Chapter 204 Flag Battalion

Under the afterglow of rì, Chengdu was shrouded in a dim light.

Because the curfew of the Republican Army has not yet been lifted, after dark, the city gate is closed, the traffic outside the city is cut off, and no one is allowed to walk casually at night on the street, so before it gets dark, the small merchants and vendors who enter the city to catch the market are in a hurry to collect their stalls and withdraw outside the city, and the streets and alleys in the city are full of traffic, and pedestrians come and go, which is very lively.

The large and small teahouses in the city were also settling accounts and closing their doors at the last time before dark, and some people who lived far away also released their work in advance and hurried back.

In the midst of this bustling crowd, a young man from a wine shop hurriedly walked through a few secluded alleys, walked through the back door of the Chengdu General's Yamen, went straight into the flag camp, stopped in front of a dilapidated tiled house, and knocked on the door.

The one who opened the door was a flag man, in his twenties, and there was another person behind him, who was also dressed as a flag man, and when he saw the wine basket in the man's hand, he grabbed it without saying a word, handed over a string of copper coins, and then slammed the door shut.

The man stood at the door, counting the copper coins, and listened intently to the movement in the room, but after listening for a long time he heard nothing, so he took a sip and turned his head.

When the guy was far away, the two bannermen standing behind the door carried the wine basket into the back room one after the other, took out the bag of dried oil and bean curd at the top of the wine basket, and then took out the wine jar at the bottom, and put it on a square table in the middle of the room.

There were already two other banner men at the table, and when they saw the wine jar, their tightly knit brows immediately relaxed.

These two flag men are wearing cool hats, one is coral beads, and the other is tortoiseshell beads, which was placed in the former that it was an officer in the flag camp, but the two flag men who opened the door to receive the wine altar were dressed differently from them, not only did they not wear hats, but the clothes on their bodies were also tattered, only the fast boots on their feet could show the previous identities of the two, they were both Goshha.

The four flag men sat at the table with four large porcelain bowls, poured wine, and laid out the dishes, and the dinner officially began.

Liquor is the worst sweet potato roast. The dish is also the most common, and the dried tofu doesn't even have chopsticks. It's not about grabbing vegetables with your hands. It is to use the dagger commonly known as "plug" to hold vegetables with the flag man hidden in his sleeve.

That's the way. After the recovery of Chengdu. The army immediately stopped issuing the banner salary, and the life of the people was suddenly gone. Even those who are slightly wealthier are also sad. I don't know where the way out of life will be.

Although since Gengzi, the distribution of the flag has become very stingy, after the implementation of the new policy. This flag salary is even more like a flower child, there is a handful of land. But in the end, this is also a "hardcore crop" of the banner people. Anyway, it's silver and copper coins! If you don't owe these taxes, you can barely cope with drinking two bowls of gruel a day. If there is an individual expense. Then you'll have to find another way.

Resting on the past. There are a lot of ways for flag people to ask for extra money. Don't say anything else. Those small teahouses want to avoid being blackmailed by the robe brother and the party to offer to the flag people. There are flag people, and the uncle is covered with a riffraff, so he really doesn't dare to go to the teahouse to make trouble again. And the flag people don't have to pay out of their own pockets when they go to the teahouse, although they can't live as well as the flag people in the capital. But in this Chengdu city, the people are also superior.

But not anymore. Since the Liberation. Those who worshipped the flag man and became the "godfather" and "godfather" of the teahouse shopkeepers immediately turned their faces and did not recognize people. Not only is it no longer offered to the flag camp. Even these flag people, "godfathers" and "godsons", went to the teahouse to drink tea. Then you have to pay it back with a cup of tea. Not even to buy accounts!

Once a son of heaven and a courtier. In the past, when the flag man received a flag salary, he would stand on the street and scold the court once. Scolding the pitch-black ground stepping silver. Scolding that can almost float on the tea surface of Guangxu small money. scolded the prince in the court. scolded the general stationed in Chengdu...... Right now. Even if you want to scold, there is no place to scold. I thought about the court one by one. The court does not fall. After all, the silver of the pitch-black ground is also silver. Get it in the silver horn. Uncle Banner Man blows his beard. The guys on the counter and the court don't dare to exchange it at the market price!

"Repent! Repent! I already knew that the court was good, and our banner people had to fight for breath, when the revolutionary army drove to the city, we had to fight for anything, even if we died on the head of the city, it was much stronger than this immortal rìzi! Anyway, we used to be a leader! But look at it now, even the guys in the teahouse dare to give the grandfather a look! Zhao Erxun was a wreck, he had already seen that he was not a thing, and he wanted to hook up with the revolutionary army, but he ended up putting himself in, which is called self-inflicted! The revolutionary party is not a thing either! After entering the city, we unloaded our guns, and now the chickens in the banner camp have been stolen by those thieves outside, who gave them the guts? Isn't it a revolutionary party? This revolutionary party, I see, is a den of thieves! ”

The flag man wearing a coral-topped cool hat picked up the coarse porcelain bowl in front of him, and poured half a bowl of melon roast in one go, which suddenly burned from his throat to the fire, although he quickly ate a piece of oil and dried beans, but the fire in his heart became more and more vigorous, so he couldn't help but scold.

