Chapter 58 57

Ruixuan's joy almost disappeared as soon as it arrived.In order to resist Wang Jingwei, the traitors in Peking shamelessly flattered the Japanese warlords in order to consolidate their position.As for the Japanese, because they were defeated in Changsha, they are especially willing to firmly occupy North China.The people of Peiping suffered again. Slogans such as "strengthening law and order," "anti-Communist and suppressing bandits," and so on were all raised.The sound of cannons from Xishan often shook the city so that even the glass windows rattled.In the city, every hutong has a chief and deputy chief to assist the military and police in maintaining law and order.All people in Peiping have to apply for residence permits again.At the gates of the city, in the market, on the street, and at home, they can be inspected at any time, and those who forget to bring their residence permits will be sent to prison.High schools and universities have all implemented major prosecutions, and almost every school has many teachers and students arrested.The young people who were arrested, some accused of being the Communist Party and some of the Kuomintang, were killed casually or sentenced to long-term detention.Some youths, who were accused of being sent by Wang Jingwei, were also tortured or killed.At the same time, Xinminhui became a political training class, opening up a shortcut for those young people who failed in their homework and were confused, but wanted to get promoted and make a fortune.They go for training and are then sent to work in various agencies.If they are liked by the Japanese, they can be sent to Manchukuo, Korea, or Japan to study.In schools, the power of Japanese instructors has expanded. They not only control students, but also control principals and teachers.All students' textbooks will be changed.The physical education of the students will be changed to soft exercises.The students' extracurricular readings are only lascivious novels and plays.

Xinminhui set up a theater troupe to stage plays selected by the Japanese.The film park is no longer allowed to show Western films, and Japanese and domestic films such as "Burning the Red Lotus Temple" are "screened" every day. The old dramas are particularly developed, and the Japanese and the big traitors are willing to play with the actresses, so a new role will be presented within three days.Citizens and students rushed to go to the theater because they were bored. Some hoped to see some stories of loyalty and righteousness to relieve their depression, while others wanted to go to see the set of the organ of pornography and Shanghai style opera.Prostitution dramas, such as "Killing Son News", "Spinning Cotton", "Cherry Beating" and so on have all been banned.The agency background has also become a magic weapon to appeal to the audience.War destroys art.

From thought, from action, from social education and school education, from violence and killing, Japan did not take down Changsha, but cleaned up the people of Peiping like cats and mice.Beiping was as quiet as death, but there were some colorful paper flowers inserted on top of the dead body, which looked quite bright. Ruixuan didn't go to the theater, and he also stopped watching movies, but he could still see advertisements for dramas and movies in newspapers.Those commercials made him sad.He couldn't stop people from having fun, but he could also imagine what the people who went to have fun got.Mentally anesthetized, he knew, would giggle at death.

He likes to go to the bookstall.Now, he didn't even dare to visit the bookstall.Old books are of no use to him.Not only is it useless, but he thinks that many of his ideas and actions have been influenced by old books to some extent, so that he does not dare to say that black is black and white is white when encountering things, and he always wanders in the same way as old books. The writing is not quite black, and the paper is not completely white.However, he didn't dare to flip through the new book.The new book is either a pornographic novel or a Japanese propaganda.He couldn't accept those poisons willingly.He was desperately looking forward to getting some English books, but reading English was a crime; he had already been sent to prison for knowing English.For him, the food for the soul was gone.He can make up his mind not to accept Japanese propaganda, but he can't keep himself from feeling full because of the lack of spiritual food.He is a man who loves to read.Reading, for him, is not simply a pastime, but a kind of spiritual exercise and cultivation.He never holds that books are books, he approaches books with his attitude, but wants to turn books into a kind of juice, absorb them into him, and nourish himself.He does not seek fame or wealth, and books are not a tool for his career.He reads for the sake of reading.After reading the book, he will understand better, expand more, and have more spiritual life.He was extremely afraid that he would become "anemic" because he had no books to read.He has seen many shrewd and promising people in their thirties slowly become vulgar because they gave up their books.Then they grew older and only gained more flesh, how high their bellies were, and the meat pillows behind their necks.They may become officials and make a fortune after everything goes well, but they become walking dead.Ruixuan himself is in his thirties.This is the most critical juncture in the course of life.If he cuts off from books, even if he will not enter the officialdom or work as a comprador, he may inevitably become a person who hugs children, scolds his wife, and chatters trivially after drinking two glasses of wine.He was afraid that he would become the second child.

