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Autumn loofah, not his real name, is a nickname given by the people in the village. The man was thin and tall, and looked like a loofah hanging from the autumn field. People walk on the road without a little energy, and they are honest and very friendly. But as soon as you get to the boat to prop up the bamboo pole or shake the oars, the spirit comes. Especially underwater, it is as flexible as a fish and a loach. This is due to the fact that he learned to ferry, swim and dive under the guidance of his father since he was a child.

My father lived on ferries all year round during his lifetime, and the village only gave them a little help at the end of the month or during the New Year's holidays. Autumn loofah has not seen her mother since she was a child. The father said that he had died a long time ago, and in fact eloped with a young man in the village. Qiu Luffa later knew that he was depressed and didn't have much to say, and it was rare for someone to talk to him. The phrase he heard the most was: "Autumn loofah, transition mile." "It's a matter of course.

One year, in the late autumn season a month after the death of Autumn Loofah's father, a little scoundrel known as the leper didn't know whether he thought he was a bully or that he was a demon king here, and got on a boat to make fun of his mother's elopement when he went to play in the factory cellar town. Qiu Luffa's face became more and more loofah when he listened, he didn't speak but rowed hard, and when he came to the middle of the river, he kicked the boat with his right foot, and the boat tilted, and the unsuspecting leprosy skull rolled into the river. Qiu Luffa didn't look at it, he didn't care about it, let the leper head scream and scold loudly in the water, and paddled the boat ashore without looking back at the leper in the water.

Of course, what happened later can be predicted, after the leper went ashore, he summoned a few ruffians to beat him half to death, if it wasn't for Lu Gong and Li Xiaolin when they were transitioning to school, they ran into them, I'm afraid that his autumn loofah would really become a rotten loofah that fell into the dirt. He always kept this incident in his heart, and thanks to Lu Gong, he taught him to breathe and exhale in the water.

2 The rooster just crowed, and the autumn loofah remembered to send them across the river, and woke up very early, unable to sleep, got up and picked up the cigarette stick hanging at the head of the bed and walked out of the house, not to relieve his hands, but to see his boat, which had been with each other for more than ten years in the wind and rain. This is his habit for many years, after watching the boat, he will sit on the bow of the boat, light a dry tobacco, smoke a few puffs, and then return to the house and sleep until the fifth watch.

Walking all the way, the wind outside was so cold, I couldn't help but shiver, shivering, so cold two words blurted out, I wanted to go back to the house to pick up clothes to put on, but it was already halfway, suddenly remembered that there was a piece of clothing hanging in Daddy Wang's cowshed today, so I went straight to the cowshed.

There seemed to be lights in the cowshed. Autumn loofah is so strange that the owner of this house began to feed the cows grass so early, and if you look closely, it is not right, there are many figures shaking inside.

Qiu Luffa had a heart, tiptoed to the edge of the cowshed, looked in through the gap in the bullpen, saw that the clothes were still there, and then looked at the person next to him with his back to the clothes and couldn't help but be shocked: "Leprosy." "I almost shouted. He didn't dare to take his clothes, wondering what these people were doing here at this time? Cattle stealing? But the cows were still grazing leisurely. Ignoring the cold outside, he decided to find out, and took a few steps forward and eavesdropped on the wall.

The leper suppressed his voice: "Do you want to do it?" Damn, at this time, she is still twisting and pinching like a saffron girl. ”

"It's not that we don't do it, it's that we can't do it, we don't have guns, people have guns and cannons, where can we compare to them." A bare-headed man spoke.

"Snap", the bald head was slapped on the head: "Blind your dog's eyes, this is not what a gun is, ah, Lao Tzu's gun pulls the trigger and knocks down a large piece, and their guns can only shoot one at a time." The bare head turned his head and saw a tall man raise the gun in his hand. In fact, this gun is just a native gun, which is more popular in the local area, it was invented by the people of the Yuan Dynasty, the northerners call it artillery, the southerners call it the firecracker, almost everyone in this village has it, and it is generally used to fight wild ducks or other birds, rabbits, foxes or something. It is triangular or circular in shape and has a wooden handle more than a foot long, usually with three or six powder holes and pilot holes, called "three-eyed guns" or "six-eyed guns", and a single shot will kill and kill birds and other animals that fall on the ground in a large area.

The bare head squatted down and was silent.

But the others began to mumble.

Some said they were landlubbers, some said they had never done it, and some said they were afraid that their wives would scold.

When the leper saw this, he was very angry. I thought to myself, how the fuck did I find this group of wretchedness, and did my best to fucking sweep Lao Tzu's fun. On the surface, it was not easy to attack, for fear of arousing everyone's disgust, so I had to explain that this time it was definitely not to send my life but to make a fortune, and repeatedly emphasized that there were only two national troops escorted, and there was nothing to be afraid of. He told him what happened.

