Ma Laosan's eyes lit up, he took a few steps forward, grabbed Jiang Xinyu's arm, and said in a trembling voice, "Do you know my daughter?"
Jiang Xinyu nodded and said, "I know you. She asked me to find you."
"Where is she? How is she doing?" Ma Laosan asked eagerly.
"She is now in Yanjin, living a good life, and is married."
Ma Laosan murmured: "That's good, that's good. I finally let go of my worry."
He turned around, took out a roll of quilt from the shack, and walked slowly outside the mountain gate.
Jiang Xinyu followed him and said, "Uncle Ma, where are you going?"
“I won’t live here anymore.”
"Lanhua hopes you can go to Yanjin, she wants to meet you."
Ma Laosan stood on the steps in front of the mountain gate, sighed and said, "I feel relieved that she is doing well, so I won't go to Yanjin."
"Why?"
"Because I have something big to do!" Ma Laosan's cloudy eyes suddenly revealed a murderous intent.
Jiang Xinyu looked at him and said, "I heard that you are working as a handyman in the Japanese military camp?"
"Who did you listen to?"
"Mao Dan."
Ma Laosan grinned and said, "No wonder you found the Chenghuang Temple. I forgot to ask you, what is your name?"
"My surname is Jiang."
"Mr. Jiang, thank you for coming all the way to see me. Please tell Lan Hua that her father is dead!"
After saying this, Ma Laosan strode downwards.
Jiang Xinyu followed him and advised: "Uncle Ma, Lanhua didn't blame you for selling her back then. Don't feel burdened."
Ma Laosan suddenly stopped and said, "Mr. Jiang, can I ask you something?"
"What's the matter? Tell me."
Ma Laosan looked around and whispered: "Can you help me buy some arsenic?"
Jiang Xinyu's eyes flashed and he said, "Do you know what arsenic is?"
"Why don't you know, Pan Jinlian gave Wu Dalang something to drink."
"Why don't you buy it yourself?"
"I went there yesterday, and the person at the drug store asked me what I was buying arsenic for. If he couldn't tell me, he wouldn't sell it to me."
"If I don't sell it to you, can I sell it to me?"
"You look like a polite person. If you just tell me a use, the drugstore will sell it to you. People nowadays look down on others."
"What did you buy arsenic for?"
Ma Laosan looked away and said, "Well, there are a lot of rats in the kitchen. I am here to poison the rats."
Jiang Xinyu thought for a while and said: "No, you didn't buy arsenic to poison rats, but to kill people!"
Ma Laosan said in a panic: "Look at you, you are talking nonsense. How can I have the guts to kill people and not help?"
Jiang Xinyu said calmly: "You can't hide this kind of thing from me. You want to poison the Japanese soldiers' food to avenge your dead wife!"
Ma Laosan looked at Jiang Xinyu in shock and stammered: "You, what on earth are you doing?"
Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter what I do, just tell me whether my guess is right or not!"
Ma Laosan remained silent, carrying the quilt and walking forward.
Jiang Xinyu said: "Let me remind you, even if you buy arsenic, you can't do this!"
Ma Laosan couldn't help but turned around and asked, "Why?"
Jiang Xinyu walked up to him and said solemnly: "Uncle Ma, do you really want to poison the Japanese soldiers?"
Ma Laosan said angrily: "Did you just deceive me?"
"It's not a lie. As long as I know about your family, I will think of it in that way. You said you want to poison rats, how can there be any use of arsenic to poison rats?"
Now that his thoughts were exposed, Ma Laosan simply stopped hiding it.
He said bitterly: "My family is ruined now. If I didn't kill a few little devils, would I still be a man!"
Jiang Xinyu said: "Thankfully I came in time and found out about this."
Ma Laosan stared at Jiang Xinyu warily and said, "What do you mean? Are you going to sue me?"
"Sue you? I'm saving you!"
Seeing that Ma Laosan was confused, Jiang Xinyu said, "Let me ask you first, how many people are there in your kitchen?"
"more than ten."
"Are they all Japanese?"
"yes."
"More than a dozen pairs of eyes are staring at you, Uncle Ma. I'm not looking down on you. Just because of your method, someone has to press the arsenic there before you can even take it out!"
Ma Laosan was silent for a long time, threw the quilt at his feet, sat down on it, and said in frustration: "That means that this revenge cannot be avenged!"
Jiang Xinyu advised: "You'd better go to Yanjin with me, why waste your life here!"
Ma Laosan said stubbornly: "If I don't kill these two little devils, I will feel sorry for Lady Orchid!"
Jiang Xinyu shook his head helplessly, opened his suitcase, took out the gold bar, and said, "Lanhua said, if you don't go to Yanjin, I will give you this gold bar."
Ma Laosan shook his head and said, "I can't take the gold bars. Tell Lanhua to take care of herself."
Jiang Xinyu had no choice. Ma Laosan insisted not to give it, and he couldn't force it on him.
"Well, I'll stay overnight at the Wanshun Hotel opposite the station. If you want to go, just come to me before noon tomorrow."
After riding the train for several days in a row, Jiang Xinyu felt very tired and had to have a good night's rest. Anyway, he had enough time and it would not be too late to leave tomorrow.
Ma Laosan hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Jiang, can you tell me about orchids?"
Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "Okay, but let's not talk here. You haven't eaten, right? I haven't eaten either. Let's chat while eating. Do you think it's okay?"
"Medium, mediocre." Ma Laosan happily picked up the quilt and followed Jiang Xinyu into a restaurant.
Jiang Xinyu ordered a few dishes and boiled a pot of Laobaigan wine.
Ma Laosan asked many questions, including how his daughter came to be here all these years, what kind of person she married, and what his character and family background were like. He asked Jiang Xinyu in detail.
Jiang Xinyu did not mention that Xiao Taohong was sold into a brothel, but only said that she was adopted by a good family.
Ma Laosan sighed and kept wiping his tears.
Jiang Xinyu said casually: "Uncle Ma, what kind of work do you do in the military camp?"
"Chopping firewood to make fires, helping to transport sailors and carts, whatever, they do everything. The little devils don't regard us Chinese as human beings at all."
Jiang Xinyu asked strangely: "What kind of arms are the water transport soldiers?"
"We drilled a well in our camp. Because the water quality is very good, the nearby troops sent vehicles to pull water. Sometimes when the car got stuck near the well and had to be pushed out, I called those who pulled water water soldiers.
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Jiang Xinyu's heart moved slightly and said: "Oh? They are all the same land. How can the water quality be distinguished from good to bad? Where is the well?"&1t;nn