Zou Jie envied Xiaomei's slender figure and skin, and Xiaomei envied Zou Jie's strong physique.

Zou Jie said that in order to defend herself, she has practiced boxing and foot kung fu since she was a child.

At this time, Xiaomei found that Zou Jie had several obvious scars on his body, she was very curious, and while helping Zou Jie scrub it, she couldn't help asking, "Sister Zou, why do you have so many injuries on your body?"

Zou Jie was thoughtful, first silent, and said for a long time: "Don't reveal my scars, I don't want to say." ”

"Oh......" Xiaomei was embarrassed, "I don't want to say it, I won't say it." ”

After a while, Zou Jie couldn't help but sigh and sigh and said, "Do you think it's so easy for us women?" If you are not brave, no one will be strong for you. ”

Xiaomei was puzzled, but it was inconvenient to ask.

The two of them were silent for a while, and Zou Jie said, "I escaped from the capital at the age of fourteen, and when I arrived outside the border, I wanted to go to my relatives, but in the year of war and chaos, I didn't find a single relative.

Later, I followed a group of thugs to mingle together, and at that time I was often bullied by others, and it was common to be beaten.

Because I was a little girl, I looked good, and then I was targeted by a bandit leader, and swept me up the mountain, he wanted to bully me, I would rather die, in order to break free from him, I bit off a piece of meat from the bandit leader's arm, and after that, I was hung up by the bandits and beaten to the flesh...... Don't talk about it, that period of life where people are not ghosts or ghosts, and when you say it, it is all tears and hatred.

Later, I found a chance to escape from the tiger's mouth, fortunately I was rescued by the anti-Japanese team, Wen Duo and I met at that time, he was a Russian translator in the army at that time, this may be God's arrangement, let us be together. ”

Xiaomei listened, tears couldn't stop rolling in her eyes: "I didn't expect my sister to have such a tragic experience, I can't imagine it." ”

"Now it's okay, we women are the masters of the house." Zou Jie said, "Xiaomei, I didn't want to say it, I haven't told anyone about this, Wen Duo is not very clear, the reason why I tell you today is because you are my good sister, you are still not deeply involved in the world, many things have not been experienced, and many things are not understood."

In this life, the world is unpredictable, you will definitely encounter this and that problem in the future, remember, we women, life is our own, the body is our own, as long as we don't want to, others don't want to take it by force, no matter what, as long as it is against our will, we must dare to fight, and the fight is victory in the end. ”

"Sister, I remember what you said, but what you said scared me."

"Afraid of what? Isn't there a sentence in the rivers and lakes, the head has fallen off the bowl and has a big scar. ”

The two sisters finished their baths as they talked.

Zou Jie got dressed, and he had to go to the battle site led by Captain Wang Kui to see that Xiaomei stayed at home to pick up water and wash clothes.

Xiaomei's mother did what she said, found a noodle pocket, filled more than ten catties of bud rice noodles, and prepared to let Xiaomei give it to Zhang Shijie's family.

Xiaomei and Zhang Shijie's sister are very familiar and often went to her house to play when they were children.

It was a family of eight, old and young, old, weak and disabled, and the degree of difficulty can be imagined.

Although Xiaomei agreed to send it, she thought that she usually didn't have much contact with the Zhang family, and it would be very abrupt for her to send it, so it would be better to wait for Brother Mulzi to come back from work, and it would be more logical for Brother Mulzi to do this good thing. Xiaomei told her mother what she thought, and her mother praised Xiaomei for having a lot of eyes.

In the evening of that day, Teacher Ye Kun came home from school early, and as soon as he entered the house, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart: "What about Xiaomei?" ”

"I've gone to the hut, what's the matter? I can't hold two taels of oil in my stomach, look at you like that. Xiaomei's mother guessed seven or eight points, just wait for the following.

"What are you cooking?" Teacher Ye Kun is tricky.

"Pie in the sky." Xiaomei's mother said with a smile.

