28 Mid-Autumn Festival (1/2)

The sun was setting in the west, with the orange glow spilling over the parade ground.

After half a month of intense training, the students in the military training were gradually getting used to life in the military region. Although everyone was tanner with rougher skin, their mental wellness was better and their body was stronger.

They just finished their swimming training this afternoon. Other than the students who couldn't swim, the rest of them passed.

Two weeks of training finally ended, and the tensed atmosphere was very much relaxed.

Mo Wen sat on one of the parallel bars in the parade ground. He held a dried leaf to his hand and put it to his mouth to blow a soft note.

A simple piece of a dried leaf was like a musical instrument in the hands of Mo Wen. The classical, elegant notes were continuously spouting out to form a melody with poetic abundance.

The world of Mo Wen in that lifetime was similar to the ancient feudalistic society where girls would practice needlework, weaving, farming, and other life skills, while boys were into poetry, books, equestrianism, and archery, hoping to get scholarly honor in the imperial examinations after studying the Four Books and the Five Classics.

As for the sons and daughters of influential families, they would practice the Four Arts of the Chinese scholar: the playing of a stringed instrument, the playing of the strategy game of Go, Chinese Calligraphy and Chinese painting. Mo Wen was from the Mo Clan which was the most ancient martial arts family in which he was greatly influenced by the ancient cultures. He was highly proficient in the Four Arts of Chinese scholar and his equestrianism and archery skills were one of the best.

However, what he liked most was not the different musical instruments, but the blowing of a special rhythmic tune with dried leaf. In this feudalistic society, this was viewed as unorthodox; however, since he was a Miracle Physician, he wasn't bothered about it.

In the past, he used to frequent the mountains and the forests, tasted different herbs, and was constantly away from the mundane world. Whenever he felt lonesome, he would just pick up a leaf and blow a tune.

”Mo Wen, when did you learn to play that tune? It was really good.”

A sudden voice came from Mo Wen's back. Perhaps he was too focused, or perhaps he didn't have the Inner Qi Cultivation of the past, but Mo Wen didn't notice anyone approaching him.

Mo Wen turned his head around subconsciously. He saw a slender and elegant girl dressed in well-ironed uniform, who appeared to have lost some of her delicacy, but gain some firmness, standing behind him.

She was none other than Qin Xiaoyou. At this moment, she seemed to look a bit like a formidable and brave female soldier.

”Qin Xiaoyou.”

He met Qin Xiaoyou a few times during the first half of his first month of military training. At the time when the region distribution of the military training was done, the school had arranged for the students to be distributed according to their faculties. The Medical Faculty and Business and Management Faculty were distributed to the military region of the 19th Army Corp.

Therefore, Qin Xiaoyou was in the same military region as Mo Wen. However, Qin Xiaoyou was in the female battalion whereas he was in the male battalion. Other than Qin Xiaoyou, the other classmates of his were placed separately in the military region of the 19th Army Corp. Mo Wen wouldn't have known that if Qin Xiaoyou hadn't told him.

After all, he was not familiar with his classmates and didn't know many of them.

Qin Xiaoyou scrutinised Mo Wen curiously as it was the first time, after being his classmate for three years, that she knew that Mo Wen could blow a tune and even blew it so well.

”When did you learn to blow a tune? Wow, I guess you really can't judge a book by its cover.”

”There is a lot more that you don't know.” Mo Wen replied while smiling.

”Cocky.”

Qin Xiaoyou glared at Mo Wen irritably, but to think of it carefully, she indeed didn't know much about Mo Wen. In her impression, Mo Wen was a reserved and quiet person. Although they had been good friends for three years, she was usually the one who confided in him while he was always the quiet listener.

So, other than knowing that he was from a single-parent family, she didn't know much about Mo Wen.

”Why are you here today? Aren't you supposed to be busy with the concert?” Mo Wen asked curiously.

He knew that Qin Xiaoyou was very busy. He heard that she was responsible for the organization of the female battalion's performance during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He had not seen her for days.

The next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

”It is not a concert, but a festival. It has been arranged a long time ago.”

Qin Xiaoyou said this confidently while staring at Mo Wen. It might be a headache for the male battalions to put up a performance, but it was a piece of cake to the female battalion.

She put both her hands on the parallel bars, leaped up, and flipped her body nimbly before sitting next to Mo Wen on the horizontal bar.

”Your skills are quite good.”

Even though Qin Xiaoyou was a girl, she was able to persevere through hardship. After half a month of training, she seemed be more experienced and candid, and although a little tanned, she gained a little indigenous, wild beauty.

”I was one of the top ten in the female battalion for the four hundred meters steeplechase.”