After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 69: Chapter 30: Ghost Singing in Front of the Taoist’s Door_3

None of the others spoke.

After a moment’s thought, Fang Huai looked at Lu Zexian, who had been disciplined the most severely earlier, and said, "Lu Zexian, we’re all brothers in the same squad. You go first! Has the squad leader ever hit us?"

Lu Zexian sneered and looked toward the center of the playground.

"No matter what, I would never behave like that person! Always acting weirdly, like a ghostly interpreter!"

"What about you, kid?" Fang Huai continued asking.

Peng Yingqirui obviously didn’t know what to say, and stammered for a while before responding.

"I...I already broke ties with him last time!"

Hao Chengbin shook his head with a laugh and said, "Alright! I was just saying they might question you! Train well!"

"The Company Leader is coming!" Zhao Bing suddenly said.

At that moment, Wang Jian hurried over from the entrance of the playground.

"Old Hao! The Chief of Staff is calling for you!" As Wang Jian approached, he glanced at the new recruits without saying much.

Hao Chengbin replied, somewhat annoyed, "Calling me? I’m with the new recruits! How can I go?"

"Oh, come on, let’s go, let’s go. I’ve already asked Yang Hui to bring Squad Six over. He’ll help you lead them for now!"

Wang Jian reassuringly pulled Hao Chengbin to walk out, then turned back to shout.

"Oh, and Fang Huai, you come too!"

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"He’s from the Provincial Brigade, the nephew of Vice-director Liu of the Political Department... it’s his maternal side, he calls her aunt, and Vice-director Liu and the Chief of Staff are comrades from the same squadron..."

"He said you physically punished him, favored Fang Huai, and even slapped him the morning before yesterday..."

"Now he’s making a fuss to leave the army, or he wants to be transferred to another squad." fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

As they walked, Wang Jian filled Hao Chengbin in on the situation, and remembering something, he looked back at Fang Huai.

"Oh, Fang Huai, have you been isolating him with the new recruits in the squad, not talking to him?"

"What’s that got to do with him!"

Hao Chengbin immediately came to his defense.

"This soldier has problematic thoughts! Spreading rumors in other squads! What? Just because he has an uncle who’s a vice-director, he thinks he’s so important? Does he want to be a young master? Does the Chief of Staff have to give him face?

If that’s how Vice-director Liu teaches his kids, then it’s fine, I don’t need to go to Guiyang Regiment!"

"What are you saying!" Wang Jian said incredulously.

"I’m just telling you what Jiang Peng just said, so you can be prepared! His family hasn’t taken a stance! The Chief of Staff hasn’t even notified his family! But if a new recruit reports you for hitting a soldier and claims to have received unfair treatment, how can he ignore it?"

He softened his tone as he continued.

"Old Black knows the situation very well, he just goes by the book, gives a punishment, says a couple of words, and that’s it. You’re familiar with the Chief of Staff too; he won’t be harsh on you!"

Wang Jian was well aware of Hao Chengbin’s practice of disciplining new recruits. Yue Tao was one he had brought back to Squad Nine himself. Jiang Peng probably just got caught up in the matter and was making a big deal out of it.

If this were to escalate, he, as the Company Leader, would be in trouble for tolerating the abuse of soldiers.

Fang Huai’s mind was also racing.

So, Jiang Peng’s uncle is also from the Provincial Brigade?

Deputy Director... technically his subordinate.

With things getting to the point of leaving the army, should he call his uncle to mediate?

Forget it, it’s not his place to step in, and he doesn’t have the authority.

And even if his uncle was the Corps Captain, he wouldn’t let a new recruit use the phone.

The three of them, each with their own concerns, arrived at the Regiment Office on the third floor of the New Training Building.

As they reached the door, voices came from inside.

"Leave, leave what? Your uncle sent you here to become a deserter, to be sent back home?

He works in political affairs!

It’s like the carpenter’s family has no stool to sit on, the chants of ghosts outside the Taoist temple!

If you’ve chosen this profession, you can’t expect to succeed without putting in some hard work, without enduring some hardship.

You say you want to prove yourself, then go ask your uncle, how much did we suffer in the squadron? How did we pass the exams? When the squadron had to go on police dispatch or train, they didn’t have time to watch us study, we could only memorize our textbooks while standing guard in the Guard Pavilions at night!"

Wang Jian and Hao Chengbin exchanged glances outside the door, then knocked.

"Report!"