Chapter 87: Michy's Father and Son

This is an express train running on the Harbin-Dalian Railway. It consists of 32 carriages, relying on the towing of the "Feilong 4" steam locomotive, which can reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, this kind of express train is often a long-distance train, before the war, the steam locomotive of the train that Russia joined the international passenger transport, often used this Chinese-made heavy locomotive.

As soon as the train leaves Changchun Station, the "blue steel carriage" of international intermodal transport is running at high speed on the snow-shrouded land in the northeast land, and the white earth and the blue train are moving, coupled with the white smoke emitted from the front of the train to form a beautiful scenery.

Along the way, the train stops at several stations in turn, and the next station is Siping, which is a big station, and the train needs to stop there for a long time to make way for the train transporting "military supplies", in fact, the so-called "military supplies" are simply export materials, of course, those export materials, most of them are military supplies, but they are not necessarily the military supplies of the Guards.

In the scorching dust and fog as white as lime shone by the sun, the vast fields, grasslands, cities and villages unique to the Northeast swept quickly, and on both sides of the railway, high-voltage power towers, and near the city, towering chimneys were enough to shock every newcomer.

"You own Pittsburgh, Ruhr, we own the three northeastern provinces!"

The three northeastern provinces, in China's industrial construction, perhaps the three northeastern provinces are not the origin of industry, but it is the best embodiment of the country's industrial development, to some extent, there is no place in China more suitable for the development of modern heavy industry than the northeast, where the local population is sparse, rich in resources, in the northeast large coal mines, iron mines, more importantly, whether the Minfu Mountain, Fushun coal mines, or the iron mines of Dagushan, are large open-pit mines, and in the south of the northeast there is Dalian Port, in the north, Vladivostok port China enjoys the right to use, In the central part, relying on the Tumen River and the port of Luojin, the central part of the northeast enjoys an outlet to the sea.

The benefits of transportation and the abundance of natural resources made it possible for China to build a large factory in the Northeast from the first year of the empire, with the Northeast as the center, and in the ten years of the Empire, the Northeast supplied 40% of China's steel, 15% of coal, 10% of copper, and 55% of hydropower.

After the outbreak of war in Europe, there was an endless stream of freight trains running on the railways every day, freight trains were transported to Russia through the Eastern Railway, and the speeding trains were loaded with all kinds of military and civilian materials, which were imported into the Russian Empire and exchanged for a large number of gold and silver coins for China.

At each major station, the train would wait for half an hour, or even longer, to make way for the "munitions train", and while the train entered the station and waited, the passengers rushed to the commissary, and the westerly sun shone from behind the trees in the station garden to their hurried footsteps, illuminating the wheels under the carriages.

At this time, on the train, a young man in a school uniform walked around the carriage, the young man seemed very polite, and every time he wanted to squeeze through the crowded passengers in the carriage, he would always say things like "let me", "sorry", "sorry", etc., and too many people returned to their hometowns on the train near the end of the year.

In the past few years, a large number of rural people have flocked to the cities, and although they will eventually settle in the cities, they will all have the initial experience of returning to their hometowns before the Spring Festival. They would go into a factory or start a small business on the street, and when they had a certain amount of savings, they would often choose to buy a house in the city, and then bring their parents, wives and children into the city, and then return to normal life. …,

Although in the first few years, they would return to their hometowns every year, but after a few years, when they were fully integrated into the city and the city gave them a sense of home, they rarely returned to their hometowns, and now these returnees are returning to their homes and experiencing the warmth of home.

After the young man in the school uniform entered the second-class sleeping car from the ordinary car, passing through the rear car, the crowd was gone, and the young man took out a book from his hand, and there was a note in the book, and a photo, when the young man passed by the car, he accidentally saw that in the carriage, a young boy stood up, and seemed to see the picture in his book, and the young man was stunned at the same time, but smiled at the boy slightly.

Mi Liangcheng, who was sitting in the carriage, saw the college student smiling at him, and still twisted his head away, he was a second-year student of the National Middle School from Harbin, and his father, Mike, a lawyer, got on the train together. It was an eleven-year-old boy with a contemplative face with large eyes that sparkled with a look that only a teenager could have. His father was going to work in a lawyer's firm in Tianjin, and the child naturally went to Tianjin to study in middle school. His mother and sisters had already arrived and were busy setting up their new home.

The boy and his father have been on the train for more than two days.

