Chapter 082
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Chapter 082 Yesterday Gone
“Why don’t you let your men find a place to move freely, and you ride in my car? How about that?” Su Rui said.
“Of course! With the beautiful An Ke here, even if you didn’t let me ride in your car, I wouldn’t agree to leave!”
After saying this, Qin Ranlong directly climbed into the back seat, sitting side by side with Zhou Anke, then patted Su Rui who was sitting in the driver’s seat, and said: “Lieutenant, drive us well.”
Su Rui pursed his lips, so he had become this guy’s free driver!
However, Ninghai Library wasn’t far away. Before Qin Ranlong could get much information from Zhou Anke, the girl got out of the car.
As soon as Zhou Anke got out, Qin Ranlong was immediately filled with regret: “Lieutenant, why couldn’t you drive around Ninghai for ten or eight circles? If not that, you could have at least picked a traffic jam section. It’s only been ten minutes, and you let her get out!”
“If you keep chattering, you’ll be paying for dinner tonight,” Su Rui said.
“I don’t mind paying!” Qin Ranlong appeared very confident at this moment: “Money is the thing I lack least.”
Speaking of this, this guy seemed somewhat dejected again: “But what I lack most is a soulmate, and Miss Zhou Anke is exactly my type!”
Su Rui really didn’t want to pay attention to this guy; finding a restaurant to shut him up was the right way to go.
At seven o’clock, Ninghai was just lighting up, with an enchanting night scene.
In this modern city, the two of them finally found an open-air barbecue street.
It was very close to Ninghai University Town, so once evening came, business was booming.
“Let’s go with this one.”
Su Rui and Qin Ranlong glanced at the passing college girls while wandering to a barbecue stall called “Er Zheng Barbecue.”
The owner of the barbecue stall looked to be in his thirties, wearing a white T-shirt, always smiling. For some reason, there were particularly many female students at this barbecue stall, seemingly all coming for the owner, calling “Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng,” making one feel a numbing sensation in their bones.
“Boss, grill two pounds of lamb, fifty skewers of crispy bone, ten chicken wings, ten squid skewers, and two portions each of enoki mushrooms and vegetables, and bring a case of beer.”
Su Rui called out directly.
“Alright, please wait a moment.” The young owner wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: “Ningxia, help me attend to the customers. Since we moved this barbecue shop from the capital to Ninghai, those few girls don’t often come to help anymore, and I can barely keep up!”
“Serves you right, insisting on experiencing life in a different city, bringing trouble upon yourself.”
Although the girl called Ningxia was complaining, the happy smile on her face undoubtedly explained everything. She walked to the young owner’s side and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel.
Su Rui watched somewhat entranced, and couldn’t help but sigh: “A couple’s shop like this is the life I want in the future.”
Qin Ranlong pursed his lips: “Lieutenant, come on, if you brought the ice-cold sister-in-law to run a barbecue shop, what if the fairy gets tainted with the smoke and fire? God, that scene is too beautiful, I simply can’t imagine it.”
The barbecue shop served quickly. Just a few minutes after ordering, the owner called “Er Zheng” began to successively bring the grilled meat skewers to them.
“Lieutenant, I always feel it’s inconvenient to call you that in front of so many strangers. If you don’t mind, I’ll call you big brother.”
Qin Ranlong opened a bottle of beer with his teeth and poured a glass for himself and Su Rui.
“No problem at all,” Su Rui said.
“Great!” Qin Ranlong hadn’t expected his scheme to succeed. Previously, he had cried and begged countless times to acknowledge Su Rui as his master, but Su Rui had never agreed, always saying he already had a disciple and couldn’t take another. Unexpectedly, today he had turned Su Rui into his big brother. How could Qin Ranlong not be overjoyed?
Even if Qin Ranlong didn’t call him that, Su Rui had long considered him his little brother.
“Big brother, not seeing you for so many years, I’m really quite emotional,” Qin Ranlong said, taking a big bite of lamb.
“Why so sentimental? Come on, bottoms up.”
Su Rui raised his glass, clinked it with Qin Ranlong’s, and then drank it all in one go.
“Big brother, you once said that the military camp is the best training for a person, and that statement is absolutely true.” A reminiscent look appeared in Qin Ranlong’s eyes: “Back then, I was as rebellious as could be, wanting to tear down those barracks, but unexpectedly, on the day of discharge and farewell, I cried worse than anyone. In my twenty-some years of life, I had never shed so many tears as I did then.”
“Then why did you leave the service? If you liked the military green so much, you could have stayed in the army. With your family connections, you could have had better development wearing the uniform.”
Su Rui also took a bite of lamb; the smell of chili powder and cumin rushed into his stomach, very spicy, very pungent, very flavorful.
“I know, although I was reluctant, it wasn’t suitable. My personality is too straightforward, I couldn’t stand many things. Better to take off the uniform before getting tired of it, leaving a memory for the future,” Qin Ranlong said with a bitter smile. “If I had waited until I was extremely disgusted with the uniform before taking it off, that would have been too tragic.”
