Chapter 34 Ming Xiu Plank Road

The first verse is quiet

A few people checked for a while, the sky gradually darkened, and after a day of tossing, they were all a little tired, Zhang Blind and the second bald dragon stood up and prepared to go back to the new second division station.

Yang Bangzi sent them out of the courtyard and told them two things, one was to take care of the brothers of the new second division and try to go out for activities as little as possible at night. The second is to put more secret whistles, they are in the north of the town, and they are doing dim sum.

Xiao Liangzi went to fetch food for Yang Bangzi, and the shovel monkey limped from the backyard to find Yang Bangzi and chattered.

The two squatted beside the grinding plate in the yard, chattering in a low voice, the shovel monkey pondered for a moment, and said a few words to Yang Bangzi's ears, just as the captains and squadron leaders of several independent brigades entered the yard with food, Yang Bangzi gave the shovel monkey a look, stood up, took the rice jar held by Xiao Liangzi, and squeezed into a pile with his comrades, and ate lively.

After dinner, Yang Bangzi and Xiao Liangzi went to the courtyard where the team stayed in Chuankou Town, and they closed the door and talked to Liu Jiao.

At the time of the lantern, Yang Bangzi returned to the brigade headquarters by himself, and called a soldier to come and ask him to call several captains of the independent brigade, as well as the main local cadres in the town, to hold a meeting.

After everyone arrived, the meeting broke up after half an hour. There were no more sentinels and night patrols in Kawaguchi Town at night, and no special notice was conveyed to the people's homes, everything was the same as before the warehouse was burned, and the mutton pot was still a group of people drinking and drinking mutton soup.

The thunderous snoring of Yang's stick sounded on time, startling the gray magpies napping on the jujube trees in the courtyard "chirping" in a hurry. In the middle of the night, except for a few Minggang, torches were lit and bonfires were lit, and the whole town was dark and silent.

There was nothing to do all night, and the sky that had been gloomy for two days finally showed the dawn. After the cyan mist gradually dissipated, Yang Bangzi heard something about what happened during the night.

There were four things in total, the owner of the sheep soup shop got up in the middle of the night to add fire to the pot with the skeleton boiling, and when he looked up, he saw that there seemed to be a person squatting on the roof across the street, rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, there was nothing.

Zhang Lao's crooked house, which is the second household in the north of the town, lost two pieces of clothes hanging in the backyard.

The old widow's dog at Nantou, who had no man at home, was lost, the leash on which the dog was leashed, and the leftover porridge in the middle of the night in the dog food bowl was not missing at all. Widow Han's daughter-in-law said that the dog was still there in the middle of the night, and after listening to it twice in the middle of the night, it didn't move.

The guy in the crude medicine shop always lays on the floor in the hall of the shop, gets up to urinate at night, and hears someone talking outside through the door panel, muttering in a low voice, which is not very real. Later, the old shopkeeper also got up to check, coughed twice, and there was no sound outside.

It's not a big deal, Yang Bangzi didn't say anything after listening to it, got up after smoking the cigarette pouch, called Xiao Liangzi, and asked him to call Zhang Desheng and Er Vulture, and go to Zhang Lao's crooked house together.

Zhang Lao is crooked in his 40s, when he was young, he went back to the village to drink wine, sorghum burned and irrigated a little more, he couldn't stand it on the way back, he slept on the bluestone slab, and woke up with a crooked mouth, which was crooked for 20 years.

People are honest, there are a few donkeys at home, and they usually pour some mountain goods from the mountains to Laiyuan or Baoding, and their lives are okay.

The clothes that were lost were a shirt and a pair of pants, Zhang Lao's crooked clothes were still a new style made of foreign cloth that he bought ruthlessly a few years ago, and he didn't wear it a few times without going on top, all of them were worn during the New Year's holidays, or he was wearing a bright body when he drank wine and went to relatives.

The day after tomorrow, his nephew married his daughter-in-law, and his wife turned the clothes out of the box, slurred them over the water, and hung them in the backyard to dry. I didn't see the sun in the past two days, and I forgot to collect it in the evening, and I didn't think I found it lost at night.

Sitting on the bluestone strip in the backyard and drinking two bowls of soil tea, Zhang Blind and they also arrived, Yang Bangzi told the few things that happened at night, and several people squatted on the ground and muttered for a while.

Zhang Lao Crooked has been accompanying the old people, did not come forward, occasionally took a scoop to refill the teapot, and when they saw him coming, several people stopped talking.

