Xiaowuzi turned around and walked back. Dalong asked him what he was doing. Xiao Wuzi said: "Buy some delicious food. How can I go empty-handed when I go to your house for the first time? We brothers have to drink something to celebrate, so just treat it like I'm drinking your wedding wine."
The second meat shop in town was not closed yet, so Xiaowuzi bought some wine, meat, and some pickles. The two brothers walked back. Halfway through, Xiaowuzi asked, "Don't you have any money to spend?"
Dalong nodded and said, "If you don't come back, I'm going to do some odd jobs to earn money for food."
Xiaowuzi took out a bundle of bills from his pocket, which probably amounted to more than a thousand yuan.
"This time I smashed up a Japanese casino. I robbed more than 7,000 yuan. I can't give you too much. I have to buy food for those buddies when I get to Jiaohe. Save some of this money and you can live for several years. You can't give me too much." Find an easy job, hide your identity, and put down roots here!" He took out a gold ring and handed it to Dalong, "Just right, take this to coax my sister-in-law!"
Dalong is worried about how to tell him that he won't leave? When he heard this, he realized that Xiao Wuzi didn't want to take him away. He stared at Xiao Wuzi blankly, with hot tears welling up in his eyes.
Dalong said: "Fifth son, the luckiest thing in my life, Dalong, is knowing you as my brother. Let's not say anything else and go home to drink."
When they got home, they met Meizi. Xiaowuzi found that this sister-in-law was gentle and beautiful. Brother Dalong had found a treasure, and the harvest was greater than him.
While Meizi was scalding wine and cutting meat for them, she said: "Brother Da Long has been talking about you every day these days. Don't you feel warm to your ears? I also want to meet the brother he talks about every day!"
The wine was served to the table, and the two brothers chatted while drinking, with Mei Zi holding the child next to them. Xiao Wuzi said: "Brother Dalong, you should give the money to your sister-in-law. She looks like she is going through life. You are not sure about the money in your hands, and you spend money without counting."
Meizi was shocked when she took the money and wanted to open her mouth to ask why there were so many? Seeing Dalong's calm eyes and Xiaowuzi's frank smile, he didn't ask.
He smiled and said, "You are really his brother, you really know what he is like." He told Xiao Wuzi that Da Long Jiang gave her all the money he had without any reservation. Xiaowuzi laughed loudly after hearing this, and Dalong also laughed awkwardly.
The two brothers drank and chatted, and before they knew it, it was late at night, and Meizi coaxed the child to sleep first. Hot wine and hot dishes. It was late summer and early autumn, and the weather was still very hot. Both brothers were sweating profusely from drinking. Xiaowuzi and Dalong don't have a good drinking capacity. They usually get so drunk after drinking half a catty of wine alone. I don't know what happened today? I drank two kilograms of wine in total, and by the middle of the night, I didn't have enough wine. But these two brothers were both sober and not at all drunk.
Dalong wanted to go get a drink, but Xiao Wuzi stopped him and said he didn't want to drink anymore. He wouldn't be able to leave if he drank again.
Dalong wanted to keep Xiaowuzi for two days, but Xiaowuzi said: "This has been delayed for several days. Although the task has no time limit, finding Uncle Haishan and the others in the mountains one day earlier can still save them from suffering."
Xiaowuzi knows all too well what it's like to endure hunger in the mountains, climb on ice and sleep in the snow, and deal with powerful enemies.
Dalong went to dig out his big mirror box cannon under the tree, which contained ten rounds of bullets.
"I don't need it now. It will be safer if you hold it."
Xiaowuzi was not polite to him. After putting away the gun, he handed his flower-kou luzi to Dalong.
"This gun is small and easy to hide. There are still two bullets left, so you can keep them just in case."
Dalong wrapped the small pistol in oilcloth and buried it in the hole under the tree.
"I basically can't use it. Once I use it, I basically can't survive. Your sister-in-law doesn't want to see this thing, so bury it here first!"
The sky in the east has turned white, and a rooster is crowing. Xiaowuzi washed his face, packed his things, and prepared to go on the road.
Dalong sent him a long way, and Xiaowuzi smiled when he saw Dalong's hesitant expression.
"Brother Dalong, don't feel sorry for me or the team. This is a good thing. Our Anti-League members are almost gone, so you should leave a root for us in the Anti-League."
After hearing this, Dalong nodded heavily and wrote down these words. The two brothers hugged and cherished each other.
Xiaowuzi had disappeared, and Dalong was still staring blankly into the distance, with tears streaking his face.
Dalong returned home and as soon as he entered the house, Meizi rushed over and threw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly and not letting go.
It turned out that she had not slept well all this time. She woke up as soon as Dalong and Xiaowuzi went out, and then she sat blankly on the edge of the kang, waiting in fear and worry, waiting for the judgment of fate.
When Dalong's footsteps came to the door, Meizi's heart seemed to explode with excitement. She ran over and hugged Dalong's neck. Her whole body hung on him, her face pressed against Dalong's neck and she cried silently.
Dalong knew what she was thinking. She was afraid that she would leave with Xiao Wuzi quietly.
