Subduing Dragon
Chapter 26: Life and death
Lu Sheng walked for two nights and one day.
The rails were indeed broken, but no troops showed up.Probably because of the freezing weather, the army was powerless and unable to fight a protracted war.
For two nights and one day, Lu Sheng didn't sleep a wink, and only ate three frozen steamed buns that were harder than iron.The thin donkey couldn't hold on halfway, so he threw the donkey, and for the last part of the way, he gritted his teeth and forced himself to walk down.
This time he entered a fairly large county town. There were several lines of trains intersecting in the railway station of the county town, all of which were heading north.He bought a ticket and boarded the train as if nothing had happened.The train carried a dining car. In the dining car, he ate two pieces of bread the size of pillows and drank a large pot of hot milk.After returning to his seat and leaning back, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then his body floated, knowing nothing.
He slept all the way.
He woke up just in time, before the train arrived at the station.Before going to sleep, he was only tired and hungry, but now after sleeping, he felt the muscles all over his body were sore, as if being pricked by needles; out of shape.Gritting his teeth and standing up, he immediately closed his eyes fiercely, the sudden burst of pain almost made him scream out.
Before the train arrived at the station, he went to the dining car and stuffed another large piece of bread into his belly.The train came into the station with its whistle blowing, and when the door opened, he was the first to jump off.Two feet fell to the ground from a high place, as if a knife had fallen on his bare feet. For the first time, he realized that he was quite delicate.
The place where he got off is called Zhengding, which is a big county in Zhili.Walking down the street with an unshaven beard, Lu Sheng first bought a newspaper.The newspaper is produced in the county, with a narrow field of vision, and only focuses on news within a radius of dozens of miles.He didn't find Long Xiang's whereabouts in the newspaper, so he stopped a passer-by and asked, "Excuse me, do you know where Commander Long's soldiers are fighting? My brother Qiu was captured by them. It's one o'clock now." No news at all."
Looking at Lusheng's hedgehog-like head and bloodshot eyes, the passer-by didn't feel suspicious at all, and replied directly: "Your brother was captured by them, and you still don't hide far away? Do you think they didn't catch him?" Can't you catch it too?"
Lu Sheng sighed, "The family is thinking about him, we must know whether he is dead or alive."
Pedestrians can't waste their words on strangers, and seeing that he is determined to seek death, they don't stop him, "Go to Wanggezhuang, there is a fire over there!"
Lu Sheng thanked him, and asked about the location of Wang Gezhuang.Before leaving the county seat, he saw a seller of stove candy on the street, so he bought a pack and put it in his pocket.He has no addiction to candy, but he wants to buy it when he sees it.It turned out that when he returned home from a long trip, he always wanted to bring something to Longxiang and Yaya, and this time seemed to be no exception.
Wanggezhuang is eighty miles away.Lu Sheng hired a big carriage, and the big carriage sent him sixty miles and he dared not go any further. So he dragged his two unconscious feet and walked for another twenty miles.At this time, he didn't dare to say that he was looking for his younger brother anymore, for fear that Longxiang's enemies would take him as an enemy and shoot him.He didn't understand the pattern of the battlefield. Based on his experience, he first looked around from a distance, trying to find the trenches, but the sky and the earth were white, and there was no sign of the trenches.
If there are no trenches, then he looks for housing.But Wanggezhuang is such a small village, with only a small patch of squat thatched houses gathered at the foot of a hill, it seems that none of the houses is qualified to be a headquarters.
Moreover, it doesn't look like there are soldiers.
Lusheng plucked up his courage, and before it was dark and his strength was exhausted, he decided to visit the village.Even if you can't find the dragon face, it's good to ask for hot water.Walking through the heavy snow step by step, the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong - he couldn't see clearly from a distance, but when he got closer, he found that there were sparsely erected low wooden poles on the ground, and the iron wires were wrapped around the wooden poles. Obviously, it is necessary to pull out several fence-like lines of defense.However, for some reason, it stopped working as soon as it started.Be careful and continue to walk forward, he is getting closer and closer to the village, but there are still no people, only a few window holes with dim fire shining.
Quietly, he entered the village.
The village was as far as the eye could see, and he passed the first house, only to find that the house had no door, and a group of soldiers were sitting on the ground in the house, roasting something around a small fire.Judging by the clothes of the soldiers, they should be Longxiang's subordinates.
But Lu Sheng didn't dare to say anything.No one in the room noticed him, so he continued walking silently.Walking through a room and then a courtyard, when he was at a loss, he suddenly heard a voice from a room beside him.A man was chewing and saying vaguely: "Damn it, don't you dare to be an old man... When I finish drinking this pot of wine... That little bitch... Commander? I'm afraid of the poor commander!"
Hearing this, Lu Sheng's mind went crazy.Inhaling in one breath and holding it, he first stepped back step by step, then turned around and stepped forward step by step.There seemed to be no villagers left in this village, and the houses were all occupied by rout soldiers.He went around to the back of the room and walked against the wall so that he could hear the movement in the room.However, before he had gone far, he stopped, suspecting that he heard Yaya's voice.After listening carefully for a while, he became more and more serious—the voice was not clear, but it was indeed a woman talking, and it was crying, and it was a coaxing tone.Looking for the sound and walking over, he stopped in front of a small house in the corner of the village.The room was broken, and the door was also broken. It couldn't be closed tightly, and the gap was big enough to let one's palm get in.He knelt down and pressed one eye to the gap, and his heart jumped in his chest at the same time!
He saw Yaya!I also saw the dragon face!
Yaya was wearing thin and dirty clothes, squatting in front of the brazier in the center of the ground, stirring the charcoal fire with a branch.He held the branch in one hand, and patted the dragon figure beside him with the other.
Lu Sheng suddenly wanted to cry - if it wasn't for Yaya who was watching and patting him, he would hardly have recognized that it was Longxiang.
Long Xiang sat cross-legged in front of the brazier, with his head hanging deeply to his chest, his hair was messed up like a beggar, and it grew so long that it almost covered his ears.Lu Sheng couldn't see his face, but he could see his neck—a string of bead-like knuckles protruding from the back of his neck, which showed that he was skinny now.Lusheng didn't know whether he was wearing a coat or a robe, but it was a messy pile, entangled him layer by layer.
It is enough to see here.After making sure that there was no one else in the room, Lu Sheng gently opened the door, and at the same time probed in and called softly, "Yaya."
Yaya turned her head in an instant.Staring straight at Lu Sheng at the door, she opened her mouth slightly, her face expressionless, but her eyes wide open.
Lu Sheng suddenly realized, and immediately added: "It's me."
Yaya hesitated and opened her mouth, "Big brother?"
Lu Sheng tiptoed and stooped into the house, "Hush, don't make a sound, no one knows I'm here now. Let me ask you, is there no one around you?"
Yaya still kept her eyes open, and when she heard Lu Sheng's question, she immediately nodded vigorously.
Lu Sheng had an idea in his mind, squatted down and leaned into Yaya's ear and said, "Don't make a sound, bring what you want to bring quickly. I think the group of people outside are going to rebel, so let's leave as soon as possible before they turn their backs."
Yaya turned over and got up, grabbed a small jacket from a dark corner and put it on, and tied a big bundle diagonally to her body.Holding a small burden in her hand, she was like a snail good at carrying heavy loads. Although she was bent over by the heavy burden, she still ran over to reach out to help Longxiang.Lu Sheng saw that the condition of Long Xiang was abnormal, neither sleeping nor awake, just sitting with his head down, but he was in a hurry and didn't have time to ask.With his back to Longxiang, he bent his knees and asked Yaya to help him onto his back.
Then Yaya carried the burden on his back, and he carried Longxiang on his back, pushed open the door and ran out stooping.No one expected that Lu Sheng would fall from the sky and take away the Commander and his wife, so they ran smoothly.In less than a moment, they rushed in the cold wind, leaving the small group of rout soldiers in the village behind.
