Heiwa sold the house she bought in the county seat when she married her wife, bought an old courtyard house in Xueren Lane, Xi'an City, and moved her wife Gao Yufeng to the provincial capital far away from the county seat. Heiwa's intention to do this is only due to a psychological factor. He was in the county security regiment, and his wife lived in the county seat, only one corner away from his mother's house, and every move of him and his wife, a little sound, would not take long to spread to his mother's house, and even to the soldiers of the artillery battalion; As the wife of the commander of the artillery battalion of the security regiment, she is in a dilemma at the door of her mother's house, and the slightest carelessness will cause discussion among the citizens, saying that she has followed the battalion commander's eyes high, her taste is numb, the meat is valuable, and she has burned the bun. Heiwa told the old father-in-law of this idea, and Mr. Gao was reasonable: "Relatives should be good at knotting distant places, and neighbors should be good at hitting the wall." On the first night when Heiwa and his wife Yufeng moved into Xueren Lane in the city, in a completely unfamiliar environment and a completely unfamiliar crowd, Heiwa and Yufeng both felt that the thorns in the small county town were all shaken off by the staring at. That night, Yufeng lit the fire for the first time on the stove pot in the new house, stir-fried four dishes, and the two of them ate and drank on the small kang table. Heiwa said, "What do you think I'm thinking about for a while?" Yufeng looked at the sparkling eyes of the black baby and shook her head calmly. Heiwa smiled humbly and said, "I want to be a gentleman." I want to go to a remote village, to be a gentleman in a private school, to enlighten those nasal babies to 'the original goodness of human nature'...... I don't want to mess around with the grown-ups!" Gao Yufeng was a little surprised and said, "Mr. Zhu has changed your temperament." Heiwa shook her head and said, "It's not Mr. Zhu." Since I came down the mountain, I have never been able to lift my spirits. Gao Yufeng glanced at her husband and did not speak. Heiwa drank a glass of wine and said: "I have always been fighting against others in the agricultural cooperatives, and I have been fighting against others in riots, and then I am still against others when I am a bandit...... That's why I want to be a private school teacher. Gao Yufeng nodded and said, "Let's take a step first and then see!" If the times are bad, I think it will be peaceful to quit and become a gentleman. Heiwa sighed: "I'm tired and annoyed." After they fell asleep in their new home, Heiwa hugged her gentle wife tightly and said emotionally: "Look, I have so many friends who call me brothers, and you are still the only one who is intimate." ”

Heiwa returned to Xueren Lane every ten days and a half to get together with his wife, and when there was no urgent military affairs, she stayed for three or five days. Every time he returned to the city, he took off the military uniform of the security regiment and changed into a robe, and no one in Xueren Lane could figure out his true identity. That night, Heiwa returned home in high spirits, and his wife asked as usual, "What do you want to eat?" Heiwa said: "Water rice." The wife smiled embarrassedly: "But where are you going to dig the shepherd's cabbage in the dark light at this time?" Heiwa turned a cloth bag upside down and poured out a pile of green camelina vegetables. Yufeng picked out a tender spoonful of vegetables, stuffed it into her mouth without washing it, and chewed it, tilted her head and said shyly, "I have it." When Heiwa heard this, she hugged Yufeng: "I didn't expect these shepherd's cabbages to dig right!"