Dalong didn't speak, he just stroked her back lovingly, kissed her hair, and felt with his heart this rare true love in troubled times.
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Xiao Wuzi had a bundle tied on his back, wrapped in tattered clothes. No one thought that the patched rag bundle was actually full of money.
He stuck the gun in his back and lowered his clothes to cover it. It was almost impossible to tell that he had a murder weapon from the front.
It is fifteen or six miles from Erdaodianzi to Jiangkou, and it took Xiao Wuzi two hours to walk.
When Xiao Wuzi arrived at the river, he found that the boat hidden in Liu Maozi was missing.
Fortunately, the gun was not placed in the boat but buried in the mountain. Otherwise, the gun will be stolen, which will be bad, and the robbery of the Japanese casino may be exposed.
I had no choice but to walk downstream along the river, hoping to catch a boat going down. There is no way to get those guns. Let’s wait until we have the opportunity to come back.
During this season, there are often boats releasing and collecting mountain goods on the river. As long as you walk along the river, you can always catch a smooth sailing boat.
It was really good. We didn’t go far when we saw rows of wooden rafts floating down from the upper stream. Several naked and strong men were holding long wooden poles. In the Northeast, these people who release emissions have a nickname, "Jiang Donkey".
Xiao Wuzi clasped his fists and shouted loudly: "Three old and four young, the child is going downstream, can you go for a while? The child is kowtowing to you gentlemen."
Sitting on the raft was an old man wearing a straw hat, a gray beard and a tanned body. While puffing on his pipe, he said: "Xiaoga Douzi, where do you get so many rivers and lakes? Come up quickly!"
The raft was undulating in the river, but the old man sat on a horse and stayed on the raft as steady as a mountain.
The raft leaned a little closer to the shore. When it was about seven or eight meters away from the shore, Xiao Wuzi took a run for more than ten steps, stepped on a big stone, and flew up.
It drew an arc in the air and landed steadily on the raft without letting the raft shake at all.
Several men in the row cheered together, and someone shouted "Good Kung Fu." Xiaowuzi grinned, made a bow with his fists, and said, "You're showing off your humiliation."
When he landed on the raft, the hem of his clothes flew up, revealing the gun spike in his lower back. The boss saw it and smiled without saying anything.
Xiao Wuzi knew who was in charge with just one glance, so he stepped forward and bowed to the boss.
The boss asked: "Young man, where are you going?"
Xiaowuzi replied: "Songjiang Bao."
The boss said: "Then you have to remind me to put you down at Yingzuolizi. You go to the northeast and we go to the northwest."
Xiaowuzi said: "Thank you for the tip, I will treat you all to drinks tonight."
When Jiang Luzi heard that there would be wine to drink in the evening, they were all excited.
Drainage is a dangerous and boring job, and most of the Jiang donkeys are just errand boys.
It was hot in summer, so they didn't wear any clothes. They took off their clothes and held up their wooden poles.
When the young ladies and young wives washing clothes by the river saw them, they all turned away with red faces and cursed at them in shame. It caused a roar of laughter from these bachelors.
Floating hooks along the current are tied to the rafts, and big fish can often be caught. Xiaowuzi saw that there were long-handled harpoons lying across the rafts. Since he had nothing to do anyway, he stepped forward to pick up the harpoons and patrolled each raft.
When the raft reached a large body of water, it was mid-afternoon, the hottest time of the day. There are often the backs of big fish swimming against the water, making waves.
The little boy was sunburned to a pulp under the scorching sun, but he remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the water, as if he had turned into a statue on the raft.
When a water wave passed by, Xiao Wuzi suddenly waved his hand and threw the harpoon. The harpoon disappeared in a flash, leaving only half of it trembling slightly on the surface of the water. The rope on the wooden handle gradually tightened and straightened.
The other end had already been tied to the raft. Xiaowuzi stepped forward to pick up the rope and pulled it with his hands. He knew that the fish was not small, weighing at least thirty or forty pounds.
Fish are very powerful in the water. A fish weighing twenty pounds can easily pull a fisherman on the shore into the water.
Fortunately, the rope was tied to the raft in advance, otherwise Xiao Wuzi would have been pulled into the water with this strength.
The two donkeys at the back saw that Xiaowuzi had hooked a big fish, so they hurriedly ran over to help him pull the rope. There were barbs on the harpoon, and the hook was very deep. The fish couldn't escape, and it was only a matter of time before it was pulled up. .
The three of them sneaked around for a full hour before they brought up a big fat-headed fish weighing more than thirty kilograms.
Everyone was so happy that they all said that Xiao Wuzi was really destined. This big fish was an old thief and it was not easy to deal with at all.
When the raft was close to the dark sky, we arrived at a small village by the river, with only about twenty households.
The raft reached the shore, and the donkeys drove down the stakes and tied them with ropes. One person was left to watch while the others entered the village.
Xiaowuzi knew that this must be the dock they often dock at, otherwise they wouldn't be so familiar with the road.
The first house in the village near the river has three adobe houses, owned by a couple in their thirties. Meals have been prepared long ago to ensure that these people can eat as soon as they land.
