The location of the Ma family is located on the ridge.

In the distance, you can see a huge courtyard with pavilions and carved balustrades, which contrasts sharply with the low thatched huts around it.

Ma Chengbang was dressed in silk clothes, with sparse goat whiskers, his appearance was rich, and his face even looked a little harmless and kind.

In the kitchen of the Ma family, the heat is steaming at the moment, and the fragrance of chicken, duck and fish is wafting everywhere......

At this moment, Ma Chengbang was sitting on the Taishi chair in the hall, drinking tea leisurely.

Ma Youtian lowered his head and looked at his uncle with big dark circles under his eyes, and secretly wondered in his heart, these eight roads have come, how can his uncle still be so good?

If the Eighth Road is a communist, then the uncle has so much land, but all of it has become someone else's family, and he didn't sleep all night, but why didn't he panic at all?

Since he met Zhang Ran in Yanggou Village, he didn't think about tea and dinner all day, and the only thing worthy of him being a little happy was that he not only didn't receive the rent in Yanggou Village yesterday, but also put the rent elsewhere in, and not only was he not scolded when he came back, but he was comforted a few words.

"Ah Fu, add some boiling water!"

After sitting for a while, Ma Chengbang shouted, looked back at Ma Youtian and said, "Didn't you say that Captain Zhang of the Eighth Road said yesterday that he was going to come to our Ma family today?" It's past noon, why hasn't anyone come yet? ”

"That's what the Eighth Road says, but it's not close to Yanggou Village!"

Ma Youtian hurriedly said: "I have sent Xiao Mazi and a few of them to the village to wait, as soon as I see those guys coming, I will come back in advance to report, uncle, if you are tired, go back to the house to rest first, and when the people come, I will call you immediately?" ”

"When is this, where can I still sleep?" Ma Chengbang shook his head and said.

Ma Youtian's eyes widened, and he said Uncle, are you worried too? Why don't I see it at all?

"When you reach my age, you will understand, there are some things, it is useless to be in a hurry, the most important thing is to prepare early!"

Ma Chengbang smiled, after all, since the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was arrested in Xi'an last year and forced to reach the united front of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he has been worried about the arrival of this day.

"Uncle, you have the foresight!"

Ma Youtian said with a fart: "But uncle, let's wait like this now, isn't that equivalent to meat on the chopping board, let them slaughter in eight ways?" If you want me to say, we should contact those small households in the surrounding villages, discuss together, and come up with a countermeasure...... There is a lot of power in numbers! ”

"What do you know?"

Ma Chengbang glared and said: "Then it will become a conspiracy to fight, those eight roads, I guess I wish we could do this!" ”

From the beginning of the Red Army's troubles, he paid attention to the movements of those guys, and after the unification of the battle front, he carefully studied the policies and guidelines of the Eighth Route.

It is true that the Eighth Route side cracked down on local tyrants to divide the land and engage in class struggle, but they were beaten to death with a stick without saying anything.

Except for a very small number of heinous landlords and rich people who were directly shot in public trial, the rest of the Eighth Route side still mainly adopted persuasion tactics, after all, there are not a few landlords, and if they want to be beaten to death with a stick, there will be too many people who will be offended.

Although it is true that the Ma family is the largest landlord here, Ma Chengbang asked himself, whether he rents or something, he is fair compared to the landlords in other places, although he is not very good at his tenants, but it is not really bad, like bullying men and women, and forcing people to death has never happened - a landlord like him, even in the core area of the Eighth Road, cannot reach the crime of killing his head, let alone Jindong!

The Eighth Road has just come, and the foothold is not stable, and the Huairou policy must be adopted!

So Ma Chengbang is full of confidence, he thinks that the detachment leader named Zhang Ran attacked Ma Youtian and others yesterday, and it seems that he is vicious, but he still wants to give himself a dismount, and when he comes to himself, he is definitely still focused on talking, rather than fighting and killing as soon as he comes up!

