Xiao Gao led a company of bandits to the head of a village and ran into an intersection. I didn't know where to go, and I was greeted by a few people who were carrying burdens and selling pots, and it seemed that they were going to the market. The monkey was quick to ask, "Hey, it's good for Shangxianggong to take this road?" ”

The pot seller said, "The road to the east of the Shangxiang Gongdian should turn south, how did you get here?" The bandit company commander grabbed Xiao Gao and asked, "What's the matter?" Xiao Gao said anxiously: "The east side is a depression, and it is difficult to walk after a night of rain; Take a few steps around here, and the road is easy to walk. I'm a local, and I'm not more familiar than them? The bandit company commander asked the pot seller again: "Is he telling the truth?" When the pot seller saw what he said just now, he almost caused a disaster for this child, and he already regretted talking too much. Lian said: "He is right, there is water stored when it rains." Turning south from here, you can't walk a few more miles! ”

The bandit company commander spread his hand. Xiao Gao stretched his neck collar and said, "It's just a walk down there, you can't trust me, let me go back!" ”

The bandit company commander ignored Xiao Gao and ordered: "The advanced village will have a meal, and the plainclothes will go to the Xianggong store to find out the situation." ”

During the Xiaogao Anti-Japanese War, he was a trafficker, and he had seen the Japanese army and the Hanhao team have dinner. When the Japanese army arrived at a village, they first lit a fire on the avenue, each put their lunch boxes on the fire and barbecued, and at the same time asked the maintenance association for his magao (eggs) and clothes and wool (sweet potatoes), and the soldiers also caught chickens everywhere, but those half were wild and fun, and they were not a serious source of food. The traitor team suffered a lot of losses, and when they entered the village, they first asked the office staff to ask for "food and dry", that is, how much money did it cost in total, which was regarded as the village's food. When the money arrived, he didn't leave, so he had to go door to door to "search the eight roads", and he also had a meal while searching. Not picky eaters, fill everything in your mouth, eat steamed buns and pancakes naturally, and stuff pancakes and vegetable dumplings into your mouth. Because they can't eat enough on weekdays, they have eaten red alum steamed buns for medicinal rats. She hadn't seen how the Kuomintang army ate, so she hid aside and observed carefully.

The company commander said, "Let's shoot two shots first and report a message!" ”

The monkey raised his gun and fired two shots into the air, and the chickens in the whole village flew and the dogs bitten. A few armor guards who had not yet fully dressed held paper flags with the word "welcome" written on them, greeted them, and bowed to the company commander like chickens pecking rice. While leading the team to the threshing field, the number of supplies was determined on the way: 100 catties of pancakes, 50 catties of pork, 10 catties of sesame oil, 10 cigarettes, 2 catties of soju, and 2 catties of sugar......

When Xiao Gao heard this, he was startled at first. These dog mongrels are all starving ghosts, and they can't eat so much with two bellies! Thinking about it again, in the end, it is better than the traitor team or the more civilized, sitting on the field to eat collectively is better than casually harassing the common people, although it is more, but there is still a certain number.

When they arrived at the field, the team blew a whistle to announce the disbandment, and the company commander and others were accompanied by clerks into a landlord's house. The monkey face and the big man were the heralds of the company, and they followed Xiao Gao with him.

The company commander entered the hall, and the big man, monkey face, and Xiao Gao rested under the tree in the courtyard. In the meantime, the pots and spoons in the landlord's kitchen clanged, the sound of squeaky stir-fry and the smell of meat bubbled out, and several office workers went out and ran in and out. One moment I heard the company commander slapping the table and scolding in the hall, and the next moment the whole house was laughing, and the village was crying and shouting here and there, and there were beatings from time to time. Because they have traveled for a while, those two bandits are not so fierce towards Xiao Gao. Xiao Gao asked, "What are you busy with?" ”

The monkey face said, "Open the rice!" ”

Xiao Gao said: "Didn't we talk about it on the road just now? ”

The big man said: "There is another way to talk about the scene." ”

