Chapter 143: Sandu Town
Tang Cheng and others united with Li Changshun's guerrillas to successfully rescue the people who were captured by the Japanese army, which was considered to be the fulfillment of the promise made by Tang Cheng and Dai Yan when they exchanged carts, mules and horses, and Tang Cheng directly refused to keep Dai Yan, he was also a dignified captain of the national army, how could he stay in Daijiazhuang and get any guerrillas. Unable to resist Dai Yan's enthusiasm, in the end, Tangcheng and they still stayed overnight in Daijiazhuang, and left Daijiazhuang early the next day to go to Sandu Town.
If you want to continue to follow the Xiushui to the south, Sandu Town is the only way for Tang Cheng and others, and with the three guides from Daijiazhuang leading the way, Tang Cheng and they don't have to worry about taking the wrong road at all. Sandu Town was originally a small mountain town, and the Japanese army had not yet reached here, so the town seemed to be quite calm. Tang Cheng and the others in the cart followed Dai Yan into the town, it was still morning, the streets were deserted, there were few people at all, the horses' hooves stepped on the bluestone paved road, and the sound of "click" horses' hooves had an echo. Tang Cheng on the cart habitually looked left and right, although Sandu Town is a small mountain town, the streets are very clean, and the roads in the town are all paved with bluestone slabs.
Sandu town is not big, there is only one main street, there is a tall archway door in the middle of the street, listen to the three guides said, this archway is still the Ming Dynasty Zhengde period, because a widow in the town to her husband for 20 years of widowhood, the emperor gave the chastity archway. From a distance, I saw a stall selling snacks on the side of the road in front of me, and Liu Shishi and Hou San in the cart couldn't walk, and they looked at the steaming cauldron on the stall and drooled.
Tang Cheng followed Liu Shi's gaze and glanced at the small stall, and then said with a smile, "Let's go, go eat something, everything will go well when you have a full stomach." Tang Cheng patted Lao Dongbei, and the latter jumped out of the cart and held the reins, and the mule pulling the cart moved its four hooves to "dada" and pulled the cart to the food stall. The diners at the food stall saw a group of soldiers in the car, and immediately got up, regardless of whether they had finished eating, threw a few dollars on the table and turned to leave.
"Oops. Your glutinous rice balls are out of the pot, don't go. The owner of the stall was holding a spoon and pouring rice balls out of the pot, and when he saw that the diners who wanted the rice balls were leaving, he hurriedly kept people. As soon as he looked up and saw Tang Cheng and his party, the stall owner immediately changed his rhetoric with a smile on his face, "Yo, several bosses are here, each of them will come to try a bowl of rice balls." My rice balls are an ancestral craft. When Qianlong Ye went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he tasted it in Yukou, which was fresh and soft and glutinous, and his mouth was fragrant, which was the evaluation of Qianlong Ye on my ancestors. "This boss's business is really proficient, and it doesn't matter whether people are coming for his rice balls or not, it is a very skilled speech, and I can't wait to say that his rice balls are flowers.
Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei, who jumped out of the cart, didn't care so much, Da Ma Jindao sat down at the table first, and Tang Cheng had already scooped up a rice ball from the steaming pot with a soup spoon and blew it with his mouth. "That old Tartar of Qianlong has eaten your glutinous rice balls? It's just that I heard that Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't say that Qianlong also came to your Sandu Town. Tan Fei habitually helped his glasses, and then asked slowly, as a college student from Beiping, Tan Fei was not surprised to know that Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River.
As soon as Tan Fei said this, the boss who sold the rice balls was immediately stunned, and the spoon fell into the pot and hurriedly reached out to fish, but was scalded by a pot of boiling water. "Oops", the stall owner put his hand into the bucket of cold water to cool down, his rhetoric just now was just made up, how did he know the story of Qianlong's descent to the south of the Yangtze River.
Tang Cheng, who was the first to sit at the table, finally blew the rice ball in the soup spoon to make it not hot, put it in his mouth and bit it, and suddenly heard Tan Fei's name for Qianlong. With a "poof", the rice balls that had just been bitten into his mouth were sprayed onto the table, and then he blushed and coughed again and again. Tan Fei looked at the reaction of these two people inexplicably, not only him, but even Liu Shishi and Dice and others who got off the cart afterwards didn't understand what the boss who sold rice balls and Tang Cheng who ate rice balls meant. "What's wrong with our company commander, it's not good to eat, what kind of hysteria is this." The dice leaned closer and asked Tan Fei in a whisper.
"How. Am I wrong, the late Premier Sun said: drive out the Tartars. Give me back China. The Tartars to be expelled are the Manchu Tartars, and Qianlong is the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty. He is not a Tartar what is. Seeing Tang Cheng's strange smile, Tan Fei, who didn't care at all, stiffened his neck and argued. Hey, Tang Cheng, who sprayed the rice balls on the table, was surprised, and then he turned his face and stared at Tan Fei carefully, as if he didn't understand how this guy with a nerdy face could know so much. The boss who sold rice balls stared at him for a while and then stopped talking, and he didn't know what to say to refute Tan Fei.
