his robbery

Gu Chengxi didn't expect that Huo Xiangzhen would confront the police with real swords and guns. Sitting at home, he was almost dumbfounded.

He is one of the members of the Beiping branch of the military committee. The attitude towards Huo Xiangzhen within the military branch has always been inconsistent. Some people think that he is a special figure and must be closely monitored to prevent him from causing trouble. As for him being kept at home The guards and the unknown amount of ammunition are hidden dangers; on the other hand, some people don't think so.General Shi, acting director of the military branch—he used to be the governor of Henan before the revolution—openly expressed his opinion on Huo Xiangzhen: "Huo Jingheng keeps a few people and a few guns, it's nothing, just leave him alone."

Since General Shi said so, Gu Chengxi naturally didn't have much to say. When General Shi resigned last month, the government sent another director from Nanjing as the new director.Gu Chengxi brought up the old story again; the new director's thinking was indeed different from General Shi's - the new director had never had a good impression of these old warlords in the north, and he didn't intend to get used to any of them.So Gu Chengxi just moved his mouth, and it has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.There was no need for him to do it himself, the military branch directly used him as a gun.

He thought that Huo Xiangzhen was not what he used to be, no matter how powerful he was, he could only be a traitor, no one would recognize him when he left the house, let's see how tyrannical he is.Unexpectedly, Huo Xiangzhen actually fired a gun, closing the gate and fighting for a long time.All the water and electricity were cut off for him, and he still hasn't opened the door to surrender.

Gu Chengxi felt that Huo Xiangzhen was crazy, stupid, crazy, alone, with a hundred soldiers, fighting against the whole world outside Huo's mansion.Being stubborn like this is also a skill.

Early in the morning, Gu Chengxi was sitting in his dining room having breakfast.Breakfast is simple, hot noodle soup.He held the big bowl and ate hard, the room was hot and the noodles were hot too, and he was sweating profusely from eating.Halfway through eating, Xiao Lin ran in gently and put a clean plate of pickled radishes in front of him: "Forget about it! Try it, it doesn't look good, but it's quite delicious to eat. "

Gu Chengxi absent-mindedly stuffed a piece of pickled radish into his mouth. The pickled radish was so crispy that his mouth was full of clicks.The glass window in front was covered with a thick layer of frost, which showed how cold it was outside.It was already the fourth day, and the large carriage from the coal factory tried to go to the Huo Mansion twice, but was driven back by the police the same way each time.In this weather, no water, no electricity, no coal, no heating, how can we survive that day?The garden was burnt down, and it was probably impossible to pick up some dead branches and leaves as firewood.Gu Chengxi found that his brain would never be able to keep up with Huo Xiangzhen—it was already like this, so why bother?Can you beat it?Knowing that it is a sure-fire result, you still have to bear the consequences, isn't that stupid?

Gu Chengxi still feels that he loves Huo Xiangzhen, although he finds more and more that he and he are different.He thinks that an individual should know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but Huo Xiangzhen doesn't seem to understand—or he understands, but "does it knowing that it can't be done", I don't know what he is planning, it seems that he just wants to do it die.

After thinking about it, Gu Chengxi was full of confusion, and he didn't know where to start. In short, he wanted to tie Huo Xiangzhen into rice dumplings, and then beat him up. It's best to beat him as safe.If you don't tie him up, you won't be able to beat him.That appetite, that strength, that arm, that thigh, two Gu Chengxi together, probably can subdue him.

What else?He is so stubborn, so ignorant of good and evil, so incomprehensible to understand people's words.

Gu Chengxi drank the last sip of noodle soup, and then went out to find out what was going on in Huo's mansion.

At the same time, Huo Mansion also opened breakfast.

The speed of food consumption exceeded Huo Xiangzhen's expectations - more than 100 young men, it was the time to gobble it up, and it was cold, and they had to stand guard day and night in shifts, and they had to rely on themselves to get water and firewood. There was no moment from morning to night Leisurely, you can't stand a bite less.Others can't stand it, and he can't stand it even more.Last summer, he suffered from severe starvation at Ma Congrong's place, as if suffering from aftereffects of starvation, as soon as the fire of hunger burned his stomach, he felt flustered and uncomfortable.

He eats what the guards eat.After drinking a large bowl of miscellaneous rice porridge with clear soup and little water, he sat in the living room downstairs wrapped in a thick wool coat.Andre squatted in a corner of the living room, playing with a small white stove.There is an antique wooden shelf under the stove, which was used before the heating was installed. I don't know where Andre dug it out.A few knots of red charcoal were placed in the stove, with a little ambition to start a prairie fire, trying to warm the entire living room.Bringing the small white stove to Huo Xiangzhen's feet, Andre took advantage of the opportunity to warm the back of his red hands.

