Chapter 19

The arrival of that distinguished guest brought a lot of happiness and novelty to the usually closed town. It was also the arrival of that distinguished guest that broadened Lilac's horizons and understood that the current war is the misfortune of the country, and that every ordinary person should contribute to the country and be able to do their best to support the country's war of resistance.

The arrival of that distinguished guest was purely accidental.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lilac and Wu Ying went to Zhanggushan to pick tea seeds together.

Along the way, the two women talked and laughed, picking from this tree to that tree, climbing from this hillside to that hillside, and before they knew it, it was noon.

At this time, Wu Ying said to Lilac: "Sister, it's time to eat, let's take some things first, and it's not too late to rest and be busy."

"Okay, sister-in-law, you see that we have picked up so much, and we should have two hundred catties of tea. In the past, when my father was prosperous, there were several more tea mountains than now, and the best years squeezed more than 200 catties of oil. Over the course of a year, my grandmother paid more than ten catties just when she visited the temple. The abbot of Yunfeng Nunnery said that the oil of the tribute is the lamp before the Buddha, and the Bodhisattvas will bless the more tribute. When my mother was not in good health, the family couldn't open the pot, and my grandmother still gritted her teeth and offered half a catty of clear oil to the Buddha's grandfather. It's right to think about it now, it was the piety of my grandmother back then that made the whole family prosperous again. This year is the first year that the eldest brother bought back the harvest that was forced to sell the mountains and forests when he was in trouble before, although it is not as good as the situation when his father was in the limelight, it is still possible to pick up a dozen loads of tea and squeeze more than 100 catties of oil......"

"Sister, don't worry, in three or two years, Brother Xu will not only redeem all the mountains and forests when his father-in-law was in trouble, but also buy more mountains. At that time, you and I will cook food at home, and you won't be so lucky to climb up and down yourself if you hire a long-term worker! - It's just that when you marry Qiusheng as your wife, Heng Qingfu, how can it be your turn to be tired like a mountain dog. Your family's Qiusheng is very painful, not like your eldest brother Yumu's braincase can't be opened. Sometimes I'm really angry, and it's not at all as good as Qiusheng's ability to observe words and know how to be considerate. ”

Speaking of Qiusheng, Lilac's face turned red, and she was happy in her heart and said with annoyance: "Sister-in-law, look at what you said again, and you pulled him again for no reason......

"Hey, my sister won't let anyone talk about her yet. When you get married in the future, you can simply put him in your pocket and not let others see it, so as not to make people worry about it......"

In this way, the two concubines fought all the way to the side of the mountain stream, made a stream with long thatch, drank some clear mountain spring water, and ate dry food.

Lilac and Wu Ying chatted while sipping dry food. Suddenly, Wu Ying called to Lilac: "Sister, look, the tea tree hanging on the opposite mountain is half covered by the big white tree!"

Following the direction of Wu Ying's finger, Lilac saw a large piece of white on the tree hanging on the tree, and it was still fluttering when the wind rose.

The two of them suddenly became excited, and climbed up the hillside while sipping dry food.

When I came to the tree, it turned out that it was a large piece of snow-white cloth hanging on the tree, and there were several ropes tied around the cloth.

Lilac touched the cloth, it was silky and silky, much better than the homespun cloth, even the silk in the city. Wu Ying pulled the rope, and said in surprise: "Compare goods, angry people!" This rope is much stronger than the brown rope you and Brother Xu played! You see, this rope is strong, and it is smooth and does not strangle your hands, and what kind of thing is it made? ……”

Lilac also tugged carefully, speculated for a while, and said, "This is a good thing, we can't make this thing in the mountains." Maybe it's from a big city, but who got the barren mountains and mountains here, and they still climb trees to hang on them? ……”

Just as he was confused, suddenly there was a sound of crickets in the grass not far away.

This time it didn't matter, and it bluffed Lilac two times.

In those years, it was not as common as now, wolves, wild boars, and leopards in the mountains and forests were commonplace, and even tigers were not surprised.

Uncle Lilac's ancestral house once came to the tiger. At dusk that day, Lilac happened to be sipping tea at her uncle's house and sitting by the fire. Suddenly, there was a noise in the palm leaf nest behind the house, and before he could come to his senses, there was a loud bang. Lilac looked back, and saw a beast falling from the window behind her, and its tail had punched a hole in the window.

Looking through the window, I saw a beast with yellow fur and black sitting on the windowsill, with its head still facing the hill behind the house, and its mouth fluttering and panting.

Lilac was so frightened that she didn't dare to come out, she knew that it was the old insect of the mountain that the old people said—the tiger.

