Captain of South Korea

  At that time, the catering industry was not as developed as it is now. The restaurant Han Tao mentioned was still a few miles away from the training ground, but it was already one of the closest ones. Lin Zhenhua and others transported equipment over and opened a Liberation-brand truck, which could serve as a means of transportation. Workers and police officers climbed onto the cargo bed together, Lin Zhenhua gave up the two seats in the driver's cab to Wei Jingwen and Han Tao, and he himself squeezed into the cargo bed with everyone else.

  After a few miles of driving, the truck arrived. This is a common residential house in the south, with a large house, doors on all sides, three rooms on each side, and a hall and sky well in the middle. At the door of the house, a sign was hung with the words "For the People's Restaurant".

  Although it was meal time, there were no people in the restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was sitting at the entrance, staring blankly, when suddenly a truckload of people arrived, and his first reaction was to be so frightened that his legs went soft. Occasionally, police from the nearby Public Security Training Center would come to eat, but it was rare for them to arrive in a big way like this, and anyone would think they were up to no good.

  "Lao Du, we have guests arriving." Han Tao shouted out from the driver's cabin.

  "Oh, it's Captain Han! Mr. Du finally came back to his senses, beaming with a smile as he greeted Han Tao, "What's this? You have guests today?"

  "Come on, let me introduce you. This is Manager Lin from Hanhua Industrial Company." Han Tao pulled Lin Zhenhua over and made the introduction to Boss Du, then said: "Today, Manager Lin has come to install equipment for us, and we'll have lunch together. Manager Lin was very polite and insisted that he would treat us, so we came here. Boss Du, I told you, just order a few dishes, but don't make it too expensive."

  Lin Zhenhua smiled and pushed Lan Wufeng to the front row, saying: "Captain Han is wrong. Today is our boss Lan's treat. Boss Lan is my friend, today he came with us to bother Captain Han, he felt embarrassed, so this meal should be his treat."

  Lan Wufeng and Xiong Lijun had been together for more than half a year, and he had learned some skills in dealing with people. He said to Boss Du: "Boss Du, I'm not any boss, I'm just Lin Ge's younger brother. Today, I came here to eat to show respect to Captain Han and all the police brothers. Whatever good dishes you have, bring them out, and the wine must be the best. Do you have Four Treasures? If the brothers haven't eaten well, I won't pay."

  "No problem, you go to Meiling and ask around, whose dish is better than mine." Old Du heard the relationship between them and was overjoyed. Whoever can order four special wines with one word must be a rich master, otherwise they would only order local second-rate wine like "Li Du Gaoliang".

  Workers and policemen swarmed into the house, filling two tables. The boss, the boss's wife, and the helpers were all busy, some pouring water for the guests, others fetching melon seeds, while a half-grown boy rode off on a Flying Pigeon cargo bike that was only slightly taller than he was, supposedly to buy wine at the commune's supply and marketing cooperative.

  While everyone was chatting, the wine and dishes were already ready. The good food in the countryside is nothing more than the four major items of chicken, duck, fish, and meat. Eight catties of trotters, one per table, with golden-brown pig skin underneath which was quivering with fat, just looking at it made people drool.

  "Everyone, let's get started!" Lin Zhenhua called out, holding up his chopsticks. This was originally something that Lan Wufeng should have said, but Lin Zhenhua also knew that Lan Wufeng wasn't good at this sort of thing.

  "Thank you, Manager Lin, thank you, Boss Lan." Han Tao said, holding up his wine glass.

  "Captain Han, don't call me Boss Lan, just like Lin Ge, call me Fengzi instead." Lan Wufeng said hastily.

  Lin Zhenhua added with a smile: "Fengzi has always been relatively low-key, but this peak is the peak of a mountain, not the crazy kind of crazy."

  "Haha, okay, then let's call him Fengzi," Han Tao replied, "Thank you, Fengzi, for treating us to such a sumptuous meal. This cup of wine, I'll drink first as a toast."

  "I don't dare, I don't dare." Lan Wufeng said, and he also hurriedly accompanied him in finishing the wine.

  "Just now you said you didn't pass the test, right?" Han Tao said to Lan Wufeng, "In the future, if you want to shoot a gun, come find me. We police are very poor, but we have plenty of bullets, enough for you to shoot."

  "Then I'll thank Captain Han in advance." Lan Wufeng said happily.

  Then everyone was too busy to talk, and they were all eating meat in big chunks. After a busy meal, everyone's stomachs were filled with food, and they came back to life, picking up their cups one by one and toasting each other for various reasons.

  "Manager Lin, I'm afraid we've made a fool of you." Han Tao looked at his subordinates and said to Lin Zhenhua with some embarrassment: "My soldiers are all training, they consume a lot of physical energy, and their appetite is also big. To be honest, it's rare for everyone to eat like this normally. Fengzi treating everyone to this meal can make up for several months of consumption."

  Lin Zhenhua asked curiously: "How is it that you have a low income?"

  "Of course it's low." Han Tao sighed, "This is a training center, there are no external tasks, so there is no subsidy. Relying on just a few dead salaries, what can be done? Everyone has elderly and young at home, the burden is very heavy."

  "It's the most difficult for Captain Han." A police officer interjected, "Captain Han's parents are in poor health, his wife was originally from a large collective unit, but now the unit can't make ends meet and is at home. The whole family relies on Captain Han alone to earn money."

