Once a vast ocean can become mere water

  Once a vast ocean can become mere water

  Du Xiaojun heard Ye Jinghong's voice and, as if she had been put under some kind of spell, twisted her body uncomfortably a few times, stopped in her tracks, and glared at Deputy Director Wei, who was leading the jogging exercise. She pointed to Ye Jinghong standing on the military dormitory building with her hand, only making mouth shapes without making a sound, telling Deputy Director Wei that she wanted to go find trouble with Ye Jinghong. It's just that she wants to find trouble with Ye Jinghong, humph, deliberately avoiding him, humph, avoiding him on New Year's Day but not on the fifteenth. Du Xiaojun was originally a staff officer in the military district's military affairs department and had followed Ye Jinghong to the Huangdao Garrison District. She coaxed her father into calling his old subordinate, and Du Xiaojun became the confidential staff officer of the Huangdao Garrison District. At eighteen years old, Du Xiaojun already had six years of military service and was only one year short of Ye Jinghong's military service. Because of this one-year difference in military service, Ye Jinghong could properly call her a rookie soldier.

  The deputy director of the guard team, Wei, was a security guard at Du Xiaojun's home. At 36 years old, he was promoted to the position of political commissar and had participated in two Vietnam Wars. Like Du Xiaojun's father, he was a straightforward and impartial man who said what he meant and meant what he said, a typical military officer.

  Dù Xiǎojuān who is fearless of heaven and earth is afraid of Deputy Director Wei.

  If it weren't for Ye Jinghong's instigation, Du Xiaojun would never have dared to leave the running team without permission when Deputy Director Wei was in charge. Du Xiaojun knew that Deputy Director Wei had a special opinion of Ye Jinghong.

  Wei, the deputy director with a dark face, took a glance at Ye Jinghong standing on the balcony. He felt that something was slightly different, having not seen him for one night, how did he become somewhat seasoned... a veteran's seasoning... How could a new recruit like him have such seasoning?

  The deputy director's gaze was poisonous enough, but he didn't know that Ye Jinghong had really changed. He couldn't have imagined that Ye Jinghong, because of a very charming smile from Yixiantai at the Yinyun Temple on Mount Yinyun, triggered a strange and bizarre avalanche that crushed many thatched cottages in 2012, which was almost the end of the world, suddenly traversed through the time tunnel, bringing with him forty-four years of experience, and turned back twenty years.

  The deputy director's seemingly casual and unintentional glance was actually full of deep understanding and appreciation that outsiders would find hard to know.

  Ai Cai. Deputy Director Wei is about to be promoted to the Chief of Staff of the High Cannon Regiment stationed in the provincial city, and plans to take Ye Jinghong with him when he leaves.

  Ye Jinghong graduated with honors from the military academy and was directly assigned to the Huangdao Garrison District, causing a great stir. Coincidentally, Gu Commander and Zhang Political Commissar were going downstairs to inspect the communications camp's internal affairs. Zhang Political Commissar seemed to have had prior plans and instructed the head of the Organization Department, who was following him, to keep Ye Jinghong at the Political Department. Gu Commander was not pleased at the time. Gu Commander intended for Ye Jinghong to join the Combat Training Department. Of course, on the surface, he couldn't compete with the leader of the Garrison District's leadership team.

  Love talent and cherish talent, use talent. In the army of the 80s and 90s, there was indeed a group of pillars of the country who were unreservedly promoted and trained as reserve talents.

  With the commander and political commissar giving him a cold shoulder, Ye Jinghong naturally became a target of criticism.

  At that time, Ye Jinghong was also a newborn calf who didn't fear tigers and wanted to show off his skills in the Huangdao Garrison. However, he didn't expect that one year later, an internal purge aimed at corrupt officials would occur, and Du Xiaojun's father would be implicated, causing Ye Jinghong, who had just developed a relationship with Du Xiaojun, to be affected as well. He was sent to a labor camp, where he spent two years as the commander of a company that dug ditches, three years as deputy regimental commander, and then transferred to a grain company for more than four years as a high-ranking soldier. Ye Jinghong was unable to exert his strength and became a forgotten person, falling from the peak to the bottom of the valley. From time to time, he would gather with several fellow soldiers who were also struggling to make ends meet, and they would get drunk together in a small tavern, boasting and making empty promises.