Lu Sheng now has nowhere to go.
It is unrealistic to run back to the county seat.The journey is too long, and he and Yaya don't have the physique to walk like flying.Both of his hands were occupied by Long Xiang's thighs, he couldn't use his hands to pull Yaya, he could only keep turning his head to look at her while running.In the dark night, Yaya became a messy black shadow, he couldn't see her eyebrows clearly, only heard her panting.Suddenly seeing a forest in front of him, Lu Sheng led Yaya and ran into it.There may be wild animals in the woods, but he doesn't care about those many.
At the place where the trees were densest, Lu Sheng put Long Xiang on a big rock, and Yaya squatted down, continuing to pant heavily.Lu Sheng also squatted aside, and when Yaya's breathing gradually became smoother, he asked, "Why did this happen? We lost the war?"
Yaya lowered her head, her face was blocked by strands of long bangs, "I don't know how I did it, he didn't tell me anything, and I just ran foolishly with him. After running, I Seeing that there are fewer and fewer people around us, and the place we live in is getting more and more out of the way, I realized something was wrong, but it was too late."
Lu Sheng wrapped his big hand around Yaya's little hand, and clenched it tightly, wanting to give her some warmth, "It's okay, don't be afraid, just let's escape. I'll take you to the south, we're in the south And the house!"
Yaya was silent for a moment, then suddenly shivered, and when she spoke again, she cried, "I'm afraid, I've always been afraid, since he died, those soldiers under him are staring at us like tigers and wolves. I can see that too They're going to do something bad, but they just haven't made up their minds yet. They've made up their minds, and neither he nor I can live."
Hearing this, Lu Sheng suddenly became puzzled, "Is he dead? He—" He turned his head to look at Long Xiang who was lying on the boulder, "What's wrong with him?"
Yaya raised her hand to wipe her eyes, and cried: "He has been losing battles since last year. Once he lost, he lost his temper, drank to death, and offended Uncle Xu and the others thoroughly. At that time, Uncle Xu quarreled with him every day. Once he was in a hurry and even fired a pistol. Later, Uncle Xu took away tens of thousands of people, and he was so angry that he cried and shouted, saying that he was finished and could not be the emperor. Well, who would have thought that one morning, he suddenly didn’t know anyone, not even me.”
When Lu Sheng heard this, he didn't say anything, but got up and walked in front of Long Xiang.Bending down with one hand on his knee, he reached out to brush the other party's messy hair.Under the moonlight, he vaguely saw a thin and pointed face.The eyebrows are still the eyebrows of the dragon, but there is no expression at all, the black and white eyeballs seem to be fake, and there is no light in the pupils.
He could see who the dragon looked like at this moment, and the day he had to guard against had finally come.
The appearance of the dragon at this moment is just like the envoy Lu Sheng saw for the first time back then.
"Long Xiang." Lu Sheng called out in a low voice, "I'm here, take a look at me."
Long Xiang didn't respond, he just blinked his eyes slowly, as if he was completely drunk, but also extremely tired, his eyelids and eyelashes together would weigh a thousand catties.
Lu Sheng touched his face lightly, and his heart sank down, until he reached the eighteenth floor underground, into the endless hell with no way out.He expected this day to come eventually, but he didn't expect it to come so early.Trembling and exhaling, he suddenly became calm, as calm as a thousand-year-old stone at the bottom of a deep pool.
Everything is in its place, in its place.The one who should be crazy is already crazy. He has lived until now, and finally he no longer has to worry about him.
"It's okay, don't be afraid." He turned back and told Yaya, "I'm here, I'll take you away."
Lu Sheng spent a lot of effort in arranging Long Xiang's clothes.It turned out that the weather was too cold, so Yaya put on all the thick clothes she could get her hands on.After taking off his outer cotton robe, Lusheng took off his inner woolen overcoat.The woolen overcoat was in the style of a military uniform, and the cuffs were trimmed with circles of gold stitches, and the epaulets and collar patches were also sewn firmly, Lu Sheng couldn't tear them off no matter how hard he tried, so he had to throw it away.Inside the coat was still a military uniform, so he had to continue taking it off.Yaya was chattering beside him, although she knew very little, but Lusheng could understand the current situation - Long Xiang had become a thorn in the side of tens of millions of people at this moment, and he would never return home, just as As I promised just now, he and Yaya must follow me back to Shanghai.It wasn't enough to go back to Shanghai, he had to hide in the foreign concession for a year or so, until the waves of the Yangtze River pushed forward and there was no such thing as Long Xiang in the world, then he could come out to see people again.
Playing with Longxiang with both hands, he spoke in a low voice at the same time, soothing Yaya with words.Yaya believed everything he said.It was so dark, but he could see Yaya's pious face, as if he saw God in a desperate situation.
So Lu Sheng turned his eyes away on purpose, not facing her - he would feel like crying if he faced her.Why cry, he does not know.
After taking off the clothes with the army mark on Long Xiang's body, Lu Sheng put the cotton robe on him again, and forcibly pulled off the riding boots on his feet.Then the question arises, there are no extra shoes, should we just give him a layer of socks to let him freeze in the snowy night?
Yaya made a move at this time.She has no strength now, and there are scissors in the small bundle, but her fingers are so stiff that she can't untie the bundle's noose knots.She lowered her head and bit the cotton cloth of the military overcoat with her teeth. She tore off a large piece of cotton cloth with her hands and mouth.
Lu Sheng divided the piece of cotton cloth into two, and dealt with the feet that covered Long Xiang.Then picked him up again, and Lu Sheng suddenly remembered something, "Yaya, you take out my pocket, there is candy. Let's walk slowly this time, and eat as you walk."
Yaya hummed, reached out her hand clumsily, and really took out a paper bag of stove candies.She took out a piece of candy and put it in her mouth, then wrapped the rest of the stove candy and put it back in Lusheng's pocket.
"I'll just eat a little." She told Lu Sheng, "Leave the sweet ones to him!"
Lu Sheng asked, "What's in that big bag of yours? Don't take it if it's not worth much, it's so heavy."
Yaya told him in a low voice: "You can't throw it away, it's all money."
Lu Sheng looked at her in surprise, "Put money in a bag?"
Yaya replied: "There are foreign money, and there are tin boxes for passbooks and jewelry, and this box is the heaviest." She raised her hand and pointed forward, "Brother, let's not go that way. Then On the other side is Wanggezhuang, we ran out from there yesterday."
It was only then that Lu Sheng realized that he had gone the wrong way earlier, and had bumped into them by mistake.A layer of chills stood up on his spine, and he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Then..." He tried his best to ignore his fear, and started another topic, "Do the people in the team know him? After meeting him, do you know who he is?"
Yaya thought for a while, and suddenly a look of panic appeared on her face, "I don't know, but his photos were always published in the newspapers a few years ago, maybe I know him?"
As soon as this remark came out, Lu Sheng was also dumbfounded - no, but anyone who occasionally reads newspapers may recognize Long Xiang.Long Xiang has not changed his appearance in the past few years, especially he is not a mediocre appearance, his appearance is particularly easy to recognize and remember.
"It's okay." He quickly comforted Yaya, "Let's go around this area and find another train station to get on the train. Just leave Zhili."
Since the road ahead was impassable, Lu Sheng had no choice but to turn on the spot and change direction.Long Xiang lay softly and heavily on his back, Yaya tugged at his sleeves, and followed closely beside him.When they reached the end of the forest, they saw a barren and endless crop field.In this season, there are only tall and low straws left on the land, and shacks like tofu blocks stand crookedly on the fields.
Lu Sheng led Yaya into the shack.This shack has no insulation effect, but it can always keep out the wind to some extent.Lu Sheng put down the dragon figure, went out and picked up some nearby sticks and came back, and lit a small fire in the center of the hut.
