After two months of internship at the commune health center, Qin Caihou was sent to Jiafanggou Tun as a barefoot doctor.

At noon that day, he sat in Bai Lao's clinic, waiting for Bai Lao to give him a letter of introduction.

Bai Lao is an old Chinese medicine doctor who was the director of this health center before his retirement. Although he is now 70 years old, he is in good health, so the health center has been hiring him. During the two months that Qin Caihou interned here, Bai Lao was his master.

On the west gable wall of Bai Lao's clinic, there is a gossip map of Bai Lao himself using a brush to sketch books. Qin Caihou was very interested in this picture, so he stood in front of the picture and pondered it when he had nothing to do, and borrowed a lot of books about gossip from Bai Lao and took them back to the dormitory to study, and asked Bai Lao for advice if he didn't understand, almost to the point of obsession.

After a while, Bai Lao opened the letter of introduction, handed it to Qin Caihou and said, "I have a girl in Jiafanggou. I stayed here for a few days the first few days and was planning to go back. It just so happens that you should go with her today, and you have a companion on the way. ”

"Okay." Qin Caihou nodded as he accepted the letter of introduction.

Bai Lao got up and said, "Then you can go to my house for dinner at noon, and you can set off as soon as you finish eating." ”

Qin Caihou said politely: "No need. I'd better go to the commune's cafeteria. After eating, I'll go to your house to find your daughter. ”

"You're welcome. My daughter is cooking at home right now. I'll go home first. You hurry back to the dormitory to pack up your things, then grab your things and go to my house for dinner. After eating, you can go straight from my house. After Bai Lao finished speaking, he went home.

Qin Caihou couldn't excuse himself anymore, so he hurriedly went back to the dormitory to pack his luggage, and then came to Bai's hometown with his luggage and a Red Cross medicine box as big as an egg on his back.

The old lady is fifty years old and her name is Shi Po.

After eating, Bai Lao took out a donkey in the yard. Shi Po put her things on the donkey's back, and asked Qin Caihou to put the luggage and medicine box on her back, and then she rode on the donkey's butt balls. Qin Caihou led the donkey in front, said goodbye to Bai Lao, and walked north.

On the way, Qin Caihou chatted with Shi Po while walking, he said: "When I was a child, I often watched the model play "Outwitting Weidiao Mountain", and I also read the book "Lin Hai Snow Mountain", and I thought that the screenwriter and author were making it up. ”

Shi Po said: ""Outwitting Weidiao Mountain" and "Linhai Snow Mountain" are indeed not made up, what they played and wrote is true, and there were indeed bandits like Cui Sandiao in this area back then. ”

Qin Caihou asked curiously, "What kind of person is Cui Sandiao?" How did he become a bandit? ”

"That's a long way to say." Shi Po pulled out the cigarette pouch pot from her waist, dug out a pot of cigarettes from the cigarette pouch, lit it, and said while "let's da", "It was still the Qing Dynasty, Taocheng was not a city, just a big tunzi, and Cui Sandiao's family lived in this tunzi." He has five brothers, named Cui Dadiao, Cui Erdiao, Cui Sandiao, Cui Sidiao, and Cui Wudiao. At that time, the White Russians wanted to build the railway in Taocheng, but the people in Tunli refused to let them, but the White Russians insisted on repairing it, so Cui Sandiao and the five brothers took the villagers to kill all the people who built the railway and buried them in the big sand pit......"

"Isn't that big bunker behind the train station?"

Shi Po nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"No wonder some people call it a bone pit again, it turns out that it is buried with White Russians." Qin Caihou was thoughtful.

"What are the White Russians buried? Cui Sandiao killed all Chinese laborers at that time, and there were few White Russians. ”

"So he's killing innocents?"

"Not really."

"And then?"

"Later, the White Russians sent an army to arrest him, so Cui Sandiao took people to Weidiao Mountain to become a bandit." Shi Po said with smoke in her mouth and relish: "At that time, Weidiao Mountain was not called Weidiao Mountain, but Badaogang. It's just that the names of Cui Sandiao's five brothers all have the word 'carving', so after they occupied the mountain here as the queen, they changed it to Weidiao Mountain. ”

"Then you are at the foot of the corner of Weidiao Mountain, haven't you suffered?"