Since it is a talk, Ma Chengbang has nothing to fear.

So early in the morning, he asked his subordinates to kill chickens and slaughter sheep, and when they were full of food and drink, they talked slowly!

It's a big deal, those Eight Roads are asking for a sky-high price, and they will pay back the money on the spot - anyway, they don't have a confrontation, according to the policy of Eight Roads, the one surnamed Zhang can't do anything to himself!

As he was talking, Xiao Mazi came in panting, his face turned pale: "Master, those eight-way people are coming, more than a dozen people, and they brought a lot of guys......"

"Panic!"

Ma Chengbang glared at Xiao Mazi, but his heart was more confident because of this-more than a dozen people, then it must be talking!

If you want to fight the landlord of your own Ma family, there are not enough people in a dozen people!

The surroundings of this Zhuangzi, although they are also tenants of his Ma family, are all related to each other, two or three hundred people!

In the mountains and forests.

Zhang Ran and his entourage came over panting, and saw the Ma family's mansion from a distance.

"Magnificent ......"

"Yes, if I can live in a house like this in my life, then I will be comfortable......"

Many villagers gossiped and expressed envy.

"Shut up!"

Wang Changtian scolded: "That is the courtyard of the landlord's old wealth, which was obtained by exploiting our poor people - do you also want to be the landlord's old wealth!" ”

The villagers pursed their mouths and said in their hearts, the village chief, you can't have a bad conscience in order to please Captain Zhang - you dare to pat your heart and say that you don't want to live in such a big house?

"Village Chief Wang, don't make such a fuss!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "It's true that the house is the mansion of the landlord's old wealth, but it is not necessarily the landlord's old wealth who lives in the big mansion - the policy of our Eighth Route Army is that everyone is equal, the important thing is not the big house, it is the people who live in the big house - the goal of our Eighth Route Army is to let all people in China have the opportunity to live in such a big house!" ”

"Yes, yes, detachment leader!"

Wang Changtian said with a flattering face: "It's because I don't understand the policies of our Eighth Route Army enough, and I will work harder and understand more in the future......"

Zhang Ran smiled, and said in his heart No wonder this Wang Changtian is the only family in the village that has its own land, and has been a security chief for so many years - this is a talent!

Lu Yan and those villagers, when they heard Zhang Ran's words, looked at the Zhuangzi again, and said in their hearts that it would be great if there really was that day—just, is that possible?

"Absolutely!"

Zhang Ran knew everyone's thoughts, and said happily when he thought of the world in a few decades......

"Isn't such a big mansion uncommon? Where do you live—do you still want to live in heaven? Zhang Laogui said with a smile.

All the villagers laughed and said, Captain Zhang, you are a bit big than bragging!

"Although it doesn't really live in the sky, it's almost the same as living in the sky!"

Zhang Ran laughed and said: "In a fifty or sixty-story building, living in it is the same as living in the middle of the sky - isn't that the same as living in the sky?" ”

"Fifty or sixty storey buildings? What should I do if it collapses? ”

"It's a small thing to collapse, but it's so high, you can't tire yourself up and down every day......"

The villagers were happily talking, thinking about such a world, which they yearned for, but were quite distressed.

Zhang Ran naturally won't tell everyone that those buildings are all reinforced concrete, and they can't collapse in an earthquake, so where is it so easy to collapse? As for climbing the stairs - there is an elevator!

It was a world that these villagers would never have imagined.

Thankfully, if some of them survive long enough, they might have the chance to see the world with their own eyes.

As he spoke, the team had already gone up the beam and came to the outside of the village entrance.

"Captain Zhang, our Master Ma has been waiting for you at home for a long time, please come with me......"

Xiao Mazi and a few others saw that most of the people in the entire team were actually villagers, and after only three guns, they originally felt a little contempt in their hearts, but when they saw the short gun handle on Zhang Ran's waist, their eyes suddenly shrank sharply, and they led the way in front with a smile on their faces.