And the temperature is lower, and the rain has stopped, but the wet and still not yet spiders out of the pile of bonfires are essential in this situation, both to bring light, but also to drive away the wet cold, and by the way, to bake the socks that are wet.

Yang Ben limped out of the tent, came to a bonfire, threw the stool he was holding on the ground, and then sat down, and glanced at the few companions in old-style Wehrmacht army uniforms sitting beside him, these veterans were basically baking the socks they had taken off, it had been raining for the past few days, the rain was not heavy, but it was endless, this walking outside, it was inevitable that the shoes would get wet, and then the socks on the feet would inevitably become wet.

Yang Ben basically hasn't stepped out of the tent in the past few days. So the socks on the feet don't need to be baked, but seeing that others are baking socks, Yang Ben still subconsciously touched his complete left foot, and then touched the wooden prosthetic leg on his right leg, and then took off the military kettle on his shoulder, unscrewed the lid, and drank a large sip of low-alcohol wine in the military kettle, a hot feeling spread from his throat to his stomach, which was not pleasant, but this was already a rare enjoyment for him now.

"Brother Yang, give me a drink."

A person next to him stretched out his hand and handed Yang Ben a paper cigarette.

Yang Ben took the paper cigarette, looked at the trademark on the cigarette roll, and said with a smile: "The old fort smoke is a good smoke." I'm not a good wine, so I'll drink it leisurely. ”

After speaking, Yang Ben handed over his military kettle, the man took it, took a big sip, swallowed harder, choked and coughed, and several companions next to him laughed.

Yang Ben also smiled, reached out and picked up a wooden stick from the campfire, and lit a paper cigarette with the fire on the wooden stick. Mei Zizi took a few sharp puffs, and this mood was better.

"Why don't you eat yet? What's going on today? It's been two hours, why haven't you seen anyone bring food yet? ”

A veteran wearing armored tank boots on the opposite side suddenly complained, which caused everyone to speculate.

"What's the hurry? With the commander-in-chief in charge, can you still starve to death? ”

Yang Ben unceremoniously interrupted everyone's speculation, which caused a burst of echoing, so this topic was quickly thrown to the back of everyone's minds, although the hunger was very strong, but now it is not good to complain about the delay in dinner time.

Now, Yang Ben and his old comrades-in-arms live at the foot of the Xishan Mansion, and they still live in those military tents, which were borrowed by Zhao Bei from the Ministry of National Defense, and were originally used to entertain the veterans' representatives and their families who attended the birthday banquet of Zhao Bei's father-in-law. Everywhere is the life of living in a shack, just live at the feet of the commander-in-chief, and the three meals a day are also contracted by the commander-in-chief, breakfast porridge and steamed buns. Dry rice and vegetable soup for lunch, noodles and eggs for dinner, and at least one meat dish a day is not very good, but it is much more generous than the government's charity at the poor station.

In order to provide the meals of these thousands of people, more than a dozen cooking cars that were also borrowed from the Ministry of Defense were specially erected at the foot of the Xishan mansion, and the fire was not extinguished day and night, and dozens of cooks invited from the restaurant took turns to be busy here. In the evenings, if the weather is nice, there are usually free open-air movies to watch, and the veterans who have gathered around Gyeonggi have had the most comfortable time at the foot of the West Mountain House.

Although Yang Ben's legs and feet are inconvenient, and his military rank before retiring from the army is not high, he has a special identity, he is the commander-in-chief's guard, just by virtue of this identity, he is now the head of this camp, equivalent to the commander of the corps, usually has nothing to do, he will also be invited by the commander-in-chief to go up the mountain, sit in the mansion, talk to the commander-in-chief, by the way, taste the home cooking at the commander-in-chief's house, and when going down the mountain, he will often be stuffed by the commander-in-chief with a few bottles of good wine. The veterans under the mountain are indispensable and can also be stained.

After the autumn harvest, some people organized to go to the nearby countryside to pick up wheat, which was left by farmers when they harvested their crops, scattered in the ground, and it was not easy to collect. That's how the low-alcohol wine in Yang Ben's military kettle came from, it didn't taste very good, compared to the good wine sent by the commander-in-chief, it was like horse urine, but Yang Ben didn't mind, after all, the commander-in-chief's mansion was not just to go, and the commander-in-chief didn't like to drink very much, and there was really not much good wine there there, it was still specially used to entertain distinguished guests, Yang Ben was really embarrassed to ask, so he could only drink this kind of local wine.

Gathered around the bonfire, these veterans were tasting local wine, while baking their socks, a few people also took advantage of the light of the bonfire to count the banknotes one by one, which they earned themselves, either to go to the countryside to do short-term work, or to the street to sing and beg, in short, people can not lose hope when they live, although it is really difficult to find a job these years, but the commander-in-chief said when he inspected the camp, it is better to ask for others than to seek himself, people live in the world, and what they fight for is a breath.

