Chapter 14: Advanced (42)

Mo Di was able to stay in Guilin for half a year, and the happiest thing was the Mo family, this time, even the old man Mo was shocked, and he specially came to Guilin City from his hometown to ask what was going on. When he came to Chongde Road, the old man Mo was stunned by Mo Lao Wu's grain and oil store, he only knew that his son was doing business in Guilin, but he didn't expect the business to be so big, and the whole street of Chongde Road became a grain and oil street, and the Mo family occupied one-third of it.

"The third." Old Man Mo sat in the middle of the hall of the fifth Mo Yongcun's house in the back of the house, and asked Mo Di very seriously: "The fifth man's grain and oil store is so big, is there any part of you in it?" ”

"Should? There you have it! Mo Di didn't know whether he could answer.

Mo Yongcun, the fifth brother on the side, said with a smile: "Dad, what you are asking is funny, this store was opened by the third brother at the beginning, he went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War, I came to help, and the third brother expanded investment last year to get the store to this scale." Seriously speaking, this store is the third brother's, and I just help the third brother to clean up this store. ”

"Nonsense." Mo Di interrupted Mo Yongcun's words and said: "The store is yours is yours, what was originally mine, you are the one who helped to do it, don't talk about these words in the future." Our Mo family brothers, there is no separation now, there is no yours and mine, speaking of which, they are all parents'. ”

Hearing Mo Di's words, Old Man Mo was very excited, nodded again and again, and said: "The third child has made the greatest contribution to the family over the years, the family's land has more than doubled, and our Mo family has also become a big household in Yongning Prefecture. During the Chinese New Year, your eldest brother released 50 stone of grain to donate to poor households, and the county government accumulated more than a golden plaque, and the county magistrate Tang also greeted the house, which was very face-giving. It is good to survive forever, and the grain and oil line is very good, with the grain and oil line, our Mo family is no longer the landlord, the so-called rich have distant relatives in the deep mountains, and there is money to have food, and money is a rich family. I plan to build a house for each of your brothers this year, and when I return home in the future, I will have my own separate courtyard, although our Mo family is not separated, but it is much more convenient for each person to live in their own house. ”

"Good! The sixth brother is also about to marry a relative, so he gave his house by the way. Mo Yongcun said.

"Humph!" Speaking of Mo Lao Liu, Old Man Mo said a little unpleasantly: "He said that he wants to study, he wants to study in a military school, and he should not be a colonel and not please his wife." The third child, I learned this from you, and he always wants to surpass you. ”

Mo Di smiled and said to his father, the sixth brother and the eldest brother's son for a year, only fourteen years old, even if he studies for another ten years, he is only twenty-four years old, what does it matter, you can't ask everyone to be like a big brother, and you will be a grandfather in three or a few years. Old Man Mo also smiled, his own boss is like a copy of his own, and the others have their own growth paths, and now it seems that the third child is the most promising, and he is already a major general of the national army in his thirties, and it is really the smoke from the ancestral tomb.

On the second day after the end of the remedial training class, Mo Di moved his luggage back from Lijia Village, because the senior staff class that started at the end of the month was not placed in Lijia Village but in Fulongzhou, and Mo Di also said goodbye and left like other students. Before leaving, Mo Di went to Gan Lichu's office to receive the admission notice of his senior staff class, but he didn't expect to be retained by the enthusiastic Director Gan, so he talked for a while. Gan Lichu told Mo Di that he and Feng Yizhong were transferred to Guangxi, and the central government had its own deep meaning. Mo Di knows that this is a major move by the central government to intervene in Guangxi, and on the surface, it seems that Guangxi people are governing Guangxi, and it will not cause much backlash. Feng is loyal to politics, and Gan Li is good at military at the beginning, which is the best choice. Gan Lichu hoped that Mo Di would stay in Guangxi after graduating from the senior staff class, and it would be best to join the Guangxi Pacification Office or the 16th Group Army. Mo Di told Gan Lichu that he was still a member of the 21st Group Army, and he was only afraid that he would need to go through the Ministry of Military Affairs if he was transferred across the group army. If the Ministry of Military Affairs gives an order, he will absolutely obey it.