The past few days have been extremely cold. The night before yesterday, the water bottles in the front adjutant's room were frozen and exploded.

Huo Xiangzhen looked at the glass window, it was as cold inside and outside the house now, the window glass had no frost, but was very transparent.Andre squatted at his feet, his blond curly hair was a little long, and he had a messy round head with a bit of animal breath.Suddenly reached out and patted the top of the other person's head, Huo Xiangzhen whispered to herself: "I have become Don Quixote."

Andre really didn't understand this sentence, so he just looked up at him without answering.

Huo Xiangzhen withdrew her hand, sat upright and supported her knees: "It's a joke."

Andre guessed for a while, finally lowered his eyes, and said in a very soft voice: "There is no way...we have no way..."

He looked at his two big hands stretched above the coals, and he knew more deeply than Huo Xiangzhen what "no way" is.At the time of the October Revolution, he was already in his early ten years, and he already remembered many things, and he remembered them so firmly that he couldn't forget them even if he wanted to.But what if you can't forget it?Hunger is the worst thing. Hunger caused his sister to abandon him and go to Shanghai. It also made him put his head in his belt and become a Chinese soldier with his compatriots.

Andre thought that he understood Huo Xiangzhen, but his Chinese words were still not expressive, which made him dare not speak out of his temper.

Although the master chefs in the kitchen are superb in craftsmanship, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. If there is no food, there is no food. The master chefs can only find ways to cook a large pot of vegetable soup.

The soup is piping hot, full of flavor, and satisfying for a moment after drinking it, but unfortunately it will be digested into a long urination immediately.Wan Guosheng was thinking about his old love, passed through five checkpoints, and entered the mansion to meet him. Before entering the mansion, he was searched by the police, fearing that he would secretly deliver food and drink inside.Wan Guosheng used to be the famous "Three Commanders", but now he is treated like a thief by the police, and his eyes are straightened with anger.When he met Huo Xiangzhen, he came up with an idea: "you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, write a letter to the Nannan Nanjing government, look for Jiang Jiang Zhongzheng to file a complaint. When the things that were agreed at the beginning, they went back on their promises. They didn’t do this without him! Jing Shuai, you, you, don’t be stupid, you are starving to death, it’s nothing more than kissing your loved ones, hurting your enemies, hurrying up, big and big husbands can bend and stretch, let’s come to Japan Fang Chang, just wait and see!"

Wan Guosheng opened his mouth, and Andre, who was listening, would be stunned and dumbfounded, feeling that he had fed all his Chinese to the dog.Huo Xiangzhen turned her face slightly, and listened with her ears up.It wasn't until Wan Guosheng finished speaking that he opened his mouth to answer: "What's the complaint? The military branch is now in the same family as the Nanjing government. I don't have to ask them to sue grandma again."

Wan Guosheng spread his hands with a bitter face: "Then—"

Huo Xiangzhen smiled: "Wan San, I appreciate your kindness. I understand the truth, and I don't have the heart to let those little soldiers outside accompany me to starve to death. I'm—I'm—"

A smile froze at the corner of his mouth, and he looked down at the ground with pain in his smile.Tapping his chest with his fingers, he forcefully squeezed out the rest of the words through his teeth as if vomiting blood: "I'm just—I feel aggrieved!"

Then he turned his head to look at Wan Guosheng, and said in a low voice: "Your New Year's Eve, come to my house to kick people out. Wan San, they are bullying too much!"

Wan Guosheng lowered his head: "Then—"

He didn't get "that" out of the text.He is also out of date, he is out of date earlier, Huo Xiangzhen is out of date later.Two old-fashioned people who can't say anything new.

Wan Guosheng sat in Huo's mansion for a long time, and then he couldn't stand the cold, so he walked over the wall again.

Huo Xiangzhen walked around the mansion, and saw that the faces of the guards were all like frozen radishes, purple and purple.He climbed up on the sack, and glanced out from the top of the wall. There were groups of policemen surrounding the wall, and they were armed with live ammunition.

Another day passed like this, and the guards, who were full of vegetable soup, were about to be unable to hold on.Huo Xiangzhen was also dizzy and listless.Sitting in the living room bent over, he held his head in his hands and remained silent for a long time.The phone at home has never been idle, and someone always advises him to "take a step back".Someone outside the living room was coughing. It was Adjutant Li's voice.Many people have caught a cold, and they all came out of the cold.

Huo Xiangzhen listened to Lieutenant Li's cough, and suddenly felt his sin in his heart.One will be successful, but this kind of death is too worthless. It is not a meritorious service, it is not a career, it is just to defend a general who is about to starve to death with them.

The phone in the living room suddenly rang loudly. Seeing that there was no one around, Huo Xiangzhen got up to answer the phone himself.Unprepared, he heard Ma Congrong's voice again: "Master..."