Seeing that Tang Cheng just looked at himself but didn't make a sound, Tan Fei was so proud in his heart, he directly tilted his head, looked at Tang Cheng with the corner of his eye, and then glanced at the stall owner, and the superiority of cultural people filled his heart. "How did this thing come up with this virtue?" Tan Fei's smug appearance happened to be seen by Lao Dongbei, and the old Dongbei, who was quite puzzled, asked Tang Cheng, but the latter just smiled and shook his head and did not speak. The phrase "expel the Tartars and return them to China" was put forward by Mr. Zhongshan in his early years, with the intention of awakening the people of the whole country and overthrowing the corrupt rule of the Manchu Qing feudalism. Tang Cheng heard Xie Bo, who was born in Huangpu, say this sentence, and of course he knew the origin and intention of this sentence.
"I won't tell you, you won't understand if you talk too much." Faced with Lao Northeast's questioning, Tang Cheng just waved his hand, saying that he didn't want to continue to talk about this matter with Lao Northeast. "Each person has a bowl of rice balls, and they all use a big bowl." Tang Cheng didn't pay attention to the matter between Tan Fei and the boss of the rice balls, first beckoned the others to sit down, and then shouted that the embarrassed boss of the rice balls was cooking the rice balls. The fragrant glutinous rice balls are very similar to Tang Cheng's appetite, but the old northeast from Baishan and Heishui is not very interested in this kind of glutinous rice dumplings, so he only ate two, and gave the rest of the rice balls to the fat man who didn't have enough to eat.
"If this boss doesn't like my dumplings, there is a wonton seller on the corner of the street, and his family has wontons and mash, and the taste of mash and eggs is also good." Seeing that Lao Dongbei didn't like his own rice balls, the stall owner immediately accompanied Lao Northeast with a smile to recommend the wontons on the street corner. Hearing that the stall owner said that there were wontons here, Lao Dongbei immediately came to the spirit, and took the interested Liu Shi to find the wonton stall on the street corner. Knowing that Liu Shishi was still a child, Tang Cheng didn't stop him, but just asked Liu Shishi to pay the glutinous arrears in advance, and then ignored the two people who walked to the corner with their shoulders on their backs.
After a big bowl of hot rice balls, everyone's bodies immediately warmed up, especially Huang Chengzhong, a few of them with injuries on their bodies, and they felt a lot more comfortable. A large group of soldiers gathered at a stall to eat, and the fair-skinned people in the town couldn't help but glance at this side, but none of them dared to come over to eat rice balls. After eating the dumplings, Tang Cheng did not leave, but sat on the stall and waited for Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi to come back, and after waiting for a long time, they didn't see the two turn around, so Tang Cheng had to let a guide take Hou San to look for it.
It didn't take long for Hou San and the guide to run back from the other side of the street, and Hou San's face didn't look very good. "The two of them seem to have been taken away by the police in the town, and I heard the wonton seller say that the police were catching deserters." Listening to Hou San's words, Tang Cheng frowned, Lao Dongbei looked reckless, but Tang Cheng knew that Lao Dongbei was a careless guy, and Liu Shishi, who grew up eating Baijia rice, was even more accustomed to looking at people's faces, these two people would definitely not complain against any locals, could it really be that the police here were arresting deserters? If that's the case, it's easy.
From the stall owner, he learned that the police in Sandu Town were under the control of the town government, and most of the policemen were stationed in the town government compound, Tang Cheng immediately beckoned everyone to go straight to the town government compound in Sandu Town. According to the instructions of the stall owner, Tang Cheng and the others took a big car along North Street to the south, and after walking a short distance, they saw a large courtyard. There are two red-painted gates in the courtyard, and on the right side of the gate hangs a long wooden plaque painted in white with large black characters written on it. "The government of Sandu Town, Xiushui County, the national government." Two uniformed police officers stood guard the door at the entrance of the town hall.
Tang Chengxian, who jumped out of the cart, looked up at the sign standing at the gate of the courtyard, and then walked up the steps to the courtyard. Only then did the two policemen stretch out their hands to stop Tang Cheng and asked in surprise, "You guys, do you have anything wrong?" ”
The voices of the two policemen were a little hesitant, now is the time to start a war with the devils, the power of the army is undoubtedly huge, and the local government will never dare to offend the army in wartime. Whatever the army wants to do, it does it directly, and it is rare for a soldier to come to a government department to do something. The two policemen really felt a little strange when they looked at this group of soldiers, especially Huang Chengzhong and the others, who looked completely like soldiers.
"Let me ask you, did you just capture two of them as soldiers?" If you don't kill someone, it doesn't mean that you will definitely be polite to people, especially Tang Cheng is so anxious that he is on fire now. These two policemen are not even as good as two wooden stakes in his eyes. Why does this person talk like this, the police are usually a very respectable profession in the town, thieves and thieves, and when they see the police, they quickly slip away. Today, these people obviously didn't take the police seriously, and the two policemen just wanted to get angry. Seeing that Hou San's hand had already touched the handle of the gun, the police immediately fell silent.