The expressions of the two sappers told him that there was something behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a scene that had been a nightmare for the rest of his life...

(Gao Laosan said that when his father Xu Xiangqian told him about this, his eyes were closed tightly and his whole body was shaking.) No matter how much he asked, Xu Xiangqian refused to tell him what the thing he saw at that time)

Xu Xiangqian watched as the terrifying thing dragged the two sappers into the side hole and killed them, and then, the thing rushed out of the side hole and killed the other sappers waiting at the door of the secret door of the stone room, and only Xu Xiangqian escaped alone. The commander of the engineering company urgently reported what happened to Xu Xiangqian and his party to his superiors, who gave an order to blow up the entrance to the arsenal quickly and prevent the thing from escaping out of the mountain. Then the insiders were ordered to keep it strictly confidential, and the company was transferred to the fire. The so-called insiders, in fact, there are only three, in addition to Xu Xiangqian, the commander of the engineering company, there is also one, that is, Xu Xiangqian's wife...

"Political Commissar Xu's wife?" Hearing this, I interrupted Gao Laosan and asked suspiciously, "Isn't he your mother who married after coming to Gaojia Village?" ”

Gao Laosan said that the wife of Xu Xiangqian mentioned here is not his mother. Xu Xiangqian was already married when he was in the army, and when Xu Xiangqian was transferred to the engineering company, the woman was with a big belly and was also transferred together. The woman was literate and was appointed as a clerk to help the company write an engineering diary. When the wooden gossip appeared in the stone room, Xu Xiangqian's wife also drew a pattern in the engineering diary... (Hearing this, I said in my heart, no wonder Miss Bai and I thought that the words in the engineering diary were very beautiful, and it turned out to be written by a woman)

At that time, when the stone room was present, Xu Xiangqian's wife was also present. Because the secret door in the stone chamber was too small, it was inconvenient for her to have a big belly, so she didn't go in, and thus escaped. Later, for reasons of secrecy, when the entrance to the arsenal was blown up, the engineering diary was thrown into a cave. Before the company withdrew from Stone Village, Xu Xiangqian worried that simply blowing up the entrance to the arsenal would not be enough to seal the thing. Standing on the top of the mountain to investigate, Xu Xiangqian showed the peculiarity of the stone village (how peculiar it is, Gao Laosan said that Xu Xiangqian didn't tell him). After careful investigation, Xu Xiangqian told the commander of the engineering company and asked him to tell the people of Stone Village that after the troops left, let them build a temple in the village, and there were three stone statues in it, and the temple house would be used in the house where the company commander lived...

"When was the underground passage under the temple house leading to the cave in the back mountain built, did Political Commissar Xu tell you?" I asked.

"What is the underpass?" Gao Laosan looked at me blankly, "My father didn't say it..."

I said in my heart, could it be that when Miss Bai and I were buried under the landslide, the underground passage that appeared was not built by the Eighth Route Army? …

"It's nothing, uncle, you go on..."

The sappers who died in the cave were only a small part of the engineering company, and most of them moved south under the leadership of the company commander and Xu Xiangqian, preparing to choose another location and rebuild the arsenal. On the way to transfer, they were ambushed by the Japanese army, and after several battles, more than half of them were killed and wounded. The Japanese chased them out of Taihang Mountain, and the remaining sappers went all the way east under the leadership of the company commander, and fought with the Japanese army for more than ten days, and finally were surrounded by the Japanese army in the town of XX (Wei Niuniu's town). Due to the continuous sweep of the Japanese army, all the young and middle-aged people in XX Town fled, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled. As soon as he came to the town, Xu Xiangqian's wife was killed by a stray bullet from the Japanese army. After nightfall, the Japanese commanders received a secret telegram from their superiors, saying that there was an important person named Xu Xiangqian in the company of the Eighth Route Army they were surrounding, and this person knew many internal secrets of the Eighth Route Army, and ordered them to capture him alive. As a result, the Japanese army was stationed outside the town, preparing to launch a general attack early the next morning and capture Xu Qianqian alive.

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the company commanders had already made up their minds to die. The company commander gathered the remaining people in a large dilapidated courtyard, counted the number of people, Xu Xiangqian didn't know where he went, the company commander thought that Xu Xiangqian had just died of his wife, and he was sad, probably wanting to be quiet and hiding. Looking at the familiar faces, thinking that these fresh lives would leave this world the next day, the company commander couldn't help but shed tears. At this time, Xu Xiangqian suddenly walked into the courtyard, and he told the company commander that he had a way to repel the Japanese army.

The company commander was suspicious, and Xu Xiangqian asked the company commander to hide in the broken house with everyone, and he couldn't go out no matter what movement he heard outside. After the explanation, Xu Xiangqian walked out of the courtyard and quickly disappeared into the night. After about a quarter of an hour, the company commander heard a terrible howl from the Japanese barracks, which sounded so terrifying that it didn't feel like it was coming out of a human being. The howls continued for about ten minutes, and then fell silent.

