Chapter 2 Chongqing Personality Baisha Wharf 2

When Brother Eight was nine years old, he easily got an Italian violin.It was the late 1960s, and the fighting in Chongqing was very lively.Gunshots can be heard 24 hours a day. Therefore, the children of Baisha Wharf are often used as spies by both sides.Some of the kids turned out to be double agents.Brother Eight is the most outstanding one. That night, Brother Eight was listening to storytelling in the dilapidated teahouse. The gavel was constantly being slapped on it, hoarsely.In this situation, Eighth Senior Brother was patted on the shoulder by a man, and said "Come here, little boy", and he was taken aside.

It was a young man, thin, pale, greenish white.Brother Eight thought he looked like a praying mantis because he had a small head, pointed face and long neck. Baby, you must often go to the coal plant to play, right?asked the mantis.Coal Design Institute, the full name of which is the Coal Mine Design Institute, is not a small unit. Green creepers hang intermittently on the long courtyard wall, which is very beautiful and attractive.Now it has become a stronghold of a faction, and people with guns come and go. Hey.The eighth senior brother replied plainly.Brother Eight, who is eight or nine years old, already knows that he should give others the impression that he is smart but not cunning.Where do you usually enter from?The coal courtyard does not allow outsiders to enter.

Brother Eight just smiled. The other party smiled as well, as if he was a little ashamed (there is no place such a fucking kid can't get in).Well, the other party said, go and check for us to see if there are quadruple cannons inside.Do you know quadruple? The eighth senior brother nodded lightly.Chongqing has the largest number of national defense factories in the country.Among them, there are also anti-aircraft cannons. The double-barreled ones are called Erlian, and the four-barreled ones are called Quadlian. Those who shoot planes into the sky can imagine hitting people when they are flat.It is said that if one person touches it, it will be broken into eight knots.

You can see if the four couplets are really shipped, how many are there, and where are they all placed------ The eighth senior brother didn't say a word, neither agreeing nor refusing. The other party looked around and put a five-yuan bill in his coat pocket. Brother Eight then said, I don't know how to take pictures. The other party said that there is no need to take pictures or even draw pictures, you just need to recognize the picture.As he spoke, he spread out a piece of paper, which was only as big as a homework book.Brother Eight, a primary school student, saw at a glance that it was the map of the Coal Design Institute.It is said that the house built by the coal yard was built by the Soviets, but it is not clear how different it is.

The coal courtyard was located on the slope, on the south side of Changjiang Road, the most beautiful road in Chongqing at that time, that is, on the side of the Yangtze River.This place is actually three or four miles away from Baisha Pier.It's just that this road is nothing to the brothers of that age.However, everyone goes there to get what they need.The eighth brother went, mostly looking for envelopes and stamps in the trash.He collects stamps.But this hobby was lost when I grew up. The other party pointed to the big houses and said that you should pay special attention to whether there are machine guns on them, so you must sneak into the houses and go up to the roof.

Eighth Senior Brother nodded seriously.He knows the stakes are high.Whether there are machine guns or not is very different.Thinking of this, he nodded seriously again. If someone asks you what you do on the roof, how do you answer?the other party asked. I said dig out the sparrow nest. very good.The other party said, so be it. But the Eighth Senior Brother suddenly said that he would have to call someone else, because going alone is not like digging out a sparrow's nest, but like stealing things. The other party froze for a moment, then nodded. The Eighth Senior Brother then said that it would be more, he rubbed his thumb and middle finger.The other party was stunned for a moment, probably cursing inwardly, then took out another five-yuan note and put it still in Brother Eight's pocket.

Brother Eight asked me when I would go? The other party said that within the next day, you will come here tomorrow night.After finishing speaking, I left. The eighth brother didn't have the heart to listen to the storytelling.He began to struggle, whether to enjoy the ten yuan for himself, or take it out and share it.That's a lot of money.For him, this kind of reconnaissance is similar to walking on the road, so it is tantamount to a windfall.Take your time, it's nobody's business.However, he also knew that if he took it out and shared it, he would be able to obtain a qualification from now on, that is, to enter the core part of the brothers.Who is the core part has never been explicitly stipulated, but all people are tacit.No one can tell what is the benefit of entering the core part.But it's weird that all of them want to be core members.

