The rich man who came was none other than someone else.
It was Tantai Yunshu, Tang Dao's future father-in-law.
Since the old man separated from his daughter last time, he and his old family members have been running all the way. He arranged for three hundred advanced students to wait for Tang Dao to pick them up, and then took the train south without stopping for a moment.
After working hard in Jiangxia and collecting enough money, I took the train again and arrived in Henan Province. From there, I boarded a military train bound for Northern Jiangsu.
Thanks to Tantai Yunshu's wide network of friends, he can get a pass and get care wherever he goes based on his connections. Otherwise, he would not be able to board a train transporting soldiers and play this kind of game upstream just because he is a professor at Jinling University.
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He came to Xuzhou for only one purpose, to give money to Tang Dao!
Tantai Yunshu is a man of his word, and he will definitely give Tang Dao a reward.
The Tantai family is a big family, with nearly 200 members. Except for a few dozen people who stayed in their hometown to look after the ancestral property, the rest have evacuated. Basically, the whole family has moved south.
Two hundred people need food, drink, shelter, and a new foothold in their place of residence. This expense is of course huge. Even if the Tantai family was originally wealthy, it would no longer be possible for them to spend hundreds of thousands of silver as they could before.
Tang Dao also knew this, but he obviously still didn't understand enough about his future father-in-law's affection for licking calves.
In order to support his daughter, a certain old father-in-law went all out and even sold some of his favorite paintings and antiques. He rushed to Laotantai of the 67th Army Liaison Office in Xuzhou City after a long journey, and the first thing he said when he saw Tang Dao was
: "I'm here to fulfill my promise, this is for you!'
The second sentence is: "I'm starving to death, you kid, hurry up and get me some food."
What the family members handed to Tang Dao was a suitcase he was carrying. Tang Dao didn't have time to feel the weight of the suitcase to judge what was inside, so he asked Master Zhuang to collect it on his behalf and hurried to the liaison office.
's kitchen.
Tang Dao rarely goes to the kitchen.
It's not that he can't, it's that he has no chance at all.
In his previous life, when he was in the army, he ate in the canteen, and in the battlefield, he ate fast food and dry food. In this life, he was either on the battlefield or on the way to the battlefield. Almost all his energy was focused on how to kill the Japanese. What would happen?
What to eat according to your mood.
But looking at the originally elegant and graceful Lao Tantai, who was covered in dust, with a tired face and a lot of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, Tang Dao could tell that this old man had traveled a lot in the past month in order to fulfill his so-called promise.
, how much hardship I suffered.
Even if he is not Tantai Mingyue's father or future father-in-law, Tang Dao will be grateful to the old man for treating him like this. He cannot give him any other Jiangnan green onion noodles that suit his taste.
There were no noodles at this time, and the noodles had to be rolled first. Fortunately, Tang Dao also had a chief of staff from Songjiang.
Even though Zhuang Shisan was once a local security battalion commander who basically made money as his mission, no one could have guessed that this man also had the exquisiteness of Songhu people, not to mention his good hand at rolling and slicing noodles.
The ones are also extremely fine, and each one is about the same thickness. Judging from the appearance alone, it is extremely good. Juebi is a good man living a good life.
"Damn it, Lao Zhuang, your sister-in-law must be very happy with this skill of yours!" Tang Dao was extremely surprised by the unusual ability displayed by his partner.
"Hehe! It makes everyone laugh. We Songjiang people can act like uncles when we are outside, but we will never act like big heads at home. It was obviously Shi Rang who caught fire in the backyard! Maybe everyone in the group will be better at cooking than me in the future." Master Zhuang laughed casually.
road.
No wonder men in Songhu will buy groceries and cook in the future. This tradition is quite old. The key is to have a clear understanding of family status.
As for Zhuang Shisan teasing that he would marry a delicate Jiangnan woman as his wife in the future and eventually become a man who cooks for his wife, Tang Dao also laughed.
Shi Qi was in such a bad environment when he was in a coma, and Tang Dao didn't smell any peculiar smell on his body when he woke up. This shows how meticulously Tantai Mingyue took care of him, and how much he could not repay his affection.
If the day comes to welcome peace, Tang Dao is willing to put down his sword and gun and build a small house with a yard in the countryside.
