Elder brother's garrison

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"Well, hard work."

"Huh? What do you want to buy? Are you going out? We haven't finished ordering yet." York stared blankly at the two of them, still not understanding what Xiaobai and Baltimore were talking about.

“It’s alright, York, you can continue ordering.” Baltimore smiled at York and patted the back of his hand.

"Oh..." York watched Baltimore's figure disappear outside the teahouse, responded softly, and then warmly greeted the waiter beside him, "Baltimore likes sweets. Then could you please bring me another order of char siu bao and egg tarts? Oh, and a spring roll too!"

Order complete.

The people at the table waited for about five minutes before a waiter slowly pushed a food cart over and brought York's food to the table.

In no time, the small plates and steamers of food filled the table, their colors, aromas, and flavors all present, the fragrance spreading with the steam and making one's mouth water.

After the clerk left, Baltimore returned just in time.

"Admiral, I'm back." Baltimore ran back carrying a small, neatly packed brown paper bag. Instead of returning to her seat, she opened the bag under everyone's gaze, took out a bottle of iodine and gauze, and then half-squatted down next to Yu Gan with a smile, asking, "Miss Yu Gan? If you don't mind, can we bandage her here?"

"Huh? Bandaging? What bandaging?" York looked completely bewildered.

Yu Gan, seated in her seat, looked at Baltimore with a complicated expression, then turned to look at Xiaobai.

"Miss Bai, you... you noticed?"

“Yes, it was quite easy to find.” Xiaobai nodded and said to Yu Gan, “Let’s deal with it here this morning, so we can have dinner afterward.”

Yu Gan subconsciously touched her shoulder and looked up at the surroundings of the restaurant.

The four of them were positioned near the window of the teahouse, a relatively good location with a view of the street, and also a position that would not attract the attention of other people.

"okay."

Yu Gan responded softly, pursed her lips, faced Baltimore, and gently unbuttoned the collar of her dress.

The button is open.

Yu Gan pulled up her collar, revealing a section of her snow-white shoulder.

The girl's shoulders were slender and fair, and with each breath, a delicate collarbone appeared on her skin, like a finely sculpted work of art.

However, on this otherwise beautiful shoulder, there were now several reddish-purple bruises the size of teacups.

"Huh? This injury..." York's eyes widened when he saw the injury on Yu Gan's shoulder.

"Yes, I bumped into it myself..." Yu Gan quickly explained.

"It must have been left behind during the conflict with the security guards in the community. They stabbed Miss Yu Gan several times with those thick batons." Xiao Bai interrupted Yu Gan, letting out a soft sigh.

"It was them!" Upon hearing Xiaobai's explanation, York was instantly enraged, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth. "If I had known they had beaten Miss Yu Gan like this, I shouldn't have let them go! No, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Miss Yu Gan, you wait, I'm going back to give them a good beating!"

After York finished speaking, he got up to leave.

"No, no need, really no need!" Yu Gan quickly reached out and pulled her down. "Those people have already apologized to me. They know they were wrong, so this matter is over. Miss York, thank you for standing up for me, but it's better to avoid trouble..."

"But! But they..."

“Let’s eat! The food will get cold. It’s not worth wasting a whole table of food for those people,” Yu Gan said.

“Uh…” York paused upon hearing this, looking down at Yu Gan’s pleading gaze, and sat back down in her seat with a sigh. “Alright then…”

Yu Gan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw York give up.

Chapter 2343 You'll become a lazy bum when you're around someone you like.

“Miss Yu Gan is different from us. We are tourists, and we’ll just pack up and leave after this is over. But Miss Yu Gan still has to work in the city. Her job as a tour guide will inevitably involve her in that wealthy area. As the saying goes, the fewer enemies she has, the better,” Xiao Bai explained to York.

“Miss, what you said makes sense…” York’s resolve wavered after hearing Xiaobai’s words, but he was still angry and muttered, “But I still can’t swallow this…”

"You have to learn to accept things as they are in this world." Yu Gan was quite open-minded. Seeing that York had been comforted by Xiao Bai's words, Yu Gan gradually regained her cheerfulness and smiled at York. "It's okay. Money is not easy to earn. I'm used to this kind of thing."

"Let's apply the medicine first," Xiaobai said.

"Hmm." Yu Gan sat back in her chair and pulled open her collar.