However, the Chinese that the Japanese need are walking dead. Ruixuan has heard a lot of news—behind the Japanese are strengthening law and order, controlling thoughts, "monopolizing" books, and appointing district chiefs and other facilities, there is a more vicious conspiracy: they want to control the northerners from all aspects. After being ruled, he snatched the food from his mouth, stripped off his clothes, and killed everyone with hunger and cold.Peiping will soon be counting rations, copper and iron, and even brewed tea on a monthly basis. Ruixuan shivered.The spiritual food has been cut off, and the physical food, hmph, will be cut off in the same way.For the rest of my life, I will just eat three meals a day and deal with it to survive.He will turn into a walking dead, and a sallow and emaciated walking dead!

If what he hopes for often fails, what he worries about will probably come true in nine out of ten cases.Xiaoyangquan has become a mile since then, and has sent a principal and deputy mile chief. The people in Xiaoyangpen still don't know what the head of the village does.They thought that the village head must be the leader of the whole hutong, cooperating with the patrol police to do some public welfare matters.Therefore, according to everyone's expectations, they all regarded Fourth Master Li as the most suitable person.They all recommended him to Inspector Baek. Li Siye himself is not enthusiastic about taking up the post of village chief.From what he has seen and heard over the past two years, he already knows what the Japanese are.He does not want to do things for the Japanese.

However, before Fourth Master Li could show his humility, Guan Xiaohe had already told Inspector Bai that he had to be the head of the village.He has been waiting for more than two years, and he has not yet waited for an official position. Now he can no longer let go of the opportunity to be the head of the village.Although the chief is not an official, he has the word "long" on his head, which is more or less enjoyable.Besides, it depends on man's effort, who knows that there is nothing lucrative about being a village chief? This is a trivial matter, all he needs to say to Inspector Bai is enough.However, Guan Xiaohe asked No. 1 Japanese to take care of him.He is used to bribery and pleading favors, and he will not feel comfortable if he doesn't say a few good words.

Inspector Bai hates Guan Xiaohe, but he has no choice but to buy it.He had no choice but to ask Li Siye to be a little bit wronged and be the deputy head of the village.Old man Li has no intention of competing with Guan Xiaohe, so even the deputy chief is unwilling to do so.But the "persuasion" by Inspector Bai and his neighbors made him helpless.Inspector Bai said it well: "Fourth Master, you have to help me with this! Everyone knows that the surname Guan is a scrawny bastard. If you, a fair man, are not there to take a look, he might do something." Things are coming! Come on, for me, and a group of old neighbors, you old man should be more tired!"

The good man couldn't resist a few good words, but the old man was too thin-skinned, so he was too embarrassed to sternly refuse: "Okay, let's see! If Guan Xiaohe behaves foolishly, I will stop doing it." "With you and me holding him, he wouldn't dare It's too out of line!" Inspector Bai knew that Guan Xiaohe was not easy to mess with, so he had to say that. After the old man agreed, he was not enthusiastic about seeing Guan Xiaohe.On weekdays, the old man had to listen to Xiao He's orders because of his occupation.Now, he thinks that there is no big difference between the principal and the deputy chief, and he can't ask Xiaohe to hand over the manuscript first.

Guan Xiaohe was eager to put on the airs of Li Chang.He first went to print a box of business cards. In addition to a large list of "predecessor" official titles, he also printed the head of the small sheep pen in Peking.After printing his business card, he was eagerly looking forward to the deputy district chief coming to see him so that he could issue orders.Old man Li never showed up.He hastened to make a signboard of the natural color of nanmu, engraved with "Military Chief's Office", painted it with dark blue paint, and hung it outside the door.He thought that when Li Siye saw this sign, he would come to knock on the door to pay his respects.Old man Li still didn't come.He went to Inspector Bai.

