Liu Lingzhong's Selected Short Stories Serialized (1150)

Old Dreams to the North (3)

At that time, the town of Maguan had fallen, and the cold drink shop had changed hands, and it was in a short-lived state of morbid prosperity in history. The whereabouts of Qin Feng, the famous cat breeder on our street, are a mystery, I don't know if he is dead or alive, and I didn't get any valuable information in the cold drink shop. Alcoholic beverages, including orange soda, sugar, salt, and medicines became important strategic commodities and were strictly controlled by the occupying forces. We finally bought two bottles of orange soda from the black market, and drank them under the shade of a sour jujube tree on the sidewalk of Zhensoul Street, I hadn't drunk any drinks for almost three years, and I almost got drunk.

"If we find out that we have escaped, Maguan Town will not stop."

"Even if they don't flee, the occupying forces don't show much kindness."

"Chen Minggan, you are too sentimental and will not be happy."

"It's not easy to live, where does happiness come from."

We crossed the zebra crossing and headed out into the adolescent forest, where the masquerade ball at the castle gate was still taking place. All kinds of forces are staggered, all appear in the three-regardless zone, Kamen Rider and Flying Superman have suspicious identities, they may be spies, and they dare not touch easily. I remembered that not long ago, the third, fifth, and seventh iron factory areas had more than 50 Wei Chengjun's bandits and more than 30 guns, and they often operated in the area of the cat cemetery.

"I have long heard of the strange style of the leader."

"In the future, there will inevitably be a head-on conflict."

"Tian Sen, are you ready?" Chen Minggan asked.

On the 25th of this month, the puppet district chief of the occupation army surnamed Yang, who seemed to be Chen Minggan's wife and cousin who died tragically after surrendering, did things for the enemy, and took a squad of the third company to the stone house next to the Wubao apple orchard for a meeting. It happened to be the junction, in the cat cemetery was ambushed and surrounded by bandits, and on the spot, there were two boats on the cousin, the deputy platoon commander and seven soldiers were all killed, the other two because they were local villagers to join the army, familiar with the sheep intestine trail, three days and three nights, only relying on wild fruits and spring water through the primeval forest to escape back to Maguan Town. According to the newspapers of the occupying army, this time it was mainly the head of Yang who suffered the loss of paralysis and carelessness, and did not have a good understanding of the murderous nature of the magician's apprentice. It seems that the military doesn't know that Uncle Tang has interests with the bandit leader, Wei Chengjun is a complete madman, and he has a history of crossing the river and demolishing bridges in the past, including me who has been fooled by him in the past. Another piece of information in the newspaper said that Wei Chengjun was coerced and organized more than 400 local people to take big knives, spears, seedling guns, and wooden sticks to surround what they considered traitors. The bandit leaders also ordered the posting of notices that anyone who got along with the occupying forces would be shot and that whoever dared to hand over grain to the occupying forces and the puppet government would be burned to their houses. Based on my understanding of Wei Chengjun's capricious personality, I judge that the newspaper did not wronged him. So I told my partner to find a treasure, although the enemy is current, I don't want to send people under the fence. Like my cousin, I suffered his loss, and I was beaten by a madman on the way to find a treasure, and I was ashamed and had no room to fight back, but I still followed my colleague Wang Yuan to celebrate his birthday. I said with a sad face that Wang Yuanben was a classmate with him, and later it seemed that he was also harmed, and he almost lost his life, which made people cry and laugh. Chen Minggan was motivated by various considerations - I suspect that he was worried that I was not firm enough in my position in the special era, and that the old relationship with Wei Chengjun would be rekindled, and the connection would be severed, and he would be careless, but he made a wedding dress for others, just like his wife's vacillating cousin. I privately blamed Zhaobao's partner for having a small belly and chicken intestines, but I didn't say anything - promise me not to cooperate with Wei Chengjun. The newspaper said that there were more than 100 bandits in the adolescent forest, including Tan, Wang, Su, Song, and Manlaohai, who often sneaked to Nulu Township in the three districts around Maguan Town, Pingwu Township in the seventh district, and the bridgehead in the cat cemetery to rob.

