Chapter 42 Chapter Forty-Two

It is not easy for Liu Zhenshou to be the overlord of Shicheng for more than ten years. Looking back, it is really like a dream.In the ten years of the changing situation in the Republic of China, anyone who has some military power and is regarded as a personal figure, those who can do it will be big, and those who can't be done will be defeated. It is rare to lose. Later, when he worked as an apartment in the Tianjin Concession, Liu Zhenshou often told his friends that this is fate, and he is destined to have good fortune for ten years; Three years later, I didn’t have the big dream of unifying the country or any place by force.

Talking about the final defeat, Liu Zhenshou said that it was the fate of the hit, and there was no way, even if he was not defeated by Brigadier Wang and Commander Qian in Qincheng, sooner or later he would have to lose to the people of Commander Jiang's Northern Expedition revolutionary army. In September of this year, the second Zhifeng war broke out, and Zhang Dashuai mobilized the six-way army to attack Cao Wu's Beijing government.Liu Zhenshou thought that Fengzhang was not Cao Wu's opponent, and wanted to see the limelight. He still used the banner of being directly affiliated with the Beijing government and sent a telegram to denounce Fengzhang. This was the first time in his life that he made a wrong calculation and gave Wang Lu The leader and the leader of the money destroy his chance.

Brigadier Wang and Tuan Zhang first besieged the city under the banner of Feng Zhang, and then attacked the city with the artillery support of Feng's army. On the third day of the attack, two artillery shells blasted into the guarding envoy, killing three soldiers of the pistol squad and wounding several old women. Liu Zhenshou made it clear that Brigadier Wang and Tuan Zhang had the support of Feng Zhang this time, and it was really a game of fate. It was impossible to get them to leave with some help like the past few times, so he thought of thirty-six strategies With the strategy of "walking first", he decided to pack up and leave Shicheng.

The decision to retreat was made at the military and political meeting of the guarding mission, and everything was done leisurely. After the meeting was over, the envoy Liu went to Ma's house to find Bu Shouru in person again in a starry sky, which surprised Bu Shouru. For so many years, it was Bu Shouru who went to the envoy's office every time, but the envoy Liu had never been to Ma's house. came. Bu Shouru asked Liu Zhenshou to enter the house, but Liu Zhenshou couldn't enter, so he stood on his head against the stars and went into the courtyard and said to Bu Shouru, "Shouru, the battle has ended like this, and the people in the city have been harmed. I have to Let's go, it's been decided, it will be tomorrow."

Bu Shouru was taken aback: "You... didn't you still say that our stone city is impregnable yesterday? Why did you just leave?" Guard Liu said with a sad smile: "That's a lie, even people who lead soldiers like me lie." Bu Shouru still didn't believe it: "Is this city really unstoppable?" Liu Zhenshou nodded: "I can't keep it. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I don't want to take this step." Bu Shouru asked, "What should I do if you leave?" Guard Liu sighed: "I'm here today, I...I want to pick you up..."

Bu Shouru asked again: "Then what about my sedan chair and the sedan chair?" The envoy Liu Zhen said: "I can't take care of this, you have to take it easy." Bu Shouru just couldn't see it, shook his head and said: "I only have the sedan chair and the sedan chair number. Without it, I... I don't even know what to do with my life!" Guard Liu said, "You also have a daughter named Liu Tianhong." Bu Shouru thought for a while: "Tianhong and you, I don't worry." Liu Zhenshou didn't look at Bu Shouru, but only looked at the stars in the sky: "I know your heart, and I guess you don't want to leave, but I still have to come, and I have to say what I have to say."

Bu Shouru asked, "What should I say?" The envoy Liu Zhen still looked at the stars in the sky: "Brigade Commander Wang and Commander Qian who entered the city are not me, and I will never help you in the open or in the dark. It's not pleasing to the eye, if you stay, you have to be careful, and don't treat today as if it was yesterday." Bu Shouru nodded: "I know that." Guard Liu turned his face to Bu Shouru: "Secondly, you have to guard against the members of the Ma family. If God's gift is gone, they might take your property and sedan chair in the name of the Ma family."