Yaya knew how to serve the fire, and did not burn out the thick smoke that filled the shack.Lu Sheng sat by the fire, holding Long Xiang in his arms with one hand, "Has he always been this honest?"
Yaya replied: "It's because he drank in the afternoon, and he's honest after drinking. I still have two bottles in this little bag. Before we get on the train, I have to buy some more for him. Wine is better than medicine. "
Lusheng stared at Yaya in the jumping firelight, then raised his hand and rubbed her head, "I'm not human anymore." Yaya smiled mischievously, seeing the stubble on Lusheng's face, it was quite different from usual Likewise, at first glance, it was almost unrecognizable as him.Lu Sheng waved to her and patted himself on the shoulder.She looked at him with a silly look on her face. After a moment of foolishness, she moved over and sat down next to Lu Sheng.Looking at Lu Sheng's feet shrunk in front of the fire, she reached out to touch the upper, "How thin are these shoes."
Lu Sheng grabbed her hand.The shoes are indeed thin, and the clothes are not thick, but strangely, he is not cold.It was as if he was fighting for his life to perform a big drama on stage for many years, but now he went down when he was exhausted, and his heart was not lost, but relaxed.
"This journey is not easy, and it's cold." He told Yaya, "Eat what you can, sleep when you can, no matter what, we have to get through it. After getting through it, it will be another world."
Speaking of this, he smiled, "Shanghai is really lively, more prosperous than Tianjin, like a foreign country."
When Yaya heard this, there was a smile in her eyes, "I haven't been shopping in Tianjin, I just stay at home every day."
Lu Sheng imagined a bright future—the good days that he didn't dare to think about before, and the good days that he thought about were useless, suddenly appeared faintly like islands in the mist.
"I'll take you shopping." He looked at Yaya, and his heart suddenly jumped wildly, "I don't have to worry about food and drink. You are young, why don't you play? I haven't played before. Let's make up for it this time." .”
Yaya lowered her head noncommittally—she saw the island that Lu Sheng saw.to a new place?Be a newcomer?Start a new life?
Yaya didn't dare to think about it.You can't think about good things, but when you deal with good things, you have to pretend not to know and let it happen by yourself.
Lu Sheng didn't sleep, and let Long Xiang and Yaya sleep by themselves.So in the early hours of the morning, the fire went out, and Long Xiang woke up first.
He was still nestling in Lu Sheng's arms, his eyes were half-closed, and he was muttering something.Lu Sheng bowed his head and listened deeply, and heard him chanting "Attack... must... the military headquarters..." intermittently, all of which were fragments of words, not a sentence.
Inserting his fingers into his messy hair, Lu Sheng groped for the two small bumps on his head, and suddenly remembered the little boy in red standing in front of his bed that morning when he first arrived at Long's house.How ridiculous!Just because of these two little things growing on his head, so many adults would insist that he is a dragon with one voice.
Talk and talk, and it will come true.Not to mention that little boy, even a big boy like him is a little bit convinced.
Suddenly remembered the stove candy in his pocket, he wanted to take it out for Long Xiang to eat, but after thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't give it.It's good that Long Xiang is half dead now, if he eats sweets and loses his energy, it will be difficult to manipulate at that time.
At this time, Yaya also woke up.
No water, only wine.Lu Sheng unscrewed a bottle, fed Long Xiang a few sips, then carried him on his back, got out of the shack with Yaya and set off on the road again.They dare not leave the big county town, but the world is big, and there is always their way.
At a small market in one of the villages, they entered a small shed.The shed was hot and steamy, and it was a small shop specializing in food.Lu Sheng ordered four bowls of Yangchun noodles and a large bowl of freshly cooked meat.Yaya started to eat meat and noodles in suspense, but the shopkeeper saw that they were poor in appearance but eating well, so he couldn't help asking: "Where do you guys come from?"
Lu Sheng supported Longxiang with one hand and chopsticks with the other. The shopkeeper asked that way, and he answered like this: "Don't mention it, the day before yesterday, it was on the mountain over there. We came here to ask for money, and our family is lucky to be able to keep this life. My brother was not in good health, but this time he was frightened and frozen, and it’s over! Hurry up and go home! This time, I have seen what it means to be in chaos, and I will never go out again!"
The shopkeeper listened, but didn't hear any flaws.It is also normal for an elder brother to bring a brother, and a daughter-in-law or younger sister-in-law.At this time, Lu Sheng took a few big mouthfuls of noodles into his mouth, and then used a spoon to scoop up some noodle soup and fed it to Long Xiang.Long Xiang opened his mouth to drink the soup, but then he pushed his tongue and spit out the soup again.
Lu Sheng put down the spoon, wiped his chin with his sleeve, and urged Yaya: "Eat quickly, those two bowls are yours, eat them all."
Yaya puffed her cheeks, unable to speak with her tongue, she nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice.Lu Sheng didn't waste any time, he put his arms around Long Xiang who was sitting beside him with one hand, and stuffed noodles into his mouth with the chopsticks with the other hand, while holding a heart, in case Long Xiang suddenly roared and made a fuss, saying something " Army, attack" and other nonsense.
In a panic, he ate up two large bowls of hot noodles. Seeing that this shop also sells steamed buns, Lu Sheng bought five to take with him.The shopkeeper stood outside the shed, watching the man with the man on his back and the woman with the burden on their backs, and the two of them walked forward side by side, thinking that the bandits they met were quite kind, and they left such a big burden on her .
On this day, Lu Sheng and Yaya didn't go too far.After passing through two small villages, they stopped in a town—they had to stop, Yaya's face and hands were covered with purple lilies; Lusheng also bent over more and more as he walked, and he seemed to have the appearance of a dragon. Heavy.
There was only one hotel in the town, and Lu Sheng and Yaya had discussed it. The three of them would sleep through the middle of the night.
The three of them entered a room. There was nothing in the room except a heated kang.Lu Sheng asked the clerk for hot water, and asked Yaya to wash her face and hands, and then her feet, while she soaked half a steamed bun in hot water to soften, and fed it to Long Xiang bit by bit.Long Xiang just drank the remaining bottle of foreign wine - he seemed reluctant to give him anything to eat, and his tongue always pushed the food out.Only strong wine is welcome, as if that wine were honey water, which tastes nothing but good.
After drinking the wine, his eyes returned to their half-closed state, and he stopped talking.Lu Sheng smiled at Yaya, "Fortunately, he doesn't make trouble."
Yaya climbed into the kang with her legs up, straightened her legs comfortably, and then beat her back with her hands behind her back, "Big brother, do you think he will always be like this in the future?"
Hearing this, Lu Sheng suddenly felt that his thoughts were sinister - if Long Xiang "has always been like this", it would be good for himself and Yaya.I have long wanted to marry Yaya, and I have long been determined to take care of Long Xiang for the rest of my life. If Long Xiang is "always like this", then my dream will come true.
As for Yaya, of course Yaya would agree.
Thinking of this, Lu Sheng helped Long Xiang to lie on the kang, then sat on the edge of the kang, took off his shoes and socks, and stepped his frostbitten bare feet into the foot-washing water that Yaya had used.After shivering comfortably, he said without turning his head: "Lie down and sleep, if you don't sleep for a while, it's time to go again."
There was a rustling sound from behind, it was Yaya who was moving the pillow back and forth.A kang, three people, how to sleep, two of them were muttering in their hearts.In the end, Lu Sheng also got on the kang, and he arranged himself in the very center, with Ya Ya on one side and Xiang Long on the other.The three of them did not take off their clothes, but fell asleep.
After a good night's sleep, Lu Sheng and Ya Yaquan felt that their legs were much lighter.In the early hours of the morning, one carrying a person and the other carrying a burden, they set off on the road again.This time the future became brighter, and they would be able to enter the county town after another sixty miles.It is a peaceful place and there is a train station.Get on the train from there, and you can leave Zhili in a few hours.
