A faint swelling pain woke up the second master Tian Er from his sleep. Tian Er opened a pair of heavy eyelids, and immediately saw an unfamiliar face from the dressing mirror of the mahogany cabinet. The face was old and depressed, with irregular wrinkles embedded deep in his forehead, and a few drops of congealed blood were stained on the wrinkles, like a few nasty flies lying on his stomach. The face is deformed, and the left side of the face is more fat and fuller than the right; Moreover, the color is different from the right side of the face, which is pale and dull, while the left side of the face is red, swollen and purple, and shiny in purple. The flesh on the cheekbone on the left side of the face was obviously injured, and a lot of blood oozed from the broken skin, and the whole face looked like a big pear that had grown badly and was bruised.

Second Master Tian didn't admit that this rotten pear-like face belonged to him, in the impression of the second master, his face should be much more exciting, much deeper, and more majestic than this face in the dressing mirror!

The swollen burning pain on his face unceremoniously and again reminded the second master again and again that this face was conclusively surnamed Tian, and this face was conclusively resting on his own thick and short neck, and it was unreasonable and meaningless to practice non-recognitionism.

The second master was a little puzzled and a little puzzled, the second master first touched his face very seriously; Then, he leaned back from the bamboo recliner and looked carefully at the dressing mirror, as if he was claiming a long-lost gadget. After looking at it for a long time, he let out a long sigh and admitted his sovereignty over this face.

That is to say, the second master was really beaten, and he was really insulted by those hateful soldiers!

It seems like that's what it's like, it's like-

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the second master heard the sound of gunshots like beans in the direction of the mining area, and he was shocked, knowing that the soldiers had made a move, and hurriedly took his two family members to the boundary street to visit the situation. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the mouth of the alley next to the demarcation street, more than a dozen soldiers with guns on their backs rushed to meet him. The second master didn't know that these soldiers were ordered to arrest him, so he didn't hide, and walked over to meet the soldiers. Just as he stepped on the road of the Boundary Street, the two soldiers who rushed in front stepped forward and twisted the arms of the second master.

The second master was stunned for a while, struggling while shouting:

"What are you going to do, what are you going to do? Old man, I am the patriarch of the Tian family, the chairman of the board of directors of the town, and I also know you Brigade Commander Zhang, you ...... Let me go! Let go! ”

With a "bang", the second master ate a ** on his waist and eyes.

"Let go? It's you who I want to arrest! Walk! If you have something to say to our brigade commander, go! ”

The second master only now understood that Zhang Guixin, a stinky bastard, was specifically here for him! In fact, this principle was originally very simple, since Zhang Guixin used force against the kiln workers who occupied the mine, how could he not do it to the kiln leader Tian Er?

The second old man expected that things were not good, and hissed:

"Someone! Someone! The GIs are arrested! ”

The two entourage were also twisted at this time, and when they saw the second master shouting, they also opened their voices and shouted:

"Brothers of the Tian family, come on, the soldiers have arrested our second master!"

"Save the second master! Come on! ”

This shout alarmed many people, not only from the Tianjia District, but also from the Hujia District, and a hundred and ten people suddenly poured out of the small alleys on both sides of the Boundary Street. The boundary street, which is no more than five meters wide, and the narrow alley is a mess. From this moment on, the second master was dragged around like a puppet. He was first twisted into the hands of a tall and brute soldier, and later, the soldier was hit on the shoulder, and he had no choice but to break up with the second master. Then, the second master was pulled behind a potter surnamed Hu, but before he could gain a firm foothold, he was entangled by a small soldier who jumped in front of him. The little man kicked him in the leg and punched him in the face, pulling him out and rushing him out, fighting back with his chubby fists as he struggled. At this time, a guest potter picked up a pickaxe and gave the little soldier a blow to the head, which saved him.

After the second master was rescued, his head was a little dizzy and his eyes were a little dizzy, but he didn't feel much pain on his face, and he didn't even remember that he was beaten. After the soldiers who captured the people were beaten away, the second master also spoke impassionedly to the potters at the mouth of the alley, and also beckoned the representatives of the potters in the town to come to the Tianjia compound for a meeting in the evening. However, when the two family members took him home, he felt that he could not do it anymore, his left cheek was a little woody and swollen, and the blood vessels on his forehead were "fluttering", and he felt very tired and tired, and wanted to lean back in the chair to rest for a while.

The second master didn't plan to sleep at all, the second master knew the seriousness of the situation and the danger of this war. The second master should seriously discuss with the representatives of the kiln workers how to support the kiln workers in the mining area participating in the war, such as the problem of eating the kiln workers in the mining area, the rescue of the wounded, and so on. The second master didn't want to sleep, and he couldn't sleep. But I don't know why, I sat on the bamboo recliner and fell asleep in a daze......

This is a problem of the second master, as long as the second master encounters something unpleasant, he always loves to sleep - not that the second master wants to sleep, but he falls asleep unconsciously, and he falls asleep, and he is unavoidable, and the second master himself does not know what is going on.

Well, now that the second master woke up, he looked like a rotten pear! How can this make the second master meet people? How do I go about hosting a meeting of potters' representatives? The second master has a strong sense of self-esteem, and he is always the most particular about appearance and attire, and he is never willing to carry such a dilapidated face to show his head.

The second old man stood up, nervously walked to the dressing mirror, and looked at his face over and over again, the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable his heart became, and the more he felt that he had been insulted by his personality! These hateful soldiers actually beat him Tian Dongyang, and they slapped him in the face! There is a saying that "you don't hit people in the face, and you don't expose them when you scold people", but these soldiers actually slapped him in the face! He was beaten in the face like this!

The second master decided to meet with the soldiers.

