Chapter 50 Cremation (4)

One of the four brothers who were on guard in the forest, Li Deming, saw Tie Zhuzi hurrying away and then hurried back.Li Deming, Li Deming, whose body is like a cow and whose heart is like a fox, can't just let a suspicious person or even the slightest suspicious thing go.He went out of the forest, stopped the iron pillar, and very politely put the gun on the back of the iron pillar.Tie Zhuzi is a fool who, besides chopping firewood and farming, only eats and sleeps. His limbs and body seem to be made of iron bars and cement.If things go back a year, even if there are two bull-like Li Deming, even if there are two guns sticking to his back, he will not be convinced, but will definitely touch his iron cement body and bullets!Today, he didn't resist because he got married in the first month of this year.On the day Tie Zhuzi got married, his father, Lao Zheng, longed for a grandson with a fat head and big ears, so he often used a set of simple but meaningful words to teach his son: "No, you can't eat and sleep, and pretend to be stupid. Tie Zhuzi! You have a wife! You can’t, you can’t shake your fist at every turn; you have to work hard like a human being, and give me a big grandson! Don’t think I can chew iron Broad bean, who knows when Lord Yama will ask me to go back! Without me, you are the head of the family! You can’t run a family with thick arms and big fists!”

This passage teaches Tie Zhuzi’s iron-clad cement brain to move more or less; and as soon as the brain moves, the body is somehow controlled. Besides, a young wife, no matter whether she is ugly or beautiful, is worth it. Dear one, you must not treat her like iron bars and cement.Although her body is not weak, she is so gentle and soft everywhere, even if she is double-material iron-reinforced cement, she has to gradually soften. Therefore, he did not resist today.Although his face was as red as a steamed crab, he didn't snatch the gun, but obediently frowned and walked into the woods.Two people with four big feet (and two of them are made of iron and cement), trampled on the dry branches and pine flowers on the ground, creaking and clapping.This alarmed Captain Shi.He quickly hid behind a tree.

From behind the tree, it was Li Deming who came. Captain Shi walked over very naturally, as if he had come out of the house and wanted to go outside to check the weather. "What for?" he asked. "I haven't asked yet! The one who came out and went in is a ghost, I'm afraid he is not authentic!" For a report like Li Deming's, the "reporting captain" and the salute were omitted. "Who are you, fellow?" Captain Shi's Shitou face cracked a few laugh lines. "We're all peasants too!" Tie Zhuzi looked at Captain Shi, then at Li Deming.Li Deming also put on a smile at this time, and hid the gun behind his back.The redness on Tie Zhuzi's face subtracted one or two points.He pointed them out: "The thatched house over there is our home." He told them: "We are looking for Ding Yishan."

"Ding Yishan?" Captain Shi's heart almost jumped out of his mouth.However, he swallowed it hard.And more smile lines appeared on his face.He scratched his head, raised his left cheekbone to the sky, and pretended to be thinking: "Ding Yishan? Is it Ding Yishan from Wangcun?" "No!" Tie Zhuzi's iron-reinforced cement mouth did not tell lies. "He's Mrs. Wang's house!" "Wang's house in the city?" Captain Shi asked smoothly. "Wang Juren's daughter was given to him, but he hasn't married yet." Tie Zhuzi proudly added, "Our father is a matchmaker!"

"Oh! It's terrible!" Captain Shi felt uncomfortable.If he had known that Ding Yishan had a fiancée in Wencheng, he would never have allowed Yishan to come with him. "Why did you go to him?" "Father don't worry!" "Why don't you worry!" "He came to our house before, and left without even drinking his saliva!" "It's terrible!" Captain Shi said in his heart.Then he smiled and asked: "So your father is worried?" Tie Zhuzi nodded. "My father taught us to go and see." "Did you see him?" Captain Shi's heart was about to jump out again.

