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Chapter 215: Giving Medicine to the Commander
At around ten o'clock in the morning on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Xie Hushan got off the bus at the entrance of the village, and then walked back to Zhongping Village whistling "Devils Invading the Village".

This made the members who were busy pasting Spring Festival couplets in every household look at him with complicated expressions.

Except for his grandmother, everyone in the village knew that this kid had poked a hole in the sky of Yaoshan. Everyone thought that this kid would never come back, because if he did, he would be caught, and even if he didn't get shot, he would be sentenced to decades in prison.

But they didn't expect that this dad would come back so carefree, and he looked intact, with all his arms and legs intact, and his complexion was better than theirs.

That was the son of the second-in-command of Yaoshan, who was a higher-ranking Japanese ronin than the one his third uncle stabbed to death. His third uncle stabbed the man to death and ran away. He did not dare to return to Zhongping until the Japanese were completely driven away.

For a moment, the members who saw Xie Hushan didn't know whether to shout at him to run away quickly, or scold him for being crazy!
I could only go home quickly and pretend that I didn't see him come back.

The aunt, who was carrying a bundle of firewood back to the dormitory of the agricultural machinery station to cook, saw Xie Hushan walking on the road. She first let go of the firewood and threw it on the ground, then rubbed her eyes vigorously with her hands. Xie Hushan shouted at her, "Auntie."

After making sure that he was not imagining things, he immediately rushed over and hugged his nephew and cried:

"You little bastard, you love me so much! Your uncle and I are too embarrassed to go home for the New Year... wuwuwu... I'm afraid my family will ask me about you when I go back. I don't know what to say. I'm afraid they will laugh at me. I won't even be able to face your mother when I die... wuwuwu..."

Before Xie Hushan had time to coax his sister-in-law, someone in the yard of the agricultural machinery station saw Xie Hushan and sent a letter to Kou Donghan. Xie Hushan then saw his uncle, who had received the letter, rushing out of the office of the agricultural machinery station wearing only a single piece of clothing, running towards him while untying his belt, his eyes red!

Xie Hushan didn't bother to talk nonsense, he let go of his aunt and turned around to run. Before he ran halfway out of the street, Xie Qimao and the aunt and his wife, who had obviously got the news, were riding their bicycles towards him.

Seeing Xie Hushan running away, Chen Chunxiang jumped off the back seat. Xie Qimao turned the bicycle over to the ground, took the rolling pin handed over by Chen Chunxiang, and rushed towards Xie Hushan, cursing:

"You bastard! Stand right there!"

The two families cooperated well with each other. The sister-in-law and the aunt were responsible for holding down Xie Hushan, while the uncle and the eldest uncle dragged Xie Hushan into the dormitory of the agricultural machinery station like a dead dog. Without any nonsense, they pressed him on the kang and started beating him!

"We can't live a good life, so I let you fight! Fight! I'll support you even if you're crippled and paralyzed on the kang! I won't let you go out and make a fool of yourself!" The aunt wiped her tears and watched the uncle wielding a rolling pin to beat Xie Hushan. For the first time, she didn't reach out to stop him, but cursed him angrily beside him, and didn't forget to accuse the uncle of hitting the wrong place:
"Don't hit other parts of your body, hit your butt. The flesh on your butt is thick, so don't let the old lady see the external injuries!"

Compared with the aunt, the sister-in-law was obviously a relative. Although she did not beg for mercy at this time, half of her body was pressed on Xie Hushan, which made the uncle and grandfather hesitate when they took action. They were afraid of hurting her, so they could not exert their full strength.

"You are so capable! You are even in the newspaper! You are named and named as a well-known gangster in Yaoshan! You have made Zhongping famous!"

"You're living a good life, but you have to stir up trouble!"

"Clap clap clap!"

More than ten minutes later, the grandfather and the uncle stopped and stared at Xie Hushan, who was grinning on the bed, breathlessly.

"Sister-in-law, pack up his things in the next few days and let him spend the New Year at home. Then let him go after the New Year. I've been thinking about him for several days. In case he can come back alive, he can't stay at home. I have a comrade-in-arms in Yunzhou Province. He is fighting monkeys over there. All the communes over there are busy repairing fortifications. It won't be noticeable with more people working. Let him go." After the fight, Kou Donghan looked at Xie Qimao and his wife, panting, and said.

Kou Donghan's face was thinner and his unshaven beard made him look haggard. Although he was an outsider in Zhongping, Xie Hushan was his nephew. He had not slept on the kang every night in the past few days. He squatted outside Xie Hushan's house every night, hoping that Xie Hushan would run home in the middle of the night one day, say goodbye to his grandmother, and then be caught by him.

