do it with a simple spirit. The memory is getting clearer and clearer, from the first time I remember, to the time I reached out by the water source. Even my father, who died young, is still vivid in my memory. The more I try to forget, the more firmly I remember. There is no greater sorrow in life than this.
According to legend, the spirits of the dead must drink a bowl of Meng Po soup on the Bridge of Naraka to forget their past lives. Yun Ye, a wandering soul, omits this process, so he can’t eat well, sleep well, laugh heartily, or cry sadly. This is Yun Ye’s thoughts after running twenty laps and falling to the ground like a philosopher.
After a difficult turn, he looked up at the blue sky, and the clouds were really as white as cotton. If it weren’t for the face of a young boy in front of him, Yun Ye really wanted to blend into the blue sky and white clouds.
“Yun Ye?”
“Li Chengqian?”
“Do you know me?”
“If you weren’t the emperor’s son, you wouldn’t be alone.”
Someone was angry, but it wasn’t Li Chengqian. It was really the emperor who was impatient and died of a eunuch. Li Chengqian seemed very excited, squatting down and looking closely at Yun Ye’s head. Finally, there was someone who spoke to him in an equal tone, which made him very curious.
“Did you come up with this training strategy? And the salt-making, iron-forging, and the military weapon in my father’s hands? I came to see if the potatoes with a yield of 15 mu are real.” This time he didn’t use the word “I alone.”
“I only have one breath left. Your Highness, please help me. Let me pass by, don’t block my view of the blue sky and white clouds.”
“Cheng Qian, don’t be offended. This kid is exhausted and stupid.” Li Huai Ren was afraid that the prince would blame him, so he hurriedly explained.
“Brother Huai Ren, you are both officers, how can you train so badly?” Li Chengqian didn’t care about Yun Ye’s attitude. His father had repeatedly told him not to use his position to bully people before he came. Besides, only capable people can ignore the powerful and wealthy, and those who are not capable rely on flattery to get promoted and get rich. Since he was sensible, he had received this kind of education countless times.
“Your Highness, please let me rest for a while before I explain to you in detail what happened.” Li Huai Ren also had no strength to say anything else. At this time, hundreds of personal guards rushed up, and two of them carried the officers to the back tent.
Li Chengqian followed them and saw a long row of wooden barrels steaming with heat. The soldiers quickly stripped off the clothes and armor of their respective masters, leaving only a pair of shorts in the wooden barrels. All kinds of strange noises and strange cries sounded. The water was very hot, and the medicinal herbs were very rich. The medicinal herbs that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis were always a bit irritating. Those with wounds on their bodies were unlucky. While being disinfected, the salt water and medicinal herbs inside attacked together, making the people in the wooden barrels feel like they were dying.
Li Chengqian was shocked and thought he had entered a pig slaughterhouse. He understood the reason after the explanation of the military doctor next to him. The look of hope in his eyes became even stronger.
Yun Ye was in the barrel next to him, peeking at Li Chengqian while howling in a strange voice. Normal males have no resistance to strong competitive games, not to mention that Li Chengqian grew up in a high-walled compound since childhood. Although he yearned for the sword and shadow fighting career of his father and grandfather, fighting career, but he grew up in a women’s crowd, and inevitably lacked masculinity. Today, seeing two hundred men fighting to exhaustion, he had longed for it, and as for the pain in the middle, he had turned a blind eye.
The four major iron men are still clear. Since there is no possibility of whoring together, let’s carry the guns together. Luring Li Chengqian to whoring will get his father beheaded, but luring him to training will surely not be blamed by His Majesty Li Er.
“Your Highness, special forces training is extremely difficult and demanding, a kind of sublimation of the spirit and the body, a power that can turn the rotten into the miraculous. Only the most resilient and best soldiers in the crowd can persevere. And once they persevere, they can be called the king of soldiers in the army. They are not panicked when attacked, they fight to the death, and they know they will die without fear. They are killing machines, only surviving on the battlefield, and using all means to achieve victory. Your Highness has the courage to try, so this spirit must be encouraged, not discouraged. Tomorrow, I will be waiting for His Highness the Crown Prince at the martial arts arena.
Li Chengqian’s hands were trembling with excitement, completely ignoring the pitying looks of the people around him.
Li Chengqian was a little bit regretful, but it was a little bit too late. The Bull Demon King was not called in vain. The ten newly recruited right-hand men, plus the prince, were mixed in with the main group and ran laps for ten miles with weights on their backs. Since the prince was young, he was not given any weights, and his equipment was more than enough for him to drink a pot. The front was not bad, but the five miles in the back was simply crawling back. Fortunately, Li Huiren and Chang Sun Chong, who were brothers, jogged with him, which gave the prince some confidence.
“I can’t run anymore, cousin, cousin, you don’t have to accompany me, or you’ll starve.” Seeing others start to eat, and still running laps, he is still a child, and he still feels guilty.
“What are you talking about? You should focus on running. You are much stronger than Xiaoye when he started training. He had to crawl back to the finish line. The first time we ran together, you were not much better than him.”
There was no mocking laughter from Li Chengqian, only encouragement. His Highness the Prince had accompanied him on the training run, and now he was exhausted. The slight dissatisfaction he had felt from yesterday’s fight had long since disappeared. Qi Qi stood by the side of the track, cheering for the Prince.
When Li Chengqian finally reached the finish line, he was lifted up and thrown into the air by the crowd, and Qi Qi cheered. Li Chengqian couldn’t stand this. Although he was the last to reach the finish line, he had completed today’s training and proved that he was qualified to participate in training. In the cheers of everyone, tears and snot flowed. This was the first time he had gained recognition from others through his own strength, not through his father’s reputation.
In the ups and downs, I saw Cheng Yaojin, and General Niu Jinda nodded with a smile, and a sense of pride suddenly arose. Today I was the last one, but in the future I will definitely become the first.
He gulped down his food, and the food that he had always looked down on tasted extraordinarily delicious today. After a lot of exercise, he needed to replenish his protein. Yun Ye had already explained that boiled mutton and beef would be a necessity. After all, there were so many captured cattle and sheep that there was enough for everyone to eat to their heart’s content. Li Chengqian completely understood why they had eaten so badly yesterday. He believed that his own image at this time would not be much better.
He was stripped naked, without any shorts, and his bare buttocks were soaked in the wooden tub, and he let out a loud wail with everyone else.