Sitting cross-legged on the kang, leaning on the quilt carefully padded by the leopard behind him, the old man Hong raised his eyes and looked at the leopard who was sitting on the edge of the kang with half his body, holding a look of a junior serving the elders, and stretched out his palm to make a move towards the leopard: "There is a leopard, let's drink two cups and talk about it today, you sit on the kang and talk!" ”

Looking at Old Man Hong's appearance that he couldn't tell for himself, Xiang Youbao had no choice but to nod, did the opposite of Old Man Hong, reached out and took the wine plug on the table, and poured a cup of fragrant old white dry for Old Man Hong.

Stretching out two fingers and pinching the small wine cup filled by Xiang Youbao, Old Man Hong tilted his neck slightly, drained the small wine cup that was brought to his mouth, closed his eyes tightly and held his breath, and after a while, he slowly spit out a mouthful of warm wine, and said to Xiang Youbao, who was holding the wine plug and waiting to pour wine for himself: "There is a leopard, you pour it too!" ”

According to Mr. Hong's instructions, Xiang Youbao silently accompanied Mr. Hong to drink three glasses of Lao Baigan, and then while pouring wine for Mr. Hong, he whispered to Mr. Hong: "Mr. Hong, what do you have to teach you a lesson, I'm listening carefully here, what do you command?" ”

Waving his hand slightly, Old Man Hong closed his eyes slightly and muttered for a moment, before he slowly opened his mouth to Xiang Youbao and said, "There is a leopard, you should know that I have a son in my family." Now there are two sons who don't know whether they are alive or dead, and one son who doesn't mention it! If it weren't for the fact that I was rewarded with a golden chair in the main gate of the fire, and I took the nine monkeys to slowly learn the craft of my finch Hong family to make finch whistles, I am afraid that the craft of my finch Hong family would have been extinct long ago? But if you want to say towards the early years, my Que'er Hong family can be regarded as a prosperous family house in Sijiu City, if not"

As if remembering the unbearable past, Old Man Hong paused suddenly, reached out and pinched the small wine cup that Xiang Youbao had just poured and drank it all. Only then did he soften his tone and said: "In the year of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Alliance Army entered the Sijiu City, and almost all of the rich and poor, the military, the people, the merchants, and the eunuchs in the Sijiu City suffered a catastrophe. The three mountains and five gardens of the royal city in western Beijing, a fire burned for several days and nights, and the streets and alleys. Countless foreign soldiers burned, killed, looted, and committed adultery. At that time, there were a total of 29 people in my family, and I thought that by handing over my belongings and bowing down to the roll call (Note 1), I would always be able to save the lives of the members of the family. But I didn't think about it, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who crashed into the narrow gate robbed their property, and they thought about it."

Stretching out his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Old Man Hong muttered to himself: "My eldest brother copied the guy, which is a small hammer that he uses to knock crispy brass on weekdays, and it is no more than the size of a walnut, but before he rushed to the Japanese soldier who wanted to harm my sister-in-law." The whole person is called a gun to burst his brain! ”

"The second brother has studied, and he is estimated to be stupid, so he jumped up to reason with those Japanese soldiers! Before he could say a word, he called for several bayonets and lifted them into the air."

"My father was old, his legs and feet were not good, and before he could get up from the ground, he was hit with several bayonets on his body, and he knelt down and died in front of my eyes with a pair of eyes."

"The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law let those Japanese soldiers waste to death. I guess I felt that the two children of my sister-in-law were crying too loudly, and a Japanese soldier smiled and went over to hold the two children of my sister-in-law. One by one, I walked to the well in the courtyard."

"A few apprentices want to run, but where can anyone run past a gun? Even if you can escape from the courtyard, there are still so many foreign soldiers outside the door."

"A home is difficult to manage, and easy to fail. It's hard to feed a person, but"

Trembling fingers. Old Man Hong slowly untied the clothes on his body, pointed to several hideous scars on his chest, and said to Xiang Youbao in a trembling voice: "Twenty-nine people, just survive, I listened to the doctor, if I wasn't born with a heart on the right side, I'm afraid that the Hong family will have no roots in this world." Que Erhong's craftsmanship has only a name left since then. It is estimated that there will be a maximum of twenty years, and no one will remember that there is a finch Hong family in this world who is good at doing finch whistles! ”

A pair of fists clenched and gurgling, a pair of eyes as wide as copper bells, Xiang Youbao said in a deep voice: "Then you"

With a wry smile and closed his clothes, Old Man Hong sighed heavily: "God picked me out of the twenty-nine people in the Hong family to survive, so I have to live?" When the world is a little more stable, I don't rely on the skill of making a finch whistle to support the name of the Finch Hong family, marry a daughter-in-law, and have a child."

