Lost the Son as Well as the Grain (I)

Jiang Pengji put her hands around her arms, leaned against a stake in the drill ground, and watched the soldiers do the painstaking training. Her eyebrows pulled up.

"I thought it was going to take you a while––at least ten or more days––to tame these bandits. I didn't expect for you to solve the problem with them in only a couple of days time," she said with Xu Ke with a smile. "They are training dedicatedly."

In order to avoid any possible threats, Xu Ke split the bandit members up and inserted them in with the original troops.

But the ones who were training most industriously and had the veins on their foreheads popping out were all bandit members. The original troop members definitely were training hard, but it was an obvious difference when they were compared against the bandit members.

It was rather a surprise to Jiang Pengji.