Zaozhuang County, Shandong Province.

In this county where the Changrui Youth Department was once stationed for a short time, the most prosperous business is probably the dart game! The reason for this situation is actually related to the Baoqinggu Mountain near Zaozhuang County. What is the place where the calf holds? That's the most famous bandit nest in the whole of China right now! Last year, President Feng sent three divisions of soldiers to suppress them for several months, but he was not able to destroy the boss of Zuo Da, and he also made the bandits of the Red Brigade more and more troublesome, and actually broke into the concession to kill foreigners!

With such a large group of bandits entrenched in the calf, it is difficult to think about the dart game in Zaozhuang City! But if anyone thinks that these dart games are all daring to fight with bandits with real knives and guns, and eat rice that licks blood from the edge of the knife, it is a big mistake! If people have to have this guts, they would have joined the army a long time ago, and mixing a warlord or something is not better than running the rivers and lakes? In fact, there are so many dart games here in Zaozhuang, and they eat all the rice of the rivers and lakes, how can they eat? Of course, it is one hand leading two ends, one is the shopkeepers on the Baoqinggu Mountain, the other is the merchants who point to the Jinpu Railway to do business, and even the Jinpu Railway Company opened by foreign devils also gives the bandits on the Baoqinggu Mountain a sum of money to buy roads through these darts every year...... Otherwise, where can the Tianjin-Pudong Railway be as peaceful as it is now?

And the largest of all the dart games in Zaozhuang City is undoubtedly the Shun'an Dart Bureau near Zaozhuang Railway Station. From the outside, this dart bureau can be described as extraordinary, with a high-walled compound, and the door face is not much worse than the Yamen of Zaozhuang County, and the gate also imitates the regulations of the Qing Dynasty military camp. There are three tall flagpoles with three large flags hanging from them. On one side of the book, "Shuntian and the people" are written with four big characters, this tone is not at all like a person who runs the rivers and lakes, if it is not the Republic of China now, he will rush these four big characters, and he has to let the imperial court send someone to suppress it.

But no matter what flag is hung at their door now, no one will come to trouble. Because the county master of Zaozhuang City and the shopkeeper of the dart bureau Zhu Da are friends of eight worships! There are more rumors. Behind this dart game, there are actually several of the biggest bandits on Baoqinggu Mountain!

And such rumors did not bring a trace of trouble to the Shun'an Dart Bureau. On the contrary, the business of the dart game has become more prosperous. Anyway, the official and bandit families are nothing new, and there is nothing strange about the bodyguards and the robbers.

Outside the Shun An Dart Bureau. On this day, a few people dressed as merchants came, pulling mules and horses, looking like they had been a layman for a long time. At first, he was a dark and strong man, his expression was a little sleepy, but his eyes were bright. There were several men behind him, all of whom looked quite strong, all of them were guarding around a carriage, the curtain of the carriage was drawn, and I don't know who was sitting inside?

Before the group approached the dart game, several men with thick chests and bulging bellies came out of the gate of the dart game, led by a man with a full beard. The man in the close-breasted big hanger hugged the person from a distance: "I don't know if it's a friend on the road?" Where does it come from? ”

The black and strong man was busy clasping his fists and saluting: "My brother came by mountain road, surnamed Zhao, and asked to see the shopkeeper of Zhu." ”

"The surname is Zhao!" The beard froze for a moment. His face suddenly became gloomy, and he said calmly: "What is the evidence?" ”

The strong black man didn't seem to know much about the rules here, so he hurriedly walked to the front of the carriage, opened the curtain, and whispered to a veiled woman sitting on the opposite side: "Second lady, do they want a certificate?" ”

"What?" The woman pulled the veil off her face. It turned out to be Chang Ruiqing's little wife, Zhao Xianger! Zhao Xiang'er frowned and said to the black strong man: "Yizhi, if you go to sue them, just say that I, Zhao Xiang'er, have arrived, and then ask them, is there something wrong with the Zhao family?" ”

As soon as the black strong man named "Yizhi" told Zhao Xianger's words to the other party, the bearded man immediately asked people to go to the dart bureau to call someone, and after a while, an old man who looked seven or eight points similar to him came out, and this person was the owner here, known as Zhu Yidao's shopkeeper.

