Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Reed Trail
Geng Zitang and his entourage hurriedly followed the old man and went straight to the territory of the Ma gang leader.
As we approached the village, I saw a large number of people running in the direction of the west, most of them carrying tools, hoes, hammers, iron rods, wooden sticks, and so on.
As the people looked in the direction they were running, there were two puffs of smoke rising from the west end of the mountain, and Geng Zitang knew that it was the smoke coming from the Japanese and American planes after they fell.
He believed Lu Wei's eyes, and he said to the old man: "Old man, the plane fell over there, and Lu Wei saw that the parachute jumper flew here, should we go to the reeds to find out, how about it?" ”
"Don't be busy, go to the front and back of the house in the village first, and if you can't find it, we'll go to the horse gang leader and ask him to find some people and boats to look for together." The old man said.
"Will the Horse Gang Master help?" Geng Zitang asked.
"Yes. Let's go. The old man said confidently.
Geng Zitang also made sense when he heard this, and said to Mai and Lu Wei: "Then let's look for it separately." ”
No result.
The old man took Geng Zitang, Lu Wei, and Mai and walked briskly towards the place where the Ma gang leader lived.
"Brother Geng, Sister Lu Wei, she personally saw that the American pilot was flying in this direction. Why don't we just go to Lu Weili to find it? Wheat asked Geng Zitang.
"Absolutely, yes, it must be in the area, Brother Geng, it is very likely that he fell into the reeds." Lu Wei also agrees with Wheat's opinion.
"Why?" Battalion Commander Geng asked Lu Wei.
Lu Wei said: "If it had fallen in the village, the people of the Ma gang leader would have discovered him a long time ago, and they would not have surrounded him and arrested him?" What are they going to do in the mountains over there? ”
The old man smiled and said, "Didn't you listen to the fat man and they said that when the plane fell, they went to pick up the rags?" ”
"Didn't they see something from heaven coming here? Wouldn't they be curious? Won't the gang leader leave someone here to wait for the things in the sky to fall? Wheat disagreed with the old man's words, and said three "yes" in a row.
"So you mean that the pilot didn't end up here?" Lu Wei asked.
Geng Zitang looked at the sky, pondered for a while, and said, "I think the interest of the Ma Gang Master is not the person in the sky, but the pile of scrap iron. Let's go to the reeds and look for it. ”
"It makes sense, he won't do anything that is not beneficial to the horse gang leader, so be it, go to the reeds." The old man agreed with Battalion Commander Geng's idea.
Just a few steps away, Lu Wei suddenly noticed that the dwarf was running out of a room.
Geng Zitang stopped him. Ask him where the gang leader has gone? The dwarf said, "I have already taken people over there." After speaking, he was about to run, but Lu Wei grabbed him and said with a smile: "You don't want to go, come with us." ”
The dwarf looked at the beautiful Lu Wei in front of him, blinked, and asked, "Why?" ”
"I ask you, did you see something fall from the sky?" Lu Wei asked.
"See, fall in that reed." What the dwarf said made everyone happy.
"Any idea what that is?" Lu Wei asked again.
"I don't know." The elf said.
"It's a box of goodies." Lu Wei deceived the dwarf. The dwarf took it seriously and grinned: "Really? ”
"Of course it's true, if you take us there, we'll have something to eat." Wheat also helped Lu Wei's tone, Geng Zitang and the old man turned around and snickered secretly.
"There are already people there, the fat man and the thin man are there, and our helper said that he will come back to the reeds after he gets the scrap iron back." The dwarf said casually.
Geng Zitang and the old man glanced at each other when they heard this. Geng Zitang said without further ado, the old man nodded, and walked in the direction of Weizi. The dwarf said, "You can't get in." ”
"Then you take us there." Lu Wei said to him with a smile.
The dwarf said, "Then don't go back on what you promised me." ”
Lu Wei smiled: "Of course. ”
The dwarf was glad, and led them to the edge of the reed, where a man stood, and stopped them, and said that only the dwarf was allowed to go in, and no one else was allowed.
The dwarf asked him if the fat man was there, and he pointed to a shed made of reeds not far away, and said, "Yes, sleeping in the reeds, and the thin man is there."
The dwarf shouted, "Fatty, come here, I'm coming, I'm going in." ”
The voice of the fat man came from the shed: "What are you shouting, I want to sleep?" ”
"You come out and see who I've brought here?" The dwarf shouted again.
The fat man came out, rubbing his eyes and looking again, he saw the old man. He ran over and asked, "What are you doing here?" My dad isn't here. ”
Lu Wei touched the dwarf with his hand. The dwarf understood, he went to the fat man's side and whispered a few words to him, the fat man believed it, and quickly called the roadkeeper to open the obstacle in front of him, and let Geng Zitang and them in.
The old man asked the fat man, "How many people are in it?" ”
The fat man said, "Just two people." ”
"There are only two people in such a big place, what year and month do you have to find that food? What a dead fat man. Lu Wei scoffed.
