"Brother Wei, what are your plans for the future?"
In the west wing room, Li Sui'an helped change the topic to divert Zhao Jinyu's inner hesitation and sadness of losing his Anti-Japanese comrade.
"After? Which future?"
Wei Ran asked, the sacrifice of the Sun sisters was also a blow to him, and he also needed to divert the despair that filled his heart - even if he knew he would win in the end.
"Fight away the devils"
The accent of Sichuan and Sichuan suddenly came out of Li Sui'an's mouth, "What are you going to do after the Japanese are beaten away?"
"Go home, get a wife and have children. Marry a wife who lives on the same bed, and have a house full of children."
Wei Ran gave an answer jokingly, then asked, "What about you? Do you plan to remain a soldier?"
"Be a hammer! You have to be a soldier for the rest of your life!"
Li Sui'an sighed and suppressed the local accent that popped up subconsciously, "I will go home as soon as the Japanese are driven away. I will go back to Zigong. I...I miss home."
"What about after you go back?" Wei Ran asked softly, "What are you going to do after you go back? Open a pawn shop?"
"Open a pawn shop?"
Li Sui'an was silent for a moment, "I don't have the eyesight of my old man, so I will die if I open a pawn shop.
After I go back, I plan to open a grain store and call it Cangxizhai. If there is a disaster in the future, I will put out as much grain as I can to save as much as I can!"
In Wei Ran's silence, Li Sui'an shivered uncontrollably, "After the embankment burst last year, I saw with my own eyes that the victims exchanged their children for each other, and... exchanged them and ate them.
Yizi and eat in the book!
What's written in the book, that's just what's written in the book! How could you...how dare you really eat people!
Did you know?
Even the exchanged children, the adults were reluctant to eat them and gave them to the children left behind. Those children... they survived by eating the flesh of their brothers and sisters..."
Hearing this, Wei Ran shivered uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but recall the tragic experience in Leningrad.
Hungry, hungry cannibalism, was no longer the subject of condemnation. At that time, condemnation had long been meaningless.
"That bitch Chiang..."
Zhao Jinyu had no choice but to change his tone in the middle of scolding, "What a thief!"
"The warehouses are often used to provide relief supplies, and the poor people are widely spread with enough food and clothing. When the state is in trouble, we must first resist foreign humiliation, and in prosperous times, we can do business in all directions."
Li Sui'an sighed and said, "This is the ancestral motto of our Li family. Now is the time when the country is in trouble... Following the ancestral precepts of the Li family, I must resist foreign humiliation.
When the Japanese are beaten away, all industries will be ruined and the people will be in dire straits. If I am still alive and the Li family still has a surplus, I will open a grain store and save as many as I can."
"What are you Li family planning?" Wei Ran asked deliberately.
"What are you trying to do? How can there be a complete egg in the crowd..."
Li Sui'an smiled and said, "If we really let this stupid little devil break into Sichuan and Shu, would my Sichuan and Shu fathers still be alive? Is it possible that our Lijiacang Zhai's more than 100 years of foundation would be given to the little devil?
Bah!
If that day comes, I would rather burn down our Li family's property and all the salt wells in Zigong with my own hands, and I won't even leave them a mouthful of brine!"
"You will return to Zigong alive and open a grain store."
Wei Ran said with great certainty, "I might even go to your grain store to buy grain by then."
"If that day comes, I won't take any money from you no matter how much rice or noodles you buy!"
Li Sui'an said with an unstoppable smile, "I will go back and open a grain store after the Japanese are beaten away!"
"What about you?" Wei Ran raised his chin towards Zhao Jinyu.
"I haven't thought about it, and I don't bother to think about it."
Zhao Jinyu lay on the kang, lit a cigarette, and said very simply, "Kill the Japanese. Now I want to kill the Japanese when I eat, sleep, and dream. I will think about the rest after I finish killing the Japanese. If I don't save them all, I won't survive that day."
Woolen cloth."
"What if I can live to that day?" Wei Ran also lit a cigarette and asked.
"Let me think about it"
Zhao Jinyu looked at the ceiling and pondered for a while and said with great joy, "Then I will find a pasture to raise horses. Then I will ask my brother-in-law to ask a matchmaker to find me a slut with a lot of money, a big ass and a big butt, so that I can give birth to a good child.
A son!"
Speaking of this, Zhao Jinyu became interested and broke the news without stumbling, "Brother Wei, you must not know yet, right?"
