The Female General Dominates All After Transmigration-Chapter 229 - 227: Show Some Backbone, Complete the Mission
The Zhao Family, seeing him like this, dared not send him back to class. They simply used their connections to get him a job at the factory.
With these three troublemakers gone, no one really missed them. If there was any change, it was that the teachers and students enjoyed a quieter environment.
Hongling had fewer disturbances, and her heart gradually settled. With the exam dates approaching, she worked even harder, focusing on her studies, quickly putting Zhao Xiaoqian out of her mind. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
The basketball tournament’s round-robin matches concluded, with the Special Service Company losing only one game, securing first place and advancing to the final four.
The remaining three teams were the Reconnaissance Company, Sea Defense Second Team, and the Automobile Company.
When the rankings were announced, Ling Chengyan congratulated Jiang Yuntong, the commander of the Automobile Company, who was sitting next to her.
Commander Jiang looked at her, someone who had risen from under his command and whom he now had to call "leader," feeling a mix of sourness and genuine admiration.
A woman, already married with children, supposedly past her prime, had risen from a specially recruited soldier to a battalion-level officer in just a few years. He had witnessed her growth, even played a part in pushing and promoting her, knowing full well that her achievements were entirely her own, with no backing or connections.
Who could not admire such a person?!
"Commander Ling, I’ve heard that you’ve given the Reconnaissance Company some special attention. But the Automobile Company is like family to you; you can’t just take care of the Reconnaissance Company and forget your brothers here, can you?"
Ling Chengyan shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Commander, isn’t this just a matter of you saying the word? Whenever you need me and the brothers, just say it, and we’ll be there."
Jiang Yuntong felt more at ease, and the smile on his face became genuine: "Great, great, great, I’ll relay this good news to those rascals."
Next, the teams that made it to the final four drew lots to decide their opponents.
In the semifinals, the teams were paired up for head-to-head matches in the first round.
Jiang Yuntong silently prayed: please don’t let us draw the Special Service Company right off the bat! Please, no!
If we draw them in the first match, the Automobile Company might as well concede right away.
In fact, not only Jiang Yuntong but the other two teams were also secretly hoping not to draw the Special Service Company.
A team performing well after extensive training and coordination is no surprise, but when your star forward (small forward and main scorer) gets injured and can’t play, you’d expect setbacks. Instead, they only lost one game and seemed to miraculously regain their peak form, winning every match.
If that’s not extraordinary, then what is?
Of course, the results didn’t change according to their prayers. When the draw concluded, Ling Chengyan was not facing the Automobile Company, nor the Sea Defense Second Team, but the—tutored by her—a strong team that placed second in the elimination round—Reconnaissance Company!
The Automobile Company and Sea Defense Second Team both breathed a sigh of relief and their tense expressions melted into joy.
The faces around the Reconnaissance Company, however, darkened considerably.
After a while, Reconnaissance Commander Zhao Feng finally looked at Ling Chengyan with a wry smile: "I was hoping to meet you in the finals, but who knew... sigh!"
Although they didn’t want to admit it, everyone knew the strength of the Special Service Company was overwhelming. Meeting them only meant one thing—elimination. There was no other possibility.
Ling Chengyan, essentially half a coach for the Reconnaissance basketball team, was blunt with Zhao Feng: "Show some pride and give it your all!"
"Hmm? Can we do it?" Zhao Feng asked.
Ling Chengyan gave him a big eye-roll: "If I say you can’t do it, would you just forfeit?"
"Of course not..." Zhao Feng instinctively replied, watching as Ling Chengyan turned and walked away, not waiting for his response.
He was momentarily stunned but then grinned as he slapped his military cap: "Let’s give it a go then!"
Friday was the draw, and the matches were scheduled for the following Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Ling Chengyan didn’t give the basketball team much additional guidance or targeted training. Having played a few matches together, the team members were well-coordinated and didn’t need her to worry anymore.
With that troublesome rascal around Hongling, Ling Chengyan paid more attention to the situation at Xiao Yu’s school. After several days of observation, she noticed no irregularities. Moreover, after observing both schools, she became aware of their differences.
At Xiao Yu’s present middle school, most students were children from government agencies and subdivisions, where the academic atmosphere was strong and most students were diligent, with a few less inclined to study but kept in check by strict school discipline and dedicated teachers, making truancy and loitering quite rare.
Conversely, Hongling’s tutoring school consisted mostly of children who had missed out on education for various reasons. Though some failed their exams and valued the learning opportunity, most had grown lazy, with truancy and absenteeism not uncommon, involving not just boys but also some girls who used school as a pretext to go out, only to disappear from sight.
As the weather warmed, Ling Chengyan suggested to her second sister-in-law that Hong Ming should come to the subdivision for dinner after school, and then do homework with Hongbing and Xiao Xing.
Wang Liansheng could tutor the children, including taking Hong Ming under his wing.
Earlier in the year, during final exams, even the mischievous Hongbing scored over eighty in his tests, but Hong Ming’s results were unsatisfactory, scoring 84 in math but only 62 in language, almost failing.
Wang Lianfa and Zheng Xiaotian were already anxious about their eldest son’s studies, but both had limited education themselves, so while they could supervise homework, more advanced tutoring could be better handled by Wang Liansheng.
When Ling Chengyan mentioned this, the couple readily agreed, though they were concerned about burdening the Ling Family with one more child.
Ling Chengyan laughed: "Taking care of one sheep or a whole flock is the same. Sometimes, leading a flock is easier than one or two because the others will follow the leader."
Upon hearing this, Wang Lianfa and Zheng Xiaotian exchanged glances and smiled in agreement.
By bringing Hong Ming over, Ling Chengyan also planned for the siblings to pick up and drop off Hongling, using it as a training excuse.
Of course, when assigning this task to the two boys, Ling Chengyan was solemn, as if issuing orders to soldiers: "You are now the little brothers. With your big brother not home, protecting your sisters is your responsibility. This important task rests on you; can you handle it?"
"We guarantee to complete the mission," the two brothers instinctively replied, standing at attention, with serious postures and expressions, having trained often with the squad.
Ling Chengyan nodded: "I’ll look forward to your triumphant return."
