Chapter 43: The Crisis at the City Gate

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  Six or seven puppet soldiers ran over, pointing their guns at Huoyao, Daniu and Erniu. They surrounded them at the foot of the city wall. One of the puppet soldiers asked with a gloomy face, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

  Gunpowder eyes rolled, had already thought of how to answer. Afraid that the two brothers would say something wrong, Gunpowder hastily smiled and answered first: "I am a servant of Commander Li's father's family. A few days ago, the old master was killed by the guerrillas, I have nowhere to go, so I came to seek refuge with Commander Li."

  Gunpowder nodded at the two brothers again, and smiled at the fake army: "They are mountain hunters who often sent some game to the old man's house before. Every time I received the game, so I recognized them. Now that the old man has been killed, they have nowhere to sell their prey. So the brothers thought of going into the city to see if there were any buyers."

  The big cow and the second cow also smiled at the fake army, constantly cooperating with Huoyao's words, nodding vigorously. In their hearts, they admired and thought "Huoyao is really good at talking nonsense, telling lies one after another without blushing or skipping a beat. He's really impressive."

  These fake soldiers are used to bullying people all the time, and they just want to get some benefits from those honest and kind-hearted people. Now that Huoyao can answer fluently like a worldly person, they think he's not someone to be trifled with. When they hear that he's a servant of their commander's family, they naturally don't dare to bully him anymore. As for the two brothers who make a living by hunting, the fake soldiers think, "Since there are animals to sell, they must have some money to spend." The fake soldier who asked questions earlier circled around Huoyao and his friends a few times before stopping in front of the two brothers, laughing and asking, "You didn't bring any game, how can you find buyers?"

  The two brothers, although impulsive and reckless, are not stupid. They don't like to think before acting, but they're absolutely not foolish. The big bull is now following the meaning of the firework, smiling and responding to the fake soldier: "These past few days have been lucky, we've hunted two wild boars, each weighing 200-300 catties. We brothers are worried that if we enter the city, we won't be able to find a buyer, and will have to carry them all the way back. So we want to find a buyer first, then send the wild boars over."

  "Those two brothers are going to get married, they can't bear to eat the game themselves. They want to sell it and save some money so they can bring their brides home sooner."

  "Yes, yes." The two cows nodded in agreement.

  Huoyao thought the fake soldiers were investigating suspicious people entering the city. In order to get everyone out of there quickly, Huoyao wanted to prove Daniu brothers' hunter identity as soon as possible, so he said what he just said. However, he didn't know that the fake soldiers only wanted to make some money to indulge in drinking and feasting.

  The puppet soldiers heard Huo Yao's words and thought that the two brothers had saved a lot of money to marry their wives, so they must have a lot of money. The puppet soldiers couldn't help but secretly laugh and think, "Today we finally caught two fat sheep, we must extort them ruthlessly."

  The pseudo-army who was smiling and saying "hehe" just now suddenly looked gloomy and shouted at the two brothers of Big Cow: "They are guerrillas, catch them quickly." Two or three pseudo-soldiers continued to point their guns at the two brothers of Big Cow. The other pseudo-soldiers hung their guns on their shoulders and rushed up to catch the two brothers of Big Cow, and then slowly extorted them. But unexpectedly, the two brothers of Big Cow were both hot-tempered. Just now, they accompanied with a smile, said good words, and swallowed their anger for half a day. The two people in their hearts had been impatient for a long time. Now the two brothers of Big Cow saw that the pseudo-soldiers did not distinguish between right and wrong and wanted to catch people, how could they be willing to surrender? The two of them used force all over their bodies and threw the pseudo-soldiers who came to catch them to the ground.

  "Rustle, rustle......" A burst of gunfire sounds. The fake soldiers aiming at the two brothers, Dà Niú, have already loaded their bullets. The fake soldier who was knocked to the ground by the two brothers, ignoring the pain on his body, quickly got up and also loaded his gun, taking aim at the two. The fake soldier who had been talking didn't expect Dà Niú and his brother to dare resist, so he waved his hand to call over more fake soldiers while loudly cursing: "Damn it, you think you can revolt?"

