Chapter 8 Chapter 5 Degawa

Winter in Sichuan has always been shrouded in mist, but these days, unexpectedly, the clouds cleared and the fog cleared, and the sun shone warmly, making the cold winter look like spring. After Li Hanzhang broke up with Jiang Huiqi and Zhou Yungang, he first went to a grocery market near Wuhou Temple to buy a ledger and abacus, and then took the ID card newly issued by the Military Control Commission and lived in a very inconspicuous apartment in Xiaotong Lane. in the inn.When registering, he tried to use the code word of brother Pao's family, and sure enough, the shop owner and Xiao Er were both brothers of the Ge Lao Hui.In order to be quiet, Li Hanzhang chose a secluded single room and lived in it safely.He quietly left the house by the Jinjiang River in the middle of the night. He didn't have a planned destination. Xiao Er stuffed some benefits.Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "I don't want to kill my father, I'm not a businessman". The shop owner and Xiaoer are both veterans. Seeing Li Hanzhang's generosity, they took extra care of him.

Li Hanzhang slept in the inn at night, and went out to wander around during the day to inquire about news. The multiple identities throughout the year made Li Hanzhang keenly aware of the current situation, especially the interrogation they suffered at the entrance of Purification Street before he separated from Jiang Huiqi and Zhou Yungang, which made Li Hanzhang feel that no matter where he decides to go, go You have to figure out what the current situation is like before. With the new identity card issued by the military control committee, it is much more convenient for Li Hanzhang to go out again.After walking around the streets and alleys of Chengdu for a few times, Li Hanzhang found that the People's Liberation Army entered the city as early as December 30, and the Military Control Commission was established. Moreover, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so the streets and alleys of Chengdu are everywhere. Colorful slogans welcoming the People's Liberation Army and supporting the Communist Party were pasted all over the place, and people were singing, dancing and setting off firecrackers everywhere.

Looking at these scenes, Li Hanzhang felt a sense of sadness in his heart.Such a scene reminded Li Hanzhang of the time when the Anti-Japanese War was won four years ago. How similar everything in the past is to everything in front of you!The same is the cheers of the crowd and crackling firecrackers mixed with the noise of gongs and drums; the same is the smiling faces of elated and beaming people all over the street.Li Hanzhang looked at it, seeming to have forgotten why these people celebrated their victory, and cheered with them in his heart.Li Hanzhang seems to have gradually forgotten his true identity.He also seems to be infected.For the first time in these days, there was a smile on his face.Maybe after Jiang Huiqi and Zhou Yungang left him, he subconsciously felt that no one here knew him anymore, and he could laugh as much as those singing and dancing people.

However, the brief relaxation immediately brought him more mental tension: during the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang, delivered luggage to the frontline soldiers, and fought bloody battles for his nation and country!But now, just a few years later, what does he have on his hands? nothing left. He knew that in this sea of ​​joy, he did not deserve to enjoy the joy of the harvest, and could only accept the judgment after the autumn.At this time, Li Hanzhang was no longer a rich tea merchant, but a middle-aged small merchant in an old-fashioned padded jacket of blue cloth.In this way, he was surrounded by the flow of people, looking at other people's scenery and thinking about his own thoughts on the happy streets of Chengdu.

Walking to a turning point, Li Hanzhang felt physically and mentally tired, and was about to go back to the inn to rest, when suddenly, someone patted his shoulder lightly.He was secretly taken aback, and almost didn't think about it, his hand was already in his arms.The moment his finger touched the handle of the gun, his hand was held down, and a figure stood close in front of Li Hanzhang. Li Hanzhang glanced at it, and it turned out to be Gou Peide, who was transferred from his own staff to the second office when the headquarters moved back to Nanjing.Just now I felt that in Chengdu, no one knew me anymore, but I didn't expect to meet my former subordinates in less than a morning.

Fortunately, if it wasn't for Gou Peide's quick hand, Li Hanzhang's gun would be in great trouble.Li Hanzhang looked around and no one was paying attention to them, so he hurriedly dragged him to a secluded street corner, and asked, "Didn't you leave? Why are you still here?" "This place is not safe, let's find a place to talk." Gou Peide pinched Li Hanzhang's wrist and said softly. The two then went to a small teahouse nearby one after the other.The teahouse is very small, and there is only an old man with gray hair in charge. He is both the boss and the waiter. When he sees a visitor, he rushes to greet him: "Guest officer, how about some tea?"

