It is not easy for Liu Zhenshou to be the overlord of Shicheng for more than ten years, and it really looks like a dream in retrospect. In the more than ten years of changes in the Republic of China, if anyone has a little military power and is a character, those who can send it will be a big deal, and those who can't be sent will be defeated.

Later, when he was working as a public servant in the Tianjin Concession, Liu Zhenshou often said to his friends that this was fate, and he was destined to have more than ten years of blessings; secondly, he knows the current affairs, always changes the flag, and hits the flag on which side is hard; Thirdly, I didn't have the big dream of unifying the country by force or unifying any place.

Talking about the final defeat, Liu Zhenshou said that it was the exhaustion of fate, and there was no way, that is, if they were not defeated by Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian in Qincheng, they would have to lose to the National Revolutionary Army of Commander-in-Chief Chiang's Northern Expedition sooner or later.

In September of that year, the Second Zhifeng War broke out, and Zhang Dashuai mobilized the Sixth Route Army into the customs to crusade against Cao Wu's Beijing government. Liu Zhenshou thought that Feng Zhang was not Cao Wu's opponent, and wanted to see the limelight, so he still waved the banner of being directly related to the Beijing government, and also sent a telegram denouncing Feng Zhang, which was the first miscalculation in his life, and gave Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian the opportunity to destroy him.

Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian first besieged the city under the banner of Fengzhang, and then attacked the city with the support of Feng's artillery fire, attacking very fiercely, not giving him room to breathe.

On the third day of the attack, two shells bombarded the town guard embassy, killing three soldiers of the pistol team and wounding several old women.

Liu Zhenshou made it clear that this time Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian had the support of Feng Zhang, and they were really playing with their lives, and it was impossible to help them get out of the way like they had done in the past few times, so they thought of the thirty-six plan of "going up", and decided to pack up and withdraw from Shicheng.

The decision to retreat was made at a military and political meeting of the town guard embassy, and everything was taken calmly.

After the meeting was dismissed, Liu Zhenshou was dressed in starry light again, and personally went to Ma's house to find Bu Shouru, which surprised Bu Shouru, so many years, every time Bu Shouru went to the town guard embassy, Liu Zhenshou never came to Ma's house.

Bu Shouru asked Liu Zhenshou to enter the house, but Liu Zhenshou didn't enter, so he stood in the courtyard with a starry sky and said to Bu Shouru: "Shouru, the battle is like this, and the people in the city are harmed, I have to go, it has been decided, and it will be tomorrow." ”

Bu Shouru was taken aback: "You...... Didn't you say last year that our stone city is solid? Why do you just go? ”

Liu Zhenshou laughed miserably: "That's a lie, people like me who lead troops are deceitful." ”

Bu Shouru still didn't believe it: "Is this city really unstoppable?" ”

Envoy Liu nodded: "I can't hold it." But if there is a glimmer of hope, I don't want to take this step. ”

Bu Shouru asked: "What should I do if you leave?" ”

Liu Zhenshou sighed: "I'm here today, I'm ...... I want to pick you up......"

Bu Shouru asked again: "Then what about my sedan chair and sedan chair shop?" ”

Liu Zhenshou said: "I can't take care of it, you have to look at it." ”

Bu Shouru couldn't look at it, shook his head and said: "I only have a sedan chair and a sedan number, without it, I ...... I don't even know what to do! ”

Liu Zhen's envoy said: "You also have a daughter, named Liu Tianhong. ”

Bu Shouru thought for a while: "Tianhong is with you, I don't worry." ”

Liu Zhenshou didn't look at Bu Shouru, only looked at the stars in the sky: "I know your heart, and I expect you to not want to leave, but I still have to come, and I have to say what I need to say." ”

Bu Shouru asked, "What should I say?" ”

Envoy Liu Zhen still looked at the stars in the sky: "The Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian who entered the city are not me, and they will no longer help you openly and secretly, and the people of President Tang of the Chamber of Commerce are also very bad, and they have long seen that you are not pleasing to the eye, if you stay, you have to be careful, and you can no longer treat today as yesterday." ”

Bu Shouru nodded: "I know this." ”

Liu Zhenshou turned his face to Bu Shouru: "Second, you have to guard against the Ma family's clansmen, if the gods are gone, they may take your family property in the name of the Ma family." ”

Bu Shouru said: "They don't dare to do this, even if I agree, the brothers who help the door will not agree." ”

Liu Zhen said: "Even if you can't stand in Shicheng, don't be afraid, just come to me, once I have a foothold there, I will give you a message." After thinking about it, he said, "Shouru, there is one more thing I have to say." ”

Bu Shouru nodded: "You say." ”

Liu Zhenshou looked at Bu Shouru fixedly: "You are not as strong as you appear on the surface, you are a woman after all, and I am afraid that you will be lonely in your heart!" ”

Bu Shouru hurriedly said: "Don't talk about it......"

