One-one-four

Needless to say a year or a month earlier, even if it was a day earlier, Hebian would not believe that Chang Tianliang would be entrusted with the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce.

The arrival of the last spring snow was half a day ahead of Liu Zimo's weather forecast.

As soon as the snow fell, the town's children ran out of their homes and scurried down the streets for snowball fights. After a night of freezing, the snow on the ground became hard. Those playful children are soon retaliated by each other in fighting with each other. The hard snowballs smashed the children one after another to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen. The adults scolded: "People with guns don't fight anymore, you feel itchy skin on your body, just go find a corner and rub it a few times!" The children had no choice but to replace the snowballs in their hands with "falling flowers" and tossing them around in the open space in front of the chapel. Liu Zimo also came up with a very good idea for a town and a county: instead of going to the store to buy lighter paper, knock down the bullet with a stone, take out the gunpowder inside, and fill it in the "falling flower" little by little, which makes a stronger sound and explosive power than the lighter paper.

As soon as the snow melts, spring comes. A town and a county are still playing "falling to the ground" in the area of the chapel. More than a dozen children living in the lower reaches of the West River, holding many fighting flowers in their hands, came to Tianmen Street to play all the way. A town and a county have not seen this year's fight flowers, they want it, but those children don't give it, and before they can say a few words, a group of children will fight. Watching a town and a county fighting with more than a dozen children, the adults not only didn't care, but also fought on the sidelines. After fighting for a long time, the winner was not decided, and Chang Niangniang came over with a baking basket. She asked a town and a county to replace the fighting flowers in the hands of all the children with a "landing flower". A town and a county pretended to have cold hands, put their hands into the baking basket and roasted them, and by the way, put a bullet casing with a primer in it. After Lotus gave birth to a child, Chang Niangniang would always go home at this time to take a look, and by the way, she would use a drying basket to carry the charcoal fire from the Xuejia stove to bake diapers for her grandson. The primer on the bullet shell exploded, the baking basket turned into an empty shell, and Chang Niangniang was not burned by the charcoal fire, but only fell with ash all over her body. After following Grandma Mei for a long time, Chang Niangniang was angry and didn't say anything on her face, and said that she was fortunate to be a woman, if she was a man, she would become a gray guy like this. Duan Sanguo did not protect his grandchildren, he found a bullet casing from the ashes, and then grabbed a town and a county, forcing them to confess. It has long been a well-known fact that a town and a county can use pistols and rifles before the age of five, and it is a well-known fact that a bullet casing without a bullet is quietly placed in a baking basket to frighten others by the explosion of a primer, and it is even more difficult for them to carve insects when they are already in their teens. A town and a county can confidently say that if the primer on the bullet casing is blown up, it will not be able to bloom on the ground.

Duan Sanguo pinched the ears of his two grandsons a few times, which was regarded as an expression of apology. After that, he asked Chang Niangniang to bring a letter, and asked Chang Tianliang to come to the district office immediately after memorizing the documents and numbers to be memorized. Duan Sanguo also added a sentence that others could not hear: The heads of the shops on the street should hold a meeting at the district office in the morning and choose one person to be the president of the newly established chamber of commerce. As long as there are no accidents, from tomorrow onwards, Chang Tianliang will be the richest person at the gate of heaven. The latter words are just a joke, and what makes Chang Niangniang puzzled is why Chang Tianliang was chosen to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce. Duan Sanguo said that the people who open the shop have a lot of thoughts, and he had tried to do it before, and even candidates like Grandma Mei and Xue Ning were opposed by them. Duan Sanguo was quite proud, and nominated Chang Tianliang to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce, which was the same stroke of genius as the Snow Daddy's nomination to make him the mayor of the town at the gate that day.

When Chang Niangniang repacked the charcoal fire in the baking basket and went home, Lotus was brushing her teeth in front of her house. More and more young women on Tianmen Street have learned to brush their teeth from the Xue family. The rich people on the street have patios in their homes, and only the woman's back can be seen through the street door, and the woman must lean as far as possible over the patio when brushing her teeth, so as not to fall on her clothes with the white foam that overflows from the corners of her mouth. The woman who went down the street got up early in the morning and was busy at home, and only after half of the morning did she have time to stand in front of her house, holding a vegetable bowl in her left hand and a toothbrush in her right hand, dipping some water in her mouth and brushing it around. Passers-by from out of town thought they didn't have a patio in their house. In fact, on the contrary, when a poor family builds a house, they often build one first, and after a few years they have income, and when they want to build another house, the foundation next to it has been occupied by others, and if they want to not move the place, they have to extend it to the back of their house. It is possible to do without a patio in two houses, but when three rooms are connected, the patio becomes an essential part. From the first time the women on the street brush their teeth, they are used to standing at the door of their own houses, so as to show that they are not far from the women of the Xue family. Lotus is also such a woman. The Japanese attacked Tianmen and most of the houses were burned down. Grandma Mei wanted to come up with money to build a new house for Chang Tianliang, but Chang Niangniang refused to live or die, saying that the Japanese would definitely come again. It was not until last year that the Japanese completely surrendered, and this reason no longer existed, so Grandma Mei couldn't help but make the decision and built a new tiled house with three rooms on the foundation of the Chang family's house. Lotus Bian, who has been with Chang Tianliang for several years, no longer insists that he must be married to be the daughter-in-law of the Chang family, there are no bridesmaids, let alone a sedan chair, carrying a bag of clothes, stepping on a crackling string of firecrackers to enter the door, and then eating a bowl of egg noodles made by Chang Niangniang, he is required to grow old with Chang Tianliang. Lin Dayu, who was passing by with something, said that she was becoming more and more like Xue Ning, and if there was toothpaste, she would be even more like. Lotus took out his toothbrush and freed his mouth to ask him to stop talking and give her toothpaste, so please hurry up. After brushing his teeth, he returned to the house and was immediately reprimanded by Chang Niangniang.

"A woman's family should blush even when she asks her husband for something, and she asks for toothpaste from other people's men on the street in broad daylight, which is called shamelessness. When I say this, you were educated by Grandma Mei, and if you change to another mother-in-law, your own daughter-in-law dares to do this, and she has to prick her tongue with a needle. The most important thing to remember as a woman is to know your own weight. I don't speak well if I'm not a mother-in-law, but after today, your husband is not only the clerk of the town office, but also the president of the chamber of commerce. All those who open shops and sell small goods have to obey his command, and they can be regarded as people with status. If this marriage drags on to this day, it won't be you who will be the bride. Therefore, you can be regarded as a blessed person, and you must not be in the midst of blessings and do not know blessings. Have you been distracted again these days? It is said that you are out of the wind and want to take advantage of the good money now, and vacate the house on the street to open a shop, **Huaiyan and Hunan Qingbu! Where did you come from such a wide range of roads, thinking that Huaiyan is the sand in the West River? Have you asked others, who sells Huai salt on the street is not in a hurry every day, when they have money, they can't buy the goods, and when they get the goods, they are worried that they don't have any cash in their hands. Aren't you very good at talking to your cousin, you can ask her - it seems that Hunan Qingbu is easy to buy and ship, but it is the Xue family, there is not only excess money to press the goods, but also excess money to turn around on the road, and it is neither obvious nor dewy to do business. If you change someone else, you can make some money on this, who is not so tired that your face is the same as Hunan Qingbu. I'll put the ugly words in front, the first thing you did when you came to Chang's house was good, and you gave birth to a son and added a bloodline. The second thing is that my husband is not satisfied, I don't know, I am not satisfied, you have to be the eyes of the dawn, so that he can see more clearly than you. ”

The lotus edge is like a water tank, and the smelly and ugly ones have to be installed, and they can't be repaid. Chang Tianliang, who did not speak from beginning to end, was also bright. Every night when I go to bed and get up in the morning, I often do this at dawn, and I am locked in the back room, and I silently memorize the various economic transactions and words in the town several times until I memorize them backwards. Chang Tianliang walked out with the account book, Chang Niangniang was about to speak, but he stretched out his hand to block it. After Hebian found an opportunity to speak, he told Chang Niangniang with a slight revenge, but whenever Chang Tianliang didn't answer people, there must be some numbers that he didn't remember clearly. Chang Niangniang found a reason to reprimand Hebian, which was also because she was too illiterate and couldn't do arithmetic, so she could only help Chang Tianliang. Chang Niangniang said well, after Chang Tianliang came out of the house, she didn't talk to anyone on the street, passed by Jiufeng Building, and went straight to the weather station in Baique Garden. Xue Ling and Liu Zimo were there, and Chang Tianliang handed over the account book in his hand and asked them to help see if he remembered any mistakes.

This matter was over, and Chang Tianliang went to the town office located under Jiufeng's building. As soon as he sat down next to Duan Sanguo, Lin Dayu came. Fine rice, who can only reel silk, always discussed with Lin Dayu at home these times, asking him to turn the blacksmith shop into an iron factory, just like Senator Wang asked him to turn Jiufeng Tower into an iron fortress, build an iron furnace, and then invite some people to dig iron sand in the Xihe River, put it into the furnace to smelt iron bricks, which can be used to make iron himself, and can also be sold to other blacksmiths, which will definitely make dozens of times more money than making iron with dead force. Lin Dayu was moved, so he came early to communicate with Duan Sanguo first, and when the Chamber of Commerce was established, could he borrow some money from others to set up the iron factory. Duan Sanguo was noncommittal, and pushed all of Lin Dayu's requests to the president of the Chamber of Commerce, who could be elected in a while.

The heads of the shops soon gathered. The person representing the new silk silk shop is Cousin Yuan, who just went to the county town to see Dong Chongli, and brought back the name he gave to Chang Tianliang's son written by Dong Chongli: Chang Wen. A few months ago, Chang Tianliang asked Dong Chongli to name his child, and Cousin Yuan said that Dong Chongli thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that it should be called Chang Wen! "Constant—Constant—Constant." Chang Tianliang called it a few times, and from the storyteller's point of view, although the name was a little strange, there was no problem with the loudness. Everyone present was surprised and praised repeatedly, always stable, always stable! It's better to be safe than anything.

The establishment of a chamber of commerce was a good thing, and after this episode, everyone became happier. When Duan Sanguo opened his mouth to say his favorite candidate for the president of the Chamber of Commerce, not only did no one object, but the applause was even more evil than the other. Lin Dayu even said that Chang Tianliang should be allowed to go to Nanjing to assist Chiang Kai-shek and become the finance minister of the national **. This was also applauded by many. Of course, Lin Dayu said this with his purpose. Then he was at the forefront, repeating the plan to open an iron works, and formally asking the Chamber of Commerce for help with loans. Lin Dayu's words were immediately seconded by everyone, and when they agreed to the Chamber of Commerce to help Lin Dayu open an iron factory, they all had further requirements. There has been no war for a long time, everyone began to run wholeheartedly on the road to a better life, the more capital the better the business, everyone wants what Lin Dayu wants.

One-one-five

On the radio of the Xue family, the news of the defeat of the anti-** communist army was broadcast every day.

Everyone just listens to things in the distance, but the peace that has never been seen in the Dabie Mountains is believing. On Tianmen Street, new shops open almost every day. It's not a day on the streets, and there is a constant flow of people. Chang Tianliang, who became the president of the Chamber of Commerce, was still the clerk of the town office, and in order to remember all kinds of affairs from morning to night, he had to sleep an hour every night, get up an hour early, and meditate alone in front of the emptiness.

That night, Chang Tianliang had just begun to remember everything that had happened that day when he heard someone knocking on the door outside. Chang Tianliang was thinking about where this person came from, and he had already taken the lotus side that Chang had slept in, put on his clothes and opened the door.

"Did President Chang sleep?" The voice was a little unfamiliar, but Chang Tianliang still heard some familiarity: Isn't this Brigade Commander Feng's favorite general, Commander Lu? Without waiting for Hebian to call, Chang Tianliang took the initiative to go out, and it was indeed Head Lu who called the door. That year, Regiment Commander Lu sat in the observation room on Xiaodong Mountain, commanding dozens of light and heavy machine guns to desperately block the attack, so that the Japanese army led by Xiaodaobei did not enter Tianmen Town. Later, in the attack on the independent brigade stationed in the Zhangshuwa area, Commander Lu's team was also the most brave and good at fighting. Commander Lu stood alone in the middle of the hall, and the guards were all left in the street by him. After a few polite words, Head Lu asked if there was a room where it was more convenient to talk. Walk through the bedroom in the middle to the third room at the back. Head Lu sighed that this was the most shabby home of the president of the Chamber of Commerce he had ever seen. Commander Lu's voice made Chang Tianliang suddenly nervous, in the past ten years, because Ma Harrier is Duan Sanguo's son-in-law, no one on the street at Tianmen has dared to come to extort, and if a regiment commander commanding thousands of elite soldiers has such a motive, the situation will be very different.

Chang Tianliang hurriedly answered: "Commander Lu can look at it like this, which is a great compassion for the poor countryside. Since that year, the Japanese came, and a fire burned their vitality, and it has been almost ten years, and it has not recovered. ”

Head Lu did not beat around the bush: "President Chang, don't think crookedly. Although Lu doesn't know how to do business, he can still see where he is prosperous and where he is parked on the street. To tell you the truth, I have some spare money in my hands, and I want to find a suitable person and a suitable place to lend out, and I heard that the permanent clerk became the president of the Chamber of Commerce, so I came to you. ”

Seeing that Chang Tianliang didn't speak, Head Lu said again: "I don't have this money alone. Let me tell you this, since the Seventh Army of the Gui Department came to Dabie Mountain, from Brigade Commander Feng to us, everyone has never had a good life. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won, how many people got countless benefits, only our security brigade, in the past to fight the Communist Party must be guarded in the ravine, today, the communist army collapsed, scattered, surrendered, did not surrender also hid in the dark and did not dare to show up, the national ** will also leave us in the ravine to suffer poverty, this heart is not convinced! That's why I've come to you, neither to use force nor to use force, and to follow the rules of the business world, so that we can reasonably and reasonably share a little benefit from the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance. ”

Involved in business and transactions, Captain Lu did not change Qiu Ba's temper at all, and ordered that after three days, he would personally deliver all the cash to the gate of heaven.

The sound of horses' hooves that gradually faded away remained in Chang Tianliang's heart all night. When I got up in the morning, I went to Jiufeng Tower to meet Duan Sanguo at dawn.

Duan Sanguo thought straight for a long time, and then he thought that the ten directors of the Chamber of Commerce should be gathered together and let everyone come up with ideas together. Hearing that there was a loan, Lin Dayu, who was elected as a director as a representative of craftsmen, ran faster than anyone else. When everyone arrived, Chang Tianliang told him in detail about the process of the forced loan by Head Lu to the Chamber of Commerce last night.

"How is interest calculated?"

"Plus two, 100 yuan and 20 yuan per month."

"It's a little tall, and it's about the same as a big plus one."

"How much does Captain Lu have to lend in total?"

"Two hundred million fiat currency."

"Heavenly King Laozi, how much military expenses will be deducted from this!"

After discussing it all day, no consensus was formed. The round cousin who represents the Xue family has an idea, why don't you call and ask Liu Zimo's own brother! The people in the Chamber of Commerce feel that they can ask. The result of the question made everyone more worried, Liu Ziwen insisted on the phone, as long as it is clearly written in the agreement, borrowing silver dollars to repay silver dollars, borrowing fiat currency to repay fiat currency, it must be a good opportunity to make a fortune, not to mention 200 million, even one billion and two billion can be fully accepted. Liu Ziwen also asked Liu Zimo, who was on the phone, to remind Chang Tianliang that the people have a decree that the army is not allowed to lend, even if there is a case, those guys can only be dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, and they can't say anything about their suffering. At the beginning, everyone thought that Liu Ziwen said it well, and the boss who did big business in the three towns of Wuhan was indeed different. The next morning, when the Chamber of Commerce met again to discuss the specific terms, most of the people became frightened again, and the wind blew through the streets, and the sound of horses' hooves on the ground made them feel terrified. None of the laws and regulations of the national ** are bad, and in the end, none of them have really been done. The so-called being a soldier is actually doing evil in another sense. If a soldier doesn't do evil, the three-and-a-half-foot-long rifle will become a blowtorch in the woman's hand. What Liu Ziwen said is not false at all, but it is only half right, at the gate of heaven, as soon as the eyes of the soldiers are horizontal, all the ways out will become dead ends. The more afraid everyone is, the more they have to say, and when they are finished, they will be more afraid in their hearts. Seeing that this matter could not be delayed any longer on the morning of the third day, Chang Tianliang, who rarely spoke, spoke at dawn. At this point, Chang Tianliang is more sober than those who have been in the business for a long time: Captain Lu's loan at the gate of heaven is a feast, and no one knows at these times, and no one knows about it, and every shop on the street and down the street is short of cash, and if they can accept it but refuse to accept it, it will cause more and greater trouble. Chang Tianliang's idea is that Chief Lu's loan can be accepted in full, with a term of at least one year, or he can accept a large plus two interest, just like Liu Ziwen said, what money to borrow, what money to repay. The general IOU of the money borrowed from the head of Lu was issued by the Chamber of Commerce, and then the details were divided and lent to each household by the Chamber of Commerce.

