Sometimes things are just so coincidental, and when you don't know how to deal with it, God helps you solve the problem.

After Shi Zhu returned to the trading house with a few men, he went to look for Zhu Guanglian, but he didn't see anyone for a long time. Later, the maid Chuntao came over and said to Shizhu, Zhu Guanglian returned to Guanyun's hometown, a clan relative died, and the Guangzi generation of the Zhu family had to go back to Dai Xiao, and it was estimated that it would take a few days to come back. Before leaving, he also asked Shi Zhu to take care of the business of the business on his behalf in the past few days, and Shi Zhu can decide on the daily affairs, and the things that are not easy to deal with or are not urgent will be said when Zhu Guanglian returns.

Shi Zhu is worried that his uncle will prevent him from going to the martial arts competition tomorrow, this is good, I wish Guanglian is not in the firm, I will finish the competition first, and then explain the situation to him when my uncle comes back. When he had nothing to do, Shi Zhu took advantage of the evening time to practice in the courtyard.

The next morning, after Shizhu packed up and parked, he invited Zhu Huaiqing to catch a carriage and go to the Sunjiashan playground together. At that time, Zhao Tiequan had been waiting for them in the playground for a long time, and there were three people standing beside him, one was a monkey who had tried with Shizhu yesterday, and the other two were a little raw, Shizhu had never seen them.

"Please!" Shi Zhu and Zhao Tiequan met until the point, and after greeting each other, they saluted each other and set up their respective positions. The three people behind Zhao Tiequan looked calm, and they couldn't see the slightest tension, while Zhu Huaiqing's face was slightly nervous, looking at Zhao Tiequan's posture yesterday, he should be very skilled, he was a little worried that Shizhu was not someone's opponent and was injured in the competition. And the stone pillar is calm, and his expression looks relaxed, maybe this is the psychological difference between Lian Jiazi and ordinary people.

Zhao Tiequan first put on a standing posture of an iron cloth shirt, but he used the breathing method of the golden bell jar. Then, he clasped his palms together, then jerked his arms forward, turning his palms into claw shapes, and then he swooped down on the stone pillar. Shi Zhu still wanted to use his arm to gently push it away to both sides, but he found that Zhao Tiequan's arm strength was amazing, and it was by no means beyond the reach of ordinary people, and he couldn't use ordinary strength to get rid of it at all, or he had to use hard to avoid Zhao Tiequan's move.

After a few entanglements, Zhao Tiequan's hands changed from claws to double fists, still pressing step by step. Shi Zhu has already retreated a few steps back, if it weren't for the sluggish moves used by Zhao Tiequan, and his ability to dodge flexibly, I'm afraid that he would have eaten several punches from the other party at this time, according to Zhao Tiequan's arm strength, it is estimated that he will not have the strength to fight back after eating a few punches.

Shi Zhu saw that he couldn't take advantage of Zhao Tiequan at all, so he wanted to try to attack Zhao Tiequan's legs to see if he could open a breakthrough. Immediately, he took advantage of the moment when Zhao Tiequan's two fists hit him together, jumped up, and did a front flip with both hands on the opponent's shoulders, and when he landed, he was already behind Zhao Tiequan. Before Zhao Tiequan had time to turn around at this time, Shi Zhu quickly fell to the ground with both hands, unexpectedly kicked the toad's back legs, and kicked the popliteal socket of Zhao Tiequan's legs with both feet, but the other party still didn't move. Zhao Tiequan waited for the stone pillar to finish kicking before turning around, he obviously intended to let the stone pillar kick, in order to show that his King Kong is not bad, and overwhelm the opponent in momentum.

Shi Zhu really saw the power of Zhao Tiequan now, and in the end, he could only try to attack the opponent's abdomen position again - Zhao Tiequan's legs and hands could not be broken by himself, maybe the opponent's weakness was in the abdomen.

