Chapter 7 Pointing to the Knife and Asking the Sky
In the past few days, with the blessing of Jumang's promotional posters, the business of the lonely pot shop is not unpopular.
It's already past 3 o'clock in the morning, and there are still a group of girls around Chixin, who are tall, short, fat, thin, beautiful and ugly.
And Ju Mang had already "escaped" without a trace, and in this chaotic and lively scene, it was very similar to the night at three o'clock in the morning many years ago.
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In 1931, in a remote mountainous area of China, this mountain shape is like "Yuanbao", so it was named "Yuanbao Mountain".
At this time, a group of seven or eight people with different figures, but they all had one characteristic, that is, they were all too thin. At this time, they surrounded a teenager, babbling to hear the story.
The boy, who looked a little malnourished, sat on the ground, shifted the oil lamp beside him, opened his resolute eyes, and said, "Okay, well, I'll tell you, but after telling this last story, we're going to shine on the frog." ”
When the little ones heard that the boy had agreed, they spun around happily and made a fuss for a while, sitting around the boy honestly, staring at him with expectant eyes.
The night wind was bitterly cold, but it couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of these little ones. One by one, they shivered in the cold wind, and they just listened to the story.
When the story ended, the boy smiled and said, "All right, the story is over, let's go catch the frogs first, and when the day comes, they will hide in the cave and sleep." ”
The little ones shouted, "Catch the frogs, catch the frogs!"
In a joyful atmosphere, under the leadership of the teenager, everyone walked from the mountains and forests to the fields, and from the fields to the mountains and forests.
Although the lighting equipment is only the oil lamp in the hand of the teenager, all of them look like veterans, and they can walk through the mountains and fields without hindrance.
The boy looked up at the sky and felt that it would not be long before the sun would rise. Looking back at the little ones behind him, each of them had a full harvest in their hands, and they were skewering frogs with wheat branches from the field.
Some carry them in their hands, and some hang them around their necks. Only a small man who had been following the boy was empty-handed, a little sullen.
The young man spoke: "Yoko, don't be depressed, you will become a veteran when you come out more in the future." ”
Yoko's eyes flashed with some disappointment and said, "But sister, she always doesn't let me come out at night." ”
"Aren't you coming out today? I'll go and tell my sister that the harvest isn't good now, and I think she'll agree." ”
After hearing this, Yoko's previous frustration was completely put aside, and she said happily: "Really!"
The young man touched Yoko's head: "Then there is still a fake?"
Putting aside the bad mood, at this time, Yoko's eyes stared directly at the frogs on the boy's body, as well as the hare on his waist.
The hare was an unexpected bonus, and while they were looking for a frog, they accidentally bumped into the boy's feet, and the boy picked it up.
And strangely, the hare seemed to have been frightened by something, and obviously lost the strength to resist.
But this "windfall" was not collected in vain, and the young man quickly twisted off its neck, and then hung it around his waist.
Seeing Yangzi's eyes, the young man smiled slightly: "Seeing that you are greedy, you are not afraid that your sister will rob you?"
Yoko said happily disapplausively: "No, my sister hurts me more than A-Niang."
The young man smiled and said, "Yes, yes, let's go, little glutton." After saying that, he knocked on the head of Ichiyoko, and greeted the little guys behind him and walked in the direction of the village.
On the way back, Yoko kept staring at the hare hanging on the boy's waist, maybe it had been too long since he opened the meat, and his mouth crackled and told the boy all kinds of ways to eat rabbits.
The group of little guys behind him were also chirping, talking all the way. It made the originally quiet mountains and forests much more lively, and these were nothing.
But the boy didn't know what was going on today, and felt very stuffy in his chest, and he always felt very irritable.
While responding to Yoko's topic, he chopped the branches with the wood knife in his hand and opened a path for people to pass.
When the sun turned a trace of fish belly in the sky, the little ones finally walked out of the mountain forest. The location of the mountain forest is located at the top of the village, and when viewed from the top, the village is glowing red.
If you look closely, the village is full of fires, and from time to time there are some messy shouts, mixed with the cries of some people.
The sound was already very subtle, but it was the screams of the crowd.
A few days ago, I always heard adults say that the war was chaotic, and at this moment, the young man reacted and immediately turned his head and shouted to the little ones behind him: "Come back, go back to the mountains and forests!"
The rest of the little guys who didn't know why saw the young man's panicked expression, and they didn't think much about following the young man Wang Shan in the forest.
There were many pictures flashing in the heart of the running boy, but none of them were good. Fortunately, the young man at this time has not lost his mind, so he took the little ones into the mountains and forests first.
A terrible thought popped into his mind: maybe now they were the last survivors of the village.
