Chapter 34: Demerit On Record   Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

Gu Yan looked at Han Jiao in all seriousness.

Zhang Cuihua was extremely panicked.

Han Jiao understood everything once she looked at the expressions on Gu Yan and Zhang Cuihua’s faces and listened to their conversation.

Even if they conducted an investigation, the results would be self-evident.

Han Jiao was a little harsh and a little straight-forward, but the good thing about her was that she knew right from wrong.

She nodded and said, “I will send someone to do an investigation. If it really is Zhang Cuihua’s malicious slandering, then I will give her a demerit on her record.”

Han Jiao hadn’t even started the investigation yet and said all those things. Gu Yan smiled; it was a good thing that their leader was one who distinguished right and wrong.

And what happened today was really because Zhang Cuihua was too stupid.

Gu Yan impersonated Gu Moli? How did she even think of that!

Anyone would understand what was going on once they looked at the names.

The two of them walked out of Han Jiao’s office together. Zhang Cuihua was still a little bit indignant.

“Gu Yan, did you do that on purpose? If this is really a misunderstanding, did you really have to ask the Platoon Leader to give me a demerit?”

In the military, having a demerit on record was a terrible thing.

Many things would be affected in the future. It was like having something terrible on your resume.

Gu Yan sneered and said, “Have you ever thought about what would happen to me if your slandering really worked?”

What would happen to Gu Yan was not something as simple as a demerit on record.

If she was believed to be an impostor, then Gu Yan would be discharged and sent home immediately. She would never be able to pursue a successful career working for the nation for the rest of her life.

And if she was sent home with a demerit like that, everyone in the village would point their fingers at her and poke her to the bottom of the ground.

After all, gossip was scary.

She didn’t care about Zhang Cuihua, who had frozen on the spot, and strided away.

Han Jiao’s investigation results came quickly; it was exactly as Gu Yan said.

One day, Han Jiao publicly announced Zhang Cuihua’s demerit on record during a morning training, and there would be an extra hour of reeducation every day for a month.

Zhang Cuihua refused to obey and wanted to fight the punishment with Han Jiao, but Han Jiao said that there would be another demerit if she kept on causing trouble..

That scared Zhang Cuihua, and she never fought again.

After a day of training and studying, she had to go to Han Jiao’s office for reeducation, which was really just listening to Han Jiao reading out how people should behave properly.

Listening to those things made Zhang Cuihua want to fall asleep, but she did not dare to.

However, she really resented Gu Yan.

This went on for a month, then came Gu Yan’s first afternoon break since she arrived at the military.

Those who were from the city would go home and rest, even if they could only stay for half a day. They were all around 18 or 19 years old, and the whole month of high-intensity military lifestyle made everyone shed a layer of skin. They had to clench their teeth and power through everything in the military, but once they went home, that was when they could get some rest.

Guo Rou and Lin Xiaoyu both returned to the courtyard, but Shen Jiayi didn’t go.

In terms of Zhang Cuihua, she dragged Xu Miaomiao outside for a shopping trip.

They had entered the city for a month and spent every day in exhaustion. Now that they were finally having a half-day break that they looked forward to, they had to go out and have some fun.

Xu Miaomiao was ingenuous and never knew how to reject people.

On top of that, she was from the same town as Zhang Cuihua.

Thus, Zhang Cuihua decided to cultivate Xu Miaomiao as her attendant.

Of course, the most important thing was that she was only here for a month and didn’t know many people. The people around her...even Gu Yan, who also came from the countryside, was not someone who she dared to mess around with.

One had to say that even though Zhang Cuihua had not yet reached the level of learning from every mistake, she was pretty good at treating people differently according to their temperaments.

That was why now she treated Guo Rou and Lin Xiaoyu even better than her biological sisters.

To use a phrase from a few decades later, she was riding on their coattails.

It was unfortunate that Guo Rou didn’t want anything to do with her. Lin Xiaoyu always followed Guo Rou, so she was never any nicer to Zhang Cuihua; she even despised her.

Gu Yan decided to go out as well.

She didn’t have to write a letter home. She went out because she had to go to the bookstore to buy some reference materials to study.

She had to leave early so that she could come back early. She wanted to call Lu Ye then.

It had been a month; she wondered if his wounds had all healed.

In terms of buying new books, her nest egg was the 50 yuan that she saved for a long time with the intention of buying books. She wouldn’t buy too many because there were other areas that needed money.

However, Gu Moli had “gifted” her some money before.

Why not use that money?