In the back garden of Chen's house in Dong'anfu Hutong, the moonlight is bright and clean, and the smell of nightshade wafts in the evening breeze.

After a long time, Chen Zikun said: "Then you say, are you Brother Kun and I considered warlords?" ”

Guo'er said: "If you are an enemy of the people, you are a warlord, and you are the target to be defeated, and if you are on the side of the people, then you are not a warlord." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Okay, pick up the money, you can go." ”

Guo'er glanced at Chen Zikun hesitantly, lowered his head and picked up the bag containing Yinyang, and went straight to the door, when he walked to the moon gate, he heard a low voice behind him: "Stop." ”

"Brother Kun, do you regret it?" Guo'er stopped, but didn't look back.

Chen Zikun walked over slowly, grabbed Guo'er's hand, took out his Hamilton silver-shell railroad pocket watch and put it in his hand and said: "Go out into the world, you can't do it without mastering the time, this pocket watch was given to me by your big brother five years ago, and now I will give it to you, I hope you don't forget what you said today." ”

Guo'er's nose was sore, tears came out of his eyes, and the image of a strong hero collapsed instantly, he raised his arm and wiped a handful of tears and said: "Brother Kun, I'm leaving, you bring a message to my mother and sister for me, just say that I, Chen Guo'er, am sorry for them, and my life is dedicated to the revolution." ”

After saying that, he resolutely turned around and left, left the Chen Mansion, turned into another secluded alley, and several young people in student clothes surrounded him and asked in a low voice, "How is it, have you succeeded?" ”

Guo'er said: "It's done, there are hundreds of yuan, enough for us to go to Guangzhou, if the people are here, let's go to the train ticket." ”

One of the companions said, "It's all here, and the train tickets have been bought." ”

"Where's the money?"

"It's Mr. Li Dazhao's fund." The student's face was excited.

……

In the study, Chen Zikun counted the gift money, although he made a wide range of friends, but most of them were general friends, and there was not much money exchange, so the gift money was not much, calculated a total of only 30,000 oceans, and the rest were gifts, such as the vase sent by the emperor, the poetry collection sent by Tagore, and the watch sent by Yao Qizhen and his wife.

Among the 30,000 yuan gifts, the majority of them were Baoqing and Li Junqing, who each gave 5,000 and 3,000 oceans, which really scared Chen Zikun, he knew that Ziguang Depot was his own industry, and the money he earned was his own, but he couldn't treat Baoqing and his family badly, and he took out 5,000 oceans in one hand, which shows that they usually save money and don't waste money.

After some rough calculations, Chen Zikun yawned and went back to sleep, in the new room, Yao Yilei was already asleep, a lotus-like white arm stretched out from the quilt, a trace of sparkling saliva hung from the corner of her mouth, and she was still wearing the Vacheron Constantin diamond watch on her wrist.

She loved the watch so much that she forgot to take it off when she slept.

……

On the second day of the wedding, Chen Zikun couldn't take care of the newlywed Yan'er, and began to run the matter of loans and military spending, Yao Qizhen's face was really good, and the major banks expressed their willingness to consider lending to the Jiangbei Railway Project, but the specific matters still need to be studied in detail, no matter what, there has finally been progress.

There has been no progress in the matter of military spending, although there is a warrant from Wu Yushuai and President Cao's instructions, but when he arrives at Li Yanqing, he is still stuck, and he does not know how to refuse you, which is to make a procrastination.

Chen Zikun found Li Junqing to understand the situation and asked him if he had prepared a gift, Li Junqing said with embarrassment: "Recently, the sixth master fell in love with an object, and the price is not too expensive, but it's a pity that ......."

"What's the pity?"

"That's the case, the sixth master is newly married to a wife, in the Dongjiaomin Lane Swiss watch store fancy a pair of watches, Vacheron Constantin is full of stars, the only pair in Beijing, go home to get the money and want to go to Nai, but this pair of watches has been sold, for this matter, the aunt can cry all day, the watch shop is opened by foreigners, customer information is not willing to be disclosed, and the sixth master is not in a way."

Chen Zikun pondered for a while and said: "This is easy to do, I know where this pair of watches went." ”

immediately went home and told Yao Yilei about it, but Mrs. didn't say a word, took the watch off her wrist and handed it over.

"Aren't you distressed?" Chen Zikun said curiously.

Yao Yilei smiled: "I'm not a little girl, it's important to do business." ”

Chen Zikun was overjoyed, took out his watch again, put it in a velvet box, and went to Li's Mansion again, and when he left, Yao Yilei threw herself on the bed and smashed the mattress and cried: "My watch~~~"

……

In Li Yanqing's mansion, the sixth master played with a pair of Vacheron Constantin starry watches, shook his head and said: "I don't understand, why are foreigners' things so rare, such a big thing, and it is not an object handed down by their ancestors, it costs 100,000 oceans, isn't this a heart." ”

Li Junqing said: "Sixth master, in fact, the original price of this pair of watches was 20,000 yuan, and my brother Chen Zikun spent five times the price to get it from the buyer in order to honor your old man, so people are not willing to sell it." ”

Li Yanqing said: "Yo, who is this person, why is he bigger than me." ”

Li Junqing said: "Back to the sixth master, it is said that the original buyer is a Japanese royal family, and the family can take advantage of the money. ”

Li Yanqing said: "It turned out to be a royal family, no wonder, it's hard for Xiao Chen, what does he want to do?" ”

Li Junqing said: "Isn't he a military envoy, and his brigade has not been paid for more than half a year, and I hope that the sixth master will take care of it." ”

"Then these boys from the War Department won't give it to others, it's really not like that, so what, write him a check and pay him a year's military salary first." Li Yanqing said, continuing to play with the watch.