There are flowers and plants in the yard, and Hammer will take his little dogs to take up the responsibility of guarding the house again. While he and Tantai Mingyue are busy farming, in their free time they make tea, read, spank the children, and cook for his wife and children.
Cooking doesn’t feel so good.
Perhaps no one would be surprised that Captain Tang, who was so cold and ruthless on the battlefield, had the biggest dream in life that he revolved around his wife and children.
In fact, the more you experience the cruelty of the battlefield, the more you know the value of peace and tranquility. Tang Dao, who has lived in two generations, has experienced more battlefields than anyone here, and he longs for peace even more.
However, as a little butterfly coming out of the sky, he knows better that all peace is achieved with fists, never with mercy.
A humble wanderer who even barks at the watchdog!
For Jiangnan's chopped green onion noodles, first cook the noodles, add a few drops of sesame oil, remove the noodle soup, then put the noodles into a bowl with seasonings, then sprinkle with chopped green onions, heat the sesame oil in the pot, and finally add
Pour the hot oil over the chopped green onions and stir, and a steaming bowl of fresh and delicious chopped green onion noodles is ready.
The old man, who was already hungry and drinking tea, his eyes glowing green, saw the taste of his hometown that he had not seen for a long time, and there was still a little bit of the reserve of a great painter or poet? He took three mouthfuls of it and finished the whole bowl in less than thirty seconds.
Fortunately, Tang Dao knew that he must be very hungry, so he specially made two more bowls of noodles, for a total of five bowls of noodles. The old man only ate three bowls of noodles, while his family members who had been his school boy since childhood only ate two.
The bowl stopped on his own initiative, and he looked at his master, who had never suffered much before, with tears in his eyes, working hard to cook.
Seeing Tang Dao, a straight man like Tang Dao, his nose was slightly sour. He knew that this was not embarrassment, but that Lao Tantai, who had no regard for his manners in front of him, had completely accepted him as the man who was snatching away his little cotton-padded jacket.
It's really not easy to be an old father. Tang Dao doesn't know if he will be so calm if he encounters such a thing in the future.
Maybe, he will beat that thief first? This is extremely possible. As long as there are no accidents, Tang Dao can guarantee that his combat power will still remain at its peak even if he is over fifty.
Obviously, someone who has never been a father is blind.
When the time comes when he becomes a father, he will have no choice but to be just like the man in front of him.
"You're good at cooking. I feel very comfortable eating this noodle! Burp!" Lao Tantai burped contentedly and tilted Tang Dao who was sitting beside him. "Aren't you curious how much I paid you?
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"Hey, how can I not be curious? You are always in front of me, why don't I open the box directly? I'm afraid that my eyes will glow with gold and scare you, right?" Tang Dao said with a smile.
"Hmph! You're so sweet and clever, why do I feel that you don't like it, are you afraid that opening it in front of me for just a few hundred dollars will embarrass both of you?" Tantai Yunshu snorted coldly, but the corners of his mouth were raised proudly.
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Taking a look at the arrogant old Tantai, Tang Dao couldn't help but feel a little more curious.
The suitcase is not that big, at most it is about the size of a small suitcase from the future. If it is full of large yellow croakers, it is probably worth a lot of money.
But that is obviously unrealistic. How can two middle-aged people who are over 60 years old have the strength to carry it for two thousand miles? But if it is not a large yellow croaker, how much money can be packed in this suitcase? Even ten thousand oceans can't be loaded!
But even if it were ten thousand oceans, even though it was a lot, he would never let Lao Tantai, who had seen the world, show such a posture!
At Tang Dao's signal, Zhuang Shisan opened the small copper lock that locked the suitcase with the key handed over by his family, opened the zipper, and a pile of colorful banknotes appeared in front of several people.
Beautiful knife!
Tang Dao's eyes suddenly opened wide
As the most widely circulated currency in the future world, Tang Dao has of course seen the US sword countless times. Although the color of the US sword is slightly different at this time and the future, the image of the character on the US sword has never changed.
The number displayed on the U.S. knife is 10. If nothing else, a stack of 100 U.S. dollars worth 1,000 U.S. dollars. Even if you don’t need to count them in detail, there are at least twenty piles here, which means they are worth more than 20,000 U.S. dollars.
