Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The General Situation of Northeast China

It has been more than a week since I returned to Beijing in the blink of an eye. I didn’t feel anything because of Da Ya’s hospitalization a few days ago. I have recovered in the past few days, and Da Ya and I can’t stay anymore.Among other things, the poisonous gangrene on our body is really terrible, like a time bomb lurking in our body, no one knows when it will suddenly explode. Just thinking about these things gives me a headache.In fact, there is no need to think about this matter at all. The lice on the bald man's head-it is obvious that there is still a chance of survival when we go back and continue to toss. .The second location marked on the human bone map is near the Erlong Lake in the east of Siping City. It is not too far from the ancient city of Yehe, and they were all within the territory of the Yehe tribe back then.

Three days later, after the three of us were ready, we embarked on the journey again. There are not many cars on the expressway, and outside the window is a whole piece of cultivated land that can't be seen. The ridges and ditches are arranged in a straight line, undulating with the terrain, and it looks like it has been carefully combed with a comb. A special rhythmic beauty.Occasionally, you can see herds of cattle and sheep and quiet villages. The combination of all these unpretentious scenes is like a natural idyllic painting, which is quite poetic and picturesque. Originally, we could go directly to Erlong Lake, but Da Ya had long promised to give Hou Zi a remote control car, but it has never been fulfilled.Back this time, Da Ya specially bought a luxury extended version for that kid, so we can only go back to the Niangniang Temple first, fulfill the wish of the monkey, and bring some gifts to Lao Mengtou and Lao Gutou along the way, after all I was always a little bit sorry for disturbing others for many days before.

The sun had just set, and we finally reached the familiar intersection and saw the familiar village. The small village in the setting sun is still lonely and peaceful. Vegetables are planted in the fields, flowers are planted in the fences, and there are chickens, dogs and mulberry trees.The sun was about to sink into the horizon, and the golden light shone faintly on the village, making the whole village look radiant. Liu Ye didn't want to disturb the tranquility, so she slowed down the car after entering the village.Drive carefully along the narrow and long village road, and first arrive at the gate of Uncle Gu's house.

Uncle Gu had already come out of the house when he heard the commotion, and he was obviously a little surprised to see that it was us. Da Ya grinned and gave the old man a hug first, just like reuniting after a long absence, the wrinkles on the old man's forehead were stretched out with a smile. When we entered the house, we didn't see anyone else, we just sat on the kang and chatted with the old man.Since he helped the old man last time, the old man basically regarded us as his own family. After sitting on the kang and chatting with us for a while, seeing that it was getting late, he guessed that we hadn't eaten yet. So he went to the field to ask for food, and said that he would not let us go, but had to stay at his house for a night before leaving.

I looked at Liu Ye, smiled helplessly, nodded to Old Guy, and asked Da Ya to go to the car to unload the things. Seeing that we bought so many things, the old man pulled his face and said: "You are really, you are not outsiders, what are you buying! This money is not easy to earn. If you know how to spend it, the money will be used later. Besides, my old man is not of such a high class, and I am not used to drinking this kind of bottled wine, and drinking it is not as strong as the small roast in the village." While moving things into the house, Da Ya smiled at Old Gu and said, "Uncle Gu, if you say that, we will not dare to come next time. We don't have much money, so it's just a little bit of our kindness, Mr. You can drink whatever you want to drink, and this bottled wine is high-grade wine, so you can keep it. Anyway, it won’t go bad, and you can drink it when guests come.”

Uncle Gu was busy inside and out for a while, so we didn't need to reach out, let us rest in the house for a while. Thinking about the things that happened recently, we lent the old man his family tree again. Taking advantage of the time before dinner, we flipped through it page by page, hoping to find some valuable clues in it .Just turned from beginning to end, except for those things that were already known before, there is no new discovery. Da Ya put the book on the kang, stretched his waist, and lay down on the kang. Liu Ye suddenly frowned, staring at the inside of the back cover.I stretched my neck and looked at it, and it seemed that there was a paragraph of characters scratched on it, but the strokes were definitely not Chinese characters, it seemed to be Japanese, but it didn't look like it.I saw that Liu Ye looked a little wrong when staring at these words, so I asked Liu Ye if there was something wrong with the words?

Liu Ye nodded and told us that this kind of writing is "Jurchen small characters". Although she doesn't know many characters, she does recognize one character in it.As she spoke, she pointed to one of the words and told us that this was the symbol of the Yehenala family name, which was equivalent to the totem of the surname. She had seen it in other documents before, so she could recognize it. Hearing what Liu Ye said, Da Ya quickly turned over and got up again. The old man who just went out to buy vegetables came into the house, so I casually asked the old man if he still remembered their family's previous Man surname.

