In mid-August, the battlefield was calm again, and the news in the newspapers was that the "Central" ** team was participating in the reconstruction of the liberated areas, the labor condolence groups in Wuhan and other places in Henan Province were condolences on the front line, the soldiers were having a party with the people in the liberated areas, and Zhuang Jihua, commander of the Jiangbei Theater Command, and Xu Zuyi, chief of staff, were supervising the work in various places. Full // this // small // say // net

But these superficial imaginations have not been hidden from Weber, who has been in contact with Zhuang Jihua since Nanjing, and has the most and deepest understanding of Zhuang Jihua among the three.

"No, no, it seems to me that there will be a military operation soon, and it is likely that Zhuang is already planning an attack." At this moment, Weber, Forman and Bai Xiude were sitting on a small boat on Weishan Lake, tasting the four-nosed carp that the boatman had just caught.

Bai Xiude forked a piece of fish, shook his head and said: "GOOOD, GOOD, the hands of Chinese people are skillful, I have never eaten such a good fish." ”

"That's because your time in Pingguo is too short." Weber said lightly that he was not holding a knife and fork, but chopsticks, he had been in China for decades, and many of his living habits were similar to those of China.

Foreman seemed uninterested in the food in front of him, squinting at the rippling waters of the lake, and the indecisive convoy on the shore, a fleet of ships laden with supplies on the lake had set sail, and the bulging sails had a large line written on them, "Expelle the Tartars, return my China." ”

"You say, how many people did they mobilize? One million or two million? Foreman muttered.

Weber and Bai Xiude did not answer, in northern Hubei, eastern Henan, and western Henan, there were "a Pinghan line and a Longhai line" formed by the Chinese people everywhere to supply hundreds of thousands of troops, Xuzhou was destroyed by the war, and the railway to Luxi had not been repaired, and "a large number of materials could only be transported to the front line by road and by car and manpower."

The small station in Dangshan has become a gathering place for materials, where the unloaded weapons and ammunition, grain and gasoline are piled up, and the front teams from all over the country and the truck teams of the logistics department "all load grain here and transport them to Yanzhou and Linyi by several routes."

The fleet of ships sailing away, the crowd pushing wheelbarrows, the convoy of dust on the road, and from the sky, the dense flow of people on the earth is heading east.

"It's terrible......," Weber sighed, "Foreman, in the old years, although I thought that Japan could not have won, but I was not sure that China would have won, and now it seems that "even without the intervention of the West, China can win the war." ”

"Hey, boss lady" The boat lady turned her head to see that it was Webber greeting, Webber looked at her and pointed to the distant fleet: "Boss lady" How do you join your ship? ”

"I'd like to go, but people think my ship is too small to hold much." The boat lady was a little aggrieved: "We went to be the head of the house, worked as a boatman, and helped move things by the way." ”

"Is there any pay?"

"There is" not much, half a pound of grain a day. ”

"Only half a catty?" Weber pondered, this figure is too low, half a catty of grain is only enough for those engaged in high-intensity labor to eat one meal, and there is not enough to eat.

"Blind, half a catty is already a lot" The boat lady called happily: "As long as you beat away the little devils, it's okay if you don't have food, besides, doesn't it mean that the country rises and falls, and the husband is responsible." I'm also a puppet, and I have the responsibility to fight ghosts."

"Poof" Bai Xiude almost squirted out a sip of wine, he coughed again and again, the boat lady was a little embarrassed, these foreigners looked very kind, and they were not bad to them, so they gave three pieces of ocean when they got on the boat: ", Am I wrong, I heard the student baby who came to the town to advertise said this.

"Yes, yes, well said," Weber laughed, but Foreman and Bai Xiude did not understand what it meant, and Weber explained to them: "The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband; Hundreds of years ago, a man named Gu Yanwu said that this sentence is interpreted in Western language, which means that the survival and rise and fall of a nation is the responsibility of every citizen. ”

"The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband;" Foreman looked at the fleets in the distance and muttered.

"Incisive, it doesn't get much more incisive than that." Bai Xiude exclaimed, put down the wine glass, and let out a breath of wine: "This is an ancient land, an ancient civilization of two thousand years, Weber, you have been here for decades, do you feel that you know this place?" ”

Hearing this, Weber did not answer immediately, but looked at the slightly rippling lake, and the three of them were quiet for a while, each thinking about their own thoughts. The boat is not far from the shore, this season is the time when the carp is plump, in previous years, many tourists come to the boat at this time, sit in a small boat into the lake to fish, and the fish raised will be handed over to the boat lady to rectify.

There were a number of such boats on the shores of Weishan Lake, some of them very large, with not only professional cooks, but also kabukos, and guests could enjoy the singing and dancing while drinking: however, these larger boats were now all requisitioned by the army.

A small boat came slowly, the boat lady on the boat said hello to this side, the boat lady also responded loudly, usually when there are no guests, most of these boats will go out of the lake to fish by themselves, but at this time most of the heads of the house are also on the boat, now most of the men on the boat have gone to the east with the grain fleet, most of the boats are parked on the shore, and only a few small boats go to the lake.