The monkey said with a reluctant face: "You little old man, what has you seen in the world!" If you really do that, those who are soldiers can't die to die, who else will do it? What does the company commander rely on to pay off his gambling debts? The apportionment to the heads of the common people is to apportionment of 100 catties of flatbread according to the saying, 20 catties to the hands of the soldiers, 40 catties into the company commander's pocket, 20 catties to the commander of the armor, and the 20 catties to the division chief, platoon commander, and sergeant. So do the loaves, and do the same. The company commander slapped the table because the price was discounted! The room full of laughter is that everyone has made peace. ”

Xiao Gao asked, "In this way, don't you brothers starve?" ”

The monkey pointed at the gun and said, "When Qiu Ba's seven and a half catties are vegetarians?" Don't you hear the chickens and dogs in the village, each with its own way. Little brother, I see that you are very clever, don't look at that melon as soon as possible, and wear a gown with us! ”

Only then did Xiao Gao know that their method of cooking was a combination of the methods of devils and traitors.

Seeing that Xiao Gao didn't speak, the monkey asked again: "What's the matter, why don't you do it if you are asked to be a national army?" ”

Xiao Gao said: "Who did this!" ”

The tall man said, "I'm afraid I can't help you, do you know why the company commander didn't let you go back?" ”

Xiao Gao said, "I don't know. ”

The monkey face said: "His orderlies have deserted, and he seems to want to make up for you!" Little brother, your luck is stronger than ours, and I want you to take care of it more in the future! Xiao Gao said, "Don't fart, I won't do that." The monkey face said: "Diligence and service, three major tasks: marching backpacks, garrison drying bedding, and fighting to learn mice." If you have a head, you can do it! ”

As he was talking, the sound of an airplane sounded in the sky, and the bandit company commander ran to the door of the hall to look at the sky, and shouted urgently: "Signal cloth, signal cloth, quickly swing signal cloth!" These donkeys can't see the blue sky and white sun hat flowers in the sky, and the bomb comes down and doesn't recognize relatives, fast, fast! ”

The monkey face hurriedly took out three rolls of cloth from the blue cloth baggage, and shouted that the big man climbed the tree and went up to the house together, and put the two white ones and the red one away. The plane circled at low altitude, and sure enough, it ran away with its tail cocked. Seeing that the big man and the monkey face were all on the room, Xiao Gao took the opportunity to run out of the door. As soon as he arrived at the door, a sentry raised his gun and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Xiao Gao said: "I, I hide from the plane." ”

"The planes are gone, you still hide from the fart, go back!"

The big man and the monkey face rolled up the signal cloth and carried it on their backs. A little captain brought a plate of pancakes and salted eggs to the monkey face, and said, "This is for you brothers." Xiao Gao said: "I am a common man who was arrested, don't treat me as one of them." The little commander said: "The company commander said that there are three of them, and I don't care who is who." ”

Xiao Gao was hungry early, but he couldn't eat comfortably. She was worried that the company commander would decide to call her an orderly, but she couldn't pretend to be able to do so, and she had to run away immediately.

She hadn't figured out a way to get out yet, and the plainclothes who had gone to scout came back. The report said that Xianggongdian was rushing to the market, and there was no hostile situation. According to the common people who rushed to the market, seven or eight miles southeast of Xianggongdian, they arrived at the New Fourth Army last night, and they were still there this morning. The leader was a bearded man, twenty or thirty men, just like the one who came out of the mountain.

The bandit company commander gave the order and immediately opened to the Xianggong store after eating. Xiao Gao thought to himself, don't run away, go with them, this is more certain than finding a team by himself. As long as you get in touch with your own team, are you afraid that you won't find a chance to escape?

Leaving again in the afternoon, they also let Xiao Gao walk in the front. The company commander really said to Xiao Gao: "Kid, do you think it's good to be a soldier?" Eat fragrant, drink spicy, and wear ready-made military uniforms, is it stronger than you see melons? ”

Xiao Gao said: "It's not strong, no one scolds you when you look at the melon, everyone scolds you when you are in the national army!" ”

"If you don't get scolded, you won't grow up!" The bandit company commander said with a smile, "Anyway, they don't dare to scold in person, and they can't hear what they scold behind their backs!" ”

"That's not going to do it. You know the road ahead, let me go back! ”

"If you don't do it, you have to do it, give me a duty!"

"I still have my mother!"

"There are a lot of mothers who are soldiers!"

