Wen San'er has not been in a good mood recently, he thinks that this surnamed Xu is a mourning star, and whoever meets him is unlucky. He wanted to avoid Xu Jinge, but Xu Jinge stuck to him like a pigskin bladder, and he couldn't shake it off.

In fact, Xu Jinge was still very polite to Wen San'er, he chartered Wen San'er's car, and he was also generous, one dollar a day, on the condition that he was on call. This is many times stronger than Wen San'er waiting for a scattered seat on the street, if this kind of good thing had been put on hold, Wen San'er would have jumped up happily. But this palindromic San'er's mood was very sad and indignant, he thought that the kid surnamed Xu was his enemy in his previous life, and he came specifically to trouble him, which was a sign on the grave - to lead people to death. He Xu Jinge is doing a living licking blood on the tip of a knife, and even the fucking Japanese military police dare to kill, if one day he looks at Wen San'er unpleasantly, killing him is not like twisting a bedbug? On the surface, Xu Jinge seems to have a good temper and is always polite to Wen San'er, but the more polite he is, the more furious Wen San'er's heart becomes.

Wen San'er privately admitted that he was indeed a cheap bone, a donkey - he didn't go away and drove away. When serving Second Master Sun, Second Master Sun took Wen San'er as a dog, snorted and drank, and kicked it when he was unhappy, but Wen San'er felt normal. Whatever it is, once you get used to it, it becomes the norm. When Lao Hantou was alive, he always made an analogy: Don't feel that the poor life is sad, just get used to it, this is like a child has just been born, you try to prick his ass with a needle, and the first day he will cry to death, isn't it painful? It doesn't matter, you come on, every day, for three months, and the kid gets used to it, he thinks that this is how he lives, and he has to hurt in his butt every day. If you forget to prick it one day, the child has to cry again, he feels that something is wrong, and wonders, his heart says that life is not like this, why doesn't his butt hurt? Old Han Tou is right, right now, Wen San'er feels a little bit of a pain in his buttocks, he also feels that something is wrong, the more polite Xu Jinge is to him, the more afraid Wen San'er is, and there is always a little fear of a catastrophe.

Wen San'er didn't understand, this surnamed Xu had recently made friends with Lu Zhongyong, the two of them were so good that they wore a pair of pants and called each other brothers, regardless of you and me, fortunately neither of them had a wife, otherwise they might have changed wives. The surnamed Xu has a generous hand, and there seems to be endless money in his pocket. In less than two weeks, Wen San'er has already turned around the famous restaurant in Beiping, Tongheju, Yuhuatai, Hongbin Building, **...... There are a few steps and a few trees at the door of these restaurants, and Wen San'er is imprinted in his mind, anyway, Wen San'er always squats at the door when people eat. Every time, the surnamed Xu came out of it with the drunk Lu Zhongyong in his arms, and told Wen San'er to send the editor-in-chief Lu home, and he himself called another car to leave.

is too familiar with Lu Zhongyong's Jiawen San'er, Lu Zhongyong is a single, he didn't want to please his wife before, but he can't be high or low, there is always a lady in his mind as a model, fantasizing about the beauty waiting for the moon in the west chamber, he became Zhang Sheng to climb the wall to go to the tryst, but unfortunately he was not very lucky, he has never encountered such a good thing, so the marriage was delayed. Before Lu Zhongyong's career, he lived in a small house in the northern half of the alley at the entrance of the vegetable market, the house was dark and damp, the quilt on the bed was never folded, it was dirty like an oil rag, and there was always a smell of pickled cabbage in the house. The only thing that can show Lu Zhongyong's identity as a literati is a small bookshelf with some tattered thread-bound books and old newspapers and periodicals scattered on it. At that time, Lu Zhongyong's life was not much better than Wen San'er, and he always owed the car money every time, and he often dragged it and lost it. After Wen San'er suffered a few losses, he was also very wary of Lu Zhongyong, and when Lu Zhongyong took his car again, Wen San'er resolutely begged for the car money first, otherwise he would never pull it.

After Lu Zhongyong made his career, he lived in a large courtyard, but he never invited friends to visit, so not many people have been there. That day, Wen San'er carried the drunk Lu Zhongyong into the bedroom and threw him on the bed viciously, saying in his heart that if Wen Ye gave you a few mouths at this time, you wouldn't know.

Wen San'er looked around Lu Zhongyong's living room, and saw all the mahogany furniture, next to the twenty-four history bookcase is a museum shelf, on which there are a lot of bronzes and ancient porcelain full of green rust, and there is a knife holder on the rosewood case, on which there is a Japanese ***. Wen San'er spat "phew", and scolded in his heart, this grandson is really a pair of shoes with a hat brim - one step to the sky.

