On the New March day of this year, the last ray of sunlight slowly disappeared under the bamboo forest. Not long after the sting, the insects under the thick fallen leaves began to wake up, and as soon as the sky was dark, they stretched out two tentacles to test the rotten breath in the soil. Except for the sound of their intermittent rustling, even everything on the Tianshan Mountains fell asleep.

In a pile of rocks in the West Mountain, there was a pile of newly dug loess, and a rickety back shrank in front of the mound, and tamped the last spade of yellow mud with a small shovel, and inserted the spade into the soil like a relieved burden, and patted it on the loess mound with his hand, like an old father, stroking his child.

He sighed a few times, and suddenly shouted alertly, "Who?"

A man jumped down from the mound, walked briskly, and replied in a low voice, "Uncle, it's me." ”

Uncle Yi saw that it was Wang Xinghui and had a false alarm. He looked at Wang Xinghui and walked around the loess mound, and said: "I can't do this old bone, this grave is too buried, but it can be regarded as letting you go into the ground, Degui, we called you a housekeeper for a lifetime, today the old man called you a big name, Degui, you are really a good housekeeper, you are a credit to Lian Tianshan, you can't let you be violent in the wilderness, you go well, we can't even Tianshan can't live with you!"

Wang Xinghui bowed three times to the mound, and supported Uncle Yi and said helplessly: "Let's go." The two of them brushed aside the long grass and disappeared into the darkness step by step.

Yes, it is Lei Degui buried under this pile of loess.

On the morning of three days ago, in the Juyi Hall, Li Lei sat on the chair in the middle of the hall, and there were still two guards holding M8*** on both sides.

A spy ran in to report: "Report to the group, the tiger baby is missing, the front and back mountains have been searched, and no one has been seen." ”

Li Lei sneered, paused, and said, "Come on, don't be idle today, go and bring up Lei Degui's traitor, and see if he has anything to recruit today." ”

The two guards agreed and left, Uncle Yi was full of concern, and Wang Xinghui followed the guards to the place where Lei Degui was being held. As soon as he pushed the door, he sat on a stool like a sculpture with a sharp knife stuck in his eyebrows, reaching the handle.

At the meeting of the Tianshan University that day, Li Lei suddenly shouted, "Lei Degui! You tell me honestly, what is your connection with the 24th Army? Are you under their secret order to disrupt the new policy!" At the time of this sentence, the situation on the scene took a sharp turn, and the ** smell had been squeezed to the extreme, just like lighting an extremely powerful **, everyone was like watching the fuse of this ** burning little by little, and the atmosphere did not dare to make a sound.

Wang Xinghui had a premonition that there would be no good meeting, but he never expected that Li Lei would directly denounce Lei Degui's name at the conference, and he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat in his heart.

It has been four years since Lei Degui was arrested and brought up the mountain, and he has been working hard in the arsenal to get ammunition, and because of his former identity, he has always kept a distance from Du Gang and a few others in the Juyi Hall, and he doesn't want to say more. In the past few years, Du Gang and Huwa have no doubt when they see him, and they no longer guard against him, everyone is a neighbor who gets along day and night on weekdays, and they don't see each other when they look down, and rarely turn their faces in person, when they see Li Lei suddenly shouting his name, their hearts sank, and they stood up and said without being arrogant or humble: "I was indeed born in the army in the past, and I once followed the command of the 24th Army, but now I have no contact with the 24th Army." ”

Li Lei hammered the table and scolded: "You still have to quibble, the day before yesterday I asked you to crusade against Changning, and you disobeyed on the spot, it can be seen that you and Guo Xunqi are still in contact, and the thread is broken, and today I saw through it, what else do you have to say?" "It turned out that last time Li Lei went to Changning to apportion the seedling fee on the spot, he was beaten, and first shouted that Huwa led the troops to take revenge, Huwa didn't go, he shouted Lei Degui again, and Lei Degui didn't go, this is Du Gang led people to revenge.

Lei Degui sighed, shook his head and said helplessly: "The rent of Changning County has always been collected by Changning County, and once it is harvested, how can people collect the rent twice? People don't give you don't beat people with guns, this thing is what we did wrong, besides, you drove Hu Guiquan and me down the mountain for a public trial that day, saying that we collected rent indiscriminately, and even when I ate with the Hu family that day, I never acted so strongly!"

