Overseas Chinese are definitely a group of very business-minded people!

In the beginning, Ramgarh was nothing more than a prisoner of war camp, located in a remote river valley, except for prisoners of war, there were some British and Indian soldiers who held prisoners of war, and the so-called small town was just a street, and there were several restaurants and shops owned by Indians on the street, which served the British and Indian soldiers who were holding prisoners of war.

However, since the prisoner of war camp became a training camp, the American soldiers who spent a lot of money came, and a large number of officers and soldiers stationed in India also came, so the overseas Chinese in India who smelled the business opportunities flocked to the camp, and Chinese restaurants sprung up like mushrooms after a rain...... All kinds of authentic Chinese dishes were available, which were not only welcomed by the officers and soldiers stationed in India, but also attracted a large number of British and American officers and soldiers, so that the remote Lamgar suddenly became bustling.

When they first entered the training camp, the officers and soldiers stationed in India rarely came to the town to consume, after all, they were shy in their pockets.

Now it was different, at the end of August, the officers and men stationed in India received their first salaries, and the ordinary soldiers received twenty rupees.

Is twenty rupees more or less?

Of course, there is no comparison with the military salaries of British and American soldiers.

Locally, though, an Indian cleaner can only earn three or four rupees a month, while one rupee can buy more than a dozen chickens!

After receiving military salaries, the soldiers of the national army who are used to being poor have turned into a large amount of money, where can they still sit still?

So, on the first rest day in September, the town was crowded with people, the streets were full of soldiers and soldiers stationed in India, and every Chinese restaurant was packed.

The food provided by the British side is really not bad, but after all, the diet does not meet the eating habits of the soldiers, and they will get tired of eating every day!

After receiving the military salary, Li Siwei will naturally not be stingy, what is the reason for not spending a lot of rupees?

You can't use it when you send it home!

Besides, the Li family has land and a house, but there is no shortage of money!

Li Siwei took his two daughters to the town early, found a Sichuan restaurant and ordered a plate of fried pork liver, a plate of mapo tofu, and a bowl of chive egg soup, and ate it beautifully.

The restaurant is not big, but more than a dozen tables are crowded, and the food servers are running around, smiling and smiling, and all the officers and men are feasting, and the voices of talk and laughter and admiration are endless.

This is the only way to have a dining atmosphere!

As soon as the meal was served, Li Siwei and the two girls started to move.

The pork liver with pickled pepper is sour and spicy and tender, the mapo tofu is spicy and refreshing, and the chive egg soup is full of umami...... In a short time, a small pot of white rice on the table was at the bottom, and two vegetable plates and a soup bowl were empty.

"Uh...... Hiccup......"

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Li Siwei sighed with satisfaction, "Alas, it still tastes good in my hometown!" ”

"Hmmm......"

Ning Rou and Wu Ruolan also nodded with a red face, and hurriedly picked up the teacup and rinsed their mouths.

Of course, what they just ate was not elegant.

"Boss,"

Seeing this, Li Siwei hurriedly took out a stack of rupees, turned his head and shouted at the boss on the counter, "Check out!" ”

"Okay!"

Hearing that someone was paying the bill, the boss suddenly trotted over with a smile, "Sir, the taste is okay, right?" ”

"Not bad! Very good! ”

Looking at the boss's smiling fat face, Li Siwei also smiled heartily, "A lot of money?" ”

"Eight rupees,"

After that, the boss hurriedly smiled with a smile on his face, "It's good if you give seven rupees......

The boss didn't finish speaking, but when he saw Li Siwei's smile stiffened, he collapsed, and hurriedly complained, "Sir, you don't know!" This pickled pepper pork liver alone costs three rupees to pay off......"

"Hehe......"

Seeing this, Li Siwei hurriedly smiled again, pretending to order seven rupees and handed it over, "I know, the ingredients are not easy to get!" ”

The so-called fellow has tears in his eyes when he sees the fellow, but once the fellow wants to slaughter the fellow, it will be a knife and a blood!

However, the food has already gone down, and Li Siwei can only pretend to be generous!

"Four-dimensional,"

Out of the restaurant, Wu Ruolan took Li Siwei's arm and comforted in a low voice, "Let's change restaurants next time...... I've heard that you can eat a big table of food in an Indian restaurant for only one rupee! ”

"Uh......"

Li Siwei was stunned, smiled and shook his head, "It's not easy to eat a hometown meal, these seven rupees are worth it!" ”

"Poof......

Ning Rou on the side smiled and glanced at Li Siwei, "Then you still had a broken face just now?" Scared the boss of the family! ”

Wu Ruolan also looked at Li Siwei and laughed "sneering......".

"Uh......"

