Breaking through Guandong, I became Zhu Chuanwen

Chapter 6 The Benefactor of Xia Yuanzhang's Family
"It's windy!" The whole port erupted instantly.

"Little brother, do you want to go on the same boat with me?" At this time, Xia Yuanzhang also felt a little bit like an arrow, and it was like a wind of divine help that made him feel that meeting this little brother in front of him might be fate.

"I can't ask for it, shopkeeper Xia." Originally, he planned to go to the boy in the teahouse to introduce him to the boss of the boat, but he was also happy to be invited by Xia Yuanzhang.

Back, the three of them went to the small restaurant where they had just eaten together.

"Chuanwen, has the horse been sold?" Chuanwenniang asked worriedly when she saw a man who looked like a businessman led by the two brothers, thinking that something had happened.

"It's sold. I sold it for 30 silver dollars." Zhu Chuanjie rushed to say, "But brother spent another 5, saying it was for sending some kind of telegram." There was complaint in his tone.

"Mother, this is a big deal. A little money can relieve your heart." Zhu Chuanwen explained.

"It's okay, it's okay, just sell it." Chuanwenniang didn't care about the few silver dollars anymore, as long as her two sons came back safely.

Zhu Chuanwen handed the silver dollars obtained from selling horses to his mother without a trace.

It's not to guard against Xia Yuanzhang, but the "careful people" on the pier.

"Sister-in-law, I think Brother Zhu is definitely older than me, so I will call you that. Your eldest son is an interesting person. I happen to be doing business in Lushun, let's go to Haibei together." Xia Yuanzhang said.

At this time, Chuanwenniang pulled Zhu Chuanwen aside and muttered for a while.

It was probably because Zhu Chuanwen was reprimanded, saying that he brought someone of unknown origin with him.

What Zhu Chuanwen can say, he can't say that he thinks this person is an important person.

Just to let my mother relax, this shopkeeper Xia is a generous person.

Xia Yuanzhang took Zhu's family and boarded the boat to the north of the sea smoothly.

It was November, 1904.

The Japanese fleet blocked the Bohai Bay, and Zhu Chuanwen's group of ships was the last batch of ships to go north.

On the sea, dozens of wooden boats head north against the wind.

At night, the combined Japanese fleet and the Russian fleet stationed in Lushun could be seen confronting each other under artillery fire.

The flames flickered.

The boss of the ship dodged the gunfire and called on the sailors to make a detour.

Days passed, and the food that was originally counted was not enough, "Mother, let's eat half full from today."

"Mom, I have food." Xian'er said suddenly.

"Where do you get your food?" Zhu Chuanwen asked.

"It was saved from my rations over the years." As he said that, he brought over a pillow that he had been holding for a while. The other pillow was at Chuanwenniang's place. It was filled with straw and could be leaned on on the boat.

A corner of this pillow was torn open, and the inside was full of fried millet, weighing more than 4 catties.

Xian'er had known for a long time that Zhu Chuanwen's family was in trouble, and had been saving the 4 catties of millet for almost a year.Fortunately, it is fried and can be stored for a long time.

Xian'er has long wanted to talk about this matter.But the Zhu family's affairs became more and more explosive. First, they broke into Guandong on the day of their wedding, then they got two more horses, and Brother Chuanwen told him about killing thieves.This word, every time it reaches the mouth, it is covered up by another more shocking news.

"What a good daughter-in-law." Chuan Wenniang was overjoyed. In the past two days, she was also calculating the rations she brought with her.

Now the family doesn't have to go hungry, and they can stay on the boat for a few more days.

Originally, according to the plan, it was time to arrive in Dalian long ago, but I didn't expect the boat boss to detour.

This made the originally enough food suddenly become stretched.

Now that there is food, I don't panic.

"We've arrived in Dalian!" Someone in the cabin shouted excitedly as he saw the land from a small window.

Everyone moved to the window.

At this time, the boss of the ship opened the hatch so that the people in the cabin could walk to the splint.

"Brother, I want to go and see!" Chuanjie said to Zhu Chuanwen.

Chuanwen looked at his mother, who nodded and led Chuanjie onto the splint.

Because it is close to the land, a group of seagulls are circling in the sky, and there is a relaxed atmosphere in the cabin and on the plywood.

But as he gradually approached the land, Zhu Chuanwen saw that there seemed to be a war on the land.

The Japanese army in black uniforms and the Russians in dark blue uniforms are fighting in full swing.

Zhu Chuanwen knew that the battle on the shore would have to continue for several months, and it would not end until January next year.

This battle earned the title of Nogi Xidian as the God of War, but this is just a title blown out by this tiny country.

This person only knows how to fight with the lives of his subordinates.

"Go back!" Zhu Chuanwen hurried back to the cabin with Chuanjie.Let Chuanwenniang take care of them, and he walked in the direction of the boss of the boat.

