Chapter Twenty-Six: Taking Office
"Brother Tang, you are really willing to leave Sister Yun alone in the capital." Sitting in the passenger seat, Zeng Lu lit a cigar, crossed Erlang's legs and quipped: "Your troops are relatively close to Shahe Town, so it is better to place them in Shahe, the old man also has a shop there, and the houses are ready-made." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, my relationship with Xiao Yun is not what you think." Tang Zhidao flatly denied it: "It's not easy to just watch her pull the child from a woman's family." ”
"Brother Tang, it's all come to this point, what are you still hiding from me." Zeng Lu asked in disbelief: "The relationship between the two of you can be seen even if you are blind. ”
"It really doesn't have anything to do with it." Tang Zhidao explained helplessly: "But I'm not in the capital, you can help me take care of it." ”
"I don't have a special relationship with you, why do you want me to take care of others." Zeng Lu shouted angrily: "Brother Tang, don't you eat dry and don't want to admit it!" Even if someone has a daughter and you don't want to marry her, you can raise her outside, and Sister Yun doesn't look like that kind of insatiable woman. ”
"Brother Tang, I'm that kind of person!" Tang Zhidao was amused by Zeng Lu's angry appearance, which big man in these years is not a few concubines in the family, and there are three or two famous ladies and prostitutes outside. The famous General Cai Ye also married two concubines at home, and the city was full of wind and rain with Xiao Fengxian outside, and everyone knew it, and the world not only did not think it was wrong, but it was rumored to be beautiful.
"Why is that? Could it be that you Tang Ruoshui has become a willow Hui. Zeng Lu's eyes widened and said: "I've been to the eight major alleys a few times, so don't pretend to be pure in front of me anymore." "For some things since the crossing, Tang Zhidao has indeed gone to Bada Hutong a few times, and he has also played with a few women half-pushed.
"The situation is more complicated, and I can't tell you clearly for a while, just remember to help me take care of one or two." This kind of thing is getting darker and darker, and Tang Zhidao simply doesn't explain it anymore.
"Got it, I'll take care of it for you." Zeng Lu saw that Tang Zhidao no longer denied it, so he didn't ask.
"Zeng Lu, I heard Uncle Zeng say that you are about to get married, is there such a thing?" Speaking of women, Tang Zhidao remembered such a thing.
"Alas! Brother Tang, which pot you don't open and mention. Zeng Lu was obviously said to be in the sore spot, and said with a look of annoyance: "The date is set for the eighth day of the eighth month." ”
"The eighth day of August? Then why didn't you kid tell me about it, and you still ran to the Xianlin Pavilion every day. "This time it was Tang Zhidao's turn to make fun of Zeng Lu.
"Well, I can't help it. The old man let go, everything can depend on me, only this family business must depend on him. Zeng Lu sighed and said: "The family affair was finalized a few years ago, because I have been studying in the military academy, the woman was also sent to study in the United States, and it has been delayed until this year." ”
"It's time to find someone to take care of your boy, lest you die on a woman that day." Tang Zhidao's eyebrows fluttered and said, "Let's see if you dare to go and drink flower wine as soon as you get off work." ”
"It's not fair, Brother Tang, you are twenty-four, and you are still a single, what do I have to be managed by a woman when I am just twenty." Zeng Lu said indignantly: "How can a dignified man be bound by marriage early." ”
"You kid be content, and someone will bother with your marriage." Tang Zhidao said with emotion: "How can I be alone like your brother......"
"Brother Tang, then you can find one first, I think Sister Yun is good." Zeng Lu said comfortingly: "If you really can't open this mouth, I'll tell you." I'll take care of everything on the other side of the Sand River for you. ”
"Forget it!" Tang Zhidao waved his hand and said, "Let's wait until I take this acting head as a stable person." ”
"Don't talk about a regimental commander, it's a brigade commander and a division commander, and Brother Tang is no problem." Zeng Lu is a bit of a blind admirer of Tang Daodao's ability. …,
"It's not as simple as you think, leading a team and moving around the ministry are completely different things." Tang Zhidao said solemnly, although he led troops in later generations, the highest was only the length of a company, even if the establishment of the Marine Corps was larger, it would only be a matter of two or three hundred people. Now he is a regiment commander and a mixed regiment, and he has to command one or two thousand people at best. Managing two or three hundred men and managing two or three thousand people is not a one-level matter at all, and in the past he could accurately say the name of each soldier in E Company, and have a general idea of their strengths, personalities, and obvious shortcomings.
"Brother Tang, or I can take office with you." Zeng Lu said coldly: "Anyway, you don't have an adjutant there." ”
"Just you?" Tang Zhidao turned his head and stared at Zeng Lu and said, "I haven't let you out of the camp for a few months, I haven't suffocated you, and I haven't let you cash in on the last bet." ”
"Brother Tang, I'm really there, I promise to obey your military discipline." Zeng Lu said solemnly: "It's quite boring to stay in the department, most of the people in the school who were at the same time as me went to the army to start as a platoon commander." ”
"Uncle Zeng, can you make sense of that? He had to scold me to death. Tang Zhidao smiled and said: "Wait until I gain a firm foothold, the Second Regiment is directly under the Ministry of War, and many things will have to be asked by the Ministry in the future, and it is better for you to stay in the Department." ”
"Alright, I'll be your liaison officer!" Zeng Lu replied helplessly, there are still two months to get married, and the old man Zeng said that he would not agree to leave the capital.