Bu Shouru said, "They dare not. Even if I agree, the brothers who help the door will not agree." Liu Zhenshou said: "Just in case you can't stand in Shicheng, don't be afraid, just come to me, once I stand there, I will send you a message." After thinking for a while, he said: "Shou Ru, there is something else I have to say." Bu Shouru nodded: "Say it." Liu Zhenshou looked at Bu Shouru firmly: "You are not as strong as you appear on the surface, you are a woman after all, I am afraid that you are very lonely in your heart!" Bu Shouru hurriedly said, "Stop talking..."

Liu Zhenshou wanted to say: "It doesn't matter if I see you, don't let the world see you too, no matter what you think, you have to support yourself..." Bu Shouru was really touched that night, and felt that it was rare for the envoy Liu Zhenshou to still miss her so much in such an urgent situation, and to be so thoughtful, so his nose became sore, and he regarded the envoy Liu as a brother, trembling Heart asked: "Will you come back after you leave?" At that time, Zhenshou Liu still had the fantasy of making a comeback, so he said, "I will go back, I just don't know when it will be!"

Bu Shouru said, "Then I'll wait for you!" Liu Zhenshou envoy said: "Why don't you just come with me? Even now, don't you know my sincerity towards you? Take a step back and say, even if you don't want to be my little girl, can you get a sedan chair elsewhere? Besides, I still have business in Beijing and Tianjin, and you can help me do it too." Bu Shouru said: "No, I won't go, the Mashi Road here is my life, and I have to get a sedan chair here." He also said: "I...I have to wait for people here..." "Who are you waiting for? Is it a gift from God?"