After attacking and defending each other for a few moves, Shi Zhu finally saw a flaw in Zhao Tiequan's fist - a hole in his abdomen was exposed. Shi Zhu took advantage of the flexibility of his moves, suddenly changed his leg technique, and kicked his right leg straight over. However, if you want to maximize the strength of your legs, the moment you kick out your legs, Shi Zhu's hands will also retract, which is equivalent to losing the protection of his upper body and completely exposing himself to his opponent. Although Shi Zhu dodged Zhao Tiequan's left punch attack with his own flexibility, he still didn't dodge his opponent's right straight punch while he kicked Zhao Tiequan's abdomen. The punch hit the stone pillar in the chest like a wall smashed, as if it had a thousand powers, and the stone pillar was instantly knocked out. The stone pillar was barely supported by his right leg and did not fall, but when he stopped, his right leg was already on his knees, and his left hand was covering his chest, gasping for breath.

And Zhao Tiequan's side, under the superposition of the force and reaction force of Shizhu's right leg and his right fist, he also staggered back a few steps. When he stood still, he withdrew his right fist, turned his fists into palms, palms down, arms slowly drooped, and at the same time slowly exhaled the breath in his abdomen.

After Zhao Tiequan completely relaxed, he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the stone pillar up, and said, "Brother Shizhu, let's stop today, I'm afraid that if we continue to fight, we will hurt the harmony." I, Zhao Yishui, have been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for so many years, and you are the first one who can kick me back a few steps with one kick. Sure enough, it's a hero out of a teenager, admire, admire! ”

The three people standing on the side also stepped forward and said, "Brother Shizhu, what a good kung fu!" Admire, admire! ”

Shi Zhu hurriedly replied: "Brother Tai is polite, if you hadn't intended to give in, I'm afraid I would have been on the ground a long time ago!" The stone pillar is ashamed of itself! ”

Zhu Huaiqing watched such a wonderful competition on the side, and was completely engrossed, and it was not until after Shizhu finished speaking that he came back to his senses, and hurriedly ran over to ask Shizhu if he was injured. The stone pillar only said that it was some hard injuries, not in the way, just take a rest.

At this time, Zhao Tiequan smiled and said, "Brother Shizhu, come, come, I'll introduce you well." The contemptible Zhao Yishui, nicknamed Zhao Tiequan, is the platoon commander here, and he followed his master to practice the golden bell jar and iron cloth shirt when he was a child." Then he turned to the three people beside him and said, "This is the second squad leader monkey, who is good at darts, and you have already seen it yesterday; This is a squad leader mouse, very flexible, and a good dagger; This is a third-class leader leopard, with good water nature. We are a special operations platoon, and we specially select some nimble soldiers to train them and carry out special tasks. ”

While listening to Zhao Yishui's introduction, Shi Zhu clasped his hands into fists and saw the three of them one by one.

After the introduction, Zhao Yishui asked Shizhu again: "Brother Shizhu, since you have such skills, why don't you join the army to kill the enemy and serve the country?" ”

Shi Zhu sighed and said to Zhao Yishui: "Platoon Commander Zhao, this matter is a long story, I also know that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, but I am the only one in the family, and the old man resolutely does not let me join the army, and I have no choice." But then again, a good man has ambitions in all directions, and even if he can't kill the enemy on the battlefield, he can still show his strength and serve the country in other places! ”

"Brother Shizhu said it well!" After Zhao Yishui finished speaking, he pulled Shi Zhu aside, and asked Shi Zhu softly: "Since Brother Shi Zhu has this mind, are you interested in joining our 'hoe team'?" ”

"The hoe team? What is it for? ”

"This is a secret organization of ours, which specializes in hunting down some traitors, lackeys, bullies and bandits that the common people hate, and the team members are basically locals, in order to protect them from reprisals, so outsiders don't know who these team members are, even my three squad leaders don't know all about it. But don't worry, we won't act at will, only if the evidence is conclusive and the above agrees! And we usually only organize an operation once in a long time, and we don't necessarily send you there, so it won't affect the business of the Stone Pillar Brothers! ”

Shi Zhu hesitated for a moment and said, "Such a big matter, I have to think about it before I can make a decision!" In fact, he also learned this rhetoric from Zhu Guanglian, whether he wants to or not, if he agrees to others so quickly, it will seem that he is more hasty in doing things, so he thinks that it is more appropriate to say that he wants to think about it.