According to the current exchange rate, this is almost equivalent to nearly 100,000 silver dollars.
"Hey, to make it easier to carry, I went to all the major banks in Jiangxia and exchanged yellow croakers and oceans for hard currency like U.S. dollars. Don't look at it too much, but there are a total of twenty-four thousand U.S. dollars here! How about it? Is it enough to pay?
Did you give me the reward for those students who went north?" Looking at Tang Dao and Master Zhuang looking at each other with horrified eyes, Tantai Yunshu said with a hint of satisfaction. He gave the number.
The reward of giving away nearly 100,000 yuan at a time is almost astronomical anywhere. Let alone a mere 300 people, even 3,000 people are enough.
The moment Zhuang Shisan looked at Captain Tang Da, his eyes were full of envy and envy.
It’s okay to have a rich father-in-law, but having a rich and generous father-in-law is the key!
"Why, I'm so envious! Not only am I a handsome young man, but I can also make scallion noodles!" Tang Dao glanced back at his chief of staff.
But obviously, Captain Tang Da, who was striding forward, was even more excited than Zhuang Shisan. He tightly held the hand of the proud Lao Tantai and howled: "Dad, you are my biological father!"
Lao Tantai trembled!
I almost slapped Tang Dao on Minato's shameless face.
In fact, it is easy for the old father to turn to those not-so-good aspects.
What, is the raw rice cooked?
This means that Lao Tantai is the one who holds the paintbrush, but if he is a Baji master like Lao Han, no matter how good the Tang sword is, the cliff will be delivered with a dragon grip.
"Uncle, don't get me wrong, I'm just using stone to express my excitement! There are words unique to our hometown!'
Also, Tang Dao had to react quickly. He could instantly feel the murderous aura of a certain old man!
The people of Sichuan Province expressed their dissatisfaction. I am not as wretched as your children.
"I'm so embarrassed. With the money you gave me, I can pay military salaries to the soldiers, and the families of those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country can finally receive pensions." Tang Dao had tears in his eyes.
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"You are also the leader of the regiment, so you can't be so carried away and make people laugh! In addition, before you two are married, please don't yell!" Tantai Yunshu's face improved a lot, and he taught the future with a straight face.
son in law.
"Yes, yes, uncle, you are right!" Tang's knife was like pounding garlic.
"Haha! Okay! Someone was able to subdue this daring Monkey King. Lao Tantai, Lao Wu are really envious of you for giving birth to a beautiful daughter!" A burst of heroic laughter sounded outside the door.
With laughter, Comrade Lao Wu entered from outside the door.
Seeing the smile as bright as a flower on his face, it was obvious that he was very happy about the Tang Dao being defeated.
"What? With you, Uncle Wu, looking after you, what kind of tricks can this kid make?" Tantai Yunshu was very perceptive, but he heard that his old friend was connoting his future son-in-law.
"Hey, your good son-in-law gave the 20th Legion a show of strength as soon as he came to Xuzhou City. Good guy, he led a cavalry platoon with sabers and charged at dozens of guns! Don't you think he is audacious?" Old Wu
Comrade smiled and put eye drops on Tang Dao.
"Oh? There is such a thing. What's the cause and effect?" Lao Tantai's face became solemn, but he continued to ask.
Comrade Lao Wu impartially told his old friend the cause and effect.
For this army commander, telling Tang Dao to be "black" was actually just a hope that Tang Dao would be restrained a little bit.
But he knew that when he told Tang Dao these things, Tang Dao would probably go in the left ear and out the right ear. Everyone has their own moral standards and persistence. Tang Dao's characteristic of not being afraid of power was very pleasing to him, but he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
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There are many injustices in this world. Today, he may be a bastard like the 20th Army, but what if he is a group army-level general in the future? Lao Tantai's identity is a bit subtle, especially for Tang Dao, it is completely
The elders, no matter how you say Tang Dao, you have to bite the bullet and listen to the teachings.
"Okay! Tang Dao, what you did has won my heart. It's not in vain that I traveled thousands of miles to send you military supplies!" Tantai Yunshu roared with all his strength. "As a soldier, you should be treated as an outsider."
