Chapter III: Home and Country

In the mountains and forests, a group of soldiers all dressed in gray cloth uniforms, with uneven weapons in their hands, and even some with machetes and spears, slowly moved forward like a long snake, obviously walking a long way, although it is now late autumn, but one by one is still sweating profusely. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Damn, this person went into the mountains and looked for a needle in a haystack, where did he search for it? Traitor! Traitor! Which Tema is so many traitors? Comrade Xiao Xiang is just a doctor, how can he be a traitor with such a weak appearance? Moreover, he has treated the wounds of hundreds of our soldiers! Even my old life, he pulled it back from Hades. I don't believe him if he says he's a traitor and kills him," said a short, stout man in his thirties at the front of the line.

The tall, thin and younger man on the side frowned and said, "Lao Wang, don't say these things casually." It is hard to believe that Xiao Xiang is a traitor, but in the past few months, have we found fewer traitors who are not like traitors in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region? But then again, it is really unbelievable that this Xiao Xiang, a weak doctor, was able to kill Wang Yiming and escape. ”

"Humph! Well done! This Wang Yiming, who looks like a human on the surface, is a vicious dog and bites people when he catches them. If we bite like this, we don't need the enemy to encircle and suppress us, we will be in chaos first," Lao Wang snorted.

The tall and thin man frowned and looked at Lao Wang a little helplessly: "I said Lao Wang, didn't you understand what I said?" I mean Xiao Xiang killed Wang Yiming, this matter is very abnormal. We also learned a little bit about the situation before, Xiao Xiang was arrested by Wang Yiming, how did he kill someone and escape by himself? If he really escaped by his own ability, then his methods are too powerful and hidden too deeply, maybe there is really a problem. ”

"It can't be that he escaped on his own, right? No matter how you look at it, he doesn't seem to have this ability," Lao Wang frowned and shook his head.

"If someone saved him, then it would be even more problematic to be able to save people without alarming the guards and kill Wang Yiming, which is not like his own people," the tall and thin man continued.

Lao Wang pouted and said, "Isn't it like your own person?" I think it looks like it! These days, are there still fewer comrades who die at the hands of their own people? ”

"No, Lao Wang, I said you raised the bar with me, right? Which pot doesn't open and which pot you? The tall and thin man frowned and glanced at Lao Wang, then turned to the soldiers who followed behind and shouted, "Okay, it's not too early, no search!" All of them, turn back, go down, go back! ”

It was easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, and the soldiers who were tired before were in high spirits when they heard that they were going down the mountain.

"One by one they run faster than rabbits, and I haven't seen them so quick when I go up the mountain!" Lao Wang, who laughed and scolded, quickly followed the tall and thin man who fell behind the team, and couldn't help lowering his voice slightly: "Hey, Lao Lan, this is in vain, aren't you afraid that Wang Quan is looking for trouble?" ”

The tall and thin man Lao Lan said angrily: "Lao Tzu is just a company commander, and he is not a god hunter, he said that I can search whoever I want?" Think I'm the black and white impermanence of the soul, one hook and one accurate? ”

"Hey! He is impermanent! Lao Wang, who patted the tall and thin man on the shoulder, sighed: "This time his nephew died, I'm afraid that this old guy will be even more ruthless, I don't know how many comrades will be planted in his hands!" ”

Lao Lan frowned slightly when he heard this, but he was silent and didn't say anything.

For most of the hour, the group went out of the mountain and went straight to a small village with only more than ten families at the bottom of the mountain.

The house with a small courtyard at the east end of the village was guarded by many soldiers in gray cloth uniforms, and Lao Lan and Lao Wang, who brought people back, had just come to the courtyard gate when they heard the sound of the leather whip breaking through the air and the woman's cry of pain.

"Company Commander Blue! Deputy Company Commander Wang! The soldiers at the gate of the courtyard saw the two coming over and hurriedly saluted and shouted.

"This.." Hearing the movement inside, Lao Lan and Lao Wang, who frowned and looked at each other, hurriedly walked in.

The moment they entered the courtyard, they saw the situation in the courtyard clearly, and Lao Lan and Lao Wang suddenly changed their faces.

I saw a tall girl being dropped on a peach tree in the courtyard, the gray cloth uniform on her body had been torn, whip marks and blood stains were faintly visible, and there was also a whip mark on the white goose egg face, and tears flowed down her white cheeks, looking like she was eighteen or nineteen years old.

Syllable.. With a whip sound, a slightly bald short and fat middle-aged man was holding a blood-stained leather whip and whipped it towards the hanging girl, shouting while pumping it back: "Do you want to say it? Where is that traitor to Xiang Yongzhi? Where are your comrades? ”

"I don't know, I really don't know.." The girl who was crying with pear blossoms and rain hurriedly shook her head, obviously frightened.

