This winter is really cold, and Tianjin City is cold and dripping water turns into ice.

The atmosphere in Tianjin was indeed very tense. As soon as Li Wancai entered the city, he saw the Japanese military police team and plainclothes team publicly arresting people on the street. When Li Wancai found Li Lide, he happened to be pulled out by a classmate. Li Lide's classmate was named Zhu Jizhang, and he was a progressive student.

Thousands of students from Beijing held a petition for anti-Japanese and national salvation on December 9 under the leadership of the Communist Party. The students gathered at Xinhuamen and shouted "Stop the civil war and unanimously to the outside world", "Defeat Japanese imperialism", "Oppose the autonomy of the five North China provinces", "Recover lost land in the Northeast", "Defeat traitors and traitors", "Armed defense of North China", and other slogans. Student representatives submitted a petition to He Yingqin, Acting Chairman of the Peking Branch of the Military Commission of the National Government.

The petition puts forward six requirements: 1. Oppose the establishment of the ** Autonomous Committee and its similar organizations; 2. Oppose all secret negotiations between China and Japan, and immediately announce policies to deal with the current crisis; 3. Ensure the freedom of people's speech, assembly, publishing and association; 4. Stop the civil war and prepare for a war of self-defense against the outside world; 5. No arrests of the people shall be arbitrarily; 6. Immediately release the arrested students.

He Yingqin, acting chairman of the Peking Branch of the National Military Commission, avoided him. The failure of the student petition was changed to a demonstration. Students and citizens continued to join along the way, and the team grew bigger and bigger. When the parade arrived at Wangfujing Street, the military and police in Peking held large knives, wooden sticks, leather whips, and water dragons to deal with unarmed students. The parade was disbanded.

On December 10, Peking University and high schools issued a joint declaration, announcing the general strike from now on, calling on all sectors of the country to respond immediately and act together.

As a former radical, Li Lide was dragged to a meeting by his classmate Zhu Jizhang, preparing to arrange a demonstration to petition the government tomorrow to support students in Peking.

Li Wancai had a calm face and kept Li Lide. When Zhu Jizhang left, he said dumbly: "The landlord is just backward in his mind and does not support the War of Resistance at all."

Li Lide's face turned red when he heard this, and he looked at Li Wancai with a little resentment.

Li Wancai smiled instead and asked Zhu Jizhang: "This classmate, how do you support the War of Resistance tomorrow?"

Zhu Jizhang said with his chest straight: "We marched, demonstrated, slogans, shouted slogans, and sent a telegram to Beiping..."

Li Wancai interrupted him: "Student, I ask you, can you scare the Japanese to death? If you shout slogans and sending telegrams can scare the Japanese to death, then what else do we need to do with those troops? I think your anti-Japanese war is also a fancy thing."

One sentence stopped Zhu Jizhang.

Li Qinglin could see clearly on the side that the demonstrations were to arouse the people and force the government to implement a comprehensive war of resistance. In the end, he would need to use swords and guns, rely on armed struggle or even sacrifice bloodshed. However, Zhu Jizhang used the demonstrations as the main means of the war of resistance, so he would naturally be asked by the old fox Li Wancai.

In the following days, Li Wancai took Li Lide to stay in a hotel in the city, allowing Xiao Liuzi to watch him at all times and prevent him from going out for demonstrations. Although Li Lide was unwilling, he had no choice but to do anything.

The vigorous movement ended in a few days. Nankai University and Nankai Middle School were affected by the principal Zhang Boling, and student activities were difficult. When Li Lide returned to those radical students, some people said that he was a deserter and an indecisive element, and from then on he began to reject Li Lide.

Li Lide couldn't say anything about his pain. He once privately complained to Li Qinglin. Li Qinglin smiled and comforted him and said, "If you are misunderstood, you will be misunderstood. As long as you can be ashamed of my heart."

In the past few days in Tianjin, Li Qinglin's biggest gain was that he bought a vernier caliper, a book "Mechanical Mapping" and a set of compass, rulers, and triangle plates. At this time, China was extremely backward. The vernier caliper was imported from abroad, and "Mechanical Mapping" was also translated from foreign books, and the price was not expensive.

Li Lide, who was rejected by progressive students, no longer made a fuss. He began to study honestly in school, so most of Li Wancai's heart disease was gone. There was still some time before Li Lide's winter vacation, so Li Wancai directed Li Qinglin to drive the car home.

Tianjin is far away from Wan'an County, so it is not easy for Li Wancai to come once. Now things have been done, Li Wancai is in a good mood. Before he went back, he spent a lot of money and bought a lot of fresh things to take with him.