Seeing the reaction of the two women, Li Siwei smiled and laughed, "I've been working hard to be generous just now!" ”

"Poof......

The two girls were even happier, and said in unison, "That's because you don't pretend!" ”

"Isn't it like?"

Li Siwei looked at the two women with a smile, and casually took out a stack of rupees and raised them, "Then pretend again...... Go buy Coke and popcorn! ”

"Okay!"

The two girls happily agreed, pulled Li Siwei's arm left and right, and walked to the door of the cinema.

Isn't there a line in the English song of "Time Goes By" - "In the drive-in theater we sit in the back row, Coke and popcorn race over champagne and caviar"?

The two girls have never eaten or drunk champagne, let alone caviar, so they naturally don't know if what is sung in the song is true, but when they think about the scene in the song, they feel very beautiful - sitting in the dimly lit movie theater with their beloved, drinking Coke and eating popcorn, feeling the joys and sorrows of the movie together.

Seeing the excited appearance of the two girls, Li Siwei's face was filled with a happy smile, and the two girls walked to the movie theater at the corner of the street.

It's still early, and most of the crowds are gathered in front of restaurants or street stalls, and the entrance to the cinema is not very crowded.

There were four guards with guns standing at the entrance of the movie theater, and the movie theater in the training camp was open to officers and soldiers stationed in India for free, but not for civilians.

There are three or five stalls on either side of the steps at the entrance, where Indian women are selling cola, cigarettes, popcorn...... There were also a lot of officers and soldiers stationed in India crowded in front of the stalls, some were feasting on Coke popcorn, and some were bargaining with the stall owners.

Even with money, the officers and soldiers maintained the habit of careful calculation, after all, they were afraid of poverty!

Moreover, the Indian women with headscarves had a warm smile despite their dark skin, and their teeth were snow-white when they laughed.

"Commander,"

As soon as Li Siwei and the two girls approached, Wei squeezed out of it with a knife, and when he saw Li Siwei, he greeted him with a smile, and hurriedly opened the small tin jar he was holding in his hand, took out a cigarette, and handed it to Li Siwei, "This is Indian cigarette, can you ......taste it?"

"Okay!"

As a senior smoker, Li Siwei naturally would not refuse, so he took it with a smile and leaned it to his nose, and then sniffed vigorously, "Yes, the aroma is very mellow!" ”

As he spoke, Li Siwei took a cigarette, lit it and took two puffs under the coquettish eyes of the two women, slowly spit out the smoke ring, and looked at Wei Yidao with a smile, "A lot of money and a can?" ”

"Originally, there were twelve paisa,"

Wei Yidao's face was dark, "Each of our seven brothers bought a can, and we only gave a total of eighty pies...... Hey, these women are so talkative! ”

One rupee can be exchanged for a hundred pies, which is not expensive.

"Lao Tzu is also going to buy a can,"

Hearing this, Li Siwei walked to the side of the stall.

"Let's let go,"

Wei Yidao hurriedly followed, and yelled at the brothers who were still surrounding the stall and pestering the stall owner, "Make way for the head of the group!" ”

"Commander,"

Hearing Wei Yidao's roar, the brothers gathered around the stall sneered and made way of the way, and many people's eyes were still glancing at the stall owner.

"Turtle's,"

Li Siwei naturally knew the thoughts of these brothers, and smiled, "Indian women have taste, right?" ”

The so-called three years in the army, that ...... Whatever.

In the past, the brothers endured it, but now that life is comfortable, the thoughts that have been suppressed for a long time come out.

Hearing this, some people turned red and laughed wryly, while others laughed shyly.

"Sir, what do you want to buy?"

The stall owner was a young woman with a headscarf, and although she couldn't understand Chinese, she was used to seeing such occasions, so she quickly changed the topic with a smile on her face, and she was fluent in English.

"Uh......"

Seeing the faint look of exhaustion on the woman's smiling face, Li Siwei only felt that his face was hot, and he hurriedly stretched out his finger, "This, this...... And this ......"

It is not easy for the soldiers to live, and the civilians also have their own hardships.

After buying Coke, popcorn and cigarettes, Li Siwei took the two girls and Wei Yidao up the steps and walked straight to the door of the movie theater.

The four guards were whispering and laughing at the door, and suddenly saw Li Siwei and his party coming, and hurriedly looked straight and stood up straight.

Li Siwei smiled slightly at them, and pulled the two girls into the house first.

The movie theater was originally a pastime for the officers and men of the training camp, but there were 20,000 or 30,000 officers and men in the training camp, while there were only three or five movie theaters, so the same movie would be shown for several days in a row, and they could watch it at any time.

Moreover, even if a movie is a classic, it will feel dull if you watch it more times.