"Singing and shouting slogans, yelling so thirsty." Gou Peide walked in front, dealing with the shop owner, "It's so lively outside, why is your business so deserted here? There are no customers." "Don't talk about the guests, even my family members have gone to the street, leaving me to guard the stall." The shop owner supported the two of them while pouring water into the tea bowl. Li Hanzhang looked around, and saw that one of the innermost seats was against the wall, and there was a slogan on the wall: "RMB is welcome, and silver dollars are prohibited." Sit against the wall first.

Gou Peide followed and sat down opposite Li Hanzhang, and the two pretended to watch the parade outside the window.The owner of the shop brought over the brewed tea, and Li Hanzhang took out some RMB and handed it to him, saying, "I just saw a pot-knot maker at the corner of the street, and I forgot to buy it. Please help me to run there. I want two yuan." Mixed sugar Guokui, two salt and pepper pot helmets." "I want it, I want it!" In such teahouses, customers often beg the owner of the shop to buy cigarettes and snacks, and usually give some rewards. Seeing the shop owner go out, Li Hanzhang stared at the door and asked, "What's going on?"

Gou Peide blew on the tea leaves floating on the water, took a sip of tea, then wiped his mouth and replied: "Damn it, I'm hurrying, I didn't waste time, but I can't get on the plane at all. Are you I didn’t see that battle. The rich stuffed gold bars as radishes and bribed the people at the airport to go in through the back door; the powerful people went in through the front door like political prisoners with guns. Like us, we don’t suffer. Don’t rely on me, I don’t have that much money, and I’m too weak to hold a gun, so I can’t squeeze in front. In that scene, boxes, clothes, and jewelry were flying around, and ghosts were crying and howling.”

"I've been to both airports, it's conceivable." Li Hanzhang kept looking at the door while listening to Gou Peide's complaints.While drinking tea, I didn't blink an eye. "Oh, it's really 'the tree falls and the monkeys scatter'! This... this fell too fast. I really didn't prepare for it at all, and I just hoped to run forward. Director, you are now a general, brother and I Still just a colonel. However, now it seems that the smaller the officer, the better. But... Hehe, what is the difference between a big official and a small official who eat our bowl of rice? Director, these days, the military commander and Those who did not succeed in the Central Command all surrendered to the military control committee, what are your plans?" Gou Peide only took a sip of tea, probably because his throat was soothed, and he didn't take a sip after that, white foam appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he stretched his neck and asked .