The old man shook his head and told us that he didn't know that a long time ago, who still remembers this. After dinner, after clearing away the dishes, we hurriedly went to Lao Mengtou's house to have a look, so that Lao Mengtou wouldn't bother me. The old man nodded and told us that the house has been cleaned up, and we can just go to bed when we come back at night.Just when we were just leaving the house, the old man suddenly remembered something and told us that the child from Lao Meng’s family had broken a few days ago and was lying at home, as if he had fallen badly. A child from Lao Meng's family?Meng Xing?monkey?

I hurriedly asked a few more questions, and sure enough, something happened to the monkey. The old man in the middle couldn't understand the details, so we hurried out and bought some canned fruits and a bunch of small food at the small shop at the head of the village. After filling a big bag, Go straight to Lao Meng's house. Entering the main room, the monkey was laying on a bed and watching TV boredly. Uncle Meng was not in the room. Seeing that it was us, the monkey stared wide-eyed, as if in disbelief, rubbed his eyes, saw that it was really us, got up grinning, and gave us a smirk.

Da Ya pushed the gifts and things he bought to the monkey, touched the monkey's head, and asked the monkey what happened and why he was still injured. The monkey looked at the pile of things in front of him, his eyes gleamed, he swallowed, and he looked up and told us that two days ago, he, Sanluzi and Xiaohe went to the leek field to find sour cream to eat, and then went to the nearby bureau Going to play in the stockade, I accidentally fell into the vegetable cellar, sprained my feet, and couldn't get down to the ground. "Sour foam?" Liu Ye seemed to have never heard of what it was.

