march to victory

A soldier came to a villager's house carrying water.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the gate that was only half open, before his feet had time to cross the threshold, he saw an old woman with small feet standing at the gate.

Looking at the soldier lightly, he said very calmly: "Just put the water at the door."

Ma Hongji led a few guards, hummed a song, and just went out less than 20 meters away in a happy mood. When he saw this scene, he suddenly became angry: You are too unkind for an old widow. You carry water, but you don't even let in the door, is that plausible?

The happy mood suddenly turned a little unhappy, but he was the head of the clan after all, so he didn't have to worry about such a trivial matter with a widow.

The young man was not angry at all, but smiled and said to the old woman: "Mother, it's okay, I'm fine anyway, and I have plenty of strength, so I must help you fill up the water tank as soon as possible? In the future, if you want to drink water, chop wood, etc. , just call me, I..."

"I don't dare to take that one!" Unexpectedly, the old woman didn't even listen to the other party's words, and interrupted directly: "Although the old woman is a bit older, she still has the strength to carry water, so there is no need to ask for help."

Hearing this, the young man was not angry, and explained: "Ma'am, I didn't mean that, I..."

The old woman also interrupted him immediately, and waved her hands impatiently: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with you, you can go."

Then he turned around and closed the door, and there was a loud complaint: "Really, I said why my pole and bucket disappeared early in the morning. They were borrowed by someone. Humph! There are no rules."

Ma Hongji on the side was so angry that he almost stomped his feet and asked someone to rush in and teach this old woman a lesson, but after thinking about it carefully, this old woman is not only his distant relative, but also her man is also to protect his father and take the place of his father. She died after being blocked by a bullet. For this reason, I have helped her a lot...

Forget it, forget it, out of sight is out of sight, can't I afford to provoke or hide?

Thinking of this, I originally planned to go forward to comfort this slightly embarrassed soldier, but now I don't have the intention... quickly hide my face and walk away, so as not to be discovered, saying that I don't know how to discipline my tribe.

Before walking a few steps, I heard the soldier yelling to the old woman through the gate: "Ma'am, I put the bucket and water by the gate. Be careful when you go out, so as not to bump into... I will go first." I'll come back tomorrow to fetch water for you."

Ma Hongji didn't think much of these words, at most he felt that this young man was late today and shut the door, and he would come tomorrow?

The point is, this young man's attitude is very good, even if he is ridiculed by the old woman, he is not angry at all, he seems to be looking for abuse.This made Ma Hongji look at the young man differently.

But think about it, maybe it's just a special case, so Ma Hongji just looked back at the young man, remembered the young man who left a deep impression on him, put his hands behind his back, and continued walking.

Now, his original happy mood has long since disappeared, and has long since turned into depression: he wants to discipline this old woman, but he dares not; but if he doesn't discipline him, he will lose face.Forget about this depression.

After walking a few steps, I heard children's laughter and happy shouts from a distance, which made Ma Hongji look forward to it.

When I walked over to take a look, I saw a few girls in the uniform of the commando regiment, playing a game of eagle and chicken with a large group of children.

The children laughed, the girls were also happy, and Ma Hongji was also happy to see: under his own control, it should be like this. The more laughter, the stronger his governance ability.

But before Ma Hongji approached with a smile, he saw a young woman coming out from the left side of the street where the children were playing, and shouted: "Er Gouzi, take your sister and get out of here."

Children are innocent and don't understand the minds of these adults. When they were having fun playing, they suddenly became a little reluctant and begged, "Mother, I want to play for a while."

"What are you playing? Come back to me."

The three children reluctantly walked over.

But the woman still pointed at Sang and scolded Huai and yelled: "I don't understand any rules! What are you talking like crazy all day long? If you are abducted, I see you..."

Before she finished speaking, the woman found Ma Hongji standing there with a livid face, staring at herself fiercely, she was startled, but she snorted heavily to the girls who came over, and hurriedly dragged the child into the room, close the door.

Ma Hongji is so angry!Forget about it.

They took your child to play, and they didn't bully your child, let alone beat them. It's just that everyone is happy. Do you have to be so cold-hearted and scolding?Besides, even if you want to bring your child into the house, but no one else provokes you, how can you treat them like this?

In fact, this is also a misunderstanding of the villagers: in the minds of the villagers, no matter how many people come, as long as Li Jing takes the lead, as long as those who come are Li Jing's subordinates, then they are all bandits, even if they have become the Eighth Route Army now, but Li Jing was a big bandit before, so he is still a big bandit now, and all his men and horses are naturally regarded as bandits.

