Chapter 12: War is Approaching
Wu Xinyu immediately understood the meaning of Zuo Dengfeng's words, snickered sideways, and the flowers bloomed again.
"Don't laugh, stay away from me, okay?" Zuo Dengfeng understood what it meant to be a red face at this moment, and he also experienced the side effects of excessive indulgence.
"Okay, let's rest for a day." Wu Xinyu smiled and walked out of the south room, and came back a moment later, the room was too small to keep a distance.
"Forget it, forget it, let's go." Zuo Dengfeng helplessly lifted the quilt and got up, and Wu Xinyu hurriedly handed him his clothes when he saw this.
When Zuo Dengfeng was wearing underwear, he found that the skin on the outer ring of his weapon was swollen, and there were big blisters around it.
"Are you swollen there?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and looked at Wu Xinyu. Zuo Dengfeng had only heard that women would be swollen before, and he had never thought that men would too.
"You want to see it?" Wu Xinyu smiled and spoke, and there was no lack of temptation in her words. The first few times yesterday, it was Zuo Dengfeng who took the initiative, and in the later stage, it was Wu Xinyu who provoked the trouble first.
"If I knew this, I should have stripped you naked, and I have been holding you for a few months." Zuo Dengfeng snorted coldly and began to get dressed. As soon as the man and woman break through that line of defense, the distance between the two will immediately close dramatically.
Wu Xinyu smiled again when she heard this, and this heartfelt smile showed that she was in a very good mood.
After getting dressed and having breakfast, the two packed up and set out on the road, where there was a deep snow, so they tied their leggings with rope to prevent the snow from pouring into their shoes and trouser legs.
After packing up and leaving Thirteen with half a hare and a few salted fish, the two of them took dry food and set off on their way.
The most difficult thing to walk is the mountain road, the shallowest snow is also up to the knees, the two of them judge the general path according to the bushes on the side of the road, one foot deep and one foot shallow outward, more than ten miles of mountain road, until the afternoon did not move out.
After leaving the mountain, it was much easier to walk, most of the snow in the village was cleared by the villagers, Zuo Dengfeng and Wu Xinyu deliberately avoided the villagers and quickly passed through the village, they didn't want the villagers to see them.
The road leading to the county seat outside the village is also relatively easy to walk, although no one cleans it, but there are footprints and ruts from the predecessors, and the two of them follow the ruts all the way east. Although yesterday was overindulgent and physical strength was a little unable to keep up, the two of them were in a good mood at this time, and they felt very happy to talk and laugh.
There were few pedestrians along the way, and halfway through, the two finally met a coachman who drove the carriage into the city, and Zuo Dengfeng used five coppers to get himself and Wu Xinyu into the carriage.
Through chatting with the coachman on the road, Zuo Dengfeng learned that he was attacking Jinan, and Han Fuyu was about to be unable to withstand it, and the people in Wendeng County were in a state of worry, and he didn't know when he would call over.
"Take our mother to live in the mountains, it's safer." Zuo Dengfeng said to Wu Xinyu, he had already smelled the smell of war, and the first thing he thought of about war was to dodge. In his opinion, power and duty are equal, and fighting a war is a matter for soldiers, because they are paid.
"Okay." Wu Xinyu smiled slightly, and agreed very happily.
Hearing this, Zuo Dengfeng grabbed Wu Xinyu's hand and nodded at her, thanking her for being reasonable.
When night fell, the two finally entered the city, and Zuo Dengfeng found Fat Dahai, who was staying at his uncle's house at this time.
"It's snowing so hard, why did you come out?" Fat Dahai was surprised to see Zuo Dengfeng.
"I'm not worried about my family, I want to go back and see." Zuo Dengfeng said.
"Who is this?" Fat Dahai looked at Wu Xinyu behind Zuo Dengfeng suspiciously.
"My wife, from Yamashita Village." Zuo Dengfeng's half-truth explanation.
"Oh, that's so handsome! Come in, come in. Fat Dahai hurriedly welcomed the two into the house and led them straight to the west chamber where he lived.
"You came out just in time, if you don't come out, I'll have to call you." The room in the fat sea was messy.
"What's wrong?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked.
"The cultural institute was disbanded the day before yesterday." Fat Dahai picked up the dirty bed and raised his hand to let the two of them sit down.
"Disbanded?" Zuo Dengfeng was shocked when he heard this.
"Yes, I'm coming, you see my guys have packed up." Fat Dahai stretched out his hand and pointed to the vegetable pier and kitchen knife in the corner.
"What about my salary?" Zuo Dengfeng is most concerned about his salary in the past few months.
"It was sent on time in the last two months, and your eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law came over together and took the money away. The dissolution fee in the office is five yuan, and they are not missing you, they are all here with me, and the two yuan in the last two months are a total of seven yuan. Fat Dahai said, took out a handful of ocean from his arms and put it on the table.
"My brother-in-law came to get it?" Zuo Dengfeng grabbed the ocean and counted it, it was seven.
"Yes, I didn't meet my aunt on my first trip to your house, and I happened to meet your eldest sister coming out to get firewood, so I asked her where her aunt was, and she said that she was at your second sister's house. I'll give the money to your eldest sister, and your eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law will get the next two trips. Fat Dahai picked up the thermos and poured a glass of water for the two.
"They didn't ask me where I went?" Zuo Dengfeng vaguely felt that his mother's illness might have worsened, otherwise he would not have moved to live in his second sister's house.
