Chapter Eighteen: Changing Names and Gunpowder
It was past five in the morning, and Huoyao Ge had been tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep. These days, Yanzi had been keeping watch by his side, like a housekeeper who wouldn't let him get out of bed. Although Huoyao Ge's waist and back were already sore from sleeping too much, he didn't have the heart to disturb Yanzi, who was now fast asleep on the table. After all, Yanzi really had been exhausted these past few days.
"Brother, you're awake. Are you feeling better today?" Swallow rubbed his eyes, he was still woken up by Firework Brother.
"Oh, much better. Why don't you sleep a bit more?" Huoyao Ge shook his injured arm. His wound had already scabbed over and was no longer swollen. It just wasn't very flexible yet. He was still grateful for Yanzi's careful care these past few days.
"You must be hungry, I'll go get you something to eat." said Swallow, and then she was about to head out.
"Hold on" Fireworks brother stopped Swallow, smiling and pleading: "Swallow, will you go out with me for a walk? If we keep sleeping like this, we'll really become useless people."
"Oh" replied Swallow softly, since she had promised Gunpowder Brother today.
"Swallow, I knew you'd be the best." Gunpowder Brother was overjoyed. Although he didn't need Swallow's agreement at all, he still did it that way. Just like how Swallow always treated Gunpowder Brother with a condescending attitude towards children. Everything was just so natural.
It's always darkest before dawn. At the request of Huo Yao, Yan Zi took him to the Long Dong entrance behind the camp. Now it was pitch black and nothing could be seen. According to Liu Tao's words, this camp had no natural danger to defend against, and the guerrilla team was able to survive until now thanks to this Long Dong. It turned out that this mountain was a hollow mountain, with many exits inside the Long Dong. Of course, for those who were not familiar with the Long Dong, they might have entered but never exited. This reminded Huo Yao of his favorite movie "Tunnel Warfare", so he had to ask Yan Zi to take him to see it.
After the sky brightened, Firework Brother was eager to enter the Dragon Cave. Swallow dead refused to let him go, saying there were not enough torches and no familiar people to lead the way, and once inside, they would not be able to come out. Firework Brother was not in a hurry, anyway, there would be plenty of opportunities later.
After wandering around, Huoyao Ge and Yanzi walked on the road back to the camp. The monkey suddenly jumped down from a tree and shouted: "Huoyao, Yanzi, you're back so soon! What did you do just now?"
Since the guerrilla fighters learned from Swallow that Gunpowder Brother and Swallow killed a dozen devils and puppet soldiers in one day, Gunpowder Brother alone cheated Li Youcai and the devils out of 100 bags of grain. The guerrilla fighters admired Gunpowder Brother so much that they would often run to him to listen to his boasting, and in just a few days they had become close friends with him.
The swallow was startled by the monkey and said to him in a bad tone: "Why tell you, you didn't do your job well, why does a little kid care so much?"
"Let's just take a walk."
The monkey touched the machine gun on his shoulder and smiled wickedly: "You don't need to say it, I already know, you can't cheat me."
The swallow angrily chased and beat the monkey. Huoyao Ge arrived at this time with a nonchalant expression, he was already used to the strange eyes of these people when they saw him and Yanzi together.
Just back to the hut. Zuo Caiyun brought in two bowls of porridge and said, "Huoyao, Yanzhi, come have breakfast."
The two of them had only eaten a few mouthfuls when Liu Tao and Old Li came in again. From afar, Old Li called out: "Huoyao, you're in good spirits today, eh? You can get out of bed now."
Liu Tao also asked: "Hu Yao, how are you feeling today?"
Huo Yao Ge swung his arm and smiled as he replied: "It's nothing, you see."
"Huh?" Firework Brother suddenly felt something was off, today these people were acting strange, they all dropped the "Brother" from his name. Firework Brother thought for a moment, it seemed that starting from Monkey, everyone he met today only called him Firework. Firework Brother looked at Swallow and asked: "Why did they change my name?"
The swallow shook its head, also didn't know the reason.
Zuo Caiyun smiled secretly and quietly walked out of the house.
Huoyao Ge looked at Liu Tao and Old Li again. Liu Tao said seriously: "Huoyao Ge, this name is not your real name, is it?"
Huo Yao's brother also nodded without concealing anything.
Liu Tao continued: "Maybe you have your own difficulties and can't say your real name. We won't force you to say it out, because we all believe you're a good Chinese."
"Does this have anything to do with you guys calling me Fireworks?"
Liu Tao said seriously: "Comrade Zuo Caiyun said that you added a 'ge' character after your name, which shows serious bureaucratic ideology and dangerous personal heroism. This is very serious. So we changed your name, do you have any objections, Huo Yao?"
Huoyao Ge almost spat out the food he had just eaten when he heard Liu Tao's words. He thought that having this name would make him sound more powerful since everyone called him "Ge". Unexpectedly, Zuo Caiyun came up with a whole bunch of reasons. Huoyao Ge hastily said: "No objection, no objection. The name Huoyao is pretty good too. From now on, I'll just be called Huoyao."
Liu Tao burst out laughing and said: "Let Fireworks Brother recover from his injuries, we'll go take care of something else."
Gunpowder sent off the two people with laughter.
After Liu Tao and Old Li went through the motions of checking on Huo Yao's injuries, they left. Zuo Caiyun just walked into the house, looking embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "I was just joking with them, I didn't think they would take it seriously."
"It's okay, it's okay. The name 'Fireworks' is pretty good." Fireworks was actually quite pleased in his heart. If he could make the beauty happy, then whatever she called him would be fine.
Zuo Caiyun smiled and said: "I knew you were a reasonable person."
Gunpowder, Swallow and Zuo Caiyun were chatting happily when Monkey led a few people in. Monkey said: "Gunpowder, they are looking for you."
Gunpowder looked at a few people and found them somewhat familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen them before. Swallow hastily told Gunpowder: "They are hunters from our village, often in the mountains, so you may not know them. Those two are twins, named Wang Xiaolong and Wang Xiaohu. These two are also brothers, named Big Cow and Second Cow."
"Gunpowder asked: 'What can I do for you?'"
Big Brother Niu is tall and sturdy, a roughneck who acts before thinking. Wang Xiaolong, on the other hand, looks refined but gives off an aura of danger.
The big fellow said in a loud and rough voice: "Our dad says you're all right, he told us to come and fight the devils with you."
"Gunpowder said: 'I'm all coming to join the guerrilla team, how can I bring you to fight the devils? Can't you just join the guerrilla team and fight the devils yourselves?'"
Seeing that Firework didn't respond, Big Cow said to the others: "He doesn't respond, anyway, just looking at him, he can't even beat me. He definitely doesn't have any skills."
The firecracker said with great dissatisfaction: "Fighting devils is not about comparing strength. You have great strength, can you alone drive the little devils out of China?"
The big cow thought for a moment and asked very honestly: "Are you very powerful?"
"Would your father have sent you to find me if I wasn't formidable?" Huo Yao laughed.
"Alright, then you lead us to fight against the devils." Big Cow thought it made sense.
The firecracker said solemnly: "If you do what I say, I'll take you to fight the devils."
The big cow said: "What should we do then."
"First run twenty laps around the camp."
Did not think that several people really went. The fireworks are now in a great mood.
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