Half a month ago, when I had the occasional opportunity to drink tea in the provincial capital, I heard from others that people from all walks of life in the provincial capital had recently organized spontaneous fundraising, raised a lot of money and materials, and prepared to transport them to Changde City. After hearing the news, he quietly slipped to the dock to see that someone was guarding and was not allowed to enter. I happened to see two people carrying a box on board. On closer inspection, one of them was a friend he had known before, nicknamed "Cow Tendon", who was in charge of the ship's machinery. I bought a snack in my heart and went to the residence of "beef tendon" in the evening, so I said that I made it clear to him by dividing fifty percent after the deed. "Ox tendon" told him that the ship would pass through the waterway of Leper's hometown in about two weeks, and Leper turned around and summoned them, saying that he would make a windfall for his brothers.

The bare head heard that this was the case, not just robbing the goods of passing merchants as in the past. The bare head suddenly became bigger again, and the door of his head seemed to be much brighter than before, and his head was sweating, and he was scared out.

"It's not, it's not good, you have to lose your brain, your head." I stammered and wanted to slip away. was pulled by the tall man, and put a gun to his head, with a fierce light in his eyes. The bare head is like an eggplant that has been beaten by frost, and it suddenly wilts.

"You have to do it, you have to do it, you have to do it if you don't do it, that's it, prepare first, and act as soon as the ship arrives. Our brothers are blessed and prosperous, and we are in trouble. After the leper finished speaking fiercely, he turned to another person and said, "Wooden alley, you have a chisel and a hammer, and then you can chisel through the bottom of the boat for me." Is that thing still brought? "Mu Langzi said it was all ready.

Autumn loofah can see clearly, the carpenter of the village, who is called "Mu Langzi", can only repair some simple farm tools and boats, and his skills are not perfect, and no one invites him. Later, I didn't see him for several years, and I don't know where he went. I didn't expect to see him here tonight, and I didn't expect him to keep up with the leper. He secretly "puffed" for a moment, not knowing what the hell the "wooden alley" was doing outside. In fact, Mu Langzi saw that there was no work for him in the village, so he went outside alone for a few years, and did not find a good job, but learned some tricks from some charlatans, especially proficient in making a kind of Mongolian medicine called "night primrose". This medicine has a fragrant smell, sprinkled in the road or in the grass, it is better when there is wind, its powder will be lifted with the wind, and when there is no wind, the effect is not very good. The medicine is very strong, if you smell at least three hours to wake up, there is no antidote, you can only wake up naturally, but there is no harm to the body, people are like sleeping. That's what the leper asked.

Of course, Qiu Luffa didn't understand, but only understood that they wanted to rob, and it was not an ordinary merchant ship robbery, but an anti-Japanese substance, which was not trivial. No, you have to tell Bao Chang Li to go.

He lost his clothes, and when he bent down and retreated, he accidentally mixed a branch, making a noise, which startled the people in the cowshed, and the autumn loofah himself was scared into a cold sweat, turned his head and ran.

The leper hurriedly chased out, and saw a black shadow running on the road, he snatched the gun in the tall man's hand, aimed at the black shadow in front of him, buckled the plate, snapped, but there was no spark in the barrel. The tall man said with a smile, not loaded with ammo. was so angry that he couldn't stop scolding, but when he loaded his ammunition, he couldn't see anyone. The tall one asked if he wanted to chase it. The leper said that he wouldn't chase it, and he couldn't catch up if he chased it. Such an accident made the leper's head bigger, and he was worried that things would leak out today. But the leper is a leper after all, and after thinking about it angrily, he decided to change his behavior. "You can't stay here for long, you have to change the location," he said. Let's go and wait in the reeds in the river downstream, tall and bald, you go find some boats. ”

The tall man and the bald head went along the river in search of a boat.

It was cold outside, and the leper and the others hid in the cowshed, took off the clothes of the autumn loofah, put them on their bodies, and fell on the haystack and narrowed their eyes. The others clasped their hands together and chopped their feet in place.

The countryside nights in early autumn are indeed cold.

3 Autumn loofah ran all the way to the door of Li Baochang's house, attracting the long barking of Li Baochang's dog. He leaned against the door and fell, and the barking of the dog became more continuous and rapid, alarming the sleeping Li Baochang and Xiao Lin.

Li Baochang was puzzled, and when he opened the door, he saw a figure upside down, and recognized it as an autumn loofah. Li Baochang and Xiao Lin hurriedly got the autumn loofah into the house, put it on the bed and covered it with a quilt, and saw that the autumn loofah had her eyes closed tightly and pinched others, and the autumn loofah woke up.

Autumn Luffa woke up and hurriedly told him what he had seen. When Li Baochang heard this, he was surprised. hurriedly asked Xiao Lin to call Lu Shuisheng, and he and Qiu Luffa continued to chat.

After a while, the aquatic life came, and Lu Gong came with him.

