Cartilage [Republic of China]

Walking to the stove, I found a young man with a square face who was cleaning the pot: "Pingzhi, don't hold that pot all day long to brush, the rust won't come off, it will leak after brushing." The young man's surname is Qian, Pingzhi is his name.

Qian Pingzhi walked out of the room with a groan, suspiciously: "Tuan Zuo, what else do you want to ask?"

Mixed with guilt, he recruited Qian Pingzhi over, put his arms around his shoulders, and asked him in an intimate whisper: "I want to call back, what do you think is the way?"

Qian Pingzhi immediately got out of his hand, waved his hands and hid: "Tuan Zuo, I can't take this idea, I never said a few serious words in the group, you are too flattering me."

"It's not that you can't see, these people." He propped his waist with one hand, and swung the other hand towards the string of houses on the south side: "I can't order any of them. They wanted to tie me up early this morning. It's just a matter of luck." The horse meat hasn’t been eaten yet, so I’ll wait until tomorrow. Maybe they’ll come to eat my meat.”

As if his mind had been poked, Qian Pingzhi lowered his head: "There's no way, those who can take up this job are just running with the wind."

Zhu Yanren walked in front of him with long arms and legs. While eating and sleeping in the open air for a few days made him thinner, he also became stronger, because malnutrition made his hair and face yellow.But still very beautiful.Qian Pingzhi thought blankly, no wonder Gao Xieyang was reluctant to kill him directly.Who doesn't like a beauty?He really wanted to see Zhu Yanren take off his military uniform and put on city clothes.Should be very beautiful.

"I have a way, I need you to help me." Zhu Yanren knew what he was thinking, and put his hand on his shoulder.Staring at his eyes, there was no disturbance in his heart, he knew that he was not capable of one person, and if he wanted to survive tomorrow, he needed to be scheming.

"What way?" Qian Pingzhi was suspicious, wanting to go back and continue cleaning up.Zhu Yanren grabbed him: "From today on, you will be my close police officer. You will call everyone over later, and I will hold a meeting."

An extremely simple map was drawn on the ground in the middle of the thatched house, which was drawn by Qian Pingzhi.Except for the two who were killed by Zhu Yanren in the past two days, the others were successively invited into this small room by Qian Pingzhi either with disdain or unwillingness.Being squeezed by them, it seemed even more cramped.Fortunately, there are only four walls here, so I don't worry about finding a place to stand.

Around the map, there are more than a dozen incomplete broken bowls mixed with yam.It's one broken cup after another.Zhu Yanren didn't know where it was picked up by picking up the trash. He ignored the guns in the hands of these soldiers and their mixed expressions.Counting the number of people in my heart, there are sixteen in total.

After counting, he pointed around the map with a wooden stick as long as his forearm in his hand: "Drink water." After speaking, he waited calmly. At first, no one moved, and there was a stalemate for a while. , Zhu Yanren picked up the cup in front of him and took a sip.Someone also came out from behind, sat around the map, and held up a cup.

One after another, people kept coming out, drinking a little, or pouring a glass of water into their stomachs.In the end, ten people sat around the map, and Zhu Yanren became the leader.With the idea of ​​a small meeting, he first circled the map and clicked: "This is where we are now," and the branch followed a line: "This is the Tonghe waterway that you all know , Up along the river is Lin Zhuang, where Gao Xieyang is now. Down is Dongtan, and there are several big Zhuangzi, which the Japanese have already occupied and then withdrew."

He pointed to everyone: "Today's meeting is very simple. We need to do two things, one is to recruit soldiers, and the other is to collect food."

"Conscription requires money, but we don't have any, so we have to go home tonight and ask for money." Zhu Yanren raised his head, because he hadn't washed his hair for a long time, his hair was tied in knots and pulled back, and because his forehead was stuck He was gray and had shining eyes, making him look like a good-looking wolf.

32. Come back...

Only five people stayed on the mountain, and the remaining nine walked towards Lin Zhuang together with Zhu Yanren through the night.They dodged the right path, twisted, and approached the grain depot at Lin Zhuangao's barracks.

The grain depot is in the west of Linzhuang. It stands to reason that in such an important place, there will be at least one battalion of troops scattered around the grain depot.When we got to the place, the scene there was shocking—there were no soldiers at all, and even the doors were wide open.

Zhu Yanren thought about it, wondering if he was singing an empty plan or inviting you into the urn.He drew the gun from his pocket and raised his hat by the muzzle.Pointing to the three people closest to him: "Let's go back to the house, Pingzhi, you bring someone to guard here, and see which song he sings."

"I'll go back with you." Qian Pingzhi raised his head to look at him: "I'm skilled but stupid, so I can't see anything here."

He looks a little clumsy and cute when he looks up like this, Zhu Yanren's heart is moved, so just take him with him.

