Draw the sword and cure the fear of insufficient firepower

Zhaojiayu, the headquarters of the independent regiment.

Li Yunlong was sitting on the kang, soaking his feet and humming a little tune. He was happier than a god.

【Dong dong dong! 】

There was a knock on the door. Li Yunlong didn't say anything, but started wiping his feet with a rag.

"Who?"

Guard Hu Zi quickly stood up to check.

"it's me."

A female voice was heard. Hu Zi opened the door and saw that it was Comrade Xiuqin from the Zhaojiayu Women's Rescue Association.

Hu Zi: "What's the matter?"

Xiuqin didn't waste time talking to Huzi. She walked in without raising her head and said, "I'm going to report to the team leader!"

Hu Zi quickly stopped Xiu Qin and said, "Hey, sister Xiu Qin, it's so late, the leader has gone to bed, let's talk about it tomorrow."

From Hu Zi's perspective, the members of the Women's Rescue Association are all young girls and wives. In the words of the group leader, they are a bunch of old women.

What kind of important work could this old woman have that she has to come and report in the middle of the night?

The team leader has been very busy these days. It's already late at night and he just came back from outside. He was about to take a rest when he was disturbed by a little girl.

Xiuqin was unhappy when she heard this. She raised her pretty face, put her hands on her hips, and stared with her big eyes: "Hey! The captain didn't chase me away, but you did! I didn't come to find you, why do you have to be so nosy?!"

Xiuqin had come to look for the group leader these days, but he was not there. It was not easy to get caught once. How could she go back when she was so close? If she went back, she would be so angry that she would not be able to sleep well tonight.

Hu Zi was speechless for a moment. Before he could recover from Xiuqin's retort, he heard Li Yunlong's voice coming from inside the room: "Hu Zi! How can you talk to local comrades like that? Comrade Xiuqin is talking to me, it's a public matter, don't get involved! Go back to sleep!"

When Xiuqin heard what Li Yunlong said, she immediately became much more proud. She turned around and walked around Huzi. When she passed by Huzi, Xiuqin did not forget to hum with pride.

Hu Zi was completely confused. The captain was staying in the same room with a female comrade in the middle of the night, and the kang in the room was quite warm...

However, since the team leader has spoken, I have no choice but to do as he says. If I act on my own and get promoted by the team leader tomorrow, that would not be worth it.

And this Xiuqin, a little girl, in the middle of the night...

Hu Zi closed the door in dismay, scratched his head and muttered: "This girl...why did she get angry at me? I didn't provoke her, how can I find a husband in the future with such a bad temper?"

But these things are not something that a guard like him should worry about...

Xiuqin poked her head into the inner room, Li Yunlong's room. The energy she had just shown towards Hu Zi immediately disappeared, replaced by shyness.

Xiuqin lowered her head, looked at her toes, touched her thick, black braid, and did not dare to speak.

Li Yunlong's face was filled with a warm smile, and he said while wiping his feet: "Haha, sister Xiuqin, don't argue with Huzi. Huzi is an honest boy with a sincere heart. He has never dealt with female comrades and doesn't know the rules. I will criticize him tomorrow!"

When Xiuqin heard that Li Yunlong was still very caring towards her, she smiled slightly, and the man in front of her became even warmer.

"Hey, Captain, why is there such a big blister on your foot? Let me take a look!"

As she was speaking, Xiuqin glanced and saw a big black blood blister on Li Yunlong's big foot. She immediately felt distressed. Regardless of what Li Yunlong thought, she simply grabbed Li Yunlong's big foot and started to look at it.

"Hey, no, no, no, Xiuqin..." Li Yunlong was shocked, but just as the words of rejection came to his lips, he looked up and saw Xiuqin's big watery eyes full of heartache, and he forced himself to hold the words back.

"Haha..." Li Yunlong laughed dryly. "My feet have become spoiled after not being used for a long time. I got a blister after walking a short distance."

When interacting with female comrades, Li Yunlong spoke in a much more gentle and polite manner, and his voice became softer.

If Ding Wei and Kong Jie were here and saw Li Yunlong in this state, they would be shocked and wonder if Li Yunlong was given birth to again by his mother. He was completely reborn.

"Captain, where are the new shoes I gave you? Why aren't you wearing them? Why did you give them to Political Commissar Zhao? I saw it all!"

"She was sewing the soles of the shoes until her hands were torn, and you turned around and gave it to Political Commissar Zhao!"

"If Political Commissar Zhao has no shoes to wear, you can tell our Women's Rescue Association. We have made so many pairs of shoes, how can there be no shoes for Political Commissar Zhao to wear?"

When Xiuqin heard this, she immediately became unhappy. It was not that her feet were spoiled at all. It was clearly because the captain wore a pair of shoes with holes on the soles that caused blisters on his feet.

She had stayed up all night to make a pair of new shoes for the team leader. Xiuqin didn't know how big Li Yunlong's feet were, so in order to make the shoes, she looked for Li Yunlong's complete footprints every day, and only then did she know the size.

Moreover, she took out the pair of shoes she made from a bundle of shoes in front of the team leader and handed them to him personally.

But this guy, the regiment commander, gave the new shoes that I gave him to Political Commissar Zhao. This... this is simply outrageous!

It was a pity that her good intentions were wasted, and Xiuqin immediately felt aggrieved.

Li Yunlong didn't know that the pair of shoes was made for him by Xiuqin herself after staying up late at night. He thought it was made by the Women's Rescue Association.

How could he, a rough guy, think about those things? He just kept silent.

Xiuqin didn't ask any more questions. She hugged Li Yunlong's feet, turned around, picked up a needlework box from the kang, and picked out an embroidery needle: "Hurry up, I'll pick it for you!"

"Hey... Hey... Xiuqin... don't... this is not appropriate... this..." Li Yunlong hurriedly tried to stop them. It was dark here, a man and a woman were alone, and they were already having physical contact.

But Li Yunlong couldn't bear to give up this feeling, and seeing that Xiuqin had no intention of letting go, he just let her go.

Xiuqin used a match to light a kerosene lamp on the table, warmed the embroidery needle over the fire, and then stabbed it into the blister on Li Yunlong's foot. After a while of prodding, the blister dissipated visibly, and Li Yunlong felt much more comfortable.

Li Yunlong stared at Xiuqin's serious expression, and felt a little strange in his heart. This was a feeling he had never had before. The rural woman in front of him was thoughtful and meticulous, and her character revealed an inexplicable sense of closeness. Li Yunlong seemed to feel his heartbeat accelerating.

Not only is the heartbeat speeding up, but it's also beating very fast.

Back then, when he was fighting the Japanese, his heartbeat had never been this fast...

This rural man from Dabie Mountains, a tough guy who had been through rain and blood, mountains of swords and seas of fire, a man who had never been soft in his life, at this moment truly touched the softness buried deep in his heart.

That is... the love between children...