On the third day, Captain Lu really arrived as scheduled with 200 million fiat currency.

The fiat currency of Captain Lu only lent 80 million on Tianmen Street. The remaining 120 million fiat currency was loaned to the county chamber of commerce by Chang Tianliang. Chang Tianliang is better than Captain Lu, on the one hand, the time to repay the account is only half a year, on the other hand, half of the money repaid is paid into legal currency, and half is converted into silver dollars. Lin Dayu, who got the loan, quickly set up an iron factory. The rest of the shops also have cash turnover, and all kinds of goods are piled up in each house, and from morning to night, the people who deliver goods and the people who sell goods on Tianmen Street are like threads, and there is a large string.

On that day, a postman on a bicycle walked along the left bank of the West River with a bell. The children chased after them, and the leading town and county were jumping the shelves behind the bicycles, there was sand on the road, the wheels slipped, and even the people and the car fell to the ground. The postman, whose elbow was broken, walked into Jiufeng Building scoldingly and handed over an official document from the county ** to Chang Tianliang.

The decree signed by Dong Chongli makes it very clear that starting this month, in addition to the 45 catties of staple food per person for the workers and education personnel and the officers of the Self-Defense Forces, the county will also pay salaries to some people. Its grades are: the county magistrate has 230 catties of brown rice per month, the section chief has 215 catties, the section clerk has 150 catties, and the counselor has 215 catties; 215 pounds for the captain of the county self-defense force, 150 pounds for the squadron leader, and 105 pounds for the detachment leader; 235 pounds for middle school principals, 215 pounds for middle school directors, 187 pounds for middle school teachers, and 128 pounds for primary school teachers. Other general staff and soldiers are not included in this list for the time being.

Doing so is tantamount to publicly admitting to everyone that money is worthless now! This judgment was quickly confirmed. The weather in June is not too hot yet. In just five months, 100 catties of rice soared from 12,500 to 30,000 yuan, 1,500 catties of Huai salt could not be obtained without 40,000 yuan, and 150,000 yuan of Hunan green cloth was sold to 400,000 yuan, which was simply sold at the price of Hangzhou silk some time ago. Every store is only willing to stock every day, and does not dare to save money. Those who speak specialize in talking, those who think about things only think about things, and they only suffer from the dawn of the day, and they have to say things, think about things, and endure bursts of cold sweat and heart burning, and they will be like pustules growing on their bodies and being touched. The others were still talking there, and he saw in a trance the pistol with a smoking muzzle in Commander Lu's hand. Because prices rise like the West River in the rainy season, there is no need to convene at dawn every day, and everyone will come together every day to discuss it. Everyone thought that Captain Lu would definitely come to collect the payment in advance, and he would regret it, as long as the silver dollar, not legal tender. At this point, Chang Tianliang also thought about it, charged half a month's interest, and recovered the 120 million loan in advance, half of which was converted into 30,000 silver dollars according to the contract price five months ago, and the interest was also half of the legal currency and half of the silver dollar. With these silver dollars in hand, as long as they are converted into fiat currency, they will be enough to pay off the loan of Commander Lu. Because the preparation was too perfect, Chang Tianliang was even more difficult to put his mind at ease, the fiat currency had depreciated so much, and Captain Lu was not a man, if he didn't implement the previous contract, Chang Tianliang would have only a dead end.

There were still a few days left in June, and Commander Lu really sent a close adjutant to collect the debt. Chang Tianliang, who was forced to be calm, mentioned the agreement between the two sides at the beginning, and was forcibly interrupted by the adjutant before he finished a sentence: "Lao Tzu will give you three more days, lend me 200 million legal currency, and repay me 100,000 silver dollars. ”

Fortunately, I can't see it at dawn, and if I change someone else, I may be scared by the other party's appearance on the spot. At this point, Chang Tianliang calmed down. He walked around the street and asked everyone to return the fiat currency they had borrowed to the Chamber of Commerce, and those who still held fiat currency in their hands regarded the people of the Chamber of Commerce as saviors. Chang Tianliang exchanged silver dollars for some fiat currency at the current price, and made up exactly 400 million yuan of fiat currency with interest. Looking at a large pile of worthless fiat currency, the adjutant threw the pistol on the table, and even snatched the unconscious Chang Wen from Hebian's arms, held it above his head, and made it look like he would not pay for his life if he fell to death. Chang Tianliang couldn't see, and Lotus was so frightened that he cried, and he pretended to be calm and rubbed his eyes and asked what was wrong.

"If your army has to use force and abolish the agreement, this matter will not be easy to do."

"That agreement is unfair and should have been scrapped a long time ago."

"Doing business is like using soldiers, of course it's good to win, but you must also be able to afford to lose."

"Commander Lu has fought for many years and has not been defeated, so of course this business must be won."

The adjutant threatened Chang Tianliang softly and hard, and the stalemate lasted until the afternoon of the next day, when Regiment Commander Lu led several staff officers-like people to ride to the gate of heaven, followed by thousands of heavily armed soldiers.

The entire security brigade under Brigade Commander Feng received an urgent order from the people to quickly cross the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Huai River and march to the eastern part of Dabie Mountain. Since the capture of Xuanhuadian, this army, which has not fought for a whole year, is inevitably a little sluggish. The military order was difficult to disobey, and Brigade Commander Feng had to let Regiment Commander Lu take the first step and drive to the gate of heaven as an outpost regiment.

Because of Brigade Commander Feng's order, no one dared to go to the Xue family's house, and the rest of the houses were all filled with soldiers. Living in Chang Tianliang's house is the guard squad of Regiment Leader Lu. Contrary to the high morale of the North of Kojima and the later attack on the Independent Brigade, none of the officers and soldiers who came to the guard squad to inquire about the news under various pretexts were not full of complaints, and some of them cursed and said that when they arrived at the front line, they had to find an opportunity to personally slaughter those black-hearted fellows who had withheld military salaries.

Chang Tianliang, who was guarding a large pile of fiat currency cash in the back room, heard this and thought to himself that he should tell the soldiers about Commander Lu's loan at the gate of heaven. Chang Tianliang was thinking about it, this wind was most suitable for Lin Dayu to release, and Lin Dayu came. The soldiers who lived in Lin Dayu's house were complaining in the same way. The soldiers did not know where the salaries that had been withheld for months had gone, but Lin Dayu told them the truth, and many threw their long and short guns on the ground on the spot, beating their chests and trying to become deserters. Chang Tianliang was secretly happy for a while, and suddenly his heart moved, and he couldn't help but shout: "It's not good!" He asked Lin Dayu to leave everything in his hands, quickly find a ravine to hide for a few days, and come back when Commander Lu's team was all gone.

That night, the soldiers who lived in Lin Dayu's house really deserted en masse, and as soon as they escaped the pavilion not far from the entrance of the lower street, they were all arrested. In the middle of the night, the flogging accompanied by the miserable cries of the soldiers resounded over the gates. As soon as the voice on this side fell, there was sending people to arrest Lin Dayu, who was so-called spreading rumors and shaking the morale of the army. Lin Dayu had already sent away with fine rice and white, and the soldiers chose one of Lin Dayu's apprentices who looked unpleasant and tied him up to take the blame. Before dawn, Regiment Commander Lu ordered those deserters and Lin Dayu's apprentices to be shot to death on the left bank of the West River.

After breakfast, a trumpet blew away the thousand-strong procession. Captain Lu, who walked at the end, led a few cronies to Chang Tianliang, and in accordance with the provisions of the agreement, took away all the fiat currency in the house. All the words are said by the cronies, when the loan was made, 200 million legal currency could be exchanged for 100,000 silver dollars, but now it is only worth 33,250 yuan, plus the loss of interest conversion, it is still a loss of 33,000 silver dollars.

It wasn't until the end that Captain Lu viciously said something that he couldn't regret: "It's me who is blind!" ”

Chang Tianliang didn't dare to answer. I only heard the sound of the Snow Family's radio getting louder and louder. Captain Lu couldn't hear any movement when they walked, and they didn't dare to turn around until dawn. He let out a long breath of evil, and finally settled down in his heart: the loan business with Commander Lu earned more than 10,000 silver dollars.

The Yuan Dynasty was born in Mongolia, and it is said that ten generations are strong. Qiwu Wen's clan occupies the north, only to pass on the ancestors to occupy the south, and it is passed to Emperor Shun out of the monster, the Jinluan Palace suddenly cracked, and the capital crime Tian Feng explored the crypt, and let the general escape from Hubei, all the way, all the way, all the way, the rebellion everywhere is terrible. Children's rumors spread all over the world, and the stone man's long eye dug up the Yellow River to turn the world against it. Out of Liu Futong, the smoke and dust started in Dan, occupying the Yellow River and calling it the Later Han Dynasty. A reversal of the knife moved, sesame Li, occupying Shandong, as if breaking into a swarm of bees. Tianfeng West Road is also called the king, Jiangxi reversed Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, occupied Wuchang, grabbed the grab, robbed the rob, and then returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Chang Tianliang was afraid that people would see his excitement, so he hurriedly came to tell a story.

One hundred and sixty

Compared with the radio that was damaged by lightning when the Japanese announced their unconditional surrender, the sound of the new radio sent by Liu Ziwen is extremely penetrating, even if someone stuffs their ears with their fingers and does not want to listen. The 25th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, commanded by Fu Langxi, fought all the way from the southernmost tip of the Dabie Mountains to the northern part of Shaanxi Province, and then went to the junction of Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces to take root. After more than 10 years of development, the 1st, second, third, and sixth columns, totaling 120,000 troops, formed an elite anti-** army that continued to be commanded by the Communist Party, and crossed the Yellow River south at the end of June 1947 in a 300-mile-wide strip between Puxian and Dong'e in Shandong Province. In the next two months, while fighting hard with the first army, while designing to confuse the first army of 30 brigades that came from all directions, when the time was ripe, it unexpectedly crossed the Yellow Flood area, fought a bloody battle with the ** army several times its own on both sides of the Huai River, desperately fought a way out, and successfully entered the Dabie Mountains at the end of August. At this time, everyone was accustomed to calling this team the Second Field Army of the People's Liberation Army. These messages are fed into everyone's ears bit by bit through the Xue family's radio, and the clearer you hear them, the more complicated your heart becomes. The atmosphere on the street is the same as in previous years, and people will be surprised when there is nothing to do.

When the main force of the security brigade stationed in Sanlijia went to the Lu'an area to reinforce it, Brigade Commander Feng once again climbed the mountain behind the Tianmen Gate and confidently expressed that although he had won the Japanese army led by Kojima Kita here, his wish to fight with the main force of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army at the Tianmen Gate had not been realized. This time, the Second Field Army sent it to the door, saying that it would use the mouth of this heavenly gate to eat them cleanly, which not only eliminated the future troubles for the people, but also let the guys from the Seventh Army of the Gui Department see who is better at fighting. Those combat staff officers who gathered around Brigade Commander Feng were also unanimously optimistic about Brigade Commander Feng's plan, and with the courage to defeat the Japanese army's Kojima North Brigade back then, as long as the main force of the Second Field Army was lured to the gate of heaven, it would be difficult to win this battle. In order to ensure that this plan was completed in one battle, Brigade Commander Feng had a secret conversation with Ma Harrier for half an hour in the newly built Guan Lao Ye Temple on Xiaoxi Mountain. After Brigade Commander Feng led the team to the east, Dong Chongli, as the county magistrate, and Duan Sanguo, as the chairman of the Senate, were also taken all the way to Jinzhai County by him in the name of the labor army.

That night, under the command of Ma Harizi, more than 1,000 members of the county self-defense unit and the self-defense units of various districts and townships started at the same time to arrest the members of the former independent brigade who had turned themselves in for many years and the various personnel of the former Fifth Division of the newly formed Fourth Army who had fled from the Xuanhuadian area, and imprisoned them in a small church. said that it was not leaked, but the most important Hang Jiufeng slipped through the net. From the perspective of time, Hang Jiufeng fled when he heard the news, and it was when Ma Harrier had a secret conversation with Brigade Commander Feng in the Guan Lao Ye Temple.

"It must have been your letter!" The angry harrier pulled out a lot of the hair.

"What kind of person is Hang Jiufeng, if you can be the king, he can be the emperor! He smelled the smell of blood on your body, and if it weren't for the slightest death, they would have run across the Middle Boundary Ridge three days ago to find Fu Langxi. As he spoke, he pinched a few handfuls of his nails on a province's body.

The cry of a province restrained the harrier. The freed horse harrier coerced dozens of senators from the county council to gather in Baique Garden and demanded that they pass a resolution to "severely punish all suspicious elements." "This is indiscriminate killing!" After a senator from the soup shop publicly protested, he hit the wall in the room next to his cousin and died before it got dark. "I didn't think he would be like that, and he would touch a stone with an egg. Where is the human head harder than a brick, it is still blessed to be killed, but it is even more difficult to be hit into a half-dead. As soon as Ma Harrier said this, no one protested. The senators who expressed their opposition confronted with silence until the next day, and Ma Harrier used the method of dealing with Hang Jiufeng again. Faced with a room full of pine caterpillars, the senators who were brought in separately to sign their personal opinions did not dare to have any other choice but to agree. However, the harrier was interested, and the three senators who were the last to enter the house objected. "The people of the world never agree to one thing, someone has to oppose it." After the three senators, Ma Harrier added the names of Dong Chongli and Duan Sanguo, and also said smugly that this is the democratic politics advocated by the people.

Another group of those arrested on other charges were brought to the gate of heaven, and after a similar trial, nearly 200 of them were sentenced to death. The machine guns mounted on the left bank rang out for a long time before they were killed on the river beach. The deceased's head was also cut off, dressed in sticks and stuck on both sides of the road that went east along the left bank. A few days later, Brigade Commander Feng, who was on the front line, sent a letter to Ma Harrier, asking him to pick a few hundred more people from families where some people had participated in the Communist Party organization and lock them up. Ma Harrier did not know the real situation of Fu Langxi at this moment, and he firmly believed that without someone like Fu Langxi to give advice, the Second Field Army would never dare to counterattack Dabie Mountain so boldly. The people who were locked up by the harriers were said to be hundreds, but not much different from thousands. After Dong Chongli and Duan Sanguo returned from Brigade Commander Feng to complete the labor army task and bring some porters, they ordered the release of people one after another, Ma Harrier put three in his left hand and four in his right hand, and more and more people were imprisoned.

A few days later, a long-lost sign suddenly appeared in the gazebo outside the lower street, warning Ma Harrier and the others that they did not know the current affairs until they were dying, and the end would only be worse than that of those who were destroyed by them. Then there are more and more similar slogans day by day, and the people who squatted on the side of the street to dig up the ancients have legends, and some people met Fu Langxi, Hang Jiufeng and A Cai in the depths of heaven, and there were hundreds of people under them, and the weapons used were all ***.

One morning, while Xian Xian was sitting on a chair and drawing her eyebrows, a small hole was cut out by the newly made cheongsam. The thread was anxious to mend it, and there were two less silk threads in his hand, and he found the round cousin all the way, and the silk thread he wanted was found, but the person was frightened: someone erased the weather forecast on the blackboard, and replaced it with a more eye-catching line of words: Liberate the gate of heaven, cut the horse harrier and eradicate the roots! The words written horizontally with chalk were thick and strong, and the lines were so pressed that they couldn't get out, and when they returned home, they saw that the horse harrier was still teasing him on the bed, so he cried loudly.

Ma Harrier was not afraid at all, but said that the crying appearance of the line was too good-looking, he handed over the province to Duan Sanguo's wife, closed the door and made love with the line. The sunlight coming in from the window illuminated the ** during the lactation period like two rare red jades, and the horse harrier squeezed them together with his hands and held them in his mouth at the same time, spitting out a lot of milk and spitting it on the navel of the thread. The thread stretched out her arms and hugged the harrier tightly, and the watery tears and the slippery milk made the bodies of the two people more elastic, and the ups and downs could not be stopped for a long time.

"Are you willing to leave such a good woman?"

"If I can leave you behind, I won't treat this captain as if he was only in charge of the gate of heaven!"

"But you're too fierce to kill people this time, so you have to leave yourself a way out."

"Fu Langxi, they haven't made a fuss for a year or two, and if someone else comes, they can make a fuss? If you don't believe it, let's make a bet, if I lose, I'll eat with **, and my mouth will be. ”

The more the horse harrier wants the line to rest assured, the more the line cries and hugs the horse harrier and does not let go, and that kind of delicate and helpless appearance is the easiest to make men feel pity. The couple had never been so entangled, and even breakfast was passed through the crack in the door. Sitting naked on the bed and finishing, the two of them fell on the pillow again, starting again from where they had ended. "I'm hungry!" Silk barks outside. The line didn't go out: "You strain some rice soup from the porridge and feed him!" "The sun crawled through the window and onto the roof. The horse harrier lay on the thread and said that he was resting for a while, and as soon as his eyes were closed, he fell asleep. The thread was tired, too, but she couldn't sleep, and burst into tears until the harrier woke up comfortably from her sleep.

