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Chapter 36: Even Less Human Than the Other Party

"Tsk! You're such a big guy, but you still don't learn from your mistakes. You're just talking nonsense." Han Hongzhen spat softly, thinking that Xie Hushan was deliberately talking nonsense.

"Who taught you to say that? Stay away from him. He is not a good person. If you keep saying such disgusting things, you will never find a wife."

Seeing that the other party didn't believe him, Xie Hushan stopped talking and continued to eat his steamed bun. Han Hongzhen looked at him for a while and took the initiative to ask a puzzling question:

"Hey, my mother-in-law told me that you are the sixth child in your family, but why do I see everyone calling you Tiger Three? How do you come from being the third child?"

"Your mother-in-law told you? That's it. My grandma acted faster than I thought. It's strange. She didn't even leave the house after dinner. How did this information get to your mother-in-law?" Xie Hushan was surprised and sighed, then gave an answer:
"When I was in primary school, the teacher taught me how to write my name. The three characters of Xie Hushan had too many strokes. I got tired of writing them later, so I just wanted to save trouble by connecting the characters of Shan together, and wrote it as a lying 3. Later, I was too lazy to even lie down, so I just wrote Xie Hu 3. The teachers and classmates all called me that. Later, everyone thought it sounded good, so they just called me Hu San'er, Hu San'er, and that's how it started."

"Si Ling, I remember that his original name was not Hu Saner, but Hu..." Lao Meng was pulling the cart and heard the two people talking about the origin of the name Hu Saner. He wanted to supplement the information he knew.

"Shut up!" Xie Hushan interrupted Lao Meng, "Pull your car! You're so rude! Candy melons not stick to your mouth?"

Han Hongzhen looked at Xie Hushan and asked curiously, "What was your name at first?"

"You'll never be able to guess it with your brain. I'm afraid you'll learn bad things if I don't tell you." Xie Hushan smiled and changed the subject.

"Si Ling, let me sing a song to boost the morale of the team." Lao Meng said to Xie Hushan while pulling the cart.

Xie Hushan looked at the houses around him:

"Sing for nothing! You want our troops to be trapped in a vast sea of ​​people and be completely surrounded and annihilated. It's not right to sing in your own village in the middle of the night. Wait until you get to another village to sing."

"What if the other villages surround us after they finish singing?"

"You are stupid. People in other villages would run faster after singing because they wouldn't recognize you. But if you howl in Zhongping Village, we won't even have to wait until dawn to get beaten. Old Han will chase us to the market and beat us!"

"That's a great idea! Then I'll go to Gaozhuangzi next door to sing." After saying this, Lao Meng obediently shut his mouth.

Xie Hushan held a flashlight in his hand to light the way and closed his eyes to take a nap.

As a result, as soon as he entered Gaozhuangzi, Lao Meng, who had always remembered this incident, raised his head and sang the song "Military and Civilian Production" that was often played on the brigade's loudspeaker:
"Liberate the areas! Mass production!"

Half of the dogs in the village started barking because of Lao Meng's shout. Xie Hushan and Han Hongzhen also opened their eyes because of the shout, and looked at Lao Meng who suddenly started singing with some confusion.

"Stop singing! It was you who led the Japanese here!" Xie Hushan looked around, reacted, jumped off the car, pushed Lao Meng away, and pulled the car forward like a donkey, cursing as he ran:

"You are not singing, you are sending a signal to the young and old men in Gaozhuangzi, telling them that I, Xie Husaner, have entered the village and are preparing to ambush me!"

"What's wrong?" Lao Meng hadn't realized the problem yet, but he was quick to act. Seeing Xie Hushan pulling the cart, he simply sat on the eaves of the cart and helped Xie Hushan light the way with a flashlight.

"Sing it when you are about to leave the village. You start howling as soon as you enter the village. Do you still want to get out alive? The Japs entered the village and they knew how to work quietly. They didn't even shoot!"

Xie Hushan pulled the rattling cart and threw Han Hongzhen off the cart. The three of them drove through Gaozhuangzi Village in one breath. After making sure that no one came out to curse, Xie Hushan stopped to catch his breath and severely scolded Lao Meng for wanting to kill him and that he would be the one responsible.

But after scolding him, he stuffed a candy melon into Lao Meng's mouth:
"Eat sparingly and go pull a cart! You traitor!"

Lao Meng chuckled and went to pull the cart obediently. Han Hongzhen sat back in the cart. Because of the jog just now, she was breathing rapidly. Her chest was slightly heaving, and there was a smile on her face.

