Chapter 33: Estrangement
Since the Li family's family entered the barracks, the extremely simple shooting range has hardly stopped the gunfire, taking advantage of the fact that the weapons and ammunition are sufficient, those Sichuan soldiers who can still hold rifles are all pulled by Liu Shan District to the shooting range for training, regardless of whether these people will return to their original troops, Liu Goat just wants to make them more like a qualified soldier as much as possible.
Tang Cheng relied on rote memorization to keep all the movements of Liu Goat firmly in his mind, except for eating, sleeping and going to the toilet, he now spent almost all of his time taking pictures of cats and tigers, and the gun paint on the grips of the two shell guns was ground off by Tang Cheng's hands. "Don't be a kid who spends all day fiddling with those two shell guns, when you have time, practice your rifle too, if you run out of bullets, what will you do? Carrying an empty gun and smashing with a little devil? Liu Goat now likes to pour cold water on Tang Cheng when he is happy, whether Tang Cheng listens to it or not, he is happy to do it anyway.
The days passed like this, under Tian Kui's dedicated care, Tang Cheng's injuries were almost healed, Lu Yong, including most of the soldiers under him, had also recovered from their injuries, only a few of the original seriously injured still needed to continue treatment and recuperation, and in about half a month, they would be able to dance as alive as Tang Cheng. Li Linge's housekeeper Li Shun would come to the barracks every day to see the trained family members, and by the way, he also passed on the news that Li Linge got to Liu Goat.
The new 20th Division has already left, and after the Mengcheng militia was barracked by Liu Goat at the beginning of the year, they had to occupy the original Guandi Temple in the county town as their barracks. Now in Mengcheng, Liu Goat can be regarded as the largest force, and before the rest of the wounded are healed, Liu Goat does not want to change this status quo.
"Sir Liu, my lord wants to invite you to his house for a visit, and I have something important to discuss." Li Shun, who was sent to deliver the invitation, wore a Mao suit very rarely, but his habit of bending down to talk at every turn made him look like a eunuch in the palace. Liu Goat couldn't guess what Li Linge's intention was to post to him, but he saw some suspicions from Li Shun's different dress and attitude of speaking today.
Liu Goat and Li Linge are now in a cooperative relationship, Li Linge pays to keep Liu Goat, and Liu Goat wants to use the force in his hands to protect Li Linge and the entire Li family. Since it is already a cooperative relationship, it is impossible to do the thing of tying grenades to the body, which not only cannot scare the other party, but also makes Liu Goat, who Li Linge despises himself and doesn't know how to refuse, is embarrassed.
"I see that you still take Tang Cheng and Zhang Yun with you this time, Tang Cheng is just a child, even if they can guard against Zhang Yun, I am afraid that they will not care about a child." Lu Yong, who was called by Liu Goat to discuss countermeasures, came up with an idea and asked Liu Goat to take Tang Cheng and Zhang Yun to Li's house like last time. After Lu Yong recovered from his injury, he had seen Tang Cheng practice alone more than once, and compared to his subordinates, the youngest Tang Cheng was more like a soldier.
Liu Goat rejected Lu Yong's proposal with a wry smile, "The most guarded against now is Tang Cheng, this kid has long been targeted by the Li family, and now I'm afraid that you and I won't have the same movement as Tang Cheng when we go out." Liu Goat said this is not groundless, after Tang Cheng recovered from his injury, he was pulled by Lao Xu to turn around the county several times, but every time he could find someone staring at them in the dark, Liu Goat took people to block it a few times, and found that the people who were watching were all Li Linge's people. The most exaggerated time, Tang Cheng just followed Lao Xu to buy groceries once, and found that there were 6 people behind him who followed them all the way.
"Otherwise, I'll go with you." Lu Yong thought for a while and then proposed that he follow Liu Goat to Li's house, but this proposal was rejected by Liu Goat again. No matter what Lu Yong thought in his heart, Liu Goat used the excuse that the two of them had to stay in the barracks, and directly nibbled Lu Yong's idea of going to Li's house in the bud. Since Lu Yong was injured and wandered around the yard, Liu Goat had already known that Lu Yong secretly asked the Li family about Li Linge, if it weren't for Liu Goat's current use of Lu Yong and them, maybe he would have had a direct showdown with Lu Yong.
"Forget it, I'll take nine catties and let Tang Cheng and Zhang Yun stay." Liu Goat deliberately didn't look at Lu Yong is eyes, and turned away with a secret smile in his heart. He knew that Lu Yong only wanted to find a way back for his subordinates when he inquired about Li Linge, and Liu Shanyang didn't think that Lu Yong had any bad intentions, but he couldn't accept that Lu Yong had to hide it from himself when he did these things, this courtyard was such a big place, who could he hide from him.
Separated from Lu Yong, Liu Goat went to Tang Cheng, who still wiped the guns in the room according to his usual habits, and since Liu Goat forced Tang Cheng to start practicing rifles, the guns Tang Cheng carried with him changed from three to four. There were not many bullets in the flower machine, and Tang Cheng was reluctant to use them, so this eighty percent new Mauser rifle and those two barge guns became the weapons that Tang Cheng often practiced during this time.