  Past events are unbearable to recall.

  Yè Jǐnghóng still sighed whenever he thought of those days at the grain company. That was the darkest period in his life, every day after work was spent idly helping out at his wife's grocery store to earn milk powder money for their daughter.

  Ye Jinghong refused to give up. He waited for an opportunity, he wanted to turn over a new leaf. Ye Jinghong waited for the chance to turn over a new leaf, in 2005, Huangdao City publicly selected deputy department-level cadres, he seized it and passed the written test smoothly. During the interview, two of the examiners were familiar with him, Wei Deputy Director who had transferred to the municipal government office, and Li Xiadong, who had slept in the same dormitory as him before, Li Xiadong had just become the deputy director of the personnel bureau using his father-in-law's relationship. With their covert operation, Ye Jinghong became a deputy department-level researcher at the policy research room. After being a deputy department-level researcher for five years, he was promoted to a full department-level deputy director. Later on, Wei Deputy Director who had been transferred to the provincial government office intentionally wanted Ye Jinghong to develop in the province, Ye Jinghong also had thoughts about it but refused.

  This promotion route is not what Ye Jinghong wants.

  Watching others' faces to get promoted, following others' ass to make a living, is absolutely not something Ye Jinghong can get used to.

  Ye Jinghong didn't want to get used to it either.

  Since I can't change others, I don't want to be changed by others either. Ye Jinghong didn't want to follow the example of other government officials who took advantage of their position for personal gain, nor did he want to sell his wife's face and oil to earn a meager income that would only be embezzled by those insatiable corrupt officials. Even if people called him out of touch with reality, arrogant and proud, or demonized him as an outsider in the officialdom, Ye Jinghong still didn't want to share a pot with those corrupt officials, taking money he shouldn't take.

  Ye Jinghong became infatuated with the Taoist way. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao, at first he was reading Laozi's Dao De Jing, but somehow he became deeply fascinated and started researching Yoga philosophy.

  Action without action.

  Ye Jinghong, who was carefree and nonchalant, met Qian Yingyun on the Shuanggu Reef north of Yinyun Mountain. Qian Yingyun was Ye Jinghong's first love. In fact, it didn't even count as a first love. Ye Jinghong and Qian Yingyun hadn't even exchanged eye contact before. Qian Yingyun had become Ye Jinghong's unforgettable first love because of a single consolation performance. Ye Jinghong participated in the military district's grand martial arts competition, took first place, and sat in the front row wearing a big red flower to watch the performance. Qian Yingyun was the guest host for that performance. Ye Jinghong saw Qian Yingyun a total of three times before becoming irrepressibly infatuated with her, secretly falling in love.

  Because of his particularly unforgettable first love for Qian Yingyun, Ye Jinghong really wanted to escape the troubles of the world and live a simple life with her on Yinyun Mountain.

  Who would have thought that this one move would be so earth-shattering and heaven-stunning?

  ……

  Ye Jinghong leaned against the window frame, looking at the two camellia trees that were swaying with flowers, and couldn't help but think of the shaking in the bamboo hut with Qian Yingyun on the bed...

  "Hey, why aren't you exercising? That stupid Xiao Pang said you had a cold, a bad one. I knew it was fake as soon as I heard it." Du Xiaojun walked into the house with the freshly bought fried dough sticks and soy milk.

  "What's the new recruit doing, offering such courtesy for no reason?" Ye Jinghong came back to himself, stretched his waist, "I have a few days every month when I'm restless and irritable for no reason."

  "Get out!" Du Xiaojuan cursed with a smile, and then poured the warm soy milk for Ye Jinghong, saying "Hurry up and drink, shut your mouth."

  Ye Jinghong eats fried dough sticks. The fried dough sticks in the government canteen are very environmentally friendly and green. Being able to eat the fried dough sticks from the 1992 government canteen in the restricted area, Ye Jinghong is a bit grateful to heaven. After twenty years, even if he dreams of it, he won't be able to eat such fried dough sticks again.

  Ye Jinghong ate four in a row.

  "My goodness, leave one for me, you pig!" Du Xiaojuan grabbed a fried dough stick, but she didn't actually want to eat it, she just wanted to tease Ye Jinghong into competing with her.

