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Chapter 117 I Still Have to Steal a Dog
"Why is Comrade Zhu Yaner crying like that?" Han Hongbing put his hands on the railing of the terrace, turned his head and looked towards the living room. On the sofa, Ziyoumei was comforting Zhu Youjun softly.

Xie Hushan also turned around, leaning his back against the railing, and looked at Zhu Youjun: "Why else? Because of our relatives."

"did not find?"

"I found out that in 1948, her great-grandmother and her family sold their property and moved to the freer United States," said Xie Hushan.

In Hong Kong Island, it is not difficult to get information about wealthy people, especially if you are willing to tip them.

The housekeeper of Xie Hushan's suite did not know Zhu Youjun's grandmother in the photo, but he knew how to find clues. After receiving a generous tip, he suggested that Xie Hushan and Zhu Youjun start through the maid standing next to them in the photo.

The housekeeper told Xie Hushan and Zhu Youjun that he knew there were several "grandma's houses" nearby, and suggested that Xie Hushan and Zhu Youjun donate a small sum of money to the "grandma's houses", and those old ladies would definitely be willing to help.

The so-called aunt's house is a property bought by several spinsters who vowed never to marry when they were young and became sworn brothers. It is the place where they live together when they grow old.

By donating a small sum of money to these spinsters to buy daily necessities, these spinsters mobilized their circle of friends in Hong Kong Island.

Through the spread of this group, some people's memories and identification, on the fifth day of Zhu Youjun's arrival in Hong Kong, she easily saw the maid who served her great-grandmother in the photo. She was now a white-haired old woman.

The other party told her that the then young old lady of the Zhu family came to Hong Kong Island with her children in 1937 to purchase a property and settle down. She was personally invited by the other party to take care of the young children and serve as both a personal servant and a housekeeper.

During the occupation of Hong Kong Island, she accompanied her family to Macau to hide for several years, and only returned to Hong Kong after the restoration.

The old lady kept writing letters to the mainland, asking people to inquire about her missing husband and eldest son. According to the spinster, the money she spent on telegram fees and favors for asking people to deliver letters in those years was enough to buy a house in Hong Kong Island.

But there was so much chaos and war that there was no news at all.

His wife fell seriously ill because of this. After the Anti-Japanese War ended, she wanted to move back to her old home in Shanghai, but before she could recover and leave, the War of Liberation broke out in the mainland.

The lady's family had already moved to the United States at this time. In addition, the lady missed her husband and had been in poor health. Her brother from her family came to Hong Kong Island from the United States and sold the property in Hong Kong Island on her behalf. He dismissed the servants and bodyguards in the family, and took his sister, two nephews, and a niece to the United States on the pretext of helping the lady with her medical treatment.

As for where exactly she went in the United States, the maid had no idea. Mrs. Zhu wanted her to go with her, but she didn't want to be too far away from home and die in a foreign country, so she quit her job with Mrs. Zhu.

I wonder how surprised I was when I first learned that the maid was found, and how desperate I was when I learned about the final outcome.

She was lucky and struggled to make it to Hong Kong Island. What should she do next? Should she go to the United States again?

No matter how brave she was, she was just an eighteen-year-old girl. Since she didn't cry on the way back, Xie Hushan thought that this girl was okay. But as soon as she entered the living room, she fell on the sofa and cried until Han Hongbing came back with Ziyoumei.

After listening to Xie Hushan's words, Han Hongbing didn't know what to say, so he could only change the subject:

"Xie Siling, the remnants of the secret societies in Hong Kong seem to be as stupid as a fool, and they are all good materials for being puppet soldiers..."

This is the conclusion Han Hongbing came to in the past few days.

"What's wrong?" Xie Hushan asked.

"Just say we want to fight. If we fight, once we agree, we will definitely strike first. What kind of people are these? They have already started to grab weapons and are still talking nonsense. They have said a lot of things. Before he finishes, I have already stabbed him." Han Hongbing smiled and talked about his experience of fighting with the remnants of capitalist secret societies:

"Comrade Lin Meiyang later told me that before they started fighting, they had to tell us what sect they belonged to, who their master was, where they were hanging out, how many brothers they had, etc. I thought, damn it, when we went out to fight in Bingyang County, we didn't have to go through so much trouble."

"What's the most annoying thing is that I knocked the leader down, but the guys he brought with him didn't do anything. They obviously didn't dare to do anything, but they still had the audacity to scold me, saying that I didn't follow the rules because I knocked him down before I could finish talking."

"Then I don't understand what that idiot is saying. You said I can't bring Comrade Lin with me when I fight. Why? When the Eighth Route Army fought the Japanese devils, they had to bring two translators with them? Just fight, lie down and I'll do whatever you say!"

Seeing Han Hongbing's serious comment that Hong Kong's gangsters were all idiots, Xie Hushan couldn't help laughing.