After hearing this, Zhao Yishui said: "Okay, Brother Shizhu, tell me at any time if you think about it!" You're always welcome to join us too! It's just that regardless of whether the Shizhu brothers want it or not, please remember not to tell anyone about this matter......"

"Definitely, definitely!" After Shi Zhu finished speaking, he said goodbye to the four of them, and then returned to the firm with Zhu Huaiqing.

In the next three days, only Laojuntang had to send two trips of supplies, and Xishu had to send supplies once, and there was no arrangement to go to Sunjiashan, so Shizhu had enough time to think about it.

Shi Zhu naturally wanted to join the "hoe team", after all, he dropped out of school after graduating from high school, and one of the reasons was that he wanted to join the army to kill the enemy like many of his classmates, but he was also worried that his grandmother would oppose it if she found out about it, because although the "hoe team" was not an irregular army, it still had an army background. Fortunately, the "hoe team" is very secretive, and it is difficult for grandma to know about it, but despite this, Shi Zhu still wants to wait for Zhu Guanglian to come back and listen to his opinion from the side.

Zhu Guanglian went back to his hometown for a few days to mourn, and rushed back after finishing his work. Shi Zhu then pulled Zhu Huaiqing to Zhu Guanglian and told Zhu Guanglian in detail about what happened on the playground of Sunjiashan a few days ago - of course, he didn't mention the matter of the "hoe team". Zhu Guanglian was a little surprised when he heard this, although he knew that his nephew knew how to do some kung fu, he didn't expect the process to be so exciting!

After speaking, Shi Zhu thought that his uncle would blame him for being a little reckless, but Zhu Guanglian did not blame Shi Zhu. In Zhu Guanglian's opinion, although the stone pillar is a little impulsive, but the boy has some blood, and the stone pillar did not delay the business, and the second did not embarrass the firm, on the contrary, it also earned enough face for the firm, plus Zhu Huaiqing praised the stone pillar on the side, and the stone pillar was about to be lifted to the sky, Zhu Guanglian saw the two young people so excited, and he was also happy in his heart, how could he blame the stone pillar.

This matter is also over. Subsequently, Zhu Guanglian said to Shizhu: "Zhuzi, I went back to Guanyun this time, and by the way, I also went to your house to see your grandmother, she has been fine for half a month, and I also brought some money and things to her, you don't have to worry!" After finishing speaking, he said to Zhu Huaiqing: "Huaiqing, you asked me to bring some things for you, you go to your little lady to have a look!" After hearing this, Zhu Huaiqing ran out happily.

Zhu Guanglian saw that his nephew had gone out, and then said to Shi Zhu: "Zhuzi, there are some things that are not easy to say in front of Huaiqing, do you know why I didn't hand over the affairs of the business house to my nephews, but to you?" Because I know none of my nephews are up to the task! As for you, you have been dependent on your grandmother since you were a child, and you have to make decisions on your own for many things, and now you can be on your own. When I was your age, I was following my master to the sea, and he told me that he could teach me skills and entrust me with important tasks, but he would never give me his career, because he wanted me to have the ability to start my own business. Today, I will also tell you what my master said, I will not hand over the firm to you in the future, you have to work harder, and you must have your own career. I estimate that with your ability, you will definitely be better than my uncle in the future! ”

After hearing what his uncle said, Shi Zhu also told Zhu Guanglian what he thought in his heart: "My uncle, in fact, I don't want to do business, I just want to go to Liu Fulong to avenge my father, and then simply farm at home, that's all!" ”

"Haha, it seems that you are still young, the idea is too simple! I guess in a few years, you'll figure it out. Zhu Guanglian drank a few sips of tea and continued to say to Shizhu: "But Zhu, you will be eighteen after the New Year, and you can make up your mind now about many situations encountered on the road, as long as you don't delay things." Remember, do what you can, don't do what you can! ”

After hearing this, Shi Zhu made up his mind even more, and when he went to Sunjiashan to deliver things again, he privately found Zhao Yishui and said that he was very willing to participate in the "hoe team" and do something for the people. Zhao Yishui was naturally very happy to get such a fierce general, but he still instructed Shi Zhu again to keep it a secret, and not to reveal the information of the team members at any time, let alone betray his teammates. Shi Zhu knew how powerful it was, and he didn't want anyone else to know about it, so he had no reason to violate it.