The second master has always advocated peace, and does not like to use the means of war to solve the contradictions and conflicts in the world, and the second master has made great efforts to avoid and delay the outbreak of this kiln war, but the arrogant soldiers do not understand the hard work of the second master, and even beat the second master who has always been the main peace, which is tolerable and unbearable! The second master can only use the means of war to deal with war!

He didn't believe that the soldiers of Zhang Guixin's two regiments could quickly win the war, Zhang Guixin's two regiments only had 1,000 or hundreds of people, and the kiln people in Tianjiapu Town had 120,000 people, and there were red gun clubs behind the kiln people, and there were gentry and merchants from three counties. It is absolutely impossible for Zhang Guixin to easily capture the mining area! The key issue is to withstand the initial attack of the GIs, so that the Red Gun Society and Li Si Mazi have a time to assemble. To achieve this, he had to defend the main blocks of the town, find ways to hold Zhang Guixin back, and minimize the pressure on the mining area. There are two regiments of potters in the town, plus the old and young masters, who can run and fight, no less than 5,000 people, as long as these 5,000 people take up arms, no soldier will want to stand in Tianjiapu Town!

The second master wants to organize all the brothers in the town to defend their homeland, if Zhang Guixin dares to mess around in the town, they will fight for themselves, the streets for themselves, and the streets for themselves. The second master wants to cut off every claw that the soldiers stretched out to Tianjiapu Town, so that they dare not enter any alley or any house on both sides of the demarcation street, and the second master wants to trap Zhang Guixin and his soldiers here, so that they can't get food, water, or rest! The second master wants to turn the land of Tianjiapu into a cemetery for the soldiers! That's it!

The second master was very excited, turned around and left the dressing mirror, walked out of the bedroom, and walked into the hall. In the hall, I met the second grandmother who was mixing cat food, and when the second grandmother saw the injured face of the second master, she shouted and said:

"Yo! Yo! Why did you hurt so badly? Why didn't you see it just now? Do you want to find a cloth to wrap around? ”

The second old man suddenly realized the stupidity of the second grandmother, half of his face was swollen, how to bandage it?

The second master waved his hand impatiently and said:

"No, you don't! No! Find a towel to moisten up with some cold water, and cover me first! ”

At this time, the second master still had a bit of luck, and hoped that before the arrival of the potter representatives, his face would be more or less trimmed.

The second grandmother was busy with her little feet for a while, and found a new towel for the second master that had not been used, soaked it in cold water, wrung out the water, and handed it to the second master.

The second master took the towel and unfolded it and put it on his face, and his hot face felt a little better. Holding a towel and sitting on the Taishi chair facing the gate, the second master thought about it again.

The second master once again remembered Hu Gongye and the potters of the six regiments in the mining area, and once again remembered the belly problem of Hu Gongye and the potters. This is a matter of success or failure. If the food in the town can't get in, the potters in the mine won't be able to support it; It is very difficult to get food into the mines. At present, the mining area is surrounded by Zhang Guixin's soldiers, and people can't get close to each other in broad daylight, if you want to deliver food, you can only send it at night, while the soldiers are sleeping, organize two regiments in the town to cover by force, and forcibly open a passage; And you have to send more of them, send them once, and try to make them eat for three or five days. This is bound to lead to another scuffle, if it is not done well, the brothers will suffer, the best way is to get in touch with the people in the mine before sending food, let them come out to respond, the whole action must be fast, and the battle must be resolved quickly.

This question must be raised at the delegates' meeting in the evening, so that everyone can ponder and ponder and see what better way to do it.

Secondly, the second old man thought about the bullets of the potters in the mine, and the bullets sent by Zhang with a black face were estimated to be not enough - who knows how many days this war will last? How to replenish the bullets is also a big problem, tonight I have to send a few people to find the black face in the ravine of Daqingshan, find the chairman of the county town of Ningyang County, and ask them to help think of a way, and tell them clearly that without bullets, this battle will not be able to be fought! In addition, I have to inquire through Chairman Ji and Zhang Heiface, what exactly are Li Si Mazi's plans, and when will their soldiers be able to enter Ningyang?

The second master is not sure about Li Si Mazi, and he is very worried that Li Si Mazi will sell the potters of Tianjiapu at a critical time, he has to try to urge Li Si Mazi to do it as soon as possible, and he has to make that Ma boy understand: If he dares to sell the potters of Tianjiapu, then the potters of Tianjiapu will also sell him, and the guns and ammunition that the potters fought with Zhang Guixin's soldiers were provided by him Li Si Mazi, and when the time comes, he Tian Dongyang will come forward to testify, the kiln people are unwilling to fight, it was Li Si Mazi who instigated the kiln people to fight!

The second master estimated that Li Si Mazi would not do this, because Li Si Mazi and Zhang Guixin had already had a feud, and it was not a day since Li Si Mazi coveted Ningyang, which means that among the interests of the kiln people, there are also Li Si Mazi's own interests, and Li Si Mazi will not stand still. However, this situation may occur: Li Si Mazi first asked Zhang Guixin to kill the kiln people in a river of blood, arousing public anger, and then justifiably crusading against them under the pretext of crusade......

Yes, it is entirely possible.

If the second master wants to avoid this possibility, he has to tell Li Si Mazi through a black face and President Ji tonight, he has to say that the situation is more miserable, the problem is more serious, and he has to explain: The kiln people can't bear it anymore and are ready to surrender......