When is such a day a head. No one knows, but they understand a basic truth, as long as the economic crisis does not end, their suffering will not end, and the economic crisis will be ended. Now that I am afraid that there is only the commander-in-chief, I am afraid that Zhenbei has made it clear that he will participate in the next presidential election, then almost all the veterans and their families hope that the commander-in-chief can be the president of the Republic of China again, so as to lead the whole people to the pinnacle of economic revitalization

But most veterans don't have the right to vote or to be elected, and as long as the current election law is not significantly changed, they can't play much of a role in the presidential election. All veterans want the right to vote, and the reason why they are still gathering around Gyeonggi is precisely for this purpose, as long as the National Assembly does not agree to immediately change the election law, then the veterans and their families will not retreat for a single day.

"Immediate change" means that the relevant electoral laws must be amended to give veterans the right to vote before the next presidential election begins.

This is how the stalemate arose, and although both the National Assembly and the President said that they would accept the full contents of the national petition, the National Assembly and the President also said that it would take time to revise the election law, and no one gave a clear answer to when it would be changed.

The day before yesterday, the veterans' elected members of the Negotiation Committee again submitted a petition to the National Assembly and the Presidential Office, demanding that the government attach importance to the rights of the people, resolve the issue of universal suffrage as soon as possible, and give the people broader political powers.

But to this day, the government has not given a clear answer to the veterans' demands, and now the veterans are preparing a new demonstration when they will march to Congress again, and Yang Ben will be the commander of the camp in the West Hill.

Now, while smoking a cigarette, Yang Ben is thinking about the demonstration in Beijing the day after tomorrow, how to march into the army, how to surround the Congress, this must be well planned, learn from the last petition action to teach this petition demonstration action must make a backup plan, once the president promulgates martial law again, everyone must learn to continue to infiltrate the direction of the Congress from the alley, so that the government army does not care.

Just when Yang Ben was out of his mind, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder, and Yang Ben looked back, but it was Qin Sihu, the commander-in-chief's guard captain.

"Brother Yang, the commander-in-chief, please come over." Qin Sihu smiled.

"Okay. I'll go right over

Yang Ben said that he would leave, and immediately stood up, seeing that he was leaving, the people around him immediately handed over his military kettle, but Yang Ben did not take it.

"You keep it for drinking, I'll go to the commander-in-chief to fight the autumn breeze, this wine is indispensable, maybe I can bring back a few bottles of foreign wine when I go back."

Yang Ben said, and followed Qin Sihu and limped away.

Every time the commander-in-chief invited Yang Ben to go to the mansion to speak, it was Qin Sihu who came to call him, the two were in the same guard unit back then, knew each other, and now they are even more familiar, after sitting in the car, Yang Ben asked. "Four Tigers, why do I think the atmosphere of the mansion is wrong tonight? Dinner was late, and I seemed to hear the engine of the armored car. ”

Hearing Yang Ben's question, Qin Sihu immediately looked at him with admiration and said, "You are a very high police officer. That's right, this western mountain is not peaceful tonight, but I can't say too much, wait until you get up the mountain, you go and ask the commander-in-chief yourself, maybe he will tell you. ”

Yang Ben nodded, didn't ask any more, took the car to the mansion, waited for the car to stop, followed Qin Sihu out of the car, rushed to the mansion villa, and was taken by Qin Sihu to the corridor outside a small reception room.

"You wait here, I'll inform the Commander-in-Chief

Qin Sihu didn't lead Yang Ben directly into the room, but just left him outside the door and told him to wait, and then walked into the reception room, the door was also closed again, standing outside, and he couldn't hear any sound.

Yang Ben stood in the corridor and looked at the oil paintings hanging on the wall, which were different from the layout of the homes of the wealthy merchants, and the content of these oil paintings reflected the war and revolution, and several of them described the "Wushen Revolution." several key battles. Anqing's first uprising, westward march into Wuhan, pacification of Sichuan, sweeping Hunan and Guizhou, it can be said that the major battles and important events that occurred during the entire small "Wushen Revolution" can be found on the walls of the villas in this mansion can be found in artistic reflections, these battles and events, some Yang Ben personally experienced, some have heard of it, although the style of painting may be a little exaggerated, but the content is true.

"Brother Yang, the commander-in-chief, please come in and speak

When Yang Ben was admiring those oil paintings, Qin Sihu walked out of the reception room and whispered something in his ear, so Yang Ben immediately turned around and followed Qin Sihu into the reception room.

As Yang Ben expected, there was not only Zhao Bei in the reception room, but also several guests, among which there was Yang Ben's past boss Tian Jinfu, Yang Ben was a guard in the headquarters back then, and Tian Jinfu was the captain of the guard.

As for the other guests, they were also wearing old-fashioned military uniforms, and they were obviously veterans like Yang Ben.

"Yang Ben, since you're here, don't be stunned, sit down quickly, none of them are outsiders here, they are all your own people

Zhao Bei's words lifted Yang Ben's spirits, especially the sentence "his own person" simply said that Yang Ben's heart went up, so he stood up and saluted.

"Commander-in-chief, Captain Yang Ben is ready to listen to orders."

Yang Ben roared, and at the same time noticed that the commander-in-chief was wearing a military uniform at this time, which was the general uniform of the Wehrmacht Army, since coming to Xishan, Yang Ben saw the commander-in-chief wearing a military uniform for the first time, it seemed that something did happen in the mansion tonight. (To be continued.)