his robbery

Ma Congrong personally called the railway bureau to ask for a ticket.When the Railway Bureau heard that the speaker was the famous Mr. Ma, they thought it was Jing Shuai who was going south, and immediately prepared the best tickets available recently, and sent them to Gu's house according to the address.

After Gu Chengxi got the train ticket, he picked a group of decent young adjutants to accompany him.Xiao Lin prepared a new leather robe for himself a month ago, and now that he is really going back to his hometown, he is more excited than Gu Chengxi.Holding a small top hat in each hand, he stared at the mirror for a long time, and finally asked Gu Chengxi: "Chengxi, which one do you think I look good on?"

Gu Chengxi yawned openly at him, and at the same time replied with a whimper: "A virtue, any one will do!"

As if the hats were hot, Xiao Lin held the two hats and inhaled: "Otherwise, I will take them all? I can wear whichever I want at that time!"

Gu Chengxi began to curse: "Go away! You have to ask me about such a shit, did your head get kicked by a donkey?"

Xiao Lin retreated immediately: "Damn it, I let you kick it."

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Gu Chengxi took Xiao Lin and got on the train surrounded by the adjutant guards.Now the sky is big and the earth is big, Qiu Ba is the biggest, especially he is a veritable head of the regiment.Shaking his shoulders and walking in the carriage, the passengers and the waiter all automatically gave way to him, never daring to block the way of the military master.Xiao Lin followed closely behind with a blushing face - usually he couldn't feel it at home, but when he really went out, he realized that his Chengxi was really majestic and powerful.

He likes Gu Chengxi, Gu Chengxi's year-round wickedness is smoking, his heart is like a mirror, but he still likes it.He knew that he couldn't control Gu Chengxi, but if he couldn't control it, he couldn't control it. He was born in hardship, and he knew how to make a living.If Gu Chengxi refused to give it to him, he took the initiative to ask for it.If you ask for more, it will be considered an advantage; if you ask for less, it is better than nothing.Following Gu Chengxi, he had to comfort himself and encourage himself, otherwise he would have broken his heart a hundred times.

There is no train station in the county town of my hometown, so Gu Chengxi and others had no choice but to get off the train in a nearby county.The head of the army stationed there received him—this person was a regimental commander under Lu Yongming, and he was not familiar with Gu Chengxi, but he had spoken to him and knew that he once ate half a pig and twenty catties of pancakes at one time.Arranging three banquet tables into one table, he enthusiastically invited Gu Chengxi to have a meal.Gu Chengxi couldn't argue with a hundred words, and the other party had good intentions, so he had no choice but to chew without words.

After eating and drinking enough, the head of the regiment sent a team to escort them on the road.He arrived at his hometown smoothly, and the county magistrate and head of the security team in the city all greeted him respectfully.The security captain of the Zhao family who beat him up at the beginning fled all the way to the countryside to seek refuge. Mr. Zhao also led his grandson and daughter out of the city in a hurry to visit relatives.

Gu Chengxi led Xiao Lin and his adjutant, and walked on the street with their heads held high. As they walked, they felt that the city was so small and the street was so narrow.I have lived in this place for more than 20 years, why did I go to the capital and reopen a world?

He didn't speak, just thought, and while thinking, he walked back to his home.

His dilapidated poor house would not attract thieves with the door open.Leaving the accompanying adjutant outside, he and Xiao Lin stepped into the yard.Standing in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, he passed through the broken door and saw the broken pot and stove in the room, as well as a broken kang.His brows gradually wrinkled, and he clenched his leather-gloved hands into fists.Walking forward to the door, he bent down slightly, and found that the door frame of his house was so low.People live here, grow into sky-high stature, but also have to hunch back and forth like a dog.Walking into the dark and cold room, he stared at his kang, which was piled up with a pile of rotten cotton wool, which used to be his bedding.

"Xiao Lin." He said to the pile of rotten cotton wool: "I am extraordinary."

Xiao Lin stared at him fixedly: "I know."

His clenched hands slowly loosened, and he continued: "I will do a bigger business."

Xiao Lin nodded vigorously: "I believe."

Raising his hand to touch his chest, he said to the dirty Kang bed: "Call me head."

Xiao Lin immediately said: "Captain Gu!"

Gu Chengxi still nodded his chest: "Call me teacher."

Xiao Lin called out clearly: "Mr. Gu."

"Call me General."

