Chapter 50 Dispute
Without the panting from the forced march back, the five men walked westward through the woods with their heads hung.
Jinzhou still exists, but the people and things are different, and it is no longer their territory.
There was no large army there that they wanted to return to, only the gleaming bayonets of the invaders.
The northwest direction is the Songling Mountain area of Jinzhou. If they want to stay safe for the time being and not go there, where else can they go?
But before they even left the woods, Hou Kanshan plopped down on the ground and angrily said, "What's the point of leaving? Leave! I quit! I'm going to marry that female student! I'm going home to my wife and kids!"
Hou Kanshan looked so dejected and frustrated.
I just don’t know what that beautiful female student did to provoke him, but she had to marry him and give birth to his children!
Seeing Hou Kanshan's look, the remaining four people looked at each other and stopped.
Everyone on the road was planning to return to the team, but in the blink of an eye, it was all in vain. Everyone was disappointed. Who could persuade Hou to look at the mountain?
The four men also felt that they had lost their spirit and fell silent. After a while, Chen Hanwen finally spoke up, "You want a wife and children, a warm bed, but those Japanese are just a bunch of beasts who will do anything. Do you still want to live a stable life?"
It has been two months since the Japanese army launched the September 18th Incident. Although they have been stationed in Jinzhou City, news still comes in that the Japanese army has committed many acts of rape, arson and murder!
"Then I'll surrender. I can make a living by following anyone!" Hou Kanshan said again.
Seeing Hou Kanshan say such words, Shang Zhen and Qian Chuan'er looked at him as if they didn't know him.
Chen Hanwen, who thought he knew Hou Kanshan better, emphasized, "Don't say that kind of thing!"
Hou Kanshan snorted angrily. Perhaps he knew he shouldn't have said anything too extreme. He looked up at Shang Zhen, who was standing there, and asked, "Ma Gan'er, do you surrender?"
In Hou Kanshan's eyes, Shang Zhen was just a punching bag. Since he had said the wrong thing just now, he had to get back at Shang Shi.
Everyone looked at Shang Zhen again.
Shang Zhen never expected that Hou Kanshan would shift the topic to himself, but is it necessary to ask the question of whether to surrender or not?
"I will not surrender! The Japanese killed so many of us, and I want revenge! I still have guns, and I still have so many unused bullets!" Shang Zhen spoke in a low voice, but his answer was firm.
"What if you run out of bullets?" Hou Kanshan asked.
Hou Kanshan did not expect that Shang Zhen's answer would be so firm. He felt embarrassed in front of others again.
"I won't run away if I run out of bullets?" Shang Zhen's answer came out again.
Shang Zhen's answer really impressed Chen Hanwen.
"Good!" Chen Hanwen praised Shang Zhen loudly. Then he looked at Hou Kanshan, Qian Chuan'er and Er Hanzi and said, "Ma Gan'er, what you said is very ambitious. Let's go into the mountains first, or at worst, we can walk to the interior!"
"Hehe", Qian Chuaner, who had been silent all the time, suddenly laughed.
In this kind of atmosphere, everyone was surprised that Qian Chuan'er could be happy.
"From now on, no one is allowed to call Shang Zhen a straw," Qian Chuan'er said. "You speak so confidently and stand so firm, but how can he be a straw that will break with a gust of wind? To me, he's clearly a paddle pole!"
Qian Chuan'er's metaphor was very interesting, and Chen Hanwen and Erhanzi also laughed.
Most people have seen and understood the hemp sticks in real life. They will break with a slight bend.
But what is a paddle?
It is a kind of Artemisia stalk that is extremely hard when grown. People in Northeast China mostly use the stalk to make bird cages and roll birds.
There were five people in total, and three of them expressed their opinions. As for the burly Erhanzi, he didn't need to express his opinion at all. He and Qian Chuan had always been one and the same. Whatever Qian Chuan did in front, he would always follow behind.
Hou Kanshan became bored.
He got up from the ground and began to walk west silently.
Seeing that Hou Kanshan was convinced, the others naturally followed suit, but Shang Zhen did not move.
"What's the matter? Do you still want to take down Jinzhou City by yourself?" Hou Kanshan looked back at Shang Zhen angrily.
Before Shang Zhen could answer, Er Hanzi followed up with a sentence: "How could he attack Jinzhou City alone? But he killed more Japanese than you!"
Honest people always speak the truth.
Erhanzi's words choked Hou Kanshan.
Not only was Hou Kanshan choked by Erhanzi's honest words, but even Chen Hanwen felt his face burning!
Where is the army?
The army is a place where the strong are respected and where life and death are fought. Whoever fights the best is the boss, and whoever kills the most enemies is the boss!
But yesterday, Shang Zhen and Qian Chuan'er were in the front, and only then did Chen Hanwen and Hou Kanshan run into the woods.
Of course, they later also covered up Shang Zhen and the other three.
From the perspective of cross-cover retreat, the actions of Chen Hanwen and Hou Kanshan cannot be said to be wrong.
But everyone understood that if Shang Zhen and the other three were killed by the Japanese, Chen Hanwen and Hou Kanshan would also escape into the mountains.
But Hou Kanshan, who knew he was in the wrong afterwards, confessed to Shang Zhen and Qian Chuaner, "Look, if it weren't for Xiucai and I protecting you, you three might have been beaten to death by the Japanese!"
At that time, Shang Zhen rolled his eyes at him and said nothing, but Qian Chuan'er did not tolerate this. Qian Chuan'er just said one sentence and said that Hou Kanshan had no electricity.
Qian Chuan'er said: "It's not hateful to get an advantage, but it's hateful to get an advantage and still act like a good boy!"
Qian Chuan only saw that there were only five of them, and he didn't want to fall out with Hou Kanshan.
If Hou Kanshan had not known better and said something else at that time, he would have had even more unpleasant words waiting for him.
That is, you want to be a whore and also want to be a virtuous woman. There is no such thing in the world!
As the saying goes, justice is in the hearts of the people. It was only at this time that Chen Hanwen realized that Hou Kanshan had gone too far. If he did not make his position clear, wouldn't he be the same as Hou Kanshan and get beaten too?
"Ma Gan'er, no, no, no, Shang Zhen! I will call you Shang Zhen from now on. Why don't you leave?" Chen Hanwen asked.
"I thought of the students we met on the road. If we didn't notify them, they would still rush to Jinzhou. Would they be caught by the Japanese?" Seeing that everyone around him was venting his anger, Shang Zhen started talking about business instead.
Just as Qian Chuan'er said, it's okay to take advantage of others, but you must never act like a good boy.
Since three out of the five people have spoken for me, there is no need for me to kick Hou Kanshan again, otherwise I will just be taking advantage of him, right?
Note: In Northeastern dialect, it means if you don’t beat it, it’s nothing.
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I was wondering if novels about the war of resistance would still be popular, but recently I saw in the news that the Japanese have once again sided with a certain country, which shows that they are still ruthless. It seems that writing novels about the war of resistance is necessary.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a war of resistance by the entire nation, so Laozhe decided to write about some small characters this time, hoping to get your continued support!