march to victory

Chapter 16 The Stubborn Old Man

The previous chaotic scene was mainly caused by Zhang Qinggui and a few teachers doing bad things with good intentions... Seeing that the scene was not very lively, they secretly helped each other. The original intention was to arouse everyone's enthusiasm so that more people would support the Red Army.It's just that they were doing this for the first time, they were inexperienced, and they couldn't grasp the strength well, so they overheated the fire and almost "burned" the entire criticism meeting.

"Cousin, although Wang Weiqing deserved to die in the first place, but you have also seen what happened just now. It almost caused a catastrophe. In the future, we must never dare to have such a thing happen again."

"That's for sure, but, Qingshan, can you let us apologize to the captain?"

"This one……"

"Qingshan, if you don't take us there, we will have no face to meet Captain Xiang. Besides, we want to discuss with Captain Xiang to see what help we can do in the future, so as not to make another mistake and not help. You just How about doing me a favor and smoothing things over?"

Now is not the time to criticize, and he has no right to criticize the other party.Besides, they know their mistakes and can correct them, and they are the heroes who opened up the situation in Guitang Town. They can't dampen everyone's enthusiasm because of a small mistake, right?I had to nod: "Okay!"

Even Zhang Qingshan, a new recruit, can think of these things, and Xiang Jiafu, an old political cadre, can naturally think of more.No, after hearing Zhang Qingshan's simple explanation, he held Zhang Qinggui's hands tightly and kept saying "thank you", which made Zhang Qinggui and the other two teachers feel embarrassed.

"Captain Xiang, we didn't do things well, but instead helped, almost causing disaster. Please criticize."

"No! You can't say that." After inviting everyone to sit down, Xiang Jiafu took out cigarettes and offered them a toast: "In anything, you can't just look at the result, you have to look at the starting point..."

He lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, and said, "For example, your starting point this time is to mobilize everyone to support the Red Army, which is very good... Besides, it is a very commendable behavior for you to recognize your mistakes and take the initiative to correct them. And quality... I believe that as long as we learn from each other and communicate more, we will be able to cooperate tacitly next time. For example, we will distribute floating wealth tomorrow..."

Zhang Qingshan listened carefully, his eyes gleaming with joy, while secretly writing down Xiang Jiafu's arrangements for tomorrow, while thinking about how he should participate.

Suddenly, he saw Li Guowei, the deputy squad leader, walking towards him. They looked at each other, and Li Guowei beckoned to him with a happy face.

Zhang Qingshan glanced at Xiang Jiafu in front of him, saw that he was discussing enthusiastically with his cousins, and it was not easy to disturb him, so he quietly took two steps back and walked towards Li Guowei.

"Qingshan, I want to ask you something. Do you understand Miao language?"

"Vice squad leader, I am from the Miao nationality, so I naturally understand Miao language."

"Great, come with me, I need your help with something."

Soldier clothes from order for vocation!Zhang Qingshan considered himself a qualified Red Army soldier with one life, so at first he was not easy to ask, until he followed Li Guowei to the school gate and walked to the town office, he asked in a curious whisper: "Deputy squad leader, What are we going to do?"

"Go to the town hall to be an interpreter."

"as a translator?"

Cells have not been a good place since ancient times, coupled with the weird atmosphere when they first entered the town, the Red Army soldiers became vigilant and screened the prisoners one by one.

Although the cell is not big, there are only five rooms, but there are 48 prisoners in it, and one of them is still used for interrogation.From the afternoon to the present, only half of them have been screened out. The main obstacles are lack of manpower and language barriers... Tujia and Miao people account for more than 80.00% of the population in western Hunan, and Longshan County is as high as 90.00%.Among them, at least one-third of the people can't understand Mandarin, and can only speak Tujia or Miao (the interesting thing is here: they can't understand Mandarin, but most of the people in the two ethnic groups can barely understand it. understand each other’s language), although many recruits in the Red Army are locals, and after two or three months of recruit training, they can be interpreters, but now, a new situation that no one thought of appeared: they encountered a very stubborn and Strange old man: he keeps calling him a big wrong, and on the other hand shouts that all outsiders are not good people.Even if it is the Red Army, he only trusts the locals in the Red Army, otherwise, even if he is killed, he will not say his grievances.

Since there are local people, it is not easy for everyone to deceive him, even if it is with good intentions, the old saying 'different pronunciations in three miles, different customs in ten miles' is still valid here.It is not good if the old man is deceived by hearing it from individual syllables.

Following Li Guowei to a room in the backyard of the town hall, he opened the door and saw that Qi Zixuan was squatting by the fire pit with an old man in patched clothes, smoking and talking.The old man kept silent, and lowered his head, a little like to ignore him.

Hearing the "squeak" sound when the door was pushed open, the old man who was smoking with his head down turned his head to look at Zhang Qingshan carefully, and said something to Zhang Qingshan in Miao language a little anxiously.

The old man's voice was a little hoarse, and it was in Miao language, which made Li Guowei curl his lips helplessly, but Qi Zixuan asked curiously: "Xiao Qi, come, let me translate what they said."

"Ask the old man what Zhang Qingshan's name is, which cave and which village he is from." After speaking, seeing that Li Guowei was puzzled, he quickly explained in a low voice: "During the feudal period, our place was under the control of chieftains. Officially, it is called ground, but in private, everyone is still used to dividing it by caves and villages. As far as caves and villages are concerned, the whole county is mainly divided into 36 caves, 72 large villages and [-] small villages. Villages composed of major surnames It’s called Dazhai, the village of people with a small surname is called Xiaozhai, and there are many other villages…”

"My name is Zhang Qingshan, and I'm from Xiaozhai 25, Shiwudong." (The translation is ignored below)

Seeing Zhang Qingshan approaching and answering in the local dialect without hesitation, the old man took a deep breath of the cigarette in his hand, threw it into the fire pit, stood up with his thighs propped up, and asked excitedly in Miao language: "25 What is the surname of the chief of the small village? What is the name of the chief of the village?"

"25 The chief surname of the village is Zhang. I really don't remember what the name of the chieftain is. I only heard that his surname is Peng." Zhai's private name.In the past 30 or [-] years, among the younger generation, very few can know this, and those who can say it in such detail are definitely locals.

The old man's face turned happy, then sad, and knelt down in front of Zhang Qingshan, kowtowed and cried: "Hero, please save my family, please save my family quickly..."

"Old man, get up quickly, get up quickly, if you have anything to say, let's get up and talk slowly." While persuading and helping, the old man grabbed Zhang Qingshan's hand and walked out, yelling "Hurry up, it's late It's too late..."

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