In the end, the second master also remembered a person, this person was Liu Yihua, a reporter from the "People's Heart Daily" that the second master had met. The second master understands politics, and the second master knows the importance of public opinion to this war. The second master wants to make the true situation of this war public through this Liu Yihua and through the "Minxin Daily", so that the provincial capital, the Beijing Division, and the entire Republic of China will know: Tianjiapu people will not succumb to any pressure! For the sake of justice, for the more than 1,000 potters who died in the disaster, even if it is to fight against the entire Republic of China, Tianjiapu people will not hesitate! Tianjiapu people can die, and the name of Tianjiapu can be erased from the atlas of the Republic of China, but the noble spirit shown by Tianjiapu people in the face of danger cannot be erased by any ** and any force!

Tianjiapu people are fighting for justice, for human dignity, and for the simplicity of an ancient nation! There is nothing wrong with the people of Tianjiapu!

This also proves that Tian Er Ye is not wrong, Tian Er is not like Hu Gongye, who was born as a bandit, the second master doesn't like to make trouble, and he doesn't want to get any benefits from this war, the second master just wants to be the master of the local people and preside over a justice for the kiln people, the second master's heart is clean, and a piece of sincerity can be against the sky! Even if he is dead, the second master will leave a tall and beautiful image for future generations!

The second master is not afraid of death. The second master knows that if a person lives to be 100 years old, he will inevitably die. The key is how to die. Died because of the cruelty of the township and the oppression of the people, that is more than innocent! On the contrary, if it is for the sake of the people, for the township, and for the dignity of this land, stand up...... But it was worth it!

The second master has always loved to fight with Hu Gongye, but this time he can't fight, the second master is decent! Take care of the big picture! The second master must fully support Hu Gongye, so that no one can say a word "no" from the second master! Actually, the second master has long understood this problem, not today. As soon as the derrick of Dahua Company was erected, the second master became clear: his future opponent was no longer Hu Gongye, but the Dahua Company marked by the big derrick! Sure enough, as soon as Dahua Company came, the original order of the land was disrupted, the villagers no longer farmed, and all the brothels and brothels came out, and a good Tianjiapu was made into a miasma! The second master hated, gritted his teeth with hatred, and even felt unhappy to breathe - billowing black smoke appeared in the clear sky, and the smoke and dust flying in the air often fell into the eyes of the second master! However, the second master also admitted that he didn't know what was going on with the mine, and he didn't know that the mine would cause such a serious dirty gas explosion. At this point, the second master is very regretful, very guilty, and feels very sorry for the people of Tianjiapu!

After the disaster on May 21, the second master clearly realized that running a mine was a stupid and hateful thing, and in a sense, it could even be said to be a great disaster that endangered the entire human race! The second master then thought that the war that the Tianjiapu people are currently fighting actually has the great significance of saving the entire human race, and the people of future generations will make a fair evaluation of this war caused by the mining disaster......

In this endless thought, the sky gradually darkened, and there were faint bursts of suppressed thunder in the dim sky outside, and after a while, the raindrops of beans crackled and smashed......

On this day, the second master's appetite was lost, and he only ate half a steamed bun and a bowl of soup for dinner, which was nothing, and what made the second master even more frustrated was that the half of the swollen face had not been eliminated, and the second master had no choice but to carry this deformed face to meet with the representatives of the potters.

When it was dark, the gunfire at the gate of the company stopped. The little rabbit mother got out of the stove house of the three mothers' houses. She took off the hand towel wrapped around her head, wiped her face full of ashes, grabbed a gourd scoop and scooped a bowl of water to drink it, and then walked along Dongjing Hutong to the boundary street. When she was making pancakes for the potters in the mine in the stove house of the three mothers, the gunfire at the mine gate never stopped, and she was really frightened when she heard it, she was really afraid that the soldiers would break through the mine gate at once, occupy the mining area, and seal the big well. She knew that as long as Oi had a letter, her little rabbit would have no hope. As soon as the gunfire stopped, she couldn't bear it anymore, and she handed the bamboo chop stained with mushy juice to the three mothers who were burning the fire, saying that she wanted to go to the gate of the mine to have a look.

The three mothers didn't stop her.

At this time, the three mothers saw the big Yanma who was going door-to-door to get pancakes, and immediately told the big Yanma, who put down the pancake basket and went to chase her.

It was already late, and the little rabbit mother had already walked to the demarcation street near the entrance of the company.

The taverns, teahouses, and restaurants near the gate of the company were all occupied by the soldiers who attacked the mines, and the little rabbit mother was targeted by a bearded man as soon as she showed her head on the demarcation street. The guy squatted in the tea shed of Tian Liu Mazi with a box cannon, and when he saw the little rabbit mother stepping on the street, he immediately waved the box cannon and shouted:

"Sister-in-law, don't go out on the street, it's dangerous!"

The little rabbit mother was stunned and stopped on the street.

"Come here! Sister-in-law, come here! ”

The little rabbit's mother didn't know what was going to happen, so she turned around and walked a few steps, and walked along the tea shed of Tianliu Mazi to the mouth of the alley of Dongjing Hutong. At the mouth of the alley, she stopped, her two eyes motionless to look at the company's gate, the gate was strangely quiet, neither the sound of gunfire nor the shadow of a person, and a red pennant floating on the gatehouse at the gatehouse. This shows that the gate has not been breached by the GIs, and her heart has calmed down a little.

She was about to turn back.

At this moment, with a burst of thunder and lightning, the heavy rain fell, and she only walked a few steps at the mouth of the alley, and then hid in a shoe shop diagonally opposite the Tianliu Mazi tea shed.

There was no one in the shop, and the family had apparently fled elsewhere before the battle began, and the broken wooden door had been locked, but it had been broken open by the GIs. The house was very chaotic, there were broken uppers and rotten soles everywhere, and as soon as the little rabbit mother entered the house, she smelled a smell of blood, she was a little afraid, she didn't dare to go into the house, and she didn't dare to look into the house, she turned around and retreated to the eaves at the door.