Today is Xu Jinge's treat again, and the location is Fengzeyuan Restaurant at the entrance of Xizhu City. Wen San'er sent Xu Jinge into the restaurant, just wanted to find a leeward place to squint, based on experience, this meal could not be taken for two hours, and when these grandsons were full of food and drink, you would go in and carry people, Lu Zhongyong would not be over.

Wen San'er found that there were several old guys squatting at the root of the opposite wall, in addition to the big pants Na Laishun, there were You Erzhu and Xiao Liuzi of the Dongsi "Tailai" car dealership, and "Li Daqiao" who lived in the rice market alley at the mouth of the vegetable market. It seemed that these people were waiting for a seat, and they were chatting happily in the sun, so Wen San'er hurriedly came over.

The reason is that Nalai Shun rubbed a scene in the "Guanghe Theater", and the repertoire was "Donghuangzhuang" by the famous Peking Opera actor Tan Zitong, and Nalai Shun "a burden" [1]

's second uncle is watching the gate in Guanghe Theater, and with this little authority, he often sneaks in to watch the play. The problem is that every time Na Laishun plays a scene, he can only sneak in after playing a small half, although he has watched a lot of plays in vain, he has never watched them all at all. "Donghuangzhuang" is a new play, which tells the story of the arrest of Kang Xiaoba, a Jiangyang thief in the late Qing Dynasty.

Li Da Chop is not an ordinary person, he is 60 years old this year, 40 years back, he is still a figure in the capital, he was the executioner in the prison room of the Criminal Department, and he did the work of cutting off people's heads. After entering the Republic of China, the beheading sentence was abolished, Li Da Chop lost his job, he never got married in his life, mainly because he couldn't marry a suitable woman, but all the women he fancied, as soon as he heard about his profession, he was so scared that he peed his pants, and would rather die of old age than live with the executioner for a lifetime. When the Great Qing Kingdom was still standing, Li Daqi didn't care if he had a wife or not, anyway, his income was not low, so he went to Bada Hutong to vent his fire when he was in a hurry, and his life was happy. Later, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, and Li cut the mud [2]

, he had no other skills except killing people, and his livelihood immediately became a problem, so he had to use his savings to buy a foreign car and live by pulling a car. Now that he is over sixty years old, his body is no longer good, and he has to continue to pull the car, otherwise he will have no food, and sooner or later he will have to work like the old Han Tou until he dies on the street.

Na Lai Shun said: "Master Li, don't you like to listen to what I say, if you want to say that you want to cut off people's heads, you are an expert, we don't dare to raise the bar." But if you want to watch a play, you can just go to the market, I'll just take a bite of it, haven't we seen any play? Don't talk about the old play, just talk about the 'Eight Masters' [3]

Bar, there are not many people who can see the whole thing, I don't believe that we will meet Ma Lianliang and ask Boss Ma in the future, it would be good if he could watch half of the old man, famous people like to sing old jokes, and they can't look down on new dramas, "Donghuangzhuang" is about taking Kang Xiaoba, let's put it this way, how many years has Kang Baye been dead? It's only been forty years, when Lafayette was still alive, when the Admiral of Jiumen took Kang Baye and escorted him from Jingshan back street to Di'anmen, Lafayette stood on Jingshan, took a telescope and looked at it enough, Lafayette wondered, just such a short and fat man, why did he make a lot of trouble in the capital......"

Li Daqi unceremoniously interrupted Na Laishun: "What the "Donghuangzhuang"? Don't talk nonsense with Lao Tzu, uncle, I never watch plays, I've been annoyed with singing since I was a child, my master said, you take care of those plays, they are all ninth-rate, isn't it just yelling on stage and breaking two heads? That's a full meal. You say, if a Guanghe Theater is dead, there will be hundreds of people, right? You toss around on the stage, and only a few hundred people watch it when it's full, is that called showing your face? It's far away, it's not Li Ye and I'm blowing, when I was in the vegetable market, Ling Chikang Xiaoba, I couldn't stop watching the excitement of tens of thousands of people......"

