Bai Jiaxuan heard a rush of footsteps, and turned around to see Xiaowu walking up to him with a nervous expression, and he told his father an unexpected news: "Dad! Director Tian asked me to fill the vacancy of a security chief!" Not? Be a security chief?" Bai Jiaxuan said, "You go to the county to do that first, your uncle and aunt have just come...... You get up tomorrow morning. ”

Lu Zilin has calmed down. From the time the security guard wrapped a thin hemp rope around his two arms, until he dragged him across the original official road, into the county seat of Zishui, and then pushed through the cell door with only a small hole, he had just spent a night and a night in a cell that emitted a putrid smell, and he had been in a state of anger to madness at the strange first dawn in the cell. When he took the prisoner's yellow bowl for his first meal from Xiao Kong, he became even more furious, raising his hand and slamming it against the wall. When he was questioned for the first time, he immediately quieted down again, sitting quietly on the bed against the wall, exhaling and inhaling evenly. When he took a bowl of steamed and scorched rice grits from Xiao Kong, he said a naughty word to the jailer who delivered the rice: "Brother, when you boil the grits, are you playing tricks?" The grits are burnt, and you won't drink it if you feed it to my dog!" Lu Zilin still drank the bowl of steamed grains and grits that exuded a scorched bitter taste, and drank not a drop left, scraping the grits sticking to the wall of the yellow bowl with the head of the chopsticks more and more happily, and still couldn't bear to give up, so he simply threw the chopsticks and stuck out his tongue and licked them. He only now remembers that the previous meal had been eaten in his own house, and that this bowl of rice had been two days and one night apart.

The first interrogation was very simple: "You confess the whereabouts of your ** son, and let you go back." When you figure it out, talk at any time. We have ample evidence that you know the details of your son. When Lu Zilin understood, he was no longer flustered, angry, and would not throw dishes and pans to make enemies with food. He was ready to die on this hard bed. During the interrogation, he only asked one sentence: "If I can't tell the trace of Zhaopeng, I will probably have to squat to death in this house that is not windy or rainy, right?" The inquisitor pursed his lips and did not answer his provocation. After Lu Zilin finished eating, he lay on his back on the bed, stilted up one leg, and thought to himself: Repairing the prison is pretending to be a person! can enjoy happiness and suffering, can be in front of people and behind people, can stand up and can stumble, and live calmly, or there is only one way to die on the wall. The only thing Lu Zilin felt uncomfortable was that he didn't smoke. He slapped himself hard, his lips stinging in his teeth, and he suppressed his craving. The heavy wooden door creaked, and Bai Xiaowen stepped into the door. Lu Zilin jumped off the wooden bed and jumped to the ground: "Xiaowen, quickly take out a cigarette for your uncle!" Bai Xiaowen took out a cigarette case from his pocket and handed it to him. Lu Zilin couldn't wait to pull out one, trembling his fingers and lit it on the match drawn by Xiaowen, sucked his head for a while, and then released a thick puff of smoke, choking him loudly and coughing and shedding tears, and smiled innocently like a child and said: "I can bear my hunger and thirst, but I can't bear it when I am addicted to smoking." ”

Bai Xiaowen was dressed in a straight uniform, showing the elegant demeanor of a Confucian general. Lu Zilin's smoking addiction was alleviated, and his mood calmed down, looking at Xiaowen standing in front of him, he remembered the image of the loser who was only half a step away from death in the dining field. He made a relaxed gesture of not caring about it, and happily endured Xiaowen's care and comfort: "Old nephew, don't worry, uncle can see the world openly, and he can think about this matter." You can come to see Uncle once today, and that's enough. You give your aunt a message and ask her to buy me two catties of dry tobacco leaves, and I don't care about anything. Bai Xiaowen said: "I will send someone to send you a handful of tobacco leaves in the future." Then he told him: "Secretary Yue was the 'boss' in the province and lost his temper when he returned to the county...... I will personally clap the board and call for you. Some people say that you once looked for Zhaopeng, and Secretary Yue speculated that you must know the details of Zhaopeng. Secretary Yue grabbed you and asked you for Zhaopeng, and no one could open his mouth to talk to him......" Lu Zilin smiled when he heard it: "Secretary Yue listened to those gossip rumors, and he was really stunned by the 'leader'!" Old nephew, you can't take care of this, I know, you just need to bring tobacco leaves to your uncle. ”

