Chen Dongyang and the monkey sat in the stinking Changhe van and endured it all the way, listening to a mouthful of Sichuan dialect with the smell of Shaanxi and the smoky smell of the car.

The driver is a middle-aged man in his forties, who specializes in transporting goods from the county to the town.

"The two brothers are from other places, and they must not know about the civil customs accident in the border area of our three provinces. The driver had a cigarette in his mouth and turned with one hand on the steering wheel.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, and it is a bend within a few dozen meters, but the driver does not even wear a seat belt, and wears a coat that cannot be seen in color on the headrest of the driver's seat, which is illuminated by the sunset sun, and the coat is shiny.

"Yes, master, the two of us are travel friends. Chen Dongyang was made up an identity by himself and the monkey, these years, there are many travelers who travel around with bags, and many people are no longer surprised.

"Travel, then you've come to the right place, and when you come to the border of our three provinces, you must go to the Aoki River to have a look." The driver didn't hear Chen Dongyang's words "donkey friends" clearly, thinking that they were here to travel.

Chen Dongyang didn't explain after listening to it, anyway, the traveler also came out to travel, so there was no need to tell the driver so clearly.

"What is the Aoki River?" the monkey asked curiously.

"Aoki River is a good place, there is a big person, and the fame in the northwest was also well-known. ”

"What big shot?" the monkey couldn't help but be interested.

Ninety percent of the drivers who drove the car were chattering, and now this one is, as soon as someone accosted him, his chatterbox was like unlocking.

"Have you heard of Wei Futang?" the driver asked proudly.

Chen Dongyang and the monkey shook their heads!

"No one with such a reputation in the Northwest has ever heard of it, then you really came to the Northwest for nothing, today I will tell you his story, listen to my grandfather and they said, if Wei Futang is bad, then how good he is......"

Saying that, the eldest brother of the driver began to tell the story of how Wei Futang was so good, how he changed from a poor boy to a small warlord in the northwest border town.

The driver was very eloquent, and Chen Dongyang and the monkey listened very attentively.

Chen Dongyang also learned for the first time about the glorious life of a warlord in this northwest town.

Wei Futang's family was poor since he was a child, and later he married a rich lady and inherited more than a dozen acres of mountainous land from other people's families.

It was still the era of the Republic of China, the era when there was a gun was the king of grass, Wei Futang accumulated the first gold in his life by selling big cigarettes, at that time the northwest area was full of bandits, and Wei Futang, who had money, began to recruit troops and horses, buy guns, and organized a militia with guns, and appointed himself as the head of the regiment.

Within a few years, Wei Futang became the leading figure in Aoki River.

With money and guns, Wei Futang's tobacco business became bigger and made more money.

If you want to say how bad this man is, how good he is.

This kid made money not only for himself, but also for his brothers, but also for the school in the town, as long as it was a person from Aoki River, and there were children in the family who were of school age, he ordered all of them to go to school, and all of them were free, and those who did not let the children study were punished.

Wei Futang not only arranged the tuition fees of primary and secondary schools, but also took the initiative to give money to those families who had children to go to school, subsidizing them, which was regarded as compensation for the lack of labor.

If there is a university entrance in the school, he will cover the tuition and living expenses of the university.

Wei Futang not only developed culture, but also established many rules in Aokigawa, such as not smoking opium and participating in gambling, prostitution, prostitution, open defecation, and spitting. For example, opium smokers are given urine in public, those who urinate in the open are ordered to take off their pants and sit on urine stains until they are dried, and juniors quarrel with their elders and smoke their mouths with nettles.

But don't look at these methods as barbaric, but they do have an effect, and in a period of time, Aoki River has indeed managed to stay on the road and stay open at night.

However, although Wei Futang did a lot of good things, he also did a lot of bad things, such as growing opium.

When the People's Liberation Army marched into the northwest, this guy knew each other very well, directly announced his surrender, and took the initiative to hand over the gun.

However, this guy was shot not long after the liberation, but he was later rehabilitated, and the local government also erected a monument to him, which can be regarded as earning a name for himself before and after.

The story is not long, but the driver is eloquent, and many stories are told so that Chen Dongyang and the monkey can listen attentively.

The three of them talked and laughed along the way, the sky gradually began to darken, and after driving for more than an hour, the mountain road was finally halfway through, but the driver said that the remaining half was more difficult to walk.

Chen Dongyang couldn't help but ask curiously: "Master, why is the rest of the road more difficult to walk? Isn't there a cement road in front of it?"

