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Sangou is an anti-Japanese model village of more than 300 households, the whole village is located in a dark and dense sea of trees, in this windy night, only to hear the flickering, the wind is particularly loud. Mrs. Qi's family lives in the north of the village, and the two tall old willow trees at the gate of the courtyard also take advantage of the wind to sway the dense branches and leaves. The light from the windows of the north room appeared and disappeared in the middle of the swaying foliage, and the sound of the wind fluttered from the window from the low melodious and graceful girl's song:

"The Chinese and Japanese sisters wore military uniforms and carried guns together. The women of China and Japan are going to war! Hey...... In order to fight the enemy......"

The one who sang was Aunt Qi's twelve-year-old daughter Xueqin. While singing, she combed her hair in the mirror, looked in the mirror for a while, and looked at Zheng Xiaomei, the deputy captain of the women's team of the county martial arts team, who was sitting opposite. She combed the thick black neck-length short into two small braids, with eyebrow bangs on her forehead, an innocent and pure melon seed face, and clear eyes like a pool of transparent spring water. After combing her hair, she immediately took out a small notebook and pen, lay on the kang table and hurriedly copied the lyrics, copying and singing at the same time.

Zheng Xiaomei packed up the papers, and also leaned over to sit next to Xueqin, singing with her, only to see Xiaomei's big flexible eyes looking into the air brightly. The white round face and cheeks were crimson, and the voice was trembling with emotion. Xueqin slapped her hand and said, "Let's sing it again." As he spoke, he leaned his head on Xiufen's chest, and the two sang quietly again. The singing became lighthearted and cheerful.

The two were singing, and Aunt Qi spoke outside: "Sing all day long, sing, when is this still singing, you girls just don't know how to worry." ”

Aunt Qi walked into the house as she spoke. She was in her forties, of medium height, slightly oval, with wrinkles on her forehead and at the corners of her eyes, but her movements were still quite neat, and her body was still very strong. As she spoke, she swept the soil off her body with a small broom, and glared at her daughter Xiaoqin with disgust and love.

Xiao Qin Chongniang stuck out her tongue and said coquettishly: "If you want to sing, if you can't die, you can sing!" ”

Zheng Xiaomei smiled and patted Xueqin's back and said, "Ghost girl, don't tell your mother to worry!" ”

Aunt Qi pointed at Xiao Xiaoqin's nose with a small broom and said: "Look at you, the thrush has fallen out, everything is hidden, why don't you go and take a look, it's time for the day, the black light is blind outside, why don't you come yet." ”

As he was talking, he could hear Dongdong's urgent footsteps in the courtyard and the sound of whistling. Aunt Qi smiled: "Look, the village party secretary meeting is coming!" ”

"Auntie, is Comrade Zhongkou here?" Before the person arrived, the voice arrived first, only to see a young man in his twenties who opened the curtain and walked in, with a thin face, big eyes, wearing a neat purple color jacket, a belt around his waist, a handgun with a red silk "folding handle" on his left, a gray cloth backpack on his right, and a washed old military hat of the Eighth Route Army on his head.

"Comrade Secretary, come in, Comrade Zhongkou will definitely come here first when he comes." The eldest lady hurriedly answered, saw that the prime minister would enter the house, and then said, "Comrade old minister, sit down!" Then he pointed to the prime minister and said: "Look at you like this, the enemy situation is so tight, you are still dressed like this, you want to be the eighth road all day long, don't you?" ”

Xiao Xiaoqin smiled: "People are fans of the Eight Roads!" If you can't lose your head, you have to dress up like this, and you're always ready to go away! Xiao Xiaoqin said and went to look through the backpack of the conference, took out a book, and then found a pen, a towel, and a pair of cloth socks. Xiao Qin smiled and leaned back together, covering his nose with one hand and shaking it off with the other. The prime minister hurriedly snatched it and stuffed it into his backpack, and several people couldn't help laughing.

While he was laughing, there was a brisk sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the curtain was lifted, and the sister-in-law entered the house. Xiaoxiao Qin sighed, threw herself into the arms of sister-in-law Nakaguchi, hugged her neck, and made love with her face to face. Zheng Xiaomei hurriedly took the pistol of Sister-in-law Zhongkou and withdrew the bullet, and asked Sister-in-law Zhongkou: "Didn't any of the other comrades in our team come?" ”

Sister-in-law Zhongkou sighed and said, "Probably they are still moving the crowd in Zhengyuan, maybe they will come in a while." ”

Aunt Qi then walked into the house and pointed to Xiao Xiaoqin and said, "Don't pester your sister-in-law." ”

Xiao Xiaoqin stuck out her tongue again, knelt on the kang and fiddled with her sister-in-law's pistol.

"Comrade Little Sister!" Zhongkou's sister-in-law asked Zheng Xiaomei, "Haven't you eaten yet?" ”

The little sister didn't say anything, and only after a while did she say, "I'm not hungry!" ”

The eldest lady and Xiaoxiao Qin said in surprise: "Alas! Xiaomei is still talking nonsense, I asked her, and she kept saying that she ate in Zhengyuan. ”

Sister-in-law Zhongkou looked at Zheng Xiaomei and said reproachfully: "Where, she is angry with me and has not eaten since noon." ”

Zheng Xiaomei continued: "Whoever is angry with you, I am angry with myself." Who made me always unable to change this shortcoming, and made you anxious. "When I say it, I want to cry when I am sad.