"I see!" A layer of white grains of millet appeared on Tie Zhuzi's black face. "Where? What is he doing?" Captain Shi used a smile to ease the eagerness of his words, but—if Tie Zhuzi was a little shrewd, he would be able to see—the smile was already extremely unnatural. "He's lying under the big locust tree!" "What big locust tree? Lying down?" The smile on Captain Shi's face disappeared, and he opened his mouth as if he was about to swallow an iron pillar, and took a step forward. "Two miles away from the east gate, there are two old locust trees, where people often hang themselves!" There were more grains of rice on Tie Zhuzi's face, and the hairs on the grains stood up. "Ding Yishan is lying under the tree, probably dead!"

"Dead?" Captain Shi's voice seemed to be blocked by something suddenly, his eyes were fixed on Tie Zhuzi's face, and he couldn't move for a long time. Suddenly, he grabbed Tie Zhuzi's arm and said in a very low voice: "Do you know that Ding Yishan is my good friend? Tell me, how did he die? If you don't know, just guess!" "We can't guess!" Tie Zhuzi snatched his arm away, "Go! Ask our father!" "Li Deming!" Captain Shi's voice was squeezed out between his teeth, which were already clenched. "Tell everyone to go to the city quickly! Don't tell anyone, don't tell anyone—I understand, don't tell me about Vice Captain Ding—as soon as everyone finds out, they will immediately want revenge, make mistakes in their busy schedule, and make mistakes. Quite bad! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Li Deming saluted unintentionally, inserted the gun into his waist fiercely, and walked away in three steps. "Go! Find your father!" Captain Shi ordered Tie Zhuzi. Old Zheng was outside the door, walking back and forth with his hands behind his back.If mood can be measured with a ruler, his concern for Yishan should be the same size as Captain Right.He doesn't particularly like Yishan, but Yishan is Miss Lian's fiancé, so he has to treat him differently.He who loves the sun also loves the moonlight, although he knows that the moonlight is lent by the sun.

Seeing the iron pillar, he hurried over: "What? How?" "It's over! Lying under the big locust tree!" The old man's eyes that were weeping in the wind did not cry at this time.On the contrary; as if it was itchy, he rubbed vigorously with the palm of his hand, making his eyes red.Gritting his teeth as hard as if he wanted to chew a grain of sand, even his cheekbones moved slightly, his heart was on fire! "My fault! I'm so confused! I should send him into the city!" As he spoke, he sat slowly as if his whole body was limp—not sitting, he was paralyzed on the ground. "How can Miss Lian bear it?" "Master!" Captain Shi also sat on the ground. "Old man! My surname is Shi, Ding Yishan's friend! I came with him!"

The old man blinked his weeping eyes—now he had tears—and looked listlessly at the guest.Seeing it clearly, his cheeks slowly turned red: "His friend? Did you come together? Why didn't you go to the city with him? Let me ask you!" The fingers like a hammer were almost—if it wasn't for Captain Shi Hide fast - cut on the guest's right eye. "Old man, look!" Captain Shi pointed to the plaster on his chest. "I walk so slowly!" As soon as Lao Zheng saw the plaster, he believed Captain Shi's words. "Grandpa, what's going on?" "Ding—" Lao Zheng stopped talking.Ding Yishan had instructed him not to tell anyone about his relationship with the Wang Zhai, but he couldn't talk about the Wang Zhai without mentioning it. "Grandpa, I'm Ding Yishan's best friend. I know everything about him! He's Wang Juren's aunt." Captain Shi looked at the steel cement cement standing there, biting his fingernails.

