"When my mother was gone, I only remember that my father said that my mother went to a place where she would never suffer again, and he said that the poor in that place also had to eat and wear."

When Erni said this to Da Zhuang, the tears kept falling, and the 13-year-old Da Zhuang stretched out his dirty hand to wipe away Erni's tears, but Erni wiped the tears with the sleeve of her filial piety clothes before this hand reached over.

"Erni, don't cry," Da Zhuang said: "Come to my house, you will be my sister in the future, and my mother and I will take care of you." ”

Erni shook her head stubbornly: "No, although my father is gone, but I am here, and my family is here." ”

……

The 15-year-old Da Zhuang stacked the harvested wheat bundles, and Erni on the side said: "Brother Da Zhuang, you can rest, you have been busy for so long, take a breath and drink soup." ”

"I'm not tired," Da Zhuang said with a smirk: "You see that I am strong, I can pick them all back in a few trips to your field, this year's harvest is very good, I have to harvest it early." ”

"Brother Zhuang, I'll go with you." Erni said and picked up the flat burden, but Da Zhuang refused to say: "I can do it alone, don't worry, I won't help you in vain, you will have to help my family threshing wheat in a few days." ”

Erni smiled, smiling very happily, and her not beautiful face was full of happiness.

……

The people in the village looked at Da Zhuang and always quipped: "Da Zhuang, when will you marry Erni home?" ”

Da Zhuang said shyly: "What nonsense? I just take Erni as a sister. ”

The third master smiled and said, "Zhuang, if you don't marry Erni, I will go to Erni's house for my little pillar." ”

Da Zhuang changed color, and looked at the three masters like wolves protecting food, and the three masters laughed: "Silly boy, do you think that you are blind to the three masters!" ”

Da Zhuang laughed embarrassedly.

The third master sighed and said: "Erni, this girl has a hard life, she has no mother at the age of three, and her father is gone at the age of 12, I, I have long wanted to take Erni as a granddaughter, I took the time to go to Erni's house and recognize this granddaughter, you are 17 years old, Erni is not young, it is time to have a plan." You go to your mother, talk about it, and let the lame mother-in-law discuss it with me, an old thing. ”

Da Zhuang looked at the three masters in surprise, his eyes were full of joy and happiness.

……

"Nizi, you're 16, it's time to find a home," the lame woman looked at Erni and said with a smile: "Siniang, I have several candidates, tell me if you have a favorite." ”

The lame woman said the names one by one, but deliberately hid the name of Da Zhuang, Erni didn't hear Da Zhuang's name, so she said:

"Siniang, I'm ...... I'm the only one left in my family, and I don't want to get married. ”

The lame woman laughed: "Nizi, this woman, when you are old, you have to get married, and you also look so marked, what can you do if you don't marry?" We don't have it in our village, but what about the outer villages? Why don't I ask you? ”

"No, I don't want to leave our village." Erni said firmly.

"Not leaving the village?" The lame woman thought about it, and said for a while: "But there are only a few young men in our village who should be married, you can't really be an old girl, right?" ”

Erni was anxious, complaining that Siniang couldn't think of Da Zhuang?

The lame mother-in-law looked at Erni's anxious appearance, and laughed in her heart, but she knew that the girl's family was thin-skinned, so she was not teasing, but deliberately said suddenly:

"By the way, there's Da Zhuang, hey, Nizi, do you think Da Zhuang is okay?"

Erni finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said shyly: "Siniang, you are an elder, you can discuss it with my grandfather, I ...... I have no opinion. ”

……

Erni and Da Zhuang are finally engaged, a simple engagement, a bride price without many things, but Erni smiled very happily.

Da Zhuang whispered to Erni: "Nizi, don't worry, when we get married, I will definitely prepare some good things, and I will definitely let you marry me in style." ”

Erni said: "Brother Zhuang, I ...... I don't have that many requirements, I just need you to be nice to me. ”

"Nizi, don't worry, I will be good to you in this life, I won't beat you or scold you."

……

Since the engagement, Da Zhuang has become more diligent, often go outside to exchange strength for money, although the strength of the croppers is not valuable, but after half a year's effort, Da Zhuang still brought back a lot of things to the family, and even pulled a lot of cloth for Erni, and asked someone to make new clothes for Erni and new clothes when she got married.