The driver lit a cigarette, took a leisurely puff and said, "It's not the problem of the road, it's the problem of the sheep." ”

"The problem with the sheep?" Chen Dongyang and the monkey couldn't help but wonder even more.

"You are outsiders, you don't know the rules here, our place, poor mountains and bad waters, everyone has it, the first thirty miles is the area where some villagers herd sheep, these people are not good stubble, if you accidentally rub and touch his sheep, then you don't want to leave today." ”

Chen Dongyang and the monkey glanced at each other, and couldn't help but have a new view of this place in their hearts.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, this area is the junction of the three provinces, and it was a hundred years ago that it was a three-regardless area, otherwise how could there be a bandit-like character like Wei Futang.

Although it is now an era of peace, people are not necessarily simple and simple, otherwise there would not be so many people who would not dare to help the old lady cross the road.

It was getting dark, and the driver began to concentrate more on driving, and he didn't talk so much, his eyes kept looking at the situation ahead.

The mountain road was narrow, only narrow and two-lane, just enough for two cars to pass, and the Changhe van followed behind a white Mitsubishi SUV in front of it and moved slowly, not fast, only less than 30 per hour.

After driving for a few more minutes, suddenly a village appeared in front of me, and the road began to narrow, and the two-lane road was suddenly narrow enough for one car to pass through.

Suddenly, something unusual happened, and the white Mitsubishi car in front of it stepped on the brakes, and then braked deadly.

As soon as the Mitsubishi car stopped, several villagers surrounded the car and scolded to pull the door of the Mitsubishi car.

"It's over, the guy in front is a newbie. As soon as the driver saw the situation, he couldn't help but say this.

"What's wrong?" the monkey asked first.

The driver unhurriedly took out another cigarette and lit it, and said, "It must have been trapped, and it is estimated that I will not be able to walk for a while." ”

"Brother Zhang, what do you mean by this?" Chen Dongyang already knew that the driver's surname was Zhang through chatting.

"This is Wujiawan, the farmers in the village are raising cattle and sheep to live, now this year, an ordinary lamb has to be thousands of yuan, I have been running this road for more than ten years, I have long known the conduct of this Wujiawan people, this group of grandsons, raising cattle and sheep in general, robbing and slandering people is a good hand. ”

"Robbery?"

"Well, brother, you are outside, you must not know the atmosphere of our people, there are a few families in Wujiawan, every day with a dead sheep in the village, once you see a car coming, throw the sheep to the front of your car, as long as you brake, don't want to go without a few thousand yuan." ”

"I'm grass, isn't this Nima blocking the road and robbing?" When the monkey heard this, he couldn't help but burst out in anger.

"That's right, that's what people do, when I first ran this road a few years ago, I was also falsely accused, and then I asked my second uncle to intercede for me, and gave them 5,000 yuan to invite them to dinner, so they no longer touched my car, but those luxury cars and new cars, they will definitely start. ”

"This is really a poor mountain and a bad water!" Chen Dongyang looked at the villagers in front of him who were pulling the door of the Mitsubishi SUV and shouting, and couldn't help but feel angry.

Chen Dongyang and the monkey were soldiers, and what they couldn't see as soldiers was bandits and bullies bullying the people.

Although the villagers in front of him are also ordinary people, they are doing the things of bandits and bullies, and Chen Dongyang, who has a strong sense of justice, of course can't bear this situation.

"Walk monkey, let's go down and help!"

"Hey, wait, don't mess around, this Wujiawan person is not easy to deal with!" The driver couldn't help but worry about the safety of the two of them when he saw Chen Dongyang and the monkey get out of his car, and their 500 yuan charter money hadn't been paid yet!

After Chen Dongyang got out of the car, he came to the Mitsubishi car and found a dead black sheep lying in front of the car, and a piece of the bumper was scratched.

However, as soon as Chen Dongyang walked to the car, he knew that this matter was purely caused by these villagers, because the black sheep was stinky, and there were signs of decay on the sheep, which showed that it was a sheep that had been dead for several days.

Looking at the white Mitsubishi car, a middle-aged woman and a little girl were shivering with fright in the car.

Outside the car, two villagers were desperately pulling the locked car door, slapping the glass of the car window and shouting loudly while pulling the door.

"it, get out of the car, you hit my sheep and lose money!"

"What's the matter?" Chen Dongyang stopped the two villagers who were tapping the car window and deliberately asked them.

The villagers had long found out that these two people had come down from the bread of the Changhe River, and now when they saw that the two of them were speaking Mandarin, they immediately scolded: "It's none of your business, get out of the way." ”