Chapter 6: The Legend of Wulongyu: The Swordsman
Chen Guan's hometown of Wulongyu is in the north of Longwan Town, and there is a mountain road 25 miles away from Longwan Town.
Longwan Town is located 20 kilometers west of Mingshui City and is a relatively large market town.
After Chen Guan arrived at the long-distance bus station, he originally wanted to take out his luggage and take it back to his hometown, but there was no place to put it in the county seat. Later, I thought that the transportation in my hometown was inconvenient, and it was too troublesome to go home with my luggage, and I had to carry it out when I turned back, so I asked the person at the storage office to open the luggage, take out his change of clothes and a little gift for his parents, put it on the back of his school bag, and re-store the luggage in the storage office at the long-distance bus station.
The storage office at the long-distance bus station charges one dollar a day, and two large pieces of luggage are 60 yuan a month. Chen Guan can afford this money now.
Chen Guan took a small four-wheeled passenger and cargo vehicle to Longwan Town at the long-distance bus station, and sat in Longwan for two yuan.
This kind of car has a canopy on the cargo box, specializing in running short distances, and the people of Mingshui call this kind of car "bouncing", which means simple, cheap and convenient.
After arriving in Longwan Town, Chen Guan touched the money in his pocket and felt that he had not gone home for four years, and he had to have a drink with the villagers in the village. I took out 400 yuan, bought some sugar, tea, watermelon and other summer items on the street, bought two simple mango cigarettes, two simple Du Kang wine, three woven bags of vegetables, 50 catties of vermicelli, 50 catties of tofu, two bags of rice, two pots of soy sauce and two pots of vinegar, and went to the pork shop to cut 50 catties of pork and two pairs of pigs into the water, so I spent 20 yuan to hire a farm motor tricycle and pull it home.
Wulongyu is located at the intersection of Wudao Mountain Beam, which is why Wulongyu is such an ancient village name.
In the Wulong Mountains in this area, Wulongyu is one of the largest natural villages, with more than 40 households and more than 200 people.
Chen Guan rode a tricycle from the mountain beam north of Longwan Town along the winding mountain road to the top of the mountain, and then a long mountain range that stretched for 20 miles. Ran until the foot of the big mountain at the end of the mountain, then followed the road to the ditch at the foot of the mountain, turned a big bay, and the vigorous ancient cypress on the hill in front of Wulongyu Village came into view.
Suddenly, Chen Guan, who was sitting on the tricycle, had a feeling of being a young man who had left home and was going back, and his heart was beating faster.
From a distance, Wulongyu is a veritable treasure of feng shui.
The five mountains that come from a long time are like five Wolong that come from a long way, and the five small rivers between the mountains meet in Wulong Valley, forming a sparkling Wulong River. Wulongyu Village is located on the east bank of the Wulong River, like a dragon ball held up by five dragons.
Wulongyu, with its good mountains and good waters, is a legendary place!
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the swordsmen of Mingshui were famous for a while, and the Northeast beard, Shandong Xiangma, Sichuan Pao Ge were equally famous, and the Wulongzhai of Wulongyu was the famous swordsman of Mingshui, and later became the commander of the Kuomintang mixed brigade Song Laosan's swordsman village.
In this area, the head of the knife is called the old driver's lever, which is derived from the meaning of pulling the cart and driving, that is, the helmsman, which is equivalent to the Northeast Beard and the Scoop Handle of Shandong Xiangmali.
Mingshui knife is different from the bandits in the Northeast Beard and Shandong Xiangma first-class Henan-Anhui Soviet region, all the old driving poles are basically because of blood revenge and take risks to pull the pole, pay attention to the rabbit does not eat the grass by the nest, and pretend to be a chivalrous face in front of the villagers, and the pursuit is to rob the rich and help the poor.
This kind of revenge for blood revenge by any means is often slaughtered all over the door, leaving no trouble, and the people of Mingshui call it "Wild Cave".
At the northern end of Wulongyu Village lies a lonely earthen village, which is the product of the villagers to resist the knife warriors.
What is ironic is that Song Laosan, the famous head of the big knife in Mingshui, took a fancy to this place, took the village as his own, and took a resounding name "Wulong Village".
Song Laosan is a native of Songwan, Longwan Town, and his parents have been opening a restaurant in Longwan Town. One year, on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the swordsman ran a long distance and entered the house of Song Laosan, killing the family and killing the family, and the money was also taken away. Song Laosan was only 7 years old at the time, and his father hid in the vegetable cellar behind the restaurant and escaped.
After the knife man escaped at night, the little Song Laosan crawled out of the vegetable cellar, knocked on the door from door to door, called for someone to come out to help, and hastily buried the remains of the family. Later, Song Laosan lived with Orion's uncle, and when he was 18 years old, Song Laosan, who had practiced good marksmanship, took his uncle and cousin to Ningshui, found the knifeman nest that killed his family, hit the jungle cave, and killed all the swordsmen.
In normal times, Song Laosan led people to entrench in Longwan Town, and when the wind and grass were blowing, they went into the mountains to take refuge and stationed in Wulongzhai.
At that time, the soldiers and bandits were a family, and Song Laosan went out to the surrounding counties to kidnap tickets and return to Longwan, and he didn't avoid people at all, and still lived in Songwan's house near Longwan, leading his eldest wife and little wife to live a good life. Less than 4 miles away from Songwan, there lives Li Tuan, the head of the self-defense regiment in the western half of Mingshui, and the water of the two wells does not interfere with the river water. Of course, the premise is that Song Laosan has to respect Captain Li and can't cause trouble locally.
