Chapter 8: Guerrilla (4)

From Shoucheng, there are two roads that can lead to Guilin, one is to go downstream along the West River, and go to the confluence with the Luoqing River to Yongfu Town, Yongfu Town belongs to Guilin, different from Baishou, belongs to the provincial county, and there is a car road to Guilin when you arrive at Yongfu. The road is relatively flat, and the post road from Vinh Phuc to Siding to Chang'an Town is wide, and occasionally you will see some horse-drawn carriages galloping on the post road. Mo Di did not choose to go to Yongfu, but forked another path at Tashan Pass, crossed the Jinzhu Pass and came to the Lingui Liangjiang. Mo Di plans to visit Chief Li Zongren's old mansion by the way, and after Chief Li Zongren dominates one side in Guangxi, he will become a pilgrimage place for the Gui family at the head of the Liangjiang Langtou, and Mo Di is not exempt from vulgarity, let alone by the way, and it can't be said that he can't go on a trip.

From Shoucheng to Liangjiang, eighty miles of mountain road, Mo Di walked for a day, almost broke the dark before reaching the destination, Rao is marching for many years, this intensity of walking is also quite the path of Jinzhu Pass, there are horses that do not ride, not only can not ride, but also lead the careful walking, a little careless, the horse stumbles the front hooves, will fall down the ravine.

When the setting sun reflects a huge shadow on the western peaks, Mo Di and his party bypass the screen-like Matou Mountain, the old house of Li Zongren's family is located at the foot of the mountain, and the post road passes through the gate, and the road is a row of tall blue brick walls.

Zhao Guolong walked to the front of the Li Mansion and reported: "The colonel and deputy brigade commander of the 526th Brigade of the 176th Division of the 48th Army went back to Baishou to visit his home and return to Gui. ”

A special person greeted him, smiled on his face, and said: "It is a guest when you enter the door, please make a registration so that you can know which guest has arrived." My surname is Li, and I am the steward of the mansion, and the clan has specially assigned me to be responsible for the reception work in the general's mansion. With that, he took out a large book with gold edges, put it on the desk in the porter's room, and handed over a wolf pen. Mo Di flipped through the front registration, there were celebrities and ordinary people, and there were generals and captains in the military, and Mo Di also wrote down his name and position neatly, and handed the pen back to the people in the Li Mansion. The Li Mansion, the Li steward, took the book and looked at it very seriously, and exclaimed: "Good words, a soldier can write such a good hand, it can be described as a heavenly and martial arts." ”

Steward Li led the way in front, led Mo Di to the middle hall and took a seat, and asked Zhao Guolong and a cadre of attachés to move things in and settle down on a small two-story building. Mo Di found out that the Li Mansion covers a large area, large and small patios, and the houses enter and enter, with nine curved corridors. There are a lot of guest rooms in the house, it is estimated that it often receives people who come to visit, and a large number of guest rooms are arranged, and soon someone will come to ask, how many people are eating, after Zhao Guolong replied respectfully, he saw that the people in the house were cleaning up the broken branches and leaves in the west garden, and walked over with people, and the helpers did it.

Steward Li took Mo Di around the Li Mansion and visited casually.

Most of the mansions are two-storey buildings with wooden structures, composed of Anledi, General's House, School Hall, Sanjin Living Room, Turret, etc., with 7 courtyards and 13 patios, a total of 113 large and small halls, there are many sets of stairs up and down, and the corridors are staggered, which is very magnificent.

Steward Li told Mo Enemy that General Li Zongren rarely came back, and the brothers in the family were also working outside, and his father died as early as the 14th year of the Republic of China, and there was an old mother in the hall, and there were three out of seventy, who was very old, and set up a Buddhist hall on the south side of the house, and lived in a simple place, and it was not good for people to disturb him. Last month, Chairman Jiang and his wife came to Langtou, the old lady came out to meet them, drank a cup of tea together, the old lady said to Mrs. Jiang Song, I know that now to fight the Japanese, we will definitely be able to win, Japan is not terrible, we are Chinese, even if Chinese women each take a kitchen knife, you can hack all the Japanese to death! Mrs. Jiang was amused. Chairman Jiang bluntly boasted: Motherhood is typical!

Mrs. Li usually doesn't see anyone, but she likes children very much, she vacated the main house in the south courtyard and made a primary school hall, where the children of the clan are gathered to attend classes, and lunch is provided by the house every day. At the beginning of the school year, Mrs. Li would come over and tell the students that she believed in Buddhism and did not recite Buddhism, and that the children were reading here, and the sound of the books was much better than the sound of chanting the Buddha. The children of the mortal clan who are admitted to the outside school will be rewarded by the old lady, and these years, only these students can enter the peace hall in the backyard to bid farewell to the old lady, and only they can see the old lady these years.

Mo Di came to the front of the primary school, which was an old-fashioned private school structure, with a hall in the middle, classrooms on both sides, and a teacher's dormitory upstairs. The students who walked out of this school were all the children of the Li family, and they were the clansmen of Chief Li, and they were all proud to have walked out of this door.

