What kind of story did Chengdu tell (3)

Xixi Town is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to a county town. There are more prosperous Shendian, a municipal administrative district, and a rural 10,000-acre swing that provides a large number of agricultural products and by-products trading economy.

Gu Yimin is the president of the local chamber of commerce. He appeared when dealing with the freezing weather in Xixi Town 18, organized the whole town to hold a sacrificial ceremony, and later accepted the defeated army to avoid robbery. He also invited a coach with military experience from Shendian to set up a militia force to fight bandits, which is also a conscientious folk elder.

However, this elder has always been portrayed as a playful style and has done a lot of stupid things in a serious way.

Just like killing pigs and sheep to sacrifice to heaven to cope with the snowstorm, Gu Yimin meticulously played the parents of Xixi Town in the foolish way of that era, including his bizarre behavior of leading the militia out of the city with an oil-paper umbrella in a sedan chair.

The gangster pretended to dig the family's ancestral grave and kidnapped him easily.

Either out of his precious character or because he was pampered and didn't know how to be cruel, Gu Yimin provoked the other side on the grounds that the property of the Chamber of Commerce was not privately owned when he was blackmailed by bandits, and tortured himself into a human form.

Fortunately, the bandits were stationed in Chen Yongliang's home, which was wandering for 10,000 mu, and Chen Yongliang was also benefited by Gu Yimin in his early years. His master and servant were deeply in love, looking for opportunities to rescue him and send him back to Xixi Town.

Gu Yimin, who returned to Xixi Town, experienced a big robbery and was full of trauma. In the same year, Gu, the eldest son, was tricked into working as a miner in Australia by a prostitute in Shanghai because of his childish childhood. Lin Xiangfu, a relative, was angered when he asked bandits to pay ransom to save himself, and died in a fight.

At the end of the story, Gu Yimin is not human and skinny. He walked on crutches in the winter sunshine of Xixi town, stopped and stopped, and gradually sent away the servants who came to pick up Lin Xiangfu's body and watched them return to the far north of the Yellow River.

He also arranged for Lin Xiangfu's daughter Lin Baijia to bring the news of her father's death, thinking that the two daughters also lived in Shanghai with Lin Baijia, so that they could share some sadness and feel a little relieved. He just doesn't know that his eldest son, who has never been heard from, has been sold to far away Australia, and his marriage is out of the question.

Gu Yimin reminds me of the representative of the old order in that turbulent era. He has money at home and often goes to Shanghai to communicate. He is an upper-class person in Xixi Town. In view of the defeat of Beiyang Army, which is still a little organized, his command saved the town, but in the face of ferocious bandits, it exudes the flavor of the old times everywhere.

Xixi Town, as a rich county in the south of the Yangtze River, has not established a strong and effective civilian armed force. Even because he was kidnapped, he gave the bandits a gun equivalent to all the firepower of the militia. Gu Yimin is also guilty and didn't do well. In the end, he lost his in-laws, his son and his health, just like the post-war town, and his strength was greatly weakened.

Lin Xiangfu is a rich farmer, Gu Yimin is a wealthy businessman, and Chen Yongliang is a poor bottom foreman. In the face of the turbulent situation, no one can be safe. They have no evil qualities, but deal with disasters in their usual way.

In this process, Gu Yimin, who is rigid and feudal, is ridiculous and occasionally has works. Honest and honest Lin Xiangfu is rich in food and grass, but it is difficult to protect himself. Only Chen Yongliang, who organized the people, put an end to banditry, but the same people, in the vigilante group trained by Gu Yimin, did not have such fighting capacity before being looted and slaughtered.

Each role has its own characteristics. In the war years when people are poor, every chapter always hangs over the danger of family destruction and death. Even bandits are faced with the dilemma of "being robbed if you don't do it, and not being able to eat if you do it".

Individuals and unorganized people face cruel external forces, and the atmosphere of weakness and sadness is always around them, but only under such extreme adversity can the most precious feelings between people have a chance to touch people's hearts more deeply.