Zhao Xiang'er and Zhu Da's shopkeeper naturally recognized each other, and immediately jumped out of the carriage and bowed to each other. Then he asked straight to the point: "Uncle Zhu, what's wrong?" ”

The shopkeeper Zhu smiled bitterly: "I have let the surnamed Zuo suffer, the soldiers of the three divisions have been encircled and suppressed, and they have been fighting for several months, can there be no accidents?" However, your mother saw the opportunity quickly, and dispersed the team early, and your second brother and third sister hid in Zaozhuang City, and now they are all safe and sound. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Xiang'er breathed a sigh of relief, but her eyebrows were still frowning. Of course, she went north to Shandong this time not to pick up her family to go to Fujian to enjoy happiness, but to recruit the Zhao family's bandits and then take them to the northeast to develop!

The reason for such an arrangement is related to the fact that a large number of Shandong people went out to make a living in this era. Of course, there are also good and bad among these Shandong people who broke into the eastern part of the country, including ordinary people who keep to themselves, and bandits who are unwilling to work all day long and fall into the grass. Moreover, among the bandits in Shandong, there are also many who can't get along in Shandong, so they go to the northeast to continue to engage in the promising profession of bandits! In history, Mama Zhao also wanted to go to the Northeast to be a bandit after being defeated by Han Fuqu, but in the end, she betrayed her godson and lost her life......

In addition, these bandits in Shandong have some contact with the bandits in the northeast, and the Zhao family bandit gang is naturally no exception, at least they are more familiar with the bandit situation than the officers who came out of the regular military academy under Chang Ruiqing, and it is of course easier for them to come forward to buy and win over some bandits to carry out uprisings and riots.

But now, the Zhao family bandits have dispersed under the encirclement and suppression of the Beiyang Army, and I don't know if they can still gather some people to go to the Northeast in a short period of time to make trouble?

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Mama Zhao, her two sons and daughters, and more than a dozen henchmen were hiding in the backyard of the Shun'an Dart Bureau. It has always been a place to pile up clutter. Broken knives and guns, broken wheels, old saddle harnesses, and a mess of miscellaneous debris were everywhere.

There are very few people here who will come over, and the shopkeeper Zhu passed down a while ago. It is said that the backyard has not been very clean recently, and no one is allowed to go again! Although this excuse is absurd, everyone has been up and down in the rivers and lakes for many years, and of course they know what to take care of and what it is best not to know! So no one came here without permission.

But that afternoon, a large number of people suddenly poured into this dilapidated and desolate courtyard. It was those men brought by Zhao Xiang'er. They are all selected backbones from the Changrui Green Guards, and the person at the head is named Shen Xingye, whose name is Yizhi. He graduated from Wuhan Army Preparatory School, but he was not in the same class as Chang Ruiqing. Later, I heard that Chang Ruiqing had started a team, so he came with a few classmates to take refuge. Because he was tall and burly, he was selected into Chang Ruiqing's guard and joined the Fuxing Society spy organization, and after working for more than a year, he was finally treated as a confidant, and led the team to escort the second lady "thousands of miles away".

As for the fact that this Second Lady Chang was born as a bandit, and the people who went to the province were also relatives of bandits, and she also had a special mission, etc., he didn't know anything.

Now Zhao Xiang'er is inside with her mother, brother and sister...... Loud and loud! And Shen Xingye, who is Chang Ruiqing's henchman and agent of the Fuxing Society, led people to guard outside, and by the way, he pricked up his ears and eavesdropped there.

"I don't care what kind of great big man and big hero the surname Zuo is! I only know that he is our enemy of holding calves, and he is the enemy of our Zhao family! Our family has fallen into this field, and so many brothers and sisters have been killed by officers and soldiers. It's all because of him! It's all his fault! Now he still dares to let us go and sell his life for him! Phew, dream! If Miss Ben is allowed to seize the opportunity, he will be killed! Avenge the dead brethren! ”

Hearing that her sister, who had just turned seventeen years old and was nicknamed Zhao Sanmei, was scolding Zuo Min with her feet, Zhao Xianger could only smile bitterly. I want to be at the beginning. This girl is the same as herself, she is a fan of Zuo Da's master. Unexpectedly, in just over a year, Zuo Da seems to have become her uncommon enemy. As soon as she opened her mouth to solicit for Zuo Min, she jumped up and objected as if she had eaten gunpowder.