"I asked, I said that I would let the institute go to the mountains to see the Taoist temple, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come back for a while." Fat Dahai replied.
"Is there anyone else in the office?" Zuo Dengfeng looked at the oceans in his hand, the cultural institute was dissolved, and he said that he would have no income in the future, and his livelihood would be a problem.
"The director seems to be still watching there, by the way, he also asked me to look for you and come back, these days are not good, I didn't go." Fat Dahai squatted on the ground and rolled up sweat and smoke.
"What are you looking for me?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked.
"He knows that you can speak this story, and he probably wants you to be a translator for the devil or something. That's my guess, and I don't know if it's the case. "Fat Dahai is not sure.
"Fuck off, I'm not a man." Zuo Dengfeng spat out, although he would not actively resist, he would not help the abuse.
"I think so too, go home and farm, or you buy a sampan and we can go out to sea to fish." Fat Dahai stared at the few pieces of ocean in Zuo Dengfeng's hand.
"Let's talk about it when I think about it, this ocean is for you, and the earthen spear broke me, and it will be paid to you." Zuo Dengfeng hesitated again and again, and finally took out a piece of ocean and handed it to Fat Dahai. In fact, the earth gun is not bad at all, Zuo Dengfeng wants to stay for self-defense, a piece of ocean can build several earth guns, so it is not a loss to a friend.
"If it's broken, it's broken, let's be polite." Fat Dahai stood up and excused himself.
"Hold, we'll stay here tonight, you go and squeeze with your cousin." Zuo Dengfeng threw that piece of ocean to Fat Dahai, in fact, Fat Dahai wanted it, otherwise he wouldn't have stood up at all.
"Then I'm welcome, haven't you eaten, I'll go get you two to eat." Fat Dahai took the ocean and said.
"After eating, we walked the road for a day, and wanted to go to bed early." Zuo Dengfeng said.
"Okay, you two go to bed early, I'll go to my brother for a drink." Fat Dahai said and walked outside.
"Tomorrow the two of us will get up early and leave, so I won't call you." Zuo Dengfeng stood up and followed to the door.
"Okay, go back and bring a good relationship with my aunt." Fat Dahai turned and walked out.
Bolting the door, Zuo Dengfeng took out the dry food from his backpack and handed it to Wu Xinyu, and then pushed the cup of hot water poured by the fat sea in front of Wu Xinyu.
"You eat first." Wu Xinyu handed the corn nest head to Zuo Dengfeng.
"I'm not hungry, you can eat." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and spoke, he was thinking about two things in his mind at the moment, one was how to live after being unemployed, and the other was whether his mother was seriously ill.
"In the future, we can grow our own food, and we won't go hungry." Wu Xinyu guessed what Zuo Dengfeng was thinking.
"Well, we can feed ourselves." The relief of the Yiren reduced the sorrow in Zuo Dengfeng's heart a lot.
"Is it scary?" Wu Xinyu asked with a smile, she had heard Fat Dahai's words and knew that Zuo Dengfeng had no job because he was coming soon.
"I haven't had any direct contact with them, but the invaders are certainly not good people." Zuo Dengfeng told the truth. His understanding of himself is limited to newspapers and street rumors, and neither of these two things is very credible, so he doesn't know much about who Zuo Dengfeng is.
"What do you say about them?" Wu Xinyu asked curiously.
"My teacher used to work as a helper on a warship, and he dealt with Yue himself, and he could speak the language, and he taught me some things." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand and looked at the watch, which was given to him by Old Man Wang before his death.
"What is a battleship? What is a helper? "Wu Xinyu doesn't know any of this.
"A battleship is a big ship for war, and in the Qing Dynasty, the captain was called the pipe band, and the captain's deputy was called the gang belt." Zuo Dengfeng explained.
"Oh." Wu Xinyu suddenly realized.
"Eat quickly, go to bed early after eating." Zuo Dengfeng bent down to help Wu Xinyu untie his leggings. Seeing this, Wu Xinyu hurriedly put down his nest head and wanted to do it himself, but was stopped by Zuo Dengfeng.
Untied the leggings of the two, Zuo Dengfeng simply ate something, and then the two of them lay on the bed of the fat sea and fell asleep, Wu Xinyu is a woman after all, and soon fell asleep after walking for a day, Zuo Dengfeng has not fallen asleep, he is thinking that Qingshuiguan is more than ten miles away from the mountain road, and in the eyes of outsiders it is still a haunted place, saying that if I really come, I may not go to such a remote place, maybe Qingshuiguan can really become a paradise in the troubled times. Taking a step back, even if I really went there, there was still a tunnel in Qingshuiguan where I could hide, and there must be no problem in saving my life.
Zuo Dengfeng fell asleep in a cranky way, because he had something on his mind, he didn't sleep steadily, he woke up early in the morning, and when he opened his eyes, he found that Wu Xinyu had woken up before him, and he was looking at him with two big eyes open at the moment.
"Let's get on the road early, pick up our mother and go back as soon as possible." Zuo Dengfeng turned over and sat up and began to dress.
After a while, the two dressed properly, took their luggage and quietly went out, there was a mule and horse market in the city that hired a car, and Zuo Dengfeng spent money to hire a mule cart to return to his hometown.
The mule has great strength and good endurance, and it costs three coppers more to hire a mule cart than a horse-drawn carriage, and Zuo Dengfeng will definitely not spend this unjust money in normal times, but at this time he has already smelled the smell of war, and he desperately wants to bring his mother to a safe place.