She stood leaning against the broken wooden door that had fallen to the side, and the rain was pouring down, smashing blisters on the ground in front of her. In just a few moments, her black cloth shoes and her trouser legs were all wet with the rain, and her gown was drenched. The wet gown was tightly wrapped around her, outlining the outline of her two ** very clearly.

She felt a little cold, so she didn't care to be afraid, and quietly moved from under the eaves to the threshold. She twisted the water from her trouser legs, rolled them up, and she thought she would run home if the rain was a little lighter.

However, just as she was curling her trouser legs, the bearded man burst through the tea shed diagonally across from the six pockmarks in the rain and shot into the door like an arrow.

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law! Why are you hiding in this house? This house is for the dead! The bearded man gasped.

Mother Bunny was taken aback. She peeked behind her, and sure enough, she saw a bloodstained gown under the curtain between the hall and the back room.

She screamed, feeling the broken wooden door and about to run out.

The bearded man hugged her:

"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! This...... Here's ...... There I am! ”

She slapped the bearded man in the face, turned around and was about to pounce out the door, but the bearded man grabbed her waist tightly with his arm, she was in a hurry, she struggled desperately, she broke both feet off the ground, but she couldn't break free of the bearded arm. She had to scream:

"Help—"

A loud explosion thundered in the air, and the rumbling thunder drowned out her shouts and swallowed them up.

She wanted to shout again, but she couldn't, and the bearded man had covered her mouth with a hand full of gunsmoke. The bearded man was tall and big, and his chest was as thick as a wall, and he fiddled with her like a poor chick. He twisted both of her hands behind him and grasped them firmly with a steel pincer-like hand; The other hand gagged her and dragged her into the house where the body was kept. The dry, earth-covered ground was marked with a few large wet footprints and a trail of water.

She was so suffocated that she wanted to bite the big hand that covered her mouth with her sharp teeth, but she couldn't open it; She wanted to pull out the hand behind her and scratch it on the bearded face a few times, but the hand seemed to be nailed together, and she couldn't pull it anymore. The room was strangely dark, and the front and back windows were nailed with cowhide, but the cowhide on the front window was a little smaller, and the two window lates were not covered, which slightly penetrated the skylight outside the window. When she was first dragged into the house, she couldn't see anything, and after struggling for a while, her eyes gradually regained her vision, and she saw the corpses of seven or eight GIs placed on the kang, saw a face that had been beaten to bloody flesh, and saw a mouse with a thief head and brain running through the pile of corpses on the kang.

She was firmly pressed to a kang mat spread on the ground, and her hands were pressed under her own body, unable to move at all. Her head was pressed against the tattered military uniform that a dead soldier had fallen off, and the military uniform exuded an unpleasant smell of blood and a pungent ** smell. She jerked her legs desperately, kicking and kicking. She knocked over a basin rack behind her. At this moment, the bearded knees pressed hard against her thighs, and she heard the fierce threat of the bearded man lowering his voice:

"Move! Move again, old ...... Lao Tzu tore off the two pieces of sassy flesh on your body! ”

She stopped moving, not afraid to move, not frightened by the threat of the beard, but really unable to move. The beard pressed down on her body, and pressed his stubble face against her mouth, causing her to feel an unbearable suffocation.

She saw that the bearded man was also gasping for air, and he gasped as he unbuckled his trouser belt, and he threw the box cannon in his hand into the corner behind him.

The bearded man stripped himself naked by two, and then went to tear her gown. He was very rude, and he was indeed tearing, and she could clearly hear the "whoop" and "whoa" sounds of her own gown being torn. Tearing open his gown, he hurried to peel off her pants again. The cloth band on her trousers was tied in a dead knot, and it was difficult to untie it, so he pulled out the knife from his riding boots and cut it......

The bearded man lay on top of her like a bull. Everything she had expected happened. At this time, she was much more safe, she lay there honestly, with a pair of wooden eyes wide open, and let the beard make that rough vent on her.

But at this moment, footsteps sounded again in the sound of the rain, and the bearded man lay on top of her and did not dare to move.

The footsteps were getting closer.

"Save ...... Help me! Put...... Let me go! She struggled and cried out.

The bearded hand covered her mouth again.

The bearded man covered her mouth with one hand, propped it up on the ground with the other, and turned his head to look—

The curtain of the door opened, and a thin monkey-like soldier with a spear on his back appeared in the sight of the bearded man with a cigarette roll, and the cigarette roll on the soldier's mouth was bright and dark:

"Hey, who?"

"Get out! Your shit's give...... Get out of here! ”

"Yo, it's the company commander!"

The curtain fell, and the face with the cigarette was gone.

The bearded man hurriedly got up from her, lifted his pants, picked up the gun, and ran out in a panic......

Everything returned to calm.

There was silence all around, not a single sound.

The little rabbit mother gradually relieved her breath, and felt very frightened, she pinched the waist of her trousers with both hands, and tried to walk out of the door with a trembling rope, but as soon as her head poked out of the curtain, the monkey-like soldier who was hiding in the shadows smiled lewdly and hugged her:

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law! And me! ”

"Get out! Get lost! ”

"Yo, yo, sister-in-law! I don't like the poor and love the rich! Bite? Can you do it with the company commander, but can't you have fun with us as soldiers? ”

Without saying a word, the soldier threw the gun on his shoulder towards the door, and the hungry wolf pounced on her, throwing her to the ground......

She fell to the ground again, struggling desperately again, she shrugged her body desperately upward, she grabbed his face with her hands, bit his hands with her teeth, hooked his head with her feet. The GI was in a hurry, stood up and stepped on her stomach:

"Don't fucking give you a good face, you go to heaven! Lao Tzu trampled you to death! ”

The GI's feet stomped down hard, and she felt an excruciating pain, and she felt as if she was going to die, and her stomach was so sick that she wanted to vomit.