Gan Lichu knew that it was not easy to get the Ministry of Military Affairs to issue an order, she was only in the first phase of Huangpu, and she could not affect the ministerial-level decision-making of the Central Military Commission at present, so she sighed and let Mo Di leave. Can't leave Mo Invincible, Gan Lichu was very frustrated, in the cram training class, the only thing he recognized was that Mo Enemy was the only one, thinking that Mo Enemy could be the leader of the army, and the others were either reckless, or lacking in wisdom, or they were just chickens and dogs.

There was not much luggage in the remedial training class, a set of bedding, a basin with a bunch of sundries, and a suitcase for clothes, tie the bedding well, carry it on your back, a suitcase in your left hand, and a mesh bag with a basin in your right hand, and Mo Di walked out of the dormitory. The school sent two Dodge trucks to take the students to Guilin South Railway Station, and on the side of the road outside the South Railway Station, Mo Di said goodbye to his classmates for a year, called a human-powered tricycle, and returned to Doumu Lane.

Next, he has a half-month vacation, which is a real vacation, no need to report to anyone, and no need to ask anyone for leave, it is completely his own, which is quite valuable.

Finally, he had the opportunity to take his wife Zhou Shiming to take a tour of Guilin, which has been known as the best landscape in the world since ancient times.

"Is it true?" Zhou Shiming opened his big eyes in disbelief: "I'm still worried, after returning to Tongcheng, others will ask me, what is interesting in Guilin, and I can't answer." I can't tell anyone that, except for the cross street, the farthest east side has been to Zhongzheng Bridge, the west side has been the farthest to Haotang, the north side has never been out of Dingguimen, and the south side has only reached the railway station. The most walked was Rongshan Lake, where it was almost trampled half to death. ”

Hearing Zhou Shimingke's pitifulness, Mo Di smiled dumbly, and said: "I will take you to Elephant Trunk Mountain today, Fubo Mountain tomorrow, Fengdong Mountain the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow I will go to find a bicycle, take you to the other side of Huaqiao to see Jiuju Mountain, Putuo Mountain and Crescent Mountain, and then we will go to the Li River." ”

"Okay!" Zhou Shiming said: "Lao Wu said a few times that he wanted to buy a bicycle, but he always couldn't buy it, you have to think of a way, ask if you can buy one back, there is no bicycle at home, and it is not very convenient." ”

"Good!" Mo Di said: "I'll ask Tang Qi if he can find a way to find a bicycle." The garrison command has a batch of bicycles, British three-gunned, beautiful and easy to ride. ”

Next, Mo Enemy took the most leisurely days of the year to the extreme, boating on the Li River, boarding Putuo, nostalgic in front of the Xiaoyao Building, watching the present under the Duxiu Peak, Hunan cuisine outside the Guanyin Pavilion, and the reeds on the bank of the Peach Blossom River.

"Brother Fu, the beauty of Guilin should be in early summer, right?" Standing on the top of Mingyue Peak, Zhou Shiming overlooked the Li River and asked.

Mo Di shook his head and said: "The beauty of Guilin, the first emphasis is on spring, the yang energy rises in spring, there are often spring rain and spring fog, Guilin in the rain is like a fairy like a fantasy, and its situation is better." Do you still remember that when we went back to our hometown to go to the grave during the Qingming Festival this year, we saw the red azaleas all over the mountain, that is the color of Guilin in spring? ”

"And then?" Zhou Shiming asked curiously.