Therefore, there are not many people in the movie theater, Li Siwei pulled the two girls in the corner of the back row, as they sang in the song they hummed, Li Siwei hugged the two girls, and the two women held Coke and popcorn with the plot of the movie......

"Ah...... Hit someone......"

Just halfway through the movie, a woman's exclamation suddenly sounded outside, "Hit someone......"

"I'm going to check it out!"

The screams came, and the brother who was sitting on the outermost side quickly got up and ran out.

The exclamation was in Chinese, and it sounded like a female compatriot!

"Let's go see ...... too"

The brothers could not sit still, so they got up and went to the door.

The officers and soldiers in the front row also heard it, and many people also flocked to the door.

Dog's day, which one is bullying our compatriots!

"Four-dimensional ......"

Although the screams outside quickly disappeared, Ning Rou and Wu Ruolan couldn't sit still.

"Sit still,"

Li Siwei naturally understood what they meant, and hurriedly got up, "Wait here for me to come back......

Before the words fell, Li Siwei also hurriedly went outside the movie theater.

On the street in front of the movie theater, civilians had already fled far away, and two groups of soldiers were confronting each other on the street, on one side were more than 100 officers and soldiers stationed in India, and on the other side were more than 10 US officers and soldiers, all of them were full of indignation, and some of them had already copied the guys in their hands.

After glancing at it from a distance, Li Siwei's face sank, and he hurriedly strode over, "What's the matter?" ”

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers who were arguing fiercely followed the prestige, and when they saw that it was a colonel officer, they hurriedly gave way to it.

"Captain, the Americans of Dog Day bullied our female compatriots......"

Wei Yidao hurriedly pointed to the center of the crowd and reported.

Li Siwei also saw the situation in the center of the crowd clearly, and saw a US military lieutenant with a bloody face being helped, still yelling angrily at a guard with a gun in front of the crowd, full of swearing, and the guard with a gun was also staring at the US second lieutenant with an angry face, and among them, a high heel was lying quietly on the ground.

"Shut up!"

Li Siwei sighed, strode over, pointed to the high heels on the ground, and stared at the American second lieutenant with a gloomy expression, "What about people?" ”

"Uh......"

The second lieutenant of the U.S. Army was stunned by the yelling, and when he looked at Li Siwei, his face was still full of anger, "Mr. Colonel, you must give me an explanation!" ”

"Uh......"

Not only Li Siwei, but the brothers around him were a little shocked, shit, are you still so arrogant?

"Sir,"

The guard with the gun became more and more angry, "It's his dog, bullying our female compatriots in the street!" ”

"Hmmm......"

Li Siwei frowned, even more puzzled, "What kind of bullying is it?" ”

"He ......"

The guard gritted his teeth, "He's a shit, he saw that female compatriot on the street, ran over and hugged someone, and ...... Also ......"

As he spoke, the guard glared at the American lieutenant again.

"Turtle's,"

Li Siwei also understood, and hurriedly looked at the second lieutenant of the American army, and asked in English, "Why did you hug that girl?" ”

"Uh......"

Hearing this, the US lieutenant was stunned and became more and more angry, "Ping, she is my girlfriend!" ”

"Yes! Ping was originally Jack's girlfriend......"

The other US officers and soldiers hurriedly agreed, but there was already a little more helplessness in their expressions...... This is most likely a misunderstanding!

"Turtle's!"

Li Siwei naturally understood, but felt a little confused, "That...... Ensign Jack, there must be some misunderstanding here! I'll ask someone to help you take care of your wounds first, we happen to have two excellent military doctors......"

"No!"

Second Lieutenant Jack interrupted Li Siwei angrily, glared at the gun-wielding guard, left the sentence "I will hold you responsible", and walked away with a group of companions.

"Sir,"

Seeing Ensign Jack and his entourage leaving, the guard with the gun was still angry, "You can't let the dog go!" ”

Hearing this, Li Siwei waved his hand, turned his head, looked at the guard and smiled bitterly, "What's your name?" ”

"Uh......"

When the guard saw Li Siwei's wry smile, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stood upright, "My name is Lu Daxiang!" ”

"Daxiang!"

Li Siwei patted him lightly on the shoulder, "It's right to be righteous and brave!" Soldiers, they should have a sense of justice! However, you can't be too impatient...... That female compatriot is the foreigner's girlfriend! ”

"Uh......"

Lu Daxiang was stunned, and he still defended unwillingly, "Even if it's a girlfriend, he can't be like that!" ”

"Well, that makes sense!"

Hearing this, Li Siwei smiled, "If the chiefs ask you for questions, you say so!" ”

After all, it was a US military officer who was beaten, and this matter was definitely going to make a big fuss!

However, due to the language barrier and the different concepts, the punishment should not be too heavy.