Last night, Lao Yang told Hua Yan that Lao Qiao had arranged special training for her and they would leave the next day. Lao Yang also revealed that the training base was in a remote and desolate place in the mountains.

Hua Yan told her father that she would be accompanying "Wu Wu Hall" to their training base for half a month. With some connections in the court, Lao Qiao had already arranged everything, saving Hua Yan the trouble of worrying, and also easing her father's concerns.

"You're going to a place that seems quite far. Make sure to take these three big bags of beef jerky, these high-energy biscuits, and these compressed milk cubes. Also, take these long sleeves, short sleeves, and other clothes," her father said, still feeling it wasn't enough. Finally, looking up seriously, he said, "Yan, Dad feels like you still don't have enough. Dad has decided to accompany you personally."

Hua Yan, who was by the French window, arranging the freshly unearthed jade to give to Gao Ruqing for making jewelry, suddenly heard her father's lightning-fast words, causing her hands to tremble, almost dropping the premium jade in her hand.

Stabilizing her racing heart, Hua Yan smiled and said, "Dad, I'm going to train and get fit. With you around, even the big mountains will become warm nests. I'll also improve my self-defense skills under your care, and my body fat will definitely skyrocket during this time. Do you think I'm going to fatten up? Or what..." Hua Yan shrugged her shoulders, looking at her father with a mixture of sorrow, as if implying that the chubby girl he would see in the near future would be her.

Thinking that if he really went along, he wouldn't bear to see her suffer, and if he saw it, he would involuntarily stop her, which would indeed be detrimental to her training. Gritting his teeth, her father finally smiled and said, "Dad was just joking earlier. Look at these things Dad prepared for you. Are they enough, or is there anything else you want Dad to prepare for you?"

Knowing that her father was suppressing his worries and smiling as he said these words just to not disturb her decision, Hua Yan felt both happy and heartbroken, tears beginning to swirl in her eyes. She held back from crying. To not let her father down, Hua Yan didn't mention the things her father prepared that she wasn't allowed to bring.

Anyway, with Lao Qiao's people helping her transport the items, she didn't have to worry about it herself. It wouldn't hurt to let them see what a girl's travel gear looked like.

Her father looked at Hua Yan, who had been staring at the things he prepared, and speculated that she might think there were too many things and was preparing to take fewer. But all these things were carefully selected by him from the things she should prepare, the most necessary things to bring. He cautiously asked, "Yan, do you think there are too many things?"

"What? Dad, what did you just say?"

"I said, do you think there are too many things?"

"Oh, no, not too many..." Hua Yan replied absentmindedly, her mouth speaking comforting words faster than her brain.

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"If you don't think it's too many, Dad thinks it's too little. There's still time, let me prepare some more..." With that, her father drifted away from Hua Yan like a gust of wind.

As Hua Yan regained her senses, she sighed and muttered to herself, "So many... Ah, creating one's own troubles. Why did I just casually say 'not too many'?"

At this moment, Aunt Chang also came out of the kitchen and said, "Miss, I've made a dozen types of pastries. Remember to take them with you when you leave. You can't do without these usually. Be careful not to forget them!"

Faced with Aunt Chang's kindly smile, Hua Yan swallowed the words she was about to say, thinking to herself, "With more debts, there's no worry. With more things, I have no worries... no worries."

While Hua Yan's father and Aunt Chang were busy preparing her belongings, Lao Yang had already come to pick up Hua Yan.

"Why is it this person, Hua Yan?" her father frowned upon seeing Lao Yang.

"He's a relative of the boss. His child is also going, and he happens to have a car to take us on the way."

"Oh, but who are those two young men?" her father asked, looking serious.

"They are from Wu Wu Hall. Dad feels that people trained by them are extraordinary, right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Looking over, Lao Yang and the two muscular young men stared at the seven or eight suitcases and three or four large pastry boxes in the living room, their eyes widening. So many things! Are they moving out? It was the first time they had seen someone bring so much stuff to the special training base.

The two young men, being experienced, knew that only three or four essential pieces of clothing could really be taken. However, looking at Hua Yan, their gaze turned disdainful, as if saying that a pampered young lady like Hua Yan going to that special training base was really a waste.

That training base was a paradise coveted by many soldiers. Only those who walked out from there, or rather crawled out, were considered real men, true tough guys!

Lao Yang woke up with his eyelids twitching incessantly in the morning. Changing the sunflower seed husks on them several times proved futile, and trouble had indeed arrived. Hua Yan had prepared such a mountain of things for him to carry, giving him a headache just looking at it.

Lao Yang pulled Hua Yan aside and whispered, "You're not really planning to take all this stuff, are you? It's too much. You know that at the special training base, you can only bring a few pieces of clothing in, and other items are strictly prohibited!"

"Wherever the things are, I'll be there!" She had promised her father that she would take everything with her. She couldn't disappoint her father. She left this difficult problem for Lao Yang and the others to solve. If it weren't for them, she would be peacefully asleep by now.

"You stubborn girl!" Lao Yang scolded Hua Yan, but she remained unmoved.

"These things weren't prepared by you, but by your dad, right?"

"You're very clever!" Hua Yan smiled sweetly.

With a grunt, Lao Yang turned and called Lao Qiao. Passing by Hua Yan's father with a complex look and also receiving a fierce glare from him, Lao Yang sighed inwardly that no one in this family was easy to deal with. He nodded subtly to them before letting out a sigh of relief as the two soldiers, who didn't know whether they were carrying anything downstairs, relaxed a bit.

Seeing Lao Yang heading downstairs with his phone, the two young soldiers felt relieved, thinking he was reporting the situation to their superiors. The young lady upstairs was definitely going to get reprimanded, and at worst, her training qualification might be revoked.

After a few minutes, the two soldiers, who had just carried down two large suitcases under Aunt Chang's supervision, saw Lao Yang coming in from outside. Excitedly, they ran over and asked, "Is the leadership going to revoke the training qualification of the lady upstairs?"

Lao Yang was blocked by them, listened to their question, gave them a disdainful look, and coolly said, "The higher-ups said all of you should load the stuff onto the car, not leaving a single item behind!" With that, Lao Yang briskly went upstairs, leaving the two soldiers with their mouths wide open in disbelief.