The road ahead will only be more dangerous, but it will not always be dangerous.

On the black market in Liuyang City, Xiao Xu bought penicillin and some gold creation medicine made in the local Tulangzhong, and the elder Wei took them to the east city gate.

At this time, the baby in the bamboo basket behind Xiao Xu woke up and let out a crisp cry, and the sellers on both sides of the alley panicked and fled out of the alley.

A group of security guards patrolling the city arrived with a whistle and blocked them in the alley.

Da Lao Wei didn't have a gun on him, so he held the awl in his hand, and Xiao Xu hurriedly took the baby out of the bamboo basket and began to coax him. Gong Qingzhi was also nervous.

Two members of the security corps pointed at them with spears.

"Squat, squat!"

Elder Wei took the lead in squatting down, and the red-eyed captain shone a flashlight at them, "What are you guys doing here?" Take out all the things you have hidden on your body! ”

The security captain hit the light of the flashlight on the bamboo basket behind the elder Wei, and ordered one of his men to grab the bamboo basket.

"Stop! Let me come first! A terrible voice came from behind the elder Wei and them.

The light in the hand of the security captain immediately shone towards the comer.

The elder Wei also secretly looked at the visitor behind him, and saw that the person who came was wearing a black cotton jacket, a black cotton hat, and his face was hidden behind black sunglasses and a black cloth mask, but this person was not low in height and very stocky.

"Take off your sunglasses and mask, and squat on the ground and don't move!" The captain of the security guard has always been scolded.

The man raised his thick arms in obedience, slowly took off his mask, revealing a large collapsed nose, and slowly took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of black holes.

The security captain asked, "What are you doing with a blind man?" ”

But the man said, "Sir, I am not blind, my eyes are here!" He slowly extended his hands to the security captain.

Seeing a pair of bloody eyeballs in the palm of the other party's palm, the security captain's face changed greatly.

"Whatever else the chief wants, we can give it to you!" The man threw away a pair of eyeballs in his hand, reached out and tore his face off, blood running down his neck.

The security captain's frightened face changed greatly, and he screamed: "There are ghosts!" "Turn around and run away.

His two men hurriedly aimed their guns at the man, but the other grabbed the barrel of the gun, pulled it forward, and approached the man, who spewed out a mouthful of dirty blood and splashed them on the face.

The two guys with guns were immediately stunned, and the remaining soldiers of the security regiment followed the captain and ran wildly.

Elder Wei picked up the flashlight on the ground and looked at the person's face, but the other party quickly put on a black cloth mask and sunglasses, and said, "You guys get out of here quickly!" I can only scare them off temporarily! ”

The man said, turned and headed back into the alley.

Elder Wei turned off the flashlight and said to the two companions: "Let's get out of the city quickly, we won't be able to get out if it's late!" ”

Gong Qingzhi and Xiao Xu were shocked, and followed behind the eldest elder Wei and quickly rushed towards the city gate.

At this time, the chickens outside the city crowed three times, the fifth watch had arrived, the city gate was opened, the people in the city poured out, and the vegetable farmers outside the city poured into the city.

A group of Kuomintang soldiers defending the city stared sleepily at the people entering and leaving the city.

The security of Liuyang City was not very strict, so the elder Wei and the others went out of the city smoothly, but they couldn't find a boat rent on the dock, so they had to go north along the river bank.

It was finally dawn, and the shoes and trouser legs of the group were already wet with dew from the dead grass on the shore.

Gong Qingzhi hugged the child and asked the elder Wei: "Comrade Wei, where are we going to go?" ”

Elder Wei stopped, looked up, and said: "The organization wants me to take you back to the Jiangxi base area, but I personally think that there is no point in returning to the base area at this time, I plan to find a safe place first, inquire about the traces of the large army, and then take you to find the main army!" ”

Xiao Xu said: "Comrade Elder Wei, do you want to disobey the orders of the organization? ”

Elder Wei said slowly: "I'm not disobeying the orders of the organization, but I want to move forward with the big army!" ”

He saw a river bay ahead, and a fisherman in a cloak was fishing by the river.