Ma Harrier was still washing his face and getting dressed, and his men came to report that Brigade Commander Feng had returned to the gate of heaven with his men and horses intact.

One-one-seven

When the security brigade rushed to the front line in the northeastern part of Dabie Mountain, it always heard that the Second Field Army was in front, and after several months of running, it did not even see a shadow, but in less than 10 days around mid-September, it surrendered the seven county towns of Macheng, Huang'an, Luotian, Xishui, Guangji, and Huangmei in Hubei Province to the opponent who came from afar. In the days when the security brigade withdrew to the gate of heaven, the county seat was also briefly lost, but fortunately it was not the main force of the Second Field Army that attacked the city. Brigade Commander Feng could have taken the security brigade back to Sanli between Luotian and Macheng. "Gui is those dog eggs, thinking that he is a heavenly soldier. The Communist Party also said that the 7th and 48th Divisions, the main forces of the Gui system, were very strong, and asked the Second Field Army to find soft persimmons and pinch them first to eliminate our security brigade. It was I who took the initiative to offer advice to Nanjing, and the soft persimmon was not spoken, but pinched. The Communist Party said that I was a soft persimmon, and Lao Tzu put on a soft persimmon. Looking back, they understand that Lao Tzu is not only a hard nail, but also a Dinghai Divine Needle in Dabie Mountain. "The security brigade ordered to be stationed at the gate of heaven is a big bait, the seventh division and the forty-eighth division belonging to the Gui family in the ** army are still swimming elsewhere on the surface, but secretly they are staring at the gate of heaven with two crooked eyes, as long as the main force of the second field army bites the hook, they will pounce on it.

The Second Field Army, which was anxious to gain a firm foothold in the Dabie Mountains, broke up all its main forces and scattered them among the lofty mountains and mountains of the Dabie Mountains, not only to avoid the concentrated encirclement and suppression of the main forces of the ** Army, but also to carry out the so-called mobilization of the masses that they have always been good at. The planes flying from Wuhan were searching condescendingly every day, and they couldn't say a word to the ** army on the ground. Whether it is the main force of the Gui family in the ** army, or the land defense team like the security brigade, with their experience in fighting with all kinds of communist troops in the Dabie Mountains for more than ten years, they will never dare to fight the other side as a battalion unit. Conversely, it would be too clumsy to face an opponent with a company or battalion unit in the tactical action of a brigade or division at every turn. Brigade Commander Feng, who was very high-spirited, couldn't help but be impetuous.

The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Brigade Commander Feng dictated a telegram to the people of Nanjing** to approve the dissidents he would be detained to correct the law on the spot in batches, so that he could not only eliminate future troubles, but also force the Second Field Army to gather the team together and form a main force that could attack the gate of heaven to come to the rescue. Brigade Commander Feng's idea was allowed by the Nanjing people**, and Ma Harrier's idea was allowed by Brigade Commander Feng, who picked out a man who looked similar to Hang Jiufeng from among the detainees, and picked out the best-looking one among the women, tied him to the river beach and killed him without saying a word. After that, every two days, someone dies in this way.

Duan Sanguo's family returned to their old house. After Jiufeng Tower was requisitioned by the Security Brigade, according to the tactics of defeating the North Brigade of Kojima, a heavy machine gun was still placed on it. Duan Sanguo didn't mean to blame at all, and advised his daughter and grandchildren: "That's good, when the battle is over, we will move back." One day, while Ma Harrier was at home, he also led his family members such as silk, thread, town, and county, and learned to tell stories aloud.

Hong Wusheng was born in Hongluo Village and was named Yuanlong Duanting. Yuanlong's parents were eight years old, Liu's family members took a fancy to him, asked him to herd cattle and plant crops, Yuan Gentian killed the cow, and ate only the cow's tail, so he inserted it into the crack of the stone, and went back to coax the master's house, I don't believe you go to pull the cow's tail, and the cow shouted and was afraid. When the age reaches fifteen, it is easy to grow, the eldest brother and his father died, Yuanlong was lazy to become a monk, and the monk had no chance to join his uncle. My uncle's name is Guo Guangqing, who sells black plums, goes to Nanjing, and causes trouble on the way. went to Hanyang Liu Futong, was named the chief Rong to lead ten thousand soldiers, Guangqing Fu won the world, and Yuan Long was destined to be a concubine. How do you know that Guangqing's life is not long, Guangqing's son is named Chongting, and the emperor is called the king of Heyang. Woohoo Chongting died before he set up Yuanlong Taizu. Unified the mountains and rivers Ming Taizu, and it was difficult for Buyi to raise troops. A total of ten generations to Chongzhen, against the king Li Zicheng, forced Chongzhen to die in the coal mountain, Jiashen changed the first year of the Qing Dynasty.

Ma Harrier understood the meaning, and lukewarmly told the line that if someone else dared to tell a story like this at such a time, it would be difficult to leave a life even if he had ten heads. The line didn't cry anymore, and the meaning of saying it was even more worried: A few years ago, Fu Langxi and they rioted and made a disturbance in the Soviets, and Ma Harrier took the Self-Defense Force to deal with it, but now, they haven't seen Fu Langxi and their figures, but they have to use Brigade Commander Feng's elite main force to deal with it, and in the past, how dare they easily attack the county seat, but now it is like setting off a wildfire, a large area is burned, and the county seat is lost as many as it is built.

"This is what my father-in-law taught you, right?" Ma Harrier, who was full of doubts, scolded and scolded the Three Kingdoms, he had never really supported the people like himself for more than ten years, nor did he follow Fu Langxi like Hang Jiufeng, which road he lived well on, he would drill on which road.

"Do you want to be taught this kind of thing?" The line line too much wants to remind the horse harrier. The Three Kingdoms have not done one thing wrong in these years, including trying to prevent Ma Harrier from killing Hang Jiufeng. In case the situation is really reversed, with Hang Jiufeng supporting him at the gate of heaven, not to mention that there are people who respond to everything, at least he can enter the door and blow some gentle wind, so that the murderous aura outside will not affect the family.

Of course, the harrier doesn't listen to the wire. After thirty days of methodical executions, the executions finally turned into a massacre in an atmosphere that could not be controlled.

On that day, according to Liu Zimo's weather forecast, there should have been a rain. When I woke up in the morning, the smoke from every household refused to float into the sky, and every wisp of it was pasted on the faces of passers-by. After the gate of Ziyang Pavilion was opened, it was closed again. Brigade Commander Feng stood in front of the chapel in a melancholy mood, and after retreating from Anhui to Tianmen, he had not seen Grandma Mei. Not far away, the furnace of the blacksmith shop was also making a fire, and the smoke from the bellows was thicker, floating against the street, obscuring the people and things in front of them. Suddenly, someone hid in the smoke and fired two shots, and Brigade Commander Feng heard a bone in his body snap open. He soon discovered that it was his right arm that was broken.

At this time, the man who shot the black gun had been arrested by the people who had rushed to protect him after hearing the news. Commander Lu came late, and heard that the man was a heavy machine gunner, and he would have to be interrogated in person no matter what. Half an hour later, two sharp gunshots swept across the sky again. Enraged, Commander Lu pulled out his pistol during the interrogation and shattered the heavy machine gunner's skull. Later, Regiment Commander Lu said that after so many years of fighting, as soon as the gun was shot, it was naturally aimed at the opponent's vital point, and he only wanted to break the guy's two arms. As for the motive and background of this assassination, "There is no need to say much, it must have been secretly planned by Fu Lancey, they did not have the strength to fight us, thinking that as long as they got rid of you and replaced someone else at the helm, they could let these people live." Please listen to me, some people in the Communist Party are really made of steel, and they just can't move them after a month of piecemeal fighting. To deal with steel, we need to use the methods of blacksmiths, burning them to death with blazing fire and beating them to death with sledgehammers. Commander Lu's words were interrupted by a "ouch" from Brigade Commander Feng.

Brigade Commander Feng also wanted to wave his arms as usual, and the sweat caused by the severe pain flowed into a river on him. In a frenzy, Brigade Commander Feng finally gave the order to take all the people imprisoned in the chapel to the river beach, and set up a heavy machine gun to sweep his mother.

At night, the heavy rain predicted by Liu Zimo finally fell. The rooftops continued to flow all night, and the water in the West River rose rapidly, leaving hundreds of corpses on the riverbank's banks to flow down the river in all directions in the autumn floods.

"If the Second Field Army does not concentrate its main forces to settle accounts with us, it will not be the Communist Party!" Ma Harrier is full of confidence in everything he says in front of the line, from the earliest Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the current People's Liberation Army, no matter how much the name is changed, it is also a change of soup and not a change of medicine, thinking that the Japanese army's small island North Brigade, which was majestic on all sides, was still beaten in the face by Brigade Commander Feng's security brigade, and the butt was not an ass, how can the gun firepower of the Second Field Army be compared with it! As long as they dare to come, there will be no other fate except the annihilation of the whole army, and there is no need for the 7th and 48th divisions of the Gui system to come to support them at all. Duan Sanguo, who was on the side, couldn't help but remind Ma Harrier not to forget that the reason why the army in the north of Xiaodao was defeated back then was Liu Zimo, who said that one person could reach three main divisions, and Fu Langxi and Hang Jiufeng, who were in perfect harmony with Brigade Commander Feng. Once a person who has been a helper becomes an opponent, the situation is very different, as long as he uses four or two forces, it is possible to move the weight of a thousand catties.

Ma Harrier glared at him: "Who are you talking for?" ”

Duan Sanguo said: "Son-in-law, you may not even remember the basic rules? ”

The family was talking, and several shots rang out in the distance. This was followed by the sound of more than a dozen light machine guns and the continuous firing of ***.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives!" Ma Harrier, who was still calm just now, suddenly changed his face, and before he could walk out of the gate, the soldiers of the security brigade were already in full swing. Regiment Commander Lu was talking on the phone with Brigade Commander Feng on the Jiufeng Tower: The main force of the Second Field Army appeared in the area of Tangpu, and it seemed that it was 100 percent coming towards the gate of heaven. The street was in a mess, and everyone wanted to run to the back hill, and the people in front were stopped by the security brigade with platoon guns as soon as they reached the street corner. Brigade Commander Feng had ordered that no two-legged man should be allowed to leave his home, and he wanted to see with his own eyes whether the Communist Party was the great savior of the poor people, as they themselves boasted.

Before evening, the siege of the Gate of Heaven was formed. The security brigade retreated to a dozen hills around it. Brigade Commander Feng understood that the Second Field Army did not have artillery, and deliberately gave up the high mountains and ridges in the distance to the opponent.

The people who went up and down the streets were all stuck in their homes and spent three days in fear. From morning to night, the gunfire continued, and the assault on Brigade Commander Feng's security brigade that really wanted to put it to death did not happen once. The truly tragic battle began on the morning of the fourth day. Prior to this, the supreme head of state of the Kuomintang personally ordered a change in the battle plan on Lushan Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River, replacing the 7th and 48th divisions of the Gui line with the most elite 40th Division of the Gui lineage and advancing to the Tianmen area, and cooperating with the security brigade to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Second Field Army in one fell swoop. The 40th Division, which set out from Wuxue, an important town on the left bank of the Yangtze River, crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains to the gate of heaven, and its vanguard 39th Brigade was even more invincible. The 39th Brigade, which had tried its best, made a dozen attacks in succession, but it was ineffective. It was only after the 40th Division was encircled that they realized that the Second Field Army was really powerful, and in just a few days, it had gathered small groups scattered in various places into a huge battle group of ten brigades. In the following two days, all the officers and men of the 40th Division did their best, and the decisive battle was fought until the last minute, and the most elite main division of the ** army finally did not escape the end of the whole army.

Brigadier Feng sensed that the situation was very bad from the sudden interruption of radio communications. Commander Lu and other subordinates also persuaded him to order a breakthrough: "The forty divisions are all gone, can we still get out?" ”

Contrary to the advice of his subordinates, Brigade Commander Feng dreamed of a miracle, on the one hand, to strengthen the defense, and on the other hand, he deliberately released a dozen people, through which he told the commander of the Second Field Army that there were as many civilians as soldiers in the town, and it was up to the other party to dare to attack. The poignant trumpet of the charge finally sounded, and the Second Field Army, which had surrounded and did not fight the security brigade, rose from the positions it had occupied a few days earlier and launched its first charge. Just as the resistance to the Kojima North Brigade was back then, the heavy machine guns in the Jiufeng Tower, the rain room, and the observation room were the first to fire, and as the stormers approached, the light machine guns also joined the dense fire network. The 2nd Field Army had a strong ability to charge, and the two sides fought each other for more than ten minutes, and one of their battalions dropped more than two dozen corpses and retreated to the position where the attack was launched. Brigade Commander Feng, who was commanding the battle in the temple of Guan Laoye, did not expect that half an hour later, when the Second Field Army launched its second charge, the situation would be very different. The number of attackers did not increase, the density of bullets in the defense did not decrease, and the soldiers of the 2nd Field Army, who should have been blocked outside the town by heavy machine gun groups, trotted across the invisible critical line of attack and defense. Brigade Commander Feng, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, couldn't believe that all of his heavy machine guns had raised the muzzle of their guns by an inch, and the combat staff officer called the observation room on Xiaodong Mountain. As long as there is a battle, Regiment Commander Lu, who will be on the scene to command the heavy machine gun battalion, can no longer hear Brigade Commander Feng's lecture, and the person who answered the phone is a platoon commander: "Regiment Commander Lu has been executed by us, and the next damned person is Brigade Commander Feng!" ”

At this moment, Brigade Commander Feng heard from the angry platoon commander that his most trusted regiment commander Lu had deducted half a year's salary from the soldiers of the regiment under his nose. Brigade Commander Feng only had a chance to look up to the sky and sigh. Once upon a time, the security brigade, which was governed by Brigade Commander Feng according to the Iron Army, collapsed in an instant. Before the opponent could show his face, the soldiers, like ducks being driven away, raised their hands into the air and automatically gathered on the empty river beach. The helpless Brigade Commander Feng vented all his anger on Chang Tianliang and sent someone to catch Chang Tianliang, but he didn't expect that a blind man would be more clever than a person with two good eyes. The soldiers didn't see a crack in the door of the Ziyang Pavilion, but Chang Tianliang did, and slipped in like a loach in the blink of an eye. Because Brigade Commander Feng had an order in advance, no one was allowed to step into the threshold of the Ziyang Pavilion for any reason. By the time Brigade Commander Feng gave the order to allow them to enter the house and arrest people, the red flag was already floating on the bell tower at the top of the chapel.

Brigade Commander Feng sat on a stretcher, carried by the soldiers of the only remaining guard company in turn, and ran all the way along the ravine behind Xiaoxi Mountain.

Brigade Commander Feng, who was not killed by the bombing, heard Fu Langxi, who had not been seen for a long time, shouting from a high place: "Brigade Commander Feng, don't come unharmed?" ”

Brigade Commander Feng was saying in his heart that Mr. Fu was saving his life, but his mouth was unconvinced: "I lost to myself, and it has nothing to do with you!" ”

Brigade Commander Feng asked for a *** from the guards beside him, propped the *** on the ground, pointed the muzzle of the gun to his chin, and then pressed the trigger with his toes. With a crisp burst of shots, Brigade Commander Feng's tall and heroic body shattered from the top.

While cleaning the battlefield, Fu Langxi came out of his hiding place, and he lightly touched Brigade Commander Feng with his toes. "It really lost to me, and it's understandable. It's a pity that you lost to Chang Tianliang, who is blind and has never touched a gun! When Fu Langxi ordered the burial of Brigade Commander Feng, he couldn't help but think of Hang Jiufeng, but unfortunately he was not around, otherwise, he would definitely let Hang Jiufeng repair Brigade Commander Feng's scarred head as much as possible.

After the incident, the rumors about Chang Tianliang became more and more serious. Everyone said that if you don't need a shot or a bullet at dawn, you will beat the invincible security brigade to hell from which you will never recover.

One hundred and eighteen

At this moment, Hang Jiufeng also returned.

For so many years, when Hang Jiufeng left the gate of heaven, he was gray, but once he came back, he must be vigorous. The only exception is this one. Hang Jiufeng encountered the Second Field Army very early on his way north to find Fu Langxi. He didn't have much affection for the army, and he didn't want to mention the Independence Brigade in front of them. It was not until the seventh narrow encounter with the Second Field Army that he was recognized by an old subordinate who had served as a squad leader in the Independent Brigade and later enriched the 25th Army with Fu Langxi. The former squad leader has become the regiment commander, and he wants Hang Jiufeng to stay and become the battalion commander under him. Hang Jiufeng didn't buy it, and coldly told him that before he saw Fu Langxi, unless he gave himself a group of people and guns, and returned to the gate of heaven to restore the independent brigade, he would not talk about anything else. The embarrassment of those who put a rifle or machine gun into his hand and asked him to be an ordinary soldier when he was rejected can be imagined. Before Hang Jiufeng could find Fu Langxi, he heard that Brigade Commander Feng's security brigade had been wiped out in the attack of the Second Field Army.