The next day, the guards escorted Lu Zilin out again. Lu Zilin has a feeling that interrogation is no longer new. When I walked out of the gate, I realized that it was contrary to the direction of the road I had taken during the first interrogation, and I suddenly thought that I should be shot so quickly and in such a daze, right? When he was escorted into the gate of the county government, he still had doubts. Lu Zilin was escorted into a narrow house, and he didn't expect Secretary Yue Weishan to come out of the suite and untie the rope on his arm. Lu Zilin twisted his arms and rejected Yue Weishan's hypocrisy: "Understand, understand!" It's good to tie it up like that. He squinted at the window with deep-set eyes. Yue Weishan put away the smile on his face, sat down on a chair and spoke: "Don't think about it." The province will tolerate and nurture adultery. What kind of temper do you have, what kind of temperament do you have?" Lu Zilin stiffened: "If you want to say that you can tolerate adultery, you can't blame me Lu." Who is exporting the closed-minded cooperation between the KMT and the CCP? Who sat side by side with ** Zhaopeng on the rostrum at the inaugural meeting of the Bailu District Branch? Who is holding Zhaopeng's hand above his head when he speaks? I didn't approve of Zhaopeng making a communism for a while! It's good this time, you turned your face and put me in jail!" Yue Weishan smiled indifferently and said, "This is called this time and that time." I heard that you led your daughter-in-law to the city to look for Zhaopeng, is there such a thing?" Lu Zilin raised his head: "Yes!" The loud voice shows sincerity, but also means that this matter is not important. Then he explained in a calm tone: "The daughter-in-law is sick, which is an internal disease of the woman's family. Her father was a gentleman, and he specialized in treating people, but it was not good to ask my daughter about those diseases, so I took her to the city to see a doctor. Some people in the village abused me, saying that I had planted it for my daughter-in-law and went to my son to pick it up...... You listened to a few gossip from Secretary Yue of Zishui County, and tied me up in prison, just shelving this nonsense. Sensei said that I don't know the same thing, and this nonsense alone has stripped my face clean. I don't have a face anymore, I'm going to die in your prison, I don't want anything more. Yue Weishan was not interested in whether he and his daughter-in-law had such a thing, but he was surprised that he did not hesitate to say this, so he poked him with a cold face: "Lu Zilin, your face is so thick!" You are dead or alive with me, a scoundrel, a dead man in prison, what do you think it will be? Do you lead your daughter-in-law to see a doctor, or to find Zhaopeng? I'm not the slightest bit sure I can tie you up? Don't be clever or a scoundrel, but tell the truth. You think about it, weigh it again, you figure it out and tell the truth, and let you go home. You said it in the morning, and I let you go at noon. Your business is not complicated, this is it. Lu Zilin said: "I don't think about anything. I've been bored for a long time. I sacrificed my life for the country and the people, and a baby was **, just like without him. I am left alone in the world, and it is better to die!" Yue Weishan said: "You are a scoundrel, and you are also clever, I know you." ”

Bai Xiaowu returned to Bailu Village from the county, told his father in detail about the rescue of Lu Zilin, and finally said: "Yue Weishan personally pinched Uncle Zilin's neck and asked him for Zhaopeng, and no one dared to beg him to let go of his hand now. Bai Jiaxuan slowly smoked the hookah and listened, blew out the soot in the hookah copper pipe with a pop, and said calmly: "You go and give your Aunt Zilin a reply." We've done our best. Xiaowu changed the topic and said, "Dad, Heiwa said that she would come back to the ancestral hall to worship her ancestors." Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help but be stunned.

