The Demon Mausoleum of Western Xia Chapter 2: Peking Again (Part 1)
When we arrived at the herdsman's grandmother's house, I felt very cordial, because his family had a good impression of us before, and all the yaks we put back came back safely. Grandma's family also often talked about our good things. This time we
After not seeing each other for a year, I grabbed my grandma’s hand around the brazier and started chatting while Shangguan Jielong didn’t know what he was doing out there.
When he came back in the evening, he brought back a lot of hares and quietly handed them to my grandma without saying anything. My grandma thought he had a bad tongue and didn't pay much attention to it. Just like that, we ate rabbit meat at night.
We chatted a lot about outside things, including the situation of the entire country, but most of them were hearsay from outside. I dare not say whether they were true or not. Anyway, we had nothing else to talk about, so we just talked about random things.
By the way, in the end, when my mouth was almost cramping, Shangguan Jielong came over to help me and said only two words.
"sleep."
The next day, we reluctantly said goodbye to my grandma and her family, and we rushed to Sichuan according to the route. There are trains in Sichuan, so we don’t have to walk in our province.
As soon as we arrived in Sichuan, the crowds became more and more crowded. Although Japan surrendered and withdrew its troops, 1947 was also the 36th year of the Republic of China, and the country had not yet been unified. Like some remote mountain villages and towns, there would be some local snakes.
Therefore, those who do business generally do not open stores, mainly for fear of being robbed. They drive donkeys, carts, carriages, or carry baskets to parade through the streets. When they see that the limelight is not right, they slither into the alleys, or hide in pre-dug holes.
Nice stack of firewood.
It made me feel very nervous, thinking that in a place like this, the gun barrel has the right to speak. When the bullet casing is ejected, the bullet head does not have eyes. If there is a bloody hole, you can't sit on the ground to rest.
Fortunately, none of us were dressed very well, and we hadn't washed our hair for a long time. Rubba, rubba, rub, rub, rubba, rubba, rubba, it really looked a bit like a beggar, but it was obvious that Shangguan Jielong was not afraid, he just put on his hood
We were pretending to be low-key, because the previous railway track was blown up, so we couldn't find a train station anywhere for a while, so we found a house and took a rest.
This family used to be in the silk and satin business. The boss was a middle-aged woman in her thirties. After seeing so many people here, she seemed to be dressed more cleanly. Now the people's consumption power cannot keep up, and many of them are in the market.
Good silk and satin can only be secretly hidden in the cellar. If we don't sell it, it will soon rot. At first, she thought we were distant merchants, so she kept talking about her goods.
Distant merchants, to put it bluntly, are foot traders who come from far away. They usually lead a team of horses to buy some inventory that cannot be sold locally, and then transport it back to the big cities to sell it. To put it bluntly, they are buying low and selling high, and they are cheating.
Almost less.
Shangguan Jielong didn't want to quarrel with her, so he directly gave her a golden bean, "We are not the distant merchants you mentioned, we were just passing by here. This golden bean is enough for you to earn in a year. I want to hear it now."
The situation on the ground and the situation in the country!”
The boss took a bite with his teeth. When he saw the sunken teeth marks, his eyes shone. He excitedly said in Sichuan accent: "I want it, I want it. There is a snake mountain here, so this place is called Qinglong Town. It is the local town."
The name Overlord came up with on the spur of the moment was called Shibagou in the past. The situation here is very bad. How can I put it, the people are too mixed. A few days ago, a few Japanese women escaped here and were captured by some bandits.
Went there. Those bandits used to be subordinates of an old warlord. I am out of season, otherwise I would have been arrested long ago. But the day before yesterday, I heard that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had broken down and there was going to be another war. There was a group
The army is coming to suppress the bandits, so it will make people panic, and there will inevitably be a hail of bullets." Hotspot Library
Speaking of this, she rolled her eyes and said, "Logically speaking, I don't accept outsiders, but seeing that you are not very familiar with this place, for the time being, you and my family will hide in the cellar. I will serve you three meals a day."
, if you give me another golden bean, it will be settled."
I couldn't make up my mind, so I glanced at Shangguan Jielong and thought to myself that although he didn't speak, he had lived much longer than me. It would be better to leave this matter to him. After listening to what the female boss said, Shangguan Jielong came down from the mountain.
Angry for the first time, he snorted coldly, "Greedy is like a snake swallowing an elephant, and the most poisonous thing is a woman's heart!"
As he spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched the female boss's neck. Before she could react, the female boss rolled her eyes and fell to the ground. Jindouzi also fell to the ground. I was dumbfounded, "Hey! You
Why did she faint? She needs to eat something hot to fill her stomach. Why, do you want to show me your skills? I don’t think you know how to cook!"
He picked up the long leather bag containing the golden sword and carried it on his back, and said in a cold voice: "How dare you eat the food she cooked? I don't know how many times I have seen her look like this. She is not a good person, no."
She just wants to lock us in the cellar and suffocate to death, and then she will collect our golden beans! I have already made this little plan for her, let's go!"
I made a bitter face, thinking that my chest was touching my back, why should I drink some water before leaving? I lowered my head to pick up the golden beans, but he stopped me and said: "Put it down, a gentleman loves his money.
Tao, use it in a proper way, and give it to her."
"No, this snake-hearted person didn't want to kill us just now. You are now a Bodhisattva. How can you show mercy to her?" I picked it up and weighed it in my hands. "I didn't expect you to still have mercy on us!"
There is a golden bean, and the private money is hidden quite deep!"
Shangguan Jielong narrowed his eyes and looked at me and sighed, "I am not showing mercy to her, but if she is full, she will harm many less people. These days, there are many people who starve to death, and people eat
No one is surprised that if you take away this golden bean today, several more lives may need to be taken into the cellar. In the past, many inns also had cellars in their backyards. If they couldn’t afford food and accommodation, they would be locked up and write letters home.
Those who have no money in their families will end up being made into human flesh buns!"
Hearing what he said, I suddenly trembled and threw away the golden beans in my hand. I thought, be good. I thought that the Yunwen Temple was enough to burn my brain cells. I didn't expect that in the outside world, people's hearts are different.
, I didn’t expect that a golden bean could save many lives! I thought that the aura of this female boss seemed to be the backbone of the family. She must have been forced to do so, so she couldn’t help but sigh.
We left Qinglong Town and walked east along the main road. We met some landlubbers driving carts. In this era, landlubbers were a common name for long-distance porters and delivery men in some places in Sichuan. It often had a derogatory meaning because they could
There are basically no people who deliver goods over long distances, but there are still people who can do it, which means that the things pulled on the carriage are not clean. Sometimes they may be firearms from the battlefields of World War II, which are usually bought by bandits who dominate the mountains.
To strengthen the team.
In other cases, they may snatch new wives or little girls from other places and drag them to various places to sell to landowners. In other cases, they may take over the work of collecting dead bodies, but to be honest, landlubbers are also unkind gangsters.
, I didn’t want to ask these people for directions. The sickles hanging on their cars are not something to be trifled with!
But Shangguan Jielong stretched out his hand and blocked their way.
