Chapter IX: Kidnapping

"As long as they come to spend money to buy goods from me, Lao Tzu doesn't care who comes, whether it is Chinese or Japanese, Lao Tzu only recognizes money, and everything else has nothing to do with Lao Tzu." In this way, Xu Gui said it more than once in the black market, so don't look at Xu Gui's prosperity in the black market, but his reputation is not very good, and many black market businessmen secretly say that Xu Gui is a traitor if he doesn't make trouble.

To make a black hand to such a person, of course Stationmaster Mao will not feel guilty, when he got the specific location where Xu Gui stored the tobacco soil from Tang Cheng's hands, Stationmaster Mao did not delay for a moment, and took his already armed subordinates to run to copy Xu Gui's tobacco den. "The surname Mao is also a fool, you can get a few dollars by copying those tobacco soils, and you have to go through the trouble of selling tobacco soil to get money. It should be like us to directly tie up Xu Gui himself, and it is the most cost-effective to ask Xu Gui directly to sell his life for money. Hou San hidden in the night looked like a ghost, there were 2 such ghosts, and the dice and Wu Laosan were squatting beside Hou San.

Fighting a snake is not dead but bitten, such a thing, Tang Cheng will not do it, since he has decided to make a move, he must never suffer in the future. At the same time that Stationmaster Mao took people to raid Xu Gui's tobacco den, Hou San and the three of them hid outside Xu Gui's house according to Tang Cheng's instructions, and it was better to steal tobacco and soil than to directly tie people up. Liu Shishi and they have already found out that Xu Gui is an extremely greedy guy, such a person will never put all his wealth on the smoke, Tang Cheng intends to bite off a piece of meat from Xu Gui, who is worth a lot of money.

Stationmaster Mao dispatched a hundred people to surround Xu Gui's tobacco den, so many people could not be silent, Hou San and they only guarded outside the door of Xu Gui's house for less than 2 hours, and saw a few men in black who were in a hurry entered Xu Gui's house from the side door. "The show is about to begin, I guess the few who went in just now came to report to Xu Gui, and the main owner we are waiting for will come out soon." Hou San, who was hiding at the corner of the street, pulled out the shell gun pinned to his waist, and the dice and Wu Laosan were not idle, and they also held their short guns tightly in their hands.

In the end, Hou San's judgment was not wrong at all, and it took only a quarter of an hour for the men in black to enter Xu's house, and they saw Xu Gui rushing out of the house with more than a dozen big men and rushing towards the den where he stored tobacco and soil. "Fortunately, Lao Tzu has 20 rings from the company commander, otherwise it would be a bit troublesome to deal with more than a dozen people at the same time." There were two large lanterns hanging on the door of Xu Gui's house, so that Hou San and the others could clearly see the dozen or so figures that had just rushed out of Xu's house, Hou San did not panic, just whispered a word and prepared to fire, and then moved away the hammer of the shell gun in his hand.

Xu Gui sells tobacco and is very greedy for money, but he is not a fool, Liuyang is big and small, but all the people in the official face have been targeted by him, Xu Gui can't think of anyone else who will raid the place where he stores tobacco soil. As soon as he rushed to the street with more than a dozen helpers, Xu Gui's heart felt a palpitation for no reason, and before Xu Gui could react, several flames flashed from the dark street corner. The moment he fell to the ground with severe pain in his thigh, Xu Guifang heard the gunshots, and more than a dozen of his subordinates who followed him had already fallen to the ground on their backs at this moment.

"Don't move, it's going to kill you." Xu Gui, who was shot in the thigh, was also hard, and struggled to draw the short gun on his waist, but was stepped on in the arm by a big foot all the time. Three black-clothed men with their faces covered appeared in Xu Gui's sight, and they didn't give Xu Gui a chance to speak at all, and the man led by him smashed Xu Gui's neck with the handle of his gun. "Go back and tell the people of the Xu family, prepare 20 strips, and send them to the land temple to be buried under the door post in three days, otherwise we will tear up the tickets first, and then kill all the people of the Xu family one by one." took away the weapons and ammunition from Xu Gui's subordinates, and the three black-clothed men carrying Xu Gui disappeared into the night like a gust of wind.

Of course, Hou San and they were not prepared to release people after they got the money, those words just now were just for the Xu family, from the moment Xu Gui was knocked out by Hou San with the handle of a gun, he was already an out-and-out dead man. "Brother Tang, this time I caught it, Xu Gui not only poured smoke, we also found more than 20 rifles and a lot of bullets." The stationmaster Mao, who returned along the way, was obviously excited, it was already midnight, and he came to Tang Cheng to chat about his harvest.

"There are too many of these tobacco soils, you'd better not sell them here in Liuyang, Changsha is a good place, I heard that the price of tobacco soil on the black market there is good, you can try it." Stationmaster Mao will get more than a dozen boxes of tobacco and soil, and according to what he said in advance, Tangcheng can get more than three boxes here. Mu Lianshan has seen a lot of rich people for the local big families, but there are only three boxes of tobacco and soil, and Tang Cheng can sell them at any time.