Bu Shouru wanted to say that it was not only Tianci, but also her elder brother, but he didn't say anything. He just nodded and said, "Tianci will come to me, if he is older, he will definitely come to me..." Liu Zhenshou said: "Tianci is your son, and Tianhong is also your daughter. If you are waiting for Tianci, you are not afraid that Tianhong will not recognize your mother in the future?" Bu Shouru said: "If Tianhong refuses to recognize her mother in the future, I will settle accounts with you." Liu Zhenshou smiled and said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to find me by then. I'm not what I used to be, and I'm over sixty..." Only then did Bu Shouru suddenly realize that the envoy Liu was also old, and he was no longer the same Liu Xietong who led the troops to bombard the government office in those days. The defeat of envoy Liu today was due to bad luck, and more importantly, a lack of life force. Liu Zhenshou looked at Bu Shouru: "How many people are old, but you are not old. You are still the same as before, and you seem to be more handsome than before!" Then Bu Shouru said: "You are not old, I am still waiting for you to lead the army to fight back!" Liu Zhenshou said: "Then you just wait, for your Grandma Bu, I, Liu, have to call back..." That night, although Liu Zhenshou took his time, he didn't have time to write his farewell poem. He just stood in the courtyard of Ma's house for a while and then left. The child exits Stone City. Bu Shouru complied, and ordered the third master Chou to do it overnight. At dawn, he mobilized 1,200 sedan chairs and handed them over to the guardian envoy. The guarding envoy sent a deputy chief to take charge of the sedan chair, and more than 300 rides went to Liu's house, carrying Liu's family and entourage and the gold and silver collected in the past ten years, and more than 400 rides were distributed to other officers and them. His family members, and 500 soldiers sent by Liu Zhen's guard to carry the ammunition. This was not enough, the defeated soldiers scurrying all over the street robbed some more, and the total number of sedan chairs used was probably no less than 1,700. The retreat can be called mighty. The most crowded people on the road are not guns and horses, but sedan chairs, all kinds of sedan chairs.The curtains and cloth of some sedan chairs were torn off, leaving only a shelf with cannonballs and lances on it.The bearers who carried the sedan chair were all watched by the soldiers with guns, and all of them were panting heavily from exhaustion. Seeing it, Bu Shouru felt really sorry for her, for her sedan chair, and for those bearers. The fleeing team went out from the north gate of the city early in the morning. The siege army at the north gate of the city was defeated last night, and the commanding heights of Dayu Mountain were also controlled. The journey north was safe.However, fierce gunfire has been sounding from the south of the city, and the situation seems to be not good. However, Liu Zhenshou said that there was a whole regiment in the south of the city to withstand the attack, and Brigadier Wang and Qian Tuanchang would not be able to break through the city before dark.Liu Zhenshou was not in a hurry, went out of the city to the embankment along the river, and looked at the city for a long time before slowly getting into the sedan chair. Bu Shouru also sat in a sedan chair to see off Liu Zhenshou. The envoy Liu Zhenshou refused, but Bu Shouru insisted. In doing so, Bu Shouru did it for the sake of Liu Zhenshou and Xiao Tianhong, who was only three years old, and also for her sedan chair. far away until it is nowhere to be seen. Tianhong sat with Bu Shouru, and Bu Shouru hugged Tianhong all day long. Tianhong is very obedient, and recognizes her mother, calling her mother, pointing to the cattle, sheep, and crops in the field with her little finger and asking this and that, making Bu Shouru want to cry. That night, when we arrived at a small place called Shanji, the team couldn't leave. Bu Shouru held Tianhong in his arms and met Liu Zhenshou envoy, saying, "If you don't leave, I will have to take the sedan chair away. I will send you thousands of miles away. In the end, there will be a day." do not." Liu Zhenshou's expression was gloomy, and he pointed to Tianhong in Bu Shouru's arms and asked, "Are you really willing to leave Tianhong behind?" Bu Shouru wanted to laugh, but tears welled up all of a sudden: "I'm at ease with you, I... as I said..." The envoy Liu Zhen asked again: "It's been more than ten years, how much friendship between you and me is true?" Bu Shouru said: "It's all true, even if you don't act as a guardian envoy, I...I will do the same to you!" Liu Zhenshou sent a letter: "I think so too." Only then did Bu Shouru say: "If you speak, you're done. I...I also want to explain a few words to you." Liu Zhenshou nodded: "You say." Bu Shouru let tears flow down his face: "You have to be nice to Tianhong, you have to let Tianhong behave well from a young age, and you can have the appearance of a lady in the future, don't let Tianhong be like me again, no one cares about you when you are young, no one Ask, and act like a savage!" The envoy Liu Zhen agreed: "Success." Bu Shouru said again: "No matter how high-minded Tianhong is in the future, don't let her go my way again. A woman who has no talent is a virtue. You have to remember what Confucius said." Liu Zhenshou disagreed: "What's wrong with being high-minded? I just like you. Without this, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been in contact for many years." The tears on Bu Shouru's face flowed more urgently: "But Tianhong is not a gift from God, a woman can't live like this. I can't help it, Tianhong has you, there is a way, and you won't become enemies." Liu Zhenshou sighed: "Okay, I will listen to you." Bu Shouru added: "There is one more thing. When she grows up, let Tianhong find her own husband's family. Don't force her to marry anyone who is rich and powerful, let alone be a child!" Liu Zhenshou promised: "As long as I have breath at that time, I will do as you said today." Bu Shouru's legs gave way, and he knelt down in front of Liu Zhenshou, wanting to kowtow to Liu Zhenshou. Liu Zhenshou hurriedly pulled Bu Shouru up, and asked Tianhong to kowtow to Bu Shouru. The envoy Liu Zhen said to Tianhong: "This is your mother, you have to remember! She loves you the most in this world!" Tianhong respectfully kowtowed to Bu Shouru three times, and then hugged and cried together with Bu Shouru... That night, Bu Shouru returned to Shicheng with the sedan chair team. The envoy Liu Zhenshou asked Bu Shouru to leave at dawn the next day, but Bu Shouru refused, fearing that if he agreed, he would change his mind the next day because of the red sky. The moonlight all the way reflects the desolation all the way. Bu Shouru sat in the four-carried sedan chair, as if floating in the clouds and fog, his mind was empty. On the desolate night road, Bu Shouru felt afraid for the first time, but he didn't know what he was afraid of.