Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 3 Catch the Winter Famine
The wood felled in the forest farm, when the spring water grows, will use the river water to tie the wood into rafts and rush downstream. There is a railway and a small locomotive in the lower reaches of the river, which are specially used to transport wood. The situation here It is very similar to the "Jiapigou" described in the famous novel "Linhaixueyuan". "Jiapigou" does have its place in the northeast. It sounds very mysterious, but even the old hunter like Yanzi's father can't tell the ins and outs of this place name, but they all say that there are a lot of yellow skins nearby, and Huang Daxian made a lot of trouble a long time ago, and no one mentions it now. Yes, Huangpizi is a common name for weasels by the local people.

Although the Tuanshanzi Forest Farm is simple and remote, socialist construction is inseparable from it, so we have to brave the wind and snow to come here on duty. But to be honest, there is nothing serious to do in the forest farm in winter. The only thing that needs to be taken care of is that we will arrive later. Just down the river to help send the last little log train.

There is a row of wooden houses made of birch in this forest farm. In spring and summer, there are loggers who work and live here. Due to the limited transportation capacity, they can’t transport all the trees after cutting them. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will leave the forest farm and go home to celebrate the New Year. At this time, the forest farm will be taken care of by the nearest Ganggang Yingzi.

Before we arrived, the forest farm was guarded by the old man knocking on the mountain and his granddaughter, a girl named "Thrush". Originally, according to the arrangement of the village party secretary, we should replace them, but when we arrived, we found that the forest farm Something was very wrong, the forest guard's cabin was empty, the ashes in the hearth were cold and there was no trace of heat, and the grandfather and grandson were not seen.

I couldn't help worrying about them, and hurriedly searched the forest farm separately with my two companions, but there was still no trace. I became more and more uneasy, and said to Fatty and Swallow: "This year's weather is too cold. There is no sign at all, I am afraid that the beasts in the mountains will also chase the winter famine, will Mr. Koshan and his granddaughter be taken away by evil beasts like lynxes?"

All the hunting dogs in the village were brought into the mountains by hunters, so we did not bring hunting dogs. Now the wind and snow are blowing, the mountains near Tuanshanzi are high and densely forested, and the terrain is complicated. The snow covered the traces of humans and animals. Even if people look for them, they may not be able to find them, let alone there are only three of us right now.Even though Fatty Dang and I were thinking about going back to the village to bring in rescuers, we suddenly realized that there was no one to look for in the village. We were still young at that time, and we were at a loss what to do for a while.

Swallow was still careful, so she took a closer look in the cabin. There was still some food and dried meat left in the cabin, but the shotgun of the old man knocking on the mountain and the ox horn pot filled with gunpowder iron sand were not there. Orion is the best at observing clues. There are no traces of animals in the park, and the things are neatly arranged. They seem to have made a lot of sticky cakes, so there shouldn't be any accidents. Maybe the old man Koushan took her granddaughter to hunt rabbits, or maybe he was worried about the heavy snow. Feng Shan, before we could replace him, he went back to the village ahead of time. The old man Manshan has been hunting for decades and has a lot of experience. If you don't run into a mother bear who has just given birth, there will be no surprises.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the forest farm, the three of us felt a little at ease. We were suffering from hunger and cold along the way, and we had to put aside all important matters at this time. The most urgent task was to keep warm and fill our stomachs. , So we hurriedly burned the kang, baked the hard-frozen pancakes on the wall of the furnace, and ate to satisfy our hunger.The three of them had eaten enough and it was getting dark, so they started chatting casually as usual to relieve boredom, and they took turns to talk as usual. The fat man first talked about an anecdote about suppressing bandits in the Northeast before liberation, which he heard from his father. , I have heard him tell it no less than ten times, but it is the first time for Yanzi to hear this story, so he is very fascinated by it.

I saw the fat man frothing, and even gestured and said: Bandits who gather crowds to plunder people's wealth are also called "horse bandits" or "beards" in the Northeast. It is said that horse bandits are different from mainland thieves. His patriarch was Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of Pidao in the late Ming Dynasty. After Yuan Chonghuan, the deputy governor of the Ming Dynasty, planned to kill Mao Wenlong, a large number of officers and soldiers under Mao Wenlong were scattered on the northeast coastal islands or deep mountains. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty considered themselves and did not engage in fighting or looting houses. However, after a hundred years, with the increasingly complicated personnel structure, they gradually evolved into horse bandits who did all kinds of evil. However, until liberation, the horse bandits still respected Mao Wenlong as their patriarch.

These gangs of "horse bandits" were later called "scorpions". According to the "brand size" reported by the bandit leaders, the names of each group were different, such as "one iron whip", "Flying on the Grass", "Sang Dao", "Phoenix Shuangxia" and so on.

The number one horse bandit in Northeast China before liberation was headed by a bald man nicknamed "Zhe Tian". Without growing hair, "covering the sky" is ruthless, and his hands are stained with the blood of cadres and the masses.

After Japan surrendered, the Northeast carried out land reform. In order to protect the fruits of victory from being destroyed by bandits, Dong Zong established a special bandit suppression unit. They were all eradicated. "Four beams and eight pillars" is a kind of organizational name within the bandits. Except for the big ones who are called "big cabinets", the other so-called "four beams" are "Ding Tian Liang" and "Corner Beam". ", "Yingmen Liang", "Cruelous Beam", and "Eight Pillars" are "Ji Qi", "Hanging Line", "Understand the Bureau", "Chuanhao", "General Reminder", "Water Phase", " The general term for "horse account" and "account room". Once these people are finished, the whole lock will be completely down.

And the most critical figure in the "Four Beams and Eight Pillars" is "Jiangjiao Liang", commonly known as "Mr. Tongsuan" in Northeast China. As soon as the military division was over, "Blocking the Sky" lost his motivation to collude with him, and became a veritable commander-in-chief. However, this man was also extremely cunning, and the squad could never catch him. He slipped away from under his nose.Some superstitious locals rumored that this bandit leader saved Huang Daxian's life when he was young. .

But there are strange things in the world. The bandits are most taboo to mention the word "death", but if you don't mention this word, you can't hide it. Being a bandit will never end well. As the saying goes, "If you do evil, you can't live." It should be that he was exhausted, and that year there happened to be a rare "winter famine" in the deep mountains. The common people called this year "death year", and Huang Daxian finally couldn't cover him.

(End of this chapter)