"What do you know?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"My brother-in-law has a youngest sister who is attracted to Brother Li."
Before Li Sui'an could stop him, Zhao Jinyu winked and said, "I just followed my brother-in-law back once, but I fell in love with him. My sister sent me several messages asking me to ask Brother Li what he meant."
"What else is there?" Wei Ran became interested, "Tell me, what is that girl's name and what does she look like? Wangchuan, do you like her?"
"Call Ma Qinghe!"
Zhao Jinyu rushed to say, "I heard from my sister that she went to school in Peking for several years! It seems that she was a classmate with Brother Li..."
"At best, we can only be considered alumni."
Li Sui'an said quickly, "Actually, they are not from the same school. They are still several years apart."
Elementary school girl?
Wei Ran muttered something and asked happily, "Do you like her?"
"She is a progressive young woman, but she will not follow me back to Zigong to open a grain store."
Li Sui'an made an extraordinarily candid joke, then looked out the window, and then whispered into Wei Ran's ear, "Brother Wei, put aside the romance, you give me advice, Miss Ma's before
The letter said that she is going to Yan'an and plans to invite the company commander to go with her. Do you think this is reliable?"
"Yan..."
Wei Ran's heart twitched when he heard the name of this place. He really knew the correct answer to this question!
However, when he subconsciously wanted to say it out, he asked out of nowhere, "What did the company commander say?"
“My brother-in-law doesn’t even dare to fart.”
Zhao Jinyu came over and whispered, "Their family is somewhat related to the Ma family. If he dares to go, his head will have to be screwed by the Ma family..."
"Talk about something else"
When Li Sui'an saw someone walking by outside, he immediately asked the two brothers to change the subject, and at the same time increased his voice and said, "Don't keep talking about me, Jin Yu, do you and that girl from the Yang family really have nothing?"
"Why did you pull it on me?"
Zhao Jinyu said angrily, "I don't like sister Shiyi. How can she survive with her little arms and legs?"
"You are really a wild boar that can't eat fine chaff."
Wei Ran scolded with a dumbfounded smile, but at the same time he nodded towards Li Sui'an.
Li Sui'an's eyes lit up as he seemed to have found the answer, and he nodded towards Wei Ran in a subtle way in response. His face, which still had a bookish air, showed nothing.
“Why can’t I eat fine bran?”
Zhao Jinyu didn’t notice the two people’s flirting, but still looked at the ceiling and said nonchalantly, “Shiyi’s body is like a jumping bean, let alone a horse, I’d probably catch a grasshopper on the grass.
She can't hold a rope, so how can I like her like that?"
In the future, when you, a silly boy like you, slap my thigh...
Wei Ran grinned and was too lazy to persuade her. Even if Yang Shiyi were to be seen in future generations, she would still be a real beauty. What's more, just by reading that letter, you could tell that she was an educated person.
I remember back then, that little girl even gave up her reputation in order to save the three of them. Now Zhao Jinyu is picky and picky. This kid really deserves it...
Wei Ran couldn't help but shake his head, and then shook his head with a wry smile. Only then did he realize that Zhao Jinyu was not telling the truth.
What Hu Bazhi said just now would be more reasonable, but Zhao Jinyu is not a rough person.
In this case, he still said this... probably because he didn't want to delay the girl from the Yang family...
Helplessly, he glanced at Zhao Jinyu who was still "slandering" Yang Shiyi. Wei Ran was too lazy to listen to this silly boy who was thinking deeply. He left the west wing room on the pretext of having something to do and went to find the boss of the cooking class with his camera and two silver dollars.
Liu, began to prepare for the night's investigation activities.
When the moon climbed over the treetops, the pistol team led by Ma Jintao himself left the station quietly on horseback and ran a long way along the flooded Yellow River in the night, but they were never in a hurry to cross the river.
This time, this cavalry team did not even light their lanterns. The stirrups, sabers, and even the horses' hooves were wrapped with a layer of wet linen to prevent them from making too much noise.
Wei Ran also made preparations in advance. In addition to hiding some food in the food box, he also asked Lao Liu from the cooking class to help him boil a large pot of salted rice in exchange for helping to take a photo and two silver coins.
Stick noodles, wild vegetable porridge and a large pot of boiling water were poured into two oil drums in the metal book.
