In front of a big town, there is a boulder at the entrance of the street, "Songjia Town" is written on it, it seems to be bigger than other villages and towns, and it is also a little lively, most of the shops and restaurants on the street are in normal business, Shisuo looked at the sky and looked at the sky at noon, the two discussed it, and decided to go into the town to buy something to eat, and asked the road by the way.

When I entered the street, I saw a house on the side of the street, people were coming in and out, as if it was lively, and there was a burst of music in the courtyard, Shi Suo said: "It must be a big family singing." The two drove the carriage past the door and looked into the courtyard, only to see a circle of people around the courtyard, but they couldn't see what was going on in the crowd.

found a small restaurant on the side of the road, the two sat down to eat, and asked the guy in the restaurant, "What is that family doing?" Is there a church meeting? ”

The guy said: "Where, that's the old Song family lost a cow yesterday, and found someone to take a lesson, saying that it was because of poor dedication, which annoyed Daxian, and was taken away by the immortals. No, Lao Song hurriedly invited the dancing god to do exorcism there. ”

Hu Shuan laughed, "The cow is lost, hurry up and find it, how can you do it at home?" ”

The shopkeeper also said, "Who says it isn't? But Lao Song is a tendon, burning incense and kowtowing, he believes in the dancing god, and some neighbors persuade him, but let him scold him, saying that he is disrespectful to God. ”

As he was talking, listening to another tom gong outside, Shi Suo said, "The more you sing, the more lively it becomes." ”

The guy looked outside, and said to Hu Xuan and Shi Suo: "No, this time it's not the old Song family, it's Huangsha who will summon people." Then he came over and whispered to the two people: "Seeing that you are outsiders, I kindly advise you, hurry up and leave after eating, Huangsha will summon people, it must be who to fight with, those people are very fierce, if you don't like it, you will be arrested and sacrificed to the flag, you say that you are wronged or not." ”

Hu Xuan was startled, nodded, finished eating with Shi Suo and Shi Suo, quickly checked out the restaurant, and drove the carriage out of the town. Shi Suo asked, "What will the yellow sand be?" What grabbed the sacrificial flag? ”

Hu Xuan said: "The Huangsha Society, similar to the Red Gun Society and the White Lotus Society, is a gang organization, relying on gods and ghosts to scare people, confuse people, and talk nonsense such as invulnerability, in fact, it is mainly to fight for territory and cheat money. ”

"Then the common people will believe it?"

Hu Xuan thought for a while and said: "Just by saying, of course, it is not easy for people to believe, they are generally bluffing and deceiving, scaring you with retribution or something, and then luring you with profit to join the Huangsha Society, they will give you certain benefits, such as some small favors, not being bullied by others, etc., the common people have immediate interests to be made, and generally do not think about it." After a pause, he said: "However, they are often greedy for small profits and suffer big losses, and once they enter the Yellow Sand Society, all kinds of actions are controlled by it, and they are under its command, and many of the property of the congregation are cleverly seized by the leaders, and the congregation is ruined, and many people are killed in gang fights. ”

"Yes," Shi Suo nodded, "I have seen that there are coal mines in our village to recruit people, with the bright Yuan Datou, as long as he goes with them to dig coal, he will send it to Dayang on the spot, many people can't withstand the temptation of the ocean, and they don't want to think about whether they can come back after they go, so they happily go down the coal mine with people, and the result is often that they die in a foreign country, and few people come back alive." ”

"It's not that the coal mine can't go," Hu Xuan corrected: "The country has developed in the future, and the coal mine is also indispensable, but the kind of deceptive coal mine recruitment is almost all recruited slaves, and they don't take human life as their life, and what is even more pitiful is that the common people neither understand nor think, just know and see this little thing in front of them." This is true not only in coal mines, but also in recruiting and selling soldiers, and abducting and deceiving people. ”

The two of them were chatting while walking in the carriage, and suddenly saw a cloud of smoke and dust in the distance, Shi Suo's eyes were sharp, and he pointed his finger and said, "What's going on over there?" It seems that there is a large group of people. ”

Looking carefully, I faintly saw a large number of people in the distance, smoke and dust, like a large army, Hu Xuan said: "It's not good, if it's the Huangsha Society, then outsiders like us, maybe they will really let them catch the head sacrifice flag." Come on. ”

Shi Suo flicked the whip, the carriage quickened its pace, and after walking for a while, he suddenly said in a loud voice: "It's broken, it's broken, it's broken, there's over there." ”

Sure enough, there was also a figure in front of him, how high the smoke and dust were on the road, Hu Xuan said: "Hurry up and get off the main road, take the small road, and hide to the side." The two men found a narrow dirt road, and hurried to the field by the roadside with the carriage, and when they saw that there was a forest in front of them, which was very dense, they hurried the carriage over.

