Chapter 45: Cleverly Passing by Chen Village (Part 2)

  At this time, Director Chen, who was eating, found that Huang Yuke and his men had the most dishes in their bowls, almost all of which were vegetables with a few pieces of meat. The soldiers brought by Huang Yuke also had mostly vegetable dishes, but the remaining guerrilla fighters only had a bowl of vegetable soup. Some members held this bowl of vegetable soup and took large flatbread to squat under a nearby tree to eat the flatbread and drink the vegetable soup.

  Seeing this, Director Chen hastily got up and took his own dish over to share with several guerrilla fighters. The other directors also followed suit, dividing their food among the troops.

  "We don't want your Huanglian stew! We have our own dishes here, and they smell great!" The guerrilla fighters didn't want to take the food from Huang Yuke and his men, but Huang Yuke insisted on sharing his dish with them.

  "Huang Lian, save it! There's more coming later." At this time, the guerrilla commander Wang Zhenhai stood up and said. At this moment, Huang Yukei led the soldiers to stop eating and divide the dishes in their bowls among the surrounding guerrillas.

  "Huang Lian Chang! Look at this...", Wang Zhen Hai saw everyone giving their dishes to the guerrilla fighters, wanting to say something to Huang Yu Kai, but was choked with emotion.

  "We are all one family! How can I bear to let my brothers eat differently from us?" Huang Yuke said. As he spoke, he picked up a bowl and ladled out a bowl of vegetable soup, eating it with a large pancake.

  "Huang Lian, we've got the biggest haul today! The captain gave the order to put all our canned goods into the pot and stew them with cabbage!" a guerrilla fighter said to Huang Yu Kai and the others.

  "Oh? No wonder! I said how this dish is so fragrant! There's a lot of meat in this dish." Huang Yuke said.

  "Old Wang! What's going on here? You've all gotten yourselves into canned beef?" Huang Yuke said with a smile.

  "Haha! What are we doing? Guarding the railway, we don't have to worry about eating the enemy's canned beef, it's just a bit lacking in vegetables and grain." Wang Zhenhai said to Huang Yuke.

  "How can we still be short of grain and vegetables?", Huang Yuke asked in puzzlement.

  "You don't know! The devils are now very vicious, they go from door to door robbing grain and vegetables, taking away what they can, destroying what they can't. Now the villagers around here are all short of food and vegetables! We left some of the captured grain behind, basically distributing it to the villagers, so we're not very well-off either." Wang Zhenhai spoke out his grievances.

  "So that's how it is!", Huang Yuke nodded his head, he understood Wang Zhenhai and their predicament.

  A small guerrilla team member, A Shui, stealthily crossed over the enemy's iron thistle, crawled through the trenches, and quietly approached the railway to observe the situation of the devils. However, due to the close distance, he could not see the exact situation of the devils. So, he moved closer to the train station again, and finally saw the situation clearly. The devils had a company-sized force in the train station, with enhanced firepower configuration. Chen Zhuang on the west side of the train station was the devil's stronghold, where there was a small team of devils, and outside the train station, there was also a battalion of puppet troops stationed to coordinate with the devils to defend the train station and patrol the railway along the way to protect its safety. The devils also deployed an armored train on the railway, frequently patrolling this section of the railway, making the situation here very complicated.

  Ah Shui had a good grasp of the situation here, and then he continued to walk towards the station, trying to get a clear understanding of the situation at the station. He quietly arrived at the station and firmly remembered the deployment of troops and the placement of firepower here.

  "Hey, what are you doing?!" A rebuke came from behind Ah Shui, followed by a kick that sent Ah Shui tumbling to the ground. Ah Shui was too engrossed in his observation and didn't notice the appearance of the fake soldiers behind him. When he heard someone questioning him, he realized he had been discovered by the fake soldiers. He composed himself, flipped over, and got up. He found several fake soldiers pointing their guns at him, with one of them, a small leader, loudly asking, "What are you doing here?"

  "I came looking for my uncle, but I don't know where he is!", Ah Shui replied.

  "Looking for your uncle? Ran here to find your uncle? Is this the place you should come?" The fake army leader said, pushing A Shui again.

  "Really! Really! I really didn't cheat you guys." Ah Shui deliberately pretended to be very afraid, and hastily explained.

  "You said you were looking for your uncle, what is your uncle doing here?" one of the fake soldiers asked.

  "My uncle is right here," Ah Shui replied. "My father said that my uncle works at the train station."

