In the telescope, a little girl of seven or eight years old is hunched over and picking something in the grass, and the leaves of cat's claw and wild spinach can be vaguely seen in the earthen basket she is carrying. The busy little girl's hair was very neat, a faded red head rope held a single braid behind her head, her pale and bloodless face, her eyes were big and black, and her ragged clothes were washed to reveal white, faintly embellished with blue flowers.

How could there be anyone here!? Or a child?

After seeing the figure in front of him, Dong Ku was shocked.

The Japanese army is about to search the mountains on a large scale, and the mountain people here will not be spared. I'm afraid that the angry Japanese army will no longer remember the advice of killing a poor man ten times as much, and they will definitely release their anger when they see a human figure.

Squatting there, his face was solemn, he groaned slightly, and handed the telescope to Junko next to him.

Shunzi took it and took a look, and understood why Dong Ku didn't leave, so he whispered: "Captain, it is impossible to live in the mountains by yourself at such a young age, and there are still hunters here. ”

"Orion?"

Without waiting for Dong Ku to speak, Shui Linglong took the telescope in Junzi's hand and looked ahead.

When she saw the busy figure in front of her, she paused, and then said: "Brother Dong, we can't ignore that child, the devil is here, don't you ......."

Dong Ku interrupted her words with a wave of his hand, took the binoculars and said, "You go and have a look, you have to find her family." ”

"Okay."

Shui Linglong put the gun on her back, agreed, and quickly touched the little girl.

A distance of a few hundred meters, Shui Linglong soon reached the vicinity of the little girl. She didn't appear directly in front of the little girl, but first washed off the oil paint on her face, and then shouted softly: "Little sister, what are you picking?" ”

"Who'!??"

The little girl was startled, and hurriedly turned her head to look behind her, and when she saw Qing Shui Linglong dressed in strange clothes and wearing a round hat, she screamed in horror, turned around and ran.

Shui Linglong was stunned for a moment, stepped forward a few steps to pick up the earthen basket that fell on the ground, and caught up with the little girl in three steps and two steps, and shouted in her mouth: "Little sister, sister is not a bad person......

"Don't come here!!"

The little girl screamed in horror and stepped back.

"Little sister, don't be afraid, my sister is really not a bad person." Shui Linglong said, taking off the helmet and shaking her head, letting the long braid flick to her chest.

"You're really not a bad person?"

When the little girl saw Qing Shui Linglong's beautiful face, she stopped her backward steps suspiciously.

"Yes, my sister is not a bad person, she specializes in beating bad people." A warm smile bloomed on Shui Linglong's face, and she handed the earthen basket to her little sister and said.

"Really!"

The little girl innocently looked at the gun on Shui Linglong's back, and a smile appeared on her pale face.

"Really, my sister doesn't lie to you."

As she spoke, Shui Linglong put down her backpack and gun, found a piece of red head rope in her bag, raised her hand and smiled: "Little sister, what do you think this is?" ”

"Red Head Rope!"

The little girl's eyes lit up and she blurted out.

"Come, sister tie it up for you."

"My mother said that you can't ask for other people's things."

The little girl put down the earthen basket as she spoke, and slowly walked towards Shui Linglong.

"Well, your mother is right, you can't ask for something that gives birth to people, but I'm not your sister, come, I'll tie it up for you."

Dong Ku in the distance saw the red head rope in Shui Linglong's hand, and couldn't help but sweat secretly. How do you look like a big bad wolf cheating on Little Red Riding Hood? However, he is still very complacent, so that Shui Linglong is far better than his own old men in the past, and he is also careful, and he also knows what the little girl likes, and it is easier to dispel the little girl's doubts when contacted.

"What's your name?" Shui Linglong asked while combing the little girl's hair.

"My name is Xiaohua." The little girl replied without scheming.

"You just came out to pick vegetables by yourself?"

"My mother, my uncle, my brother, and my grandfather are fishing in the river."

"Where do you live, there are wolves in this mountain."

"I live in the col over there, where the river has a crutch and there are many fish......

"Take my sister to see it......"

When Dong Ku and the others appeared in front of the ragged people, it took the shortest time to dispel their fearful defenses, and learned that there were one hundred and forty-three of them, forty of them were young and strong, and the rest were children and old people. They are not the inhabitants of this mountain, they are the residents of Baoqing who hid in the mountains after the accident of the Baoqing Japanese Pioneer Group a few months ago.

Looking at the faces with pale faces that had obviously not eaten salty salt for several months, Dong Ku felt a pain in his heart. The innocent eyes of those children of a few years and teenagers made him deeply remorseful.

If they hadn't slaughtered the pioneer group by themselves, they might not have been so miserable, they didn't dare to go out of the mountains for several months, they couldn't even eat salt, and they ate wild vegetables and fish every day, just to survive.

Dong Ku gave them all the pickles and soy sauce of the Japanese army in their bags, and watched the children and adults holding the pickles like babies and gently adding them, but they were reluctant to eat them.

Shui Linglong was even holding the little flower, tears flowing.