When the sky was bright, Xu Xiangqian returned to the broken house with a pale face. The company commander led everyone to follow Xu Xiangqian to the outside of the town, and the scene in front of them was so frightened that their heads stood up, only to see the corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere, one by one, their eyes bulging out, their mouths wide open, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying before they died. After burying the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, Xu Xiangqian led everyone to a pond in the south of the town. The company commander saw that Xu Xiangqian's wife's body was lying there straight with a big belly. The strange stone that Xu Xiangqian brought out from the mountain behind the stone village was lying upright on the forehead of the female corpse.

Xu Xiangqian told the company commander that it was his wife who killed the Japanese soldiers last night. He said that since he escaped from the back mountains with his wife, he has always felt that something seems wrong with his wife. One day later, by a mountain stream in Taihang Mountain, when Xu Xiangqian was helping his wife scrub her body, she suddenly saw a scar on her wife's left arm, which looked like it had been scratched by the sharp claws of some animal. Under questioning, Xu Xiangqian's wife said that there was an accident in the cave at that time, when Xu Xiangqian climbed back to the stone room from the secret door, she reached into the secret door to pull him, and felt that her arm seemed to hurt.

Xu Xianglao felt that the scar on his wife's arm was not scratched by stone stubble, but by the thing in the cave. After his wife was killed by a stray bullet from the Japanese army, Xu Xiangqian was very sad and dragged the body to a dilapidated house, and when he was about to dig the soil to bury it, his wife actually sat up slowly...

Xu told the company commander that after his wife died, she had become a monster, a monster with the same nature as the thing in the cave, and only the stone on her forehead could stop her. Xu Xiangqian had always been puzzled before, when he was in the cave, that thing killed all the sappers, but it didn't harm him. Only then did he realize that it was because he had the stone in his hand. And the reason for the 'resurrection' of that thing was precisely because he took the stone that had been on its head...

Xu Xiangqian had planned to burn his wife's body along with the stone, and it was a hundred. However, three times in a row, the fire was extinguished by heavy rain as soon as it was lit, and Xu Xiangqian thought that God might not want him to do this. So he worked with the company commander and the remaining sappers to demolish an old house in the town, and built a brick tomb not far from the pond in the south of the town with green bricks, and buried his wife in it. In addition, Xu Xiangqian used the Yin and Yang Five Elements technique he had learned to engrave a spell on a piece of charred wood and nail it to the throne of the tomb, which was equivalent to adding a double insurance, so that his wife would not be 'resurrected' like that thing in the mountains behind the stone village and run out of the tomb to harm people...

Due to the Japanese sweep, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was transferred, and Xu Xiangqian's engineering company lost contact with the headquarters. Originally, there were not a few people left in the company, but after returning to Taihang, there was a shortage of food and medicine, and a few fell ill and died, and finally had to disperse. When Xu Xiangqian left, he handed over the wooden gossip and the wooden pendant engraved with the beast's head to the company commander for safekeeping...

"It turned out that this was the case, the one buried in the brick tomb in the south of XX Town turned out to be the first wife of Political Commissar Xu." I muttered.

Gao Laosan seemed to be tired of talking, his hands were groped in his pockets, he took out a cigarette to the wind and threw it to him.

"How do you know I'm looking for cigarettes?" Gao Laosan asked.

Xiang Feng smiled slightly.

"Uncle, let's go on." After Gao Laosan finished smoking a cigarette, I pointed to Xu Xiangqian's grave, "Why is Political Commissar Xu's grave located in this Qingshi Town?" ”

"What else can I do..."Gao Laosan sighed, "My father was originally from this Bluestone Town..."

It turns out that Xu Xiangqian's hometown is this bluestone town!

After the company dispersed, Xu Xiangqian went out of Taihang Mountain, ready to return to his hometown in Qingshi Town, only to see hunger everywhere along the way, Tong Guò asked passers-by about him and learned that there was a famine in Henan. After walking for many days, he came to Gaojia Village, and after seeing the Yellow River, he went to his hometown in Qingshi Town, but he fainted at the gate of the ancestral temple in Gaojia Village, and was rescued home by a kind-hearted villager named Gao Laozhuan. Living in Gao Laozhuan's house, he felt the warmth of home, and gradually developed feelings for Gao Laozhuan's daughter. Originally, he had no relatives in his hometown, and his parents were killed by the devil's plane, so Xu Xiangqian stayed in Gaojia Village and became Gao Lao's son-in-law.

Later, after the surplus grain in the village was eaten, I saw that the villagers were swollen one by one, and some people starved to death one after another. Xu Xiangqian couldn't bear it anymore and decided to help them find food. However, even the bark and grass roots have been eaten, and it is no less difficult to find food to eat. On the hillside near Gaojia Village, after wandering around the fields for a day, Xu Xiangqian didn't find anything to eat, and suddenly, he thought of an incident he experienced when he was a child...

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