Elder brother's garrison

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"Missouri is here."

"Actually, the real world has its own advantages... such as being able to watch TV series, go online, buy new clothes, and so on."

“The Admiral is right.” Missouri paused for a moment upon hearing this, then gently patted Little White’s shoulder and smiled. “Then Missouri should stay in the real world a little longer.”

Chapter 3849 The best way is to make her shy.

After a night of "intimate therapy" in Missouri, Xiaobai did feel that her embarrassment had been greatly relieved.

At least from the second day onwards, Xiaobai did not skip his admiral duties due to excessive embarrassment, as he had expected.

……

The next morning, when Xiaobai arrived at the admiral's office, Lexington was sitting at her secretary ship's desk, full of energy, processing the day's work documents.

Upon seeing Xiaobai, Lexington's face initially showed a slight expression of surprise, but this surprise quickly transformed into a warm smile.

"Good morning, Xiaobai." Lexington put down the documents in her hand and greeted Xiaobai with a smile.

"Hmm... Lexington, good morning..." Little White murmured softly, looking at Lexington's smiling face thoughtfully.

"I didn't expect Xiaobai to come to work today," Lexington continued with a smile.

“Uh…” Xiaobai paused for a moment as she walked toward her desk, then gave Lexington a resentful and helpless look. “Lexington… you’re talking as if you knew I wasn’t coming to work today…”

“I’m not that powerful,” Lexington chuckled, resting her chin on her hand as she spoke to Xiaobai. “But… based on my understanding of you, Xiaobai, I thought you’d be resting at home today.”

"Lexington, you're not referring to that letter of apology, are you...?"

"uh-huh."

"So, it really was you who let it get leaked..." Xiaobai's gaze towards Lexington became even more resentful.

“Actually, it wasn’t really me who deliberately let it circulate…” Lexington smiled at Xiaobai. As she spoke, she suddenly reached into the drawer under the table and took out a gold-framed photo that had been carefully framed. “Actually, I just didn’t stop others from seeing that letter of self-criticism… Hmm, Xiaobai, look, before you came, Reputation and Counterattack had already returned the original manuscript.”

Lexington showed the picture frame in his hand to Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai looked at the photo frame in Lexington's hand—within the glass frame were pages and pages of original self-criticisms.

Lexington gently stroked the edge of the picture frame with her fingers, smiling and looking down with deep affection in her eyes.

“Little White, of all the gifts you’ve given me, this is my favorite, without a doubt,” Lexington said softly. “So… I can’t help but want to show this gift to other people. I can’t help it. You’ll understand, right?”

"……"noob.

Lexington had already said all that, so even though Xiaobai had a lot of complaints she wanted to make, she could only remain silent for the time being.

After rubbing his forehead and showing an expression that seemed to say "there's really nothing I can do about Lexington," Xiaobai could only slowly walk behind his admiral's desk and plop down in his chair.

"Speaking of which, how was your journey here this morning, Xiaobai?" Lexington asked with a smile, looking at Xiaobai.

"Actually... it's not bad..."

"How many ship girls do you encounter?"

"Quite a lot."

"They all seem to be talking about this."

“That’s right…” Xiaobai nodded, rubbing his forehead with deep feeling.

Even though Missouri had greatly alleviated Xiaobai's embarrassment last night, the embarrassment in Xiaobai's heart was far from gone; he had only become slightly more able to bear it. This morning, ever since he got up, not only on his way to the Admiral's office, but even at his own home, when Xiaobai went downstairs for breakfast, the Deep Sea Deans all jokingly called him "the great poet" or "Shakespeare."

The Deans of the Deep Sea Academy certainly didn't mean any harm. They hadn't actually read Xiaobai's self-criticism. Being naturally neutral and indifferent, they just thought it was funny to call Xiaobai that.

Faced with such treatment, Xiaobai could only scratch his head and smile wryly.

Lexington stood up from her seat, holding the photo frame, and stretched out her arms, gesturing with the frame against the wall.

"Xiaobai, where do you think this picture frame would be best hung?" Lexington looked at it for a while, then turned to Xiaobai and asked.

