Early the next morning.

Sun Yumin looked at Chen Yun who was sleeping beside him.

This little girl's head rested on his chest, and there were tear stains in the corners of her eyes, but her pale face yesterday looked particularly rosy this morning. His hair was scattered and spread all over his chest.

Sun Yumin knew that this woman was afraid of leaving herself, afraid that she would drive her away.

He gently pushed her from her sleep and said softly, "It's time for me to get up." ”

The girl turned into a woman overnight, and Chen Yun had not yet adapted to this change in role, so she refused to let go, sticking to him like an octopus.

Sun Yumin had no choice but to gently stroke her back and said softly: "If you don't get up again, someone else should come in." ”

Only then did Chen Yun let go of him.

The two got dressed and got out of bed.

Sun Yumin was surprised to find that Chen Yun's injuries were much better than yesterday, and now he can walk on the ground.

It's just that her walking posture is a little strange, Sun Yumin thought that the injury on her leg was not completely healed, so he asked her: "Is your leg still very painful?" If not, call a doctor. ”

Chen Yun was angry and said coquettishly: "Knowingly asking, you don't need to call a doctor." ”

Sun Yumin tidied up his clothes and walked out, he didn't notice that Chen Yun secretly cut off the blood lotus flower on the white sheets. Fold it carefully and put it in a sachet that you can wear closely.

Sun Yumin felt that something was wrong, and he always felt a peculiar smell when he washed his face. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my basin made Chen Yun a bedpan yesterday. I couldn't help but smirk twice, and re-brushed the basin with soap, before I filled her with a basin of hot water into the room.

After Chen Yun washed his face, he drove him outside the curtain and asked him to stand outside.

Sun Yumin felt inexplicable, thinking that women are really strange animals.

The cooking squad brought everyone's breakfast, and as soon as everyone finished eating, the nurse from the corps arrived.

After changing the medicine for the five girls, he took a lot of Western medicine for them. Sun Yumin told the doctor that they were going to leave Nanjing today, so he prescribed them a bunch of medicines.

Stone was ready to set off with the guard squad, and thirteen girls, all dressed in military uniforms, walked out of the battalion headquarters.

Sun Yumin called over the stone and explained to him in detail: "If anyone inquires, you can report to the name of the teaching corps." Needless to say, the second battalion, you just said that you were ordered to protect the female officers to go to Wuhan. ”

Shi nodded in agreement, and reassured Sun Yumin that he would definitely complete his task and rush back to join him as soon as he sent them safely to Wuhan.

Sun Yumin shook his head and said, "Your task is not only to escort them to Wuhan, but to protect them closely until I join you." If you wait in Wuhan for two months and don't wait for me, you can send them to the northwest. ”

Shi was unwilling, but Sun Yumin's intimidation and coercion had to agree.

Seeing more than 20 of them ride away, Sun Yumin felt extremely lost in his heart. Chen Yun left, and his heart also went with her.

Sun Yumin's whole body was as if he had lost his soul, and he walked on the street like a walking corpse. Suddenly, I heard an unfamiliar voice calling out to me: "Chief Sun, Chief Sun." ”

Sun Yumin looked around for the source of the sound, only to see a middle-aged man in a cyan robe walking towards him, waving his hand while shouting.

He took a closer look, and it turned out to be the shopkeeper of the iron shop, and said in his heart: Why hasn't he left yet?

Zhang Xiaohu paid a lot more money to the shopkeeper of the iron shop according to his own will, and the shopkeeper did make many people leave Nanjing. When Sun Yumin passed by the blacksmith shop, he also found that he was out of business, but he didn't expect to see him again on the street.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop walked up to him panting, saw that Sun Yumin was a little unhappy, and hurriedly explained: "Sir Sun, I have already arrived in Chuzhou. ”

"And you're coming back?" Sun Yumin asked.

"I don't want to come back, but my conscience wants me to come back." The answer of the shopkeeper of the iron shop.

"What do you mean?"

"Chief Sun, you are a good person! There are not many good people in this troubled world! ”

"I'm not." Sun Yumin said.

"No, you absolutely are! Good people deserve to be rewarded. You don't deserve to die in Nanjing. The shopkeeper said.

"Life and death have their own destiny, and it's not like I can do whatever I want."

"No, it's up to heaven to plan things, and it's up to people to make things happen." The shopkeeper corrected him.

"......" Sun Yumin was speechless.

"When I was on the road, I kept thinking, in this stormy and troubled world, how many good officials can be who are really for our people? How many good armies can there be that sincerely defend the homeland and the country? The shopkeeper sighed.

