Chapter 50
Chapter 50: Pei Yi
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“That brat did it this time.” The voice of the familiar male voice seemed to be relishing in the other person’s misfortune. “He caused some trouble with the brats from the Cheng and the Xiang families, and the old man is infuriated. He was grounded for a few days, but it didn’t seem to work on him. So, he’s been dumped into the army to see if we can help reform him.”
Jiang Se fetched her water bottle from a corner of her bag. She had barely drunk from it when she heard those words.
It was no wonder that she found the voice familiar. She turned to look and saw a man in camouflage clothes talking to the instructor nearby.
Jiang Se recognized Pei Jinyang. He was Old Man Pei’s son. She had met him before when she had gone over to the Pei residence before. However, they were not close due to the gap in their years. He was Pei Yi’s third uncle.
However, standing beside the Pei family senior was Pei Yi in the same camouflage clothes. His expression was cold, and his hands were tucked in his pockets while he kicked the grass on the field with his military boots.
His hair was still blonde with every strand of his hair flashy. Old Man Pei was utterly infuriated by his hair color, but he would not dye it black no matter what.
“Behave yourself!” His attitude made Pei Jinyang’s expression darken. He could not help but scold him, “Even your grandfather says that you’ve gone too far this time. You should be feeling sorry and improving your ways!”
Pei Yi kept his head lowered and drawled lazily, “I did nothing wrong.”
Jiang Se never expected to meet Pei Yi again so soon after her rebirth, especially in such circumstances.
If this had happened in the past, he would have leaped over jubilantly the moment he saw her.
However, even though they were so close with her being barely five meters away from where he stood with her water bottle in hand, he kept his head lowered. He did not even glance at her with the edge of his eye.
She felt a lump in her throat. However, she did not understand why she was feeling this way.
“How could you say that you’ve done nothing wrong?” Pei Jinyang was infuriated now. He wanted to give his nephew a good kick. However, he was worried that this brat would tell on him, so he lowered his raised leg.
“You went to the Cheng residence every day and beat Uncle Cheng’s monkey until he cried his heart out. Even the adults in their house have come to our house to complain about this!” He glared at Pei Yi and pointed at his hair. “Also, what’s with the hair? This is a military compound!”
Pei Yi’s camouflage clothes were standard enough. He had inherited the height of the Pei family, and he looked like his mother with his long, thin eyes. His expression was what easily triggered another person. The camouflage clothing made him look vibrant and fashionable.
“Cheng Runing, that monkey!” When he heard Pei Jinyang’s words, he wanted to lash out but was suppressed by his uncle. “He was the one who came up with the idea for me to relax in France. If it weren’t for that monkey, Feng Nan would never have ignored me after my return.”
When he mentioned Cheng Runing, he seethed with anger and spoke through gritted teeth.
Jiang Se was not far away from them, thus she naturally heard what he said.
She knew who Cheng Runing was as well. He was a member of the pack of rogues with whom Pei Yi had grown up. They were the closest of friends, but they seemed to have fallen out now. Furthermore, Pei Yi had mentioned her name.
She subconsciously toyed with the water bottle in her hand while she did her best to stay calm.
At the side, Pei Jinyang looked up at her as his sharp senses seemed to have picked up something. However, he quickly retracted his gaze and restrained Pei Yi.
Pei Yi was tall and strong from all the fighting he did all year round. When he was in a fit of rage, even Pei Jinyang had trouble controlling him. It took him a great effort to stop him from thrashing about.
“Just because you’re in a bad mood, you went and beat him up until his nose bled and his face was swollen. The family taught you the skills, yet this is what you use them for?” Pei Jinyang panted without batting an eyelid after speaking. “Uncle Cheng called the family about this. You’ve shamed your old grandfather to no end!”
If this was not the case, the angry Old Man Pei would not have needed to hand the apple of his eye over to his son and have him educated in the army for a while.
Pei Yi struggled to break free and nearly succeeded in doing so.
Pei Jinyang was now panting heavily. He was slightly infuriated from being made a fool of before his comrade. He did not care about the consequences for now as he gave Pei Yi a swift kick. “Behave yourself! Don’t you make a fool out of yourself!”
Pei Yi did not seem affected by the kick at all. It neither hurt nor annoyed him. However, he kept his lips pursed and would not admit that he had done anything wrong. When Pei Jinyang saw this, he could not help but grind his teeth.
After teaching his junior a lesson, Pei Jinyang released Pei Yi, patted his own clothes, and asked the instructor the question with a smile, “Old Liu, are you doing military training now?”
Instructor Liu came from humble beginnings. He made it into the army stationed in the imperial capital with his own efforts.
He could vaguely tell that Pei Jinyang came from some privileged background, but he was on friendly terms with him. When he saw Pei Jinyang bring someone over, introduce him as the apple of his father’s eye, and notice that nobody stopped him to question him about his blonde hair, he had a hunch about what he was dealing with now.
He acted as if he did not witness the quarrel between the uncle and his nephew before this. When Pei Jinyang directed the question to him, he turned to face him.
“These are freshmen from the First Academy.”
There were still more than 10 students running around the field with clenched teeth and laborious footsteps.
Instructor Liu showed no signs of pity. He yelled, “Faster! Anyone who fails to finish within five minutes will do two more laps!”
When he said this, those at the back wailed.
Pei Jinyang glanced at Jiang Se. When Pei Yi had mentioned Feng Nan earlier, he naturally found out about his weakness. He chose not to pick his sore spot and did not bring her up on purpose.
However, he noticed that when Pei Yi mentioned Feng Nan, Jiang Se, who was standing nearby, did not look quite right.
Although she quickly controlled her own expression, Pei Jinyang still narrowed his eyes and pointed at her. “Old Liu, who’s that?”
Instructor Liu looked in the direction in which he pointed and saw Jiang Se.
With her beauty, she was the most eye-catching student among this batch of freshmen. Besides the male freshmen, some of the other soldiers also tried to find out her name in various ways.
Instructor Liu was slightly too old for this. He merely felt that Jiang Se was beautiful and he did not have the fanciful feelings that the younger ones had. However, his impression of her was not great.
He had served as a military training instructor several times before. In his experience, the more beautiful a trainee was, the more squeamish they would be.
However, Jiang Se exceeded his expectations so far. Many of the boys complained incessantly throughout the training sessions, but this pretty girl toughed it out.
She would clench her teeth and carry out the tasks he assigned. She might not be able to accomplish all of them, but she almost never backed down.
Take the five laps around the field for example. The other girls had gathered around him and pleaded. She was the only one who had gotten ready without making a squeak.
Instructor Liu began viewing Jiang Se in a new light after these few days. She was beautiful yet cool. Most importantly, her character seemed to be an unexpectedly great fit for his temper.
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