"Can't I just hang it at home...?" Xiaobai asked.

“Hmm… I did think about that, but actually I spend more time in the office than at home,” Lexington said to Whitey. “I want to see this as much as possible, so it’s better to keep it in the office.”

"Then... let's do it this way." Xiaobai pointed to a spot by the window that was somewhat secluded for him, but within easy reach for Lexington.

"This side...hmm, looks pretty good too."

Lexington looked in the direction Little White was pointing, smiled slightly, and nodded in agreement.

Xiao Bai's letter of self-criticism was ultimately framed and left forever in the admiral's office.

Throughout the rest of the day, whenever Lexington felt slightly tired while working on documents, she would tap her fingers lightly, glance at the photo frame hanging on the wall beside her, and then silently laugh to herself.

……

"Xiao Bai, how come I never realized you had such a talent for literature before?"

It was lunchtime, and during the lunch break, Lexington, who was having lunch with Xiaobai, suddenly said to Xiaobai.

"Huh? Who? Me?"

Xiao Bai pointed at himself with the tip of his chopsticks, looking completely bewildered.

"Yes, don't you know how vivid and moving your writing is?" Lexington asked with a smile.

"Uh... I'm not quite sure about that..." Xiaobai scratched his head. "It's probably just a coincidence... but my vocabulary should be pretty good..."

"In that case..." Lexington put down her cutlery and thought for a moment, "Little White, have you ever thought about continuing to write thank-you letters to the other ship girls in the naval base?"

"Huh? Again?"

"I was just offering a small suggestion," Lexington chuckled, then casually added, "Well... after all, if you find it too embarrassing to write a thank-you note that's circulated among everyone in the naval base... just keep writing more thank-you notes, and then the ship girls you're thanking will be the ones who'll feel embarrassed..."

Lexington's voice was light and airy. After saying that, she continued to use her chopsticks to pick up a meatball, put it in her mouth, and chew.

However, Xiaobai's eating suddenly stopped after Lexington said those words.

"...Hmm? As long as we keep writing, the other ship girls will be the ones who get embarrassed..." Shiro murmured Lexington's words softly. She put down her cutlery and looked at Lexington with some uncertainty. "So...that's how it works?"

“I was just mentioning it casually,” Lexington nodded.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai rested her chin on her hand and fell into deep thought. She had clearly taken Lexington's words to heart.

Should I write thank-you letters to the other ship girls in the naval base...?

Although Xiaobai still doesn't think his writing will be of particularly high quality... as an admiral, Xiaobai has indeed memorized the life stories of many ship girls in the naval base. If he really wanted to write, he could at least come up with a rough outline of the thank-you letters from hundreds of ship girls in an instant.

However, if it were written like this, it wouldn't be a thank-you letter, but rather a commentary-style piece like "praising the life of a certain ship girl."

Is this... possible?

Thinking of this, Xiaobai secretly glanced at Lexington.

Lexington was eating lunch with a smile on her face, her expression carefree and cheerful, as if the words she had just spoken had not come from her mouth at all.

But Xiaobai generally trusts Lexington's words.

Xiao Bai looked away and glanced at his desk.

Anyway, I've finished my work for today, so I'll either go for a walk to find ship girls or play on my phone at my desk...

Xiao Bai silently put down his cutlery, got up and went to his desk. He picked up a pen, thought for a while, and then began to write quickly on the neat manuscript paper.

"Huh? What are you doing, Xiaobai?"

"I'm writing a thank-you letter... no, it should be a letter of critical comment from the Admiral."

"So quickly, have you already decided who to write to next?"

"Hmm... I checked the library's borrowing list..."

"You can write it after you finish eating, okay?"

"I'm full, let me write for a while first..."

As Xiao Bai spoke, the pen in his hand moved across the manuscript paper with incredible speed and grace, as if it were dancing.

As Lexington listened to the sound of Xiaobai writing, she smiled, lowered her head, and dipped her chopsticks into Xiaobai's rice bowl, picking up the last mouthful of rice before naturally putting it into her own mouth.

……

The time soon came to afternoon.

