Zhu Yanqu's eyes were blank, looking at the tumbling pieces of meat in the pot, his nose was slightly sour.

At noon, there was heavy footsteps or laughter outside.

Zhu Yanqu touched the gun covered with a blue and gray cloth, made a silent gesture to the children, and moved to the door of the thatched hut.

Zhu Yanqu looked out from the gap in the thatched fence to block the wind, and saw some skinny women washing vegetables and getting water by the stream, silently retracting their guns.

Zhu Yanqu retracted it, hid the weapon with his backhand, and saw the frightened expressions of the three children.

lowered his voice: "It's okay, don't worry. ”

Zhu Yanqu looked at the bamboo utensils in the bamboo basket and had cleaned them.

Still a little uneasy, I stroked the edge with my fingers, and there was no prickly touch, so I went to serve the broth to the three children.

"Drink some soup first to warm up."

Since the escape, it has been half a month, and the children have followed her to eat dry and hard kang cakes, and occasionally drink some water mixed with the smell of artillery fire.

When I went to fetch water, I tasted the water in the stream first, and there was no smell of artillery fire.

Watching the children finish drinking, they were served pieces of meat and chopsticks: "Eat slowly, be careful of scalding." ”

At this moment, the three children looked at her and cried, wanting to speak, but they didn't dare to say it.

Zhu Yanqu laughed lightly, and was holding the spoon when a shout came from outside.

"Lord Xi has an order, everyone has lunch, come to the stream, and have something to explain."

Zhu Yanqu once again looked through the gap in the windshield fence to see the person shouting loudly outside, it was that Yan Qingzhong.

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Zhu Yanqu was packing up the pots and bowls, and when he heard that there was no more noise, there were small footsteps again.

Yan Qingzhong stood outside, through the wind fence, and shouted to Zhu Yanqu: "Girl, I guess you heard what I just said." ”

Zhu Yanqu's voice was calm: "If it's not an urgent matter, I won't participate, is it feasible?" ”

"Miss Zhu, you are now a member of Zhaohua Village in Quzhou, how could you leave the four of you behind when you discuss a plan for survival?"

Zhu Yanqu didn't say anything for a long time, looked at the children sitting around the warm fire, and gritted his teeth: "I will go." ”

"Okay." Yan Qingzhong answered, and wanted to ask something more, but when he saw Xi Quan standing by the stream, he turned around and left.

Zhu Yanqu squatted down and looked at the bright eyes of the three children: "From now on, the three of you must be cautious everywhere, you know?" ”

Zhu Xingguo bowed his head, opened his mouth, with tears in his eyes, and closed his mouth.

Zhu Yanqu stretched out his hand, touched his forehead, let out a long sigh of relief, and beckoned to the youngest Gu Huayue: "Huayue, come to Auntie." ”

Gu Huayue, the little one, got up from the grass and walked in front of Zhu Yanqu, with a smile on her thin face.

Zhu Yanqu held her in his arms, heard heavy footsteps outside, and looked at Zhu Xingguo and Zhou Dongsheng: "Let's go out." ”

When I arrived at someone else's territory, there were many people, Zhu Yanqu's two fists were hard to beat with four hands, now take a step, look at a step.

Zhu Yanqu stood outside the bamboo hut with his three children, looking ahead.

saw Xi Quan and Yan Qingzhong standing at the front.

When the four of them passed, they inevitably had to be stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes, and there were also whispers.

Zhu Yanqu heard the Jianghuai dialect and the Wuyue dialect.

Looking at their clothes, Zhu Yanqu closed his eyes slightly, and his heart was full of helplessness.

-

Zhu Yanqu always paid attention to Zhu Xingguo and Zhou Dongsheng standing beside him, and looked at Gu Huayue in his arms, inevitably with some injuries.

There were many people, so Zhu Yanqu stood on the outermost periphery with his children, and from a distance, there were five or six hundred people.

It was Yan Qingzhong who spoke.

Zhu Yanqu noticed that Yan Qingzhong finished saying a word.

went to see Xi Quan beside him and whispered a few words to Xi Quan.

Zhu Yanqu was worried that the two children would stand for a long time, so he motioned for the two of them to sit on the stone on the side.

It was also this move that while talking to the child, I saw a tall barbaric native standing not far away.

One of them, a burly-looking man, looked straight at him.

Zhu Yanqu twisted his face away and looked ahead.

Yan Qingzhong conveyed Xi Quan's words, and everyone understood that today, two hundred and ten more people have been added to Zhaohua Village.

Two hundred and six barbarian natives.

There are four from Liangxi County, Jiangning Prefecture.

Zhu Yanqu saw that everyone raised their feet and left, and also left, and after walking a few steps, he saw Yan Qingzhong come forward,

"Girl, stay."

Zhu Yanqu also stopped: "What's the matter?" ”

Yan Qingzhong glanced back at Xi Quan, who was sitting by the stream cleaning stone knives.

"Your Excellency asked you to come over."

Zhu Yanqu frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and still agreed: "Hmm." ”

put down Gu Huayue in her arms and instructed her: "Follow me with my brother." ”

Yan Qingzhong noticed that no matter what Zhu Yanqu said, the three children only bowed their heads and smiled lightly, without even saying a word.

couldn't hold back, and asked, "Girl, these three children...... Why don't you speak? ”

Zhu Yanqu's footsteps faltered, looked at Yan Qingzhong, and said softly:

"Their parents died, they cried for a long time, their throats were damaged, and they couldn't speak for the time being."

Yan Qingzhong was taken aback, secretly distressed, and asked what he shouldn't have asked.

-

The sound of the water of the babbling stream.

Zhu Yanqu looked at Xi Quan, who was squatting by the stream, stepped forward, and asked, "Looking for me?" ”

When Xi Quan heard the voice, he slowly raised his eyes and looked up at her with a smile: "Hmm." ”

The words fell, and he got up.

stretched out the skinny palm, and in the palm of the palm was a bullet stained with water droplets.

Zhu Yanqu took a step back, his eyes angry.

When Xi Quan saw her performance, he didn't care, his eyes fluttering at the things in his palm.

"The girl has a good technique, and she hits the forehead of the wolf, and the blow is fatal."

Zhu Yanqu looked at him calmly: "That's why you're looking for me?" ”

"Hmm." Xi Quan thought for a while.

Leaning over slightly, he looked directly at Zhu Yanqu, whose complexion was slightly worse and his eyebrows were cold.

Zhu Yanqu was shocked by his actions, his steps staggered a little, and glared at him.

Xi Quan whispered: "Don't think about slipping away!" ”

Zhu Yanqu thought to himself, whether I go or not, what does it have to do with you?

I caught a glimpse of him wrapping the bullet in a piece of white-washed cloth.

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Zhu Yanqu turned to look at the three children, and on his frightened face, he squeezed out a smile against his will.

Yan Qingzhong hadn't left yet, and saw Zhu Yanqu come back.

"Girl, if you want to go out to pick wild vegetables, it will be safe for the time being, and there will be no wild beasts. If you are not at ease, you can join the people in the village. ”

Zhu Yanqu smiled indifferently: "Got it, thank you for the reminder!" ”

Yan Qingzhong pursed his lips, thinking of what he said just now, he hesitated and asked again:

"Girl, if it's convenient, handle the household registration."

"Hukou?"

Faced with questions, Yan Qingzhong nodded shyly: "Well, what the adults asked for is also for everyone's safety." ”