Chapter 1753 Chapter 1715 "Weird" Combination

Just when Da Laoben and Bian Xiaolong were sneaking into Dao Chen Laocai's village, Shang Zhen and a few people were also "hanging out" in Shuiquan Town.

Some people in later generations saw some photos handed down from the Republic of China. In those photos, the men were all in suits and leather shoes, and the women were either ladies or female students in school uniforms, which still looked very elegant.

But what level are the people in those photos at? There is no doubt that those are people who belong to the upper class, such as people like Gao Yuyan who once met Shang Zhen and the others.

The photos taken by such people, even if they are only black and white photos, the background of the photos has turned yellow due to age, but they can't hide their graceful charm.

So those in later generations came to the conclusion that the Republic of China was a good period, life was very good, and they even called it the so-called "golden decade", and they even felt nostalgic about it.

It’s just that what they didn’t know was that photography was not common in that era. People who could have photos passed down were not necessarily white people. If some foreign photojournalists hadn’t gone to China and took a lot of images, who would have known what happened at that time. What about China, where the land is filled with hunger and mourning?

Cities mean the accumulation of wealth and rich people, but what about the vast rural areas that are becoming increasingly depressed? To say how decent the majority of farmers are is to overthink it.

The family only has one quilt to cover them. It is said that "the quilt has been as cold as iron for many years." The family only has one pair of trousers for everyone to wear when going out. In today's era, this kind of thing is not an exception.

From this point of view, the New Life Movement advocated by someone becomes extremely ridiculous.

If you don’t have enough to eat and you don’t have enough clothes to cover your body, but you still have to pay attention to propriety, justice and shame, then can the government give the poor a pair of trousers to wear?

The answer is, no.

Not only was it impossible, but during the so-called New Life Movement, the people paid several more exorbitant taxes.

For example, if your family opens a small restaurant, then you have to kill mice. If the mice can't be beaten, then you can pay some money and let others do it. This is no different from the story in "Promoting Weaving" written by Pu Songling, a scholar of Qing Dynasty.

For example, if your small restaurant has not been disinfected and is not up to standard, and you are asked to disinfect it, and you say there is nothing, then come and I will disinfect it for you, and then you go on to pay the money!

The reality is always so naked. After the glamor of the ten-mile foreign market in Shanghai, who knows how many poor people there are in places where the neon lights cannot shine?

So, how can Shang Zhen and the others wear bright clothes now when they are hanging out in Shuiquan Town, which is almost a big market?

The main character walking in Qian Chuan'er is a cunning man, dressed in the same rags, with a shabby hat picked up from somewhere on his head. The hat is just like the one worn by rickshaw drivers in the city. Under the brim of the hat is a pair of small He looked around with quick eyes.

Ma Tianfang, who was following behind Qian Chuan, was doing a miserable job. His right hand was holding a wooden stick that was black and shiny, like a fire stick. His left arm was gone, so the sleeve was hanging empty. But the broken part was tied with a rope, as if if he didn't tie it, a new arm would suddenly grow out of his broken arm!

Hou Kanshan, who was walking side by side with Ma Tianfang, was the one who had gone through many changes. His face had already been disfigured and his face was buried by him. Occasionally he opened his mouth, and the silver teeth that were originally shining with fluorescence were also covered by it. He had applied something unknown, and it didn't look shiny at all. Instead, it seemed yellow and full of tartar.

Ma Erhuzi and Huzhuzi were walking side by side. The two of them were dressed in silly outfits, let alone wearing clothes that buried Batai. Maerhuzi was carrying a broken sickle in his hand, and Huzhuzi was holding a broken sickle in his left hand. But he took another brick inside, and he also carried a rag bag on his right shoulder. The bag seemed very heavy and heavy, and the shape of the things inside was also angular, which made people wonder if he was carrying more. A brick!

As for the other people who were dressed up, they were also dressed up, and Shang Zhen was blocked by them in the middle. His main character was an honest, dull, unkempt face, with a broken robe on his shoulders, a wooden stick in his right hand, and a wooden stick in his left hand. I took a broken bowl with a chipped tooth.

With the way they were dressed, they looked like a gang of beggars reappearing in the world. Even if someone passed by them, they would avoid them. Who would have thought that they were the anti-Japanese warriors?