Mo Di nodded, there are a few people who can turn their mansion into a school, and Chief Li is one of them. One day, if you can achieve such an achievement as Chief Li, you must also learn from him, return to Baishou, and benefit your hometown.

Dinner is very simple, a hot pot was opened for Mo Di and others, killed a hemp duck, stewed a pot, green vegetables and radish, hot as you eat, a wooden basin of white rice, steaming. There was no drinking, and there was no one to accompany them, Steward Li and a staff member ate in the back kitchen, they ate more simply, one bowl per person, the meals were piled together, and after three mouthfuls and two bites, what should be done, very regular.

After dinner, Mo Di walked out of the Li Mansion. The fields outside the house have a wide field of vision, and the stars in the sky are very bright, reflecting the Matou Mountain behind them. In winter, there is no insect song and no frog singing, which is more quiet, and the north wind blows, which makes people feel cold. In this place, it can be considered an outstanding person to be able to give birth to a generation of heroes like Chief Li. In recent years, with Li Baihuang's hard work, Guangxi's economy has made great progress, and it has truly realized that the cultivators have their own fields and their dwellers have their houses. This trip from Anhui to Jiangxi, from Hunan to Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi were deeply war-torn, from the hidden mountains to the Wangjiang River, crossed the Yangtze River, and entered Jiangxi. After the war, the Yangtze River line in northern Jiangxi was rarely populated, and there were no Chinese troops or Japanese troops, only wild dogs scurrying around. It wasn't until Wannian County that I saw the human population, but the human population was also miserable and disabled, and the refugees and displaced people made a beautiful town into a hell on earth.

Bypassing Poyang Lake, but also bypassing the front of the Japanese army and the national army, in Yingtan took the train of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway to Zhuzhou through the Zhuping Railway, this area after the Red Army left, comprehensive rectification and all-round development, in the past two years there has been an unprecedented good situation. After entering Xiangnan, what came into view was a feeling of a big rear, and when I changed into the Xianggui line train into Guilin in Hengyang, I had a sense of freshness that I had never had. In September, the Xianggui line opened the Hengyang to Guilin line, a railway will be lonely in the past Guangxi and the Central Plains closely connected, in the past to go half a month, now it only takes one day and one night, can arrive in Guilin from Hengyang. The particular ones are looking for a sleeper on the train and getting a good night's sleep, and the hard seats are also very good, only occasionally some soot flies from the front of the car, drifts in through the window, and pounces on the face, making people unable to open their eyes.

After the county into Guangxi, Baili Village Station, all people have a feeling of home, maybe the train is deliberately arranged, arrive at Baili Village is just when the sun rises, wear out of the hills, the front is naturally open, a piece of paddy field, slender and horizontal, the earth is separated from the delicate small piece, on the field, there are small purple flowers, one by one, one by one, the original winter in Guangxi, also so flowery.

After Xing'an, Lingchuan, the train is hissing, galloping, the closer to Guilin, the faster the heart beats, when the train stopped at Guilin Station, the enemy found that the Guilin station that appeared in front of him was almost the same as the Mingguang Railway Station that he saw before, but it felt completely different, touched the cold garden-shaped pillar at the main entrance of the station, and the enemy seemed to feel a little warmth, this warmth did not come from the pillar, but from the bottom of his heart.

A cold wind blew, Mo Enemy tightened the collar of his coat, stayed in the north for more than a year, and has adapted to the cold of the north, and the cold wind in Guangxi is much less cold and more warm. The big banyan tree outside the village, squeaking in the cold wind, spread far away in the silent night sky.

"Boss, go back and rest!" Zhao Guolong walked over from a distance.

"Guolong, are you homesick?" Mo Di asked.

Zhao Guolong nodded embarrassedly, only to remember that he couldn't see it in the dark night, and hurriedly said, "A little!" ”

"When I arrive in Guilin tomorrow, I will stay at the Guilin Garrison Headquarters for a while, mainly to report on the combat situation during this period, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until the end of January.

"Okay!" Zhao Guolong said: "At the end of June, I received a letter from home, telling me about a wife, so that I have time to go back and see each other. Zhao Guolong said: "This year, we fought outside and won a lot of rewards from the government. This year, the government gave my father ten acres of fertile land and a piece of homestead land, and our family moved to the shore and started a house, and a matchmaker came to the door. ”

Matchmaker is the most snobbish industry, whoever has money and land, he will go to whomever he wants. Mo Di smiled and said: "I'm afraid that in this way, the people who join the army in your place will be more enthusiastic, and they can really make a fortune." ”

Zhao Guolong also smiled, thinking that at the beginning, as a boring gangster, he followed Xu Ping and Xu Le to mix in the streets of Pingle, where could he have thought that there would be a day when he would return to his hometown. Holding a Japanese flashlight in his hand, he illuminated the road in front of him, and in the dark night, it was like a sharp sword, pointing straight at the sky.