The Heart of a Smith

The departure time is set at the beginning of next month, and the details are less than three or four days.

Lu Shang originally wanted Uncle Yuan to prepare some supplies to bring there, but Yue Pengfei told him that the training camp is completely closed and managed, and even mobile phones are not allowed, let alone clothes and food, as long as you go, you don't need to take anything else.

Since he agreed at the beginning, Lu Shang couldn't say anything. Fortunately, it was midsummer, so he didn't have to worry about freezing, so he only packed a small box with some medical supplies and mosquito repellents in it.

The night before he left, Li Sui couldn't read any more, took a shower early, and surrounded Lu Shang, refusing to leave.

Holding the vocabulary book in one hand, Lu Shang didn't blame him unexpectedly, but took him to the study on the second floor instead.

It is said that this is the place where Lu Shang's father passed away. Few people came in. Lu Shang opened the drawer under the bookcase, took out a pendant-like thing, weighed it, and handed it to him: "Here."

"what is this?"

"Folding saber."

Li Sui held it in his hand. This thing was very delicate and small. It looked like a military badge. There was an extremely hidden opening on the side. When he opened it, the blade was extremely sharp. I don't know what material it was. It was so black that it seemed to be able to absorb light into it. , it’s not ordinary at first glance: “Isn’t it true that you can’t bring anything with you?”

Lu Shang pulled out another rope, put the knife on, and hung it on him: "Take it, for self-defense." Li Sui was taller than him, and the two stood facing each other, Lu Shang had to look up at him .

"Did you send me off?" Li Sui held the saber, his pretty eyes were bent.

Lu Shang averted his eyes: "The mission is completed, and it's yours."

Whenever this Li Sui was mentioned, he got a headache, Yue Pengfei was worried, and entrusted his two children to Li Sui's care. He urged Li Sui to educate them well and not let the two brothers fight and cause trouble, but he himself did not How much older than the big and small Sima, what can he do with them that his own father can't control.

"Seriously, do I have to go with these two oil bottles?" Li Sui said dejectedly.

"You only need to ensure that their limbs are sound enough," Lu Shangdao, "For other things, do what you can. If you encounter danger, you must first ensure your own safety."

This exhortation is far from Yue Pengfei's request, Li Sui is sweet, but also feels like laughing, Lu Shang protects the calf so clearly, I don't know if Yue Pengfei will faint from anger when he hears these words.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Shang realized that he couldn't help laughing, "Go boldly, I'll take care of you when the sky falls."

The training camp is located on a deep mountain more than 100 kilometers away from the urban area, and further inside is the protected forest area. Because it is located in a remote area, there is no mobile phone signal, so we can only use satellite calls.

Lu Shang didn't come in person, but arranged for Uncle Yuan to take him down the mountain. When he got off the car, Li Sui paused, suddenly feeling a strong sense of reluctance.It felt like a child leaving home for school on the first day, even though he was reluctant, Li Sui still tried his best to suppress this emotion, picked up the small box and walked up the mountain alone.As a man, since he promised Lu Shang, he would do it no matter what.

Walking up the mountain is a plank road, surrounded by mountains and forests, the environment is quite quiet, but the forest here is too primitive, densely growing on the side of the road, resulting in poor light on the road.When Li Sui went up the mountain, he couldn't help but think, the level of development here is so low, it is difficult for people to walk, let alone a car, if someone goes the wrong way and strays into the forest, it is really difficult to even rescue them.

"In front is the training base. There is a virgin forest over there. There are protective nets around it. Don't run around if you have nothing to do. The blue house is for meals. Every morning at seven o'clock, twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and six o'clock in the afternoon, meals are served on time. , don’t wait when it’s out of date,” the instructor guided him to visit all the way, and finally went to a small attic, “This is the dormitory, 203, you can sleep here.”

The dormitory is a room for four people, Li Sui opened the door, and there was already a person lying on the bed by the window, watching a movie with a tablet, when he saw him, he immediately raised his head to say hello, that face was still familiar.

"Why are you here?" Li Sui asked, his eyes moved to the tablet again, "Didn't you say that you can't bring electronic products?"

Sima Jingrong patted the bed for him to sit on, then took a can of soda from under the bed and handed it to him, "They only said that we can't bring it, they didn't say that people outside can't give it to us."

