Chapter 31

The fat man lost all the money he had won from Liu Kongkong without leaving a single bit, which made Liu Kongkong so excited that he couldn't control his words. The fat man took advantage of this and extracted a lot of valuable information, making it easier for him to sneak down the mountain and run away on the wedding day.

Sai Diaochan, a woman who was as skilled in martial arts and as cunning as he was, was someone he couldn't avoid, let alone marry. As for the "traitorous bone" imperial features, the fat man smiled and considered it just a joke, not taking it seriously.

He also learned from Liu Kongkong the general situation of the Tiger Mouth Bandit Camp. Due to the Japanese minefields and their encirclement of the surrounding anti-Japanese forces, the food supplies in the camp were almost depleted. Even though the camp had considerable wealth, there was no way to buy food.

Last night, Sai Laohu received information about the Japanese transporting food. According to Liu Kongkong's method, the fat man deduced that it was very likely that the Japanese were setting a trap to hunt the anti-Japanese heroes, to prevent them from raiding the real food transport.

Thinking this way, the events that his predecessor had experienced came to mind. Shallow Field might indeed do something like this. Qingzhou has always been a key transportation route, and the full-scale invasion of China was a long-planned move by the Japanese. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese would certainly take action. As the saying goes, "Before the troops move, the food and fodder must be ready." After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Japanese transported a large amount of supplies to prepare for the full-scale invasion. As for the defense forces at key transportation points, such as the Shallow Field Regiment, they would certainly take some action.

To clear out the anti-Japanese armed forces that were harassing the supply lines, his predecessor, while working as a Japanese interpreter, had seen countless reports on this at the Shallow Field Regiment headquarters.

Sai Laohu and Sai Diaochan, the sisters, had not shown up for two days and had left two men, one fat and one thin, to guard the door, claiming to protect him but actually to monitor him, fearing that the fat man would run away.

Liu Kongkong suddenly visited yesterday, and the fat man was also cautious. Wasn't he just trying to feel out the situation? Who knows who would play who!

Yesterday, the fat man set up a trap for Liu Kongkong, making him shake the dice and gamble. As long as someone liked gambling, he had a way to deal with them.

The fat man, a man without limits, had only one bottom line: never to do anything that betrayed the country or the nation. Seeing Sai Laohu lead the bandits into the Japanese trap, he felt that the thirty brave brothers who died were not worth it, and he despised Sai Laohu's actions. These were thirty brave men who dared to fight the Japanese!

He couldn't understand why Sai Diaochan, who was as cunning as he was, didn't try to stop Sai Laohu's rash actions. He decided to use the two men guarding the door, who were supposedly protecting him but were actually monitoring him, to prevent Sai Laohu from sacrificing the brothers' lives just for some food. Was human life less important than food? This was not how things should be played.

"Monkey, go tell the second boss that Fat Master misses her. Tell her to clean up and come quickly to see your Fat Master!" The fat man, still harboring resentment from being tricked by Sai Diaochan, wanted to get some verbal satisfaction. The two bandits outside, one named Monkey, was thin and agile, and the other named Dog Bear, was strong and muscular but not very smart.

"Ah? Master, can we wait until the wedding night?" Monkey, upon hearing this, wondered if the fat man's thoughts were impure and hesitated. However, after being beaten by the fat man, he had already changed his address to "Master," but he refused to change it to "Master," and the fat man could only let it be, thinking that he would eventually run away anyway.

"Wait your sister, if you keep blabbering, do a thousand push-ups for Fat Master, one less and one slap, you decide!" The fat man shouted angrily. For the past two days, besides gambling with Liu Kongkong, he had been tormenting the two guards, and even the strong Dog Bear was complaining, let alone the thin Monkey.

"Scared... I'll go then." Monkey shivered, regretting that he thought this was an easy job when the fat man gave them food and drink. He never expected the fat man's bizarre punishments, which almost killed him.

Monkey quickly went to fetch Sai Diaochan, and the fat man, with nothing to do, decided to torment Dog Bear: "Dog Bear, do a thousand push-ups, quickly, one less and no dinner for you today!"

"Ah, Master, can I also go fetch someone?" Dog Bear shivered, his brain finally working, but only because of the fat man's pressure.

"No!" The fat man, bare-chested, wearing a pair of shorts, sat in a reclining chair, eating melon seeds, fanning himself, and feeling very comfortable.

Dog Bear groaned, in this hot weather, a thousand push-ups?

Yesterday, when the fat man taught him push-ups, it seemed fun, but after a hundred, Dog Bear wanted to vomit at the mention of "push-ups." He hated the fat man the most in the entire camp.

When Sai Diaochan and Xiaocui arrived at the fat man's room, they saw Dog Bear almost exhausted, still struggling to do the push-ups, counting out loud, but with his low IQ, he couldn't count to a thousand. Every time he reached a hundred, his brain turned to mush, and he had to start over.

"Master, the second boss is here." Monkey, seeing Dog Bear do push-ups, turned pale and reported carefully, not wanting to anger the fat man.

"Hmm." The fat man didn't even look up, lying in the reclining chair, fanning himself.

"You are so rude, the second boss is here, and you don't even welcome her. Do you really think you're something special?" Xiaocui had no good impression of the fat man, her buttocks still sore from his beating.

The fat man ignored Xiaocui, silently telling her that she wasn't worthy of his attention, which infuriated her.

"You..." Xiaocui was about to explode but was pulled back by Sai Diaochan.

"You are quite at ease!" Sai Diaochan, seeing the fat man's carefree attitude, spoke harshly. The fat man's activities over the past two days, as reported by Monkey and Dog Bear, included gambling, tormenting, and doing nothing. The Tiger Mouth Bandit Camp was not a place for idlers, and he certainly didn't have the looks of a pretty boy.

"Of course, better than some people who are busy to the point of killing thirty brothers." The fat man fanned himself, speaking sarcastically.

"Don't be so sharp-tongued!" Sai Diaochan's eyes flashed with cold light. This was a very painful event for everyone. If it weren't for the need to quickly obtain food, the thirty brothers wouldn't have lost their lives. They were the best fighters in the camp!