Yang Jinxin lived in the room where Huo Donglai lived, and nothing had been moved in it, his hemp gray placket jacket, dark blue padded robe, cloth shoes placed under the bed, and medical books on the table were all neatly and orderly, as if he would push the door in the next moment.

"Winter Comes"

Yang Jinxin muttered softly, covered her face and squatted down, and from the moment she decided to come to Lijiawan, she began to keep telling herself that everything had passed, and she was going to break off everything before, and she also promised Mu Yang that she would wait for him to come back, and the little life that was very likely to exist.

However, as soon as she arrived here, she found that things were not as good as she imagined, and she was not as strong as she thought. Here, everywhere is full of memories about Donglai, everything here is reminding her that Donglai fell here, and then there was no more!

Silent tears flowed down her fingers, quickly warming her cold palms.

At this time, the crescent moon on the horizon was still setting, and it was opened by dawn to a corner of the canopy, dyed with a layer of fish belly white.

It's dawn!

Yang Jin walked out of the door with a heavy heart, in the faint morning light, there were stars jumping and twinkling in the sky, and the courtyard was very quiet. Her mind was chaotic and chaotic, and she walked around the yard without a clue, and was stunned for a long time before she remembered that she and her sister were hungry for a day yesterday and should have made some breakfast.

Entering the kitchen, not long ago, Da Niu was still boiling hot water for them here, Yang Jinxin was sitting on a small bench, and the stove in front of him was still faintly hot. She rubbed her cold hands, lit the stove, and began to boil the water first.

As soon as I scooped the water into the pot, I heard a knock on the door, and then I heard the simple voice of the big cow.

"Sister Jinxin, I'm a big cow."

Yang Jinxin was a little surprised that he came over so early, opened the door, and saw him carrying a bulging bag, and grinned when he saw her.

"I'll bring you food before I go down the tunnel."

"Thank you so much for bothering you so early!" Yang Jinxin let him into the courtyard, with a hint of confusion.

"It's not troublesome, but after listening to your words, after the autumn harvest, our village went out to collect a lot of grain and came back, and it was all hidden in the tunnel, which was enough for us to eat for a while."

Da Niu said as he sent the grain into the kitchen, and when he saw Yang Jinxin boiling water, he hurriedly began to help.

Yang Jinxin was a little surprised by his words, and asked in surprise, "Authentic?" Are you still digging tunnels? ”

"yes!" Da Niu glanced up at her, scratched his head, and said with a smile, "Brother Huo gave me the picture you drawn, and later, we have been digging tunnels according to your drawings, and now we have dug up the back mountain, and we can dig it through in a few days, you come back this time, you can just go and see, we hid the surplus grain of the whole village into the tunnel according to what you said, and no one can find it without the people in the village to guide the way." ”

Yang Jinxin unfolded a big smile in surprise, and nodded incessantly, "Okay, well done, Da Niu, I was about to tell you today that the Japanese have already hit Jiangnan, the people of Jinling City." They have almost withdrawn to the southwest, although this Lijiawan is far away from Jinling, but it is also unsafe, you tell everyone, after breakfast, come over, I have something to tell you. ”

"Okay, I'll go!"

Da Niu's expression tightened, and he hurriedly put down his things and walked out.

The sky is bright, the sun is rising, the mountain village is a white mist, the golden sunlight penetrates the layers of white mist, sprinkles the golden threads of the ground, warm and bustling.

This inconspicuous farmhouse courtyard was full of villagers, and Yang Jinxin, wearing a cotton jacket, stood in the middle of the courtyard and told everyone how to avoid the upcoming invasion and sweep.

"Last night, when we came from Jinling, we had already seen the Japanese killing, the people of Jinling had already withdrawn, and the winter was about to end, if the Japanese did not find anything useful in Jinling, it was very likely that they would go to the countryside to find food, so Lijiawan would also be very dangerous."

Yang Jinxin couldn't stop being frightened, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but tremble when he thought of the two people who were killed.

"Then when the Japanese will come, we don't know, how to prevent it?" Uncle Li, who is highly respected in the village, is the chief of the village, so he asked first.

"So, I will draw a picture of the Japanese for everyone to see, we have to organize ourselves, the young men are divided into three teams, and they rotate every day to guard posts, as soon as they see the traces of the Japanese soldiers, the people in the village will immediately go down to the tunnel, we will not clash with them head-on, as long as we can hide from them."

Although I don't know if this is useful, Yang Jin can't think of a better way than this, and then she pauses and says.

"And, as far as I know, the young marshal has been fighting on the front line, and we have to believe in our country and army and believe that they will definitely be able to drive the aggressor out!"

The people of Lijiawan are simple, and the villagers believe in Huo Donglai infinitely, although Yang Jinxin's words make them half-convinced, but the world is not good now, and everyone is still vigilant.

Yang Jinxin stayed in Lijiawan, and Yang Jinhuan was a little depressed after that night, but fortunately, when facing Yang Jinxin, there was no sneering attitude.

She still doesn't go out often, Yang Jinxin began to run non-stop in the tunnel, after a year of hard work, the tunnels of the Lijiawan families have been roughly opened, only the last section of the road to the back mountain is left, Yang Jinxin is very concerned, because this tunnel is related to the safe retreat of the villagers.

Yang Jinxin privately told Da Niu about the battle situation on the front line, and the most troublesome thing for them now is that they are in a completely closed world, and they don't know what is going on outside, so Da Niu volunteered to go to Jinling to find out the news.

What do you think, Da Niu went, he didn't come back for two days, Yang Jinxin was worried and guilty, he always felt that he let Da Niu go to risk, and the villagers also had a little panic, some villagers said that they wanted to look for Da Niu, and Yang Jinxin persuaded her, she couldn't let people take risks.