Shi Zhu participated in the "hoe team", even after arriving in the future, or when he didn't know whether the "hoe team" still existed, he only knew that Zhao Yishui and the monkey were members of the "hoe team".

Their boss, nicknamed "Blade", was rarely seen and was said to be a civil official. As for the other members of the "hoe team", Shi Zhu was completely ignorant, and he didn't even know if there were other team members, which shows how secretive the "hoe team" is.

In order to facilitate Shi Zhu's normal meeting with Zhao Yishui and the rats and exchanging intelligence information, Zhao Yishui applied to the battalion commander and specially approved Shi Zhu's participation in the training of the special operations platoon. Shizhu can come to the playground at any time after he is busy with his own things, and he can also leave at any time, without completing specific training tasks. In this way, Shi Zhu not only learned a good dart technique in the special operations platoon, but also learned how to fight in the water. The most important thing is that Shi Zhu can take this opportunity to learn the art of dagger fighting and assassination with a squad leader rat, although he cannot reach the point of perfection, but he can also use techniques such as piercing, stabbing, picking, wiping, and belting, which just makes the "Thorn Dragon Dagger" given to him by Feng Qingyun have a place to use. In addition, Shizhu also knows a thing or two about climbing, camouflage, trapping and other skills, and may be able to save his life in a critical moment.

In the time since, in addition to practicing with the special operations platoon in the Sunjiashan playground, Shi Zhu often went to Laojuntang to practice with Dai Dayan in addition to delivering supplies and finishing all the things of the commercial bank, and often went to Xishu to find Zhou Ji to touch two cars. Among them, Guanglian Commercial Bank is the closest to Sunjiashan, so Shizhu has more contact time with Zhao Yishui. Shizhu has a flexible brain, learns things relatively quickly, and is very practical in dealing with people, does not play tricks with people, and is also diligent, and people up and down the army like to deal with him.

When learning to shoot with Dai Dayan, Shi Zhu didn't know if he had hit the target for the first time, but after a few days, he was able to shoot very accurately, and even when he hit the moving target later, the ring count was higher than that of the recruits who trained every day. Dai Dayan praised the stone pillar for being powerful, and it was really rare to see him practice so well in such a short time.

The name of the slightly taller person who was holding the stone pillar with Dai Dayan that day was Zhang Gouyu, and Dai Dayan was in the same village, he saw that the stone pillar was progressing so fast, and he couldn't believe it, and couldn't stop saying on the side: "Heh, Brother Shi's comprehension is simply bigger than his eyes!" In time, you will be able to become a sharpshooter! ”

At this time, Shi Zhu smiled and said that Dai Dayan taught him well, and his understanding probably ended there, and he was still 108,000 miles away from the sharpshooter. Shi Zhu said this because he knew that learning to shoot here was only temporary, and maybe one day if something happened, he wouldn't be able to practice.

When he was learning to drive in Zhou Jina, Shizhu was also very fast to get started, and he was able to drive the car thoroughly after a few laps. When Zhou Ji repaired the car, Shi Zhu was always very diligent over there, handing wrenches, pliers, threads, and even adding water and refueling to the car, Shi Zhu rushed to do it. When he was starting, Shi Zhu and Zhou Ji did learn a lot of car repair skills, and Zhou Ji liked Shi Zhu very much, and always explained many methods to Shi Zhu in detail. Soon, the stone pillars had a clear grasp of some common car problems.