The soldier pressed down on her again, groping all over her, and as soon as she struggled, he would pick at her, pinch him, and beat her with all his might......

She was so hurt that tears came out, she was desperate, she couldn't struggle, she couldn't struggle, she could only sob, and let the soldier fiddle with her. She thought that this might be her fate, that she was destined to meet such two GIs on such a rainy day, in such a room full of dead bodies. Maybe she'll be trampled to death by them, she's so scared that after this GI, someone will break in! She hated these GIs so much! She thought, today, she is no different from the ** in the kiln, she was raped by two soldiers today, whether there is anyone behind these two soldiers is uncertain, the soldiers are stationed in the courtyard of Liumazi's house, only fifteen or sixteen steps away from this hut, if there are two more people, what can she do!

She whimpered and cried.

Unexpectedly, just as she began to cry, the Yanmar burst into the house wearing a cloak, and as soon as she entered the house, she shouted:

"Second sister-in-law! Second sister-in-law! ”

She tried to answer, but her mouth opened, but she didn't scream, and when she tried to call again, the soldier's hand covered her mouth.

"What the hell, where did she go?!" The Yanmar grunted again in the outhouse.

She struggled hard, tilted her head, pushed away the GI's hand, and shouted with all her might:

"I ...... I'm here, help! ”

There was a sound of barefoot boards hitting the ground.

The Yanmar threw off his drenched coat, tore off the curtain and broke into the house.

The GI pressed on the little rabbit mother and shouted to the Yanma through gritted teeth:

"Get out! Stinky pussy, fucking get out of here, it's none of your business! ”

The Yanma ignored his stubble at all, cursed hatefully, pounced, and ripped the soldier off the little rabbit mother. The GI hurriedly responded to the battle, and immediately twisted into a ball with the Yanma.

When the soldier and the Yanma were scuffling, the little rabbit mother got up from the ground, trembled her hands, and hurriedly lifted her pants, and the pants were raised to her waist, and her hands trembled even more, and she couldn't hold it anymore, and a pair of frightened eyes stared at the Yanma and the soldier.

The Yanma first pressed the GI under him, but he couldn't hold it down, and as soon as the GI stood up, he flipped the Yanma to the ground. Then, the GI pounced on the Yanma and pressed it to death, and his two hands tightly grabbed the Yanma's neck, causing the Yanma's head to move. Before the GI had been completely taken down, she held her breath and held her neck to grab the deadly thing between the GI's legs.

But she couldn't. The GI was like a mad dog, pinching her on both legs. Her bulging eyes saw clearly that it was dangling not far above her head, but she couldn't grasp it.

She had no choice but to give up this hopeless effort, and broke the soldier's hand with both hands, and after breaking it a little, she cried out desperately:

"Second sister-in-law, ...... Hurry up! ”

The mother bunny was stunned and tried to lean towards the GI, but as soon as she got close to the GI, the GI flew up and kicked her down. She was lying at the door, where the GI had put his gun.

She saw the spear.

She got up, grabbed the gun in her hand, and slammed it on the back of the GI's head with a **.

The GI snorted, and suddenly softened, and the two hands that were holding the Yanma's neck loosened. The Yanma leaned forward, reached out and grabbed his thing, and with a hard squeeze, the GI's body trembled like chaff.

Immediately afterwards, the little rabbit mother smashed garlic in the face of the GI, and then smashed the GI to death.

Looking at the soldier's bloody face, the little rabbit mother was frightened. She stood in the middle of the room, her pants falling to the ground, her jaw trembling, and she muttered:

"I ...... I killed someone...... Killed ......"

Dayang immediately stepped forward to lift up the little rabbit's mother's pants and tie them, and pulled the gown on her body to cover it, panting and said:

"If you think about it, kill it! Damn it! Walk! Come on! Let them find out and it's broken. ”

"I ...... I, I'll kill...... Killed! ”

Yanma gave the little rabbit mother a hard slap, and regardless of whether she was awake or not, he dragged her out of the door. After walking more than a dozen steps in the alley and quietly avoiding Tian Liumazi's yard, the big Yanma put the gun on his shoulder and ran away with the little rabbit mother flying......

At this time, the rain was very heavy and fierce, like a pouring down, and the sky was dark, and there was no human figure to be seen on the other side, and there was no other sound in the black alley except the sound of the rushing rain.

Zheng Fu's eyes were always shaking in front of the little rabbit's mother. He couldn't forget those heartbreaking eyes. When the mother of the little rabbit cried to him, a sacred feeling suddenly welled up in his heart that only a father can have, and he secretly said to himself at that time that he would rescue the little rabbit with the courage and strength of a man, even though he was not the father of the little rabbit, although he did not like this stubborn and somewhat wild child in the past.

Like a real man, like a trustworthy husband and father, he worked hard to go deep underground. However, his efforts in the inclined shaft failed again. The quality of the support project under the inclined shaft is too poor, and the roof is very serious, he and Wu Sanlong and Lao Li have been picking up for five or six hours, and the roadway behind him is full of gangue and coal ballast, and it is almost impossible to plug in the feet, but the roadway has not yet been opened.

They had no choice but to go to the kiln.

After eating something on the kiln and resting for a while, he picked up a coal pickaxe again, carried a few bags of **, and did not say hello to Wu Sanlong and Da Lao Li, so he quietly went down the kiln alone.

He thought: this time, he is with **; As long as you use ** to blow up the gangue blocked in the roadway, open up the road, and figure out the situation under the inclined well, it is not too late to take everyone to the kiln to save people.