The eighth senior brother hesitated, should he only contribute half of it ----- was fighting, Leng Ding heard the sound of the gavel, and said slowly, everyone, look, is this cutting the dick to worship the gods? excuse me?Brother Eight was taken aback, and immediately decided to take them all out. The eighth senior brother didn't listen to the storytelling, and went straight out of the teahouse to find the second senior brother.No matter what method the senior brothers get, as long as they belong to public funds or are willing to become public funds, they will be kept by the second senior brother.The second senior brother never issued a receipt, nor did he have an invoice, nor did he even report the account verbally, but no one had the slightest suspicion.

The second senior brother took the money, put it close to his chest, and only said he wanted it.I didn't say anything.The eighth senior brother was stunned and had no choice but to leave disgruntled. But in less than half an hour, Sixth Senior Brother came and told him to go, let's go together.When approaching the entrance of the town, Sixth Senior Brother suddenly said, you can call one more, and you can call whoever you want.Eighth senior brother immediately understood, and immediately said to call seventh senior brother. In this way, in the tavern on the street on the slope, the eight brothers and sisters had a night drink.It must be explained that the combined total of these eight senior brothers is only seventy years old.In addition, it must be explained that it was on that night that the Eighth Senior Brother became the Eighth Senior Brother, and the Seventh Senior Brother became the Seventh Senior Brother.And Seventh Senior Brother became Seventh Senior Brother because of Eighth Senior Brother.These two are brothers among the brothers.

From a later point of view, because of a selfless dedication that time, I got two places at once.But this was not announced by the senior brother, nor by the second senior brother, but by the third senior brother.The third brother, the later chairman of the trade union, said, we still have one seven and one eight empty, and you two can discuss it. Brother Eight quickly said that he would be seven and I would be eight. why?The later scholar Seventh Brother was very sorry. You have a bigger head.The eighth senior brother said quickly again. Everyone looked at Brother Seven's big head and laughed.The third brother agreed, that's it, you are seven, you are eight.

