At that time, I clearly realized that he was crying, but Song Ol didn't find out that he had been concentrating on eating the sweet potatoes in his hands, and my grandfather didn't seem to want us to see them, so he secretly wiped his tears when we weren't paying attention, and when we finished eating the roasted sweet potatoes in our hands, he asked with a smile: "Xiao Qingye, do you want more?" ”

At that time, I was not afraid of him as an adult, but I just asked my grandfather why he didn't eat.

He smiled and shook his head at me and said, "He's not hungry." ”

We also thought he was really not greedy, but when Song Ol and I walked away, we saw my grandfather by the fire, eating the sweet potato skin we tore, that was our most difficult time, my grandfather didn't have much money, that year was a drought, and food was very scarce.

I wasn't hungry at Mu's house, but my grandfather still let me eat the roasted sweet potatoes he used to fill my stomach.

Later, as I grew older, my grandfather became more and more strict with me, and I became more and more afraid of him when I was rarely gentle with him and me.

I didn't expect that he would die in this year.

I didn't go back to Jinling, and after almost half a month, Gu Huizhi wrote to me again, telling me some about my grandfather's funeral and some supplementary explanations, saying that my grandfather was buried in the Mu family, and that my grandfather died of illness and died normally.

I don't know if these words are true or false, and I haven't asked Gu Huizhi about the situation again.

Time passed quickly, half a year passed in the blink of an eye, that day, I went down the mountain with Xiaohuan to buy embroidery, but when I arrived in Dongjun, I found that everyone in Dongjun City had a heavy face, and the streets were full of chaos, and there were large armies passing through the streets of Dongjun, which had never happened before.

Although Xiaohuan and I only went down the mountain after a month, but in the last month, the Dongjun City was good.

Xiaohuan saw that the streets were full of soldiers with guns, the sound of horses' hooves everywhere, there were very few people doing business, and some shops were closed in broad daylight, Xiaohuan circled my hand and asked a little scared: "Young grandma?" Is this going to be a war again? ”

To be honest, I have never seen so many soldiers in Dongjun City, so I don't know what is going on, so I stopped a person to ask about the situation, and then I realized that it was really going to war, but this time it was not a civil war, but a foreign war, saying that the Japanese army had invaded Lincheng Hedong in Dongjun, and they were burned and looted over there, and Jinling sent troops to suppress it.

In my impression, the Japanese army has always had a very bad relationship with the country, but there has never been any major problems, and it is because of this that the war is about to start.

The person who was stopped by me hurriedly said: "You better go back and inform your family, and get out of the city quickly, although the battle is on the side of Hedong, but you can't be sure that you will come to Dongjun without paying attention, and you won't be able to escape if you want to." ”

Dongjun is already close to the border, so it is very common for wars to occur, and Dongjun has been very depressed because of the civil wars that have occurred in the past few years, and now it has finally been peaceful for a year or two, and it is going to war again.

The man sighed and said, "I can't stay in this Dongjun, I see, it's better to take your family and move away as soon as possible." ”

He shook his head and quickly left us, probably in a hurry to get home.

Xiaohuan and I didn't stop him, but stood for a while, Xiaohuan saw so many soldiers on the street, so he asked me a little scared: "Young grandma, can we still buy anything?" ”

There are sparse people on the street, where are there still people doing business, thinking that even if I scream here, no one will be in the mood to buy this kind of thing, so I said to Xiaohuan: "Let's go, let's go back first." ”

Xiaohuan nodded in agreement, and we didn't sell anything, and went back to the mountain with the basket as it was.

Yuan Xu is almost a year old, and he can sit on a small chair to call people, and when he saw me and Xiaohuan coming in from the outside shivering, he opened his mouth and called to us: "Auntie, Aunt Xiaohuan." ”

He was very well-behaved, Lin Wanwan was feeding Yuan Xu's porridge there, and when she saw that we came back so early, she asked with a smile: "But there are not many people on the street today?" ”

After Xiaohuan walked over and hugged Yuan Xu in his arms, he said to Lin Wanwan: "There is a war going on over there in Hedong." ”

When Lin Wanwan heard the word war, she hurriedly put down the wooden spoon in her hand and asked, "What?" Fight? ”

Xiaohuan said: "With the Japanese army, now the streets are full of soldiers, and the people of Dongjun are running and hiding, where are they still in the mood to go shopping and buy things." ”

Lin Wanwan didn't expect such a change, and immediately looked at me again.

I took over Yuan Xu from Xiaohuan's hand again, and said to Lin Wanwan: "It's better for us not to go down the mountain these days." ”

Lin Wanwan asked, "Can it hit us?" ”

I squeezed Yuan Xu's chubby little hand and said to Lin Wanwan: "It's not clear, but I think it's just a small fight, and I shouldn't be able to beat us here." ”

Just as we were talking, there was a sudden bombardment sound that resounded in the sky outside, and I immediately reached out to cover Yuan Xu's little ears, and Yuan Xu was still laughing playfully.

The sound of the bombing shook our house, Lin Wanwan and I both felt that it was wrong, I handed the child to Xiaohuan, and followed Lin Wanwan out to see.

Dongjun and Ha Dong are not far away, so looking from our high place, we can see that the artillery fire is rising into the sky, and there are constantly troops driving military trucks, and the ground is still shaking when this cart of soldiers passes.

We didn't expect that Hedong's side would be on fire so soon, Lin Wanwan glanced left and right, probably feeling unsafe, and pulled me in and said to me, "Shall we go out of the city to hide?" ”

I thought about it for a moment before I said, "Why don't you wait one night and see again?" ”

Lin Wanwan glanced at Yuan Xu in Xiaohuan's arms, and was probably afraid that something would happen when she went down the mountain now, so she said, "Then wait a little longer." ”

We quickly closed the door, but not long after the door closed, someone knocked hard outside, and the three of us looked at each other, both women, not very bold, and who would knock on the door at this time.

After the knock on the door continued, no one opened the door outside, and the old man guarding the cemetery shouted outside, "Miss Lu Xiaohuan!" Open the door! ”

As soon as he heard that it was a familiar person, Xiaohuan went over and opened the door.

The old man guarding the cemetery was standing outside with his baggage on his back, and when he saw that we were still sitting in the fire and roasting the fire, he asked, "Aren't you going yet?!" ”

Xiaohuan was puzzled and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

When the old man saw that Xiaohuan was still asking this sentence at this time, he was so anxious that he said, "Where else can I go!" Of course you run for your life! ”