Chapter 71 Cremation(25)

If Ergou took another step forward, although he might not die, Menglian's scissors would surely stab him; naturally, maybe his pistol would kill Menglian. On weekdays, Ergou and Menglian would never get together to play a comedy or tragedy.The war, however, shook everything and changed everything.It makes positive and negative stand in one place at the same time, and good and evil flourish at the same time.It not only kills but also eliminates righteousness in the world.Man, at this time, must overcome war before justice can prevail.Those who were intimidated by artillery fire, bowed their heads, knelt down, and canceled themselves from the national register.Those who regard temporary benefits as once-in-a-lifetime opportunities lose eternal life.Menglian is weak, but she has a peaceful heart.As long as a little of her blood boils, she will overcome the war.She may not be able to stab Ergou to death, but her decision is as great as justice.

At this time, Tian Mazi came to Ergou. "What are you doing here?" Ergou lost his temper because Tian Mazi interrupted his courtship. Tian Mazi's triangular eyes were buttoned down twice. "There is something urgent! Please come out!" "What's important? Let's talk about it here! Menglian is not an outsider!" Ergou pointed at her. "Menglian" called out from Ergou's mouth, causing Menglian's stomach to turn upwards.However, she suppressed her breath, put on a forced smile, and said to Tian Mazi: "That's right, let's talk here!" She wanted to listen to what they had to say.

Tian Mazi's dark yellow face showed a look of embarrassment, he didn't want to talk in front of Menglian. "Damn it, tell me!" Ergou said angrily to Tian Mazi.He decided not to leave Menglian. "This," he pointed at her again, "is my wife!" It was not so much because of shyness, but because of anger, Meng Lian's face turned red to the bottom of her ears, and she swallowed a big mouthful of foam.Gritting her teeth, she decided to be patient.Tian Mazi's lips trembled a few times, and then he closed his triangular eyes for a while: "Then, let's talk about it later!" He wanted to go out.

"Come back! What the hell are you doing? Say!" Tian Mazi stood helplessly. "Say it! What's wrong with you?" Mazi also swallowed a big mouthful of spit.With his kung fu and martial arts back then, he looked down on Ergou.Because Ergou betrayed him, he hated Ergou.But the smoke ruined his body, and also destroyed his ambition.He has to obey Ergou and curry favor with Ergou. "What's the matter?" Ergou was eager to finish listening, and drove Mazi away so that he could continue to woo Menglian.His heart was burning with desire, and only Menglian's submission could calm him; he decided to teach her to submit.When necessary, he will draw a gun. "That what, that what," Tian Mazi's lips trembled like leaves blown by the autumn wind.He always wants to do bad things, because only doing bad things can make money.He can't forget the bravery and beauty of the past, and the glory of the past was based on loyalty.Heroism and decadence, righteousness and evil, are often at war in his heart; he often regrets.However, the opium made his remorse lose his determination to reform, and the more he regretted, the more depressed he became; as a result, he often did evil with remorse, and regret gave himself a little comfort, and he would forgive himself in circles.

"What the hell is it?" Ergou urged him. Meng Lian sat down gently and rubbed her temples, she felt a headache. "That—" Tian Mazi hesitated again. "Go and have a look! Probably Wang Juren taught them to 'invite'!" Menglian could tell that the word "please" had another meaning.In Wencheng, those kidnapped by the enemy and those invited to go will be "missing" forever.She stood up very quickly, wanting to ask more details.However, she couldn't speak.It is true that Jurengong is her father, and he is a very loving father; however, from the standpoint of the country and the nation, he is a traitor.She couldn't help caring about him, but also couldn't help resenting him.She can't only care about the relationship between father and daughter, and ignore the bigger things.

