Chapter 116: Hu San received a large silver dollar

  It was a little past midnight, and Dong Li Mao and Li Yuanyuan emerged from the underground hot spring cave. At this time, the hot spring resort was no longer bustling with activity, as all the guests who were staying overnight had entered into their fragrant dreams.

  Li Yuanyuan usually slept in the house with a secret door in the wardrobe at night and during the day, except when there were many guests or important matters to discuss, she would go to the underground rock cave.

  Dong Li Mao and Li Yuanyuan entered the house through a back door, whereupon they saw that the room was lit up. Cui Jie was sitting at the head of the bed doing needlework, keeping watch for the two of them.

  Cui Jie smiled and stood up, looking at Li Yuanyuan and asked Dong Limao: "Dong Lianzhang, aren't you staying here tonight?"

  This was after all a brothel, Dong Li Mao didn't feel embarrassed, and replied: "No thanks, thank you Cui sister, tell me which room that fat guy is sleeping in?"

  "I'll take you there," said Cui Jie as she walked out of the house, seemingly intentionally wanting to let the two have a private farewell.

  Dong Li Mao hugged Li Yuanyuan tightly and kissed her lips, saying: "Sister, take care of yourself, we will meet again."

  "You should be more careful too." Li Yuanyuan touched Dong Limao's cheek and said with a concerned expression.

  Dong Li Mao nodded and turned around to walk out of the house. Inside, Li Yuanyuan closed the door with a creak.

  Cuī jiě brought Dong Li Mao to the front building upstairs, turned two corners, and stood in front of a house door saying: "He should still be sleeping, do you want me to go in and wake him up?"

  "No, I'll go in and call him myself." Dong Li Mao pushed open the door, and before stepping inside, he said to Cui Jie, "By the way, Cui Jie, would you mind finding my orderly for me?"

  Inside the house, a single oil lamp was lit, casting dim light. Dong Li Mao walked directly over and plopped himself down on the edge of the bed, gazing at Pan Guang Zu's massive bulk sprawled out on the flower-patterned bed, snoring loudly, his female companion nowhere to be seen.

  Pan Guangzu felt someone staring at him in his sleep, without opening his eyes, thinking it was the girl he had found last night wanting to get up and leave, so he reached out and touched Dong Limao's thigh: "Sleep for a while longer." Feeling something was off, he was startled and quickly sat up, only then seeing clearly that it was Dong Limao.

  "Then... then how long... you... how did you end up here?" Pan Guangzu's eyes gleamed, his gaze darting back and forth.

  "Fatty, how's it going? The taste of Gentle Village isn't bad, right?" Dong Li Mao smiled and took a glance at Pan Guang Zu: "Tsk tsk... this thing of yours seems to be quite mismatched with your body, the teapot mouth is even bigger than it."

  Pan Guangzu pulled the quilt over him, smiling awkwardly: "Hehe... only whores don't care if a man is big or small, they take them all... Hehe..."

  "Haha……well said! All sizes are welcome! Haha……our special forces should be like prostitutes, taking on the little devils of all sizes!" Dong Li Mao thought that they would soon face over 300 elite Japanese troops, and their special forces had to win with fewer numbers, using weakness to defeat strength. If they didn't use some clever tricks and think things through carefully, it would be impossible to get this pack of wolves to show their tails, let alone thoroughly annihilate them.

  "What about the second one?" Pan Guangzu asked Dong Li Mao while putting on his clothes.

  "Heh, heh... He left you all alone here and ran back himself. Otherwise, how would I have known you were in this cozy little nest?" Dong Li Mao's words had just fallen when they heard Hu San shouting "Report!" at the door, his voice trembling with sobs.

  "Xiao Huzi is also here?" Pan Guangzu looked at Dong Limao and asked, "He seems to be crying, doesn't he?" with a somewhat strange tone.

  "Come in, Little Huzi." Dong Limao got up from the bed and saw Hu San pushing the door with a crying face: "What's wrong? Did that little red girl bully you?"

  "Leader... I..." Hu San hung his head, squeezed his legs together, and blushed like a big girl, saying: "I was taken by that... that..."

  "Whore." Dong Li Mao helped Hu San say it out loud.

  "No! Little Red isn't a prostitute!" Hu San loudly argued back, as if Dong Li Mao's words had stabbed him in the heart.

  "Haha... Fatty, did you hear that? Our Little Hu has been mesmerized by a slut, haha..." Dong Li Mao and Pan Guang Zu burst into loud laughter.

  "Don't you dare call Little Red Girl a prostitute!" Hu San's face turned red as he shouted.

  "Haha...not a prostitute...Little Red Girl is not a prostitute...haha..." Dong Limao laughed uncontrollably.

  "Little Huzi, tell me what that little red girl did to you?" Pan Guangzu stopped laughing and asked Hu San in a huddle.

  "She... she's messed me around three times..." Hu San said with a mixture of shyness and grievance.

  "Is that so?" Dong Li Mao put on a serious face: "This little girl... oh... no, Little Red is too bold! She actually dared to mess with the adjutant of the special forces commander three times! Come! I'll take you to find her and settle the score!"

  "Hold on..." Hu San hastily said: "Little Red is asleep." Then he added in a low voice: "Not only did she not take my money, but she also gave me a dollar." As he spoke, he showed the dollar in his hand to Dong Li Mao and Pan Guang Zu: "Boss, do you think I should accept this dollar?"

