Chapter 619: Initial Suspicion (5)
Chapter 619: Chapter 619: Initial Suspicion (5)
Fiona Wright and Vera Xavier had gone through the ordeal with Susan Caldwell’s slander together the day before. So, even though they had known each other for less than three days, Fiona already considered Vera a good friend.
She was also extremely confident in Vera’s character, which was why she was so anxious now.
Fiona Wright looked at her worriedly. "That may be true, but..."
"It’s alright." Vera Xavier’s heart warmed at Fiona Wright’s worried gaze. She smiled. "This is really just a minor issue. Trust me, I have a way to handle it."
Fiona Wright recalled Vera’s composure when she dealt with Susan Caldwell the day before, and how decisive she’d been when she fought back. Although Fiona was still worried, she didn’t press the issue.
’Worst-case scenario,’ she thought, ’I’ll just step forward and prove Vera’s innocence myself.’
The two of them leisurely fetched some water. Just as they finished drinking it, the break was over. Vera hadn’t had time to teach Laura White the stretching method.
Laura White frowned, glancing from Vera Xavier to Fiona Wright. She felt a little resentful. Her mind wandered again, and once more, the instructor singled her out for a scolding.
This time, the instructor wasn’t as polite as the last. He scolded her directly, "You keep making mistakes. If you mess up again today, you’re going to run ten laps!"
Laura White’s face instantly flushed crimson, but she didn’t have the nerve to talk back to the instructor. For the remainder of the session, she forced herself to focus on training, not daring to let her mind wander to other things.
When the training session finally ended, the instructor yelled, "Dismissed!" Vera Xavier stepped forward and announced loudly, "I have a routine for stretching and relaxing your muscles. If any of you want to join in, you can do it with me."
’She couldn’t force anyone,’ she thought. ’But since fate had put them all in the same training squad, and it was something they should all be doing anyway, she might as well offer and give everyone a heads-up.’
The girls exchanged glances. A few stayed behind, while the majority left.
Vera Xavier wasn’t bothered. With perfect composure, she led the group through the stretches and muscle relaxation exercises. She knew that after a few days of this, their muscles would adapt to the training intensity and the soreness would go away.
Besides, for girls, stretching after a workout helps maintain a slender figure and creates more defined, perfect muscle tone.
The instructor was intrigued by Vera Xavier’s words. He had initially just glanced over, ’thinking what kind of effective stretching and muscle relaxation routine could a young girl possibly know?’
Back when he was a rookie, no one had taught them how to stretch or relax their muscles. The point was to make them suffer a little, a way of breaking them in and establishing authority. That’s why they didn’t teach these techniques to new recruits either.
But as he watched them from the sidelines, he found himself intrigued after just a few movements. The routine wasn’t complex, yet it seemed even better than the muscle relaxation techniques they used in the military.
’Heh, this girl is pretty interesting!’
When Vera Xavier and the others finished the routine, the instructor walked over and asked her, "Where did you learn this routine?"
"I figured it out myself," Vera Xavier said with a smile.
A qualified practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine must understand the flow of every meridian in the human body. And as a provincial top scholar of the new-century college entrance exams, she had naturally excelled in biology, knowing the location of every muscle and bone.