Tie Zhuzi also felt embarrassed for some reason, and walked away while striking up a conversation. "You know everything?" The old man wanted to ask the truth. Captain Shi nodded: "Your old man is a big matchmaker." The "big media" is like a key, which opens the old man's heart with a creak.He described in detail how Yishan came, how he hurriedly walked there, and how he—the old man himself—as if he heard two gunshots. Captain Shi's back was filled with cold air, and his heart was filled with hot air. These two airs seemed to meet somewhere on his body, making him shiver. "Grandpa, do you think who did this?" "Who did it?" The old man only had the tearful girl Lian in his mind, and he couldn't think of anything else. "Who killed Yishan?" Captain Shi almost shouted, asking.Shouting out the words, he hurriedly looked left and right, regretting that he had lost the power to control himself like this. The old man thought for a while: "I can't falsely accuse a good person! But, if Uncle Ding was killed by people in Jiaowen City, it must be Liu Ergou!" "Liu Ergou?" "Ai, ai!" The old man nodded again and again, "I know, he wants to snatch Miss Lian from Uncle Ding, I know!" "What does he do?" Captain Shi was very anxious, not for Miss Lian, but for the brothers.If Liu Ergou was working for the enemy army in the city, it would be rare for everyone to enter the city. "He, Ergou, before the Japanese devils—" the old man lowered his voice very low, as if the surrounding pine trees had ears, "he had nothing to do with him before he came. After the Japanese devils entered the city , somehow he became Wang Juren’s honey——” The old man couldn’t tell Ergou’s official title, he only knew that it was something related to honey. "Secretary?" Captain Shi wanted to help solve this problem. "Not bad! Not bad! It's the secretary!" Captain Shi felt a little more at ease: "He doesn't lead troops?" "No! No! He's from Wen!" Captain Shi stood up: "Grandpa, do you love Miss Lian very much?" The old man also stood up: "Better than my own daughter!" "Okay! Ding Yishan and I are closer than brothers! I'm going to the city right away, do you dare to go?" "I must go see Miss Lian!" "Meet Miss Lian, please tell me, tell him that I am a good friend of Ding Yishan, okay?" Captain Shi wanted to "ambush" Wang Zhaian.The old man rubbed his eyes, and looked at Captain Shi bluntly. "I think you are a good person! Yes!" "It's a deal! Let's see you in the city!" After finishing speaking, Captain Shi took a big step and walked out of the pine forest. "Hi!" The old man shouted from behind: "Go slowly! Your sores!" Captain Shi's face almost turned red.He stopped in his tracks, turned around and said with a smile: "It's okay, old man! The pus has already flowed out!" After walking two more steps, he added "It's terrible!" From afar, he saw those two "old but not dead" big pagoda trees!There was a pot of boiling water in his chest. "Calm down! Calm down! Old Shi!" He whispered to himself.He was eagerly looking forward to seeing Yishan's corpse, so that he could tell Yishan face to face; "Old Shi will avenge you!" He also hoped that the corpse had been moved, because he couldn't guarantee that he would not hug the corpse and cry loudly! When I got to the locust tree, there was no body.He turned his eagle eyes two or three times, and saw a piece of fresh blood under the tree. He lowered his head, gritted his teeth, and swallowed his tears. He didn't dare to raise his hand, didn't dare to stop. The right hand in the heart is placed next to the eyebrow, the feet in the heart are standing at attention, and the heart is shouting "salute"! In this season, his heart is no longer a pot of boiling water, but completely empty.Instinctively, he moved forward.His eyes were dry, not even a trace of tears.However, tears fascinated his heart—like a piece of white paper soaked through.We are almost at the east gate, and only the city gate, small stalls, houses, and Japanese guards can be seen on this piece of white paper.Seeing this last item—Captain Shi always thought that enemy soldiers were something—the pot of water in his chest boiled again.But he must be extremely calm.He had to use all his strength to create some air-conditioning for himself, and blow the pot of boiling water to cool down.His face turned blue! Lowering his head, pressing his left hand on the plaster, humming in his mouth, he walked slowly towards the enemy soldier who could kill him immediately.The enemy's spear stabbed him in the chest.He opened the flap of the tattered jacket wider, and a foul smell rushed into the nostrils of the enemy soldiers.The enemy soldier's thick leather shoes kicked Captain Shi's calf ruthlessly, most arrogantly, and viciously, causing him to fall a long way.He got up, and with horse manure all over his body, he entered the city.