The rain had stopped, and the clouds were rushing westward, and the sun was showing its face from time to time, illuminating the fields with golden light. The leaves of the crops were covered with heavy droplets of water, and the roads in the fields were filled with water, and the sound sounded cheerful.

Riding on the donkey, the team was sure, and the pain of walking was also exempted, Yu Jie was cheerful from her heart to her face. Xiao Gao saw that Yu Jie's face was gone, and he thought that he would return to the team soon, and he also felt light. At this time, in order to make up for the possible bad impact, Zhou Yiyan further carried out propaganda work on Er Liu. Erliu saw that these three female soldiers were just going to ride his donkeys, and they had no malice, and they changed the Kuomintang army, so they had to send them away while scolding? What's more, people are good at talking and talking. My heart was also relaxed.

Xiao Gao pulled the reins and asked Yu Jie, "What do you think we are doing?" ”

"What for?"

"Go to my mother's house. My little daughter-in-law rode a donkey when she walked to her mother's house, and her man pulled the reins for her. ”

"I'm going to die, I'm going to coax you! Will you give me the reins and pull it yourself? ”

"What for?"

"That's funny, like a general on a horse."

"The donkey is naughty, I'm afraid that I won't break you, the general, into a mud tire!"

"This donkey looks honest, let me pull myself for a while."

Xiao Gao gave the reins to Yu Jie, and the donkey honestly shook his head step by step.

There was a roar in the sky, and several planes came. Yiyan shouted: "Attention! "But the plane did not drop altitude, circled in the west and turned east.

Yu Jie saw that Xiao Gao had found livestock, but she had worked hard to run in the mud with her backpack, both grateful and apologetic. Those suspicions on weekdays seem boring. Half earnestly, half also amicably asked:

"I heard that being a traffic officer, you are born and die every day, how do you get used to it?"

"Our house is a traffic station, and I can watch my father and sister-in-law run the traffic when I remember it, and I am used to seeing it."

"Life must be interesting, right?"

"I can't catch up with the excitement of the art troupe, everyone is together for everything, and there are many times when the traffic performs the task alone."

"At what age did you start doing it?"

"Nine!"

"Oh my God, aren't you afraid?"

"I'm in a hurry to complete the task, and I can't spare time to be afraid."

"It's dangerous!"

"Catch up with the sweep and be as dangerous as the common people."

Yu Jie wanted to ask Gao Persimmon about how she participated in the work, but remembered that she had caused unhappiness because of this, so she swallowed the words again.

The weather was clear, and the rain-washed crops were green and shining. The sound of rushing water, the clattering hooves of donkeys, the chirping of larks, the chirping of grasshoppers, a peaceful scene. Yu Jie followed the footsteps of the donkey, swaying rhythmically, and couldn't help humming a song that she had long forgotten:

The willow leaves are green and green,

Sister on horse, brother walking,

……

After singing two lines, I felt that it was not appropriate to sing such a song in a revolutionary environment, so I changed it to just humming a tune.

A few dozen meters away, at an intersection, a woman draped in a sheet, also riding a donkey, hurried from east to west. He was followed by a man in a long shirt and a short dress, who also walked over. But when the donkey turned around after walking a few dozen steps, he found that there was one of its kind, with four hooves propped up, and twisted its neck to say hello. Before the donkey finished barking, Yu Jie also stretched out his neck under his crotch and replied loudly.

At this time, Er Liu fell dozens of steps behind the donkey, and shouted urgently: "Quickly pull the reins!" Before Yu Jie could understand, the donkey jumped high and jumped into the crop field by the roadside, and its four hooves spread away, and the arrow ran towards the donkey on the crossing. Yu Jie's face turned pale with fright, and she shouted in a sharp voice: "Stop it, stop it!" The two men who were following the donkey over there heard the shouting and looked this way, and the man in short clothes hurriedly came to stop the donkey that Yu Jie was riding, but the one in the long shirt turned and ran south.

