Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 14 The Yellow Paper Burns in the Sky

Both Qian Xiaobao and Second Master Qi looked at the door, and an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl pushed the door and walked in.

Second Master Qi's eyes couldn't help but brighten up.Just now I have been persuading Qian Xiaobao to start a family and start a career. Isn't the girl in front of me a suitable candidate?

Erya glanced at Qian Xiaobao and ignored him, he said directly to Second Master, "It's almost night, I'll cook for you."

Second Master Qi has bad legs and feet, so in the village of Balitou, Er Ya usually takes care of him.

"Today I bought meat when I passed the Malian River, and we will eat this tonight. Alas, it's a pity that rice is not easy to buy now." Qian Xiaobao said.

Second Master Qi showed Er Ya the piece of floral cloth as if offering a treasure.

"Xiaobao bought this for you, do you like it?" Second Master Qi asked with a smile.

Er Ya stretched out her hand to touch the red calico, her eyes glowed with joy.The clothes on her body were patched several times at the elbows and knees.

You can't get a new dress even if you suffer all year round.

"In the past two years, the second master has depended on you to take care of him. It is only right to buy you something." Qian Xiaobao said.

After saying this, he lay down on the kang.I was really tired after running around for days.Usually even when I sleep, I wish I could keep one eye open, and I can't sleep well at all.

Now that I'm here, I can finally get a good night's sleep.

Erya came to the outhouse to set up a fire to wash rice and start cooking.The firewood was burning in the stove pit, and the surface of the kang was getting hotter and hotter. Qian Xiaobao, who was lying comfortably on it, turned over and hummed twice in his sleep.

Now he often sleeps in the wild snow and in the woods and wakes up several times every night.For Qian Xiaobao, sleeping on the warm kang is already a paradise.

After the millet was put into the pot, the water boiled and steamed.A smell of rice came out from the crack of the pot lid.

Erya quickly washed the sauerkraut and cut it into thin shreds.Then she put the piece of frozen pork that Qian Xiaobao bought on the cutting board.

In this village of seven families, Qi Erye's life is better.Several women in the village said that Erye Qi was an old bandit when chatting at Erya's house.Because now that I am old, I will bring my private money down the mountain and live here for the elderly.

Bandits are everywhere in the Northeast.As long as it is not fighting against the Japanese bandits, the Japanese will not easily provoke them, nor do they have the energy to provoke them.Not to mention bandits like Qi Erye who have quit their jobs.

But Erya didn't believe these words.In the past few days, Second Master Qi also used a bald brush to write Spring Festival couplets for every family in the village.

Are bandits so refined and educated?
Second Master Qi didn't sit in the back room waiting to eat, but stood next to Er Ya and smiled and looked at it as if he was looking at his grandson and daughter-in-law.

Put the dried millet into the basin, and Erya started to stir-fry.The aroma of the pork in the pot made Erya couldn't help but spit.

In her house, she can't eat meat several times a year.One is because of poverty, and the other is because of her stingy father Lin Changling.

After putting sauerkraut and fried meat on the plate, Erya turned around and wanted to leave.But Second Master Qi had already blocked the door.

"Leave after dinner! Why are the whole family always seeing each other like this! Go and wake up Xiaobao for dinner." Second Master Qi said.

Erya saw that Second Master Qi was blocking the door, and couldn't escape, so she went into the room and asked Qian Xiaobao to get up for dinner.

Qian Xiaobao snored while snoring while smelling the aroma of food in his sleep.

Erya went to the edge of the kang and gently poked his leg with her fingers.

Unexpectedly, Qian Xiaobao jumped up and punched Erya like a spring being excited.

This is a habit developed in the process of dealing with the Japanese over the past few years.After waking up in sleep, he would fight and run when he got up.

It was Qian Xiaobao who reacted quickly.The wind of the fist brushed against Erya's ear.Qian Xiaobao's punch was empty.

"Just now I was dreaming of marrying a wife, and you woke me up. You pay me!" Qian Xiaobao said angrily.

He is a cover up.

When eating, Qian Xiaobao devoured it hungrily.Chopsticks were flying, and the sound of snoring was endless.

Second Master Qi sipped slowly from the small bowl that Qian Xiaobao had just bought for him.

But Erya, like a kitten, held a hair-thin sauerkraut between her chopsticks and chewed it slowly in her mouth.

No matter how Second Master Qi persuaded, Erya just refused to eat a piece of meat.

Qian Xiaobao picked up a piece of meat from the plate and walked past Er Ya's eyes slowly with chopsticks.As soon as he loosened his hand, the piece of meat fell into Erya's rice bowl.

"Pinch it out!" Erya said angrily.

"It's already fallen into your bowl, how can I eat it?" Qian Xiaobao said.

"Why can't you eat?" Erya asked.

"I hate you for being buried." Qian Xiaobao replied.

Erya blushed all of a sudden.

"Erya, Xiaobao is also kind. Don't see outsiders, and act as if you are in your own home." Second Master Qi persuaded.

After the meal, Erya cleaned up the dishes and turned around to leave.

Second Master Qi took Huabu and four frozen pears bought by Qian Xiaobao and stuffed them into her hands.

After Erya left, Second Master Qi said to Qian Xiaobao: "Erya is the most sensible girl. Whoever can marry her is his blessing!"

Qian Xiaobao understood what Second Master Qi meant.He shook his head and said, "If any girl marries me, she will be in great trouble. Maybe one day I will be beaten to death by the Japanese, and she will become a widow."

Erya walked into the yard of her house and stuffed a frozen pear into the snow, then walked into the house with a flower cloth and three frozen pears.

Four people in the family are eating around the dining table.A pot of corn balls and a plate of salty cucumbers.

The news in the village spread quickly.Lin Changling raised his head and asked, "I heard that Qian Xiaobao is here again? Stay away from that kid with a hippie smile and rolling eyes!"

Lin Changling's wife, Lin Wang, saw the floral cloth and frozen pears in Erya's hands at a glance.

"Did that boy buy this floral cloth? I don't know if the clothes I make will look good or not."

Lin Wang happily took the flower cloth and measured it on her body.

Lin Changling wanted to say something but closed his mouth again.Between the girl and the wife he chose the wife.

Erya's younger brother, Xicai, snatched a frozen pear and gnawed it.

Lin Wang put down the floral cloth and handed one of the remaining two frozen pears to Lin Changling. The remaining one was cut in half with a kitchen knife, and he and Lin Changling's mother each had half.

In the dead of night, Qian Xiaobao walked out of the village to a large crop field with the broken basket of yellow paper in one hand and the other in the other.

Second Master Qi drew a few circles with his crutches.

Qian Xiaobao put yellow paper in the first circle and lit it.

"Brother Feng! Xiaobao and I are here to give you money!" Second Master Qi shouted loudly.

Qian Xiaobao lit the yellow paper again in the second circle.

"Junjie, Xiaobao and I have brought you money!" Second Master Qi shouted.Junjie is Feng Maoshan's other godson and Qian Xiaobao's older brother with a different surname.He died under the gun of the Japanese crusade with others.

Every time Second Master Qi called out a person's name, Qian Xiaobao lit the yellow paper in the drawn circle.

The howling night wind rolled the burning yellow paper into the air, as if those reckless heroes who died in the hands of the Japanese really came to withdraw money.

(End of this chapter)