Ma Xingkong was lightly dressed and simple, and got up and left before dawn. Starting from Xi'an, he crossed the Wei River and went to Xianyang to reach the Loess Plateau. Fortunately, this place is horse-riding, but it is really difficult to drive. There are ravines along the way.
It wasn't too far over there, but we had to climb over a deep ditch. It took us a whole noon to go up and down. We walked for a whole day, and the distance in a straight line was less than ten miles.
The Loess Plateau is really a place with high altitudes and deep ravines. The deepest ravine is no more than 500 meters. Mu Yunchen sighed: "No wonder *** wants to rest here. Look at this terrain. No one can run fast. Even if you see
There are people on the mountain opposite. They will have disappeared by the time you get there. It’s a great place, absolutely a great place!”
"This is really hard for us. There isn't even a store in such a big place. We have to sleep in the open air tonight!" Long Jie complained a little: "I don't know if there are any Green Foresters here. If there are, we can borrow a room."
Night!"
"Green Forest Man? I'm afraid not even the mice are gone!" Liu Wudao said: "The place we are walking now is where the Communist Party and the Young Marshal are having a tug-of-war. Everyone who can escape has escaped. Who will stay here in such chaos?"
Zhujiachuan is the gateway to northern Shaanxi. The deep ditches mentioned above are incorrect. In northern Shaanxi, the deep ditches caused by rainwater erosion all year round are called channel roads. The reason for the loess height is that when it was formed, it was mostly loess, which was relatively loose.
Erosion by rain and strong winds has created a series of river channels. The people then live on the river channels, dig cave dwellings one after another on the soil plateau, and build the soil into terraced fields to rely on the sky for food and harvest. There is no Guanzhong here
The plains are open and there is not enough rain, so the people here live relatively poor.
Zhujiachuan is one of thousands of river channels. The terrain of the Loess Plateau is high in the north and low in the south. Rainwater flows from north to south towards the Wei River, and most of the river islands formed run north-south. Zhujiachuan is an exception. The soil here is relatively hard, and rainwater flows through it.
Turn east here, detour for more than ten miles and then go south. Zhujiachuan has become a barrier across the north-south central axis.
Ma Xingkong and others randomly found a few dilapidated cave dwellings abandoned by the common people and lived in them. They had made fires for cooking all year round, and the roofs of the cave dwellings had been completely blackened, and the thick dust made people afraid to move. This cave dwelling was abandoned.
It's been a long time, and the back part has collapsed. A few brothers have tidied it up and made it their place to spend the night tonight.
After eating the dry food they brought with them, there was nothing to do in the dark. Long Jie asked people to collect firewood and make a fire. Ma Xingkong, Mu Yunchen, and Liu Wu were talking in the room. Mu Yunchen said: "Brother, this time
What are you going to do?"
"I don't know!" Ma Xingkong replied: "Just taking a look. I remember when I was in Beijing, I met the gentlemen from Beijing University. They were basically ***. I was very curious about *** and wanted to see what they were like.
What kind of people are they?"
Liu Wudao: "I think Miss Rose wants to keep you!"
Ma Xingkong smiled slightly and shook his head: "I haven't thought about it. In the eyes of the Nanjing government, the *** are actually not much different from us. They are just one big and one small. Since there is no difference, why bother letting our chicken heads go?
If you don’t want to do it, do you want to be their phoenix tail?”
Mu Yunchen said: "What if they force us to stay?"
"Then kill them!" Ma Xingkong immediately replied: "But I don't think they will do that!"
A large bonfire was lit in the yard and could be seen from far away. In the darkness, the bonfire was like a beacon, attracting all the dormant insects nearby. The huge flames rose high,
The corpses of insects crackled in the fire. Ma Xingkong let out a big yawn and leaned on Lao Hui's back to think about something.
Suddenly, Lao Hui suddenly raised his head, his whole body trembled, his ears stood up, and his big head shook from side to side. Ma Xingkong felt something strange about Lao Hui, and hurriedly sat up straight and waved to everyone: "Quiet."
, there is movement!”
Yu Mu hurriedly took out his short gun and led a few people to climb to the top of the beam. It was so dark that he couldn't see anything. Ma Xingkong turned to one side, put his ears to the ground, and closed his eyes carefully.
Listen.
"Just in front on the left, there are about fifty or sixty people, walking very quickly!" Ma Xingkong said while listening.
"Are they coming for us?" Li Yong asked.
Ma Xingkong shook his head: "Quickly, put out the fire. Get ready. If they are really coming for us, then fuck them!"
After extinguishing the bonfire, a dozen brothers immediately dispersed, each looking for a concealed hiding place. There was not much time, and sure enough, dozens of black shadows came around from the mountain ridge over there. They could not see clearly their appearance or what they were wearing, but from the queue,
Looking up, we saw that they were all strictly trained soldiers, running neatly and in consistent movements. Half a mile away from Zhujiachuan, they suddenly stopped.
Lao Hui let out a low roar, his upper lip turned up to reveal his fangs. Ma Xingkong touched Lao Hui's big head and asked him to be quiet. Just outside Zhujiachuan, the visitors dispersed the team and cautiously moved towards the broken cave dwelling.
Come. The leader came to the fire, looked around, stood up and said: "The fire is not out yet, it must be nearby, look for it!"
The dozens of people immediately divided into several small teams and began to search around the cave dwelling. This place was a relatively flat open space on the plateau with little vegetation, and could be seen almost at a glance. The searchers quickly came back to report that nothing was found. The leader
The person may be a little angry: "Damn, he ran pretty fast. Tell me, is there any other place where I can stay here?"
One person said: "There is no way to go from the north to the south. We came from the west. This group of people must have gone east. From here to the east, there is only Changyu where you can stay. It is the only water source for dozens of miles nearby.
If they want to continue going north, they have to go to Changyu to get water!"
"Okay! Let's go to Changyu!" The leader nodded, waved his hand, and several people followed him and headed east again.
Ma Xingkong emerged from under a thorn and touched the scratched area on his body. Li Yong asked, "Why don't we fight? As long as we fire, none of them can escape!"
Ma Xingkong ignored him and asked Mu Yunchen, "Brother Mu, what do you think they do?"
Mu Yunchen said: "Not like a soldier, more like a bandit!"
"Haha, there are fucking bandits who dare to rob us? Don't ask me, who can be a better bandit than us!" Long Jie chuckled.
Liu Wudao: "Just now they said that Changyu is the only water source, and you have to go get water if you want to go forward. It seems that we have to fight with them!"
Ma Xingkong shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not necessarily the case. Since we are members of the same Taoist group, we naturally have to follow the rules of the Taoist road. When we come here, we have to pay homage to the mountain and tidy up. Tomorrow morning we will go to Changyu to see if these people are