Chapter 71 Section five

Although the moon on August 17 is not as round as the 16th or as bright as the 15th, it is still a full moon. When it first rises, it seems to be very big, hiding in the shade of the trees. Later, it gradually climbs up the treetops and suddenly With a flick, it rose into the air.At the same time, it became smaller, brighter, and hung up. Fan Xiaojin sat on the bridge of the Yanqi River, cried enough and rested enough, saw that the moon was also hanging, so she stood up again and continued walking. Fan Xiaojin hasn't closed his eyes for a while since he bumped into Cheng Shaobo covered in blood in the early morning of August 16th.On the night of the sixteenth day, Cheng Shaobo, who woke up, told the whole process of being tricked by the Japanese to see a doctor. Knowing that Cheng Shaobo was eager to contact his family, she made preparations quietly: baked two big pancakes, poured two A bottle of clean water, washed a few more cucumbers, and brought some dry dog ​​food, wrapped in a piece of twisted cloth.

After the old doctor Temuler left, she and her husband Han Zhongtang explained a few things about making medicine and porridge for Cheng Shaobo, and asked Cheng Shaobo what he needed to say to his family and what to ask (only then did she know that Cheng Shaobo was now Mrs. Erfang), Cheng Shaobo was worried that she would walk alone at night and would not let her take risks, so she said nothing, greeted her big black dog and set off on the road. From the banks of the Liuhe River to the banks of the Yanqi River, it is more than two hundred miles away.If it was just walking, her body would have to walk for two days and one night.It should also be her luck that she only walked at night in the middle of the night, and met a side car at dawn the next day, and sat until Tanhei entered Guangning City, and then walked from Guangning to Yaowangmiao Town.However, as a price for her feet, all her two big pancakes went into the stomach of the car owner. She only ate a few cucumbers and drank some water for a whole day, but she didn't feel very hungry, and she felt angry. Can't eat anything.She ran to Zhangwu with Niu Yuchun and lived a good life at the beginning. With her father's gift of twenty taels of silver, she and Niu Yuchun bought a house first, and the rest was used as capital to open a grocery store. The business has been good.Unexpectedly, Niu Yuchun gradually lost track of the right path, first went whoring, then smoked, and finally gambled. He lost all his family property including her to others, and hanged himself to death by a rope.When she cried out to the sky and said nothing, Han Zhongtang settled the gambling debt for the dead ghost, and the two became husband and wife.But at that time, Han Zhongtang lost an arm and half a leg due to robbery, and had already lost the ability to work. She relied on her to rent a few acres of land to barely survive.Because of that disease, she has never been pregnant, and she is even more lonely without a child by her side.This time, Cheng Shaobo's sudden appearance added fuel to her homesickness, so, whether it was to deliver a letter for Cheng Shaobo, or for her own homesickness, she had to make this trip.Just now, sitting on the bridge of Yanqi River, looking at the hazy shadows of Luyang Mountain and the houses in Yaowangmiao Town, a sense of nostalgia surged in her heart, she let go of her throat and howled once, and at this moment, she felt happy in her chest. too much.

In several teahouses in the town center, Errenzhuan and Dongbei Dagu were still being sung, and the stalls selling smoked chicken, pork head meat, and offal were blaring, and all the drugstores had long since closed their doors.The cargo ships moored at the pier were huddled together, shaking vague shadows in the fluctuation of the river, and there were loud snoring sounds from some open cabins. Fan Xiaojin took out a few big bucks from his pocket, lowered his head, bought a bowl of offal, gave the big black dog all the dry ones to eat, drank the thin ones himself, then hid from the light again, and picked a dark place to look at them. The Cheng family ran away from the old house.

She smelled the familiar smell in the medicine garden again, and heard the rustling whispers of the apricot forest in the night wind, the singing of autumn insects in the forest, and the clamoring of frogs by the water.The old house is still the same, but it is quiet, dark and a little scary. Fan Xiaojin went to knock on the door, shouting "Sister-in-law Qin" while knocking, but there was no movement inside.She was feeling a little puzzled when she suddenly touched the seal on the gate.Taking a closer look under the moonlight, although I didn't recognize the weird Japanese, I found out that the old house was sealed.Helpless, he had to call the big black dog to turn around and walk back.

At this time, she saw two figures flashing out of the apricot forest behind her, and rushed towards her, she screamed in fright, and the big black dog beside her immediately barked at those two people. The two stopped and shouted at her, "What do you do?" "I... am delivering a letter to the old Cheng's family." Fan Xiaojin said truthfully in a state of nervousness, "His Shaobo Cheng is injured." As he spoke, he stopped the big black dog. "Where is Cheng Shaobo?" The other party asked quickly. This question put Fan Xiaojin on alert—Cheng Shaobo ran away from the Japanese, and the Japanese would definitely come to his house to look for him and arrest him again.Seeing that the gate was sealed, it meant that his whole family had been taken away, so these two people must be here waiting to catch Shaobo Cheng.Therefore, it is impossible to tell them where Cheng Shaobo is. "Who are you?" Fan Xiaojin asked back.

"Don't worry about it, tell me where Cheng Shaobo is?" The other party's attitude was very tough. "You don't have to worry about where Uncle Shao is." After Fan Xiaojin finished speaking, he turned around to greet the big black dog and left. "Stop!" A man came up and captured Fan Xiaojin severely, and said contemptuously, "You're pretty good! Okay, let's take you to meet my guard, and see if you're still good!" Seeing this, the big black dog jumped up to bite Fan Xiaojin's captor, but was accidentally kicked by another person, so he barked angrily and rushed at the person.The man couldn't do anything, so he pulled out the pistol from his waist.

"If you dare to hit my dog, I won't let you!" Fan Xiaojin pointed at the man and said sharply. "Okay! Okay! You're great." The man said, "It doesn't bite me, I ignore it." He only shot two shots on the ground, scaring the big black dog.