At this time, for Mi Liangcheng, leaving the familiar Harbin is a sad and painful thing, from the time he got on the train, melancholy has always controlled him, for a teenager of his age, fifteen or sixteen years old, this age, it is the time for him to deepen his relationship with his friends, and at this time, he left.

"When you get to Tianjin, you can write to them!"

Mick enlightened his son in this way, but of course he knew, in fact, it didn't make any sense, for his son, what he needed was actually those friends and classmates he was already familiar with, but at this point, he couldn't satisfy him.

As a descendant of a "traitor", for many years, for Mick, the thing he longed for most was to be able to return to the big city.

Eleven years ago, he was exiled to Mohe, and after hard work to obtain a lawyer's license, he became a lawyer, and after several efforts, he brought his family to Harbin, and after living in Harbin for six years, he finally got his wish - a letter of appointment from a law firm in Tianjin meant that he could finally return to the capital, which he had been away for ten years, at least very close, although the city had long since been renamed "Beiping", but in any case, it was his memory.

And now, for the sake of his childhood memories, he needs to ask his son to give up his childhood memories, is it fair?

Pondering, Mick was already looking out the window speechless, he knew he was selfish, but he could only because of this, he missed that place.

"When I have a son, I won't be so selfish!"

In Mi Liangcheng's thoughts, he obviously blamed everything on "his father's thoughts about Beiping", although Mi Liangcheng was also born in Beiping, but for him, he has no memory of that city, and his understanding of that city is only limited to the Palace Museum, the world's largest museum that belongs to the royal family but was generously donated by the royal family, is also limited to this, as for Tianjin, there is no impression,

But now, he is going to Tianjin, and he will live there in the future, thinking of his friends and classmates in Harbin, and even the girl with pigtails in the neighbor's house, Mi Liangcheng only feels a burst of irrepressible trouble.

At this time, you can faintly smell the smell of someone trying to flush the toilet with toilet water, and the smell of grilled chicken wrapped in greasy dirty paper. There were also a few women who had been disgraced by the soot from the locomotive, and they were talking in a low, squeaky voice. Mi Liangcheng felt that they were complaining about something in a hoarse voice, and judging by the way they opened their mouths, they were obviously dissatisfied with the soot that had entered the carriage. …,

At this moment, suddenly, a crisp gunfire interrupted Mi Liangcheng's thoughts, and when the gunfire came, it sounded like a firecracker, and it took a while for him to react, it was a gunshot.

"One of the people in the first class carriage was killed!"

After a while, someone finally came with the news, as soon as he heard that someone had been shot, while being afraid, Mi Liangcheng's heart was full of curiosity, and he said to his father.

"Dad, I'll go to the bathroom!"

But then, he went to the overhead carriage, and he saw some people crowded in the aisle of the carriage, and when he finally squeezed through, he saw the body of a slain lying on the carpet of the luxury carriage in one of the carriages. The blood clearly crossed the deceased's forehead and eyes, and the crimson blood flowed down the wound on his forehead onto the carpet, where it was absorbed.

"This man ......"

At this time, Mi Liangcheng vaguely felt that the dead body lying on the carpet seemed to have been seen, as if it had ...... Yes, it's the guy in the photo in the college student's book!

At this time, curious and sympathetic people stood outside the carriage, but next to the corpse was a middle-aged man, but he stood there with a serious frown and looked at the deceased, he stood there, like a log, even the flight attendant was not allowed to enter.

No matter what he asked, he replied without even turning his body:

"Wait until the police come."

At this time, Mi Liangcheng saw several policemen coming over, with a police officer.

"Hello, I'm a police officer on this site, who is the deceased?"

When the police began to protect the scene, Mi Liangcheng saw the officer questioning the man who had been guarding his side.

"Vice Governor of Jilin Province."

The man's only made the people around who were watching the excitement gasp, and there was only one deputy governor in a province, which meant that the No. 2 official of Jilin Province died. The officer's face changed, and he immediately said something to a policeman, although the voice was not loud, but Mi Liangcheng still heard the words "Investigation Bureau", obviously these local police officers were ready to hand over the case to the Investigation Bureau.

"You are?"

"His advisor!"

The man's answer remained calm.

"Did you see the murderer?"

"When I heard the gunshots, I ran over and he was the only one in the carriage!"

At this time, the passengers who were originally watching the excitement in the carriage saw that the deceased turned out to be the vice governor of Jilin Province, and they were still willing to watch the excitement here, so they left the carriage one after another, and when they left, they glanced at the corpse again, but at this time, it was not so easy for them to leave, and those policemen needed to ask every witness.

