Chapter 6: A Bitter Experience

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The mayor of Guitang Town is called Wang Weiqing, and the people ridicule him as Wang Qingtian -- under his rule, the people are hungry and hungry, and they gather together, isn't it just a green one. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yesterday was his father's 70th birthday, and he took him from the countryside to the town, where he held a feast in the town office, and took the opportunity to loot the people's fat and ointment in this name -- he was so shameless as to send his subordinates door-to-door notice: The poor people should pay one piece of ocean for each household, five yuan for each shop, and at least 50 yuan for each big household, so that they can express their joy for the birthday of the town elder's father, otherwise they will look down on the town mayor, and to look down on the town mayor is to oppose the government, and to oppose the government is naturally a rebellion, and they must have their homes raided and killed.

When the Red Army came, many landlords, bullies, and big bandits scattered and fled, and they could not live in fear. There was no Red Army in Guitang Town before, so it was naturally an ideal place for everyone to take refuge. And the mayor's father is on his birthday, and these people have to come to join in the fun. Some of them came from afar, so naturally it was impossible to go back overnight, so they had to sleep in the town office temporarily. The figures with heads and faces on all sides, plus the guards they brought and the platoon of his subordinates who were transferred by Wang Weiqing to maintain order, made the small town office fit hundreds of people.

Before dawn, the Red Army suddenly slaughtered the town office, they thought they were surrounded, and they could only resist with their men. However, after just a few shots, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the Red Army only attacked the front door, and the back door was empty.

Speaking of which, this was also an accident. The Red Army originally thought that the town office would have the strength of one squad and one charge to take it down, but they did not expect that so many people would be gathered. In a hurry, there was no time to adjust the deployment, which made the back door of the town office empty.

"Damn, I guess I can't catch up. After Luo Ping scolded resentfully, he beckoned to a soldier behind him: "Xiao Liao!"

"Here!"

"You take a few people and inform the platoon commanders of the other platoons separately, asking them to send people to block these fleeing reactionary leaders, and report the situation here to the company commander: Our third platoon will continue to attack the town office as originally planned. Go quickly!"

"Comrades of the second shift, go and block the back door. ”

"Yes!"

"Huang Debao!"

"Here!"

"What are you waiting for, waiting for Lao Tzu to invite you to the play?"

Seeing that Huang Debao was stunned, Luo Ping roared: "Why don't you take your class to Lao Tzu to storm the main gate of the town office." ”

"Yes!" Huang Debao replied with a salute, turned around and shouted: "Li Guowei!"

"I'm here!"

Following the sound, I saw Li Guowei in the corner of the eaves on the second floor of a stilted building across the street, setting up a light machine gun and waving at him.

"What are you waiting for? ”

"Da! da! da......"

"Comrades, take out grenades and prepare for a storm. ”

As soon as the voice fell, the machine gun stopped.

Huang Debao turned his head and glared, picked up a grenade and shouted: "Li Guowei, what the hell are you doing? Keep shooting." ”

"Squad leader, look, the white flag is raised on the other side. ”

Huang Debao turned around to look, but saw a small bamboo stick sticking out of the courtyard wall of the town office, and a white cloth was hanging on it. Listen carefully, you can still hear someone inside shouting: "Stop fighting, stop fighting, we surrender......"

"It's good to know to surrender. Huang Debao was overjoyed: "Open the gate and throw the gun out, the policy of our Red Army is to surrender the gun and not kill it, and treat the prisoners preferentially." ”

Soon, the door opened, and several spears and two broadswords were thrown out of it one after another.

"Just a few broken guns, you fucking liars?" Huang Debao's eyes widened angrily, and he shouted: "Throw all the weapons to Lao Tzu! Dare to play tricks with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will send you all to the west with a grenade." Hurry up!"

"Sir, there's really no weapons. They all ran away, and there were only a few of us left who couldn't run. ”

As if to confirm their words, there were gunshots from behind the town office, intermittently, and you could vaguely hear someone shouting for guns and not killing.

"No matter what tricks you play, now, give Lao Tzu his head in his hands and come out one after another. ”

Eight people came out of it, four were injured, two of the other four were about forty or fifty years old, and two were fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zhang Qingshan was the first to rush into the town office, and searched the town office with the soldiers, although many places were extremely messy, but no one was found, and they obviously fled in a hurry.