Zhou Ji has a younger brother named Zhou Xiang, who is also a soldier in the 112th Division of the 57th Army, and is stationed here in Xishu, and the two brothers can often meet. Zhou Xiang was very envious when he saw that Shizhu could touch the car every three or five days, and often said half-jokingly: "Look at my eldest brother, he usually doesn't let me get out of the car when I want to, but I am 10,000 willing to touch his car for you, and I'm not as good as you as a younger brother!" With that, he smiled bitterly at himself, and two small dimples appeared at the corners of his mouth, which were not obvious.

On such days, the stone pillar lived a fulfilling day. It wasn't until the little winter of this year, that is, the day before the winter solstice, that Shi Zhu went back to his hometown to see his grandmother. He hasn't been home for three months since the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A few days before that, on the fourth day after the fall of Nanjing, Zhu Guanglian rode the stone pillar to be fine that day, called him over, and said that he would take him to the West Garden of Xugou to see a place. Shi Zhu felt mysterious and asked Zhu Guanglian what was the matter.

"You'll know when you get there!" Zhu Guanglian said with a smile.

Saying this, Shi Zhu was even more confused, and this time Zhu Guanglian only brought Shi Zhu alone, and did not let Lao Zhangtou follow him to catch the car, which shows that Zhu Guanglian did not want outsiders to know about it.

When he arrived at a secluded place, Zhu Guanglian asked Shizhu to stop the carriage. The stone pillar looked up, and a large mansion blocked them. The house is built on a hill, surrounded on three sides by high stone walls, and a large area is densely covered with creepers, and in this season, the leaves are half withered and half yellow, and only a few pine trees in the yard are still a little lush. Compared to the bare branches around it, the courtyard and the outside look two more colors.

When he arrived at the door, Zhu Guanglian knocked a few times. The door looked a little old, the bronze paint was already mottled, especially under the pair of iron knockers, the texture of the wood had been completely exposed, and the house must have been some years old.

After a while, with a crisp "creaking" sound of opening the door, the pair of carefully carved unicorn auxiliary heads on the door parted into the door, and out of it came an old man in his fifties, with a little gray hair, wearing a silver-gray robe and a pair of black cloth shoes.

When the old man saw Zhu Guanglian, he nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Dongjia, you are here!" ”

"The owner?" Shi Zhu thought to himself, who is this old man calling?

I saw Zhu Guanglian say to the old man: "Well, old Jiang, I've worked hard for you in the past two days!" This is my nephew Shizhu, now follow me to do things in the trading house, he can come here at any time in the future, just like me, don't neglect him! ”

Lao Jiang nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes", and then said to the stone pillar: "Young master, if there is anything you command!" ”

Shi Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Mr. Jiang, I'm not a young master, you just call me Zhuzi!" ”

"Then how can it be, Young Master Shizhu!" Old Jiang said hurriedly.

Zhu Guanglian saw that the stone pillar was still confused at this time, so he asked Lao Jiang to be busy first, and then took the stone pillar to look around, and said as he walked: "Zhuzi, this is a set of houses I just bought, the original owner of the house is surnamed Jiang, the ancestor is a small official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he is serving in our Haizhou, and the talented old Jiang is the original housekeeper of the Jiang family." After the death of the Qing Dynasty, the Jiang family's family gradually declined, and they had already had the intention to sell this property, but they never made up their minds. I really like this side, the environment is elegant, not far from the train station, and I have been discussing with his family. It wasn't until last month that the Nationalist Government moved the capital to Chongqing, and the family loosened up somewhat, and a few days ago the city of Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese, and the Jiang family finally agreed to sell the house to me. They were worried that if Nanjing fell, Haizhou City would soon fall as well, and they thought that moving to Chongqing with the government might have a better future......