"General Gu."

Gu Chengxi closed his eyes and raised his head, took a deep breath of the cold air, and then sighed three words: "Okay, okay, okay."

Then he turned around abruptly and walked out quickly.

Gu Chengxi walked into the yard, and found a small group of people outside the yard who were looking around.Taking a closer look, he recognized them.And they were timid and obsequious, and pitiful, even bowed and bowed to him.

They were all Gu Chengxi's original partners.Facing Tuan Zhang at this moment, they grinned frightenedly, wanting Tuan Gu to support and support themselves.

Gu Chengxi walked out of the courtyard and stood in front of them.He is tall, no matter what he is tall.Looking down at the old acquaintances in front of him, he asked, "I haven't seen you in a year, and you didn't starve to death?"

The poor and down-and-out partners don't even have the right to be ashamed of themselves, they just look up at his nose and giggle at him.

Gu Chengxi looked at them, as if seeing himself who had just entered Beijing: "You didn't starve to death, which means you are still a little lucky! Let's go, the head of the regiment will treat you to a meal first. If you are full, the head of the regiment will return it to you." A future!"

This time returning home, Gu Chengxi had mixed feelings, and so did Xiao Lin.Gu Chengxi has partners, and he also has partners.When the companions saw his leather robe and top hat, they all admired him and dared not touch them.At first everyone said that Xiao Lin was stupid, and he was fooling around with the lazy and greedy Gu Chengxi every day, but he didn't expect to let him mess around!Who would have expected that Gu Chengxi would suddenly have a big future?

Someone asked Xiao Lin: "Is Gu Chengxi treating you well now?"

Xiao Lin took off his hat, put it in his hand and played with it over and over again: "Of course. I'm the one who has the final say in the family. If he gets money, he will hand it over to me."

Someone laughed: "Xiao Lin, don't you do nothing from morning to night, eat and buy whatever you want, and do whatever you want to wear?"

Xiao Lin didn't mention that he was Gu Chengxi's slave at home, and he had to be scolded every now and then.He pursed his lips and smiled at his companions, and replied vigorously: "Isn't it? What kind of life does the young master live, and what kind of life do I live. Chengxi has a conscience and is very kind to me."

The audience could not agree that Gu Chengxi had a conscience, but seeing Xiao Lin's appearance, they had to admit Xiao Lin's good life.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Gu Chengxi and Xiao Lin returned to Beijing, with a big rusty tail behind them. It was Gu Chengxi who picked a group of handsome young men from his hometown friends.Among them was a pair of twin brothers, both in their 20s, who were somewhat related to San Luotuo, who had smoked opium to death, but they had a good appearance and had no resemblance to San Luotuo.The twin brothers are surnamed Du, one is called Gousheng, and the other is worse, Goushi.When Gu Chengxi was recruiting soldiers, he was already used to this phenomenon, so at this moment, according to the usual practice, they all changed their names, and Du Gousheng became Du Guosheng; Dog Dung became Du Guofen.Du Guo struggled to put forward his opinion: "Tuan Zuo, it has been changed anyway, just change it completely, don't make me shit!"

Gu Chengxi used his brain, thought for a long time, and finally said: "Okay, from now on your name is Du Guofeng! Remember, the wind of the wind."

After solving the problem of the names of the brothers from the Du family, Gu Chengxi insisted on his words, continued to work hard, and put his strength on a young man named Zhao Pangniu.Zhao Pangniu was weak and sick since she was a child, so she had to change her name from Fat Niu to Pang Niu, and her mother pierced her ears twice with a big needle from the sole of a shoe, and she wore earrings until she was fourteen or fifteen years old.Zhao Pangniu is a little physically disabled, although she is as thin as a bean sprout, she never delays him from following Gu Chengxi to cause trouble.

Gu Chengxi changed Zhao Fatniu into Zhao Liangwu, because he felt that the names of the rest of the people could still be heard and there was no need to change them, so he ordered an adjutant to send them all to Baoding for training.He flipped through the almanac to look at the day, he was dressed neatly, and went out to the Huo Mansion.

Huo Xiangzhen was not at home, so Gu Chengxi met Bai Mani directly.

Bai Mani was lying on the big soft bed, with messy hair covering his forehead and covering his eyebrows.A pair of eyes are slightly sunken, and his chin is so thin that he has a sharp point.Suddenly seeing Gu Chengxi coming, he couldn't move, so he smiled weakly: "Little Gu."

