Chapter Forty-Eight: On the Way West
"Hehe, Yuanda, in fact, I don't know much about war. You may not know, I was originally in Beiping to go to college, when the devils attacked Beiping, I ran out of Beiping City with my classmates, who knew that not long after leaving the city, we were separated, and after the south was occupied by the devils, I couldn't go back to Shandong, no, I ran here with them. Speaking of this, Liu Tianshu pointed to Zhao Xiaomei and the others in the distance and said.
"Are you a college student in Peking? Which university? Tian Deshan was shocked when he heard this, when Liu Tianshu rescued himself and others from prison with a machine gun, he saw Liu Tianshu's skillful movements, completely like a veteran, and always thought that he was a soldier who was separated from the army.
"Mr. Hui Tian's words, I am from the Department of History of Yenching University, and my hometown is Shandong, but now that Beiping has fallen, I am afraid that I will not be able to study this school." Speaking of this, Liu Tianshu felt a little sad in his heart.
After all, in order to send him to school in Beiping, the family still spent a lot of financial and material resources. Originally, his father wanted him to be able to glorify his ancestors after he completed his studies, but who knew that when the little devil came, his father's expectations might be disappointed.
When Tian Deshan heard Liu Tianshu say that he was Yanda, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart. You must know that Yan University can be regarded as a top university in China at this time, and the students who can enter there are all rare talents in the country.
What's even more commendable is that this kid still has such a surprising combat skill, and if he cultivates it well, he may become a rare military talent.
Although he has been in prison for half a year and does not fully understand the recent situation, he still has political acumen. Especially when he escaped from Liugu County with Mrs. Jiang and others, he was interested in getting to know it, and he had a preliminary understanding of the recent situation in North China.
It's just that after he was imprisoned, in the face of the interrogation of those police, he insisted that he was just a teacher and did not reveal any secrets, so that those policemen who were full of suspicion of him never found evidence, which is why he has been locked up in a prison cell.
It was also for this reason that he was not escorted to the provincial capital.
As for the few people who were locked up in the prison with him, only Luo Yuanda and the woman in her thirties named Su Shufen knew his identity, and the rest of the people, although they suspected that he was an underground party, did not know his identity.
"Xiaoliu, since you can't go back to Shandong for a while, what are your plans next?" Tian Deshan thought for a while and asked with concern.
"Mr. Tian, I promised people that I must send a few of them to Wuyang County. As for the future, let's take one step at a time. Liu Tianshu looked up at Zhao Xiaomei and the others who were walking in front, and said with some emotion.
"Well, when the national disaster is at hand, all the sons and daughters of China who are ambitious should unite and fight to the death against the little devils. You have a good skill, and it would be a pity not to join the anti-Japanese battlefield. Tian Deshan nodded and said.
As for the few people Liu Tianshu promised to send to Wuyang County, Tian Deshan had already carefully observed, and he found that among the three girls, one should be a young lady from a rich family, while the other two should be the daughters of ordinary people.
There are nine of them in this line, but it is a strange combination.
It's just that for a while, except for finding out that Liu Tianshu and the others and Old Lady Jiang and Old Man Liu just met by chance, the rest didn't know much.
Liu Tianshu and Tian Deshan Luo Yuanda talked all the way, and in less than three hours, they arrived at a fork in the road.
Mrs. Jiang and Mr. Liu were all standing on the side of the road, and when they saw Liu Tianshu coming over, Mrs. Jiang motioned to his son Jiang Kaiming to take a cloth bag, took it and handed it to Liu Tianshu, and said with sincerity on his face: "Liu Zhuangshi, thanks to your care along the way, the old man family can be preserved, this is a little bit of the old man's heart, and please be sure to accept it, if the strong man has the opportunity to go to Shanxi Wutai in the future, please be sure to go to the old man's house to sit." ”
Seeing this, Liu Tianshu hurriedly smiled and excused himself, but the old lady Jiang was resolute, and in the end, Liu Tianshu stopped being hypocritical and accepted the cloth bag.
After Mrs. Jiang saw Liu Tianshu accept it, she said goodbye to Liu Tianshu with gratitude.
Tan Liu walked in front of Liu Tianshu, arched his hands forward, and said with admiration on his face: "Brother Liu, being able to get acquainted with you is a blessing that I Tan Liu cultivated in my previous life, Qingshan does not change, there will be a period in the future, if there is anything that needs to be done by my Tan Liu in the future, Brother Liu just commands, and I Tan Liu will never frown at all." ”
"The sixth brother is polite, Tianshu can get acquainted with the sixth brother, that is the love of God, if there are more, Tianshu will not say it, Tianshu wishes the sixth brother a smooth journey." Liu Tianshu said goodbye to Tan Liu.
The experience of the past few days made Liu Tianshu have a good impression of Tan Liu, a righteous man, and at Tan Liu's request, he changed his name to call him Sixth Brother.
Subsequently, Old Man Liu and others came over to say goodbye to Liu Tianshu, and then they stepped on the southwest avenue.