"Take the lead! Withdraw quickly! There is a war on land!" Zhu Chuanwen said anxiously.

When the boat boss heard the words, he also saw the flying mud, and was frightened.

"Quick! Turn around!"

But where did it come from at this moment, there was a scream over the sea, it was a shell attack.

It is not known which side launched it.

The shell exploded on the surface of the sea, and the waves formed caused huge waves. The sea water hit Zhu Chuanwen's face, and he licked it with his tongue, which was bitter and astringent.

At this moment, Zhu Chuanwen didn't care about the boss of the ship anymore, and staggered towards the cabin. He had to be with his family.

in the cabin

"Mom, we can't go ashore anymore." Chuanjie just saw that a boat was hit by a bullet, and the wooden hull was instantly torn apart, so he couldn't help crying.

Chuan Wu scolded: "It's worthless, why cry, our boat is fine."

Chuanwenniang found a rope in her package and tied the wrists of the four together. She had already prepared for the worst.At this moment, she was anxiously looking at the hatch of the ship, hoping to see Chuanwen's figure, and Xian'er also stared with wide eyes, waiting for her man to come back.

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of whistles, which was the sound of a round of shells approaching.

With Zhu Chuanwen's reminder, the boss of the boat turned around in time, and saw that the boat with them was blown apart dozens of meters away, and it was blown up and caught fire.

The living beings struggled and were drawn into the cold and dark seabed with the vortex of the sinking ship.

Everyone thought their ship had escaped disaster.Because the shells falling around were all more than ten meters away recently, I thought this was the farthest range of the cannons on the shore.

Just as he was rejoicing, there was a sudden loud noise, followed by a shake of the hull, and the people in the cabin fell into a ball.The boss of the boat could only hear him scolding: "Grandma, blow up the rudder cabin."

The function of the rudder cabin is to improve the seakeeping of the whole ship. The cabin of this wooden ship was bombed, so it cannot be said that it sank, but it can only be resigned to fate.Because you can't steer the rudder, you can't sail the boat.

The big ship was rolled towards the deep sea area by the waves.Chuanwen also returned to his family.

The boss of the ship ordered the sailors to adjust the sails at any time.Do your best.

In the deep sea area, this small boat has been drifting at sea for five days and five nights.Every day, people are unable to hold on and collapse because of hunger.

Even the burly Chuan Boss hunched over, with sunken eye sockets.Although all the people who were going to venture outside the customs had brought enough dry food, but no one could stand such wastage.

Similarly, Xia Yuanzhang, who boarded the ship together, was dying of hunger at this time, and he was regarded as a distinguished guest of the entire ship.The boss of the boat will take care of him when he boards the boat, but at this time the boss of the boat is also too busy to take care of himself, so how can he care about him.

He walked up to Chuanwen weakly, and begged in a low voice, "Brother Chuanwen, do you have anything to eat? I'm starving to death."

Zhu Chuanwen didn't want to reveal the situation of how many of them still had food. The entire cabin didn't see that after Xia Yuanzhang asked, several young and middle-aged men had already looked towards this side with thieves.

Zhu Chuanwen asked him, "Didn't you bring any dry food?" Xia Yuanzhang said, "Oh, the whole ship was shot before, and I happened to be on the plywood. I couldn't stand still, and my luggage was rolled into the sea. I carried it for several days. , I really can't bear it now."

"That can't be done. My little food is reserved for my mother and daughter-in-law. If I give it to you, what will they do?"

Xia Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Oh, that's what you said." After all, although he admired Zhu Chuanwen's mind, he was still a child after all.Myself, just resign to fate.

night.

Hunger continued to erode Xia Yuanzhang, and he was a little desperate.Lying on the splint and looking at the sky quietly, he really wanted to jump into the sea and die happily, but he didn't even have the strength to do so.

"Master Xia." In a daze, he felt his assistant calling him.Back to the Chunlaixuan where he can give orders.

That was the place where his dream started. Relying on a little relationship with Li Zhongtang, his father-in-law managed Chunlaixuan's business inside and outside the customs.At this moment, he felt that he had gone back.

"Master Xia." He finally opened his eyes and saw Zhu Chuanwen pat his cheek lightly.

It turned out that he was just hungry and dizzy.

Immediately afterwards, he found that there was an extra handful of fried millet in his hand, which was given by Zhu Chuanwen, and he swallowed it with water.He looked at Chuanwen again and again.

Three small hands in a row.

These three children gave Xiaomi the hope of living. He still has a wife, son and daughter, and he can't die yet.

After another two days of drifting like this, the boat finally docked, and the boatmen struggled to help everyone off the boat.Everyone recalled the experience of the past few days, especially this one was the only one left among the dozens of sailing boats, and the rest were missing.