"Doodoo"
"Doodoo"
The Dodge car drove up a narrow lane and encountered an ox cart blocking the middle of the road, and before Tang Zeng and the two got out of the car to communicate, the driver had consciously felt the ox cart in the ditch on the side of the road. Since the Republic of China, Western cars have become popular in the capital, and the people in the suburbs of Beijing are not surprised, but they also understand that this kind of thing is either rich or expensive, and it is not something that they can afford to provoke. It is rumored that at the end of last year, a villager drove an ox cart to the town to catch a market, and encountered a car that could not avoid it, so a conflict broke out, and the villagers were beaten to death by two evil youths in the car.
It was not until about two o'clock in the afternoon that the car drove to Shahe Town, which was still five or six miles away from the barracks of the Second Regiment. Tang Zeng and the others just ate a bowl of soy milk in a hurry in the morning, and they were already hungry, so they had to stop at the market in Shahe Town to eat a little. Shahe Town is located between Changping County and the capital, which is the north gate of the capital, and it is also a big town.
"Brother Tang, you have to think about my proposal." The car walked through the long street in the center of the town, Zeng Lu pointed to a well-decorated silk village in the middle of the town and said: "This shop is our family's property, and there are three in and three out yards in the back, Sister Yun and they can make a transition here first." ”
"We'll talk about it later!" Tang Zhidao found that he was actually a little tempted, and then denied it, it is better to be the head of the regiment first, and then say, it is not easy to live a hot life with a wife and children in this era.
"Brother Tang, catch up with the soldiers riding horses in front!" Suddenly, a soldier rode a batch of white horses over the front of the car and galloped away, Zeng Lu felt that the rider was a little familiar and hurriedly shouted.
"No problem!" As soon as Tang Zhidao stepped on the accelerator, the car became faster, and the maximum speed of this old-fashioned Dodge car could also reach fifty or sixty kilometers per hour, and it should not be a problem to catch up with the military horse. But by the time the car reached a fork in the road, the soldiers on horseback had disappeared without a trace.
"Who's that man?" Tang Zhidao parked the car at the intersection, lit a cigarette, and smoked it.
"I didn't see it clearly, like a classmate of our infantry section that issue." Zeng Lu was also uncertain and said, "Forget it, let's go in a hurry!" ”
After more than 10 minutes, the Dodge finally drove to Shahewan, the station of the Second Mixed Regiment. …,
"Park, park!" However, two or three hundred meters away from the barracks, a middle-aged soldier of eighteen or nineteen years old, with dark skin and a vegetable-colored face, stopped in the middle of the road with a spear.
"Is there anything wrong with this little brother?" Tang Zhidao stopped the car, poked his head out and asked loudly.
"What part are you from?" When the young soldier saw the two officers sitting in the car, his tone softened a little, and he stepped forward and said, "There is a military camp in front of you, so don't drive forward." ”
"You're the only sentry on duty here?" Tang Daodao wanted to know about the security situation of his troops.
"Why do you ask this? Who the hell are you? If I don't show my ID again, I'm going to shoot! The young soldier looked warily at the two men in the car as he pulled the bolt of his gun.
"Your soldiers are very vigilant!" Zeng Lu smiled at Tang Zhidao and said, "Stop you, the regiment commander, outside the camp." ”
"I am the new commander of your regiment, and this is my military ID card and the certificate of appointment of the War Department!" Tang Zhidao opened the car door and walked down, handing over the documents he had with him to the young soldier. It seems that this unit is not bad, and the minimum sentry is still in place.
"Commander, when did our regiment have a commander." The young soldier looked Tang Zhidao up and down, lowered his head and flipped the appointment letter twice, rolled his eyes and said, "I can't read and write, I can't understand this thing." ”
Zeng Lu also got out of the car and said directly: "You kid actually dares to block his head outside. ”
"I don't care what the regiment commander is or not, I only listen to our platoon commanders, the platoon commander said that strangers can't be put in, and the officers and soldiers inside can't go out without Battalion Commander Zhang's order." The young soldier raised his head and said unreasonably.
"Brother Tang, you can do it yourself!" Zeng Lu returned to the car to watch the excitement, he wanted to see how Tang Zhidao, the head of the regiment, was troubled by a small soldier.
"I'll wait outside, you go in and call your platoon commander out." Tang Zhidao said disappreciatively, in his opinion, such a soldier is worthy of praise.
"No, how do I know if you're going to sneak in while I'm going to get in." Unmoved, the young soldier flatly refused: "You stand aside and wait, someone will come to change the guard in half an hour, and I will give you a message when the time comes." ”
"Listen to your accent like it's from Yanzhou, Shandong?" Tang Zhidao continued to ask with a smile, he was not in a hurry when he arrived at his door.
"I'm from Zaozhuang, Fei County, Shandong." The young soldier replied casually, and then said vigilantly: "It's almost useless, just wait for the rules." ”
"Smoke a cigarette." Tang Zhidao did not continue to ask, sat on the mound next to him, took out a pack of cigarettes, and threw one to the young soldier.
"You officials are so fucking well treated, smoke as much as you want." The young soldier took the cigarette and sniffed it twice, and scolded with a smile: "It's not like Lao Tzu who hasn't seen a copper plate for two or three years, if you are really our new commander, you will pay us a little money." ”
"You haven't been paid for three months, how are you living?" Tang Zhidao did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.
"How can you live, eat bran vegetables!" The young soldier scolded indignantly: "Lao Tzu hasn't eaten white rice for more than two months, and the strength to carry a gun is almost gone." ”
"Stop, stop......" Just as the two of them were chatting or not, an officer on a white horse stopped in front of them.