Shui Sheng asked Qiu Luffa how many of them were, and Qiu Luffa said that there were seven or eight people, most of them from this village and neighboring villages, and said that they had guns. Finally he said that they were in the cowshed of the king's father, and told them to go quickly. Shui Sheng asked Li Baochang if the county had told him about the transportation of anti-Japanese materials, and Li Baochang shook his head and said no. Lu Shuisheng suddenly remembered that he saw a signal soldier coming in to deliver official documents at Battalion Commander Geng's place at night, he didn't know if it had anything to do with it, he said that he would go to Battalion Commander Geng to ask about it, and let Captain Li Bao take some people to the cowshed first.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and when I went out, I saw that a group of national soldiers was trotting past Li Baochang's house. Li Baochang recognized the commander of a company and called him. The commander of the first company heard someone shouting to him and ordered the team to stand by. As soon as Li Baochang said that someone was going to rob the anti-Japanese material ship from the provincial capital, the company commander scolded who had this dog guts, damn it, and wanted to die. Shui Sheng asked the first company commander if there was such a thing? The first company commander said, there is such a thing, Battalion Commander Geng just told me, let me take these brothers out on patrol, and I really met a thug who did not want to die. Where is the cowshed, he asked? Lu said he knew and could take them there. Qiu Luffa was still thinking about the dress and wanted to be pulled by Li Baochang, and said, "You are not in good health, rest here." Autumn Luffa had no choice but to shout at Lu Gong for him to take his clothes back. Shui Sheng was also dragged into the house by Li Baochang, saying that it was a matter of the national army, so he should not go to join in the fun.

4 The tall man and the bare head came back, saying that they had found two small boats. The leper and the others then walked towards the river. On the way, Gao said that they had found his boat at the ferry port of Autumn Loofah, but when they had just pushed the boat halfway into the water, they found that the bottom of the boat in front of them was in water, and they were so frightened that they had to give up, but fortunately there were one or two boats docked on the shore not far from the ferry. Count these guys lucky, it turned out that the owner of this house did not listen to Li Baochang's words and hid them, and it was troublesome to drag them to the shore.

The leper laughed when he heard this, and ordered Mu Langzi to distribute a pill of antidote to each person, and after everyone swallowed it, they helped Mu Langzi to sprinkle "night primrose" around the cowshed, and when everything was done, the leper said, "God help me, brothers, do a good job." Embarkation. The bare head asked the leper, why don't you wait here and run so far below, aren't there reeds upstream? The leper scolded him for being a "stupid pig" and then led everyone to row downstream in two boats, and it was not until later that they heard the sound of gunfire from the direction of the reeds upstream, and they had to admire the leper's mind.

After the third watch, it was still dark. At this time, I only heard a "tom" sound in the cowshed, and the cow fell to the ground suddenly, and the medicinal effect of "night primrose" came.

Lu Pole and Xiao Lin are running all the way with a company commander, after all, Xiao Lin has not undergone much training, and his body is gradually exhausted, and Lu Pole takes care of him and he is lagging behind.

The commander of the first company ran and saw a dense reed at the mouth of the river next to the run, signaled the soldiers to stop advancing, and ordered the two soldiers to go to the reeds to have a look, but they could not get close to the reeds through a water belt. The commander of the company called them back, thinking that it would be the best place to ambush any passing ships in here, maybe these dogs were here? He ordered his soldiers to line up and open fire on the reeds, and some of the perched birds fell into the water and died in some of the fright, and some flew into the air with frightened screams and flapped their wings, hovering over the reeds with a mournful cry.

The rapid sound of gunfire woke up the sleeping people in the village, not knowing what was happening? They got up from their beds, thinking that the Japanese were coming, and some of the timid and frightened led the family into their cellars, and some of the more daring people were peeking out through the crack in the door.

The sudden gunfire frightened Lu Gong and Xiao Lin who were left behind, and subconsciously fell to the ground, covering their ears, the gunfire did not stop, and the company commander returned to shoot fiercely at the reed bush at the other end after they finished shooting, and during the shooting, they saw Lu Gong and Xiao Lin who fell to the ground nervous and scared, and laughed: "Bear-like." If you're afraid, go back, don't follow us, come to someone, send them back, save Lao Tzu from worrying. ”

Lu Pole jumped up from the ground, straightened up and said, "Whoever is afraid, I have also shot." ”

"I know, you countrymen can play that trick, it's called artillery in our north, and it's much better than you. Go and go, don't play with you, you can do whatever you like. Come on, tell them to fuck off. ”

The two soldiers who came up blasted them away, and Lu Gong turned around and walked in the direction he came, and Xiao Lin was helpless and followed him.

When the company commander saw them gone, he scolded the stinky boy and ordered the team to run straight in the direction of the cowshed.

5 On the way back when Lu Gong was provoked by a company commander and was about to get home, he met Li Baochang and Shui Sheng, as well as Qiu Luffa and Gong Qiu. It turned out that they also heard the gunshots, and they didn't know what was going on? Li Baochang and Lu Shuisheng were worried that their sons had come over. Seeing Lu Pole, who was in a bad mood, he grabbed him and asked what was going on? Lu Gong didn't speak, but Xiao Lin told the situation. Li Baochang and Shui Sheng laughed when they heard this.