The wind was as cold as a knife, and there was a half-white moon slanting in the dark sky, and the moonlight was also cold.Walking on the mountain road, Lu Sheng felt like a butcher, carrying a heavy fan of meat on his back.The silent Longxiang made him feel strange, but fortunately Yaya was still familiar.Lu Sheng really wanted to hold her hand and lead her forward, but unfortunately he couldn't.Turning his head to look at Yaya, he was about to speak, but there was a crisp sound in the air, and then he felt a scalding gust blowing across his cheeks.Almost at the same second, there was a bang in the wild grass beside the road, and dust was kicked up.Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then realized: a bullet just flew past him!
He immediately wanted to lie down, but there was already a cursing voice from the dark side of the road, "I can't even hit you, are you fucking blind?"
Immediately another voice rang out, "This broken gun can turn any bullet!"
Tall black figures emerged from the darkness and swayed up the road—first one, then two more.Three people lined up, one carrying a short knife more than a foot long, one dragging a rifle, and one empty-handed.Lu Sheng couldn't see their faces clearly, but he could recognize their tattered military uniforms.They are rout soldiers!The rout of Long Xiang's subordinates!
The empty-handed person in the middle spoke, "Miss Commander, it's ok, you can run fast enough with the wild man!"
Lu Sheng stepped in front of Yaya, "Brothers, let's have something to talk about. Your Commander Long and I have had a life-threatening friendship. Now the battle can no longer be fought, and others are also sick. I just ask Take him away alive."
As soon as this remark came out, the person in the middle sneered, "Let's go? It's a beautiful idea! We were a group of brothers, there were thirteen of us when we were carrying guns, and the three of us died in a month! I know how we all died. Is it? The front is clearly firing at us, and the **** Long Yunteng is forcing us to charge forward, and we will be killed if we take a step back! We didn't eat a full meal, and we took ten lives first!"
Lu Sheng understood what it means to be "vicious and vicious". This group of people has strength and hatred, but they have no food and no future. This group of people is vicious and vicious.Tilting the big piece of meat on his back, he secured the back of the dragon, and then said cautiously: "Yes, yes, I also know your grievances. In this way, I will pay, you guys With the money, you can support your dead friends and live a comfortable life in the future. If I take Long Yunteng away far away, there will be no more of him in the world, okay?"
As soon as this remark came out, the three of them laughed together.One of them told Lu Sheng: "Your mother, I will take whatever I want, and you will give it to me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his rifle and smashed his head at Lu Sheng!
Lu Sheng subconsciously raised his hand to block it, and Long Xiang behind him immediately slid down and sat on the ground reeling.And Lu Sheng was hit hard on both arms by the rifle, only heard a muffled sound, he gritted his teeth in pain, and felt that his two forearms were almost broken in response.Immediately, his hands clenched into fists, and his fingers were still in control. Before the second shot fell, he aimed at the face of the man in front of him, and punched him with all his strength, hitting the man's face.However, at this moment, another pair of big fists greeted him.Two fists are no match for four hands, and he resisted the opponent's two punches with his chest.Staggering, he was about to take a step back and stand firm, but he forgot that there was a dragon figure sitting behind him.He stepped on Long Xiang's thigh, but Long Xiang didn't make a sound, but he couldn't stand firmly and leaned back.
Yaya threw off the heavy burden on her body, crying and reaching out to grab the soldier with the gun.When Lu Sheng saw it, he hurriedly shouted, "Run! Run!"
But before he finished speaking, the soldier with the spear had stretched out his big hand and grabbed Yaya's slender wrist.Like pulling a kitten or puppy, the man gently and delicately pulled Yaya into his arms.At the same time, the other hands viciously pinched Lu Sheng's neck.
Lu Sheng was in a hurry.
Taking advantage of the breath of fresh air in his chest, he raised his hands to hold the opponent's head, pointed his two thumbs at the eye sockets, and poked hard at the pair of eyeballs!
After a scream, his neck suddenly relaxed.The soldier who was attacked covered his eyes and wailed, his eyes were closed tightly, and sticky blood was squeezed out.The soldier with the knife in his hand was inspecting the big baggage that Yaya had left behind. Seeing the accident, he immediately got up and rushed towards Lusheng; at the same time, the soldier with the rifle let go of Yaya, shouting and raising his gun Hit Lu Sheng.
Without thinking, Lusheng dodged to the side, trying to avoid the barrel of the gun that could crush his own head; Yaya put one hand into the small bag hanging on her wrist, seeing that the person holding the knife was about to go The big brother got stabbed, she didn't hesitate anymore, and bumped into it!
She has lived for more than 20 years, and has always been a cotton-natured person. She has never said a serious word to anyone, so today is the bravest moment in her life.Rushing towards the man like crazy, she bumped her head into the man's chest.An arm wrapped tightly around the opponent's waist, and the small bundle hanging on the arm opened its mouth, and the bits and pieces inside were scattered all over the floor with the movement.And her other hand had already been pulled out of the small bundle before she rushed over, and when she pulled it out, there was an extra pair of small scissors in her hand.
The scissors have been used by her for many years.She is a stupid girl, she doesn't even have the ability to run a house, she can only sew and mend, she can only knit woolen socks that no one wears.Neither her parents nor her mother wanted her. She lived to be the young master's companion when she was a child, and to be the young master's concubine when she grew up.Holding the scissors tightly with her fingers, she knew that her life was worthless, so she had no hesitation at this moment.Gritting her teeth and raising the scissors, she exerted all her strength and pierced the scissors into the man's waist.
She channeled all her strength into that hand, and the tip of the scissors was able to pierce through the military uniform, piercing the man's flesh all the way.The man was obviously stunned for a moment, and even turned his head to look down.
After seeing the scissors on his waist and the slowly bleeding red blood, the man came to his senses.
He screamed wildly and wanted to push Yaya away, but Yaya's arm seemed to grow around his waist, the more he struggled, the hotter the blood flowed out.He stabbed Yaya's back with a knife, and he drew out the knife while yelling, and stabbed again.But there were no rescuers, and his two brothers were fighting Lu Sheng.Lu Sheng had just snatched the rifle. There was not a single bullet in the gun. Holding the barrel in his hand, he yelled and swept across, hitting the opponent's head.
The man fell down without a sound, and another man with bloody eyes rushed up again.His eyes were injured, but he was not blind, and he still had the heart and strength to take revenge.Lu Sheng was about to turn his head to look at Yaya, but before he could turn around, that person had already knocked him down with a punch.So he turned over and got up, and continued to fight.
At the same time, Yaya not far away stared at the blood on the ground, her arms and hands were cold and stiff, but she supported her with one breath, and she couldn't fall anyway.She fell, and the man with the knife was going to kill the big brother.She became a blood man, and her enemies, from the chest down, were also half blood men.A pair of scissors was persistently piercing his flesh, and when he moved, the tip of the scissors poked, and he was also afraid.
At this time, Lusheng gave a loud shout, raised his rifle and slammed it down.The hard butt of the gun hit the man's head with a dull sound, and blood spattered.One shot was not enough, he smashed down hard like a cannonball, until the head was no longer a head.
Then, as if he was drunk, he swayed and turned to Yaya.
In the dim blue sky, he saw Yaya covered in blood, and also saw the knife sticking out of Yaya's back.With his eyes wide open in disbelief, he suddenly roared and raised his rifle at the man!
The gun butt hit the man like raindrops, and Yaya caught a glimpse of Lusheng's shadow out of the corner of her eye, and then exhaled slowly.The two arms loosened, and the fingers holding the scissors opened.
She fell sideways and fell into Lu Sheng's arms.The pain was just a matter, now she doesn't have any pain, she just feels cold and tired.Raising her eyes to look at Lu Sheng, she wanted to see his face clearly, but she couldn't see clearly.