In a panic, the tiger ignored Lilac and turned around and went to the side of the bullpen and pigsty.

After a while, the screams of the pigs that my uncle had worked so hard to raise for half a year came from the pigsty.

Lilac, who came back to her senses, hurriedly called out to her uncle.

When everyone rushed to the pigsty, the pigsty was empty, and the seventy or eighty pound-pound pig of Shuzu was gone.

The next day, the family found the pig in Aokito, but unfortunately the pig had been eaten by the tiger, and only the head and four legs remained.

Thinking of this, Lilac couldn't help but shudder, and subconsciously hugged Wu Ying tightly.

Wu Ying was also frightened, and the two concubines hugged each other and didn't know what to do.

The air seemed to freeze.

But the grass fell silent, and there was no more sound. Lilac and the others pricked up their ears and listened for a long time, and after confirming that there was no sound, the two of them dared to approach the grass cautiously.

Lilac was bold enough to pick up a stone and throw it over.

"Oh,......" came a scream from the grass.

When Wu Ying heard it, it was broken, it turned out that there were people in the grass!

"Sister, look at your recklessness, just use clods of soil, it's okay now, a stone goes down, and everyone is smashed by you......"

Lilac thought that something bad was wrong, and hurriedly hurried over, and apologized repeatedly: "Which one is in the grass nest, I was afraid of a wild beast and threw it, I'm sorry ......"

When I came to the sound, I saw a man half-squatting in the grass nest, rubbing his shoulders with his hands.

The man was blue-eyed and blond, unlike the people in the village, like a man in the city who had an albinism called it.

When the man saw that he could not hide, he had to stand up, and his mouth was still in pain.

The man was together, and Lilac was bluffing.

Good guy, this person is half a head taller than Qiusheng, and Qiusheng is also considered to be above average among men.

When the man saw the two lilac concubines, he chattered a lot, and gestured.

Ding Xiang didn't understand a word, but only understood two Chinese words.

Looking at the cloves and their bewildered faces, the man was also anxious. He pointed to the heavens, and then made a gesture of falling from the sky, as if to say that he had come down from the sky.

Wu Ying was amused by him, and laughed and said, "Sister, this person may have been stupid by you, and he ...... from heaven."

Lilac was also confused, and saw that the man was tall and mighty, like King Kong in the temple. Thinking of this, she carefully said to Wu Ying: "Don't say it, this person may really be King Kong......

"King Kong ghost! Sister, I suddenly remembered that when I was at my aunt's place, my aunt had talked to people, and foreigners were all yellow-haired and green-eyed. This may be what my aunt said about foreigners, and you can't be wrong! No matter where he is or where he comes from, anyway, it's not right for you to hit someone with a stone, give him a mouth first, and then take him down the mountain, lest he really let the tiger go! ”

As soon as Lilac heard the reason, she handed over her unfinished sweet potatoes and handed them over. The man understood, and nodded at the two of them again and again.

After taking the clove sweet potato, the man also nibbled on it politely, and gave a thumbs up to the two cloves while gnawing it, and his mouth was still croaking.

I didn't understand the words, but the gestures understood, and he was thanking them.

When the man finished seating, Lilac gestured at him.

The man understood the meaning of the lilac and knew that it was the lilac who was going to take him down the mountain.

The man went under the tree, tore down the white cloth, folded it, and put it in the grass where he was hiding—there was a pile of unknown things in the grass.

After the man had packed up and stopped, he went down the mountain with the Lilacs, and the things were left in the mountains, and he helped the Lilacs carry a bag of tea seeds when they went down.

When I returned home, the news spread like wings throughout the village.

The people in the village came to see Xiqi, and the uncle rushed back to the village after getting the news.

After communication, this person is an American volunteer to aid China, his name is Jack, who flew a plane to help the Chinese fight the Japanese devils. Uncle immediately asked someone to carry back the things that Jack had hidden overnight.

That night, Jack played some tricks on the things he was hiding in the mountains, which opened the eyes of the mountain people in the village who had never been outside for generations.

Jack used his square box to get some wires and hook up something called an electric coil. After a few pounds, the electric bubble emitted a blinding white light, and the whole room was brightened, as if it were daytime, far brighter than the light from oil lamps and firewood.

There was a joke at the time, Uncle Lilac used his long cigarette stick to light a fire at Jack's electric bubble and smoked, but it couldn't be lit.

At that time, Jack shrugged his shoulders, shook his head like a rattle, and smiled helplessly: "N0, N0, N0......"

This laughing stock has been passed down for generations.

The next day, Jack was picked up by his uncle and the principal of Anshi, Xiong Shao'an.

That Xiong Shao'an turned out to be a real Communist Party, not like Lilac's father is fake.

