Chapter 59: Rest and Reorganization

  "Boss." "Boss, you stay in the store." It was dawn, and Liu He thought that his team members should get some rest. Also, they needed to find a place to make dry rations.

  "Boss, your kitchen is too small." "It's huge, our store not only provides accommodation but also food, if the kitchen is not big enough, how can we keep going?"

  "Alright, here are fifty silver dollars. We'll not only take over your inn but also your kitchen. You can have your staff take a break. We'll be staying here for several days."

  There's no need to explain, Liu He directly let him give his partner a holiday. Liu He was also afraid that the team members would accidentally reveal their hometown, so it's better for outsiders to leave this store.

  The kitchen was naturally used for the logistics team to make dry food, and after Liu He and his group settled in, the butchers in this city had a lot of work to do. The logistics quickly ordered several pigs and asked them to cut the pork into strips, marinate it with salt, and when the pork arrived at the inn, the logistics quickly put the pork in the pot to cook, then stir-fry the pork until it was half dry, which made it easier for the team members to carry.

  "Captain Liu, you're really not coming back with us?" "We're not going back, Captain Zhang. We'll meet again if fate allows it. Maybe we'll be transferred soon. There are very few devils left in this place. You must be careful in the future, beware of the devils taking revenge on you."

  Indeed, Zhang Paichang and his men entered the city in broad daylight with great fanfare, and most of the grain, even ammunition and weapons were taken away by them. When the devils came, as long as they made some inquiries, they would know who had taken away their weapons and food.

  Liu He and his men only left behind a portion of the needed bullets, most of the silver coins, ten mules, some canned goods, and nothing else. They also wanted to take these away, but with limited personnel, if they were to march with a large amount of supplies, it would be easy for the devils to find them, so they had no choice but to reluctantly give up.

  Zhang Paichang, after slowly inquiring, finally found out that Liu He and the others were just a group of villagers and long workers from a village who formed a spontaneous team to fight against the devils. This made him consider recruiting them into his team, as he had taken a liking to their marksmanship. At first, several old soldiers told him that Liu He was the leader of this team, where every member was a godly marksman. Zhang Paichang didn't believe it at first, but after talking with the team members, he confirmed it - not one bullet was wasted among them, and if they weren't godly marksmen, then nothing could be said about it.

  When Zhang Pai Chang asked Liu He to join his team, Liu He only made two requests, and Zhang Pai Chang dispelled his confidence in recruiting them.

  First, Liu He needed complete mobility, that is to say, he had to decide at any time which team of devils to deal with. This was a decision-making power that not even a company commander necessarily had, let alone him being just a small platoon leader. However, Zhang Platoon Leader thought wrongly about this. Later, after the Eighth Route Army established its guerrilla forces behind enemy lines, they really did fight separately, which is also known as the most famous "sparrow tactic", that is, to peck at the devils in a scattered and fragmented way.

  The second requirement is that each team member must have a meat supply of half a catty to one catty per day, only in this way can the physical strength of these team members be guaranteed, and they can rush to the ambush point at the fastest speed, and still maintain a stationary state for a long time. You know, sometimes ambushes require motionless waiting for several hours. The platoon leader couldn't agree with that either. They can't even guarantee their own food supply now, let alone meat, just ordinary grain can't be guaranteed.

  Zhang Pai Chang had no choice but to leave reluctantly.

  "Wait a minute, Zhang." Liu He suddenly remembered something. "What's up, Captain Liu? Have you figured it out?" Captain Zhang heard Liu He's call and paused, wondering if Liu He had finally come around and was going to join them.

  "Director Zhang, shouldn't you have received the transfer order for this county town?" It turned out to be this matter. Director Zhang was very disappointed, "I need to report this upwards, I think they will arrange someone to come down."

  "Director Zhang, I think while you report to your superiors, you should also take over this county town and first do a good job of pacifying the people." Although Liu He hadn't done this kind of work before, he had watched plenty of anti-Japanese war movies. Every time the Eighth Route Army arrived at a new place, they would always follow up with propaganda work. However, it's true that Director Zhang's rank was too low; if there were a political instructor in their unit, this work wouldn't need to be mentioned and would be done well automatically.

  However, Zhang Paichang still took his men and left in the end. He first had to return to Song Village to make a good handover, and the personnel who reported to their superiors were also dispatched. Whatever the superiors said, he would do it well.

  "Captain, captain, look what I found." "Ah, Little Li, what did you find? You're being so mysterious." "Captain, this is the freshest wild vegetable from outside the city that I found. This is your favorite, isn't it?"

  Little Li from the logistics team pulled out a handful of wild vegetables from behind his back. "Hey, boss, do you have any fermented bean paste here?" Liu He's appetite was suddenly stimulated by the sight of the wild vegetables, and he only then remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

  "Boss, you won't eat this, will you? This is inedible. If people eat too much of it, their faces will swell." The boss was puzzled, wondering why these people would eat such a thing. This wild vegetable wasn't even liked by pigs.

  But how could he understand the thoughts of those who eat too much meat? Liu He, in later generations, would eat whatever wild vegetables there were. Wild vegetables are pure green and pollution-free food. Every spring, people from both cities and countryside go to the mountains to pick and eat wild vegetables. Swollen face, that's probably due to insufficient nutrition.

  "Little Li, where did you dig up these wild vegetables? Quickly take us there so we can also dig some." For a moment, seeing the green team members' mouths watering, anyone who had eaten dried meat for an entire winter would be anxious at the sight of green.

  "This is really beyond my comprehension, looking at them sending pig after pig into the kitchen, don't they eat enough, yet they still want to eat these wild vegetables that even pigs don't like." The boss shook his head in puzzlement as he spoke, turned around and took out a jar of homemade sauce from a cabinet.

  "Boss, this is a big sauce I brewed myself, do you think it's suitable?"

  "Ah, good stuff, this is suitable, really suitable. How much does this jar cost?" It's really suitable, this old boss runs an inn and also opens a restaurant, so the big sauce is naturally made very well, it's much better than what Liu He and others bought from the market. You know, when the team members who go to dig wild vegetables come back, this jar of big sauce will be eaten up.