Suddenly pinched the small wine cup in front of him, and Xiang Youbao drank the old white in the wine cup in one gulp: "Then the blood feud of these 20 or so relatives is like this"

Laughing miserably and waving his hand, Old Man Hong spread out his hands and said to Xiang Youbao: "I'm just a dover, I don't have the courage and the brain, I just want to take revenge, but what can I take to take revenge?" Besides, where shall I go to find the enemies who have plagued my whole house? Japan, which the Qing Dynasty can't beat, how can I, a broken character who eats by hand, beat those Japanese soldiers with foreign guns and cannons in their hands?! ”

With a 'click', Xiang Youbao pinched the small wine cup between his fingers and smashed: "But I don't accept it!" Why can those Japanese soldiers come to our house to steal things and kill people?! If it is to say that it is to get the good things in our hands, we have gritted our teeth and felt distressed to give them; In order to get our territory, now the four provinces outside the border are almost all returned to them! It's said that it's a single person who hits ninety-nine, doesn't fight plus one, and the things and turf are all gained, why do you want to kill our people, we really didn't recruit him or provoke him?! ”

Listening to Xiang Youbao's voice, his voice became louder and louder, but Old Man Hong still looked dejected, and said to Xiang Youbao without hesitation: "If you don't accept it, what can you do?" It is said that there is a wrong, and there is a debtor, after those Japanese soldiers killed our people, they immediately turned their heads towards Japan, pulled the military uniform on their bodies, and bit it to death with red mouth and white teeth and did not admit it, this is across the ocean, thousands of miles away, you just see Tian'er holding his breath to take revenge, but you can also catch the enemy, right?! ”

A trace of imperceptible green qi suddenly flashed on his face, and Xiang Youbao twisted the porcelain stubble in his hand fiercely, and a few fingers were already dripping with blood: "If you can run, the monk can't run the temple, and I can't find those Japanese soldiers who killed people, then I'll settle accounts with Japan!" ”

As if he hadn't seen Xiang Youbao's bloody fingers at all, Old Man Hong chased Xiang Youbao's tail tightly and shouted: "One person is the enemy of one country? There's a leopard, you're got wine, right? No matter how good your skills are, how bold and how clever your mind is, then you can't beat a Japanese country?! ”

"I can't do it alone, but I still have friends, friends who are friendly and righteous! I'll ask them for help, if one doesn't work, I'll find ten, and if I can't do ten, I'll find a hundred, sooner or later I'll be able to recruit enough friends, morality, and ability, and sooner or later I'll be able to win the Japanese country, and ask them to hand over the Japanese soldiers who killed my master! ”

"There is a leopard, this old man speaks, a sentence and a pit, a mouthful of spit and a nail, and the words have never been swallowed back?!"

"Old Man Hong, when did you see me talking doesn't count?!"

"Then let's talk about it, if we want to avenge your master, we must first find all our friends and make enough appointments with brothers, so that we can act steadily! If you don't dislike my old wooden dementia in the way, I'm one too! ”

Suddenly closed his mouth and widened his eyes, Xiang Youbao stared at Old Man Hong's face for a long time, and sighed heavily: "Old Man Hong, this is really a reason for you to come to work with me as a junior, I'm here"

After grabbing the wine plug soaked in boiling water, Xiang Youbao leaned his neck and drank the remaining old white dry in the wine plug, and then panted heavily and paused the wine plug on the kang table: "Don't worry, I won't make a mistake!" ”

Nodding with satisfaction, Old Man Hong said to Xiang Youbao with a straight face: "There is a leopard, don't be an old man, just hold a few words of soup and squeeze you so much that you can't get out of the gate and go outside." If you really want to avenge your master, you can have a lot of serious things to do right in front of you! ”

He couldn't help leaning forward, and said to Old Man Hong with a red face: "Old Man Hong, do you give me advice?" ”

"This first one, first of all, I will make clear the way of the half-grown child who sent the news! A child who has never been seen in the world, and the family all called the Japanese soldiers to kill him, even if ordinary people are not frightened and are busy looking for a way to escape, they have to rely on relatives and friends to find another way to live. How could this kid be able to walk thousands of miles with the beast tooth talisman, and Baba came to the main gate of Sijiu City to find fire and report the news? How can your master trust this half-grown child so much? In the past few days, you have been bored in the house without showing your face, and the half-grown child has stayed in the house without speaking, and anyone who asks just shakes their heads. If you don't understand the portal of the main gate of the fire, you will have to watch carefully! ”

"You're right, I'll go to that kid in a moment and ask for an explanation!"

"And the Jushe, we all know in our hearts that it is the kiln mouth of the Japanese in Sijiu City. In the past half a year, we are either busy with the reconstruction of the main gate of the fire on Zhushikou Street, or we have spent our minds on the other courtyard in Wuling Mountain, and we are a little slack about the affairs of the Chrysanthemum Society! put it on a fair scene and said, this fire in our hall is the ghost of the Ju Society nine times out of ten, and we can be regarded as suffering a dark loss. And then we wanted to force the shopkeeper of the Ju Society, and it was barely a trick to pay back. I estimate that this bit of dispute between our Huo Zhengmen and Ju She, I'm afraid it's not over?! (To be continued......)

PS: (Note 1: Taking out all the family property and offering it, kneeling down at the door of his house and begging for a roll call, it was indeed a matter when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded, and it was not made up by the author.) Seeking benevolence and righteousness before the tiger and wolf, and hoping for mercy from the mouth of the evil ghost, the result can naturally be imagined that justice and justice since ancient times are only within the range of cannons, and sure enough! ）