Xiao Liangzi couldn't sit still when he was young, and he couldn't put things aside in his heart, so he didn't care about the things they discussed, so he simply went out of the yard, ran to the street, pulled a fellow who sold sweet potatoes, bought two raw sweet potatoes, sat on the threshold, wiped the floating soil with the hem of his military uniform, and gnawed sweetly.

I was eating with a mouth full of sweet foam, and I got a chestnut on my head! Knocking on the skull hurts, Xiao Liang Zixin said who is so indifferent and heavy, dare to knock on Lao Tzu's skull!

Shook the sweet potato head in his hand, rubbed the ground and jumped up and wanted to reach out to pull it, his hand just stretched out halfway, and retracted back, this probe his brain, Xiao Liangzi can't be provoked, who! Commissar Hong stood there with a smile and smiled at him.

After being stupid for two seconds, Xiao Liangzi wiped his head and ran into the courtyard, shouting as he ran: "Oh no!" Oh no! Someone! Yang stick! ”

The three of them in the backyard were shocked, thinking that something big had happened! Yang's stick and gun are all in his hand! Jumped to the front yard in three steps and two steps, grabbed Xiao Liangzi, and asked loudly! Did the devil touch it?

Xiao Liangzi was still holding a sweet potato in his hand, pointing to the door with his finger, and saying something unfavorable in his mouth.

As soon as Yang Bangzi pushed it away, he was about to rush out of the courtyard, and when he looked up, there was a person standing in the doorway, with his back to the sun. Closing his eyes, he saw that it was Hong Mei, Yang Stick smiled in his mouth, put the shell gun back in the holster, and turned around to kick Xiao Liangzi.

"What the are you or what! The wolf cries and the ghost howls and scares Lao Tzu! I thought the devil was coming! ”

"You're the ghost! You're a! You're a wolf-hearted dog-lung! Hong Mei split her head and covered her face, and she simply returned the scolding.

The second vulture and the blind man stood in the aisle of the courtyard wall, covering their mouths and snickering. Xiao Liangzi dodged Yang Stick's flying kick and hid behind Zhang Lao's aunt with a sweet potato.

It's not to go, it's not to go, after two rounds of grinding, Yang Bangzi lowered his head and moved towards the courtyard gate, and whispered something that only Hong Mei could hear: "Grandma, go back to the team headquarters." ”

Political Commissar Hong dug out the Yang stick with his head hanging twice, turned around and walked out of the gate, and several people followed back to the brigade headquarters.

After lunch, the men of the Independent Brigade and the New Second Division gathered in the North Courtyard and held a brief welcome meeting, at which Hong Mei, on behalf of the Lingman Special Administrative Region, welcomed Commander Li and his troops to join the ranks of the Eighth Route.

Zuihou is Yang stick crossed his waist and announced one thing, Kawaguchi Town left a platoon of independent brigade fighters to garrison, and the rest of the independent brigade fighters went to the horse post with him to escort supplies. The brothers of the original new 2nd Division went to the barracks town in the south, and the political training was reorganized, and all the units began to move at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Hong Mei also greeted the town office, and asked her to concentrate the idle donkeys, mules and other livestock that are not used in the town for the time being, and requisition them to go to the horses and horses to pull materials.

The troops packed their luggage, cleaned the courtyard and houses, the whole team assembled, the villagers led the cattle and set up the carts, and the town was deserted for a day and a night.

Hong Mei did not follow the troops, nor did she go with the team pulling supplies, but sent Yang Bangzi to the new second division and returned to the town with a few people in civilian clothes who looked smart and capable.

The soldiers left, and suddenly a lot of houses and yards were vacated in the town, and the town of Kawaguchi, which was not very prosperous, was even more depressed.

Occasionally, a fellow walks on the street, and it seems that the figure is single, and even the earth dog who is playing people's butts on weekdays is listlessly lying on the base of the wall, squinting and not moving.

When it was almost dusk, there was a continuous sound of footsteps outside the town, the slogan of "one, two, one" was shouted quite evenly, many villagers were holding the wall and the crack of the door to see the rarity, just left a large group of soldiers, where did this come from?

Hong Mei had been making military shoes with several female comrades of the Women's Rescue Association in the courtyard of the brigade headquarters, and when she heard the sound of shouting trumpets, she immediately dropped half of the soles in her hand and went out into the street in a rage.

"Report to the commissar, the third squadron of the independent brigade was ordered to come and report!"