You Erzhu said: "Master Li, Master Li, these are two different things, people say to watch a play, why do you pull up the living people?" Isn't this a bar lift? Then again, what the old man said is not right, there doesn't seem to be "Donghuangzhuang" in the "Eight Majors", so you just talk nonsense, what's the matter, are you still not convinced? I'll count it for you, "Overlord Zhuang" takes Huang Longji, "Duhu Camp" takes Luo Sihu, "Caspian Dock" takes Lang Rubao, "Dongchang Mansion" takes Hao Wen, "Yinjiabao" takes Yin Hong, "Luoma Lake" takes Li Pei, "Huai'an Mansion" takes Cai Tianhua, "Eight Wax Temple" takes Fei Degong, you say, which one is this Kang Xiaoba? ”

Wen San'er and Na Lai Shun had a grudge, so they naturally slashed at Li, and he coaxed: "Master Li, you continued, what's the point of watching a play?" Or do you want to cut off the living. ”

Li Da cut himself immersed in the glory of the year: "That time was our master and apprentice serving Kang Baye, the work was so beautiful, my master did the knife, I reported the number on the side, cut a knife and shouted, as soon as my words fell, I saw the lively crowd and shouted hello, good guy, what is the movement of tens of thousands of people calling?" It's like fucking thunder, Li Ye and I shouted hoarse that day, and the old and young masters in the capital didn't go down at all. The area around the entrance of the vegetable market is crowded with people, the roofs and trees on the street are full of people, even the kiln sisters in the kiln have come out, and they are messed up when they see the end, and the green battalion soldiers on guard on the periphery can't hold on, and they are all crowded by the crowd to the edge of Ling Chizhu, Li Ye I was knocked into Kang Xiaoba's arms without paying attention, and his nose arched to Kang Xiaoba's stomach, Kang Baye was almost a bone shelf at this time, and his old man was still annoyed, and he actually taught the green battalion soldiers: Hey! The girls in the green camp raised it, and they can't even look at the field? What do you want you foodies to do? Shameful stuff! Kang Baye is really a man, he looks like this, and he scolds people, and none of the grandsons in the green camp dare to say anything. I only heard afterwards that at that time, Lord Hou, the supervisor and beheader, was sitting at the door of the 'Crane Year Hall' pharmacy, and was squeezed to the ground from the Taishi's chair, and fell into a dog eating. Tell me, can you show your face to this role in opera? Who is the famous character? Me and my master. ”

Na Lai Shun said unconvinced: "Master Li, can you really pull the bar, and walk the board as you talk, where is this?" You, forty miles to change shoulders - good at lifting the bar. I said Qianmen Louzi, you said ** head, isn't this a blind lever? ”

Li slashed: "Who pulled the bar?" When Li Ye and I were Kang Xiaoba, there was no play "Donghuangzhuang". ”

"You, to put it mildly, you are just a bar, and you can lift the bar if you can't hit the eight poles, okay! Let's talk about showing your face, how much can a famous Peking Opera actor earn by singing a play? How much do you earn by chopping a living person? Can this be compared? "That's by the way.

"Don't say it, on the occasion of the Jie Kang Xiaoba, Master Zhu of the Criminal Department sent forty taels of silver, and Master and I ate and drank enough for several months, and since then there has been no sentence to a prisoner who has been executed by Ling Chi. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, the minister Shen Jiaben asked the emperor to delete Ling Chi and other heavy sentences, and the emperor approved eight words: 'Delete forever, and all changes will be decided.' 'It's a mud now, Master and I can only make money by cutting off people's heads, and the income is much less. That's not all, when it comes to the Republic of China, there is another judicial reform, and the knife is not even allowed to be used for murder, and the matter is finished with one shot, what is this called? Since ancient times, how can anyone kill without a knife? That's what we're learning......"

Wen San'er interjected: "Hey, what kind of craft is this?" Isn't it just a knife to cut the neck? It's a person who will. ”

Li Da chop glared: "You know a fart, you should chop someone's head is chopping pork ribs?" The layman makes the knife do not know where to cut at all, riveting enough strength to pick, ten times eight times also cut constantly, the real executioner is from the crack of the bone under the knife, pay attention to the blade does not touch the bone, only use five or six percent of the force, the key is a skill, the blade flashes, the head rolls out a foot away, and winks at you. ”

You Erzhu listened in a daze: "God, are you so particular about cutting people?" ”

Li Daqi said proudly: "Dare to love, do you think you can do this job alone?" At that time, there were only five people in the prison and punishment room of the Prison Department of the Great Qing Dynasty who were officially named to receive money, so let's put it this way, from the hundreds of civil and military officials in the imperial court to the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, who committed a capital crime, it was all five of us who served on the road. ”

Xiao Liuzi agitated: "Master Li, just tell me about Kang Xiaoba, good guy, Kang Baye, who doesn't know the old and young masters in the capital?" I heard that it was a man. ”

Wen San'er said: "I know about Kang Xiaoba, his family lives in Kang Zhuangzi, Tongzhou, and his martial arts are average, but he has a pistol in his hand, and there are not many people with guns at that time, and even the fast catchers in the yamen can't fit a gun in people's hands, and some of them are also carrying waist knives, now Kang Xiaoba can become a fine, this kid didn't say a word when he committed the crime, first shot the person down, and then grabbed things, that's it, within a few years, Kang Xiaoba had more than a dozen lives in his hands, and was listed as a felony by the imperial court......"