"Brother Da Zhuang," Erni looked at Da Zhuang shyly, opened a tight handkerchief little by little, and said, "This is the money that my father left for me, when you go to the county seat, can you pull some cloth for me?" ”

"What kind of cloth do you want to tell me, what kind of money to give? I'm rich now! Da Zhuang pushed away Erni's handkerchief: "Nizi, you are the money left to you by your father, you can keep it!" ”

"Nope! The cloth has to cost me. Erni stubbornly insisted, but finally said shyly: "I ...... I want to make you some new clothes. ”

……

"Nizi, you can make this dress," the lame woman took out the clothes made by Erni and checked them, praised Erni after checking them, and said with a smile: "Nizi, you are still a member of the Da Zhuang family, and you have already made careful calculations for Da Zhuang!" ”

Erni lowered her head shyly: "Siniang, don't laugh at me......"

"Why am I laughing at you? I'm envious of Da Zhuang, look at how much virtue he has accumulated in his last life to marry a girl like you! ”

"It's my fate that I met the big strong brother." Erni smiled, remembering how good she was to herself since she was a child, and couldn't help but laugh even more.

……

"Nizi, the county master Wang is recruiting, the salary is enough, I will be busy for a few months, and when I come back, I will definitely be able to bring a lot of money, and I will marry you in a beautiful way!"

"Brother Zhuang, don't go, I heard my grandfather say that Master Wang is now an accomplice of the Japanese, but it's bad or bad."

"It's okay, let's just buy a handful of strength, Master Wang has a lot of fish and meat, and can we get less strength money for our crops?"

"That'...... Then don't work too hard! ”

Da Zhuang smirked: "Don't fight, I'm still waiting to feed you and my mother in the future." ”

Erni took a sip, her face flushed, Da Zhuang continued to giggle on the side, and said in a daze: "Erni, you...... You're so beautiful. ”

……

"Didn't you say that you were repairing a house? How did you get on the train? ”

"Master Wang has work in the field, you go over and do it first! Rest assured, Master Wang is famous for his kindness, and he will not lose your wages! ”

Under the rhetoric of the plainclothes team, the laborers boarded the train with strangeness, but Da Zhuang was angry and willing, but was beaten by the plainclothes team.

Da Zhuang, who was locked up, had been stubbornly sweating: "No! I don't get in the car! I don't want to go out of town! I'm going home! ”

"Home?" A traitor laughed: "Silly boy, do you still want to go home?" Dream it! Any idea where this is going? Taijun is going to take you to a place you have never heard of! Go home? Hahaha, this kid thinks so beautifully! ”

Da Zhuang is like being hit hard.

Later, a team of devils got on the car, disgusted that Da Zhuang tied up in the carriage was an eyesore, so he drove Da Zhuang back to the labor carriage - the traitors who had pretended to be kind before had changed their faces at this time, and began to scold and bully the workers in the control compartment.

The guerrillas who had infiltrated the workers told the workers the purpose of the devils: "The devils want to take us to repair the hidden base, and after repairing the base, the devils will not let us go for the sake of secrecy, and we can't sit idly by!" ”

"That'...... So what to do? ”

The honest laborers panicked.

"Don't worry, our Eighth Route Army will not watch the big guy being deceived by the devil, our people will save the big guy halfway, when the time comes, everyone listen to my orders and don't run around."

After that, a revolt for survival was launched, followed by an ambush.

In order to survive, the laborers, under the leadership of the guerrillas, ran desperately and kept running.

Da Zhuang mixed in the crowd, running with a few villagers, a group of devils chased after him desperately, Erzhuzi was injured, seeing that he couldn't run, he cried and said:

"Don't leave me behind! I'm going home! Big strong, dog, don't leave me behind! ”

Da Zhuang, who was honest, turned his head and ran back, picked up the two pillars and continued to run, running, running, he couldn't run, the sound of the devil screaming behind him was getting closer and closer, Da Zhuang gasped and said:

"Dog, stone, you run with the two pillars, I'll go and lure the devil away!"

So, Da Zhuang ran in another direction, and when the devil saw Da Zhuang's figure, he chased after him, and the dogs began to run lifelessly, until there was no more strange screams of the devil behind them.