"Sixth Master Xie." Li Junqing couldn't help but beat a thousand.

……

With the instructions of the sixth master, Chen Zikun successfully received a year's military salary, according to the establishment should be 300,000 oceans, but there are only 250,000 left, even so he still took a big advantage, took the check refreshed, exchanged 50,000 yuan in bills, bought ten carts of flour, and drove straight to the Nanyuan barracks with the guards.

Stationed in Nanyuan is the 11th Division of the Central Army, the army review envoy Feng Yuxiang's direct troops, the sentry saw the arrival of the convoy transporting flour, and hurriedly flew to report to the inspection envoy, Feng Yuxiang was greatly surprised when he heard this, and came to Yuanmen to see that it was Chen Zikun who was standing in front of the convoy.

"Brother Kunwuxian, who are you?" Feng Yuxiang said.

"Brother Huanzhang, I'm here to bring you food." Chen Zikun smiled and waved his hand, and Zhao Yufeng took a small suitcase, which was neatly stacked with brand-new banknotes.

Feng Yuxiang's eyes were red with emotion, and he held Chen Zikun's hand tightly and shook it vigorously: "Brother Xian, you are not rich, I can't ask for this money!" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Brother Huanzhang is a hero, why is his mother-in-law and mother getting up today, and the brothers are all waiting for the meal." ”

Feng Yuxiang said: "Brother Xian sent charcoal in the snow, this love will always be engraved in our hearts from top to bottom of the 11th Division, come on, open the gate, and gather the brothers to welcome General Chen." ”

Under an order, the five hundred soldiers of the guard battalion quickly rushed to the gate of the camp to set up two columns, Feng Yuxiang boarded the car and joined hands with Chen Zikun to enter the barracks with his head held high, first talked in the official room, and scolded Li Yanqing for misleading the country, Feng Yuxiang said: "Brother, this money is not a congratulatory gift for you to do a happy event, in this case, my old Feng can not accept it." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Brother Huanzhang, don't worry, this money is the military salary issued to me by the Ministry of War, I can't use so much for a brigade of people, so I will take it to you first, no matter how hard you are, you can't suffer the brothers of the 11th Division, you can't suffer Brother Huanzhang, you are a model for me and the mainstay of the Chinese nation." ”

Feng Yuxiang said: "Brother, you sent charcoal in the snow this time, I, Feng Yuxiang, on behalf of all the brothers of the 11th Division, would like to express my gratitude to you, I have written down this love, and I will definitely repay it in the future." ”

Chen Zikun was polite for a while, and the two talked about the current situation, scolded the national thieves, and at noon, the orderly came to report that lunch was ready, and the inspection envoy and the escort envoy were invited to sit at the table.

Feng Yuxiang said: "Don't hide it from my brother, my army originally had two meals a day, but these days it has been really tight, and it has been changed to one meal a day. ”

Chen Zikun readily agreed, and when he came to the big canteen, he saw that in a huge shed, more than 1,000 soldiers were sitting at the table without moving.

Feng Yuxiang walked up to the stage and said, "Brothers, who is providing you with food and clothing? ”

The soldiers replied in unison: "Civilian! ”

Feng Yuxiang said: "If someone bullies the common people, what will you do? ”

"Down with him!"

"If I Feng Yuxiang oppresses the people, what will you do?"

"Down with Feng Yuxiang!" The soldiers replied without hesitation, it seems that this kind of pre-meal question and answer has been carried out many times, forming a conditioned reflex.

Feng Yuxiang nodded with satisfaction: "Today's meal was prepared by General Chen, the Jiangbei Protector Army, should we thank him?" ”

This question and answer is not stylized, so the following answer is rambling, but the general meaning is still to thank General Chen, so in the prayer to God before the meal, the words of thanks to General Chen were temporarily added, which made Chen Zikun very embarrassed, and said in his heart Feng Yuxiang where is he believing in God, it is clearly brainwashing in the name of religion.

However, this method really worked, the brothers of the 11th Division were trained by him very well, and their spirit far surpassed that of other troops, compared to the 3rd Division, and compared to the 7th Mixed Brigade formed by his own bandits, it was even more different.

At noon, I ate cabbage vermicelli, steamed steamed buns, noodle soup, it is strictly forbidden to speak during meals, the big canteen is full of smacking sounds, if you close your eyes, you think that you are in a pigsty, the food is very delicious, and you can't even see a little oil star, but the soldiers are satisfied with eating, and a few young soldiers are choked by steamed buns and roll their eyes, it seems that they are hungry and afraid.

After the lunch break, Feng Yuxiang gathered a group of men and horses to practice on the colonel's field to show Chen Zikun, a whole thousand soldiers were all holding long-handled broad-backed machetes, Bai Sen Sen was swaying, murderous, and the deterrent power was stronger than a thousand rifles.

"The 11th Division lacked guns and ammunition, so I had to use a broadsword to go into battle, and I smiled." Feng Yuxiang said modestly, but there was a pride in his tone that could not be hidden.

"Kids, play it and let General Chen open his eyes!" Feng Yuxiang shouted.

A thousand bright machetes made a sound of brushing through the air.