Huai'an, who had not slept all night in the sound of fighting, was already hungry, and threw a few pieces of bacon into the porridge, steaming hot, smelling fragrant under hunger, he sat against the wall, blew away the hot air, and took a sip along the edge of the bowl, and the hot Sihasha only blew. The hot porridge entered the stomach and intestines, and the whole body stretched a lot, and I squinted comfortably.

Shen Yu, who was not afraid of danger before the battle, saw this scene and his nose was sour, and then think about the young man who died bravely last night, whose son, whose husband, and whose father are they?

The annals are too thin to contain their names, and the county records are limited, leaving only a string of numbers, ten people, hundreds of people, thousands of people, all just numbers.

Shen Yu was dressed in white, and the placket was stained with blood, which looked particularly dazzling. He wanted to hug his son, but he felt bloody all over his body, and he didn't dare to step forward.

"Daddy!" Shen Huai'an also saw him, and his heart, which had been pulling all night, finally fell back into his stomach, he put down the porridge bowl and rushed up to hug Shen Yu, worried and terrified. Although he is usually a naughty and mischievous weird person, he actually cares more about his family than anyone else.

God gave him a chance to live again, and gave him such a good father, how could he not cherish it? Those who have lost understand the preciousness of family affection.

"Daddy's body is so cold," Huai'an's eyes and nose were red, but he turned around and held a bowl of bacon porridge to Shen Yu, "Daddy drinks porridge!" ”

Shen Yu rubbed his unkempt head and said, "Dad doesn't drink it, Huai'an can drink it himself." ”

Shen Huai'an picked out a coarse porcelain bowl from the bamboo basket and gave half a bowl of porridge to Shen Yu, with a very resolute attitude: "Dad doesn't drink, Huai'an doesn't drink either." ”

After a night of hard work to defend the city, the soldiers and civilians of the city obeyed their orders, followed the law, and forbade them. Only his half-tall son stood in front of him and forced him to drink half a bowl of gruel.

The warm rice porridge went down, and Shen Yu finally felt a little angry.

Zhao Chun hurriedly landed in the city with a group of officials, his eyes were bloodshot, obviously he had not slept all night, and he bowed his hand to Shen Yu gratefully: "There is Master Lao Shen." ”

"The old parents are polite." Shen Yu asked, "I don't know what the situation is in the city?" ”

Zhao Chun said to him without concealment: "I caught four Japanese robbers and tried in vain to kidnap the wives and children of the officials in the county government, and then burned, killed and looted, disturbing people's hearts. After a night of interrogation, the four confessed. ”

"What about the family members in the back house?"

"All are safe and sound." Zhao Chun said: "Thanks to Huai'an's cleverness, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable." ”

Shen Yu bowed his head, and after a careful removal, he could send Huai'an home with confidence. He wrapped Huai'an's cloak tighter, picked him up and walked down the stairs of the tower, and ordered the horses to be prepared as he went.

"Dad, I don't want to go back." Huai'an was carried on a tall horse, holding the saddle and protesting: "I want to be with my father and brother...... I don't want to go back......"

"Don't you want to ride a horse?" Shen Yulisuo turned over and got on the horse: "Dad will take you on a horse." ”

"Don't ride, don't ride, I don't want to go back!!"

How could Shen Yu let him go, just hit the horse and go, the street was empty, and he could gallop all the way. Huai'an has never ridden a horse, he doesn't know how to fluctuate with the rhythm of the horse, he was turned upside down, the ears were cold and windy, and his cheeks were also blown by the cold wind.

When he arrived at the door of Shen's house, Shen Yu stepped on the stirrup on one side and jumped off the horse, neatly, raised his hand and threw the horsewhip into the hands of Menzi, and then carried his son off the horse and led him to the inner house.

As he walked, he asked him, "Is horseback riding?" ”

Huai'an puffed out a bun face: What a fun fart! The half bowl of porridge I had just drunk in the morning was almost turned upside down.

Don't want to ride a horse again!

……

Shen Yu was covered in blood, and he was afraid of frightening his mother, so he wanted to go to the east courtyard to change, and asked Huai'an to go to the room first to report to his grandmother that he was safe.