Li Daqi rolled his little eyes dissatisfied: "Wen San'er, have you ever seen Kang Xiaoba?" ”

"I haven't seen it, I was born in the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, I was still ignorant when Kang Xiaoba died, I heard from others."

Li Da chopped and laughed evilly: "I said, I was born in the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, that is to say, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing in the year of Gengzi, and your kid was born in the second year, I have to think about it, who is your father?" ”

Everyone laughed.

Xiao Liuzi coaxed: "Wen San'er, this kid was beaten by the Eight-Nation Alliance, right?" ”

Wen San'er replied without changing his face: "Little Liuzi, don't you beat your Wen Ye with cymbals?" I'm × your uncle, Master Wen, if I was beaten by the Eight-Nation Alliance, I would still use it to pull the cart here? It's time to fuck a foreign blessing. ”

Li Daqi said: "Wen San'er, this kid, has him in everything, there is nothing in the world that he doesn't understand, that is, he always forgets what his own surname is, grandson, don't you know everything?" If you understand, tell everyone about it. ”

Wen San'er smiled and said: "Come on, Master Li, complain about me for talking too much, you said that you cut off more heads than I eat, how dare I argue with you." ”

Li Da chop smoked a cigarette pouch and began to talk eloquently: "Kang Xiaoba is not known to be so godly, this person has practiced martial arts for a few days, that is, the kung fu of a three-legged cat, Wen San'er is right, he just relied on that gun, it was a six-shot revolver, as for how did this gun come from?" There are many theories, some people say that they stole the gun of the British minister, and some people say that Kang Xiaoba killed a foreign devil officer during the chaos in the capital in the year of Gengzi. After Kang Xiaoba committed a serious crime, the Yamen, the commander of the Nine Gates, also rounded him up several times, and let him escape. Anyway, at that time, the Qing Kingdom was almost over, and the fast hunting in the yamen was also a monk who hit the clock for a day, and no one was willing to play for the imperial court, Kang Xiaoba took out a gun and put down one, and the rest ran faster than rabbits. Kang Xiaoba couldn't take it when he got cheap, and committed a lot of serious crimes one after another, Lafayette personally ordered him to be taken, and after Prince Zhuang received the order, he ordered Xiao Haibo to lead the team to lead the capital to arrest Liu Weixiang and others to capture the thief. Who is Liu Weixiang? Known as Liu Erbiaozi, he was taught by Guo Yunshen, one of the eight masters of Xingyi Boxing, who is known as 'half-step collapse boxing, invincible in the world'. Xiao Haibo and Liu Weixiang are both first-class masters, and there is nothing they can't do when they join forces. At that time, Kang Xiaoba was hiding in a room, holding a gun in his hand, just waiting for someone to hold the fire, Xiao Haibo stepped forward and lightly picked up the door curtain, and a 'whirlwind wrapped around the head and back knife style' flashed Kang Xiaoba's bullet, and used the back of the knife to split Kang Xiaoba's back, at this time, Liu Weixiang also arrived at the same time with a 'half-step collapse fist', right in Kang Xiaoba's chest, Kang Xiaoba rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, and everyone swarmed up to take down this kid. For this kid, Lafayette added a few more gray hairs to his head, and he hated Lafayette's teeth so much that the roots of his teeth hurt, and the verdict of the Criminal Department came down in a few days, and the sentence was Ling Chi's execution......"

You Erzhu interjected: "Master Li, just talk about how to chop the living, I heard that there are also particulars, how many knives are judged, there are as many knives as there are, more or less is not good, the most is a sentence of thousands of knives." ”

"Listen to my master, the Ming Dynasty's Ling Chi was sentenced to 10,000 knives, the Ming Dynasty's great eunuch Liu Jin committed rebellion, was sentenced to death by Emperor Zhengde, the number of knives is 3,357 knives, divided into three days, according to the Ming law, the prisoner who was Ling Chi must be cut according to the number of knives, and the last knife person can die, otherwise the executioner will be unlucky. In the Qing Dynasty, there were fewer sentences, and the highest number of knives was more than 500 knives, and the capital crime was generally beheading. Unless it is a heinous crime, Kang Xiaoba is guilty of this, there are more than a dozen lives on his hands, Lafayette thinks that cutting off his head is too cheap for him, but Kang Xiaoba is really a man, on the day of the execution, Kang Xiaoba was tied to Ling Chizhu, my master hugged his fist at him and said, Eighth Master, today it is our master and apprentice who are waiting for you to return to heaven, offended. Kang Xiaoba said, gentlemen, do a good job, please. My master said, I can't bear you and shout loudly, it's okay, it's not a shame. Kang Xiaoba sneered, even if you greet him, if the eighth master snorts, he will not be beaten. Just like that, as soon as the cannon rang out, my master began to work. According to the rules of this industry, the first knife starts from the chest, and a piece of meat is cut off from the chest and thrown into the sky, which is called 'sacrificial meat'. The second knife is a slash on the prisoner's forehead, so that the meat slice hangs down to cover the eyes, which is called a 'blindfold'. At this time, Kang Baye was not happy: Gentlemen, don't cover my eyes, so many people are watching the excitement, why don't you let me watch it? My master whispered, Eighth Master, don't look at it, it's not like you haven't visited the vegetable market. Guess what Kang Baye said? Kang Baye said, there are so many big girls and little daughters-in-law, I am looking for it, which one is handsome, you have to let me take a look, don't you? Listen, this is Kang Baye, and he will be a man until he dies......"