Yufeng made water rice, and the green camelina was boiled in the sparse grain grits, which was the meal for the spring famine in February and March. Yufeng was greasy and oily after she was pregnant with the baby, and this kind of sweet freshwater rice that didn't even mix salt was so delicious that she drank fine sweat on her forehead. Heiwa drank it very well, and there was a deep nostalgic feeling in the sweetness. When I was a child, almost every lunch in February and March was this kind of porridge and less vegetables and rice, and people were dizzy when they saw the shepherd's cabbage. In the years since he walked out of Bailuyuan, he has never had the opportunity to drink a meal of water and rice. At noon, when he was riding a horse at Guguanyukou, where the artillery camp was stationed, he looked at the wheat field as green as felt, and suddenly remembered the scene of digging shepherd's cabbage when he was a child. He tied his horse to a tree, dug up the shepherd's cabbage in the wheat field, and hurried back to the city. Heiwa drank bowl after bowl, and said half regretfully: "You chopped the vegetables too hard." The wife said, "That's how my mother cut it." Heiwa said: "You cook carefully in Chengchi County. The water and rice made by my mother, the pursed cabbage does not need to be cut with a knife at all, and the chopsticks are a string, which is more flavorful. There was a knock on the door, and Heiwa put down the bowl and walked to the door and asked, "Who?" A familiar voice came from outside the door: "The original Shangxiang Party." Heiwa heard Zhaopeng's voice and immediately opened the door: "How did you touch here?" Zhaopeng walked in the door and said with a smile: "As long as you can't escape from the earth, I can find you." ”

Heiwa led Zhaopeng into the upper room of the courtyard, and introduced to his wife, who was standing at the table to greet the guests: "This is our brother Zhaopeng, who is a teacher in the city." Lu Zhaopeng looked at Heiwa, stared at Gao Yufeng and said, "Don't coax her." I am**. Gao Yufeng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Oh my God! When I was a child, I saw a notice that you were wanted in the county seat......" Lu Zhaopeng was no longer interested in what happened many years ago, and looked at the rice bowl of the black baby on the table and shouted happily: "Oh, the water and rice you eat!" Scoop me a bowl, I'm hungry!" Gao Yufeng turned around and went to scoop it. Lu Zhaopeng took the bowl, picked up a ball of green shepherd's cabbage and put it in his mouth: "There is nothing more delicious in the world than shepherd's cabbage!" Heiwa said to his wife, "Cook two dishes and let my brother drink a cup." Lu Zhaopeng waved his hand again and again and said, "I'm here to say goodbye to you." I'm about to get up and go out for the long house. Heiwa said emotionally: "I can't invite you when I do a happy event, it's rare for you to come here today, why don't you drink two cups?" Lu Zhaopeng said: "I really want to drink a glass of wine from you!" It's just that time doesn't allow for it!" Heiwa nodded knowingly: "Don't dare to be sloppy in the kind of thing you do, I'm innocent." Where are you going?" Lu Zhaopeng said: "Yan'an. Heiwa opened her mouth in surprise and did not speak. His quiet heart churned, and he couldn't help asking, "You are leaving, I dare to ask, where have you been all these years?" Lu Zhaopeng smiled: "On the plain." I never left our White Deer Plain. They can't catch me. Over the years, I have developed more party members in the original than in your artillery battalion. Heiwa smiled bitterly and said, "Our brothers have become two people!" Lu Zhaopeng put a hand on Heiwa's shoulder: "Since you are a brother, you won't say this." It's better for you to occupy the commander of the artillery battalion than anyone else in that position. In case it's time for a tight relationship, I still need your help, and someone will come to you. As he spoke, he took out a booklet from his pocket and gave it to Heiwa. Heiwa looked at the portrait of a person printed on the cover, it was very blurry, and she could only see the general outline, and exclaimed in surprise: "Mao?" Lu Zhaopeng nodded: "Remember if we made trouble with the agricultural cooperatives in the plain?" At that time, there was also a peasant cooperative in Hunan. Heiwa looked at the ink-printed portrait for a long time: "This is a book written by Mao?" Lu Zhaopeng said: "You can understand it by looking at it. The day of the victory of the revolution is not far off, and the 'wind and snow' that sweeps away the Chinese reactionaries is really about to blow. Heiwa was dumbfounded when she heard the words "wind stirring snow". Lu Zhaopeng said: "You can give it to Mr. Zhu, I heard that the old gentleman is not in a good mood now." You give him the words I went to the north, and I don't have time to see the old gentleman. Heiwa nodded for sure. When Lu Zhaopeng was leaving, he said: "Be careful of our township party!" Heiwa understood that the township party was referring to Bai Xiaowen, and Lang Ran said, "Don't worry." Lu Zhaopeng said goodbye and walked to the gate, suddenly turned around and smacked his tongue again and again to express deep regret: "Oh, yes, Brother Heiwa...... How can you run back to your original place and kneel down in that ancestral hall? You, you......" Before Heiwa could reply, Lu Zhaopeng had already turned around and walked out of the gate and entered the alley.