He didn't believe that the inclined shaft was also a sea of fire.

He came to this deep underground alone, and he felt that the whole underground was frighteningly silent, as if there was a danger lurking everywhere in this empty ramp, and even the smell of conspiracy wafted in the sultry air. He was terrified of losing his life in this inclined well to hell. As he walked deeper into the shaft, he thought of hell for no reason, and he felt that he was moving towards the depths of hell.

He became a little less confident, and he suddenly realized that he was not a real man, and that his confidence and guts were extremely limited. For a moment, he even wanted to turn his head back, leaving the abyss and hell behind him, and returning to the hustle and bustle of the ground.

However, his feet slid down the wet, muddy slope step by step, as if his whole body was no longer under the control of his reason......

He couldn't go back to the ground.

What did he do when he went back to the ground? Participated in that war? That war was too far off topic, ridiculous and bizarre! That war didn't belong to him Zheng Fu, nor did it belong to the potters who were killed, that war was a conspiracy played by the two old men on the pretext!

One day, he thought, these potters who had lost their minds would realize this!

The flickering oil lamp tore the heavy darkness little by little, leaving him behind; Light and darkness wrestled in front of him, making him have some associations. He thought of Mr. Liu again, and he felt that this learned gentleman from the provincial capital was like this oil lamp, illuminating the vast dark night in Tianjiapu Town, making him see the true face of this ugly world at once, and making him recognize the sinister intentions of those gentlemen and old men! He sincerely thought: If he was a native of Tianjiapu, if he also had great appeal like Hu Fuxiang, the third mule, and Wang Dongling, the foreman, then he would definitely stop this meaningless kiln war!

Now he can't. Not many people listened to him. The potters were stunned by this explosion, and they were blown into the arms of the second master and couldn't get out!

His heart couldn't help but tighten.

He felt a sad sense of loneliness.

In his thoughts, he once again came to the clogged alleyway. He raised the lamp, shone at the shed legs and beams, paid attention to the surrounding environment, and then took out the ** piece that he was carrying in his arms and carefully placed it on a dry big gangue.

He sat on the gangue ballast that he and Wu Sanlong and Elder Li had picked up last time and rested for a while, and lit a pot of smoke against the light of the oil lamp.

Smoking a cigarette, he remembered the little bunny.

Since that stormy night, he has always had the feeling that he was caught red-handed as a thief. The little child, whom he had never paid attention to, suddenly became tall and became a man who stood up to the sky. He imagined the night countless times, and he thought that if the little rabbit really broke into the room that night with a kitchen cutter, then it must have been a fight between two men. He won't budge, he won't! He didn't play with his mother, but he really liked her and really wanted to marry her as his wife. He could have spoken to him with confidence, as in the negotiation between two men, fairly, honestly, and with dignity. He will convince him.

However, the woman he loved didn't give him this chance, and she insisted that he jump out of the back window...... For this, he regretted it for a long time, and he felt that he had lost face and lost a chance to have a showdown with another man. Later, he still thought about having a good talk with the little rabbit, but he never met the right opportunity; As a result, things dragged on and dragged on to this day.

Today, he came alone to look for the little rabbit, and he thought that if he could find him, as long as he was not consumed by this evil mine, he must have a good talk with him! If you can't talk about it, beat him up, in the name of your father.

After smoking a bag of cigarettes, he knocked the cigarette pot, wrapped the cigarette purse and cigarette stick together, wrapped it tightly, and inserted it into the trouser belt at the back of his waist.

He put his coat on the beam of the shed, and "smack, smack" picked up the gangue that had fallen in front of him.

The small gangue was gradually cleaned up by him, and a large, hard rock protruded. He dug a pit under the rock, filled in a piece of **, and then paddled a fire, lit the medicine twist on it, and turned to climb up the slope. When he panted and crawled to a place ten steps away, ** "boom" exploded, some broken gangue and broken rocks splashed under his feet, and the lamp in his hand was also extinguished under the impact of a wave of white air.

He lit the lamp in his hand.

He carried the lamp and smoked in puffs of smoke, and came to the big gangue.

The gangue was not shattered, but it was blown apart, and part of the gangue protrusion was blown away.

He was disappointed.

He spat into the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, and then picked up the coal pickaxe in the deep part under the gangue, dug a small pit, and stuffed the remaining two pieces into it.

He lit the twist again.

Doubling it, the explosion was naturally much greater than the last time, he knew. The No. 7 cabinet where he is often engaged in the work of opening up the roadway, playing ** is not a day, two days, and he knows the habits of ** well.

He wanted to stay away.

Unexpectedly, fate was so perverse, and just as he was struggling to climb five or six steps away, one of his feet rolled on a small ground in the middle of the railway, and he slipped and fell. The slope of the inclined shaft was very steep, and there was mud and water underneath, and this slippage caused him to retreat in front of the gangue that was about to explode. He hurriedly got up, climbed up again, and only climbed three or five steps, and the ** behind him exploded, and a powerful wave of qi sandwiched the large gangue fragments and thick gunpowder smoke rushed towards him and knocked him down suddenly.

The two crooked sheds above him also fell in the explosion, and his body was buried by the falling gangue and coal when he lost consciousness......

When he first heard the sound of footsteps, Liu Yihua thought it was a pedestrian passing by on the street, and did not pay attention to it at all. The window in front of his desk was facing the street, through which all kinds of noises came into the house—the footsteps of the passers-by, the neighing of cows, horses, and mules, the cries of the peddlers, the noise of which was constant throughout the day, and he was accustomed to it, and he did not think of what would happen that night. When he heard the footsteps, he looked at his pocket watch, and saw that the hour hand on the pocket watch had pointed to "12", and knew that it was late at night, so he got up and closed the curtains, and turned the light of the oil lamp on the table a little smaller.