Li Lei saw that he was still arguing with reason, and suddenly shouted again, interrupting Lei Degui's speech: "Bold, you, you, keep saying good things for Hu Guiquan, and dare to say that you are not from the 24th Army, come, give me a heavy beating, I see if you recruit or not!"

The two regiments stepped forward and stretched out their hands to grab Lei Degui.

"Wait!" Huwa shouted, stood up, pointed at Li Lei and scolded: "I caught my family up the mountain, he has not been at fault in the past few years, if you want to move him, move me first!"

Li Lei was stunned, his eyes were full of light, like scolding, when he saw the tiger baby showing his arms, his chest was covered with black meat, and his palms were sweaty, and he didn't dare to collide easily.

Huwa's eyes widened, and she scolded: "I see which of you dares to move!" The two guards really didn't dare to step forward when they saw this.

Li Lei glanced at the guards on both sides, and more than 20 regiments walked quickly to both sides, raised *** in unison, and aimed at Huwa and Lei Degui. The school floor fell silent for a few seconds, and there was an immediate commotion. Seeing this, Wang Xinghui and Uncle Yi immediately stood up and stood in front of the two.

Uncle Yi hurriedly complained: "Why is this, don't be coarse, can't be coarse! ”

Du Gang was stunned for a moment, walked up to Wang Xinghui and Huwa, and said, "You, why are you two so stupid, why do you want to bear this thunder?"

Huwa sneered and said, "Big brother, you are afraid of him, I am not afraid, when we defeat Lian Tianshan, how old is he?"

Du Gang complained bitterly in his heart, and scolded softly: "You, what nonsense are you talking about, don't hurry up and retreat." ”

Suddenly, Li Lei said behind his back: "Tiger baby! I have repeatedly given you opportunities, you have repeatedly insulted me, and I will not spare you if I say anything today!

Huwa snorted, pulled out a pistol, and drank: "Who dare!" Seeing that Tuan Ding retreated slightly, he turned his head to Du Gang and said: "Big brother, I only want to ask, are you my eldest brother! Even Tianshan is still not our ......" Without finishing a sentence, he suddenly felt a pain in his waist, his whole body was weak, and he almost fell, and then his hands were cut off by the two of them. It turned out that the two guards took advantage of the fact that he was distracted by talking and gave him a ** on his waist. Immediately detained Lei Degui as well.

Wang Xinghui was angry in his heart, and he couldn't wait to rush forward to fight, but he was hugged by Uncle Yi.

Li Lei saw that the guards had succeeded, smiled proudly, stepped forward, glared at the tiger baby viciously, and ordered the guards: "Put the tiger baby in prison first, and then deal with him when I finish interrogating Lei Degui." ”

The two escorted the tiger baby down, and the whirlwind on the cliff protruded, rolling up the sand and dust all over the ground. In the chaos, I only heard the tiger baby shouting: "Li Sancub, I'll fuck your grandma, you grandson who has no eggs, you will take revenge, ** family is kind in the cottage, if you want to move him first, move me first!"

Li Lei trembled, then walked up to Lei Degui and said, "How is it?

Seeing the vicious expression on Li Lei's face, Lei Degui felt like a mirror in his heart: he wanted to report the humiliation of having no soldiers available that day, so he could only use me to open the knife, and scolded: "Don't say anything, you have to raise your sword and stand up, just come at me, don't make up some rumors to destroy my innocence, I will give my life to whoever eats someone's food, and I have never done anything with my elbow outward! Today it fell into the hands of you, a bastard with a small amount of energy, and it was just death, so you might as well give me a good time, so that grandpa would not watch Lian Tianshan be destroyed in your hands sooner or later." ”

Suddenly, there were two "pops", Lei Degui slapped his face twice, and it turned out that Commissioner Hou quietly walked in front of him and suddenly lowered his heavy hand. Commissioner Hou said: "Commander Li, I see that your subordinates have very hard mouths, if you don't come up with some means, how can you convince the public?"

Li Lei pulled out a horse whip, that is, two whips, and whipped it on Lei Degui's face. Lei Degui immediately pulled two blood marks on his face, one of which reached the corner of his mouth, and his lips immediately cracked, and bright red flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Li Lei was bent on confessing and inviting merit, but seeing that he still refused to confess, he had to suppress his anger, smiled sadly, and changed his tone and said: "I said ** family, why are you so stubborn and reckless, you might as well confess what you colluded with the 24th Army, so as not to embarrass everyone, ah, say it, hello to me, hello everyone......"