"At that time, Jiaf-gou was still a deserted ravine, and there was not a single family. After Cui Sandiao came, his people scattered around Weidiao Mountain, married wives and had children, settled down, and successively established Jiaqiao, Arshan, Wukeshu, Yushutun, and Daqingshan...... Anyway, the dozen or so tunzi in Zhalan Commune are basically Cui Sandiao's territory. ”

"I understand, this radius of 100 miles is actually Cui Sandiao's base, and Weidiao Mountain is just a base camp for him."

"You can say the same thing." Shi Po looked at the Weidiao Mountain in the distance, and said with a puff of smoke: "Usually, every family has its own tun to cultivate the land, the logging of wood, the hunting of hunting, and the fishing of fishing.

"So, the people in this area ...... People of old age have been bandits in the past? ”

"Before the liberation, the people here must have been bandits, and you were undoubtedly a bandit cub when you were born."

"Then your father, Bai Lao, is also a bandit?"

"Bai Lao first practiced medicine in Taocheng." Shi Po moved her gaze to Taohe again, and continued to speak: "After the Qing Dynasty was gone, the Northeast became the world of the Feng army. Later, Cui Sandiao was recruited by the army and became the colonel and regiment commander of a mixed brigade, and he was stationed in Taocheng. It was at this time that Bai Lao was recruited into the army by Cui Sandiao in Taocheng and became a medical officer. ”

Qin Caihou asked with interest, "What happened later?" ”

"Then the little Japanese devil came in. The Japanese wanted Cui Sandiao to join the puppet Manchurian army, but Cui Sandiao didn't do it, so they fought. Cui Sandiao couldn't beat the Japanese, so he took people and ran into Weidiao Mountain to become bandits. ”

"And then?" Qin Caihou listened and smacked again and again.

Shi Po also talked more and more energetically: "When the liberation was restored, the Japanese devils ran away, and the puppet Manchu army was dispersed, so Cui Sandiao took the opportunity to go down the mountain to occupy Taocheng and proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the recovery army." Later, the Kuomintang launched a large-scale offensive in the northeast. Cui Sandiao miscalculated the form, thinking that the Kuomintang soldiers were strong and strong, and with the support of American planes and artillery, they would definitely be able to enter Taocheng. So he defected to the Kuomintang and became the commander of the major general and brigade of the Taocheng Security Brigade of the Kuomintang Central Committee's advance army, and brutally killed our people......"

"What you said is true, when I was a child, I went to the Taocheng Martyrs Cemetery to play, and I saw more than 200 martyrs whose tombstones were killed by the bandit Cui Sandiao." Qin Caihou sighed: "What a capricious, brutal and unscrupulous villain! ”

Shi Po continued: "Later, our large army came, defeated Cui Sandiao's bandits, and liberated Taocheng. Cui Sandiao took the remnants of the defeated army and ran to Weidiao Mountain to continue to be his bandit. ”

"And then?" Qin Caihou was already confused.

"Later, just like "Outwitting Weidiao Mountain", Yang Zhirong pretended to be a bandit and went up the mountain to kill him."

"Is there really such a hero as Yang Zhirong?"

"There is such a person." Shi Po lit another pot of cigarettes and said while smoking: "At that time, our army was a unit from Shandong. Yang Zhirong is a cook in this unit. Once he was shaving fish on the river, and his foot was broken, so he ran to Bai Lao to treat it. Bai Lao saw that he spoke Shandong, so he taught him Northeast dialect. Yang Zhirong is very talented as an actor, and it didn't take long for him to not only be able to speak fluent Northeast Chinese, but also learned the bandits' code language, he hummed obscene tunes all day long, and the habits, style, and style of the bandits were no different from the habits, style, and style of the bandits. His chief of staff saw that he was like a bandit all day long, so he used him only as he could and made him a scout. As a result, he really became like a fish in water, showed his skills, made meritorious achievements, and soon became a platoon commander......"

"Alas, you just talked about Bai Lao, I don't understand, you don't care if he is a bandit or not, but he is Cui Sandiao's medical officer after all, Cui Sandiao was killed, why was he not suppressed? And after liberation, he not only became the director of the health center, but also enjoyed the treatment of retirement, what is going on? ”

"Yang Zhirong pretended to be a bandit and went up the mountain to kill Cui Sandiao, but in fact, it was all up to Bai Lao to help him......"

"Ah, I see!" Qin Caihou suddenly realized: "According to what you say, Bai Lao has become an underground worker lurking inside the enemy. ”