Before the other party could say anything, he hung up the phone directly.Ma Congrong is a chilling thing, he has nothing to say to this thing.

Before the microphone could be stabilized, the bell rang again.Huo Xiangzhen suspected that Ma Congrong was haunted, so he stared at the phone and refused to answer.Lieutenant Li lifted the curtain and entered the living room while coughing. Seeing Huo Xiangzhen standing by the telephone table and pressing the receiver, he retreated out again inexplicably.

The bell kept ringing piercingly, shaking people's hearts.Huo Xiangzhen waited for a while, and seeing that it had no intention of being quiet, she picked up the microphone impatiently: "Who?"

At first, no one spoke on the phone, only the sound of very light breathing.Huo Xiangzhen froze for a moment, but then subconsciously shut up.

Later, there was a voice in the receiver, it was a very clear voice: "Brother."

After hearing this long-lost call, Huo Xiangzhen felt unusually calm for some reason, like a bystander in a dream, and also like a soul out of her body, looking down at herself condescendingly and powerlessly.

He heard himself respond: "Mani."

Bai Mani on the other end of the phone seemed to have forgotten what he called just now, and called again: "Brother."

Huo Xiangzhen also replied again: "Yes."

The two sides were silent for a while, and then Bai Mani said: "Brother, don't be angry, keep the green hills, and don't worry about no firewood."

Time went back to the peaceful days, Huo Xiangzhen nodded sloppily, she was an absent-minded elder brother, and didn't take the brat's words seriously: "I know."

Bai Mani didn't say any more, and after a short silence, he hung up the phone.

Huo Xiangzhen also put down the receiver after hearing a soft "click".Turning around and sitting back on the sofa, he was a little dazed.

He didn't know when it started, but he always felt that Bai Mani was dead.When Gu Chengxi occasionally mentioned Bai Mani's situation, it didn't sound real to him, so he couldn't be tempted.Mani and Lingji have both been buried in his heart, both died young, in their most beautiful years.

The phone call just now was also like a short dream, a dream of an old friend returning to life.

Bowing his head and holding his head with both hands, he continued to think.There was a hurdle in his heart, and he comforted himself and persuaded himself to cross this hurdle, otherwise he would rather slam his head against the wall and die than open the door to let the police in.

Huo Xiangzhen sat motionless, almost like an ice sculpture.In the evening, another popular dignitary called him, repeated the same old tune, and asked him to "take a step back".He was relieved about the donkey going down the slope, but within an hour, that teacher Tong showed up again, bringing a few large carts of rice, noodles, vegetables and meat, and said nothing but that he came to visit Jing Shuai.

The door of the Huo Mansion, which had been closed for five days, finally slowly opened, and the guards, who looked like frozen radishes, were crying and not happy for the rice, noodles, vegetables and meat.They stood on the same front as their commander-in-chief, and they also held their breath when facing the blue sky outside the gate of Huo's mansion.

Master Tong and Huo Xiangzhen met each other, they were still very friendly and serious.After talking in a few words, Master Tong said, "He who understands current affairs is a hero."After hearing this, Huo Xiangzhen retorted in front of him: "This is true, but it also depends on whether the affairs at that time are worthy of people's knowledge, and also depends on whether the person knows clearly. The Beijing government must be better than the Man Qing Is the imperial court good? I don’t think so; in the same way, your Nanjing government must be better than the Beijing government? Not necessarily! Such current affairs are ambiguous, and who can know clearly? Could it be that your temporary victory in force shows that your government is the highest? Ming? It shows that your government is the most timely? You defeated me militarily, I have nothing to say; but you want me to agree with you unconditionally, then I can’t do it! You can call me a stubborn I’d rather be a warlord than be a fool!”

After hearing this, Mr. Tong felt uncomfortable, so he just smiled.

Huo Xiangzhen didn't say any more, it was useless to say more, it seemed to be complaining instead.He lost a province and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and in the end he couldn't even keep a small guard. He had no face to see the living when he was alive, and no face to see his ancestors when he died.

Huo Xiangzhen wanted to spend the Spring Festival with the guards, but he didn't get permission from the military branch.

After one night, the police entered Huo's mansion and carried the ammunition out one after another. At the same time, the guards also assembled. Huo Xiangzhen stood in front of the leading guard with a big basket in his hand.

The basket contained red envelopes that he processed overnight.The guards dispersed. According to Mr. Tong, the next step seems to be to attack his adjutant.That being the case, he simply had a good time and dismissed all the people, so as to prevent Mr. Tong from staring at him all the time, and also let these boys find new paths early, so that they don't waste time with him and sacrifice their future.

Besides, I really can't afford it.

