Chapter 2 Out of the Plug (4 Down)

In the end, he is a big guy who can take charge alone, in a few words, Zhao Renyi arranged the preparations that Zhang Songling needed to make before leaving the plug in an orderly manner.

Zhang Songling knew that his family's experience in traveling far away was far less than that of Zhao Liuge, so he smiled and accepted the other party's arrangement. The four young men sat down together for a while, and were full of food and drink. Shunzi was responsible for sending Zhang Songling back to the chicken feather shop, while Zhao Renyi and Dongzi immediately set about sorting out the goods, inspecting the livestock, and making the final preparations before departure.

Early the next morning, Shunzi picked up Zhang Songling from the chicken feather shop and walked out of the city with his luggage. Turning a corner, Zhao Renyi and Dongzi had already been waiting here with a few big cars. The four of them greeted each other, and while no one was paying attention, they stuffed Zhang Songling's long and short guns and bullets wrapped in coarse cloth into the silk rolls on one of the mule carts, and then pressed a bunch of miscellaneous goods on it, and carefully inspected it three times, and made sure that there was no flaw in any case, so they each mounted their cattle and drove the convoy out of the city.

Under Zhang Songling's crotch is a blue and white mule that he has just bought, three years old, one and a half meters tall, and his green hair is shiny. It walks steadily, and its speed is no less than that of a common Mongolian horse. If it is in Lucheng, Shandong, such a livestock will probably be sold for at least seventeen or eighteen oceans. And yesterday morning, Zhao Renyi also swore to him that every money in the warehouse had been pre-arranged for use, and he could not give him more silver dollars.

"This mule, along with the saddle and stirrups on it, was brought on credit by Dongzi and the boss of Chengxi Liu. I said that I would come back from the business outside my mouth and return the money to him! As if he had already guessed what Zhang Songling would think, Zhao Renyi took the initiative to explain, "Boss Liu and the eldest young master have been friends for many years. Anyway, every year when the caravan goes back and forth to and from the port, it has to pass through his side. No one is afraid that anyone will not pay it back! ”

"Oh!" Zhang Songling once again saw Zhao Renyi's ability, and nodded with a smile on the back of the mule, "Sixth Brother Lao is bothered!" It's a shame that I met you here, otherwise, I would have to walk on two legs to the Black Stone Village! ”

"The third young master praised me again!" Zhao Liuzi shook his head lightly, "With a little ability, I can just be fed and clothed." If you want to do something else, you don't have the guts, and you can't be ruthless. Not like you, alas! ”

Knowing that he remembered the tragic death of Xiaoqin of the Zhu family at the hands of the Japanese invaders, Zhang Songling's heart was also gloomy. Since the war began on 7 July last year, the Chinese army has almost lost one battle after another, retreating all the way from Beiping to Anhui, and then from Anhui to Wuhan in the blink of an eye, and in less than a year, most of the country has been lost to the little devils. And those ferocious devil soldiers did not treat the people in the occupied areas as human beings at all. Robbery, beatings, almost all the time, rape and killing, are also commonplace.

This is a shame for all Chinese soldiers, whether he was born in the 26th Road, the 29th Road, or the 8th Road, or the 7th Road; Whether he came from the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, the Dian Army, the Northwest Army, and the Northeast Army. As a soldier, you can't keep the enemy out of the country, and it is a great shame to let the people suffer from the enemy's poison! Even if politicians find countless reasons for those defeats, and even if the literati compose an ode to iron and blood for every defeat, they cannot hide the fact that the city has lost its land and collapsed!

is thinking gloomily that the level of getting out of the plug has arrived. Dozens of trucks that left early formed a long line on the main road, and both the people who drove the cars and the horses pulling the carts were bored. The road leading to the outside of the plug was cut in two by two wooden poles painted with red lacquer. Each piece of wood is more than three meters long, and a thick rope is tied to the end, which can be pulled up and lowered at any time. The ends are fixed to a thick cement pile with an iron shaft. Near the pile, there are piles of sandbags, large and small. Behind the bunker of the sandbag stacking truck, more than a dozen puppet soldiers with loaded guns stood upright, not even daring to reach out and shoot flies on their noses.

"Let him go, next!" There was a guy with a male duck's voice, near the wooden railing, shouting loudly.

