Chapter 18: A Thousand Turns (17)

Xiao Dunhuang let Jing Yi go first, and he talked to Tu Huyi casually to distract him. When they got into the cabin, their seats were arranged in the front. Dunhuang let Jingyi sit inside. Jing Yi sat down and pressed the brim of her hat lower. Waiting for Tu Huyi to leave, she raised her head slightly, looked at Xiao Dunhuang sitting beside her, and smiled.

Xiao Dunhuang tilted her angrily and said, "Before you go to Hami, you are not allowed to say a word to me." ”

Jingyi held the big bag she carried with her, her slender body was narrower than the bag, and she pouted.

The plane took off, but Dunhuang still ignored Jingyi. Jing Yi leaned back in her seat helplessly. Last night, she didn't sleep all night in order to plan for today's out, and when she got on the plane at this time, she was sleepy, and after a while, she fell asleep in the corner. Xiao Dunhuang took her bag down, and she was still pulling the strap on the bag.

Dunhuang is angry and funny. I snatched the bag and put it aside.

"Young grandma asleep?" Tu Huyi didn't know when he came over, stood aside and asked.

Xiao Dunhuang looked back at him, "When did you see it?" ”

Tu Huyi handed a blanket to Dunhuang and said, "When you get off the bus." Besides, how can there be a reason for the young master to let his subordinates walk in front of him and get on the plane. ”

"Then you don't say?" Xiao Dunhuang stared, and the nameless fire suddenly burst out for several feet.

"The temper of our young grandmother, which is easy for the seven young people to provoke - do I dare to pull out my teeth?" Tu Huyi frowned.

Xiao Dunhuang gritted his teeth, but he was helpless, and asked in his mind: "What's wrong, is there any news?" ”

Tu Huyi looked at Jingyi, who was sleeping, and said softly: "I don't know if it's the good luck brought by the young grandmother, the temporary headquarters and the seventh young man's radio station have just been contacted." The specifics are not yet clear. However, maybe there will be good news when we get to Hami. Da"

Xiao Dunhuang exhaled and came out, patted Tu Huyi's shoulder, and said, "Everything will wait until we talk." In any case, having news is better than nothing. ”

Tu Huyi sat down in the seat opposite him and watched as Dunhuang covered Jingyi with a blanket.

The plane was still in the air for hours, and it was a bit difficult for them. He sat firmly, hugged his arms, closed his eyes and meditated, like an old monk in meditation; Tu Huyi had nothing to do, took out his matching gun, disassembled and disassembled...... Jingyi opened her eyes and saw the two of them moving and still, the roar of the plane still pinning the eardrums, and she turned her head to look out the window. It was cloudy when it took off, and at this moment the thick white clouds outside were golden and the sky was blue. She looked at the blue and white with some fascination. This seems to be the closest place to heaven, but it will also stage war and killing under such a sky......

"Now you can say, how do you know I'm coming?" Xiao Dunhuang asked.

Jing Yi turned his head to see that he was still sitting like a samurai, and said, "Guess." ”

Huang Dunhuang was angry, and the figure tiger wing on the opposite side snorted, busy and endured.

"Young grandma, you can really do it." Tu Huyi turned to look at Jing Yi.

Jing Yi simply took off her hat, straightened her short hair, and whispered, "I'm going to cause you trouble." ”

"That's ...... No. Tu Huyi said, not knowing what to think, and laughed again.

"You can still laugh. Your seven young people, when you look back and see this one, you don't know how to clean up your good. Deng Dunhuang said.

Tu Huyi smiled: "That's also after meeting Qishao." ”

"How long will it take?" Jingyi asked Tu Huyi.

Atul looked much better at this time than he had done two days before. Tao Xiang has news, for them, even if it is only a little vague, it is very good.

"An hour." Tu Huyi replied. He looked at Jingyi, "Young grandmother, when you arrive in Hami, you may have to wronged young grandmother......"

"I can volunteer in a hospital. That's what I'm good at, and that's what I can help with. I'm trying not to mess with you. If it weren't even of any use, I wouldn't have come anyway. Jingyi whispered.

