The setting sun was almost setting on the horizon again. I don't know why fire clouds started to appear, and most of the sky was red.
The forest fell silent, except for the occasional call from a returning bird.
A small river flows quietly in the mountains, sparkling in the sunset.
There were many finger-long small fish swimming in the river, as if they also cared about the good time.
I just don’t know if they understand that autumn is coming, and then the shallow river will freeze with ice when winter comes. So, what will be their fate?
At this time, human footsteps sounded in the distance, and then there was a shout: "There is water ahead!"
With this shout, the rustling tired footsteps turned into the sound of running "plop" and "plop", and a group of men and women ran towards the creek.
When these people ran to the river, those who had a drinker in their hands quickly scooped up water to drink. Those who didn't have a drinker in their hands simply lay down in the water and sucked it like little beasts on the mountain. .
They were so hungry that no one even cared if someone accidentally stepped their dusty shoes into the water.
"Uh-" Finally someone burped after drinking water, and then he pointed to the woods on the hillside and said, "I'll stay here tonight. It's time to solve the stomach problem this time."
The speaker was almost forty years old, and his old face, which was already smoky, was covered with dense black stubble because he hadn't shaved for several days.
He is Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang and others finally escaped from the Japanese army. This situation was something that he, a veteran, had never experienced before.
Wang Laomao and Ma Erhuzi rescued those students, while Shang Zhen and the other soldiers rescued Wang Laomao and others.
But the Japanese army's pursuit of them did not stop just because they killed and wounded more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, because the nearby Japanese soldiers came to reinforce them!
This group of Japanese soldiers are also evil.
People expected that they would run into the mountains, so they sent a team of dozens of people to advance.
In terms of leg strength, Wang Laomao and the others, who had traveled more than 200 miles back and forth in the past two days, were really no match for the Japanese Kwantung Army, not to mention that they had to protect seven students, four men and three women.
There were so many Japanese search teams that Wang Lao Mao and the others had to hide in the mountains and fields until they finally reached this safe place, and now they drank that life-threatening water. Oops, that kind of drought. The feeling of being refreshed is really like drinking nectar!
Finally, everyone had enough to drink, and even when they moved, their stomachs made a gurgling sound!
At the urging of Mr. Wang, the soldiers and students all walked into the woods.
However, now that the danger had been eliminated and everyone had drunk enough water, everyone was showing signs of exhaustion. They looked like they were walking like seventy-year-olds, which was really slow.
"Thank you, sir!" Someone said, a crisp female voice.
The person walking in front looked back and saw a female student with a long round face and two pigtails thanking Hou Wangshan, but Hou Wangshan had a floral cloth bag in his hand.
It was obvious that Hou Kanshan was kind enough to help the girl, and the girl naturally had gratitude in her eyes.
Hou Kanshan is so good at "making trouble"!
However, only they themselves know how the other soldiers view Hou Kanshan's behavior.
"Why do you bring a gourd?" At this time, Chen Hanwen asked a male student next to him.
"We use this gourd to fill water. It turns out there was a celluloid kettle, but it fell and broke on the way." The male student replied.
The boy was not tall, but he had a pair of round myopia glasses stuck in his nose.
His small body is not much stronger than Shang Zhen, the thinnest among Wang Laomao's group.
But no matter Hou Kanshan or Chen Hanwen, after each of them helped a student, their eyes couldn't help but glance at the other female student.
The reason for this is just that the female student looks different among the three girls.
She has short hair that reaches her ears, and she even washed her face after they drank water just now, and her face looks clean and fair. Although she has been displaced, her face still leaves people with a beautiful imagination.
To say that this female student does not look like an extreme beauty, but as the so-called beauty looks at the bones, not the skin, the outline of the girl's face still gives people a fresh and refined feeling.
Wang Laomao was noncommittal about the performance of Chen Hanwen and Hou Kanshan.
Qian Chuan'er and Er Hanzi also had no intention of helping those students get anything. They still couldn't get enough of their own stuff.
This is naturally because the two of them got several rifles last time. Although they sold one to the common people, Erhanzi still has two rifles in his hands.
Qian Chuan'er only had a box cannon and a rifle, but he also brought a lot of bullets and food.
But at this time, Ma Erhuzi was already with Shang Zhen, and the two of them were at the end.
The things Shang Zhen carried with him were neither too much nor too little, but the problem was that he was too thin. The things he carried included: a flower trap, more than 200 rounds of ammunition, and fifteen or six kilograms of food.
Shang Zhen really wanted to become a qualified soldier, but he couldn't give up those two guns and bullets.
When he came back this time, Qian Chuan'er used the rifle to get a lot of food from the people.
Shang Zhen couldn't give up eating these things. He needed to get stronger quickly.
"Let me get you some." Ma Erhuzi reached out and took the rifle from Shang Zhen's hand, and carried the bag of food on his back.
In Wang Lao Mao's platoon, Ma Erhuzi has the best relationship with Li Fushun, otherwise Li Fushun would not be able to "entrust him" to Ma Erhuzi.
Since Shang Zhen is fine now and Li Fushun has been killed in battle, Ma Erhuzi feels that he must take Li Fushun's role to take care of this younger brother.
"What do you have here?" Ma Erhuzi asked Shang Zhen, carrying the food on his back.
"Eating includes meat and dry food." Shang Zhen replied.
"Why did you bring so much food? How tiring it is to run back and forth!" Ma Erhuzi complained to Shang Zhen.
"Can't I eat it now?" Shang Zhen replied helplessly.
"Where did you get so much food?" Ma Erhuzi asked again.
"Qian Chuan'er got it from the common people in exchange for guns. We couldn't take it with us, but I didn't want to throw it away," Shang Zhen said.
Ma Erhuzi glanced at the people stumbling in front of him before complaining in a low voice: "I'm tired from this, this time is good, all the food you brought will have to be eaten by others."
Shang Zhen replied in a low voice: "Who knew there were so many people here at once."
During this process, Shang Zhen never paid attention to the more beautiful female student in front of him.
What Shang Zhen is thinking about now is the issue of life and death, and how to improve his abilities.
Female students were not among his considerations. Only those like Hou Kanshan would want to eat a swan.
Note: Celluloid is an early name for plastic. At least in 1931, plastic was not common in Northeast China.