Shui Sheng knocked on the door of Lu Gong's head and said: "You, you are ugly, and you are still strange, I think, the company commander scolds well, like an eggplant, what kind of man do you look like?" ”

Lu Gong argued that it was the first time he had heard a gunshot, which was not like a gunshot, and that he would get used to it if he actually arrived on the battlefield. Shui Sheng was not happy when he heard it, and scolded him for being unproductive, and wanted to listen to this kind of voice, and if he wanted to listen to this kind of voice, he had to go to the battlefield.

As soon as Shui Sheng finished speaking, he regretted it. In the first half of this year, the battalion commander Geng's troops recruited, Lu Gan wanted to go, but Shui Sheng disagreed, Lu Gong asked Teacher Yang and said that Teacher Yang had been to his home to do work, but Shui Sheng just didn't agree, just Lu Gang was a single seedling, and the Lu family still had to rely on him to pass on the ancestry, the gun was not long-sighted, and one day his son was hit, he had to regret it for the rest of his life. In his heart, he just wants his son to become a cultured and learned person, and he will be satisfied with the opportunity to go to the provincial capital to find a position with a head and face in the future.

This time, the dog joined the army, and he always threw around in a military uniform in front of Lu Gong, which made Lu Jian uncomfortable.

Lu Gong was happy when he heard his father say that he was going to go to war, and he said that he wanted to get it.

As soon as he saw his son mention this, he was excited, he raised his fist and swung it at his son, but was stopped by Li Baochang. Li Baochang said repeatedly: "The fine man is not sensible, he is not sensible, don't go to your heart, ah." I don't know what happened to the company commander, why don't we go and take a look? When Shui Sheng heard this, he went down the steps according to Li Baochang's wishes, glared at Lu Gong fiercely, and then walked forward, Li Baochang motioned to Xiao Lin and Qiu Luffa to beckon Lu Gong to go together.

The sky was already getting white. Birds flutter around in the trees and chirp cheerfully.

The group came to the cowshed and were stunned by the scene in front of them.

In addition to a cow in the cowshed, there was also a company commander lying on them. Lu pole: They don't know what happened? Li Baochang shook them one by one, without any reaction, snoring as if they were asleep. The aquatic looked at the surroundings, and then at the clusters of wilting blades of grass beside the cowshed. When he was learning martial arts from the master before, the master told him that there was an ecstasy on the rivers and lakes, called "night incense". The scent of nightshade is the best effect of this medicine that lasts only ten minutes, after which it is ineffective. They were not affected in the slightest by their delay on the road. At this time, Qiu Luffa realized that what the leper said to "Mu Langzi" was a drug.

What made Li Baochang even more terrifying was that he found that their guns were gone, so he hurriedly asked everyone to look around, but after searching around, they turned over in the cowshed and couldn't find it. Shui Sheng said: "Don't look for it, it must be the leper they took it." ”

As Shui Sheng said, the gun is indeed a leper and they took it. Just as they were leaving the cowshed and heading downstream, they suddenly heard a burst of gunfire coming from the direction of the reeds upstream, that is, by the river not far from the cowshed. Just as these people were praising the leper, the leper said to the tall one, "Tall, go to the cowshed to get your guns, and I guess they are all asleep by this time. ”

"Yes. Big brother is wise. The wooden alley standing beside him replied.

The tall leader on the other boat was ordered to lead the people back to the cowshed, and when he saw many national soldiers lying in the cowshed, he was overjoyed, quickly removed the guns from their bodies and hands, and quickly jumped on the boat and sailed towards the leper head.

When the leper looked at the gun in his hand, his eyes narrowed into a long line with joy. But he didn't know how to use it, and so did the others, only the tall one knew a little bit about it. He took off the magazines of each gun, and all he saw was empty, and the people were dumbfounded, and they threw their guns into the river in despair. The tall man regretted that he had forgotten to search his body in a hurry. When the leper was about to throw away the shell gun of the company commander, he was still reluctant to throw it away after a glance, and thrust it into his waist, and scolded angrily, shit. Then head downstream.

At this time, the people around the barn did not know what was going on with them, nor did they know where they had gone. Autumn loofah's boat is still docked on the shore. The loss of the guns made everyone feel the gravity of the situation. I don't know what to do, Shui Sheng said: "In this case, let's send the first company commander to the barracks first, and then talk about it when we meet Camp Commander Geng, anyway, the boat from the provincial city has not come." ”

Everyone hurriedly carried a company commander onto the boat. Li Baochang and Shui Sheng instructed Gong Qiu to also get on the boat and help Qiu Luffa. Shui Sheng looked at the sky and saw that it was almost dawn and asked Lu Gong if he wanted to go to school? Lu Gong said he was going. Li Baochang spoke: "I'm afraid that the boat of the autumn loofah can't carry you across the river, there is no time, you go to the downstream ferry to see if there is a boat, if there is, just row by yourself, no, forget it, don't go to school today, toss all day, don't rest well, go home to make up for sleep." Aquatic, do you want it? Shui Sheng didn't reply, glared at Li Baochang, he didn't want Li Baochang to be the master for him, and walked back alone. Li Baochang knew Shui Sheng's temper and ignored him.