There was a brigade of the Second Field Army stationed at the gate of heaven, and when the lonely Hang Jiufeng appeared at the entrance of the street, he was like a lost dog. As soon as Hang Jiufeng arrived home, he ran into the town office that had changed the mayor and banner, and sent people to mobilize the brothers from one county and one town to join the army. Those people were kicked out of the house by Hang Jiufeng before they finished speaking. Whether it was the regular army or the main force, Hang Jiufeng didn't like it, so he fled back from the Fourth Front Army that year. The men of the Hang family are born to be soldiers, and they are born to fight, and the only condition is that they must be at the gate of heaven to be a soldier, and they must be at the gate of heaven to fight. He wanted to keep a town and a county, and be the captain of the recovered independent brigade. Everyone understands that only Fu Langxi can control Hang Jiufeng. When Francie returned to the Gate of Heaven, some people told him about it, but Francie laughed it off and let others forget about it as if it had never happened.

What drew everyone's attention to the fact that Hang Jiufeng had returned was an incident that happened next. Seeing that the people of the Second Field Army didn't care about themselves, Hang Jiufeng disappeared again. One day has passed, two days have passed, three days have passed, and at noon on the fourth day, Sisi ran to Ziyang Pavilion and complained in front of Xue Ning, in the past, Ah Cai said that the snow fox fur coat was hidden by Hang Jiufeng, and she would still be suspicious, but now she also believes it. Last year, Hang Jiufeng was infected with pine caterpillar poison and disappeared for a day just after his body improved. Over the years, she has also paid attention to some methods of nitrate dog skin, such a short time is only enough to prevent insects, if you want the skin not to be hard, one by one to do the procedures, it takes three days. Sisi said that if Hang Jiufeng came back today, he would really take care of the baby clothes that all women loved. Xue Ning said that if what Sisi said was true, it just proved that Hang Jiufeng's heart was not all thinking about how to kill someone, or how to be killed. Si Si was dissatisfied with such non-answers, and was whining one after another there, when suddenly there was a commotion in the street.

Hang Jiufeng, who hadn't seen him for a few days, was bleeding all over his face, and while walking, he kicked the buttocks of a platoon commander of the Second Field Army: "If you want to get rid of my black hands, you can't even do it as a horse harrier." If it weren't for the fear of being framed, I wouldn't have deliberately beaten you! If you want my white dog skin, just say it, and if you meet me, you may be able to give it to you on the spot. ”

"It's not a dogskin, it's a dazzling white snow fox fur coat. I can see it very clearly, definitely not a dogskin. ”

"Wrong, do you still see the white and tender woman's body?"

"I'm a sharpshooter, and my eyesight is so good, you've tried that snow fox fur coat on you several times."

"The more I talk about it, the more I understand, you think I'm a woman, and I want to be knocked unconscious and raped, right?"

The two men argued outside the chapel and were still arguing after being brought into the chapel. The platoon commander's hands were purple by Hang Jiufeng with kudzu vines, and no one untied them for him. It is an indisputable fact that the platoon commander wanted to snatch something and attacked Hang Jiufeng. The division commander, who lived in the chapel, ordered the platoon commander to be shot. This incident finally brought the momentum he hoped for to Hang Jiufeng, who was lonely.

Before it was calm at the gate of heaven, Fu Langxi appeared under the escort of a group of guards. Killing Brigade Commander Feng and driving away Ma Harrier, Fu Langxi had no reason not to return to the gate of heaven.

"Political Commissar Fu, you have grown white and fat!" Hang Jiufeng greeted him excitedly. It didn't take long for him to start being unreasonable again, "I don't want to talk to you about the Xue family. Everything in the Xue family is earwax, and you can't win by digging it, so don't stuff it into my ears. Hang Jiufeng didn't like Fu Langxi, who had just met, to talk about things in a short way while the Xue family was there, "The most important thing at the moment is to restore the independent brigade." ”

"If you don't talk about the snow fox fur coat, I won't talk about the independent brigade." From Francy's relaxed tone, it was a joke.

At the beginning of the reunion, the two inevitably said something after separation. When he was in Xuanhuadian, Hang Jiufeng feinted three times, the first two times to meet Fu Langxi, with the exception of the last time. At the time of the crisis, Fu Langxi once said to Hang Jiufeng, if it really can't be done, go back to the gate of heaven, if it doesn't work, as long as he can leave his life, even if he encounters something that forces him to lick ** and eat, don't take the old road like a cigar to escape marriage, but learn from Dong Chongli, who dared to lead the remnants of the independent brigade to leave heaven and surrender himself, as long as he pinched his nose with one hand, there was nothing he couldn't eat. At the moment of the great enemy, if the fate is not guaranteed, how can there be victory. The arrogant Hang Jiufeng proudly said that he had complied with 99 percent of Fu Langxi's urgent instructions, and he had not done anything except surrendering, and if he did, the good reputation of the Hang family for hundreds of years would be completely ruined.

Just like Fu Langxi was anxious to see Grandma Mei, Hang Jiufeng pestered Fu Langxi all day and night to ask for the reorganization of the independent brigade, seeing that the country that had been sitting on the national ** for decades was about to change hands, and if there was no own team, it would suffer, and the blood and sweat paid in the past may flow in vain like the water of the West River. At that time, the Hang family ascended to the heights and called out, attracting thousands of people to attack the Longhair Army. As soon as the long-haired army was defeated, Hang's father listened to those who were officials and dismissed the small and small team, and when the Xue family took the lead against the Hang family as the mayor, the Hang family couldn't do anything at all. In Hang Jiufeng's opinion, although the previous backbones are all dead, a town and a county have grown up, and they can carry a gun and be a death captain like they did back then. Hang Jiufeng also said that the Xue family thought that they had read a few more books, remembered more things about the ancients, and would oppose the Hang family when it came to a critical time. This time, with Fu Langxi's support, they must not be allowed to move out a few broken books, and use the clichés that the worm will not moth to restrict all kinds of meritorious officials. Francy spoke eloquently about distant things: China defeated the Japanese fascists in the East, and Britain defeated the German fascists in the West. During the war, the British Prime Minister named Churchill was a great hero in the eyes of the British, and as soon as the war ended, the British abandoned him and chose another person to compete with Churchill. In order to make it clear where Britain is, Francis said a few words. Hang Jiufeng rarely interrupted him, pointed to the chapel and said, the blind, deaf and mute at the gate of heaven all understood that if there was no sea in between, the British would live next door to the French who built the chapel. Hang Jiufeng also pointed to the deeply engraved slogans on the stone wall at the base of the chapel: Expelling all imperialist detective agencies, churches, catholic churches, Christian churches, and young people's associations! Down with the imperialism that annexed China, slaughtered and scraped the poor workers and peasants of China! Participate in the Red Army and divide the fields! These sonorous words, which once made the blood of the poor boil, were all shouted by Fu Langxi himself more than ten years ago. Fu Langxi also said at that time that imperialism is the most ruthless and unrighteous thing in the world! Hang Jiufeng didn't understand, only more than ten years had passed, and everyone was not old, but Fu Langxi took out imperialist things and applauded him in front of him. Fu Langxi was laughed at by him, and wanted to say that Hang Jiufeng had indeed never read a book, and would only admit death, but he was afraid that he would say that he was looking for the Xue family in his heart. So Fu Langxi only said that the pine caterpillar incident, the horse harrier used the pine caterpillar to harm Hang Jiufeng, it was Grandma Mei and Xue Ning who came up with a strange trick to bring him back to life, Hang Jiufeng should meet them with a smile and a grudge! Hang Jiufeng insisted that he saved himself, if those things can make people unable to die, why can't people and beasts who know how to find ** when they are born from their mother's womb live to be immortal? At this point, Fu Langxi was also unhappy, and his outstretched finger almost pointed at Hang Jiufeng's nose: some people have a small belly, because of a little personal vendetta, the whole family will never forget it from generation to generation, and when they leave the gate of heaven, they don't know the direction, they only know how to go around the door, when they talk about the heaven and earth, they have to be on the same day, and they become A when they are ranked A, B, C, D, and E, and they have to be big and small when they are looking for a wife, fortunately, they are ranked first in the family, if they are ranked fifth, I am afraid that they will have to count according to five-four-three-two-one. Fu Langxi's tone was only a fraction of a second from the dissatisfaction and disappointment in his heart.

Hang Jiufeng was also anxious, and his words were more straightforward: "No wonder the ancients said that whichever family you entered, it was which family." The Xue family doesn't let the Hang family participate in the governance, you drill into the Xue family's house as soon as you come, and help them, and you are about to win, why don't you let me master a few guns? I remember what you said in the past. ”

Fu Langxi is very strange that there is such a person in the world who has no city government at all: "You are blindly optimistic!" Our main force will definitely leave the gate of heaven and go outside the mountains to fight a big battle, and when the time comes, the horse harriers will definitely make a comeback. Why don't you remember what I said the other day? The reason why they treated Dong Chongli and Duan Sanguo leniently was that when the darkness before dawn appeared, they would secretly support us as always. ”

"With me Hang Jiufeng here, don't you use those soft knives, okay?"

"Okay! Just a few days, I'll be responsible for returning you an independent brigade. ”

These words echoed repeatedly in Hang Jiufeng's heart for three days. Because he was fully optimistic about the situation, Fu Langxi asked Lin Dayu to reveal his red identity that had been hidden for many years, appointed him as the district chief in charge of the Tianmen area, and hung the signboard of the district office at the entrance of the small church. The rest of the lurkers also revealed their true identities, and the Soviets from many years ago were no longer called, and the rest of the peasant associations, women's federations, rent and interest reduction committees, and so on, were much the same as before. Anyone who followed Fu Langxi, everyone was not idle, and they all had an official title that satisfied them. Only Hang Jiufeng was still there looking forward to the recovery of the Independent Brigade and being the deputy commander of the Independent Brigade again.

"After walking a lot of places, the water and soil at the gate of heaven are good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, even if you walk on the mountain road, it is more comfortable than walking around on the plains elsewhere."

On the street, when someone asked about Ziyu, Fu Langxi only said that she was fine, but did not say the specific situation. Only people like Xue Ling and Liu Zimo could hear something out of his precious words: Fu Langxi's important task was to prepare for the next attack and capture of the three towns of Wuhan. For this reason, Fu Langxi frequently went in and out of Ziyang Pavilion, hoping to get some advice from Grandma Mei on how to govern the city after the new regime occupied the three towns of Wuhan. Just like when Brigade Commander Feng asked to see him some time ago, Grandma Mei has always refused to meet him. Once, Fu Langxi broke into Xue's house without waiting for a report, and in a hurry, he finally saw the back of Grandma Mei through the moon gate.

Through Xue Ning, Grandma Mei only said one word, don't kill anymore. Grandma Mei expressed her dream for many years, and she must no longer be tyrannical!

Fu Lancey was still so thin, stretching his neck from time to time, and coughing as loud as tearing.

On that day, it was raining lightly, and a horse team came from the direction of Jinzhai. Dozens of horses, carrying heavy cloth bags, neither daring to walk from the single-plank bridge, nor afraid of the depth of the water, kept wandering on the right bank, guarded by about a company of troops, not allowing anyone to approach. When it was completely dark, a team of horses carrying bags of heavy loads waded through the water and went straight into the White Sparrow Garden. In the second half of the night, people were sleeping soundly, and there was the sound of horses' hooves in the street, and those who were awakened thought that another horse team was coming, but after dawn, they found that the sound of horses' hooves in the night was the horse team that had just arrived at the gate of heaven. Before the horse team came, there was only one sentry at the gate of the White Bird Garden, and after the horse team left, the gate of the White Bird Garden began to stand at the gate, two outside the door, two inside the door, and behind the window facing the gate, there seemed to be two light machine guns hidden in the background. And in the bell tower at the top of the chapel across the street, there was already a heavy machine gun that did not leave people day and night.

The rich people who went to the street saw it as if they didn't see it, and when they had doubts, they only dared to hide in the house and talk quietly among their own families. The poor people who went down the street were much more presumptuous, and what they saw and what they didn't saw were like opening the cloth bags on horseback with their own hands and counting them carefully, and they said in unison that it was a secret weapon used to attack the three towns of Wuhan. Chang Tianliang didn't see it that way, no one else had gotten up yet, he had already walked around the White Bird Garden a few times, and then resolutely thought: The weather station is going to move, and the White Bird Garden will be let out as a bank.

Fu Langxi asked Chang Tianliang: "Where do you start with this?" ”

Chang Tianliang replied frankly: "I smell the smell of money." ”

Fu Lancey asked even more strangely, "What is the smell of silver dollars?" What about fiat currency? ”

Chang Tianliang said: "If I could smell the smell of silver dollars, I would have gone to the silver mine a long time ago." I can only smell fiat money. Since I personally released the 200 million fiat currency of Captain Lu and took it back, as long as there is more of this kind of banknote, I can smell it. ”

Fu Langxi smiled heartily: "I can't see that you have such outstanding economic talent." No wonder Duan Sanguo wants you to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce, you will definitely be of great use in the future, at least you can be a red banker! ”

Chang Tianliang suddenly became melancholy, seeing that Fu Langxi's dream of turning the world was about to succeed, and transporting so much fiat currency to the gate of heaven, was it to set up a national capital in the area where they first rioted? Fu Langxi liked Chang Tianliang's idea very much, but his answer disappointed Chang Tianliang. Fu Ranci told him with certainty that after all, the Gate of Heaven was just a reckless place, lacking the majestic aura that a country's capital needed.

Fu Langxi knows Chang Tianliang too well, as long as he dials it a little, Chang Tianliang will understand where the boundary between what should be done and what should not be done and what cannot be said is. Fu Rancy asked Chang Tianliang to go to the chapel and relay his speculation to Dong Chongli, who was under house arrest. After a short time, Chang Tianliang returned and said that Dong Chongli was the master in the end, he could see farther and see clearly, and he spoke categorically, and there was some sympathy in his tone: If there is really a lot of fiat currency stored in Baique Garden, it is likely that Fu Langxi is planning to fight an economic war. Chang Tianliang's relays aroused Fu Langxi's attention to Dong Chongli, and then asked people to change Dong Chongli's house arrest to Baique Garden, so that he could live with his cousin. Soon after, Fu Langxi had a serious and solemn conversation with Dong Chongli. Fu Langxi said: At this time of life and death, the alternation of the old and the new, as long as they are not too stubborn and do not seek their own death like Brigade Commander Feng, the vast majority of people have the opportunity to turn their decay into magic.

These words led to the line to ask Fu Langxi: As the captain of the county self-defense team, does Ma Harrier also have a chance to become magical? As long as Hang Jiufeng was by his side, Fu Langxi asked him to answer instead of him. The most exciting time, Hang Jiufeng said, if the horse harrier can also melt the decay on his body, there will be no most of it, but 100%.

Three days later, in the evening, the north wind blew early. When Fu Langxi made the call, Hang Jiufeng had already gone to bed and slept with Ah Cai.

The Shuangshuanggang at the door knowingly interrogated Hang Jiufeng before letting him enter the White Bird Garden. Pushing open the hidden door, the woman who suddenly appeared made Hang Jiufeng jump in shock. After not seeing her for a long time, Ah Cai looks much older, mainly because she is too thin, as well as crow's feet at the corners of her eyes and forehead lines on her forehead. Before he could speak, Hang Jiufeng reached out and took off the military hat on Ah Cai's head. Having lost the cover of her military cap, Ah Cai had no choice but to let it go. As if he had never had a previous suspicion, Ah Cai pillowed his head on Hang Jiufeng's thighs, and Hang Jiufeng's hands flew up and down like butterflies around Ah Cai's ugly head, and his mouth kept blaming, he had already reminded Ah Cai that he must not leave him, otherwise, the leprosy on his head would become mushrooms after the rain.

"The public does not leave the mother-in-law, and the scales do not leave the stone. You can't live without me in your life! I've said this a thousand times, ten thousand times, but you just don't believe it! Whether you like it or not is secondary, you have to come back to me if you itch with diarrhea! ”

"It was Political Commissar Fu who called me back, saying that there was an important task for me to complete."

"Then you can go now, don't sleep in my arms like a cat or dog!"

"You drive me away, I don't want to go, these houses are mine, not yours."