The two slaps just now, a whip made the Venus in front of Lei Degui's eyes rise, he couldn't raise his head for a long time, he had a broken tooth in his mouth, crumbling, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, knowing that he was not fortunate today, he simply broke his teeth with the tip of his tongue, and sprayed Li Lei with a mouthful of blood foam, and scolded: "It's up to you, and you are worthy of talking to me." ”

Li Lei couldn't dodge, he was splashed with a fishy smell, he was annoyed and angry, and scolded: "The cheap bones raised by the son of a bitch, tell you well that you have to come to hurt me." If I don't kill him today, you will kill him one day. ”

As soon as he said this killing word, his face was full of fierceness, and he walked to the front of the stage and said loudly: "Brothers, Lei Degui worked hard for Hu Guiquan and the big landlords back then, acted for the tiger, and harmed the people, and his crime was the same; after he was captured and went up the mountain, he did not want to repay the service, but instead hooked up with the enemy, and his second crime was also; he repeatedly disobeyed military orders, and his third crime was also, and today he has a life on the peak, and he must completely break Liu Wenhui's forces, sweep away Liu Xiang's corps, find out the latent elements like Lei Degui around him, and treat the bullies, local tyrants, and spies of this kind of fish and meat villagers. Bandit, we are going to kill him, kill him!"

In this way, for several days, he tortured Lei Degui during the day and put him in a cell at night. Every day in and out of the cell, Huwa has to scold Li Lei's eighteenth generation ancestor from beginning to end. Li Lei gritted his teeth and said nothing, just dealing with Lei Degui, he was eager to ask for credit from his superiors, thinking: When I finish cleaning up Lei Degui, it's not too late to take your time and concoct you!

That afternoon, Li Lei beat Lei Degui again in the square, and suddenly the spies came to report, and Huwa took out of the cell and disappeared. Li Lei was furious and scolded: "Bastard, the prison is extremely strong, how can he escape, someone must be nostalgic for the old love......" He glared at Wang Xinghui, thinking: At this time, there are still many people on the mountain who disagree with me, and it is not appropriate to make too many enemies, so I will ignore this matter for the time being, cough, and say: "Send someone to look around, be sure to find it!" As soon as he untied his collar, he threw the whip on the ground and said, "Come here first today and take him down!"

The two threw Lei Degui into the prison and walked away. Lei Degui crawled forward step by step, he didn't seem to have walked such a long road in his life, his waist and hips were as broken as if he couldn't lift his strength, and his kneecaps seemed to be broken into slag, and he could feel the broken bones piercing into the flesh when he bent it slightly. He struggled to sit on a stool, his eyes closed, trembling slightly, and in a moment tears the size of beans rolled out of his eyes.

He thought about all these years of hard work in the cottage, and he didn't dare to be negligent, thinking about his wife who died of illness a year ago, thinking that his children had already started a family abroad, and sighed in his heart and thought: Alas, even if I return these mud legs. When they rebelled against the Hu family, I deserved to die, and then I was arrested in Huajiaoba and picked up a life, all these years, it was earned for nothing...... With his right hand, he slowly pulled out a dagger from the back of the chair, held the handle of the knife firmly with both hands, and aimed the tip of the knife at the center of his eyebrows. The sharp edge forced his hands to tremble, he stared at the tip of the knife fiercely, and shouted in his heart: Old woman, I'm here......

Wang Xinghui observed in front of the prison for two days, and saw that there were several people with guns guarding at night, and during the day, he took advantage of the moment when Li Lei and others were outside to question Lei Degui, quietly slipped into the prison, released the tiger baby, and asked him to leave quickly from the back mountain. Early the next morning, he and the two escorted soldiers went to the prison to interrogate Lei Degui, and wanted to find a chance to save Lei Degui again, who expected to see Lei Degui and commit suicide as soon as he opened the door.

Li Lei was furious. Although a person is dead, he cannot ask for credit from the peak without a confession, and it seems that he is rude and does not teach the law. He had no choice but to order Lei Degui's body to be abandoned in the wilderness, and no one was allowed to bury him.

Wang Xinghui couldn't bear it in his heart, he was going to collect the corpse on this day when the moon was dark and the wind was high, and he didn't want to find out that Uncle Yi had already arrived first and put Lei Degui into the ground.

