Chapter 7: The Legend of Wulongyu (Part I)
The second famous thing about Wulongyu is that it produces talents.
Wulongyu is a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the land near the river is black and oily, and it is necessary to raise grain and raise people.
Speaking of talents in Wulongyu, Dr. Bai has been counted in modern times.
The Bai family is an old family in Wulongyu, which has been operated for generations, rich and rich, and is also pursuing the cultivation and reading heirlooms, poetry and rite heirlooms, and the children are all in Mingshui County and the ancient capital city, Bianzhou City to go to school. Among them, the most famous is Bai Derong, the second eldest of the Bai family, who studied for a doctorate at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
It is said that one year Bai Derong went home, Bai Deli, the eldest of the Bai family, felt that the second child had been studying and spending the family's money, so it was better to run the family property at home and have achieved success, so he boasted to Bai Derong, saying that he started from Wulongyu, passed through Mingshui City, Ningshui City, and Yishui City to the ancient capital, and did not live in other stores and did not eat other people's meals along the way.
Bai Deli means that the Bai family's great cause is all due to his contributions.
Bai Derong smiled and said nothing, lived at home for a few days, and was leaving, so he asked the eldest brother to send him to the ancient capital, saying that the brothers had not seen each other for many years and could not bear to be separated, and the eldest brother sent her to Mingshui City, and she could talk more along the way and describe the feelings of the brothers.
Bai Deli and Bai Derong rode two big horses, and left Wulongyu with the guards and walked towards Mingshui City. Along the way, Bai Derong led his eldest brother to change horses and ride, and there were guards sent by the Kuomintang county governments along the way, and Bai Deli did not need to spend money on food and accommodation. It wasn't until the ancient capital city that he lived in the largest garden hotel in the ancient capital, Bai Deli realized that he was a turtle, and the second child was playing that he wanted the wind and the rain to rain, and the life he lived was not something he could imagine hiding in Wulongyu.
Bai Derong wanted to open his eldest brother's eyes, and took Bai Deli to attend the banquet of the commissioner of the ancient capital, the chief of the police of the ancient capital, the director of the tax bureau, the director of finance and others. Later, he took Bai Deli to Bianzhou and went south to Wuhan to appreciate the light of the river. Only then did Bai Deli know that the second child was a celebrity who could walk up to Chairman Jiang.
After the eye-opening Bai Deli took a plane from Wuhan to Bianzhou, took a train from Bianzhou to the ancient capital, and then took a boat and rode home from the ancient capital, relying on the power of the second Bai Derong, his heart changed. It turned out that the big landlord of the Bai family who greeted the tenants with a smile was gone, and a Bai family chief who was enthusiastic about running a self-defense regiment appeared in Wulong Mountain.
Bai Derong's original intention was to open the eyes of the eldest brother, not to be bent on buying land and buying real estate, and being a turtle, but he never thought that after Bai Deli opened his eyes, his mind was full of power, and he forgot to cultivate and read the heirloom Bai family motto, and developed towards the bully in the fish and meat town.
After the liberation of the mainland, Bai Derong ran to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, and then went to the United States. It was not until after the reform and opening up that Bai Derong led his son back to Wulongyu. Bai Derong's sons and daughters are all doctors from famous American universities, working in famous Wall Street, barristers, accounting firms, and multinational companies, and the amount of money handled is astronomical, and they can't spend the entire Wulongshan District to buy.
When Bai Derong returned to Wulongyu this time, he buried the bones of Bai Deli and his three sons in a broken cave after the suppression of the people's government into the ancestral tomb, rebuilt the tomb of his father and mother, and erected a monument on the grave of his father and mother, and molded the shape of the stele into the shape of a doctor's hat, and it was a big doctor's hat with five small doctor's hats, which meant to tell his father that he had not forgotten to study the family motto of cultivating and reading heirlooms, and educated all five children to become the world's top doctors in the United States.
A small mountain village has produced six doctors from famous British and American schools, and Wulongyu can't think of being famous!
The third thing that Wulongyu is famous for in Mingshui is the white Chen love and hatred that makes Mingshui people talk about and sigh.
The Bai family of Bai Chen's hatred is naturally the Bai family of Bai Deli's family, and the Chen family is the Chen family of Chen Guan's family.
The Chen family's man, the daughter of the Bai family, the golden silk catalpa wood, the concubine bamboo.
The first of these two poems says that the men of the Chen family in Wulongyu are generous and narrow, and the women of the Bai family are as beautiful as flowers and tender as water. The second sentence is about Wulongyu's special products of golden silk and noble concubine bamboo.
Chen Guan's great-grandfather cousins are eight people, and there are eight great-grandfather cousins, among which the eldest of the great-grandparents is the Xiucai of the late Qing Dynasty, who is literate and hyphenated, and has a good handwriting, and enjoys a high prestige in the mountainous areas around Wulongyu.
