Chapter 291: Turbulent Times
The wind in the early morning can already make the old neighbors who get up early for a walk shrank their necks suddenly, and when they reach out to tighten the neckline of their clothes, they look up at the sky, and then muttered in a low voice: "This day...... I have to think about preparing old cabbage, pouring pickle jars, and pouring things for the winter! ”
If there are those gentlemen who have read some books and like to read newspapers and make teahouses, maybe they have to add another sentence: "Look at the years that have passed...... It's not the right time! ”
Isn't it the right time?
The news written in the newspaper two years earlier, Zhang Dashuai, who was returning to the customs outside the customs by train, asked someone to blow up his train, and Zhang Dashuai swallowed his breath before he survived 12 hours, and smashed the fat and oily black soil outside the customs and the hundreds of thousands of guns of the Northeast Army into Zhang Shaoshuai's hands.
And this Zhang Shaoshuai is really a solid loser, before he can beat the hundreds of thousands of guns he got from his father, the Beida Battalion, where thousands of spearmen live outside the pass, called hundreds of Orientals overnight to beat the bottom, and without letting go of a single fart, he fled back to the pass.
There are also some news that I don't know where the fight came from, and there are also tough guys with hard necks, not afraid of death, and can't vomit this mournful tough guy, who dragged a gun and a horse to pierce the old forest outside the pass and played with the Orientals, and there was a horse Zhanshan Commander who pulled a team to fight with the Orientals in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and I don't know what the situation was?
Anyway, I don't know much about the news on the side, but the crowd of people fleeing from the left and close neighbors of Sijiu City is really increasing day by day. Carrying a burden to pull the family with a mouth, a single person carrying a luggage roll, and a master who looks like he has two money in his hand driving a large set of four-wheeled carriages, Hula Black pressed and ran to Beiping City.
There was a lot of chaos on the streets, and places like the Six Nations Hotel were pretty much the same as usual, but the half-sized inn was already full. Housing prices are also turning upwards one day at a time.
As for the chicken feather shops and chase shops in the corners, it goes without saying......
Even the sand bed shop where Liba sleeps on weekdays has long been crowded with shy refugees.
Several porridge shacks set up by the government of the Republic of China have been erected in Beiping City, and refugees from outside the border have been displaced in Sijiu City according to two meals a day. A few cauldrons lined up in the porridge sheds everywhere are constantly adding firewood and water, and on a cold day, a few cauldrons are foggy and white, and they can hardly even understand the figures. But wait until you get the time to put the porridge. The refugees with broken bowls of melons in their hands walked to the pot under the shouting of the patrol police, but they could only get half a spoonful of thin soup that was clear enough to see the figure of a person, and they couldn't see a few things that could be considered food until they drank it?
On the street, there are already figures from the Beiping Municipal Government Relief Association, with yellow cloth and white-edged armbands on their arms, and they will hit the inside of the door when they see a business face, even if it is a small grocery store that sells needles and threads, they dare to open their mouths and ask for a piece of money donated by the ocean. If you dare to say that you don't give it, the tax collectors who follow behind you can immediately shout to close the door and check the accounts, looking at the wolf-like posture of the tax collectors. I guess I can't figure it out for half a year
Seeing that this relief money has to be paid without paying, some people in various chambers of commerce have taken the lead in organizing several charity sales and donations, and there are really a lot of valuable things taken out in front of people, and the oceans stuffed into the donation money box are also a lot, but when it is the turn of the people who do things below to take the money to settle and help those refugees outside the mouth, they find that there are only about 100 eldest sons left on the books, and several bookkeepers in the relief society who are in charge of the accounts are also silent and secretive.
If there is an ignorant and dead-eyed person who tears off his face and asks urgently, it is natural that an official in the Peiping City Government who speaks well will come out with a face to inform him -- this account can be clearly put on hold here, and it is only a matter of national economy, people's livelihood, and social affairs. Where can you be a nothing-in-the-ordinary outsider who can say and watch? Ma Yoer's roll, don't be comfortable with yourself here!