At this time, the rain outside the window was still falling heavily, and when Liu Yihua pulled the curtains, he noticed that the entire windowsill in front of the table was wet with the rainwater flowing down the window, and the stack of manuscript paper he piled on the table was also soaked in water. He found a rag and rubbed the windowsill, moved the whole table back, lit another cigarette, sat down, and went on writing.

The article was not written well, and he felt bad. He was reporting the war to the nation, but he had no idea how it was going. Since three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Guixin has been unable to approach the mine area, and he can only rely on his imagination to play freely on how the potters who occupy the mine area resist and repel the attacks of the soldiers. This is a major drawback, without immersion, without first-hand investigation and observation, it is difficult to write vivid and touching articles. Before the rain fell in the evening, he had thought about trying to get through the barso of the GIs with a few potters in the town and go to the mines. But as soon as he appeared in the street, the soldiers rushed up to him to arrest him, and if it weren't for the protection of the town's workers, he might not have been able to escape!

He was not surprised that the GIs wanted to arrest him, and he knew that his existence was undoubtedly a threat to the warlord Zhang Guixin, to the evil Dahua Company, and to the reactionary forces in Tianjiapu, and they would resort to any means in order to eliminate this threat. They did this not only to deal with him personally, but to deal with the heroic people of Tianjiapu, they wanted to extinguish the righteous public opinion in favor of the people of Tianjiapu and cover up the truth of the facts, and the more they did this, the more it showed their weakness, he was not afraid at all, he just wanted to use his pen to make a righteous speech for the poor people.

The inn he was in was far from the company's entrance, on the westernmost side of Boundary Street. This place is close to the embankment of the ancient Yellow River, and there is not a single soldier around—the claws of the soldiers do not dare to reach out here yet. He lived on the side of Tianjia District, next to Tianjia District was the West Kiln Shop, where the Hakka potters lived, where an armed group of potters was stationed. He was safe and he didn't see any threat to his life. So, when he heard the footsteps, he didn't pay much attention to it, and he was still meditating on his article......

Last time, he reported on the conflict in front of the company's official building, but unexpectedly, Hao Wenjin of the "Yishi Herald" took advantage of the loophole, this Hao Wenjin is very ghostly, there is no literary talent, but he is quite scheming, quite good at exploiting loopholes, Hao Wenjin scolded him in an article written for the "Yishi Herald" "Lies to confuse the public, distort the facts, and make a fool of the people", that is, he caught the details of Hu Gongye's plot to kidnap Li Shicheng, which made him a little passive. Looking back now, the original article can not avoid the details of the kidnapping, the kidnapping is the business of Hu Gongye and those ruffians, what does it have to do with the potter? What reason did the GIs have to shoot at the potters?

In the afternoon battle, it is no wonder that the potters are not to blame. The occupation of the mine by the kiln workers was caused by the decision of ** sealing the well. The potters don't want to go to war with the ** army, but the ** army wants to go to war with the potters! There is a question of right and wrong. Even according to the hypocritical laws of Beijing, it cannot be said that the potters are at fault!

He thought that if this article could not provide some accurate reports on the actual situation of the battle, then it must also explain this issue clearly and thoroughly, so that the world would know that what was happening here was not a riot, but a massacre!

He lit another cigarette and took a few puffs, and as soon as he took a puff of the cigarette, he coughed violently, until tears flowed from his eyes. He felt a dull ache in his chest, itching and aching in his throat and eyes, and he snuffed out the cigarette he had just lit and buried his head in reading the manuscript.

At this moment, he heard the sound of something falling to the ground in the courtyard, and then the footsteps "fluttered, fluttered" again.

He was a little alert.

He knew that the shopkeeper's family had already blown out the lamp and gone to sleep, and the courtyard door had been locked, and at this time, there should be no footsteps in the yard.

He stood up from his desk, picked up a half-filled bottle of oil, and crept towards the door.

As he walked to the door, the footsteps stopped outside the door.

"Who!" He asked.

"Me, it's me!"

"Who are you?"

"I'm Tian Laoba, and you've pulled it with you, sir! Mr. Liu, did you sleep? ”

Liu Yihua breathed a sigh of relief, put the oil bottle on the stove next to the door, and opened the latch.

A tall man soaked in water flashed into the house, after the man entered the house, he paused the mud on his feet, grabbed a towel behind the door and wiped the rain and sweat on his face, and said humbly:

"Mr. Liu, really...... I'm so sorry for the middle of the night, tsk, tsk......"

Liu Yihua smiled:

"Nothing! Nothing! Your Bugs can come to me in the middle of the night because you can afford me and trust me! ”

"Mr. Liu, Zhang Guixin wants to arrest you!" Tian Laoba poked his fat head very confidentially and said.

"I know, but they can't be arrested, with the protection of all of you, he can't be arrested by ten Zhang Guixin!"

"Yes! Yes! ”

Tian Laoba sat down on the edge of Liu Yihua's kang.

"Brother Tian, is there something wrong?"

"Oh, yes, yes!" Tian Laoba was stunned, stood up, walked to the window, opened the curtain and looked out, turned around and said, "Mr. Liu, I came in over the wall, I'm afraid that people outside will see ......"

Liu Yihua smiled and said:

"I know, as soon as you climb over the wall and come in, I know. If there's something, tell me quickly! ”

Tian Laoba rolled his eyelids, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped:

"Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu...... Mr. Liu, the brothers in the mine are fucking miserable! ”

"Oh, did you run out of the mine?"

"No, no, when the soldiers attacked the mine, I was not in the mine, after dark, the second master sent me to the mine to have a look, and I touched it from the damn West Mine River!"