Hearing Xie Hushan laugh, Han Hongbing said:

"It's true. What are you happy about? What else can you do? You surrender quickly. Now when I go out to fight, there are dozens of people following me. I don't know where they came from. Our brother Bao said that they couldn't beat me, so they came to me to hang out. I was thinking, what the hell are you doing here? You are not registered in Zhongping Village, how can you hang out with me? Can you work with me during the autumn harvest?"

"You don't know, but my brother and Comrade Lin told me that these people are willing to go through fire and water with me, and go through life and death with me. Go and have fun. Their brother was stabbed by me and fell down, but they didn't help him fight with me. How can I expect them to be my brothers sincerely?"

“Hahahaha~” Xie Hushan laughed loudly: “The remnants of the secret societies in Hong Kong may think that this is a sign of loyalty.”

"With this fighting spirit and loyalty, who the hell dares to talk to them about loyalty? Do you dare?"

"If there's a real war, you have to worry about these people defecting to the enemy. Aren't they pure puppet soldiers? They're so timid. When they saw me blind one of their eyes, they were so scared as if I had killed someone. Moreover, when they fight, they only use knives to cut at the thickest parts of the flesh. How can they kill people?"

"He's not even as good as Ma San'er, the worst among us. Once, we got into a fight with the people from Nanzheng Village and got so angry that Ma San'er got stabbed in the stomach. At least he was able to cover his stomach with one hand and grab a spatula with the other hand to blind one of the opponent's eyes. At least it was a one-for-one exchange."

"Nonsense, fighting in the countryside is so barbaric, there is no need for the Public Security Bureau to intervene when someone dies, the brigade will mediate. If any sect in Hong Kong had the ability of our brigade, it would have become big and strong long ago." Xie Hushan teased Han Hongbing:
"Next time you don't even need to fight them, just take off your pants for them to see, and tell them how you got your nickname Iron Lazy Man."

Han Hongbing had a scar on his dermis, which was about a foot long. He got into a fight with other troops and got so angry that the other side caught him when he was alone and threatened to castrate him. They would release him as long as Han Hongbing gave in and kowtowed.

The other party just wanted to save face, but Han Laoer refused to give in. He glared at the other party and scolded him, telling him to castrate himself if he had the guts. If you don't castrate me, I will definitely castrate you.

They forced the other party into an humiliating position under the gaze of his companions and hung him on a tree. However, they did not dare to castrate him in the end. They just cut his skin to scare him, leaving a scar on Han Hongbing.

After his injury healed, he took Xie Hushan, Chen Daxixi and others to seek revenge. He did as he said and kicked the other party's two testicles one by one until they were necrotic and had to be removed.

Finally, the brigade stepped in to mediate and compensated the other party's family with more than 200 kilograms of grain and 200 yuan.

If this happened to the thugs in Hong Kong Island, if the enemy really used a dagger to cut a bloody wound on their dermis, they would probably beg for mercy long ago. It is impossible for them to be like Han Lao Er and dare to swear and get angry.

So now Han Laoer despised the Hong Kong Island hooligans for having a poor fighting spirit and could not compare with the militiamen in Bingyang County. Xie Hushan felt that he was insulting the rural militiamen who grew up in a barbaric way. These militiamen grew up watching various anti-Japanese war films shown in open-air movies, and they could use tactics in the movies when playing war games.

They register and start military training at the age of twelve or thirteen, or thirteen or fourteen. Their sense of honor has been at its maximum since childhood, and the idea of ​​preferring to sacrifice rather than surrender is engraved in their bones.

When a gangster says he will kill you, he may just be trying to scare you.

When these militiamen say they want to kill you, they are definitely not joking.

Because in the countryside, if someone dies in a fight, as long as your side is in the right and the brigade protects you, there will be no big deal if you don't file a case with the police. You will just have to pay a few hundred yuan in compensation to the family of the deceased.

"Our two big brothers have been working very hard these past few days. I don't know what they did, but they actually took out more than 100,000 yuan." Han Hongbing talked about Abao to Xie Hushan while holding a cigarette in his mouth.

Abao and Xuanzi gave Xie Hushan more than 100,000 yuan in two days, otherwise Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing would not have been able to save up 500,000 yuan in just five days.

The two big brothers who borrowed money at high interest rates to recruit younger brothers were really caring towards their two younger brothers.

Xie Hushan looked up at the night sky. "What else can we do? Brother Bao has come to his senses and got a pass. He is considering leaving Hong Kong Island and never coming back, using the excuse of taking his sister to Guangzhou for medical treatment with his parents. He has accepted us as his younger brothers. We are so hungry, what else can we do if we don't run away?"

"You're starving after owing so much debt, yet you can come up with hundreds of thousands?" Han Hongbing was surprised.