Zhu Guang took the stone pillar to a small pavilion and sat down, and continued: "I have another layer of consideration for this house, the Japanese are already very close to Haizhou City, and they will occupy this place sooner or later, and it is estimated that the vicinity of the port will bear the brunt. Together, our firm must not be able to stay there, a cannonball may be able to kill us, here is relatively far away, what is the situation, we can avoid here, the business of the firm can also be transferred here first. Even if the Japanese occupied Lianyungang, which was a rural area, it was less likely to be damaged than in the city. If you take another 10,000 steps back, if you really don't have a move, let's go back to our hometown! ”

After listening to this, Shi Zhu said: "Yes, I also think that such an important place in Nanjing City was captured by the Japanese in ten days, and you said that our small Haizhou City may be able to defend it for three or five days at most, right?" Either way, we're going to have to figure out a way out. ”

"Also, Zhuzi, don't talk about this to anyone for the time being, lest it cause trouble. Now only you, me and your little concubine know about this, and my two children don't know yet. But this house can't be taken care of by no one, Lao Jiang is very familiar with this place, so I left him to continue to be a housekeeper. I'll ask him to give you the key to the door, and you'll have to put it away. After Zhu Guanglian finished speaking, he took the stone pillar to look around, and after turning the house inside and out, the two returned to the firm.

Shizhu kept all these words of Zhu Guanglian in his heart, and it was not until the Japanese attacked the port and Zhu Guanglian temporarily moved the business of the "Guanglian Commercial Bank" to this house that the people of the commercial bank knew that there was such a place.

The next day, Shizhu was going to Laojuntang to deliver the goods, and when he was unloading the goods there, he happened to meet Camp Commander Yan in the courtyard under the mountain, and then he remembered the matter of the bandit Liu Fulong, so he stepped forward and asked: "Camp Commander Yan, do you know where the bandit Liu Fulong is now?" ”

Battalion Commander Yan said: "Pillar, at that time, we were the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and we happened to meet you, and we didn't go specifically to suppress bandits. Not long after that, we were transferred back to Nanjing, and I don't know what happened to Liu Fulong. However, I know that the Nationalist army will soon send troops to encircle and suppress the bandits, and Liu Fulong probably fled to the Japanese territory in the northeast. I know that several veterans in the room are from the Northeast Army, and they have been in the Northeast for a long time, so you can ask them to see, maybe you can ask. ”

After hearing this, Shi Zhu went to the room to find Lao Wu. At this time, Lao Wu and Lao Yu were sitting outside the room taking care of the garlic seedlings, while chatting about the Forbidden City and Nanjing City, when they saw Shizhu coming, the two happily handed him a stool.

After the stone pillar explained his intentions, Lao Wu put down the work in his hand, patted the white apron, and then said while lighting a dry tobacco: "If you want to talk about the bandits in the Northeast, the Manchu Dynasty began to make trouble before it died. I've heard of some well-known 'locks', such as flying on ice, mountain carvings, and flower butterflies, but it may be a bit difficult to find a 'beard' with no head and no face. The Liu Fulong you are talking about should not be in the name of the Northeast, I haven't heard of it! ”

At this time, Lao Yu said: "Old man Wu, you see that we followed the troops into the customs shortly after '9.18', and now we have been leaving the Northeast for more than six years, and what the pillar said is after that, how do we still know that Liu Fulong is not in the Northeast now?" ”

Lao Wu listened to Lao Yu's reminder, took a deep breath of cigarette, and said with a smile: "You see I forgot all about this stubble!" Yes, Zhuzi, we have been away from Qinghe for more than six years, and we can't go back to home! I'm afraid I can't tell you that Liu Fulong is not in the Northeast now, but there are a lot of Northeast troops here in Haizhou, and there must be some of them who have just come from the Northeast. ”

At this time, a cold wind blew, and the leaves on the ground made a rustling sound, Lao Wu and Lao Yu couldn't help but shrink their heads and snort, so they picked up the bench, grabbed the garlic seedlings and walked to the room.

Shi Zhu saw that a few guys had almost unloaded everything, so he thanked Uncle Wu and Uncle Yu and left.

This time he couldn't find out about Liu Fulong, Shi Zhu was naturally a little disappointed, but he also knew that this was not something that could be solved overnight, maybe Liu Fulong had changed his name and gone elsewhere, or maybe he had died somewhere. In any case, as long as he has the opportunity, he will continue to search. But for now, he can only put it aside for the time being.