Xiao Liuzi smacked: "This is called picking peonies on the hospital bed - he is still greedy for flowers when he is dying." ”

You Erzhu stopped dissatisfiedly: "Listen, why the hell do your ears stand up at the mention of this?" Master Li, take care of him, you go on. ”

Li Da chopped on the cigarette pouch and continued: "My master also thinks that what Kang Baye said is reasonable, everyone is going to die, and you are not allowed to see the girls?" It doesn't make sense. My master hugged his fist at Kang Baye and said, yes, Baye, I listen to you. With a single stroke of his knife, he snatched the piece of flesh that covered his eyes away. Then I yelled: Second stab...... At this time, tens of thousands of people below shouted in unison: Okay! Kang Baye grinned. If you want to say that my master's work is really not picky, this job pays attention to knife skills, is meticulously carved, the size of the meat under each blade is about the same, you get the rod scale about it, the amount has to be about it, our jargon is called 'fish scale chopping'. When the executioner who is almost skilled does this kind of work, he has to wrap the prisoner with a fishing net and tighten it, so that the flesh can be stretched out of the mesh and then knifed, but my master doesn't need it, his old man is a master, it's like playing Shanxi knife noodles, only to see the knife walking on Kang Baye's body, and pieces of fresh meat the size of a fingernail swishing into the barrel, it's really amazing! My voice was hoarse, Kang Baye really didn't say a word, after four hundred and ninety-nine knives, Kang Baye only had a skeleton left, but the person was not dead, his eyes were still dripping, he stared at my master and nodded slightly, probably praising my master for doing a good job. My master said, Eighth Master, our brothers will break up, you go well, if there is fate, we will see you in the next life! After speaking, a knife stabbed into Kang Baye's heart, and the knife turned to pick out his heart, and Kang Baye swallowed his breath......"

Wen San'er asked, "Is this the end?" ”

Li Daqi asked rhetorically: "Nonsense, what's the matter?" Kang Baye carried 500 knives in his life, and if he wants to put it on your kid, you can't bear ten knives. ”

Wen San'er said meaningfully: "To eat roast duck, you have to have a duck rack left, right?" What about Kang Xiaoba's bone frame? ”

Li Daqi said: "I should do the next work, according to the rules, those who are executed in Ling Chi must be broken and ashes scattered, and the families of the prisoners are not allowed to collect the corpses." What do you mean by 'bruising bones and lifting ashes'? It is to smash all the bones of the dead, put the minced meat and bones into wooden barrels, and throw them in mass graves to feed wild dogs. This is a hard work, and when all the bones are smashed, I am almost paralyzed from exhaustion, and I want to rest for a while, but my master knocks on my head with a cigarette pouch and pot and says, "Look at you like this, hurry up, do the work well." As soon as I poured out the bone slag, a dozen hungry and red-eyed wild dogs surrounded me, almost eating Lao Tzu and me......

After Li Daqi finished speaking, he filled a bag of cigarettes alone, lit it and smoked it.

Even several old guys, including Wen San'er, were stupid.

You Erzhu took a long time to relieve: "Fuck! It's really scary, I don't dare to look at this kind of excitement, I can't scare out something. ”

Wen San'er thought it was fun, and he said regretfully: "Can you not go to see this excitement?" It's much better than watching a play, and the knife didn't cut me anyway. ”

Li Da cut and looked Wen San'er up and down with an insider's eye: "You kid is not a good material, he is as thin as a knife mantis, he saw the bones in two clicks, and when he looked up and down, he had nowhere to fucking put a knife, if he wanted to catch up with such a job, he had to make Li Ye and my brand down." Look at the people Kang Baye, that body is boarded, that body is fat, and he was born for Ling Chi. Look at you again, the whole pork ribs, Li Ye and I are too lazy to do this work. ”