"Hmph, you just said it yourself. Those who eat our rice, you know what you have done best. Surrender yourself? Isn't that a self-inflicted trap? Brother, to tell you the truth, I don't want to cast myself in a trap, I want everyone It’s better for each of us to make a living. We have too many debts on us. Once we surrender ourselves, they will definitely not let us go. Let’s just do it, hide every day, and live every day. If we are caught one day, we have to Close your eyes and wait to die. However, when I saw someone I knew, I still said that I had already gone to register—afraid of being secreted!" Li Hanzhang put the tea bowl on the table, and when he put it down, his hands were a little heavy, and there was a "bang", which startled Gou Peide.He retracted his head, swayed from side to side, and said, "Yes, yes, yes, alas..." Before he finished speaking, footsteps were heard outside the teahouse door. Li Hanzhang glanced at Gou Peide and said, "Brother, what good business do you have these days? The year is approaching, so hurry up and make money." While talking, the shop owner came in with a khaki paper filled with pot helmets, and put it in front of the two of them with a smile: "Guest officer, it's just out of the oven, it's hot, Bashi." The change should be put on the table. Li Hanzhang pressed his hand and said: "My brother is running errands, just treat it as a brother's money, and put it away." The shop owner bent like a shrimp, holding the money in both hands, and said while stepping back, "Thank you, officer! Thank you!" Li Hanzhang and Gou Peide ate the pot helmet with tea, and after eating, they broke up and went to find their way. When returning to the inn, Li Hanzhang passed by a small river, and saw a large group of people on the river slope, so he also squeezed past.He is tall, and he saw someone lying on the water with bare legs, as if fishing for fish, and quickly asked the people who came earlier to the left and right: "What is he doing?" "That's a spy, touching a gun." A young student next to him said. "A secret agent? Why are you touching the gun here?" Li Hanzhang didn't recover for a long time. "He was a reckless spy. He threw the gun away when he met a ghost and turned himself in. When he was registering, he was asked where the gun was? He said it was thrown here. How could anyone believe it? He was escorted to touch it. We are all the way Come along, it’s fun, throwing the gun into the water in the cold weather, he deserves to suffer!” The young man said gloatingly. Li Hanzhang looked at the poor coward, and cursed in his heart: Can guns be thrown around casually?These are some unqualified country bumpkins! However, if I look at him here today, maybe someone else will look at me like this in another place tomorrow.Thinking of this, Li Hanzhang shuddered, and hurried out of the crowd to the inn. After walking a few steps, he bumped into two acquaintances from the 20th Army.Blame myself for patronizing and scolding the guy who touched the gun in the river in my stomach, and not paying attention to warning, when I found them, I was almost about to meet face to face.Li Hanzhang looked around and couldn't dodge at all, so he had to go up to them. Before the two could speak, he asked, "How long have you two been here? Have you registered with the Military Control Commission? Don't worry, I have already registered. As long as you explain your situation clearly, you will be fine.” The two said triumphantly: "Don't you know yet? The 20th Army has revolted. Old bones like us can't stay in the army of the People's Liberation Army. They issued us an uprising certificate and sent us a dismissal order." Fei, if you want to go home, you will be given a return certificate, and you will be well settled. We plan to use the severance pay to start a business. Director Li, how long have you been here?" "I've been here for a few days, and I've also found a small job." Li Hanzhang chatted with the two veterans, and quickly broke up with them, turned into a small alley, turned east and west, and arrived at the corner of a post office. , Lifting the shoes for an excuse, looked back, and made sure that they didn't follow, so I put my heart back in my stomach. At this time, he felt a little hungry, so he walked all the way to find a restaurant, planning to find an unobtrusive place to have a meal first. After walking through a few small alleys, Li Hanzhang saw a small restaurant called "Huiweixiang" across the street, and there were already many people sitting in it.He thought to himself that a crowded place would be inconspicuous and safer.So I looked around and crossed the road. When I entered the restaurant, I saw a kitchen inside and four tables outside. The store was not big, but it was clean and tidy.There is only one master and one mistress in the store, but there are seven or eight customers.He chose a seat against the wall and sat down, thinking about what to eat. "Master Hai, I never thought that I would be lucky enough to eat the dishes cooked by your old man in this life." The person at the next table was talking to the master. The tall and thin chef surnamed Hai had finished cooking the dishes requested by the guests and was resting at a table near the kitchen. Hearing this, he said with a smile: "People are in rebellion, so don't be so many cooks and servants." I'm dead. I'll count on this small shop for the rest of my life, so in the future, you should come and support me more." The shop waiter was a young guy who saw Li Hanzhang looking around and came over and asked, "Guest officer, what would you like to eat?" Li Hanzhang thought for a while and said, "Let's have a bowl of beef noodles." In fact, as long as conditions permit, he is a very particular about food, but he dare not be particular about the current situation. "Okay!" The waiter here agreed, and the tall and thin master Hai had already got up and turned to the back of the stove. Li Hanzhang thought back to Master Hai's words just now, and thought that he should have been the "royal chef" of a certain important person before.Now, that person rebelled, and he lost his job because of this, so he came out to open a