Resist the bandits and eradicate the evil spirits from within! You should do the same thing next time you encounter something like this!'
Comrade Lao Wu.
Did I say something wrong? I always feel like the clown is actually me!
With the twenty-four thousand U.S. dollars from Lao Tantai, Tang Dao finally became wealthy again.
This time, Tang Dao was not stingy at all, and gave each of the two commanders of the 67th Army and the 59th Army two thousand US dollars.
Of course, the two army commanders could not ask for money from their younger brothers, but Tang Dao's words forced them to accept it.
"Two officers and elder brothers, although Tang Dao is brave on the battlefield, he is still young after all. Many people are not yet mature and smooth. He has offended many powerful people intentionally or unintentionally. Although Tang Dao has never regretted it, many constraints have also made Tang Dao very annoyed.
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Tang Daoshi is an extremely pure soldier, but Tang Dao also knows that there are many difficulties in such a world and system. Fortunately, Tang Dao has met the two of you and commander Guo, who are like brothers. He can ignore Tang Dao's recklessness and do it for him.
There is a darkness on Tang Dao's back that Tang Dao cannot withstand. Tang Dao regards it as a blessing to be in this world.
Tang Dao had no way to repay him, so he could only borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha, and transfer the funds to the military headquarters of his two brothers. Because I know that both brothers are honest officials and do not have much personal savings. However, in the midst of this war, the soldiers need rewards.
, even if the soldiers have a desire to serve the country, there is no need to encourage them, but those soldiers who died for their country did not just pop out of a rock. Behind them, they had parents, wives and children to support. Two thousand US dollars is equivalent to eight thousand silver oceans, which is only enough to kill more than a hundred soldiers.
Please accept the pension from the two officers!" It was extremely rare for Tang Dao to reveal his true feelings in front of two military commanders who were more than twice his age.
This is also what Tang Dao is thinking.
Despite his bravery and wisdom, he created miracles on the battlefield again and again. The number of Japanese soldiers who died under his command was at least thousands. However, without the full support of Guo and Wu, the troops he led would not be able to defeat the enemy.
With more than a hundred soldiers, he could do nothing but use his Tang Sword with three heads and six arms to face the rolling torrent of tens of thousands of Japanese troops!
Those who really led those victories were actually two commanders who dared to trust completely, which required enough wisdom and a heart to fight. Even if Tang Dao knew that they had gone through this in the long river of history, Tang Dao had close contact with them.
I learned more about the rareness of these commanders who left their names in the great Anti-Japanese War.
They may all have some shadow of the old warlords and the old army, and they firmly defend their own power camp, but they all have a patriotic heart, and when faced with the Japanese invaders who invaded the country, they put aside their persistence and fought bravely without hesitation.
This is infinitely better than some people.
And what Tang Dao said about the darkness behind the few people who fought for him is even more true. Without the cover of the commanders of the 43rd Army, 67th Army and even the 59th Army who later joined, it would have been easy to show off the carriages and horses in Xuzhou City.
In the scene that the 20th Legion did, Tang Dao could guarantee that the narrow-minded general named Tang would be waiting for his Four Elements Regiment somewhere during his march.
After all, he was ordered to march north, and his marching trajectory could not escape the sight of the man whose hands and eyes could reach the sky.
"Okay! Since you said so, brother, I will accept it as the eldest brother!" Seeing that Tang Dao had already said so, Commander Zhang no longer refused.
From the perspective of this chivalrous military commander, since they are brothers, they should not be too external.
What's more, Tang Dao also has a father-in-law who can sell paintings for money!
Comrade Lao Wu was also very pleased at this moment. He only helped Tang Dao because of Tang Dao's ability to kill enemies, but he had never received any reward from Tang Dao. Never before had Tang Dao been so thoughtful.
He had already treated Tang Dao like a nephew, but he became even closer.
And Tantai Yunshu watched Tang Dao easily give away the funds he had worked hard to raise by selling off part of his family's property and sent it from afar, but he was not annoyed at all. Instead, he stroked his long beard with great satisfaction.
