Chapter 29: Xu Sanduo Actually Knows How To Bootlick??
Gao Cheng spoke about these things with flying colors, making it sound incredibly awesome, but they were all just basic items that could only fool the new recruits.
Seeing the Company Commander fooling the new recruits, Shi Jin and Wu Liu Yi exchanged glances, wanting to laugh but not daring to.
They could only hold it in hard!
Meanwhile, Xu Sanduo in the audience liked reading and had the habit of remembering everything he heard and saw, though his method was quite special—he needed to repeat it aloud with his mouth to fully memorize it.
Hearing Company Commander Gao Cheng speak so enthusiastically, Xu Sanduo thought it was something very important, so he started earnestly reciting it there again.
After passionately finishing a long speech, Gao Cheng noticed Xu Sanduo muttering softly there.
Thinking about how energetically he had spoken, yet a new recruit below was distracted, Gao Cheng immediately became displeased and pointed at Xu Sanduo, shouting, “That one, that soldier, you, you, you, stop looking around—it’s you.”
Shi Jin followed the Company Commander’s finger and saw it pointing at Xu Sanduo, immediately sensing trouble in his heart.
His heart leaped to his throat!
Xu Sanduo, looking dazed, was still glancing left and right, unaware that the Company Commander was calling him, until Cheng Cai reminded him from the side, and he finally looked at Gao Cheng in confusion.
“Stand up, quick.”
Gao Cheng realized it was that surrender soldier and immediately roared at him.
Xu Sanduo jolted in fright and quickly stood up.
“What are you muttering about there? I’ve been talking the whole time, and you’ve been muttering nonstop, huh?” Gao Cheng asked, very displeased.
“Report to Company Commander, I didn’t say anything.”
Xu Sanduo answered truthfully—he really hadn’t said anything.
Because he was just repeating.
“Sit down.”
Xu Sanduo’s muttering was very soft, and Gao Cheng hadn’t heard it clearly, so he didn’t pursue it and continued from where he left off.
“Phew—”
Shi Jin let out a long breath of relief; his heart had nearly jumped out just now.
“Let’s continue. Besides what I said earlier, there’s shooting for various infantry guns, target indication for regimental and battalion artillery, vehicle-mounted radio…”
Gao Cheng adjusted his emotions and continued speaking with flying colors, but his face fell after just a few sentences.
He heard that muttering again!
With a dark face, very displeased, he said coldly, “That soldier, stand up for me—the one from just now.”
“Huh???”
Shi Jin saw Xu Sanduo called again, his heart that had just settled leaping back to his throat, his hands on his knees involuntarily clutching his pants.
He was really nervous!
Shi Jin had been in Seventh Company for over ten years; he knew better than anyone how high the threshold of Steel Seventh Company was and how difficult it was to bring Xu Sanduo in.
If Xu Sanduo made another mistake and offended Gao Cheng, entering Steel Seventh Company would become even harder.
After Xu Sanduo stood up, Gao Cheng asked impatiently, “Tell me, what exactly are you muttering? Can you tell me?”
“Report to Company Commander, I’m reciting.”
Xu Sanduo still didn’t know he had angered Gao Cheng and grinned with his big white teeth as he answered.
“Reciting? Reciting what?” Gao Cheng was a bit confused.
“Just reciting what you said earlier, to remember them all.”
“You’re reciting my words?”
Gao Cheng’s expression did a one hundred and eighty degrees reversal, saying like he had seen something rare, “Oh wow, you’ve got that skill? Quick, recite it for me—what did I say earlier?”
Being able to recite after hearing once was indeed a very rare ability.
At least Gao Cheng had never encountered it in his life!
Xu Sanduo’s mind was simple; when Company Commander Gao Cheng told him to recite, he started reciting.
“Shooting for various firearms, of course various terrains, including night combat environment, firearm principles, maintenance and repair, combat vehicle driving, mastery of vehicle-mounted weapons, station vehicle maintenance and simple repair, individual soldier anti-tank and combat vehicle training, individual anti-tank missile…”
Xu Sanduo’s photographic memory was no joke; except for his heavy Henan accent, the content was basically ninety percent accurate.
“Oh wow, impressive.”
Gao Cheng was stunned by Xu Sanduo’s memory ability and exclaimed in admiration, “This soldier, what’s his name again?”
“Report.”
Xu Sanduo had pleased the Company Commander, and Shi Jin felt great inside, standing up with a beaming smile, “His name is Xu Sanduo.”
“This Xu Sanduo is something else; this memory—I thought he only knew how to surrender.”
Gao Cheng’s interest was fully piqued, and he asked curiously, “Hey, Xu Sanduo, do you understand what I said these mean? You just recite them all.”
“No, don’t know what they mean.” Xu Sanduo answered dazedly.
“You don’t know what they mean?”
Gao Cheng was rendered speechless and continued, “If you don’t even know what they mean, why recite them?”
Shi Jin and the other squad leaders and platoon leaders were all amused by Xu Sanduo’s dazed look and response, except Chen Jun, who frowned without laughing.
“The key part is next; Xu Sanduo, you must remember this.” Chen Jun thought to himself.
In the original drama, Xu Sanduo failed to understand the confidentiality regulations, learning them as if he hadn’t, made a mistake here, and was even more despised by Gao Cheng.
Now, after Chen Jun’s advance prevention, whether Xu Sanduo would remember remained to be seen.
After hearing the Company Commander’s question, under Chen Jun’s watchful frown, Xu Sanduo answered naively, “Report to Company Commander, when I came to the troops to serve, my dad told me to do meaningful things.
I think reciting what the Company Commander said and writing it down later is meaningful.”
Hearing Xu Sanduo’s answer to Gao Cheng, Chen Jun’s frown relaxed, even his mouth corners lifted, and he couldn’t help but smile.
Shi Jin was even more full of surprise and delight on his face, not expecting Xu Sanduo to know how to flatter.
“Good, good, very good—this is a great habit; keep it up, sit down.”
Gao Cheng had been flattered by Xu Sanduo, and it was high-level flattery, very positive, making Gao Cheng feel light as a feather, grinning widely.
Actually, Xu Sanduo hadn’t meant to flatter at all; with his emotional intelligence, he didn’t even know what flattery was.
He was just answering truthfully!
Compared to the original drama’s answer, it was actually quite similar, differing by just a couple of sentences, yet the ending was a complete one hundred and eighty degrees reversal.
This proved that Chen Jun’s advance reminder had achieved better results than he expected.
With Xu Sanduo’s crisis smoothly averted, that silent flattery put Gao Cheng in a great mood, and his boasting became even more enthusiastic.
He boasted about every aspect of Steel Seventh Company, making it sound like the best company in the universe.
The new recruits were all dazzled, their eagerness to be assigned to Steel Seventh Company maxed out, filled with unprecedented enthusiasm.