Chen stayed awake all night, praying for his children and grandchildren in the Buddhist hall, and heard that Shen Yu was back with Huai'an, so he hurriedly greeted him, pulling Huai'an to look left and right, for fear that he was missing a hair.

"Grandmother, don't look at it, there are no arms and legs missing." Huai'an Road.

Chen's eyes were red: "This kid will never forget to be naughty." ”

The charcoal fire in the house was enough, and the maid took Huai'an to the warm pavilion connected to the west room of the upper room to take a bath and change clothes.

When Shen Yu came to the upper room, the two nieces looked at him cautiously, and Hao's mother and nurse were also waiting for him with Sister Peng. He flicked his front and gave Chen a big salute: "Let my mother worry." ”

Chen hurriedly stepped forward, helped his son up, looked at it for a long time, and asked, "Where is your daughter-in-law?" ”

"She's still out there." Shen Yu said, taking his daughter and holding her in his arms.

"It's been all night......," Chen sighed tremblingly, and wanted to ask the second son, but he didn't dare to ask when the words came to his lips, it had reached this point, and no news was the best news.

Chen hadn't had breakfast yet, and he hadn't even eaten a few bites of yesterday's dinner. The two little girls set up the table in the hall, which was a refreshing pickle and a thin dough dumpling, accompanied by millet porridge boiled with oil, which made people have a slight appetite.

At this time, the sky is bright, and the defense is not conducive to attacking, and most of the Japanese will stop attacking. Shen Yu sat down and had a good breakfast with his mother.

When Huai'an came out of the inner room, he had changed into a new jacket and cotton pants, and turned back into the beautiful doll with red lips and white teeth, his facial features were more like Xu Tinglan, fair and delicate, only his eyebrows and eyes were like Shen Yu, his eyebrow bones were slightly straight, and he added three points of handsomeness to his delicate atmosphere.

Shen Yu couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and his feelings of licking calves were beyond words.

"Huai'an, come." He pulled Huai'an's shoulders and explained carefully: "Dad will go out in a while, you are the only man in the family, you have to take care of your grandmother, aunt, and sisters." ”

Huai'an felt a heavy responsibility and nodded solemnly.

Shen Yu said again: "If you have something to do, send someone to the city tower to find me, don't run around by yourself." ”

Huai'an didn't dare to mess around at this time, so he responded happily, and added another sentence: "Daddy, be careful." ”

Shen Yu had a light smile in his eyes, pinched his little face, took the cloak from the maid's hand and tied it around his neck, and hurried out.

……

The officials in the city were either regimental leaders in robes or armor, only Shen Yu was dressed in white and wore a sullen blue cloak, he was in mourning, had no power or position, but no one stopped him wherever he went, and what he said would be quickly executed as a military order.

The soldiers and the people did not know his identity at first, and only called him "General in White" behind his back.

The officials of the county government have corrected once or twice, Lord Shen is not a general, he is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

Bachelor in white? It's really not like it, it's still more like a general.

The officials had no choice but to go with them.

In order to defend their homes and relatives, the soldiers and civilians of the city worked together to resist the enemy, and even in the face of the fierce Japanese who flocked to the city like an ant colony, they could not flinch at all.

The landing of the Japanese in the neighboring county was almost as flat as they were, but they did not expect to be hindered so much in Anjiang County.

One go, again and again, three times and exhaustion. Once the idea of a quick and decisive attack on An Jiang was shattered, the subsequent attack was not as fierce as on the first day.

It's just that Shen Lu, who went out of the city to ask for help, has no news, I'm afraid that there will be more than one luck, Shen Yu doesn't say it, but his heart is extremely tormented.

The magistrate has the responsibility of defending the land, and losing the city and land is a capital crime, just like the magistrate of the neighboring county, Zhao Chun has prepared for the worst, and will die with the city when the city is broken.

In fact, once the city is broken, it will be a devastating disaster for the Japanese to enter An Jiang to burn and loot.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Rich and poor, noble and lowly, no one can stay out of the face of disasters, like Shen Yu, he can only use his flesh and blood to block his wife, children and mother, and resist the Japanese to death.

The soldiers and civilians in the city struggled to support until the seventh day, and they were no longer able to support it.