But this thing, it seems that Chang Ruiqing is really wrong. He tied up the ticket of the little emperor Puyi and extorted 250,000 taels of gold. It's just a matter of making the world look sideways, these things have little to do with the gangsters who hold calves, and the big guy still respects him as a well-known good man. But the things he did next were indeed a little unkind, and he led the disaster to the calf, so that the whole Beiyang mistakenly thought that Zuo Min was a robber on the calf, and as a result, he provoked three divisions of elite soldiers to encircle and suppress it for several months! Although this Beiyang has gained nothing, the bandits in the mountains have also suffered heavy losses, at least half of the bandits have been wiped out, and the rest have been greatly injured, and the Zhao family bandits are naturally no exception, they are desperate to be suppressed, and finally they have to go down the mountain and hide!

It is not surprising that this Miss Zhao San now hates Zuo Min to the core!

Zhao Xiang'er's eyes fell on Mama Zhao, who was calm and silent: "Mother, Zuo Min said, if this matter is successful, I can give you a group leader!" You can also arrange for the second brother to go to the officer academy and take over your team in the future! ”

Mama Zhao snorted: "Don't come to these vains, I just ask, what is the relationship between this Zuomin and you now?" Isn't it your man? What is your status in the Zuo family? Also, how powerful are their Red Brigades? ”

Zhao Xiang'er flattened her mouth, she had asked someone to send a letter to her mother that day, but she said it very vaguely, only saying that she was with Zuo Min, and it was okay to tell the family not to worry. I didn't dare to tell the true identity of the family Zuo Min, and this matter had to continue to be kept secret!

She took a breath and replied with her mother's sharp gaze: "Zuo Min is my man, and I am now his little wife, but he loves me very much." As for the power of the Red Brigade, I can only say that it is much greater than you imagined, and the Red Brigade is not the main strength of the left people, his power is very large! Taking refuge in him is definitely an opportunity for our family to soar! In the future, don't say that you are a regiment commander, even a division commander and a brigade commander! ”

"Humph! I don't believe it! He has to have so much strength, and he can still look at this little strength of our family? Zhao Sanmei interjected with disdain.

Zhao Xiang'er lowered her face: "Third sister, what do you know!" What strength do we have? It's just a group of lost dogs, and they are wanted by Beiyang, how long can Uncle Zhu protect you? If you don't seize this opportunity to create another situation, it won't be long before someone catches the target! ”

Then Zhao Sanmei smiled coldly: "How much money does the government pay to arrest us?" How much money is wanted for Zuo Min? 3,000,000 oceans! With these 3 million, we can pull up another team. If you continue to work with the government, you may be able to turn the whole of Shandong upside down! ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the one in the room and outside listening to the root of the wall changed greatly, but Mama Zhao's eyes shot at her eldest daughter like electricity, seeing that there was only anger and no panic on her face, and there was a faint expression of mockery. So without saying a word, he slapped his third daughter: "Bastard thing!" Who are we? How did you teach your mother? Now I have learned to betray my fellow citizens to the government! ”

"Mother! What kind of fellow is that surnamed Zuo! "This Zhao Sanmei seems to be really a master who wants money and doesn't want to die, covering her little face and still talking there.