The rails were indeed broken, but no troops showed up.Probably because of the freezing weather, the army was powerless and unable to fight a protracted war.
For two nights and one day, Lu Sheng didn't sleep a wink, and only ate three frozen steamed buns that were harder than iron.The thin donkey couldn't hold on halfway, so he threw the donkey, and for the last part of the way, he gritted his teeth and forced himself to walk down.
This time he entered a fairly large county town. There were several lines of trains intersecting in the railway station of the county town, all of which were heading north.He bought a ticket and boarded the train as if nothing had happened.The train carried a dining car. In the dining car, he ate two pieces of bread the size of pillows and drank a large pot of hot milk.After returning to his seat and leaning back, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then his body floated, knowing nothing.
He slept all the way.
He woke up just in time, before the train arrived at the station.Before going to sleep, he was only tired and hungry, but now after sleeping, he felt the muscles all over his body were sore, as if being pricked by needles; out of shape.Gritting his teeth and standing up, he immediately closed his eyes fiercely, the sudden burst of pain almost made him scream out.
Before the train arrived at the station, he went to the dining car and stuffed another large piece of bread into his belly.The train came into the station with its whistle blowing, and when the door opened, he was the first to jump off.Two feet fell to the ground from a high place, as if a knife had fallen on his bare feet. For the first time, he realized that he was quite delicate.
The place where he got off is called Zhengding, which is a big county in Zhili.Walking down the street with an unshaven beard, Lu Sheng first bought a newspaper.The newspaper is produced in the county, with a narrow field of vision, and only focuses on news within a radius of dozens of miles.He didn't find Long Xiang's whereabouts in the newspaper, so he stopped a passer-by and asked, "Excuse me, do you know where Commander Long's soldiers are fighting? My brother Qiu was captured by them. It's one o'clock now." No news at all."
Looking at Lusheng's hedgehog-like head and bloodshot eyes, the passer-by didn't feel suspicious at all, and replied directly: "Your brother was captured by them, and you still don't hide far away? Do you think they didn't catch him?" Can't you catch it too?"
Lu Sheng sighed, "The family is thinking about him, we must know whether he is dead or alive."
Pedestrians can't waste their words on strangers, and seeing that he is determined to seek death, they don't stop him, "Go to Wanggezhuang, there is a fire over there!"
Lu Sheng thanked him, and asked about the location of Wang Gezhuang.Before leaving the county seat, he saw a seller of stove candy on the street, so he bought a pack and put it in his pocket.He has no addiction to candy, but he wants to buy it when he sees it.It turned out that when he returned home from a long trip, he always wanted to bring something to Longxiang and Yaya, and this time seemed to be no exception.
Wanggezhuang is eighty miles away.Lu Sheng hired a big carriage, and the big carriage sent him sixty miles and he dared not go any further. So he dragged his two unconscious feet and walked for another twenty miles.At this time, he didn't dare to say that he was looking for his younger brother anymore, for fear that Longxiang's enemies would take him as an enemy and shoot him.He didn't understand the pattern of the battlefield. Based on his experience, he first looked around from a distance, trying to find the trenches, but the sky and the earth were white, and there was no sign of the trenches.
If there are no trenches, then he looks for housing.But Wanggezhuang is such a small village, with only a small patch of squat thatched houses gathered at the foot of a hill, it seems that none of the houses is qualified to be a headquarters.
Moreover, it doesn't look like there are soldiers.
Lusheng plucked up his courage, and before it was dark and his strength was exhausted, he decided to visit the village.Even if you can't find the dragon face, it's good to ask for hot water.Walking through the heavy snow step by step, the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong - he couldn't see clearly from a distance, but when he got closer, he found that there were sparsely erected low wooden poles on the ground, and the iron wires were wrapped around the wooden poles. Obviously, it is necessary to pull out several fence-like lines of defense.However, for some reason, it stopped working as soon as it started.Be careful and continue to walk forward, he is getting closer and closer to the village, but there are still no people, only a few window holes with dim fire shining.
Quietly, he entered the village.
The village was as far as the eye could see, and he passed the first house, only to find that the house had no door, and a group of soldiers were sitting on the ground in the house, roasting something around a small fire.Judging by the clothes of the soldiers, they should be Longxiang's subordinates.
But Lu Sheng didn't dare to say anything.No one in the room noticed him, so he continued walking silently.Walking through a room and then a courtyard, when he was at a loss, he suddenly heard a voice from a room beside him.A man was chewing and saying vaguely: "Damn it, don't you dare to be an old man... When I finish drinking this pot of wine... That little bitch... Commander? I'm afraid of the poor commander!"
Hearing this, Lu Sheng's mind went crazy.Inhaling in one breath and holding it, he first stepped back step by step, then turned around and stepped forward step by step.There seemed to be no villagers left in this village, and the houses were all occupied by rout soldiers.He went around to the back of the room and walked against the wall so that he could hear the movement in the room.However, before he had gone far, he stopped, suspecting that he heard Yaya's voice.After listening carefully for a while, he became more and more serious—the voice was not clear, but it was indeed a woman talking, and it was crying, and it was a coaxing tone.Looking for the sound and walking over, he stopped in front of a small house in the corner of the village.The room was broken, and the door was also broken. It couldn't be closed tightly, and the gap was big enough to let one's palm get in.He knelt down and pressed one eye to the gap, and his heart jumped in his chest at the same time!
He saw Yaya!I also saw the dragon face!
Yaya was wearing thin and dirty clothes, squatting in front of the brazier in the center of the ground, stirring the charcoal fire with a branch.He held the branch in one hand, and patted the dragon figure beside him with the other.
Lu Sheng suddenly wanted to cry - if it wasn't for Yaya who was watching and patting him, he would hardly have recognized that it was Longxiang.
Long Xiang sat cross-legged in front of the brazier, with his head hanging deeply to his chest, his hair was messed up like a beggar, and it grew so long that it almost covered his ears.Lu Sheng couldn't see his face, but he could see his neck—a string of bead-like knuckles protruding from the back of his neck, which showed that he was skinny now.Lusheng didn't know whether he was wearing a coat or a robe, but it was a messy pile, entangled him layer by layer.
It is enough to see here.After making sure that there was no one else in the room, Lu Sheng gently opened the door, and at the same time probed in and called softly, "Yaya."
Yaya turned her head in an instant.Staring straight at Lu Sheng at the door, she opened her mouth slightly, her face expressionless, but her eyes wide open.
Lu Sheng suddenly realized, and immediately added: "It's me."
Yaya hesitated and opened her mouth, "Big brother?"
Lu Sheng tiptoed and stooped into the house, "Hush, don't make a sound, no one knows I'm here now. Let me ask you, is there no one around you?"
Yaya still kept her eyes open, and when she heard Lu Sheng's question, she immediately nodded vigorously.
Lu Sheng had an idea in his mind, squatted down and leaned into Yaya's ear and said, "Don't make a sound, bring what you want to bring quickly. I think the group of people outside are going to rebel, so let's leave as soon as possible before they turn their backs."
Yaya turned over and got up, grabbed a small jacket from a dark corner and put it on, and tied a big bundle diagonally to her body.Holding a small burden in her hand, she was like a snail good at carrying heavy loads. Although she was bent over by the heavy burden, she still ran over to reach out to help Longxiang.Lu Sheng saw that the condition of Long Xiang was abnormal, neither sleeping nor awake, just sitting with his head down, but he was in a hurry and didn't have time to ask.With his back to Longxiang, he bent his knees and asked Yaya to help him onto his back.
Then Yaya carried the burden on his back, and he carried Longxiang on his back, pushed open the door and ran out stooping.No one expected that Lu Sheng would fall from the sky and take away the Commander and his wife, so they ran smoothly.In less than a moment, they rushed in the cold wind, leaving the small group of rout soldiers in the village behind.