"Yes." Tu Huyi agreed, and did not say anything else.

Jing Yi saw that Dunhuang just listened to them and didn't say anything, and raised her eyebrows slightly.

"There's a time when you cry." Xiao Dunhuang pursed his lips and raised his chin towards Tu Huyi, "Why don't you tell her about the place you go to, you can hear the wolf howling in the middle of the night?" ”

Tu Huyi smiled and said, "The field hospital has requisitioned the local hospital to treat the wounded, and if the young grandmother is in the city, the wolf howl will not be heard." Don't worry about young grandmothers, there are also guards in the hospital. If a wolf entered the city, the guards opened fire. ”

Jingyi listened, looked at Dunhuang, and said, "I really want to hear the wolf howl." I heard that on the night of the full moon, the lone wolf will howl at the moon, is it true? ”

"It's true. It's sparsely populated, and around the camp, wolves often come out at night. Once I was on a night patrol with Qishao, and when I walked a little farther, I saw a wolf on the hill. The wolf howls on a full moon night sounds particularly frightening. Tu Huyi said.

Dunhuang smiled.

"Hearing the madness, someone proposed to fight the wolf. Seven less will not be allowed. Qishao said that if the wolf doesn't hurt people, don't hurt it. Each has his own way, and the water from the well does not interfere with the water of the river. Later, one night, the war horse barked lifelessly, and it became a pot of porridge, and Qi Shao took people to check that there was a wolf invasion. Qi Shao personally took people to the night, and followed the wolves around 61 times in the evening. The head of the pack was very good, and the hour of the night was different. Qishao specially left a hole for it, and it never drilled. We also had to hurry, but we couldn't catch it alive in the end. Tu Huyi said, smiling slightly.

Xiao Dunhuang also smiled: "Such a living creature can collapse with one shot. It's a pity if that's the case, there's one less creature. ”

"You're the same as Qishao said." Tu Huyi nodded. As he spoke, he leaned and left.

Jingyi flicked her sleeve and looked at the time on her watch.

When he saw it, he said, "It's coming soon." ”

"Hmm." Jingyi looked at him and nodded. Atul hadn't come back yet, and it was just the two of them. "Dunhuang, I guess...... I may be wrong, but I think there should be someone I know in Dihua, right? That's why you're here. ”

Xiao Dunhuang shook his head and said, "Mrs. Tao, you really know how to guess." ”

"Last time you said there was a good advisor in the rebel camp, I guessed it. You helped him pass through Gansu, and when he entered Xinjiang, the sea and the sky were wide. Jingyi whispered, "Muzhi also knows? ”

"Yes." Xiao Dunhuang knocked on the table, "Reasoning, Feng Xian owes you a great favor." So you come, and there is a reason to come. But whether he is willing to miss the old love, I can't be sure. In the past, he did not act like a person who could help the abuse. In my opinion, the current behavior of the rebels is truly outrageous. It cannot be ruled out that he has been complicit. ”

Jingyi did not comment.

Duan Fengxian's appearance has been blurred in his memory. What she vaguely remembered was his pale face on the train that day, in an emergency...... It's just a quick glance. That encounter, I never expected that there would be a later encounter with Dunhuang.

She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What should I do, Muzhi and you have opinions. I just hope you're all safe and sound. ”

Xiao Dunhuang looked at her and said softly: "How fortunate Tao Xiang is. How fortunate I am. Jingyi, I also wish you safe and sound. ”

Jing Yi didn't say anything for a while, just nodded.

How could she not understand Dunhuang's intentions?

The fuselage suddenly jerked violently, and she hurriedly tightened her seat belt.

The light from the bright portholes was scattered in the turbulence...... The jolt made Jingyi dizzy, and she didn't recover until the plane landed. It's just that I endure the discomfort, determined not to be delicate because of this little thing.

When he saw Jingyi, he immediately explained that he had received a telegram that he had learned that his wife had come to the front line, so he had come to pick up the plane and asked his wife to go to the temporary headquarters.