Liu Zhenshou wanted to say: "It doesn't matter if I see you, don't let the world look at you, no matter what you do, you have to support your body......"

Bu Shouru was moved by her true feelings this night, and felt that Liu Zhenshou was still so worried about her in such an urgent situation, and she thought about her so thoughtfully, which was really rare, and she couldn't help but have a sour nose, and regarded Liu Zhenshou as her brother, and asked with a trembling heart: "Will you go back this time?" ”

Liu Zhenshou still had the illusion of making a comeback at that time, so he said: "I want to go back, but I don't know when it will be sooner or later!" ”

Bu Shouru said: "Then I'll wait for you!" ”

Liu Zhen said, "Why don't you follow me?" Now, don't you know how true I am to you? Take 10,000 steps back and say, if you don't want to be my small, can you go elsewhere to get a sedan chair, besides, I still have business in Beijing and Tianjin, and you can help me do it. ”

Bu Shouru said: "No, I won't go, the granite road here is my life, and I have to get a sedan chair here" and said: "I...... I'm still waiting for someone ......."

"Waiting for whom? Is it a godsend? ”

Bu Shouru wanted to say, not only Tianci, but also her brother, but she didn't say anything, only nodded and said: "Tianci will come to me, and if he is older, he will definitely come to me......"

Liu Zhen guarded the envoy and said: "Tianhong is your son, Tianhong is also your daughter, you are waiting for God's gift here, are you not afraid that Tianhong will not recognize you as a mother in the future?" ”

Bu Shouru said: "If you don't recognize your mother in the future, I will settle accounts with you." ”

Liu Zhenshou said with a smile: "I'm afraid that you won't be able to find me by then, and I'm not the same as I used to be, and I'm over sixty years old......"

Bu Shouru suddenly discovered that Liu Zhen's envoy was also old, and he was no longer the Liu Xietong who led the troops to bombard the government, and Liu Zhen's defeat today was a bad fate, and it was also a poor vitality.

Liu Zhenshou looked at Bu Shouru: "How many people are old, but you are not old, you are still the same as back then, you seem to be more handsome than back then!" ”

Bu Shouru then said: "You are not old, I am still waiting for you to lead the troops back!" ”

Liu Zhen said: "Then you just wait, for your Aunt Bu, I Liu someone also has to call back......"

This night, although Liu Zhenshou was calm and unhurried, he did not have time to do the parting poem, only stood in the courtyard of the Ma family for a while and left, and when he left, he said that he wanted Bu Shouru to collect a sedan chair and send him nine aunts and seventeen children out of Shicheng.

Bu Shouru responded, and ordered the third master of Qiu to do it overnight, and at dawn he requisitioned 1,200 sedan chairs and handed them over to the town guard embassy office.

The town guard embassy sent an adjutant chief to manage the sedan chair, and more than 300 people went to Liu's house, carrying the family members of Liu's town guard envoy and the gold and silver collected in the past ten years, more than 400 times were distributed to other officers and their families, and 500 times let the soldiers of Liu Zhen's guard get to carry arms.

This was not enough, and the defeated soldiers who were scurrying all over the streets grabbed some more, and the total number of sedan chairs used was no less than 1,700 rides.

The retreat can be called immense.

The most crowded on the road is not guns and people, but sedan chairs, all kinds of sedan chairs. The curtains and cloth of some sedan chairs were torn off, and only a shelf fell on them, on which there were cannonballs and guns. The sedan chair bearers were all watched by the soldiers with guns, and they were so tired that they were panting.

Bu Shouru was really distressed when she saw it, she loved her sedan chair, and she also hurt those sedan chair drivers.

