Chapter 10 5. Take the gun

In that distant summer of 1938, Qi Chu was able to enter the memory of a four-year-old child only because he was "crackling" a broken plantain fan in his hand.My uncle told me that while he was shaking the plantain fan, he and my uncle had already spotted a platoon of rout soldiers of the KMT, to be precise, more than 40 "Czech-style lines" of more than 40 rout soldiers. "Rifle, plus two particularly alluring heavy machine guns.This group of rout soldiers crawled over from the Xuzhou battlefield in panic like ants moving their house. When they arrived in Qidi, they took the ancestral hall in a village as their old nest and started robbing houses.Someone sent a message saying that the leader of the bandits, Da Lao Li, sent a message to the platoon leader of this group of rout soldiers, asking him to pull the rout soldiers over and promising him a deputy commander.The platoon leader is negotiating with Da Lao Li, and he is about to follow Da Lao Li.

In the evening, Qi Chu and my uncle sat opposite each other in the guest room, and the plantain fan crackled until the cock crowed.My third grandfather came and asked him: "Little Dianzhang, your fan is in a hurry, you have something to hide from me!" Qi Chu said: "Brother Cheng and I are eyeing the weapons of a group of defeated soldiers." Uncle Said: "The worry is that there are no such big lotus leaves to wrap such big rice dumplings!" The third grandpa sat down and said, "I have lotus leaves here. Do you give courtesy first and then soldiers!" After a burst of "bird singing", Qi Chu's broken fan "slapped" and said, "Okay, just listen to the third teacher!"

In the afternoon of the next day, Uncle and Qi Chu accompanied the platoon leader Ma and a platoon of soldiers to the guest room courtyard.The soldiers drove up a jumping cattle with the butts of their guns, and the crowing of chickens hung from the stabs of their guns.The goat, however, was as docile as ever, and was tied to the trough where the camels were tied without saying a word.The uncle's face was gloomy, but Qi Chu flickered his banana fan and smiled at the platoon leader, like a teacher who was afraid of losing his job. The third grandpa walked into my memory at this time.But I can't think of the third grandfather who has any traces left by the "Pakong" of the former Qing Dynasty or the Higher School of Law and Politics. I only remember that he looks as solid and strong as a farmer in Qidi, with a square face with sharp edges and corners, and two temples. His face is covered with frost and snow, but the content in his ring eyes is different from that of the peasants. There is the kindness of a cow and the majesty of a tiger; there is the dark wisdom and the shining sharpness.I saw him come out of the living room and greet the soldiers all over the courtyard.Grandma Zhou quickly took me away.

Grandma Zhou’s wife, an old man who worked in the guest room yard, told me that the third grandfather greeted me and said, “Thanks for your hard work, platoon leader!” His surname is Sun, and he is the platoon leader Sun." The platoon leader Sun cursed and said: "The wild people here are talking poorly, calling me the platoon leader Ma, and calling my military power away!" Misunderstood, please forgive me, Platoon Leader Sun!" The platoon leader looked sideways at Qi Chu and the uncle, and said, "My surname is Sun, not the grandson of the grandson, but the grandson of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country!" The third grandfather said, "Okay, I will Sun who likes Mr. Sun Yat-sen. I heard that platoon leader Sun will take his brothers to join the guerrillas and stay in Qidi to fight against Japan. Said: "That's good, brothers in this life's support depends entirely on your old owner!" The third grandfather said: "It's a deal, as long as you stay to fight against Japan, I will take care of it."

There was a banquet in the living room, but the platoon leader Ma didn't sit down, and asked his uncle and Qi Chu to lead him into the second courtyard where the guerrillas lived.When he saw that the guerrillas had no guns in their hands, but had pens in their pockets, he laughed and said, "How does this look like an army? A group of students with parted hair and a few schoolteachers in long gowns are good at war." Such a meat target!" Then he said, why doesn't the garrison look like a garrison?Just sent two sentry posts outside the second door where the guerrillas were stationed and in front of the living room door, and then walked into the living room and said, "Okay, you guys, let's talk about how the little snake swallows the elephant!"

On that day, my uncle showed unprecedented patience. In order to express his sincere desire for cooperation, he took off his armed belt and hung it on the hanger behind him.The third grandpa had three glasses of wine with him, and said: "You young people are having a lot of fun while eating, drinking, and chatting. I am old and can't drink, so I won't sit here and get in the way." Qi Chu was busy pouring wine and vegetables for Platoon Leader Sun , the third grandpa cast a wink and left the living room. There were also several tables of banquets set up in the yard, and the soldiers put their guns under the trees, and rushed forward, unable to wait for the servants to pour the wine, and were already drinking their own drinks, guessing and playing games.From the guest room windows, the eyes of the students were aimed at the soldiers like black bullets.The third grandfather walked around the yard again, toasted the soldiers, and then went into the uncle's room, saying: "Don't be careless, you must serve these 'Qiu Ba' well, they are a bunch of bad boys!"

In the yard, a greasy-mouthed "Qiu Ba" squinted at the guest rooms where the students lived, and sang: "A foreign student came from the south, With 'Hadmen' in his mouth. Deliberately ask him for one, I'm afraid of losing someone! " The soldiers laughed. The servant hurriedly said to his uncle: "The soldier wants cigarettes!" The uncle took a few packs of cigarettes and ran out to loose cigarettes for the soldiers. The third grandfather always looked at the soldiers outside the window with compassion, and said to himself, "Don't bleed!"