But Mi Liangcheng was stunned by the murder in front of him.

"What's your name......"

Just when the police asked Mi Liangcheng about it, through the glass window, Mi Liangcheng saw that on the platform, the college student who was three or four years older than him, when he saw that person, he was stunned at first, and was about to open his mouth to tell the police about his discovery, but he saw that the college student was on the platform, and was stopped by a policeman, and at the same time that the police stopped him, he suddenly took something out of his arms, and then towards the police behind him.

Gunshot!

The gunshots rang out again, and the man took the gun and shot at the police.

"The murderer is there!"

Mi Liangcheng pointed out the outside of the car and shouted, apparently everyone heard the gunshots, and when he bent down in horror and lay down under the window, he saw the officer holding a pistol and first shooting at the glass window, and then constantly pulling the trigger at the man who fired the shot.

When the gunfire stopped, the officer first kicked the broken glass by the window with his booted calf, and then jumped out, at this time the people who were nervously screaming quieted down, and Mi Liangcheng also stood up after the initial panic, he saw the officer walk in front of the injured man, and when the man wanted to raise his hand, he shot him in the shoulder again, and the gray platform under the man had been dyed red. …,

At this moment, Mi Liangcheng heard a shout.

"Down with the dictatorship, the emperor abdicates, and ends the autocracy ......"

Listening to the shout, it was clear that the man was in a state of emotion, although he was injured.

A few hours later, while waiting for the confession to be recorded, Mick looked at his son, who was very angry at his lies, but he was horrified by the fact that he witnessed the shooting.

"That person is a student at Jilin University!"

At this point, Mick suddenly remembered something else, and his face turned pale with horror.

"A republican radical!"

The pale-faced Mick had said again, he looked at the unexplained pity for his son, he thought of the young man who had been shot and wounded by the police, he looked at his son, and could not help but think that in four years, his son would go to college, and if he was influenced by the republican thinking, then ......

The people in the republican radicals are not necessarily true republicans, and Mick has a deep understanding of this because of the reasons he has been exposed to such cases, many of them have been exiled like him, many of them are not responsible for their own crimes, but for the "crimes" of their ancestors, they have been exiled and discriminated against, but those people are generally well educated, which allows them to get into college and leave the place of exile.

In the universities, the politics they came into contact with were either royalists or republicans, and as "political victims" they naturally could not lean towards the emperor, and naturally, they chose the republicans of "an equal and free society without the emperor's autocracy", and were thus easily influenced by the radical wing among them.

In retaliation for society, they assassinated officials, robbed banks, and fought for the so-called "republic", but their actions were like mantis arms as a car, easily suppressed by the powerful state apparatus, and their actions seemed so naïve, can assassination change everything?

For a long time to come, Mick kept instilling in his son the history of the emperor's salvation of the nation, and at the same time complaining that nothing in this world was perfect, and when he mentioned exile, he excused the emperor there, saying that the emperor was very merciful compared to the past dynasties, because only a few people were executed, and most people only paid for their actions.

At this time, Mi Liangcheng's mind was the young man, after being injured by the police, when he shouted those words, the shouts of some college students around him, who accused the police of being "the lackeys of the tyrant".

"Dad, why do they kill people?"

Mi Liangcheng thought of the killed vice governor, in his impression, the vice governor of Heilongjiang Province was very close to people, and at the school sports meeting, he even gave an award to himself, thinking that the dead vice governor would be the same. But why did those men kill him?

"Yes......"

Is it for their "revolution"? Or is it to vent dissatisfaction with society?

The son's question had stumped Mick.

Suddenly, everything around shook up, and three people wearing black trench coats and top hats with national flag armbands on their sleeves walked in, and when they walked in, Mi Liangcheng's attention immediately fell on them, they were the legendary agents of the Investigation Bureau?

"I'm very sorry, because of the murder case in the third car, it will take a little time for everyone, I hope you can understand!"

What followed was simple, the agents asked a few questions and took notes. While they were taking notes, several agents and two police officers carried the body from the carriage wrapped in a white cloth, which appeared to have some blood stains on it.

At this time, I don't know which woman burst out crying.

"Governor Fang is a good person!"

At this time, looking around, Mi Liangcheng saw that a few of the passengers around him had a look of grief on their faces, and even some anger, after the agents left the carriage, the train sounded the whistle, and the train started again.

At this time, in Mi Liangcheng's mind, he was thinking about a question - whether the republicans were good or bad, and in the end, he got an answer in his mind.

Naturally the one who kills a good person is not a good person!