He was asked to send his nephew to prison, but he was reluctant to do so. He was willing to get his nephew away even if it meant getting arrested himself. He had no other skills, but he had many comrades-in-arms, so he wanted to entrust his nephew to his brothers who had served in the army with him so that he could have food to eat in a foreign land.

"...hiss...no need, uncle..." Hearing that his uncle was going to send him away for a disagreement, Xie Husan struggled to get up, covered his buttocks and breathed in cold air, saying: "Xu said that he would never be held responsible after his death, so this matter is really settled."

Jinzi turned her face away with a distressed look, and tried to ease the atmosphere by following the topic: "It doesn't seem like Hu San is lying. He came back in a swagger, not like he came back to take a look and then ran away."

Before Xie Hushan could say anything, his second uncle and his wife had obviously also received the news. At this time, they pushed open the door and rushed in from outside. The second uncle was holding a pickaxe handle in his hand. Seeing that the battle was over, he looked regretful:

"You're not going to fight anymore? This bastard... What kind of life am I in? I can't even eat hot shit..."

Zhou Hongmei, the second aunt next to him, was so angry that she pushed him. She went up to check and found that there were no injuries on Xie Hushan's body or face. After asking her aunt, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Hushan leaned his back against the wall and raised his butt to avoid it from hitting the wall. He wiped the sweat from his head due to the pain and put on a smile:

"Hiss... I really won't look for grudges later. Believe me, this matter is over. The most fortunate thing for Xu in his life is that he met me and saw through the true face of my savior. He didn't fall for her and become her relative. Otherwise, it wouldn't be just the matter of his son having two lame legs."

While relieving the pain in his buttocks in his uncle's dormitory, Xie Hushan told them the whole story.

From Song Tiesheng's mistaken identity and fight, to Taozi and Daqiao getting him a marriage certificate, to him wanting to go to Hong Kong Island because Song Tiesheng's accident ruined his plan, and before leaving, he wanted to vent his anger and frighten the other party with a gun. Then he was taken to Qinyu City for custody by comrades from the Bohai District Fisheries Command. Daqiao's father was a high-ranking official, and he stayed there for a few days with good food and drink, and then arranged for someone to go to Yaoshan to help solve the problem. After the problem was solved, he was sent back by car.

He made the whole thing sound like a joke, and the elders looked at each other, not really believing it. But when they asked again, the kid still kept the same excuse.

In addition, Xie Qimao had received information from Yang Liming that Xie Hushan's words were not trustworthy. Yang Liming would never lie. The other party said that Xie Hushan was fine and would definitely be back before the New Year, and he did come back, didn't he?

Seeing Xie Hushan touching his buttocks and breathing heavily, Jinzi couldn't bear it, so she got up and went out. After a while, she came back with a half-bottle of homemade herbal wine for injuries:

"Slowly~ After you've recovered, go home to see your grandma. Take off your pants and lie down on the kang. I'll massage you so that you won't be unable to sit down when you get home to eat later."

"I'll give him medicine later. The second brother hasn't been beaten yet. No, big brother, you take a break. The second brother and I will beat this little bastard up!" Kou Donghan said, gritting his teeth, "I've been freezing these past few nights. If I don't beat him through, I won't be able to breathe."

Jinzi glared at Kou Donghan and said, "Alright, having the child back is better than anything else. Didn't you hear what he said? The other party is not a good guy. Who would flirt with a girl? The country hasn't said that Hu Saner is guilty, but you've sentenced him to death first!"

Then he continued to urge Xie Hushan: "Hurry up, lie down, I'll put some on you."

Xie Hushan took the medicinal wine himself: "I will go to the factory first and take advantage of this wind to finish my work before going home. I will take this stuff and let others apply it to me when I get to the factory."

"Are you asking your uncle to go with you?" The old lady began to soften her heart again, and she supported Xie Hushan and said, "There is no one in the factory except the fourth girl, Lao Meng and Daxi. The rest of them have gone home to celebrate the New Year. What are you going to do there?"

"No, I can walk by myself." Xie Hushan looked at his grandfather and uncle and lowered his head: "Grandpa, uncle, I was wrong. Next time I... won't fight."

"Why the hell are you still fighting? You've reached your limit. Who in Yaoshan dares to mess with you?" Kou Donghan turned his face away in anger.

His name has been published in the newspapers. Who in Yaoshan will dare to challenge Zhongping Hu Saner in the future? The second-in-command's son was beaten, but he was not hurt at all. How capable is that in the eyes of others.