Li Sui: "..."

"But it's not very useful if you bring it with you," Sima Jingrong waved his hand. "There's no internet here, so I can only watch movies and play stand-alone games. It's so boring."

While the two were talking, two more people came in at the door, each carrying a water bottle. The one walking in front was a thin and small young man who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, and his face was somewhat similar to Sima Jingrong's, but Whiter and more delicate, Li Sui guessed that this should be Sima Yan, the youngest son of the Sima family.

Seeing him, Sima Jingrong immediately turned his face away in displeasure, and let out a disdainful "hum".The young man was very polite, his eyes glanced at Sima Jingrong, and he nodded slightly towards Li Sui, this younger brother is obviously more sensible than his elder brother, no wonder his father is biased.

"Hi, my name is Wang Wei."

It was only then that Li Sui noticed that there was another person beside the door, with a round face and thick glasses, smiling at Li Sui.

"My name is Li Sui."

Wang Wei stretched his neck: "Huh?"

Li Sui patiently said: "My name is Li Sui, the Li of the dawn, the deep of the deep."

"Oh," Wang Wei nodded, pointing to the empty water bottle on the ground and said, "You two have to get a pot of hot water, otherwise there will be no water for bathing at night, and there is no shower here."

Li Sui nodded, put down his things and went to open the water bottle.

"Sorry, I forgot again," Wang Wei stopped him, raising his glasses embarrassingly, "What did you just say your name was?"

Li Sui: "..."

Before coming here, Li Sui had made a plan. This month, he must get on good terms with his roommates, train hard to satisfy the instructor, and wait for Lu Shang to pick him up a month later. , his plans were disrupted.

At first, Wang Wei spoke too loudly, which disturbed Sima Jingrong, and Sima Jingrong scolded him, but Sima Yan couldn't see it, so he said a few words for Wang Wei, and the two of them fought.

Clothes and pillows were thrown all over the room, and even Sima Jingrong's tablet was smashed. Wang Wei seemed to be hard of hearing. A person pulled away, and was punched in the middle, and I don't know who hit it.This movement alarmed the instructors downstairs, and soon, everyone in the room lost sleep and went to stand in the woods for punishment.

The night in Senshan old forest is completely different from that in the city. There are no lights, and the surroundings are as dark as if the air is stained with ink, and you can't see your fingers.The weather was bad, and there was no moon, so I could only hear the rustling of the leaves blown by the wind, as if someone was walking back and forth behind me, but when I turned around, there was nothing nearby.

There were occasional horrific howling wolves in the distance, which made people's skin crawl. It was the first time for the children to leave home to this deserted place. Wherever they had suffered such suffering, they all kept silent and dared not move. move.Sima Jingrong was already homesick, but after being punished, he cried helplessly.

"You're still crying when you're an adult." Sima Yan sneered.

Sima Jingrong immediately stopped crying and scolded instead: "You did it on purpose, you just want to make me feel bad, don't you?"

"What's wrong with it on purpose, who told you to do it first."

"Do you believe that I will clean you up?"

Li Sui's head was getting big, he thought about Lu Shang so much, he couldn't help being irritated by the noise, and shouted: "Shut up!"

As expected, the two of them fell silent, and Li Sui said again: "In the future, the internal conflicts will be resolved internally, and it will be difficult for anyone above. Next time, whoever picks things up first will bear the responsibility, and we will not accompany them."

A gust of wind blew in the woods at the right time. After saying this sentence, several people did not say a word.

In this kind of dark environment, at first I can use my imagination to scare myself, but later I become numb, my upper and lower eyelids fight, and I have no energy to think about anything other than wanting to sleep.

I don't know how long it took, when Li Sui felt that his legs were going to be paralyzed, the instructor blew his whistle upstairs. He let out a long breath, and patted Sima Jingrong's shoulder: "Let's go, go back to sleep."

A few people had already stood there, dragging their legs like zombies and walking towards the dormitory. After walking a while, they realized that Wang Wei hadn't followed. So asleep.

"..."

In the evening, Lu Shang was approving documents at the desk, and Uncle Yuan closed the door: "The sentence has been reduced, and I can come out in six years."

Lu Shang nodded: "Thank you."

"Aren't you going to tell him about it?"