Xiong Shaoan was still squatting in the prison of his uncle and the Kuomintang in the early years, but after the anti-Japanese resistance, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated with his uncle and them again. In the words of the time, the whole people united to resist the war and defend the country.

It's just that I heard my uncle say that Xiong Shao'an has been out of the Communist Party for many years, and he has long been no longer a person there. Squatting seems to be bringing students to make trouble or something.

Uncle later regretted that it was true that Xiong Shao An had left the party for many years, but later returned to the party, and also became the head of the Anhua underground party, and Ziyang later became his subordinate.

In June 1949, it was this principal Xiong, who had been called a brother and brother to his uncle, who encouraged Zhang Fucheng, the head of the Anhua Self-Defense Regiment, to organize a student march to drive away the Kuomintang county magistrate and peacefully liberate Anhua on the 18th. At that time, the uncle of the Wugang County magistrate, who was visiting friends in the county seat, may have become Xiong Shao'an's prisoner because he left in advance temporarily, and he was a step late!

At that time, the uncle proudly introduced his nephew and daughter-in-law, and Jack, who was rescued by his niece. After Xiong Shaoan learned about the rescue of Jack, he excitedly shook Lilac's hand.

Lilac still felt uncomfortable and shy at the time, after all, it is an ancient precept for men and women to teach and not kiss and prevent it, and they can't accept the foreign name of shaking hands.

At that time, Xiong Shaoan said: "The two are real women, real heroes, real heroes, who have made great contributions to the nation and the country!" Do you know that this Jack is a pilot, driving a transport plane, they can carry as many goods as a room in one plane, which is urgently needed by the front-line soldiers, and I thank you on behalf of the county government and the conscientious Chinese in all China, you have done a good deed of immeasurable merit! ……”

After the commendation, two signs were also given to the lilacs, and I forgot what the name of the medal was. After the liberation, the lilacs were afraid of causing trouble, so they threw the sign into the river.

Later, Lilac was still a little regretful, saying that it was the country's affirmation of them at that time, and it was glorious.

Many years later, when everyone chatted with Lilac about this past, Lilac said: "Mozi hero, I smashed him at that time, and I'm sorry for others!" Besides, Jack gave me that white cloth parachute when he left, and now the white quilt cover in the house is made of parachutes. Speaking of which, the white cloth thief is good, quite strong and silky, and it has not lost its color after decades of being new. Although Fu Tabo later fought with the Americans in Korea, that Jack was no better than the American devil on the Korean battlefield, and he came to help us back then. ”

"Besides, if a house of people is an official and a good person, there is no one bastard. It's the same with Americans, there are good people and bad people. In my mother's house, Li Sanyan was drowned as a thief and robbed, but his eldest brother and second brother are well-known good people in the village! ”

Speaking of when her uncle and the former Communist Party principal Xiong came to the house to commend them, Lilac had her own opinions.

She said that at that time, the Japanese were all beaten to the doorstep, and no matter how hard the family didn't deal with it, they wouldn't let the people outside bully! I think back then, Liu Tuofu's brothers in my mother's house were not in harmony, and when Liu Aofu was fighting for the foundation of the house, Liu Tuofu also beat Liu Tuofu with a flat pole, and Liu Tuofu injured his ribs and couldn't get off the ground for two months. Later, there was a flood in the village, Liu Aofu fell into the mountain stream, and Liu Tuofu happened to pass by with a hoe. When he heard the call for help, Liu Tuofu rushed over after the sound. Looking at Liu Aof, who was in danger of being swept away by the flood at any time, his heart softened, although his face was not good, and he scolded, brute, you have to pull my hoe up with your life.

Ding Xiang said, Since then, Liu Aofu has treated Liu Tuofu with respect, and the two brothers seem to be one person. The quarrels and quarrels in this world are like two brothers fighting over the foundation of the house. When there is a flood in the village, it is like a Japanese devil entering the village, and at this time the brothers are still fighting and holding grudges, and they will be swept away by the flood and drowned.

When people heard Lilac's lofty remarks, they praised this metaphor as good, and the gang of people on the island now are not as good as they were in the Anti-Japanese War! Always turning his elbows outward, he doesn't stop all day long, leaning on the Yankees' thighs, and helping the Japanese endorse. But if they knew where they came from, they would not have spoken nonsense.

When Lilac heard this, she asked suspiciously, is there really such a thing, and dare to help the Japanese rob the Chinese? In the old days, he was a traitor and traitor, and he wanted to crush his bones and scatter ashes. In our village, they will drown in the river pit like Li Sanyanzai, and they will be notorious for generations.

End of the nineteenth round