Chapter 58: Reminiscence
The words of the boat boss were inexplicable, and Wu Jingya and Yingzi looked at each other and felt even more puzzled. sailed, the boat boss had a cigarette in his mouth, and he was flexible in handling the oars and humming a little song in his mouth, "I was drunk and picked up the light and saw the second girl next door, and I was noisy and bored in my heart and wanted to say something... ”
Wu Jingya looked at the boat boss. "We are a revolutionary, and you still help us?"
"I'm also a revolutionary!" The boat boss said.
Wu Jingya's eyes widened, "What do you say you are?" ”
The younger sister fell asleep in Yingzi's arms, and the little guy didn't rest well in the past two days, Yingzi looked at the bearded man with interest while coaxing her sister.
"Isn't it like? I used to be, and after the Wuchang Uprising, I broke away from the revolutionary party! ”
Wu Jingya arched his hand, "Then why did you want to break away?" ”
"That's a long story! At that time, Mr. Sun led the brothers of the League to make revolutions everywhere, but they all failed! The last time I won, I was serving in the 8th Engineering Battalion of the Hubei New Army at that time! I remember being dragged up by our squad leader in the middle of the night. He told me that you are now a member of the revolutionary party! Then he gave me a gun without bullets and grabbed the ammunition depot with them in a daze! ”
Wu Jingya smiled, "Such an important historical event, how can you say it like a joke!" ”
"You're to the point, except for the slogan, I think everything else is like a joke! After Mr. Sun returned to China, he always gave us a big lecture, and he always said those two sentences to drive out the Tartars and restore China! The captain stroked his beard with his hands.
Yingzi held her chin with her hand and asked, "Have you seen Mr. Sun yet?" ”
"What's that? At that time, it was not as difficult to see him as it is now, this person is very capable, and others call him Sun Cannon! However, he didn't say that there is no shelf in treating people, and those who don't know each other will hold your hand as soon as they meet, and a few words can make your blood boil. The boat boss laughed happily.
"Since Mr. Sun has an influence on you, why did you want to leave the revolutionary party?" Wu Jingya asked.
"At that time, if you wanted to be a revolutionary party, you could be a revolutionary, and if you didn't want to be, you could go home and farm, and no one would stop you or remember you. I remember that after the victory of the uprising, I rushed into the brigade commander's house with the squad leader to arrest him, thinking that we were going to shoot him, but I didn't expect that the squad leader and a few leaders dragged him out from under the bed and let him directly let him be the head of our revolutionary army! And he held up a gun and said to him, "If you don't take our head, we will want your head!" ”
Yingzi dragged Wu Jingya, "Who is this brigade commander?" ”
"Fat Li!" Wu Jingya replied.
"You said that the president after Yuan Shikai died?" Yingzi covered her mouth in surprise!
The boat boss nodded, "Yes, you said that the revolution is not like a joke!" If you want to be the head of the revolution, you must start from scratch. Our squad leader is going to cut his braids. He cried and said that he could cut it after the victory of the revolution. Our squad leader was in a hurry and said that a braided head would never succeed in the revolution. ”
"Yes, in the past, you had to keep braids on your head, but at that time, you couldn't keep your head when you kept braids." Wu Jingya recalled.
"Look at your age, you were still a doll at that time!" The boat boss asked.
"I wasn't born yet!" Wu Jingya said. "And then?"
"Later, Yuan Shikai sent Feng Guozhang over to suppress it! That's the descendant of Yuan Shikai's lineage, and a fire burned this place to charcoal! "The captain of the boat pressed his oars against the shore." The Pingchuan Cemetery has arrived. ”
Wu Jingya and the boat boss worked together to carry the coffin to the shore. "Thank you for saving us today, I don't know what your name is? I will definitely make up for this favor in the future! ”
The boat boss took out a jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Wu Jingya, "Put him away, we can meet for thousands of miles!" With that, the boss jumped on the boat and drifted away. Wu Jingya pulled the coffin and searched for a suitable burial place in the cemetery. This cemetery is mostly the yin residence of the dignitaries and nobles in Hankou, and the workers in the cemetery who came to this point have gone to eat, which is just convenient for them to move.
"It's time to Pinglu, I'll help you pull the coffin!" Yingzi said distressed to Wu Jingya.
"No, you can help me see where there are graves dug in advance by the workers." Wu Jingya gasped and said.
Yingzi and her sister split up to find it. The cemetery is very large, and from time to time, a few crows will fly to the tombstones and make a frightening ghost call.
"I found it, there's a big hole here!" My sister danced and shouted.
Wu Jingya looked at the cave, it should have just been dug up. The tombstone on the left side of the tomb has not yet been inscribed, and it seems that it has only been buried for a short time.
"How are we going to put the coffin down?" The coffin was quite heavy, and few people couldn't lift it at all. This made Yingzi a little worried. Next to the newly dug cave are two shovels. Wu Jingya inserted two shovels diagonally into the cave to make a simple track, and he picked up the end of the coffin and went into the cave! The coffin sank into the cave, and Wu Jingya pulled out the shovel from under the coffin. The new soil excavated from the side is then backfilled into the tomb. Yingzi took a shovel and got busy.
"I'll do it!" Wu Jingya knew that Yingzi was already very tired from tossing in the past few days, and he couldn't bear to let her work again.
"The deceased is the greatest, although I have only known Uncle Liu for a few days, I feel that he is just like my relatives. This can be regarded as a filial piety of me, a junior of the year! ”
Wu Jingya listened to Yingzi's words and nodded, "He is the closest person in this world except for my mother!" ”
"Uncle Liu also told me a little about your family, and he said that after your father married your mother, he had you and your brother, what happened later?" Yingzi asked.
"Because my grandfather is a close minister of Zhang Guizi, Zhang Guizi treated my mother well after he died. My mother married me. , after marrying that man, he used this relationship to beg Zhang Devil to find him an errand so that he could take revenge in the future. Zhang Guizi transferred him to his side as a staff officer. After he got into trouble, he never mentioned the matter of avenging my grandfather again. My mother then ran away with me and my brother. Wu Jingya recalled.
"What about your brother?" Yingzi asked.
At that time, Sun Fugui was heavily used by the direct warlords and was sent to fight in Fujian. When his team drove through my mother's hometown, Dongcheng, my mother was ready to take revenge. At that time, Sun Fugui had only one guard company by his side, and my mother went to Sun Jun's logistics office to enlist as an old mother. Because of the tight manpower, she was not lucky to be arranged to take care of Sun Fugui's daily life. One day, Sun Fugui began to take a lunch break after arranging the combat mission, and his men all left the house. My mother picked up the pistol she had prepared in advance and prepared to shoot Sun Fugui. It's a pity that my mother is a small foot, and when she shot it, her hand trembled because of the unstability of the lower plate, and the bullet grazed Sun Fugui's scalp and passed. Sun Fugui woke up, and my mother escaped through the window when she saw that the matter was revealed. ”