"The occupying forces cooperated with the local people to fight the bandits, captured 19 people, killed 5, and then the gunsmith ran away again."

"It would be better if he could meet Qin Feng by chance, he has a good brain."

"How could it be that coincidental." Chen Minggan sighed and said.

"Not necessarily, he won't evaporate from the world."

When Qiu Bokai, the son of the magician of the Fifth District, rebelled, he captured alive nine tax collectors and nine guns of the occupying army's Lo Bu Hua City, and now most of them have escaped over the mountains and mountains after a great deal of hardship, and the occupying army has also held a mass meeting of 100,000 people on their street, after which a masquerade dance was held. Only Ouyang Xin and a district chief did not come back, and it is estimated that they were absorbed by the bandit leader. Ouyang Xin is the younger brother of my fifth mother Ouyang Ping, that is, my own brother Tian Wen's own uncle, has always been a mortal enemy with me, the district chief is the brother-in-law of my classmate Li Maode, and he usually never interacts with each other. Saying that the guerrillas originally needed us was purely empty and comforting. Li Peiyu, the gunsmith and bandit leader on our street, had a good relationship with me when he was young, and he should have barely been able to take refuge.

"Is there still a chance?" Finding a treasure partner is skeptical.

"It can only be that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." I say.

"It's not easy to find a place to stay." Chen Minggan shook his head.

"I even want to be caught by them." I cried.

"Tian Sen, don't talk nonsense!" He was furious.

Chen Minggan didn't know that Li Peiyu actually wanted to be my treasure partner, and if he knew, it would be impossible for him to agree to join the gunsmith. Only by using all your fingers and toes can you understand that there are no infallible people in the world, only eternal interests. I even suspect that Chen Minggan regretted the careful planning for many years, and it turned out that he was safest to stay in a mental hospital. For me, Tianfu is also my snail shell, and it is difficult for us to move an inch after we leave.

"Tell me to live in your heart, a lie."

"I'm not despairing, the problem is that I've become a lost dog."

"There must be a guerrilla group willing to take us both."

"If the opportunity doesn't come again, we will be turned into bones."

"Even if it's two white bones, it's not separated." I say.

After Li Peiyu's bandits were driven out of Luopu Flower City, he almost became a world-class homeless man, and then went to the junction of Longmen Dry Cave, Fanggeshan and Qianxi, mass graves and large graves, where I judged that he might have joined Zhang Jian, Luo Jie, Liu Yongtao, and Li Chengbing of the underground organization of the resistance. In the deep mountains and old forests at the junction of the cat cemetery near the Iron Factory Hotel and the Changhe, the piercing hole, and the copper mine, there are more than 500 people from Gan Lijia, a handsome guy from Yanying, Jiang Lijun and Chen Erhong, commanders of the guerrillas, and more than 300 guns of various kinds and 17 machine guns. I used to go to the exit of the train station to wait for Mu Tangjie to have a relationship with them, or I sat face-to-face at Qin Feng's cold drink shop and drank orange soda two or three times, and some met in the cat cemetery and could go to them.

But Chen Minggan said that they often came out to rob the past business travelers, and the quality was mixed, and now the people around the ironworks hotel are quite panicked and dare not even go home.

"What are we going to do?" I said, "First I became a slave to the country, even if I had a partner to find a treasure, I became a lonely ghost." ”

"Will the bandit leader bully the treasure hunter? You said! ”

"I'll think so. I came into contact with a few innocent teenagers who had grown up during the war and changed people completely, and now they are all perverted, including sadists, masochists, narcissists and alcoholists and pollen allergies, funeral directors, hoists, depression and mania, including wandering singers and troubadours, most of their guide cats may be sick cats with all kinds of viruses. In the years of the Fall, including their mothers, there was nothing they could do about this kind of person. Moreover, they don't seem to welcome the two of us very much, and will think that we belong to dirty politicians, and may be angry with the guide cat, like Wei Chengjun, a college student in peacetime. Even innocent children will be taken under the knife. However, there are a few people who are true gentlemen or true villains, and they are considered moderates in the resistance. ”

"If we make the wrong move, we will lose everything."

