Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 272 The Gunshots on the North-South River III
This is Qian Xiaobao, no matter how big the problem is, he can make jokes and sleep well.

In another room.The old lady was lying on the kang with her head inward.The old man sat cross-legged on the kang and smoked a pipe.

"I think those two children are quite benevolent and not like bad guys. They can't be the Anti-Japanese League, right?" the old man said to himself.

"Who says they are bad people? If they are bad people, can that girl still keep her innocence?" said the old lady.

"It can't be the Anti-Union League, right?" the old man said again.

"Didn't you hear that the Anti-Japanese League has gone north from Daqingguan to HLJ for more than a year? It's back again?" the old lady asked in surprise.

"Maybe it came later. In the past few years, the Anti-League came in four or five waves." The old man replied.

"I'll see them both tomorrow and pretend they don't know anything!" the old man ordered.

"Take care of your own broken mouth!" The old lady said angrily.

The next morning, Qian Xiaobao squatted on the base of the wall to bask in the sun.On the fence wall opposite him stood a two-meter-long sledge.

In winter, using a sledge on ice and snow is sometimes lighter than an ox cart.

"I'll explain to Uncle later that we need to borrow the sledge when we get up tomorrow." Qian Xiaobao said to Xiao Linxun.

Today is the 25th, and tomorrow morning they will go downhill along the Nanbei River to their destination.

"In this way, you don't have to go. You can sit on the sledge and hold your luggage, and I can pull it all the way along the river." Qian Xiaobao continued.

Looking at the oily surface of the sledge, Xiao Linxun asked in a low voice: "Did you see this pair of sledges when you came last year, and you have been thinking about them until now?"

Qian Xiaobao nodded silently.

The old lady went outside and saw two people whispering affectionately together and wanted to stay away.

"Auntie, put more pancakes at night. My wife and I will go to Daxiantang to eat on the way tomorrow." Qian Xiaobao stood up and said with a smile.

"Okay, tonight I will pack sticky bean buns for you to eat on the road!" the old lady said with a smile.

"Also, I would like to borrow this pair of sledges from your family. I am afraid that I will tire her, so I want to take her there." Qian Xiaobao pointed to Xiao Linxun and said to the old lady.

After talking with her old man last night, the old lady had already determined that Qian Xiaobao and Xiao Linxun were the Anti-Union League, so Qian Xiaobao's request was immediately agreed.

"Take it and use it. It's a pity that there are no animals, so you have to pull it yourself." The old lady said.

When eating that night, the old man hesitated to speak.

"Be careful when you leave tomorrow morning. In the past two years, the Japanese crusades have often been in the mountains." The old man said.

"Is there still an Anti-Union League in the mountains?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"It should be gone now. I heard that the last batch of dozens of people went north to HLJ in the winter of last year." The old man replied.

To the direction of HLJ is to cross the river.

"Thank you uncle, let's go and come back soon." Qian Xiaobao said.

"Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you don't return the sledge. Everything in the mountain is missing, but there is no shortage of wood. It's a big deal to make a new one." The old man said.

"Last year, I heard from the second elder that my son was panning for gold in Heihe, so don't you plan to visit him soon?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"No, it's a waste of money and it's causing him trouble. He'll come back when he earns enough money to marry a wife." The old man replied.

"I should go and have a look. Maybe my eldest brother in your family has already earned enough money to marry a wife." Qian Xiaobao said with something in his words.

That night, Qian Xiaobao and Xiao Linxun packed up all the things in their own room and then lay down on the kang with their clothes closed.

The big yellow dog seemed to feel that something was about to happen, and looked at the two people on the ground wagging their tails uneasy.

Before dawn the next day, Qian Xiaobao and Xiao Linxun woke up.

Qian Xiaobao took the luggage roll outside and put it on the sledge, then he walked to the window and said to the inside: "Uncle and Auntie, we are leaving, and I will come back to see you in a few days!"

The old lady wanted to get up from the kang to see her off but was held down by the old man.

"Young man, don't worry." The old man said.

Xiao Linxun went to open the courtyard door, and Qian Xiaobao walked out of the courtyard with the sledge.Taking out the hidden things in the woods, Qian Xiaobao dragged Xiao Linxun who was sitting on it to the west along the gentle slope.

After daybreak, the old man got up and walked to the Westinghouse where Qian Xiaobao and Xiao Linxun used to live.There is a thick stack of banknotes on the top of the kang!
The old man picked up the banknotes with trembling hands and counted a total of 400 yuan!
Those strong men who work hard and cut wood in the mountains can't save so much money for two or three years except for their own food.

"Old woman, come here quickly!" the old man shouted.

"What are you shouting for? It's like mourning!" The old lady walked in and said.

The old man hurriedly handed a large handful of banknotes to the old lady.

"Where, where did you get so much money?" the old lady stammered.

"Those two people left on the kang. They gave it to us!" said the old man.

"Such a lot of money is enough to tell my son a wife." Seeing Mrs. Qian, the first thing that comes to mind is to tell her son a wife.

Hearing what his wife said, the old man immediately remembered what Qian Xiaobao said at dinner last night.

Qian Xiaobao said to let the two old people go to Heihe to see his son panning for sand and gold.

"Clean up quickly, let's go!" said the old man.

"Where are you going?" asked the old lady.

"Go to Heihe to find my son first, and then the three of us will seek refuge with relatives and friends for another half a year," said the old man.

"Just leave like this, what about the things at home?" the old lady said reluctantly.

"How much are these broken things worth? Just build another house when you come back later." The old man said.

"The two of us are gone, what about the big yellow dog at home?" asked the old lady.

Hearing what the old lady said, the old man suddenly remembered something.

Since dawn this morning, he has not heard the big yellow dog barking.

Qian Xiaobao pulled the sledge along the Manpo all the way to the ice surface of the Nanbei River.

He turned around and was about to talk to Xiao Linxun when he saw the big yellow dog running down the gentle slope.

"Go back!" Qian Xiaobao stamped his feet and shouted.

But the big yellow dog just won't go.

Qian Xiaobao was pulling the sledge in front, and the big yellow dog trotted behind.

"Just let it follow, the old man and the old lady are gone, and no one will care about it." Xiao Linxun said.

"If no one cares about it, it won't happen. At worst, it will enter the Wu Zang Temple." Qian Xiaobao said.

All the dogs in the village were killed and eaten for meat.Even if you don't eat it yourself, other people will miss it.

"Come up!" Xiao Linxun clapped his hands and said to the big yellow dog.

The big yellow dog jumped onto the sledge and was hugged by Xiao Linxun.

Qian Xiaobao put the rope on his shoulder and pulled the sledge to the west.

(End of this chapter)