Volume 1: Hot Blooded Resistance War Chapter 4: Unexpected Harvest

  Three days later, Hua Lieyang finally recovered completely! After getting up early, Hua Lieyang carried a bucket to the nearby river and fetched two buckets of water. When he returned home, he saw his mother waiting at the door and said: "Son, you've just recovered and you're already carrying water! You don't care about yourself, but I do!"

  Hua Lieyang smiled foolishly and said, "Mom, nothing's wrong! After sleeping for so many days, if I don't move around, I'll become a statue!" Just then, Hua Lieyang's father, Hua Xunri, walked out with a Type 81 rifle in his hand and said, "Son, take it easy at home! Tonight we're having braised meat for dinner!"

  Hua Lieyang slowly recalled, lying on the ground, that he was currently living in a small village within China's borders along the Sino-Soviet border. The entire village had over 80 households and nearly 300 people, all of whom made their living by hunting and gathering medicinal herbs. The nearest town was 150 miles away from the village.

  As he thought, he heard his sister's cry for help. The vigilant Hu Lieyang immediately got up and ran in the direction of the sound. At this time, he saw three adults surrounding his sister in the middle. Seeing this scene, Hu Lieyang calculated slightly and picked up a stone about the size of three fists from the ground, quietly walking behind the leader. Before that person could react, Hu Lieyang jumped up and hit the adult to the ground with one stone.

  Then, Hua Lieyang didn't give the other two people a chance to react and rushed to his sister's side, pulling her to run quickly. After running for a while, he heard his sister call out: "Brother, I can't run anymore!"

  Hearing his sister's words, Hua Lieyang looked back and said: "Come on, Niu Niu! Brother will carry you up quickly!" As he spoke, Hua Lieyang squatted down.

  After a while, Hua Lieyang finally ran back home safely with his sister on his back. As soon as they entered the house, his sister jumped off his back and threw herself into their mother's arms, crying and telling her what had just happened in a sobbing tone. Their mother listened and then indignantly exclaimed: "This old rustic is getting more and more lawless! How dare he have designs on my daughter?!"

  Hua Lieyang immediately reacted to his mother's words, this local tyrant lived not far from our village. To put it nicely, people called him a wealthy master, but in reality, he was just a bandit leader.

  After a while, his mother walked up to Hu Lieyang with his sister in her arms and asked anxiously, "Son, are you alright?!"

  "It's okay! Mom, your son is fine!" Hua Lieyang said with a smile. As he spoke, Hua Lieyang thought to himself: "It seems I still need to continue training myself in the same way as before! In this era, only those with real power can protect their families!"

  Just then, several uncles from the neighboring family who went hunting with Father carried Father in and shouted: "Hua's wife, come out quickly! Hua has been injured!"

  Upon hearing the cry, Mother immediately ran out and with the help of the villagers, carried Father onto the kang. After settling Father in, Old Man Niu from next door said to Mother, "Sister-in-law, today we owe it to Brother Hua! The people from Tǔlǎo Cái were going to snatch our prey to offer to Tǔlǎo Cái, but Brother Hua protected us and got shot in the leg by one of Tǔlǎo Cái's men."

  Before he could finish speaking, Hua Lieyang hastily walked over to the edge of the bed and asked: "Dad, you..."

  How do you feel now?

  "Silly boy, nothing's wrong! Your father is getting stronger now!" As he spoke, his father handed the gun to Huale Yang and said, "Put the gun away!"

  Hua Lieyang took the gun and hung it on the wall, turning around to ask: "Dad, have you taken out the bullets?!"

  "Not yet!" his father said with a forced smile.

  Hua Lieyang took out a small knife, a pair of pliers, a bottle of wine, a towel and a bullet from the small cabinet at home and walked to the edge of the kang, saying: "Dad, do you believe me?!"

  "You stupid kid! I don't believe you, who should I trust?!" The father said with cold sweat on his forehead.

  Hua Lieyang handed a towel to his father and said, "Dad, bite the towel!" As he spoke, Hua Lieyang lit the oil lamp on the kang table with a match. After heating the small knife over the lamp, Hua Lieyang poured wine onto the knife and ripped open the pant leg of his injured father's leg. With a light press, a bullet head popped out. Next, Hua Lieyang used pliers to pull out the bullet head and scattered the gunpowder inside the bullet onto his father's leg. Then, with a strike of the match, there was a "sizzling" sound followed by the smell of charred flesh. Hua Lieyang then removed the towel from his father's mouth!

  Hua Xun stared at Hua Lieyang in disbelief and said: "You little brat, who did you learn this from?!"

  "I've seen Russian guys treat gunshot wounds for their comrades like this!" Hu Lieyang said casually.

  Just as the father and son were talking, the mother walked in with her daughter and asked: "Zi Teng (father's courtesy name), is everything all right?"

  Father smiled and said, "Nothing's wrong! Just now our dear son was treating my gunshot wound!" As he spoke, Father stretched out his leg with the gunshot wound. Mother saw that Father's wound had already scabbed over and looked at her Hu Lieyang in disbelief, saying, "Son, when did you learn how to do this?!"

  Hua Lieyang smiled and scratched his head, saying: "I learned it last time when I saw the Russian guy help his companion treat his injury!"

  The next morning, Hua Lieyang still went to the river with a bucket to fetch water. As soon as he arrived at the riverbank, he saw a Russian soldier lying behind a huge rock, wearing camouflage clothes. The brave Hua Lieyang carefully approached the Russian soldier and gently kicked him. When there was no reaction from the Russian soldier, Hua Lieyang squatted down and put his hand on the soldier's pulse to check...

  Hua Lieyang let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground, only to realize that the Russian soldier had been dead for some time. After a while, Hua Lieyang smiled slightly and stood up. He took off the Russian soldier's camouflage net and gathered all his belongings, including the handgun and sniper rifle, and hid them in an inconspicuous tree hole. Then he used several stones to block the entrance of the tree hole before returning to the riverbank.

  After returning to the riverbank, Hua Lieyang looked at the corpse of this Russian soldier and thought for a moment. He then dragged the corpse into a small cave not far away.

  After hiding the body, Hu Lieyang dealt with the traces and then carried water back. In the afternoon, when his sister was taking a nap, Hu Lieyang quietly slipped out of the house and came to the riverbank to retrieve the hidden weapon. Carrying all the things, Hu Lieyang walked into the small wooden house in the mountain where no one was around.