Chapter 54 0054

A group of drunk Beiyang soldiers squatted around on the cold stone steps to gamble on Pai Gow. Nothing but money!A big-headed Bing Yong lost all the little money he had accumulated over the years in less than three big bets, but he said with a smile: "The wind blows the duck's egg shell, fuck it!... Money goes to people's happiness, and it's not easy to go to battle." When you come across black dates, you will have your own foreign money to take care of,...Kicking open the salt market is like getting into the pocket of the God of Wealth, worrying about having no money to spend for the old people?!...If it happens, then its grandma will have Mountains of gold and silver are useless!"

"If it really hits a bullet, a guy hits the head, and when you close your eyes and stretch your legs, you'll be fine, then it's a blessing!" A small man with thin horse hair and long hair, with his lower lip wrapped around his upper lip , sucked very, very loudly, hugged his bent knees and said: "If you are shot half to death, unable to crawl or bear, then it will be really disgusting. If you win the fire, maybe someone will care about you." When it comes to you, if you lose, a guy like Yadantou will smack your tongue, and he will bury you like a dead person."

The dice are spinning on the cold stone platform, and the fate is spinning in front of your eyes. The indistinguishable idea, between the two and the six, the soldiers bet out the silver and copper coins, as if it is no longer money, but themselves. ... Most of the people have been beaten. When the generals and men turned red from drinking and chatting, when they were bored on the opium bed and gambled, whoever kidnapped whose concubine, who paid whose share They had to be lined up in the square like puppets pulled by strings, tie up broken straw sandal laces, each receive three or five guns, and then listen to the sound of the trumpet and watch off. The general's fat horse's ass went away, and then he went to the front line to start a battle.Sometimes the front line is very far away, and they have to march crookedly and crookedly for three to five days, to enjoy the fiery summer afternoon, the surrounding fields are like a big airtight steamer, and the sun scorches people's scalps, so they have to go, and they have to listen to the leadership The official shouted, "Whoever is lagging behind (that is, lagging behind) will be killed!"In the days of continuous autumn rain, the sky is crying, and the ground is also crying, many yellow leaves stuck on the muddy ground, many cold and wet deaths, moaning straw sandals and straw sandals, stepping over the same, also like slippery Step on the moldy heart with slippery steps.The rain is like smoke.The rain is like fog and clouds.The haze dyes the eyes, and the heart is so wet: like an ancient coin full of yellow rust and dark patina, all the past and past are revealed in the damp! ... how long the road is, only the blistered soles know, resting at night under the eaves of an unknown village, eyes full of tears that can't be dried by fire, mother is in the grave, no one will hear and laugh Weeping in the voice.

Then, the grass ditch was filled with people, the newly dug ditch was filled with people, the smell of new soil made people see a new pile of graves, and there were white wooden plaques with slightly askew on each side, with the name forbidden in ink. Not a storm, and then those names will become a piece of weeds, and no one will go to the grave to dig out any sad stories.When the guns sounded, the new soil would turn dark brown and slightly dark purple when stained with blood.Guns are like hordes of frightened voles, digging up the accumulated soil of the wall. Death is the wind, blowing on the shrunken body of a person. Death will erase some faces forever, but it cannot erase the unchanged name on the roster: Li Desheng and Zhang Degong...

"Place your bet, you fucking mother, don't be like a stupid bird, occupying the hair hole without shit!" The news of the war was well-informed as if there was a report from the ears and gods. In less than a while, people from the county came to buy second-hand goods, those who exchanged them for gold jewelry at high prices, thick eyebrows, big eyes and thick powder. Those who eat food, those who sell flower purses and auspicious charms are all here, all are here.The small streets are full of people and soldiers. This is an old example. The Beiyang Defense Army always let the soldiers get drunk before the battle. Even Yadantou believes that the soldiers are brave after drinking. Only then did he dare to shoot with his eyes open... He went to the battlefield at the beginning of the year, drank half a catty of sorghum, and when he sobered up, he fell asleep and became the squad leader.

Although the supervisory team had set up machine gun posts on the east and west sides of the river, some soldiers fled bravely. The leader of the duck egg head yelled to kill the fleeing warriors. Jinger, but later he took the initiative to kill two more—because he thought that if he killed a few more, he could get a few more bags of pure white fine gauze and linen cloth, and when summer came, he could sell them at a very good price so that he could prepare more for himself. Cylinder soil. The stalls selling auspicious talismans rolled around, and soldiers rushed to grab them regardless of the price; the auspicious charms were packed in small silk-embroidered purse bags, which were said to be able to avoid bullets.The skinny, long-haired, wretched little man won a pocket of money, and suddenly he was unwilling to touch the bullet with his head easily, so he turned and squeezed over, wanting to buy an auspicious talisman, Pepe, but he couldn't calm his heart if he didn't wear something auspicious.

"Go on a job, you silly bird!" He put his head in his ear and blew, "You are not destined to get promoted and get rich, why don't you go on a job and use the money to go back to your hometown to do a small business?! Don't talk about it! It's a deal, and just sleeping and eating will be enough for you for three years!" "Do you want to be an escapee?" The little man said: "There are four lying on the street, one dragging his intestines, and the three brains are all called Dazhao..." "Stupid bird?!" Big head said: "Whether you face east or west, as long as you give money to Bugang, no one will chase you. Wang Ermazi has been walking for a long time, and now I am afraid that you will be ten miles away." It's closed!"

The little man suddenly narrowed his eyes miserably, and tore open his neckline. "It's because I'm not a stupid bird that I don't go on business. Look here, your scar, there are two holes on the upper and lower sides, on both sides of the lute bone. It's the hole that the mother-in-law made for me, and the iron chain is as thick as a thumb. In the keyhole, the bloody scar is nailed to the iron ring. My mother still has the spirit to go back to the hometown and let them pick the old scar with a stick?!... Just buy an auspicious talisman Pepe, this fire won’t kill you, My mother went into the brothel for a hundred women."

