Chapter 0243 The Kong family has a daughter growing up!
"Mr. Kong, get up quickly, I can't bear your bow!"
Dragon Boat Festival cannot let Kong Hua kneel down, because his kneeling down is valuable. What's more, Dragon Boat Festival comes to Kong's house to ask for food and weapons, so what's the use of kneeling down?
But it's really a coincidence. Since he came to Kong's house, Na Ping'an has been talking non-stop. It wasn't until he mentioned Kong Yang that he found it interesting.
Because this matter is probably quite simple.
And to talk about this incident, we have to talk about the Dragon Boat Festival annihilation of the Japanese spy organization Sakura Group in the British Concession in Shanghai.
At that time, a German businessman, Depps, was to be killed during the Dragon Boat Festival.
This Deps colluded with the Japanese and sold fake artillery shells to Chinese soldiers.
He filled the shells with sand, which made the independent regiment very passive in fighting the Japanese army. Many soldiers who should not have been sacrificed fell to the enemy's fire.
Duanwu was very angry. After annihilating the Japanese army, he led his men to the British Concession and captured Deps.
Kidd Demel, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of All Nations, came forward to vouch for Deps, and finally implicated Kong Yang.
At first, Kong Yang even threatened Duan Wu with his background of the Kong family. But after Duan Wu revealed that the other party was a Japanese spy, the kid said he was smart and quickly denied it.
And Duanwu didn't take this matter to heart at that time, because he heard that Kong Yang was a second-generation ancestor. He was not qualified to be a spy.
But coincidentally, here in Changshu Town, I heard this name again during the Dragon Boat Festival.
So I have no choice but to bring up old matters again during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Kong Yang was in the wrong, so naturally he couldn't say anything. He could only ask his father to save him.
But Kong Hua was a man who regarded wealth as his life. It would be impossible to pluck the hair from his body.
But Dragon Boat Festival was not in a hurry. Instead, he sat down and said to Cheng Wanli: "Sit down, Old Cheng, let's eat first. I haven't eaten for a day."
Cheng Wanli rolled his eyes, as if he understood something. He sat down, picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and started eating.
Seeing this, Kong Hua quickly ordered his servant to cook two more dishes, took out the Erwotou that he had treasured for many years, and wanted to have a drink with Dragon Boat Festival and Cheng Wanli.
Kong Hua smiled apologetically and said: "Sir? Little brother? I don't think you are a bad person. Why do you need to embarrass me?"
While eating at Dragon Boat Festival, he said to Kong Hua: "You always understand people. Now the soldiers at the front are fighting and a large number of refugees are pouring into Changshu. Shouldn't you express your gratitude?"
"This, this, this, I have no food, I have already donated it."
Kong Hua wanted to complain again, but at this moment, Cheng Wanli slapped the table and said: "You old boy, don't toast me and you will be fined. This brother of mine even killed his teacher. You think he was joking when he said killing people."
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"Ten stones, ten stones of rice!"
Kong Hua gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, offering ten stones of rice in exchange for his son's life.
Cheng Wanli snorted coldly and said, "Are you really willing to give up? A single seedling in your house is worth ten stones of food?"
Kong Hua's expression was tangled, as if someone was pulling the flesh from his ribs.
"One hundred stones, one hundred stones is enough, right?"
Kong Hua gritted his back molars and squeezed out these few words from between his teeth.
Duanwu saw that it was not easy for Kong Hua to come here. When Cheng Wanli wanted to ridicule Kong Hua some more, Duanwu stopped him.
Duanwu said to Kong Xiang on the other side: "Girl, please sit down too. I see that you are a person who has read books and should know more principles than your father. If you say what I say is right, then we can do whatever we want."
If you feel something is wrong, I won’t ask you for help during the Dragon Boat Festival. I’ll get up and leave after I’ve finished my meal.”
"Yes, yes, girl, girl, tell him, tell him, our family is out of food..."
Having said this, Kong Hua still smiled apologetically at Dragon Boat Festival. It was obvious that this old miser wanted his daughter to speak unconscionably.
Duanwu ignored it and just looked at Kong Xiang. This girl Kong Xiang was knowledgeable and courageous.
When she met Duanwu, she didn't have her brother's impulsiveness or his father's hesitation. Instead, she was very calm. So Duanwu wanted to talk to her.
Duanwu said: "Girl, you may have heard how many people died in the Chinese army during the Battle of Songhu. But have you seen how many people died in the army?"
I've seen corpses littering the fields.
I'm not trying to scare you. Just fifty miles east of Changshu City, a village called Dongjiadian was massacred by the Japanese. There were at least five hundred corpses of ordinary people.
I was ordered to come here to supervise the battle, and I didn't have time to bury the villagers. They could only expose their corpses there.
Maybe you think I'm talking too far away, but the Japanese have already reached a place fifty miles away from Changshu.
You can think about it, if the soldiers at the front had not repelled the Japanese army, today's Changshu City would be the Dong's store yesterday. And could your family still have a peaceful meal here?
Nowadays, many soldiers at the front are fighting hungry. In order to squeeze out a little food, Chen Yong prevents refugees from entering the city.
And what are refugees? Their homes have been taken over by the Japs. They have to leave their hometowns and move to their neighbors in the rear.
Do they want to leave? They don't want to leave. I think everyone is not willing to leave their hometown and live in a strange environment.
But the Japanese are just a bunch of beasts, and they have no reason to explain.
They kill people they see and rob things they see. They won't ask who you are or what your family background is.
In their eyes, we are all Chinese. But Chinese people deserve to be killed and deserve to die.
So, girl, if the Japanese army invades the city, can your Kong family's property be preserved?
Your family’s land belongs to the Japanese, your family’s house belongs to the Japanese. Your family’s food, your family’s money, including you helpless women, will all become Japanese.”
Speaking of this, Duanwu looked at Kong Hua again and said: "Mr. Kong, as a Chinese officer, I may be able to reason with you. But the Japanese are here and they want food from you. Will you give it to them? No, you
The family is gone.
Mr. Kong, I believe you are not a fool. Although you are good at running a household, you should also know what to do and what not to do.
Do you want to give food to the Chinese army, be a good person, and be a hero? Or do you want to give food to the Japanese, be a traitor, and be infamy for the rest of your life?
Okay, that’s all I said during the Dragon Boat Festival!”
After saying this, Duanwu stood up, but Kong Hua still didn't move.
Kong Xiang said anxiously: "Dad, you can't be stubborn anymore. Mr. Duanwu is right. Once the Japanese come, our family will lose everything."
At this time, Kong Yang also said: "Dad, don't be reluctant to part with that little food. I am your biological son, right?"
"Hoo! Hoo!"
Kong Hua gasped for breath, and after a while he said: "Well, just tell me how much food you need."
"Ten thousand shi of food, and you will move your family westward!..."