"Not anyway!"

"I shot you!" The bandit company commander took out his pistol and gestured, and then said to the monkey's face, "Tie me up and take it away!" ”

The monkey face found a rope, tied Xiao Gao to a hemp shoulder, and held the rope in his hand. He knew that the boy was destined to be a soldier, and he could not offend him, and the rope was tied loosely.

When the group arrived at the Xianggong store, they stopped again. The mayor of the town said that he handed over 200,000 gold yuan coupons, two steamed buns and a piece of cooked meat for each soldier, and the exchange condition was not to enter the shop and the house. Xiao Gao was afraid that she would be called a bandit, so he would rather be hungry than eat the steamed bun. The bandits collected the money, ate steamed buns but did not leave, sat in the willow row at the head of the village, smoked and napped, and stayed for more than a day. The plainclothes sent back to report that the New Fourth Army had indeed left Dongnan Township and drove away on Jinpu Road, and the company commander went down the road to Dongnan Township. When Xiao Gao heard this, his heart was on fire. I was looking forward to catching fire with my team so that I could find an opportunity to escape back. However, it turned out that this group of bandits was hiding and leaving, and they would never go in that direction unless they waited for the New Fourth Army to leave.

After walking southeast for an hour, I passed a small village, and it was overcast and it was about to rain. The company commander called several platoon commanders to him and explained it like this. The platoon commanders continued to move forward with their teams, but the company commander took the company headquarters and a guard platoon and went into the village house to sleep. They opened the gate of a courtyard with a tiled roof, and drove away all the people who were sleeping, and they took up the whole courtyard. The company commander lived in the east room, the others occupied the middle and west rooms, and the big man and the monkey face squeezed into the stove house with Xiao Gao in their faces. How could the common people leave the house and leave a man to take care of the house, and this man became a temporary messenger and cook. They turned out eggs, bacon and flour, and told the man to make a fire and boil vegetables, and serve wine to the company commander.

Before the food was cooked, the south side was lively, people shouted and barked, and the fire soared to the sky; When the food was fried and the wine was hot, a few rich men in robes and gowns led them into the courtyard by a platoon leader. The rich men shouted: "The company commander is gracious, the company commander is gracious." By the time the company commander came out of the house, the men had all knelt down.

"Fathers, if you have something to say, please get up!"

"The company commander didn't save the lives of our whole village, and he didn't dare to get up if he knelt to death."

"Where does this start? Our army has an order, and there is no offense in autumn, and violators will be killed! Did my brother harass the people? Say it, say it, and I'll shoot it right away! ”

"No, no! The CEOs are very well-behaved. ”

"And what are you asking for?"

"I beg that the cypress trees of my father's grave shall not be cut down."

The platoon commander said, "Report to the company commander, where the woods are digging trenches. ”

The company commander said: "That's to clear the shooting line, no way!" ”

"The bosses are demolishing my house, and even the roof has been lifted."

The platoon commander said, "Open the wall for street fighting!" ”

The company commander said: "This is necessary for the war, and there is nothing I can do to help!" ”

"The bosses are destroying my crops!"

The platoon commander said, "That's within the range of the blocking position." ”

The company commander said, "Fathers and elders, you can't tell my brothers to lie on the ground and be shot, and there is not even a hidden trench!" ”

"Company commander, a total of more than 20 communist soldiers came yesterday, and they made a meal at the head of the village and left. There's no need to prepare for such a big event! ”

"What do you know about military aircraft? It was their top platoon, with a large communist army in the rear. Brother has been ordered to stop in your village, and there is a big battle! ”

"Company Commander Kaien, move the battle line a few miles to the west, as soon as the fight starts, won't the whole village be flat?" Several people kowtowed.

"The military order is like a mountain, is this my brother and I doing the master? Everyone, hurry up, don't be embarrassed by me. ”

There was a lot of noise, and everyone came into the house. Half an hour later, the company commander shouted at the door: "Herald, go and send the order immediately, stop repairing the fortifications, the defense line has moved." ”

The monkey face promised, "Yes!" And he ran out. I went out and turned back, untied the burden on my body, took out the signal cloth inside, shook the empty baggage, tied it around my waist, and said to the big man: "Look at the point, you have a share of the lottery!" "That's how he ran out.

