Chapter Thirty-Seven: Unbearable (Part II)
The Beijing bread was gone, and the waitress came back. A door on the side of the service desk opened a crack, revealing the angular face of Wang Kebow, a scout of the enemy engineering department of the Jinan Military Region. Wang Ke smiled at the waitress and stretched out the thumb of his right hand. Seeing the waitress smiling at him, Wang Ke bowed and closed the door, and as soon as he turned around, He Zhimin's guard Xiao Lizi couldn't hold back any longer, and rolled down on the bed with a laugh.
He Zhimin couldn't help laughing, and said to Wang Ke and said, "I said Xiao Wang, this waitress has a lot of talent as a scout." Hehe...... What's her name? ……”
Wang Kebow also smiled and said: "Report to Deputy Commander He, Nizi in the mountains doesn't have a good name, this waitress is called Liu Yuzhen." ……”
"Oh...... It turned out to be Liu Yuzhen. Hehe...... Xiao Wang, this Liu Yuzhen won't be your daughter-in-law, right? ......" He Zhimin couldn't help but make a joke with Wang Ke.
"We haven't registered our marriage yet. ......" Wang Ke bowed and scratched his head embarrassedly.
"You guy, hide so deeply! ......" He Zhimin smiled at Wang Kebow, and then said to Li Jianjian, who was sitting on the edge of the bed with the radio and watching the lively giggles: "Little Lizi, you immediately report this situation to the 'Linzhi'!" I'm going to go to the 'Jiaodong Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery' and meet this 'three-surnamed slave' in person! ……”
"Yes! ......" Li Jianshe immediately put the radio on the table, and while setting up the radio station, he said: "Deputy Commander He, you are the commander, how can you go out in person, it is too dangerous!" I think so, I'll finish reporting to the 'Linzhi', and I'll go with Wang Kebow, and you will rest and command in the guest house!" Deputy Commander He can rest assured, nothing can be delayed! ……”
He Zhimin, who was getting dressed, stopped and said, "Hmm...... You can go! In case there is an accident in the 'Jiaodong Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery', it is convenient to have a radio station, and it is good to report to the 'Linzhi' in time. Wang Ke bowed and didn't go, he and the 'three surnamed slaves' had a relationship, in case he was recognized by this cunning old fox, it would be troublesome. We have to be cautious and not take it lightly. In this way, Xiao Li, you report to the 'Linzhi' in the car, and we will leave immediately. ……”
Yang Daomian opened the Beijing bread very steadily, and chatted with the "three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan together: "I said the two chiefs, I really wronged the two chiefs by sitting in my broken car." ……”
"The three slaves" said to Yang Daomian with a smile: "Master, your car is driving very well, it is much stronger than my driver!" Hehe...... I said, master, how many years have you been driving? ……”
"Oops...... Thank you, Chief, for the compliment! I can't erase the chief's praise. Hehe...... I was driving in the commune office when I started working, and I have been working for more than 10 years. ......" Yang Daomian drove the car without looking back, thinking that he might as well make a joke with the "three family slaves". So, Yang Daomian said with a smile: "I said chief, we Jiaodong people are honest and straightforward. If you say something wrong, don't laugh at me! ……”
"The three family slaves" smiled and said, "It's okay! Master, you can say whatever you want. I am a native of Jilin, and we are old noses from Shandong. Northeast people and Shandong people have a virtue, there are not so many bent stomachs, no matter what they say or do, they are chattering, straight to the point! ……”
"That's good! Then I'll just say? Oh my mother...... I can't even erase it! Hehe......" Under the repeated questioning of the "three family slaves" and Hong Yongnan, Yang Daomian pretended to be a little inexplicable, and said with a deflated stomach: "Hmm...... If the chief can afford me, then you will take me to be a soldier before you return to the army, and I will drive you as a big chief! I heard that I earn a lot by driving as a volunteer soldier in the army, and the benefits are good. Hehe......"
The "three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "That can be studied!" When I'm done, I can ask Staff Officer Wu to go to the armed forces department of your county and directly recruit you into the army. But...... You are a little old, wait for me to return to the military region, discuss with the relevant departments, and then ask Staff Officer Wu to hang up the phone for you. ……”
"Oh maa...... I said, chief, our neighbor Grandpa Liu gave me a batch of eight characters, and he said before that that I was thirty-one years old and would be a nobleman, so this will not be fulfilled. I'm all up to you for the rest of my life! The two chiefs haven't had lunch yet, have they? There is a small restaurant in front of it that specializes in 'perching on the water', which is quite clean. I invite the two leaders to taste the authentic local flavor of Jiaodong here. ......" Yang Daomian looked overjoyed and very realistic.
This is one of the few private restaurants that appeared in Taocun after the reform and opening up. "Three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan glanced at the plaque on the door of the store, and there were four big red characters on it: "Fumin Noodle Restaurant". The restaurant was opened by an elderly couple who spoke the Taocun dialect and could not speak Mandarin. Not to mention Hong Yongnan, he can't even understand the sentence of "three family slaves" who have grown up in China for more than 20 years. After Yang Daomian said a few words to the old man who opened the shop in dialect, the old man went to work with a smile. "Three family slaves" and Yang Daomian sat on the stool and began to chat about the local customs, Hong Yongnan was impatient to listen, so he went to see the old man with a cigarette pouch to do "perched Xia across the water".