"Desperate, you stabbed several big guys. He was determined to take Xuanzi and steal people's cars while they were in the hospital and sell them at a low price. He is a parking boy and he is good at stealing cars. Six or seven cars were sold by our big brother like they were scrap metal. His main goal is to make a small profit but quick turnover."

After Bao found out that Xie Hushan had arranged for his sister to go to Yangcheng for surgery and that it would cost 500,000 yuan, he finally decided that it would be better to give it a try. So after getting the pass, he took advantage of the time when Han Hongbing had those gangsters with cars sent to the hospital for hospitalization, and he took Xuanzi to steal their cars and sell them.

The car theft will definitely be traced back to him in the end. He had already made up his mind that he would never return to Hong Kong Island. If the person who stole the car couldn't find him, he would have to settle the score with the Changle Society.

He and Xuanzai worked in shifts and stole six or seven cars, or seven or eight cars in two days. They sold them for more than 200,000 yuan. He kept 100,000 yuan for himself as living expenses in Guangzhou, and gave the rest to Xie Hushan.

This big brother's performance is indeed impeccable.

Han Hongbing nodded in agreement, "Our eldest brother has learned his lesson now. He knows not to continue fooling around with those bastards. He should have done this a long time ago. These bastards in Hong Kong are not to be beaten by humans!"

When Han Hongbing forced people to buy and sell on the first day, he felt a little embarrassed and felt that he was bullying people.

But later, the free sister who followed him, Lin Meiyang, a translator, told him that these people trafficked women, injected them with drugs, and forced them to sleep with men every day to make money for them. Han Hongbing felt that he was doing justice by fighting and killing people.

"To be honest, I went to their house several times, and when I saw those girls, I wanted to take out my gun and shoot them one by one. You didn't see it, Xie Siling. If you saw it, you would have exploded a long time ago."

"They are such fucking inhumans. How could they be so evil? I was so angry that I stabbed several brothel owners in the past few days. I stabbed every one I saw. I would rather not get paid than stab them! These animals have no sisters or mothers. Are they made of fucking stones?"

"Moreover, the capitalist government and public security bureau in Hong Kong Island just watched the opening of a brothel and did nothing about it. They really don't treat the Chinese as human beings!"

"This is called freedom..." Xie Hushan wanted to tease, but Han Hongbing scolded him disdainfully:
"Freedom is bullshit. If we really want freedom, I've smashed so many brothels, but I didn't see a single foreign woman being injected. They were all Chinese. If we want freedom, why doesn't the British Empire allow its own girls to be sent there to be harmed?"

Uh... Xie Hushan didn't know what to say when asked by Han Hongbing. None of his Hong Kong compatriots could understand a mainland militia that had only been there for five days.

Noticing that the free girl who was comforting Zhu Youjun in the living room kept looking at Han Hongbing in the open air, Xie Hushan asked:
"Comrade Lin looks at you in a special way. Are you on good terms?"

This free girl was someone who took the initiative to seek freedom. She was from Guangdong Province. Unlike the other three, she had been sold twice. First, she was cheated by a human trafficker, and then she was sold to the number gang by the human trafficker.

When Han Hongbing heard Xie Hushan mention the Free Girl, he looked a little embarrassed and turned his head to look at the night sky in the distance:
"She's a nice person. If she hadn't met us, she would have ended up sleeping with men in a brothel. She's nice in every way and is very caring, but there's one bad thing about her."

Xie Hushan seemed to have guessed it, and said in a positive tone: "The thing you think is bad is that she keeps asking you if she can stay, right?"

"When asked why I had to go back after going through so much trouble to come to Hong Kong Island, I said I was forced to do so. The main reason was that the brothers in the village were waiting for me to take advantage of the capitalist economy and bring back some foreign goods," said Han Hongbing.

Xie Hushan came up to Han Hongbing and said, "Hey, Chief of Staff Han, did you sleep with that girl?"

"No?" Han Hongbing turned his head immediately after hearing this and looked at Xie Hushan calmly:

"Fuck, who do you take me for?"

"Then why did you turn your face away when you talked about her? You haven't done anything wrong to her, so what is there to be embarrassed about?" Xie Hushan said puzzledly.

"I almost lost control of myself. The company commander is right. When a woman gets into your arms, your head will explode." Han Hongbing laughed.

"It's not easy to pass the beauty test."

"I didn't even take off my pants, I just let you hug me, you call this a beauty pass?" Xie Hushan said with a smile:

"Have you passed?"

Han Hongbing looked up at the night sky, then turned back to look at the woman in the living room: "It's over."

Xie Hushan put his arm around Han Hongbing's shoulders and said, "We have bought all the foreign goods and saved enough money. There are only two days left. Do you want to persuade her and ask her if she is willing to go back to Zhongping with you?"

"Just go, why stay for two days?" Han Hongbing asked directly without paying attention to Xie Hushan's teasing.

Xie Hushan looked at him and said seriously:

"I still have to steal a wife for Dahei."

(End of this chapter)