The uncle who went out from the main entrance came hurriedly from the secret passage leading to the garden from the back of the house. Let it go to the guerrillas, even me, Big Brother Li, is 'patriotic' once." The third grandfather sighed and said: "This bandit also understands the righteousness of the nation!" The uncle said: "He also said that he dared not forget that when he was a child, he had the 'shelter meal' from the third teacher." The third grandpa said: "Forget it, I didn't waste the food!" The uncle stared at the living room and said, "Father, let's do it!"

The third grandpa sighed again, and said: "Tell them to talk a little longer, and they must be punished without teaching." On the other side of the living room, Platoon Leader Sun stuck his head out of the window and shouted, "Brothers, don't shout, I'll play a little song too!" The soldiers applauded in unison.He tapped the plate with his chopsticks and sang: "Send your lover to the north of the gate, He raised his head suddenly and saw the old Wang Badao stone tablet. Ask me what crime did you commit? Just because the shochu was mixed with cold water. "

The soldiers roared with laughter. The servant asked again in a low voice: "What's the matter? Do you think our wine is not good?" The uncle said: "Father, look at his rampant behavior, it's time to do something!" The third grandpa said: "Bring another jar of good wine." The sky was getting dark, and the soldiers were all drunk, but they were still punching and ordering. The uncle came again from the secret passage behind the house, and said, "Father, the waiter who served the dishes sent a message, the conversation has collapsed!" The third grandfather opened the bamboo curtain, stood under the eaves and slapped three times.Rows of black muzzles were suddenly revealed on the walls, roof ridges, and in the guest room windows.The soldiers didn't realize it, they just looked at my third grandpa with sleepy eyes.

The third grandfather asked loudly: "Brothers, have you eaten and drunk enough?" Platoon Leader Sun poked his head out of the window and said, "Master, are you driving us away?" The third grandpa said: "Platoon Leader Sun, don't leave. The old general Li told me that he will not come to talk to you. You can only join the guerrillas..." Before the third grandpa could finish his words, Platoon Leader Sun pulled out his pistol, and with a "snap" sound, the third grandfather didn't move at all, but Platoon Leader Sun fell headfirst on the window sill. "Really!" Farmer Fu Ji said, "Third teacher reached out to catch a hot bullet, blew on it, and told it to turn somersaults on the palm of his hand, and the bullet flew back 'sun', and Ma Pai grew his chest. Just popped out a big blood-red flower. The third teacher came down from the stars in the sky, and the Jade Emperor will always bless him!" But the old man on duty said, no, it was Qi Chu who picked up the banana fan and "slapped" it on the wine table. Take a shot.Standing under the window and delivering food to the room, Hu Zi, the captain of the "Housekeeping Team", took out "Xiaobayin" from his arms, shot "snap", and threw the leader of the Ma platoon on the window sill.Shouting in unison on the wall and roof: "Don't move!" The soldiers were frightened.The bewildered sentry had already been disarmed by gunmen pretending to be waiters. Members of the "housekeeping team" all jumped off the walls and slopes.Students also jumped out of the window and took away the guns that were placed under the tree.Qi Chu looked at Platoon Leader Sun's corpse and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity, I blame you for not wanting to die on the anti-Japanese battlefield." When I woke up in Grandma Zhou's back room, the students were holding their guns high in the yard and cheering for victory.A group of peasants spat on the huddled soldiers and took away chickens, cattle and sheep. The third grandfather asked my uncle sullenly: "Don't you think Platoon Leader Sun died unjustly? Just hand over his gun and send him home!" The uncle said: "Uncle, it's too late. Seeing that he died I'm going to do it." The third grandpa said: "Didn't you see it? The safety on his pistol hadn't been released until he died. It's not a crime!" Qi Chu said: "Third teacher, what I wrote today is an emergency It’s a big article, I don’t care about the details, and I’m careful.” The third grandpa sighed and said, “An extra scribble is a life! Buy a good coffin and bury him well. Be kind to those who serve as soldiers, and keep those who want to stay. Next, if you want to go home, you have to pay enough travel expenses." The defeated soldiers in one platoon were all southerners, who did not understand the language of Qidi, and had already become frightened birds.The more than forty sets of military uniforms that were taken off were all put on the guerrillas.The uncle also threw away the empty holster and took Platoon Leader Sun's revolver.  The "Hongmen Banquet" in the guest room has become a legendary story in the last century and continues to add new details. The "Local Chronicles" accurately recorded this rare seizure: two heavy machine guns, forty-one "Czech-style" rifles, one revolver, and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition.The third grandpa didn't show any complacency. He said: "This is a foreign gun bought by the Chinese, but it just fell apart among the Chinese. Before the Chinese use it to beat devils, they have to let the Chinese buy it for it." Bleeding, the price is too heavy!" The third grandfather sold more than 200 acres of land and bought a batch of guns and ammunition for the guerrillas that were lost to the people by the defeated soldiers. The contribution was recorded in the annals of Qidi history.