"From Nanjing to Chuzhou, this short journey of several hundred kilometers, what I saw below was the national army that did not care about the life and death of the people, what I saw was the local army that forcibly requisitioned and forcibly roped, and what I saw was the security regiment that was rampant in the township." The shopkeeper of the iron shop was a little emotional. He continued: "Commander Sun is fighting bloody battles in the front, and they are in the rear! ”

Sun Yumin saw that the more he talked, the more excited he became, so he asked, "Is there something wrong with your family?" Shall we find a place for you to take a break? ”

The shopkeeper stroked his chest twice, and he was really a little angry.

After waving his hand and rejecting Sun Yumin's proposal, he continued: "I don't have time, Commander Tang has already issued an order to close the river, I have to rush to the shipyard at noon, and the foreigners will take me to Wuhan." My family will be waiting for me there. ”

"And what are you still rubbing around here? Hurry up. Sun Yumin said hurriedly.

"No, no, no, I can't leave yet." The shopkeeper said. He made a gesture of invitation to Sun Yumin, and then said, "Chief Sun, please come with me." ”

Sun Yumin was very curious, and he didn't know what medicine was sold in the shopkeeper's gourd.

He followed the shopkeeper of the iron shop and walked to a residential area in the south of the city, and Sun Yumin saw that this residential area was less than 100 meters under the city wall. After careful observation, I found that it was not far from the Guanghuamen position, and the straight-line distance would definitely not exceed a kilometer.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop walked to the door of a courtyard, took out the key to open the courtyard door, and threw the key to Sun Yumin after opening the lock, saying: "This courtyard will belong to you in the future." ”

Sun Yumin hurriedly refused and said, "Shopkeeper, what do you mean?" I can't ask for your house. After saying that, he had to return the key to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper waved his hand and said, "You take it first." He turned around and closed the door.

Sun Yumin looked around, this is a three-in-three courtyard. It may be that there were many people living in the past, and the ground of the courtyard and the steps in front of the courtyard gate are particularly smooth. There are a lot of potted plants in the yard, but it's winter, and most of them are bare with only one branch, and only two pots of evergreen are still lush and green.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop did not enter the room, and walked directly to the corner of the wing room on the right, where a small room was built with wooden planks and straw, Sun Yumin recognized it as a thatched house, and most of the people here would have such a simple thatched house at home.

Sun Yumin thought he was going to the toilet, so he stopped and said, "Shopkeeper, I'm waiting for you outside, hurry up, I still have something to do!" ”

The shopkeeper of the iron shop was stunned when he heard this, then patted his head and said with a smile: "Chief Sun, you have to come over in person, you can't move the dung tank below." ”

Sun Yumin was a little disgusted, and he was angry with the shopkeeper of the iron shop, but his personality made him unable to pull his face. Even so, Sun Yumin still showed a little unhappiness on his face, and followed him to the pit of the mao.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop took away the two stepping boards on the dung tank, pointed to the dung tank with half a tank of manure and said to Sun Yumin: "Sir Sun, if you want to work hard, please lift the dung tank." ”

Sun Yumin felt a little sick when he saw that the edges of the dung tank and the foot pedal were all black feces.

"What are you doing with it? So dirty. Sun Yumin said.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop looked at Sun Yumin and said with a smile: "There will be a surprise when you mention it, Sir Sun, hurry up." ”

Sun Yumin was a scoundrel, so he had to grab the slightly clean place on the edge of the dung tank, and with a slight force, the dung tank had been lifted up by him.

When Sun Yumin lifted the dung tank, he found that the place where the dung tank was put was a hole in the ground.

When Sun Yumin put the dung tank aside, the shopkeeper of the iron shop had already drilled down.

Two or three meters down from the tunnel entrance to the ground, and then there is a tunnel more than one meter high, and people have to kneel and bow their heads to climb over. After climbing forward for about ten meters, I entered a small space that could accommodate two or three people, with a width of about two meters and a height. There are a few large knives in this small space, and at first glance they know that they are the products of a blacksmith shop. Connecting this space is a tunnel that can walk one person, and the shopkeeper of the iron shop lights a torch and takes Sun Yumin forward. After walking two or three hundred meters, the two of them came to a large space.

This space is one or two hundred square meters, and strangely enough, it was not dug up temporarily. The floor and walls are paved with blue bricks and stones, and even the top of the head is covered with large blocks of blue bricks and stones.

Sun Yumin was very familiar with these blue bricks and stones, and he dealt with them every day in the Guanghuamen position these days.