Thinking of this, the young man lost his mind instantly, and accidentally fell to the ground, he only felt that he had lost his strength, curled up, hugged his knees and sobbed.
The little ones who fell behind also followed one after another, watching the teenager curl up on the ground, they were also at a loss, and they didn't know what to do.
After a long while, the boy sat up and wiped his tears. Ignoring the eyes of the rest of his companions, he searched around and said, "Everyone come with me, something may have happened to the village, now."
If I can't go back, I'll find a place for everyone to hide first, and then come back to everyone after I confirm it when I go back. ”
The boy relied on his earlier impression and led everyone to the bottom of a broken slope, and there was a hole about three or four meters up the broken slope, which was discovered by the young man when he and his father came to the mountain to cut firewood.
A group of people climbed to the entrance of the cave by stacking arhats, during which the young man scavenged some vines around to make ropes and hung them on the sharp stones of the cave as a "rope ladder" to go up and down the cave.
Everyone entered the cave, the boy looked around, the cave was not very deep, and it was only five meters to the end, and there was no big problem for them to stay inside.
After a moment of silence, Yoko asked, "Brother, what happened to the village." ”
Hearing Yoko's question, the rest of the partners also gathered around and asked the boy in a chatter.
And the young man at this moment was also upset, and roared: "I don't know, but don't worry, it's going to be fine, I'll go back and have a look, everyone stay here and wait for me to come back." ”
After that, the boy comforted everyone again, but remembered what he had said.
What can a 13-year-old child do when he goes back? There is a voice in my heart that has not allowed me to go back, and that voice tells me that if I go back, I may not be able to come back.
But thinking that his parents and sister might be suffering misfortune at this time, the young man felt very uncomfortable, and resolutely wanted to go back to see it.
Tightening the firewood knife in his hand, he explained to everyone again: "Listen, everyone, no matter what you hear, you must not get out of this cave, and you must not go near the entrance of the cave, hide in it until you hear my voice, and you will throw down the vines, understand?"
Everyone nodded their heads, and the young man looked at the appearance of everyone, although he felt uncomfortable, he couldn't do anything at the moment, so he turned his head and slid down the wooden vine.
At the bottom of the cave, the boy asked everyone to take back the vines, and when he saw that the vines were completely withdrawn into the cave, the boy turned around and left with confidence.
Walking into the forest again, the boy identified the direction of returning to the village, and then walked straight forward. To the boy's relief, the location of the cave was quite a bit away from the village.
According to my knowledge of the forest, it may take about half an hour to get back to the village, and if a stranger breaks in, it may take two or three or four times as long to find out the location of the cave, which undoubtedly reduces the possibility of the little ones being discovered.
In order not to destroy the traces of the mountain forest, the boy walked forward against the thorns and branches, and the hare on his waist and the frog hanging from his neck had been swept away by the branches when he ran with his companions to the mountain forest.
At this moment, the boy allowed the branches to scrape against him, because he was afraid that if he took the wood knife in his hand and cut the way out, those people might follow the path to find Yoko and them.
By the time the boy walked out of the mountains again, the sky was much brighter, but because it was morning, the whole mountain was surrounded by gray morning mist.
At this time, the movement in the village was much quieter, and although the light of the burning fire had dimmed a lot, it was still dazzling in the eyes of the young man.
The boy slowly touched the village, and the closer he got to the village, the more nervous he became, and the more he heard the movement in the village.
As we approached the village, there was some unintelligible language from time to time, sometimes accompanied by some exaggerated laughter. The boy tried his best to suppress his emotions and not think about those bad things, and he didn't dare to think about it.
The young man was glad in his heart, fortunately, his home was located on the edge of the village, and he should not be discovered by this group of people when he sneaked back.
After deciding on the round-trip route in his heart, he lowered his pace and moved quietly in the direction of his home.
On the way, he encountered the invaders several times, and the boy easily avoided them by taking advantage of his familiarity with the village, which also allowed him to see the appearance of these invaders clearly.
They were all holding weapons he had never seen before, they resembled spears, but they were shorter than spears, and the heads of the spears were not stuck in the shafts, but were fixed in place by principles he did not know, so that the black holes in the black poles were exposed.
Once, when a large rooster walked in front of the group, the boy saw one of them use the weapon once.
The boy thought that the man would fly over with that strange short spear, but it was evident that the man was just standing there, and then the strange short spear made a loud noise, and at the same time, a tongue of fire erupted from the black hole, and the big rooster not far away fell to the ground.
This movement startled the boy, and the movement was almost unnoticed by the group.
After several thrilling encounters, the boy finally came to his doorstep. As he thought, because his house was close to the edge of the village, there were very few invaders here, and it could even be said to be extremely quiet.