When he came, he was anxious, but he was relaxed when he returned. Li Wancai did not urge him to rush back, allowing Li Qinglin and Xiao Liuzi to control the daily itinerary.

There were still traffic on the road, people were merry and horses neighing. The carriages traveling from the city to the countryside were filled with goods, which was much more valuable than the fashionable agricultural products. For safety reasons, some businesses not only worked together to form a large convoy of dozens of cars, but some also hired personnel to carry them in armed escorts. After all, no one wanted the New Year to be soon, the goods were robbed by bandits, or the people were tied up by bandits.

For safety reasons, Li Qinglin followed a large convoy. The convoy had about thirty large cars in total, most of which were wooden wheels, and they couldn't run fast along the way. There was a circle of iron hoops outside the wooden wheels, and dozens of large cars were crushed on the frozen road, rumbling, and the momentum was extremely loud.

At this time, cars were extremely rare, and most of the transportation of goods was carried out by mules, horses and carts. The handlebars of the truck were equivalent to those of the drivers later.

These driving handles are usually strong men in their thirties and forties. Due to the long-term wind and sun exposure, they all have a black and red face. Those who drive trains are usually not very educated and do the job of shouting animals. Therefore, they speak rudely and loudly.

Because it is cold in winter, they all wear felt hats or dog-skin hats, thick cotton coats or old sheepskin coats, and sturdy "kick to death" thousand-layer cloth shoes. In order to keep warm and move lightly, they usually tie a belt around the waist of the cotton jacket, and the cuffs and trousers are tied tightly with small cloth straps.

There is a long whip in the handlebar type hand, which is a tool for chasing the handlebar type. The whip rod is close to six feet and is twisted with red willow branches and thin bamboo, and is usually tied with red tassels; the whip rope is close to five feet and is woven with green hemp and beef tendon; there is a whip in front of the whip rope, and a whip is slightly longer, and it is woven with flexible cowhide strips.

Handlebar driving is driven by shouting animals and whipping them with a car whip. When the car needs to turn, go back and move forward, the whip rod in the handlebar sitting on the front plate swings the whip rod, shouting loudly "Oh," "Dede", "Driving", "Wao", "Wao", and "Wao". Generally, animals will turn, advance, and retreat with the command.

If the animal is disobedient, the whip rod in the handlebar type hand will be raised high, and the whip rope with the whip slightly cuts a garden in the air and throws out the whip flower. The whip flower will make a "pa" sound. This whip flower is the command sent to the animal by the handlebar type. Each handlebar type shakes out different flowers. Only the animal in your own home can understand the command of its owner.

If the animal is really disobedient, the whip in the handlebar style will fall on the animal. The skilled handlebar style has a unique skill, which is to do whatever you want and hit wherever you point. On the way, there was a handlebar style boasting that it could destroy the wicks of the oil lamp at night. Li Qinglin was a little unbelievable, until one day he saw this skill with his own eyes. He waved the whip rod in the handlebar style, and the whip flower "pop", and a strand of hair on the left ear of the mule in front dissipated with the wind, and the mule's ear was safe and sound.

Mules and horses that run long distances are all good animals from a hundred. They are all strong and strong, and with good fodder, these animals are strong and difficult to control. Therefore, the handlebars that drive long distances can be considered a talented person in the countryside. They all think they are knowledgeable and are "super" in normal times.

The convoy was moving slowly and orderly, with big cars walking towards another road from time to time, and new big cars joined the team. Li Qinglin and his team walked day and night, and although the speed of driving was slow, they were safe and sound.

After walking for a few days, the convoy arrived in Donglin County, where it had entered Henan Province.

There is a mountain called Qingshiling here. After walking over Qingshiling for another two or three hours, you can reach your accommodation at night. There was originally a highway passing through the valley, which was a shortcut. However, you need to climb a stone slope when passing through Qingshiling. The ice and snow in winter form a mirror-like ice surface on the stone slope, which makes people unable to walk with their bare hands, let alone a load of mules, horses and carts, so the convoy had to walk around the mountain.

It was around 3:00 p.m. Today it was sunny and there was no wind. The afternoon sun shone on the body warm. The animals' hooves were rumbling on the "Dada", and the wheels were rumbling on the ground, and the whip flowers in the hands of the squads exploded. The rich people hiding in the car sedan also opened the cotton curtain for breathing.

Something happened at this moment. After a "rumbling" sound, a large round tree trunk rolled down from the mountain next to it, blocking the middle of the road without any bias.
Chapter completed!