Lu Sheng now has nowhere to go.
It is unrealistic to run back to the county seat.The journey is too long, and he and Yaya don't have the physique to walk like flying.Both of his hands were occupied by Long Xiang's thighs, he couldn't use his hands to pull Yaya, he could only keep turning his head to look at her while running.In the dark night, Yaya became a messy black shadow, he couldn't see her eyebrows clearly, only heard her panting.Suddenly seeing a forest in front of him, Lu Sheng led Yaya and ran into it.There may be wild animals in the woods, but he doesn't care about those many.
At the place where the trees were densest, Lu Sheng put Long Xiang on a big rock, and Yaya squatted down, continuing to pant heavily.Lu Sheng also squatted aside, and when Yaya's breathing gradually became smoother, he asked, "Why did this happen? We lost the war?"
Yaya lowered her head, her face was blocked by strands of long bangs, "I don't know how I did it, he didn't tell me anything, and I just ran foolishly with him. After running, I Seeing that there are fewer and fewer people around us, and the place we live in is getting more and more out of the way, I realized something was wrong, but it was too late."
Lu Sheng wrapped his big hand around Yaya's little hand, and clenched it tightly, wanting to give her some warmth, "It's okay, don't be afraid, just let's escape. I'll take you to the south, we're in the south And the house!"
Yaya was silent for a moment, then suddenly shivered, and when she spoke again, she cried, "I'm afraid, I've always been afraid, since he died, those soldiers under him are staring at us like tigers and wolves. I can see that too They're going to do something bad, but they just haven't made up their minds yet. They've made up their minds, and neither he nor I can live."
Hearing this, Lu Sheng suddenly became puzzled, "Is he dead? He—" He turned his head to look at Long Xiang who was lying on the boulder, "What's wrong with him?"
Yaya raised her hand to wipe her eyes, and cried: "He has been losing battles since last year. Once he lost, he lost his temper, drank to death, and offended Uncle Xu and the others thoroughly. At that time, Uncle Xu quarreled with him every day. Once he was in a hurry and even fired a pistol. Later, Uncle Xu took away tens of thousands of people, and he was so angry that he cried and shouted, saying that he was finished and could not be the emperor. Well, who would have thought that one morning, he suddenly didn’t know anyone, not even me.”
When Lu Sheng heard this, he didn't say anything, but got up and walked in front of Long Xiang.Bending down with one hand on his knee, he reached out to brush the other party's messy hair.Under the moonlight, he vaguely saw a thin and pointed face.The eyebrows are still the eyebrows of the dragon, but there is no expression at all, the black and white eyeballs seem to be fake, and there is no light in the pupils.
He could see who the dragon looked like at this moment, and the day he had to guard against had finally come.
The appearance of the dragon at this moment is just like the envoy Lu Sheng saw for the first time back then.
"Long Xiang." Lu Sheng called out in a low voice, "I'm here, take a look at me."
Long Xiang didn't respond, he just blinked his eyes slowly, as if he was completely drunk, but also extremely tired, his eyelids and eyelashes together would weigh a thousand catties.
Lu Sheng touched his face lightly, and his heart sank down, until he reached the eighteenth floor underground, into the endless hell with no way out.He expected this day to come eventually, but he didn't expect it to come so early.Trembling and exhaling, he suddenly became calm, as calm as a thousand-year-old stone at the bottom of a deep pool.
Everything is in its place, in its place.The one who should be crazy is already crazy. He has lived until now, and finally he no longer has to worry about him.
"It's okay, don't be afraid." He turned back and told Yaya, "I'm here, I'll take you away."
Lu Sheng spent a lot of effort in arranging Long Xiang's clothes.It turned out that the weather was too cold, so Yaya put on all the thick clothes she could get her hands on.After taking off his outer cotton robe, Lusheng took off his inner woolen overcoat.The woolen overcoat was in the style of a military uniform, and the cuffs were trimmed with circles of gold stitches, and the epaulets and collar patches were also sewn firmly, Lu Sheng couldn't tear them off no matter how hard he tried, so he had to throw it away.Inside the coat was still a military uniform, so he had to continue taking it off.Yaya was chattering beside him, although she knew very little, but Lusheng could understand the current situation - Long Xiang had become a thorn in the side of tens of millions of people at this moment, and he would never return home, just as As I promised just now, he and Yaya must follow me back to Shanghai.It wasn't enough to go back to Shanghai, he had to hide in the foreign concession for a year or so, until the waves of the Yangtze River pushed forward and there was no such thing as Long Xiang in the world, then he could come out to see people again.
Playing with Longxiang with both hands, he spoke in a low voice at the same time, soothing Yaya with words.Yaya believed everything he said.It was so dark, but he could see Yaya's pious face, as if he saw God in a desperate situation.
So Lu Sheng turned his eyes away on purpose, not facing her - he would feel like crying if he faced her.Why cry, he does not know.
After taking off the clothes with the army mark on Long Xiang's body, Lu Sheng put the cotton robe on him again, and forcibly pulled off the riding boots on his feet.Then the question arises, there are no extra shoes, should we just give him a layer of socks to let him freeze in the snowy night?
Yaya made a move at this time.She has no strength now, and there are scissors in the small bundle, but her fingers are so stiff that she can't untie the bundle's noose knots.She lowered her head and bit the cotton cloth of the military overcoat with her teeth. She tore off a large piece of cotton cloth with her hands and mouth.
Lu Sheng divided the piece of cotton cloth into two, and dealt with the feet that covered Long Xiang.Then picked him up again, and Lu Sheng suddenly remembered something, "Yaya, you take out my pocket, there is candy. Let's walk slowly this time, and eat as you walk."
Yaya hummed, reached out her hand clumsily, and really took out a paper bag of stove candies.She took out a piece of candy and put it in her mouth, then wrapped the rest of the stove candy and put it back in Lusheng's pocket.
"I'll just eat a little." She told Lu Sheng, "Leave the sweet ones to him!"
Lu Sheng asked, "What's in that big bag of yours? Don't take it if it's not worth much, it's so heavy."
Yaya told him in a low voice: "You can't throw it away, it's all money."
Lu Sheng looked at her in surprise, "Put money in a bag?"
Yaya replied: "There are foreign money, and there are tin boxes for passbooks and jewelry, and this box is the heaviest." She raised her hand and pointed forward, "Brother, let's not go that way. Then On the other side is Wanggezhuang, we ran out from there yesterday."
It was only then that Lu Sheng realized that he had gone the wrong way earlier, and had bumped into them by mistake.A layer of chills stood up on his spine, and he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Then..." He tried his best to ignore his fear, and started another topic, "Do the people in the team know him? After meeting him, do you know who he is?"
Yaya thought for a while, and suddenly a look of panic appeared on her face, "I don't know, but his photos were always published in the newspapers a few years ago, maybe I know him?"
As soon as this remark came out, Lu Sheng was also dumbfounded - no, but anyone who occasionally reads newspapers may recognize Long Xiang.Long Xiang has not changed his appearance in the past few years, especially he is not a mediocre appearance, his appearance is particularly easy to recognize and remember.
"It's okay." He quickly comforted Yaya, "Let's go around this area and find another train station to get on the train. Just leave Zhili."
Since the road ahead was impassable, Lu Sheng had no choice but to turn on the spot and change direction.Long Xiang lay softly and heavily on his back, Yaya tugged at his sleeves, and followed closely beside him.When they reached the end of the forest, they saw a barren and endless crop field.In this season, there are only tall and low straws left on the land, and shacks like tofu blocks stand crookedly on the fields.
Lu Sheng led Yaya into the shack.This shack has no insulation effect, but it can always keep out the wind to some extent.Lu Sheng put down the dragon figure, went out and picked up some nearby sticks and came back, and lit a small fire in the center of the hut.