  Only two or three fake soldiers were left to guard the city gate, temporarily not allowing anyone to enter or exit. The crowd that wanted to enter and exit the city gate had no choice but to stop in their tracks, all looking over here. The remaining fake soldiers all ran over, bringing gunpowder with them, surrounding everyone. The situation instantly became tense.

  The little devils on the city wall also noticed the tense atmosphere under the city wall. One of the little devils stuck his head out of the city wall and loudly asked the pseudo-army: "What's going on?"

  The fake soldiers couldn't understand what the little devil was saying and could only respond with "hey, hey".

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  The little devil saw the puppet soldiers answering irrelevantly and knew they didn't understand what he was saying. Seeing that there were many of them, the little devil also didn't bother to deal with them anymore and retreated to do his own thing. The old man who had previously contacted Fireworks came to the city gate with a pushcart. Perhaps fearing the stench in the wooden barrel would affect others or perhaps fearing it would affect the fish pond. The old man pulled the cart to the foot of the unmanned city wall before squatting down with the child to observe towards Fireworks' direction. However, no one knew that under the wooden barrel's isolation layer, the old man had quietly opened it.

  Swallow, Zuo Caiyun, Wang Xiaolong, and Wang Xiaohu, these few have not entered the city. They now see the tense situation, all quietly approaching the old man. Preparing to respond to Huoyao and others at any time.

  "Huh, aren't those Big Cow and Second Cow, the two brothers?" A voice suddenly rang out. From the city gate walked out a man about 1.7 meters tall, slightly chubby, with his hair slicked back and shining, and a smile all over his face - a fake military leader. He walked straight towards Big Cow and Second Cow, laughing and asking from afar: "How did you guys get into the city?"

  The fake soldiers saw him coming and all greeted him: "Li Pai Zhang."

  "Cough, cough..." The leader of the pseudo-army coughed a few times. He lightly flicked off the dust on his shoulder with his finger and ignored the crowd greeting him. But the clothes on his body were clearly brand new military uniforms.

  The sharp-eyed fake soldiers immediately discovered that the clothes he wore today were different from before. So some of the fake soldiers shouted: "Oh, Li has been promoted! We'll have to call him Commander Li in the future."

  The other pseudo-armies also knew the reason. They all shouted: "Captain Li wants to treat us!" "Yes, yes" The pseudo-military leader replied with a smile on his face. He walked up to Big Cow and Second Cow, and Big Cow said sarcastically: "Oh, it's Li Yang. You've been promoted quickly, haven't you? You must have done a lot of bad things recently."

  Li Yang let out a dry laugh and clearly felt the disdain from the big shot. He immediately lost his good mood and stopped paying attention to the big shots. He only said to the fake soldiers, "They are my childhood brothers, if it's not something major, then just let them go."

  Originally, they wanted to take some oil and water for use, but the other party was the brother of their superior. Now that the superior has spoken, how dare the fake soldiers not obey? So the fake soldier who spoke earlier waved his hand at Da Niu and others, saying: "Let's go, let's go, it's nothing."

  The big cow and the second cow didn't seem to want to thank Li Yang either. They directly walked towards the city gate. Huoyao also didn't know what their relationship was, but silently followed them.

  The puppet soldiers put away their guns and walked towards the city gate. One of the puppet soldiers suddenly asked Li Yang, "Li Lianzhang, last time you were promoted and treated your brothers to a drink, spending five big silver dollars. How much are you planning to spend this time?"

  Talking about promotion, Li Yang became excited again. Laughing and responding: "This time twenty big oceans, brothers will not get drunk and return."

  The pseudo-army cheered, and another pseudo-army joked: "Next time Li Lianzhang is promoted again, if he spends 50 big oceans, his brothers can go to Chunman Building."

  "Haha......" The pseudo-army burst out laughing. Li Yang suddenly came up with a sentence, "Rice should be eaten one mouthful at a time, the road should be walked one step at a time, and taking big strides can easily strain your eggs."

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