"Tell me how it's going there!" Liu Yihua was excited, he was anxious to know the casualties of the potters in the mine that afternoon, and he wanted to flesh out some fresh content for his article.

"Quick, you say, I remember!"

He turned around and went to the table to get the paper and pen, but unexpectedly, when he turned around, Tian Laoba pounced, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and stabbed him in the back. His head rested on the back of his chair, the corners of his mouth twitched violently, and his entire face twisted and distorted. He stared straight at Tian Laoba with a pair of bulging eyes, and only a very simple word came out of his trembling mouth:

"You...... You...... You ......"

Tian Laoba raised his hand and wanted to cover Liu Yihua's mouth, but seeing that he had no strength to shout, he gave up this idea. Then, Tian Laoba's right hand holding the knife twisted vigorously, causing the knife that had stabbed into Liu Yihua's body to turn around for most of the time before pulling the knife off.

The knife was pulled out, and blood gushed out like a spring, and immediately, soaked through Liu Yihua's robe. Then, the blood flowed to the broken wooden chair where Liu Yihua was sitting, and then flowed down the gap in the wooden chair to the muddy floor, and after a while, there was a pool of blood on the ground under the chair.

Liu Yihua did not die. His legs were stiffly supported under the table, one hand covered the wound, the other hand held the edge of the table, and always maintained a sitting posture, he had no ability to resist, he just looked at Tian Laoba with a pair of confused eyes, and there was a trace of tears floating in the corners of his eyes.

Tian Laoba raised the knife again, but the knife trembled in his hand and did not fall for a long time. He said to Liu Yihua without guilt:

"Mr. Liu, this ...... It's no wonder to me, I know that you are a good person, you have a wronged head, a debtor, if you want to understand the accounts of this life and this life, go to Zhang Guixin! Go to him! ”

A teardrop of pain flowed down the corner of Liu Yihua's eyes, flowed to his cheek, and rolled down his cheek into the socket of his ear, and he said like a whisper:

"This ...... This...... This is for ...... Why? ”

Tian Laoba's face was also distorted by pain, he shook his blood-stained hands, shook his bloody knife, and said viciously:

"For the poor! For the poor! This battle is won, and I can't get rich! I pawned the land, sold the cattle, and still owed my second master fifty oceans, if I don't kill you, I can't redeem the land, I can't pay the bill, I have to go to the kiln, but I don't want to go to the kiln! Unwilling! That's it! ”

"Ming...... Bright...... I see! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the knife in Tian Laoba's hand fell again, Liu Yihua's whole body stood up, and with a "plop" sound, he leaned down on the table in front of him, and in an instant, the blood flowing from the wound dripped onto the manuscript he had just written......

Tian Laoba expected that Liu Yihua would not survive, so he didn't bother to pull out the knife on Liu Yihua's body, so he hurriedly rummaged through Liu Yihua's things, but he was very disappointed, in the broken suitcase brought by Liu Yihua, in addition to manuscript paper and books, there were a few changes of clothes, and there was nothing valuable. He didn't give up, so he went to Liu Yihua again, and it took a long time to turn over a warm ocean and a pocket watch in the pocket of Liu Yihua's robe.

Putting Dayang and the pocket watch in his arms, Tian Laoba turned around and walked out the door. Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked outside the door, I was found by the owner who got up to relieve urine, and the owner asked:

"Who?"

Tian Laoba didn't dare to answer, so he ran to the courtyard wall in three steps and two steps, jumped up, and jumped onto the wall. Outside the wall is a street lamp pole - after the soldiers were stationed in Tianjiapu, the company began to supply electricity every night, and the light of the street lamp illuminated Tian Laoba's face, and before Tian Laoba jumped off the wall, the owner of the house had recognized him.

The owner of the house expected that something had happened, so he hurriedly ran to Liu Yihua's room to see, only to find that Liu Yihua had been plotted, he immediately woke up the neighbors, called the potters of the kiln group who were on the watch, and asked everyone to help rescue them.

However, it was too late, Liu Yihua was no longer good, and when everyone put him on the kang, there was no trace of blood on his painful face, his whole face was as pale as a piece of paper, and his eyes were dull.

"Who, Mr. Liu, who did it?" A representative of the potters asked.

Liu Yihua did not answer.

"Say, who did that?"

Liu Yihua still didn't answer.

"Whoever did it, we slaughtered him!" Another potter with a gun on his back yelled with tears in his eyes.

At this time, the homeowner spoke:

"I saw it, it's Tian Laoba!"

The potter's representative waved his hand:

"Let's go, get me this dog bastard!"

"Don't ...... Other! Liu Yihua wanted to sit up.

The owner of the house immediately helped him up.

"Don't ...... Don't be embarrassed for him, he ...... He is also because of ...... Because of poverty! In the last moment before the fire of life was extinguished, Liu Yihua leaned on the arms of the homeowner, looked at everyone painfully, and said the last sentence intermittently, "Workers, I ...... My heart belongs to you...... You, you are going to ...... To win...... Victory. ”

After speaking, Liu Yihua fell into the arms of the homeowner, tilted his head and choked his breath. This reporter of "Minxin Daily", this young man who is only 24 years old, this stranger who has no blood relationship with the people of Tianjiapu, has sprinkled all his blood on this black land.

That night, the town's potters, under the command of Tian Er, transported food to the mine in three ways, from the west moat river, from the company gate, and from the south coal yard. That night, the people of the town picked up knives, guns and sticks, and prepared to defend themselves. Also that night, Tian Laoba, the murderer of Liu Yihua, was finally arrested by angry guest potters in a dilapidated thatched hut in Tianjia District......