The stone was about to run home, and the second pillar cried and shouted: "I don't go, I have to wait for the big strong brother, I want to find the big strong brother!" ”

The stone cried and said:

"I want to go home, I want to go home, I'm afraid...... I'm going home......"

In the end, the stone was dropped and the two ran away, and the dog took the injured Erzhu and searched in the mountain for three days, and finally found Da Zhuang's body, the bayonet penetrated Da Zhuang's body, and the solidified dark brown blood spread all over the ground, and Da Zhuang opened his eyes and looked into the distance.

There, there is his mother, and there is Erni who has not yet passed the door.

He couldn't think about it until he died, he just wanted to buy a handful of strength and earn some money to marry Erni in style, but why......

Why is this happening?

……

The second pillar and the dog brought back Da Zhuang and there was no news.

Da Zhuang and his mother almost cried blindly, and later, Da Zhuang said to Erni:

"Ni, Da Zhuang doesn't have that blessing and can't marry you...... You...... Let's find someone to marry again......"

Erni cried and said: "Mother, I am a strong person in life, and I am a strong ghost in death, so don't drive me away, I ...... I'm left with you now......"

The big strong lady looked at the crying girl with pear blossoms and rain, and couldn't help but hug her and cry.

……

In a cave.

"Two pillars, he ...... Is he a devil? Erni looked at the people who were rescued by the villagers, and the dazzling yellow of the devil's army pants made her feel that the whole world was dizzy.

Erzhuzi shook his head and said: "No, he is Comrade Zheng of the Eighth Route Army, last time I just wanted to join his team and fight devils to avenge my big brother, he ...... He didn't ask for me. ”

"And he...... Why is he wearing devil's pants? ”

"Who knows, maybe he robbed the devil's pants to wear, he is amazing, I heard that there are hundreds of devils killed by one person, and the devils call him King Zheng Yan."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, otherwise why would I want to join his team?"

Erni looked at the figure who was wrapped in a thin quilt from afar, gritted her teeth and said to Erzhuzi: "Erzhuzi, you wait for me first, and I will take something for that Comrade Zheng." ”

"Something?"

Erzhuzi's doubts were very solved, and Erni took out the brand-new cotton clothes and pants and outer clothes and pants - when the devil swept in, Erni didn't even take a bag of noodles in order to bring these things!

"Sister, sister, this is your ......" Erzhuzi looked at Erni in shock.

Erni said: "Give that Comrade Zheng and let him dress more devils!" Erzhuzi, sister can't avenge your big brother in this life, but sister can make clothes and shoes, so I have to make more things for our Eighth Route Army, so that they can fight devils more! ”

……

Erni can't forget what Comrade Zheng said to herself when he left.

"Girl, don't worry, these little devils, they won't be able to stumble for long, in a few years, their end will come, they ......" Comrade Zheng looked at Erni seriously and said, "They will pay for their crimes, they, they ......"

When Comrade Zheng finally spoke, he stopped talking, and Erni felt that he had something to say.

But in the end, that Comrade Zheng said: "Don't worry! I will take our people to avenge Da Zhuang and those compatriots who were killed by devils! ”

……

"Mother, that ...... Ahem...... cough cough ......" Erni coughed frantically, Da Zhuang and his mother were also coughing frantically, Erni endured and said, "That Comrade Zheng...... Will it avenge us? ”

Erni Niang wanted to speak, but she was choked by the constant influx of smoke and could only cough vigorously, she grabbed the soil on the ground like crazy, scratched countless scratches on the ground, and even the flesh was broken, but she was still clutching like crazy......

Desperately clutching ......

"Oh my God...... the three masters shouted in despair, and finally in the thick smoke, they coughed and coughed frantically......

Erni fell to the ground with hideous eyes, and she had only one thought:

That Comrade Zheng, will he avenge the hundreds of villagers in Zhangbazi Village?

……

Outside the cave.

The devils were laughing twistedly, and the puppet soldiers kept tearing down the cut and adding it to the fire that was lit at the entrance of the cave.

Someone rushed out like crazy, but before he could get close to the raging fire, the devil twisted and laughed, and pulled the trigger.

Not a single shot was killed, the wounded man crawled and wanted to rush, but a pile of evil fire stood in front of him.