67: Chapter 67: The King of Soldiers Returns, Bringing His Little Darling!!!

Chapter 67: The Soldier King Returns, Bringing Along the Little Ancestor!!!

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At the gates of the Yuezhou Military Region 356th Regiment, the scorching sun hung high in the sky.

Sentry Wang Gang stood tall and straight by the sentry box, sweat sliding down from the brim of his cap.

Suddenly, a taxi drove up slowly and stopped in front of the checkpoint.

Su Han carried a large bag on his back, filled with the wedding candies and cigarettes that Zhou Haitao had asked him to bring back for the soldiers of the 7th Company.

Then, holding Xiao Budian's small hand, he walked slowly toward the gate of the Regimental Headquarters base.

"Hello, comrade. Please show your identification," Sentry Wang Gang saluted as a matter of routine and asked seriously.

But when he saw the person in front of him clearly, his pupils suddenly constricted—he was all too familiar with this face!

"Su... Comrade Su Han?!" Wang Gang's voice suddenly rose in pitch.

Su Han smiled slightly and handed over his soldier's ID: "Hard work, veteran."

Wang Gang quickly waved his hand and said, "What ID do you need! This face of yours is the most authoritative pass for our 356th Regiment!"

Only then did he notice a six or seven-year-old girl standing next to Su Han, with two pigtails, blinking her big eyes and looking at him curiously.

"Great-grandfather, why does this uncle call you a Soldier King? What is a Soldier King?" the little girl asked in a childish voice.

"Pfft—" Wang Gang almost choked on his own saliva.

Great... Great-grandfather?!

Su Han helplessly rubbed the little girl's head: "Xiao Budian, in the army, you should call people 'comrade'."

"Oh!" Xiao Budian nodded obediently and gave Wang Gang a sweet smile, "Hello, Uncle Comrade!"

Wang Gang stood there like a wooden chicken.

"Wang Gang! Why are you dazed?" The squad leader in the duty room poked his head out. He was also stunned after seeing Su Han, then jogged over. "Comrade Su Han is back? The Regimental Commander was asking about you yesterday!"

The squad leader glanced at Xiao Budian, his expression becoming subtle: "This is..."

"My great-granddaughter," Su Han said without changing his expression. "She's staying in the army with me for a few days."

Squad Leader: "..."

Wang Gang: "..."

The two looked at each other, seeing the same shock in each other's eyes—this generational gap was simply insane!

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Su Han led Xiao Budian into the camp area, and the soldiers he met along the way stopped to salute one after another.

"Great-grandfather, why are they all saluting you?" Xiao Budian's head swayed from side to side, her little face flushed with excitement.

"Because Great-grandfather is a soldier," Su Han explained with a smile. "In the army, when comrades meet, they have to salute."

There was one more thing Su Han didn't say.

It was his reputation in the 356th Regiment.

From the Regimental Commander down to the soldiers in every Cooking Squad, who hadn't heard of Su Han's great name?

Even though he was still just a Private, no one dared to treat him like one!

Xiao Budian nodded as if she half-understood. Suddenly, she saw several soldiers training at the 7th Company's camp and immediately pointed at them and shouted, "Great-grandfather, look! They're doing that move you taught me!"

Su Han looked in the direction she was pointing and saw several soldiers practicing Military Boxing from a distance.

One of the moves was indeed somewhat similar to what he had taught Xiao Budian.

"Those are your uncle-in-law's soldiers; they're training."

"Come on, Great-grandfather will take you to Great-grandfather's and your uncle-in-law's company."

At the 7th Company camp, dust flew on the training ground under the scorching sun.

"Wang Hao! Are you the reincarnation of a damn snail? You're so slow at climbing obstacles!" 3rd Squad Leader Liu Yong stood on a high platform and roared, the veins on his forehead bulging.

Wang Hao crawled out from under the wire fence with a face full of dirt, wiping his sweat aggrievedly: "Squad Leader, we've been practicing for three hours..."

"Shut up! With your pathetic performance, just wait to be crushed into dust by the Division Reconnaissance Battalion in next week's competition!" Liu Yong kicked a tire. "Everyone, fall in, another round!"

The 7th Company soldiers wailed, but no one dared to disobey the order.

Just then, a commotion suddenly came from the camp gate.

"Holy crap! Is that... Su Han?!"

"Brother Han is back?!"

"Wait... what's the deal with that little kid next to him?"

Liu Yong frowned and looked over, only to see Su Han carrying a bulging bag, holding the hand of a little girl with pigtails, walking slowly toward the training ground.

The little girl was wearing camouflage children's clothing, hopping around like a happy little rabbit.

"Attention!" Liu Yong instinctively called the squad to order, and then he realized—wait, Su Han is still a Private!

"Hello, Squad Leader!" Su Han walked up, gave a standard military salute with a smile, and said, "I've brought back some good stuff."

Before Liu Yong could speak, Wang Hao had already rushed forward: "Brother Han! You're finally back! Who's this little girl? Your daughter?"

"Smack!"

Liu Yong slapped the back of Wang Hao's head: "Bullshit! How old is Su Han? This is obviously..."

He got stuck because he really couldn't think of a logical answer.

Xiao Budian tilted her head, her big eyes darting around, and suddenly shouted in a crisp voice, "Hello, Uncles! I am Great-grandfather's great-granddaughter!"

The training ground instantly went silent.

A gust of wind blew by, kicking up a few fallen leaves.

"Great... Great-grandfather?!" Zhao Xiaohu's jaw almost hit the ground.

"Wait!" Liu Yong suddenly reacted, pointing at Xiao Budian, "What did you just call him? Great-grandfather?!"

Xiao Budian puffed out her little chest proudly: "That's right! My daddy calls him Third Grandpa, so of course I have to call him Great-grandfather!"

All the soldiers of the 7th Company looked at Su Han in unison, their eyes as if they were looking at a living fossil.

Su Han shrugged helplessly and pulled a large bag of wedding candies from his bag: "The Company Commander asked me to bring these. He went on a honeymoon with my granddaughter and won't be back for nearly a month."

He then pulled out several cartons of Chunghwa Cigarettes from the bag, and the soldiers immediately cheered.

"Holy crap! Wedding candies!" Wang Hao was quick and grabbed one.

"Long live the Company Commander!"

"Brother Han is awesome!"

Liu Yong took the cigarettes, looking at Su Han with a complex expression: "So... you really are this little girl's Great-grandfather?"

"By seniority, yes." Su Han rubbed Xiao Budian's head. "Her father is my grand-nephew, which makes him our Company Commander's wife's older brother."

"Pfft—" Zhao Xiaohu, who was drinking water, sprayed it out instantly.

Xiao Budian tugged at Su Han's hem: "Great-grandfather, why did all these uncles go stupid?"

"Because they're not good at math," Su Han talked nonsense with a straight face.

"Oh!" Xiao Budian realized suddenly and took a handful of candies from her pocket. "Then eat more candy to nourish your brains!"

Zhao Xiaohu: ???

Wang Hao: ???

Everyone else: ???

"Eat up, don't be shy!"

Xiao Budian held the candies in front of everyone with a serious face: "I still have plenty here. Eat a few more, and you'll become as smart as Xiao Budian!"

Everyone: "..."