Chapter 2 (11)

  "No matter whether you are a cadre or a soldier, since you have come to my cooking team, you must obey the leadership of the cooking team."

  Go up a bit and point at Peng Jiabao: "You let us Lian Chang obey your leadership, is your head squeezed by the door?"

  Peng Jiabao glared at Gao Yidian and said, "He is your platoon leader, not my platoon leader. In my eyes, you are all my cooks. The tasks assigned to you, whether the leaders do them or not, I don't care. As long as you can get the job done well and on time, that's all that matters."

  Looking at the whole army, I estimate that no unit's cadres have ever been so humiliated. But the Wild Wolf Battalion's soldiers are just so powerful. A fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken, if you want to blame someone, you can only blame the second company itself for being incompetent, ending up in this situation.

  Xiao Hei said to Peng Jia Bao: "We can work, but we haven't had a full meal for several days and nights. Please find us something to eat."

  "Now is not the time for dinner, wait until the company finishes eating, naturally there will be food for you, let's work first. You chop this pile of cabbage and these potatoes also need to be peeled. I'll give you half an hour, then I'll come to inspect."

  "Stop right there, Peng Jiabao," he said. "If you don't give us food, how can we have the strength to work? Even prisoners of war are treated better than this."

  Peng Jiabao sneered and said, "No one invited you here. If you like being a prisoner, then be my guest. You're all captives anyway, leaving a few of you behind is useless."

  Pointing at Peng Jiabao's face with a raised finger, "You little brat, say that again."

  Peng Jiabao was not willing to show weakness, puffed out his chest and provocatively said: "I'll say it again, what can you do to me? If you have the ability, why don't you go find Lan Jun for a one-on-one fight? If you're not going to do this, then get lost."

  He wanted to rush up and beat him, but was held back by Xiao Hei.

  Liu Yibao rushed over with a few people and before he arrived, he was already shouting: "What's going on? What are you quarreling about?"

  Peng Jiabao, the rascal, spoke out first: "I told them to do some work, but they refused and shouted at me, saying they wanted to beat me up. Our cooking squad is too small, we can't afford to feed these few masters, let them leave."

  Liu Yibao looked at Xiaohuo with a slanted gaze, "Is this true? Wang Lianchang, isn't this not good?"

  Xiao Hei didn't say a word, picked up the kitchen knife and chopped down at the bok choy in the pot with one swift motion. All that could be heard was a "clang" as the knife sliced through the bok choy and struck the bottom of the pot.

  This action startled everyone.

  Everyone was stunned, and at a loss for what to do. But then they saw Xiao Hei holding a kitchen knife, lightly chopping the cabbage. Glaring at Liu Yibao with a raised eyebrow, he walked over and started peeling potatoes.

  Director Wang Youcai pulled Liu Yibao aside and whispered: "Old Liu, we are from the same regiment, isn't this a bit too much?"

  "We didn't do anything, don't worry about it, just a joke." Liu Yibao said and walked away humming a tune.

  Wang Youcai was formerly a deputy battalion commander of a certain regiment and became a company political instructor after being transferred to the regular army.

  Wang Youcai had a nickname, called Little Honeybee. This nickname has a story behind it. At that time, the Wild Wolf Regiment hadn't yet quit drinking, and management wasn't as strict as it is now. Cadres would often run to village taverns to drink, causing no small amount of trouble.

  After Wan Ba Tian became the leader of the gang, he made a firm decision and ordered the Wild Wolf Squad to abstain from alcohol.

  One evening, Wan Batian led a large team of military personnel to form an inspection team, going to the village to catch cadres who sneaked out to drink. When they arrived at a small grocery store, Wang Youcai and several other cadres were in the middle of a drinking game: "A little bee flies into a flower cluster", several cadres heard the noise outside and ran away on foot.

  Wang Youcai got drunk and instead of running away, he said to Wan Baotian who came in: "A little bee flies into a flower cluster..."

  Wan Ba Tian's new official took office, and the first fire he lit was to punish these drinkers. Wang Youcai made a self-criticism at the plenary meeting of the entire regiment, and his story about Little Honeybee became widely known. From then on, the nickname "Little Honeybee" also opened up to others.

  Wang Youcai was at the same level as Liu Yibiao and were both company commanders, but he had less seniority than Liu Yibiao and didn't have much say in what happened.