After seeing the people of the Liu family and the Jiang family leave, Liu Tianshu turned around and saw two dark-skinned and tall men on the side of the avenue, carrying a 38 big cover, standing quietly on the side.
"Why aren't the two big brothers leaving?" Liu Tianshu couldn't help but ask strangely.
You must know that after separating from the teams of the Liu family and the Jiang family, Liu Tianshu and the others will rush to Xinhe County in the west, and then go straight to Wuyang County from there.
The man who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old among the two men, when he heard Liu Tianshu's question, couldn't help but raise his hand and scratch his forehead, and said in a low voice: "Liu Zhuangshi, the lives of our brothers were saved by you, and we have no home, otherwise, let our brothers follow you." ”
"Yes, Liu Zhuangshi, you are our savior, you can accept us." The younger man hurriedly followed.
When Liu Tianshu heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't know what to do next, but the two brothers let themselves accept them, isn't this embarrassing?
Tian Deshan saw the two brothers looking at Liu Tianshu with blank eyes, and said with a roll of his eyes: "Xiaoliu, I don't think the two brothers are bad people, and they have nowhere to go at present, otherwise, take them with you." ”
Hearing Tian Deshan's words, Liu Tianshu had no choice but to nod and say, "Since Mr. Tian has spoken, you two will go with us for the time being." ”
Anyway, there are still dozens of miles to go to Xinhe County, and during this time, you should be able to ask the reason why the brothers were imprisoned.
Subsequently, a group of 21 people began to walk along the avenue towards Xinhe County, but along the way, they still saw many people fleeing westward, including three or five soldiers in military uniforms. These soldiers were covered in gunsmoke, but they also had a fierce appearance, and in the process, they also robbed a family of dry food.
Seeing this scene, Tian Deshan frowned, and finally signaled Su Shufen to distribute some of the dry food on her body to the people who were robbed.
Fortunately, those soldiers saw that Liu Tianshu and his party were large in number and also had weapons, so they didn't come to trouble them.
As the fleeing team marched westward, Liu Tianshu still figured out the identities of the two brothers.
It turns out that the surname of these two brothers is Hao, the elder brother is Hao Mengcheng, the younger brother is called Hao Mengxuan, Yangzhuang people in Liugu County, the Hao family was originally a Yin Shi family, and the grandfather was still a Xiucai of the former Qing Dynasty, so when the grandson was born, this Xiucai gave the grandson the name of Mengcheng and Mengxuan, but unfortunately to the father's generation, because of the two wars, the family road was broken, and in the end, all the fields and properties of the family were pawned.
A year ago, Yang Fuguo, the landlord of Yangzhuang, took a fancy to Hao Mengcheng's sister Hao Lijuan, set up a trap for his father to gamble, owed huge debts, and asked Hao Lijuan to give him a concubine, when Hao Mengcheng and Hao Mengxuan escorted the goods to Baoding, and when the two rushed home, his sister Hao Lijuan had committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, and her father was seriously injured by a debt collector and died after ineffective treatment, and Hao Mengcheng's wife who had been married for three years also lost his trace.
The two brothers returned to Yangzhuang, saw the tragic situation of the broken family, and naturally hated Yang Fuguo, so on a dark and windy night, the two brothers killed the Yang family and stabbed the enemy, but in the end, they were arrested by the government and put in prison.
Hearing the two brothers tell in tears, Liu Tianshu only felt that his heart was like a rock, and after a while, he raised his hand, patted the shoulders of the two brothers, and said in a deep voice: "Kill well, this kind of beast is inferior to the beast, you shouldn't let him live in the world." ”
Tian Deshan listened to it on the side, his eyes were also slightly red, and he looked at the two of them and said: "Two brothers, this world is like this, those landlords and old wealth are the mountains that press on our heads, and only when the poor people in the world unite and overturn this mountain will we have a good life." I believe that as long as we are united, good days will come one day. ”
Hearing the firmness in his tone, Liu Tianshu was even more sure that Tian Deshan was an underground party.
On the next road, Zhao Xiaomei and Su Shufen slowly became acquainted, and under Su Shufen's intentional inquiry, she knew her father Zhao Dahai from Zhao Xiaomei's mouth, and escorted a group of intellectuals who escaped from Beiping to the west, and they rushed to Wuyang County, which was to meet Zhao Dahai.
At the same time, Su Shufen also figured out the identities of Jiang Meijuan and Jiang Jinlong and Jiang Jinhu from Zhao Xiaomei and others, and knew that these three people were Jiang Jiawu, who rushed to Shanxi to join Jiang Jiawu, who was the commander of the Jinsui Army.
However, Zhao Xiaomei only revealed these things, involving secret things, but did not reveal them, although she preliminarily judged that Su Shufen and the others were underground parties.
Luo Yuanda pestered Liu Tianshu along the way, asking him to teach him the ability to kill the enemy, Liu Tianshu had no choice but to choose what he learned from Sengefu and tell him what he was easy to learn.
The two brothers, Hao Mengcheng and Hao Mengxuan, naturally followed and listened with relish, especially when Liu Tianshu talked about how to listen to the sound of shells on the battlefield and how to find cover, the two of them listened with their eyes lit up.