When the boy opened the door of Huichun Hall, which had not been opened for two days, and was about to enter the house through the front door, the man in charge of shoes at the door saw it.
"Gou Shengzi, what's going on at your house? You haven't opened the door for several days. My mother-in-law has a stomachache and she has no place to look."
The young man was very enthusiastic: "Our shopkeeper has a cold, and he is afraid of infecting the patients. If your aunt still has a stomachache, come tomorrow. It will be almost done tomorrow."
"Then I'll come tomorrow."
"Oh, I'll go back and tell Master."
While chatting, the boy closed the door again and walked into the backyard carrying a basket of vegetables as if nothing happened. After entering the backyard, he moved the vegetables away and took out a piece of pork belly and a carp.
"Master, I'm back."
"Just use the stove in the courtyard to cook. Don't use the stove. If you use the stove at night, the kang will burn your back and make you unable to sleep."
Old Harrier was sitting on the kang wearing socks with open toes and was sewing with needle and thread. Xu Ruifeng was lying behind him without even moving. He was as he was when he came here and he is still as he is now.
"Lao Deng, isn't my belly sewn up in this way?"
When a weak slap came from behind, the old eagle smiled and said without turning his head: "I dug out the bullet in your stomach with my hand after opening my buttocks. If you think it's too late, can I put it back?"
"
Cough, cough...
Just when Xu Ruifeng wanted to say something, he choked on his breath.
The old harrier ignored it. After sewing the socks, he reached out and lifted up Xu Ruifeng's clothes and took a look at his lower abdomen. There was a huge bloody scab on it. Apart from some redness and swelling around it, there was no sign of infection at all.
He sighed with emotion: "You are so young, you can recover so quickly after being bitten by a bullet."
"It's okay, I'm still hurting now."
Xu Ruifeng rolled his eyes at him and said something bravely.
Only then did the old falcon ask: "What happened that day? In the past two days, there has been a lot of official news and rumors in the world."
"What did you say?"
"The Japanese said that Li Shaoyang was ready to admit to the world that they had done no evil in the Northeast, but they were attacked and killed by spies from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party."
"The chatterbox says that Li Shaoyang is a national hero who would rather commit suicide than surrender in the face of power."
"The rumors in the world are even more varied. Some say that Zhang Hongyan stepped on the territory of your No. 1 killer in North Manchuria to do business, and asked you to take Li Shaoyang with you, hostages, and give him a spoonful of stew."
"Others say that you, Xu Ruifeng, have already said that anyone who takes a step on the ground in Beiman without your permission will end up dead."
The old harrier spoke with a smile on his face, as if he was singing on stage. After he finished speaking, he asked, "How is it? Can I learn the same thing?"
Xu Ruifeng almost ran out of energy to even smile, so he cursed: "She looks like a claw of your grandma."
At this time, the young man carried the mazza into the house, squatted along the corner and said: "Master, Uncle Xu, the fish is done, it will be ready in a while."
The old eagle glared at him and said nothing.
Xu Ruifeng looked at him in confusion: "When did you, kid, start to like listening to adults chatting?"
The young boy showed a silly smile, with two tiger teeth in his mouth, and the back of his dark hand looked like he had just lifted the coal: "Uncle Xu, you don't know, the storytellers in the tavern have been talking about you recently, saying that you are a national martyr, although
He is in the wilderness, but he cares about the country, he is a great hero." As he spoke, he gave a thumbs up.
"Then why didn't we see the storyteller come to sew our great hero's belly?" Old Falcon snarled with a curled lip: "It's time to talk, so when Li Shaoyang died, why didn't anyone rush up?
"
Xu Ruifeng was stunned and motionless after these words, as if someone had slapped him in the mouth.
The old falcon eagle quickly asked: "What's wrong with you?"
It was a gunshot wound, could he not care?
Xu Ruifeng said expressionlessly: "I understand."
"What do you understand?"
Xu Ruifeng said feebly: "I understand why Li Shaoyang died, and I understand why Mr. Li abandoned his kidnapped granddaughter, put on old clothes and committed suicide in front of the entire people of Northern Manchuria."
"Why?!"
Xu Ruifeng looked at the old kite: "He was risking his own life to trigger the gunshot that woke us up."
"what are you saying?"
"I said, Mr. Li didn't save his kidnapped granddaughter, he didn't let him survive, and he used his own life and that of his family to tell the entire Northeast that this war with the Japanese was not caused by Yuan Meng's horse marching into the Central Plains.
Occupation does not mean that the Manchus enter the customs and make the descendants of China surrender; it is a war to destroy the country!"
He struggled to get up, even though blood was squeezed out from the wound, he endured the pain and leaned against the wall.
"He will use his death to tell everyone that if you don't resist, there will be no way to survive; he will tell all students that if you don't resist, you will have to learn Japanese like Erni of Gou Shengzi's family; he will use his granddaughter to tell the entire Northeast that Japan
People may break into your home at any time, and now they will cover up and change their ways, but when they really succeed, they won’t even need to cover up anymore, they will come in with guns and turn everyone into slaves.”
"At that time, if the country is gone, what will the family do?"
"At that time, we don't even have guns to protect ourselves. Who can still live their own life?"
"Even now, when the Nanjing government is still there, the Japanese dare to be so arrogant. What if they are really allowed to enter the Central Plains?"
Xu Ruifeng remembered everything. He thought of the Communist Party who died in front of him.
"Do you still remember what the Communist Party who died in front of me said?"
"He asked me if I wanted to live in a world where I don't have to panic." Xu Ruifeng looked at the old kite: "I didn't understand it at the time, and I didn't realize that I, as the number one killer in North Manchuria, had anything to be afraid of. But now.
?Think of the thousands of Japanese who will step through Shanhaiguan in the future, every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood, they can't even accommodate the elderly Li Shaoyang, let alone thousands of Chinese people!"
The old falcon stopped talking.
The boy lowered his head in silence.
Only Xu Ruifeng had tears in his eyes.
He was not crying, but he understood the cruelty of his wife Wenwan sticking her cigarette into the rice.
"Old Xu, you gave me a mouthful with your own hands in front of the child."
The old harrier said one sentence, but Xu Ruifeng's feedback was: "This slap was not given by me, but by Li Shaoyang. My cheeks are still burning with pain."
"Then what do you plan to do next?"
Xu Ruifeng shook his head: "I don't know."
"But I have a gun and a lot of skills."
"Are you planning to throw away our business and follow your wife?"
Xu Ruifeng shook his head again: "I don't know, I haven't thought about it yet."
The old harrier was confused when he heard Xu Ruifeng's words: "You have confused me."
"Are you confused?" Xu Ruifeng looked out the window firmly: "Why do I become more and more aware of who I am?"