His heart moved, and he asked, "Shopkeeper, is this under the city wall?" ”

The shopkeeper of the iron shop stretched out his thumb and praised: "Chief Sun is really not an ordinary person, and he can see the mystery at a glance. ”

"There was originally a secret passage here that could lead to the city wall, but it had been abandoned for a long time, and when I built this tunnel, I completely blocked the secret passage, so I don't have to worry about people coming down from the city wall."

The shopkeeper walked around the space and pushed open seven or eight stone doors from the four walls.

It turned out that there were eight other rooms around the area, and the rooms were not large in size, and they were all full of things. In one room, there are several large wooden tanks, larger than the bathtubs used by large families for bathing, and they are filled with clean water. A room was filled with grain. There was also a room full of bedding and clothes. The smallest room has been turned into a latrine, and the dung tank is all wooden, but now it is clean. There are also four rooms with four beds and some furniture.

The shopkeeper of the iron shop said: "I have a large family of men in their twenties and thirties to decorate this place, and it has taken more than a year, but it still does not come in handy. ”

"No wonder you refused to leave when I asked you to take the family away, it turned out that you had a back hand!" Sun Yumin teased him.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, hiding underground isn't a long-term solution, so in the end we decided to move." The shopkeeper said. "But it's okay to leave a way out for the heroes, and it doesn't disappoint my family's more than a year's fatigue in vain."

Sun Yumin didn't answer, looked at the flames on the torch, left and right, front and back, and asked: "I can't get the vent, but the air circulation here is very smooth, what is the reason?" ”

The shopkeeper of the iron shop also shook his head and said: "This problem has also been confused for a long time, and it can only be said that the craftsmen who built this basement in ancient times were too powerful. ”

Sun Yumin sighed. "Is there no way out?" ”

"Yes!" The shopkeeper of the iron shop took Sun Yumin into the small room where the manure tank was placed, and when he pushed the wall of the room, a tunnel appeared behind the stone door.

This tunnel was much longer than the one they had entered, and the two of them walked for seven or eight minutes to find a space that could accommodate three or four people.

A wooden ladder was put up on the wall, and the shopkeeper climbed up, pushed open a small door, and the man had climbed out.

Sun Yumin climbed out and saw that he was in a camphor forest, surrounded by mounds of graves. The place where the two of them climbed out just now turned out to be a grave bag, but this grave bag seemed to be often taken care of, and there were ashes in front of the tombstone that had recently burned paper money.

Sun Yumin was about to ask, but the shopkeeper of the iron shop preemptively said: "Chief Sun, don't worry, this is all done below." The purpose is to see if the exit is blocked and collapsed, and you always have to burn some paper money when you come to the cemetery, just to have peace of mind! Picture a peace of mind! ”

Sun Yumin walked out of the forest, carefully observed the terrain, and said in his heart: "This exit is not good!" In addition to the fact that this forest is surrounded by open space, people find that they can't walk away. ”

The route is already familiar, and the tunnels have been walked back and forth.

When the two returned to the courtyard, the shopkeeper of the iron shop was about to leave. Sun Yumin was wrong to blame the family before, and felt that he couldn't go, so he wanted to take him back to the second camp to find the secretary to get some money to thank him. The shopkeeper of the iron shop desperately excused himself and said, "If I were greedy for money, I wouldn't come back!" Sir Sun, the mountain is high and the road is long, I hope you and I will meet again. ”

Sun Yumin didn't realize that he had forgotten to ask for someone's name until they had been gone for a long time. People came halfway back to tell him about this life path, but he didn't thank him properly, and when he thought of this Sun Yumin, he got angry and slapped himself hard.

After remembering the location of the small courtyard and the way to the small courtyard, Sun Yumin headed towards the Guanghuamen position.

Almost all the ammunition and supplies had gone into the fortifications and the towers.

The four barrels of gasoline that Sun Yumin paid special attention to have been pulled to the designated position.

I don't know how these people used to transport the boulders from the tombstone workshop to the city gate tower, a stone baffle plate of unknown material blocked these big stones, and several arm-thick ropes pulled the stone baffle plates, as long as the pull rope was cut, these boulders would fall from the city tower of more than ten meters, blocking the city gate on the far left of the outer city hall. When the city gate bunker was built, because the left one of the three city gate holes was not closed, Sun Yumin came up with this way to drop the boulder from the sky.

When he saw those large buckets of water in the tunnel room earlier, Sun Yumin suddenly thought of the Japanese army's poison gas tactics. Liu Wenzhi was arranged to deliver several buckets of water to various pillboxes and fortifications, and asked the soldiers to carry their own towels with them.

After the platoon leader and backbone of the church covered their mouths and noses with wet towels to prevent the mustard gas of the Japanese army, Sun Yumin saw a person he didn't want to see running towards this side.

The man was stone.