Lu Shang's hand holding the pen paused, and said, "Now is not the time."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to remember something again, "How is he over there, is he still used to it?"

"I heard from the people who arranged to go in that it's not bad, and I get along very harmoniously with the people in the dormitory."

The corner of Lu Shang's mouth curled up: "That's good."

At the same time, the four people who "get along very harmoniously" tossed and turned on the bed in the dormitory, all of them looked hopeless. There were too many mosquitoes here, and they were very poisonous. When I arrived at the dormitory, I found that my arms and legs were full of bumps, itchy and red, and I felt extremely uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Lu Shang had the foresight to bring him the most practical things. Li Sui took out the anti-itch and disinfectant spray from the small medicine box, sprayed it all over his body, and handed it to Wang Wei. If there is any obstacle, let him directly give it to Sima Yan.

Sima Yan is the one who attracts mosquitoes the most. He is the youngest with tender skin and fair skin, and even a little redness and swelling are exaggerated. It takes almost half of a bottle of spray to stop the itching.

After finally finishing it, he threw the bottle on Sima Jingrong's bed, but the latter didn't pick it up, turned over and went straight to sleep.

If it was normal, Li Sui might still try to persuade him, but today he was too tired, so he climbed into bed and lay down, touched the folding knife on his chest under the thin quilt, and held it tightly in his hand Here, imagining the cool body temperature of that person, the heart that had been floating for a day finally settled down as if it had landed on the shore.

Before dawn in the morning, fierce whistles rang out in the camp, one after another more urgently, as if urging his life, Li Sui thought that something urgent happened outside, so he hurriedly got up.

"Quick, assemble the whistle!" Wang Wei jumped off the upper bunk with a rollover, and rushed into the bathroom to grab the faucet.Li Sui woke Sima up and down, took a cup to the sink to rinse his mouth, glanced at Wang Wei in the mirror, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, isn't this man hard of hearing? like a ring.

Wang Wei moved very quickly, brushing his teeth and washing his face in one go, and even changed his clothes last night, as if he knew that he had to gather urgently this morning.

The whistle outside the house became more and more urgent, and there was the sound of footsteps pouring out from the dormitory next door, Li Sui couldn't help speeding up his movements, and when he came out of the bathroom, Sima Jingrong was still lying on the bed and didn't get up.

"Get up!" Li Sui rushed over to pull him.

Sima Jingrong threw him away irritably, and buried his head directly in the quilt. Li Sui hated iron for being weak, and raised his hand to lift his quilt.

"What are you doing? It's not yet dawn."

"Assembly! Hurry up!"

Only then did Sima Jingrong come back to his senses slowly, the whistle outside went from long to short, and finally ended the wailing with a loud bang.Wang Wei rushed out, grabbed Li Sui and ran away: "We're late, don't care about them, let's go."

After going downstairs, Li Sui discovered that there were quite a few people participating in the training camp this time, about forty or so, and there were even two girls, who were not very old, and most of them were children from rich families.

The sky was not completely bright yet, and it was gray. Li Sui and Wang Wei were late, so they had to stand beside the team.

"I was late for assembly on the first day." The instructor showed displeasure, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, stopped when he passed a short boy, and pointed to the necklace on his neck, "What is this, Jin?" Chains? Are you here for a beauty pageant?"

A burst of laughter immediately erupted around.

"Laughing? Did I make you laugh?!" the instructor roared.

The crowd was silent, the instructor glanced at the crowd, and ordered: "Pluck all your stinky things for me! Let me see them again, and I will throw them one at a time!"

A rustling sound sounded beside Li Sui, even Wang Wei took off the watch on his hand, Li Sui frowned slightly, and pressed the pocket knife on his chest secretly with his hand where he couldn't see.

The removed things were put into the basket one by one, and when it was Li Sui's turn, he didn't move, and even thought in his heart that if he wanted to take them away, he would make some arguments, but the instructor only looked at him With a glance, he asked, "Are there two other people in your dormitory?"

During the questioning time, Sima Yan ran over, wearing both socks wrongly, and many people in the team were snickering.

"Deputy team, time." The instructor said in a cold voice, turned and left, Li Sui secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

The deputy team was the man who showed Li Sui around when he came. His surname was Li, he didn't talk much, and he was very serious. Hearing this, he lowered his head and pressed the chronograph in his hand. The three people in the dormitory suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Why do everyone else act like they've been prepared?" Li Sui glanced at the team and secretly asked Wang Wei.