The red-painted wooden pole was pulled away by another group of puppet soldiers, letting go of several carriages that had just been inspected. The owner of the carriage walked through the checkpoint with his head down, despite the mess of the goods being turned over. The long line on the main road slowly moved forward, and was once again blocked by the lowered railing. The vendors looked at each other, stamping their feet and pouting, their faces full of helplessness.

"Boss Cui, it's early!" Zhao Renyi lined up his carriage at the end of the line, and greeted a certain foot merchant who straddled the blanket with a smile. There was no trace of sadness on the dusty face.

"Oops! Isn't this the little sixth son? What about your eldest young master, why didn't he come?! The footman surnamed Cui rubbed his eyes, his face full of surprise.

"The eldest young master has something to do temporarily, let me exercise!" Zhao Renyi's face was full of smiles, as if he had seen an old friend he hadn't seen for many years, "What about Boss Cui, are you going out by yourself this time, or are you going out with your buddies?!" ”

"It's just such a little thing, how dare you bring a guy again!" Boss Cui looked at his own little donkey cart and shook his head with a wry smile, "If I can earn my own food money back, I will burn high incense!" As for you, I see the few behind you, they all seem to be fresh faces! ”

"They were all recruited by our owners last year. One of them is a distant nephew of our host! Zhao Renyi lowered his voice and winked at Boss Cui, "It's hard to wait, do you see?" Just the one who has a straight head, how can he look like a person who learns to do business! Every day I have to serve him like a master! ”

"Oh, the Overseer!" Boss Cui also responded in a very small voice, squeezing his eyebrows and showing sympathy for Zhao Renyi's situation. "I thought your owner would be relieved of you! Hehe, if you want me to say, you can go back and do it yourself. Anyway, you're already out of the apprenticeship, and it's not up to you to decide who you want to do! (Note 1)

"I have to save a few more years!" Zhao Renyi secretly looked back, and then explained with a face full of reluctance.

"Alas! People are two legs, and money is a wheel. It is difficult for people to make money. It's easy to roll the money! Boss Cui nodded very understandingly and summarized in a low voice.

In a blink of an eye, the two became acquainted with each other because they shared Zhao Renyi's "secret", to the point where they had nothing to talk about. The reason why the vendors who left the customs today were blocked here was quickly revealed. It turned out that the Duolun area outside the mouth had suddenly become a bandit recently, not robbing the vendors, not robbing the shops, and specifically targeting the devil's transport team. Several convoys of little devils transporting leather and livestock to the northeast were looted one after another, and all the devil soldiers who escorted the cars were killed, most of the goods were robbed, and a small number of those that could not be moved were burned. According to the bullet casings and grenade explosion marks left at the scene, it is speculated that the bandits' weapons came from the gates. It is very likely that the Central Army or the Jin Sui Army provided it, or the bandits themselves were some branch of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army.

The "bandits" finished the case and fled on horseback into the depths of the grassland. The little devils exhausted themselves to death, and they couldn't find any trace of them. They had no choice but to settle for the second best thing, and to make up their minds about the supply of weapons to the "bandits" and strictly inspect all the passes on the Great Wall to prevent "lawless" businessmen from carrying guns and ammunition out of the jam.

Completely handing over the task of cutting off the supply lines of the "bandits" to the puppet army, the little devils will definitely not be at ease. They themselves also know in their hearts that those guys who can even sell their ancestors will definitely not have any limits in their work. As long as the merchants were willing to pay for it, they said that they would bring some guns and ammunition out of the jam, that is, they would pull the whole cannon in a carriage and transport it under the noses of the puppet army, and after they had collected enough benefits, they dared to pretend that they didn't see anything.

Therefore, since yesterday, the devils have strengthened their strength at important checkpoints leading to the grassland, such as Zhangjiakou and Killing Tiger's Mouth. Not only did the number of puppet soldiers at each checkpoint double, but also sent half a squad of devils to supervise by the side, strictly preventing anyone from daring to accept bribes and turning a blind eye to the "illegal" behavior of the traders!

"It's a bit of a problem now!" After listening to the inside story introduced by Boss Cui, Zhao Renyi quietly muttered in his heart. The puppet army at the Zhangjiakou checkpoint is a "house sparrow" that has been fed by the traders, and if it is in peacetime, he stuffs a few pieces of ocean into the past, and the other party will definitely not even turn over the goods on the carriage, so he will directly switch and release. But now, with the little devil personally leading the team to supervise the side, even if the puppet army has great courage, they dare not openly show favoritism under the nose of the little devil. What if they search out the third young master's eating guy......

