Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 301 The Child's Uncle Came
The next day, the three of them left Weihe for Ning'an.Ning'an has [-] bases of pioneering groups, which is the county with the largest number of pioneering groups in Mudanjiang Province, and it is also the focus of grain collection this time.

Five days later, the three of them reappeared in Mu Ling.This is the last stop of the trip for the three of them.Further east is Dong'an Province, and the three of them have no plans to go to Dong'an Province to collect grain for the time being.

According to Ogasawara and Tada Goro's ideas, a meeting of the leaders of the three pioneering groups in Muling County should be convened in Muling Town.Because it is very close to Muling Town from Mudanjiang, and the Whetstone Pioneering Group is also very close to Muling Town.

But Qian Xiaobao disagreed and insisted on convening a meeting of the three pioneering groups in Bamiantong.As a result, the three of them walked for another two hours by train.

Qian Xiaobao did this out of selfishness, he wanted to take this opportunity to visit Erya who lived near Bamiantong.

The two haven't seen each other for two years.

After arriving at Bamiantong, the three lived in the dormitory at the Japanese airfield next to the train station and waited for the leaders of the Liangzihe, Xiachengzi, and Modaoshi pioneering groups to come to the meeting.

Qian Xiaobao found a reason and slipped out by himself.

Going west along the main street of Bamiantong, Qian Xiaobao crossed the Muling River Bridge and went straight to the village where Erya's husband's family lived.

Qian Xiaobao came here two years ago, and this time he was familiar with the road, and soon found the door of the house where the yard was covered with tofu wrapping cloth.

The gate of the courtyard was open, Qian Xiaobao stood at the gate of the courtyard and saw a woman with her back to him rubbing a large basin of tofu wrapped cloth with both hands.

The woman also carried a child on her back.The child was bound on the back and kept crying.

"Still crying? Hold back!"

The woman said angrily.

Hearing the woman's voice, Qian Xiaobao finally recognized that it was Erya's voice.

He called out at the door: "Er Ya!"

When the woman heard the shout, she twisted her body hesitantly and looked back.

Their eyes met, and that woman was Erya.It's just that we haven't seen each other for two years, and Erya seems to have grown ten years older.She looks like a middle-aged woman.

Qian Xiaobao walked towards the yard step by step.The child on Erya's back blinked and stopped crying when he saw a stranger coming.

"They all have children? When did it happen?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

Erya wiped her blistered red hands with her apron and lowered her head and replied, "It's been over a year, and I can already walk. When I was working, I was afraid that he would run away mischievously, so I carried it on my back."

Qian Xiaobao looked at the child on Erya's back, and that child was also looking at him with big eyes rolling around.

Qian Xiaobao was startled by the child's eyes as if they could discharge electricity.

Qian Xiaobao didn't know why his mouth suddenly became parched and he was at a loss what to do.

"Is no one in the family here?" Qian Xiaobao asked awkwardly.

When he came two years ago, there were Erya's mother-in-law, Erya's husband, brother-in-law and brother-in-law's daughter-in-law in this yard, a total of five people.

But this time, no one except Erya saw anyone else.

"My mother-in-law died a year ago. I don't know if it was some kind of illness. She just kept having diarrhea and died within a few days. My uncle was forcibly arrested and sent to the Manchurian Army two years ago. Brother and wife couldn't keep up." Stay or run away." Erya replied calmly.

It's a common saying in the Northeast that women can't hold back.Things like this in the years of war and chaos are so common that they are no longer surprising.

Schultz once told Qian Xiaobao that many people who came to him to see a doctor seemed to be dying, but if they received an anti-inflammatory injection, they might recover immediately.

Many people died from minor illnesses such as colds or dysentery.

Since these people have never used western medicine, the effect of western medicine is particularly good, almost immediately.It is a pity that there is no such medical condition in the Northeast.

"It's a pity that I wasn't here at the time. If the old lady was sent to the Japanese army field hospital in Bamiantong, she wouldn't die." Qian Xiaobao said regretfully.

Erya didn't speak, but silently untied the rope that tied the child.

Qian Xiaobao hurried over and put his hands under the child's creaking nest from behind and slowly put the child on the ground.

The child actually refused to admit that he was born, and staggered towards Qian Xiaobao.

Because he was afraid that the child would fall down, Qian Xiaobao hurriedly hugged the child.

Erya took two quick steps and bent down to grab the wings of a rooster that was walking in the yard.The big rooster flapped its wings while crowing.

"What are you going to do?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"The child's uncle is here, kill a chicken!" Erya said.

"Don't bother me, just say a few words and I'll go back." Qian Xiaobao said.

Erya glanced around with her eyes and said: "There are more than a dozen old women in about [-] households in this village. You were seen when you entered the village. After a while, if you leave without eating, I will Be chewed by them for a lifetime!"

"You don't need to kill a chicken to eat. Don't you have tofu at home? Just stew two pieces of tofu." Qian Xiaobao said.

"The child's uncle is here, so what's the point of eating a piece of tofu?" Er Ya said.

She walked into the house with the rooster in her hand, and came out in a second with a kitchen knife and a small bowl in her hand.

Put the small bowl and kitchen knife on the ground, hold the rooster's wings with three fingers behind Erya, and grab the comb with the index finger and thumb.

The big cock had to raise its neck.

With the other hand, Erya pulled off the hair on the rooster's neck, revealing the bright red skin.

The big cock kicked its two paws in pain.

Erya picked up the kitchen knife on the ground and quickly scratched the rooster's neck, then brought the rooster's neck close to the small bowl on the ground.

The chicken blood dripped down half the bowl quickly.

Erya still works as neatly and neatly as when she was a daughter in her natal family.

Qian Xiaobao stood aside with the child in his arms and said: "When you were not married, I counted how much you worked at home. Now that you are married, you are even more troubled."

Er Ya's hand paused for a moment, then threw the dead rooster on the ground and went into the house to boil water.

The child in Qian Xiaobao's arms kept kicking, rubbing his nose and saliva on Qian Xiaobao's face, neck and clothes.

Qian Xiaobao knew that Erya boiled water to lose feathers.

"Do it after your man comes back. Where did he go?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

He thought of the 40-year-old cripple he saw in this yard two years ago.

"He drove the donkey cart to deliver tofu, and he will be back soon. Someone in the village must have run to deliver a letter to him." Erya replied.

In the countryside, everyone helping each other has a very warm side, but the old ladies who gossip in the east and west are really annoying.

"It's just that there is no work for them in winter! This place is not far from Dongning, I just need to tell these people to go to Dongning to repair fortifications!" Qian Xiaobao said through gritted teeth.

(End of this chapter)