The temple is still that temple, the god is still that god, but the treatment has been significantly improved, the last time I was alone in the main hall to burn incense and ask for a signature, this time it was the front and back hug, Yu Jishi was accompanied by the side, the monk of the guest led the way in front, followed by four guards, a large number of people, and burned incense and begged for Buddha in the main hall lively.

"The sign here is famous, good guys, ask for one." After Zhuang Jihua picked up the slip that fell on the ground, he handed the cartridge to Yu Jishi.

Yu Jishi didn't believe this, waved his hand and said: "I don't believe in gods, I don't believe in immortals, the Cultural Revolution, you too, it's not good to learn, you have to learn from Monk Wang." ”

"Go into that door and worship that Buddha, and be at peace with what happens." Zhuang Jihua said lightly.

The monk stepped forward respectfully and folded his hands: "Donor, please sign here." ”

Zhuang Jihua took the sign-in to the sign-out office: "The tired master unsigns." ”

It seems to be the same as before, after three years, the father and son of the white-bearded monk are even whiter, and their hands are pinching their beards: "What does the donor ask?" ”

"The road ahead." Zhuang Jihua still spit out two words lightly.

"The general won a hundred battles, but the flowers withered, and new sprouts sprouted on the other side, and the fate was thundering."

"Although the general has won a hundred battles, he is powerless to fight with the sky, so he has no choice but to fall, and the general is now physically and mentally injured, and if he wants to regain his strength, he has to wait for the opportunity."

Before the old monk's words fell, Yu Jishi was already stunned, and then woke up suddenly: "Cultural Revolution, you wait, I'll ask for another one." ”

"If you are sincere, you will not be able to get guidance from God." Zhuang Jihua said for a long time: "Leave it for later." ”

Yu Jishi looked at him and suddenly said, "Is this arranged by you?" ”

"It is impossible for God to make arrangements for mortals." Zhuang Jihua said calmly, and then said to the old monk: "Thank you, great monk." ”

"Good, good. Donor, please. ”

The two slowly turned to the back mountain, in May, it is the most beautiful and gorgeous moment of the mountain, the mountain flowers bloom in the valley, the fruit hangs all over the branches, there are also a lot of fruit trees planted in the mountain behind the grain temple, there is a grass pavilion between the fruit trees, the two arrived at the grass pavilion, the monks in the temple quietly retreated after offering tea.

"Cultural Revolution, is this good, you recuperate at home for a while, and then go back when the injury is healed." After Yu Jishi sat down, he said that after a night of thinking, he had already thought clearly, and yesterday's conversation made him understand that Zhuang Jihua had made up his mind and would not go back with him like this, so he came up with a compromise plan.

Zhuang Jihua did not answer, but looked at the lush and vibrant mountains.

"Cultural Revolution, I don't agree with you, but I have a word." Yu Jishi was a little breathless.

Zhuang Jihua still didn't speak, looked far away, and muttered in a low voice: "I dream of Yangzhou once in ten years, and win the name of Qinglou Bo Xing." I slept for three years, and I just lied to myself. ”

Yu Jishi didn't hear clearly: "What are you talking about?" He stood up and walked to Zhuang Jihua's side: "Cultural Revolution, among such classmates in the military academy, the principal values you the most, not to mention that you are already a general before you are thirty, I have been by the principal's side for the longest time, and I still don't know what the principal is thinking." I know that you have always advocated the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but now that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has broken down, there is nothing we can do about it, but the country is still poor, the warlords are still not defeated, imperialism is still rampant in China, and we must continue to fight. Are you worthy of the brothers who fell on the battlefield? For the sake of New China, but New China has not yet been established, are you worthy of those martyrs? ”

Yu Jishi was anxious, his tone was fast and urgent, and he originally planned to be gentle, but in the end he became anxious and ruthless. But Zhuang Jihua was unmoved, he said lightly: "Yes, I am sorry for my brothers, I told them at the beginning, unite with Russia and the Communist Party, and defeat the warlords, but now these do not exist, I deceived them." ”