"Then comes late autumn, when the leaves on the black tree turn golden and are reflected in the blue waves of the Li River, you can add a touch of color to the blue color of the river." Mo Di said: "In the late autumn of this year, I will take you to see the black tree leaves, see the black tree leaves by the Li River, and then return to Tongcheng to see the maple leaves, you will feel that there will be wonderful consistency." ”

Zhou Shiming nodded.

I found a heron bamboo raft on Fulongzhou, went down the river until Daxu, and after enjoying the scenery of the Li River, I abandoned the raft and went ashore.

Walking into Daxu, Zhou Shiming was almost stunned, the scale of the building here is not weaker than Guilin, you can imagine the prosperity of the past, and it is even higher than Guilin.

"In the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, I have been here." Mo Di said: "At that time, this place was the base camp of the Northern Expedition, and we set off to swear an oath at this pier. When the first prime minister set up a stage on the pier to give a speech, I was so young and far away that I could not understand Mr. Sun's Cantonese, so I knew the tide of applause and cheers. In the blink of an eye, seventeen years have passed. ”

Holding Zhou Shiming's hand, after dozens of stone steps, up to the top of Tangzhou Wharf, a bluestone-paved avenue appeared in front of him, followed by quaint streets and alleys extending in all directions, all of which are full of the vicissitudes of long culture and history.

"Brother Fu, how can there be such a big town in this place?" Zhou Shiming asked.

"The waterway of Daxu is extremely convenient, leading to the Qin embankment on the top, down to the Xijiang River, sailing against the water to Guilin, and sailing down to Guangzhou. This is the crossroads of the Li River, opposite the mouth of the Acacia River, along the Acacia River, you can go to the military school where I studied before, and along the Acacia River, you can reach Yongfu Luojin. There is also a river that reaches the tide field, and there is also a Ma River that leads to Fukkai. Mo Di introduced: "Daxu, known as Lutian in ancient times, started in the Tang and Song dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, reached the extreme in the early years of the Republic of China, and in the early Ming Dynasty, Xie Jin had a poem that said: Lutian Temple on the Daxu River, a hundred feet deep pool and ten thousand bamboos. After the Liudian accumulated salary in the morning, the servants wrapped the lotus leaves in salt. It was not until a few years ago that after the construction of the Hunan and Guizhou Railway, the importance of the waterway has declined, and the commercial value here has gradually faded. We'll stay here tonight, and tomorrow, find a merchant ship heading down the river and continue in the direction of Yangshuo. ”

In Siyingzhou by the Wanshou Bridge, Mo Di found a hotel near the river, the hotel is very clean, very quiet, not only can live and eat, the scenery is even more commendable. Push open the window, in front of you is the clear waves of the Li River, from a distance, the mountain shadow is majestic, the bamboo shadow is swaying. In the Li River, a flock of ducks swims from time to time, splashing on the water, frolicking, chasing, a farmhouse scene. Mo Di told the store that there was no need to make anything else for dinner, just a river duck and yellow stew. Zhou Shiming looked at the man next to him in surprise, this kind of rude-sthe-king words were actually said by him!

At night, Daxu was extremely quiet, so quiet that no human voices could be heard, and there were no other guests in the hotel except for the Mo couple. The wind blows from the river, swings the bamboo curtains, and gently beats on the window lattice, making a low crisp sound, and in the quiet night, it is even more silent. Occasionally, two dogs barking can be heard, and it seems particularly remote in the night sky, a town that is heading towards depression, it is difficult to return to the prosperity of the sun, or in a few years, there will be no more inns and no shops, only bluestone pavement that cannot be moved away and worthless paving cobblestones.

Early in the morning, the shopkeeper came and told Mo Di that there was a boat going down to Yangshuo, and if you wanted to leave, you could follow.

Mo Di looked at the boat on the dock, it was a big ship with twenty materials, this boat was relatively stable, and the speed was fast, down the river, and it could reach Yangshuo at night, so that Zhou Shiming packed his luggage, went to Diling Street to eat a bowl of Guilin rice noodles, and boarded the boat.