Xiaowu went on to recount the incident: he was having dinner at Brother Xiaowen's, Heiwa came to discuss things with Xiaowen, and also told him about Lu Zilin's imprisonment, and then said to him: "Xiaowu, you go back and give Uncle Jiaxuan a message, I want to go back to the original to worship my ancestors." Xiaowu couldn't make up his mind about this sudden request, and he was afraid that his father would not agree to this request, so he said, "I'll take your words to you." When Xiaowu came back the next day, he took a detour to Bailu Academy to visit his aunt and uncle Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu said solemnly: "Lu Zhaoqian wants to go back to the original to worship his ancestors, you give your father a message, and I will accompany him back to the original with him." ”

When Bai Jiaxuan heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Why did you reply to your uncle?" Xiaowu said: "I said that this matter is very important, and I will definitely bring it back as it is." Bai Jiaxuan threw the hookah on the table: "Idiot! You can't even tell the difference between such things, you are stupid!" Xiaowu's mood was suddenly frustrated: "I think how can a person like Heiwa enter the ancestral hall again?" Bai Jiaxuan stood up abruptly: "You will find a few people tomorrow to clean the ancestral hall, and the wax paper table is ready." The day after tomorrow, you will go to the county to greet Lu, Zhao, and Qian. ”

In accordance with the agreement reached in the negotiation of Guishun, nearly 100 bandit brothers entered the third battalion, the artillery battalion. Heiwa accepted Regiment Commander Zhang's order to conduct training for the artillery battalion. The three military instructors came to the artillery camp to conduct basic military drills for the young juniors and bandits who had just been recruited. The bandit brothers did not care much about this mechanical and monotonous training from the very beginning, saying that this purely ornamental action was not useful, and that it did not depend on such fancy things to fight. Heiwa, who had received regular military training in the Xi Brigade, was very angry at the brothers' behavior, and scolded two brothers who dared to contradict the military instructor in public, and then said with an iron face: "Brothers, we are now a regular army, and we must have the rules of the army." "Then there was a gun drill. The bandits' original messy guns were all put into storage, and each person was given a new gun that shone blue. The bandit brothers were in the limelight at this time, and the hit rate of the live fire surprised the three instructors. Finally, a cannon firing drill is carried out, and the rifle should be retracted according to the regulations. Heiwa refused to carry out the order. Commander Zhang explained: "Rifles are not issued in artillery battalions, and this is also the case in the regular army. Heiwa said, "I understand the rules." I have to be equipped with a rifle, or I will be asked to do the artillery work of the second battalion. Commander Zhang blinked his eyes and smiled with relief: "Okay, I understand, the rifle is not collected." ”

Going to the head of Zhang's house for a banquet is an important step after Heiwa's return. When Heiwa entered the house, Bai Xiaowen, the commander of the first battalion, and Jiao Zhenguo, the commander of the second battalion, were already there. After the head of the regiment greeted him, he called his wife to meet him. Head Zhang specially invited Master Feng, the head spoon in the county, to cook, and Heiwa couldn't bear to move in the face of plate after plate of fine dishes. After three rounds of drinking, Head Zhang poked and poked at Heiwa and said: "Zhaoqian, if you don't sleep with your eyes closed at night, I will ask you to go back to the mountain and become your mountain king again!" Bai Xiaowen and Jiao Zhenguo both laughed. In the security regiment, it is mysteriously said that Lu Zhaoqian, the commander of the third battalion, has the habit of sleeping with his eyes open at night. Heiwa couldn't explain anything, because what the head of the regiment said was just a joke, so he smiled indifferently: "Listen to that group of people give me nonsense." Head Zhang became serious: "I don't think it's nonsense. You haven't slept in the city circle since you came down the mountain, have you?" Heiwa's artillery battalion was stationed at Guguanyukou, and he insisted on living in the battalion headquarters, so he nodded and said, "Officers don't leave the army, this is the rule of leading soldiers." Head Zhang shook his head and said, "Rules are not bad rules. But you don't worry about me, you're afraid that I'll clean you up alone. You're glaring at me. Is it proper for you to insist on dispensing rifles to the soldiers of the artillery battalion? Thoroughly, it's still to guard against me. Isn't that right?" Heiwa was a little at a loss under such a sudden questioning. Bai Xiaowen and Jiao Zhenguo were also unexpectedly cramped. Head Zhang further said: "You still can't believe me. You can't trust me, how can you work with me? I'm the regiment commander, and even the battalion commander under me can't trust me, what's the matter? I'm a stranger, I rely on my friends to go out, you can't trust me, but I really believe you. ”