Although it is still the third pole of the sun, the heat is already gradually rising. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The scorching sun shines through the gaps in the trees on the face and neck, and there is a different kind of burning sensation; There is no wind, and the huge forest is like a steamer, making people sweat and sweat.

Suddenly, there was a sudden opening up in front of me, and a very wide shallow shoal split through the lush woods; The horse's hooves tread briskly in the water, splashing strings of jewels; The water vapor suddenly made the heat of the dog days dissipate without a trace.

The mood of the pillars is also changing with the changes in the scenery along the way.

He was very apprehensive and a little confused, because he was not sure whether he should forget the shadow in his heart or should not forget his original intention, and have a beginning and an end.

Last night he took out of his bosom all the belongings he had saved, the East India Company's silver deposit stubs, and with these scraps of paper stamped with the company's seal, he was able to go to the chubby mulberry account office and receive more than seven thousand taels of silver, which was the pillar's salary and dividends for these days.

He originally wanted Doudou to help him use the money to buy a piece of land in Yingzhou City to build a house and give it to Xu Wanyun; He was a clumsy man, and he didn't know how to please the girl he liked, and he couldn't figure out the woman's needle-like thoughts, so he decided to do something practical.

But his plan was rejected by Doudou, and he persuaded him for a long time - as Doudou said, after the war, as a major general of the Fuliao Army, he had already become the main target pursued by all forces; Whether it is the official gentry of North Korea or the six families of Myeongshuidong, there are fifty or sixty copies of Geng posts sent, all of whom are good girls with innocent family backgrounds and boudoirs, and they are more suitable daughters-in-law than Xu Wanyun, who has an unbearable past.

But Zhu Zi didn't think so in his heart, he didn't even open those Geng posts - after many hardships, he didn't care about Xu Wanyun's past at all; He understands Xu Wanyun very well, in that kind of struggle on the edge of life and death, it is a great luck to survive; Even he didn't realize that it was precisely because of this similar past that he couldn't let go of the seemingly weak but strong shadow in his heart, which made him spontaneously have a strong desire to protect her.

But what gave him a headache was that Xu Wanyun had been avoiding him!

He found out when he was transferred back from Dengzhou a year ago, but at that time, the pillar had a stubborn temper - you want to hide from me, I don't want to see you yet! When the year after the year began to prepare for the war, especially in the two months before the war, he drilled in and out of the tunnel like a mouse every day, at that time in the dark underground, the eyes were dangling in front of the eyes of the embarrassed and sad eyes of this enemy, and the pillar knew that she was destined to be unable to get out in his heart in this life.

When the battle was over, the pillar walked to the door of her small courtyard by the dock several times, but he hesitated for a long time, and finally failed to make up his mind to go in; Seeing that he is going to Ganghwa Island if he drags on any longer, what can he do about this?

The pillar on the horse's back couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, but he didn't know that his action startled the people on the mountainside next to him.

Woshan was once a small mountain village with only four families and 19 people, but now only one family surnamed Qin remains—it is adjacent to the grain road where the army was originally conscripted, and the other three families were either arrested or fled to avoid the disaster.

There are fewer households, but there are more people, and now there are 38 people in the village, except for the five members of the Qin family, all of whom have slipped through the net on the battlefield.

The donkey was one of them, and now he was staring at the avenue down the hill in a bush at the edge of the village; Just now, the pillar suddenly raised his head, startling him, and he thought that he had been discovered, and he almost didn't jump up to expose his figure.

The donkey was carried here.

He was finally knocked unconscious during the battle, and when he awoke, it was already dark; There was no light in sight except for the circle of bonfires dotted by Mingkou, and the strong smell of blood and corpses, coupled with the sound of whimpering wind, made him feel like he was in a ghost.

Fortunately, although he was stunned, he did not suffer other external injuries, and when he woke up, he lay on the ground and crawled out, for fear of alarming Mingkou who was on guard in the distance; It took a lot of effort to easily climb to the edge of the big array, but he was suddenly grabbed by a hand!

At that moment, the donkey felt that his soul was about to leave his body, and he almost screamed out - in retrospect, the donkey really didn't know if it was better for him to cry out and be caught by Mingkou at that time, or to hide in this small mountain village with trepidation now.

The person who dragged him was Jin Qingyong, the current leader of the small mountain village, when he was crushed under the horse and couldn't move, just when the donkey passed by, he naturally had to hold on to this life-saving straw.

After rescuing Jin Qingyong, the two escaped smoothly and hid in the grove of Songtang Ranch more than ten miles away; Because Jin Qingyong had to recuperate from his injuries, they hid there for more than 20 days, during which they gathered more than a dozen deserters.

Among them, Jin Qingyong was the centurion of the cavalry battalion, and his official rank was the highest; In addition, this person is from a mountain bandit, and he is the most brave and ruthless and has extraordinary martial arts, so he has become the leader of the deserters before he is injured.

When Jin Qingyong was injured and could walk, the group embarked on the road north to find the boat; By the time they had stolen and robbed all the way from Songdang Ranch to the edge of Jeju Castle, the deserters had grown to more than 30 people, all of whom had slipped through the net.

There was no way for the people to turn around and go east, and find a way along the coast; In the meantime, I found a few fishing boats, but they were either too small or too broken, and I didn't even want to cross the sea with them.

When they stole the last fishing boat, they were discovered, and the fishermen of the village came out and ran around them with kitchen knives and javelins.

This escape escaped to this lying mountain, and it is a coincidence that the second son of the Qin family in the lying mountain is the battalion soldier of Jeju City, and it happens that he is in the same army as one of the deserters, and he is very familiar with each other; With this relationship, and the second son of the Qin family was blown to pieces in the war, the Qin family hated Ming Kou so much, so they hid all these deserters at the risk of pouring the sky.

There is a foothold, but this peaceful day has not passed for a few days, a few days ago, the Qin family received a notice that all villages and towns will immediately start cleaning up the household registration, measuring the land, and registering people; It's troublesome in this way, but there are so many adults in this big fart place in the mountains, no matter how foolish you are, you will be exposed!

So in the past few days, Jin Qingyong has gathered everyone to discuss, and in order to prevent people from being snooped on, he also arranged for people to go outside the village to watch the wind, and the donkey happened to be on the wheel this morning; Seeing that the few Mingkou at the bottom of the mountain didn't find themselves, the donkey let out a sigh of relief and lowered his body.

Finally waited until Mingkou's figure disappeared from view, and the donkey was just about to sit up, when he heard someone behind him shouting softly, and turned his head to look, but it was another deserter who came to look out for him, saying that Jin Qingyong asked him to go over, and there was something important to discuss - because he saved Jin Qingyong's life, he was also a small leader in this gang.

turned around and entered the room before he sat down, but the important thing that Jin Qingyong said was so frightened that he sat on the ground! (To be continued.) )