Chapter Forty-Nine: The Sorrowful Man

"According to reliable sources, Zhao Zhi, who had defeated the 225th Infantry Wing, was in Zhangwu County, and the Zhongjing squad of the Special High Division had been wiped out, and it was suspected that the attack on Yuncheng Airport was related to Zhao Zhi" Before the Daystar completely disappeared, a ray of radio flew from a courtyard in Zhangwu County to Taiyuan. The yard is not big, as plain as the yards of other houses in Zhangwu County, if you have to find out what is different from other people's homes, it may be the huge bird's nest on the branches in this yard.

"Are you alright?" Xu Shu, who was holding the ladder, raised her head and asked in a low voice, the woman on the ladder did not speak, she would not have time to answer Xu Shu's question, because she was stuffing a small box into the bird's nest on the branch. Xu Shu looked back at the small door of his yard, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and he raised his head and asked again, if this timid man couldn't get an answer, he would keep asking.

"Shut up" The woman on the ladder was anxious, and suddenly turned around and scolded, the bird's nest was a little small, and it was too hard to stuff the wooden box in. The woman's sudden outburst made Xu Shu a little stunned, this woman was not like this at the beginning, when she first married into her own family, she looked at everyone who was soft and weak, and she was smiling when she saw everyone, and in recent times, how did she always like to lose her temper, and there were not a few bowls left at home.

"I'm just asking casually, if you don't want to say it, forget it, don't get angry, it's not good for your health" Xu Shu's words began to attack, of course, he just muttered these words in his heart, and did not say them out loud. After a while, the woman slowly retreated with the ladder, and Xu Shu put away the ladder and diligently brought a hot hand towel to wipe the woman's hands. Xu Shu is 40 years old this year, and he relied on the skill of shaving his head to earn a living in Zhangwu County, and it was not until last month that he sold a wife for money, so he couldn't help Xu Shu to offer his wife like a bodhisattva.

"You go back to the house and lie down for a while, I'll make breakfast for you, and then go to the shop after eating" Xu Shu's thoughtfulness softened the woman's face, dusted off her clothes with a hand towel, and the woman went to the stove with an oil lamp. Xu Shu, who is happy to follow the woman's instructions, nests on the kang and half-lies down to recuperate, usually does not get up so early, today is the day of the big gathering, there will be no fewer people who come to Xu Ji to shave their heads and cut their hair, Xu Shu wants to open a shop early to make more money, and buy a good piece of fabric for his woman to make a new dress.

Freshly steamed wotou, pickles drizzled with sesame oil, millet porridge and a boiled egg, the woman cooked very quickly, and it didn't take much effort to bring it in, Xu Shu was not willing to eat the egg, and directly pushed the egg to his own woman, and he took the porridge bowl and snorted for half a bowl. Marrying a daughter-in-law and giving birth to a baby, this is Xu Shu's blind old lady's last request before she died, now that her daughter-in-law has it, she is about to give birth to a baby, Xu Shu can't help but secretly look at her own woman, who doesn't say that the woman she bought back is beautiful, and even the daughter-in-law who went to the foreign school in the seven families at the intersection of the street is not as good as her own woman.

"The gourd is filled with brewed tea, I'll send you food at noon, don't eat the things on the stall, it's expensive and unpalatable" Xu Shu went out, the woman put down the dishes and chopsticks to sort out his clothes for him, this seems to have become a routine, every time Xu Shu goes out, no matter whether there is anyone next to him, the woman has to sort out the clothes and belongings for Xu Shu by herself. Every time a woman said a word, Xu Shu subconsciously nodded, just because of this, Xu Shu was laughed at by the neighbors around him, but he never felt that there was anything wrong, his own woman said these things for her own good, why didn't she listen.

Like Xu Shu, there are not a few people who want to open a shop to do business before dawn, at least when Xu Shu opened Xu Ji, several shops next to him also removed their door panels and were ready to open for business. "Lao Xu, you're starting to come late today, all the door panels on my side are finished, the first few times I came to open the door, the water in your store was boiled, what's the matter, are you reluctant to have that beautiful wife at home?" Seeing that Xu Shu opened the door a little late today, Ma Jicai, the owner of Ma Ji Cloth Village, who was separated from Xu Ji by a wall, joked about Xu Shu.

Xu and Ma are both time-honored brands on this street, Xu Shu and Ma Jicai are also good friends who grew up, and the two always talk to each other like this, so Xu Shu didn't mean to be angry, just smiled and put away the removed door panel. "Lao Xu, let me tell you, this woman can't always be used to marrying home, you look at the mother-in-law in my family, I let her go to the east, she will go east, tell her to go west, we are men, we have the final say at home, like you to offer your wife like a bodhisattva, I think you will sooner or later become a guy who is afraid of his wife" Ma Jicai didn't plan to let Xu Shu go like this, anyway, there would be no business, so he consciously came over with his own small teapot.