Lu Gong said that he had to go to school today. Li Baochang said, then you go quickly, see if the ship is not there, be careful on the road. I'm going to chase your daddy's cow.

6 Li Baochang said that the ferry, there are only four or five families around, all of them live by farming, do not know how to fish, they fled from the mountains of Sichuan, rarely deal with the locals, work at sunrise, return at sunset, work honestly, and then go to the factory cellar market after harvest to change a little bit of daily necessities. Considering that they were too far away from the autumn loofah ferry and that it was too hard to carry a full load, Li Baochang obtained the consent of the villagers and cut down a few trees to make a rowing boat for them to use.

The boat is here, and when you get on the boat, Kobayashi rocks the oars. It's almost dawn.

Suddenly, Lu Gong noticed that there seemed to be movement on the river in front of him, and motioned to Xiao Lin to lean the boat on the side with reeds, wondering if it was a leper and their group, he told Xiao Lin to let the boat row by the reeds.

Sure enough, when they paddled among the reeds, it was the leper who headed them. At this time, they saw a large ship appear in their sight, obviously the one from the provincial capital, they had never seen such a large ship before. Lu Gong's nerves suddenly tensed, and it was too late to go ashore to report the news, and if the movement was too big, it was easy for them to be discovered by the lepers. What to do?

At this time, Sister Hong, who was standing on the bow of the boat, was wearing a red windbreaker, and in the early morning wind, she looked calm and relaxed, and her face could not be seen clearly in the faint light, but from the perspective of her posture, she was definitely a beautiful woman. She tore off the hood from her head, and a head of black hair poured out, falling on her shoulders and drifting in the wind, soft as water. Looking at the lake in front of me and the surrounding reeds, I seemed to be intoxicated, took a deep breath, and turned to walk towards the cockpit.

At the bow and stern stood national soldiers with guns.

All this was seen by the leper hidden in the reeds, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart: It seems that Lao Tzu not only has a windfall but also a good fortune. He just waited for the "cow tendon" to turn off the machine.

While the leper was thinking, the ship stopped moving. Sister Hong asked the captain what was going on? The captain said that the machine went out. Cow tendon came up and told the captain that the machine was broken. The captain said to fix it quickly, and the tendon went down again.

"Brothers, the time has come to get rich, everyone is in place, do your own thing as you just said, tall, you are in charge of the two national armies. Wooden alley, get moving. The leper was overjoyed to see the ship stop.

Mu Langzi quietly dived into the water, and was seen by Lu Gong, and was shocked, no, they acted. He said to Kobayashi, "Quick, move closer to the big ship." Their attention was on the big boat, and they rowed quickly to the port side of the big boat. Lu Gong asked Xiao Lin to see the opportunity on the paddle and not move. I got into the water, swam to the bottom of the big boat, and after searching for a while, I saw that Mu Lane was filing the bottom of the boat. Lu Pole swam towards him with two kicks, and grabbed his hand tightly. Frightened by this sudden attack, Mu Langzi let go of his hand, and the file fell to the bottom of the river, and in a panic broke free from the Lu pole's hand and came to the surface. This risk startled the leper heads, and at the same time alarmed the sentries on the big ship, shouting who is who? Hurriedly pulling the bolt of the gun and preparing to shoot. When it was too late, the tall man rang out, and the soldier in the bow of the ship was knocked down, and the soldier in the stern who heard the gunfire came and was also killed by the tall one. Suddenly there was chaos on the ship.

They shouted and went around the boat.

At this time, Lu Pole emerged from the water and came to Xiao Lin's boat, and a flying body stepped on Xiao Lin's lap and jumped to the boat, landing firmly on the side of the big boat, and was about to bend down to pull Xiao Lin up, when a gun was held against his head.

It was Sister Hong who was holding a gun against a Lu pole. Lu Gong was stunned and didn't dare to move, and Xiao Lin, who was in the small boat, saw this and said: "Sister, don't get me wrong, you are mistaken, we are not bad people, we are here to save you." ”

The woman didn't answer, but flipped her hand and fired a shot, only to hear a scream, followed by the sound of falling into the water. It turned out that the tall one who climbed up from the left side to probe his brain was seen by Sister Hong, and he was shot casually, and the tall one was hit and fell into the water and died, so frightened that the souls of the other people who were climbing on the boat flew into the sky and fell into the water one by one.

Sister Hong quickly pointed the muzzle of the gun at Xiao Lin again, pulled the trigger, and the bullet flew out. Just when the woman was facing Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin saw that the situation was not good, and a fierce man plunged into the water, and the bullet pierced the oar. Seeing that this woman didn't ask about it, Lu Gong didn't wait for Sister Hong to point the gun at him, he stepped forward and knocked Sister Hong's gun to the ground with his backhand, and kicked the gun to the side with his foot.

Kobayashi emerged from the water and struggled to climb up along the boat.

Lu Jian said to Sister Hong, who looked puzzled: "Don't be afraid, we are really not bandits, believe me." It is from there that they are the ones who have come to rob you. ”

Sister Hong suddenly became angry: "I don't believe it, I have died so many people here, I don't believe it, you bandits!" is so arrogant at a young age. "When I wanted to pick up the gun, I was caught by Kobayashi, who had already climbed onto the boat.