Teacher Ye Kun smelled it, and the room smelled of pancakes, and said, "Sure enough, it's pies, could it be that you are prophets and have already known it?" ”

"What do we know?" Xiaomei's mother said, "If you have something to say, say it quickly, let it go quickly, don't sell it." ”

There are two old people in the house, and they talk freely, all because they are happy, otherwise, Xiaomei's mother has never been so presumptuous to her husband.

Teacher Ye Kun didn't rush to say what was the matter, he was waiting for Xiaomei to come back.

Xiaomei came into the house, and Teacher Ye Kun told Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, you have been transferred to the central school as a teacher, the official notice has come down, today is Friday, give you two days to prepare, and you can report to work next Monday." ”

Although Xiaomei had received the news from Zou Jie in advance, it was not an official notice after all, and now that the official notice has been issued, she is still very surprised.

"Your news is already late in the third autumn, Director Zou told Xiaomei in the morning, if Director Zou hadn't stopped him, we would have made cakes to celebrate at noon." Xiaomei's mother said, "Okay, this reply is more accurate, I will prepare a futon for Xiaomei tomorrow, Director Zou asked us Xiaomei to live with her, who is the life, I didn't expect our Xiaomei's life to be so good." ”

"I'm afraid that good things will be grinding," Teacher Ye Kun said, "Xiaomei, you remember, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and you must believe that the right way in the world will inevitably defeat the crooked and evil ways." ”

Xiaomei listened silently, and then Xiaomei's mother remembered the matter of giving rice noodles to others, and said: "Willing, there is no place to give, we have to do good deeds and accumulate virtue." Xiaomei, it's not early, your brother may be back soon, you hurry up and get things done. ”

Xiaomei understood what her mother meant, and immediately took the bag with the bud rice noodles to the gate, waiting for Brother Yakzi to come back.

Zou Jie came back from the battle site and saw Xiaomei standing at the gate, thinking that she was waiting for herself, and asked the reason to know that she was waiting for the yak, she was very interesting and did not accompany Xiaomei to wait.

Sometimes life itself is a play, and sometimes things are just so coincidental. Xiaomei waited for a while, but Brother Yakzi hadn't come back from work yet, and Er Laizi didn't go home after finishing work but came first.

Erlaizi passed by Xiaomei's house and saw Xiaomei standing at the door. The thief's slippery eyes also saw a bag of things under the fence next to Xiaomei.

"Xiaomei, little sister, what are you doing standing here?" Er Laizi deliberately teased and said, "You are a teacher, there is a sentence called 'stupid wife and other pinching men', what do you mean by telling me?" ”

"Fuck off! What do you mean on the other side? Xiaomei scolded angrily.

"Where are you going? I won't let you roll on you. Er Laizi showed a rogue face again.

Xiaomei didn't want to ignore him, so she went back to the fence and picked up the noodle bag and walked into the courtyard.

Er Laizi saw that the bag was filled with rice and noodles, and when he saw a mouse, he immediately chased after him, "Who is this for?" Yaks? I happened to go to his house, give it to me, and I'll give it to him for you. ”

Er Laizi said, stepped forward and grabbed the noodle bag in his hand, and then ran away. He did not go to the house of the yak, but ran to his own house.

Encountering a scoundrel like Erlaizi is disgusting and annoying.

Xiaomei returned to her house in frustration and told Xiaomei's mother and Zou Jie about the incident. When Zou Jie heard this, he became angry: "In broad daylight, there is such a person and such a thing?" Xiaomei, tell me, where is his home? I'm going to get him and hand him over to the brigade militia to clean him up. ”

"Forget it, just more than ten catties of bud rice noodles, how many meals can you eat? It's a big deal, let's save a little, I'll scoop a few more scoops. "Xiaomei's mother wants to calm things down.

"This is not a matter of rice noodles, this is a robbery, the nature is vile, it cannot be connived at, it cannot be forgiven, for this kind of person, this scourge must be punished and criticized."

