Inside the bag, the top layer was all food. Apart from salted duck eggs and home-made salted vegetables, He Nuo believed the whole milk powder and canned anchovies all came from Shi Yan. The lower layer was an unopened English dictionary, a few writing paper pads, a 16k1 exquisite notebook, envelopes with the name of the unit printed on it and 50 stamps. He Nuo held onto the dictionary, feeling bitter-sweet. Shi Yan, the most important friend in my life, but we can no longer love each other anymore. It’s a road where both sides suffer. Do you know how much willpower I had to exert to prevent myself from wavering, trapping the both of us in what a hopeless situation?
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PSWOL2 05
Shi Yan reappeared a week later, but he did not meet He Nuo. When he arrived, He Nuo was called to help plan and prepare for the welcoming Freshmen Association and Military Training Reporting Exercise conference by the Publicity Department. Shi Yan sat down with He Nuo’s classmates for a while, talking about their daily exercise time and the intensity of it. The roommates of course reported about He Nuo fainting, Shi Yan was not surprised. He only smiled and shook his head, sighing, “That’s normal. That stubborn personality of his, it’ll be weird if he didn’t faint.”
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Military training was classified into male and female classes for the freshman. Starting with the basic skills of standing at attention, standing at ease and marching forward, although the requirements for the university students would be more lenient, but at least the pace of life for military routine is the same. At the end of the day after mechanically repeating the dull “attention, at ease, march”, in the evening is unexpectedly learning how to tidy up the barracks, mainly reflecting on how the bed is made. The unified bedding which the university distributed out is entirely different compared to the ones in the army. Asking these grown men to fold it into a tofu cube is as good as gently tormenting them.
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He Nuo took out the items from the bag, a shoebox and a set of clothes that looked like sportswear. He Nuo could not distinguish who gave him the shoes and who gave him the clothes. He suddenly remembered that his 174cm height was similar to Wang Feng’s and that they wore the same size. He took out the shoes to look at it, Lao Liu with his sharp eyes rushed over and said, “It’s Nike!”
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This extra was published after v1 but before v2.
With the arrival of another year’s sports meet, He Nuo who has been a spectator for many years, had gloriously participated as a player. He did not take the initiative to join, it was more like he was pushed to join if not there would be a ridiculous lottery. There’s no helping it, if the liberal arts class needed to perform something, there would be more than enough talented people ready, or just grab a handful of people. However, when the sports meet is mentioned, even if the girls were as skilled, it was impossible to produce a few Mulans to stand in for the guys to fight this half of the war. The time has come for all the guys, not one less to step forward for this class that severely lacks males. There was originally a rule that one person can only take part in two events. Taking into consideration that the liberal arts class have a lack of males, the school specially agreed for the males in the liberal arts class to take on one more event.
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The 3 days reporting period for the freshmen starts today till the day after, He Nuo could be considered the first batch of students, so with the senior’s guidance he found his dormitory. He Nuo looked around, there were eight beds divided onto both sides of the room with four upper and lower bunk beds. In the middle was eight desks and chairs, on top of the desks stood eight thermos flasks in a straight line. There were four cabinets clamped between each side of the four beds, eight new bright blue basins were placed on the basin rack beside the door, and next to it was a broom and a mop complete with everything else. He Nuo’s name was affixed to the lower bunk facing away from the door. After the senior simply pointed out the pantry1 and the location of the campus snack shop, he left to go prepare the welcoming of freshmen again. He Nuo went to the dorms office and brought back bedsheets, blankets and other related items.
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At the end of the hot Summer season, He Nuo boarded the train to leave home. He deliberately did not choose to leave on a weekend because he did not want any farewells. On the previous night, his parents already had a brief conversation with him, telling him to take note of certain things such as: to study hard, be united with his classmates, to live a simple life and not to compare with others unrealistically… They also said with concern that when the weather changes, to wear thicker clothes, and to call if there were any problems.
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