The thugs who had fallen into the water climbed back onto the boat at the urging of the leprosy.

"The lepers are coming up, Brother Pole." Kobayashi shouted.

Lu Gong said to Sister Hong: "You stay here and watch the excitement." Xiao Lin, look at her, don't let her move. After saying that, they rushed forward to meet the leprosy.

Only then did Sister Hong understand that Lu Gong was here to help her. She said to Xiao Lin, "What are you looking for? Still not going to help? Xiao Lin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I won't fight." The fight is my brother's business. Sister Hong looked at Xiao Lin's funny appearance and felt funny in her heart, and said jokingly: "You are a boy who can't fight?" ”

"Eldest sister, don't worry, my pole brother won't lose, don't worry." Xiao Lin said with a smile.

"I really haven't seen a brother like you, friends fight, but you watch the play, hum!" Without looking at it, Xiao Lin rushed to the crowd that was in the scuffle. When Xiao Lin heard this, his face was blood-red, and he didn't know how to get the gun, so he simply threw the gun away and helped.

Seeing that Lu Pole and they fought fiercely, Xiao Lin couldn't help, but was caught by the leper in the melee, so anxious that he struggled while shouting loudly to Brother Pole to come and save his life, everything was to no avail, he was choked by the leper and couldn't move.

"Lu Gong, you little turtle cub, don't meddle in your business, okay? It's none of your business here, as long as you go, I'll let him go. The leper tightly strangled Kobayashi's neck with one hand, and the gun without bullets with the other, and shouted hoarsely at Lu Pole.

Lu Gong, who was fighting hard, heard the shouts of the leprosy, looked back and saw that Xiao Lin was strangled by the leprosy, and scolded Xiao Lin with hatred in his heart, what a useless guy. can be scolded and scolded, there are still a few guys in front of me to deal with. It's not that he can't beat them, but he doesn't want to hurt them, even if he fights with others, he never wants to hurt anyone, and his father tells him that practicing martial arts is self-defense, and he must not hurt others, unless he gets to the point where he can't get out and not hurt others.

Lu Pole stopped, not knowing what to do. looked at the bandits around and at Sister Hong beside her. Seeing this situation, Sister Hong calmed down and persuaded the leper not to mess around. In fact, she regretted what she said just now, which angered Xiao Lin, she should listen to Xiao Lin's words, let Lu Pole deal with it, she doesn't have to get involved, or take the gun in Xiao Lin's hand, she can also shock the current situation, but it is not very realistic to hold a gun, her gun is at the feet of the leper head.

"Cow tendon, come here, take the gun, and take care of this beauty. When it's done, let the brothers play together. After speaking, he kicked the gun in front of Niu Teng, and Niu Jian picked up the gun tremblingly and pointed the gun at Sister Hong.

Sister Hong watched Niu Jiu pick up the gun, and finally understood in her heart that this was a robbery that should be combined inside and outside. She was so angry that she blushed and was angry, but she didn't dare to do anything to him, she knew that the head of the machine in the hand of Niu Jiu was open, and she didn't dare to act rashly, she just said sharply: "You guy who forgets his righteousness, do you know?" The robbery of anti-Japanese materials was to be beheaded. Niu Jiu was very scared in his heart, and he tried to laugh with his face but couldn't laugh and said: "No way, I've already got on the boat, and I have to do it if I don't do it." Boss, no wonder I'm offended. ”

"Brothers, leave them alone, go to the cabin and move the guys." The leper shouted to those who were still stunned: "This boy, this little girl won't do anything to you, if they dare to move, I will kill him." ”

When the men heard the leper shout, they became emboldened, and they raised their legs and ran into the cabin.

7 A gunshot shook the people escorting the soldiers of the national army, and Li Baochang knew that it was not good, and said to Shui Sheng: "It's not good, eighty percent of them are lepers." What to do? They wouldn't have thought that their son was on the ship and they were in danger. Everyone was worried, Shui Sheng thought for a while, and said, "Quick, move the people on the boat to the shore, and you row the boat alone to report the news." Li Baochang even said yes, good. The three of them moved the people on the boat to the shore one by one, and the autumn loofah went on board to report the news. The three of them were around the soldier who was sleeping at the wrong time, standing or sitting.

Gong Qiu couldn't hold his breath and said that he wanted to take a look. Shui Sheng grabbed him and yelled: "Don't die, bullets don't grow eyes, you die, what should you do with your daughter-in-law, what should you do with your cub girl?" I don't care about them. Seeing Gong Qiuhu's face, he hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, you go and go, if you die, your cousin will keep Li Baochang, and the two cubs will take him, just like he is a guest, go." After speaking, he pushed Gong Qiu. Li Baochang was happy, stabbed Shui Sheng, and said, "When is it, and you are still making this joke." Ignore him, Lao Gong, no one is allowed to go, they are all waiting here for Camp Commander Geng and them. ”

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. There was a sound of horses' hooves, and Camp Commander Geng came.