On the third day, Da Niu finally came back, and when he stood at the gate of the small courtyard with a white face and covered in blood, Yang Jinxin was really startled.

"What's going on with the bull?"

Yang Jinxin pinched the hem of his clothes and asked tremblingly.

"Big Bull" Yang Jinxin was frightened by his empty eyes, carefully pulled his sleeve, and shouted tentatively.

"Sister Jinxin"

The big bull screamed in a daze, and then crouched down, buried his head in his knees, and began to weep prostrately.

When the villagers learned that Da Niu was back and rushed to the small courtyard, Da Niu had been comforted by Yang Jinxin and sat in the courtyard, holding a teacup in his hand, talking about his experience in the past three days, his body was still shaking, and his frightened voice was intermittent.

"I've never seen that kind of scene, they kill people when they see them, I heard that around Jinling, many villages have been swept by devils, robbing food, killing people, and burning houses when they're done."

"They killed a lot of people, some of them took their bodies away, and some of them were thrown directly into the canal, and I lay under the corpses and pretended to be dead, and only ran out when it was dark."

Yang Jinxin closed her eyes, and the pictures she had seen in her previous life flashed in front of her eyes, her heart beat like a drum, patting Da Niu's shoulder, and the boundless fear made her find her voice for a long time.

"What about the defenders of Jinling? Young marshal, they were still in Songhu not long ago! How did you let the Japanese come in so quickly? ”

This is where she is confused.

Da Niu took a sip of water, and then said slowly: "I don't know the specifics, but I heard that the young marshal and they lost the battle, the gate was confiscated, and I heard that there are still some defenders in the city, but they are also hiding in Tibet, and they have confronted the devil head-on."

What the big cow came back to tell made the whole village fall into tension, especially the next day, when the "news tree" on the back mountain fell, the whole village was in a panic.

"Miss Yang, there is a group of soldiers over there, as you said, the soldiers holding the plaster flag, exactly like your portrait and coming to the village." A villager ran in a panic to inform Yang Jinxin.

"Don't panic, hurry up and inform everyone to go down the tunnel, retreat to the back mountain, be sure to take the child, hurry up!"

Yang Jinxin said, and also beckoned Yang Jinhuan to carry the packed luggage and go down the tunnel in the small courtyard.

There was a gong sound in the village, a moment later, the village was quiet, after the big cow came back, Yang Jinxin told everyone not to make a fire to cook during the day, the food and valuables of each family had already been moved into the tunnel, as soon as the gong of the early warning sounded, the whole village went down the tunnel, and the village was clean, as if no one was in the village.

The villagers converged in the passage of the back mountain, and everyone held their breath, listening to the faint movement in the village, listening to the people entering the village, the piercing gunshots, and after a while, the terrifying explosions rang out.

It took like half a century to finally calm down. Yang Jinxin was most worried about the explosion, she didn't know if the unprofessional tunnel of Lijiawan could withstand the bomb attack, if someone found the tunnel, the consequences made her dare not imagine.

After a while, Da Niu volunteered to be the first to return from the same way, ready to go out of the tunnel to see the situation outside, and after a while, he came back with a sad face, saw Yang Jinxin, smiled bitterly, and then stomped his feet angrily and said.

"The devil is gone, but the yard of Sister Jinxin and Uncle Li's house was burned."

With the tunnels of Lijiawan, Yang Jinxin and the villagers escaped the first sweep together, and although they lost their houses, everyone was not in danger.

Yang Jinxin and Yang Jinhuan were soaked in water for too long that day, and they were both sick for the past few days, especially Yang Jinxin, cough and fever plus vomiting from time to time, there was no doctor in the village, and they were invited from other villages on weekdays, so Huo Donglai was so popular.

Both of them can only rely on their own resistance to support, Yang Jinxin has been weak since he was a child, and his illness is much more serious than Yang Jinhuan, and Yang Jinhuan has been addicted to smoking several times, and he has been tortured to become more haggard, and he ran out several times while Yang Jinxin was not paying attention, but he was intercepted halfway. Yang Jinxin had no choice but to tie her up in the house and forcibly quit smoking.

Da Niu has completely acted as a foreign traffic officer, regardless of the danger again and again to inquire about the news, and finally a week later, brought good news, the Chinese army rose up to fight back, and recaptured Jinling City, but most of the entire Jiangnan area, still occupied by the Japanese, around Jinling, from time to time by the Japanese harassment.

Things have completely deviated from the gears of history and re-sailed in unknown directions.

In any case, Yang Jinxin always felt that Jinling was recaptured, which meant that Qin Muyang was very likely to have returned to Jinling, and she could go back and reunite with him.

On this day, the sun was just right, and after more than a week of recuperation, the sisters' cold was miraculously cured without medicine. Yang Jinhuan also has a rare good spirit, Yang Jinxin loosened the tie for her and took her out to bask in the sun.

"Sister, Da Niu said that Mu Yang is likely to have returned to Jinling, I have asked Da Niu to send a letter to Jinling yesterday, let's wait, Mu Yang will come to pick us up soon and go back to reunite."

Yang Jinxin also sat on the bench next to her, looking at the sky, and the dazzling sunlight made her squint slightly.

"This time, we won't be separated, you see, these days, you don't have a big smoke, and you have survived, you will definitely be able to quit completely."

Yang Jinxin touched his left ear, and there was no jade clip on the sideburns, replaced by a lustrous plum blossom hairpin, fresh and exquisite.

Yang Jinhuan didn't speak, she also half-tilted her head, looking at the sunny sky, there was a warm sun shining on her face, but she felt a cold air to the bone, from her dull scar, to the bottom of her heart.

Yang Jinxin didn't notice her increasingly pale face, and only talked to herself.

"I want to let the doctor see first, if it's really pregnant, Muyang must be very happy"