The elder brother patted the table.All were quiet for a while.Senior Brother said Eighth Senior Brother, please tell me something. Since then, the eighth brother, who has become the eighth brother, talked about the investigation of the establishment of the coal institute.The senior brother asked, what would happen if there were really four couplets in it? Immediately split into two factions.One faction said that they were going to flee over there.The other faction said that the attack was about to take place there.But because there is the most shrewd third brother in the attacking faction, and the seventh brother who wears panties with him, so the eighth brother believes that if he detects the quadruple, he will immediately win the battle.He is very nervous.Although he is at the age of fearing the chaos of the world and is not afraid of people being killed or injured, he is already able to play "Kregel" (a very high-level violin etude collection) at the age of nine. Of course he knows that if one party knows It is their own reconnaissance and reporting, how serious the consequences are.Then you should let the other party understand that there are no quadruples in the Coal Design Institute.Because even if it was there in the first place, but it was not detected, at most this little cub is just a plague pig.It is impossible for a grown-up to kill a small plague pig. At this time, the senior brother asked, who do you want to go to reconnaissance with, eighth senior brother? The eighth senior brother said very knowledgeably, the senior senior brother said.Senior brother said, third senior brother, you said.The third brother said that the seventh brother should go.Brother Seven agreed that I would go. It was past midnight when everyone went back, and the seventh and eighth senior brothers were still standing on the railway to discuss for a while.Brother Eight is better at playing the violin than Brother Seven, but he obeys Brother Seven in matters outside.He asked, why do we need to find out whether there are four couplets in the coal construction yard? Brother Qi thought about it seriously, and said, do you think the power below is stronger? The eighth brother said that it needs to be stronger. What if the above is the establishment of coal institutes, and there are quadruples? Then it might be stronger than above. By the way, Senior Brother Qi said, the lower part cannot allow the upper part to have four couplets.If there is, it is necessary to attack before it is installed, take the quadruple, or blow it up. The eighth brother nodded.Fighting has been going on for such a long time, and the children who watched the excitement have acquired military knowledge.The anti-aircraft machine gun needs to be installed, this guy needs a position, and it needs to be repaired. At noon the next day, the eighth and seventh brothers slipped into the coal institute.They don't need to climb over the courtyard wall.They slipped in through the gate when the guards were about to smoke and find someone to fight the fire.The eighth brother still went to the garbage dump to look for commemorative stamps for a while before starting the formal reconnaissance. No.There is no quadruple as mentioned by the other party.Absolutely not.All the sparrow nests were taken out.With the cleverness of the eighth senior brother and the meticulousness of the seventh senior brother, it is impossible to miss such a big thing as an anti-aircraft machine gun. But, suddenly, both children heard the piano.The sound of a violin.In the mid-autumn afternoon sun in Chongqing mixed with mist, the sound of the zither is extraordinarily warm, like thick rice soup with added sugar, which is refreshing and refreshing.The two swallowed together and looked in the direction of the sound of the piano. Later, Brother Eight recalled that it was almost at that moment that he decided his fate with music.The sound of the violin can be beautiful like this, just to understand at that moment, like an epiphany.The golden sycamore leaves fluttered in the breeze, shining like silk and satin, in line with the rhythm of the music.The eighth senior brother was half surprised and half intoxicated.I suddenly feel that this is a very big world, divided into many layers, and a very mysterious world---- The two children went after the sound of the piano.At the end of the compound, in the corner of the wet wall, there is a bungalow.The lime walls were gray and gray.Although it is a one-story house, there are several steps to enter the house.Later, Brother Eight realized that the style belonged to the Soviet style.Basically, it was the dormitory of the Soviet experts at that time.In order to prevent moisture, there is a distance of nearly one meter between the indoor floor and the ground.It was this elevated part that made the eighth and seventh senior brothers unable to see the people inside.Only conversations can be heard.It's a man and a woman.As for which one is playing the violin, it is not known. Female: Mozart's Rondo. Man: Yes.This section is blurred by jumping bow, which is due to Mozart's poor consideration. Female: (laughs) Humph. Male: So the four tones are simply divided into two, and the second is divided into syncopation, which is smart. Brother Qiba looked at each other in blank dismay.How come someone here dares to criticize Mozart?Brother Eight thought.There is a passage in it, which may be the section just mentioned.The sound of the piano is beautiful.And I didn't expect the violin to have such a loud volume.It feels like this violin is bigger than normal.It is in the high-pitched range, and the tone is very bright, which reminds Brother Eight of the sun that suddenly came out after the rain. A short section of the low register sounded again.The eighth senior brother reacted immediately.He said joyfully in a soft voice: Ave Maria.Seventh Brother nodded.He also remembered.Among all the brothers, the seventh brother is most