Gu Chengxi bent down in front of the bed: "Master Bai, have you quit smoking?"

Bai Mani shook his head in the pillow: "I want to quit on New Year's Eve, but... I can't hold it back... It's too painful. My elder brother let me rest for a few days, and I started to quit again in the third day of junior high school. It's not over until today. "

Gu Chengxi raised his hand and stroked his hair, seeing how pitiful he was: "Young Master Bai, hold back. I will play with you after quitting smoking. I will take you wherever you say you want to go." ;I'll beat whoever you say you want to beat. How about it? Interesting enough?"

Bai Mani grinned, showing a mouthful of neat little white teeth: "Xiao Gu, why don't you always come to see me?"

Gu Chengxi withdrew his hand, and replied in a low voice: "I was a little afraid of the commander, so I didn't dare to come. And I even went back to my hometown."

Then he reached into his pocket and took out a grasshopper made of hay: "I don't know what gift I should give you for the Chinese New Year. I know you don't lack good things, so I just made a grasshopper by myself. It’s clean and tightly braided, and it won’t loosen up by itself. Look, how is my workmanship?”

Bai Mani raised a hand from under the quilt, took the grasshopper and looked at it again and again: "You made it up? Well, it looks like the real thing. If it is dyed green, it will be exactly the same as a live grasshopper."

Gu Chengxi smiled and said, "Who said that grasshoppers are all green? There are many colors of grasshoppers! There are also yellow ones."

Bai Mani is a person who lacks common sense, so he was surprised: "Isn't the grasshopper green?"

Gu Chengxi squatted beside the bed: "When summer comes, I'll catch a bunch of grasshoppers for you to see."

Bai Mani turned his face and opened his eyes to look at him.Now I really have no friends at all, only Xiao Gu is willing to accompany him.

Gu Chengxi had no reason not to squat for a long time and not leave, but not long after he left, Huo Xiangzhen came back.

Huo Xiangzhen took off her outer gown downstairs, and went upstairs wearing a dark blue gown with blessing characters.Entering Bai Mani's bedroom, he asked the first sentence: "How is the morning?"

When Bai Mani saw him, he felt both joy and fear—before he dared to act wildly against Huo Xiangzhen, but now he didn't dare, and now he thought he was wrong, and he was afraid of Huo Xiangzhen.

"No attack in the morning." He replied in a thin voice.

Huo Xiangzhen was relieved, turned around and went out to have a sip of hot tea.Bai Mani didn't know what he meant, so he could only look at his back and think, "Why are you leaving again?"

Bai Mani stuffed the grasshopper under the pillow, and waited quietly for Huo Xiangzhen to come back.Waiting and waiting, he was addicted.

Limbs and bones were itching together, the bones and joints seemed to be squirming and gnawing, the injured left leg obviously did not move, but from the root of the thigh to the toes, the flesh, muscles and bones seemed to be convulsed and twisted. A wave of pain was piercing.Tears flowed down his face uncontrollably, he closed his eyes and moaned - first he moaned, and after a while, he cried out.

There was no way, the smoking cessation pills were all made of morphine, and Dr. Taylor forbade him to take them, so he could only suffer.Generally, people who quit smoking are also hard-pressed.There is no better way than to suffer hard.

With both hands clutching the sheet, he was out of breath from crying.His left leg seemed to be missing a layer of skin, and it was weakly rubbing against the silk sheets, it felt like rubbing coals, and the fire directly burned his bloody flesh and bones.He cried loudly and loudly, and when he cried until his heart was piercing, he died without a sound.After a moment of silence, he breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time let out a wail.Just when he was in pain, the door suddenly opened, and it was Huo Xiangzhen who came back.

Huo Xiangzhen had already taken off her long robe and changed into a short one.After sitting cross-legged on the bed, he wrapped Bai Mani in a quilt and hugged him directly into his arms.Holding him tightly with both arms, Huo Xiangzhen bent down deeply, as if trying to strangle him and herself into one.And Bai Mani reluctantly shut up and held back his crying, not wanting his elder brother to see his hideous and distorted face.

It seemed that Huo Xiangzhen's arm and ribs were about to be strangled. The behavior that was unbearable in the past offset the pain of drug addiction at this moment.With a trembling breath, he cried softly, "Brother, try harder."

Huo Xiangzhen put in more effort.