"Cultural Revolution, what are you talking about!" Yu Jishi stomped his feet in a hurry: "I told you a long time ago that the division of the Communist Party was a last resort, and the principal was reluctant at first, but the repercussions in the army were too great." In Shanghai, what kind of people's political axe did they set up without authorization, saying that Shanghai was conquered by them, what a joke, we have all hit the suburbs, and we want them to do it? Their sole purpose was to meddle in Shanghai and seize China's financial and industrial center; Ignoring the warnings of the great powers and ignoring our current situation, they attempted to storm the concession and trigger a war with the great powers at the instigation of Soviet Russia. On the other hand, by taking advantage of his status as a cross-party member to confuse people's minds and stir up trouble within the party, comrades in the party will deeply hate and resolve it every time they mention it. ”

"But the result? Now that Ninghan is opposed, can the Northern Expedition continue? Can the revolution continue? Both sides are mentioning the Northern Expedition, but the actual purpose is not, they both want to reduce the pressure from the north, win over Feng Yuxiang, and then turn around to deal with each other. Zhuang Jihua said softly.

"The principal said that he would not use troops against Wuhan, and he believed that the comrades in Wuhan would wake up sooner or later." Yu Jishi did not refute Zhuang Jihua, but he also did not tell the truth, Chiang Kai-shek actually advocated the westward expedition to Wuhan, but Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi opposed it, believing that the threat from the north should be eliminated first, as for the internal party issues, everyone can sit down and talk at an appropriate time, Li Bai's Gui system is an important pillar of Nanjing's political axe, and Chiang Kai-shek can't pay attention to it, just Sun Chuanfang's counterattack, so it is logical to continue the Northern Expedition.

"That's natural, Wang Jingwei has no soldiers in his hands, Tang Shengzhi's subordinates are all Hunanese, and they have long been dissatisfied with the Hunan peasant movement, and Wuhan has been purging the party for a few months," Zhuang Jihua sighed and said, he was still very sorry, and suggested that Chiang Kai-shek should retreat as advance and wait for the actions of Tang Shengzhi's subordinates in Hunan. Zhuang Jihua looked into the distance in silence, could they escape this catastrophe?

Through the vast clouds and mist, Deng Yanda left Wuhan on 15 July, caught up with Borodin in Xi'an, and arrived in Moscow with him. met Zhuang Jihua again in Germany, in order to prevent him from returning to China, Zhuang Jihua tried his best to keep him in Germany for eight months, of course, this is a later story.

After Li Zhilong left in Deng Yanda and Wang Jingwei began to clear the party and divide the Communist Party, in despair, he remembered Zhuang Jihua's parting words, left Wuhan with his wife, and spent several months in Shanghai, and finally went north to Qingdao, and two years later went south to Hong Kong, but he never set foot in Guangdong, he survived, and did not re-enter the military until Zhuang Jihua returned to China.

Determined Jiang Xianyun raised the most tragic scene, he did not participate in the Northern Expedition, in early July he took the workers' pickets to join the Helong army, and then participated in the August 1 Nanchang Uprising, after the failure of the rebel troops in Chaoshan, he fled to Hong Kong, and then arrived in Shanghai, and was sent to the Dabie Mountains, as a member of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Military Committee, the political commissar of the Red Fourth Front, he and Xu Xiangqian, Cai Shenxi, Xu Jishen, Xiong Shouxuan, Zeng Zhongsheng and other Huangpu classmates, across the Dabie Mountains, opened up the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, his talent shined brightly, However, after Zhang Guotao entered Hubei, Henan and Anhui in 1931, Jiang Xianyun was squeezed out, lost his leadership position, and was killed in the 1933 rebellion, and the hero of Huangpu fell.

The tragic drama continued to be staged among the Whampoa classmates, the bloody battle in Huichang, the Qian Dajun department responsible for interception and the Ye Ting department responsible for the attack were all troops composed of Huangpu graduates, they not only knew each other, but even in the same team and dormitory in the military academy, and even the same company during the Northern Expedition, but at this moment in hand-to-hand combat, calling each other's nicknames to fight, while piercing the bayonet into the opponent's body, the other side burst into tears. Huangpu classmates fought each other for their beliefs, and blood flowed like a river.

