Early in the morning, Lao Zhangtou, as usual, walked along the path he had stepped on for many years to the fire tower at the top of the mountain.

Although the fire tower is not far from his house, it is still very difficult to walk, climbing higher step by step, not to mention that Lao Zhang is also in his fifties.

Lao Zhang did not rest, climbed directly to the top of the tower, he wanted to sit down and rest, took out a cigarette and looked around habitually, this look was not tight, he broke out in a cold sweat, and a puff of green smoke came out three or four miles downstream of his small river, which was repaid, there had never been a situation in the deserted deep mountains.

He didn't care about smoking, hurriedly got down the tower, crossed the forest and crossed the ditch, and led Xiao Hei to hurriedly run to the place where the smoke was rising.

He thought as he ran, there must be someone in the place where the smoke is rising, and now that relations with Russia are good, there will be no spies or traitors, there are only two possibilities, one is that people from our side came to the mountains to poach and got out of the grid. Another possibility is that the Russians came here to hunt, Lao Zhang knew that there was a Russian farm not far from the border, which used to be a military horse farm, they were only a few kilometers away from the border, and the straight-line distance to Lao Zhang's house was only ten kilometers, but Lao Zhang thought that it could not be Russians, and they could not spend the night outside.

On his one-acre and three-point land, there are still people who dare to light a fire, this matter is not trivial, Lao Zhang thought while running, pressed his shotgun on the bullet and put it on fire, squatted down and patted Xiao Hei's head, Xiao Hei understood, this is not to make a sound.

Approaching the place where the smoke was rising, Lao Zhang quietly touched the river, many years of life in the mountains, coupled with the hunting skills he had practiced, there was almost no sound, he picked up the dense grass, and saw a woman lying next to the fire on the other side of the river, that person was motionless, Lao Zhang did not know whether she was dead or alive, he looked around again and saw no one else.

Lao Zhang threw a small stone over, but there was no response, he tentatively shouted, "What person?" "Still no response.

He shouted a few more times, but there was still no movement on the other side.

He waded across the creek and approached to see that it was a pregnant woman, and the person was still alive.

Lao Zhangtou hurriedly helped her sit up and shouted a few times in a row: "Big sister, big sister, wake up." ”

After calling for a long time, the pregnant woman opened her eyes and looked at Lao Zhang, and fainted again, Lao Zhang poured some water on her, she opened her eyes again, looked at Lao Zhang and asked vigilantly: "Where am I?" ”

Lao Zhang told her that this was Baishi Lizi, which was under the jurisdiction of the Red Pine Forest Farm.

She saw that Lao Zhangtou had a charitable face, no evil intentions, and spoke Chinese, she knew that she had returned to China, and she realized that she had been saved.

"Big sister, why are you here alone? Anyone else? How did you get here? Lao Zhang asked anxiously.

The woman shook her head, tears couldn't help but flow, she looked at Lao Zhang and said silently, "I'm going to Ma'an Mountain." "'Ma Dang Mountain' means to get lost in the mountains.

Seeing her hungry and thirsty, Lao Zhang took out the dry food that his wife brought him when he went out in the morning and said, "Big sister, you are hungry, eat something first." ”

Lao Zhang knew that he had walked to a deserted place within a radius of more than 100 miles, and he didn't know how many days he had been wandering around in the mountains, so he must be hungry and thirsty at this time.

The pregnant woman saw the steaming green onion cake, like seeing the hope of life, she had not eaten a little food for several days, she devoured Lao Zhang's lunch.

When he saw that she was about to eat the third cake, he was stopped by Lao Zhang, who handed her warm boiling water and said; "Drink some water, I can't eat any more."

Experience tells Lao Zhang that people who have been hungry for a long time cannot eat at one time, and if they eat too much, they will break their stomach and intestines.

The pregnant woman drank the water that Lao Zhang handed her, as if she had a little spirit, and Lao Zhang was also happy.