When Huo Xiangzhen felt that he was going to strangle Bai Mani, Bai Mani survived the first torture of the day.

The pajamas all over his body were soaked in cold sweat. He was lying in Huo Xiangzhen's arms panting heavily, while panting, he struggled to speak: "Xiao Gu came in the morning...he told me to hold back...he still used Grass... made me a little grasshopper."

At this point, he closed his eyes and rested for a while, and then continued: "The little grasshopper is under the pillow... Brother, take a look... It looks real..."

Huo Xiangzhen turned around and reached out to feel under the pillow, only to find a grasshopper.

Rubbing the tip of Bai Mani's nose with the grasshopper's head, Huo Xiangzhen swayed his body from side to side, acting as his big cradle: "Look at Gu Chengxi, he trains soldiers with all his might; he fights with all his might. I Let him be the head of the regiment, and none of his subordinates disobeyed him. What is his background? What is your background? You are ten times a hundred times taller than him! Brother, how old are you? In the next few decades of your life, you plan to fool around Have you caught it?"

Bai Mani looked up into Huo Xiangzhen's eyes, and said angrily, "Brother, I swear, I will definitely learn from it in the future."

The words are the truth.This time he was already ashamed; if there was another time, he didn't know what face he would have to face his elder brother.

Huo Xiangzhen lowered his eyes to look at him, showing deep and long double eyelid marks.Bai Mani looked at him, and felt that his appearance was a little scary, like a cold and brutal barbarian.

Huo Xiangzhen took off Bai Mani's wet pajamas, and wiped his body with a hot towel.After Bai Mani put on his new pajamas, he also went to bed and lay on his back, which seemed to mean that he wanted to take a nap.

Bai Mani refused to sleep, lying on his chest to play with that grasshopper.Pinching the grasshopper with his fingers, he made the grasshopper jump from the center of Huo Xiangzhen's eyebrows, jumping all the way to the tip of the nose, lips, and chin.Huo Xiangzhen smiled with her eyes closed, and reached out to pat him on the back: "Don't make trouble."

Bai Mani took a small interest: "Brother, you send someone to tell Xiao Gu to make up some more for me."

Huo Xiangzhen didn't take his request seriously, but my younger brother was always childish, and now he was lingering on the bed all day without entertainment.Playing with grasshoppers is also a pastime.

Let Ma Congrong pass the message to Gu Chengxi, and he returned to the room while he was free, and continued to accompany Bai Mani.After such a night and day, Bai Mani committed another three addictions, but each time became lighter, which is a trend of improvement, which is in line with Dr. Taylor's prediction.

Huo Xiangzhen didn't say anything, but was happy in her heart.In the evening, Bai Mani fell asleep on the bed. He sat in the dining room by himself and asked Yuan Man to get himself a bottle of wine.With heavy hands and feet, Yuan Man ran out and in, holding the thin neck of the foreign wine bottle with his big hand, and slammed it on the dining table with a "boom".Huo Xiangzhen frowned and stared at him: "Yuan Man, look at your style! If Ma Congrong is an embroiderer, you are a coolie!"

At this time, the orderly delivered the same dinner from the kitchen.Yuan Man was more careful, pinched the glass foot of the goblet with his fingers, and brought it to Huo Xiangzhen with his orchid fingers.Huo Xiangzhen held the napkin in his hand, and upon seeing this, he raised his head and asked, "Where's Ma Congrong?"

Yuan Man told him: "The Secretary-General didn't come today."

When Huo Xiangzhen heard this, he immediately threw the napkin on the table: "Bastard, he doesn't care about family affairs?"

Before Yuan Man could answer, an adjutant came outside: "Report to Commander, Captain Gu is here!"

Huo Xiangzhen reached out and grabbed the napkin again: "Let him in!"

Within three to five minutes, Gu Chengxi in military uniform walked to the door of the restaurant.Holding a large paper box full of flowers in his left hand, he raised his right hand and saluted the military: "Happy Chinese New Year, Commander."

Huo Xiangzhen turned to look at him: "What's the matter with you?"

Gu Chengxi held the big cardboard box with a smile, and told him beamingly: "Marshal, I brought you a grasshopper."

Huo Xiangzhen looked at him suspiciously: "Grasshopper?"

Immediately after raising his hand and patting his head, Huo Xiangzhen suddenly realized: "Oh, grasshopper!"