Inspector Bai must know that as long as Guan Xiaohe becomes the head of the village, he will cause a lot of trouble out of thin air.However, he still had to put on a smile to welcome the new chief; there was a Japanese behind the new chief. "Let me tell you, what happened to that old man Li Si, why didn't he come to see me? I'm the head of the village, so why don't I have to visit him first? What's wrong with that?" Inspector Bai calmed down, and said softly but firmly: "Really, why didn't he go to see the chief? However, since he is an old neighbor and he is old, it probably doesn't count if you go and see him." What a shame." "Shall I go see him first?" Xiaohe asked in surprise. "Then what's the point? Let me tell you, it's the head of the village who can only sit at home to make ideas and work; running errands is the job of the deputy head of the village. I'll go find him, Xinxin!" "Fortunately, there is nothing to do now." Inspector Bai said to him again coldly. Xiaohe walked out helplessly.He has always looked down on Inspector Bai, but today Inspector Bai's words are quite harsh, so it is inconvenient for him to show his power.As long as Inspector Bai dared to speak hard words, he believed that there must be a backer behind him.He never does hard things. Inspector Bai was not right, the chief of the village is not without official duties.As soon as Guan Xiaohe left, the inspector received a call, and the head of the church immediately took care of it, and each family had to donate two catties of iron every month.After listening to the call, Inspector Bai didn't speak for a long time.He doesn't know anything else, but he must know that copper and iron are used to make guns.Didn't the Japanese take the iron from the Peking people to make guns and kill more Chinese?If he is still a Chinese, he cannot carry out this order. However, he is a Chinese who has lost his country.Earn money from others and eliminate disasters with others.He didn't dare to disobey orders, and what he earned was Japanese money. As if a big stone was pressing down on his back, he came to look for Fourth Master Li step by step lazily. "Oh! Is the director of Ganqing doing such scolding things?" The old man said, "I can't do it!" "Then what can we do? Fourth Master!" Sweat poured out from Bai Inspector's forehead. "If your old man doesn't come out, the neighbors will definitely not pay the foreign railway. If we fail to pay the railway, I will lose my job, and the neighbors will all go to jail. Is this just for fun?" "Teacher Guan Xiaohe, go!" the old man There was absolutely no intention to embarrass Inspector Bai, but the accident gave my friend a difficult problem. "No matter what, no matter what," Inspector Bai's idiomatic mouth was already a little uneasy, "you old man has to help with this too! I know it's a stupid thing, but, but..." Seeing that Inspector Bai was really in a hurry, the old man felt embarrassed again, and said again and again: "Damn! Die!" Then, he sighed: "Go! Go find Guan Xiaohe!" When they arrived at Guan's house, Old Man Li decided not to be extra polite.Seeing that Guan Xiaohe wanted to put on airs, he made it clear: "Mr. Guan, today I came to you for everyone's business, let's not put on airs! Normally, you pay and I serve you. There is nothing else to say. Today, we are all doing things for everyone, you are not noble, and I am not low. If so, I am willing to help; otherwise, I also have a small temper, and I don’t care about these trivial matters!" After explaining, the old man sat on the sofa; the sofa was very soft, and he refused to lean on his back, so he felt uncomfortable when he wobbled. The inspector Bai was afraid of making things difficult, so he said quickly: "Of course! Of course! Just rest assured, you old man, everyone will finish this matter in a friendly manner. They are old neighbors for many years, who can look down on whom? Mr. Guan is not that kind of person at all!" Xiao He blinked her eyelids repeatedly when she saw that Fourth Master Li was coming in a bad way, and when she heard the inspector's face-saving words.Then, he said neither humble nor overbearing: "Bai Inspector, Li Siye, I have no intention of being the head of the poor village. However, there are Japanese friends living in the alley, and I am afraid that others will make things difficult, so I am willing to show up. Besides, The tea here is convenient, and the desks and stools are acceptable. Even if Japanese officials come to visit us in the future, our office will not be too shabby. I am purely for the neighbors in the whole alley, not at all. There is no other meaning! Fourth Master Li, your concerns are very right, very right! When doing things