I managed to buy a small purse, and I looked at it in my hand with drunken eyes. I don’t know that it was embroidered by that skillful girl. It was made of apple green soft satin, surrounded by a circle of dog’s tooth flowers, and there was a row of flowers on the bottom. The short yellow tassels are fluttering and scraping... The apple is so green and transparent, what can compare with it?I am afraid that only the young leaves that have just sprouted when spring comes can compare with it. My hometown is on the bank of Yangliu River. When spring comes in my hometown, I can only see apple green. The apple green weeping poplars are soft and bright, so soft that people feel sad just thinking about it .There is a pair of little cloth figures embroidered on the purse. The man is wearing a long robe and mandarin jacket, and a red cap with melon skin. The woman is wearing a big flat bun, with a white face and red lips, and a green jacket with a pleated red skirt tied under the jacket. ... That world was originally his own, but now it is farther than the clouds.

"What do you want? Little guy. If you win money, you won't be treated, and if you die, you still won't be able to sleep in a big coffin!" The small man shrunk his shoulders, the world fluttered in his drunken eyes, the new daughter-in-law in the green coat and red dress was the most beautiful in Yangliuhe, holding her in his arms at night was soft, hot and sweet, but it was only three months, he was ironed She hadn't taken off her red dress when chains chained her lutes and dragged her away from the piece of green soil... Her white face was smiling on her purse, just like she was smiling sideways at herself when she lifted her head , her black eyes are bright, shy and bright, whores all over the place, the smiles on ten faces can't be pinched into that pattern, and there is no red lips like that, and it is hard to speak. It smells lightly and faintly of mint...

As he thought, tears flowed from his nose... "Auspicious talisman, auspicious talisman, bless me. - She doesn't have a trace of a widow on her face, let her sing 'Little Widow Goes to the Grave' in that red dress? She loves to sing all kinds of slang songs; 'Yangliu Qingqing', "Looking for a Husband Thousand Miles" and "Five Watches", but she doesn't like to sing "The Little Widow Goes to the Grave", she hates this the most... If I die here, she won't even be able to find the grave bud by crying!" Can't think, I can't think about it, my heart is half cold when I think about it, I raised my sleeve to wipe my eyes, only to find that the face of the purse was wet a lot. "Why are we opening fire with Yanshi?" Someone said over there. "Why?!" Those who love to argue will always have an argument: "If you fire, you have to fire, if you don't fire, you don't fire, and people who eat food deserve to ask this?! Does it make sense to fire every time? Really?! You are the Yellow River The sand of the heart—silt to the bottom.” "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Someone shouted all the way: "The battalion commander's opium shop is about to be carried up the river pile!" A few horses with boxes and cannons drank in front, and eight soldiers carried the black-painted cigarette couch like ants carrying rice grains, and carried it crookedly all the way. Behind the tobacco shop, a horse The battalion commander was hunched like a shrimp on a skinny horse, his eyes were watery from sleepiness, and he barely opened his eyes, and there was a refreshing cigarette wrapped in his mouth.The supervising team behind the horses also set off, those with guns on their backs horizontally, those on their backs vertically, and those with their guns hanging upside down, with their wide-brimmed hard hats pulled down, chatting and laughing along the way, looking very happy,— —That's all because the supervising team doesn't have to go to the line of fire to point guns. The assembly number had not yet sounded, and the head of Yadantou personally escorted his mistress, Xiao Juhua, back to the small mansion in Hehuachi Lane of the county town, and had not yet returned. In the black caravan he hired, besides Xiao Juhua, there were other There are three big boxes of silver ocean.In the whole regiment, there was only one battalion commander of the third battalion who voluntarily led people into Yanshi to surrender. He led the whole battalion with more than 70 guns and held a white flag. Drive into Yanshi.Last night, Fang Sheng sent someone to talk to him about the gun business. He was going in to deliver the goods. After the payment was received, he went to Hubei Province. A friend introduced him to Marshal Wu. The new job was a colonel without soldiers. head.By the time the head of Yadantou came back and the rally horn sounded, it was already dusk.The sound of the trumpet is not so majestic to the ears of people in the salt market across the Yellow River.However, preparations are still being made in the salt market. Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover, and the first fire must be won by Zhuangzhuang's prestige.Although the situation on the dam is isolated, it occupies an advantageous location. Although the Old Yellow River has many shoals in the severe winter, and the defenders can wade across the river, they must attack the high pile from the point of view of their guns. All the guns on the shanty were collected in Gaodui, and handed over to the iron fan Tang Liuzao for control. Don't look at the thick and dark Tang Liupao as a savage, but the savage has savage ideas. He told Uncle Qi, who led the shanty gun team, to pile up all the guns on the top of the pile. The more dense the better. "The officers of the defense army are all cowards," he said with a grin. "Let them count the gun stacks across the river first, and their calves will be twisted!" He asked Uncle Qi to oversee the digging of gun piles, and ordered people to go to the busy streets of Yanshi to pull cloth to make flags. It doesn't matter what color the cloth is, as long as the material is soft and can dance with the wind.It is easier to do things with more people. Before noon, hundreds of long flags carried on long poles were completed. Tang Liupao personally urged them to be buried one by one on the top of the pile, and every three or five gun stacks were erected. Flying a long flag, a long and high pile from east to west changed its appearance in less than half a day. Gun stacks were closely connected with gun stacks, long flags fluttered long flags, and the sun shone on the flags. , turned into a colorful and bright cloud that stretched for seven miles, and the north wind flapped the flag, flying and dancing horizontally, and the sound was shocking.