Baltimore opened a mineral water bottle, dipped a cotton swab in the water, and extended it to Yu Gan's shoulder.

The moment the cotton swab touched the bruise, Yu Gan's body trembled slightly.

"Does it hurt?" Baltimore stopped what she was doing and looked at Yu Gan.

"..." Yu Gan shook his head and smiled silently at Baltimore.

Baltimore bent down and quickly cleaned the bruises on the amla, then applied medicated wine, covered it with a cotton pad, and bandaged it with gauze.

After treating his shoulder injury, Baltimore held up the table and smiled at Yu Gan: "Yes, the shoulder injury has been treated."

"Thanks……"

"Is there anywhere else that hurts? Let's treat it together," Baltimore asked, holding a yellow cotton swab.

"...And the waist." Yu Gan lowered her head and gently pulled up a corner of her clothes, revealing her slender waist.

Sure enough, there were two dark purple bruises on the left side of Yu Gan's lower abdomen.

Judging from its shape, it was probably poked with an electric baton when the security guards caught him throwing fire.

"The human body is so fragile," Baltimore murmured, looking at Yu Gan's injuries with heartache.

"Isn't everyone like this?" Yu Gan retorted.

“Yes, that’s how it is.” Baltimore cleaned and bandaged Yu Gan’s lower abdomen wound using the same method, then asked, “Anywhere else?”

"No, really no more this time." Yu Gan put down the clothes, pressed them against her body, and then answered very honestly.

Baltimore collected the used cotton swabs, put the remaining medicine back into the brown paper bag, and handed it to Yu Gan.

"Miss Yu Gan, please have a thorough medical check-up when you get home. If there are any injuries that you've missed, use this."

"Thank you, thank you..." Yu Gan accepted the Baltimore medication, hesitated, and finally forced a smile, saying with great shame, "Um... I'm so sorry... I'm supposed to be your tour guide, but I've been causing you so much trouble..."

"It's alright, these things weren't your fault anyway. It's just that you were unlucky, Miss Yu Gan." Xiao Bai smiled at Yu Gan. "More importantly, now that your injuries are bandaged, let's eat."

"Mm." Yu Gan nodded gratefully to Xiao Bai.

York sat in the chair, pouting, seemingly still harboring resentment towards the security guards.

York, why aren't you eating?

"I have no appetite..."

"How about I feed you a shrimp dumpling?" Xiaobai picked up a shrimp dumpling and handed it to York.

"Even if you do this, Miss, I still... oh, uh, uh..." York was only halfway through his sentence when Little White stuffed a whole shrimp dumpling into his mouth. York chewed, then his eyes suddenly lit up, "Oh! This! It's delicious!!!"

"Is it delicious?"

"Mmm! It's so delicious!"

"If it tastes good, eat more."

Xiaobai sat back down and looked at York with a smile.

Although it's called morning tea, by the time Xiaobai and the other three finished eating, it was almost noon.

After leaving the teahouse, York patted his satisfied belly and leaned against Baltimore.

"The food at this restaurant is really delicious! Hehe, we definitely have to come back again before we leave Peicheng!" York said with satisfaction.

"Okay."

"Next time I'll order an extra serving of shrimp dumplings!"

"Yes, either is fine."

As Xiaobai spoke to York, his gaze swept over Yu Gan, who was standing at the very back.

Yu Gan clutched a brown paper bag containing medicine in her hand, following closely behind the group.

After Xiaobai and she made eye contact, Yu Gan quickly spoke up.

“Miss Bai, there’s another place after dinner. Although it has nothing to do with Dean Shenhai, I think the scenery there is quite beautiful,” Yu Gan said to everyone. “Would you like to take a walk there and enjoy the view?”

“It’s nice to have some scenery to see,” Xiaobai said with a smile, looking at Yu Gan. “However, let’s skip it today.”

"Eh?"

"Miss Yu Gan, you should go home and rest today."

"why?"

"Just applying medicine isn't enough. If you want to treat these fresh bruises, you'll have to go home and apply a hot towel to them." Xiaobai pointed to Yu Gan's shoulder and lower abdomen.

"I, I'm fine, it's just a minor injury—" Yu Gan quickly said.