interested in the eighth brother's playing the violin. Sometimes he has to tinker with him under his guidance, and sometimes he goes to the rightist professor's class together. Suddenly the sound of the piano stopped.The man said that this piece had to be played standing up.Then I don't know who stood up and pulled.Brother Eight felt that the sound was like tearing silk.He likes to hear this sound.Sometimes when I pass by a cloth shop, I turn in, just to hear this kind of sound.Later, when I was in high school, I learned an idiom, the sound was like a cracking silk, and it was only in a trance that I understood that it was this kind of sound. This sound is like water, slowly flowing out from somewhere, and slowly flowing in all directions.Brother Eight's feet were also wet by the running water.He sighed silently. Brother Eight, who is less than ten years old, is already playing four quarters of adult pianos.Whether it's two-quarters or four-fourths, the qins played by the eighth senior brother all sound like wooden boards, empty, and will collapse with more force.Brother Eight has never made a silk sound.The faster you tear, the louder the sound. Up to this point, the eighth senior brother didn't have any special thoughts. If he thought about it for a while, it was just that he should earn money to buy a good violin in the future.Then came the following conversation. Man: There are characters and letters on the back panel, which look like signatures. Which country are the characters from? Female: Italy. Man: What do you mean? Female: It doesn't mean anything.If you want to read it, you should read it as Stradivari. Man: My God!no meaning!Stradivari has no meaning yet!You don't know Stradivari?Female: I know.World famous brand. Man: (seems to be stuttering) Well, how can such a precious, expensive piano be here? Woman: Maybe it has something to do with the former Soviet experts. Man: ------No, I heard that every Stratina has a name, such as "Cannon", "Cathedral", and "Lucy" or something. The qin has no name----oh, it seems to be like this. I read in the book that the habit of this family is that if the qin produced is not perfect enough, it will not be named and signed. Words matter.Yep.Possibly, that's it. Woman: Oh, I seem to have read that too.Even so, it is an extremely valuable famous piano. Man: So what's wrong with this piano?Pass me the bow, and I'll look for it. Female: There is a lang sound on the G string, in this position, (she pulls it a few times. The eighth brother heard the lang sound of the violin for the first time: it is dumb. Pull it harder and it looks like a wolf howling.) How about it? Man: The lang sound should be the problem of the strings, right? Female: I have tried it many times, no matter how I change it, the sound is still there. Man: How did you discover this Langyin?Why is it necessary to pull it so high on the G string? Woman: I discovered it by accident.Rappaganini's Capriccio No. 13 is in this position of the G string. Male (seems to be looking carefully at Qinli) This family is also, is there anything wrong, please write it down. Female: You are the only one who has a problem!How could it be possible to write it out! Male: To be honest, if you can find the fault of this kind of piano, you are also a half-master -------- this kind of famous piano, just put it in the house so casually? Female: (laughing) Who can hear it?Whoever can hear this, let him take it. (Brother Eight later recalled that it was this sentence that gave him great stimulation) Man: Don't talk nonsense.Put it away! Female: I mean, I still have to let it go. The tone is very confidential.It's like gargling in the throat, and I can't hear anything clearly with pointed ears.Or people didn't say it at all.Then she only has a little gesture.Well, it's gestures. Eighth Senior Brother turned to look at Seventh Senior Brother.Seventh Senior Brother was looking at him.There was something in the seventh senior brother's eyes, which made the eighth senior brother understand that he wanted to know where the Qin had been hiding all along.Then he saw through me.Then I just want to steal this violin.Then he wanted to steal the violin too.Who wouldn't want to steal such a famous violin?The eighth senior brother cracked his lips and smiled.Suddenly, I felt like I couldn't stay here any longer.The two leave. After returning to Baisha Pier, the two separated.The next thing for the eighth brother is to go to the old teahouse to wait for the young man who assigned the task at night, and report to him that there is no four couplets.There are no quadruplets in the Coal Design Institute.Absolutely not.Guaranteed with the life of the whole family.But there are still hours.What are you doing these hours?Brother Eight doesn't know.And he found that his heart was very chaotic and panicked.He couldn't stay anywhere, he couldn't do anything.After running back and forth in a daze, he plunged headfirst into the river, stripped naked, and slipped into the water trembling. He understood that he was stunned by the violin called Stradivari.Stratina.I'm afraid people will just call it a Straqin for the sake of simplicity.That voice was always in my ears.The sound of tearing silk.This violin should be old and old. Is it the color? It may be the color of the cockroach (cockroach). Maybe the paint has fallen off in some places, and there are cracks in some places-------Is it supposed to be better than mine? Are these violins a little heavier? Brother Eight has always believed that he will become an extraordinary violinist.But it never occurred to him that he, too, should have an extraordinary violin.Even if I work in the future, it won't be much better if I use my savings to buy one------- The eighth senior brother was out of his mind throughout the afternoon, he was on the verge of going crazy.However, at night, when he had to go into the teahouse and saw the praying mantis waiting there for a