The donkey on the opposite side noticed that the two people who were watching it were running separately, and even jumped in place to avoid the circle. Before he had finished the lap, the woman on his back fell into the ditch by the roadside, and the donkey ran after his kind. The short-dressed person hadn't grabbed Yu Jie's donkey yet, and when he heard the sound of the donkey's hooves stomping on the ground behind him, he knew that his donkey had come to copy the back road, so he threw down Yu Jie's donkey and grabbed his donkey. Shall the donkey allow him to catch it at will? He turned around and stumbled, and ran westward again. Yu Jie's donkey here saw the donkey's methods, was inspired, and imitated the same posture, and stumbled Yu Jie into the cotton field, and followed his companion with a triumphant chirping. Er Liu also ignored Yu Jie's struggle in the mud, and ran west after the donkey's butt. The two donkeys and the two donkey drivers shouted and cursed, and in a blink of an eye they turned behind the green gauze tent and couldn't see it.

Xiao Gao came over to help Yu Jie, and Yiyan went to take care of the woman who fell in the ditch. The woman was covered with a sheet, neither shouting nor **, just pedaling on her feet to get up, but she couldn't get up, Yiyan hurried over to help. The woman turned her face, and Yiyan was startled. No wonder this man didn't snort, it turned out that he had a dirty handkerchief stuffed into his mouth! His face was covered with mud and water, and he couldn't see his appearance. Yiyan hurriedly took out the handkerchief from her mouth. The woman asked hurriedly, "Are you the New Fourth Army?" Yi Yan said, "Yes." The woman said, "I am a martyr, save me, and arrest those two traffickers!" Yi Yan hurriedly asked, "Which one is?" The woman said, "Both." Oh, untie my hand first. Yi Yan lifted the sheet and saw that the woman's hands were tied behind her back. Yi Yan shouted at Xiao Gao and them: "Go and catch those two men!" While hurriedly unbuttoning the woman.

Xiao Gao heard Yiyan shouting and hurriedly chased west; Yu Jie followed and ran a few steps, squatting on the ground with a sore foot. Yiyan untied the buckle and turned around with the woman to chase south. The man in the long robe was hiding behind a large tomb to watch the movement, but when he heard Yiyan shouting to arrest people, and heard footsteps, he pulled his legs and fled. When Yi Yan and the woman saw the back of the man in the long robe, they chased after him in one go. Yi Yan shouted while chasing: "Stop, if you don't stop, I'll shoot." The man's feet quickened. Yi Yan took out a pistol and shot the man, but he didn't shoot, and when he hit again, he got stuck. Where can two women catch up with a strong man? Finally, the man got into a field of sorghum and disappeared. The two chasers were already so tired that they couldn't breathe.

Yiyan and the woman returned to the side of the road, and Xiao Gao also returned. She chased for a long time, and she didn't even see a ghost. The two legged men both rode away on donkeys, but they folded Yu Jie's military quilt into a stack and put it on the ground.

The woman squatted on the edge of the ditch and washed her face, only then did she see that it was a healthy little daughter-in-law. He had a white rope on his head, and his swarthy face was flushed; The hair and eyebrows are black and shiny, the waist is straight, and the chest is raised high. Although his face was full of anger, the corners of his mouth turned upward, as if he was smiling.

All three asked about her origins.

Her name is Eryan, and she was originally from Zaozhuang Street. At the age of three, his father died in the mine and remarried with his mother to a small village in the east. In the name of rushing feet, the stepfather made a black road business. When Er Yan was six years old, he sold Er Yan to a child bride surnamed Song on the side of the Jinpu Road. The Song family has only one child, two years younger than Eryan, and the old couple are kind-hearted people and treat Eryan as their daughter. The young couple got along like sisters and brothers since childhood, and they also had a good relationship after they got up.

The Song family does not have many acres of land. Close to the railway line, the men of Eryan often go to the station to find some odd jobs to subsidize the family during the slack time. After coming and going, he got acquainted with the people of the railway guerrillas and became a member of the secret team.