Song Laosan is ruthless and ruthless. One day his little wife was taking a bath at Song Wan's house, and one of Song Laosan's cousins and nephews came to play, and suddenly pushed open the door, and saw the body of Song Laosan's little wife Bai Huahua who was taking a bath, so frightened that he turned his head and ran back. Song Laosan was in the upper room to entertain guests, and when he heard the cry of his little wife, he rushed out with a pistol, and after asking about the situation, he indiscriminately drove directly to the little nephew's house, and shot the little nephew's head with a hard shot.
The most legendary story of Song Laosan is the kidnapping of the largest landlord in the six districts, the big landlord of the Baipo Liu family.
The big landlord of the Liu family in Baipo has much more land than the Bai family in Wulongyu, and his aunt's wife goes to Xijing City to do her hair, usually wearing cheongsam, high-heeled leather shoes, and wavy long hair, which is very fashionable.
The Liu family in Baipo has sixty or seventy quick robs, which is much more than ordinary knife guns, and no one dares to attack their idea at all.
Song Laosan and the shopkeeper of the Liu family in Baipo are the brothers of the worship, and they entered the courtyard of the Liu family under the banner of visiting the eldest brother of the worship, and they lived for more than ten days.
When Song Laosan was leaving, he said to the shopkeeper of the Liu family: "Brother, my brother is leaving, you can send my brother." If you don't send it, outsiders will definitely poke your brother's backbone, saying that your brother has done a lot of evil, and even worshipping your eldest brother looks down on your brother. ”
The shopkeeper of the Liu family has always been strictly vigilant against Song Laosan, and the guards never leave his side, including eating with Song Laosan, the guns of the guards are loaded with bullets, pointing at Song Laosan, as long as he moves slightly, he will immediately set fire. Now that the evil god is finally leaving, the shopkeeper of the Liu family saw that his brothers and sons were leading the family to follow behind him with guns, and touched the small Browning pistol in his trouser pocket, so he smiled and followed Song Laosan to the gate, which meant to send Song Laosan to the gate and get on the horse.
As soon as he got out of the gate, he arrived at the horse pile, Song Laosan untied the reins of the horse, and was about to get on the horse and leave, the shopkeeper of the Liu family clasped his fists with both hands, and just said a sentence of "Brother go", Song Laosan pulled his left hand and pulled the shopkeeper of the Liu family to himself, and pulled out the box gun in his waist with his right hand, the nose of the machine was wide open, and the muzzle of the gun was against the forehead of the shopkeeper of the Liu family.
The shopkeeper of the Liu family was shocked and asked, "Brother, what are you doing?" ”
Song Laosan laughed strangely and said, "Big brother, my brother has come to the house to bother for many days, and this love has to be repaid." Please ask the eldest brother to let the nephews put down the guns, and I will invite the eldest brother to my village as a guest, and I will send you back after a few days. Guan Erye is on top, brother, I don't dare to break the rules of the green forest even if I have a bad conscience, and I will never hurt a single hair of my eldest brother. ”
The shopkeeper of the Liu family was controlled, but none of the guards had guns in their hands but no one dared to fire, and watched Song Laosan put the shopkeeper on the back of the horse with one hand, jumped on the horse and walked away.
Song Laosan hijacked the shopkeeper of the Liu family to Wulongzhai, greeted him with good wine and meat for half a month, and never mentioned anything like ransom. Shopkeeper Liu really couldn't live anymore, and begged: "Good brother, you say, what you want, as long as the eldest brother can do it, there is no ambiguity." ”
Song Laosan replied that the five cloth bags were not sealed.
The cloth bags in the countryside are woven with wool, which are divided into two types, the large one is 150 catties and the small one is 120 catties. The five cloth bags are now foreign, and they can't even hold their mouths when they are full, this Song Laosan really dares to ask for it!
The shopkeeper of the Liu family in Baipo, who was in a hurry to go home, had no choice but to write a letter to ask his son to pick him up with a five-cloth bag.
Song Laosan's most embarrassing ending is actually related to the Baipo Liu family. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Song Laosan was absorbed by the Kuomintang, led dozens of swordsmen to be the commander of the mixed brigade, and ran to the ground in Jin Province north of the Yellow River to fight with the Japanese army.
Before the Anti-Japanese War, Mingshui belonged to the ancient capital area, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it was assigned to the Shuiquan area.
Commissioner Shuiquan has the surname Ouyang and is a powerful character, and after taking office, he devoted himself to training the security team and preparing to exterminate the bandits in the jurisdiction.
This Commissioner Ouyang somehow got to know the aunt and wife of the shopkeeper of the Liu family in Baipo in the deep mountains and old forests, slept in a bed, and heard that Song Laosan blackmailed the Liu family in Baipo to show foreign bags, so he used the bandits to train the actual combat ability of the security team, and dispatched the security forces in the Shuiquan Prefecture to make a long-distance raid and attack Wulongzhai at night.
When the gunshots rang out in Wulongzhai, Song Laosan was sprinkling joy on the belly of a concubine, so he had to slip down from the belly of the concubine and escape, was injured by a stray bullet, forced a breath, and fled along the mountain road in the direction of Longwan Town. It's a pity that the security team didn't give him a chance to breathe, and he chased after him, Song Laosan didn't even have a chance to return to his hometown Songwan, and crossed the Mingshui River with injuries, and finally died on the bank of Mingshui due to excessive blood loss.
After Song Laosan died, a Xiucai wrote an inscription for him. The people in the Wulongyu area couldn't understand the Huazao words and sentences of the four or six pun texts, and only remembered that the last sentence was "Woohoo, Brigade Commander Song!" ”