"This stationmaster Mao can't do it, he doesn't have the concentration like you, if he knows that we also tied Xu Gui to ask for 20 gold bars, I think this stationmaster Mao will definitely slap himself." Mu Lianshan, who has been rectifying medicinal materials, did not sleep, the conversation between Tang Cheng and Stationmaster Mao just now could not escape Mu Lianshan's ears, Mu Lianshan, who knew Tang Cheng's follow-up plan, was blunt, in his opinion, this stationmaster Mao was inferior to Tang Cheng in terms of strategy and command.

"Mr. Mu, don't put a high hat on me anymore, we are also an upright national army, but now we are doing the matter of bandit kidnapping, if my adoptive father and the previous two company commanders know about it, they will have to break my legs." Tang Cheng didn't have a cheekiness like Mu Lianshan, looking at the back of Stationmaster Mao who had gone away, Tang Cheng sighed. Although Stationmaster Mao still has many shortcomings, he is really doing things for those wounded soldiers, and he tied Xu Gui for the sake of his own retreat, and there is no comparison between the two.

"Don't look down on yourself, know you're not for yourself." Mu Lianshan stretched out his hand and patted Tang Cheng's shoulder, when Tang Cheng grabbed himself in, Mu Lianshan was still very angry, he always thought that these people in Tang Cheng were no different from other defeated soldiers. But as time got along for a long time, Mu Lianshan's attitude towards Tang Cheng and them slowly changed, compared with those defeated soldiers who could only escape, these people in Tang Cheng were really fighting devils, and it was not Tang Cheng's fault to retreat south.

Mu Lianshan knew that Liu Shishi had money on him, and Liu Shishi also privately showed him the gold bars in the belt around his waist, Mu Lianshan had never been a pedantic person, if Tang Cheng was as penniless as the rest of the rout, a serious injury like Tang Cheng would probably have died in Pingjiang County. It is cost-effective to be a defeated soldier who does not worry about eating and drinking, or to be a defeated soldier who does not have clothes and food to eat, as long as he has a brain, he will make the right choice, and Tang Cheng makes money for everyone, not for his own enjoyment.

Stationmaster Mao is an anxious man who does what he says, and he took people to Changsha the day after he succeeded, but Tang Cheng hid the tobacco and soil that he gave to him in the warehouse, and he didn't plan to sell the tobacco and soil until the tobacco dealers here in Liuyang forgot about Xu Gui. Xu Gui was kidnapped, this is not too important news in the Liuyang black market, and few people in the rivers and lakes can die well, especially Xu Gui's temperament is easy to offend people. Hearing that Xu Gui was kidnapped, more people were secretly gloating rather than paying attention to Xu Gui's fate.

The people of the Xu family paid 10 gold bars only in exchange for Xu Gui's body, and the bandits who kidnapped the ticket even said that the Xu family would prepare another 20 gold bars, otherwise they would also tie up the men of the Xu family. The tobacco was robbed, and Xu Gui, who was in charge of the family, also died, and the people of the Xu family naturally couldn't swallow this breath, so they immediately paid for a lot of people to help check the person who kidnapped the ticket, but unfortunately no matter how much they tossed, they couldn't imagine that this thing was done by the wounded soldiers in the 58th Army shelter.

When the stationmaster Mao, who got rid of the tobacco and soil in Changsha, returned to Liuyang, he was more like a nouveau riche, food, meat, military uniforms, medicines, as long as he could think of everything, he bought some recycling stations, Liu Shishi even saw the soldiers who helped unload the truck remove two boxes of rifles from the truck. "It's impossible for all of them to recover as before, but I want to arm the guys who have recovered, I heard that there are bandits in the south of Liuyang, and I am ready to take them out to suppress bandits and train troops." The smiling stationmaster Mao told Tang Cheng his plan, and it seemed that this thing was really ready to be a company commander. "You and I are soldiers, and it is our duty to go into battle to kill the enemy, there is nothing to say." But are you sure that you, the stationmaster, can go out with more than a hundred people to find trouble with the bandits? You don't have a deputy at the containment station, and you're gone, what about the containment station? If you ask the upper echelons of the 58th Army, I think you won't be able to keep your position as the head of the containment station. Tang Cheng didn't want to ridicule Stationmaster Mao, but what he said was the truth, leaving his post without permission was to be done by military law.

Tang Cheng's words deflated the originally confident stationmaster Mao, but he didn't expect that his identity as the stationmaster was where his hands and feet were bound. "The surname Mao is not a bad person, but if a person like him leads the troops to fight, his men may die quickly and a lot. Because he was not ready to go into battle to kill the enemy, what he was doing now was based on his own preferences, and if he really faced the Japanese army, maybe he would be the first to die. ”

Tang Cheng's words, Liu Shishi couldn't understand many times, but he knew that Tang Cheng would never say such a thing for no reason, since his company commander was not optimistic about this surnamed Mao, Liu Shishi didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with Stationmaster Mao anymore. The weather is getting hotter day by day, Liu Shishi is now only hoping that Tang Cheng's injuries can get better soon, it is not a serious thing to stay in this shelter all the time, once Tang Cheng's injuries are healed, it will be the time for them to leave here.