The railway team is haunted, fights devils and kills traitors, and has a great reputation along the railway. Uncle Song is a bloody person who worked on the railroad back then. Knowing his son's secret, he didn't stop it, but often persuaded Eryan not to pull his son's hind legs. After the surrender of Japan, the railway team entered the mountains and merged into the main force. Only then did people know that Eryan's man was the eighth road. The armor chiefs came to the Song family one after another to extort money.

Last winter, when a large army drove out of the mountains, the man came back once, with big shoulders and round waist, and he was completely a veteran's style. I stayed at home all night and told her about the revolution in the middle of the night. She leaned on his chest and listened, silently, thinking, "Is this me?" How can he know such things! He advised her to wait for him with peace of mind, and to take up the burden of taking care of the elderly and supporting the housework, and she pushed him:

"If you don't come back for the past two years, I've made the old man cold and hungry?"

A few days after he left, Zaozhuang was broken, Jining was attacked, and the rapid column of the Kuomintang was wiped out. One message after another. She said in her heart, "It's all my share of the credit." "I'm smiling all day long, and I'm busy in the fields at home. When the chief of the chief saw her like a cat avoiding mice, he smiled and bowed from afar, and she raised her head high so that she could not look at them squarely.

Suddenly, overnight, the troops all withdrew north. She thought that the team would pass by here when it came, and that she should go back here. Leaning against the locust tree by the door, he stilted his feet to look out into the road. After waiting for most of the day, several chiefs and comrades came, their eyes lowered, holding the man's relics and martyrs' certificates......

The mother-in-law fell on the kang, and the father-in-law seemed to be stunned and did not say a word all day. She boiled soup and medicine, and was busy eating, but she squeezed her grief aside. It was only at night that she hugged a small cloth shirt sent back by the chief in her arms, searched for the lost smell of sweat with her nose, and let her tears soak the half-empty pillow again and again.

After her mother-in-law died, her father-in-law said to her, "You are still young, it's not interesting to guard, let's take a step." She said, "He said, tell me to support this family and take care of you in old age." ”

Half a month ago, she came back from the field, with a donkey tied to the door of her house, and she had no relatives walking around for many years.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she smelled a smell of wine, and there was another layer of doubt. At this time, the old man came out and said, "Oh, your father has come to see you." ”

"Daddy? Where am I going to have a daddy? ”

"Where did you get your father?"

At this time, a thin old man, dressed in a short dress of hurrying feet, walked out of the hall, and said with a mouthful of wine: "Alas, my family has not been good all these years, and I always want to come to see you, but I can't come." I just recently heard that your man is gone. Your mother is not at ease, she is so anxious that she is sick on the kang, so she asks me to take you back to live for a few days. ”

"Home? I've been in my home since I was a child, where are I going? I don't recognize who you are! ”

"Alas, child, I'm ten thousand sorry for you, your mother is always your mother! I know that the family here is good to you, but didn't I pick this family for you? ”

Eryan turned around and walked into her house, and her husband persuaded her through the window to see her mother who was sick on the kang, and she also took advantage of it to relax. She was shaken, and for more than ten years, she remembered the suffering mother more than once!

She came here with that footman, and her mother really couldn't do it. The mother cried again and again, until she served her mother into the ground, and then she went back to her mother-in-law's house. But the footman grabbed her and said, "What are you doing back there without your man?" I'll find you the right master and start a family again. What is the widow when you are young? ”

Eryan said: "You can't care! ”

"I can't control it, who can take care of it? Let's be honest, I've already refunded you the family affairs on that end! ”

"You don't talk nonsense!"

Footman sneered, took out a bag from the box and threw it in front of her. It was her baggage, and she pulled out an old piece of paper with words written on it and fingerprints on it.

"Look at it, I've redeemed all the marriage papers."

Only then did she remember that the foot girl had been away from home for a few days, and she sneakily said that she was going to get medicine for her mother, but she didn't get the medicine back.