restaurant by himself. After a few minutes, Xiao Er came over with a big bowl of steaming beef noodles.From far away, the smell of beef came to his nostrils, and Li Hanzhang couldn't help sighing: "Oh, it smells so good!" The people at the next table heard this and turned their heads to laugh at him: "Is it the first time to eat? Master Hai, the aftertaste is delicious, I remember it clearly, and I will come here often in the future. This is the first portion of our Sichuan cuisine!" , thumbs up. "I believe, I believe!" Li Hanzhang nodded, took his chopsticks and started eating noodles.After eating it in the mouth, the gluten soup is really thick, and the smell of meat and noodles is mixed together. Once it falls into the stomach, it soaks the internal organs, which is really very comfortable. "Master Hai, I heard that Sheng Wen, the city defense commander, and Zhou Xunyu, the inspection director, drove a group of people to Xikang to fight guerrillas?" someone asked. Master Hai smiled and said, "Not sure." The man didn't give up, and then asked: "Master Hai, I heard that the security commander Yan Xiaohu was arrested, is it true?" Master Hai smiled and replied: "You have to read the announcement about these things, you shouldn't ask me." "Then, I heard that Pan Wenhua's uprising in Guangyuan was planned by his son Pan Xinhua. You don't know about it, do you?" Some people continued to ask, as if they would not stop until they got some news from the master. "Yes, I know that. His son really did that thing. Pan Xinhua has long been a member of the Communist Party, and I only found out about his identity not long ago." Master Hai did not play sloppy this time, and said with certainty . When Li Hanzhang heard this, he almost choked a mouthful of beef soup into his trachea, causing him to cough for a long time before recovering: He was too surprised. Xinhua is the news of the Communist Party. Thinking of this, Li Hanzhang felt a little disheartened, and felt that the beef noodles tasted like chewy meat again, so he took a few mouthfuls in a hurry, paid the money, left the restaurant silently, and walked to the inn listlessly. Back at the inn, lying on the bed with eyes wide open, Li Hanzhang only had one question in his mind: Where can I settle down next? From the moment he was convinced that there was no hope of boarding the plane to Taiwan, this problem tormented Li Hanzhang like a curse.Lying in the inn, he slightly closed his eyes, feeling like his heart was overwhelmed.The scenes he saw on the street in the past few days passed before his eyes one by one like a month card. Li Hanzhang felt that he was in a big net, and the net was getting tighter and tighter, making it difficult for him to breathe. Where can I go?To Xikang? After Liu Wenhui's uprising, he deployed all his troops on the Sichuan-Kangzhou border. If he passed through the road to Kangzang, wouldn't that mean he was throwing himself into a trap, giving Liu Wenhui an extra bargaining chip to claim credit from the Communist Party? Go to Hainan? Thousands of miles away, crossing rivers and seas, unfamiliar places. Go to Yunnan? Lu Han has also revolted, and it is absolutely impossible for Kunming Airport to fly to Hong Kong and Taipei again... However, lying on the small bed in the inn, Li Hanzhang thought he was relatively familiar with the China-Myanmar border after carefully sorting out the footprints of Qian Bansheng. There; moreover, Yunnan's border line is relatively long, with high mountains and dangerous roads, deep grass and dense forests. It should be relatively easy to find a breakthrough from there; more importantly, when he left Chongqing, he knew that the liaison station of the overseas party headquarters was in Saigon and Myitkyina... Thinking of this, he made up his mind—to find a way to get out of Chengdu, then out of Sichuan to Yunnan, and then from Yunnan to Myanmar. If you want to go a long way, you have to prepare enough money.After dawn, Li Hanzhang took a hundred silver dollars and planned to go to Anle Temple.He hid the two pistols and the rest of the silver dollars between the bedside slats and straw rolls, spread out the blanket randomly, and lay down again to sleep for a while before standing up. And the abacus was thrown seemingly casually beside the bedding.He said it was random, but in fact, he knew exactly where the books were and where the abacus was.Before going out, he thought about it, divided the one hundred silver dollars into two parts, put fifty in his pocket, and tied the other fifty to his trouser legs. He had to find a place to exchange silver dollars into RMB, so that he could buy things in the market, and he could buy and sell conveniently after leaving Chengdu.And Anle Temple has always been the largest speculative market for silver money in Chengdu. The exchange of yellow fish, silver dollars, US dollars, and renminbi can all be settled there. But after arriving at Anle Temple, Li Hanzhang found that the level of chaos here was no less than that of Xinjin Airport some time ago.The area around Anle Temple is a place where people of all kinds mix together, just like the overpass outside Beijing’s Qianmen Gate, where there are small businesses. Temporarily deaf in both ears. Fortunately, Li Hanzhang often came and went to such occasions. When those big figures held meetings and gave speeches, the order was not much better than this.With so many silver dollars in his pocket, he didn't dare to squeeze into the crowd. After looking around for a while, he first ordered a bowl of tea in an unremarkable open-air tea shop, and watched the market while drinking.Sure enough, not long after, a man in a half-new gray cotton robe walked towards Li Hanzhang.There was an obvious scar on the man's face, and his eyeballs swung left and right like weaving shuttles.Finally squeezed out of the crowd and stood in front of Li Hanzhang, his two eyeballs were fixed on Li Hanzhang, whistled, and held two silver dollars in his hand.The silver dollars collided lightly in his palm, making a crisp sound. "Brother, do you have dollar bills or silver dollars?" After staring for a while, the scarred face finally spoke. Li Hanzhang