in society, one should open one's nose and speak out. I also have to explain a few words myself: I am not afraid of your suspicions, and know how many people A word, a little brain, willing to give everyone an idea or something. As for running errands and going to the street, I'm afraid it will take a lot of work from Fourth Master Li. Let's hold a corner of each of us and use our strengths to ensure that everything will go well! Do you think so or not?" Inspector Bai didn't wait for the old man to speak, and took the words: "Very good! All in all, those who can do more work, you two just need to worry about it! Mr. Guan, I just received an order from above, please Hurry up, each family has to donate two catties of iron every month." "Iron?" Xiaohe didn't seem to hear clearly. "Iron!" Inspector Bai only repeated this word. "What are you doing?" Xiao He blinked and asked. "To make guns!" Fourth Master Li answered briefly. Xiaohe knew that she was ugly, so she blinked quickly.It really didn't occur to him that iron was used for making guns, because he never cared about those matters.Hearing Mr. Li's answer as hard as iron, he wanted to say: Let's build guns, anyway, it doesn't matter if I can't be killed.However, he found it hard to say it, so he had to alleviate the Japanese's guilt and answer his confidant: "It doesn't have to be guns, not necessarily! Don't you have to use iron to make shovels, pots, and kettles?" Inspector Bai was very afraid that old man Li would come up again, so he said quickly, "Whatever it does, we have to do business anyway!" "Exactly! Exactly!" Xiaohe nodded repeatedly, feeling that Inspector Bai knew the general situation well. "Then, fourth master, why don't you make a trip and tell everyone to pay two catties first, and another two catties next month." Fourth Master Li glared at Xiaohe, but was too angry to say anything. "I'm afraid it's not that simple!" Inspector Bai smiled strangely and said, "First, we can't rush to ask everyone for iron. You two probably have to go door to door and tell everyone. This is a preparation, and I also teach them that we do things out of necessity, not to help the Japanese." "That's right! It's true! We are good neighbors, and the Japanese are also our good friends!" Xiaohe Chewing words and words. Fourth Master Li shook his head. "Fourth Master, lean on your back and be more comfortable!" Xiaohe said thoughtfully. "Secondly, the fineness of iron is different. Should we set a certain standard?" Bai Inspector asked. "Of course a standard is required! Tinplate is probably..." "Can't make guns!" Fourth Master Li completed that sentence for Xiaohe. "Yes, tinplate doesn't count!" Inspector Bai was so sad that he had no choice but to continue.He's used to being a errand, and he knows how to suppress his feelings.He has to treat bad things as good things and do them thoughtfully and delicately so as to keep his job. "Is there any distinction between pig iron and wrought iron?" Xiao He half closed her eyes, thinking hard.He thinks he has a lot of brains, although his brain is just a piece of soft white tofu.He doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, black and white, but just makes some gestures like a dog.After thinking about it for a long time, he came up with a clever sentence: "Do you think you can tell the difference? Inspector Bai!" "Don't tell me? Fourth Master!" Inspector Bai asked Old Man Li. The old man just "hummed". "I don't think it's necessary to distinguish too clearly!" Xiaohe came up with ideas after others. "Things are always better in general! What else?" "Also! If some people can't hand over the iron, what should we do? Can it be converted into cash?" Old man Li, who had always been the most kind and kind, suddenly became stubborn and stubborn: "I can't do this thing! It's not worth it to ask for iron, and you still have to pay for it? Once the money is passed on, there is no harm or harm. I lived to be seventy years old." No, I can’t teach my old neighbors to poke me in the back with their fingers! Discount money? Who sets the price? If you ask for more, everyone discusses it; I won't accompany you anymore!" The old man stood up after finishing speaking. Inspector Bai couldn't let Fourth Master Li go, so he kept pleading: "Fourth Master! Fourth Master! Without you, nothing can be done! If you say a word, everyone will nod. It's useless if others say something wrong!" Xiaohe also helped stop Old Man Li.Hearing money, his tofu-like brain immediately turned.This is an opportunity not to be missed.Yes, the price should be high, and once it changes hands, it will be an income.He can't let Fourth Master Li go, teach Fourth Master Li to collect money, and