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Chapter 69 Cremation(23)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 2832Words 2018-03-20
Terrible!It was so intentional to sprinkle water on Ergou's leather shoes, Captain Shi taught Ergou to know him. When he got it, he found Menglian again: "Give me a ring, a gold one!" He pointed to her hand. She lowered her little hand as if to hide it.The ring on her hand was given to her by Yishan. After being stunned for a while, she quickly opened the small drawer on the dressing table, took out a gold ring, and handed it to him. She completely trusted Captain Shi and didn't want to ask any more questions. She is the daughter of a scholarly family. She can afford to lose a ring, even if Captain Shi deliberately lied to her.

Captain Shi weighed the ring with his palm, smiled, and walked out. Borrowing a clean blue coat, Captain Shi went to visit Liu Ergou.When he arrived at the gate of Liu's residence, he politely asked the doorman to let him in: "The person from Wang Juren, Miss Wang sent me here! Excuse me, you are old!" Ergou's bedroom is very large, low and dark.The room is large, but there is little air.The door was closed, and the windows were tightly pasted with thick paper.The room is very large, but there is almost no place to step down.The bed, the floor, and the table are all piled up in disorder, and what should be on the floor is on the table, and what should be on the table is on the bed instead.Among these messy things, there are quite a few toys, such as the Rabbit King, the small iron cannon cart, and the revolving lantern, all occupy a relatively important position.Two dogs love toys.He also likes animals. There are four or five birdcages hanging on the wall. There are jasper birds, little black mynahs, and thrushes;On the table, there is a glass bowl of goldfish; on the bowl is a hat of Ergou's. Because of the lack of air, the little goldfish are gasping for their last breath.On the ground, between the spittoons, chamber pots, fruit skin washbasins, crawled a big wolfhound.It was a small zoo with furniture and playthings, smelly, messy, and dark.The most important animal here is Ergou, dressed in foreign clothes.

As soon as Captain Shi entered the threshold, his eyes went dark and he almost vomited.He didn't see anything clearly, he already felt something wet licking him. "Yesi!" Ergou's voice was shouting at the big wolfhound.He only knows one English word, "Yesi".The dog is a foreign breed, so of course it must have a foreign name, so it became the furry "Yesi". Yesi—if the saying "a dog is like a master" is true—is the villain among dogs: it always licks people's hands or wags its tail to plead for mercy, and then bites a bite of meat without warning.It even bites a three-year-old doll.

"Yesi!" Ergou rushed over. Yesi rolled his eyes at its owner, groaned for a while, and then crawled among the pots and jars again, looking at Captain Shi's big feet. "You?" Ergou didn't expect Menglian to send this stupid guy. "It's me! I was so sorry that day!" "Get out! Who would want you to apologize!" Ergou pointed at the door, and Yesi's ears perked up again. "Miss Wang taught me to come here! Look!" Captain Shi shook Ergou with the ring. "Miss Wang is good to my uncle, I am her confidant!" "You sit down!"

"I dare not!" However, Captain Shi helped up a stool that had fallen on the ground, and sat down generously. "My miss misses you, isn't this her ring?" He put the ring squarely on the palm of his hand. Every hairy eye of the two dogs exploded, and they reached out to grab the ring.Captain Shi clasped his big hand and clasped the ring, "You always sit down! Listen to me!" Ergou was hypnotized and sat down obediently. "How did Ding Yishan die?" Captain Shi's black eyes were like nails, nailing Ergou's soul firmly. "She knows?" Ergou asked.

"How could she not know! She doesn't suspect you, you are her good friend." "It must not be me!" Ergou breathed a sigh of relief. "She loves you and Ding Yishan; Yishan is dead, who else will she love if she doesn't love you? But, you have to tell me, who killed Yishan?" "I," "Listen!" Captain Shi became more and more enthusiastic. "Listen! If you know who the murderer is, catch him and avenge Yishan. Everyone in the city knows that Yishan is dead, so Ms. Wang followed you brazenly, didn't she? See? "He opened his big hand, revealing a golden light again, "Miss Wang said, find Yishan's body and send it properly, and she will be engaged to you!"

Ergou was silent for a long time, and he decided to sacrifice Tian Mazi. "Is Menglian sincere?" He asked. "Here you are!" Captain Shi picked up the ring very high, loosened his fingers, and the ring landed on Ergou's palm. Er Gou felt as if a drop of boiling oil had fallen on the palm of his hand! "Think about it!" Captain Shi continued to lecture: "Is it a joke that a rich lady gave you the ring?" Er Gou looked at the gold ring on his hand, looked at it, punched his finger, and held it tightly. "Okay! Tian Mazi!" "Tian Mazi who opened the tobacco shop?"