Thinking of this, Zhao Renyi's back was cold. greeted Boss Cui again, excused himself to dispose of the goods, and turned around to discuss the coping strategy with Zhang Songling.

Before he could walk to Zhang Songling's side, the front of the team suddenly became chaotic. Several puppet soldiers set up a chubby vendor and strode towards the grass by the roadside. The fat trader who was held up tore his throat and shouted loudly, "Wronged, wronged!" Taijun, Taijun, these Western medicines are all sold in the Oriental trading house in Beiping City, there are invoices to check, and invoices can be checked! ”

"Taijun, he said that these Western medicines were bought in a pharmacy opened by the Great Japanese Empire in Beiping City!" The male duck voice interpreter bent over and whispered in Japanese to the Devil Soldier Cao who was supervising next to him.

"Yaga! &**%¥" The Devil Army Cao cursed and cursed, uttering a long list of accusatory words. The male duck was stunned, turned his face, and shouted at the traders who were in a commotion: "Taijun said that the foreign companies in Beiping City sell you Western medicine, but they don't approve you to bring them to the grassland. This fat man brought more than forty boxes of medicine that could heal the inflammation of the wound in one go, and he must have colluded with the bandits in private. Therefore, it must be strictly ......"

"Wronged, wronged!" The fat merchant dragged the floor with his legs and broke crying, "It's not for the bandits, it's for the Kharchin Bezi." He had recently been fighting Ula Kebeizi for the pasture next to Crescent Lake. Master Zhou, you can do well, and then help me explain to Taijun, explain and explain. As long as I escape this fate, I will surely repay you for your kindness! ”

I don't know if I can't bear to kill my compatriots innocently, or if I was moved by the fat merchant's promise, the male duck voice interpreter bent down and translated the fat merchant's original words to the devil soldier Cao in Japanese again. The latter listened with a frown, and kept asking for some details, including the origin of the Khalchin Beizi and the location of the Crescent Lake.

The Duck Voice Translator translated these questions to the fat merchant as they were. Then he translated the fat merchant's explanation to the devil army Cao as it was. After a while, even the surrounding vendors understood that the fat merchant had indeed been wronged. The bandits buy Western medicine and do not risk being reported to go to a foreign store run by the Japanese to place an order. I won't let go of the relatively close Shenyang City, and I will not go around a big bend to go over the mountains and mountains to Beiping.

But the devil soldier Cao was unwilling to admit his previous misjudgment in front of a group of Chinese businessmen. frowned a few times and scolded loudly, "Yaga, &**%¥, &**%¥!" ”

"Taijun?!" The male duck voice translator was stunned and did not immediately translate the devil's words into Chinese. The devil soldier Cao was furious, and reached out to the command knife at his waist. The unlucky translator was so frightened that he immediately jumped up and shouted at the puppet army beside the fat vendor, "What are you doing in a daze?" Taijun said that no matter how many excuses he has, carrying prohibited items out of the customs is a capital crime. Capital crime! Hurry up and shoot down, don't waste Taijun's time! ”

"Wronged ——!" The fat merchant screamed hoarsely, his legs on the ground, and refused to leave. The puppet soldiers knew that he was very innocent, but they didn't dare to disobey the devil's order, and dragged him to the grass on the side of the road, allowing his legs to drag a long trail on the ground.

"Iniquity!" "Lack of great virtue!" The rest of the vendors were sad and broke out into a commotion. The rest of the puppet soldiers and devils inside and outside the bunker immediately pointed their rifles at the flat ends, and pointed their guns at the crowd with black holes, ready to pull the trigger at any time.

The shouting and scolding in the crowd immediately subsided, everyone had to support their families, and no one dared to hit the muzzle of the gun with his chest in order to seek justice for his fat peers. Only Zhang Songling, taking advantage of the crowd commotion, reached into the cargo of the mule cart, grabbed the handle of the box cannon, and pulled it out little by little.

"Young Master!" Zhao Renyi's face turned white with fright, he held Zhang Songling's arm and whispered: "Third Young Master, what are you going to do?" Have mercy on us. You just don't pity us, and think about the old club....."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a sudden sound in his ears, "Ping-pong!" "Ping!" Two gunshots. turned around in surprise, only to find that the devil soldier Cao, who was still showing off his martial arts before, fell on his back, and in front of his chest, two thick blood columns spurted Lao Gao, Lao Gao!