In an unnamed river valley outside the Sanhe Dam, Huang Mingcheng fled here with the Political Department and the propaganda team, the main force had failed, and the rest of the people were panicked, and there were corpses everywhere, including Qi Linlin's petite body, she accompanied Liu Yinshu into Wuhan half a month after Zhuang Jihua escaped from Wuhan, and then entered the Wuhan workers' propaganda team at the instigation of Li Haoyi, and then incorporated into the propaganda team of Ye Ting's army. Liu Yinshu embarked on the road to find Zhuang Jihua alone.

On a bright spring afternoon in 1928, Li Haoyi knocked on the door of a small courtyard in Yupu Lane, Guangzhou, and then Li Anding poured into the courtyard with a large number of agents.

Under the sun, Zhuang Jihua said tiredly: "Things have happened, explanations and arguments are useless, Liangyu, I am tired, I want to rest." ”

Yu Jishi failed to persuade Zhuang Jihua to return and left gloomily. With his departure, the people of Zhuangjia Village saw more officials, they had never seen so many officials before, these people rode a tall horse, or took a small sedan chair, and when they arrived in Zhuangjia Village, they lived in Zhuanglai Shun's house, and left after a day or two, all of them were extremely disappointed.

"Kid, it'll be fine." Zhuang Li looked at the guests who went away worriedly, she had never seen so many officials, and they were all big officials, some were accompanied by the town mayor, some were accompanied by the county magistrate, and they were all polite to their family, but her son was always unmoved, and he was very cold to most people.

"Mom, it's okay, they won't do anything to me."

Although Zhuang Jihua comforted his adoptive mother, he also felt up and down in his heart, he didn't expect that Chiang Kai-shek would mobilize so many people to be lobbyists, Hu Zongnan and Zheng Dongguo all made a special trip from the front line, this is a bad signal, Zhuang Jihua was a little uneasy in his heart, can he go down hard?

Things finally took a turn for the better, Zhang Zhizhong came to Zhuangjia Village, this is also a person who does not want to clear the party and divide the party, the two have the same opinion, so the conversation is very speculative.

"Cultural Revolution, it's not a way for you to go down like this, if you really anger the principal, it's not impossible to send you to a military court." Zhang Zhizhong said in his heart, Zhuang Jihua listened silently, he had already thought of this danger, but he couldn't help it.

"Now there is an opportunity, the president's newly hired adviser Bauer agreed that we will send someone to study at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany for a year, you can seize this to leave the country temporarily, and see what happens in the future." Zhuang Jihua understood what Zhang Zhizhong meant, when he went abroad, he could do whatever he liked, and whether he would come to say it differently. Zhuang Jihua also understood why Zhang Zhizhong treated him like this, Hong Junqi was his brother-in-law, Zhuang Jihua escaped and rescued Hong Junqi by the way, Zhang Zhizhong repaid the favor and returned his love.

Zhuang Jihua nodded, this is a good way, both sides can step down: "Thank you so much for the education chief." I asked the dean of education to go back and tell the principal that I could go back, but the principal often said that Whampoa had only completed the elementary course of military education, so I wanted to go abroad for further study, and I asked the principal for approval. In addition, no matter now or in the future, I will not lead troops to fight the Communist Party, which is a political issue, not a military issue. ”

"Okay, I'll tell the headmaster what you're asking." Zhang Zhizhong left satisfied.

Soon Chiang Kai-shek's order came, and Zhuang Jihua was appointed to study in Germany to study military affairs, accompanied by the new military attache in Germany.

On the side of the Huangpu River, Zhuang Jihua waved goodbye to Song Yunfei and Wu Ziniu who saw them off, boarded the boat to Germany, and looked at the surging river, Zhuang Jihua breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that he had finally temporarily escaped the circle of right and wrong.

"Fight, fight, since history can't be changed, then you go and fight, the country will not die, the nation will not die, what am I, nothing, just a small passerby. Now I'm going to look for my life. ”

Looking at the distant homeland, Zhuang Jihua's heart was like water, and he never imagined that he would come back in a few years.

(To be continued)