then let him handle the business by himself; the scolding belongs to the old man, and the money goes into his own pocket.He hurriedly stopped Fourth Master Li.Seeing that the old man was seated again, he concentrated his attention and said: "Probably no one has two catties of iron. I think it is necessary to exchange money. In this way, I will offer two catties of iron first, and then I will offer the money." Wouldn't it be nice to set an example for everyone with the money of two catties of iron?" "How much is a catty?" Bai Inspector asked. "Let's say it costs two yuan a catty." "However, everyone wants to give cash at two yuan a catty. Where are we going to buy so much iron? Besides, once we collect the money, it is guaranteed to increase in price, and it may rise to three yuan immediately. Who is responsible for it?" What about making up for the shortfall?" After Bai Inspector finished speaking, he couldn't help rubbing his hands. "Then just ask for three yuan a catty!" Xiaohe's heart warmed up. "Three yuan a catty?" Fourth Master Li said grumpily, "It's just two yuan a catty, how many people can afford it? Think about it, it's two yuan a catty, and every family pays for it every month out of thin air." You have to pay four yuan, let alone three yuan a catty. How much can a cart puller pull a month? Inspector Bai, do you know how many tickets a patrolman earns in a month? Four yuan, six yuan, don't you want everyone's life?" Inspector Bai frowned.He knew that he was already the inspector, and he only took forty yuan of counterfeit banknotes every month, and gave four yuan to go to one tenth! Guan Xiaohe didn't feel the seriousness of the problem, so he felt that Fourth Master Li was making trouble on purpose. "According to what you say, what should we do?" He asked coldly. "What should I do?" Fourth Master Li sneered. "Everyone unite and tell the Japanese that there is no iron, no money, and life is life!" Guan Xiaohe jumped up in fright. "Fourth Master! Fourth Master!" He begged: "Don't say these things here, will it work? Are you trying to rebel?" Bai Inspector was also a little panicked. "Fourth Master! What you said is good, but you can't do it! You are older than me, and you should know that we Peking people will never rebel! Let's find a way calmly!" Fourth Master Li did know that the people of Peiping would not rebel, but he was really unwilling to ask everyone for iron.He stood up slowly: "I can't help it, I think it's better for me to keep my own business!" Inspector Bai still refused to let the old man go, but the old man was very firm: "Don't stop me, Inspector! I don't need to be persuaded to do what I want to do; it's useless to persuade me to do what I don't want to do!" The old man walked out slowly. Xiaohe didn't stop Fourth Master Li, because firstly, he didn't want someone who called for rebellion to sit in his room, and secondly, he thought that the old man didn't like to meddle, so maybe he could get it better, so he got two small change by the way. Flowers. Inspector Bai was really in a hurry.Anxious, but it didn't disturb him.He also hurriedly left, unwilling to talk to Xiaohe more.He was going to look for Fourth Master Li again half a day later; unless Fourth Master Li nodded, he would never teach Guan Xiaohe to show his face.Xinmin will post slogans all over the streets: "If you have money, you will pay for money, if you have no money, you will pay for iron!" This is very clever: they don't mention iron, but gold;That way, they don't have to explain what they want the iron for. At the same time, Mr. Qian Moyin's small flyer also entered everyone's street gate at night: "Resist the offering of iron! The enemy uses our iron to build more guns, so that we can kill more of our own people!" Inspector Bai saw both kinds of propaganda.He originally wanted to find Fourth Master Li again in the evening, but he decided to talk about it tomorrow.He'll have to wait and see what effect the anti-donation propaganda has.For the sake of his own job, he hoped that the publicity would not get any response, so that he could finish the job safely.However, he still had a little enthusiasm in his heart, so he also hoped that the propaganda would have some effect, causing Beiping to cause chaos due to the resistance to the iron offering.Yes, if the place is in chaos, he will be the first to be affected, and he may be ruined immediately; but, who can control so much; if the people of Peiping really dare to cause chaos, maybe everyone can hold their heads up. He waited all day again, no, no one dared to resist.He just waited for the call from his superiors: "Urge the chiefs to do it quickly! The superiors are urgent!" After