By the time Chen Guan's grandfather's generation came, the dead died, the dead died, and the singles were beaten, and only the three brothers and brothers who had been passed down from Chen Guan's great-grandfather were left, and all of a sudden they changed from a thriving big family to a single-family household, living by renting the land of the Bai family landlord.
In the Mingshui Mountains of that era, many things seem a bit unbelievable today.
Although Chen Guan's great-grandfather was a hired farmer, he was upright, reluctant, and anxious for justice and righteousness, and in the eyes of the poor buddies in Wulong Mountain, he was a reasonable person who could settle accounts with the landlord for them. Such a person is naturally unwilling to be poor, and he tightens his belt for the eldest Chen Dade to study, and asks the second Chen De to go to work as a hired worker for the landlord of the Bai family early in the morning, eat with a mouthful of food, save some rations, and let the old Chen Deqing work at home with him. Later, Chen Dade went out to study and was never heard from; Chen Guan's grandfather, the second Chen Deda, met Song Laosan when he was herding cattle in the Bai family, and Song Laosan immediately fell in love with Chen Deda, who was smart and talented, and asked him to be a guard for himself.
Chen Guan's grandfather, Chen Deda, became Song Laosan's guard, and the Chen family was basically bullied. After coming and going, the old driver Song Laosan took a fancy to the character of Chen Guan's great-grandfather and the character and appearance of the second and third elders of the Chen family, and wanted to find a son-in-law for his niece among the two brothers.
As soon as the news came out, the shopkeeper of the Bai family also moved his mind, and he took the first step, and the central media came to the door to say goodbye, and promised his eldest lady Bai Edelweiss, who was in middle school in Bianzhou, to Chen Dade, the boss of the Chen family who was studying outside, and only waited for him to get married when he went home.
The Bai family is fast, and the old driver Song Laosan is not slow, and immediately decided to marry his niece to Chen Deqing, the third child of the Chen family.
The reason why Song Laosan abandoned Chen Deda, the second eldest of the Chen family, and chose Chen Deqing, the third child, was because although Chen Deda was handsome and upright, he didn't talk much, and Song Laosan's niece didn't like stuffy gourds.
In this way, the tenant Chen family suddenly became in-laws with the most representative Wulongyu Bai family and the head of the Dadaoke in Wulongshan District.
Chen Guan's grandfather served as a guard for Song Laosan for two years, and then became the chief of the guard, because the big landlord of the Bai family in the village was in trouble.
During the Republic of China, there were many bandits, and rich landlords bought guns to protect themselves. The big landlords of the Bai family in Wulongyu have a great cause, and there are fertile fields in several districts of Mingshui County, so they bought more than 30 poles to grab quickly, repaired a turret, selected the strong from the tenants, and formed their own landlord armed - Wulongyu Self-Defense Regiment.
The east end of Wulongyu Village is the Bai family compound, and there is a majestic turret built at the gate of the courtyard. At the west end of the village is the lonely Wulong Village, where the Song Lao Sandaoke pole lives, the two sides are at peace with each other, and they are called brothers and sisters when they meet.
The new Kuomintang magistrate of Mingshui County did not know how powerful he was, and wanted to quickly confiscate more than 30 poles from the big landlord of the Bai family, so he asked the county brigade to dispatch and come to Wulongyu under the banner of going into the mountains to suppress bandits.
At this time, Song Laosan, who was entrenched in the village at the west end of Wulongyu, was not in Wulongzhai at all, and the Wulongyu self-defense regiment of the Bai family and the Kuomintang county brigade were involved.
Afterwards, Bai Deli, the big landlord of the Bai family, smoked a dry tobacco pouch and lay on the bed for a while, knowing that the big thing was not good, he had to start first, and went to the ancient capital to tell the magistrate of Mingshui. Otherwise, the county magistrate will ask the commissioner of the ancient capital to increase troops to suppress the bandits in the name of suppressing the bandits. When the time comes, as soon as the army arrives, not only will I not be able to keep my 30 strokes, but I am afraid that my land and little wife will not be able to keep it.
It just so happened that one of Chen Guan's great-grandfathers who was a bachelor died. Bai Deli frowned, and simply said that the county brigade killed Chen Guan's great-grandfather, and as compensation, let Chen Guan's 16-year-old grandfather replace one of the Bai family's nephews as the chief of security, and set fire to a few of his own wheat straw stacks, and wrote a complaint in the name of Chen Guan's great-grandfather that the Mingshui County Brigade had robbed the people's property and forced people to die.
The Bai family is rich, and when they arrived in the ancient capital, they are now spending like water in the ocean, and the result can be imagined, the Kuomintang magistrate of Mingshui County lost the lawsuit, was scolded by the commissioner, and resigned in disgrace.
Chen Guan's grandfather only served as a security chief for a year, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, and Song Laosan's mixed brigade commander was cleaned up by Commissioner Ouyang's security team within a few days, and the news of the Communist Party in Yan'an also spread to the remote Wulongyu.
