Chapter 1628 - Military Orders Are Imperative and Not to Be Trifled With (1/2)

Why?

Xu Zhenyu took a deep breath and was unable to speak.

He was twenty-five-years-old this year and turning twenty-six soon. As a soldier, he had given his pride, glory, life, and most of his time to the country, sweating and bleeding for it.

However, besides being Colonel Xu Zhenyu, he was also the bloodline of the Xu family. As a grandson and a son, he had other responsibilities—to pass down the family line.

From last year, Grandpa and Mother had started to make preparations for his wedding.

He had already been forced to be matchmade and to attend all sorts of private gatherings.

Han Mofeng said that to forget an old relationship, one had to start dating someone new. Thus, he permitted Mother’s various arrangements and met all sorts of women for meals.

However, some things really couldn’t be forced.

Once the woman sitting opposite him wasn’t Wen Xinya, he felt uneasy, extremely vexed, and even had nothing to say.

He had even uncontrollably compared the woman opposite him to Wen Xinya—from her looks, character, mannerism, and even the way she talked.

Only then did he truly realize that his eyes and heart only had a place for Wen Xinya and her alone—there was no way others could replace her, no way he could make do, or force himself.

Applying for dispatch was to avoid being forced into marriage and escape his responsibility as the bloodline of the Xu family.

Xu Zhenyu switched his thoughts and said in a joking and totally casual manner, “Babe, do you suddenly feel that I’m very noble and suddenly have a majestic impression of me?”

He didn’t answer her question merely because he didn’t know how to.

Wen Xinya’s heart sank as she interrupted him with a dry throat. “Dispatched to where?”

She didn’t know if Xu Zhenyu would answer her question—or rather, could he answer her!

Some dispatches belonged to the top secret of the country and couldn’t be divulged to everyone. The fact that Xu Zhenyu came over especially to look for her today and even set up a gamble with the game of dice made her vaguely know that this was definitely not an ordinary dispatch.

The fact that he could tell her the news about the dispatch was already the limit.

However, she still wanted to ask.

Only by asking would her mind be at ease.

Xu Zhenyu went silent for a while and acted all relaxed again as he said jokingly, “Don’t worry! It’s not the first few times that yours truly has accepted a dispatch mission…”

His rapid rise through the ranks was in part due to him frequently accepting dispatch missions.

Wen Xinya interrupted him slightly impatiently. “You can’t tell me?”

Precisely so, Wen Xinya felt even more worried and anxious. She knew that as a soldier, Xu Zhenyu had his mission—she couldn’t and wouldn’t stop him.

However, she only hoped that Xu Zhenyu could be safe for his whole life.

Xu Zhenyu took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand and said in a low voice, “At the East!”

This was already the limit of what he could say—anything more than this was confidential to the dispatch and couldn’t be made known to anyone.

Wen Xinya’s heart constricted violently. The eastern oil wars had never ever ceased. Over there, internal conflicts, betrayals, armed incidents, terrorism, political conflicts, power struggles, and wars with ammunition were happening all the time.

It was a truly dangerous place.

Wen Xinya asked him, “Roughly how long will the dispatch last this time?”

This shouldn’t be a military secret!

“If everything goes smoothly, around three months.” Otherwise, durations of three to five months were commonplace.