listening, he sighed and said to himself: Pekingese are Pekingese! He braced himself up and went to look for the head of the crown again. Da Chibao stayed at her mother's house for a few days.When she came back, she saw the nanmu-colored sign at the door at a glance, took it off and threw it on the ground. "Xiaohe!" She entered the room, without taking off the hat with pheasant feathers, she shouted loudly: "Xiaohe!" Xiaohe was in the south room, when she heard the shout, her heart beat fast, she didn't know what the director lost her temper again.He straightened his clothes, put a smile on his face properly, and ran over briskly. "Drink, are you back? Is everything okay at home?" "Let me ask you, what's the matter with the sign at the door?" "Then," Xiaohe chuckled, "I've become the head of the village!" "Well! You're so lowly, you don't even have a head of the village? Go, go to the door and pick up the sign, and set it on fire. Okay, I’m the director, you’re going to get someone who’s the chief to throw me away, are you out of your mind? It’s okay, let’s get a group of stinky patrolmen and mischievous people here to make noise, I’m Can you stand it? You don’t think about it when you do things? Is your brain a ball of cotton? Fifty-year-old people, work for nothing!” Da Chibao took off his hat and watched the pheasant feathers gently flutter. "Report to the director," Xiaohe calmed down, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "The chief is really not very respectable, and I know it too. However, there may be something behind it, so I..." "What's the background?" Da Chibao lowered his tone. "For example, everyone wants to offer iron, but there is no ready-made iron at home, what will happen?" Xiaohe deliberately waited for a while to see his wife's answer.Da Chibao didn't answer, and he continued: "Then we have to convert it into cash. Then, the real price is, for example, two yuan a catty, and I will force the price to be three yuan. Okay, let me count it. There are at least 20 households, and each household gets two extra yuan a month, which is about 50 yuan a month. A primary school teacher has to teach 30 hours a week, and he only earns 50 yuan! Besides, If you want to offer iron today, how can you know if you don’t want to offer copper, tin, or lead tomorrow? If there is one offering, I’ll get fifty yuan, and if there’s five offerings, I’ll get two hundred and fifty yuan. Doesn’t a middle school teacher only earn one hundred yuan a month? Twenty yuan? Think about it! Besides, "Stop it! Stop it!" The big red bag intercepted her husband's words, and there was a smile on her face. "You're a real gem!" Xiaohe is very proud, because it is not easy to be called a living treasure by his wife.But he didn't show his pride.He should be calm and stable, showing that the living treasure is as cultivated as the sage and hero.He walked out slowly. "Why go?" "I, hang up that sign again!" Xiao He had just hung up the sign when Inspector Bai arrived. There was a big red bag in the room, and Inspector Bai was a little restless.Having been a policeman for many years, he is confident that he can deal with anyone—but only men, he is always afraid of women, especially aggressive women.He is from Peking, and he knows how to respect women.Therefore, he would put a drunk man to bed who even talked and threatened him, and he would send a madman home without any trouble. He found it difficult; he was ashamed to be tough, but also embarrassed to play tricks, so he had no choice but to bow down. He knew that the big red bag was not easy to mess with, and the big red bag was a woman.When he saw her, he was a little at a loss.In a few words, he explained the purpose of his visit.Sure enough, Da Chi Bao immediately took over the conversation: "There is nothing difficult about this matter! Ask everyone to ask for it, and anyone who dares to refuse to hand it over will be taken away and sent to prison! Just loud and clear!" Inspector Bai didn't like to hear this kind of talk very much, but he didn't dare to refute; a good man doesn't fight with women, so his prestige can't be shown to a woman.He mentioned Fourth Master Li.The big red bag sent another message: "Call him! Running errands is his business! If he dares not come, I will hand over the old couple to the Japanese! Inspector Bai, let me tell you, you can't be too kind. Anyway, what we do , there are Japanese people behind them, so what are you afraid of!" The big red bag paused for a while, and then called out with great style: "Come on!" The male servant walked in respectfully. "Go call Fourth Master Li! Tell him, if he doesn't come today, I'll invite him to jail tomorrow! Do you understand? Go!" Fourth