"Again, you're not going to fall in love with these houses. You've always had ambitions. Your heart is higher than the sky, and your life is thinner than paper. If you want to be like me, I just want to rule the gate of heaven, so that the men and women of the Xue family can do whatever they want to do, and those who don't want to do it have to do it. ”

"Lie! The woman of the Snow Family is the meat of your heart, that's why you hide the Snow Fox-"

"Don't mess with me! I hate it when people talk about snow all day long. ”

Hang Jiufeng interrupted Ah Cai's words rudely but resolutely, and while saying that Ah Cai's head should be washed with manganese salt water for three days, he asked if there were other men in the past year. Ah Cai shook his head gently, like shaking a cup full of clear water, a lot of tears burst out of his eyes, and the hands holding Hang Jiufeng became an iron hoop. Slowly, Ah Cai freed up her hands to untie her clothes. Hang Jiufeng also touched the familiar chest, and Ah Cai's chest was much harder. A woman's breasts have to be touched by a man, and the more she touches, the softer it becomes, otherwise it will become hard and entangled. Hang Jiufeng was relieved not to ask any more. Compared with the year when they fought all the way to Sichuan and then fled back from Sichuan, this time the separation time was not too long, because of the meaning of getting back together and renewing the old love, an old couple soon tasted unprecedented happiness. Ah Cai vowed never to leave Hang Jiufeng again, but he didn't understand whether he was really talking, he only felt that his heart and mouth were connected, and once he got out of control, his words would pour out like an unhindered flood. Suddenly, Ah Cai opened his mouth and bit Hang Jiufeng's shoulder. Hang Jiufeng seemed to have taken anesthetic, not that he didn't feel pain, but that he was too happy, until the two bodies that were held in mid-air by the clouds and mist quickly landed and collapsed on the bed, Hang Jiufeng said, this is ****, it is simply seeking people's lives. As he spoke, he brought his other shoulder to Cai's mouth and asked her to try again. Ah Cai really bit down, and kept muttering in his mouth: "Bite you, bite you, I have to bite you dog mongrel!" ”

The two of them are more intoxicated together than before, but the happiest person is Fu Langxi. Early the next morning, he shouted at the couple who were still sleeping outside the door: "The people of the independent brigade have gathered!" Ah Cai and Hang Jiufeng hurriedly got up.

"After so many years, the strength of your two struggles is still very strong!" Looking at the tiredness on Ah Cai's face, which was different from yesterday, Fu Langxi said a pun.

After waiting for a while, Dong Chongli also came: "Aren't you going to restore the independent brigade?" Everyone is here. ”

Fu Langxi is not wrong at all, there are indeed only four of them left of the more than 100 people in the first establishment of the independent brigade.

"Jiufeng always asked in front of me to restore the independent brigade, and today we are sitting together to discuss this matter, not to discuss this matter. This time back, I have a particularly important task that the three of us need to work together again. It seems that Fu Langxi has already told Dong Chongli in advance, and at this time, he only asked him if he had thought about it and whether he was willing to lead the people of the independent brigade to complete this unprecedented big move. Dong Chongli nodded with difficulty.

Fu Langxi didn't ask Ah Cai and Hang Jiufeng about their wishes, and after receiving Dong Chongli's reply, he began to arrange the special tasks he said.

Over the past six months, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has seized a large amount of fiat currency in the vast areas it has newly seized. In order to bring about the early collapse of the people, Fu Langxi was ordered to fight a rare economic war with the people who were still struggling to survive: organize a group of extremely reliable people to transport part of the fiat currency into the three towns of Wuhan, create more violent inflation, and arouse the people under the rule of the people, so that the underground organization of the Communist Party can more effectively carry out the struggle to shake the morale of the army and the people in the heart of the people. The matter here has been secretly prepared, so he used Dong Chongli's method of successfully escaping from the gate of heaven back then, hid the fiat currency that needed to be transported to Wuhan into hollow skin oil, and then used the remaining ghost fish to transport it to the Bailian River, and then exchanged it for a big boat to go down the Bailian River, and after entering the Yangtze River, it went straight to Wuhan against the current, and handed it over to Liu Zimo's brother Liu Ziwen. The reason why Dong Chongli was pulled up was because he had an unusual friendship with Liu Ziwen. With Liu Ziwen's character of daring to be a traitor at the beginning, as long as it is profitable, such a good opportunity that comes out of thin air will definitely not be refused.

Dong Chongli wanted to say that although he was recommended by Liu Ziwen twice to serve as the county magistrate, he actually did not have close contacts with Liu Ziwen at all. Fu Langxi didn't let him continue, with Liu Ziwen's identity as both an oil business and a bank, even if there was no relationship between Liu Zimo and Dong Chongli, he would have to find another way to get on the line with Liu Ziwen and cooperate in this seamless and silent economic war. Fu Langxi didn't want to come forward to find Liu Zimo in person, so he asked Dong Chongli to go and asked Liu Zimo to write a letter to Liu Ziwen.

After thinking about all the potential problems that could be thought of, Dong Chongli put forward a request related to him personally: to ask Fu Langxi to issue a written proof of his role in supporting the Soviets, resisting Japanese aggression, and in this economic war that led to the early collapse of the people. Fu Langxi didn't say a word, immediately took out a pen and paper, and truthfully wrote about Dong Chongli's living conditions over the years: at first, he worked hard and desperately to make trouble with the Soviets, and later he fought the Japanese at the expense of sacrifice, and now he is doing everything he can to eradicate the old regime. I couldn't see whether Dong Chongli was satisfied with this concise and concise evaluation, and when he put away the ink-scented paper, he expressed his gratitude and said that this would be his death-free book.

"Ever since I married my cousin, I have realized how afraid of death I am, and I am always worried that I will not live to the day when I feel that I have lived enough." Because they all understood the meaning of this, no one else took it and said it.

The smell that had been smelled before dawn was real, and the fiat currency brought in by the horses filled a room. It's really like Fu Langxi said, so much fiat currency, don't give it back a penny, give it all to Liu Ziwen, wouldn't he want to make a windfall. Ah Cai and Hang Jiufeng were surprised, but Dong Chongli disagreed: If you eat tiles now, you will have bricks in the future, and if the Communist Party can confiscate the property of the landlords, can't it confiscate the property of the capitalists? When he said this, Dong Chongli had completely walked out of his previous identity and became a complete outsider.

All the crumble on both sides of the West River was brought in to load a large amount of camouflaged fiat currency.

The day before departure, Dong Chongli, who was under house arrest in Baique Garden as a pseudo county magistrate, was publicly released by Fu Langxi. Francie's initial idea was to sell a flaw and let him pretend to escape. In this way, you can deceive the people** and keep the position of county magistrate. Dong Chongli did not agree, preferring not to be the county magistrate, and also asked for an acquittal without punishment. Also released at the same time as Dong Chongli, who was known as the puppet county magistrate, was Duan Sanguo, who was known as the puppet county senator. The difference is that Dong Chongli left the gate of heaven with Yu Ghost Fish's sword, and Duan Sanguo didn't go anywhere, from being under house arrest by others, to self-house arrest, and calling Chang Tianliang to his home every day to teach himself to tell stories.

At this moment, there is not a single soldier in the Baili West River. It wasn't until after entering the Yangtze River through the Bailian River that Dong Chongli revealed his identity as the county magistrate of the national **, led Ah Cai and Hang Jiufeng, and transported the uncountable amount of fiat currency into Wuhan in the storm.

After meeting Liu Ziwen, the situation basically did not deviate from Fu Langxi's expectations. So much fiat currency made Liu Ziwen's face turn red and white, and he changed it many times, and when he finally agreed to accept it, his lips trembled and he repeated it twice before he made the meaning clear. There is a sentence that Fu Langxi specially told Hang Jiufeng to tell Liu Ziwen: "This is something that God knows what you know and I know, and you can't leak it to anyone!" Even if a new regime is established in the future, it must not be spread to the outside world. With Hang Jiufeng's voice, these words went straight to Liu Ziwen's heart like lightning in the sky.

Ah Cai and Hang Jiufeng, who completed the task, returned to the gate of heaven before Dong Chongli.

One-hundred-nine

Nearly a month apart, Dong Chongli appeared at the gate of heaven.

At this time, Hang Jiufeng and the others had already hid in the depths of the snow-covered heaven.

Liu Ziwen was circling in the province, and Dong Chongli, who had been a prisoner, continued to serve as the county magistrate. Of the three people who regained control of the county's military and political power, only Ma Harrier broke through the encirclement. The Self-Defense Force under his command quietly followed behind Brigade Commander Feng, and when the situation was not good, he quickly turned around and drilled into another ravine, with almost no loss of personnel and guns.

According to the rules, Ma Harrier's men issued a blacklist of those who should be hunted. The harrier closed his eyes and let others read the familiar or unfamiliar name. After the first time, I read it a second time. After the second recitation, recite it a third time.

Ma Harrier suddenly opened his eyes and wanted to read the list of people who had been killed before.

The men under him were hoarse, and the fourth time was recited at dawn. Chang Tianliang only listened to it once, and then remembered the names of all the deceased. Chang Tianliang's voice is very good, and on a starlit night, the voice is even more moving.

"Why didn't you pay attention to it in the past, these names are all so good!" Ma Harrier did not kill anyone, but sent the list to the county national ** for review. Dong Chongli does not interrogate or verify, and Ma Harrier does not urge or ask.

The murderous horse harrier finally relented, and he spoke out through the line, asking those who had fled to come back with peace of mind. The person who listened to this slipped back to the gate of heaven, and sure enough, it was all right to just write a book of reflection. This includes Chang Tianliang, who the harrier wants to punish the most. Because it was Chang Tianliang who made Commander Lu, who took the military salary and lend, suffer a big loss, and because the soldiers of the heavy machine gun battalion were dissatisfied with the commander's deduction of military salaries and defected, the battle situation collapsed, and it was really easy to cure Chang Tianliang's crime. While pointing out Chang Tianliang's crimes, Ma Harrier found a way for him to get out of the way: taking money and lending loans, he was completely doing business, and Chang Tianliang was still representing the Chamber of Commerce. Chang Tianliang, who was getting more and more aware of the number in his heart, hurriedly took out two thousand yuan from the silver dollars he earned and gave it to Ma Harrier.

There is no reason not to accept the horse harrier. In the blink of an eye, rice rose from 95,000 yuan to 400,000 yuan per 200 catties, Huai salt rose from 60,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan, Hunan Qingbu rose from 500,000 yuan to 1.8 million yuan per horse, and a silver dollar could be exchanged for 9,000 yuan in legal currency. The army is hard, the economy is soft, ** rely on this soft and hard to avoid collapse, like now, it is neither soft nor hard, I am afraid that it is too dangerous to go to the knife on the egg.

The Second Field Army divided most of its forces to the northern part of the Dabie Mountains to participate in the Battle of Xinyang and the Battle of Xiangfan, and the other part was transferred to the north of the Huai River to pave the way for the Huaihai War. The two warring sides were evenly matched, which had not been seen for many years, and the capture and loss of the county seat, as a key point of attack and defense, was often an overnight affair. In most cases, the losing side gathers its own local team in the vicinity and rushes violently, while the other side sees that the situation is not good, and flees without waiting for the exchange of fire. Soon, they will use the same method to retake the county seat again. This kind of offensive and defensive switching is really rare in history. Dong Chongli couldn't do anything, he only thought about how to bring the group of people from the county out of the county alive, and then he had to think about how to bring them back to the county seat safely.

After the New Year, soon on March 18, Fu Langxi suddenly sent three regiments of troops to surround the county seat. Dong Chongli, who had been notified in advance, understood that the county national** he had worked so hard to maintain was at the end of his life. He took stock of the county's military and political archives and asked Ma Harrier not to have to fight anymore. Ma Harrier did not stop Dong Chongli's dedication to the city, but he refused to surrender his gun, he took the main force of the Self-Defense Force to sneak out of the north gate overnight, crossed the military division ridge, and ran up the West River to the gate of heaven.

In a flash, it was April, and the gold yuan coupons issued by the national ** since last autumn had changed from one silver dollar to two yuan to 300,000 yuan. Another month passed, and one silver dollar was worth $5.4 million. Chang Tianliang calculated an account in front of Ma Harrier, and the 200 million fiat currency that Commander Lu forcibly lent to the Chamber of Commerce by deducting military salaries at the beginning would only be worth a little more than two cents of silver dollars if it is kept to this day.

The horse harrier touched the only remaining ear and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Often blind, often blind, you are not settling accounts, you are settling my heart!" Without waiting for Chang Tianliang to defend himself, Ma Harrier said that the most powerful thing is to calculate himself. Some time ago, the Xue family's radio was still saying that there was a Yangtze River moat as a barrier, and the ** army was going to reproduce the glory of the Chibi War, and the People's Liberation Army from the north would definitely be like Cao Cao's million-strong army back then.

"The West River is dry, where can the stream on the side of the street go?" Ma Harrier said this, but he was still not convinced. After nearly 20 years of confrontation with opponents, even if you are dying, you have to roll your eyes!

Just after the Qingming Festival, when the incense to worship the grave was still smoking, the Fourth Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, which had come all the way from the three northeastern provinces, drove into the hometown of their supreme commander, Huangzhou City, and crossed the Yangtze River south from the nearby Tuanfeng Wharf. After Qingming, it was Gu Yu, whether she was married or not, as long as she was a young woman, she didn't look forward to this day. As soon as Gu Yu arrived, they could go to the tea grove full of new sprouts, hide deeply, and sing some romantic folk songs loudly, both to tease men and women, to tease others and themselves. If a man and a woman who sing well suddenly have no voice, it must be that the two people have hugged each other like green branches and green leaves, or have undressed and spread on the ground, the man looks at the ground, and the woman looks at the sky. When the song starts again, it must be more romantic, and this year's tea must be particularly mellow. Picking tea during the day and frying it at night, walking on the street of Tianmen, you can feel the sweetness of your mouth when you smack your nose out of thin air.

The fragrance of new tea permeated the country for three days, and the news of the destruction of Nanjing City came from the Xue family's radio. In less than a month, the head of the ** military Gui department, who had retreated from the Dabie Mountains to the three towns of Wuhan, had to issue another order for a general retreat, and on 16 May, the three towns of Wuhan were surrendered to the Fourth Field Army.

"I knew that the senior officials in power were so incompetent, and the positions of president and commander-in-chief should have been given up to me!" On this day, Ma Harrier, who was rarely sad and wept, took all the forces of the Self-Defense Forces and unexpectedly crossed the soup shop and hit an ambush. Starting from the county seat, a battalion of the People's Liberation Army that wanted to attack Tianmen was caught off guard and suffered a big loss, more than 30 people were killed on the spot, and more than 20 people became prisoners of Ma Harrier. The horse harrier did not kill them, and after stripping them naked, he mixed the ashes of the pot with tung oil, and wrote a sentence in front of and behind each captive: You are far worse than Hang Jiufeng! This trick can also be called a discord plan, Ma Harrier is worried that Hang Jiufeng will reorganize his independent brigade to guard the gate of heaven with the support of the People's Liberation Army from the north, and if this is the case, he will never be able to stand out at the gate of heaven. Before these northerners, who had stomach aches as soon as they ate rice, regrouped and launched a new attack, Ma Harrier found Chang Tianliang and told him clearly that the two thousand silver dollars he had given before were not enough for his expenses. Chang Tianliang had to take another two thousand, and Ma Harrier forced him to take out another two or two thousand. The horse harrier sent down the eight thousand silver dollars evenly, and watched the soldiers who had fought for more than ten years before and after the saddle scattered. Regarding himself, Ma Harrier let out his words, and the only way to follow the national ** to withdraw across the Yangtze River can be taken.

The reason why it had to be done was all the Harrier's own idea.

In the middle of the night, Ma Harrier, who was in the bedroom of the wireline, suddenly shouted a story.

Shunzhi died in the spring of the twenty-ninth year, and Kangxi ruled the world at the age of eight. The first year of Yongzheng was the first year of Yongzheng, and the world was too peaceful to fight, but the year was not very good. In the thirteenth year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, Qianlong ascended the throne for only half a year, Fujian and Taiwan rebelled, and in sixty years, the country was full of rivers and mountains, and Jiaqing took charge of the country. The first year of Jiaqing is Bingchen, the White Lotus Sect, the smoke and dust, out of Hubei Shaanchuan Province, the unmasking pole is heavy, Wang Sanhuai, anti-Chongqing, Zhang Han Dynasty, anti-Hubei Province, Qi two widows attack Fancheng, Shanxi Shaanxi sword soldiers, twenty-five years to die, Daoguang caught the dragon court.

The streets without the Self-Defense Forces are chaotic. By the time Hang Jiufeng led a battalion of the People's Liberation Army into the gate of heaven, Ma Harrier had already disappeared.

Hang Jiufeng was very angry, a ground snake like Ma Harrier had to be dealt with by an independent brigade. However, Fu Lancey only talked about it, and did not restore the annihilated independent brigade. If the independent brigade is still there, the horse harrier will not be able to escape from the palm of the Buddha. "You'd better play monkeys!" The angry Hang Jiufeng stood on the Jiufeng Tower, shouting at the northerners who thought there would be a bloody battle. Not only Hang Jiufeng, but the entire Tianmen people are used to treating people in Hebei and Shandong, and Henan people who like to lead monkeys and beg with their artists as people in the same place. The soldiers who were talking to people kindly on the street while sweeping the ground, after understanding what Hang Jiufeng meant, some laughed, and some didn't. Those who laugh don't understand Hang Jiufeng's origin, and those who don't laugh all understand that Hang Jiufeng is not happy that others will help him fight horse harriers. From the first capture of the county seat on July 24, 1947 to the seventh capture of the county seat on March 18, 1949, in nearly two years, the People's Liberation Army entered and exited the operation for the seventh time, and Hang Jiufeng only participated in the last operation. When the two sides were repeatedly strangled, one of the two county magistrates appointed by Fu Langxi was killed by a cold gun and rolled down the ravine, and the body was found three days later. The other was wounded and captured in a surprise attack of the 7th Division of the ** Army, and the severed head was hung on the north gate of the county for many days, until the attacking and defending sides were transposed again, and then they were taken down. Hang Jiufeng didn't really want to be a county magistrate. He said in front of Fu Langxi that the position belonged to him: "I can't be a county magistrate, at least I can keep my head, unlike these northerners who are not familiar with the place, they can't win the battle, not to mention it, and they have separated their heads and heads." Think about it, so many years before the northerners came, except for the group of five to kill a county magistrate, and really let the horse harrier catch and kill, no one was a county magistrate. So, letting a northerner be the county magistrate is not only a shame on your political commissar Fu, but also a shame on the face of the people at the gate of heaven! These words, in fact, are still dissatisfied with the fact that the independent brigade will not be restored. It's a pity that the harrier ran away. The sentence that Ma Harrier wrote on the northerners before he escaped made Hang Jiufeng even more complacent, and his dissatisfaction was also a matter of course.