  "I've been applying to leave the training center and go to a public security bureau downstairs, but they won't let me," said Han Tao with a wave of his hand.

  "Then, is your sister-in-law just staying at home and not doing anything?" Lin Zhenhua asked. The "sister-in-law" he referred to was naturally Han Tao's wife. This way of addressing someone was very popular in the army; if it were a factory, they would say "Master Mother" instead.

  "He said: 'She even got a license for an individual business, set up a small stall at the door of her house, but in a month, she can't earn more than 20 yuan, what's the point?'"

  "What is sister-in-law selling?" Lan Wufeng also asked, and now he has a better understanding of doing business.

  Han Tao said, "It's just selling needles and thread, but some people are also looking at my face and taking care of her business. Otherwise, she wouldn't even be able to earn a dozen or so yuan in a month."

  "Why don't you sell some electronic watches or something like that? The profit is relatively higher." Lan Wufeng continued to ask.

  "Where can we get the goods?" Han Tao said, "I do know that there are people selling these things in Nandu, and they make a lot of money. But they all get their goods from Guangzhou, where can we wholesale them in Nandu?"

  Lin Zhenhua looked at Lan Wufeng and then smiled: "Captain Han, do you know what Peak is doing?"

  Han Tao said: "I don't know, I was just about to ask, he doesn't seem to be from your Hanhua Industrial Company."

  Lin Zhenhua said: "Fengzi is indeed not a person from our company, he is my friend, he sells electronic watches, his goods are all from Guangzhou."

  "Really?" Han Tao's eyes lit up, and he seemed about to say something but stopped himself.

  Lan Wufeng immediately picked up the conversation: "Lin Ge is right. Captain Han, how about this? You take me to see your wife later, and I'll ask for her opinion. If she's willing to sell these goods, when I go to stock up, I can bring some over for her, it's very convenient."

  "That's too kind of you." Han Tao was overjoyed, "However, Fengzi, I can't take advantage of your kindness. The car fare for you to go to Guangzhou to purchase goods, I'll pay half."

  Lin Zhenhua waved his hand: "Captain Han, it's not necessary to say that. Fengzi was originally going to run Guangzhou too, just carrying a few more things. How can we let you spend money? I'll take care of this for Fengzi. Fengzi, tomorrow bring some goods from Fenghua and put them here at sister-in-law's place to try selling them. If they sell, we'll settle the price according to your purchase price. If not, you can just take them back."

  "No problem." Lan Wufeng replied readily.

  "This is too embarrassing." Han Tao said nervously, Lin Zhenhua's meaning was that Lan Wufeng would directly pawn the goods to his wife for sale, and if they couldn't be sold, he would have to take them all back. Such a good thing was simply a pie falling from the sky.

  Lan Wufeng said, "Captain Han, this is nothing. Who hasn't had a difficult situation? These things are just trivial matters to me. If you really can't let it go, I'll come to your place another day and we'll have a few more rounds of gunfire."

  Han Tao smiled wryly and said, "This has put me in a difficult position. To be honest, if it weren't for this matter, you would have come to my place to play basketball, and I would have found an excuse to let you win. But now that things are like this, it seems like I'm using public resources to return personal favors, which doesn't seem quite right."

  "This......" Lan Wufeng did not expect this layer and was suddenly choked for a moment.

  "Captain Han, don't think too much about it, these two things are not related." The police officer next to him quickly persuaded, afraid that this would delay the handling of Captain Han's wife's case.

  Lin Zhenhua asked tentatively, "Captain Han, I think Fengzi really likes shooting. I've been thinking, it's not right to always let him break the rules here. Do you have a paid shooting service? How much does it cost per shot? Why don't we just let Fengzi pay for it?"

  "That's right, I can pay for it." Lan Wufeng said.

  "There's no such system, how can you just pay money and shoot?" Han Tao said with a headache.

  The policeman on the side said, "How can there be none, Captain Han? We usually receive militia training, isn't it like this? They pay for the use of the venue and ammunition fees, we hand over all the money collected, this does not violate regulations. Next time when we have militia training, let Comrade Lan participate together, his part of the ammunition fee will be paid by himself, this way it won't violate regulations."

  "This is indeed... well, it can't be helped, Peakson. Look at this regulation, there's really no other way." Han Tao apologized to Lan Wufeng.

  Lan Wufeng asked: "No problem at all, I just like playing with guns, and I can definitely pay for it. By the way, Captain Han, how is this money calculated? How many yuan per bullet?"

  "How much does it cost?" Han Tao said, "According to the rules, one bullet is 5 cents, like you guys today, each of you fired 50 shots, that's two and a half yuan, can you afford it?"

  "That's perfectly fine." Lan Wufeng was overjoyed. If it were in the past, two dollars and fifty cents would indeed have made him wince, but now, selling one electronic watch could earn enough money to last a whole afternoon, how cheap!

  "Alright, it's settled then." Han Tao felt a weight lift off his shoulders as he resolved the issue of separating public and private matters. He raised his wine cup and said: "Fengzi, I'm entrusting your sister-in-law's matter to you. Here, let me thank you on her behalf first."

  "I don't dare, I don't dare, Captain Han, this is what I should do."

  "Alright, Fengzi, stop calling me Captain all the time. I'm entrusting you with a big responsibility, so just call me Brother Han from now on."

  "Brother Han!"

  "Come on, Fengzi, let's have a drink together."