Under the care of such a relief method. There are a lot of lying down in the city of Sijiu, and it is not too cold this day, but if there is no food in the stomach for three or five days, and the clothes on the body are also thin, there are always three or five people who have not survived the city gate cave or the door of the mansion at night, and they are all miserable and white and purple and the side of the road and at the door. told those four-sea cars to clean up and lie down, so busy that their feet did not touch the ground.
There are also more refugees asking for food, and the patrol police who clean the streets can't control it at all, and sometimes they are really pitiful when they look at the refugees, and they are not willing to pull down their faces and take care of it seriously. The door of the slightly better restaurant is full of unkempt half-grown children who are reaching out to beg for food, and the guys who greet the door are easy to blow away a bunch. But before he could turn around and catch his breath, another group of half-grown children blocked the door of the restaurant and stretched out a dirty slap.
The group next to the second meat shop was full of hungry old ladies with blue eyes and thin yellow faces, and they didn't know where they were touching some water and washed their faces.
After buying the small picks of cut cakes and hard noodles, they are also followed by a few swaying gentlemen in twos and threes. It's just a half-moon scene, and there are more than a dozen cut cakes and hard-faced dumplings grabbed by the hungry old men outside the Guan. It is estimated that there is a hungry and crazy old man who is still thinking about his wife and children who are also hungry and shriveled belly, Leng just rushed to the side of a bean juice picker and reached out to hold a handful of hot bean juice from the pot, and ran all the way to his wife and children, regardless of the fact that his hands were so hot that his skin and flesh were rotten and he was inhuman
It took a full ten oceans, and a good gourd was spared on the ground, and Na Jiu Ye sent away the relief people who came to the door. After explaining that the nine monkeys were good at taking care of the little apprentice who welcomed guests at the main entrance of the fire, Na Jiuye walked back to the courtyard of the second entrance quickly, and walked straight to the discussion room.
Although the entrance of the newly built fire main entrance hall was sorted out according to the original building, and Hu Qianli almost stared at the characters in the construction line without blinking his eyelids, it was said that the radish was almost out of the mud, and a large area of the street was rushed out of the house. It's always not as good as the scene that your own home has spent a lot of effort and effort to clean up. Stretching out his hand to open the thick cloth curtain hanging in front of the door of the discussion room, Na Jiu Ye first tripped over the slightly half-a-point higher threshold under his feet, and almost stumbled into the discussion room.
Hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold Na Jiuye, She Youdao supported Na Jiuye to stand firmly, but at the same time, he hurriedly said to Na Jiuye: "My senior brother, you can hurry up and persuade Youbao again!" This time, no one can stop it. There is a leopard who is determined to go to the gate to find his master, and is clamoring to ask Senior Brother Hu to give him a piece of silver to get on the road! ”
Looking at the luggage rolls on the shelves in the discussion room, and then looking at the leopard who had already cleaned up his body and was dressed as a long away, Na Jiu Ye sighed heavily. Somewhat tiredly, he paced to a chair, sat down slowly, and stared at the eyes of Xiang Youbao full of anxiety without saying a word.