"Who did you invite?" Ergou asked. "Oriental people!" "when?" "Just now! Four gendarmes came!" "why?" Tian Mazi's lips moved several times, but he didn't make a sound. His triangular eyes were closed down, not daring to look at Menglian. "Why?" Menglian approached and asked. Mazi's lips trembled even more. "Go and have a look!" Meng Lian falsely begged Ergou, "He is my father!" "Yes! He is my father-in-law!" Ergou smiled proudly. "I'll go, go right away, come back right away; you wait for me!" He touched her face with his hand.

Ergou went out, followed by Tian Mazi.Menglian grabbed Mazi's wrist, "Wait!" Sweat broke out on Tian Mazi's green face. He was the one who killed Yishan. He knew that Yishan was Menglian's fiancé.Now, he framed Wang Juren, Menglian's father.He is not afraid of killing people, but he has never completely killed his conscience.At the same time, Meng Lian is so thin, pure and righteous, he feels sorry for her! "Come on! Tell me what's going on!" Meng Lian grabbed his cuff. "Girl! Go quickly! Don't delay for a moment, go!" "Walk?"

"Run for your life!" Tian Mazi sweated profusely. "I do all kinds of evil, I'm a villain! But I'm willing to save your life! Go!" "What's going on?" "Don't ask any more questions, get out of the city quickly! I swear to Tianming, I didn't lie to you!" After finishing speaking, he took his arms away and ran out like a fish getting out of a mesh.Menglian wanted to calm down for a while.However, Yishan, Ergou, Captain Shi, father, Wencheng, the enemy, the war... like a fire burning at the same time, she didn't know which one to fight first.She wanted to lay down on the bed and think slowly, but Ergou's oppression, her father's invitation to go, and Mazi Yutian's warning had already made her feel dangerous; this is no time to think slowly!She was sweating.Looking east and west, she can't decide anything.But her feet moved out automatically.When she reached the door, she hurried back again. She opened the drawer forcefully, grabbed a handful of rings and other jewelry, and stuffed them in her pocket.Then she grabbed a coat and threw it over her body.Putting on her coat, she panicked even more.She seemed to have seen the danger.The flesh on her legs trembled, and she hurried out.

After passing the outer courtyard, she glanced at her father's room, but there was no one there.She wanted to go in and have a look, but her trembling legs dared not stop.She walked out of the gate as if driven by some evil spirit.She was in a hurry, wishing she could step out of the city gate in one step.However, she dared not run for fear of attracting attention.She walked neither fast nor slow, stepping on the tip of a needle with every step.She felt unbearably lonely alone.She had lost a mountain that could be her life partner, and now she had lost her father and her home.She was reluctant to go home, but she decided not to go back, and she didn't dare to think about it; she knew that if she thought about it, her legs would be so weak that she couldn't take another step.

She longed to meet Captain Shi, her eyes looked around, hoping to find him among others.Can't find him.Her steps slowed down: where are you going? Her pace quickened again: she thought of Uncle Song, and she went out the east gate.Uncle Song's home seems to be more beautiful and safer than her own home; Uncle Song's home is the starting point for her to be free.She quickened her pace, and she saw hope.She remembered the comedy scene when she fled to Uncle Song's house to get engaged to Yishan. At that time, she was so childish and innocent, but also so happy and free.At that time, her only enemy was her father, and his father just wanted to mind his own business, and didn't, at all, mean to hurt her.Now, she has changed, and has become a person without happiness and freedom; she must use her brain, eyes, hands, and feet to deal with the real enemy—her own, and the enemy of the whole country.She felt lonely and uncomfortable; but she was also a little proud: people have to grow up, they can't stay a child forever.She lowered her head and looked at her feet, the shoes were covered with loess.She felt that she was no longer a child, but a little woman, a widow who had never married, a woman who had lost everything and had to struggle, a woman who had gone from being carefree to being ruined. little woman.What is the future?who knows.She just knew she had to move on.She can't go back any further.Life, age, and encounters cannot go backwards.She has to move forward bravely; the past will not come back; nostalgia and resentment are the most worthless.She feels lonely, but she also feels a little independent spirit; she feels the emptiness of the future, but also feels a kind of emptiness; the power of life will fill the emptiness and make it full.