Shen Yu and Zhao Chun sat tiredly under the battlements.

Zhao Chun saw that he was distracted, and asked, "What is the bachelor thinking?" ”

"I want to drink." Shen Yu said very seriously: "I have more than a dozen jars of good wine in the cellar, and I am reluctant to drink it, so it is a pity to fall into the hands of thieves." ”

Zhao Chun couldn't help laughing, when his life was hanging by a thread, he didn't want his wife and children, he didn't want his family and his life, and he wanted to drink? finally knew how Huai'an's habit of opening the river came about, and it turned out to be Xiao's father.

Shen Yu still has a calm and calm demeanor, he has always been like this outside, the more dangerous the situation, the more extremely calm.

Just when the soldiers and civilians in the city were desperate, they saw smoke and dust in the southeast direction outside the city, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded like rain.

The voice was getting closer and closer, and the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city also rose to their throats. The smoke and dust gradually receded, and I saw an army coming towards the city gate under the banner of the "Qi" character army that covered the sky and the sun.

"Reinforcements!" Someone in the city shouted, "Reinforcements have arrived!" ”

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

Chapter 29

Reinforcements have arrived!

The people turned from despair to ecstasy, and then there were earth-shattering cheers.

Shen Yu stood up with the only strength he had left, and there were people talking to him along the way, but they didn't seem to hear him, his mind was empty, and there was only one thought left.

Just stumbled down the city, the city was the same people, the morning glow came out of the cracks in the clouds, shining on the bleak heaven and earth, the cold wind passed through the ears, and still blew the face painfully.

He walked through the crowd, through the glow, through the wind. He walked forward without a head.

Suddenly, the ghost turned around, Xu Tinglan was wearing a plain white jacket, a blood-stained cloak, a hood to block the wind, and standing in the light with no hands.

The blood was flowing through his body again, and he seemed to come back to life, for his wife was running towards him without hesitation.

Shen Yu wanted to hold her in his arms and rub her into his heart, it was best for the two of them to be one.

In the face of the public, in the end, it is better to press on.

He wanted to tell him about his fears and longings for many days, but when the words came to his lips, they were replaced by three words that were very indifferent: "Are you hungry?" ”

Xu Tinglan nodded: "I want to eat chicken soup wontons in Lanting Lane, I've been thinking about it for a few days." ”

So the two rode together, leaving behind their mother, brothers, and children, leaving behind all their identities and responsibilities—only themselves, beating their horses and whips, and going to Lanting Lane in the south of the city to find a bowl of wontons.

The brothers Huaiming and Huaiyuan, who were treated as air throughout the whole process, stood in the wind and looked at each other, and asked in unison: "Wonton shop, is it open?" ”

The wonton shop had indeed just opened, and when he heard the news of the arrival of reinforcements, the elderly owner slowly removed the door panel and prepared to open the door to welcome customers.

As a result, two guests were welcomed.

It's too bad, the chicken soup is still rolling, and the wontons haven't been rolled out and chopped yet, so why are there customers coming to the door so soon?

Shen Yuwu moved down the buckled bench on the square table and sat for Xu Tinglan.

Looking at the panicked shopkeeper, Xu Tinglan smiled and said, "Old man, don't worry, we are not short of this moment." ”

After so many days of danger, is there still time for a bowl of wontons?

……

Huai'an was wrapped in a small quilt and woke up from a warm sun.

Under the corridor outside the window, a few birds raised by my grandmother chirped, and the girls in the hall chatted happily.

Huai'an rubbed his sleepy eyes, there was no one around, and called out to Hao's mother, only to see Hao's mother hurrying in, her face full of joy: "Brother is awake?" ”

Seeing Hao's mother like this, Huai'an was sleepy, and asked excitedly, "Is there good news?" ”

"Yes!" Hao's mother said: "The Japanese are defeated, and Anjiang County is saved." ”

Huai'an got up with a bone: "What about my father and second uncle, and my brother?" ”

"I'm back, I'm back, I'm going back to the courtyards to rest. The uncle and grandmother didn't know what to do, and not long after they returned, they were driven to the Buddhist hall by their wives to make a vow. Hao's mother said.

Huai'an jumped out of bed and ran out barefoot.