Sleeping until midnight that night, Helan vaguely heard a sound similar to the sound of guns or fireworks in her previous life, and when she was half asleep, she thought she was dreaming again.

At this time, Grandpa Wu rushed out of the house with his clothes on and shouted: "Old family! Helan! Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

The anxious state is no less than the fire at home, much louder than Wu Qingzhu's voice last time.

This voice was the loudest Grandpa Wu ever heard in Helan's history, and Helan was so frightened that she woke up.

Now in May, the weather is not very cold, and the clothes are thinner, Helan got up and put on his coat and quickly ran out of the house.

At this moment, he saw a black shadow rushing out, just passing by, Helan was startled, and thought that he had been robbed, and then looked closely at the figure that opened the door and found that it was Wu Qingquan.

At this time, Wu's mother and Qingmei also walked out in a daze: "Dad, what's wrong?" ”

Too lazy to explain, Grandpa Wu said in a panicked tone: "Hurry up and pack your things, let's go to the mountain." ”

Then he hurriedly walked around with his crutches, which he didn't usually use, and then thought about what he was going to do next.

Mother Wu was even more confused, she didn't know anything, and suddenly saw her father like this, didn't she have any dreams? So he said unhurriedly: "Why are you still going up the mountain?" What's going on? ”

"It's going to be a war, don't we hide and wait for the army to crush us, and then we will run away again!"

"What?"

"What the hell are you talking about! Hurry up! ”

"Then, what should we do with our food? It's not confiscated yet! ”

"Oops! It doesn't matter what kind of food, life is important or food is important! Grandpa Wu's angry crutches were pestle by pestle on the ground to express his anxious state of mind at the moment.

Mother Wu saw that Grandpa Wu had to walk out on crutches as if he remembered something, so she called Helan next to her: "Girl Lan, first help your grandfather to gather at the end of the village, and now that the village chief is not there, he has to go to the old man to preside over the overall situation, and the road is not good this day, you can take a look." ”

"Alas, I know Mother, let's go to the front and wait for you."

After Helan and Grandpa Wu arrived at the square of the ancestral hall, they saw that there were already many people standing together, discussing what was going on.

More and more people gathered, and after waiting for a while, they saw Wu Qingquan and Tie Niu running from behind with gongs and drums.

Li Zheng came over and asked, "Have you called it all?" Door-to-door coming? ”

"They all shouted, I shouted gongs and drums from house to house, and Tie Niu and another boy also went to the bridge in the next two villages and shouted a few times, and only came back when they saw that someone answered."

Li Zheng was also relieved when he heard the answer, and turned around and stood at the front: "Don't talk too much, just follow along, and I'll tell you what's going on when you get to the mountain." ”

Li Zheng opened his mouth, and there was no reason to refuse, everyone was afraid that Uncle Li Zheng would lose his temper again, so he took his luggage and followed the army to the mountain without opening his mouth.

This time is different from the last time is that I can't take anything more, I only pick up important things and hang them on my body and run out, and I can't take things when I organize more, and they also have an old man with inconvenient legs and feet, and it is cumbersome to bring more things.

The old and weak women and children in the village supported each other and walked up the mountain, Wu Qingquan came over and first took the things in his mother's hands, and then asked his sister to help his grandfather up the mountain, and most of the things were taken by Wu Qingzhu and carried on his back, and the big burden made his body thinner and thinner.

Helan stretched out her hand to take a package: "It's too heavy, there's still a long way to go." ”

"No, I can do it, manly man, this is how much weight it is." Wu Qingquan didn't even look at the hand handed over by Helan and continued to walk up the mountain.

After Wu's mother dragged Helan for a while, she continued to walk up the mountain: "Our boys in the countryside can't be pampered, how can we support our families in the future if we can't bear this hardship?" ”

"Brother Quan is not a scholar, and he doesn't work much on weekdays, so if he can't say that his shoulders will be tired and he can't straighten up later."

"You underestimate Brother Quan, every year when the farm is busy, he does no less work than his brother." Wu's mother was quite proud when she said this, his two sons were very filial, and they were also rushing to do the key work.

Hearing what Wu's mother said, Helan didn't insist, and followed the troops to the mountain with the things in her hand.

Halfway through, he saw a lot of people coming from the other two roads, and Li Zheng asked everyone to stop, first walked over to greet these people, and then organized everyone to continue walking up the mountain.

The people who walked this way were out of breath, and when it was almost dawn, Village Chief Wu let everyone sit down and rest.

Grandpa Wu's family sat together and nibbled on dry biscuits, drinking cold and white, just wanting to quickly eat and sit down to rest.

