Chapter 56 Chapter Fifty-Five

The twenty-sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty was 1900 AD. On the morning of the seventh day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the German army, led by the county governor Ji Guifeng, took advantage of the thick fog and surrounded Shawo Village in the southwest of Northeast Gaomi Township.On this day, my mother had just turned six months, and her baby name was Xuan'er. His grandfather, Lu Wuluan, was a young man who was proficient in martial arts and walked quietly.He got up early in the morning, practiced his fists and kicks in the foggy yard, then picked up the two foreign tin buckets that were very precious at the time, and went to the sweet water well at the south end of the village to fetch water.Although the dense fog has not yet cleared, many people are already active on the street.Grandfather heard the sound of martial arts training coming from Du Jieyuan's threshing ground.Du Jieyuan is a martial artist, with a long body, a fair face, a beautiful beard, and a good-looking talent, but he married an ugly black-faced pockmarked woman.Legend has it that after Du Jieyuan won the imperial examination, he once had the idea of ​​divorcing his wife, but at night he dreamed of a big bird with colorful feathers covering his body with a wing, and when he woke up, he found that an arm of a black pockmarked woman was pressing on his chest.Du Jieyuan knew in his heart that this was God's revelation, so he gave up the idea of ​​divorcing his wife.Legend has it that Du Jieyuan is so good at martial arts that he can carry two buckets full of water, stand on the back of a horse, and gallop the horse without splashing water.

When my grandfather came to the sweet water well, he suddenly smelled a fragrance overflowing from the well.It is said that this well leads directly to the East China Sea. No matter how dry the year is, it has never been dried. There are often big golden fish in the well.The well water is so sweet that the whole village drinks the water from the well.People love this well as they love their eyes.Grandfather looked up and saw a white lotus flower carved like agate blooming in the well.Surprised in his heart, he hurriedly backed away, for fear of disturbing this magical and beautiful flower.He was walking back with an empty bucket, and met Du Li, a long-term worker from Du Jieyuan's family who came to carry water.Du Li was bleary-eyed, yawned long and said, "Wu Luan, wake up so early!"

Grandfather stopped Du Li and said: Don't go. What's the matter? There are white lotus in the well. Not to mention white lotus, I have to carry water even if there is red lotus, or the shopkeeper won't let me. Du Li staggered towards the well carrying the heavy wooden barrel. Grandfather caught up and said: There is really a white lotus. Wuchao, early in the morning, what evil? I saw it with my own eyes, it was bigger than the mouth of a bowl. I have to carry water even if it is bigger than the lid of the pot, right? Du Li walked to the well, probed into the well, looked back at her grandfather, and cursed: "Your mother is here!"

Before Du Li could say a word, she collapsed on the well platform.Grandfather heard a muffled gunshot and saw blood gushing from Du Li's chest.A group of tall, slender-legged German soldiers in square hats were swarming over from the drawbridge.At the head is a Chinese with pigtails coiled around his neck, holding a pistol in his hand. German devils! The construction of the Jiaoji Railway by the Germans destroyed the geomantic omen of Northeast Gaomi Township.For this reason, Shangguan Dou and Sima Daya had a shit fight with them.The battle ended in a disastrous defeat for the people of Northeast Gaomi Township.The miserable cry of Shangguandou when he walked barefoot on the red-hot iron griddle, as well as the disgusting smell of burnt flesh, grandfather and the others could never forget.People learned from their failures that the Germans were not puppets with unbending legs and no knees, nor clean ghosts who would vomit to death if they were stained with human feces.The people of Shawo Village have enmity with the Germans.A road construction engineer touched Yu Bao's eldest sister's tits on Shawoji, arousing public outrage, and was beaten to death by Shawo villagers.They knew the Germans would not rest.During the feces and urine war in Dalan Town, the Red Spear Club of Shawo Village went to support them.My grandfather was the captain of the Red Guns.Du Jieyuan is the captain of the Red Gun Team.They practiced martial arts and trained soldiers, cast guns and cannons, repaired soil enclosures and dug trenches, and stood ready for battle.There is no movement for several months, and people gradually slack off.But now, what they were anxiously waiting for and feared to happen happened.German soldiers climbed the fence, opened the gates, lowered the drawbridge, and rushed in.Du Li, who did not believe that there were white lotuses in the well, became the first person to be killed that day, followed by 394 Shawo villagers.

