Ma Xingkong stepped on Shen Sanpao's head and said with a smile, "How about it? If you don't follow me, your life will be gone now, right?"
"Grandpa, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me!" Shen Sanpao is a master of the situation. Over the years, he has relied on his thick skin. Although he cannot accomplish anything big, he still has a small world on the edge of the Loess Plateau. .
Long Jie smiled and said: "Weren't you very capable just now? Why are you so stubborn now?"
"Hero, please spare me. I, Shen Sanpao, am just a fart, a beast. As long as you let me go, I will never forget your great kindness. I will definitely provide you with an immortal tablet in my house!" Shen Sanpao! He spoke these words very fluently and seemed to say them often.
Ma Xingkong raised his feet, and when he saw it, Shen Sanpao thought for a moment: "You are so tall, with a fierce look on your face, and then you are a softie?"
Shen Sanpao said with a smile: "Yes, yes, grandpa said yes, I am a softie! I can't do anything, so you can just let it go, right?"
Ma Xingkong glared at him fiercely: "Go away, I'm angry just looking at you. I'd like to kill you for dirtying my hands!"
Shen Sanpao quickly knelt down and kowtowed three times to Ma Xingkong. He stood up and bowed to the circle around him. He could no longer care about the injuries on his body. If he could survive, he would be lucky. He first took a few steps back, turned around and acted coquettishly. Run. Long Jie looked at Shen Sanpao and said with a smile: "This kid can even catch up with a rabbit!"
Mu Yunchen said: "Brother, this guy looks like a villain at first glance. I'm worried that he will be detrimental to us in the future!"
Ma Xingkong rolled his eyes and winked at Lao Hui. Lao Hui rushed out like an arrow. Not long after, a scream came from the other side of the ravine. Mu Yunchen nodded: "Don't worry now. too much!"
Several of Ma Xingkong's men were also injured. This group of people had all experienced the war in the Northeast. Anyone who could crawl out of the dead had two brushes. In their view, these dozens of bandits were green-skinned, and some were smooth. Not even green-skinned. Mu Yunchen helped the brothers on his hands to treat their wounds. Ma Xingkong directed the remaining people to bury all the bodies, so as not to be known by other Green Forest people and get into trouble. Although Shen Sanpao was the one who got into trouble first. He, but it doesn't make sense that they are all dead.
After finishing everything, they replenished the water source in Changyu, and the group continued to walk north. The Yanhe River is a seasonal river, and it is June now. There is little precipitation, and there is a scorching sun in the sky. The Yanhe River is almost drying up, and the weak river water is still there. The wide river bed flows northward little by little. Yan'an is a residential area gathered on the Yan River, with neither a city nor a moat.
Wanhua Mountain is a small hill in the south of Yan'an. You can see Yan'an's Pagoda Mountain from a distance when you step on this hill. A solitary pagoda stands on the top of the mountain. It is said that this pagoda has a history of thousands of years. I don't know whether it is true or not. Long Jiegao Call out: "We're here, we're here!"
He urged the horse to go straight to Yan'an City. It was completely different from what he imagined. This was not a city, it was just a larger town store. The people were not as good as the farmers in the Guanzhong Plain, and they were all disgraced. It was the harvest of Guanzhong Road now. It's wheat season, but people here have nothing to do. Last year's drought caused no harvest here, and today is a severe drought. Even if you plant seeds on the hillside, there will be no harvest.
Wherever Ma Xingkong and the others passed, they saw hungry people everywhere. They were all skinny and skinny, and could not walk very steadily. Long Jie was a beggar, and he could not bear to see such a scene. He took two steps and said, "Brother, , give them our dry food?"
Ma Xingkong nodded. Long Jie led a few people and gave all the dry food he had saved to the people. Seeing the people looting like crazy, Mu Yunchen sighed: "You said this chairman is a What the hell is this? The people here are so eager to eat each other because of the blockade. If you don’t fight against them, who will fight against you?”
"Well said! Well said, Brother Mu!" Rose appeared out of nowhere. She was still dressed like a peasant woman, but she didn't look like a peasant woman. Her short, ear-length hair hung down on both sides, and her chin was well-shaped. The more you look at your big, watery eyes, the more beautiful you feel.
Li Yong hurriedly jumped off his horse and flew to Rose: "You are here. Are you coming to pick me up?"
Rose hated this Li Yong, but he was Ma Xingkong's brother, and she couldn't tell him, so she could only try to avoid it. She avoided Li Yong and walked up to Ma Xingkong: "You guys came really fast. I just received the news yesterday that you will arrive today!"
Long Jie turned around and said: "This is too slow. If there hadn't been a group of bandits on the road, we might have arrived yesterday!"
"Is it the blind guy who robbed you?" Rose smiled.
Li Yong hurriedly returned: "Shen Sanpao, we took the blame for that guy! I thought at that time..."
Yu Mu grabbed Li Yong's neck and pulled him aside to prevent him from causing trouble here again. Rose looked at Yu Mu gratefully, and Yu Mu smiled and took Li Yong to help distribute things to the people. As soon as Li Yong left, they got to the point. Rose Rose was very happy that Ma Xingkong came back to northern Shaanxi. Rose Rose said: "I have reported your matter to our superiors. The superiors attach great importance to it. I hope you can stay a little longer and take a closer look." Changes in our base area!”
Ma Xingkong looked back at the hungry people and said, "Look at this? I don't want to see it, otherwise I won't be able to eat. I know what it's like to be hungry!"
Rose said: "This is only caused by the blockade. Can you look at anything else? Look at how the people here live and look at the determination of everyone here to resist Japan!"
"Let's not talk about it for now! Let me ask you something!" Ma Xingkong looked around to make sure there was no one else around, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know a person named Zhou Gong?"
"Duke Zhou? What Duke Zhou?" Rose asked in surprise.
Ma Xingkong shook his head: "Someone asked me to bring him something. He just said the word Zhou Gong. If you don't know him, can you ask me? I must find this Zhou Gong!"
"Duke Zhou!" Rose pondered for a long time: "Okay! Let me find out for you!" How could Rose not know the name of Duke Zhou? She just couldn't tell Ma Xingkong clearly for safety reasons.
That day, they stayed in Yan'an, at the foot of the pagoda mountain. The night breeze blew the bells on the pagoda, and they jingled loudly, crisp and sweet. Ma Xingkong didn't know why he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and he didn't fall asleep until midnight. As soon as he closed his eyes, the faces of those hungry people would appear clearly in front of him one by one. Didn't he go to Woniu Mountain just for the food? When he saw them, he thought of himself. In troubled times, what is best is not how much. Gold, silver, wealth, not just a lot of property or real estate, but food means life!
Pagoda Mountain is named after the pagoda. The pagoda is actually a temple. Of course, if you don’t have food, you can’t even recite sutras. The monks have run away and it has become an empty temple. Ma Xingkong walked up the steps to the top. , standing under the pagoda, I seemed to feel a trace of peace in my heart.