Chen Guan's grandfather had a kind of rifle that was used as a guard for long hair, and secretly ran to Jin Province to fight devils.
Song Laosan died, and Wulongshan District became the world of the Bai family. When Bai Deli heard that Chen Deda, the second eldest of the Chen family, had voted for the eighth road, he immediately announced that the marriage contract between the eldest lady of the Bai family and the eldest of the Chen family was invalid, and then asked the Wulongyu Self-Defense Group to wait at the Chen family every day to catch the strong man of Chen Deqing, the third eldest of the Chen family. Chen Guan's great-grandfather couldn't ask someone to intercede or sell the cattle as gifts, so he could only let the third Chen Deqing escape, and was shot and killed by the ambushed Wulongyu Self-Defense Regiment on the way.
The eldest went out to study and there was no news, the second threw eight roads, the third was killed by the self-defense group of the Bai family landlord, Chen Guan's great-grandfather was angry, and touched the Bai family compound on a dark and windy night in a month, and lit the Bai family compound with a fire, and went home and hanged himself with his wife.
The story does not end here, after a few years, the Japanese launched the Battle of Yuxianggui, captured the ancient capital, Shuiquan, the devil soldiers lived in Mingshui City, Longwan Town, the **** regular army ran without a trace, and the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army drove from Jin Province.
Chen Guan's grandfather, Chen Deda, became the platoon commander of the independent regiment and returned to his hometown with the army. It's a pity that this is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the War of Resistance, and the landlord of the Bai family did not become a traitor, and he still belonged to the object of unity.
Chen Guan's great-grandfather set fire to the Bai family compound, but did not burn the main personnel of the Bai family, Bai Deli was rich, landed, and powerful, and spent a year to hire many skilled craftsmen to rebuild the Bai family compound, and at the same time rebuilt the turret.
Bai Deli saw that the Eighth Route Army had entered the Wulong Mountain Area, and that it was the establishment of an anti-Japanese brigade and an anti-Japanese regime, and that his more than 30 quick robberies were not the opponents of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, so he immediately changed his strategy, donated money and food, and let his eldest lady Bai Xueweiss, who had been staying at home since returning from Bianzhou Middle School, become the Eighth Route Army and work as a clerk in the regimental headquarters of the Independent Regiment.
Bai Deli was not only afraid of the independent regiment, but also afraid of the revenge of Chen Deda, the second eldest of the Chen family who became the platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army.
Edelweiss graduated from middle school, she is beautiful, can sing and dance, this joined the army, the cadres and soldiers of the independent regiment liked her, and she was popular everywhere she went. For a time, the Bai family compound also became the favorite place for individual cadres and soldiers of the Independent Regiment, because it was not only the home of their comrades-in-arms, but also white buns, white noodles, millet porridge and corn paste.
There is a little soldier in the guard class of the independent regiment, named Guo Deqing, a native of Jin Province, only 17 years old, an orphan, he has not eaten enough and clothed since he was a child, and he is very brave in fighting after joining the army, but the food of the Eighth Route Army is not good, and the coarse grain is the majority, and the supply is often not guaranteed. Suddenly, the white buns in the Bai family's compound were full, and Guo Deqing ran to the Bai family's compound diligently.
In just one or twenty days of contact, Bai Deli treated Guo Deqing as his own nephew and took care of him meticulously. Later, Bai Deli even patted his chest and said to Guo Deqing: "Baby, a good guy like you can do anything." If one day you don't belong to the Eighth Route Army, come back, come to the house, uncle will give you a handsome daughter-in-law, build you three tiled houses, give you 30 acres of land and two cows, and let you live a nourishing life. ”
Guo Deqing listened to Bai Deli's words, his face turned red, as if his handsome daughter-in-law was standing in front of him and beckoning to him.
Chen Deda became the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan, but he didn't expect that he was fighting with devils on the front line, but Bai Deli was powerful in Wulong Mountain, killed his younger brother, and forced his parents to death. Now he finally came back with the troops, but the troops started a united front with Bai Deli, and let the enemy's daughter join the army and become the secretary of the regiment headquarters. Seeing that the revenge could not be avenged, Chen Deda felt that it was better to be the Eighth Route Army than to pull the pole as a swordsman, and he could be happy to take revenge. If Song Laosan were alive and had a blood feud like himself, I am afraid that the Bai family would have been killed a long time ago.
After all, Chen Deda has been in the army for many years, and he is still a platoon commander, and he wants to think about it, but he does not dare to violate the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, so he can only quietly run to his parents' grave and cry bitterly, and shout heartbreakingly on his parents' grave: "Dad, Mom, my son is the Eighth Route Army!" The son can't violate the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, the son is sorry for you, the son is in vain, and he has lost the face of the eight ancestors! ”