  Dong Li Mao smiled and looked at Pan Guang Zu, then said seriously: "Accept it! Of course you have to accept it! This is a reward from Little Red Girl, this big ocean, proves that your little mustache has become a real man! Not only do you have to accept it, but you also have to keep this big ocean well and leave it as a souvenir."

  Pan Guangzu stood on one side and secretly rejoiced.

  "So that means I'm a big shot now too? Haha... I've also become a real big shot just like you, Lianzhang!" Hu San exclaimed excitedly.

  "This big ocean, you'd better take good care of it, I and the quartermaster want it, but we don't have the qualifications yet, right? Fatty?" said Dong Li Mao.

  "That's right, that's right! Only you little Hu Zi has this good fortune, being messed with three times at the first try. It seems that you little guy is much better than me, Pang Guang Zu said with some jealousy."

  "But I feel like this big ocean is like selling one's body, it's heavy and pressing down on me."

  "Don't daydream, we should head back too, there's a big deal to take care of tomorrow." Dong Limao said as he walked over and put his arm around Hu San's shoulder, asking: "How was it? Little Hu, did the little red girl serve you well?"

  Hu San scratched his head, smiling awkwardly: "If I had known it would be so comfortable, I should have... hehe... now I finally understand why Lian Chang likes to visit brothels."

  Dong Li Mao was taken aback: "I like strolling in alleys? When did I ever like strolling in alleys?"

  "In the past, every time you and Zhu Pai Zhang arrived at a place, didn't you always go to visit the kiln? Have you forgotten, Commander Lian?" Little Whiskers said, turning his head to look at Dong Li Mao.

  Dong Li Mao only then knew that his own great-grandfather and his subordinates often visited brothels, and was left speechless for a moment.

  Hu San thought that mentioning Zhu Yongsheng would make Dong Limao unhappy, so he whispered: "Sorry, Commander Lian, I shouldn't have mentioned Captain Zhu..."

  "It's okay, don't blame yourself." Dong Li Mao patted Hu San on the shoulder and let out a deep sigh.

  Dolan Xiang finished her bath, changed her clothes, and couldn't sleep. She was waiting for Dong Li Mao. As the night grew deeper, she still didn't see her brother Dong return. This made her heart increasingly anxious. She couldn't sit still in the room anymore, so she walked out of the door and paced back and forth in the courtyard, occasionally glancing at the entrance.

  "Brother Dong, isn't he coming back to stay tonight? Is he with some woman at this hour...?" Dao Lanxiang didn't want to think about it, but as soon as she thought that Dong Limao might be fooling around with some woman at the hot spring resort, her heart ached and tears almost fell.

  A young girl in her puberty, with a heart as delicate as silk, Knife Lan Xiang was born into the family of a local official. From a young age, she had grown accustomed to seeing her father's over a dozen wives surrounding him, living a life of extravagance. She did not hope that her future husband would be like her father, and she yearned for a love that belonged only to her. Unbeknownst to herself, she fell in love with Dong Li Mao. Although she had heard from the soldiers of the special task force that her "Dong Ge" already had a wife and children in Chengdu, she still loved him. Of course, she did not know that Dong Li Mao was not Dong Jia Cheng.

  "Lan Xiang, why are you standing in the courtyard? Why haven't you gone to sleep yet?" Dong Li Mao walked into the courtyard and saw Knife Lan Xiang standing under an osmanthus tree, so he went up and asked.

  Pan Guangzu and Hu San wisely went back to their rooms to sleep.

  Dalan Xiang saw Dong Li Mao, and without noticing the two sentries at the door, she rushed into his arms. The sour tears that had been held back could no longer be contained, and she whispered through her sobs: "Big Brother Dong, I thought you weren't coming back to sleep tonight."

  Dong Li Mao thought of the love he had with Li Yuanyuan in the underground cave earlier, and suddenly felt a pang of guilt in his heart, thinking that he had done something wrong and owed an apology to the woman in his arms. He forced a smile and said: "I'm back now, aren't I?" At the same time, he thought to himself: "If only this woman were Bai Ruyan, how great it would be!"

  "How come you've been gone for so long?" Dou Lanxiang said with a hint of blame, tightly hugging Dong Limao with both hands.

  "That... fatty... " Dong Li Mao wanted to explain something, but didn't know how to explain, and muttered: "Lan Xiang, let go quickly, there are brothers watching."

  Dolan Xiang finally let go of Dong Li Mao, looking embarrassed as he turned his head to one side and wiped away tears with the back of his hand. He said softly, "Do you know how worried they were?"

  "Hehe...... I'm not going to the battlefield, just going to ransom Fatty back." Dong Li Mao naturally understood that Dao Lan Xiang was jealous, but his heart felt warm.

  "Dong Ge, did you really owe that...that...brothel money?" Dao Lanxiang stared at Dong Limao and asked.

  "Cough... it was a misunderstanding, I came to Tengchong for the first time, how could I owe them money? They recognized the wrong person." Dong Li Mao said so, but in his heart, he didn't think so. Maybe, Old Master Tai had really been with the tyrant chicken before.

  "King Paichang said it with such flair that I really thought you, Brother Dong..." Dao Lanxiang's eyebrows relaxed, seemingly believing what Dong Limao had said.

  "Alright, stop thinking so much and go back to sleep. I'm sleepy too." Dong Li Mao was indeed sleepy, he yawned and said, accompanying Jian Lan Xiang to the door of her bedroom, bid her goodnight before heading towards his own house.