Hang Jiufeng was unwilling to be an insignificant little character.

One hundred and twenty

When Dong Chongli's storytelling was wafting again, Chang Niangniang was holding Xue Dang and watching her cousin Yuan sell cloth in the New Silk Silk Shop. The sound of the round cousin tearing the cloth was very special, and as soon as the sound sounded, Xue Xing couldn't stop laughing. This kind of crisp laughter through several walls is what Grandma Mei, who has not been out of the house for a long time, likes to hear. Due to the turmoil caused by the situation of your singing and my debut, the business of the store is very light. After waiting for a long time, no one came, so Chang Niangniang drew Xue Ott's attention to the sky. Dozens of chickadees are circling around the Xue family's house. In the center of the swirling, an eagle flutters soothingly like a flag. Xue Xing was still staring at the bright silk cloths, and the graceful whirling of the chickadees did not interest her. It wasn't until a gunshot rang out, scattering the chickadees and eagles, that Xue Xing pointed her little hand to indicate that she wanted to go home.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside. An unattractive man stopped Zhang Langzhong on the street and threw a lot of ugly and foul words and curses at Zhang Langzhong. Zhang Langzhong, who was scolded, was not in a hurry at all, and occasionally asked the other party to leave with a slight smile, saying that he was going to see Grandma Mei. Everyone else probably understood what was going on, not only did no one persuade them, but they also deliberately teased the man and asked him to tell him why he treated Zhang Langzhong like this. The man scolded even harder.

Chang Niangniang understood, went home with Xue Shao, and told the story on the street: "That Zhang Langzhong is almost fifty years old, and he is still provoking other people's daughters-in-law. ”

Grandma Mei said: "This person, I'm afraid I can't change my amorous habits in this life." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Langzhong came into the house. Grandma Mei smiled and said, "What about your tail, lost in the street?" ”

Zhang Langzhong also smiled: "This kind of trivial matter is easy to do, just go back and send him two doses of medicine." ”

At this time, Xue Ling made a cup of tea and poured it out from Xue Lan. Zhang Langzhong took a few sips slowly, gossiping while talking.

The newly established people in the county are very generous, and the so-called pseudo-** people are not all needed, Duan Sanguo will continue to stay in office, and what to do has not yet been decided, temporarily help discuss politics, which is similar to the previous chairman of the Senate. Hang Jiufeng became the prison warden, but he was not happy, he always wanted to switch with Lin Dayu and return to Tianmen to be the district head. Hang Jiufeng didn't think that the title of the prison director was not big enough, but that Ma Harrier was at the gate of heaven and didn't go anywhere, so he had to stare at the streets and streets day and night, see corpses when he died, and see people when he lived, and he would never give up if he didn't find out where Ma Harrier went.

For this reason, Hang Jiufeng took Ah Cai to Wuhan to find Fu Langxi, who was the vice chairman of the provincial people's **, to comment. Fu Langxi went to Beijing, where he was going to hold a preparatory meeting to prepare for the establishment of a new country**. The couple only met Ziyu, who finally got pregnant. Ziyu, who would protect his abdomen with his hands at every step, persuaded Hang Jiufeng how to arrange those few people who were inextricably linked to the independent brigade, Fu Langxi had already greeted the county. So the meaning of the county is also the meaning of Fu Langxi. If Fu Ranci wants to arrange it this way, he must have a reason. Hang Jiufeng has been doing somersaults at the gate of heaven for so many years, and he should also go to the county town to live and enjoy the happiness brought by his new life.

When leaving the county seat, Ah Cai didn't say that he also had something to do, and followed Hang Jiufeng, looking like a husband and a wife. When she met Ziyu, Ah Cai said that she didn't care how the county arranged her, and asked Ziyu to help her transfer to Wuhan. Ziyu is lonely in Wuhan, Fu Langxi has a lot of things, five out of ten days to be busy in the office or outside somewhere until the third watch before going home, if you leave Wuhan to run down, half a month without seeing anyone is good, this time to the western part of Hubei Province to inspect, go back for two whole months, just arrived home, and have to go to Beijing again. Hearing Ah Cai say that she wanted to be transferred to Wuhan, Ziyu was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth: "I was about to say this, if you don't speak, I can't bear to break up your husband and wife alive." In fact, Ziyu has been fighting Xue Ning's idea, she thinks that Grandma Mei, Xue Ling and Liu Zimo were originally born and raised in Wuhan, and it should be a matter of course for them to come back to Wuhan to live. Ziyu told Fu Langxi about his thoughts, but Fu Langxi was very opposed, he asked Ziyu to think about the role that Grandma Mei and Xue Ling have played at the gate of heaven over the years. Nowadays, the place and the people must be peaceful, and there is no need for all kinds of riots, so the key is not that Grandma Mei and Xue Ling are inseparable from the gate of heaven, but that the gate of heaven is no longer inseparable from them.

Hang Jiufeng never dreamed that Ziyu would really dare to call the shots, and immediately left Ah Cai behind to be in charge of culture and education in the Military Control Commission with him.

Hang Jiufeng felt that he had lost his wife and broken his soldiers, and the matter of wanting to return to Tianmen to be the district chief was not done, and their husband and wife were also separated! He was angry, so he said cruel words in front of Ziyu: if Ah Cai couldn't return to the gate of heaven, he would take Ziyu on the road as a companion. Ziyu is not the same as before, and for a while she forgot the doctor's instructions to meditate on the fetus, she suddenly got up from the chair and said three times in a row: "Where do you think this is, if there is a seed, you can try it!" As soon as the words fell, the unformed fetus in the womb spurted out with a pool of blood. Hang Jiufeng knew that this disaster was too big, so he had to leave Ah Cai's goings aside, leave Wuhan, and return to the gate of heaven alone.

Xue Ning and the others thought that Ah Cai was just envious of the prosperity of Wuhan, and Grandma Mei flicked her fingers on the armrest of the recliner a few times, gently reminding them that it would be nothing if Ah Cai only had this kind of thought, but she was afraid that she would still remember the humiliation of the second boss of Chun Manyuan back then. Xue Lan couldn't help but say after asking the ins and outs of the future, after so many years, Ah Cai is also a, and she is still holding a grudge against it, and she really has no taste at all in her life. Zhang Langzhong and Chang Niangniang said that from Grandma Mei to Xue Ling, and then to Xue Lan, each generation is more beautiful than the next, of course, I don't understand the pain of a woman with a beautiful face but a head of leprosy. Grandma Mei was flicking the armrest of the recliner with her fingers again, asking Xue Lan to go to the study to prepare paper and polish ink, and Zhang Langzhong wrote a prescription to use for a while. Just a few days ago, Tailor Deng asked someone to bring a large bag of new clothes for the summer, and while she could still do it, she wanted to write a letter to thank them.

As soon as Xue Lan left, Zhang Langzhong had to take the pulse for Grandma Mei: "When you take the pen hard, the pulse will be inaccurate." Zhang Langzhong closed his eyes and calmly experienced for a while, his eyes had not yet opened, and his face smiled first, "You are really a blessed and noble person, seeing that this pulse is like a stream in spring, fine is fine, but that is not your old problem, if the river becomes, it is not good to be small, you are a stream in heaven, it is not big, such a trickle is to flow endlessly." ”

Liu Zimo accompanied Zhang Langzhong into the study in front. Xue Ning and Chang Niangniang had to support Grandma Mei, walking very slowly step by step, and when they entered the study, Zhang Langzhong had already prepared the prescription. Liu Zimo glanced at it and immediately handed it to Xue Ning. Xue Ling only glanced at it, and handed it over to Grandma Mei. Grandma Mei put down the prescription after looking at it for a while, sighed, and gently counted Zhang Langzhong, although she is very good at seeing a doctor, but she loves to pretend to be a ghost, a good prescription, and she insists on adding a few specious things.

Grandma Mei pointed her fingers, and three words appeared on the prescription: milk hole water.

"I'm at this age, and I don't have a few days to live, but I have to use this kind of thing to decoction and drink. Once it is known by those who love to dig up the ancients, they talk about it all day long, where to put the old faces on both sides of the nose! ”

Zhang Langzhong didn't understand what he was wrong, and when he figured out that Grandma Mei understood the word milk acupoint as a secret place on a woman's body, he not only laughed out loud: "In the practice of medicine, milk hole water refers to the stalactite next to the stalactite. This milk hole water can make people fat and healthy, stimulate appetite, moisten the body, and live with stalactites. Just like the juice in a woman's milk and the water in her hole, without these two things, how can there be later reproduction. ”

Hearing this, Grandma Mei also laughed, and while apologizing for blaming Zhang Langzhong, she pointed to the prescription: "This medicine is called Wu Daddy Mud, if you look at Wen Shengyi again, it should be the stinky mud between the toes of the black-haired old man!" Everyone in the house was amused by Grandma Mei's words.

"The stinking mud between people's toes is really a good medicine. Whether the symptom is a problem, even if it is symptomatic, I don't dare to give you this medicine for the rest of the year, although the medicine is not expensive or cheap, but you are everyone's respected Grandma Mei, let you take such a medicine, others don't scold, I don't have the face to practice medicine anymore. This flavor medicine was first made in Java, Siam, and Laos in Nanfan, and later in Yunnan and other places. It is said that the fine tea powder is put into the bamboo tube, the two ends are blocked to death, buried in the mud ditch, as long as the bamboo tube is not rotten, the longer the better, after taking it out, pounded into juice, and then boiled. The small and moist ones have the best medicinal power, followed by the large ones and the scorched ones. It is used in my prescription to clear the diaphragm and dissolve phlegm. ”

Zhang Langzhong, who came to be interested, became speechless. Everything between heaven and earth can be used for medicine, and there are termite mud, white eel mud, dog urine mud, donkey urine mud, manure pit bottom mud, field mud, well bottom mud, according to the gold, wood, water, fire and soil, the mud belongs to the soil, and the same belongs to the dirt on the pig trough, the ancient bricks on the wall and the dust on the widow's bedside. Speaking of widows, Grandma Mei and Chang Niangniang glanced at each other. Zhang Langzhong understood that he had lost his words, so he simply said more carefully, whether it was a man or a woman, and there were sores on his ears, as long as he applied the dust and sesame oil on the widow's bedside, he would sleep well.

"You use this medicine too strangely, you have an evil spirit!" Grandma Mei was talking gloomily, and Xue Lan came in with pen and ink, "I don't want to live with anything, I just want to have the strength to write a few letters." Grandma Mei reached for the brush, and Xue Lan hurriedly dipped the ink and handed it to her. Grandma Mei wrote the letter and spread it out on the table. People who know the words can see it clearly, Grandma Mei is not thanking Tailor Deng, but asking Tailor Deng to find a way to tell the second boss that a woman named Ah Cai left the gate of heaven and came to Wuhan, and nine times out of ten she wanted to announce her personal vendetta, please be careful, of course it is good to be able to resolve it, but if you can't do this, you have to find another way to live.

Chang Niangniang didn't see it clearly, she heard it clearly from Xue Lan's whispering. Chang Niangniang is old, her mouth is not as tight as before, and she wants to say a second sentence after saying a sentence, and there are five or six sentences in a row: two years ago, Grandma Mei said that no matter whether it is idle or serious, if you see it, you have to look at it as if you didn't see it, and someone has to take care of it, which is also a matter of Xue Lemon, she has become old, and every word she says has the smell of rotten wood in the deep ravine. Mr. Dong said that at the end of the book, he always had to play a brake drum, and Grandma Mei's brake drum had already been played, just like a person who heard the story was walking on the road to the end, and then playing the brake drum was to add to the snake, that is, to be an old man was not enlightened, thinking that the children had not grown up. Based on the letter in front of me, it is still light to say that Grandma Mei beats the brake drum more often, and saying that it is heavier is equivalent to sleeping in a coffin and not knowing whether she is dead or alive. In previous years, when A gained power, B fled for his life; When B gains momentum, A hugs his head and runs away. You come and go, no matter how ruthless you lose, it is also a constraint on the other party. Today the situation has completely changed. Compared with the time when resisting the Japanese, the people ** said this time that they were retreating to the rear in a planned way, which was completely shameless. The defeat is like a mountain, who has ever seen a mountain fall, and can still get up again? In Dong Chongli's storytelling, the man called Gonggong was defeated, crashed headlong into Buzhou Mountain, the sky fell, and Nuwa, who had great powers, had to pick up some stones and throw them to mend the holes. Say a thousand, say 10,000, at this time, to report to the distant Wuhan, once discovered, it is difficult to say whether it is a disaster, but it will certainly not be a blessing.

Chang Niangniang has never said so many words in one breath in her life. Grandma Mei nodded while listening, she admitted that Chang Niangniang did not say a wrong word, but she was not at fault, and she couldn't help but be silent when she saw someone in a catastrophe.

Grandma Mei handed the letter to Liu Zimo and asked him to find a suitable messenger. Then turned the topic to Zhang Langzhong: "I also prescribe a prescription for myself, please help me take a look." As he spoke, he picked up the brush and wrote two words on the paper: Angelica.

Zhang Langzhong stared at the word angelica, and it took a long time before he spoke: "You always use this method to send guests, okay, I really should go." ”

"Mr. Zhang means that angelica is a medicine but not a medicine, right?"

Zhang Langzhong just walked out of the door, lowering his head and doing something wrong. Xue Ling and Liu Zimo followed, and the three of them were silent behind the gate for a while.

Xue Lan said: "It's a pity that our idea has become a river flowing eastward. ”

Xue Ning said: "Don't say nonsense, Mr. Zhang is very smart, and Grandma Mei will become healthy." ”

Liu Zimo said: "Being seen by Grandma Mei, it will be even more difficult for her to take medicine in the future." ”

"Grandma Mei is more sober than us, she understands that time is running out, and angelica is no longer a medicine for her, but an event and a mood. Although the situation of the elderly is very poor, it is stable. However, you still have to be on guard, maybe a gust of wind will blow on your body, and the time limit will come. Zhang Langzhong's face was very solemn when he spoke.

Xue Ning's heart ached, and her eyes immediately became wet.

One-two-one

At night, Grandma Mei boiled water to make Guyu tea and drank it, so she woke up very early.

When Grandma Mei told the family this, everyone understood that Grandma Mei recalled the scene at home when Xue Ling was not born in a dream. This is the third time Grandma Mei has said such a thing. Everyone felt that the wish that was hidden deep in Grandma Mei's heart should be satisfied.

Although the Snow family is not good at tea, there is no lack of understanding of tea, not to mention that there was once a Kojima Kazuko who treated tea as if it were his own beauty. Xue Ling selected two purple clay pots, the large one was put on the charcoal fire to boil the wax snow, and the small one was put into the Gu Yu tea, waiting to receive the water of the wax snow that was slightly cooled after boiling. Xue Ling took the Gu Yu tea brewed in water and asked Grandma Mei to drink it. Grandma Mei took a sip, as if she wanted to speak, but she didn't make a sound. After drinking one cup and adding some water to drink again, Grandma Mei said, "Today's tea looks like a round cousin's brew!" "The latest memory of boiling water and making tea is Liu Zimo. In the years when he was under house arrest by the Japanese, Liu Zimo always remembered what Grandma Mei said, and he usually didn't drink tea, but every year during the two solar terms of Guyu and Bailu, he must go to the teahouse next to the Spring Manyuan Garden, and ask for a pot of good tea made of laxue boiled water, and taste it carefully. In his feeling, the tea in front of him is no different from the tea brewed by the master in the teahouse, and its freshness, sweetness and temperament are even better. Grandma Mei can't taste it, saying that it is similar to the tea of Pingshui meeting when cousin Yuan entertains guests in a brothel, which is too sad. Xue Ning stopped Chang Niangniang, who was trying to tell her frankly, and asked everyone on another occasion to remember not to do stupid things: "Don't let Grandma Mei know, no matter how good the tea is, she can't drink it!" ”

This day is white dew, and it is the best day for Laxue to boil water and make tea. Grandma Mei, who couldn't taste tea, only remembered this kind of tea-related days.