Lu Wuluan saw the German soldiers rushing over like a group of big cranes.The breech-loading guns in their hands sputtered and spit flames, and the guns whizzed.The dense fog has not yet cleared, and the bodies of the Germans appear and disappear in the fog. I don't know how many there are.My grandfather yelled loudly and called the police to the villagers.My grandfather was reluctant to part with the pair of snowflake tin buckets bought with four buckets of wheat, so he ran carrying them.The bucket swung wildly, squeaking and screaming.A German bullet had punched a hole in the back bucket.People in the street are running around.Blind Chen stumbled into the German army dragging a grinding stick, and asked loudly, "Where are the devils? Where are the devils?"

The German soldier put the muzzle of his gun to the back of his head and fired.He dragged the millstick and fell to the ground. The people all closed their doors and seized their belongings. Du Jieyuan, the captain of the Red Spear, had no time to gather the team, so he could only gather a dozen servants and long-term workers, and used jujube poles to top the gate.His pockmarked wife is also a concubine.With her arms bare, her loofah breasts were swaying, and she was carrying an iron mallet, running around behind Du Jieyuan. Grandfather ran home and locked the gate.Grandma trembled on the Kang with Lu Xuan'er in her arms.Grandma Yao is the most beautiful daughter-in-law in Shawo Village.A pair of small feet, pointed like bamboo shoots, at most three inches long.Du Jieyuan once said to Lu Wuluan: I am a majestic martial artist, but I married a big-footed mother-in-law; you are a fool, but you are accompanied by a three-inch golden lotus every night.Because of his small feet, Mrs. Yao has limited mobility, so she stays at home all day without seeing the sun, and her face is as white as a dough ball.

Xuan's father, Yao's face was ashen, and he said frightenedly, what should I do, what should I do? Lu Wuluan wiped a handful of ashes from under the pot and put it on Yao's face.The farmhouse houses are rudimentary and cannot hide.Lu Wuluan, this hero, tied his waist with a wide belt, drank a bottle of wine, and his courage rose, he dragged out a white wax pole and red tasseled gun from behind the door, jumped into the yard, and hid behind the gate. Du Jieyuan stepped on a wooden ladder and climbed up to his big flat-roofed barn.Behind him, two long-term laborers dragged a heavy earthen cannon, and climbed up after him, humming and humming.He saw that on the street where the fog had not cleared, the panicked people were running back and forth like a flock of sheep that had been blasted.A group of German soldiers kneeled and shot in an orderly manner, and the civilians were knocked down to the ground in batches.Some died without even moving, while others cried and rolled in a pool of blood.He saw that on the dirt fence where the fog had cleared, there were tall German soldiers circling around, and some Manchu Qing banner soldiers with white cloths on their chests and backs, and the word "Yong" written on the white cloths.At the south gate, a group of German devils, surrounded by two gleaming cannons drawn by black mules, creaked across the drawbridge.The village is surrounded.

The long-term workers dragged the earth cannon up, and ran down to get the medicine gourd.On the top of the granary, the fog has cleared, and the golden sun is brilliant.Mrs. Xie Yuan also climbed up to the barn and observed the situation skillfully.Ping Jie, she called her husband's name, and said, I'm afraid that today is more or less ominous.Du Jieyuan looked at his wife and said, "Take your child to the cellar. In today's matter, you will die if you fight anyway. If you don't fight, you will die."The notes I wrote to the emperor were pressed under the kang mat. After I die, you go to Qingzhou Mansion to find Mr. Murong and ask him to play it for you.Madam smiled and said: Pingjie, idiot!Another platoon of Germans shot a woman holding a child to death on the stone steps outside the gate of Du Jieyuan's house.In the yard, the dogs barked wildly.Load up!Du Jieyuan said.Changgong poured medicine into the muzzle, tamped it with a bougie, and then loaded some iron bullets the size of peanuts into it.Master, how much medicine is in it?asked the long-term worker.Du Jieyuan said: Nine points!

