The small town is shrouded in night, and the occasional rooster and dog bark make the town look extraordinarily quiet.

If it weren't for the small streets with horses and machine gun arrays, as well as the puppet soldiers and devil soldiers who patrol at night, this town would definitely feel like a paradise.

The flames of war are rising, even if it is supposed to be a paradise town, it is impossible to escape the poison of the sword soldiers.

Xin Lao Er was obviously extremely familiar with this town, and he was familiar with Ruth, so he avoided the patrolling puppet army and the Japanese army, shuttled through the narrow alleys, and finally came to the door of a small courtyard, and after looking around to make sure that there was no one, he pushed the door into the courtyard, and then wiped his face and feet in the courtyard a little, and then entered the house.

As soon as the door was opened, I saw by the moonlight that my mother-in-law was lying on the head of the bed wiping away tears—even in the dim light, I could see that this woman had once been beautiful, but now she was so skinny that she was skinny, and beside her were sleeping two equally skinny children of five or six years old.

"Why didn't you sleep?" Xin Lao Er closed the door and asked in a low voice.

"Are you too embarrassed to ask?"

The woman sobbed with a crying voice: "These days, you go out in the middle of the night and come back at dawn, and the house is almost out of the pot, and the two children cry out that they are hungry every day, but the little food left in the house is taken by you to the woman outside—even if you don't pity me, you pity the two children!" ”

"You ...... quietly"

Xin Lao Er said: "I haven't done anything to be sorry for you, don't think about it, stay up for a few days first, and wait for the end of the month when the imperial army pays the money, plus the grain in the field will mature in a month or two, and then you will be rich!" ”

"Haven't you done anything sorry for me? So where are you going to get those stick noodles and all that? Don't you know that our family of four is now living on this little food? The woman cried.

"Don't cry!"

Xin Lao Er went over and hugged his woman and said: "There are some things that you don't understand, but you just need to remember one thing, everything I am doing now is just to hope that one day in the future, our two children will not be poked in the backbone by the villagers and scolded as the sons of traitors, and I hope that one day, their children will not starve and be looked down ......upon like us and them."

The woman snuggled into his arms and cried, wetting a large part of her clothes, although she was a woman who had never read and didn't know any big truths, but she also knew how unhappy a man had been since he became a translator, and she cried for a long time before saying, "Otherwise, you won't be this translator, right?" I haven't seen you smile since you became this translator......"

"What if you don't do it? What does our family eat? ”

Xin Lao Er said: "At least our family hasn't starved to death, in the village below, do you know how many starved to death last winter?" It's better to be scolded as a traitor than to starve to death, I don't care, but what about you and your two children? ”

The woman continued to cry and stopped talking, she knew that if it weren't for herself and her two children, how much money the little devil gave, her man would not have been a translator, and he would not have been unable to hold his head up in front of the villagers......

"Dad, mother......"

The two children were woken up by crying in a daze, and as soon as they woke up, they began to cry: "Mother, I'm so hungry, I want to eat pimple soup......"

"Don't cry, don't cry, close your eyes and sleep, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep, and you can still eat pimple soup in your dreams!"

The woman wiped away her tears and began to coax the two children to sleep, her thin body looked like a few bones supporting a piece of clothing, as if it would be blown away by the wind at any time, or that day, she would fall quietly and never wake up again.

Xin Lao Er and Yi lay down and closed his eyes, trying his best to forget the poverty in front of him, and his heart was extremely uncomfortable, as a man, he couldn't let his wife and children eat a full meal, which was definitely the biggest shame, and the greater shame was that he didn't even know when it would end.

In a daze, he dreamed of a new world, in which there were no ferocious Japanese, everyone was round and mellow, and he didn't worry about food or clothing, and he was taking his wife and children to eat a big table of noodles, with fish and meat, smelling fragrant and making his mouth water, but he couldn't eat it in his mouth......

Then he woke up, and there was a faint light in the room, the oil lamp had been lit, and a man who looked extremely haggard and weak, but had the imposing momentum of a tiger, stood by the bedside, looking at his family.

"Ah......h

The woman was also awakened, and when she saw that a stranger suddenly appeared in her house, she was about to scream in fright, but Xin Lao Er covered her mouth and said, "Don't make a sound, it's okay!" ”

He had already guessed the identity of the person who came, he never expected that the other party would refuse to meet him by the river, but now he quietly touched his home, and suddenly there was a wet cold sweat on his back!

Because he knows why Lu Yuan came!

If everything he had done before was just to lead the way, then now, he felt that his family had become a few cold corpses.

"Go cook this, I haven't eaten anything hot in days!"

Lu Yuan said, throwing a small hare to the woman: "I have something to discuss with your man, you take the two children away, don't make a sound, understand?" ”

The woman hesitated, but Xin Lao Er urged excitedly: "If you are told to go, you can go quickly, I'm fine, this gentleman won't hurt me!" ”

When the woman saw Xin Laoer's expression, she bowed slightly to Lu Yuan, and then carried the rabbit and the two old children who were drooling when they saw the rabbit and went to the yard to work in the kitchen. 》≠》≠，

"I didn't expect Captain Lu to come to the cold house, the place is really simple, I smiled......" Xin Lao Erwen crepe said.

A loud slap slapped Xin Lao Er in the face, and the huge force pulled him down on the bed, covering his face and trembling: "Captain Lu, you, why did you beat me?" ”

"Shouldn't you be beaten up as a traitor to the Japanese as a dog to help them oppress their fellow villagers?" Lu Yuan reprimanded sharply.

"No, I'm not a traitor!"

As soon as the word traitor was mentioned, Xin Lao Er instantly became angry, and screamed: "I'm not a traitor, but my family also has to eat - I'm a translator, not a traitor, and my family also needs to eat to live!" ”

"It seems that you really hate the Japanese......

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "I have something I need you to do for me, can you agree?"