I gazed at my taciturn relatives in the gloomy light of the adolescent forest, and the contours of Chen Ming's cheeks did bear a lot of similarities with my aunt. His face was full of sadness.

"Think about it carefully, which one do you go to?"

"Do they deserve it?" Chen Minggan deliberately sold a pass.

"You're not going to have to look for a guide cat with glowing eyes."

"Anyone who is willing to talk to me about romance and love is fine."

"But you can't buy drunk, orange soda is out of stock."

We passed through large and small holes, including dry caves and water holes, took the soul boat ferry, and more often walked forward to find the guerrilla camp, and settled in the barren mountains and mountains. What is embedded in the colorful stones resting in the cat's graveyard around? "Diamonds?" "Gold?" Neither of us seems to be able to tell. There are round pebbles everywhere.

"When will I make a great contribution to the disaster-stricken Maguan Town," I turned to my partner and said to the treasure-looking partner, "No need for others to suspect it, and you don't need to be busy before staying in the Iron Factory Hotel, it will definitely be very popular." Flowers greet me! ”

"It's good that Qin Feng is here! Not to mention that I miss him very much. ”

"The Ironworks Inn is magnificent, and the posture is the same as that of a castle."

"Killed three-quarters of the partisans of the castle."

"Because, the occupying army's murderous plan has been overdrawn."

At this point, Chen Minggan and I walked hand in hand across the stream, shouting and shouting, each saying something inconsequential, in fact, heavy. The two of us are indeed lovers who have been reunited for a long time, and the nagging is not over. It's pretty dry around.

This place is supposed to be the bottom of the sea, and we humans, including all mammals, have actually staggered from the depths of the sea in ancient times to the present day. "Look at the pebbles and shells! Sacrifice in the cat cemetery, God and the guide cat will be very happy. Chen Minggan said.

He stooped down and picked up a pebble and smashed it open, and found nothing peculiar. I found a fork in the hole, of course, a dry hole, and I couldn't get out of it from here. "How far can you go?"

"It's not too far, but it can't get out anyway."

"I'm quite struggling. Tian Sen, there is a fascinating danger. ”

"Do you refer to those flowers, or to the trees that hang on both sides of the road?"

Who doesn't love a tree full of flowers? Our voices buzzed. Will there be glowing stones in that hole at the head of the rock?

On April 5, the remaining troops of the occupation army attacked the cat cemetery, defeated Wei Chengjun's bandits, opened one stone cave where the bandits were hiding, smoked two stone caves with fire, directly killed five guerrillas, wounded 20 people, captured seven alive, and captured 16 shuttle standards and five earthen guns. On May 3, the occupying forces routed Zhang Jianbu in Yu'ao in the second district, and the bandit leader was shot and killed, and his body was humiliated by the perverted madman and hung from a tree.

"They should wear a pair of pants for Zhang Jian." I say.

"I'm really sorry, it's impossible to be civilized in a war."

The two of us continued to flee towards the deep mountains and old forests. The dry hole made a ninety-degree turn towards the right hand. The place was relatively narrow, and when Chen Minggan and I passed through a small doorway that looked like the last quarter of the moon, we immediately saw more than a dozen corpses starving to death not far from the entrance of the cave, half of which had begun to decompose. Chen Minggan hurriedly took me away. It is also a rock shed with a thousand strange stalactites overhead, and the cave wall on the right is open, with plenty of light, and you can see the lush plants outside.

"Now you occasionally fantasize like that." Chen Minggan said.

"Even if you know it's going to be impossible." I say.