Master Li has never lowered his head in his life, but today he walked into Guan's house with his head down.Mr. Qian, Qi Ruixuan, he knew, had been in prison.Xiao Cui was beheaded.He knows that the Japanese are powerful, and he also knows that the big red bag is really good at deceiving the good and bullying the good.He has been in the society for decades, and he knows that a good man should not suffer immediate losses.His strength, integrity, and eagerness for justice are all useless to this day.He has to bow his head to see a smelly woman, so that he can save his old life and die at home instead of dying in prison.He was angry, but there was nothing he could do. After thinking about it, he raised his head a little higher again.With him, he thought, maybe it could help everyone a little bit, so that they would not be completely at the mercy of the big red bag. Without further ado, he agreed to collect iron.However, he firmly disagreed with the method of converting into cash. "Everyone can't get the iron, they go to buy it themselves; buying expensive and cheap, it has nothing to do with us. In this way, the money can't be passed by us, so we can't gossip!" "If that's the case, I'll quit my job! Everyone Go buy it, when and what month can I buy it? I can't take it if the deadline is delayed!" Xiaohe said half annoyed.Inspector Bai is in trouble. Fourth Master Li resolutely refused to budge. The big red bag turned the corner: "Okay, Fourth Master Li, go and do it. If we can't do it well, let's think about it." In the blink of an eye, she had already figured out an idea: Hurry up and buy a lot of money. Scrap iron and rotten copper, and then raise the price, waiting for everyone to buy.However, she got the news late.Gao Yituo, Lan Dongyang and the others have already laid their hands on it and bought the broken copper and rotten iron. Fourth Master Li came out of Guan's house very proudly, he felt that he had defeated Da Chibao and Guan Xiaohe.He notified everyone in the alley that he would come to collect the iron tomorrow.When everyone saw Mr. Li in his early years, they all felt comfortable.Although it's not a good thing to offer iron, but when old man Li came out to handle it, everyone seemed to forget that it was unreasonable.The effect of Mr. Qian's small leaflets was to make everyone feel slightly sad for a while.Peiping people will not rebel. Old man Qi and Yunmei searched out all the broken iron objects in the house.Everything is useless, but everything seems to be useful; even if one or two things are really useless, they have found reasons why they should not just throw them away.They choose, compare, and decide nothing.Because there was no resolution, they talked about the viciousness and abomination of using iron to make guns.However, after talking, they did not want to resist out of resentment.Sighing relatively, they chose a broken iron pot as a sacrifice.Not only do they feel sorry for the vessel that once served them, but they also feel sorry for it, which is about to be transformed into a cannonball.As for whose head would be knocked off when it turned into a cannonball, they didn't dare to think too much about it, and only old man Qi said: "Even the iron pot should not have been born in our time!" as the conclusion. Every family in the whole alley experienced a little fluctuation because of this incident.The people of Peiping seem to be angry again.This point of anger was not manifested in anger and resistance, but only in the helplessness of everyone.Roughly speaking, everyone always expresses anger at the beginning because they donate iron to teach the enemy to make more guns and slaughter their own people.After a while, they forget their anger and worry about the danger of not giving up.So, like old man Qi, they searched every corner of the house for treasures that could save them from punishment.During the search season, they got some unexpected little humor and sad laughter, as if after the beginning of winter, they accidentally found a small insect still alive in the reed stalk.Some people clearly remember that there is an iron object in a certain corner, and when they are about to get angry because they can't find it, they realize that they have replaced it with pear paste candy.Some people found a broken kitchen knife and compared it with the one they are using now, only then did they realize that the steel edge of the discarded knife was better, so they restored it to its original function.These little stories make them forget their anger, and try to find iron without laughing; they begin to admit that this is something that must be done, just as the Japanese ordered them to obtain a residence permit, or to