Approaching the edge of the woods, two men in military uniforms suddenly jumped out of the woods, armed with spears, and shouted, "Stop." ”

When the two of them looked at it, there were many soldiers in the woods, sitting and lying down, apparently resting, and the two men with guns shouted, "Come here, what are you doing?" ”

Hu Xuan listened to them, it was not a local accent, these people were wearing military uniforms, it was definitely not the Huangsha Society, but I didn't know whether it was the Southern Army or the Northern Army, hesitated for a moment, and a GI opened his mouth and scolded, "Come here fucking quickly, be careful that Lao Tzu collapses you." ”

Two men got out of the carriage and were escorted into the woods by the soldiers, and a man who looked like an officer was sitting and smoking under a big tree, and when he saw the two men escorted over, he asked, "Who are you?" ”

"We are...... Ordinary people, go to relatives. Hu Xuan said.

"What the fuck are relatives," the officer scolded, "the carriage is confiscated, let the two of them go to the room to cook." ”

"We have an urgent ......," Hu replied, but the officer ignored them. Another soldier went to catch the carriage, Shi Suo was in a hurry, and went to the car to take off the burden, but was hit by a soldier with a rifle butt, Shi Suo still wanted to resist, Hu Shuo made a look, Shi Suo stared at the anger and panted.

Another GI approached with a gun and ordered the two of them, "Hurry up." ”

It seems to be commonplace to look at the soldiers sitting and lying around, not looking at this scene, and looking at each other to lie or sit.

The two men were escorted to an open field and handed over to an old bearded soldier with an apron tied around his waist, who ordered them to carry stones and stoves and carry rice for cooking. Seeing that this veteran seemed to be quite honest, Hu Xuan quietly asked when he was working: "Brother, which commander is our team?" Why don't you arrest us without asking? ”

"Huh," said the old soldier dismissively, "to arrest you is to arrest you, what else do you ask?" Which sir, how do I know? I knew that our company commander's surname was Wang. Anyway, they are all Premier Duan's soldiers. ”

Hu Xuan's heart sank, Prime Minister Duan Qirui led the Northern Army, and he came to join the Southern Army led by Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Party, but he unexpectedly fell into the hands of the Northern Army. The only way to escape is to find a way to escape. He pretended to be obedient and worked according to the veteran's instructions in order to gain the veteran's trust. After a while, I was busy and sweating. The veteran was quite satisfied with Hu Xuan, and kept scolding Shi Suo, "Hurry up, it's grinding, don't you want to be confined." ”

After eating, the sun was already in the west, and the officer instructed the bearded veteran: "Watch the two of them well, don't let them run away." ”

A group of soldiers were lying in the woods and sleeping, but Hu Bolt and Shi Lock could not sleep, and the old soldier said to Hu Bolt: "Go to sleep, it seems that the march will definitely start again at night, and maybe you will not be able to sleep." ”

"Yes, yes, thank you, brother." Hu Bolt agreed. It was possible to run out of the woods by peeking at the surrounding terrain, but it was hard not to let the sentinels at the edge of the forest find out that he had repeatedly thought of many ways to escape, and he felt that it was not appropriate.

Slowly the sky darkened, there was a sound of snoring all around, and Hu Bolt slowly became sleepy, and he was about to fall asleep in a daze. Suddenly I heard a strange cry in my ears, some like a wolf's howl, some like a owl's howl, very unpleasant, and very terrible in the darkening night.

The voice was intermittent, from far to near, becoming clearer and clearer, not only Hu Xuan heard it, but many people around him whispered: "What sound? It's so ugly. "It's like a ghost screaming." "Voices from the south, go over and see."

But no one looked at it, and the voice rang for a while, and then disappeared again. By this time it was already completely dark, and suddenly, from the north, the unpleasant voice came again, and this time there were even more people who heard it, and there was a buzz of discussion in the woods, and some people said in horror: "So soon, the sound has reached the north, and there is absolutely nothing else that can run so fast except ghosts." ”

While he was wondering, the strange howl came from the east again, even more terrible than before, as if something was laughing, and it gave people goosebumps when they heard it. Although these people are all rough soldiers, this "ghost scream" is really terrible, and some people say: "It's broken, it's broken, this place where we camp, will it be the cemetery of the common people?" Someone else said, "This time it's from the east, and I think it's going to be from the west next time." ”

Sure enough, before the words were finished, the ugly cry came from the west, and in the dark night, the sound of crying and laughing was particularly terrifying.

At this time, the officer gave the order to "pull out" the troops, and the soldiers who were in a hurry were full of doubts about the woods because of this strange cry, and wished to leave early, so they shouted and packed up, but the strange sound was gone.

Just finished packing up, before standing in formation, suddenly the strange cry of "hahaha" suddenly sounded again, and the sound was very loud, as if it was right in front of it, and the hair stood on end, just when everyone was in shock, "Ping Ping" two gunshots rang out, followed by an exclamation, and a soldier by the woods fell. The assembled soldiers shouted, some lay down on the spot, some ran forward, and some shouted: "Someone has robbed the camp, shoot quickly." ”