At this time, I saw the pregnant woman looking straight at Lao Zhang, which scared Lao Zhang, what's wrong? All of a sudden, the man looked like a clay sculpture.

Seeing her straight again, tears flowed down again, Lao Zhang was at a loss, and he didn't know how to comfort her.

Lao Zhang felt very strange, how could a woman, or a woman with a big belly, appear in this uninhabited deep mountain, and years of border activities told him that he had to find out her origin first.

The pregnant woman seemed to see Lao Zhang's doubts, and said while crying: "Uncle, thank you for saving me, I'm not a bad person." As she spoke, she pulled out an ID card from her coat pocket.

Lao Zhang took it and looked at it, and it said 'Yao Lina of the Ten Groups of Xiangyang Village, Taiping Town'.

Lao Zhangtou frowned and said, "Girl, are you from Taiping Town?!" It's a long way from here, 300 miles to say the least, how did you get here? Lao Zhang thought she came out of home.

"I didn't come out of my house, I escaped from the train in Qingjiang City, got off the train in the Liushu Industrial Area and walked away."

It turned out that the pregnant woman was going to be forcibly aborted by Cortana.

Cortana sobbed and told about the suffering of the past few days, and Lao Zhang also listened to her cry with tears in his eyes.

"Girl, where are you going? I'll send you out of the mountains and send you home. Lao Zhang was very sympathetic to Cortana in front of him.

Xiao Na looked at Lao Zhang in horror and said, "I won't go home, I won't go home, if you send me home, I will definitely not live." She wept bitterly as she spoke.

Lao Zhang saw her crying so sadly, and he was also very distressed, comforting him and saying: "Okay, don't go home, let's go to my house first, my house is not far from here, just our old couple, there is no one else, you stay first." Cortana nodded.

So, Lao Zhang led Cortana upstream along the river.

More than half an hour, they arrived at Lao Zhang's house, although it is a thatched house, the yard is very large, and it is paved with cement floor, and the courtyard wall is also unique to the mountain, all of which are thick with arms, more than two meters high oak poles, and then clamped with iron wire, and there are rain rides on the two doors, which can be seen from the door is a typical Shandong style.

When I entered the yard, my wife was drying mushrooms there, and when I saw Lao Zhang coming in and working, I asked, "Why didn't you go up the mountain?" Seeing Xiao Na behind Lao Zhang, he was even more surprised, "Who is she?" Lao Zhang tugged at his wife and said, "Come on, come into the house and say." ”

The three of them entered the house together.

The house is very clean, the inside and outside of the house are all cement floors, which were paved by the army back then, and the yard is also the same. Although the three thatched houses are a bit short, they are very spacious, the old couple in the east room now live, the middle is the kitchen, and there is also a fire kang in the west room, which usually does not burn the fire, and stores some sundries on the ground.

The three of them sat down, and Lao Zhang briefly talked about the discovery of Cortana. When she said it, Cortana couldn't help crying, and her wife wiped her tears with her sleeve while listening, and looked at Cortana with a heartache and asked, "How many months?" ”

"It's been almost six months." Xiao Na replied with tears in her eyes, and looked at Lao Zhang's wife, "Auntie, you can leave me, if I go out to the mountains, I won't be able to live, they will kill my child." Cortana cried bitterly as she spoke, crying almost faint.

Lao Zhang's wife immediately hugged Xiao Na and said, "If we don't leave, the child, you will live here with the eldest mother, and the eldest mother will take care of you." ”

Lao Zhangtou also echoed and said: "Girl, you can stay, no one takes care of it here, I have everything to eat, you can live with confidence." ”

Xiao Na suddenly knelt on the ground and cried excitedly: "Thank you uncle and aunt for saving your life, from now on the second elder will be my own father and mother, please accept me as a girl." ”

Lao Zhang's wife helped Xiao Na up with tears of joy and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take you as a girl." ”

Cortana was full of tears, and immediately called out to the two of them: "Dad, mother." ”

Lao Zhang and his wife were overjoyed and replied at the same time: "Hey." ”