But instead of entering through the main entrance, he went around to the back of the house and climbed through the low fence into his courtyard.
Jumping off the wall, the boy was shocked by the sight in front of him for a long time. The young man, who had been stunned for a long time, came back to his senses, looked around at the home that was full of warmth and was only a mess, and tears fell uncontrollably, and he didn't know that he had bitten his lips and skin.
The young man, who had no time to be sad, hurriedly rushed into the house, and as soon as he entered the gate, he saw his father lying on the ground, with a black hole in the blood on his forehead.
He rushed forward, knelt on the ground, grabbed his father's arm and shook it, "Dad, Dad、、、" But a cold feeling came from his hand to let him know that his father was gone.
At this time, the boy seemed to remember something, and raised his head and walked towards the room in the house, when the curtain of the door in the room was opened by the boy.
The young man was so shocked by the sight before him that he took two steps back and leaned against the eaves, his eyes were blackened, his feet were weak and he couldn't stand steadily, and he sat down, and he saw that his mother had no complete clothes to cover her body, and she was already lifeless lying on the bed.
At this moment, the young man wanted to shout and pour out the sullen breath in his heart, but a thought flashed through his mind, no!
If he was discovered, his brother would have no one to take care of, and the young man opened his mouth to bite it down when he thought of it, and tears flowed down like a dam that had opened the floodgates, and his mouth made a sound of "uh-huh-woo".
Thinking of his sister, the boy walked out of the house, searched around his house and found no trace of his sister, and when he thought of his mother's appearance, the boy flashed a bad thought: "Isn't it that group of bastards, who arrested my sister?"
"What to do, what to do," the boy asked anxiously.
Just when the boy was thinking about how to save his sister, an incomprehensible sound of "chirp" came from a distance, and the boy was suddenly startled, listening to the sound that was getting closer and closer, the boy jumped into the well in his yard in a panic.
Due to the panic jumping, the boy's head hit the well, and he suddenly felt dizzy, but he could still vaguely maintain some consciousness.
When he heard those voices and walked into his house, the anger in the young man's heart suddenly rose to the peak, but at this time, he didn't even have the strength to bite his tongue and kill himself, what could he do?
The boy was immersed in torment for a long time, and finally waited for those people to leave.
But at this time, the young man's whole body was weak, and there were bursts of fainting sensations in his head, coupled with soaking in the cold well water, if it weren't for the young man's willpower being a little stronger, I'm afraid he would have fainted by this time.
After the group left, the young man looked up at the mouth of the well, and in a very short time, the mouth of the well was filled with billowing smoke, accompanied by the smell of charcoal and the smell of barbecue mixed in with it.
At this time, although the young man was hungry and cold, when he smelled the smell of barbecued meat, he did not feel hungry, on the contrary, the anger in his heart was difficult to vent, because he knew what the source of the smell of meat came from.
The boy gritted his teeth, ignored the pain in his body, and crawled up again and again towards the mouth of the well. After crawling for an unknown number of times, he accidentally fell and hit the back of his head and fainted.
I don't know how long later, a sturdy young man found the boy in the well in the burned yard, and hurriedly shouted into the distance: "Captain! Captain! There seems to be a living person here!"
When the man who was called captain heard this, he called a few people and ran to him, "Where are the people?"
"Captain, where are you in the well?"
The captain hurriedly ordered the others: "Hurry, hurry, take the rope and save people!"
It took a lot of effort for everyone to finally save the boy from the well, and at the same time, Lang Zhong in the team treated the boy.
After a long time, the young man slowly opened his eyes and looked around. At this time, a rough voice was heard: "Captain, captain, he is awake." ”
After a while, the young man heard someone walk in from outside the big box (tent) surrounded by white flowers, and then the man called "Captain" smiled and said to the young man: "Child, don't be afraid, we are a people's army, specializing in fighting bad people and saving good people." ”
The young man didn't know what the People's Army was, but at this moment his heart couldn't collapse anymore, and tears flowed down the corners of his eyes.
No matter how he said it, he was just a child, and after suffering such cruel things, he now had no ability to think about whether the people in front of him were worthy of his trust.
He only knew that, compared to the previous group of invaders, at least these people in front of him did not take their own lives.
The captain was also very sad when he saw the young man's appearance, and then said slowly: "Child, what's your name?"
The young man did not answer, but struggled to sit up, and Da Zhuang hurriedly helped the young man to sit down.
But what everyone didn't expect was that the young man directly ripped off the quilt on his body and wanted to get out of bed.
This action startled Da Zhuang and said: "Alas, you can't move, now your body is weak, lie down." ”
But the young man ignored him, turned his head and glared at Da Niu, but stunned Da Zhuang.