bow deeply when meeting Japanese soldiers. should be followed. In the courtyard on No. 7, almost no family can scrape together two catties of iron at once.In their house, there is hardly a single thing on hold—everything that is useful is used, and what is useless has long since been sold.Dealers who buy scraps of copper and iron will yell a few times outside their doors every day.Even after searching the kang cave, they couldn't get together two catties of iron.They have to go buy it.They knew that Mr. Li was just and selfless, and they were unwilling to collect money.However, when they inquired, the price of iron had increased by one yuan per catty within two days, and their hearts were chilled. At the same time, they heard from the head of the village that the head of the village wanted to teach everyone to donate at two yuan and five pounds, but Li Siye, the deputy head of the village, disagreed.Fourth Master Li killed them.In a short time, Fourth Master Li changed from the one who was favored by the public to the one who was favored by the public.They don't think about whether Guan Xiaohe intends to provoke right and wrong, and they don't think about the benefits that old man Li has done to them in the past, but they only think that exchanging three yuan for a catty of iron-maybe they can't buy it-is purely Fourth Master Li A man-made sin!Out of a little anger at the Japanese, they changed the course of the river and rushed towards Fourth Master Li.Someone openly cursed the old man under the locust tree. Hearing gossip and cursing, the old man did not dare to speak out.He knew it was indeed his time to die.He couldn't quarrel with the Japanese, so he couldn't quarrel with Guan Xiaohe and Da Chibao, and even his usual friends turned against him.Sitting in the house, he only hoped that one or two people would come out to argue for him. Firstly, the words of others would be stronger than his own, and secondly, someone would come out to fight for him. In vain, after all, it has planted a little root in people's hearts. He calculated that Sun Qi must be on his side.Yes, Sun Qi really hated the Japanese and the Guan family.But Sun Qi was not very courageous, he didn't dare to offend people from Number Seven.He hoped that Cheng Changshun would win him over, and Changshun was too busy with his own business these days to care about other people's gossip.Xiaowen is also a good person, but he still keeps his hands in his hands and doesn't talk too much. Looking forward and looking forward, he looked forward to Old Man Qi.Old man Qi took a broken iron pot, and said as soon as he entered the door, "Fourth Master, I will bring it myself to save you a trip." When Li Siye saw Old Man Qi, it was like meeting a brother. He told the whole story, the whole story, and the whole story in one breath. After listening to Li Siye's words, Old Man Qi was silent for a long time before saying: "Si Ye, the years have changed, and people's hearts have changed too! Don't be sad, you and I look at them with our four old eyes, and see who can go far !" Fourth Master Li nodded with emotion. "We've been through big winds and waves, we've suffered all kinds of hardships, and we're still afraid of such gossip?" Elder Qi comforted the old friend while expressing their experience and identities.Then, the two old people picked up all the old millet and rotten sesame seeds from their memory, and talked for a full hour and a half. The four mothers only heard about Xiantie during the conversation between the two old people, and some disputes with Xiantie.She is straight tempered.If she usually responds to her neighbors' requests for help, now that she hears their attacks on "old things", she immediately wants to denounce them.She was immediately going to the Seventh to scold the ungrateful.She is not afraid of anything, but she is afraid of being wronged by "reason" in her heart. The two old men stopped her with good or bad words.When she was making tea for them, she cursed loudly in the courtyard, like an army firing cannons in a demonstration in the distance; after boiling the water, she went into the house and joined their conversation. At this time, people from No. 7 and people from other courtyards all went to Guan's house to donate money, firstly to embarrass Fourth Master Li, and secondly because the Guan family only charged two yuan and five pounds. Guan Xiaohe did not lose money, although the price of iron outside has quickly risen from 3 yuan to 3 yuan.The big red bag held Gao Yituo's neck and forced him to buy—still at two yuan a catty—some of the iron he had hoarded. "Yes! I didn't earn much, but I managed to make a small profit!" Guan Xiaohe said quite proudly.