Jingyi simply asked, it turned out that as she had arranged, Qiu Wei returned home and handed over the two letters she had left to Mrs. Tao and Tao Shengchuan respectively. The shock caused by the Tao family was not difficult to predict, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Zhongcheng said, "Lao Shuai has a separate telegram to his wife." When she took the telegram and read it, there was only "Jingyi my daughter-in-law: it has been completed, I hope to take care of it." Parent word. She grabbed the newspaper and almost burst into tears. Seeing that the doctors and nurses who arrived on the same plane had already boarded the big truck and set off, Ma Zhongcheng did not arrange for her to go with the medical team. She had to follow the arrangement first and return to the temporary headquarters with them.

After arriving at the headquarters and resting for a while, Ma Zhongcheng told Jingyi and the others that Tao Xiang would have to return to Hami in a few days, "We can't grasp the whereabouts of the commander, so we can only collect intelligence and be ready to fight at any time, while waiting for the commander to come back." ”

Ma Zhongcheng's words are concise and to the point, which is completely Tao Xiang's style. Jingyi listened, and couldn't help but feel more. She was inconvenient to speak, but looked at the room that was used as a command centerβ€”it was an ordinary dwelling, the doors and windows were low, the gatehouse was low when she entered, and the courtyard was very small, not at all inconspicuousβ€”although it was simple because of its ugliness, the sand table in front of her was made very carefully. This alone shows Tao Xiang's meticulousness.

Jingyi looked at the sand table, and in a blink of an eye, he found that Xiao Dunhuang was also watching, the two looked at each other, and Xiao Dunhuang decisively pointed to a place on the main road from Hami to Dihua, and said to Ma Zhongcheng: "Commander Tao may be hidden here, here...... Or here. Be prepared, once Commander Tao returns, he will inevitably divide his troops into three ways and go to Dihua immediately. Deputy Commander Ma, it's better to reduce the amount of training in the past few days, let those military masters eat and sleep enough, and then do a big job. ”

He seemed to be joking, Ma Zhongcheng and Tu Huyi just laughed when they heard it. None of them continued the topic, but for a while, although they were chatting, they were all staring at the sand table.

Jingyi silently opened the backpack she brought, called Tu Huyi over, and said, "This, when Qishao comes back, you give it to him." ”

Tu Huyi didn't know what was inside this cloth bag, and he didn't dare to ask in detail, so he agreed, saying: "I asked the young grandmother to wash her face, and after dinner, the young grandmother rested first." ”

Ma Zhongcheng has already asked the landlady to be called.

The landlord, Mrs. Zhou, an old woman over fifty years old, smiled when she saw Jingyi, took her to wash, and brought her her daughter-in-law's clothes to change. When Jingyi came out, she changed into women's clothes. Although it was a coarse cloth, it didn't fit well, but in the end it restored the appearance of her daughter's home, Mrs. Zhou was shocked and couldn't stop praising it.

This night, Jingyi was arranged to live with the landlady, and the next morning, it was too early, and the headquarters was busy, so she asked Tu Huyi to arrange and take two guards to the field hospital. The hospital was heavily wounded and civilians, and although the new doctors and nurses were replenished, they were still short of manpower. Jingyi was dressed ordinary, not inconspicuous, and had long been familiar with Zuo Ming, who was in charge of the field hospital, and asked him not to preach, but only to help with the doctors and nurses, no different from ordinary volunteers. Day after day, I only went back to Mrs. Chow in the evening to rest.

In the room arranged for him by Ma Zhongcheng every day, he was accompanied by the ant-like figure tiger wings in a hot pot, and occasionally came out to bask in the sun.

It's just a week, Jingyi is black and thin, but Dunhuang is fed with barbecue and naan. Every morning and evening, when the two meet, they have to joke with each other.

Jingyi's heart is getting more and more impatient.

Since the day of arrival, Tao Xiang has had news, and for a week, it has sunk into the sea, and there is no news......