"Okay, the situation of our family is different, you don't compare the wife in your family with my apricot blossom, apricot blossom is not that kind of woman" Xu Shu said that the apricot blossom in his mouth is the woman he spent money to sell back, a refugee orphan girl whose parents died early and her brother was separated.

"Yes, I won't say it, anyway, only you know whether you are doing well or not, no matter how much I say, it's useless" Ma Jicai actually has no malicious intentions, he is just an idle person, he only has the best relationship with Xu Shu on this street, and if he doesn't say Xu Shu, he has no one to say. "This is the good tea that my brother-in-law brought me when he will deliver the cloth, you can taste it" Ma Jicai threw a paper bag to Xu Shu, which contained almost 2 taels of tea leaves.

Xu Shu was busy lighting the stove to boil water, and he didn't have time to take care of Ma Jicai, so he just nodded and thanked Ma Jicai, but fortunately, Xu Shu is usually not a person who talks much, and Ma Jicai has long been used to his face, and waved his hand at will, and Ma Jicai walked back to his cloth village in all directions. There are more and more outsiders coming to Zhangwu County, and Xu Ji's business, which originally relied on neighborhood business to make a living, has gradually improved, especially Xu Shu's amazing shaving and facial shaving skills, which is the first choice for those soldiers in the military camp outside the city.

Before the noon, the people who gathered outside the city had just entered the city, and Xu Shu's head shaving shop was already crowded with people waiting to shave their heads and trim their faces, and several big-nosed soldiers who patrolled the streets every day were also drinking tea and waiting in Xu Shu's head shaving shop. Prepare tea for the guests who are waiting for a head shave and haircut, this is the rule of their Xu family for several generations, even if the guests drink Xu Ji's tea and can't wait to leave in advance, when they come to Xu Ji next time, Xu Shu still greets him with a smile, so there are the most people who come to Xu Ji to shave their heads and get a haircut in Zhangwu County.

It was busy until lunch, the people who were waiting for the haircut and face trimming in the shop gradually dispersed, Xu Shu, who was busy for a morning, didn't care about drinking water and resting, and first went to Ma Jicai's cloth village to sell back the piece of fabric that he had been optimistic about, Xinghua has been here for more than a month, and he is still wearing a jacket that will be made by a parent, and he is about to heat up when he sees that the sky is about to get hot, and it is time to make a new dress for Xinghua. "You're Xu Shu?" Just when Xu Shu was drinking tea and waiting for Xinghua to bring him food, several black-clothed soldiers broke in, and after confirming Xu Shu's identity, they directly escorted Xu Shu to the truck at the door.

The truck went all the way west into the barracks in the west of the city, Xu Shu didn't like to ask about the short news of his parents, but he knew who lived in this barracks. "Xu Shu, where did the woman named Miao Xinghua in your family buy it? Who is the introducer? Who does the guarantor? Xu Shu was not tortured as he imagined, and he sat on a stool when he answered the question.

"Master Jun, I don't know what you're asking? My mother-in-law doesn't usually like to go out, so what is it that implicates her? Xu Shu is cowardly, but it doesn't mean that he is a fool, the people in the barracks open their mouths to ask themselves about women, and fools know that they are brought here to be related to their own women.

"Xu Shu, look at this photo, do you know this woman in the photo?" A large black and white photo was handed to Xu Shu's hand. Xu Shu was dumbfounded after just one look, the black-and-white photo showed a woman in a Japanese military uniform, that eyebrows, that kind of cold eyes, Xu Shu is very familiar, the woman in the Japanese military uniform in the photo is clearly the woman she bought back with her own money - Miao Xinghua.

"This woman, Tian Huazi, is an agent sent to China by the Japanese Special High School, specializing in spying on the intelligence of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Shanxi, according to the information we received, she has come to our Zhangwu County. Coincidentally, since last month, a total of 93 women have entered Zhangwu County, leaving aside 14 pregnant and 30 under the age of 16, only 24 are eligible. After we checked one by one, we locked up 7 people, and Miao Xinghua was among these 7 people, until we received this photo yesterday, we were sure that the wife Miao Xinghua you bought back was Haruta Hanako"

"Impossible, impossible, what's going on with the Japanese with Xinghua?" Xu Shu sat in the chair and muttered to himself, he said that he didn't believe that Xinghua was the person in the photo, but he already believed it in his heart, who lived in the barracks in the west of the city, Xu Shu knew very well, and he also knew that these people would not joke about a person with a shaved head. "What do you want me to do?" Xu Shu's father died under the guns of the Japanese army, and the blind old mother also died of depression because she missed her father, so Xu Shu hated the Japanese extremely much in his bones.

"You don't have to do anything, you just go about your life as usual, you have to pretend that you don't know the identity of the woman, when this matter is over, my husband will give you a bonus, you can use this bonus to buy a wife again" The middle-aged man laughed, the radio station that Haruta Hanako hid in the bird's nest in the name of hiding jewelry has long been known to them, and the reason why he doesn't arrest her now is just to know what the special high school wants to do? Why did you send a female spy to Zhangwu County?