In the end, Wu's mother still couldn't hold back, swallowed the dry food in her mouth, and opened her mouth: "Dad, what's going on?" ”

Helan also turned his head to look at Grandpa Wu, and everyone had a hunch that Grandpa Wu was hiding something, which should be something important.

Grandpa Wu lowered his head, and now his mind was mixed and he didn't know what he was thinking, including what Wu Qingzhu said before, what Village Chief Wu said when he left, and the pictures of various scenes he fantasized.

"Grandpa......" Wu Qingquan also wanted to know what was going on, and shouted when he saw that his grandfather was silent.

"Now is not the place to talk, I'll tell you when I get to the mountains." The reason why Grandpa Wu doesn't talk about it now is because he is afraid that the news will be leaked, and there will be a woman who is disobedient and does not want to die, and then runs to the county seat to find death.

"Alas, what a troubled year this year! I don't know when the day will settle down. Grandpa Wu looked at the sky wistfully and sighed.

"Grandpa, it's all going to be over, don't worry, Dad and Brother Qingzhu will definitely come back safely."

Helan thought about it and comforted Grandpa Wu, and at the same time hoped that the family would listen and cheer up.

"Lan'er is right, let's not think about it too much, hurry up and pack up, it's time to leave later, see how this posture is going to take a half a day to get there." Grandpa Wu looked at the location where they were staying again, and then looked at the way up.

"Mother, do you know why the people from the next village also came to our place of refuge?"

Wu Qingquan looked at the number of people in the other two villages behind him, and couldn't help but want to ask how such an important matter could be known to these people.

"Alas, these days, it's not easy to survive, we are all left with the old and weak, women and children, and we have to fight with wild beasts to eat when we get to the mountains, and there are more people who can survive."

"Oh, I see Sister Cuihua, in the far middle on the left."

"I don't have time to say hello now, let's talk about it when we get to the mountains."

"Ugh."

Under Li Zheng's call, everyone could only stand up helplessly and continue to move inside.

Finally, at noon, they arrived at the place where they had last stayed.

Looking at this cave, everyone sighed with emotion, it has only been a long time, but they didn't expect to come back again.

"Last time, everyone in the family was there, but this time it's just us, alas, the world is impermanent."

"Big brother, don't be discouraged, they will definitely be able to come back safely."

Li Zheng walked to Grandpa Wu's side, and looked at the cave together, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, a person walked over next to him: "Uncle Li Zheng, we are also here, you can tell us what is going on, we are not at ease along the way." ”

Li Zheng first looked at the villagers of the three villages and sighed: "There is going to be a war in the city, three cannons have sounded, this battle is not small." ”

A group of people sat dejectedly, not knowing what to say.

Fighting means death, and no one dares to guarantee that their own family will survive, and besides, there are not too many people in their city, and they can only rely on the city walls to really resist.

Immediately, many women collapsed to the ground, crying their man's name, and some tried to rush down the hill to find someone.

"Kill someone! Which one is going down? I don't want to think about what your man went to the city for? Only by raising the children in the family and taking good care of the elderly can they be worthy of their instructions before leaving. ”

No matter how chaotic the mountain is at this time, there are also people in the city wall at this time, and Wu Qingzhu and Mr. Fan are waiting for the summons behind the city wall.

From time to time, you can hear the sound of knocking on the door outside, as well as the sound of fighting, all kinds of sounds mixed with the sound of the wind penetrating through the door, shaking the ground as if it were trembling.

"All the men obey the order, line up, a group of twenty people, line up, take turns to fight, replace the people in front, go forward, you only need to carry the weapons, stones and crossbow arrows you need to be used by the people in front of you, if in the end, there is no one on the city wall and you need to go up! If the city gate is broken, you won't survive, and you will all defend it for me! Those who can survive will be rewarded, and the general is watching from behind, just rush forward, if there are those who have made great contributions, they can also be added to the rank of knight! Ahead! ”

This soldier was obviously not proficient in mobilization operations before the battle, and what he said did not have much effect, as can be seen from the few soldiers with weak legs in the back.

A man who looked to be in his thirties sat on the ground, muttering words that he didn't want to die. There was also a standing straight, just trembling legs, and a wet lower body that leaked his condition at the moment.

The most serious ones were the two men who fainted, with thin bodies and white skin, who looked like people who had not suffered much.

The sergeant saw a few people and knew that it would not work, so he let his men pull a few people to the rear.

Seeing that the rest of the people didn't say anything, they relined the queue and stood at the back to supervise the work.

Wu Qingzhu took advantage of his busy time to look for his father's figure in the crowd, looked for several laps and didn't see any acquaintances, and looked at the figure running under the city wall opposite, thinking that it should be over there.