In the middle of the night, people suddenly screamed, and many people came. It was noisy outside, but the two brothers didn't get up and continued to sleep.
Xiaowuzi couldn't sleep because of the noise outside. He knew from the tone of the people outside that this group of people were bearded, but these people were too courageous. Shuangyang was the county seat in the Qing Dynasty. Although the Japanese moved the county seat to Yitong County in the west this year, there is still a police force here. Why did this group of people blatantly live in a big car shop and show off their power like this, without fear that the Japanese would wipe them out?
Anyway, it wasn't a good thing. Xiaowuzi felt that sense of crisis again, so he woke up Erniu. The two brothers got dressed and tidied up quickly, and walked out of the big car shop before dawn.
It was frosty in the middle of the night. There was a layer of frost on the tiles on the street. Even the millstones of the tofu shop with the lights on were frosty. Xiaowuzi and Erniu didn't go far, so they sat in the tofu shop. After sitting down, I ordered two bowls of steaming tofu puffs, and drank them slowly to get rid of the cold air of early winter.
When the sky in the east turned white, Xiaowuzi and Erniu had already finished a bowl of tofu to warm themselves up. When they were about to get up, they heard crackling gunshots from a large car shop not far away. There are all kinds of guns, which further confirms Xiao Wuzi's guess.
The two brothers approached the battlefield cautiously, only to see a group of Manchukuo security troops, all wearing khaki military uniforms and big-brimmed hats, surrounding the big car shop outside and exchanging shots with the beards inside. They all found houses or earthen walls as bunkers, and would hide once a shot was fired, never showing their heads.
When Xiao Wuzi looked at their fighting methods, he must have turned out to be Hu Zi, using the same fighting method. The people inside did not come out, but occasionally fired a shot from the crack in the door or the wall.
Seeing that both sides had no effect, they simply stopped fighting. Someone from the security forces outside pulled his neck and shouted: "Tong Sihuzi, I am Lao Scara. You are surrounded. As long as you surrender, Chief Ono said, How about letting bygones be bygones and giving you a job as an official? Stop resisting and kill as many of our old brothers as you want."
Someone inside also shouted: "Brother Scara, it's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't trust the Japanese. I surrendered once and my family was ruined inside and outside. Ask Xiaoye, how can he promise not to kill me?"
Then I heard a Japanese shouting in fluent Chinese: "Tong, I promise not to kill you."
But the people inside were silent, and they didn't know what they were studying. After a while, the Japanese became impatient and gave Lao Scar a death order to attack, attack at all costs.
So, the security forces all took out grenades. These grenades were all wooden-handled grenades produced by the Northeast Arsenal.
Lao Scar gave an order, and the grenade flew into the yard of the big car shop. There was a rumbling explosion and the screams of the people who were bombed.
Erniu was about to rush out, but was held back by Xiao Wuzi, who whispered in his ear: "The guys inside are not good people. They surrendered to the Japanese and killed our people."
When Xiao Wuzi heard Lao Scar shouting just now, he understood that it was Tong Sihuzi inside, because he was the one who tortured Liu Erdou to death.
Before Liu Erdou died, he told Xiao Wuzi to be careful of this person, and Xiao Wuzi remembered this person's name at that time.
At this time, the attack outside had begun to bear fruit. The security forces had already begun to rush towards the gate, but six or seven of them were knocked down by a wave of bullets and retreated.
The people inside are all old bandits, and their marksmanship is very good. They almost hit every target with one shot.
Ono became anxious and pulled out his command knife, asking Lao Scar to lead the attack again. If he couldn't attack, he would kill him. Lao Scar had no choice but to concentrate the grenades of his brothers, and then there was another wave of swishing sounds and rumbling explosions. There were casualties inside again. Lao Scar had a total of fifty or sixty men. He had lost about ten in the previous wave. This time he was really anxious and told them that they could not retreat. Anyone who retreated would be shot.
When they rushed to the gate again, another large wave of bullets came over them. This time the losses were even greater, with only about twenty people standing. Old Scar was also anxious, threw out all the grenades in his hand, and then rushed towards the door with his gun raised.
There were explosions and intensive gunfire.
When there were only about a dozen people standing outside, the people inside finally shouted for surrender. Then, seven or eight people walked out with their hands raised high.
The leader was a tall, thin man with a fierce look on his face.
After they all walked out of the door, they were surrounded in a fan shape. Ono shouted in Chinese from behind: "Shoot."
The security forces really hated this group of people and opened fire immediately after hearing the order. Bang bang bang bang, the person who had surrendered collapsed to the ground like an empty dough bag.
At this moment, two grenades flew from not far away and exploded over the crowd. Old Scarla reacted the fastest. As soon as the explosion sounded, he turned around and ran away. There were three or four people who were not hit by the explosion. He ran away with him, leaving Ono alone.
It turned out that Xiaowuzi and Erniu had already come over and found two grenades on the fallen security forces. They originally planned to wait for the people inside to break out and cooperate with them to eliminate this group of security forces. Unexpectedly, they surrendered, and then were tricked by Xiao Nizi. Then the grenade was thrown, catching them off guard.