Yaya knew how to serve the fire, and did not burn out the thick smoke that filled the shack.Lu Sheng sat by the fire, holding Long Xiang in his arms with one hand, "Has he always been this honest?"
Yaya replied: "It's because he drank in the afternoon, and he's honest after drinking. I still have two bottles in this little bag. Before we get on the train, I have to buy some more for him. Wine is better than medicine. "
Lusheng stared at Yaya in the jumping firelight, then raised his hand and rubbed her head, "I'm not human anymore." Yaya smiled mischievously, seeing the stubble on Lusheng's face, it was quite different from usual Likewise, at first glance, it was almost unrecognizable as him.Lu Sheng waved to her and patted himself on the shoulder.She looked at him with a silly look on her face. After a moment of foolishness, she moved over and sat down next to Lu Sheng.Looking at Lu Sheng's feet shrunk in front of the fire, she reached out to touch the upper, "How thin are these shoes."
Lu Sheng grabbed her hand.The shoes are indeed thin, and the clothes are not thick, but strangely, he is not cold.It was as if he was fighting for his life to perform a big drama on stage for many years, but now he went down when he was exhausted, and his heart was not lost, but relaxed.
"This journey is not easy, and it's cold." He told Yaya, "Eat what you can, sleep when you can, no matter what, we have to get through it. After getting through it, it will be another world."
Speaking of this, he smiled, "Shanghai is really lively, more prosperous than Tianjin, like a foreign country."
When Yaya heard this, there was a smile in her eyes, "I haven't been shopping in Tianjin, I just stay at home every day."
Lu Sheng imagined a bright future—the good days that he didn't dare to think about before, and the good days that he thought about were useless, suddenly appeared faintly like islands in the mist.
"I'll take you shopping." He looked at Yaya, and his heart suddenly jumped wildly, "I don't have to worry about food and drink. You are young, why don't you play? I haven't played before. Let's make up for it this time." .”
Yaya lowered her head noncommittally—she saw the island that Lu Sheng saw.to a new place?Be a newcomer?Start a new life?
Yaya didn't dare to think about it.You can't think about good things, but when you deal with good things, you have to pretend not to know and let it happen by yourself.
Lu Sheng didn't sleep, and let Long Xiang and Yaya sleep by themselves.So in the early hours of the morning, the fire went out, and Long Xiang woke up first.
He was still nestling in Lu Sheng's arms, his eyes were half-closed, and he was muttering something.Lu Sheng bowed his head and listened deeply, and heard him chanting "Attack... must... the military headquarters..." intermittently, all of which were fragments of words, not a sentence.
Inserting his fingers into his messy hair, Lu Sheng groped for the two small bumps on his head, and suddenly remembered the little boy in red standing in front of his bed that morning when he first arrived at Long's house.How ridiculous!Just because of these two little things growing on his head, so many adults would insist that he is a dragon with one voice.
Talk and talk, and it will come true.Not to mention that little boy, even a big boy like him is a little bit convinced.
Suddenly remembered the stove candy in his pocket, he wanted to take it out for Long Xiang to eat, but after thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't give it.It's good that Long Xiang is half dead now, if he eats sweets and loses his energy, it will be difficult to manipulate at that time.
At this time, Yaya also woke up.
No water, only wine.Lu Sheng unscrewed a bottle, fed Long Xiang a few sips, then carried him on his back, got out of the shack with Yaya and set off on the road again.They dare not leave the big county town, but the world is big, and there is always their way.
At a small market in one of the villages, they entered a small shed.The shed was hot and steamy, and it was a small shop specializing in food.Lu Sheng ordered four bowls of Yangchun noodles and a large bowl of freshly cooked meat.Yaya started to eat meat and noodles in suspense, but the shopkeeper saw that they were poor in appearance but eating well, so he couldn't help asking: "Where do you guys come from?"
Lu Sheng supported Longxiang with one hand and chopsticks with the other. The shopkeeper asked that way, and he answered like this: "Don't mention it, the day before yesterday, it was on the mountain over there. We came here to ask for money, and our family is lucky to be able to keep this life. My brother was not in good health, but this time he was frightened and frozen, and it’s over! Hurry up and go home! This time, I have seen what it means to be in chaos, and I will never go out again!"
The shopkeeper listened, but didn't hear any flaws.It is also normal for an elder brother to bring a brother, and a daughter-in-law or younger sister-in-law.At this time, Lu Sheng took a few big mouthfuls of noodles into his mouth, and then used a spoon to scoop up some noodle soup and fed it to Long Xiang.Long Xiang opened his mouth to drink the soup, but then he pushed his tongue and spit out the soup again.
Lu Sheng put down the spoon, wiped his chin with his sleeve, and urged Yaya: "Eat quickly, those two bowls are yours, eat them all."
Yaya puffed her cheeks, unable to speak with her tongue, she nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice.Lu Sheng didn't waste any time, he put his arms around Long Xiang who was sitting beside him with one hand, and stuffed noodles into his mouth with the chopsticks with the other hand, while holding a heart, in case Long Xiang suddenly roared and made a fuss, saying something " Army, attack" and other nonsense.
In a panic, he ate up two large bowls of hot noodles. Seeing that this shop also sells steamed buns, Lu Sheng bought five to take with him.The shopkeeper stood outside the shed, watching the man with the man on his back and the woman with the burden on their backs, and the two of them walked forward side by side, thinking that the bandits they met were quite kind, and they left such a big burden on her .
On this day, Lu Sheng and Yaya didn't go too far.After passing through two small villages, they stopped in a town—they had to stop, Yaya's face and hands were covered with purple lilies; Lusheng also bent over more and more as he walked, and he seemed to have the appearance of a dragon. Heavy.
There was only one hotel in the town, and Lu Sheng and Yaya had discussed it. The three of them would sleep through the middle of the night.
The three of them entered a room. There was nothing in the room except a heated kang.Lu Sheng asked the clerk for hot water, and asked Yaya to wash her face and hands, and then her feet, while she soaked half a steamed bun in hot water to soften, and fed it to Long Xiang bit by bit.Long Xiang just drank the remaining bottle of foreign wine - he seemed reluctant to give him anything to eat, and his tongue always pushed the food out.Only strong wine is welcome, as if that wine were honey water, which tastes nothing but good.
After drinking the wine, his eyes returned to their half-closed state, and he stopped talking.Lu Sheng smiled at Yaya, "Fortunately, he doesn't make trouble."
Yaya climbed into the kang with her legs up, straightened her legs comfortably, and then beat her back with her hands behind her back, "Big brother, do you think he will always be like this in the future?"
Hearing this, Lu Sheng suddenly felt that his thoughts were sinister - if Long Xiang "has always been like this", it would be good for himself and Yaya.I have long wanted to marry Yaya, and I have long been determined to take care of Long Xiang for the rest of my life. If Long Xiang is "always like this", then my dream will come true.
As for Yaya, of course Yaya would agree.
Thinking of this, Lu Sheng helped Long Xiang to lie on the kang, then sat on the edge of the kang, took off his shoes and socks, and stepped his frostbitten bare feet into the foot-washing water that Yaya had used.After shivering comfortably, he said without turning his head: "Lie down and sleep, if you don't sleep for a while, it's time to go again."
There was a rustling sound from behind, it was Yaya who was moving the pillow back and forth.A kang, three people, how to sleep, two of them were muttering in their hearts.In the end, Lu Sheng also got on the kang, and he arranged himself in the very center, with Ya Ya on one side and Xiang Long on the other.The three of them did not take off their clothes, but fell asleep.
After a good night's sleep, Lu Sheng and Ya Yaquan felt that their legs were much lighter.In the early hours of the morning, one carrying a person and the other carrying a burden, they set off on the road again.This time the future became brighter, and they would be able to enter the county town after another sixty miles.It is a peaceful place and there is a train station.Get on the train from there, and you can leave Zhili in a few hours.