“Even a minor injury shouldn’t be ignored. Miss Yu Gan, your skin is so good, what if it leaves a scar?” Xiao Bai smiled, waved her hand, and continued, “Besides, you’re carrying the medicine Baltimore gave you, right? It’s so inconvenient.”

"Yes, but..."

"Don't worry, we have plenty of time. If we can't go today, we can go tomorrow."

“Miss Bai, you said the same thing yesterday…”

“Then let’s do it the day after tomorrow. Anyway, we haven’t even bought our tickets back yet.” After saying that, Xiaobai pointed to himself with his thumb and gave Yu Gan a confident smile. “Don’t worry, we’re not going to run away. We’ll stay in that hotel. You can contact us whenever you want.”

Since Xiaobai, as the employer, had already said all that, Yu Gan really couldn't force her to do anything more.

Yu Gan finally picked up the medicine in her arms and looked at Xiao Bai and the other two with a complicated expression.

"Well... alright then, I'll take my leave now." Yu Gan said, but still insisted, "But at least let me take you back to your hotel!"

"sure."

Yu Gan escorted Xiao Bai and the other two back to the hotel. In front of the hotel, Yu Gan bowed deeply to them before turning and walking into the bustling crowd, disappearing from their sight.

Baltimore and York waved in the direction Yu Gan had left, but halfway through their wave, they suddenly seemed to remember something and said to Xiaobai, "Oh dear, Admiral!"

"Ok?"

"It seems we forgot to ask Miss Yu Gan about Dean Shenhai."

"I haven't forgotten." Xiaobai turned around and looked at the two ship girls.

"Huh? Why didn't you ask just now, Admiral?" the ship girl asked, puzzled.

“Just by looking at it, you can tell this isn’t an interesting topic for Miss Yu Gan. She got injured because of us today, so it wouldn’t be good to keep asking her about it.” Xiao Bai said, raising her hand in front of everyone. “So I was thinking we should at least let Miss Yu Gan rest for a day, give her a chance to sort out her emotions, and then…”

"By the way?" The two ship girls looked at Xiaobai's hand.

Xiao Bai charged towards the crowd, a flash of white light appearing in his hand, and a small, snow-white carrier-based aircraft appeared.

With a gentle toss, the carrier-based aircraft silently took off amidst a cluster of blue flames, rising straight into the sky and quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.

Amidst the surrounding crowds and tourists coming and going, no one noticed the carrier-based aircraft that had just taken off; even if someone did, they would probably have regarded it as an ordinary flying model.

"While we're at it, let's have the carrier-based aircraft follow Miss Yu Gan and see where she lives, just in case. We can also check if there's any deep-sea aura around her," Xiao Bai said.

York and Baltimore turned their gazes away from the sky.

"Admiral, impressive skills," Baltimore said admiringly. "To be able to control carrier-based aircraft so silently, and to use them as patrol aircraft in daily life without affecting the main body's operations, only Sister Lexington in our naval base could do that... When did your carrier-based aircraft skills become so superb, Admiral?"

"It's alright," Xiaobai smiled.

Xiaobai certainly didn't have the skills to operate a carrier-based aircraft.

The carrier-based aircraft we just saw was controlled by the Deep Sea Will inside Xiaobai's body.

Return to the hotel.

The receptionist in the hotel lobby was slightly surprised to see Xiaobai and his two companions.

"Welcome back... You're done so early today?" The waiter bowed to Xiaobai and the other two, then asked curiously, "Where's Yu Gan?"

"Oh! What a hypocrite!" York made a face at the waiter, then grabbed Little White and Baltimore and hurried upstairs, leaving the waiter at the front desk with a wry smile.

Return to the room.

As soon as York entered the room, he took off his coat and jumped onto the double bed, rolling around comfortably on it.

"Wuhu—I'm home!"

“York, you’ll mess up the bed,” Baltimore warned York.

"It's alright, I'm already prepared to stay in bed until tomorrow anyway!" York said contentedly, picking up his pillow. "Tonight I'm sleeping on the other side of the Admiral's bed!"

"You... you're so disciplined at home, how come you suddenly become a useless bum as soon as you come to the Admiral's side..." Baltimore rubbed his forehead in distress, just about to say something, when he saw Xiaobai next to him typing away on his phone, and finally sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Admiral, are you chatting with someone?" York climbed up to Little White's side.

"Yeah, that's right." Xiaobai put down her phone. "I was just sending a message to Z31."