An unheard-of profession of selling strong men has appeared in Bailuyuan. This trade, which was purely a gamble on one's own life, was derived from the Great Conscription of the Nationalist Government. The decree of two Ding drawing one was quickly abolished, because the soldiers recruited were far from meeting the needs of the government to expand the army, and then the levy Ding was converted into a Zhuang Ding donation and distributed to each farmer, whether you have Ding or not, all pay Zhuang Ding donations, and Tian Fuxian used the huge amount of money collected to buy Zhuang Ding. Any peasant household that fails to pay the donation of the strong man on time will leave an excuse to disobey the laws and regulations of the Republic of China, and the bao ding in the Tian Fuxian Joint Insurance Center can justifiably arrest any man or woman in their family who is not a strong man. The strong man fled in all directions, hiding and hiding. The Bao Ding of the Joint Insurance Office inquired in many ways and pursued everywhere, but often to no avail. Tian Fuxian improvised and came up with corresponding countermeasures: "Brothers, it is too hard and too tiring for you to catch people like this. If Zhuang Ding escapes, he will arrest Zhuang Ding and his father, and if his father runs away, he will catch his mother, no matter what his father is, his mother, his sister, his sister, even if it is his father and his mother-in-law, catch one and put it on the couplet, and see if he comes back on the dog day?" This method is very effective, and many of the strong men who escaped are indeed automatically put into the joint guarantee office, replacing the big mothers or grandmothers who are tied up, hanged, drenched in the rain and exposed to the poisonous sun, and some of them grit their teeth and sell their livestock and land, and automatically send the strong men's donations to the joint guarantee house to redeem the seized hostages...... The only link between the government and the people is hatred.

The name of more than ten kinds of taxes collected by the government of the Republic of China in Bailuyuan has created the largest in history. Those taxes were not one-time but increased from once a year to twice or even three times a year; Not to mention that ordinary farmers will not be able to pay even if they are bankrupt, even wealthy farmers will not be able to resist. The people simply did not believe the claims about the necessity, urgency, and legitimacy of these taxes, and went from the initial smuggling to the public invective. Someone found a hard-boiled egg with Tian Fuxian's appearance and name written on it on the cross street of Bailu Town, with steel needles pierced in the eyes, nose, mouth and ears, which was quickly trampled into powder by people passing by. The object of the curse gradually escalated from Tian Fuxian, the original magistrate, to Yue Weishan, the magistrate of Zishui County and the secretary of the county party department, and then suddenly rose to the head of the supreme ruler of China......

The profession of selling strong men came into being. The strong men, who were the first to be drawn into soldiers, did not think that it would be beneficial for them to fight this war, especially when they saw the dead bodies of their comrades, they deserted and returned to their original places; After some returned, they were caught by Tian Fuxian's Baoding and tied up and sent to the army. They already have experience in entering and exiting the army, and often seek opportunities to flee on the way to the battlefield; After a while, they became proficient in this way, so they volunteered to sell themselves. They handed over the money they had sold to their parents or their wives, asked them to go to buy grain, and then they went into the joint insurance office to prepare for the pull, which lasted for ten and a half days at most, and at least three or five days, and they reappeared in the village alleys unscathed. The more they sold, the more they sold, the more slippery they became, forcing the soldiers who escorted them to use ropes to tie them up one by one and escort them to the battlefield. This was undoubtedly an even more stupid measure to deceive oneself, as soldiers with bound arms could not catch guns to fight, and once the ropes were untied, their freedom and opportunity to escape came at the same time. A regime supported by soldiers bound on ropes is undoubtedly the most brutal regime in the world, and the weakest and most incompetent......