309: Chapter 107 Little Gourd’s Little Secret from the Past 309: Chapter 107 Little Gourd’s Little Secret from the Past As the saying goes, success in business, failure in love… This comparison might not be quite precise, but overall, after losing Eldest Miss Li, Wang Yunxiao found that his cultivation efficiency seed to have taken a leap.
He didn’t know whether he originally had any talent for martial arts.
Han Bin and Old Master He had both asked him if he had practiced martial arts before, but he couldn’t rember at all.
However, after that punch that day, his Ren and Du ridians seed to have been opened.
The complicated and obscure fist manuals and ntal thods in the books suddenly beca intelligible, and cultivating inner strength through ditation beca completely unhindered.
The effect of his own cultivation for one Chinese hour was almost equivalent to a full day’s cultivation for his peers.
But he faintly felt that it wasn’t because he had suddenly beco smarter, but rather that his body had recovered muscle mory and found a familiar rhythm.
When he first transmigrated, his mory stopped at that afternoon when he was sixteen, and everything after that was blank.
Since that day, he had rembered many things that happened later.
In his college days, and after graduating from college, he joined the army due to his exceptional talent and was assigned to a secret military unit…
The mories after that were still blank, but at least one thing was certain: the military martial arts provided in the Garrison Soldiers’ training materials had been practiced by him in his previous life, which is why he could pick them up again so efficiently.
Then there was history.
In the mories he had recalled this ti, there was a change in the historical tiline.
That’s why history can’t be studied… If a person’s mind contains several historical tilines at the sa ti, one could easily confuse oneself.
Youtiao wanted to have a private chat with him, and Wang Yunxiao thought he wanted to talk about the salary.
The salary retrieved from the police departnt was directly taken by Wang Yunxiao to Principal Zhou, who approved a note and sent it to the school’s finance office.
This wasn’t due to mistrust of Youtiao, who was the Quartermaster, but rather due to concerns about carrying a large amount of money attracting unnecessary trouble.
People like Eldest Miss Li could treat money like it ans nothing, spending a thousand Money on a servant girl for fun, but they, the poor, didn’t have such audacity and still had to live their lives earnestly.
Ah, thinking of Eldest Miss Li again, the rich young lady just like that slipped away, heartbreaking to the point of breathlessness.
“Big brother, do you rember the incident when Little Gourd asked us to go to the small auditorium?”
With that question, Youtiao caught Wang Yunxiao off guard.
He had no mory of the original owner’s past, which Youtiao ought to know.
Amnesia wasn’t really a big deal.
Those in the Grey Military Uniforms from the Special Service Bureau drank mutton soup every day; in the past, Wang Yunxiao thought there must be so unspeakable conspiracy, but now he could sowhat empathize.
Not having amnesia was not an option, experiencing such events every day put too much ntal strain on a person, and could easily break them.
“What about Little Gourd?”
“Nothing, I just wanted to ask if it was because of that incident that you beca wary of her.”
“What incident?”
Wang Yunxiao was totally confused.
Youtiao took a deep breath and, lowering his voice, said, “The neighborhood we lived in back then, it blew up just like a few days ago.
If it wasn’t for Little Gourd calling us to the small hall to play, we wouldn’t have survived.
She rarely played with us before, so her behavior that day was particularly strange, as if she had known in advance sothing was going to happen.”
“I was suspicious at that ti, but you, big brother, wouldn’t let ask…
after all, Little Gourd’s family was gone too.”
Wang Yunxiao thought for a long ti before he finally understood what Youtiao ant.
Two years ago, during the war, the neighborhood where they had lived was bombed, and then heavy overnight rain turned it into a muddy ground.
Wang Yunxiao used his own two hands to dig them out from underground, and thereafter they depended on each other for survival, and this beca the basis for his brothers’ unconditional trust in him as their leader.
But this matter couldn’t be thought through deeply, as thinking deeply would reveal many issues.
For instance—why were only they the ones to survive?
The adults, no matter what, were physically stronger than the children, so why did none of the thirteen families have an adult survivor?
The answer is: they were luckier.
At that ti, there was a small hall next to the residential area, and on that day, all the kids had been called over by Little Gourd to play there.
Although the small hall was later bombed too, because it had a more spacious interior and was located on higher ground, it wasn’t flooded by the nightti rain, which was key to their survival.
But this led to a new question—why did Little Gourd coincidentally call them over that day?
Little Gourd… no, Jiang Xiaotang was truly from a respected, scholarly family.
In that era, with its relatively conservative and traditional mindset, it seed impossible that she would mingle with them, having co from all walks of life.
Let alone play together, even just standing together would bring about gossip and whispers if seen by neighbor’s aunts.
But that day was such a coincidence, a coincidence that made one unavoidably suspicious.
Everyone knew that Little Gourd had a secret, specifically her motives for her actions that day.
Back then, everyone was young and didn’t think too much.
If big brother said not to ask, the brothers didn’t ask more.
But as they grew older, and after going through various experiences, and learning more from classes with Nurse Liu, looking back at this event made it seem increasingly suspicious.
Today, as Youtiao brought up this matter, Wang Yunxiao thought carefully and realized there indeed was an issue.
But no matter the reason, the cause and consequences of that ti should not be borne by a child of eleven or twelve.
No one wanted to bla Little Gourd, what everyone was concerned about was whether she would put too much pressure on herself because of the answer to this issue.
“What do you want to do?”
Wang Yunxiao asked Youtiao, and Youtiao just shrugged and chuckled, “Big brother, you always have a decision, what advice could I possibly offer?
I’m bringing this up mainly to ask what you think of Little Gourd.
She is not so young anymore, and if you really don’t plan to pursue her, there are many brothers still waiting.”
“Who?”
Wang Yunxiao imdiately frowned fiercely, “Are you thinking of playing both ends?”
“Pshaw!
I don’t even have a boat!
Not !”
Youtiao quickly defended himself, “I’m just saying, look, we’re about to advance to junior year.
I’ve heard that so of the graduates are already preparing to talk about marriage.
Little Gourd is also grown up; we can’t just let her stay single forever, right?
Normally hanging out with us, her reputation is almost ruined.
What good family would want her now…”
In those tis, graduating middle school and getting married was very normal for ordinary people.
It wasn’t a matter of whether or not it was safe or suitable; the average national life expectancy made it so.
If you remained single till forty in the future, you were still considered young, but at that ti, you were practically ready for burial.
No, without offspring, you wouldn’t even be buried, only a lonely sleep in Chaotic Grave Mound.
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