Xiao Dunhuang could see Jingyi's melancholy, but thought of a way to make her show her face. After Jingyi came back this night, he went back to the room tired to rest, and Dunhuang, Ma Zhongcheng, and Tu Huyi were standing in the courtyard, looking at each other.

He suddenly felt a vibration under his feet, and heard Tu Huyi say, "Someone is coming." "The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, not one or two.

The three of them walked towards the gate of the courtyard almost at the same time, and they heard the guards outside calling "Commander". Tu Huyi was the fastest, rushed over to open the gate, looked up, in the open space in front of the door, gathered more than a dozen tall horses, the knight at the head was turning the horse's head, and the clear moonlight fell on the horse and the man, which looked particularly tall.

It's Tao Xiang.

"Seven less!" Tu Huyi was pleasantly surprised, rushed out and hugged Tao Xiang's legs, "You can come back!" ”

Tao Xiang raised his eyes to look at the Dunhuang standing in the door, raised the horsewhip, touched the brim of his hat, and smiled slightly.

Xiao Dunhuang nodded.

Tu Huyi hugged Tao Xiang's leg and didn't let go, so Tao Xiang dismounted with his men. Tilting his head and looking at Tu Huyi, he looked like he was about to cry, snorted, raised his feet and walked inside.

Inside and outside the courtyard, there was a sudden jubilation.

Tao Xiang entered the room and took off his military hat and unbuttoned it. Ma Xingjian followed up and handed him his kettle. While drinking water, he looked at the men who followed him into the room: Xiao Dunhuang, Ma Zhongcheng, Tu Huyi, Ma Xingjian...... He looked at them, and they looked at him.

He drank a pot of water, put it on the table, and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw the four tin cans on the table, and his brows suddenly frowned. Beads of sweat shook off with this subtle movement.

He turned his eyes to the people in front of him, "Where did this thing come from?" ”

"Seven young, young grandma is here." Or Tu Huyi stubbornly spoke.

Tao Xiang raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows.

"What about people?" He asked.

"In ...... At...... I'll go and ask the young grandmother to ......," Tu Huyi said hurriedly. Before the words fell, I heard Cen Gaoying's voice outside, as if she was frightened, calling "Young Grandma". He stood still - the people behind him consciously divided into two columns, one left and one right, and dodged the passage, and he saw the seventh young grandmother standing outside the door, and did not come in.

Where Jingyi stood, Tao Xiang couldn't be seen, there was an oil lamp lit in the room, and there were many people, only dark shadows were seen.

She was awakened, and faintly heard him returning, and hurried over.

But standing here, she was not allowed to enter without an order, and she could not take a step to enter...... On the contrary, he was timid.

"Ahem, this, that, the commander just came back, sit down for a while, I'll have someone prepare a meal, and I'll have it right away." Ma Zhongcheng saw this situation, said hurriedly, and without waiting for Tao Xiang to make a statement, he turned around and gestured, asking everyone in the room to go out with him. In a moment, from the house to the courtyard, except for the garrison, everyone hid.

Jing Yi settled down, and was about to step into the door, when she raised her eyes, she saw a dark figure coming out of the room and standing in front of her. It was like a wall, blocking a section of light in front of him.

Tao Xiao stared at the little woman in front of him.

Dressed like the stars and the moon, he is full of clear light...... Coarse cloth clothes can't hide her peerless elegance. But...... Tao Xiang grabbed Jingyi's wrist.

"Cheng Jingyi, what kind of place is this, you dare to come?" His mouth and nose were spewing fire, and his eyes were almost red.

Jingyi looked at Tao Xiang.

Thin, presumably dark.

She was suddenly sad, just looked at him, unable to speak. Even when he was angry at her, she couldn't talk back.

Jing Yi's appearance made Tao Xiang stunned.

He didn't expect her to come. I really didn't expect it. At such a dangerous time, she came...... She's here!

He gritted his teeth and whispered, "Follow me." The iron pincer-like hand held Jingyi's wrist fiercely.

Jingyi was dragged by him and stumbled into him, and he didn't care. Dragged Jingyi through the courtyard to his room.