Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

It has been two days since I woke up from the groggy state. When he opened his eyes, he was still very dazed, unable to understand what happened in Hongcheng. Everything was unfamiliar to him, and the light was dim, so Yifu Bian didn't know whether it was day or night, and he couldn't tell where he was. It is certain that this is no longer the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion. The bedrooms in the Yamen are much larger and cleaner, and there is absolutely no such pungent musty smell and strange smell of inferior tobacco leaves in the room. When I sat up and looked again, I saw the only familiar thing, but it was Wang Sanshun, my former adjutant of the bodyguard.

Wang Sanshun sat under the window in front of him and dozed off, with a short gun with a holster hanging on the back of the chair, and a big blue cloth bag beside him. When Yifu Bian sat up, there was a sound on the broken wooden bed, which woke Wang Sanshun up. Wang Sanshun immediately went to touch the gun. When he found that there was no assassin, it was the master who woke up, so he put down the gun again. Only then did Yifu Bian understand that when he was in trouble, among so many guards in the governor's office, only Wang Sanshun was guarding him, guarding him, and his heart became hot, and he remembered the fright and sulking in time, and couldn't take care of him anymore. He jumped out of the bed barefoot, put his arms around Wang Sanshun and cried.

Wang Sanshun said, "Master Bian, why are you crying?" Yifu Bian said with tears all over his face: "San Shun, I... I was played by those bastards, I... I am not the Governor's Mansion, and... I am not the Xie Tong anymore. I... I only have You are a brother..." Wang Sanshun said: "Master Bian, don't say that, if you say that, I...I want to cry too!" But Wang Sanshun didn't cry, and persuaded Yifu Bian, "Master Bian, think about it, how many people died the night before, even great heroes like Aunt Xia and Master Li died, but we didn't die, this... ...Isn't this good? I think it's better than his mother! What do you think, Mr. Bian?"

Bian Yifu couldn't say anything. Wang Sanshun accidentally mentioned Xiagu, which aroused Bian Yifu's deep regret. Aunt Xia's face flashed in front of her eyes, as if she was still alive, talking to him very clearly! He also clearly remembered that the last words Aunt Xia said before being shot away by the platoon was to scold him, only half a sentence, "The side of the dog day..." What?have no idea.Anyway, he won't be "Brother Bian" anymore. Aunt Xia has been with him for so many years. Even after the liberation, she was angry with him as the governor, and she still helped him sincerely, but he killed her.If it wasn't because she wanted to help him, Aunt Xia would never agree to drive Bu Erbiao outside the city, nor would she bring two heads as a gift to Bi Hongen's Hongmen banquet.

However, Aunt Xia finally misunderstood him and thought too badly of him at that time. In fact, he was not too bad at that time, on the contrary, he was too kind, so he was fooled by Bi Hongen helplessly. The lesson that Aunt Xia got in exchange for her life was worth remembering for a lifetime. I really remembered that for the rest of my life, when Yifu Bian went to the opponent's Hongmen banquet several times during the battles of "discussing rebellion", "Jingguo", "protecting the law", "discussing yuan", "seeking thieves" and so on, etc. I have never suffered such a big loss from kindness and ignorance.

In the words of the opponent, "The Three Artillery General is as cunning as a fox who runs away on wind." And Bian Yifu set up three Hongmen Banquets for his opponents, which were extremely successful. Three hidden dangers were eliminated three times, and history was decisively changed at critical junctures. This is the last legacy that Aunt Xia left to Yifu Bian, and it is also the greatest help that Aunt Xia gave to Yifu Bian in his career. Without the blood of a female husband at the Hongmen Banquet in Bifu during the Revolution of the People's Republic of China, there would be no Yifu Bian's subsequent successes. Successful evasion and successful attack... At that time, Yifu Bian was not a "cunning flower fox".