The defeated team went out from the north gate of the city early in the morning, the besieged army at the north gate of the city was defeated last night, the commanding heights of Dayu Mountain were also controlled, and the way to the north was very safe. But the south of the city kept ringing fierce gunfire, and the situation seemed to be not good.

However, Liu Zhen's envoy said that there was a whole regiment in the south of the city that was resisting the fight, and Brigade Commander Wang and Regiment Commander Qian could not break through the city before dark. Liu Zhenshou was not in a hurry at all, went out of the city to the embankment along the river, and looked at the city for a long time before slowly getting into the sedan chair.

Bu Shouru also sat in a sedan chair to see off Liu Zhenshou's envoy on this day.

Liu Zhenshou didn't let him send it, Bu Shouru had to send it, doing this, Bu Shouru was not only for Liu Zhen's envoy and Xiao Tianhong, who was only three years old, but also for her sedan chair, she was really worried that if she didn't follow, these many sedan chairs would drift farther and farther away until they disappeared.

Tianhong sat with Bu Shouru, and for a whole day, Bu Shouru hugged Tianhong.

Tianhong is very well-behaved, and she also recognizes her as a mother, shouting her mother in a loud voice, pointing to the cattle and sheep and crops in the field with her little finger and asking this and that, and asking Bu Shouru always wants to cry.

That night, when I arrived at a small place called Shan Ji, the team didn't leave, Bu Shouru hugged Tianhong and saw Liu Zhen's envoy, and said: "If you don't leave, I have to take the sedan chair away, send you thousands of miles, and there will be a farewell." ”

Liu Zhenshou's expression was gloomy, and he pointed to Tianhong in Bu Shouru's arms and asked, "Are you really willing to throw down Tianhong?" ”

Bu Shouru wanted to laugh, but tears welled up all of a sudden: "Don't worry about you, I ...... ...... I've said."

Liu Zhenshou asked again: "It's been more than ten years, how much love between you and me is true?" ”

Bu Shouru said: "It's all true, you just don't be a town guard, I'...... I'll do the same to you! ”

Liu Zhenshou sent a letter: "I think so too." ”

Bu Shouru said at this time: "I will break up when I speak, I ...... I also want to explain a few words to you. ”

Liu Zhenshou nodded: "You say." ”

Bu Shouru Ren tears flowed on his face: "You have to be good to Tianhong, you have to let Tianhong be a little girl, and in the future, you can have a beautiful appearance, don't let Tianhong be like me, no one cares about it, no one asks, make it like a wild man!" ”

Liu Zhenshou agreed: "Cheng." ”

Bu Shouru said again: "No matter how high her heart is in the future, don't let her go my way again, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, what Sage Kong said, you have to remember." ”

Liu Zhenshou disagreed: "What's wrong with having a high heart? I just like you, without this, I'm afraid I won't have our many years of relationship. ”

The tears on Bu Shouru's face flowed even more urgently: "But Tianhong is not a godsend, a woman can't live like this." I can't help it, Tianhong has a way with you, you won't become enemies between father and daughter. ”

Liu Zhenshou sighed: "Okay, I'll listen to you too." ”

Bu Shouru said again: "There is another one, when she grows up, let Tianhong find her own in-law's family, don't force her to marry any rich and powerful person, let alone make someone small!" ”

Liu Zhenshou promised: "As long as I still have a breath at that time, I will do what you say today." ”

Bu Shouru's legs were weak, and he knelt down in front of Liu Zhenshou's envoy, wanting to kowtow to Liu's Zhenshou envoy.

Liu Zhenshou hurriedly pulled Bu Shouru up and asked Tianhong to kowtow to Bu Shouru.

Liu Zhenshou said to Tianhong: "This is your mother, you have to remember!" She loves you the most in the world! ”

Tianhong kowtowed to Bu Shouru three times, and hugged Bu Shouru and cried...... This night, Bu Shouru took the sedan team back to Shicheng.

Liu Zhenshou asked Bu Shouru to leave at dawn the next day, but Bu Shouru did not agree, fearing that if he agreed, he would change his hexagram the next day because of the red sky.

The moonlight all the way reflects the desolation all the way.

Bu Shouru sat in the sedan chair as if floating in the clouds, and his mind was empty.

On the bleak night road, Bu Shouru felt scared for the first time, but he didn't know what he was afraid of.