  Ye Jinghong didn't eat anymore, picked up his cup and drank soy milk, finishing two large cups of soy milk.

  What a pig's stomach.

  Du Xiaojuan handed the fried dough stick in her hand to Ye Jinghong.

  Ye Jinghong held it in his hand and looked at it.

  Du Xiaojuan looked at Ye Jinghong with a puzzled expression, blinking her long eyelashes and tilting her head, "Are you really sick or something? What's wrong with your brain, researching fried dough sticks?"

  "The God of Fate, if he wants to play a trick on you, it's just a blink of an eye, and the world will be turned upside down. Another blink of an eye, and it may be a vast ocean and high mountains." Ye Jinghong put the fried dough stick into his mouth, took a bite, and chewed slowly.

  "You're really crazy, do you want me to take you to see a neurologist? Out the door, 50 meters, turn left, 50 meters, and then turn left again..." Du Xiaojun put her hands in her pockets, her combat boots clomping on the wooden floor as she walked back and forth.

  She loved chatting with Ye Jinghong in the dormitory. It was rare for Ye Jinghong to have time to chat with her.

  Ye Jinghong was very busy, so busy that he didn't have time to indulge in romance between men and women. Du Xiaojun had been in the Huangdao Garrison for a year, and the opportunities to meet Ye Jinghong were occasional, when Ye Jinghong didn't go out for morning exercises, they would have breakfast together. Ye Jinghong had no weekends off, no holidays, and was like a Transformer, changing from military uniform to casual clothes, accompanying the commander, political commissar, chief of staff, and others, running around everywhere.

  Duxiaojun who was innocent and simple-minded had no idea what Yejinghong was busy with.

  "He seems to have some free time today, and is even researching oil strips. He's got the time to talk about the vicissitudes of life... it looks like he's changed." Du Xiaojuan sensed Ye Jinghong's transformation, and suddenly became sentimental, suddenly wanting to create some private romantic moments.

  Du Xiaojuan leaned over and sat down on Ye Jinghong's bed.

  "It's time to go to work, you workaholic, aren't you afraid that Commander Zheng will inspect your post?" Du Xiaojun said casually.

  Ye Jinghong didn't make a sound, and from under Xiao Pang's bed, he pulled out a military map and put it on the table to look at.

  Map painted by Ye Jinghong. 91 Empty Land Unified Combat Exercise Commander's Decision Map.

  Xiao Pang admired Ye Jinghong's tactical map with all his might. It wasn't just Xiao Pang who admired it, the staff officers of the Operations and Training Department at Headquarters were also in awe.

  Some people admire, of course, there are also those who envy.

  Ye Jinghong offended many people in the headquarters of the garrison. The two chief secretaries of the Organization Department had a lot of grievances against Ye Jinghong. Before Ye Jinghong arrived, the manuscripts of the commander's speeches were always written by these two, but after Ye Jinghong came, within less than two months, the manuscripts became Ye Jinghong's exclusive domain.

  Jealous of the able and envious of the talented is a universal disease of officialdom.

  Du Xiaojuan likes Ye Jinghong's outstanding and exceptional talent.

  It's already half past eight, but Ye Jinghong still doesn't seem to have any intention of going to work.

  "Hey, hey, hey." Du Xiaojuan called out to Ye Jinghong, who was bent over studying the map with great concentration.

  "Let's go watch a movie later." Ye Jinghong said, ignoring Du Xiaojuan's surprised expression, and walked out the door to whisper a few words with Xiaopang who had been waiting outside.

  When Xiao Pang came back with two movie tickets, Du Xiaojuan really believed it. Ye Jinghong, the busiest person in Huangdao District and a super workaholic, had voluntarily asked her to watch a movie.

  Too unbelievable.

  Ye Jinghong drove a military green jeep with Du Xiaojun to the cinema.

  The oldest cinema in Huangdao District, Daguangming Cinema.

  "Justice Pao" by Stephen Chow, a movie many people didn't understand until 20 years later.

  Du Xiaojuan couldn't understand it, but she was very happy.

  It's too hard to come by. Ye Jinghong finally understood, knowing how to date. Du Xiaojuan watched the comedy movie, unknowingly with tears on her face... Chasing Ye Jinghong for over a year, first time going on a movie date with Ye Jinghong.