Wen San'er replied: "Well, no matter how good your craftsmanship is, don't you use it now?" If you want me to say, Master Li, you shouldn't go to the car dealership when you change careers, you should go to the butcher to find an errand, slaughter the pig if you can't kill people, and give the pig's head a 'fish scale chop', and chop the meat and practice the craft. ”

Li Daqi laughed and said: "Master Li, I'd rather practice your skills on your ass, your kid's ass is really not good, everyone is two-petaled, your kid is a fucking four-petal, I have to repair it for you." ”

Xiao Liuzi also interjected: "Yes! Pick up the pants of this kid Wen San'er, and then make a fishing net, Master Li, you can use his ass to practice your hands. ”

Na Lai Shun also joked: "Wen San'er's butt is full of tendons, and if you want to do 'fish scale cutting', I'm afraid that the knife doesn't matter, so I have to use a soldering iron." ”

Wen San'er glanced at Na Laishun and said coldly: "Yo, the daughter-in-law by the river - amused the king......"

Lu Zhongyong and Xu Jinge sat in the elegant seat of Fengzeyuan Restaurant, a bottle of "Wuliangye" had bottomed out, and Lu Zhongyong's words were obviously more, it turned out that he also had a stomach full of grievances.

"Brother, it's not easy to do errands now, and we people are rats drilling bellows - angry at both ends. The Japanese food is not delicious, and it is not eaten in vain, so you have to report a few 'anti-Japanese elements' every once in a while, otherwise the gendarmerie and the special high school will not be able to spare you. But who are we reporting? There is no injustice or hatred, people really have anti-Japanese ideas to let you know? I, Lu Zhongyong, also have a bit of a stomach, and it doesn't matter if I am scolded for a few traitors. People, how can there be people who are not scolded? When I used to be a reporter, didn't I get scolded less? The problem is not here, I am worried about Chinese ......."

Xu Jinge put an elbow in Lu Zhongyong's plate: "What's the matter?" Brother Lu is still a little worried about the country and the people? ”

Lu Zhongyong became excited, and he put the wine cup heavily on the table: "Hey! Smoke in my pants - of course (crotch burning), of course I am worried about the country and the people, I think China's problem lies in the quality of the people, the poor quality of the people leads to the poverty and weakness of the country, 40,000 people, how many people have ideas and opinions? Most people are still confused? With this quality, you still want to resist Japan? It's impossible! Although Lu was a literati, he also studied military issues, and taking the Battle of Songhu as an example, Mr. Jiang was a big deal, mobilizing 700,000 troops in a short period of time, which is two-thirds of the strength of the national army. How many Japanese are there? At the beginning, there were less than 10,000 people, and then the large increase in troops was only more than 200,000. It's still a mountain of defeat, even the capital has been lost, you look at our Chinese history, Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, Yuan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, Qing destroyed the Ming Dynasty, the more you resist, the faster the country will die, it's not that there is no master who dares to fight hard, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, and Shi Kefa are hard enough, but so what? Shi Kefa's "Book of Answering Dolgon" is written in a magnificent manner, but what is the result? He was defeated and captured, and he also attracted the 'Ten Days of Yangzhou', and the blood of the people flowed like a river, is this worth it? From this point of view, Westerners are more flexible. The French also resisted, fighting and feeling that the way was wrong, the Germans were terrible, and the resistance was in vain, and the people didn't even fight, they surrendered happily, and the war ended at once, not to mention anything else, at least it is true that no one died first. If you look at the Netherlands and Belgium, they all understand that if they can't fight, they won't fight, and they will immediately announce their surrender, what can the Germans do? Can someone destroy you? Killed all the people? It's impossible, France is still France, the Netherlands is still the Netherlands, and the common people still marry wives and have children to live, but it's just a different **. ”

Xu Jinge poured wine for Lu Zhongyong and echoed: "It makes sense, it makes sense, listen to Brother Lu's words, brother and I are suddenly open, the common people are the common people, and politicians are politicians after all, and their ideas are different." ”