Wang Xinghui said: "That day in the big school field, why didn't you let me do it." Uncle Yi said: "Child, you also saw the tense posture that day, they have twenty ***, as soon as they move, they are fratricidal, and they are mourning." ”

Wang Xinghui was silent, and after a while, he said: "So now, what are we doing right now? ”

Uncle Yi said sadly: "Let's go, let's go, it's still there, you go back and pack your things, take Yang Xi to leave this place as soon as possible, don't come back." ”

Wang Xinghui had a sour nose and said, "What about you?"

Uncle Yi said: "I, I don't have a few years to live, you guys go, let's go, tell Huwa to take Huang Ling far away, don't come back." ”

That night, Wang Xinghui said goodbye to Uncle Yi, returned to his home, wrapped two bags of his belongings, Dongfang just saw white, he went all the way down from the back mountain path, and saw that he was about to arrive at Huang Ling'er Teahouse, only to hear a person in the teahouse crying bitterly: "Ling'er, wake up! Wake up! Ling'er, who was so vicious when he hurt you?"

Wang Xinghui was taken aback, pushed the door in, and saw that Huang Ling'er had been hit with seven or eight bullet holes, and the blood had flowed all over the ground, and it had already coagulated. When Huwa saw Wang Xinghui coming in, she grabbed him like crazy and asked, "What's going on, what's going on!" Who can tell me?" But since Huang Ling'er couldn't open her mouth, naturally no one knew the answer.

Wang Xinghui picked up the bullet case and said: "It's the MP18*** bullet shell!"

At this moment, Deng Jinfan walked in on crutches and cried: "Second brother, Tiger Baby, it was Li Lei who did it, he did it, in the early hours of this morning, he led someone to rush past the Banqiao Hotel, and asked the sentry at the sentry card, asking if you had passed, they must have guessed that you were going home from the back mountain path, so they came from the front mountain to intercept you, but I didn't expect this beast to attack Huang Ling'er, Li Lei! God Kill Li Lei!"

The tiger baby shouted and fainted from crying.

Wang Xinghui and Deng Jinfan rescued him, and they didn't go to Banqiao Hotel, the two of them saw a remote mountain road, and took advantage of the fact that there were not many pedestrians on the road, and hurried forward. After walking for about two hours, he had already left the scope of Liantian Mountain, and then he found a grass pile on the side of the road and put Huwa and Huang Ling'er down.

Wang Xing would massage on the back of the tiger baby for a long time, and the tiger baby woke up leisurely several times, and then pounced on Huang Ling'er and cried to death. Deng Jinfan and Wang Xinghui were both sad. Deng Jinfan persuaded softly: "Tiger baby, Huang Ling'er has passed away, don't be too sad, we are still not far from the mountain at the moment, I'm afraid that the beast will send someone to chase after us, let's put Huang Ling'er in the ground, right?"

The tiger baby cried silently: "It's gone, everything is gone!" He was born as an orphan, he suffered a lot since he was a child, and no one bullied him after Tianshan Du Gang, Wang Xinghui and others were in charge, he was so happy in his heart, he did his best for the cottage, and moved forward in case of trouble. Later, Huang Ling'er was favored by Huang Ling'er, started a family, and thought that he would no longer be alone from now on, with the enthusiasm of the two of them, a better life was just around the corner;

Deng Jinfan also had tears in his eyes, and said: "A word of power can actually blind people's conscience to this point, this beast has a black heart and rotten lungs, and will be punished by God." He was originally the most honest and responsible, but at this time, he thought that Li Lei would smoke such a poisonous hand because he didn't miss his fellow villagers, and he didn't even want to call Li Lei by name anymore.

I saw that the tiger baby slowly stopped crying, and said word by word: "I don't want him to be punished by God, I don't want God to punish him, I swear to heaven here, in this life and this life, my tiger baby will catch this thief, cut him inch by inch, I want him not to die well!"

His voice changed dramatically, as if it were coming from the ground. Wang Xinghui and Deng Jinfan looked at it, only to see that his eyes were spitting fire, and blood was flowing from his mouth, and in a moment, it was like a different person.

Wang Xinghui couldn't bear it in his heart, and wanted to divert his sadness, so he stepped forward, gently pulled the tiger baby's shoulder and said, "Let's bury Huang Ling'er first, and then slowly find a way to find Li Lei for revenge......

