Chapter 2334: Chapter 2310: Let’s Make a Big Pot
Diarrhea.
Diarrhea!
Diarrhea...
The first time was due to lack of skill, nothing much to say about that. The second time, I twisted my ankle, just bad luck—still an injury, so nothing to say.
The third time participating in the selection, and then getting diarrhea during the survival training in the wild, this, really could only mean Liang Dong’s luck was unbelievably bad.
Participating in the selection three times means, even if one doesn’t make it for various reasons, it absolutely shows that the strength is unquestionable.
But three selections, three times! You know, in Huaxia’s military, it’s rare to use selection to pick special forces members. Each time is an opportunity and luck for those elite trainees. Liang Dong participated three times but ended up failing each time, it’s really hard to know what to say.
Gao Yang and Li Jinfang couldn’t help but show expressions of sympathy, while Cui Bo loudly asked, "Ah, diarrhea? What did you eat?"
Liang Dong rolled his eyes and said blankly, "I still don’t know what I ate that caused diarrhea, but I had diarrhea, made my legs weak, completely softened me up, seven days of survival training plus orientation traverse."
Liang Dong had an expression of indignation and helplessness, slowly glanced at Gao Yang and the others, and said in a low voice, "During the wild survival training, there were 42 people left, only the first 14 to arrive could pass. I had diarrhea for two days, was severely dehydrated and became a soft-legged shrimp, but I still insisted on reaching the rendezvous point."
Li Jinfang gave a thumbs up, with a serious face said, "Not easy, impressive, I admire you!"
Liang Dong sighed, looking at Li Jinfang said, "Did you pass the selection?"
Li Jinfang nodded and said, "Passed, first place."
Liang Dong shook his head and said solemnly, "Then you are impressive, I’m not as good as you, far off."
Li Jinfang waved his hand and said, "Don’t say that. If I had diarrhea like that, I would have probably collapsed early. It’s indeed easy to get diarrhea during survival training, everyone knows that. The fact that you could persist until the end is impressive, really impressive."
Liang Dong was particularly helpless and said, "Out of 42, needing the first 14, and 40 completed the task, but I, I was the fifteenth to reach the rendezvous point, but what’s the use? Still got eliminated all the same."
"Ah!"
"Curtis! No way, fifteenth eliminated? Even with diarrhea?"
Gao Yang and Cui Bo exclaimed in unison, then Gao Yang couldn’t help but say, "No, you participated in three selections, which means your ability is definitely enough, even the commander thought you were fine, and again you had diarrhea, and still arrived fifteenth, there should definitely have been an opportunity!"
Li Jinfang and Liang Dong both shook their heads, then Li Jinfang said in a low voice, "Impossible, passing is passing, not passing is not passing, how could exceptions be made, no way!"
Liang Dong also said in a low voice, "Yes, fifteenth is fifteenth, not in the first fourteen, then it’s not possible..."
After finishing speaking slowly, Liang Dong said with a face full of helplessness, "When I returned to the unit, our company commander talked to me, then the battalion commander, even the regiment commander came to talk, telling me not to feel pressured, not to give up..."
You dust off the flour on your clothes, Liang Dong said with a face full of resentment, "But I felt ashamed at the time, failing three selections, really felt ashamed, and also felt it was meaningless, just this fate, didn’t want to stay in the military any longer, about time to transfer to second-phase sergeant, just wanted to quit and go home."
Although Liang Dong was standing right in front of them, the ending was obvious without needing to be said, yet Gao Yang couldn’t help but say, "Don’t! Gear up for another fight! Don’t give up just like this!"
Liang Dong shook his head and said, "There’s an age limit, I’m not young anymore, feel like I won’t have another opportunity for selection, but like a stubborn mule set my heart on it, alas, ended up going back to civilian life."
Li Jinfang suddenly asked, "Regret it?"
"Don’t regret it, what’s there to regret."
He said he didn’t regret it, but the expression on Liang Dong’s face wasn’t one of no regrets. After a while, Liang Dong let out a long sigh, said in a low voice, "Actually saying no regrets is nonsense! The day before I left, I was still cooking in the kitchen, thinking I was about to leave, they still had me cooking, hurry up and leave quickly. But on the day I was to go, damn it, as I was decorated with a red flower, walking past my comrades, the company commander, boom! Curtis..."
Liang Dong couldn’t continue, kept shaking his head, muttering curse words, his eyes turning red.
After a while, Liang Dong said in a low voice, "Really, damn it, regretted to death..."
No one spoke, Gao Yang and Cui Bo actually did not quite understand because they had never served in the military, but Li Jinfang patted Liang Dong on the shoulder, their expressions looked awfully grim, awfully grim.
Having common experiences naturally brings empathy, after a while, Li Jinfang said in a low voice, "Alright, can’t go back anyway, so just work steadily here, can also find some of the old feeling."
Liang Dong smiled bitterly and said, "I worked locally for a few years, never got used to it, after two years my relative introduced me to America to work as a chef, and here I ended up."
After finishing speaking, Liang Dong pointed to the kitchen and laughed, "When I was the head chef at a restaurant, they once paid me over ten thousand in a month, but I feel I still prefer the canteen, I design the menu, whatever I make, that’s what everyone eats. You know, sometimes I dream I’m in our regiment’s canteen, or in the kitchen, now I completely miss the last meal I cooked, the last meal before I left, let me tell you, it’s the best meal I’ve ever made in my life, even our regiment and battalion commanders came to join, and that feast was so delicious, it made over a hundred people cry while eating."
The more this topic was discussed, the more melancholic it became, making Li Jinfang, a big man, turn his head away, then he said vaguely, "At least you had the farewell meal, when I left for selection, the company commander and the others gave me a send-off, along with class leader, stealthily with a bottle of beer each, four dishes and a soup, oh I tell you, those cauldron meals, oh I tell you, it’s a masterpiece!"
Liang Dong chuckled and said, "Funny, brother, I specialize in cauldron meals too, let me tell you, I’ve eaten at our division’s headquarters canteen, not bragging, their cauldron meal level is far worse than mine."
After some self-praising, Liang Dong suddenly said, "How about we... cook a cauldron?"
Li Jinfang slapped his thigh and loudly said, "What else can we do? Let’s go! Cook a cauldron!"