Hong Yongnan looked interested, and said to the old man: "Uncle, this face is so white!" ……”
The old man who was kneading the dough said something with a smile, Hong Yongnan scratched his head, and turned to look at Yang Daomian in embarrassment. Yang Daomian said with a smile: "Uncle Wang said, of course this side is white, and it is very tense!" Because this noodle is the head bran noodles of the stone mill, the local people wash the wheat with clean water and dry it, then grind it on the stone mill, and then sift out the bran noodles with a basket. ……”
Uncle Wang kneaded the dough a few more times, then put it on the board and use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a dough, Uncle Wang rolled it out, while sprinkling some flour on the noodles to prevent the noodles from sticking together, until the dough was rolled into a thick and uniform dough, the more Hong Yongnan looked at it, the more he felt magical. Suddenly, the old man used a rolling pin to roll up the rolled round dough sheets, fold them back and forth, and fold the dough sheets layer by layer into a long tower about eight or nine centimeters wide.
Lieutenant Hong Yongnan couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, what are you going to do?" ……”
After Uncle Wang said something with a smile, Yang Daomian hurriedly translated with a smile: "Two leaders, Uncle Wang is preparing to cut noodles." It is to cut the stacked dough sheets into noodles using the push-pull cutting method. ……”
Lieutenant Hong Yongnan scratched his head and asked curiously, "Push-pull facet method?" What is that? ……”
Yang Daomian walked over and said with a smile: "The method for the two leaders to see Uncle Wang's facets is the push-pull facet method. ……”
"Three surnamed house slaves" Park Young-sik also curiously walked over to see Uncle Wang's noodles. I saw that when Uncle Wang cut the noodles, the knife started to work hard from behind, then cut forward along the strength, and then pulled the knife back the way it came. The noodles are about half a centimeter wide and evenly cut. Uncle Wang's technique of cutting noodles is very skillful, and in a few minutes, hundreds of hand-rolled noodles were cut like a trick.
Uncle Wang quickly boiled his wife's hand-rolled noodles, blanched them from the cold water, and drained them, and filled most of the bowl in the big bowl in front of the "three family slaves", Hong Yongnan and Yang Daomian. Then, drizzle the pre-prepared braised soup, and a bowl of "perched over the water" with all the color and flavor is made. Hong Yongnan couldn't wait for a long time, and immediately devoured it.
While eating, the "three surnamed house slaves" pretended to be Sven, shook their heads and praised: "Hmm...... This 'perched over the water' tastes really unique, and it is very different from our Jilin! Especially this marinade, it is delicious and fragrant in the mouth, tough and delicious. It's really fragrant and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless. ……”
After eating "Qixia crossing the water", Yang Daomian first led the "three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan to visit the former site of the "Dazhong Daily" of the Jiaodong District Party Committee during the Anti-Japanese War in Yazikuo Village, Taocun Town. In the spring of 1941, Yu Liangchen, Hu Huashan, Chang Qijing, and other staff members of the "Dazhong Bao" lived in three thatched huts in Yazikuo Village. At that time, all the belongings of the newspaper office were a mimeograph machine wrapped in baggage, and the masses called it "baggage newspaper". The newspaper was produced for four years in a difficult environment, and the three thatched huts where the newspaper office is located are still intact today. After visiting the former site of the "Popular Newspaper" of the Jiaodong District Party Committee, the "three slaves" couldn't help but feel very emotional. The "three family slaves" never thought that his enemies back then would be able to print so many issues of Jiaodong's Japanese, pseudo, constitutional, special, and stubborn "Popular Daily" under such difficult conditions. Even if he saw the cultural relics, the "three domestic slaves" still couldn't believe their eyes, and always suspected that the cultural relics in front of them were forged by later generations. Otherwise, Balu was also raised by his parents, and they are really not flesh and blood, but made of steel? People like "three family slaves" will never understand, just like when Zhan Zhizhan was injured, Stationmaster Jiang once said to Zhan Zhizhan earnestly: "The interests of the country and the people are supreme!" To what extent and to what level is to be supreme is a severe test for each of us. We have many old-timers who endured humiliation and burdens during their lifetimes, and even their grievances behind them cannot be revealed, and even their families are affected. ……”
Especially when Yang Daomian led the "three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan to the former site of the third branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University during the Anti-Japanese War in Fenghuangzhuang Village, the grass and trees here, the "three surnamed slaves" vaguely felt familiar. Gradually, the past of forty-two years ago appeared in the mind of the "three family slaves", and his mood became a little complicated from emotion. In May 1941, the Third Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University of the Eighth Route Army, that is, the "Jiaodong Branch", was moved from Sanyuan Village in Ye County to the area behind Diaoya and Madi at the western foot of Yashan, and then moved to Dongkuo Village at the northern foot of Ashan. The battalions were stationed in more than 20 villages, including Liujia, Xiaozhuang, and Shangyatou. At the end of 1942, during the "sweep" of the anti-Japanese base area in Jiaodong carried out by the Japanese aggressors, the "Asai Squadron" to which the "three domestic slaves" belonged, under the command of Major General Yoshitaro Hayashi, carried out a frantic sweep of the area and committed numerous crimes. The "three family slaves" did not know until today that the very inconspicuous small house made of stones he had patronized was originally the office of Nie Fengzhi, the president of the third branch of the Eighth Route Army's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.