When the white dew arrives, the autumn mood is more obvious. The Xue family became more and more worried about what Zhang Langzhong said, but they were afraid that the wind would blow Grandma Mei, and if it was not noon, they would never open any window, and when they had to go in and out, everyone would turn sideways to make the door open and close as small as possible. A prematurely fallen dead leaf turned over the high tile ridge of Ziyang Pavilion, and fell into the courtyard with a thud, Chang Niangniang, who was collecting and drying on the corridor, thought that it was going to be windy, and hurriedly checked all the dozens of doors and windows, large and small, and then went to Liu Zimo for verification. Listening to Liu Zimo say that the climate has been relatively stable in recent days, and there will be no windy weather, Chang Niangniang was slightly relieved.

The white clouds in the sky were indeed very stable, and it was already evening, and there was still not much change. The sun is shining outside the window, and the house is calm.

The guy who went to Wuhan to buy the goods came back and brought back a few newly made cheongsams. The dusty man didn't care about resting, so he talked about the situation when Tailor Deng told him that Ah Cai went to the cheongsam shop three times before and after.

The first time I went, Ah Cai took purple jade with her. Tailor Deng thought that it would be good for a female cadre like Ziyu to wear an ordinary cheongsam, but she didn't expect that she would make the kind of cheongsam that Grandma Mei and Xue Ling did, and she also wanted a red and purple one.

On the day of the appointment to take the cheongsam, they went together, and the two of them praised the craftsmanship of Tailor Deng, and Ah Cai suddenly asked about the Spring Garden. After the situation stabilized, Chun Manyuan's business was so good that it could be used for two nights in one night, so as to satisfy both the artists who were waiting in line to perform on stage, and the theatergoers who had money in their hands but couldn't buy tickets. At this moment, the second boss, who was either busy in front of the stage or turned behind the stage all day long, didn't even say hello, said he wouldn't do it if he didn't do it, and the person ran like a ghost, disappearing without a trace. Tailor Deng said to Ah Cai that he did hear a little rumor, working in Chunmanyuan, even the big boss will inexplicably offend someone who can't be offended, and the person who is the second boss has to show up every day to socialize with all aspects, if you don't get into trouble one day, you can close the gate of the theater and go home to sleep, it is really a happier day than the New Year. Those women who came to the store to make cheongsams did not go to the Spring Garden, and there was no need for Tailor Deng to ask, as long as they listened to the meaning of their words. The news that Tailor Deng heard was that this time, the second boss offended a certain important member of the Military Control Commission, fortunately, there was an old confidant who reported in time to let him hide in time, otherwise, even if he would not be under the water tower, he would be thrown into the Yangtze River, and let the catfish and eels drill countless holes in him. Ah Cai was very angry and told Ziyu at that time that there were traitors hiding in the Military Control Commission, and it was necessary to carry out another rebellion.

Xue Ning heard his wit from Tailor Deng's words, and the letter that the second boss avoided in time was passed on by Grandma Mei, and he told others in a different way that he could not only keep the secret, but also report the outcome of the matter to Grandma Mei through his buddy. Xue Ning felt that with Tailor Deng's shrewdness, even if someone buried ** under the store, he couldn't hurt a single hair of him. "Not bad at all, otherwise why would Natalia and I like him so much!" Grandma Mei also smiled in agreement.

The third time, Ah Cai went to Tailor Deng alone, took out a black mercerized satin, and asked him to make a set of shrouds for women. This time, Ah Cai was wearing the uniform of the Military Control Commission, and he also wore a pistol brighter than black mercerized satin on his waist. "I know you never make a shroud for people, you won't fail to make this shroud, you must make it." Ah Cai left the clothes and left. Tailor Deng had the idea of sending the clothes to the Military Control Commission, but when he couldn't bear it, he had his feet bound with strips of cloth so that his thoughts could not control his actions. In this way, Tailor Deng forced himself to figure it out, the shroud is also worn by people, but the person who wears the shroud does not need to stand, sit, walk, run, can't see the fat and thinness of the gown, can't touch the length of the pants, the waist is elastic, the chest is convex and concave, and the tailor can't find fault with what it looks like. Ah Cai personally explained to Tailor Deng that the woman who asked for the shroud should be seventy years old after the Mid-Autumn Festival. When Tailor Deng finished drawing white lines of various sizes on the black mercerized satin with chalk, and when he picked up the scissors to prepare for cutting, he suddenly realized that the various sizes he had drawn casually belonged to the woman who had been making cheongsams in his shop for decades, and whose body shape had long been memorized. That woman was actually Grandma Mei.

After Tailor Deng asked the guy to come back, he hid it from Grandma Mei and quietly told Xue Ling and Liu Zimo about it. Tailor Deng remembered many of Mei's grandmother's habits when she lived in Xian'anfang, such as the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, she would wear a new cheongsam and eat the mooncakes sold in Wang Yuxia's shop. Tailor Deng has never forgotten these, and the reason why he did not carry this kind of food on a long way is because he was afraid that if the time on the road was too long, the moon cakes would grow green hairs and be so moldy that they could not enter his mouth. Tailor Deng said that this time he had to send Hongmao thousands of miles anyway, buy some moon cakes from Wang Yuxia's shop and ask someone to send them to Tianmen, and people at the age of 70 have not much time to eat moon cakes. What's more, Ah Cai seems to have guessed that the letter that let the second boss avoid the limelight was written by Grandma Mei and forwarded to the destination by him. Otherwise, Ah Cai would not have come to Tailor Deng's cheongsam shop for the third time with an obvious provocative gesture. Her words were by no means casual.

"It's no wonder that everyone digs up the ancients, and when the craft grows, they will become half-human and half-immortal." Tailor Deng's words made Xue Ling cry in the middle of the night.

Once, Grandma Mei noticed that Xue Ning's eye sockets were a little red and swollen: "Death is my business, why are you afraid?" ”

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid I'll never see you again."

"That's impossible, I'm not going anywhere but heaven."

"If you say it, it counts, and you must wait for me in heaven. In heaven, will I still recognize you? ”

"I haven't been there either. But I always think that there should be no strangers there, everyone is naturally familiar, even if they haven't met for a hundred years, they still know each other. It is also possible that everyone is the same, knowing one person is equivalent to knowing everyone, and loving one person will love everyone. ”

"That's the case, of course Senator Wang is happy, but is Grandma Mei happy?"

"You're still a child, and you'll only think about heaven with an earthly heart!"

"When the time comes, you have to quietly drop a word, I want to know as soon as possible, whether you can continue to wear the cheongsam made by Master Deng there."

"Yes, surely. It's not like the gate of heaven, all of them are women, and with a set of cheongsams, there are many inequalities. Speaking of which, everyone thinks that the tailor is eccentric, and I came up with such a thing as a cheongsam specifically for you. When you think about it, that's a pretty good thing. In terms of figure, the best should be Ah Cai. There is also a ruffle, and that pair of breasts can love the dead in a padded jacket in winter. Mi is also a terrible woman, she walks around the blacksmith shop, her ass cocked higher than the men who are striking iron. Besides, cousin Yuan, the first time I saw her, the appearance of wearing a cheongsam was a joke. You don't know, when Tailor Deng was famous for making cheongsam, it was not because of how good his craftsmanship was, but because he never made cheongsams for women who were not suitable for wearing cheongsam. Especially for those foreign women who lived in the concession, Tailor Deng said that they were not the material to wear cheongsam, which even angered foreign men. Where foreigners think it is too good, Tailor Deng can't look down on it. Later, everyone recognized Tailor Deng's reasoning, the cheongsam really can't be worn by just a woman, otherwise it will be self-defeating and humiliating. ”

"But why did Tailor Deng later make cheongsam for Kazuko Kojima?"

"Maybe you'll have the opportunity to ask him personally. I just guess that even Mr. Liu had to be aggrieved to help the Japanese study the weather, and Tailor Deng was a craftsman, let alone an exception. Actually, Kazuko Kojima has a little short and thick legs. ”

"Is Tailor Deng deliberately making Japanese women ugly?"

"No, it won't. Tailor Deng is a frank man. Do you still remember the seventh lady who forced your mother to ask for a snow fox fur coat, Tailor Deng once said to her face that if she wore a cheongsam with a high slit and exposed her thighs that she was not satisfied with, she was afraid that men's liking for her would be damaged a lot. ”

The cheongsam about Kazuko Kojima was finally made clear by Liu Zimo. After Xue Ning finished telling, Grandma Mei nodded and sighed:

"That's right, Mr. Liu is sad, and Tailor Deng will also be sad, one more wears a cheongsam, one less wears a kimono, at least the eyes are cleaner."

The osmanthus blossoms on the osmanthus tree are blooming. In previous years, if the golden cinnamon is too fragrant, the silver cinnamon must be light and tasteless, as if to respond to the change of dynasty, this year is not divided into gold cinnamon and silver cinnamon, that kind of fragrance is particularly different. The doors and windows of the Xue family are closed tightly, and the fragrance is difficult to disperse when it wafts in, and the feeling of the fragrance of osmanthus this year is different from that of the people on the street. Occasionally, outsiders such as Cousin Yuan come in, only knowing that the Xue family's house can keep things that drift away in the wind, but it is difficult to understand the stagnation and depression in it. As soon as the osmanthus blossomed, Grandma Mei was there with her fingers counting how many days were left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and told Xue Ning, don't be too concerned about the unexpected situation, you should eat big moon cakes, you should eat good moon cakes, although you eat big, eat good, don't be like those rich people on the street, as soon as the fish turned over, a snail began to fish in her throat. Xue Ning was about to ask Yu Ghost Fish to buy moon cakes, and Tailor Deng really asked someone to bring a box of Wang Yuxia moon cakes, and Grandma Mei was happy, and received two more Wang Yuxia moon cakes one after another.

When she received the first Wang Yuxia mooncakes, Grandma Mei didn't wait for others to say, and concluded that it was a good thing done by Tailor Deng. Thinking of the words brought back by Tailor Deng, no matter how delicious Wang Yuxia's mooncakes are, it is difficult to make Xue Ning smile sincerely.

The second Wang Yuxia mooncake was delivered to the door, and I heard that it was arranged by Liu Ziwen, but no one in the Xue family believed it. When the people had not completely abandoned the three towns of Wuhan, Liu Ziwen, who had a premonition that the situation was not good, went to ** with all the easy-to-carry assets. Under the hint of the moon cake delivery person, Liu Zimo found a letter from the mezzanine of the moon cake box, and when he opened it, it was indeed written by Liu Ziwen himself.

The most unexpected thing for the Xue family was that Ah Cai also sent moon cakes from Wang Yuxia's shop. Grandma Mei was even happier, and took a bite of the mooncake sent by Ah Cai. She divided the rest of the mooncakes into a handful for everyone to eat in person. She said:

"This is the gospel!"

One-two-two

Before Ah Cai came back with the moon cakes, a Mr. Xu came from the lower reaches of the West River. Mr. Xu is good at feng shui, especially good at choosing yin houses. He talked all the way, and the Xue family made a post, specifically asking him to choose a yin house for Grandma Mei. Chang Niangniang, who received Mr. Xu at the door, felt confused, although she was now in charge of Xue Ning, if she really wanted to do such a thing, she would definitely have to ask herself first. What's more, with Grandma Mei's beliefs, she will never use this way to deal with her own affairs. Mr. Xu took out the post, Chang Niangniang couldn't understand it, and turned to find Xue Ning. Xue Ning has not finished reading it and it is clear that the post was written by Ah Cai, and this matter must be manipulated by Ah Cai behind his back. Xue Ning didn't say anything, and when she saw Mr. Xu, she was a little more polite, and she accepted the matter, and asked Chang Niangniang to send a heavy package.

Mr. Xu sees feng shui as different, if the person who is about to live in the yin house is a man, he must take a look at it with his own eyes, and if it is a woman, he must also pass by the door of his bedroom. The dragon wants to be near the water, and the tiger wants to enter the mountain, this is the truth of the yang house. The choice of the Yin House is not like this, some people are dragon-shaped dragon nature, some people are dragon-shaped tiger nature, some people are tiger-shaped tiger nature, and some people are tiger-shaped dragon nature. Regarding the shape and nature of Grandma Mei, Mr. Xu did not say anything from beginning to end, when Chang Niangniang asked, Mr. Xu only said that the secret of heaven should not be revealed, and the less outsiders knew, the better. Specifically, after going out, head up the hill to the west.

Xue Ning and Chang Niangniang led Mr. Xu out of the lower street and climbed up Xiaoxi Mountain, when the three of them suddenly stopped: in the col not far away, a woman from a tailor's family was lying in the grass with a soldier in her arms. Both of them were asleep, their stripped thighs glistening in the sun. Xue Ning hurriedly motioned for everyone to retreat along the road. "Don't look at it here! If people know that we have seen their private affairs, it will be terrible! The woman said that if the woman at the gate of heaven didn't make some amorous scenes, everyone would look down on her. The man is different, he is a person in the army, and there was an officer who was shot for robbing Hang Jiufeng's things, which is adultery with a married woman in the people, but I am afraid that it will also be dealt with by military law. No matter how important the Yin Mansion is, it can't be worth a human life! After going down Xiaoxi Mountain, and then going to Xiaodong Mountain, Mr. Xu, who was walking in front, only paid attention to the mountain, and was suddenly pulled by Xue Ning, who was left behind. Looking in the direction of Xue Ning's finger, there were many drying baskets on the tile ridge of the rich family, and a few children of half age were hiding on the edge of the back ditch that was level with the tile ridge, stretching the bamboo pole with thorns tied to the top of the house through the deep ditch behind the house to steal the cotton in the drying basket. "Don't look at it here. Look at those children, they didn't expect anyone to come, and if they were suddenly frightened, they would definitely fall into the deep ditch behind the house! They took many detours, and finally reached the mountains in the south area, where Xue Ling stopped Mr. Xu again. There is a lot of young grass growing on the slopes of the hill to the south, and the hares, who have to prepare for the winter at the beginning of autumn, are dragging their families to feed, and when they see someone coming, they want to escape, but they are reluctant to leave. "These little guys, if they don't grow more fat as soon as possible, how can they stand up to living on this barren mountain and wild mountain in the cold winter weather! Let's go somewhere else! Mr. Xu walked back the way he came. Chang Niangniang kept reminding her in the back, and there was still the north that she didn't look at. Mr. Xu refused to respond, buried his head and just walked his own way, and when he arrived at the entrance of the lower street, he turned around and looked again, Xue Ling and Chang Niangniang had been left nearly a mile away by him.

The two women who walked slowly finally arrived in front of them, and before they could catch their breath, Mr. Xu wanted to return the untouched envelope to Xue Ning. Those who know how to read yin and yang feng shui are some extremely smart people, and when Mr. Xu came to the door with the post, the little hesitation that flashed on Xue Ning's face made him suspicious. Mr. Xu doesn't read much, not as good as a real reader, but he knows how to read and avoid bias, just like these words on the post, the writer uses more bias, which seems to be wrong at a glance. At the beginning, he still thought in his heart that with the reputation of the Xue family, he would never let people scribble on his posts, which he knew soon after entering the door, and the words on the posts were no different from the words written by Grandma Mei, Xue Ling and Liu Zimo in the study.

Mr. Xu understood from his confusion, and deliberately walked around the street, and said when he met people: "Nothing in the world is true, even ** is fake, before going on stage, he will say that the melon is sweet and the bitter gourd is bitter, and after he comes to the stage, it becomes bitter gourd sweet, and the melon is bitter." ”

As he was talking, a few children playing in the gazebo ran back like a wind: "Here comes a beautiful female officer!" After a while, the female officer that the children had spoken of appeared. Most people couldn't help but shout: "It's Ah Cai!" ”

Mr. Xu, who suddenly realized, was about to speak, when Xue Ning stretched out his hand and swayed it again and again. Mr. Xu turned to look at Ah Cai, who was also looking at Mr. Xu.

"It's really better to see than to hear, if everyone in the world is like the Xue family, you don't need to see any feng shui. A hundred years later, wherever you are buried, it will be a blessed land. Mr. Xu left after speaking, leaving no extra words.

Those who don't know the details should only be full of good words. Only Ah Cai answered: "This is equivalent to not saying it." People are buried, and of course they can be treated with a blessed land. ”

At this time, a county ran over when he heard the news, and happened to greet Ah Cai in front of Ziyang Pavilion. The mother and son held hands and made love for a while, and Ah Cai couldn't wait to tell his son to make some preparations as soon as possible and go to Wuhan with him in two days. Yixian was very happy and thought it was just going to Wuhan to have a look. The cousin Yuan, who was standing at the door of the silk shop, reminded Yixian that Ah Cai meant that after going to Wuhan this time, he would live there for a long time, and find a female college student to marry in the future, and start a family there for the rest of his life. The county general looked at Ah Cai suspiciously, but the corner of his eye was looking into the Ziyang Pavilion. Ah Cai nodded, but Yixian was not satisfied, shook his hand fiercely, turned around and walked away. Ah Cai smiled: "I haven't seen him for a long time, and I thought he had really grown up!" ”

At this time, Ah Cai seems to be recreating the charm of the first time he appeared at the gate of heaven in a small sedan chair. Duan Sanguo's views echoed those who had seen the scene back then. Ah Cai was very happy and asked Duan Sanguo about his current situation. Duan Sanguo said that he couldn't even do anything else, and he couldn't do anything else, and he was wondering if he was going down to the street to worship a master and learn a craft that could □ a mouth. Ah Cai immediately came up with an idea for him, and took advantage of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival to write a post and send it to Fu Langxi, only writing greetings, and not writing a single superfluous word. "The good deeds you do are like meat buried under a bowl, peeled open to be seen. Without your family, how can a county grow so big! The person next to him interjected and said, if it wasn't for Duan Sanguo's secret help, Ma Harrier would have killed Hang Jiufeng a long time ago. Ah Cai didn't take this and continued. Everyone immediately realized that Ah Cai must have come back to do something important. This time, it was Cousin Yuan who made it clear what everyone wanted to ask, Ah Cai should indeed make a break between his marriage and Hang Jiufeng, both of them are the backbone of the new regime, if they still insist on polygamy, everyone will feel that this ** is not the people.