This guy Tang Dao needs to be talented and handsome, and he needs to be a good match for his little cotton-padded jacket, but only sometimes! He occasionally makes some jaw-dropping and fresh words, which makes people who have always been traditional and conservative
Lao Tantai was a little unhappy.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with those words, it’s that you’re already the commander of a regiment, and you’re still so unstable. How can you become a general in the future?
But what Tang Dao said just now, and the gifts he gave were reasonable and affectionate, showed that Tang Dao was actually mature beyond his years, and Lao Tantai naturally felt more at ease.
Money is nothing, it’s not enough, I’ll just sell a few more paintings! The old father who felt happy was slightly swollen at the moment.
Collecting in the golden age of troubled times, paintings were not so easy to sell at this time.
Tang Dao had 20,000 U.S. dollars in his hands, which completely made up for the regiment's deficit at this time, not to mention a lot of rich funds. However, the U.S. dollars at this time were hard currency but not circulating currency. Finding a suitable
Merchants can exchange it, but when ordinary people take it out, small merchants and hawkers don't recognize it. If it is given to officers and soldiers and sent back to their hometowns, they will either be cheated by unscrupulous merchants or they will not use it.
Through the munitions officer at the 67th Army Liaison Office, I asked the current bank exchange rate between US dollars and oceans. The official exchange rate was only 1:3. However, Tang Dao remembered that the exchange ratio should be close to 4 at this time. There was a difference of 20,000 oceans.
After all, it was better to ask Lu Sanjiang to go find Lai Ma Literature.
When Ma Wenxue heard that this was the military funds of the Four-Hong Regiment that were to be redeemed to pay rewards and subsidies to the disabled and sacrificed soldiers, he immediately agreed and exchanged the money at the highest ratio of 1:4 on the current black market.
Before the war, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the ocean was about 1:2.5. After half a year of the war, China's domestic prices began to soar, and the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the ocean also kept rising. On the black market, it even reached an exchange rate of close to 1:4. Ma Wenxue
Being able to exchange according to this ratio will definitely earn enough favorability in Tang Dao's heart.
Ma's Trading Company had enough foundation. After receiving the amount of U.S. knives that Tang Dao needed to exchange, it took half a day to collect 80,000 silver dollars to deliver to Tang Dao.
After Tang Dao received Dayang, he immediately decided to set off back to the Sixings Regiment's base. The two commanders were also decisive people. They knew that the war would start in a few days, so they did not stay. They each took their guards to escort Tang Dao and his party out of the city.
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The farewell between soldiers is very simple, they exchange military salutes! Say goodbye to them and just turn around and go!
Even if no one knows whether we will see each other again after this farewell!
There are some things that you know without having to say them.
"Two sirs, take care, brother! See you someday, I'll treat you two to a drink!" After Tang Dao finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and left.
Lao Tantai got into a carriage specially provided for him and waved goodbye to the two people standing at the city gate.
The carriage was cushioned with soft bedding, and there was even a ceramic hand stove for heating. These were all arranged by Tang Dao, and Lao Tantai could enjoy them with peace of mind. He had been running around continuously for more than a month. , but it can’t stand any more bumps.
He was about to see his little cotton-padded jacket, and Tantai Yunshu's heart was much more anxious than Tang Dao's.
More than 20 riders accompanied the long camel team and convoy, raising dust in the sky and gradually moving away from the city.
"I feel inexplicably sad? Am I getting old?" Looking at Tang Dao's retreating figure, Comrade Lao Wu suddenly sighed.
"Haha! Brother Jingshan, you care so much because of the depth of your love!" Commander Zhang laughed boldly, raised the riding crop in his hand and pointed into the distance. "Didn't you listen to Brother Tang Dao? I'll treat you and I to a drink when we meet again someday. Let's drink. We can't beat him, but we will definitely kill more Japanese than him, so why should we have more men than him?"
"Brother Xin Chen is right. Let's get together when the time comes and see who kills more enemies. For those who kill less, let's count them as one hundred people and one cup of wine!" Comrade Lao Wu was also very happy.
Obviously, the two of them were too optimistic.
Not to mention the size of the four regiments that arrived in the north, the number of Japanese troops that were broken into pieces and killed piecemeal behind enemy lines was a figure that made the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters dizzy and regarded them as a serious problem.