The big man grunted, "Mom, you're as fast as you can do!" ”

Xiao Gao asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The big man said: "Slap the table to scare the rats, squeeze the rich man to order oil." This is the price has been negotiated, and his kid is rushing to pick up foreign fish! ”

Xiao Gao asked, "Why don't those rich people leave quickly?" ”

"Don't you leave a letter of thanks?"

"What is a certificate of appreciation?"

"Find a piece of red cloth and write that a certain company of the national army in a certain year and a certain month bravely killed the enemy in this village and saved the people from fire and water; Autumn did not commit any crimes, respected his father and elders as if he were a relative, and so on. Then draw a knot of the bond, and the company commander will take it back to report the merits! ”

Xiao Gao said: "It's late at night here, where can I find red cloth pen and ink?" ”

The big man said, "Yes, the company commander has it in his bookcase, how can he not prepare the usual things?" ”

From the beginning of the day, Xiao Gao saw that Da Gao did bad things and did not rush forward, and his speech was gentler than that of a monkey, so he said to him: "I said boss, I think you are a kind person, how did you do this?" ”

"Am I willing to do it?" The big man snorted, "Our family can't pay off the landlord's debt, I'm selling the strong man!" ”

"Do you feel the sweetness when you dry up?"

"Bitterness! We can't do things that are too unconscionable, and we can't do it, and we can't just be the horns of suffering losses. ”

"That leg is on you, you can't run?"

"I've seen deserters come back and shoot them on the spot! Where's the run? My house is not far from here, and I will sell me when I go back to the armor chief. ”

"You don't have to be here to be a soldier! I have seen a good team, the officials and the soldiers are on an equal footing, do not harm the common people, and only fight the landlords and old wealth......"

"I've heard of it too. They've passed by here several times! ”

"Then why don't you go there?"

"Didn't you see our company commander? When you hear a little wind, you hide and walk, and you can't meet it if you want to! ”

"You haven't been to the front line, have you?"

"This is the team of the division management area, which is specially used to charge and catch strong men in the rear. The day before yesterday, the New Fourth Army ran out of a group of people from the Yi River, and the team on the eastern side hurriedly turned around, so we were called out. ”

"Boss, we are all poor people, where is it good, you can let me go."

"No, I can't get your head moving, and my ass will be broken. Sleep honestly, the rope is in the way, I can loosen it for you. ”

The big man loosened the rope for Kodaka in the dark. Xiao Gao stretched out his legs and lay down, and suddenly touched a soft roll. She remembered that it was the signal cloth thrown by the monkey's face. She gently hooked it with her foot, reached out and shoved it into the stove beside her, and she secretly laughed at the thought of the embarrassment of the bandits when she encountered the plane again.

Before dawn, the bandits all returned, carrying a lot of big baggage and small luggage. The monkey face carried a burden on his back, and also carried a share of the company commander: a fox skin robe and a beep suit. It was the landlord who opened a business in Shanghai. It turned out that the price asked by the company commander was too big, and he couldn't make up the money for a while, so he estimated that the clothes and fabrics were all discounted. The monkey face was so happy that he forgot about the signal cloth because he accidentally found a piece of tobacco soil when he was flipping through his clothes, and he stuffed his burden without saying a word. The big man didn't go away with this heart at all.

The team assembled, and the class returned to the camp. The bandit company commander asked Xiao Gao: "Have you changed your mind?" When you are an orderly, you will be given a share immediately. Follow me, the day of wealth is yet to come! ”

Xiao Gao said, "You let me go back, I'll ask my mother." ”

"Bastard!" The leader of the bandit company really slapped Xiao Gao and said to the big man, "Untie the rope, and he can choose the two paths!" "It turned out that there were a lot of things that were robbed, and I had to go back to honor my superiors, so the bandit army found a flat burden, beat a few pairs of burdens, and arrested a few people to pick up the luck. The commander of the bandit company asked someone to bring his little burden and put it next to the burden, and said to Xiao Gao:

"You choose it yourself, give me a orderly, carry my little baggage, and walk comfortably. If you don't want to, you will carry the burden with the people! ”

Xiao Gao didn't say a word, gritted his teeth and took on a pick.