Can these things be used and put aside? He was really frightened by what Li Sui'an told him about Yi Zi Er Shi.
Bai Yuguang was still running at the front. Under the moonlight, the horse team galloped all the way through the wilderness. From time to time, Wei Ran could see the faint blue phosphorus fire on the roadside.
That was the only light that the hungry corpses all over the ground could bring to this dark world, but the light from the burning bones only brought everyone the grief and fear that had long been numb.
After running relatively quietly for almost half an hour, Bai Yuguang, the leader, finally stopped.
"Company Commander, just go over here. The water will be deeper if you go further, and it is unlikely that the Japanese will cross the river from that side."
Bai Yuguang first glanced at a large willow tree growing in the distance to confirm that the location was correct, and then whispered.
Compared with the village and town where we were stationed, this place is already covered with mud soup and yellow sand that can submerge horses' hooves, or to give it a more appropriate name - yellow flood area.
"Let's go"
Company Commander Ma reminded him in a low voice, "Everyone, be on your guard. Our main purpose tonight is to see if there are any Japanese around here. If something goes wrong, we should first attack them. If we can fight, we will fight. If we can't fight, we will run back immediately."
"puff!"
In response, the crowd struck each other with sabers wrapped in torn linen and stirrups also wrapped in linen, making a muffled sound.
"Chirp!"
Under the leadership of Bai Yuguang and Company Commander Ma, everyone rode horses and walked slowly in the opposite direction through the sand.
Although riding on horseback, this is really not a safe and comfortable task.
Because of the mud and sand under its feet, the war horse couldn't run at all. Even if it did run, there was no way of knowing which step would trip the horse's hoof.
No matter how good a war horse is, if its leg is broken, no one will want it as a draft horse, so it will have to be slaughtered for meat.
After walking cautiously in this yellow mud soup for more than half an hour, Bai Yuguang was the first to stop and said, "If I remember correctly, there should be a village ahead."
"Go over and take a look." As Ma Jintao spoke, he had already lowered the nose of the box gun.
Without any hesitation at all, Bai Yuguang took the lead and ran towards the village soaked in water with five or six cavalrymen, while the rest of the people rode on horseback and stood in the mud bath, waiting quietly.
Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes. During the increasingly long wait, Bai Yuguang and his party rode back one after another.
"Company Commander, we circled the village twice and took a look inside. There are no living people." Bai Yuguang paused and added, "The smell of corpses is very strong. It is estimated that many people died inside.
.”
"Is there a place to stay?" Captain Ma asked.
"No"
Bai Yuguang shook his head, "Many houses have collapsed, and only one person can barely stand on those collapsed houses."
“Next Village”
Captain Ma ordered with an expressionless tone, and the cavalry team set off again through the muddy water. Under the guidance of the map that Bai Yuguang had memorized, they investigated one village after another.
Even without explanation, Wei Ran could tell that they were looking for a foothold, a place where the Japanese could hide, and they were also investigating and recording the terrain of this area.
This is destined to be hard and dangerous work. None of them knows what the horse's hooves will step on next, let alone whether there are Japanese soldiers hiding in the next village.
Under the cover of darkness, the team walked farther and farther, but in the villages they passed, no living people were found at all.
On the contrary, the yellow mud soup under their feet became shallower and shallower. Finally, when they stopped, they finally saw the solid ground they had not seen for a long time.
"Huaiyang City is not far ahead," Ma Jintao muttered to himself, then simply urged his horse to go back.
The only difference is that they did not return the same way they came. Instead, they followed the abandoned river embankment and headed towards the direction of yesterday's battle from this side.
The situation here is somewhat better than the areas we just passed through. The sediment washed out from the Yellow River has accumulated layer after layer, and finally the war horses don't have to soak in the yellow mud soup all the time.
But on the contrary, this thick silt has undoubtedly covered the cultivated land, making it impossible to grow crops here.
They continued to explore all the way, and when they returned to the camp along the retreat route after yesterday's battle without any danger, the sky was almost bright.
As usual, he washed the horse hides and filled them with concentrated feed. After Wei Ran took a bath, he drank the remaining half a bottle of wine with Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an and took a few sips to fill their stomachs. However, the three of them fell asleep.
It was only the second day, and his current position determined that even if he was familiar with the history that was about to happen, he could not know the details of the regiment commander and Captain Ma's plan for the next battle.
In other words, the only thing he can do is to do his job well.