Zhao Xiang'er sneered: "Sister, do you really think you can sell your brother-in-law for 3 million!" Hehe. Let me tell you the truth, if Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng knew who your brother-in-law was, they might have tied you up as a gift to your brother-in-law! ”

Listened to this. The room suddenly fell silent, and Mama Zhao and her third daughter exchanged glances with each other. Zhao Xiang'er looked at her mother, Sister He, with a smile. In the end, it was Zhao Huzi, the son of Mama Zhao, who spoke: "Eldest sister, you're not joking, are you?" My brother-in-law really has that much power? Even Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng are afraid of him? Could it be that he is Sun Yat-sen? ”

Mama Zhao and Zhao Sanmei's bodies were shocked, and there was already a bit of awe in Zhao Xiang'er's eyes. Zhao Xiang'er smirked, glanced at her simple-minded and well-developed brother, and said with a smile: "Of course that man is not Sun Yat-sen, but it's not much worse." Otherwise, how can I promise you a regimental commander? So let's gather all the brothers, and then go to Qingdao and take the ship of the Japanese to Dalian. There are people there who answer. ”

Zhao Sanmei sneered at this time and interrupted her sister's words: "Hmph! also hooked up with the "Day" himself, it must not be a good thing! ”

"The third child!" Mama Zhao glanced at her third daughter. This girl is different from her "evil" sister, because she is young, she has not been exposed to the dark side of the bandit industry. Her mind is full of strange ideas of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and doing chivalrous deeds, it seems that it is time to educate her well and help her establish a correct outlook on life and banditry......

Seeing her mother's face sinking, Zhao Sanmei didn't dare to pout, just pursed her lips and looked at her sister coldly.

Zhao Xiang'er turned her face away and didn't look at her sister. She looked at Mama Zhao and said slowly: "After arriving outside the gate." Let's go to Changbai Mountain to pull the pole, and we have already arranged the people to respond! Then we will use the connections on the guò road to recruit some silk to join the group, and after the team is strengthened, we will wait for the opportunity to play the signboard of the Red Brigade and the Revolutionary Army. ”

Mama Zhao's body shook slightly, and she lost her voice: "Hit the signboard of the Red Brigade!" Isn't that looking for death? ”

Zhao Xiang'er smiled faintly and waved her hand: "I can't die!" Mother, you can rest assured. This time, the Red Brigade has a big plan, and it is only part of the plan that we pull the pole outside the customs...... If you are a qiē shun lì, someone will soon come to recruit you. ”

"Zhao'an?" Mama Zhao and Sanmei Zhao repeated these two words at the same time, and Mama Zhao's tone was full of anticipation. But her third daughter snorted contemptuously: "I thought it was a great hero, but it turned out that it was also the idea of killing people and setting fires to be recruited!" If he had the idea of fighting the court to the end, this girl still respected him as a man, so she might have done it with him......"

Mama Zhao glanced at her little daughter helplessly, and said in her heart: "The little girl really didn't teach well!" There are still people in the world who are bandits, and they don't look forward to recruiting them sooner? ”

"Third sister! What do you know? Zhao Xiang'er stomped her feet and stared at her sister with a pair of big eyes.

Mama Zhao saw that the two daughters were about to quarrel again, so she hurriedly spoke first: "Second and third, for my mother, it is not a long-term solution for my mother to think that we are hiding in Tibet now, since Mr. Zuo has arranged a clear road for us, it is better to go away first." Saying that, she glanced at her third daughter, and said: "Anyway, pull the pole up first, only with the pole can we have the capital, and how to go in the future is not up to us?" ”

Listening to her mother's words, Zhao Sanmei, a little girl who didn't know the height of the sky, rolled her eyes and did not raise any more objections. But Zhao Xiang'er's second brother had no idea, so he just smiled honestly: "Well, my mother is right, let's pull up the pole first, sister, let's go to the gate together, right?" ”

But Zhao Xiang'er shook her head lightly, and smiled at her brother: "Huzi, the foundation of our Zhao family will depend on you to support it in the future, and in the future, our pole will be recruited and it will be a regular army." The regular army does not fight the same way as the bandits, so you have to go to military school and learn how the regular army fights! ”

"Going to military school?" Mama Zhao took over the topic, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Where to go?" ”

"Go to the Fujian Army Martial Arts Hall!" Zhao Xiang'er looked at her mother with a solemn face, and said slowly: "That Zuo Min of my family has a way in the Fujian Army, and he can send Huzi to go to the martial arts hall, the two-and-a-half-year school system, he will enter the school in June this year, and when he finishes, his team has also grown, so let him take over." (To be continued......)

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