Lu Zhongyong took a sip of wine and talked eloquently: "For the common people, someone has to take care of it, either Zhang San or Li Si, who cares about it or not?" Just take care of it, what's wrong with our people? If we Chinese can't fight a war, we have to play soft, what's wrong with the Japanese? When he comes, we won't recruit him, and he will be obedient to the people in a down-to-earth manner, and I will see who he will hit with tanks and artillery. Do you know the Northern Wei Dynasty in history? That is the dynasty established by the Xianbei people who entered the Central Plains, the Xianbei people are nomads, good at riding and shooting, and the Han people are not opponents, what should I do? It doesn't matter, don't do anything, just live a down-to-earth life, time always proves everything, he Xianbei people can't dance knives and guns all day long after sitting in the country, and no one recruits you, who do you fight with? It's time to enjoy the country, isn't it? Well, I can't stop this good day as soon as it's over, we have beautiful women, don't you look greedy? It doesn't matter, let's give it away for nothing, we will also send it if you marry ten or eight daughters-in-law, and let you have children, the more children you have, what kind of children do you say? Oh, you said it's a Xianbei seed, then it doesn't matter, when the child grows up and then intermarries with the Han people, the child can still be a Xianbei seed? Decades have passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, a few stubbles of people's seeds have been strung together. You can rest assured, skewers and skewers can't go out of China, which is called rotting meat in the pot, and outsiders can't take advantage of it at all. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty reformed, wearing Han costumes, learning Han culture, ethnic intermarriage, blood fusion, three times and two times, you see, the Xianbei people are gone, where are they going? was fused, the Han people were still poked there, but the Xianbei people disappeared from then on, brother, this is history, you have to look farther, you can't just look at the present. ”

Xu Jinge said with a smile: "What does Brother Lu mean, you have to use this trick to deal with the Japanese now, don't resist, just obey the people, and use soft skills to deal with it?" ”

"Yes, this trick is more effective than anything else, or how can I admire Mr. Wang Zhaoming, people's curves to save the country are indeed a good trick. At the beginning of the war, Mr. Wang was also a staunch pro-war faction, and he was surprisingly consistent with Mr. Chiang on the issue of resisting Japan, but why did Mr. Wang later change his position? This has to admit that Mr. Wang is indeed slightly better than Mr. Jiang in judging the situation. The reason is very simple, after resisting with all our might, we found that China is not Japan's opponent at all, and if we continue to fight hard, we will only have the result of the destruction of lives and the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species. He, Mr. Jiang, can fulfill his integrity, but who has provoked whom has we ordinary people provoked? Brother, we Chinese and foreigners have different concepts, Westerners pay attention to 'not free rather die', we Chinese pay attention to 'good death is better than rely on living'. To put it mildly, foreigners' brains are not very good, and they go around and around to get themselves in, in fact, this truth is obvious, if the head is gone, then what's the use of being free? There's no way there's freedom, don't you think? ”

Xu Jinge shouted: "Okay, Gao Theory, really Gao Theory, Brother Lu is worthy of being a cultural person, he can explain the truth in simple terms, brother, I have benefited a lot." ”

Lu Zhongyong looked very modest: "Where, where, my brother has won the award, in fact, there is no very esoteric theory in the world, all theories are originally very simple, but they are artificially complicated, and the responsibility of cultural people is to restore complex theories to simple truths." ”

Xu Jinge's words changed: "Brother Lu, what I am concerned about now is the outcome of the war, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Japanese are a little unable to hold out in the Pacific, the American bombers have blown Tokyo into a scorched earth, the Germans are also retreating on the European battlefield, and the Russians have approached Berlin." I'm thinking, what are we going to do if the Axis side loses this war? In the future, Mr. Jiang will return to the capital from Chongqing, and we may not have a good time, I don't know what Brother Lu's plans are? ”

Lu Zhongyong wiped his mouth with a napkin and replied confidently: "My brother's worries are not unreasonable, everything must be planned first, but there must always be a result in a war, it is nothing more than three endings, victory or defeat or peace, needless to say that the Japanese have won, if they are defeated or made peace, it will definitely be unfavorable to us, I have already thought of this, and I have a countermeasure." ”

Xu Jinge said: "Oh, I would like to hear the details, please ask Brother Lu for guidance." ”

"Brother, although you and I haven't known each other for a long time, it's like old friends at first sight, Lu Mou sincerely made you a friend, if it was someone else, I would never reveal it......" Lu Zhongyong approached Xu Jinge and lowered his voice, "Find a way to join the Japanese nationality, this is the best policy." ”

"Why?"

"If Japan is defeated, the Allied side will also act in accordance with international law, we will be repatriated as Japanese nationals, and China has no right to hold a Japanese citizen accountable in the war. So, the issue of identity is too important. ”

Xu Jinge said worriedly: "But...... This Japanese nationality is not easy to join, I am afraid that there are many specific regulations in it, right? ”

"It still depends on the relationship, one is to see if you have face with the Japanese, whether you are a celebrity, and the other is whether you have made a greater contribution to Japan. I won't tell you anything, I have taken up both of these brothers, and more importantly, there are some Japanese friends with status to help, so I have no worries about this. ”

"Brother Lu, can I think of a way for my brother? You know, those of us who do things for the Japanese will inevitably offend some people, and sometimes we can't help ourselves, in order to eat together, who would have thought that now there is no way back, if Brother Lu has a way, he should pull the younger brother to help. ”

Lu Zhongyong sighed and said: "Brother, the world is like a chess game, smart people have to take one step and see three steps, you should have considered the back road a long time ago." However, since you and I are friends, I will definitely help you with this, I have a Japanese friend named Inukai Heisai, this person is very powerful, if he is willing to help, it should be no problem, but there is a cost problem. ”

Xu Jinge said repeatedly: "This is not a problem, this is not a problem, I understand the rules, let's do everything according to the rules, you can rest assured, after the matter is completed, I will have another meaning for you, the middleman." ”

"You will see the outside, we are friends, friends do not say anything about each other, Lu's personality, you will understand after a long time."