It turned out that Battalion Commander Geng was waiting for news from the company commander in the barracks, and he heard the bursts of gunfire coming from the reeds, and thought to himself that they must have done it, how could a few little ruffians be the opponents of the company commander, so he took the signal soldiers to the barracks of each company to check the sentry with confidence. Just after checking the sentry, I heard a burst of gunshots, and I didn't feel right in my heart, why was there still gunshots at this time? And still sporadic gunfire. Based on experience and hunch, I felt that something was wrong, and I thought that the first company commander should also come back at this time, and went to the first company commander's room and saw no one. So, he called the commander of the second company to gallop all the way on horseback. Walking on the road, I heard the hurried shouts of autumn loofahs.

Autumn Loofah, who had been rowing vigorously, heard the sound of horses' hooves, and when she saw them, she called them. After going ashore, he told Battalion Commander Geng about the situation. Battalion Commander Geng didn't say a word when he heard this, raised his whip and ran forward.

Look at the company commander and the soldiers lying on the road. Angry, he kicked a company commander, this kick didn't wake up the company commander, he still didn't move and opened his mouth to breathe, snoring, and sleeping soundly.

Before Li Baochang and Shui Sheng finished the situation, Qiu Luffa came over gasping for breath, and Battalion Commander Geng jumped on the boat and asked the second company commander and the signal corps to ride together. Seeing that Qiu Luffa was too tired, Shui Sheng asked Gong Qiu to replace Qiu Luffa, and he jumped on the boat with him, put Li Baochang on the shore and stomped his feet and shouted: "You come back, let me go, you come back, let me go." Hey, I'm waiting for you to come back, see if I don't clean you up. ”

8 Xiao Lin's face was even redder than before, no, it should be said that it was a little purple red, and it couldn't be dragged on any longer. It was too late, it was too fast, and just as the gang of robbers were running straight to the cabin, they heard Lu Gong shouting: "I see who dares to move!" Before the words fell, he flew up and gently put the soles of his feet on the mast, and then a large sideways body, spun and struck them, and the beautiful and free and easy big swivel legs in the air, like a strong wind, swept the legs across the faces of each of them, and in the blink of an eye, swept all those people into the river, and there were a few splashes on the water, and the people who fell into the water fluttered in the river and scrambled to swim to the shore. The blow of the rod was as bright as lightning, the movement was exquisite, and the force was so strong that everyone on the ship was stunned, and they all stood there like clay sculptures. Sister Hong's beautiful eyes widened, and she exclaimed in her heart: What a mighty young man.

Although Xiao Lin was strangled by the leper and his neck hurt, he still shouted hard: "Great, Brother Pole." ”

When the cow tendon with the gun saw it, he was so frightened that he threw the gun away, shouted "my mother" and "pounced" and jumped into the water, and swam as hard as he could to the other side. The gun was falling at Xiao Lin's feet, he kicked it, and the gun reached Sister Hong's feet, she quickly picked it up, and fired a shot at the desperately swimming cow tendon, hitting him in the head, and the water around him turned bright red.

The leper was frightened by the variables in front of him, and his body was like a sifting chaff. Although he used to fight against Lu Gong, although he lost, he didn't accept Lu Gong at that time, but he was just unlucky, and he was attacked by them and defeated himself. I wasn't afraid to meet Lu Gong when I got on the boat just now, but I just treated him as a child. But I never expected that Lu Gong's move really frightened him, and he shouted from time to time God, God, and the earth, and half of his hard anger disappeared, especially after seeing that Sister Hong's hands were not soft and her heart was not merciful and she beat the cow tendon to death. The leper head softened his hands and his legs trembled, and he let go of Kobayashi and dropped his gun and ran towards the bow of the boat.

Seeing this, Sister Hong raised her gun and shot him in the back, but the bullet flew over his head and hit him empty, and the leper had already jumped into the water at that time. Sister Hong ran a few steps to the bow of the boat and fired a few more shots at the place where there was a splash and around it, until a ball of bright red blood appeared on the surface of the water, and the bullets were finished, but there was no leper on the lake.

Lu Gong, who was standing at the bow of the boat, was worried that the leper was not dead, and was about to jump into the water to find him, when there was an aquatic scolding from behind him. It turned out that Shui Sheng and Battalion Commander Geng had already boarded the boat.

One by one, when they climbed ashore after being knocked into the water by the rod, they were caught by the commander of the second company and the signal soldier who came on horseback, and they were snorting and grinning in embarrassment.

"You kid, you're so bold, don't go to school, dominate here, Lao Tzu has to teach you today." Picked up a thick bamboo tube on the boat and hit the Lu pole, which frightened Xiao Lin and quickly closed his eyes.

But before the bamboo tube fell, it was stopped by Sister Hong in mid-air.

When Shui Sheng saw that it was a woman blocking him, he was furious in his heart, and said sharply: "Who are you?" Go away! I'm beating my cub, what's your business. ”

Sister Hong smiled and said, "Uncle, don't be angry first, it's not too late to find out the situation when beating people." Then he shouted at Camp Commander Geng: "Camp Commander Geng, did you say it?" ”

"Yes, Sister Hong." Battalion Commander Geng replied respectfully that he knew her.

