Chapter 1897: How to Survive without Eating Rice

"Don't lie to us, you bastard. If you dare to lie to us, we will chop off your head!" When everyone was looking for Fan Tongzuo, Fan Tongzuo was under the threat of Zhao Mingxuan.

"How dare I? I don't want to offer this information to save my life." Fan Tongzuo replied with a sad face.

At this time, Zhao Tieying and his party were sitting in two carriages and rushing to a place called Baiyungou.

Why? Of course, it was because Fan Tongzuo provided them with an extremely important information, and this information was that Shang Zhen hid 30,000 yuan not far from Baiyungou! And he, Fan Tongzuo, was carrying out this task with others.

It is not important to ask when Fan Tongzuo joined Shang Zhen's camp. The important thing is to make Zhao Tieying and others believe it.

Just like, why is the batch of cash 30,000 yuan? That's because Fan Tongzuo had already figured it out when he was thinking of an idea that could keep him alive.

It is said that Shang Zhen hid 80,000 silver dollars, which is too much. A bandit in a remote village can't save so many silver dollars even if he keeps robbing houses.

If it is 18,000, it is too little!

Fan Tongzuo can see that although Zhao Tieying and his gang dare not take responsibility for their actions, they are quite ostentatious.

They eat well, although they are all robbed. They think they are too far away from Baiyungou, so they send people out to rob two carriages.

They are so ostentatious. If I say less than the amount of silver dollars, the money will not impress them, and I will be completely "eating rice"!

As for how Fan Tongzuo knew that Shang Zhen had robbed the bandits of silver dollars, of course he heard it from Wu Ziqi.

After he followed Wu Ziqi to join Shang Zhen's camp, he knew less than five people because he had joined for a short time, but this did not prevent him from hearing Wu Ziqi bragging about the achievements of Shang Zhen's camp.

In addition to fighting the Japanese, Wu Ziqi mentioned that Shang Zhen had led them to destroy a group of bandits called "Niu Haier" in Baiyungou.

Wu Ziqi's original words at that time were, our battalion commander led us to destroy the Niu Haier bandits and seized a lot of old noses!

Old noses is of course a Northeastern dialect, which can be understood as an adjective, meaning a lot.

As for how many old noses there are, Wu Ziqi did not say, because Wu Ziqi actually did not know.

But what if he didn't know? This did not prevent Wu Ziqi from bragging to the brothers Fan Tongzuo and Fan Tongwu at that time.

Similarly, it can only be regarded as occasionally hearing Wu Ziqi say this, and Fan Tongzuo, who is not much better than the hearsay, knows a little bit, so what?

This did not prevent him from using this matter as an excuse to lie to Zhao Tieying and others, so that Zhao Tieying would not kill him temporarily. The difficulty is only that this matter cannot be boasted, but must be made reasonable!

Fan Tongzuo's nickname is "glutton", which only means that he is timid and behaves like a glutton, but it does not mean that he is stupid.

So when he retreated with Zhao Tieying and his men, Zhao Tieying and his men did not take him seriously, under his wretched appearance, he was nervously thinking about how to save his life.

And when he really threw out this bait that he thought was reasonable, Zhao Tieying really believed it!

So why is this?

The reason is that Zhao Tieying certainly knew that Shang Zhen and his men had wiped out a bandit called Niu Haier in Baiyungou. Even when Shang Zhen wanted to transport the grain seized from Baiyungou to the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Tieying also interfered, and in the end, the grain could only be transported back to the 113th Division by Shang Zhen.

If Zhao Tieying led people to rob money outside, of course he would hand it over to the division headquarters, but he would definitely leave a considerable portion for himself.

This is what he usually does.

The saying "People with bright hearts see everything bright, and people with dark hearts see everything dark" is absolutely true.

Zhao Tieying had long suspected that the money that Shang Zhen handed over to the division headquarters was only a small part. What is this called? This is called Zhao Tieying's psychological expectation.

When Fan Tongzuo reported the reasonable figure of 30,000 yuan, the two were compared and it was consistent with Zhao Tieying's psychological expectation!

At that time, Zhao Tieying's reaction when he heard Fan Tongzuo say this was, I said it!

From Zhao Tieying's point of view, this logic is very simple!

If Fan Tongzuo, who looked wretched in front of him, wanted to save his life, he could have reported more of the 30,000 yuan. Would 40,000 yuan be okay? Would 50,000 yuan be okay?

The only thing Zhao Tieying didn't expect was that what he thought was exactly what Fan Tongzuo wanted him to think.

This situation is a bit like the sales tricks in later generations. If a pound of chili peppers is sold for eight yuan, it doesn't sound as close to the people as the 7.99 yuan!

In addition to the above reasons, there is another most important deep-seated factor that Zhao Tieying believes Fan Tongzuo's words. This is an idiom that says that greed makes people lose their minds!

Greed often makes people lose their rational judgment and make some low-level mistakes.

Zhao Tieying led his soldiers to rob everywhere. When did he rob 30,000 oceans?

Moreover, he usually maintained his authority because he treated his subordinates with both kindness and power.

What is power? That is, when his subordinates go against his will, especially when they are not loyal to him, he must be ruthless!

What is grace? Grace is money!

When they heard that Shang Zhen had hidden 30,000 oceans in a certain place, who of the people led by Zhao Tieying, from top to bottom, would not be excited?

Perhaps in Zhao Tieying's mind, the 30,000 yuan can be turned into a good gun, and in the mind of his soldiers, the 30,000 yuan can be turned into good wine, good food and even women in brothels!

Moreover, Fan Tongzuo was so timid, he didn't even have a gun, how could Zhao Tieying be afraid that he would run away?

So after Zhao Tieying asked Fan Tongzuo about the situation of the money, he immediately decided to take him and his men to take Fan Tongzuo back, and they set out on this road to make a fortune two days ago.

It's just that when it comes to Zhao Tieying's mental state, it was two days ago.

Isn't it the same for people, seeing something that makes their hearts beat, their brains heat up and they act stupidly.

But now they have been on the road for two days. By asking the people along the way, they are getting closer and closer to Baiyungou. Zhao Tieying, who has calmed down, became suspicious, but he also thought, isn't this kid surnamed Fan lying to himself in order to live a few more days?

So after he discussed with Zhao Mingxuan in a low voice for a while, Zhao Mingxuan, who got off the front car and sat in the carriage where Fan Tongzuo was, began to threaten Fan Tongzuo.

At this time, Zhao Mingxuan saw that it was useless to scare Fan Tongzuo, but looking at Fan Tongzuo's wretched appearance, he felt uneasy.

Going to Baiyungou to find the 30,000 yuan was the decision of the regiment leader Zhao Tieying.

As Zhao Mingxuan, who had been with Zhao Tieying for some years and was regarded as a confidant by Zhao Tieying, understood Zhao Tieying's style of doing things best. He would do whatever the regiment leader said, and he would resolutely not express his own opinions, or he said that he had no opinions!

You can only get by by doing whatever Zhao Tieying said.

As for the fact that he gave up the opportunity to shoot Shang Zhen in the back in Shuiquan Town, until now, he himself can't figure out why he did that at that time.