"Shunzi, you lead the sniper team back to the No. 3 supply point, bring all the Japanese biscuits and pickles there, Yu Lei follows, the radio is on, pay attention to safety on the road."

"Yes!"

Junko rubbed the corner of her eye with the back of her hand, shouted the order, and quickly disappeared into the sunset with the sniper team.

After Shunzi left, Dong Ku asked the remaining team members to take out the five-day amount of compressed biscuits, handed them to Lao Gengtou, and told him how to eat, not to chew dry, to soak them in water.

The old man shook his hand and parted the biscuit and handed it to a pair of weak hands. Although everyone had never seen what it was, they did not eat it immediately.

After the old Geng Tou finished dividing the compressed biscuits, Dong Ku asked the old Geng Tou, who was in his sixties, "Uncle, is there a place to hide near here?" ”

"There is a cave in the back, which is covered under the Lala seedlings, and we stayed there for more than a month when we came in the spring, and only moved here to a field close to the water when it was not cold."

Following the direction pointed by the old Geng, Dong Ku saw a flat hillside with sparse trees and shrubs. It's green, and from a distance it looks like farmland.

"Uncle, you have to move in tonight, clean up the traces on the road, the Japanese devils will search the mountains tomorrow morning, I will prepare half a month's worth of food for you in a while, save some food, and stay up until the devils leave."

"The devil is coming!??"

"Run, then!"

A pair of frightened eyes stared at Dong Ku, apparently they saw the corpse hanging on the bank of the Baoqing River.

"Well, it's after us."

Looking at the panicked people, Dong Ku said loudly: "Don't worry, I won't let the devil hurt you, as long as the cave is hidden enough, if you don't come out, I promise that the devil won't search this area." ”

Old Geng didn't know what kind of troops Dong Ku was, but his age could still see that Dong Ku had no intention of harming them, and he was still thinking about them everywhere.

Seeing that Dong Ku was relieved to everyone, Lao Gengtou stood up and said: "Since this chief said, then let's start to dismantle the shack now, and bring everything we can into the cave, and when the chief beats the little devil away, let's come out again." ”

"Uncle Geng, let's run......" a young man said with a sigh.

"Run? Where to run? The old Geng head glared and said, "It's been a month, who can still run if you don't eat salt?" ”

"Yes, what your Uncle Geng said is right, it's good to be able to walk now, it's still weak, let's hide." A middle-aged man in his fifties glanced at Dong Ku and echoed.

Dong Ku glanced at the hesitant people and said loudly: "Don't worry, I won't let the Japanese army find you, but you don't leave the cave easily, expose your hiding, bring more water before entering the cave, you have to prepare for more than ten days, I see that there is a pot, and this pot must be filled with water." ”

As soon as Dong Ku finished speaking, Lao Gengtou said loudly: "Since the chief said to protect us, everyone will be in the sand ridge, the children will go into the cave first, and the adults will prepare the things to enter the cave." ”

Old Gengtou obviously had a certain prestige, and it was estimated that many years of experience in hunting and drilling the old woods could keep these people alive, so his words quieted the commotion of the crowd, and began to be busy dismantling the sheds, fetching water, and cleaning up dried vegetables and fish.

"Uncle Geng, let's go and see the cave first." Dong Ku is still not at ease, there are more than 100 people, including more than 30 children.

"Good sir." Lao Geng responded quickly, took a group of children, and took the lead in walking among the thick dead leaves and weeds, and walked towards the hillside.

Along the way, the shrubs are dense, and the fallen leaves on the ground are half a foot deep, and it is very soft to walk on.

When Dong Ku saw Lao Geng pulling open the Lala seedlings on the bushes, revealing a hole three or four meters in size below, he also praised this good place.

If you hadn't searched closely, you wouldn't have found it at all. It is not easy to spot unless you get close, or fall down, or see the hole.

He nodded in satisfaction as he stepped into the hole, which was tilted a little more and the rain could not penetrate it.

The entrance of the cave is covered by Lala seedlings, and the safety problem is not big, and the cave is spacious enough to accommodate three hundred people. In addition, the hole is large enough, and the air circulation inside is not a problem, and it is also very dry.

"Uncle Geng, you must not make a fire in the cave, eat the food I prepared for you these days, try to go out at night when you urinate and urinate, and don't show your head during the day."

"Okay. Sir, we can do that. Before the little devil searched the mountain, it was more than ten meters away from the place where we were hiding, and I stayed for two days, and we were not found. ”

The old Geng's old face showed confidence, and he was obviously clear about the hidden traces.

"Good. Uncle Geng, believe me, I can keep you safe, and I will return to Baoqing in the near future. ”

Dong Ku looked at the cave again, took a deep breath and said.

After speaking, he asked Uncle Geng to arrange for people to enter the cave, he left the cave, and left here with the team members who helped with the work, checking the terrain everywhere, and preparing to search the mountain tomorrow.

He will not watch these civilians being slaughtered by the Japanese army, he has changed his previous hiding plan, and wants to teach the Japanese army a lesson, so as to save these ordinary people who have escaped with great difficulty and are hiding until now. At the same time, it also gives them hope for life......