Lu Shuisheng stopped, looked at Camp Commander Geng and then at the beautiful woman, and slowly put down the bamboo tube in his hand, and the second monk was at a loss. Battalion Commander Geng grinned and said to Shui Sheng, misunderstanding, misunderstanding. He called Lu Gong over and told him that this was the student that Teacher Yang was teaching in Changsha. After hearing this, they looked at each other and then at Sister Hong, and felt a little embarrassed, but just looked at Sister Hong stupidly and smiled. Shui Sheng gently patted the back of Lu Zhuan on the back of his head with a palm, and said, Don't meet your senior sister yet, a polite stinky boy. Only then did they come to their senses, bowed to the woman, and called out to Senior Sister. Sister Hong laughed happily when she saw them like this, and said in a loud voice.

Lu Zhu told Sister Hong that Teacher Yang was in our school, so should I go to him. Sister Hong smiled and said, no, I didn't tell him this time, I have time to visit him again.

Lu Shuisheng said: "How can you go to school like this, go back and change your clothes." Lu Gong refused, saying that he was late and that Mr. Yang would criticize him. Sister Hong heard this, and hurriedly instructed the shipwright to go to the cabin to find two sets of clothes and pants for them, but Lu Shuisheng stopped her, saying: "This must not be, this is an anti-Japanese substance, how can it be done." ”

Sister Hong smiled and said to Shui Sheng: "They have protected the anti-Japanese materials and have contributed to the fight against Japan, but unfortunately they are not soldiers, if they are soldiers, I will ask Battalion Commander Geng to ask them for credit, the young man is terrifying, don't say it again, uncle, why can't you let them go to class soaking wet." ”

Gong Qiu took over the conversation: "Brother, if you want to do this, let them change it, and there is no hurry to go back, we will take these back and wash them and dry them, and then hand them over to take them away, so it will not be a loss." ”

Hearing Gong Qiu's words, they all laughed. Battalion Commander Geng said it was a good idea, and Li Baochang even said that he wanted it, and he wanted it. Aquatic think about it, this is fine, this is fine. also joked that Gong Qiu's five big and three rough places also had a careful heart. Then he went with Gong Qiu to help the people on the boat clean up, and Lu Gong and Xiao Lin went into the cabin with the boatman to change clothes.

Camp Chief Geng and Sister Hong know each other because of the relationship between Teacher Yang. They stood on the bow of the boat and knew it. They were all introduced to the revolutionary organization by Mr. Yang.

Battalion Commander Geng said: "I received a telegram from the regiment headquarters last night, saying that an important ship was passing here, and it turned out to be you. "Camp Commander Geng blamed Sister Hong for not contacting him in advance. Sister Hong said that she didn't know that Camp Commander Geng was here, and she would definitely contact her if she was here, mainly because she wanted to take a safe waterway, and she was in a hurry to get to her destination. I didn't expect to accidentally meet these little gangsters here for a while, and I was in danger of accidents. After comforting her a few words, he asked Sister Hong to go back to the camp with him for the time being. Sister Hong promised him that he would only have one breakfast. Battalion Commander Geng said no problem.

After changing their clothes, Lu Gong and Xiao Lin said goodbye to Sister Hong, and they got on the boat. After looking at the big boat heading away in the direction of the village, when he was about to row to the opposite bank, Lu Jian saw Lu Wei running over from that road with a schoolbag on his back, and called his brother and Xiaolin to wait for her.

They were about to reach the other side when they heard several gunshots. It turned out that Battalion Commander Geng got off the big boat and got on Gong Qiu's small boat and went ashore, and shot them to death for the crime of robbing war materials. Then the prancing horse ran towards the camp.

A leper appeared in the reeds not far away, and he did not die, but was shot in the lower leg. As soon as Sister Hong's boat left, he quietly climbed ashore and limped away.

9 Every day, in order to guard against reconnaissance or bombing by Japanese aircraft, all the ships in the village cover up during the day and go out of the lake at night. Lu Gong and the others went to the school to listen to the lectures as usual, and the battalion commander Geng continued to train as usual, and there was no need to use their troops in the war.

After reconnaissance during the day, the Japanese did not have ships on the lake, thinking that the Chinese were honest and obedient, and the number of reconnaissance trips gradually decreased. After all, fuel is tight, not to mention that the war has reached a stalemate, and now that the Pacific War is tight, it is the main battlefield for them, and it is an urgent matter for them to put their energy there and concentrate their vital forces to deal with the Allied forces.

The Japanese army occupied Jiangbei, and the Kuomintang had several theaters in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Japanese did not want to act rashly, because the road to Chongqing was controlled by the Nationalist army both by water and land, and they only had the advantage of air supremacy, but it was impossible to send bombs to Chongqing by plane every day.

Little did they know that a few months later, the disaster brought by the war quietly befell this beautiful and rich village like a devil.