"You're a little! The Chengdu General's Mansion was copied by the revolutionary army, and even the silver bracelets on the wrists of the maids were not spared! Poor Ma Liang died in battle, and he didn't even have time to ask for a reward, and the court fell, and now the general's mansion has been copied, and the family is old and young

The parcel rolls were also moved to the flag camp, and there was no place to live, dozens of sheds. Others say that our flag people are not angry, don't say it, you really didn't say it! Ma Liang sacrificed his life for the country, and now I haven't seen anyone in our flag camp vacate a house to accommodate Ma Liang's family, and our flag people don't want to see their own people, who do you expect to help you? ”

The flag man with the > top also slapped the table and shouted twice, and also finished half a bowl of spirits in one go.

Na Zuo Ling glanced at this person, and snorted: "Ma Liang didn't see anyone to take care of when he was alive, and now his family is blinded, but he can't complain about others, who told him to breathe out of the same nostril with Zhao Erxun?" Besides, the 500 flag soldiers he brought to Chóngqìng were all wiped out, and that was also the team that our Chengdu flag camp drove out, and now the families of those flag soldiers who died in battle did not come to the door to settle accounts, which is already for the sake of Ma Liang who also died in battle. ”

"You can't say that, Ma Liang is a general in Chengdu in the end, where does he care about a bunch of poor flagmen? Of course, the two of you are the leaders and inspectors, but compared with the Chengdu general, it is a small trick, and as for the small one, it is a small trick in a small trick. ”

One of the Goshha who was sitting with him stood up, picked up the wine jar, poured wine for the two of them, and poured wine for himself and another Goshha, and then shook the wine jar, and said with a wry smile: "We are all good wine, just in the blink of an eye, we will kill half a jar of wine, if the two adults want to come to the small place to drink again, the small one has to be the bear skin shoulder, that is still when the small one followed Zhao Erfeng to fight on the riverside, but unfortunately it was shot with an American aluminum shotgun, and half of the skin is full of bullet holes, The bearskin can't be sold for a good price, otherwise it wouldn't have been left until now. ”

Na Zuo Ling snorted coldly: "The boy is crying poor with the master. Ye is not here to fight the autumn breeze today, Ye is here to tell you serious things, otherwise he would not have greeted you kid in advance, but your kid is good, just take sweet potato roast and dried tofu to entertain us, you can't be so picky, you kid went to fight the riverside, but there is no less good things, although there is a good gambling problem, but it will not drink this sweet potato roast. ”

After speaking, he put down the bamboo flower purse on his waist, shook it in his ear, and then slapped it on the table.

"Master, what are you?" Naha was a little puzzled.

"Here's fifteen eagles, for you." Zuo Lingdao.

"Yo! Master, what are you polite about?

I was joking with you just now, but I don't dare ask you for the money for the drink. Besides, this sweet potato roast and dried tofu can't use so many eagles. ”

Shiha shook his head repeatedly, but at the same time he reached out and touched the purse with a smile.

"Wait! Eldenbu, this money is not for buying wine from you. ”

Zuo Ling squeezed Goshha's hand, lowered his voice, and said, "This money is for your foreign gun." ”

"What? Not...... There are no foreign guns, what are you kidding? When the Republican army copied the gun, I even handed over the open flame gun, where are the foreign guns? ”

The Goshha, who was named Eldenbu, hurriedly withdrew his hand and shook his head like a rattle.

Seeing that Erle Dengbu flatly denied the foreign gun, the leader and the inspector immediately pulled their faces.

"Don't pretend to be stupid! Chongpu knows about your hiding foreign guns, and Yanchang also knows that when the first batch of British 'Li Enfei' was sent to the flag camp, you received a shot at that time and signed a flower charge, and then Zhao Erxun expanded the guards, you went empty-handed, and when you came back, you brought a British foreign gun, this gun is only afraid that it was not signed a flower charge, so you have two shots in your hand. Li Enfei', but later unloaded the bolt and handed it over to the revolutionary army, and you kid only handed over one bolt, and then the revolutionary army entered the city to surrender the gun, and you only handed over one foreign gun, where did the rest of the foreign gun go? ”

Zuo Ling said it with a clear look, and this Elden Bu suddenly opened his mouth.

"This ...... This...... I brought the foreign gun back from the governor's yamen, and I only put it on the kang for a day, and the next day I took it back to the governor's yamen. Eldenbu asked rhetorically.

"I don't believe what other people say, but I have to believe the words of Chongpu and Yanchang, because those two people are honest people who can't kick a fart with two feet, why do they frame you? Honestly, where did you hide that foreign gun? ”

"Okay, that foreign gun was sold to Brother Pao in the East Market yesterday." Elden Bu rolled his eyes.

"You're talking nonsense with us, this rifle is no better than a short gun, even if you take it out and sell it, it's not the right time. Honestly, where did you hide that British gun? ”

The flag man patted Eldenb on the shoulder with a smile, stood up, and pressed him to his chair.

"Second master, what are you doing here? Do you want to be hard? Erden Buso spread his hands and made a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

"Even if you buy a foreign gun, you have to get a good price. This British 'Li Enfei' is not as good as the Mauser singles made by the Sichuan Bureau, it is a serious foreign gun, and the foreign goods that are fired ten times in one go, if the robe brother comes to offer the price, at least it is a starting price of 100 oceans, that is, the Mauser singles of the Sichuan Bureau, these 15 oceans can't be bought. ”