Zou Jie's words were very serious and left no room for error.

She got dressed, picked up Xiaomei and walked out, Xiaomei's mother watched the two girls go to catch a young man, and he can do any bad thing.

She was a little worried, and sweated for the two of them. Without thinking too much, she quickly took off her apron and followed.

At this time, Yakzi and Da Han happened to come back and met Zou Jie and Xiaomei.

Seeing Zou Jie's menacing appearance, Xiaomei also seemed to be angry.

Somehow, he was about to ask, but Zou Jie didn't say a word, and kept talking: "Go, follow me." ”

Yanzi handed over the tools to Da Han and hurriedly followed Zou Jie and Xiaomei.

Xiaomei briefly explained what had just happened to Yazi.

He said, "You don't need to go, I'll go alone, and I promise to catch him and bring things back." ”

Zou Jie insisted on catching Er Laizi in person, and with Yakzi with her, she asked Xiaomei to go home without having to follow.

Zou Jie came to Er Laizi's house under the guidance of Yakzi, Er Laizi's family lived in the front room of Tundong, and the two grass houses were dilapidated, not much better than the house of Yakzi's family.

Unlike other people's homes, there are no chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs in his house, and there are some broken things piled up in the yard.

When he entered the courtyard, he wanted to break into the house, but was stopped by Zou Jie. Zou Jie knocked on the door: "Is there anyone in the house?" ”

Qiao Wanfu, the father of Erlaizi, heard the voice, opened the door and came out to investigate, and saw that it was Zou Jie and Yanzi who came, which startled him, and he just looked at it in a daze, without saying a word.

"This is Er Laizi's father, his name is Qiao Wanfu." Yakzi introduced on the side, Er Laizi, you get out of here! ”

"II...... Two...... Erlaizi is not going to ...... Go...... Went to you, your house? The more anxious Qiao Wanfu was, the worse his stutter became.

"He didn't come back just now?" Zou Jie asked.

"I ...... I...... I seem to be looking at ...... See...... Watch him enter the hospital and transfer ...... Just go around and ...... It's gone. Qiao Wanfu said.

"Did you see him taking something?" Zou Jie asked.

"I didn't ...... No wow. ”

"Yes, you won't say," said the man, "go, take us into the house." ”

"Look...... See...... What are you looking at? ”

"It's hard to talk, don't talk nonsense, what's not welcome?"

As he spoke, he went into the house, and Zou Jie and Qiao Wanfu then also walked into the house.

Two dimly lit rooms, ventilated with windows and doors, covered by pieces of worn sacks, emitted a pungent smell of sweat and mustiness.

In addition to pots and pans and water tanks, there is only a little firewood piled up in the outhouse, and there are two pairs of worn bedding on the kang in the inner room, and the corner of the kang is stacked with worn cotton clothes and cotton pants.

It seems that Qiao Wanfu is eating, the table is very special, it is a small round drum, there are a few sprouted green onions on the table, a plate of stinky sauce, the rice is half a small pot of wild vegetables and rice bran batter, there are many Hui vegetables and amaranth, and the rice bran noodles are pitiful.

"You're going to eat this?" Zou Jie asked.

"This ...... This...... Won't fight me...... I still give ...... I can't bear to eat it. Qiao Wanfu said.

"How much food do you have left?"

"It's all there...... Well, that's all. ”

Zou Jie looked at the place where Qiao Wanfu pointed out, it was a broken box, Zou Jie opened it and saw that there was only half a bag of rice bran noodles crushed by bud rice, and the sorghum and bud rice added up to less than 100 catties.

There is still half a year before the end of autumn, and this grain is only enough for one person to eat for two months.

"What do you eat without fighting?" Zou Jie asked.

"Dirt...... Potatoes, sweet potatoes, all ...... It's all gone. Qiao Wanfu said.

Zou Jie went to the outhouse again and looked around, except for a little salt, he didn't find any oiliness.