Xiao Ye was confused at that time. He didn't expect Lao Scar and the others to dare to abandon him and run away.
When he reached out to pull out the tortoise box, "bang bang." Two shots were fired, one in his head and one in his heart.
Ono said nothing and turned over and fell to the ground.
Xiaowuzi and Erniu picked out a few good guns among the dead people and collected a lot of bullets. Then they went into the big car shop, led two horses, put everything on the horses and rode away from the small county town. .
There were too many things and they knew they couldn't take them, so they had to pick out some. Erniu finally took Ono's saber. There are many innocent people in the big car shop, and many people have been killed and injured. Leave the mess to them! Who told them to catch up?
The two brothers traveled all the way south. Along the way, the younger brother taught Er Niu how to ride a horse. Er Niu was the kind of person who had a lot of talent, and his brain was actually very useful, but he was just too lazy to use it.
Not bad. When the two of them approached Dalizi Mountain, Erniu was basically able to beat the horse and run quickly.
When they asked around and finally found the Guzi Temple, it was already snowing, and they had to do it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be difficult to dig as soon as the soil froze.
When the soil in the Northeast reaches thirty-nine days old, dig a hole with a sharp pick. It can't be dug at all.
The two brothers bought two shovels and picks in a village, put them in sacks and carried them on the horse.
The Guzi Temple is at the foot of the mountain, with no other people around, and is a small, lonely courtyard. The two went up to the door and knocked for a long time before an old nun came out.
The old nun is in her 40s. Her face is wrinkled and powdered. She smiles straight down. She wears a gray cotton-padded jacket with large sleeves. She pretends to be a fly slinger in the middle of winter.
When I came out, I saw Xiao Wuzi wearing shabby clothes. I didn't look down on him, so I opened my mouth and asked, "Gaha Di?"
Xiaowuzi didn't want to talk nonsense to her, so he took out ten yuan and gave it to her, and asked: "Is there anything to eat? I'm hungry. Hurry up."
The old nun took the money, stretched out her hands and looked at it again and again, and then said with a smile: "Come in, there are tofu and some frozen cabbage. Let's boil it in a pot, and some sorghum rice to make dry rice, okay?"
The two of them entered the courtyard. The small courtyard was not big, and there were three main rooms and a large hall, in which Guanshiyin Bodhisattva was enshrined. There are three rooms on each side, and a large stone incense burner in the center of the courtyard.
The Guzi Temple has little popularity these days, so the two nuns turned the temple into a restaurant, hotel, and brothel.
The two young men were really good at eating each other. One pot of sorghum rice and one pot of tofu soup were left unfinished.
In the evening, when the kang was lit and the two were about to sleep, someone knocked on the window outside. The younger nun asked outside, "Does the guest need an extra mattress?"
Just as Er Niu was about to open his mouth, Xiao Wuzi covered his mouth and turned to the outside and said, "No, we have something to do. We'll get up early and leave early tomorrow."
There was no sound outside, and I heard the footsteps coming back. Xiaowuzi let go of his hand, and Erniu asked: "Aren't you rich? Wouldn't it be warmer to add a mattress?"
Xiaowuzi said angrily: "Shut up and go to sleep."
This Erlengzi cannot be explained yet.
Erniu stared at Xiaowuzi with a puzzled look on his face, and then murmured in a low voice: "Don't let anyone talk anymore. It's like a warlord. You don't know who your brother is?"
The next day, when the two brothers got up, they saw the younger nun clumsy and clumsy using a small ax to chop firewood. Erniu went over to use the small ax to help her chop the firewood out three times.
Xiaowuzi asked the old nun on the stove, how much is the value of your temple? It's better to sell it and find some way to make a living.
The old nun said: "It's not about money. Who would buy a temple? I hope to sell it. In this world, even monks can't survive!"
Xiaowuzi nodded and said no more. After breakfast, Xiaowuzi gave the old nun another ten yuan and said, "We are going into the mountains. We may come back in the evening and we may go hunting. Can you eat meat?"
The old nun accepted the money and thanked her profusely. She clasped her hands and said, "Eating meat is a sin, but starving to death is also a sin. Those who can stutter can survive. So we have no more precepts to uphold!"
Although the old nun is a philistine, there is wisdom in her words.
Xiaowuzi took Erniu out. They walked far away and walked around in the mountains before coming back. When they came back, the two brothers got a rabbit each.
Following the direction given by Liu Erdou, they found the big tree with the magpie's nest. While there was no one in the forest on a snowy day, the two brothers picked up a spade and a pickaxe and started digging.
Not bad, because it was the first snow and the soil hadn't frozen yet, so digging was as easy as in the summer.
The two brothers dug a big hole under the tree and revealed a wooden coffin with white stubble. Er Niu was a little surprised, but Xiao Wuzi took it lightly, because this was the basic deception trick of Guandong Beard.
After prying open the coffin, Xiaowuzi understood why Tong Sihuzi tortured his old brother Liu Erdou to death.