"That's, that's, I know it in my heart, Brother Lu, I also want to ask, is your Japanese friend in politics or the military?"

"He is a Japanese ronin, and I don't know his true identity, but one thing I do know, this person has a very deep background, not to mention the political and military circles, and even has close ties with the Japanese imperial family."

Xu Jinge leaned close to Lu Zhongyong and whispered, "Brother Lu, if it is convenient for you, can you arrange a meeting for me and Mr. Inu?" In order to show my sincerity, brother, I would like to provide Mr. Inukai with a piece of top-secret information about Nanjing. ”

Lu Zhongyong was taken aback: "Top secret intelligence? Can you tell me more about that? ”

"I'm sorry, Brother Lu, the stakes are very high, I can't talk about it in detail, please tell Mr. Inu, since Mr. Wang Zhaoming died in Japan, Chen Gongbo, Chu Minyi, Zhou Fohai, Mei Siping and other powerful figures in Nanjing are secretly linked, and have established some kind of tacit understanding with Chongqing, about the specific details, I can only talk after meeting Mr. Inu, please forgive Brother Lu." Xu Jinge has repeatedly apologized.

Lu Zhongyong said understandingly: "It's okay, since it's top-secret intelligence, I won't inquire, don't worry, I will arrange this meeting." ”

Outside the Fengzeyuan Restaurant, Wen San'er and Na Lai Shun pulled again, Na Lai Shun grabbed Wen San'er's collar, Wen San'er pulled Na Lai Shun's sleeve, and You Erzhu and Xiao Liuzi were pulling on the side.

Na Lai Shun shook his fist and threatened: "Wen San'er, haven't you beaten you for a few days, and your body is itchy again?" If you scold me again, I'll listen to it, don't beat your out, my surname is your surname. ”

Wen San'er suffered a loss in the fight with Na Lai Shun last time, so he was a little timid, and he quibbled weakly: "Did I name and scold you?" Everyone, there are people who pick up gold and silver these years, and I haven't heard of anyone picking up scolding. ”

Na Lai Shun still refused: "Then who are you scolding?" There are just a few people here, you didn't scold me, who are you scolding? You say, do you scold Li Ye or You Erzhu and Xiao Liuzi? What do you say? ”

Of course, Wen San'er didn't dare to say that he was scolding a few people next to him, so it didn't cause public anger? This Na Lai Shun is really hateful, isn't this forcing Wen San'er to offend people? Wen San'er wanted to kick in the crotch of his pants like that, but after thinking about it, he felt that the odds were not great, so he immediately gave up this idea, and he stalked his neck and said, "What about scolding myself, what's wrong?" ”

That's what Lai Shun wants, he doesn't want to really fight, to deal with people like Wen San'er, just language deterrence is enough, since Wen San'er admits it, then Lai Shun naturally has a step down.

Li Da chop smoked a cigarette pouch and watched the fight between Wen San'er and Na Lai Shun with great interest, and when he saw that there was no fight, he was immediately disappointed, and he knocked the cigarette pouch and commented: "Why don't you fight?" It's really boring, if you have this time, you might as well go to the overpass and watch Shen San'er wrestling, you two boys, hum! Winter melon in June - Mao'er is tender. ”

As he was talking, Xu Jinge walked to the steps of the door and shouted, "Wen San'er, go and help Mr. Lu and send Mr. Lu home." ”

[1]

"One Dan Pick" means brother-in-law, and the two men have married sisters respectively, and the relationship between them is "one Dan Pick".

[2]

"Wei Ni" means "troublesome" in the Beijing dialect.

[3]

"Eight Da Na" is a heroic drama of the Qing Dynasty, based on "Shi Gong Case", which includes "Xue Jiawo", "Xifu Mountain", "Bawangzhuang", "Double Dart Scheme", "Hejian Mansion", "Duhu Camp", "Dongchang Mansion" and "Yinjiabao". There is another saying: "Eight Majors" are "Bawangzhuang", "Duhu Camp", "Caspian Dock", "Dongchang Mansion", "Yinjiabao", "Luoma Lake", "Huai'an Mansion" and "Eight Wax Temple".