For some reason, Han Hongzhen felt that although what Xie Hushan and Lao Meng did just now was quite stupid, it looked very funny, just like Xie Hushan playing with a stick in the middle of the night, which made her want to laugh.

Seeing her like that, Xie Hushan felt that he had to teach her a lesson, otherwise after a period of time, this young widow would think that marrying a fool like him was fun. Her life was already hard enough, she couldn't marry the previous man and become a widow, and after marrying him, he ran away to Hong Kong Island, and she was still a widow.

"Those women who set up stalls to sell food have been taken advantage of by the people at the steamed bun stalls, right? And it was consensual."

Upon hearing this, Han Hongzhen came back to her senses and looked at Xie Hushan in surprise: "How did you know? I didn't tell you?"

Xie Hushan went to the market yesterday, and arrived when the market was almost over. Moreover, the other party did not flirt with him when he was there. How come this guy already knew about it?
"I'm not blind. I can tell from their eyes that if they flirt with you, touch you a few times, and try to take advantage of you, the bun stall will help them reserve a spot. After the buns are sold, they can even help them sell more. You don't know what's good for you, so the stall can only be placed in a corner. If you know what's good for you, they will definitely help you reserve the best spot every day."

Han Hongzhen had previously said that a few young men selling buns were bullying and being unscrupulous. After he looked into the situation, he decided that this was true or not.

Generally, there are women in the sideline job group, especially those who set up stalls, where most of the people are women. Firstly, men are the main strong labor force of the production team, and sending them to do side jobs will delay production; secondly, when it comes to setting up stalls, women are more attentive and more friendly than men.

The four guys running the bun stall had a side job and had connections to work in the meat gang to make money. Except for the older guy in charge of making buns, who was in his forties, the other three were all young men in their twenties who were still single and exactly the age when they wanted women.

It's nothing more than showing goodwill with meat buns first, then helping to reserve a seat to get familiar with the person, and finally helping to drum up some business. After all this, the relationship can naturally develop into flirting and saying some ambiguous words.

The women who set up stalls are basically married, and they understand what the men are thinking. It's nothing more than letting the other party take advantage of them physically, such as touching or kissing. As for going into cornfields with men for the team's business, that is impossible. The women who set up stalls are very practical. The business belongs to the production team, and no matter how selfless they are, they would not sacrifice themselves for it.

At most, it is to let the other party organize business for oneself, give the other party some small discounts in exchange for closing the stall and going home early after selling, and each party gets what they want.

To put it bluntly, the four men, because they had the most traffic, regarded themselves as the leaders of the lion group and thought they could tease any of the female lions around them.

Although Han Hongzhen is also married, she encountered the earthquake right after her marriage. Her mentality has always been no different from that of unmarried women. Her atmosphere is very conservative, so she will naturally be excluded and isolated by those who cannot take advantage of her.

"I have hands and feet, there's no need to hold a seat for me. If you want, as the team leader, you can flirt with them yourself and let them touch you!" Hearing Xie Hushan blaming her for being tactless, Han Hongzhen tightened her pretty face and said in a cold voice.

Xie Hushan took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and looked at Han Hongzhen:
"I don't blame you. What I mean is that they want to flirt with young girls and wives. I want to do that too. Business is booming, and there are women around to flirt with and touch. It's a wonderful thought. But there is a problem that bothers me and needs to be solved urgently."

"..." Han Hongzhen's face became even uglier when she heard Xie Hushan say that he also wanted to take advantage of women. She almost squeezed out her voice through her teeth: "What problem do you want to solve?"

"I want to touch the flirting young girls and wives, I want the thriving food business, but I want to squeeze those guys' bun stalls to the location of the wonton stalls, so that I can make money while touching and flirting with young girls and wives."

Han Hongzhen looked at Xie Hushan, not knowing what to say for a moment. She opened her mouth, her face full of shock and speechlessness.

Only a gangster could say such words...

You stole someone's lover and business, and now you want the other person to have to watch?

They are even less human than those four bald guys selling steamed buns...

Xie Hushan had already asked Lao Meng, "Comrade Lao Meng, what should we do if a group of people now come to us to fight for our territory like Han Lao Er and his gang did back then?"

"Persuade him to surrender! Recruit him to be the chief of staff, and let the brothers live a good life with us!" Lao Meng said loudly.

Xie Hushan smiled and continued, "What if I don't want to surrender?"

"Then just fight them and beat them down!"

(End of this chapter)