"I'm going to go to Li Linge's house in a while, and he sent someone to invite me, saying that he has something important to discuss." After Liu Goat entered the house, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to Tang Cheng, but the latter was still concentrating on wiping the parts of the gun in his hand, ignoring Liu Goat's arrival. For Tang Cheng's ignorance, Liu Goat was not angry, but just said to himself, "Just now Lu Yong said that he wanted to go to see Li Linge with me, but I didn't promise him, this guy should have a lot of children, and he sulked in the house, you remember not to provoke him, and tell Lao Xu to pay attention." ”
Hearing Liu Goat mention Lu Yong, Tang Cheng stopped his movements and looked up at Liu Goat who was talking to himself, "I told you a long time ago that Lu Yong is not authentic, he himself said that he used to be the red flag manager of the Elders' Association, and there are few people in the rivers and lakes I know who are righteous and angry, and righteous anger is all used by them to deceive people, and a little benefit can make them secretly do black things to you." Of course, Liu Shanyang knew what the meaning of Tang Cheng's words was, but in fact, he now regretted telling Lu Yong about Li Linge's money.
More than a dozen gold bars plus more than a thousand oceans, such a large sum of money is not something that can be ignored by any person, especially a person like Lu Yong who has been in the rivers and lakes. Although Liu Goat himself also had remorse, his character did not allow him to be soft in front of Tang Cheng, so in the face of Tang Cheng's words that were close to reproach, Liu Goat could only stare at Tang Cheng and give Tang Cheng a slap, and then turned to leave.
As early as a few days ago, Liu Goat forced Tang Cheng to start gun practice, and the conversation between them became the current situation. Nine catties, they can see Tang Cheng, who is tired and can't straighten his waist, being teased by Liu Goat and getting mad and angry almost every day, but no matter how crazy Tang Cheng is, Liu Goat just smiles and continues to tease Tang Cheng, and he will not turn his face and scold people because Tang Cheng's words are not inferior. In fact, Jiujin didn't know that Liu Goat and Tang Cheng enjoyed this way of communication, and only in this way did they have the feeling of returning to Erlian.
In Tangcheng's worries and waiting, the well-fed Liu goat came back with nine catties, and there was no danger at all as everyone believed, Liu goat and they seemed to just go to eat a meal very usually. Jiujin is a stuffy gourd, no one asked him about things, when everyone was ready to go to bed after nightfall, Jiujin got together with Tang Cheng with a mysterious face, and he wanted to convey Liu Goat's explanation to Tang Cheng.
"The company commander said, I want you not to stop training these days, everything is as usual, and when the Li family clarifies the rest of the money, the four of us will leave Mengcheng and go to Hubei." Jiujin, who also drank wine, only muttered a few words to Tang Cheng, and fell asleep groggily, but Tang Cheng, who walked out of the house, couldn't sleep at all, so he simply lit an oil lamp in his room and continued to wipe the flower mechanism.
Liu Shangoo's original words about Jiujin are more than these, but Jiujin came back from drinking, and as soon as the wine strength came up, he only felt tired Jiujin almost forgotten, and he could only pick up the main one and tell Tang Cheng, but the others had been completely forgotten. Li Linge invited Liu Goat to drink, mainly to inform Liu Goat of the news he had collected, and after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, they successively transferred troops to advance to the front line of Bengbu. The Japanese army, which had captured half of Shandong, also continued to move south, and Li Linge invited Liu Goat to go over, more to get some guidance from Liu Goat.
Whether there is still a possibility of staying in Mengcheng, Liu Goat can't say clearly, before Lu Yong has fallen out with him head-on, Liu Goat can't leave them alone, so Liu Goat's idea to Li Linge is to wait and see. As long as Li Linge gave the rest of the money to himself, Liu Goat would take Tangcheng and leave Mengcheng immediately, whether it was too close to Bengbu or Xuzhou, once the Japanese army formed a flanking attack on Xuzhou, Mengcheng would definitely become the target of the Japanese army.
When I went to Li Linge for a banquet, I heard the whispers of a few Li family members when I was looking for a toilet with nine catties of food support, Li Linge, the old fox, was already asking the family to pack up the valuable things at home, as long as there was news of the Japanese army attacking Mengcheng, Li Linge was definitely the first person to escape from Mengcheng. Liu Goat didn't want to be used as cannon fodder, and he didn't want to work for Li Linge for a few dollars, so he arranged for nine catties to send a message to Tang Cheng, asking Tang Cheng to do everything as usual, and when the time was ripe, they would leave Mengcheng.
"I hope you don't have anything else on your mind, or I'll send you all to hell." Tang Cheng, who was standing in the courtyard, looked at Lu Yong's room from afar, muttering to himself in his heart. Tang Cheng, who had experienced war and life and death, had obviously regarded Liu Goat and Jiujin as his closest people, and if Lu Yong and the others really clashed with Liu Goat for those money, Tang Cheng was ready to put bullets into their bodies at any time.