He wrapped all the money in his hand into a red envelope, and the heavy bulging red envelope was disrespectful in Huo Xiangzhen's eyes, but there was nothing he could do because he could no longer write a check.Looking up at the leading guard, he stuffed a red envelope into the opponent's hand and said in a low voice, "Thanks for your hard work."

The guard took the red envelope, and immediately twitched, with tears in his eyes: "Thank you, Commander."

Huo Xiangzhen nodded with a smile, and walked towards the No.2 guard.The red envelope was stuffed into the rough hands of the other party, Huo Xiangzhen repeated the words just now: "Thanks for your hard work."

The guard shut his mouth tightly, raised his head and stood at attention with rapid breathing, and did not say a word, only saluted Huo Xiangzhen as a military salute.

Huo Xiangzhen smiled and nodded at him, then continued to walk forward.The red envelopes were handed out one by one, and finally he walked up to the adjutant.Compared with the guards, he is closer to the adjutants, so the content of the red envelope is also richer.The young adjutants all had red eyes in a daze—they had spent a long time pampered and pampered by the commander in chief, and they didn't know where to go without Huo Xiangzhen.Huo Xiangzhen asked them to find Xuebing, but they were all people who had served the commander in the past, and they didn't want to make a living in the hands of the head of the guard.

The last red envelope was handed over to Andre, and Huo Xiangzhen also said "Thank you" for the last time.

Andre didn't cry.Looking down at the red envelope in his hand, he raised his long eyelashes like a golden fan, and replied, "It's not hard."

Huo Xiangzhen raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "If Xuebing doesn't want you, you can go to Harbin. There are many old men there, and there will always be a way for you to survive."

Andre said nothing, just looked at him.

Huo Xiangzhen turned around to look at the long line of soldiers—what a neat little soldier, uniform in height, short, fat, and thin. How mighty and mighty.

His vision blurred for an instant, and he was suddenly so weak that he was dizzy.Strongly stood up straight, he waved his hand: "Okay, disband, let's go!"

No one in the team moved, Lieutenant Li said cryingly: "Marshal, let us spend the New Year with you before leaving!"

Huo Xiangzhen smiled and said, "Thank you, but you are leaving every year and year after year. You can still go back to your hometown to meet your parents. Let's go, I'm looking for my friends, I don't need you to accompany me."

He patted Lieutenant Li on the back, pushed them and drove them out.The gate of the Huo Mansion has been replaced by police officers. There are two young and sharp policemen, with rifles in their hands, watching a large group of people rushing from the inside out curiously.When this group of people rushed out onto the road, they saw a very majestic big man staying behind the threshold.Immediately, they looked up and down, and they thought that this person must be Jing Shuai.

Huo Xiangzhen originally wanted to watch these people leave, but he found that if he didn't leave, the guards and adjutants would not leave either.So he made up his mind and turned around, and he stepped on the way he came from, walking into the depths of the mansion.

The Huo Mansion, which had been bustling for decades, was finally completely silent.

Huo Xiangzhen walked slowly, trying to comfort herself.Others are self-sufficient to live, and I am not short of arms or legs, so naturally I can.There are more than 100 fewer people in the family, and the master chefs in the kitchen can also be dismissed, which can save a lot of expenses.

From then on, I live alone, and I no longer have to explain or cover up to others in a dilemma.In the past, the adjutants always spied on him like ghosts, terrified and pitiful.Under their gaze, Huo Xiangzhen dared not admit his poverty and defeat.

Now it's all right, now he is full and the whole family is not hungry.How comfortable, how relaxed.After being in a cage for a long time, I can return to nature.At this moment, there is snow in the sky and there is wind in the sky. He can go east if he wants to go east, and go west if he wants to go west. How natural!

Huo Xiangzhen walked all the way back to the small building.Sitting in the cold living room, he thrust his frozen hands into the pockets of his coat.Looking straight ahead, he was silent for a long, long time.

Finally, he opened his mouth and called softly, "Mani."

After a short pause, he continued to call: "Yuan Man."

Taking a deep breath, he tremblingly sighed: "Old Ann."

Finally he raised his voice: "Ma Congrong!"

Slowly leaning back, he exhaled white mist from his mouth and nose: "You don't care about family affairs?"

As soon as he stood up, he said to himself: "You don't care, I care!"

Walking to the corner of the room, he picked up the small white stove, and went to the kitchen to find some coals for himself.However, he opened the curtain and went out the door. Standing on the steps in front of the building, he was surprised to see a familiar face.

Andre also put his hands in his pockets, raised his frozen red face, squinted his blue eyes, and smiled shyly at Huo Xiangzhen.

Immediately, he reached out and snatched the small white stove, and he said clearly: "I won't go. You feed me, and I work for you. I don't want money."