In the early summer of 1927, under the sunset, in the mountains of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, a small road came to the father and son. The road is overgrown with bushes and trees. The spring breeze here is very strong, the grass and trees make a "whoosh" sound, and the river is turbulent not far away.

Tian Changqing, a middle-aged man, carried a burden, with a wicker box containing clothes and other sundries at one end, and a wooden box containing carpenter's tools at the other end. He has a long face, wears a gray homespun robe, a black felt hat, and a black dress and tweed ingots.

His son, Tian Shanhu, was 16 years old, carrying a cloth bag, a pair of black canvas rubber shoes, a washed white blue trouser gown, and a blue cloth belt tied around his waist. A large wooden slingshot is pinned to his waist. Tian Shanhu seems to be a little hot and wants to take off his shirt.

Tian Changqing said: "Huzi, don't take off your clothes, be careful of catching a cold." Why don't you talk all the way? ”

Huzi said: "I don't want to come here, so far." ”

Huzi sat on a big rock by the side of the road, pouting.

Tian Changqing: "We live in your grandfather's house, your mother is gone, your uncle is not angry with us when they see the sky, don't you see?" ”

Huzi lowered his head and said: "Why didn't I see it, didn't I tell you, leave this matter to me, the house was built by you and my mother, it belongs to our family, why does he want it, I will fight with him sooner or later." ”

Tian Changqing also sat down and said, "I was afraid that you would fight with your uncle before leaving." Your mother is gone, you are uncomfortable, and I am also uncomfortable. Your grandfather and grandmother are all towards your uncle, no one supports us, Huzi, this is the fate of the door-to-door son-in-law, I tell you, in the future, you will be a single, and you are not allowed to be someone's door-to-door son-in-law. ”

Huzi: "But let's go to my uncle, it's not our house." What if my aunt doesn't want to see us? ”

Tian Changqing: "Your uncle wrote to us to come, after all, his surname is Tian, this is the Great Northern Wilderness, there are few people and many land, I thought, if we settle down here, maybe we can live a good life." ”

Huzi whispered: "Just live for half a year, if you can't go back to our Shandong, I will bring the house back." ”

Tian Changqing interrupted him and said, "Listen to you." Let's go, there are bandits here, it's not safe. ”

Huzi stood up, touched the big slingshot on his waist, and said, "What are you afraid of?" ”

Who knew that just after walking a few steps, a sudden "bang" gunshot, which startled the father and son, and quickly ran to the high slope on the side of the road and lay down in the grass. The tiger character raised his head and looked, and Tian Changqing pressed him.

Huzi raised his head again and whispered, "Dad, look over there." ”

I saw that on the open field, two bandits in black clothes and black pants were holding a girl hostage and running towards this side.

The girl's mouth was gagged and her arms were tied with straw rope.

A bandit with two small pigtails tied with red ropes at the ends, combined with his big purple face and red rosacea nose, is very funny. He holds a box gun in his left hand and pulls a rope in his right hand.

Another bandit, wearing a black top hat, holds a box gun in his right hand. Behind the two, there were five or six regimental men armed with rifles, closely in pursuit.

Tuan Ding shouted in his mouth: "Double pigtails, we Zhu Baodong said, you let the girl go, spare you from death!" ”

The two bandits dragged the girl to the bottom of the mangang and hid in a shallow ditch. The earthen ditch is just below where the two Tianshan tigers are hiding, and they are only seven or eight meters away.

The pigtails shouted in the ditch: "Isn't your chief Zhu Yonghe?" Kind, let him come over, your double-braided grandfather's gun doesn't have long eyes! ”

Two bandits lay in a ditch and gasped. The girl was so tired that she closed her eyes and gasped. The group was divided into two people on the left, center, and right in a fan shape, and under the cover of trees and ditches, they outflanked them and stopped not far from them.

The bandit in the top hat said, "Boss, there is something that I don't think is evil." ”

Double pigtails: "What's wrong?" ”

The bandit in the top hat said: "Hulutun, this Zhu Baodong, is from the Northeast Army, his marksmanship is accurate, and he killed our four brothers with one shot, but why didn't he kill us both?" ”

Double pigtails: "What a thief he is, if he wants to live, take me as a reward." ”

"Double pigtails, get acquainted, hurry up and let other people's daughters go!"

The bandit in the top hat said, "Listen, the one surnamed Zhu is shouting again." ”

The pigtails replied: "Zhu Yonghe, you don't pretend to be a calf with me!" If there's a kind, you'll come here! We have three guns, and we can pull a few pads on our backs when we die. If you don't dare to come, we'll just spend it. As soon as it gets dark, I won't be with you. ”

Zhu Yonghe shouted: "Double pigtails, we have grenades, throw them over, you will definitely not live." ”

The pigtails put the girl to her chest and said, "Okay, you can throw it away!" I went to the underworld to get married, and my wife could see it. ”

The girl struggled desperately, hugged the girl with braids and said: "Don't earn it, I have money, go to the mountains to be my wife, I will ensure that your whole family eats and drinks spicy food, and I will point to you to give birth to a son for me...... Obediently, when it gets dark, let's go up the mountain, and visit the church tonight, and I'll give you whatever you want. ”

The girl glared at him.

Zhu Yonghe shouted: "I saw it, it's a girl from the Gao family, you release someone quickly." It's just such a girl. ”

At this time, a group of people secretly ran forward, and saw the opportunity to shoot a shot, and the group fell to the ground, rolling in pain, and shouted: "Help me, save me." ”

Zhu Yonghe quickly ran over and pulled him back.

Double-braid smiled, and whispered to the bandit next to him, "Isn't this here to find death?" He raised his gun and aimed at Zhu Yonghe, who was rushing over.