She jumped to her feet and said, "You didn't consult with me, it doesn't count!" ”

"Okay, no, no, no!" The foot moved along with her and said, "Tomorrow I will send you back and return this marriage certificate." I've spent a lot of money, and I have to come back! ”

As he spoke, he stepped back and locked the door. She cried, she shouted, and no one paid attention to her. In the middle of the night, the door suddenly opened, and the foot man brought her to the traffickers, pressed her on the bed, tied her hands behind her back, blocked her handkerchief, covered her with a sheet, and set up a donkey. said that she wanted her mother to come up with a magic disease and sent her to the city for medical treatment.

After walking for a little way in the middle of the night, when they came to a forest on the edge of the Yi River, they pulled Eryan off the donkey and whipped her the chest and back, saying that they were killing her wildness. They told her that she was not allowed to speak if someone took out the handkerchief from her mouth, and that if she opened her mouth to ask for help, there was a powerful way to wait for her.

After dawn, several teams of the New Fourth Army came over on the main road. The footman pulled the donkey and turned to the path, and when someone asked, they said that they were sending the patient to the doctor, and they mixed up all the way. This time, she met the female soldiers, taking advantage of the donkey to go around in a circle, she rolled off the donkey regardless of life or death, in order to let people see that her mouth was gagged, her man was the New Fourth Army, and I believe that his comrades would not fail to save her.

After the female soldiers listened to her, Xiao Gao was so angry that he scolded the foot man and the human trafficker. Yu Jie wiped her tears while sighing, and said: "The word woman is always associated with misfortune. Yi Yan didn't bother to refute her, and asked Eryan: "What are you going to do now?" ”

"Let's go back to my mother-in-law's house first." Eryan said, "The foot man must have said that I was going to withdraw from the marriage, and the old man may be so sad that I have to explain it." ”

Yiyan said: "That's fine. In case your in-laws' family still can't stay still, you can inquire and go to the New Fourth Army, and the revolutionary troops will help you. ”

Eryan said: "I know, I met a lot of New Fourth Army going east along the way, if I hadn't blocked my mouth, I would have shouted for help." ”

When Yiyan heard that the troops were all going east, he decided to go a few more miles to the south, and if he could not find the troops, he would chase them east. When the second sister returned to her mother-in-law's house, she had to go south first and then west, so they went on the road together.

The traffickers did not go far, hiding in a green gauze tent. From a distance, I saw Eryan walking away with the female soldiers, so I hated to find the footman and the donkey.

After walking out of seven or eight miles, it's time to break up. Yiyan untied the bag of dry food and gave it to Eryan. Eryan said: "I saved my life, I am grateful, how can I ask for anything more?" Yi Yan said: "We are also given by the people." It's going to catch up with the team right away, and we'll be able to add more. Bring it with you and eat it! Yu Jie put the grain bag on Eryan's neck. Eryan asked: "To be a female soldier, you have to be a learned person, right?" Can I ask for it when I go? Yiyan said: "Women who want to be revolutionary want it, and neither she nor I have been to school for a few days." She pointed at Xiao Gao. Eryan said: "I asked the female soldiers. I know that boy, but I can't read or write. Yu Jie said: "This kid of hers is pretending." Eryan looked at Xiao Gao with her eyes wide open, Xiao Gao was embarrassed and laughed: "This time the stuffing is exposed!" Eryan hugged Xiao Gao in her arms and said, "I let you be blinded, and I didn't dare to say a word to you along the way." ”

After the breakup, there was a roar, and the nine enemy planes divided into three groups, passed over the heads of Yiyan and them, and flew from west to east. Xiao Gao asked strangely: "Didn't the troops go down the mountain to fight Teng County?" Why did Eryan meet the troops and drive east? Listen, the plane is also heading eastward, has the situation changed again? ”

Yi Yan was also a little puzzled. She said: "According to what Er Yan said, there must be our troops in the east. As soon as we get in touch with the troops, we won't be afraid that the sky will fall, so let's rush east! ”