long time, he made a sudden decision. Mantis asked how.Brother Eight firmly said that you must return the ten yuan.The young man was surprised and immediately said, do you want to blackmail?The eighth brother said that our one was beaten, and it was bad.There was hatred on his face.A "hate for both of you". Praying Mantis froze.I didn't speak for a while.Brother Eight waited for him to be almost stunned, and then said that they suspected that we were here for reconnaissance. So there is Luo?Mantis tensed up.The effect of increasing rewards occurs. Yes, Brother Eight said flatly, there are four couplets, and there are two couplets (double tubes).How many are there?Two pairs of quadruples, four pairs of quadruples.There are so many?The young man's eyes widened and he almost cried out.Brother Eight immediately realized that he had overstated it.It seems that as long as there is a support, it is already very fatal.But he was very calm, very firm but still lightly said that you can ask him if you don't believe me, and he pointed in a certain direction. "You go to his room, he's lying on the bed."The Eighth Senior Brother vowed firmly, but his heart was very empty.Because there is no such a person who was beaten to lie down, the so-called companion. Mantis was gasping for breath, but he could tell he believed the story.Well, he said, mark the location for me.But the eighth brother reminded him: give another ten yuan.He hesitated for a moment, and slowly took out the money. Brother Eight, who was less than ten years old, looked at the map and wondered where the distribution of so many weapons was in line with military law.His head, which is good at playing the violin, established two principles in an instant, that is, to be tall, and to face each other.So start to bid. Did you see the quadruple?And the second couplet?The other party asked abruptly. certainly.The eighth senior brother replied calmly. So why didn't they fire on us?There was a sneer on the corner of the other party's mouth.Brother Eight was caught off guard, but he instinctively said that there were no bullets yet.If you can't fire a gun, it must be because there are no bullets.But he knew that the lie might not work out.How do you know they don't have bullets?Can you still find out if there is a bomb in someone's pocket?The Eighth Senior Brother immediately started sweating on his back.However, unexpected relief came, the skinny young man kept nodding, thinking to himself that maybe they haven't got the bullet yet. The eighth senior brother suddenly realized.It turns out that there are so many arsenals in Chongqing, each making their own stuff.A factory that makes guns will never make bullets.Therefore, your group has to go to this factory to rob, and you have to go to that factory to procure bullets.The general situation is to get the gun first and then get the bullets.Then there was a process in the middle --- the thin young man shot a little green light from both eyes, and immediately closed his eyes again.As a result, Brother Eight immediately understood that now is the best time to attack and seize the heavy weapon.He suddenly felt passionate, suddenly felt that everything was going well, everything was going so smoothly, everything was too happy.Looking again, the mantis is no longer there. After some years passed, the eighth senior brother recalled this incident countless times, and gradually believed that what happened in the world must happen, if the conditions are not enough, God will make up for it. That was indeed an event.That event was simply called the Coal Drilling Set.The speed of action exceeded the expectations of the eighth senior brother.Late that night, or rather early the next morning, the attack began.As soon as the gunshot rang, the eighth senior brother reacted immediately: it really started.The sound of gunfire was thick and continuous, as if many water taps were turned on at the same time.Brother Eight knew this was because there were a lot of machine guns.In this important city of the defense industry, everyone's equipment is very sophisticated. Such dense gunfire sounded for an hour or two.When the eighth senior brother quietly sneaked under the wall of the coal facility, the sky was already gray and bright.When he climbed over the wall, he heard a shout, and then a swarm of bullets came, and the leaves fell together with the eighth brother.He thought someone would come and search.He thought it over, and if he was caught, he said he wanted to steal something.A thief who has no revolution and no views is actually the safest.But no one came.Later, Brother Eight figured it out. The shooter knew it was not the enemy, but the revolutionary masses who came to take advantage of it. If they were killed, they would still be in trouble. He found the room.The windows are open.Climb up to see, there is no one inside.He quickly turned inside and closed the window carefully. Someone is walking outside.Brother Eight understands that this is what the book says about cleaning the battlefield.He quickly retreated under the bed. The eighth senior brother lurked like a mouse all day, and had an unprecedented understanding of day and night.In the morning, a few groups of people came in to check and check, but after noon, no one came in again. Brother Eight began to search the house.He dared not close the door.If anyone thought the house hadn't been searched, they would break in.But he didn't dare to open the door either.He left the door open.When he went to cover the door, he remembered that the door had been knocked open from the outside, and the window was open when he came in.Then the owner of this house escaped through the window. No violin.The house is not big.Brother Eight searched carefully side by side, but there was no violin.If the owner had escaped with the violin, the battle would have been lost.From the voices outside, it can be heard that there are many casualties.Brother Eight