Seeing that Hu Xuan's face was not good-looking, Mr. Wu also darkened his face, and said coldly: "Now is an extraordinary time, the traitorous party is causing chaos everywhere, young students, if they don't know self-discipline, they will become sinners of the country, and they will take the blame on themselves, I am here for your good, if you don't know how to lift, there will be times when you regret it, you should think about it." With that, turn around and leave. Xiao Li glanced at Hu Xuan, saw Hu Xuan's angry appearance, and said curtly: "I'll go first, you think about it, it's okay if you don't agree." Then he turned and walked away.

After they left, Shi Suo scolded, "It's really fucking unlucky to encounter this kind of thing with one set of mouths and one set of hearts in your heart." ”

Hu Xuan didn't speak, his face was blue with anger, he and Shi Suo came to Tianjin, originally to meet the classmates with common aspirations, but now only he and Shi Suo are left, and the classmates who were imagined before gathered, full of enthusiasm, and the scene of going south to join the army is far away, and his heart is very sad.

The two of them were sulking in the house, and suddenly there was a knock on the door, and when they opened the door, they saw that it was the shopkeeper, and said nervously: "Sir, someone is searching, you guys are ready, or else, go out and hide." ”

In this year, warlords from all walks of life come and go, the territory belongs to three days, it is very chaotic, Tianjin has always been a place where various factions are concentrated, and conflicts and struggles are commonplace, Hu Xuan thought to himself, he is just an ordinary hotel tourist, what is there to be afraid of searching? So he said to the shopkeeper: "It's okay, we are all ordinary people, they can search if they want." Then he said to Shi Suo, "Let's get ready, let's leave today." ”

After a while, a group of soldiers in military uniforms rushed in outside the store, I don't know which part it was, one by one, they raised their eyebrows, and led an officer wearing a crooked hat and shouted: "Come out, come out, come out, search for the rebels, who is the rebels, stand up." ”

The soldiers kicked the door into the house, cursed and scolded, and drove all the customers into the courtyard, and among the passengers were old people and children, and some of the children were frightened, crying, and the courtyard was in chaos.

The guests immediately shouted, "We are not a rebel. "I'm here for business." Hu Xuan also shouted, "We are students in Tianjin, what kind of law have we violated?" ”

But the officer ignored their shouting, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers pushed the men out of the door, and the bolt shouted loudly, and he was also hit by a soldier with the butt of a gun, "Fuck, I told you to shout." ”

A middle-aged man next to Hu Shuan whispered to Hu Shuan: "Don't shout, it's useless." Hu Shuan turned his head to look, the middle-aged man had big ears, kept his head apart, had a calm expression, and never shouted from beginning to end.

The soldiers took these men at gunpoint to an open field, where there were still twenty or thirty people gathered, and they were also watched by the soldiers with guns, and it seemed that they had just been captured. ”

These dozens of people were forced to move forward slowly with guns, and the houses in the alleys were closed, and the shops were also closed, and some soldiers smashed the doors with guns, causing chickens and dogs to jump. The captured men walked all the way, and after a while, they were driven into a large courtyard.

There were many rooms in the courtyard, and these people were driven into each room, Hu Bolt, Shi Suo, and the middle-aged man, and seven or eight other people were driven into a room, and after entering the house, they saw that the four walls of the house were empty, and there was nothing, and when a dozen or so people came in, it was very crowded. Shi Suo scolded: "In this world, if you haven't violated any law, you will be arrested, which is really unreasonable." ”

A businessman-like man next to him sighed and said, "I'm even more wronged, I've been arrested while walking on the street, and I still have urgent matters, alas." ”

The middle-aged man whispered: "Don't worry, they arrested people like this, in fact, to loot some money, they themselves understand that we are not a chaotic party at all, but, since we have been arrested, how can we get out without spending some money?" This is a shortcut for them to get rich, as long as we can break the fortune and avoid disasters when we review it. ”

As soon as he said this, the mood of these people slowly calmed down, and they began to stand or sit, or close their eyes or talk quietly. A young man scolded: "I don't know which family these soldiers are, so it's unreasonable." The merchant said, "There is a saying since ancient times, good iron does not hit nails, good people do not serve as soldiers, how can a soldier be reasonable." I was doing business in Shanxi, and I met a soldier who came forward to grab my goods without asking any questions, and it was the same when I arrived in Tianjin. ”

Hu Xuan said indignantly: "The current soldiers know that they are ruining the people, and I think they can't grow rabbit tails." ”

"That's right," the middle-aged man whispered beside him: "You see that these generals and marshals are like marquees, you come and go, and they all seem to be quite arrogant, but who can last long?" It's good to be able to hold on for a few years, but the reason is because of the abuse of the people. ”

A few people chatted and passed the time, and at noon no one paid attention to them, and no one brought food, and everyone was so hungry that they could only curse in the house.

