Chapter 16: A Conversation with the Village Chief
"We still have to talk to the old village chief about our thoughts, and this is also very important to whether we can win the hearts of the people and whether we can turn this place into our base in the future. Originally, when I was on the road, I was still having a headache about this, after all, our matter would break the peace of the local village, and I didn't know how to tell the old village chief. Well, now is the opportunity we need to break this situation. ”
"Hehe, squad leader, the two of us won't go, we have to guard these things at home." Wang Ergou rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly.
"Housekeeping? I'm afraid it's not a prison guard stealing from himself. Li Qinghe squinted his eyes and glanced at Wang Ergou, who was a little embarrassed by Wang Ergou, who had seen through his thoughts.
"Canned food, you two just have a can, save some food. Wine...... Let's find a place to stay today and let the two of you have a drink. If you don't have enough food, take it from us, or buy it from your fellow countrymen. Don't forget about discipline, whoever commits discipline I'll come back and clean him up. ”
got Li Qinghe's permission, and the two went to buy vegetables. Shaking his head with a smile, Li Qinghe took out the homemade map from the cloth bag again and looked at it seriously.
He began to speculate about the direction where the militia group came, and when he first arrived in front of Hanjiayu Gate in the afternoon, he saw that this group of militia people should not have been facing each other for long. Therefore, Li Qinghe guessed that the militia should not be too far from here, but it is not very close, and it is estimated that it is in a small town.
Finally, lock down two towns, one is Dongzhuang Town and the other is Maying Town. According to the calculation of the distance, Li Qinghe speculated that it should be Maying Town, after all, it was more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived here, and he saw everyone confronting each other, which means that in fact, he set off at about 1 o'clock after lunch, and only Maying Town could do it within 2 hours.
"Ma Ying...... Li Qinghe pondered for a while, and decided to go to see this town in person tonight to see where this group of militias were stationed. It is not enough to solve this group of militias, Li Qinghe wants to eat all the materials of the big landlords behind this group of militias. Once this local tyrant is defeated, he can completely turn this place into a base area.
At night, it was already dark, but the lights in the village chief's house were still on. The old village chief sat on the chair and sighed for a long time, his expression was very solemn.
"Old man, what's the sigh?" A voice came from the side, and the village chief looked at it, it was his old woman. "What do you know about a woman, go and go, hurry up and go to sleep. I've got serious things to think about. Then he began to sigh again.
"Cut, my old woman doesn't understand that little bit of stuff in your head?" The old woman pursed her lips, "Isn't it the fact that those three Red Army boys killed the militia?" Hearing this, the old village chief was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in a low voice, "Just talk too much." ”
The old woman was also a little dissatisfied, "Hey, I said you're a half-cut old man, and you can't see these things clearly?" Still holding on to that little bit of your stuff? ”
"Oh, it's not." The old man shook his head irritably, "These three people killed the landlord of Zhou Mazi in Maying Town in the south, who in this Zhou Mazi Ten Miles and Eight Villages doesn't know his notoriety?" In the fish and meat town, they are rampant and domineering, and they do all kinds of evil. I remember last month, the one in Xiejia Village next door thanked Xie ...... Thank you for that? ”
"Thank you." The old woman reminded.
"Ah, yes, yes," the old village chief nodded and said angrily, "It's that Xie Dou, his daughter and daughter-in-law are really handsome, but as a result, he was taken by that Zhou Mazi and snatched it directly, Xie Dou himself was directly killed by the militia group, and this kind of person is unlucky in the mother's stall." Now he has colluded with the Japanese again, and has become a dog of Japanese devils. ”
"I'm not afraid, people in their 70s, half of the soil is buried, when will the people be gone, and this cheap life is given at will. But the problem is that there are still a lot of good young men in our village, and they can't be gone, or our Han Jiayu will really be desperate. ”
"Really, it's not my wife who said you, the more you are afraid of this group of vigilantes, the more this group of guys will get worse. Give them a good face, and our days will be sad. ”
"You know what!" The village chief roared, "Those people have guns in their hands, you know? Gun! The village chief gestured as he drew a gun. One shot, one hole, and you're gone! You're not afraid? Who isn't afraid? ”
The village chief's wife thrust her waist, "I remember that when you joined the Boxer Rebellion, you faced the foreigners' foreign gun team, foreign guns are just foreign guns, what are you afraid of?" Why weren't you afraid back then, really, the older you get, the more timid you become. ”
"I don't know how strong that gun is than the foreign gun back then, you didn't see the execution of prisoners in the county before, I went to see it, and as soon as the shot went down, the person's body was directly shattered. Do you think it's scary? Speaking of this, the old village chief patted his chest with palpitations.
"Okay, no matter what I say, your old man has a saying, and I can't say anything about you." The old woman patted the quilt, "But my old woman also knows that under the nest, how can there be eggs?" Sooner or later, it's just a matter of being sooner or later. What are you afraid of, he Zhou Mazi wants to become a Japanese dog, I don't care, but he wants the lives of everyone in our village, and the old woman will fight with him. Anyway, the old body is an old life, and most of the body is buried in the ground, and it is the same if you die early or late. ”
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. "Who?" The village chief's wife immediately responded.
"Hello, I am one of the three soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, is Village Chief Han asleep?" Hearing Li Qinghe's voice, the village chief of Lao Han hurriedly responded: "Not yet, the little comrade just pushed the door in." ”
"Okay." The door creaked open, and Li Qinghe, dressed in civilian clothes, walked in.
Pushing open the door, "Little comrade come and sit, old man go and close the door." The village chief's wife said immediately. Seeing the village chief's wife, Li Qinghe was stunned for a moment, "This is ......"
"This is the cheap money Han family, little comrade, please sit down." The village chief immediately introduced. "Oh, it turned out to be the village chief's wife, hello hello, I disturbed the rest of the two old people so late." Li Qinghe immediately shook the old woman's hand enthusiastically.
"It's okay, little comrade, sit down first, you talk, old man, go get you something to eat."
"That, don't ......" Before Li Qinghe finished speaking, the village chief's wife suddenly went to the backyard.
"Your lady is really energetic."
"Hey, people are not old, she is always like this, just get used to it." The old village chief shook his head, and Li Qinghe said with a smile: "You and your wife have a really good relationship, which is very enviable. ”
"What's good, they're all so old, it's okay." As soon as he finished speaking, a roar came from the backyard: "Old man, you dare to say bad things about me again, and make your own bunks tonight!" These words frightened the old village chief and did not dare to say any more. Li Qinghe laughed, the village chief's family is really interesting.
"Old village chief, I want to ask, where have all your children gone?" "The eldest son went to join General Song Zheyuan's Northwest Army, and later died in the Battle of Xifengkou during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War. The second son died early, went to the south to join the 19th Route Army, and fought with the Japanese in Shanghai in 32 years, and also died in battle. The two sons are not married, and they have no children. Speaking of this, the old man sighed for a while, and tears flashed in his eyes.
Li Qinghe was in awe, "It turned out to be the family members of the martyrs of the 128th Anti-Japanese War and the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, which was disrespectful and disrespectful." He immediately stood up and gave the old man a military salute.
"Little comrade, what are you?" The village chief was a little surprised.
"Old man, this is my highest respect for your family's contribution to the fight against the Japanese invaders, your eldest son and second son, they are martyrs, they are glorious soldiers, they will always deserve our respect."