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When I woke up, it was already dawn, A-Ning found the grain jar, washed rice and cooked, and said to Hu Xuan: "I only recognize a few words, and I can't write well, you can write a letter for me." ”

After looking for a long time, but there was no paper or pen, Hu Shuo picked a brick from the courtyard and wrote on the wall above the stove: "Aunt: I was separated from my parents and fled here, and when I found that you were not there, I slept all night, and after a few days the soldiers withdrew, I will go home, and if you meet my parents, tell them that I am safe." Anin. ”

Hu Xuan read it again, and A Ning said, "Very good, you are quite inky." Shi Suo said next to him: "That is, Hu Xuan is a college student, and he will be a county master in the past." ”

After eating, A-Ning rummaged through the house for a while, found two sets of clothes for Hu Bolt and Shi Lock to change, and asked Hu Bolt, "Where are you going?" ”

Hu Xuan thought for a while and said: "Originally, we wanted to come here to join Sun Yat-sen's army, but we were disappointed, and it was not at all what I imagined the revolutionary army to look like, so we had to go home first." What about you? What are you going to do? Are you staying at your aunt's house, or are you going to go somewhere else? ”

At this question, A-Ning was worried, shook his head and didn't speak. Hu Xuan said: "I think, it's better not to live here, if we leave, you will be left alone, it is too unsafe, the soldiers are in chaos, the soldiers will be there when they say it, I think it is better to send you to other relatives' houses." ”

A-Ning nodded, "Well, I don't dare to live here by myself." However, I have no relatives nearby, and I have an uncle, who is still too far away. ”

While they were deliberating, they heard movement on the street outside, and Shi Suo said, "I'll go and see." ”

After a while, Shi Suo came back and said, "I looked out against the wall, and saw that some people in the village were running out of the village as if they were fleeing, and there seemed to be a commotion of people and horses in the distance. ”

Saying this, Hu Xuan and A Ning were nervous, and the three of them quickly cleaned up, went out of the house, jumped from the wall to the gate, and suddenly Shi Suo shouted: "What is this?" Hu Xuan and A Ning followed his fingers, and there was a small blue leather bag in front of the door, tied with a knot, and it looked like it was sturdy.

"Someone must have been in a hurry and lost here." Hu Xuan said.

As he was talking, a middle-aged couple and two teenage children ran over from the street, and Shi Suo walked up and asked, "Did you see who lost anything?" ”

"I don't know," the man shook his head, and then said in a hurry, "Run, the GI is about to enter the village." After saying that, he hurried away with the family.

Sure enough, there was a noisy voice outside the village, and A-Ning was scared and said, "Let's run." ”

The three of them did not dare to delay any longer, and ran down the street towards the outside of the village. At this time, a shot was heard in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard, and it seemed that the cavalry had arrived again.

A-Ning was particularly afraid of the cavalry, and ran in front of him vigorously, the village was not big, and he left the village after a while, and when the three of them saw a farmland outside the village, they didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, and went into the field.

Running along the ditch for a while, the three of them were out of breath, so they stopped to rest, Shi Lock was curious, opened the small blue bag and saw that there was an old dress inside, and a small cloth bag with a rope, and when the cloth bag was opened, there was a pile of ocean inside.

The three of them were penniless, and suddenly found the coins, which were undoubtedly charcoal in the snow, but Hu Xuan shook his head and said: "I don't know who lost the money, we don't need to use it, even if we have to use it as a last resort, we will ask A-Ning's uncle to inquire on behalf of us in the future, find the owner, and we will return the original amount." ”

A-Ning smiled at him and said, "In these days, it's really hard to find a decent gentleman like you." ”

I could hear that the village was already full of chickens and dogs jumping at this time, and the sound of the soldiers was also heard, and the sound of cavalry hooves sounded on the road. Shi Suo said, "This place is not safe, we have to go far away." ”

After resting for a while, the three of them got up and searched for the path in the field, and hurried forward in any direction, just wanting to get away from the village. Hu Xuan asked A-Ning: "The uncle you mentioned, where is his home?" Let's just go straight there. ”

A-Ning hesitated and said, "I haven't been there either, I heard that it's more than a hundred miles from here, and I don't know how to go." ”

Shi Suo said indifferently: "Ahem, more than a hundred miles is nothing, we have traveled thousands of miles from our hometown here, more than a hundred miles, small meaning." ”

Hu Xuan also said: "There is no other good way now, these soldiers don't know when they will be able to retreat, let's take a step at a time, even if we don't look for your uncle, we have to go far away." ”

A-Ning said, "Wherever you go, I will go with you." ”

Shi Suo smiled: "Then you go to Zhili with us, Uncle Hu of the Hu family, you can be honest and kind, I must be very happy to see you......"

"Don't talk nonsense," Hu Xuan interrupted the stone lock, and turned to Ah Ning and said, "He likes to joke with a big grin, don't be angry." ”

"Not angry." A-Ning's face flushed.

Hu Xuan changed the topic and said: "A-Ning, there is still a dress in this baggage, I think, you might as well change it and pretend to be a man, these days, you are a girl's family, and it is easy to attract the attention of others on the road." ”

"Okay." A-Ning happily agreed, took the burden and went into the depths of the crops, and after a while changed his clothes and walked out, his clothes were bigger, his cuffs and trousers were pulled up, his hair was wrapped in cloth, and his face was smeared with soil, and he looked like a thin young man at first glance.

"Let's go, let's go." Stone Lock urged.

In the sky, the clouds were thick, and after a while, it rained sparsely, and there was nowhere to hide in the wilderness, and after a while, it was drenched, and Shi Suo said: "Anyway, it's already wet, so let it be wet enough." The three of them kept moving forward against the rain, and after a while, the rain became heavier and heavier, and when they looked around, they were white and vast, and the sky and the earth were full of mist.

After walking for a while, the rain had not stopped, but fortunately it was far away from the village, and no cavalry was seen coming, and there was no sound of army commotion except the sound of rain. The three of them were tired of walking, so they found a big tree on the side of the road and went to the tree to hide from the rain.

Hu Xuan said to Shi Suo: "Now that I think about it, I was too naïve, stupidly brought you to join the army, full of hope to realize the ambition in my heart, but I made it like this. ”

Shi Suo shook his head, "I don't like to hear anyone selling regret medicine the most, I came with you, and I didn't want to eat and drink spicy, what if it was like this?" I think it's because you're looking for the wrong place, or you just haven't found a serious person. ”

"That's right." A-Ning also said beside him: "You are a learned person, maybe the time has not yet come, don't worry." ”