The wind was as cold as a knife, and there was a half-white moon slanting in the dark sky, and the moonlight was also cold.Walking on the mountain road, Lu Sheng felt like a butcher, carrying a heavy fan of meat on his back.The silent Longxiang made him feel strange, but fortunately Yaya was still familiar.Lu Sheng really wanted to hold her hand and lead her forward, but unfortunately he couldn't.Turning his head to look at Yaya, he was about to speak, but there was a crisp sound in the air, and then he felt a scalding gust blowing across his cheeks.Almost at the same second, there was a bang in the wild grass beside the road, and dust was kicked up.Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then realized: a bullet just flew past him!
He immediately wanted to lie down, but there was already a cursing voice from the dark side of the road, "I can't even hit you, are you fucking blind?"
Immediately another voice rang out, "This broken gun can turn any bullet!"
Tall black figures emerged from the darkness and swayed up the road—first one, then two more.Three people lined up, one carrying a short knife more than a foot long, one dragging a rifle, and one empty-handed.Lu Sheng couldn't see their faces clearly, but he could recognize their tattered military uniforms.They are rout soldiers!The rout of Long Xiang's subordinates!
The empty-handed person in the middle spoke, "Miss Commander, it's ok, you can run fast enough with the wild man!"
Lu Sheng stepped in front of Yaya, "Brothers, let's have something to talk about. Your Commander Long and I have had a life-threatening friendship. Now the battle can no longer be fought, and others are also sick. I just ask Take him away alive."
As soon as this remark came out, the person in the middle sneered, "Let's go? It's a beautiful idea! We were a group of brothers, there were thirteen of us when we were carrying guns, and the three of us died in a month! I know how we all died. Is it? The front is clearly firing at us, and the **** Long Yunteng is forcing us to charge forward, and we will be killed if we take a step back! We didn't eat a full meal, and we took ten lives first!"
Lu Sheng understood what it means to be "vicious and vicious". This group of people has strength and hatred, but they have no food and no future. This group of people is vicious and vicious.Tilting the big piece of meat on his back, he secured the back of the dragon, and then said cautiously: "Yes, yes, I also know your grievances. In this way, I will pay, you guys With the money, you can support your dead friends and live a comfortable life in the future. If I take Long Yunteng away far away, there will be no more of him in the world, okay?"
As soon as this remark came out, the three of them laughed together.One of them told Lu Sheng: "Your mother, I will take whatever I want, and you will give it to me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his rifle and smashed his head at Lu Sheng!
Lu Sheng subconsciously raised his hand to block it, and Long Xiang behind him immediately slid down and sat on the ground reeling.And Lu Sheng was hit hard on both arms by the rifle, only heard a muffled sound, he gritted his teeth in pain, and felt that his two forearms were almost broken in response.Immediately, his hands clenched into fists, and his fingers were still in control. Before the second shot fell, he aimed at the face of the man in front of him, and punched him with all his strength, hitting the man's face.However, at this moment, another pair of big fists greeted him.Two fists are no match for four hands, and he resisted the opponent's two punches with his chest.Staggering, he was about to take a step back and stand firm, but he forgot that there was a dragon figure sitting behind him.He stepped on Long Xiang's thigh, but Long Xiang didn't make a sound, but he couldn't stand firmly and leaned back.
Yaya threw off the heavy burden on her body, crying and reaching out to grab the soldier with the gun.When Lu Sheng saw it, he hurriedly shouted, "Run! Run!"
But before he finished speaking, the soldier with the spear had stretched out his big hand and grabbed Yaya's slender wrist.Like pulling a kitten or puppy, the man gently and delicately pulled Yaya into his arms.At the same time, the other hands viciously pinched Lu Sheng's neck.
Lu Sheng was in a hurry.
Taking advantage of the breath of fresh air in his chest, he raised his hands to hold the opponent's head, pointed his two thumbs at the eye sockets, and poked hard at the pair of eyeballs!
After a scream, his neck suddenly relaxed.The soldier who was attacked covered his eyes and wailed, his eyes were closed tightly, and sticky blood was squeezed out.The soldier with the knife in his hand was inspecting the big baggage that Yaya had left behind. Seeing the accident, he immediately got up and rushed towards Lusheng; at the same time, the soldier with the rifle let go of Yaya, shouting and raising his gun Hit Lu Sheng.
Without thinking, Lusheng dodged to the side, trying to avoid the barrel of the gun that could crush his own head; Yaya put one hand into the small bag hanging on her wrist, seeing that the person holding the knife was about to go The big brother got stabbed, she didn't hesitate anymore, and bumped into it!
She has lived for more than 20 years, and has always been a cotton-natured person. She has never said a serious word to anyone, so today is the bravest moment in her life.Rushing towards the man like crazy, she bumped her head into the man's chest.An arm wrapped tightly around the opponent's waist, and the small bundle hanging on the arm opened its mouth, and the bits and pieces inside were scattered all over the floor with the movement.And her other hand had already been pulled out of the small bundle before she rushed over, and when she pulled it out, there was an extra pair of small scissors in her hand.
The scissors have been used by her for many years.She is a stupid girl, she doesn't even have the ability to run a house, she can only sew and mend, she can only knit woolen socks that no one wears.Neither her parents nor her mother wanted her. She lived to be the young master's companion when she was a child, and to be the young master's concubine when she grew up.Holding the scissors tightly with her fingers, she knew that her life was worthless, so she had no hesitation at this moment.Gritting her teeth and raising the scissors, she exerted all her strength and pierced the scissors into the man's waist.
She channeled all her strength into that hand, and the tip of the scissors was able to pierce through the military uniform, piercing the man's flesh all the way.The man was obviously stunned for a moment, and even turned his head to look down.
After seeing the scissors on his waist and the slowly bleeding red blood, the man came to his senses.
He screamed wildly and wanted to push Yaya away, but Yaya's arm seemed to grow around his waist, the more he struggled, the hotter the blood flowed out.He stabbed Yaya's back with a knife, and he drew out the knife while yelling, and stabbed again.But there were no rescuers, and his two brothers were fighting Lu Sheng.Lu Sheng had just snatched the rifle. There was not a single bullet in the gun. Holding the barrel in his hand, he yelled and swept across, hitting the opponent's head.
The man fell down without a sound, and another man with bloody eyes rushed up again.His eyes were injured, but he was not blind, and he still had the heart and strength to take revenge.Lu Sheng was about to turn his head to look at Yaya, but before he could turn around, that person had already knocked him down with a punch.So he turned over and got up, and continued to fight.
At the same time, Yaya not far away stared at the blood on the ground, her arms and hands were cold and stiff, but she supported her with one breath, and she couldn't fall anyway.She fell, and the man with the knife was going to kill the big brother.She became a blood man, and her enemies, from the chest down, were also half blood men.A pair of scissors was persistently piercing his flesh, and when he moved, the tip of the scissors poked, and he was also afraid.
At this time, Lusheng gave a loud shout, raised his rifle and slammed it down.The hard butt of the gun hit the man's head with a dull sound, and blood spattered.One shot was not enough, he smashed down hard like a cannonball, until the head was no longer a head.
Then, as if he was drunk, he swayed and turned to Yaya.
In the dim blue sky, he saw Yaya covered in blood, and also saw the knife sticking out of Yaya's back.With his eyes wide open in disbelief, he suddenly roared and raised his rifle at the man!
The gun butt hit the man like raindrops, and Yaya caught a glimpse of Lusheng's shadow out of the corner of her eye, and then exhaled slowly.The two arms loosened, and the fingers holding the scissors opened.
She fell sideways and fell into Lu Sheng's arms.The pain was just a matter, now she doesn't have any pain, she just feels cold and tired.Raising her eyes to look at Lu Sheng, she wanted to see his face clearly, but she couldn't see clearly.
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