Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 40 Important Information
What's more, the location of this noodle stall is also good, close to the intersection, so if something happens, it will be very convenient to run away.

So Wang Gensheng immediately said:
"Boss! How much is the monthly rent for your noodle stall?"

That’s right, Wang Gensheng didn’t ask the noodle stall owner whether he was willing to sublet the stall right away. Instead, he asked how much the rent was.

The noodle stall owner was stunned at first, then looked Wang Gensheng up and down and said:

"Hey, young man, would you like to rent this stall? It's not expensive, only five silver dollars a month! But I advise you not to do business anymore. Business is so hard these days!"

However, Wang Gensheng shook his head and said:
"No, no! I'm not planning to start a business. I want to hire you two to keep this noodle stall going!"

So to the surprise of the two, Wang Gensheng expressed his thoughts.

It was very simple. Wang Gensheng paid the stall fee and gave them ten silver dollars as wages every month. From then on, they changed from being noodle stall owners to working for Wang Gensheng.

Wang Gensheng also found out the couple's background through conversation. It turned out that they were fleeing from the northern border.

Not only that, they have three children to raise at home, and they live in a house in the county town.

Then he used the little money he had with him when he fled to open this noodle stall. However, since he had no skills, the food naturally didn't taste good.

After all, this is not the era before Wang Gensheng traveled through time. Various teaching materials are available on the Internet. Of course, some unique flavors are also the secrets of various chefs.

However, since he had already decided to open this noodle stall, he couldn't make a loss, so Wang Gensheng thought about some of his memories about noodles before he traveled through time.

Then I went to the herbal medicine store and bought some herbs or spices.

That’s right, spices of this era, such as cinnamon and tangerine peel, could only be bought in herbal medicine stores.

After buying these spices, Wang Gensheng ground them into powder and then made them into spice bags with gauze.

That’s right, Wang Gensheng no longer plans to let the noodle stall continue selling jelly, but instead sell soup noodle soup.

After all, it is a waste of food for a noodle stall to sell jelly instead of noodles!

Ramen paired with a rich and fragrant bone broth is what noodles should be like, not something like jelly.

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“Dashi ramen, broth ramen, don’t miss the authentic broth ramen if you pass by!”

The aroma from the spice bags and the noodle-making techniques taught by Wang Gensheng quickly attracted a lot of people to watch, and some wealthy people also started to sit down and order a bowl of ramen.

"Sir, would you like some broth ramen too?"

Wang Gensheng waited in the county town for several days before finally meeting Liu the translator. He immediately approached him and asked if he wanted a bowl of broth ramen.

When Translator Liu saw Wang Gensheng's face, his expression changed slightly, then returned to normal, and he nodded.
"What a nice smell! Please give me a bowl!"

"Okay! One serving of dashi ramen!"

Wang Gensheng greeted everyone like a waiter, and then, while wiping the table, he whispered to Liu the translator:
"This will be the contact point from now on. If you have any important information, you can come here and pass it on!"

Translator Liu responded in a low voice:
"Here's some important information. After Captain Watanabe's last attack on Wangjia Village failed, his immediate superior, Captain Yamada, is planning to mobilize tanks to flatten Wangjia Village. The exact time of the attack is still unknown!"

Wang Gensheng's expression changed when he heard this, but he immediately returned to normal, nodded slightly, and went to greet other customers who came to eat noodles. Although Wang Gensheng pretended to be calm on the surface, he was very uneasy in his heart, because using tanks to flatten Wangjia Village was no joke.

Although the Japanese tanks were no match for the Ouzhou tanks of the same period.

But the houses in Wangjia Village are not made of reinforced concrete.

The earthen wall made of mud bricks could be knocked down with one kick, not to mention a tank! Even Wei Dayong could kick it down!

So if the Japanese really drove their tanks to Wangjia Village, you can imagine the result.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng had to produce anti-tank grenades as soon as possible. After all, it was unrealistic for the Eighth Route Army to produce bazookas or iron fists with its current capabilities.

After all, apart from anything else, the seamless steel pipes alone were enough to deter the Eighth Route Army's arsenals.

However, it should still be possible to produce or modify an anti-tank grenade.

Although he obtained such important information, Wang Gensheng did not go back immediately. Instead, he stayed with the couple to run the noodle stall until the afternoon before calling it a day.

However, the sales volume in just this morning exceeded the couple's imagination, even though the price of this soup broth ramen was not low.

It is three times the price of the original jelly, but the rich aroma and the chewy texture of ramen still open the eyes of foodies of this era.

Maintaining this noodle stall intelligence station in this way not only does not require the New Second Group to continue to pay money, but it can also bring in additional income for the New Second Group.

He walked out of the city, dug out the pistol, throwing knife grenade and silver dollars that had been buried in the woods outside the city a few days ago, then walked a distance to find the family where he had left the horses, took the horses away, and quickly returned to Wangjia Village.

After arriving at the headquarters of the New Second Regiment, Kong Jie immediately complained to Wang Gensheng in a bad mood:

"You finally decided to come back. You were gone for several days. I thought you had run away with the public funds!"

Wang Gensheng also understood Kong Jie's complaints. He had agreed to be back in two or three days at most, but he ended up being away for four or five days. It would be strange if Kong Jie didn't complain!

In response, Wang Gensheng took out two hundred silver dollars and handed them back to Kong Jie. Then he told Kong Jie everything that had happened in the county town.

Especially the fact that the Japanese wanted to use tanks to flatten Wangjia Village.

However, Kong Jie did not care about this matter. Instead, he smiled at Wang Gensheng and said:
"I really can't tell! You're a good businessman! Setting up an intelligence station won't cost you anything, you'll actually make money!"

"No! Captain, shouldn't we be thinking about how to deal with the Japanese tanks now?"

However, Kong Jie waved his hand and said:

"What else can we do? Either we hold our explosive packs and fight the Japanese tanks to death, or we move away!"

It was obvious that Kong Jie had limited knowledge, so naturally he couldn't think of a good way to deal with tanks.

Wang Gensheng didn't say much about this. He stood up and left the regiment headquarters, returned to the battalion headquarters of the third battalion, and began to think about how to make anti-tank grenades.

If they could not produce anti-tank grenades before the Japanese tanks arrived at Wangjia Village, then they would have no choice but to retreat and give up the Wangjia Village they had worked so hard to build, or they would choose to fight the Japanese tanks head-on with explosives.

Use the lives of soldiers to fill the gap in industrial technology.

(End of this chapter)