"Sister-in-law Du, you have a guest, I just caught two fish, do you want it?"

Without waiting for Sister-in-law Du to answer, Bai Xiude hurriedly called out, and the woman over there rowed the boat over, this woman was obviously much younger than Sister-in-law Du, she looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her skin was a little dark. The two boats quickly came together, and after the girl handed the fish to Sister-in-law Du, she propped the boat away.

Bai Xiude was a little strange, turned his head and asked Sister-in-law Du, "Did she give you this fish?" ”

"No, no" Sister-in-law Du smiled: "I will take 20%, and the rest will belong to her, this is the rule in the lake." ”

Bai Xiude nodded, and Weber said at this time: "When I first arrived in China, I looked down on these people in China, they were rude, feudal, old-fashioned, and weak; Three years later, my perspective changed, and ten years later, I realized that I didn't know anything about them. Let's just say this, a contract is required to buy and sell goods between two companies in the West, but not necessarily in China, I have seen such a thing in Shanxi.

The manager of a store handed over the payment to the guy on the other side, and the payment was wrapped in a package, and the guy didn't open it at all, so he left. I was surprised at the time, and I asked the manager, what is the problem going to get out of?

The manager told me that there would never be any problems, that he would be as good as he had at the beginning, that the guy would not be corrupt, and that he would not give less. Foreman, Bai Xiude, are you surprised? Indeed, they have their own set of rules, whether it is business, or politics, or life, and their set of rules has been running for thousands of years, and these rules have seeped into their bones.

Do you say I know them? In fact, the longer you stay with them, the less you get to know them. Have you ever been to the Yenching University Library? Tens of thousands of books on history, philosophy, music, and art.

That's the accumulation of thousands of their burials, and perhaps, only after reading these books can you really understand them. ”

After enjoying a sumptuous feast of fish, the three of them left the boat, and on the dock on the shore, another group of boats docked, and the dock workers loaded the boats under the command of the police and soldiers, and each boat had a banner hanging on its sails: "Expelle the Tartars, return my China." "The bow of the ship is planted with a flag to support the front convoy.

The town is actually not big, there is only one road that can be opened to traffic, this road from the entrance of the town to the wharf, the three of them walked along this road to the only hotel in the town, where most of the merchants from near and far lived.

"Webb, our next step is to go to Yanzhou or Linyi, or go back to Shangqiu." Bai Xiude looked aimlessly at the streets on both sides, most of the pedestrians on the streets were women, and there were very few young men.

"Caught the fat man!" "Caught the fat man!" Several shouts came from the entrance of the town, and the three of them turned their heads to look over, and two children jumped from the entrance of the town, their hands constantly flying in the air.

With these shouts, the whole town was in a commotion, countless people poured out from their homes, from the docks, from the restaurants, from the shops, they waved their fists, and the three of Weber were squeezed inside, and the three of them struggled to squeeze into the hotel, but unexpectedly, the people in the hotel were also running out.

Webber and they couldn't figure out what was going on, and Webber grabbed a guy and asked what was going on, and the guy turned red with excitement.

"Caught the fat man! This donkey day, there is also today! ”

Webber watched helplessly as the guy ran out, and when the three of them reached the second floor, they met the capable Ye Sufei. Webber was amazed, he hadn't expected to meet her here.

"Ye, you fell from the sky?" Bai Xiude stepped forward in surprise and hugged the lower leaf flocculent.

Ye Sufei obviously didn't expect to meet Webb and them here, so she quickly regained her composure and said with a smile: "I came from Shangqiu and wanted to go to Yanzhou, it is said that the road damage in Xuzhou is very dangerous, and it is much faster to go by boat." Why, don't you want to go to Yanzhou, or go back to Shangqiu? ”

"We're not decided." Bai Xiude said, but Weber and Forman walked quickly to the window and looked down the street, a big fat man and a woman were escorted in by the police, and the people on both sides of the street were in a raging crowd, countless stones, vegetable leaves, and fish smashed on the fat man.

"This guy looks like a traitor."

Before Foreman could speak, a voice came from behind them: "Yes, this guy is a traitor, a hardcore traitor, his crimes, everyone in the town can tell you for a few days and nights." ”

Webb looked back and saw that he was the owner of the restaurant, who was about thirty years old, with two beards and a gray gown, and looked less like a businessman than a scholar.

On the street, two women bypassed the defense line of the police, rushed to the wooden fat man, raised the things in their hands and poked at him, the wooden fat man let out a miserable scream, and blood came out of his body at once.

With the appearance of blood, more women rushed over, and the police didn't even have time to stop it, so they were pushed aside by these women, and the police inspector led by him was so anxious that he shouted loudly, but no one listened to him at the scene.

Soon, the fat man's voice faded, and the smell of blood became stronger.

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