In particular, seeing that some of the troops brought by Li Jing were bandits from back then, it is natural to think that there are so many bandits mixed in. If you say that the comparison is not bandits, who will believe it?

Even the girls were regarded as female bandits by the villagers.

The only difference is probably that these girls are prettier, a little more vigorous, a lot less murderous than the legendary female bandits, but a little more heroic.But... still a female bandit.

And this was also Ma Hongji's negligence. When he shouted out in the middle of the night yesterday, he was careless and didn't make it clear. In other words, Ma Hongji didn't think of this at all.How could I know that this seemingly insignificant problem caused such a big misunderstanding among the villagers.

He directly treated Li Ling's subordinates equally—either a male bandit or a female bandit.Even if you're a woman, even if you wear glasses, just pretend I don't know you're just a bandit pretending to be gentle?

After all, when they attacked Majiapo Village back then, the bandits caused great damage to the village. The villagers should always keep in mind that it is naturally impossible to resolve it with just one or two sentences of explanation.

"You said, am I being too lenient with the people in the village, making them all develop sticks and sticks, and they don't know how to treat guests at all."

How could the guards dare to answer the words, each lowered their heads.

The woman's husband just now was the vice-captain of the village guards, not only higher in rank than these guards, but also Ma Hongji's confidant.

Naturally, it was impossible for Ma Hongji to reprimand the woman for such a trivial matter, because to reprimand the woman was to slap her husband in the face, which might leave a dissatisfaction in his heart.It's really not cost-effective to let a confidant go away for such a trivial matter... So, although the woman was taken aback, she still dared to snort at the girls.

For Ma Hongji, such a relationship has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that it can unite people's hearts more. After all, people of the same clan will subconsciously protect their own family when they have something to do, no matter whether it is reasonable or not.

The downside is the same as it is now, even if you want to discipline him, it's not convenient to start, lest you will chill the hearts of loyal confidants just because of such a trivial matter.

Ma Hongji sighed, walked over to the girls who were embarrassed, and clasped his fists, saying: "You girls, I have not been able to discipline you well, and you have been wronged."

When the girls heard this, they all said it was all right.

Ma Hongji saw that the children were also a little overwhelmed by the atmosphere, so he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and said to the oldest child, "Take the money and sell some candy in the village shop and share it with everyone." , so I can continue to play happily."

The children immediately yelled and shouted, but they still dragged the girls very loyally, yelling to hurry up and buy candy, and everyone ate together.

Seeing the child laughing happily, Ma Hongji couldn't help but feel a lot more peaceful in his heart.

Keep your hands behind your back and keep going.

But as soon as he left, his anger rushed to the top of his head with a bang.

Just as he was about to walk to the restaurant where he had breakfast, suddenly, a guard beside him pointed to the other side of the alley and said, "Patriarch, there are a lot of people around there, something must have happened?"

I looked at it, and sure enough, there was a group of people gathered together, I don't know what they were doing.However, judging from their whispering, something must have happened.

Ma Hongji walked through the alley immediately, and then he saw clearly that the opposite was not a small group of people, but no less than 200 people, including old and young, women and children.

Ma Hongji felt that he was really pissed off early this morning, and if he was pissed off again, he might not be able to control his anger.Therefore, in order to be as calm as possible, he didn't plan to walk over directly, but sent someone to clarify the matter first. In this way, he could at least reduce the strong aggrievedness caused by directly facing the anger that could not be vented.

"Whose house is that?" Ma Hongji asked the guards, pointing to the besieged house.

"Ma Ermao's house."

"Go over and ask what happened?"

"Yes!"

A guard was full of curiosity when he went, but he was full of weirdness when he came back, and he hesitated.

"What are you hesitating for? Hurry up."

It turned out that Li Jing and the people who had participated in the battle back then went door to door to apologize with a large amount of food and cloth.

In that battle, those who were not injured received ten catties of grain and two oceans per household; those who were injured received twenty catties of grain, one piece of cloth and five oceans per household; those who died received one hundred catties of grain and two oceans per household. Two bolts of cloth and 20 yuan ocean.

For ordinary people at that time, this was definitely a generous gift, and everyone in the village had a share, which definitely showed the sincerity of Li Jing's apology.After all, even in a village as wealthy as Majiapo, there are some people who can't get enough to eat.

The strange thing is that Li Jing has gone to more than ten families, but none of them are willing to accept him.

"Not one household was confiscated?" Ma Hongji was a little surprised, fearing that he had heard it wrong.

"Not a single household was confiscated."

This time, Ma Hongji was a little emotional, a little proud, and a little angry...