"There's someone up ahead, we can rest there and have breakfast!"

They continued to walk along the river, and sure enough, they saw this old man fishing in a bay, and Gong Qing was busy asking about it.

The old man said in a strong Hunan dialect that there was a village nearby, and they could go to the village to rest.

The elder Wei said: "No need, the old lady can catch fishing?" ”

The old man lifted the lid of the fish basket, and it was empty.

The elder Wei said: "Old lady, how about I try my luck?" ”

The other party responded, so he gave up the straw mat, and the elder Wei sat on the straw mat and picked up the fishing rod.

The two women put down the bamboo basket and squatted by the river to wash their faces.

The old man had white hair and wrinkled faces, and said slowly: "I'm old, I can't do any work, I can only come to the river to try my luck, if I can't catch a fish today, I will die in the river!" ”

Gong Qing washed his face, saw the old man's face, and hurriedly took out the rice cake from the bamboo basket and invited him to eat it.

Xiao Xu also asked the old man about the situation at home, and the old man chewed rice cakes and replied vaguely: "My daughter is married, my son is being strengthened, and there are only two old people left in the family, and they are about to starve to death!" ”

As soon as the elder Wei put away the fishing rod, he took out a fat grass carp and threw it into the fish basket.

The old man couldn't help but be surprised, and the eldest old Wei continued: "Old lady, how about I catch another fish for you?" ”

Xiao Xu handed him a piece of rice cake, and while Da Lao Wei chewed the rice cake, he hung a small piece of rice cake on the hook and started fishing again.

He quickly collected the rod again, this time a black fish, and threw it into the basket, still struggling.

"Old lady, how about taking us to your house?"

The old man nodded in response, trembling in front of the way.

Qiuwan is a small village of less than 100 people, and the houses in the village are all made of adobe stones and reeds, and they are in tatters.

The old lady and her wife lived in two dilapidated adobe houses.

The house was very damp, and as soon as the old Wei and the others came, they put the two babies on the old lady's bed and began to busy making a fire and cooking.

Soon a smoke rose into the sky, and the village's land security officer rushed over with a letter to the villagers and stood outside the broken door.

The eldest elder Wei hurriedly walked out of the house, and the land guard was a dark and fat old man, staring at him and asking, "What are you doing?" An old man with two women can't be human traffickers, right? ”

Xiao Xu was busy opening his mouth to defend himself, but the elder Wei said: "I, an elite who returned from studying in Germany, became a human trafficker when I came to you, it's so funny!" ”

The old lady slowly walked out of the house and said, "Even if you are a human trafficker, you don't break the law, and it's a blessing to have something to eat and not be starved to death these days!" ”

The land security was bored, so he was about to turn around and leave, but the elder Wei stopped him and asked: "Fellow, there is a boat rental near here, and we are going to go down to Danyang along the south of the Yangtze River!" ”

"Danyang, I heard that there is a war there, aren't you afraid of war?" Di Bao asked the elder Wei rhetorically.

The elder Wei said: "But my family business is there, don't worry!" ”

The ground guard replied with an "oh": "There is no boat rent here, you go further south, and when you arrive in Liuyang City, there is a boat rental!" ”

However, he was a little reluctant to let the elder Wei go back again.

After Di Bao left, the old Wei and the others continued to be busy in the old lady's house, and at noon, the fish soup was boiled, and Gong Qingzhen first served two bowls to the old lady to eat.

After lunch, they rested in another room.

Elder Wei sat on the ground, the two women put the baby to sleep, and Xiao Xu whispered to him: "Comrade Elder Wei, we must have a clear destination now, otherwise I won't follow you around!" ”

Gong Qingzhen hurriedly comforted her: "Comrade Xiao Xu, don't be like this, let Comrade Lao Wei have time to think." ”