  "Are you saying your uncle is also a soldier here? What's his name?" the leader of the puppet army asked with great suspicion. They didn't suspect that Ah Shui was sent by the Eighth Route Army, but rather they suspected he was a thief who came to the train station to steal things. They had this idea because there were too many ordinary people coming to the train station to steal things. The devils had taken away all the grain in this area, leaving the common people with very little food, and they couldn't care less about the devils' warnings. They took risks to come here to try their luck, and those who were unlucky were caught by the devils and brutally killed. Those who succeeded could get some food to barely sustain themselves for a few more days. Although the devils hung the bodies of the villagers they caught outside the train station as a warning, it didn't matter to those villagers who had been driven to desperation - either way was death, but coming in might still give them a chance to survive.

  "I didn't cheat you guys, my uncle's name is Feng Tianguo," Ah Shui replied.

  "Who?", "What are you talking nonsense about? Your uncle's name is Feng Tiangu?" several fake soldiers doubted.

  "My uncle's name is Feng Tianguo!", Ah Shui said with great certainty.

  "Hey, you little devil! Do you know who Feng TianGui is? He's our company commander." one of the puppet soldiers said to Ashui.

  "With your looks, you'll be the nephew of our commander-in-chief?", the fake army's little leader said sarcastically. He was the squad leader of this fake army, named Zhao Liu, and he looked at him with a slanted gaze.

  "Right! You don't even look at your own behavior!" Another puppet soldier sneered. At this time, one of the puppet soldiers said to Zhao Liu beside him.

  "Zhao Tou! Let's go ask our squad leader instead! What if it really is his nephew, we wouldn't...". The little guy stopped mid-sentence. Zhao Liu's eyes rolled over, right, if it really was the squad leader's nephew, wouldn't that be a disaster?

  "Hey, kid! Didn't you say that our Commander Feng Lianchang is your uncle? Now come with us to find our Commander Feng Lianchang. If you dare to deceive us, you'll be in for a treat!", Zhao Liu took Ah Shui along and went to their camp together.

  "Commander! We were patrolling outside and found a little kid who said he was your nephew, so we brought him back." Zhao Liu reported to Feng TianGui.

  "My nephew?", Feng TianGui asked in puzzlement, his eyebrows furrowed, when did he have a nephew? Impossible!

  "He said his name is A Shui and also said his father's name is Zhao Zhenhao," Zhao Liu continued.

  "Ah Shui? Zhao Zhenhao?", Feng Tianguo seemed to remember something, "Right! It's my nephew! Bring him in quickly." Feng Tianguo ordered immediately.

  Zhao Liu was even more surprised, what's going on with Lian Chang today? It was strange just now! He didn't think much and hurriedly went down to call A Shui.

  "Uncle!", Ah Shui rushed forward as soon as he saw Feng Tian Gui.

  "Ah Shui!", Feng Tian Gui also warmly hugged Ah Shui tightly in his arms.

  "How did you come? Are you alone?" Feng Tiangu asked. Zhao Liu saw that Ah Shui was indeed Feng Tiangu's nephew, and he hastily left the house. He feared that Ah Shui would tell Feng Tiangu about him hitting him, and at that time, Feng Tiangu would not forgive him.

  "Something's happened at home, my dad asked me to find you and tell you to go back home for a while," said Ah Shui.

  "What's wrong at home?", "I'm not sure, you'll know when you get back."

  "Alright! You go home first, I'll come to your house tonight." Feng Tianguo said, taking out two cans of food from the drawer and stuffing them into Ashui's pocket. Patting Ashui on the head, "Go back and tell your father that I'm free to come to your house tonight," he said, seeing Ashui out the door.

  "Zhao Liu!", Feng TianGui's shout scared Zhao Liu, he was afraid that Ah Shui would tell Feng TianGui about him hitting him. He walked up nervously.

  "Dragged on! I didn't mean to, I really didn't know......", Zhao Liu hurriedly explained to Feng TianGui.

  "What don't you know? Go send my nephew away!", Feng TianGui also looked at him with great puzzlement, what's wrong with this kid today?

  "Send him away?", Zhao was very surprised, wasn't he supposed to take himself in?

  "What's wrong?" Feng Tianguo glared at him fiercely.

  "Ah, nothing!" Zhao Liu hastily said, rushing forward to pull Ashui out while speaking to him in a much more polite tone than before. He respectfully sent Ashui out of the base and didn't return until they had passed the railroad tracks.