Ergou nodded. "Okay! Let me go!" Captain Shi stood up. "Let's go!" Captain Shi stood still. "Let's go!" Captain Shi moved to Ergou's side instead. "Master! Don't you want to pay for the drinks? You are overjoyed!" Ergou took out a dollar.Captain Shi smiled and put the money on the table. "Let's go!" Ergou took the one dollar back and exchanged it for a five-yuan note. "Here you are!" Captain Shi went out.Ergou rushed over and gave him two five-yuan bills. "Thank you!" Captain Shi walked out. On the way, Captain Shi saw a brother. Captain Shi touched his arms with him, and exchanged two banknotes: "Buy a few catties of meat to eat, no alcohol!"

Captain Shi called Tian Mazi out of the east gate.At the big pagoda tree outside the Guanxiang, he ambushed two people. Tian Mazi has some martial arts skills. Ten years ago, he could perform in martial arts as a cameo.Alcohol, sex, and tobacco have destroyed his body, but when necessary, he can still deal with it quickly.Tall, with a long face, triangular eyes, some fine spots on his face, his lips are always trembling. As soon as he saw Captain Shi, Tian Mazi understood half of it.He knew that if he didn't follow this guy, something would go wrong right away.His triangular eyes don't rub the sand.

As he approached the big pagoda tree, sweat broke out on Tian Mazi's long, yellow and dark face, and his lips trembled even more. "What are you going to do?" he asked irritably. "I'll tell you when the time comes!" Captain Shi held Mazi's wrist with his big hand. Mazi had practiced kung fu, and he wanted to use his skills to boost his strength, so he turned his wrist in a frenzy.But it didn't work.Captain Shi's hand was like a tightly fastened handcuff, which hurt his flesh. Mazi smiled helplessly: "Let me loose! I'll just go!" When he got under the big locust tree, Captain Shi let go of his hand.

Tian Mazi took a stride, jumped out, half-hid his body behind the locust tree, and wanted to take out the thing.Captain Shi laughed heartily.The two brothers grabbed Mazi's wrists and neck simultaneously from behind.The gun was snatched away, and with a push, Tian Mazi's mouth trembled and kissed the ground.The two hid again. "Get up!" Captain Shi grabbed Mazi's collar and lifted it up. Tian Mazi sat up, his long face was sweating like he was addicted to cigarettes, and his face turned dark green. Captain Shi pointed under the tree, "Tian Mazi, my friend bleeds here!" "It's not me! It's not me!" Mazi's dirty and yellow fingers trembled. "The two dogs have said it all! Be strong, be a good man, and be a good man!" Tian Mazi's triangular eyes buckled down even more, and he said to himself: "Ergou sold me, what a bastard!" "You have two ways to go: one is to teach me to put a bullet or two in your dirty brain. Don't think I can't shoot you because you are under the Japanese; just because you work for them, I'm the one who wants to kill you, I can kill you anywhere. The other is to correct the evil and return to the right, and work with me. You choose yourself!" Mazi didn't speak for a long time, and finally he said: "There is a third way, I'll kill Liu Ergou!" Captain Shi shook his head, "It's not that cheap! It's too cheap to kill Ergou and you run away secretly! Which country are you from?" "Huh?" Mazi didn't seem to understand. "Which—country—are you from?" "Chinese!" Tian Mazi said in a low voice. "It's over! The Chinese don't do something for China?" "What can I do?" Mazi gnawed on his nails. "The two of them," Captain Shi pointed behind the tree, "from today onwards, they will live in your smoke house. Here, here is one hundred yuan, the room and board money for the two of them. You can find out the news and tell The two of them. Okay?" "What are you looking for?" Tian Mazi's face softened a little, and he pointed at the banknotes with his dirty and yellow fingers. "Listen! Where are the Japanese hiding the most ammunition? Find out first! Can you get into the headquarters?" "I went in with Ergou!" "They all know you?" Tian Mazi nodded. "Go and steal the battle map!" "Then?" Tian Mazi's triangular eyes widened. "It's your benefit! I'll get the map within three days, and you'll get five hundred yuan!" "I, I," Tian Mazi swallowed twice. "you try?" "I, I, try!" "Okay, you go with the two of them." Seeing Tian Mazi standing up, Captain Shi pressed him down again, pointing his finger at the tip of his nose, "If you play badly and don't do it well, I will teach you to bleed at any time." Here, avenge my friend!"
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