The soldier called out her na accurately, and in a commanding tone, stopping her from entering the water.
Jiang Yao was startled.
If she rembered correctly, this tone could only be heard either from an annoyed Lu Xingzhi or a person acting like a spoiled brat in the platoon, one whose nickna was “spiky head”, given by Lu Xingzhi.
Chen Feibai.
It was Chen Feibai on the rock!
Jiang Yao hurled every profanity she knew at Liang Yueze deep down in her heart.
After seeing Chen Feibai, she knew that Liang Yueze lied to her over the phone. Old General Liang was saying that the missing soldier ca from the Jin City platoon, not the other way round. Although they were unsure of the identity of the soldier back then.
Damn it!
Jiang Yao cursed again. She knew that Liang Yueze did it out of concern for her, yet she could not help but feel angry.
She now understood why the na of the sacrificed soldier was not reported in any news.
With the Chen family’s capabilities, it was not a surprise if they could block the publishing of his na on the news.
As the Chen family’s only son, Chen Feibai perished in an act of bravery. It was heroic but tragic at the sa ti.
The Chen family did not want any more heroic acts, they needed an heir.
Chen Feibai’s death was a massive blow to the Chen family and imnse anguish to his parents. If his na was made known, his parents would get hurt even more.
Every ti they read the news, every ti they saw his na, it would bring the pain back again.
Without entering the water, Jiang Yao would not know just how cold and freezing the water of West River could be in November, and how rapid the current was.
It was a re two-ter distance, but Jiang Yao struggled even move.
Fortunately, the water was relatively shallow. She was able to cross it bare-footed initially. As she got closer, she leveraged the kayak’s buoyancy and inched toward Chen Feibai.
She spent more than half an hour trying to navigate the two-ter between them.
“Give your hand!” Jiang Yao extended her hand out in difficulty but seeing him shaking his head disapprovingly, she snorted. “I am here already. If you do that one more ti, I am going to smack you so hard!”
It probably was Chen Feibai’s first ti being berated like this. He thought about it and gave Jiang Yao his hand.
Jiang Yao’s strength was greater than Chen Feibai’s expectation. The mont she grabbed his hand, she imdiately pulled him off the rock. He had no idea how he landed in her kayak.
The sharp edges of the rock sliced through the wounds on his back. The numbness was instantly shattered by the imnse pain as he gritted his teeth. But that woke him up a little too.
“You shouldn’t have co.” Chen Feibai lay on the kayak and looked at Jiang Yao tying a rope on her waist and his. She was fast and seed like she knew her stuff.
Back in the platoon, Chen Feibai rembered hearing about Captain Lu teaching Jiang Yao plenty of things, this seed to be one of them.
In his pain, Chen Feibai thought he could see Lu Xingzhi’s face of regret if he knew later that what he taught his wife was used to save him.
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