"Stop!" Lao Wang, who shouted loudly, stepped forward and stopped in front of the girl, but he was whipped by the short and fat middle-aged man, a whip mark appeared on his face, and his ears were instantly red and swollen.

The tall and thin old Lan also grabbed the wrist of the short and fat middle-aged man with a calm face: "Commissioner Wang, you can beat a woman." What is the difference between you and the lackeys of the Kuomintang reactionaries? Still want to bend into a trick? Zhou Yi, what mistake did she make to be treated like this? This is Hubei, Henan, and Anhui, and we are not warlords, let alone reactionaries, who abuse lynching at every turn. ”

"You.." The short and fat middle-aged man who was thrown away by Lao Lan and staggered back two steps and almost sat on the ground with a gloomy face, and pointed at Lao Lan with a gloomy and angry face, seeing Lao Wang go to untie the rope on the hand of the girl who was hanging from the tree, he couldn't help but shout: "Stop me!" She is a traitor, an accomplice of Xiang Yongzhi, do you also want to be a traitor? ”

"No, I'm not a traitor! I was wronged, Company Commander Lan, Deputy Company Commander Wang, I just wanted to come to see Xiang Yongzhi last night, and wanted to ask him if he was really a traitor," The girl who was dismissed by Lao Wang stumbled before she was aggrieved and hurriedly said to Lao Lan and the old king who reached out to support her.

The short and fat middle-aged commissioner Wang sneered: "You are not a traitor? Then why did you come to see Xiang Yongzhi at night? Moreover, not long after you came, Xiang Yongzhi disappeared, and you still said that you were not a traitor? ”

"Commissar Wang, you are just suspicious, just use this to torture your own comrades, or to a female comrade, don't you think you are too much?" Lao Lan couldn't help but say angrily.

Commissioner Wang said as a matter of course: "That's why I want to interrogate, but this week Yi's mouth is very hard, and he just refuses to say it." You say, if she has nothing to do with Xiang Yongzhi, does she need to defend him like this? ”

"Commissar Wang, according to what you say, if a person is a traitor, then everyone who has anything to do with him is a traitor? Are you going to connect the nine clans? Lao Wang sneered.

Committee member Wang, who glanced at Lao Wang, said: "Wang Dabiao, don't say it so ugly, I am impartial censorship!" ”

"Phew! Justice, whose justice are you? Lao Wang spat disdainfully.

"Wang Dabiao, Lan Yingjie, I advise you, or let me aside, don't interfere with my review, otherwise..." Commissar Wang waved his hand lightly as he spoke, and several soldiers standing not far behind him suddenly pointed their shell guns at Lao Wang and Lao Lan.

Lao Wang was about to have a seizure, but Zhou Yi, the girl who reached out and grabbed him, suddenly dragged her injured body forward and looked at Commissioner Wang with a sneer: "Company Commander Lan, Deputy Company Commander Wang, don't worry about it." I want to see if he can really reverse black and white. If you have the ability, let him charge me with a traitor and kill me. ”

"Clever words! Zhou Yi, I will let you explain honestly," Commissar Wang said and waved to several soldiers behind him: "Grab me and take it away!" ”

"Commissar Wang!" Lan Yingjie, who stretched out his hand to stop Wang Dabiao, saw that Commissioner Wang was about to take people away, so he couldn't help but take two steps forward and shouted in a deep voice.

Commissioner Wang, who looked back at Lan Yingjie, sneered: "Lan Yingjie, don't make a mistake!" ”

"Take it away!" After speaking, Commissioner Wang led someone to press Zhou Yi and left.

"Old Blue!" Looking at Lan Yingjie, who had his hands clenched and his face was cold, Wang Dabiao should not be anxious and angry.

"Who is this going to take?" Committee Wang and others pressed Zhou Yi as soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, when a majestic and slightly cold voice came in from outside.

Hearing that slightly familiar voice, Lan Yingjie and Wang Dabiao, who glanced at each other, hurriedly followed out with bright eyes.

I saw a man in a gray coat with a Chinese character face in his thirties walking straight to the gate of the Wang Commissar's Courtyard, and not far behind him, there were more than a dozen men leading horses, dressed like ordinary people, carrying rifles behind their backs or shell guns pinned to their waists.

"Cheng Mingxiu? I arrest the traitor Xiang Yongzhi's comrades, do you want to stop it? Commissar Wang was stunned when he saw the man with a national face, and immediately said busily.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Mingxiu, a man with a Chinese character face, suddenly stared at him when he heard it: "What did you say?" Xiang Yongzhi? Traitor? Wang Quan, do you know who Xiang Yongzhi is? That's my only son who is loyal to the country and to my eldest brother! When I sacrificed to my eldest brother, I did not forget my family and country, and wrote the word 'family and country' on the wall of the cell in the prison of the reactionaries. Now, you say that his son is a traitor? I think you are the traitor who killed your comrades. ”