Su Rui nodded, agreeing with Qin Ranlong’s words. Some people, no matter how outstanding their physical qualities, if their personality likes to break rules, they are absolutely not suited to be soldiers for life.
“Big brother, what about you? Why did you leave the army?”
Hearing this, Su Rui’s expression changed, and many past events flashed before his eyes.
“Big brother, you are my idol. To be honest, I’ve never seen anyone more suited to be a soldier than you. You were born for that uniform.” Qin Ranlong’s eyes revealed a look of admiration: “Big brother, your brilliance back then could be described as peerless without exaggeration.”
Su Rui couldn’t help but rub his nose: “Isn’t that word a bit exaggerated?”
“Not at all.” Qin Ranlong said: “Although I can be quite silly sometimes, I’m not stupid. To be honest, I like Sanda, and later those international-level Sanda coaches who taught me since childhood couldn’t get the upper hand when sparring with me, but you took me down with one move!”
“Big brother, just for this point, no matter how stupid I am, I can see what level you could reach!”
Qin Ranlong clinked glasses with Su Rui again, drank another cup, and said with a reminiscent look: “Big brother, I still remember clearly, when you kicked me at that time, I really felt like I was about to die.”
“Don’t exaggerate.”
“It really was like that. Before your leg even touched me, I already had that feeling! I was enveloped by a killing intent, completely unable to move!” Qin Ranlong looked around and deliberately lowered his voice a bit, saying: “Big brother, if I’m not mistaken, you must have been a core member of some high-level special forces unit, and must have killed many people. Otherwise, when you made that move, there’s no way you could have had that piercing killing intent!”
“I suppose so.” Su Rui nodded.
“But, big brother, I’m very curious, which unit did you belong to? Why is your identity classified as six-star top secret?” Qin Ranlong said excitedly.
“It’s classified, how could I tell you?” Su Rui smiled bitterly: “Anyway, it’s all in the past. Now we’re the same, neither of us are soldiers anymore.”
“Then why did you leave?”
Su Rui shook his head, seemingly not wanting to answer this question. The past belonged to the past, and no matter what, it was impossible to go back.
That time, the fact that he could keep his life was already the result of everyone’s joint efforts!
Qin Ranlong seemed to see a flash of indescribable pain in Su Rui’s eyes. As a fellow soldier, he suddenly felt his heart clench painfully. This pain was inexplicable, yet so clear.
Seeing that Su Rui was unwilling to talk about it, Qin Ranlong ultimately didn’t ask further. The two had unknowingly finished several bottles of beer.
“Big brother, do you remember Ke Ning?” Qin Ranlong suddenly asked.
“Ke Ning?”
Hearing this name, Su Rui felt somewhat familiar, and then the image of a spirited female officer in uniform with a tall figure began to appear in his mind.
Recalling that face now, he couldn’t help but feel a bit dazed, as if it was just yesterday, yet also as if it was extremely distant.
“After leaving the army, I went abroad and only returned recently. I’ve almost lost all contact with everything in the country,” Su Rui said.
However, the more he spoke like this, the clearer that figure became.
“Back then, I don’t know what the higher-ups were thinking, actually assigning a female instructor to our new recruit company.”
Recalling the past, Qin Ranlong revealed a complex smile: “At that time, several of us were quite defiant, but as soon as we saw her appearance, we all fell silent. So there could be such beautiful female soldiers in the army, and she was a female officer! And she had such a beautiful name, called Ke Ning.”
“When the three months of new recruit training were almost over, most of our company had made Ke Ning their dream girl. In those three months, who knows how many love letters she received, but she never showed the slightest interest in any of those who wrote them.”
“We later found out that Ke Ning didn’t look up to us new recruits at all; she only liked you.”
Hearing this, Su Rui’s hand holding the beer glass trembled, and quite a bit of beer spilled onto the table.
“Liked me? What kind of joke are you making?”
“It’s true, I’m not joking. After the new recruit period ended, you disappeared without a trace, and I found out which unit Ke Ning was in and went specifically to find her. She told me this herself,” Qin Ranlong said.
“Really? What else did she say?” Su Rui raised his eyebrows.
“Of course it’s true. I even told her that since she had only been in contact with you for three months, we could have many more opportunities in the future, but she just wouldn’t agree. I could see that her feelings for you were genuine, absolutely not a lie.”
Being liked this way by a girl who could be called a military beauty, Su Rui didn’t know how to feel.
He smiled bitterly: “Even if it’s true, I’ve been out of touch for several years. I don’t know if she’s married or how she’s doing now.”
“She doesn’t seem to be doing too well,” Qin Ranlong said, his eyes revealing a trace of melancholy.
It was hard to imagine that this arrogant, domineering young master who just a few hours ago had threatened to smash the Bikan Group’s main building from the first floor to the roof would so rarely reveal such emotions!