It seemed that he had already known what Na Jiu Ye was going to say to himself, and Xiang Youbao said to Na Jiu Ye in a muffled voice: "Uncle Shi, you really don't have to persuade me!" It has been a long time since I got the letter from the Japanese to defeat the North Camp in Sijiu City! To say that my master is really like you said, Jiren has his own natural appearance. Then I should have gone back to Sijiu City to find the door! But now that I don't know what to say, I have to go out of my mouth this time, and I have to find out the whereabouts of my master no matter what! ”
Stretching out two fingers, Na Jiuye gently tapped the armrest on the chair with his fingers, and said slowly with a deep groan: "There is a leopard, and now it is a mess of porridge outside the mouth, whether it is the military or civilians, etc., all of them are rushing towards the Guannei. I've never heard of anyone running towards the gate! Just these days, you are not the only one who is anxious to get the news of your master. I and your uncles have not been idle, and we have asked those big merchants who can go back and forth to buy and sell outside the mouth. But no matter which way of the merchants they asked, what they said was the same -- this Japanese soldier is different from us Chinese soldiers, even if you spend money, you can't buy a way to trade, people are running for the cause of death! ”
With a cold face, Hu Qianli, who had become a little thinner and thinner in the past year, also echoed Na Jiuye's words at this time and said: "Since ancient times, it has been said that money can be spiritual. In the past, when I bumped into people from all walks of life who sent troops to fight for territory, they could spend a few dollars and find a way to survive in the chaos. But now in this battle, the eight major businesses in the city of Sijiu are all leaving a scene of no tiles, and none of them have come back! There are leopards. You think you know how to be sleek and flexible than those shopkeepers who have a lot of experience in the business - what do you want to talk to me about wanting to make a good trip with your skills, the eight major businesses outside the mouth are all raised in the dart industry, and all of them are good at picking up their roles in the city, and their ability is not worse than yours, but do you see that there is one who can break back from outside the gate?! ”
Slowing down, Na Jiuye said in a harmonious voice to Xiang Youbao: "There is a leopard, even if a few of us elders nodded and agreed to let you go, but you also pondered carefully, the battle with the Japanese outside your mouth was fundamentally opened from Wicker Lake!" Although we have never seen the scene of the battle in person, I can listen to the soldiers who have experienced the Great War of Zhifeng in the past years, saying that the guns on this battlefield have no eyes, no matter how good their skills and spirit are, they can't stand up to this row of cannonballs smashed like a sea of mountains."
Before Na Jiu Ye finished speaking, Xiang Youbao had already twisted his neck and interrupted Na Jiu Ye's words: "Senior uncle, you can persuade again!" This time I said that I would go to the customs when I died, I have inquired about the number of roads, and there are a few medicinal herb dealers who sell ginseng mushrooms who seem to have found a way to clear the customs, and I plan to follow them."
Before he finished speaking, from outside the door of the discussion room, there was already a shrill voice of the nine monkeys with a little panic: "Uncle Boss, Senior Brother Xiang, you two hurry out and take a look, there is a person coming to the door of the hall, and there is the beast tooth talisman in our fire main gate in his hand!" ”
Almost an arrow hit the door of the discussion room, Xiang Youbao dragged open the door of the discussion room, and didn't care about letting the door curtain that he vigorously lifted so that the nine monkeys circled in place, and hurriedly shouted to the nine monkeys covering their faces: "What about people?!" ”
Covering a face that was painful from the thick cloth curtain, the nine monkeys raised his finger and pointed to a half-grown child sitting paralyzed next to the rough stone table in the courtyard: "As soon as I stepped in front of the door of our hall, I showed the beast tooth charm and fell, looking like I had not been hungry for a few days." When he first came in, Senior Sister Nalan fed him a few mouthfuls of sugar water, and he just woke up."
As soon as he pushed aside the nine monkeys that were half-in front of him, he jumped to the stone table where the half-grown child was sitting, and he didn't care that the tattered clothes the child was wearing were already dirty, and he stared at the half-grown child's dirty face and shouted, "Who are you?!" Where's the fight?! How can you have the Beast Tooth Talisman in my Fire Gate?! ”
Barely open a pair of blank eyes, the half-grown child opened his mouth, but he fainted again without saying a word
Raising his head in a hurry, Xiang Youbao almost shouted in the direction of the gang: "Hurry up and find something that can hang your life."
Before the leopard's roar fell, Nalan had already walked out of the room with a large porcelain bowl containing half a bowl of porridge water, walked to the side of the leopard in three steps and two steps, and half-squatted down to sprinkle the porridge water that was just right for the cold and hot, and sprinkled a little bit of the porridge water that could hang his life, and slowly poured it into the mouth of the half-grown child (to be continued......