Chapter Thirty-Three: Beyond Heaven Lies Another Heaven

  The cavalry lost, and they lost in their own specialty.

  With his fluent Chinese and rich knowledge of China, he took over from Mizo and became the leader of the Crow Corps, which was painstakingly operated by Tōyama Kanken, the head of the Fentian Special Affairs Bureau.

  Although this is related to Mei Zhi's bed recommendation, because she doesn't want her hard work and sweat to go down the drain. However, Tofu isn't that kind of person who would be swayed by a gentle breeze in his ear. When Chuan Qi first followed Ban Jian to attend his private wine party for the first time, that fluent Chinese had already left a deep impression on Tofu.

  To subdue this team, the new officer of the Sichuan cavalry used three tricks: The first trick exposed the scars and subdued Gong Qi; The second trick tried to use his own expertise to subdue Huo Ya, that arrogant and unruly guy, but unexpectedly the opponent was more skilled in this aspect and ruthlessly defeated him.

  When betting with Huo Ya, Chuan Qi never thought he would lose to this kid. Moreover, he had conducted in-depth investigations and found that not a single person on the Crow team had a Chinese language level that satisfied him. Therefore, incorporating Chinese training into his priorities could be said to serve both public and private interests, killing two birds with one stone, achieving multiple goals at once.

  Although there were special regulations for the selection criteria when forming this special forces, those who understood Chinese were given priority, but the overall level of Chinese proficiency in the entire Crow Team was uneven and not optimistic. Especially Fire Crow, while others were learning Chinese with great effort, he would either look up at the sky or bend down to catch ants on the grass, clearly a hopeless case.

  This situation was exactly what the cavalry had been unable to achieve, and he thought silently in his heart, why not aim at the opponent's weakness and give it a fatal blow, subjugating them?

  "Did you understand everything, Huo Yanluo?!" Chuanqi roared.

  The black crow swooped down by the river, flipped its white eyes, let out a yawn and said with extreme impatience: "Got it...understood."

  "Yo Xi Yo Xi." Chuan Qi sneered: "Then you pass on the classics and treasures to everyone, how are you selflessly transmitting them?"

  "What's your basis?" Huo Ya sneered, with a look of wanting to die together with Chuan Qi like a rogue.

  "What's your basis?" The cavalryman glared at him with no kindness in his eyes, saying: "Let alone obeying orders and listening to commands, you should also consider your own safety."

  "Are you kidding me? What does learning Chinese have to do with safety?"

  "You're a special agent, according to the needs of your mission, you might change your identity in an instant, becoming a Chinese merchant or something else. Do Chinese people still need a translator?"

  "I'm just not going to learn, what can you do about it?" The flames of anger ignited and burned fiercely, scorching the cavalry.

  Hong Ya saw Huo Yan's arrogance and stepped forward to stop him, demanding that he apologize to the cavalry.

  "As long as you learn Chinese, there's no such thing as right or wrong." Chuan Qi's face remained calm as he said, "Now the whole team will recite a Tang poem. Fire Crow, you must learn it within three days, otherwise, you'll be locked up."

  "Bright moonlight in front of bed,"

  It is likely frost on the tiles.

  Raising one's head to gaze at the bright moon

  "Bowing head thinking of hometown."

  Kawara recited the entire first verse of "Quiet Night Thoughts", then started again from the beginning, asking Hirotaka to learn one sentence at a time. But this guy didn't, and in one breath gave Kawara 4 sentences in the native Japanese language:

  "Pre-war jitters,"

  Like a sheep seeing a wolf.

  Looking up for protection and blessings

  "Bowing his head and entering the temple."

  At that time, the river knight only thought of Huo Lian from a strange perspective and immediately ordered Hong Ya to shut him down. He didn't think much about it, but in fact, when Huo Lian imitated "Quiet Night Thoughts", he touched on China's Buddhist culture, proving that he was not completely ignorant of this country.

  Unexpectedly, Huo Lian's knowledge of Chinese learning surpassed his own, and he could even apply the principles of Yi studies that he himself didn't understand. This is what they mean by "beyond the mountains there are more mountains, beyond the sky there is more sky".

  What made Chuanqi even more terrified was that Huo Lian not only knew "Water and Fire are both Auspicious", but also accurately predicted the matter of connecting the sharp edge to correct the telegram.