Luo Ping asked Huang Debao to take control of the town office with the third squad, and he led the rest of the soldiers to chase down the fleeing reactionary leaders along the gunfire.

Huang Debao led people to escort the eight captives to the hall of the town office, which usually deals with disputes among the people, and after letting them squat, they were about to look around, when they vaguely heard the sound of "whining" crying. followed the sound to find it, but saw Zhang Qingshan squatting in the corner of the lobby, holding his head and crying softly.

patted Zhang Qingshan's shoulder and asked softly, "Qingshan, what's wrong?"

"Squad leader, it's nothing, I'm ...... I'm just so happy. ”

Huang Debao's right hand, which was about to be withdrawn, suddenly stopped, and gently patted Zhang Qingshan's shoulder: "It's okay, I understand, just cry." ”

When Zhang Qingshan's aunt gave birth to him, she died of a blood collapse. At the age of fourteen, Abba accidentally fell off a cliff and died while hunting in the mountains. Although Zhang Qingshan, who lost his parents, already knew how to hunt, he was too young and had to go down the mountain. He has herded cattle for the landlord's family, worked as a boy in a big tobacco house, and even ate Guanyin soil...... In this cannibalistic society, he is like a small grass, although he is trampled underfoot, he stubbornly struggles to survive.

Wandered to Laifeng County, Hubei Province, because he was clever and sensible, he was accepted as an apprentice by a lacquer craftsman surnamed Chen. The elderly Master Chen had no queen and was very good to Zhang Qingshan, so that Zhang Qingshan once again felt the warmth and care of his relatives, and naturally he had to be filial in every way, and in the end, the two became godfather and son. More than a year later, under the recommendation of his godfather, Zhang Qingshan learned some crafts such as carpenter and clay sculptor from others. Others are not as easy to get along with as a godfather, so that his apprentice's life is very difficult, and being beaten is a common thing, this is the rule of being an apprentice at that time, and the godfather is not easy to say, just let him grit his teeth and insist on learning his skills.

Because he was diligent and hardworking, good at thinking, and sincere in leading people, gradually, he became famous in the local area, not only able to support his family, but even brought apprentices.

But he kept his promise to several masters: he would never compete with these masters for jobs. A few months ago, he resolutely returned to Guitang Town with his elderly godfather on his back, and quickly became famous in the town with his skills.

The husband of the widow Tian was originally the head of the township, rich and powerful. She wanted to marry her daughter, and asked Zhang Qingshan to work for her, making cabinets and plaques for dowry. But Zhang Qingshan's bitter life over the years made him sympathize with the poor people and hate the bullies who were bullying, so he resolutely refused to do it. Widow Tian sent someone to arrest him and force him to work, Zhang Qingshan pretended to agree, but ran away home in the middle of the night. was about to leave the town with his godfather on his back, but was caught again by Widow Tian.

Widow Tian threatened her godfather, and Zhang Qingshan had to pretend to agree. Two days later, with the help of a friend, he picked up his godfather at night, ran away again, and was caught by Widow Tian.

The angry widow Tian beat the father and son severely. Zhang Qingshan was young and strong enough to stand up, but the elderly godfather was beaten and vomited blood on the spot, and he couldn't afford to get sick, so he drove the crane to the west at dusk the next day.

After Zhang Qingshan buried his godfather, he turned around to find Widow Tian desperately, but was beaten by Widow Tian's minions. ran to the town office to sue Widow Tian, and the result can be imagined: in the lobby of the town office, the town mayor Wang Weiqing actually reversed black and white, slandered Zhang Qingshan for abusing Master Chen, and beat him half to death on the grounds of disrespecting the teacher.

In the end, his cousin Zhang Qinggui, who was still teaching in the school, couldn't stand it anymore, and secretly instructed him: I heard that the Red Army is the team of our people, and it is estimated that it will be the master of the poor people, you go and try. Zhang Qingshan then went to Zhaotouzhai to join the Red Army.

Returning to Guitang Town with the Red Army, and coming to the lobby where the board was at the beginning, excited, excited, sad and indignant, and other feelings, accompanied by scenes of the past, came to my heart, and I couldn't help but run to the side and cry bitterly. In fact, many Red Army soldiers had similar experiences......