"We'll help you find it, and we'll make sure you'll find that food." Wheat said to the fat man. The fat man laughed, woke the thin man up, and they led the old man towards the two boats docked at the water's edge.
Geng Zitang didn't let the old man get on the boat, and the old man agreed. He took a boat with Lu Wei and Mai, and the fat man and they took a boat, and first searched around the water city on the edge of the reeds, but found no target.
Lu Wei rocked the boat and asked Geng Zitang, who was standing on the boat looking around at the water: "Brother Geng, will the one who flew the plane wash the planing ball (meaning swimming)?"
"Yes, brother, will he swim, or will he drown if he falls into the water?" Wheat followed suit.
"You two ask me, who am I going to ask? Don't talk, look for the thing that falls. Geng Zitang said.
"Brother Geng, this reed is not as big as ours, nor is it as beautiful as ours." Lu Wei said.
The fat man, who was sailing with their boat, was not happy to hear this, and interjected: "You also have reeds there?"
Of course. The wheat replied to the fat man with Lu Wei's words: "It's much bigger than you here, one by one, and the water is so clear and translucent." ”
Geng Zitang said: "Wheat, you're right, it really reminds me of that reed, and I don't know when I can go back there?" Hey, fatty, be serious, and don't let go of white things when you see them. Did you hear that? ”
The fat man replied that he did.
Camp Commander Geng's words made Lu Wei silent, she remembered her hometown, remembered her father, and couldn't help but cry, she pinned her head to the side, not wanting Geng Zitang and them to see it. Suddenly, she shouted loudly, "Brother Geng, there's a white thing there, look at it." ”
When he followed Lu Wei's gesture and looked to the right, there was really a white thing curled up there, and the battalion commander Geng told Lu Wei to row the boat to that side quickly, and the fat man and the others also rowed there. When they were about to approach, they saw two white figures leap up from the water, and it turned out to be two egrets floating on the water, their necks intertwined, and their arrival frightened them.
provoked Wheat to say to Lu Wei: "Sister Wei, what kind of eyesight do you have?" Makes everyone around laugh. Battalion Commander Geng looked at the surface of the river and said to Lu Wei: "Let's go up from the reeds here to have a look, fat man, you go to the reeds in front to look for it."
The fat man promised to tell the short man to hurry up and paddle forward. He said, "Whoever of the three of us finds what fell from the sky will belong to him."
The thin man didn't believe that what fell from the sky was eaten.
The dwarf was not pleased, and he said, "That pretty girl will tell a lie?"
The fat man listened and asked the thin man, "What if they lie to us?" ”
The thin man said, "What else can I do?" Got a few people and did them. ”
The dwarf disagreed, and he said: "They have guns on them, if we really fight, we will suffer, maybe you forgot about being beaten in the woods so early?" ”
The thin man stopped talking, and when he heard the dwarf talk about it, he was a little angry, and he kept it in his heart and didn't say it: he always wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on them, especially the tall man Lu Gang. But I can't talk to him openly, I can only do it secretly, I have this idea, and I can't find a suitable opportunity, so I can only suppress it in my heart and think slowly, isn't there a saying that it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years?
Lu Wei rowed the boat and quickly approached the reed, parked the boat, and the three of them went ashore.
"How to find such a large piece of reeds, it's too laborious." Wheat has no faith.
"If you can't find it, don't want to eat." Lu Wei said.
"You're not mistaken, you think that food really fell from the sky, Battalion Commander Geng said, that's the pilot." Wheat said with a smile.
"Oh, I almost took that dwarf for real. What if you really find that pilot and let the fat man be deceived and have nothing to eat? Brother Geng. Lu Wei herself thought it was funny.
"Perhaps, when I was in Chongqing, I heard my comrades-in-arms say that Americans like to carry some chocolate with them." Camp Commander Geng said with Lu Wei's heart widened.
"Sister Wei, I bet to you, I said that the pilot has no chocolate on him, and if I win, you will tell me to learn to swim. If I lose, I won't learn. ”
Geng Zitang smiled and said, "Wheat, what kind of gambling are you calling?" There is no such thing as a gamble. ”
"Then how do you bet, Camp Commander Geng?" Wheat asked.
Lu Wei said: "I believe in Brother Geng's words, there must be chocolate on the pilot." If you lose, you'll"
didn't wait for Lu Wei to finish speaking, only to hear Mai call softly: "Battalion Commander Geng, come on, what is that, what is that, what a big ball of white cloth?"
They went up and looked at the white cloth, which Battalion Commander Geng recognized, and he said it was a parachute. They tore the whole white cloth open, and there was nothing in it. Geng Zitang told them that this must have been abandoned here by the American pilot who had just fallen.
Battalion Commander Geng looked around and said, "The umbrella is here, the people are not here, they shouldn't hide too far, maybe they are hiding in one place, Lu Wei and Wheat, keep a distance and we will scatter to find it." ”