Chapter 511
Chapter 511: Chapter 505: Delivering Cotton Coats Chapter 511: Chapter 505: Delivering Cotton Coats She knew that whether it was snowing or even raining knives, it meant the same for those people.
They wouldn’t leave.
They would stand fast within their ranks.
At this moment, the training ground was their entire world.
At night, despite the fact that the lights were on, the few of them still huddled indoors, nearly reduced to freezing.
Although they were clad in considerably thick clothes, they had forgotten that the mountain wind was unshielded from all directions, hence, the wind blew ruthlessly and chilled them to the bone.
Back in the other parts of Beijing, the cold was a physical attack that could be resisted with ample clothing.
But, it was different here.
Here, it felt like a magical spell.
The chilling winds seemed to seep through their cotton clothes and froze their skins.
“It’s so cold…” Lin Yile hugged her clothes tightly, wondering how it could be so cold.
If she had known, she would have brought extra blankets.
Each of them now had just a single blanket provided by the Guning Company.
However, the blanket was so thin that it could hardly retain any heat.
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She was so scared of the cold that she dared not sleep, fearing that she might be found frozen to death the next morning.
She wished she could go back to the dormitory, back to the infirmary, back home.
She longed to hold her daughter’s petite, milk-scented body, to bask in the sun, to live in a room with a furnace.
Their tent was dismally drafty.
Now, she finally understood why nobody visited the hospital there—the cold was unbearable.
Her feet were almost frozen, and even her words stuttered due to the cold.
“Is there someone in there?” At that moment, a voice came from outside.
Tang Yuxin breathed onto her hands to warm them, which made her feel a bit better, at least not as numb.
However, in a little while, her hands started to numb again.
If she had a pen, she probably wouldn’t even be able to hold it.
She drew the tent flap aside, allowing the outside wind and snow to rush straight in, causing her to shiver involuntarily.
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Immediately, she let the tent flap drop back down, effectively blocking the outside weather.
Couple of figures entirely covered in snow then entered from outside.
“Uncle Gu, why are you here?” Tang Yuxin’s voice was shaking a little.
She wasn’t doing it on purpose; the intense cold was driving her to tears.
For her to even be able to talk was a feat in itself.
Anybody else would probably only be capable of shivering, let alone speaking.
“I came to bring you some cotton clothes.”
Having said that, Gu Ning’s students, who were following behind him, placed several bundles of cotton clothes they were carrying onto the table.
“Give me one,” Lin Yile, looking as pale as a ghost from the cold, immediately rushed over to grab a piece the moment she saw the clothes.
The others also grabbed one each, desperate to put them on.
Who could have anticipated it would be so cold here?
The hospital did not even notify them in advance.
The cold here was enough to freeze someone to death.
However, when the cotton clothes touched their bodies, they all shivered involuntarily.
The cotton inside seemed to have frozen solid.
The cold was truly unbearable.
As Tang Yuxin was about to pick up a coat to put on, Gu Ning blocked her hand.
“Here, wear mine,” he said, unbuttoning his own coat and draping it over Tang Yuxin.
Instantly, his body heat seemed to burn through her skin.
The coat was large and nearly enveloped her entirety.
Unlike the icy snowflakes, the coat had the most comfortable temperature from a human body.
Following that, Gu Ning put on a piece of cotton clothes without making any changes in his facial expression.
“Alright, I am leaving now.
Be careful when you sleep tonight.”
“Okay,” Tang Yuxin replied.
She wrapped herself tighter with the cotton clothes.
Even her hands that were formerly numb due to the cold clasped tighter now.
Gu Ning didn’t spend much time there.
He had arrived and left in the same manner.
As the tent curtain was drawn open, white cascades of snow could be seen pouring down unceasingly outside.
Swirls of snowflakes and gusts of northern wind, coupled with the silvery landscape, really made one wonder if the military exercise could be called off if the snow continued to fall at this rate.
But Tang Yuxin knew that it wouldn’t happen.
Gu Ning had mentioned that his company was always strictly disciplined.
It was a school as well as a company.
Furthermore, having come for rigorous training with such pomp, it was impossible to leave with nothing accomplished.
This wasn’t their style.
This wasn’t their school.
This was the best opportunity to temper their spirit.
That night, none of them could sleep due to the extreme cold.
Even though they had placed on an additional military cotton coat, this was the coldest they had ever felt.
Especially Li Jia, who was nearly frozen senseless.
Hailing from the South, she had never experienced such cold weather in the North.
Back in school during winter, there was central heating, so she never felt cold.
But now, on her arrival here this unprecedented immensely heavy snowfall had nearly caused her to bite through her teeth due to the freezing cold.
Tang Yuxin barely slept at all either.
She wrapped herself tightly in the cotton coat, feeling strangely secure.
She shut her eyes, trying to sleep, only to wake up soon after.
The wind made the tent shake gently, letting out creaky noises.
Hence, she couldn’t sleep properly.
She drifted in and out of consciousness multiple times throughout the night, and probably no one had a good sleep.
However, she decided not to sleep at the moment.
It was rather peaceful outside, probably because daybreak had not come yet.
Right when she was in a state of half-consciousness, the whistle blew from outside and Tang Yuxin woke up with a start.
The others also stirred, huddling together in an attempt to keep warm by wrapping themselves tightly.
Even though it was noisy outside, nothing could deter them from seeking warmth like a silkworm in its cocoon.
Tang Yuxin carefully lifted the tent curtain.
The wind, mixed with the snow, continuously pelted her face, causing a sensation similar to being cut by a knife.
Immediately after the trumpet sound, a gathering was organized not far from there.
The distant areas were covered in white snow, blending in with the distant white mountains.
The only color visible was the military green, contrasting sharply with the white.
Tang Yuxin joined them, wrapping her military coat tighter around her.
Snow kept falling onto her, but she didn’t feel much cold outside.