Sergeant Ge understood the situation and was outraged at his mother's shenanigans. He could not help but cuss them out, before requesting to see both Lu Xingzhi and Colonel Lin.
"You should go talk to Colonel Lin. I will speak to Xingzhi." Sergeant Ge's incident was withheld from Lu Xingzhi because of his weak condition after the surgery, nobody knew how Lu Xingzhi would react to the news. Now that his body's condition had stabilized, Jiang Yao thought that it was time to let him know.
Lu Xingzhi seemed to be daydreaming when Jiang Yao entered the room. He casually glanced in her direction, his stoic expression betraying none of his thoughts.
"There is something I need to tell you; I have been hiding it from you for a while." Jiang Yao sat down by his side on the bed and started speaking.
Lu Xingzhi was not surprised hearing it. Seeing Zhou Junmin and Wu Pengxin loitering around in the hospital had him suspecting that something was going on without his knowledge. He was just trying to figure out what it was.
Since Jiang Yao wanted to explain, there was no need for him to guess.
"Sergeant Ge got into an accident." Jiang Yao told him of the events surrounding Sergeant Ge's fall, from his quarrel with Sun Cuimei to the platoon's decision heard from Major Zhu and Colonel Lin, and finally the visit from Madam Ge and her gang.
Lu Xingzhi stayed in silence for the longest time after Jiang Yao finished talking.
Her eyes did not leave him, observing the excessive heaving of his chest had her worried.
It was at this time that Lu Xingzhi's frigid demeanor was displayed full force in front of Jiang Yao. Everything around him seemed to have dropped to freezing point, icy and hostile.
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