As they headed north, Elder Wei stood outside the cabin and looked into the night sky, where he saw the Iron-Faced Ghost manifest in the night sky, and a large dark cloud gathered behind him.

At noon on the second day, the boat stopped at Liuyang Wharf, and they abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, intending to rush to the city, but at the gate of the city, they saw a Kuomintang soldier hurrying out of the city, came to the wharf, boarded the collected boats, and began to go upstream.

Elder Wei whispered to the two women: "This army must be the main force to pursue us in Danyang, but they are going to fight for nothing!" ”

Gong Qingzhen responded: "This place is not suitable for a long time, let's hurry up and go into the city to purchase, and then leave here as soon as possible!" ”

Entering Liuyang City, the elder Wei first found a money bank and exchanged the remaining gold nuggets for silver dollars, Xiao Xu shouted to buy medicine first, but penicillin is a contraband, and they can only buy it on the black market.

Or buy other items first, when the two women were buying groceries, Da Lao Wei saw an old shoemaker sitting outside the store, who was bowing his head to repair shoes, so he sat down on his horse and took off his leather shoes.

The old shoemaker looked vicissitudes, took his leather shoes and said: "This master's leather shoes are worth old money!" ”

Old Wei's eyes fell on the other party's awl, the awl made of stainless steel was polished with a cold glow, and the wooden handle was also shiny, so he asked: "Master, how long have you used this awl?" ”

"This master's eyesight is so poisonous, this awl was left by my father, and it has been used for at least fifty years." The old shoemaker was mending the shoes for the old Wei while talking eloquently.

The leather shoes were quickly repaired, and after the elder Wei put them on, he felt okay, so he dropped a silver dollar.

The old shoemaker showed an embarrassed expression and said, "Master Ke, the small one can't break such a big money!" ”

The elder Wei picked up the shoemaker's awl and said, "You don't have to look for it, this awl is considered change." ”

He got up and left, and the old shoemaker had a mixed expression.

The black market didn't start until the third watch, and they found an inn to live in, and the eldest Wei lived alone next door to the two women. When he went to call the two of them for dinner, he saw that Gong Qingzhen was already holding a knife and scissors to make clothes for the two babies.

"We bought penicillin on the fifth watch tomorrow, so we won't go back to the inn and leave the city immediately!" The elder Wei said to the two.

Dinner was brought to the room by the shop guys, brown rice and old pumpkin, which was the same as the food they had in the base area, but in this time of war, it was a blessing to be able to eat hot meals with peace of mind.

After dinner, when Da Lao Wei returned to the room and was about to close the door, Xiao Xu chased him in and asked him, "Da Lao Wei, why are you avoiding us?" ”

Da Lao Wei lit the oil lamp in the room and asked, "Am I avoiding you?" ”

Xiao Xu nodded and said, "Isn't it?" There are so many suspicious things about you, don't you want to explain it to us? ”

The elder Wei sat down at the round table in the room and began to organize his personal belongings, Xiao Xu followed, and when he saw that he took out a thick copy of "Capital", he continued to ask: "Where did this baby come from?" I don't believe any ruthless parent would abandon a newborn child, and a healthy baby boy! ”

"If you don't believe it, forget it, I will definitely protect this child to live safely!"

Elder Wei took out the awl and stabbed it into the table.

"You and Sister Gong should rest early, and I will wake you up tomorrow during the third watch!" Elder Wei took off his black robe and was about to go to bed, but Xiao Xu had no choice but to leave.

The elder Wei closed the door, blew out the oil lamp, held the awl in his hand, and lay down on the bed.

A dark shadow entered through the door and stopped in front of his bed.

Elder Wei closed his eyes and said, "You're a ghost here, right?" ”

The shadow responded, "Yes, usually we only show up in front of people who are dying, and the mark on your body has drawn me in!" ”

I couldn't see my fingers in the room, and it started to rain outside the room again.

Although it doesn't snow in the winter in Hunan, it's a little cold.

Although the elder Wei closed his eyes, he could still see clearly the ghost in front of the bed, who was not wearing an iron mask, but had a yin and yang face, half black and half white. The other party didn't come to take his own life, so he said: "Although I am not a ghost, I have a more important mission, and a baby next door is what I want to protect, and his descendants will become the guardians of the Yin and Yang Gate." ”

The yin and yang face said: "It's a little too early for you to say this, right?" ”

Elder Wei said frankly: "As long as this child is alive, there is hope, I don't know what you ghosts have to do with the Yin and Yang gatekeepers?" ”

The ghost said: "If there is no gatekeeper, then we can enter the door of life and death unhindered, but we can't let this door of life and death be open all the time, otherwise there will be no living people in the world, and there will be no void in the underworld, which is not the result we want to see!" ”

"Then please protect us secretly!" Elder Wei pleaded.

The other party did not answer, turned and floated out of the room.

The elder Wei didn't dare to sleep too hard, and every once in a while he opened his eyes and looked at the watch on his wrist, until half past three in the morning, he got up immediately, did not light the lamp, quickly got dressed, took his things, and went out of the room with an awl.

He knocked lightly on the next door, and a moment later, the door opened, revealing a light inside.

Elder Wei quickly entered the room, closed the door, and said to Gong Qingzhen, who was cleaning up the salute: "Wait a minute, we have to sneak out of the inn, everyone don't make a sound, and don't let the child cry!" ”

Xiao Xu showed a puzzled expression, "We just went to the black market to buy medicine, do we have to leave Liuyang so soon?" ”

Gong Qingzhen put the clothes and dry food into the bamboo basket, and said to Xiao Xu: "Da Lao Wei's words naturally have his reasons, we just need to do what he tells us!" ”

The two women wrapped the child in a basket and covered it.

Elder Wei blew out the oil lamp on the table, quietly opened the door, and led the way.

At the counter of the inn, the shopkeeper was lying on the counter and already asleep, he gently opened the door and left the inn with his companion.

A black shadow greeted her, Xiao Xu was about to scream in fright, but Gong Qingzhen hurriedly covered her mouth.

The dark shadow whispered, "If you want to buy penicillin, come with me!" ”

Da Lao Wei led the two women to follow the dark shadow through the streets and alleys, and near the East City Gate, they entered a deep alley.

On either side of the alley stood tightly wrapped sellers, and as buyers walked past them, they opened their jackets to reveal what was not officially allowed to be bought or sold.

Not only pistols and bullets can be bought here, but also illegal drugs.

Xiao Xu found a string of ten bottles of penicillin and asked for the price.

The seller stretched out his palm, and Gong Qingzhen asked, "Five silver dollars?" ”

The other party shook his head and waved his hand, Xiao Xu said: "Fifty yuan, isn't it a little expensive?" ”

The seller continued to shake his head and wave his hand, and Da Lao Wei grabbed a wrapped silver dollar from his pocket, put it in the seller's palm, and then motioned to the seller to take the goods.

The seller, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses and had black eyes, tore open the red paper wrapped in the silver dollar, nodded, and took out a string of penicillin from behind his jacket.

Xiao Xu held it in his hand, and Da Lao Wei closed his eyes and saw that the small glass bottle contained Western medicine.

Da Lao Wei was about to leave with the two women, and Gong Qingzhen hurriedly asked him: "Da Lao Wei, don't you buy a gun to defend yourself?" ”