Du Jieyuan adjusted the gun positions himself, so that the muzzles of the guns were facing the German soldiers who were still a little hazy in the morning fog.He took the incense from his wife, put it in his mouth and blew it up, and then lit the medicine twister behind the cannon.A puff of white smoke came out of the medicine twist hole.The pig iron cannon was silent, silent, like a mighty beast, and then it jumped violently. A dark red flame spewed out of the muzzle and shot into the enemy group, like an iron broom, sweeping down a group of German soldiers.The screams of foreigners resounded in the street.White gunpowder smoke lingered in the pig iron muzzle.Load up!Du Jieyuan ordered.The fog in the street was dispersed by the artillery, and the German soldiers hid in the alley in panic.There were a few dead bodies left on the street, and a few wounded soldiers covering their faces and howling, blood dripping from their fingers.The long-term workers hurriedly loaded their cannons.Sober German soldiers shot at the warehouse.A bullet slid past Du Jieyuan's ear.He felt hot in his ears, touched the blood on his hand, and fell down in a hurry.The long-time worker who filled the medicine was injured in his stomach, and he covered his stomach with his hands, his face was pale, and he cried: "Master, master, my family is a single heir to the fifth generation. If I die, I will be extinct for my grandson's family."Get out, don't say your family has no descendants, every family in Shawo Village will have no descendants today, he said with a bloody face, pretending to be a cannon.Madam persuaded: "Go down, Pingjie."He dragged the blood-stained medicine gourd, and said: Give him a little more, it must be enough.The lady said: It is enough to knock down a large area.A bullet hit the lady in the neck, she straightened up, then fell over, and blood gushed out of her mouth.It's over, kill Fenghuang, Du Jieyuan thought.The lady's pockmarked face twitched, and a ray of bleak light shot out of her slender eyes.Du Jieyuan poured all the medicine in the gourd into the smoking muzzle.He crouched low, avoiding the crackling bullets hitting the low parapet; holding the cleaning rod in both hands, he rammed the medicine.The uninjured long-term worker handed him the incense and said: Master, light the gun.

There was a loud bang, and swarms of iron pellets struck a wall across the street.A honeycomb of bullet holes appeared in the wall, and mud fell into the street. Du Jieyuan stood up unsteadily, facing the sun, and said: Your Majesty, life is boundless!Live forever! The German soldiers took aim at the tall man, fired a volley, and knocked him out of the barn. At this time, the two German cannons fired successively at the tall tile-roofed house of Du Jieyuan's house.The German cannons used copper-cased shells, and the sound was crisp, sharp, and deafening.The shell hit the roof and exploded rumblingly. The broken bricks and tiles and the smoke of shrapnel splashed everywhere.

The Germans knocked open the door of Lu Wuluan's house.First put a few shots into it, but there was no movement.Wu Luan hid behind the door and waited calmly.A German soldier, holding a breech-loading gun with a bayonet attached, entered the door like a big rooster.His trousers were very thin, protruding from his two dimple-like knees, and there were two rows of shiny brass buttons in the middle of his jacket.Five chaos still did not move.The German soldier turned his head and waved to the gate.Wu Luan saw his blue eyes, red nose and white hair protruding from the brim of his hat very clearly.The German soldiers also saw the chaos behind the door, like the black iron tower, and were about to shoot, but it was too late.Wu Luan rushed out, but before anyone arrived, the iron spearhead of the red-tasseled spear pierced the German soldier's stomach.The upper body of the German soldier was lying on the wax pole of the red-tasseled gun.When Wu Luan drew his gun, he felt a gust of cold wind enter his waist from behind.With his hands numb, he let go of the gun barrel, turned around with difficulty, and saw two German soldiers in front of him, pointing their guns at his chest.He opened his arms and was about to rush forward when there was a crack in the back of his mind, as if something had been broken, and his eyes were green. The German soldiers rushed into the house with guns and saw a snow-white woman's body hanging from the beams.Those two pointed feet with only one fingernail cover surprised the German soldiers. The next day, the mother's aunt and uncle Yu Dashang rushed over after hearing the news and rescued Xuan'er from the noodle tank.Covered in flour, she was on the brink of death.Yu Lu pulled the flour out of her mouth and slapped her for a long time before she cried hoarsely.