Thanks to him coming out to feed the dogs a while ago, he doesn't know any proper roads here, but he is very familiar with the way of crossing the farmland and crossing the river.The four of them were like wild monkeys, swinging nimbly around Gaolu's territory.

When he floated to the house, he found that it was brightly lit, and people came in and out from time to time, mixed with many people in white coats. These were not locals, and there were not so many military doctors in Gaolv.After thinking about it, he winked at the people behind him.

He is a Japanese, and from a distance, Zhu Yanren can tell that his suitcase is not used by people like Gao Lu.They lie down in the cornfield.When he got close, he stabbed in obliquely, and Qian Pingzhi came up and cut his throat with a knife.Zhu Yanren glared at him blamingly, and quickly took off his clothes to cover the gushing blood.

He quickly took off the clothes from him.Zhu Yanren replaced it.Just when he was about to go out, it was Qian Pingzhi who pulled him away. He reached out to take off Zhu Yanren's coat: "Let me go, you are so unusually tall, you can tell it at a glance."

Zhu Yanren thought for a while, and before he had time to hesitate, he took off his clothes: "Take Xiao Zhao out while there is chaos, and don't worry about anything else."

Just as Qian Pingzhi walked out, Zhu Yanren held him: "If something happens, don't confront them head-on. Keep your head down and walk out, they won't recognize you."

Carrying the suitcase, he nodded under the Japanese military cap.Walk towards the compound.

"Run to the west when you come out, there is a secret passage under the ditch there, I will meet you inside." Zhu Yanren continued to instruct him.

Qian Pingzhi doesn't know a word of Japanese, and he's not clever, so he can't get in at all.As soon as he let Qian Pingzhi go out, he regretted it.Wading the water in the cornfield, the new corn leaves were scorchingly cut on his flesh.Unconsciously, the wind came over, wrinkling the leaves of a field.

Hiding by the edge of the field, and going a few steps, the soldiers at the gate are within sight.He watched Qian Pingzhi walking towards the soldiers, and what worried him the most was that a soldier walked over first, but fortunately he was flattering and asked him if he had left anything behind.The main thing is that Qian Pingzhi can pretend to smile, and maybe he can get away with it.

At this time, Qian Ping stretched his hand back suddenly, and cut the man's carotid artery, blood spurted out immediately.He took a step forward, and another knife cut the throat of another soldier.From the beginning to the end, apart from the sound of the corpse falling to the ground, they didn't have a chance to yell even more.

Zhu Yanren rubbed the sweat on his brow, and he comforted himself that Qian Pingzhi's skill is good, so he won't suffer a big loss.Quietly lowered his body, turned around and told the two people: "Go back and steal some food directly. If there is an ambush, retreat, and shoot again as a last resort. You can only go back for cover, not for your life."

Where the two left, leaves fell one by one.The guards at the door are already dead, their eyes are open, but they can't see anything.

Time seems to pass very slowly, every small wind is slowly extended, touching the tip of the leaf, passing the edge of the leaf, and skipping the tail of the leaf.He picked out the field and walked towards the ditch. He stood by the side of the ditch while planning the way to escape.

Looking back again, he let out a deep breath, no one has come back until now, their luck is very good.

At this time, a car drove over from a distance, making him stunned in place.The car was speeding this way, like a big green bug in the field.When it was approaching the door, it suddenly noticed something strange, frantically honked the horn, and stopped the car.

During this period of time, Qian Pingzhi provided almost everything, and he dragged the limping Xiao Zhao out of the courtyard gate.The car froze for a moment, then spread its huge wings, someone came out from inside and fired a shot at the door.There was also chaos in the house: "Catch him! He's gone!"

Zhu Yanren rushed over from the ditch, took Xiao Zhao, and rushed towards the ditch: "Run!"

Qian Pingzhi bumped into him suddenly, and he staggered and rolled into the ditch.The gun hit the place where he was standing just now, and a lot of fresh soil was thrown up.The flesh on Qian Pingzhi's leg also collapsed, and several soldiers hurriedly held Qian Pingzhi down. Qian Pingzhi wailed in pain and yelled at Zhu Yanren, which seemed to be pleading: "Shoot at me!" !kill me!"

Someone jumped down towards Zhu Yanren, Zhu Yanren rolled around holding Xiao Zhao and shot at that person.He was in a hurry, his mind was full of Qian Pingzhi's yelling, that stupid young man with a square face, he was so young.He also shot at Qian Pingzhi, but he was not a sharpshooter, he didn't have very good marksmanship at all, he fired and rolled indiscriminately.Qian Pingzhi's roaring voice filled his head.

The soldiers in the khaki clothes of the high brigade rushed towards him like sewage. He fired continuously until he ran out of bullets, but he failed to help Qian Pingzhi go away with peace of mind.Picking up Xiao Zhao, he got into the hole when the soldiers brushed past him, turning around