After crying for Aunt Xia, Yifu Bian hadn't thought of running away, let alone Bi Hongen and Qian Xietong would send someone to hunt him down after they repented.Although he knew in his heart that it would be humiliating not to be a member of the Governor's Office and the Association, but to be a member of the Governor's Office and the Flower Donation Bureau under Bi Hongen, but he still wanted to do it. Being an official is powerful, majestic, and flattering. It's so tempting. If you've never been an official, you don't know. As long as you do it, even if it's only for a few days, you really can't let it go.

Therefore, Bian Yifu put away his memory of Aunt Xia, and said to Wang Sanshun with red eyes: "Sanshun, we can't stay here for a long time, we...we have to forget about the past. Tomorrow...tomorrow we I still have to go to the governor's office to find Bi Hongen, complete the formal paperwork, and take up the post at the Flower Donation Bureau." When Wang Sanshun heard this, he became anxious: "My lord is here, your Governor's Mansion and Xietong have been wiped out by others, Xia Gu and Li Erye are dead again, and the flower donation bureau will still do it." Prison?"

Bian Yifu said: "I don't care if it's firm or not, and I don't care if I can do it for a few days. Anyway, I have to do it now. Anyway, it's a fat job..." Seeing that Yifu Bian was still obsessed with obsession, Wang Sanshun sighed and persuaded him, "Master Bian, if it weren't for the son of Bi's mansion, and you don't have such a deep relationship with Aunt Xia, if you don't do this, the flower donation bureau will handle it. I will also persuade you to do it. Who doesn’t know that this is a fat shortage? It can catch money and play with a bitch. But now, do you dare to do it with confidence? Are you not afraid that Bi Hongen and Qian Xietong will turn around and kill you? ?”

Bian Yifu said: "If they want to kill me, they will kill me in Bifu, and they won't delay until now." Wang Sanshun said: "Do you think people don't want to kill you in Bi Mansion? It's just that they didn't kill you! Master Bian, don't think about it. If people don't want to kill you, why didn't they tell you before they do it?" Yifu Bian said, "That's because I'm afraid I'll go talk to Aunt Xia and Master Li..." Wang Sanshun smiled bitterly helplessly: "So, Master Bian, are you really going to be the committee member in charge of braids and whores?"

Yifu Bian nodded: "I'm going to do it. Anyway, it's better than going home to be a grassroots citizen. An official is more important than a civilian. I know..." It was noon when Yifu Bian said this. At night, when a few bullets flew into the bedroom of the inn, smashing a mirror and two vases on the table, Yifu Bian changed his mind and stopped talking about being a committee member and the Flower Donation Bureau. Lianye and Wang Sanshun escaped from the city through the old north gate. Leaving the city, running around in the middle of the night, they fled to the crossroads between Taohuaji and Taohuashan in one breath, and the two sat down on the ridge by the road to rest their feet. While resting, Bian Yifu and Wang Sanshun, master and servant, hesitated again, not knowing where to go.Originally they said they wanted to go back to Taohuaji's hometown, but seeing Taohuaji was right in front of them, the two felt timid again. But the master and the slave keep it from each other, and don't say it clearly. At this time, the sky was full of stars, twinkling, as if a huge net had been cast out of thin air. A first quarter moon is far away and hazy, like a small hole torn in the net. The wilderness under the night was dead silent, without a trace of vitality, only Bian Yifu and Wang Sanshun sitting together, proving the existence of themselves and each other with their respective gasps. After resting for a long time, Yifu Bian "tested" Wang Sanshun again, and said calmly: "Sanshun, it's come to this point, I really want to test you now: there are two roads ahead of us now." , into the mountains or go home, Sanshun, which way do you think we should go?" Wang Sanshun said listlessly: "I'm not sure, I'll listen to you." Yifu Bian looked at the dark net in the sky in pain, and after thinking for a long time, he finally made up his mind: "Just... let's go home!" He also found a good reason: "The Qi family governs the country and the world, and the head of the Qi family... always comes first..."