Da Zhuang has been killing enemies everywhere with the captain over the years, but he didn't expect to be shocked by a child, and the hand that stretched out to support the young man stopped in the air.
Da Zhuang turned his head to look at the captain, his eyes were full of inquiry, of course the captain saw all this clearly, and also found the young man's unusual perseverance, waved his hand at the big cow and let the young man go.
The young man walked up to the captain, bowed slightly, and said lightly, "Thank you." Then he went out of the tent, and when he got out of the tents, he found them on the outskirts of the village. Obviously, the aggressors are no longer here for some unknown reason.
After looking around, he picked up a thick stick and walked into the mountains.
Seeing this, the captain greeted both sides, and several people followed with the captain.
The young man also ignored the captain's team, perhaps saying that this was what he was thinking, because he didn't know these people, and they might have saved themselves unintentionally, but they might not have followed him to save his brother, so he didn't say a word but would arouse the curiosity of these people and follow him to save his brother.
If they don't go, then they will also go, and for those they don't know, this is the best way to get them to follow them.
After following the boy in the mountains and forests for a long time, everyone came to the location of the cave, and when the captain saw the cave, he immediately understood what the boy had done.
So I thought in my heart: What a great baby. But after thinking about it, he still ordered a few people to help the boy.
The boy shouted a few times at the bottom of the cave: "Yoko, Yoko!", but there was no movement, until this moment the boy also panicked, and he didn't know how long he had been asleep, and whether Yoko was okay now?
Seeing the young man's anxious appearance, the captain hurriedly said to Da Zhuang: "Da Zhuang, you go up and have a look." ”
Da Zhuang answered, took a few steps towards the rock wall, and jumped into the cave in the high place.
After a few breaths, Da Zhuang stretched out his head and said to everyone: "Captain, there is nothing empty in this cave!"
When the young man heard this, he let out a "grunt" in his heart, no, how could it not be? Then he said hoarsely to Da Zhuang, "Pull me up, pull me up quickly!"
Da Zhuang glanced at the captain, and after getting permission, he threw a hemp rope from his waist and pulled the young man up.
As soon as the boy went up to the cave, he hurriedly checked it, and repeatedly scanned every corner and where there was someone.
This space, which is less than five meters deep, can be seen through at a glance, and even the vines that were left for Yoko are gone.
Where will it go?, the boy asked himself, if Yoko left by herself, the vine should be hanging at the entrance of the cave?But what was the matter, and for a moment the boy felt a sullen breath rushing from the bottom to the top, and then his eyes went black and fell backwards.
The young man who was standing at the entrance of the cave fell directly to the ground. When Da Zhuang saw it, he couldn't react and wanted to reach out and pull it, but after all, he was a step too late, and his hand was empty.
Just as the boy was about to hit the ground, the captain dodged and caught the boy. The boy was awakened by centrifugal force because he fell from the hole, and he also came to his senses when he fell into the arms of the captain.
Then he immediately let out a long howl at the sky, and suddenly hundreds of birds flew in the mountains and forests, this sound, this breath he held for too long.
After a long roar, I suddenly felt that my body was comfortable, and I no longer had the feeling of fatigue that I had before, and there was only a sense of anger and an explosive force that had nowhere to vent.
The captain saw that the boy had finished venting his emotions, and then said, "We, like you, were also killed by those animals, so we gathered together to form a force to balance them and avenge the dead siblings! ”
When the young man heard this, he knelt down to the captain suddenly, and then said loudly: "As long as I can take revenge, even if I can be a cow and a horse, I am willing, and before I have revenge, I will also ask me how to resist the enemy!"
After the boy finished speaking, he kowtowed to the ground fiercely. The young man felt in his heart that the person in front of him was very powerful, so he rushed to save himself just now, this person was definitely not an ordinary person.
and his subordinate named Da Zhuang, who climbed to the hole hanging on the broken slope in three or two clicks, all of which proved that this group of people was not ordinary people.
So the young man made up his mind that he must follow him to the death, so that he could have his own revenge one day.
Then the captain said to the young man: "Okay! I, Chen Yong, will accept you as a disciple today!
The young man raised his head and looked at Chen Yong. Suddenly, one of them knelt down and turned around, snatching a soldier's broadsword from the side and pointing it at the sky.
The person who was robbed of the knife is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, but now he was robbed of his life-saving thing by a doll, and the voice of the young man came from him in a daze.
At this moment, the young man held the big knife in his hand and pointed to the sky and shouted: "God, why do you treat me like this, look at my father and mother in the family, who have been simple and kind all her life, but in exchange for such a tragic end, if this is your deliberate move!