Through the crowd, Ah Cai saw Xue Ling walking towards the Ziyang Pavilion. She didn't care about saying anything else, she stretched out her hand to push away the person in front of her, and shouted loudly, asking Xue Ning to take her to Grandma Mei: "I brought a little Wang Yuxia mooncake to the old man." Ah Cai waved the box in his hand, saying that there was something that Grandma Mei preferred.

Xue Ning waited a little, and after Ah Cai followed, she led the way to Grandma Mei's bedroom. Ah Cai walked very quietly, and when she was close to Grandma Mei's bedroom, Xue Ning reminded her twice to walk slowly and not to bring the wind up. Xue Ning pushed the door open a gap that could only pass through one person, and after the two people entered, all kinds of pendants in the room did not swing, but Grandma Mei, who was lying on the bed, said: "Where did the wind come from, it's so cold!" ”

Since eating Wang Yuxia's mooncakes, Grandma Mei seems to be much healthier from the appearance. After a few words of gossip, Ah Cai asked Chang Niangniang on the side to help open the carton and take out the gifts inside. Chang Niangniang first used scissors to cut the rope on the carton, and then opened the lid to reveal a piece of black mercerized satin.

"I haven't seen such a beautiful black satin!" Chang Niangniang was about to open it completely, but the quick-eyed Xue Ning stopped her.

"Open it and take a look, if Grandma Mei likes it, I can be happy in person! Even Tailor Deng himself said that he had never made such a beautiful dress! I know you like cheongsam, how can a woman wear that thing all her life! Ah Cai said intermittently, and when she wanted to get the carton again, Chang Niangniang, who understood, refused to give it to her. Ah Cai raised his voice and said, "The anti-servant Lord should also see who he is in front of." Xue Ning stepped forward and took the cardboard box and put it beside her: "Let's put this matter aside, let's talk about the situation in Wuhan first, are there more women looking for Tailor Deng to make cheongsam?" Although he only said it gently, there was a compelling power in his eyes. Ah Cai suddenly stood up, saying that the Xue family, who had always treated people gently, has now become quite unreasonable, and can see the big from the small to the big, but I am afraid that if I change my ears to listen to Xue Ning's words, people will think that there is dissatisfaction with the current situation.

Grandma Mei struggled on the bed, as if phlegm was stuck in her throat. Xue Ning hurriedly stepped forward to hug her, and let Chang Niangniang keep patting her on the back. Ah Cai was not idle, and asked one after another if he wanted to call Zhang Langzhong.

Grandma Mei relieved herself, blinked her eyelids and made an unused expression: "When a person is sick, the one who knows the root is still himself." At these times, it is like a hungry insect growing under the chest, which is not to say that it is hungry during the day, and it is often woken up by it when it sleeps at night. Ah Cai, you know, the people in this house are only the spring after the Japanese surrendered and followed us to starve, and at other times, who doesn't want to eat brown sugar has brown sugar, and wants to eat rock sugar and rock sugar. Yesterday, Zhang Langzhong came to see that it was a poor person, and I didn't bother to argue with him. Nacha didn't want to eat, I wanted to eat but couldn't, except for the hungry worm, there was a small hand in the throat, even if there was only a grain of rice to swallow, it had to grab it, and throw it out the same way. So, don't blame Zhang Lang for having an ordinary pulse, it's really my body that is full of yin and yang, and the five veins of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are a mess. In this way, Ah Cai really understands what I want most now. Unlike other people, who know that I am like this, as long as I can't get up in one breath, they will whine and mourn, and they will pretend to be nothing, lie and tell lies, and coax me with good words of immortality and longevity. Ah Cai, you have also been a family with the people in this house, and you are so careful that you think about it so carefully, while inviting Mr. Feng Shui to choose the cemetery, you will make the shroud, take it, I can still tell which is the cheongsam and which is the shroud. ”

Grandma Mei said this, where do others have other ideas. Xue Ning and Chang Niangniang were reluctant to do anything, and pushed the carton to Ah Cai. Ah Cai, who was very resolute, hesitated, and had to grit her teeth when she wanted to speak: "What I brought is a shroud." But I'm not here to honor you. Instead, I'm going to curse you and condemn you! I've already found out, if you hadn't written to Tailor Deng, how could that second boss with a bad stomach escape the palm of my hand. ”

"Little Acai, you can't treat yourself like this. You understand it's not bad for me to do that. The second boss has just been in the theater for a long time, talking about people when he sees people, talking about ghosts, pretending to be a grandson when he sees a famous person, and then he wants to get back the lost face in front of people who are not famous people. I'm not helping you, but if you really do anything to the second boss, it's hard to say whether you can gain a foothold in the three towns of Wuhan in the future, that place, there are more cars, more roads, more mouths, it looks very big, but it's actually smaller than the gate of heaven. When Mr. Dong fled from the gate of heaven, you haven't found out the reason for many years. I sent a letter to Wuhan from hundreds of miles away, and you immediately found out, this is the reason for the smallness! Such a small is very big to the detriment of people. Speaking of which, there are many examples, President Li Da of the Wuchang Army, Generalissimo Wu of the Beiyang Army, and those who dared to set up a separate national ** in Wuhan to make a confrontation with Nanjing, which one took advantage of Wuhan? There are also people who do not hurt, such as Natalia, a Russian woman who first opened a cheongsam shop in Xian'anfang, who only knew herself when she came, and when she left, the women in the three towns of Wuhan wanted to see her off. Say a word that you don't like, you are the only one who doesn't like the second boss, and you like the second boss to give them a good show every day, and there are one and a half towns in the three towns of Wuhan. If you can't stand there, don't you want to go back to the gate of heaven! ”

"Why do you have to go back to Tianmen, there are still Shanghai and Beijing to go to!"

"Anyway, you have prepared a shroud for me, if you don't listen to anything, if you don't listen to it, return it to me, and put it in the coffin together when the time comes. Hang Jiufeng always said that you and him are inseparable from the scale rod and scale. Why, I thought about it for you, just because you can always think about one place when you encounter something, he also hates the person you hate, and he wants to kill the person you want to kill. I also thought for you, as long as there is a difference, for example, if you insist on going to Wuhan, and he doesn't want to go anywhere but the gate of heaven, there will be a difference between you and him. I sent a letter to the second boss and let him escape the catastrophe, and the same catastrophe would be passed on to me. You invited Mr. Feng Shui for me, and made such a good shroud, outsiders think that this is cursing me to die early, think about it realistically, it's still a good thing to do this! Xiao Ah Cai, this is the difference between you and Hang Jiufeng! The second boss can hide from the first day of junior high school, but he can't hide from the fifteenth, and sooner or later it will fall into your hands. At that time, you can still let him go, and the second boss will become your gospel! ”

"You're trying to confuse me, aren't you? I won't let go of the second boss. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's try the shroud you made for me!"

Xue Ning and Chang Niangniang were willing to listen to Grandma Mei say this, and stopped in front of the bed together. Grandma Mei said: "Filial piety and filial piety, you have to wear filial piety, don't wear a shroud, where do you know how you will respect me!" ”

Taking advantage of their hesitation, Ah Cai stepped forward and changed Grandma Mei into the black mercerized shroud. When Ah Cai picked up Grandma Mei from the bed, Grandma Mei's face still had a lot of vivid brilliance, and when she put Grandma Mei back on the pillow in her shroud, it scared Ah Cai so much that she had goosebumps all over her body.

Ah Cai didn't want to see Grandma Mei anymore, turned around and walked a few steps quickly, and was about to cross the threshold, but was pulled by Chang Niangniang: "I can't go!" If Grandma Mei is still young, you will have to replace it. Chang Niangniang's words gave Ah Cai goosebumps again. According to the custom of the gate of heaven, as long as a person puts on a shroud, he must wait until the other party takes his last breath before leaving, otherwise, if something happens to return to the yang, he does not take off the shroud on the other party in time and put it on a bench or a chair, and the catastrophe is coming.

Grandma Mei, who was wearing a shroud, was reluctant to eat water and rice at first. After a day, it became true, and I could see a cloud of white gas spitting leisurely on the side of that mouth, and I could see that the pair of eyes could not be dimmed any longer. Chang Niangniang personally went down the street to find two tailors, measured the figures of all the Xue family members one by one, and went to her own silk shop to carry a few black cloths, cut them into large and small filial piety clothes, and the round cousin supervised by the side. Things in the kitchen, Chang Niangniang is also preparing, temporarily called the lotus edge, fine rice, silk and thread together, the snow family is not prosperous, there are few relatives, fortunately, it is a funeral, the neighbors are willing to come, do not worry about the funeral is not lively. According to Grandma Mei's instructions, Dong Chongli and Duan Sanguo are responsible for the rest of the matters, and there is no need for the Xue family to worry about it.

The things outside have been raised one by one, but Grandma Mei is not as resolute as when she wants to wear a shroud, I saw that she opened her eyelids slightly, as if she had something to say. Seeing that the corners of her mouth were trembling, Ah Cai hurriedly ordered not to let people sob, and to listen to Grandma Mei. Xue Ling and Liu Zimo took Xue Lan and Xue Xian and Xue Xian and lay down in front of the bed together. After waiting for a long time, I didn't even hear half a word, except that I felt that there was still breath in and out of Grandma Mei's mouth. The round cousin who was listening to the news outside the door didn't hold back her tears, and she had already cried wet in the two towering places on the cheongsam, and the two round tangled ** were clearly highlighted. Chang Niangniang, who couldn't stop crying, pointed with her finger, the original intention was to wake up, but Cousin Yuan took the opportunity to cry loudly, and said 1510, without Grandma Mei, how could she be today. Chang Niangniang, who has always been lukewarm to her cousin Yuan, hurriedly said: "Grandma Mei's heart has not yet spoken, and if you want to speak, there will be a chance in the future." As he spoke, he began to cry as well. Suddenly, Ah Cai shouted in the house: "Grandma Mei! Chang Niangniang wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and when she returned to the house, she saw Grandma Mei's exposed left index finger moving slightly. Everyone in the room stared at the finger, not daring to let out of the air. Soon, the finger went up again. If you look closely, you can point to Ah Cai.

Ah Cai was a little nervous: "What do you have to say to me?" Grandma Mei didn't seem to hear it, and there was no movement at all.

Ah Cai was even more nervous: "You don't necessarily want me to speak to you?" Grandma Mei's right eyelid moved, revealing a glimmer of gray eyes.

Everyone in the room was looking at Ah Cai. Ah Cai was even more at a loss: "Grandma Mei, don't get along with me, you can talk to Xue Ling and them!" This time, Grandma Mei's fingers were obviously pointed at Ah Cai. Ah Cai had no choice but to say: "Are you always at ease with the second boss?" Okay, I promise you that you won't trouble him again when you return to Wuhan, even if you bump into him head-on, you should be a ghost. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chang Niangniang and Yuan cousin outside the door saw a figure in black silky clothes at the same time, walking elegantly, and the wind passed over everyone's heads and went to the sky.

Everyone was surprised, and the Xue family suddenly bent down in unison and sang in unison sadly.

Some people who don't know the inside story are surprised, why don't people set off firecrackers, don't burn high incense, and sing when they die? After listening to it for a while, those people felt that as long as they heard such a song once, they would remember it for a lifetime. Thinking about it this way, many people remember that when the older generation dug up the ancient times, when they talked about the small church, they inevitably had to learn the songs that the French missionaries had to sing every day, and that tone was exactly what the Xue family was singing now.

After singing the song, Liu Zimo withdrew and instructed everyone to go outside immediately to find some swallow red, the more the better. The people who heard the order were very fast, and after a while, they cut a few bundles from the side of the field, up and down the mountain, and the doors and windows inside and outside the Ziyang Pavilion were all over in a blink of an eye. When someone dies in the family, they don't put white couplets on the doors and windows, but they want to put flowers, and the people at the gate of heaven feel very fresh. Those women who are good at helping others cry and mourn either stand outside the door and don't know what to do, or go into the house to take a look, and see that there are many bright swallows next to Grandma Mei, who is dying, and they are embarrassed to cry loudly.

Ah Cai is not good enough to get out, and is also looking for something to do. When he was about to enter the funeral, Hang Jiufeng suddenly came, and when he saw Ah Cai, he didn't speak, but stretched out his hand to Grandma Mei's face: "The person is not dead yet, this body is still hot!" Hang Jiufeng said and put his hand into Grandma Mei's arms. Ah Cai stepped forward and snapped the hand off, and asked him sharply what he was going to do.

Hang Jiufeng was beaten: "I want to see if her heart is still beating." ”

Ah Cai glared and said, "Grandma Mei is rotten into dung, and it won't be your turn to touch it." Hang Jiufeng was very angry, and scolded Ah Cai in public what Ah Cai didn't like to hear the most.

Hang Jiufeng heard that Ah Cai was going to take away a county, so he deliberately rushed back to Tianmen from the county seat. He didn't have much trouble saying that a county would run away with him.

The moon rising from behind Xiaodongshan is almost full, and there are three days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival. The county squadron of the People's Liberation Army stationed a squad in the chapel, and after Ah Cai's persuasion, the squad leader agreed to let the bell in the bell tower ring twice a day for three consecutive days, on the condition that the bell ringer could only be his soldiers, so as to prevent people with ill intentions from using the bell to ventilate the harrier who had not been caught. The bells rang by the soldiers like a trumpet.

Xue Ling told her daughters that when others don't know how to ring the bell, we must be able to listen. When the bell rang for the first time, Grandma Mei lay down in the coffin and walked out of the gate, followed by the mourners, slowly crossing the West River and climbing all the way to the mountain behind the right bank. Grandma Mei had something to say before her death, find a quiet place, just dig a grave, don't leave a grave, let alone a stele. Every time the coffin in front of it reached a new mountain, some people fell under the pretext of an excuse, and after the gradually shrinking funeral procession passed through the inhabited paradise, Ah Cai had not left, and the remaining people were Cousin Yuan, Dong Chongli, Chang Tianliang and so on. Liu Zimo, who was walking in front, finally stopped in late autumn where there were also swallow red flowers, and started digging up the first hoeing soil. Back then, the grass shed where Ah Cai forced Xue Ling and Liu Zimo to marry was covered with green vines, and he could only vaguely see the past. Ah Cai talked about the past, and the unconscious Xue Hong said enviously that when he got married, he must set up the cave house here. Everyone who heard this smiled softly in their hearts. The tomb has been dug up, and Grandma Mei has returned to the earth in the end. After covering the last handful of loess, several people said at the same time that by next year, Grandma Mei's body would be covered with swallow red. There were no firecrackers, no one burned paper and incense, and everyone sang a favorite song of Grandma Mei around the cemetery in unison.

Grandma Mei has just entered the ground, and Ah Cai is going to find a county, and she has to completely end her marriage with Hang Jiufeng. At the time of parting, Ah Cai said that she was going to take away a treasure of the Xue family. Xue Ning didn't expect that Ah Cai would ask for Grandma Mei's letter. She casually agreed, Ah Cai had a share of the Xue family's things, as long as she liked it, just take it.

When Grandma Mei realized that she couldn't do it, she specially wrote some letters and left them for Xue Ning to open a fief to read when she missed her in the future. Xue Ling had already read the first letter. After reading it, I put it on the bed where Grandma Mei slept for the last time.

"Good boy, the autumn is cold, the weather is cold, the street in front of the water tower where your grandfather Mei lay that year, the big tree that your cigar father and Ai Gardenia mother last relied on was struck by lightning and lightning, the beach where your snow daddy rolled and the ancient well where your snow milk jumped away, must still be remembered by you clearly. The time that these winds cannot blow away, must make it your lifelong sacred heart. When your grandfather Mei was alive, he always wanted to redeem a country with his own strength, but he didn't succeed, not to mention, he even took his life. It was your Grandma Mei's turn, and she felt that her strength was not enough, so she came to the gate of heaven, trying to redeem one side with her own strength, but it didn't seem to be successful. So your Grandma Mei thinks that if you want to learn from Grandpa Mei and Grandma Mei in this life, it is better to save someone by yourself. ”

After reading the letter secretly, Ah Cai decided to take it with her.