After landing on the shore, Xia Yuanzhang came to Chuanwen, bowed deeply, and said, "Brother Chuanwen, thank you, I will definitely repay you for saving my life in the future!"

On the contrary, Mrs. Wen hurriedly helped him up, and said with a sad smile, "Don't dare to be Mrs. Xia, as long as you survive, you are not allowed to mention saving your life in the future. This is what should be done, and everyone should do it." .”

Chuanwen also supported Xia Yuanzhang: "Master Xia, just survive." At this time, he really felt that he was incapable. If he had more food, he could save more people, but before that, he had to Make sure your family is not.

After getting off the boat, Zhu Chuanwen asked a boatman, "Man, where is this?" The boatman said, "Zhuanghe." Xia Yuanzhang was speechless after hearing this.

Zhuanghe is between Dalian and Dandong, more than 200 miles away from Dalian.

Going to Dalian is a way back, and everyone in the Zhu family can still go to Fengtian, which is more than 400 miles away.There is also a larger train station there.Zhu Chuanwen was thinking about it.

After thinking about it, he still didn't want to go to Fengtian, because soon there would be the last land battle between Japan and Russia.He didn't want to dig a trench with his two brothers who had been captured.

Xia Yuanzhang said, "Brother Chuanwen, let's go together."

He wants to repay his favor!

In this era, the three eastern provinces have the most developed railway network. Since 1897, Tsarist Russia sent warships to occupy Lushun and Dalian in China. In March 1898, the Qing government was forced to sign the "Land-Lease Treaty". In May, the "Renewal of Lvda Land Lease Treaty" was signed, and in July, the "Contract Renewal of Eastern Provincial Railway Company" was signed, which seized the lease right of Luda and the South Manchuria Branch Road of Dongqing Railway (Bingcheng to Lushun) building and operating rights.

So the Northeast Railway was built by these invaders from the very beginning.

The operator of these railways is called the Eastern Railway Company.

After that came the Japanese South Manchuria Railway Company.

Several people hired a carriage and drove towards Dalian.

"Shopkeeper Xia, let's say goodbye here. I don't know when we will see you again."

When they arrived in Dalian, they separated from shopkeeper Xia.Because of the war, shopkeeper Xia found a place for them to live in a family in the surrounding villages of Dalian, and then rushed to his home in Lushun non-stop.

For two days in a row, the sound of shelling from Lushun could be heard clearly even around Dalian.

Zhu Chuanwen thought to himself, I don't know if I can see the "meat bomb chariot" with my own eyes, of course, this is just thinking about it, he still understands the reason why a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall.

The train tickets to Bingcheng hadn't been bought yet, and it was too tight. Russian businessmen ran to Bingcheng with their families, but Xia Yuanzhang's family hurried over.

As soon as they met, Xia Yuanzhang brought the two children to Zhu Chuanwen.

"Yuqing, Yushu. Kneel down, this is the benefactor of our Xia family." As he spoke, he took his wife and bowed deeply to Zhu Chuanwen.

It turned out that when Xia Yuanzhang arrived in Lushun, he couldn't believe his eyes.

There are ruins everywhere, and the shocking thing is the broken arms and limbs all over Lushun.

All this made Xia Yuanzhang dare not look down.

After rushing home, seeing the scorched courtyard wall, he knew something was wrong, so he pushed open the half-closed courtyard door.

Fortunately, only the bodies of the father-in-law and mother-in-law were found, and none of the wife, son or daughter was found.

I wanted to collect the corpses of the two old people, but I didn't dare when I heard the gunshots outside the wall.Hastily wrapped it with a straw mat.

He left the city in the dark again, and came to the collection point outside the city where he collected the mountain goods.

Here, he saw his wife, son and daughter intact.

After crying bitterly, he planned to take them to Yuanbao Town, where his father was still doing business.

This is the scene where the son and daughter kowtow to Zhu Chuanwen.

"Get up, get up." Zhu Chuanwen received the big gift from the two children, and helped the two children who were the same age as Chuanjie.

"So, brother Chuanwen, you have countless people alive this time. How many people in Lushun City escaped because of your news. You are their reborn parents, but it's a pity that my father-in-law and mother-in-law just don't believe it." Xia Yuanzhang said. Wiped away the tears.Now he admires this young brother from the bottom of his heart.

"Master Xia, what is your plan this time?" Zhu Chuanwen asked.

"Brother Chuanwen, I plan to go back to Yuanbao Town with you, may I go with you?" Xia Yuanzhang cupped his hands towards Zhu Chuanwen.

"Treasurer Xia..."

"Hey." Xia Yuanzhang waved his hand, "Brother Chuanwen, don't be so ostentatious, I trust you, just call me Brother Xia."

"Brother Xia, then we'll go together." Zhu Chuanwen said in a really irresistible way.

(End of this chapter)