At this time, Shang Zhen and Qian Chuan'er had obtained information from the second uncle who sold water tofu. Indeed, there were indeed many people less than 1.6 meters tall who had entered Shuiquan Town.

The reason is of course that the second uncle’s shop is on the street, and the second uncle’s wife, the second aunt, stands at the door every day to greet people to buy tofu.

For the local people, they usually see people with a height of 1.81 meters. It would be strange to see a person with a height of 1.6 meters, let alone see several in a row.

The Chinese have a saying of Northeastern Dahan and Shandong Dahan. It can be seen that northerners are not very short, so when people with a height of less than 1.6 meters enter Shuiquan Town, they will inevitably be noticed by the locals.

Even though there are more than 10,000 people in the town, there are still a few people I don’t recognize on these streets. Even if you don't know anyone else in the town, you can still become familiar with him.

Chen Laocai is a major grain grower in this area within a few dozen miles. Shang Zhen certainly has reason to believe that the Japanese advance team will come here. In addition, the second uncle confirmed that a short man has indeed entered Shuiquan Town.

So what is the purpose of the Japanese army? It's hard for Shang Zhen not to think that the Japanese army wants to knock down Chen Laocai's family, right?

So he divided his people into several groups. Most of them were in military uniforms and hid in the wild. Some of those who were not in military uniforms "wandered" in the fields, and some entered Shuiquan Town. He personally brought some veterans who, at least in his opinion, could not be recognized as soldiers at first glance as one of the groups.

In order to appear less abrupt, they could not carry box guns on their bodies with their current outfits. Box guns are large and long, and they can't be hidden on their bodies at all!

Maybe if they bent over, stuck out their buttocks, or turned around, an inadvertent movement would reveal the shape of the gun, which would be more obvious, wouldn't it?

This time, Shang Zhen and his men carried a few pistols with them, because that thing was small and easy to hide on the body.

So their box guns were all placed at the back.

Where were they placed? Shen Mugen and a soldier named Ge Changli also pretended to be civilians. Shen Mugen, with his Shandong accent, was responsible for shouting, while Ge Changli was carrying a tofu pole bought from the second uncle's house. Their box guns were hidden in the food boxes at both ends of the tofu pole!

The tofu pole at both ends carried those square and flat things for tofu, which could barely be called food boxes.

The food boxes were layered, and each layer was originally used to hold the first tofu.

But now the top layer only had three or four pieces of broken water tofu, and the two layers below were all filled with box guns and magazines used by their group.

Why do you say that the tofu pole was bought? Shang Zhen and his men certainly didn't want to use the second uncle's tofu pole for nothing.

Even if they were stupid, they could think that if something really happened, who would care about this broken pole? If something really happened, they would not just put down the pole and stop working, but would just put down the pole and start working!

For soldiers like them, they were just two wooden, blackened, broken food boxes.

But for common people like Yu Erdaye, they were also eating utensils, like, uh - like a beggar's bowl, Shang Zhen and his men would not destroy other people's bowls, so Shang Zhen directly gave Yu Erdaye a few dollars as rent, but in fact, he bought the broken carrying pole directly.

Shang Zhen would not deliberately talk about the relationship between the military and the people like his wife Leng Xiaozhi, but in his opinion, getting along with the common people should be like getting along with friends, that is, if you respect me one foot, I have to return you ten feet, and you can never cross the river and then destroy the bridge to do that hammer business!

Shang Zhen thought that if the Japanese puppet army's advance team entered the town, they should think about how to take over Chen Laocai's manor and rob the food, so they must be active near the manor, so he also led people to circle around the manor.

As for Da Lao Ben and Bian Xiao Long, they sneaked into the manor directly under Shang Zhen's order and under the volunteering of Niuniu.

Chen Lao Cai's manor has the commanding height of Shuiquan Town, which is the four-story building. Shang Zhen asked the three of them to find a way to get to the commanding height. If there is any situation in the town, they should be able to do something if they have their own people on the commanding height.

Shang Zhen and his team spent some time to make their group look more like the Beggars' Gang. In the end, they looked like a strange combination of beggars, thieves and disabled people.

Now on the dirt road in the town, they have seen the wall of Chen Lao Cai's manor, and the target is approaching!