At this juncture, Huzi took out a slingshot from his waist, took out a large yellow mud ball from his pocket, slammed his feet up and ran behind a pine tree, and shot towards the braids.

Huzi's series of movements were too fast, Tian Changqing was horrified to see that the yellow mud ball hit his pigtailed hand, his gun fell to the ground in response, and the bullet grazed Zhu Yonghe's ear, Zhu Yonghe also watched in horror as the bullet flew over and lay on the ground.

Tian Changqing said to himself in despair: "Oh no, I'm causing trouble!" ”

He squinted his eyes and looked at the bottom of the ditch, and saw Shuangzhi bending over, covering his hands and looking back.

Suddenly, the girl kicked her pigtails violently and took the opportunity to run towards Zhu Yonghe. The pigtailed companion bandit raised his gun and was about to shoot at the girl, but another ball of yellow mud knocked the gun out of his hand.

The bandit in the top hat shouted, "What the is this?" Reinforcements? ”

Seeing this, Zhu Yonghe ran a few steps and still fired a grenade a little further away from the bandits. In the explosion, Zhu Yonghe and a few regiments quickly ran towards the hiding place of the pigtails.

I saw that the bandit in the top hat was about to get up, next to him was a double braid, his face was covered with blood, and two small fake hoods on his head fell to his shoulders, and his head was bald.

Zhu Yonghe shot the bandit in a top hat in the head, and the bandit was killed on the spot. Gave a shot to the belly with double braids.

Zhu Yonghe turned to Tuan Ding who was following him and shouted, "You put all the dead people together." Look carefully, if there is anything valuable on them, put away their weapons. Sui Changsheng, go to Tunzi to find Cui Jiachang, set up two big cars and pull people to the Bao Gong first! ”

A few of the men turned and left.

Zhu Yonghe lowered his head and found two yellow mud balls beside his pigtails, put them in his pocket, turned around, clasped his hands into fists, and shouted loudly towards Mangang: "Which hero is helping, please show up." ”

Even though Zhu Yonghe shouted several times, no one responded. At this moment, Tian Changqing had already pulled Huzi down the hill and ran hurriedly.

The tiger who followed the trotting said, "Dad, what are you running?" ”

Tian Changqing said angrily: "If you don't run away, our grandfather will die here, tell you, be honest with me in the future, and if you make trouble again, I will send you back to your hometown." ”

Huzi was too frightened to speak.

Tian Changqing stood up and said, "You say, did you hear that?" ”

Huzi said, "Hmm. ”

Braided and bareheaded, his left hand drooped, his left hand was bruised on the back, and his right hand was holding his stomach, bleeding, leaning on the dirt slope.

Zhu Yonghe sat cross-legged in front of his pigtails, blowing a smoking box gun, putting the gun in the holster and hanging it on his right shoulder.

Zhu Yonghe said: "Your Excellency is the famous pigtail? ”

Pigtails smiled wryly and nodded, his purple face a little pale from blood loss.

Zhu Yong lit a cigarette and handed it to him, raised his left hand in his braids, picked up the cigarette, and took a big puff.

Zhu Yonghe picked up his wig. said: "I thought it was your own hair, but it turned out to be wearing this thing, what's wrong with a bald head." ”

The pigtails smiled bitterly and said: "I had a problem with epilepsy, and when I was seven years old, a big dancer told my mother that I was evil." You should comb two pigtails on your head and tie a red headband. Don't say it, it's real! I haven't smoked it since I combed my braids, but I got the nickname of a double braid. Five years ago, I had a strange illness and all my hair fell out. When I got better, I was afraid of having epilepsy again, so I paid for this wig. Unexpectedly, this fake is more useful than the real thing, and it saved me several times. ”

Zhu Yonghe sighed and said, "I can't keep you today, you know why." You killed two of my brothers, and three of them hung flowers, and they were all old and young. Your reputation is great, the county is registered, if I let you go today, I will have to die. ”

Double pigtails: "Life should be like this, I don't blame you." ”

Zhu Yonghe's scarred face twitched, and said, "If you want to not suffer before and after death, it's best to hand over the storage kiln, I understand the rules of your way." ”

The pigtails said bitterly: "Blame me for being unlucky, I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today." I just want to know, when did you arrange the rescue, what is the reason? ”

Zhu Yonghe said coldly: "Providence, do you understand?" In the past half a year, you have killed dozens of people, not to mention, the old and the young, you don't let go, everyone has given you money, and you still tear up the ticket, now not only the people hate you, but the county has long been eyeing you.

Double pigtails: "I know what I do, some of the things that lack virtue are done by my brothers, forget it, don't say anything, you sent everyone away, and beat my panting brother to death, I know you didn't hold back your fart." ”

Zhu Yonghe raised his eyes and saw that the sky was red layer by layer, from light to dark, and the earth seemed to be covered with a thin veil.

Zhu Yonghe asked the pigtails: "The government has surrendered several times, why don't you agree, do you have children?" ”

Double pigtails: "God doesn't have long eyes, let me be the last!" In these years, officials are bandits, and bandits can also be officials, which is not unusual. I am forty and two this year, and I have been in this way for nearly 30 years, and I have lost countless amounts of money and property, and there are dozens of lives in my hands, which is worth it! ”

Zhu Yonghe said: "No children, why are you robbing so much money? ”

The pigtails said, "If you hadn't made trouble this time, maybe this woman would have been pregnant." ”

Zhu Yonghe: "Don't dream, I can't let you live today." Tell me your secrets. ”

The pigtails let out a long breath: "What good can it be?" (To be continued)