Wang Wei pushed his glasses: "We gather at 05:30 every day, and those who arrive late will be severely punished. They must have set the alarm clock in advance."

"Meet at 05:30?" Sima Yan was confused.

"The instructor informed you yesterday," Wang Wei was taken aback for a moment, "Didn't I tell you?"

Li Sui: "..."

Sima Yan: "..."

The blue-gray sky gradually receded, and the faint rays of the sun shone through the trees. Soon, some people in the team became impatient and murmured softly. Sima Jingrong swayed until the instructor's face was almost black to charcoal. The two legs came out of the dormitory building, and as soon as they approached, they smelled a strong fragrance, and this guy even sprayed hairspray.

"Very good," the instructor turned his head to ask, his face turned blue with anger, "How long are you late?"

"28 minutes 47 seconds."

The instructor smiled angrily, and gave instructions: "Members in the team, run ten laps around the playground, and go to have breakfast after running."

The team immediately burst into wailing, and the instructor turned his head and said, "You four, have you seen that waterfall over there?"

Li Sui looked in his direction, there was indeed a small waterfall in the shady mountain stream, about ten meters high, neither big nor small.

"There are watermelons planted on it. You should find a way to pick one off. If you can't pick it off, you won't have to eat today." After saying this, the instructor walked away lightly with his hands behind his back.

"Watermelon?" Sima Jingrong opened his mouth, and the other three seemed to have met their enemies. Sima Yan was particularly upset: "Can you come earlier next time? It's not a beauty pageant. What kind of hairspray do you want to seduce?"

"I..." Sima Jingrong was about to reply when Li Sui covered his mouth with a slap and said, "Go and have a look."

The water volume of the waterfall is not large, and there is a stagnant pool below, which is quite dark in color. There are many green vines growing near the rock section. The thumb is thick, and it is hard to see whether it can bear the weight.

"We have to swim over and climb up the vines," Wang Wei said.

They are all men, so there is no need to worry about anything. Wang Wei took off his clothes first, and stepped into the water with only his underwear on. He turned his head and said, "It's not deep, you can step on it to the bottom."

Sima Jingrong seemed a little hesitant: "There is nothing in this water, snakes, dragons or something."

"Then you stay up there until I catch the giant dragon and send you one." Sima Yan sneered, stretched his legs, and entered the water in a beautiful posture.

This provocative method was right in his heart, Sima Jingrong didn't want to be outdone, he took off his clothes and jumped into the water with a more exaggerated gesture, splashing a lot of water.

Li Sui stood on the shore, his palms clenched tightly.

"Li Sui?" Wang Wei asked suspiciously, as soon as he spoke, the other two also turned their heads to stare at him.

Li Sui hesitated for a while, but slowly took off his vest. Under the morning light, the horrific scars all over his body were instantly revealed, including burns, cigarette butts, scratches... There was even a suspected gunshot wound on his back.

They were all spoiled and raised, and they would howl for a long time if they cut a finger. Where have they seen such horrific scars, or on their own teammates, they all looked shocked.Sima Jingrong's face was particularly pale, and after a while it turned into anger: "Did he abuse you?"

Li Sui went down into the water, and it took him a long time to realize that the "he" he was referring to was Lu Shang, so he gave him a crazy look.

It's a pity that in Sima Jingrong's eyes, this look turned into a pain that can't be said, and he couldn't help but clenched his hands into fists, gritted his teeth and said indignantly: "I didn't expect him to be such a person!"

Li Sui didn't know that Sima Jingrong had already made up a sexual abuse drama on his own. What kind of handsome boy refused to submit to torture and finally became a prisoner? With injuries all over his body, Lu Shang definitely treated him badly. If he treated him well, how could he be sent to such a place to suffer? Just like his father, I didn't expect Lu Shang to look handsome, but inside he turned out to be a sanctimonious abuser mad!

"My brother will protect you from now on." Sima Jingrong seemed to have found a confidant, and patted his shoulder with red eyes, with an expression of "my buddy understands you, my buddy loves you".

Li Sui pulled out his hand, and said coldly: "If you are sick, you should treat it early."