  "Attention, Fire Crow and Water Crow." Although the cavalry officer lowered his head in defeat, he was still able to raise his head and give orders: "Now, our unit has received a sharp order from headquarters. I command you two to disguise yourselves immediately and set out to carry out a top-level protection mission."

  The water crow and fire crow nodded one after another: "Hey!" "Hey!"

  "Alright, alright!" The river cavalry praised the two, then deployed in an orderly manner: "To ensure the smooth completion of the mission, this team will be called the 'Golden Partner' and will be responsible for commanding the operation codenamed 'Operation Golden', led by Huo Ya."

  The water crow nodded: "Hey!

  Huā yā shook his head and said: "This time, the operation must be fully responsible for by Shuǐ yā."

  Chuanqi Kou said with a sincere tone: "Huaya's knowledge is vast and profound, his wit is beyond ordinary people, and his skills are exceptional. Don't decline the offer."

  Huā yā yǔ chū jīng rén dào: "Wǒ huǒ yā dào xiǎng guò guò guān zhēng, bùguò, ràng shuǐ yā quán quán zé rèn cǐ cì xíng dòng, shì shàng fēng zài diàn wén lǐ zhǐ míng dào xìng de."

  Chuan Qi felt that Huo Ya was becoming more and more outrageous, so he stared at him with his eyes, watching to see how much further he would go.

  The black crow said bluntly: "As the leader of the Crow team, you can't be brainless. Sometimes, you have to think more about the meaning of the upper edge."

  Although Hei Feng was ridiculed to the point of having no place to hide, seeing Huo Lian's serious expression, he feared that he himself had not thoroughly understood the profound meaning of "water and fire complementing each other", so he could only swallow his pride and say: "I'm willing to hear your wise words."

  "It's not worth mentioning." Huo Ya shifted his gaze from Chuan Qi to Shui Ya's puffed-out chest and said, "The four words 'water and fire both succeed' have water in front and fire behind. Even a fool can understand it literally. This time, the operation should be fully responsible for Shui Ya."

  The Huo Ya shifted his gaze outside the cave and continued, "If that's the case, wouldn't it be better for the Fengtian Special Agency Headquarters to just issue a 'Water Deep Fire Hot' notice instead of racking their brains to come up with a 'Water Fire Both Solved' that even many Japanese people can't understand? The use of these four characters hides two layers of meaning."

  Chuan Qi felt that it was no longer possible for Zhen Fu Huo to be subdued, and if things didn't go well, he would replace himself sooner or later.

  "The first layer of meaning should be clear." Huo Lian turned his head and glanced at Chuan Qi, then shifted his gaze back to Shui Lian, seeing her plump chest slightly heaving with her heartbeat, before moving his line of sight to her pretty face. "This 'Water and Fire in Harmony' is a hexagram from the 64 hexagrams of China's classic 'I Ching', structured as water above fire below. Based on this alone, Shui Lian should be fully responsible for this operation. As for the second layer of meaning, it's much more profound."

  "White Crow, as a Chinese expert, you should be able to tell the difference between zi, wu, mao and you." Huo Crow asked with his head tilted.

  "Hey, don't be too hard on Kawaji, you're the Empire's number one China expert, Kawaji is willing to become your disciple." Kawaji couldn't help but admit that this Huo Zhen's knowledge of China far surpassed his own, and he sincerely flattered him.

  Huā yā xiǎng, kuī nǐ hái yǒu zì zhī zhī míng, hé yáng yáng dé yì dào: "zhè 'shuǐ huǒ jì' jiǎn de jià gòu shì kǎn shàng lí xià, kǎn wèi shuǐ, lí wèi huǒ, jì biǎo míng cǐ cì xíng dòng yóu kǎn jí shuǐ yā quán quán fù zé rèn, yòu àn shì yī dàn xíng dòng zāo yú 'kǎn' kēng, mǎ shàng chè lí, huò zhě……"

  As he spoke to this point, Huo Ya paused, while Chuan Ji and Hong Ya and Shui Ya had already listened with rapt attention, eagerly awaiting him to say the next even more wonderful sentence.

  "What else? Hurry up and say it!" Water Bird tapped her foot impatiently.

  However, Huo Ya remained silent, shifting his gaze from the constantly jumping chest of Shui Ya to the top of his head, staring quietly at the sparkling water droplet on the wall.

  With a "plop", the drop of water fell to the ground.