Chapter 97 The Moon Over the Past
Xie Ning was still thinking that they wouldn't be back until tomorrow morning, but three hours later, Er Niu and Xiao Yang's group returned, dragging a three-headed wolf and a wild boar.
“Those kids are really brave!” Erniu said naturally, even though she was only sixteen herself.
"Ten wolves are chasing a wild boar! They've got knives and they're attacking! They're even fiercer than wolves!" Indeed, this place is desolate and there's no food. When they see meat, it's not wolves whose eyes turn green, but people's eyes light up!
If she hadn't arrived in time with her men, several of them would have been injured.
Xie Ning's gaze fell on the few unfamiliar people in the corner. Er Niu must have been referring to them. One of them was tall with sharp and fierce eyes, and seemed to be the leader.
"Zaxi, here's another pot. You can borrow it for now, but you'll have to return it in a few days!" Everyone around didn't have many pots for their private meals, but Xie Ning had two, one big and one small. After all, she wasn't the type to compromise herself, so she would often take the rations and have Erniu go to the market to buy meat for her private meals.
People around knew this, so they would often come over to borrow Xie Ning's pot so that the child could have a good meal.
"Thanks."
Tashi, it seems, is Tibetan. Xie Ning's gaze swept across Tashi's face. She used to have a Tibetan student named Tashi, which meant good fortune.
"Erniu, there's still a basket of steamed buns in the small kitchen, give them some." These students, who ran over as soon as they saw the propaganda slogan, came from all walks of life. Some of them came from poor families, while others came from wealthy families, but undeniably, they all shared a sincere passion.
Three wolves and a wild boar may seem like a lot, but when divided among them, there's not much left. Where would anyone secretly eat here?
Basically, no one had this idea. Xie Ning didn't care and let them make a fuss. However, everyone hadn't finished eating. They gave some to the two wolves in the main kitchen, and he only stewed a small portion of wild boar meat for himself.
It's snowing, and everything else is frozen solid. We can have some meat every now and then—how wonderful! The young men in the guard platoon are all even more energetic.
This was Xie Ning's first time eating wild boar meat. The meat was more tender than regular pork, but of course, it also had a stronger gamey smell. Xiao Yang even added a lot of ginger.
After drinking it, Xie Ning felt warm and cozy all over.
After finishing the last piece of frozen meat, Xie Ning embarked on his journey to leave the border region.
The Xi'an Incident occurred. Zhang, the leader of the Northeast Army, and Yang, the leader of the Northwest Army, detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an, forcing him to "stop the civil war and unite against Japan."
The consequences of arrogance.
As the supreme ruler, Chiang Kai-shek created a three-way power struggle in the Northwest: Zhang, Yang, and Shao. He wanted Zhang and Yang to join forces against the Labor Party, weaken each other, and then Shao would act as the opportunist to help him reap the final benefits.
But no one is a fool. The method of killing each other is simple and effective. He succeeded once. That time, he successfully incorporated the 19th Army and drove the Labour Party to the Northwest.
But that doesn’t mean the same method can succeed a second time. He calculated people’s hearts, and that there was mutual resentment between the two sides, making cooperation impossible. After all, there was a blood feud between them, a blood feud built up by so many lives.
But he forgot that people's hearts are hard to fathom. The Northeast Army was a mercenary force and was not under his control. The pro-Japanese policy of the authorities also chilled their hearts. Their hometown was in the Northeast. Instead of fighting the Japanese invaders, they ran around fighting their own people. Under the pressure from all sides, their anti-war sentiment became more and more serious.
The incident was not an accidental outcome, but an inevitable result. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to seize the Northwest and expand his dictatorship there, but he did not expect that the two major forces there would contact the Labour Party earlier than he thought and turn against him.
Moreover, at this time, anti-Japanese sentiment was high throughout the country. Although Chiang Kai-shek made a series of feigned moves, the fact that he suppressed the anti-Japanese patriotic movement cannot be denied.
They're already rowing against the current, yet they don't remember the principle that water can carry a boat but also capsize it.
Sometimes Xie Ning also found it strange that the people at the bottom of society were so easily satisfied. Perhaps all they wanted was a piece of land of their own, to be treated as human beings...
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