When Xie Hushan arrived at the steel mill with his butt covered, the mill had already stopped production due to the end of the year. The gate was open, but the place was deserted. Only Lao Meng and his second uncle's two children, Xiaobao, one big and one small, were setting off firecrackers near the factory gate.

"Brother, you're back?" Xiaobao saw Xie Hushan and greeted him from afar.

The child was young, and his brother Xie Hushan was far less attractive to him than the opened firecrackers in his pocket. After saying hello, he continued to put a firecracker on the ground, put a can of luncheon meat that had been exploded and deformed on it, and continued to light it with grass incense.

Lao Meng dropped the firecrackers, ran towards Xie Hushan with a grin, and showed him the firecrackers in his pocket: "Commander, Happy New Year! Just give the order, and I'll go blow up the chimney of whoever you want to blow up!"

"Bullshit." Xie Hushan walked towards the factory with his teeth bared and his hands covering his buttocks, and said to Lao Meng as he walked:

"Go, go back to the house and apply medicine. Commander, I was injured in the battle. You must keep it strictly confidential and not let the news of my injury leak out, otherwise I will punish you by military law."

As soon as I got outside the office, I heard Han Hongzhen's voice smiling and saying to someone inside: "Chief Liu, we have a contract. If the quality of the strip steel supplied to the enamel factory does not meet the standards, we have nothing to say if you return it, but the goods are fine. Why do you do this? It's the New Year, and we have prepared the necessary gifts. We have done it according to the amount that Director Xie told us in the past. At this critical moment, you say that you can't supply the enamel factory. Isn't this forcing me to cause trouble for the whole factory that has been busy for a year? How can I explain to everyone when work starts on the fifth day of the New Year?"

"Shh~" Seeing that Lao Meng was about to continue walking, Xie Hushan pulled him back, made a shushing gesture, and then listened with his ear tilted.

"Are you still thanking the factory director, my sister Han? That's over. Didn't you see it in the newspaper? He has been labeled a gangster. The news has spread in Bingyang. He killed Xu Xinfu's son. How could he come back alive? The enamel factory dare not have anything to do with such a person. For the sake of our previous cooperation, we haven't used the strip steel that your factory sent to the enamel factory yet. We will put it in the warehouse. You can arrange a tractor to pull it back. Let's part ways in peace. I tell you, this is still a good thing. The enamel factory is not powerful. The steel mills that dealt with you before may now be eyeing your brigade factory. It's hard to say whether the steel mill will still be in Zhongping next year." A man heard Han Hongzhen's words and said with disdain and sarcasm in his tone.

Xie Hushan pushed open the door of his office and looked at Section Chief Liu of the Supply and Marketing Department of the Enamel Factory with a smile:
“Section Chief Liu, I’ve already killed Xu Xinfu’s son, and you still dare not do my business in Yaoshan?”

"Hurry up and get back to production. We will continue to supply your factory on the third day of the Lunar New Year. The monthly supply will increase by 30%. If you don't accept it, think about whether the enamel factory in Yaoshan is more powerful than Xu Xinfu."

"I'm just joking with Xiao Han. How could I really upset anyone during the New Year? Xiao Xie, you're still as unreasonable as before. Have you talked to the factory director? Otherwise, how would he know that I came back to inform the steel rolling mill to increase delivery by 30% after the New Year?" When Section Chief Liu saw Xie Hushan, he was stunned at first, but then he stood up with a bright smile and spoke to Xie Hushan warmly.

Xie Hushan looked at Han Hongzhen who was stunned when he saw him, and walked to the desk as if nothing had happened, sat down, put his legs on the table and continued to speak to Section Chief Liu:

"You know I don't know how to make trouble, but you still keep making trouble with me. If it weren't for the fact that your factory is going to increase its revenue by 30% after the New Year, I would have been really angry a long time ago."

He was chatting with Section Chief Liu with a smile on his face. Seeing Han Hongzhen still staring at him blankly, he urged her, "What are you waiting for? Section Chief Liu has his official seal with him all the time. He's waiting to sign a contract with you."

Han Hongzhen came back to her senses and hurriedly prepared paper and pen to write the supply contract. After signing and stamping it, Section Chief Liu smiled and took the contract to leave. When Lao Meng told Xie Hushan that the other party had been sent out of the factory gate by Han Hongzhen, Xie Hushan immediately jumped up from his seat as if his butt was on fire, and lay down on the desk, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes:
"Hiss...hiss...hiss...close the door, close the door, Lao Meng, hurry up, apply medicine to this commander!"

(End of this chapter)