There was a heavy snowfall last night, and the misty Taiyuan City was covered with a layer of silver.
Pedestrians on the street wrapped themselves in thin clothes and cursed the damn year and the damn weather.
It was already the beginning of spring, but there was such a heavy snowfall again, and the bitter cold days were going to last for a while longer.
Every winter is the most difficult season for the poor. They have no food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies. In recent years, they have been haunted by devils. Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have more than doubled than before, and the ordinary people's lives are miserable. Even sadder.
Xie Tian got up early as in the past two days and walked through the snow on the terrace to exercise.
After three days of treatment, Xie Tian's physical condition is getting better day by day. The fever has completely subsided and the wound infection is under control. This is all thanks to a box of American special medicine brought by Xu Lixin. As for where this medicine came from , Xu Lixin didn’t say anything, Xie Tian didn’t ask, the two of them had a tacit understanding.
Tang Haoer woke up and heard the movement on the terrace. He opened the curtains and saw Xie Tian moving on the terrace. He hurriedly took out a cotton robe and put it on Xie Tian. He scolded: "It's better to go out and get cold when the injury is just right. If you get cold, I’ll see what you do when you’re sick.”
Xie Tian walked to the fence and raised his arms and waved at a Ford car that had just stopped outside the door. The people in that car glanced at Xie Tian on the terrace and drove away.
Tang Haoer looked back at Xie Tian curiously and asked, "Who is in the car?"
Xie Tian smiled indifferently: "It doesn't matter who he is, what's important is that he wants to see me here."
Tang Haoer looked at Xie Tian and asked, "His people?"
Xie Tian nodded and took Tang Haoer's hand and said, "He will be here soon. Maybe you will have few chances to meet in the future. If you want to..."
"I don't want to." Tang Haoer interrupted Xie Tian directly.
Xie Tian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You decide for yourself. After seeing him, we should go back. Today's meeting may be a life-or-death farewell."
Tang Haoer was stunned.
Xie Tian couldn't bear to hug Tang Hao'er tightly and said softly: "I gave him a way out, and I hope he won't make the wrong choice again."
Tang Haoer looked up at Xie Tian. The two looked at each other for a long time before Tang Haoer smiled bitterly and pushed Xie Tian away: "I don't know how you did it. Now I just want to accompany my mother."
Xie Tian kissed Tang Haoer's forehead gently: "Go."
At the Taiyuan Security Headquarters, Tang Jingyao paced back and forth in the office anxiously. From time to time he would go to the window and look at his watch, his face getting darker and darker.
At this time, there was a knock on the office door. Tang Jingyao turned around and shouted, coming in and walking towards his desk.
The adjutant pushed the door in, closed the door, walked to Tang Jingyao and said, "He is still there, and there is no movement among his people."
Tang Jingyao hummed: "Tell the guard company to be on standby."
"Yes." The adjutant straightened his waist. Seeing that Tang Jingyao had no other instructions, he took two steps back, turned around and left quickly.
Tang Jingyao walked to the window again and looked at his watch. The second hand was ticking, which seemed to be wearing away his patience bit by bit.
As the sun rose higher and higher, Tang Jingyao's feeling of being played as a fool became more and more intense. He finally couldn't bear it anymore and strode out of the office. He told the adjutant with a dark face: "Call the guard company and follow me. "
Three Fords and two trucks drove out of the Garrison Headquarters compound. The trucks were filled with soldiers from the Guard Company of the Puppet Army Garrison Headquarters with swords and sticks. Five vehicles went straight to Dayanglou.
Pedestrians on the road fled when they saw this. These days, no one who is a soldier can be offended. Japanese soldiers will kill people, white dogs will beat people, and some unclaimed soldiers will bully people.
Originally, the people would avoid it when they saw such a large group of white dogs coming out. However, when Tang Jingyao's motorcade arrived at the intersection turning towards Dayanglou, it was blocked by the crowd of people on the road.
Seeing the people covering their eyes and looking up at the sky, Tang Jingyao was startled and hurriedly opened the car door and got out of the car, looking up at the sky.
In the sky, a round of day was being swallowed up by a black shadow. The day had turned into a half-moon, and the sky was gradually getting darker, like dusk.
"Tengu swallows the sun," the adjutant exclaimed beside him, but he did not notice that Tang Jingyao's face had already turned pale and his body was still trembling slightly.
In this era when technology has not been popularized, ordinary people have always believed that a solar eclipse is a sign of a heavenly dog swallowing the sun, which is a sign of great misfortune and indicates that the world will undergo great changes.
On the terrace of Dayang Building, Xu Xiuzhen and Tang Haoer were also covering the sun with one hand and looking up at the strange phenomenon in the sky.
Xie Tian walked up behind Tang Haoer, took out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket and put them on Tang Haoer.
Tang Haoer looked back at Xie Tian in surprise: "When did you prepare the sunglasses?"
Xie Tian smiled and said: "I just asked Tiedan to buy it for me two days ago. I saw a lot of people in the provincial town wearing sunglasses and they looked cool, so I bought one out of curiosity to play with. I didn't expect to use it today. Do you like it? Like it. If so, I will take you to an optical shop to choose a suitable one later."
Tang Haoer stared at Xie Tian suspiciously, with disbelief written all over his face.
Do you think that wearing sunglasses is cool and distracting because all your family and country affairs are on your mind?
It would be weird to believe you.
Although the Chinese have been able to accurately predict solar eclipses since the Han Dynasty, a few people still paid attention to the celestial phenomena in this era of war and chaos.
Fortunately, Xie Tian remembered it and made use of this total solar eclipse, which was also recorded in history books.
As the eclipse progresses, it gets darker and darker.
When the sun is completely blocked, the sky is dark and the earth is dark.
Panic spread silently, and some ignorant people knelt down in the street and kowtowed to the sky in prayer.
Suddenly a voice came out from the noisy crowd: "Tengu swallows the sun, doesn't this day refer to the Japanese devils? God is angry, and the little devil is about to die."
At first, this voice was just a murmur among the common people, but as a result, many people responded, and it soon spread and became the common people's explanation for this heavenly vision.
As the first ray of sunlight penetrated the darkness and projected down, the entire Taiyuan City burst into cheers.
The heavenly dog swallows the sun, and the gods show their power and want to swallow the Japanese devils.
Jinyang Lake Peach Blossom Island, the First North China Army Headquarters of the Japanese-Chinese Expeditionary Force, as the total solar eclipse gradually receded, Yoshio Shinozuka withdrew his eyes with lingering thoughts, a rare smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, looked at Inoue Tree and said: "I didn't expect that in China We can also see a total solar eclipse, which indicates that the Japanese Empire will definitely swallow up the entire China. Please make arrangements. I will entertain all the generals in Taiyuan tonight, and call those Chinese people too, and we will celebrate together. one time."
At Dayanglou, Xie Tian also welcomed his long-awaited guest, his father-in-law and Lao Tzu, whom he did not want to recognize, and Tang Jingyao, the garrison commander of the Northwest Appeasement Army of the Wang Puppet Government.
It was just that Tang Jingyao looked like he was out of his mind. He didn't even pay attention to Xu Xiuzhen who came up to him. He directly asked Xie Tian, who was expressionless and cold, "Can I come to your study to talk?"