Huwa shook Wang Xinghui's hand away, and said coldly: "My Huwa's affairs, don't let anyone worry about it, the person who harms my beloved wife, not only Li Lei, but even Tianshan is my mortal enemy from now on, and I will definitely slaughter them one by one in the future, so that I can only hate in my heart." Without making a sound, he picked up Huang Ling'er, walked out of the grass, and limped south.

Wang Xinghui was stunned for a moment, and then understood that Huwa blamed himself and Du Gang and others for not trying to prevent the tragedy from happening, and he blamed himself in his heart, only to hear Deng Jinfan chase out and shout: "Huwa, Huwa, you, where are you going......"

The tiger baby didn't look back, and shouted: "Don't come!" Wang Xing saw that he was also injured a lot, and it was very difficult to hold Huang Ling'er's body, so he also rushed forward and said: "You, let's discuss it slowly......"

Huwa turned around suddenly, held it in the hand under Huang Ling'er, I don't know when there was an extra pistol, aimed at Wang Xinghui and Deng Jinfan and said: "Whoever takes another step forward, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

The two of them had to watch him slowly walk away. After this incident, the tiger baby's temperament changed greatly, no longer believe in anyone, and later in Qianbei was rescued by Cheng blind, then surrendered to Wumeng Mountain, and then human nature was annihilated, robbing and killing people everywhere, cruel methods, regardless of the old and young, became a giant bandit for the disaster, until 1959 was eliminated by the People's Liberation Army.

Wang Xinghui and Deng Jinfan were stunned in the local area, Wang Xinghui asked Deng Jinfan what his plans were, Deng Jinfan said: "I live here, and I have a wife and children, and my legs are also crippled. You also have a conflict with that beast in your words, you must not go back to the mountain again, you go after Yang Xi, take him away and fly high, the farther you go, the better!"

Wang Xinghui held Deng Jinfan's hand, tears in his eyes, and said, "Let's say goodbye here, I don't know when we will see each other again." ”

Deng Jinfan sighed and smiled: "Good big brother, you are a young and promising person, the world is big, there are still many things waiting for you to do, in the future, you sweep the mountains and rivers, so that the evil demons have nowhere to hide, and then we will see each other again!" Wang Xinghui heard this, and suddenly took a long breath in his chest, he nodded vigorously and agreed, the two held hands and laughed, reluctant to part, just sat on the ridge, chatting about the so-called strange people and things that they had seen over the years, until noon.

Both of them felt hungry, Wang Xing would get up nearby to look for game, and in less than a moment he found two pheasants, he wiped them in his arms, but he did not bring a gun, only carried a seven-star sword on his back, immediately drew out the sword, swung the sword and slashed it, flew one, and cut one.

When he came back with pheasants, Deng Jinfan had found two watermelons from nowhere. The two looked at each other and laughed, and then lived a roast chicken. Deng Jinfan has been running Banqiao Hotel for many years, and he was originally a good cook, and in less than half an hour, the pheasant has been roasted to crispy butter and bright and fragrant. At noon, the warm sun was shining, and the two of them ate a chicken and two watermelons to the fullest, patted their bellies, and made a loud bang. Straight to the point that a round of red sun slowly sank westward, stretching the shadows of the two over the field, and the southwest wind whirled, rolling up the yellow grass in the sky. Although the two of them were talking, they still couldn't help but feel sorry for each other.

Sending you a thousand miles, you must say goodbye in the end. In the evening, Wang Xing would bid farewell to Deng Jinfan and go to Chongqing to find Yang Xi. In this half month, Yang Xi was worried every day, and his days were like years, and at this time, when he saw that Wang Xinghui came safe and sound, a big stone fell to the ground in his heart.

Wang Xing will think of what happened in the past half month, and it is also like a world away.

The two stayed in Chongqing for more than ten days, Wang Xing would go out during the day and return after dark, and sometimes he would not talk to Yang Xi when he came back drunk, and he fell asleep.

Yang Xi always knew that Wang Xinghui would not drink, she knew that Wang Xinghui was depressed in her heart, and she was unwilling to leave Sichuanzhong again, so she didn't ask him where he went every day, nor did she ask about his future plans, but just prepared meals and hot water every day and waited for him to come back, and stayed with him in the pavilion.