sat down on the floor in frustration, seeing the blood on the floor and the bullet holes in the door. He understands that the owner was wounded by a bullet from outside the door, but still escapes with his (or her) violin through the window.He was able to jump out of the window when he was injured, and he even brought a violin when he escaped for his life!Brother Eight didn't know what to say. He heard the corpses being carried outside and still being counted.Of course it was his own, because he was still calling his name.A woman cries when a man's name is called.cry comrades.The eighth senior brother knew that he had caused a big disaster.It seems that those corpses are lined up at the root of the fence at the end of this school of bungalows.No fewer than ten people. He changed his mind, these people were not killed here, they were killed there.A man who likes to fight is dead anyway - he wants to get out of here.But of course he dared not go out.You can only go out when it is dark, late at night, or even early in the morning.How did it take so long?Only sleep. Brother Eight got under the bed.Fortunately, the houses built by the Soviets have wooden floors, and the season is not really winter.He fell asleep without any discomfort.He didn't seem to have slept for long before he woke up.He was a little strange, why did I wake up? When he was figuring this out in a daze, he heard a voice.For many years to come, he could not articulate this voice.If I had to say it, it sounded like a voice, like a baby talking to itself, or like a girl whimpering--Senior Brother Eight was terrified.He thought of the souls of the dead. After suffering like this for an unknown amount of time, he accepted these voices.And gradually I felt as if I had arrived in another place, a place that was far, far away from my hometown, Baisha Wharf, and even far away from the human world.These voices seemed to have some kind of meaning——Suddenly, a thought flew out of the sky, which made him feel several times in surprise that there was space under him.There are halls of fame in the space.Shaking his head, he broke free from his trance, rolled over, and tapped the floor with his fingertips. This is a one-story house, the floor is not a slab, it is moisture-proof, and there is a space more than two feet high. It's night, and I'm under the bed again, I can't see my fingers.There didn't seem to be many things under the bed, unlike ordinary people who stuffed the bed as much as possible. He knocked on a place near the base of the wall, and it felt like knocking on some kind of door.He touched it again and felt that the door could be opened.Thus he removed one block, and another.Then he remembered the conversations he had heard outside yesterday, and he suddenly understood that the violin was hidden under here. The eighth brother finally succeeded.He got his wish and got a brand-name violin called "Stradivari".The violin comes in a very old but strong wooden leather case and is wrapped in waterproof tarpaulin.There are also desiccant and moth balls called rotten eggs by the locals in the piano case to prevent the ponytail on the bow from being bitten off by cockroaches or cotton moths --- Later, the eighth brother who grew up recalled these things At that time, I felt countless times that everything is easy to guard against, but the most difficult thing to guard against is indeed a person, even a person who is not yet an adult.What follows this thought is the explanation for the moment when I got this famous piano: God's will.It was the lyre that sang there by itself, awakening him, and telling him: I am here.Whenever I feel uneasy, explain it like this.Feel at ease after explaining. Afterwards he heard that the mantis was killed.He was not killed when he was attacking the coal establishment, but was killed by his own people in the fire after returning to the Corps.It turned out that Mantis was still one of the leaders of the Corps.Attacking the Coal Institute, there were so many casualties, but not a single anti-aircraft machine gun was found.The other persons in charge naturally had to question the mantis.That's how the hair is trimmed.A good buddy was dead, and he pulled Mantis' belt, and Mantis immediately pulled out his pistol.But someone fired before him.That's it. The eighth brother felt very uncomfortable.It would have been much better if he had been killed during the attack.But he died like this, and the eighth brother felt that he had a great relationship with him.In fact, the two ways of death are not all because of my intelligence? He was at a loss, and picked up the bow casually.Suddenly, I feel that this bow looks like a sword.All violin bows are like swords, but this one is especially like it.He stabbed a few times as he saw in the movie, and he seemed to feel more relaxed.He saw a fly crawling on the edge of the dining table, and stabbed at it with his sword.Being impartial, he actually killed the fly just like that. Seventh senior brother on the side was shocked and shouted "good swordsmanship". Brother Violin Eight has since then had a hobby, which is to use the bow as a swordsman.Don't think that the bow is slender and easy to break, no, as long as you don't force it sideways, it can bear a lot of force.Especially when the bow hair is taut.As the saying goes: A standing tree bears a thousand catties.A pillar is a standing log. He is "Qin bow swordsmanship" and his violin skills have grown together.Sometimes Laqin is not so focused, if he catches a glimpse of flies and cockroaches, the time for those guys' death will come.It is almost a hundred hits.Moreover, the tip of the bow does not have to touch the table or the wall. Once, when he was walking and pulling on the road, a non-barking dog chased him up, and when he turned his head, the dog was about to bite.He stabbed twice instinctively, the dog's eyes were blinded, and it ran away screaming.He was only 12 years old at the time.