was secretly surprised.It's true that "shrimps have shrimp ways, and crabs have crab ways", this kid only took a few glances, how did he know that he had something in his hand?But Li Hanzhang remained calm on the surface, just glanced at Scarface when he stood in front of him, and then continued to drink tea.Hearing that Scarface asked him directly, he rolled his eyes again, and glanced at the scar on his face, and continued to drink his tea without making a sound. "Brother, why don't you have a big yellow croaker in your hand?" Scarface smiled and asked unwillingly. Li Hanzhang still didn't say anything, put down the tea bowl with a "snap", shrugged his shoulders, and was about to get up. "Slow!" Scarface pressed Li Hanzhang's shoulders, shaking his head and said, "It's not an ordinary person who can get a 'big yellow croaker' these days. Are you planning to exchange RMB and run away? Brother , everyone is messing around in Taoism, you have to let me drink some soup if you can eat meat, right?" After finishing speaking, he whistled very loudly. As soon as Scarface's whistle sounded, Li Hanzhang saw a few tall people coming out of the crowd and surrounded him in a half-surrounded shape. This is met ruffian.Li Hanzhang immediately understood his situation.He knew that as long as he said something about the Green Gang or the Gelaohui, he would immediately make these ruffians behave in a good manner, but he still held back, bowed down, and pretended to be afraid and said, "Little brother, I don't have a big yellow croaker. Just a few oceans." "You want to exchange cash for RMB, don't you?" Scarface put one leg on the stool beside the tea table, played with the two silver dollars in his hand, and asked Li Hanzhang sideways. "Yes." Li Hanzhang's voice was low, but he accepted it. "Since that's the case, I'm a good man who will do it to the end. I'll give you RMB, so that you won't go wrong." With more people, Scarface became more courageous. He no longer was polite to Li Hanzhang as "brothers and brothers", and played tricks around him. With a wink, several big and tall men came up and snatched the fifty silver dollars in Li Hanzhang's pocket, and then threw down a thin stack of RMB, ready to leave. Although it has been so many years, the kung fu learned at the Whampoa Military Academy is still there. The American style of fighting and capturing techniques strictly trained by the US military instructors is enough to deal with the kung fu of these gangsters.Li Hanzhang was thinking like this, and was about to resist, but suddenly withdrew his hands and feet: just as he was about to make a move, something that worried him most happened. Just when the gang of ruffians robbed Li Hanzhang of fifty silver dollars and were about to run away, there was a sudden commotion at the gate of Anle Temple. Two teams of People's Liberation Army soldiers rushed in with guns in their hands, and a tall, black soldier rushed in in front of him. Just yelled: "Stop, don't move!" At the same time, he pointed his submachine gun at the roofs of the tiled houses on both sides of the street, "da da da". Scarface yelled, "The wind is tight! Shout!" The people around Li Hanzhang seemed to have shifted their positions, and ran away like rabbits, and then scattered like a handful of sand and landed on the ground of Anle Temple. In the crowd, it is no longer difficult to distinguish. My identity is exposed?Are you here to catch me?Li Hanzhang was flustered for a while, and sat on the spot by the tea table with the RMB in his hand, and was stunned there.At that moment, a few thoughts were like fallen leaves in the wind, and they kept churning in his mind: the newly issued identity card was on him, but the gun was not on him; he only had silver dollars and RMB on him... "Those who are sitting are not allowed to move!" The tall and dark soldier swept the shuttle and slammed him down, then shouted. The market that was buzzing with people just now was suddenly silent, and no one knew what happened.Not to mention those who were sitting, even those who were standing and squatting were all fixed there, not daring to move. The two teams of People's Liberation Army soldiers quickly blocked the exits next to Anle Temple, and then began to search.Search for standing people first, then for sitting people.All the people surrounded were searched one by one, five soldiers in a group, four people searched, one person carried a big bag, and threw silver dollars into the big bag.Li Hanzhang came back to his senses when he saw this situation, no wonder those boys sneaked away so fast, it turned out that these two groups of PLA soldiers were here to catch the silver dollar dealers.Now, Li Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief: they didn't target him.After thinking about this, Li Hanzhang became more calm, and sat quietly, waiting for someone to search.Years of experience as an agent allowed him to quickly weigh the pros and cons, and immediately made a judgment: at this moment, he could only stay here quietly, without any act of resistance.Otherwise, the situation will be a hundred times worse if the silver dollars are confiscated. Sure enough, when the People's Liberation Army soldiers searched the people who were sitting, they found the fifty silver dollars tied to Li Hanzhang's leg.Two soldiers of the People's Liberation Army skillfully touched Li Hanzhang's whole body, and then shouted at him: "Be honest, take it out." The silver dollars tied outside the underpants were untied.Fifty silver dollars, in stacks of ten, wrapped in yellow paper.Li Hanzhang honestly threw the silver dollars into the big pocket behind him without the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army doing anything. They only confiscated the silver dollars on Li Hanzhang's body, but did not confiscate the RMB on his body.After Li Hanzhang took the initiative to hand over the fifty silver dollars, the five PLA soldiers who searched him let him go for the time being to search the next person.Only then did Li Hanzhang secretly heave a sigh of relief: Fortunately, I didn't bring a gun when I went out today, otherwise I would definitely be doomed!