I smiled at Liu Ye and told her that "sour foam pulp" is what we call it here. It is actually a kind of grass that grows in the wild. It tastes sour and produces body fluid to quench thirst. There is nothing to eat in the countryside. , this thing can be regarded as a seasonal delicacy. Da Ya patted the monkey's head and said, "Monkey, where is the 'leek field' you went to? And the 'Ju Zhaizi', where is it? Why did you get out of the cellar?" he asked , Da Ya took out a bag of potato chips, tore it open and handed it to the monkey. The monkey took the potato chips and ate them "Kaba, Kaba" while telling us that the "leek field" is about five miles east of the village. It is a barren field with two graves on it.This wasteland can be as big as his yard, surrounded by cornfields.A lot of acid foam grows in it every year, and they go there every year to collect acid foam to eat.The "Ju Zhaizi" is not far from the leek field, on a dirt ridge, with broken walls and tiles inside, and sometimes bullet casings can be picked up. We were talking, when we heard the courtyard door rang, and Lao Mengtou went out to grab medicine for the monkey and came back. As soon as he entered the room, seeing us sitting in the room, Lao Meng was also stunned, and it took him a long time to wake up.Knowing that we came back this time to look at the monkeys, Lao Meng shook his head and said to us: "What are you looking at, you are a half-sized man, and you don't have a good sense of honesty, just go shopping! No, I sprained my ankle. Now I'm being honest, don't worry about it." The monkey curled his lips, but he didn't dare to answer back, and rolled his eyes at his grandfather. Da Ya lifted the quilt to look at the monkey's feet, then pressed it with his hands, asked how the monkey felt, and put down the feet again, reassuring Lao Mengtou that nothing happened.There is no one who is not half-sized, but fortunately no bones are injured.He heard that a folk prescription is very effective, so he will write it down in a while, and go to grab some medicine tomorrow, put it in gauze, boil it in boiling water, apply hot compresses on the feet, and the swelling will subside within a few days. Speaking of monkeys, Lao Meng shook his head. Obviously, this naughty grandson gave the old man a headache.We were a little curious to ask Lao Mengtou, what was going on in that village, and how could there be a cellar? The old man looked at us and sighed: "Oh, these things are old sesame seeds and rotten millet. How many years have passed. There used to be a group of bandits living there before liberation. Damn, that group of people is old and tyrannical, killing people like hemp, and fighting against the Eighth Route Army. At the earliest, they could pick up some bullet casings, broken knives and so on in that lump, but now they have nothing." Da Ya let out an "oh" and interrupted suddenly: "Master, what are you talking about? The overall situation in the Northeast?" Lao Mengtou looked at Da Ya, and nodded blankly. Da Ya licked his lips, swallowed his saliva, and smiled at Liu Ye and me: "Do you know the 'Northeast Situation'? At that time, it was the most powerful bandit gang in Siping, the 'hands-on' gangster in the underworld." !" Seeing that Liu Ye and I didn't know, Da Ya smiled, lit a cigarette triumphantly, and told us that the bandits of "Northeast Situation" were headed by Dong Wenting. He is also reckless, nicknamed "Dong Da Leng". This guy has been doing nothing and doing nothing.After the surrender of the Japanese devils, most of the political power in the Northeast belonged to the Communist Party, and Dong Da Leng took advantage of the unstable situation to gather a group of people to "start the game" secretly.Although this person is not well-educated, he is very ambitious and wants to monopolize the Northeast, so the bandit name is called "Northeast Overall Situation".In order to please the Kuomintang government, they claimed to be the "Northeast Army" and hung the Kuomintang's blue sky and white sun flag. On the one hand, Dong Da Leng recruited officials and crowned them, and on the other hand, he fought fiercely to annex the territory, and quickly recruited all the gangsters around Siping to his door.In a short period of time, the number of bandits in the "Northeast Situation" has grown to more than 200 people, all equipped with guns and cannons. Da Yabi gesticulated and spoke vividly, Liu Ye found it fresh and listened with gusto. I was not surprised that Da Ya knew these things, he must have heard it from his grandfather.Da Ya's grandfather is very legendary. Before liberation, he poured medicinal materials and traveled everywhere.In that era of war and chaos, business itself was not easy to do, and I didn't know how to do it. Later, I was caught on the mountain, became a "beard", and became the "Mr." Other bandits grab medicine to treat diseases, they have a special status, they are also very respected on the mountain, and their status is quite high.In the end, seeing that the situation had changed, and if he stayed on the mountain, he would be shot sooner or later, so he managed to escape, and finally saved his life. Da Ya was speaking in vernacular, I inadvertently glanced at Lao Mengtou, and suddenly found that Lao Mengtou's expression seemed a little strange, and his eyes were a little different.He kept puffing on his cigarette until Da Ya finished speaking, then he squinted his eyes and asked Da Ya how he knew such details, and who told him about it. Da Ya rubbed his head, and told the truth, he said that his grandfather was a small business before Liberation, traveled the rivers and lakes, and ate rivers and lakes, so he knew something about these green forests, and his grandfather told him before . Lao Mengtou nodded, took a look at us, and then said: "Actually, if it weren't for you, I really wouldn't be able to tell. The situation in Northeast China has something to do with my family! My second uncle is here. Inside the lock is the 'horse number', and the newspaper word is 'little whirlwind', which is dedicated to the management of the horses and all the vehicles on the mountain. I heard that it is one of the 'four beams and eight pillars' on the mountain. It has a head and a face. Although it has nothing to do with my family, But for this, my family suffered a lot after liberation.” Speaking of this, Lao Meng shook his head, probably thinking of those old things again, and his eyes were a little blurred.After taking a puff of cigarette, his demeanor returned to normal, and then he told us that his father lost his life because of this incident, and his second uncle also had his leg broken during a siege after liberation, so he couldn’t stand up. How long does it take to die. In the past, the bandits who occupied the mountains as kings had a very strict internal organization, and there was also a complete set of organizational structures. The big boss was called "big shopkeeper", also called "big master", and internally called "big brother" or "big cabinet" ; while the second leader is called "Second Shopkeeper", internally called "Second Brother" or "Second Cabinet".There are generally "four beams and eight pillars" under the "big cabinet" and "second cabinet". The "four beams" in the "four beams and eight pillars" are generally the main characters, and the eight pillars are the backbone second only to the "four beams".The rest of the gangsters are collectively referred to as "cubs". I also heard these things from Da Ya's grandfather before.When I was young, listening to these things was like listening to stories. Every day after dinner, we waited on time almost every day for the old man to tell stories under the elm tree in front of Daya’s house.At that time, there was a lack of information, and there was no chance to see newspapers or TV. Except for the occasional Errenzhuan or storytelling on the loudspeaker at the entrance of the village to entertain us, the stories in Da Ya’s grandfather’s stomach are the most attractive to us. of. Lao Mengtou told us that he heard it from his father when he was a child, but in fact his father also heard it from his uncle.It is said that the gang of bandits came here for some other purpose, and the whole thing was decided by the rudder mover "Green Lin Hao", and most of the brothers on the mountain opposed it.It's not for anything else, because this place has no mountains and no support, and it's flat and plain, so it's not suitable for camping at all.But the big cabinet believed in the words of the military adviser, and finally chose here. Speaking of this, Lao Mengtou drank his saliva and said mysteriously: "I'm not going to hide it from you, but my second uncle heard some rumors, as if the military division dug up something in that lump, and then secretly gave it to you. It was transported away. It is said that three large carriages were fully loaded, and not long after this incident, almost all the people in the village withdrew to the base camp in Dongfeng County, leaving behind an empty shell." What was dug up? The few of us looked at each other, and hurriedly asked Lao Mengtou if he knew what was dug up? Lao Mengtou shook his head and smiled, and told us that this matter was casually said by his second uncle of the same family, without a single word, who knows if it is true or not.However, that place is indeed quite strange. For decades, crops have never grown, and it has been left in the wild, and nothing grows. There is a saying that "the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention".I heard that there is no grass growing there, and I sensitively feel that there may be some problems.I studied nursery stock science when I was in school, and I have some understanding of soil quality. There are many reasons for the land not growing grass, and most of them are caused by the high degree of soil compaction.But in a situation like this where no grass has grown for decades, it is obviously not that simple.I think of a possibility, is it possible that the soil there contains a lot of lime powder or heavy metals such as lead and mercury?