At about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, someone finally came, and a soldier opened the door, called out a few people, and then locked the door with a "bang". The square-faced middle-aged man said, "Okay, okay, as long as you start interrogating people, you can find a way to get out." ”

"When you say think about finding a way, is it just using money to open the way?" Stone Lock asked.

"Yes," said the man, "do you want to get out by any other means?" Unless you have a hard backend. I have experience in this kind of thing, you don't need to mention it yourself, they will directly ask you for money, because their purpose is to ask for money, and what they are looking at is money. ”

Hu Xuan scolded: "China let this group of strong and domineering, rat-eyed people control, where can it be good." ”

The middle-aged man seemed to agree with this, moved in front of Hu Xuan, and said: "You said to the root, especially the words 'rat eyes', which are right in the middle, people nowadays only know how to fight for power and profit, and they don't think about the long term at all. Like a blind donkey, he thinks about good things, isn't this a rat's eye? ”

Hu Xuan heard what he said interestingly, and also became interested, and leaned towards him, at this time, the people next to him all gathered around the square-faced middle-aged man in a circle, or sat or standing, listening to him.

The middle-aged man continued: "Further down, who is not like this with these prime ministers, overseers, generals, etc.? Killing and killing, it is nothing more than to grab territory, money, and status, who would have thought that relying on such a vicious and indiscriminate killing and beating, even if the things that were robbed, could it last for a long time? Can you keep it from being snatched back? When the common people heard that they were soldiers, they all hated the root of their teeth, such an army, such a general, is there a good end? ”

"Yes, yes, yes," someone next to him agreed: "Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat, this is the truth in ancient times." ”

The middle-aged man said: "Not only that, from generals and marshals to soldiers and gentry, they only see immediate interests, as long as they can get their hands on it, they will do whatever it takes, everyone is like a group of brainless red-eyed dogs, only seeing the piece of meat in front of them, and the final result can only be to kill each other and ruin the country." The reason for this is that the brain has not yet evolved, as the gentleman just said, he only sees the cheapness in front of him, and does not consider whether he should get this thing or not. The 'greed' that is first denounced in Buddhism is actually the truth that we are talking about, seeing the petty profits, and forgetting the rules and regulations. ”

Hu Zhuan did not know much about his choice to go south to join the revolutionary party, but he only came into contact with some radical ideas when he was in school, lamented the turbulence of the current situation and the decay of the bureaucracy, and defected to his ideals with the ardent ambition of a young student.

He asked the middle-aged man, "According to you, now we big officials, none of us will last long in the future?" And what about the country? ”

The middle-aged man stared at him and smiled, "Young man, it seems that you are an ambitious person, which is very good, young people should be like this, we don't have to say what will happen to these big officials, but I tell you, no matter who he is, if he does greed beyond the limit, it will definitely not last long, and he will get retribution. For example, if there is a person who sees a fruit on a tree and wants to pick it, this is human nature, and the idea of getting the fruit is not wrong, but he should also think about whose fruit it is. If it has an owner, will the owner of the fruit let people pick it at will? And if you have not worked for the growth and ripening of the fruit, is you qualified to pick it? Nowadays, people often see only the fruit and nothing else, and they are even more lazy to think about the consequences. And the consequence is often: if he insists on going his own way and not forcibly picking the fruit, he will incur the punishment of his master. ”

Hu Xuan and the people around him were listening with relish, when suddenly the door opened, and a soldier shouted with raised eyebrows: "Pass the hall, the next batch." ”

Among the people who took it away was this middle-aged man with a square face, who looked at Hu Shu, smiled and nodded, and then walked out with the soldiers. Of the last group of people who were taken away, two returned, but the rest did not. Hu Xuan estimated that the people who didn't come back may have been released, and the people who came back didn't use money to make points. He walked over and quietly asked them about the passage of the hall, and when he asked, it was indeed so.