At this time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.The faint yellow sun seemed to be lazy and went to bed early, and it was not far from the top of the big mountain in the west.The earth is covered with a thin layer of smoke that is drier and lighter than the fog, giving the mountains, forests, and houses a bit of chill and a touch of gray.Flocks of jackdaws fly slowly, pity and call each other.Menglian didn't dare to look far away.The coldness, distance, desolation, and stillness of the land made her afraid.Her body was already sweating, and her feet were getting stronger, she was almost trotting.She only hoped that she would soon reach Uncle Pine's pine forest: the hut in the pine forest would give her safety and warmth. Not far from the pine forest, she slowed down and panted.The slender sun blackened the green leaves of the pine trees, and there was a little yellow on the west-facing trunks.On the black and green pine leaves is a light gray sky.She didn't want to see the chilling colors in the sky anymore, she wanted to go into the pine forest immediately, the black and green pine leaves seemed to be clusters of the most powerful mysterious things, able to resist wind, snow and frost.In the past, she always thought that this pine forest was a romantic poem, a place where lovers meet and whisper.Now, she felt that the pine forest represented strength, without the slightest romantic atmosphere, but standing there honestly to resist the wind and cold.She herself should be strong, like those pines. She saw Uncle Song's thatched cottage.The roof of the thatched cottage was also gray and yellow, but in her eyes, it seemed to have some warm heat and golden light.She ran towards the bright place, hoping to see Uncle Song's kind face immediately. About five hundred steps away from the thatched hut, there was a red spot three feet long on the ground.The sky is gray, the mountains are gray, the sun is gray, and the smog everywhere is gray; suddenly seeing a patch of red in this gray and cold world, Meng Lian's eyes dimmed for a moment, and she stood still.She couldn't remember what it was supposed to be.Blinking her eyes, she realized that it was a village woman's red padded jacket, and the red piece was moving.She figured it out: Tie Zhu's daughter-in-law must be digging sweet potatoes or radishes. There is a small field ridge to the left of that piece of red.There was a man squatting on the other side of the field ridge.Meng Lian could only see part of his head and back, which were all blocked by small mounds.She guessed: It was an iron pillar. Menglian didn't want to alarm the young couple.She walked to the right, trying to walk through the pine forest to the thatched cottage.At the same time, she didn't like the young couple very much, so she wanted to avoid them.On weekdays, because she loves Uncle Song, she also has a good impression of the young couple.Today, she saw the young couple working in the field while she was running away, so she couldn't help feeling a little jealous. A few dozen steps away from the thatched cottage, she heard a sharp female cry, so sharp that it seemed to cut through the quiet sky!She stood still and looked towards Zheng's daughter-in-law without thinking.The red thing has been hugged by an enemy soldier.Her heart is going to jump out.She ran two steps forward, trying to save the daughter-in-law.However, she has no weapons, and her enthusiasm is only enough to teach her to throw herself into a trap.She stood still.At this time, the person squatting behind the field mound seemed to come out of the ground suddenly, holding a black thing in his hand, and rushed towards him.Meng Lian forgot all scruples, and couldn't help shouting: "Hit!" The black object fell on the enemy soldier's head, the enemy soldier shook a few times, and the red clothes were all exposed again.Gunshots sounded from behind Tian Gang, and Xiao Zheng straightened his body, face down, and fell down.There was another sharp scream.The red padded jacket is moving.There was another gunshot, and the red clothes also fell down. Meng Lian ran towards the thatched cottage, shouting as she ran: Uncle Song!Uncle Song!no respond.She ran into the hut, and there was no one there.Uncle Song!Uncle Song!Very quickly, she went through the hut, and there was no one.Outside, chickens are screaming. She walked back and walked to the door of the house, and she saw three enemy soldiers walking towards the thatched house with guns in their hands!