Chapter 117 Good to be a teacher
Ye Qiongying was not good at running circles, but when it came to swordplay, it was a skill she had learned since childhood.
I will only teach you a few basic movements, so naturally there is no difficulty.
Ye Qiongying did not hide anything and explained the movements in detail, and then personally corrected their movements one by one.
After a day, their team's sword moves had become quite decent.
Regardless of its actual power, it at least looks like there is nothing wrong with it.
When the other teams saw this, they couldn't help but look a few more times.
They were able to maintain their attitude and did not come over in the first few days, but when the instructor added a few new sword moves every few days, most of them became unsure.
Finally someone tried to come over to find Ye Qiongying, his face flushed red, obviously afraid of being rejected and ridiculed.
Unexpectedly, Ye Qiongying's attitude was very good. She asked them to come over without saying anything, and started teaching together with Yao Dachuan's teammates.
Once someone took the lead, the rest of the people followed suit.
Within half a month, members of teams one to five were all following Ye Qiongying to learn sword skills.
Yao Manfu and the others were a little depressed at first, and asked Ye Qiongying worriedly:
"Sister Qiongying, we are competitors with them. If you teach them, won't we suffer a loss?"
Without waiting for Ye Qiongying to answer, Yao Dachuan bent his finger and tapped Yao Manfu on the forehead:
"What are you talking about! We are just different teams, not enemies! Sister Qiongying did nothing wrong!"
Seeing that they were still dissatisfied, Ye Qiongying smiled and explained:
"Why did we join the Pingwu City Guard? I know that most of us do it to earn money to support our families, right? But in everyone's heart, there is still a possibility that we want to resist foreign enemies, protect our homeland, and safeguard the safety of our relatives and friends, right?"
Everyone opened their mouths but no words came out.
Yes, those who can come to Pingwu City to participate in the recruitment are all people living in nearby villages.
The years have not been good, and after the disaster, life has become even more difficult.
Of course, life in the army is hard, and if you are not careful you can lose your life on the battlefield. If there were other options, which son would be willing to send himself to a border town to fight?
It's all for the purpose of making some money so that my family can survive.
but……
Living near Pingwu City, who doesn’t know what will happen if it is invaded by foreign enemies?
Let’s not talk about the distant past, let’s just take the war three years ago as an example.
The generals and several young masters of the Ye family were all killed, and many soldiers were sacrificed. The civilians who were unfortunately involved also left a bright red mark.
During that period, white papers were floating in the air above Pingwu City.
As members of the Pingwu City Guard, they naturally wanted to defend the city and drive away those shameless invaders.
Ye Qiongying glanced at them and saw that everyone was silent, so she continued:
“Our current competitive relationship is just a competition, an opportunity to show off.
But did Pingwu City recruit us just to let us compete together? No, it was to send us to the battlefield to repel the enemy when they invaded!
Our current competitors will become our teammates who we rely on and support. The stronger our teammates are, the greater the possibility of our survival and the greater the probability of defeating the enemy.
I teach them now, not to help our competitors, but to strengthen our common strength.”
Yao Manfu and the others finally stopped showing their unconvinced expressions. After a moment of silence, Yao Fengshou was the first to speak:
"Sister Qiongying, you are right. We should unite as one, instead of putting aside the future battle for the sake of immediate interests.
Sister Qiongying, it’s too hard for you to work alone. We were the first to learn from you, and now we’re making the fastest progress. Why don’t we split into several groups, with several people in charge of each team, and you can patrol around and help point out any mistakes we make.
This is more efficient, and we can also use the opportunity to teach them to remember better ourselves.”
The other teammates also agreed and recommended themselves one by one, wishing they could take on a "disciple" right away.
Ye Qiongying blinked and laughed:
"Aren't you afraid they will surpass you now?"
Yao Manfu said quickly:
"Don't be afraid! We were taught by you, Sister Qiongying. Now they can only be considered as your disciples. How can we be inferior to them?"
That was it.
On the second day, when the soldiers from other teams came over, they found that the attitudes of the other people in Yao Dachuan's team had inexplicably changed. Completely different from the reluctant look they had had in the past few days, they actually took the initiative to teach them.
If Ye Qiongying hadn't assured them that they had no other intentions, these soldiers would probably have been scared and ran away.
With the addition of Yao Manfu and others, the "teaching" efficiency has indeed been greatly improved.
Instructor Ren seemed to be aware of their progress and increased the frequency of teaching new sword moves.
What was originally planned to be learned in one month was completed by teams one to five in just over half a month, and the learning effect far exceeded expectations.
However, the archery practice of teams six to ten was not satisfactory, and the atmosphere was completely opposite to that here.
Instructor Ren saw all of this.
On the night before the end of the one-month period, Instructor Ren appeared in another tent.
In the tent, Pang Li and four other generals sat together. In front of them was a huge sand table, and on the other side was an unfinished chess game.
Before Instructor Ren arrived, they were arguing fiercely over the sand table.
When Instructor Ren arrived, the four of them finally focused their attention and looked at him.
Being stared at by four generals like that, Instructor Ren inevitably felt a little uneasy, but he still forced himself to bow and salute.
Pang Li stood up and patted the sand on his hands:
"Get up! The one-month period is almost up, and it's time for your team to switch teams and practice weapons, right?
How is Ye Qiongying doing with her studies?"
He remembered that Old Ye used to often boast about his daughter's talent in martial arts, which even his brothers felt inferior to.
But after seeing Ye Qiongying's appearance at the beginning of her running training, Pang Li never went there again. As for what Ye's father said, he just regarded it as a miracle in his father's eyes.
I guess it's just that Old Ye is protecting his own daughter, and he thinks everything about her is good?
When asked this question, he did not have much confidence and even added with concern:
"You can't even hold the sword now?"
Instructor Ren thought that Pang Li and the others paid special attention to Ye Qiongying because of her female identity. They wanted to set up such an example to pave the way for Pingwu City to defend against foreign enemies in the future and for all the people in the city to be on guard regardless of gender. Therefore, he did not think it was strange that they asked about Ye Qiongying alone.
Hearing this, he quickly replied:
"General Pang is wrong!"