The naval base's library remains bustling with people today.

Since Xiaobai's thank-you letter spread throughout the library yesterday, quite a few ship girls from the naval base have come to hear about it. In addition, there were only two copies of the apology letter, so most of the ship girls who rushed to the library did not have time to carefully read the contents of the apology letter before they had to pass it on to the next impatient ship girl.

After the tasting session ended, Counterattack did not leave the letter of apology in the library, but instead took the original and a copy of the letter back to the Admiral's office building.

Despite her counterattack stating that this was merely a protective measure for the admiral's work, and that she would still come to the library tomorrow to make more copies of the admiral's letter of apology for the ship girls to read, the ship girls who were looking forward to it were still very disappointed.

In other words... the ship girls haven't had enough.

Today, the front desk area of ​​the library was crowded with people, most of whom were ship girls who had visited the library yesterday. Everyone was waiting for the figure of the counterattack to reappear in the library.

"Hey? Aren't these Quincy and New Orleans? You're here today too."

"Are you all here today to borrow the admiral's self-criticism?"

"Haha, didn't get enough yesterday, did you?"

Among the crowd, the ship girls spotted a figure in green and blue, and they greeted each other.

These greetings were interspersed with some joking laughter.

"OvO!"

"Hello everyone." New Orleans waved to her ship girl companions, smiled a little shyly, then clasped her hands in front of her chest and said sincerely, "Yes, after reading it yesterday, I was so excited that I tossed and turned in my dorm for a long time and couldn't sleep. I really wanted to come here and read it again. It's just a pity that after that, the library was suddenly packed with people... I couldn't borrow that letter of self-criticism again at all..."

"So that's why you came to the library so early the next day to queue up?"

“Yes.” New Orleans nodded.

"So Quincy is one too?" Everyone looked at Quincy.

"Kun!" Quincy nodded quickly, raising his arm and waving it in the air.

The ship girls weren't surprised by this... after all, most of the ship girls present had come to the library to wait because they wanted to see the thank-you letter again.

"Sigh... why hasn't the counterattack come yet?"

"I'm prepared to copy the admiral's letter of thanks back home and study it carefully."

"Too many monks and not enough porridge..."

The ship girls chatted in the library's front desk area, looking expectantly at the library entrance.

Chapter 3850 A Love Letter to New Orleans

Today's counterattack came particularly late.

The ship girls inside the library waited until the afternoon before the figures who would launch a counterattack finally appeared outside the library.

Dressed in a maid outfit, carrying a lightweight black briefcase, with round, heterochromatic eyes and panting heavily, she jogged towards the library from the road in the distance.

"Ah! Counterattack!"

"Counterattack, little sister, you've finally arrived!"

"Sister, you didn't say yesterday you'd be coming this late today!"

As soon as the ship girls saw the counterattack, they immediately called out to her.

Seeing the huge crowd inside the library, Counterattack from afar made her eyes flash with embarrassment. When she reached the library entrance, she immediately bowed to the ship girls while holding her briefcase.

"I'm so sorry, ladies, I had some urgent work to do today, so I'm a little late..."

"Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's good that you're here, counterattack sister, come in quickly!"

Before she could finish her retort, several snow-white arms reached out from inside the library and pulled her inside.

She suddenly felt herself moving through the crowd. She hadn't walked much, but she was escorted all the way to the library's front desk.

"Counterattack, sister! Let's get straight to the point. We're all here to continue borrowing the Admiral's letter of thanks!"

"Time is running out, let's hurry!"

After the ship girls brought the counterattack to the forefront, they immediately spoke excitedly.

"Ladies, ladies, please don't rush!" Counterattack stood behind the front desk, placing the briefcase she was carrying on it in full view of everyone. Then, she raised her hands to the ship girls and said, "I did bring the Admiral's letter of thanks, but before you borrow it, please let Counterattack say a few words..."

After he finished speaking, the noisy surroundings immediately quieted down.

The ship girls watched the counterattack with bated breath, waiting for her words.

Under the watchful eyes of the ship girls, Counterattack opened the briefcase in her hand, and then took out a series of neatly bound documents from it.