Xiao Xiaoqin hurriedly pulled her sister-in-law and asked, "Why?" Sister-in-law, why do you make Sister Zheng angry? ”

Sister-in-law Nakaguchi smiled and said, "I criticized her at the Zheng Yuan cadre meeting, maybe my words were too heavy. But she was angry at every turn, and she trained the directors of the women's associations and the leaders of the literacy classes in several villages to dare not see her, how to do it without criticism! ”

Zheng Xiaomei turned around and hurriedly defended: "I didn't train them for work!" ”

Sister-in-law Nakaguchi said sternly: "Don't do this for the sake of work." Alas! When will you not be afraid of you? ”

Both men were silent. Zheng Xiaomei lay on the kang table and buried her head in her arms.

Xiao Xiaoqin pursed her lips and smiled and quietly went over to pick up Zheng Xiaomei, and scratched her armpits, Zheng Xiaomei jumped up with an itch, everyone laughed, and Zheng Xiaomei also laughed.

Xiao Xiaoqin pretended to be Song Jiliu, stroked his non-existent beard, straightened his stomach and pointed at Zheng Xiaomei in a dull voice and said, "You stupid girl, you just have a bit of a bull's temper, uh-huh!" ”

This amused Zheng Xiaomei and sister-in-law Zhongkou, and they grinned happily at the same time. At this time, the eldest lady went to the outhouse early and rolled a sweet potato pancake bag and fried eggs and brought it in, and handed it to Zheng Xiaomei with a smile. The little sister refused to eat, and the sister-in-law glanced at her and said, "Look at your awkwardness, it will make the eldest lady angry for a while." ”

Zheng Xiaomei pursed her lips and hurriedly picked it up helplessly and ate it. Xiaoxiao Qin said to his sister-in-law in a serious manner: "Sister-in-law, I'm ready, our work is probably not good enough, criticize." ”

Sister-in-law Nakaguchi smiled and said: "It seems that I am a critic of people, but in fact, if there are shortcomings in the work, I am not responsible for it first?" Then he turned to the prime minister and said, "How is the assigned work done?"

The prime minister said: "The black houses where the wounded are hidden, the black houses that use food in the village have been replaced, and six new fake graves have been built in the woods of the cemetery outside the village. ”

Sister-in-law Zhongkou asked, "Didn't the Binhai Naval District Hospital distribute four wounded people to your village?" ”

The prime minister said: "The district chief informed my village to carry four wounded people, but later the four wounded who were assigned to Sigou were always not carried, and the rear hospital was in a hurry to come out, so I asked everyone to carry them." ”

Zhongkou's sister-in-law called Zheng Xiaomei and Xiaoxiao Qin to hide the documents left by the district committee and the grain in the rice jar. On the other hand, he said: "I estimate that the enemy may come here in the morning, and we will move to the river pile in a while, so as not to surround the village with devils."

Xiao Xiaoqin was anxious and urged: "Okay! Let's go. Otherwise, I'm afraid of something!"

Aunt Qi said: "Don't be so anxious, it's cold in the ground, and it's not too late to go back in the middle of the night." I'll go out and listen to the movement, and Xiaoxiao Qin will quickly find out the clothes and other things, and help your sister-in-law and Sister Zheng to put on makeup. ”

Sister-in-law Zhongkou and Zheng Xiaomei agreed, and the eldest mother put on a padded jacket and walked out. The elementary school Qin rushed into a storm and found out his clothes, braids, and combs, jumped on the kang to ask Zhongkou sister-in-law and Zheng Xiaomei to change clothes, and combed Zhongkou's sister-in-law with the shape of a Chinese rural woman's head. After a while, the two of them combed a bun on the head of the sister-in-law, leaving a thick black cloak on the forehead, and the sister-in-law looked at the mirror and asked, "Do you two look at me like an old aunt?" ”

Zheng Xiaomei shook her head and said, "You are so beautiful, no matter how you pretend to be, you can't look like it, unless you wipe it with a pot ash face." ”

Xiao Xiaoqin also smiled: "Really, she looks like a little daughter-in-law of Ganyu from a distance, but she is still a female martial arts team member up close." ”

The three of them were talking while dressing up, when they suddenly heard someone shouting on the street, and they all jumped off the kang smartly. There was an urgent sound of footsteps in the alley, and then Guanglang pushed open the gate with a bang, ran in a person, and shouted in the courtyard: "Comrade Zhongkou, I heard that the enemy has arrived in Luwang Village, go out quickly!" After saying that, he ran away.

Sister-in-law Zhongkou heard that this was the rough voice of the village soldier Sun Dazi, and hurriedly agreed to run out of the house with Zheng Xiaomei and Xiaoxiao Qin. The eldest lady also came back, tired and panting, and said, "Run!"

At this time, the whole village was in chaos, and Dongdong's footsteps, shouts, and children's cries rang out in one place. The three female comrades ran to the head of the village with the eldest lady, and saw the crowd running chaotically in the dark, some of them kept running west, some went to Nandahedui, and some of them stepped into the wheat field.

The dark shadow of the crowd gradually thinned out, and Zhongkou Sister-in-law, Zheng Xiaomei, Qi Xueqin and Aunt Qi walked to a wide depression for dozens of miles, and found a low-lying and dense wheat field center to sit down. It became quieter and quieter for a while, except for the sound of the wheat swaying and brushing together in the wind.

They spread cotton robes in the wheat and lay down one by one. Xiao Xiaoqin lay on his back, looking at the dense wheat that was more than two feet tall. A crescent moon sank three times, and a faint glimmer still illuminated the ears of wheat, and the sky and stars were far and high. She put her hands under her head, stared at the sky and blinked silently. Suddenly, she laughed, and immediately turned over and got up, and saw that Zhongkou's sister-in-law and Zheng Xiaomei were also lying down, holding their cheeks with their hands, thinking about something on their minds.

In the dead of night, only the whirring wind was heard. Suddenly, a rooster crowed, breaking the silence, and then the loud old roosters and the small roosters with shrill voices in the distance and near all crowed.