Chapter 54: Visiting relatives? Save people!
Late at night, Longshan Village.
Xiaobai lay on the kang, staring at the beams in a daze.
Boring~
Ninety-nine days after Tang Jingmo left.
Boring or boring!
Ever since the Chinese New Year, the whole of 1976 has been filled with a strange sense of tension.
First came the news of Mr. Chen's death, and then the old village chief passed away in his sleep.
Even the dogs in the village became much more well-behaved, only her little darling would occasionally call her.
It's the same tonight.
“Ouch—”
The howling of wolves pierced the night sky with some urgency.
Xiaobai sat up suddenly, grabbed his coat and rushed out.
On Longtou Cliff, the moonlight is pale.
In the center of the rock wall, a vortex-shaped black hole rotates silently.
Xiaobai's pupils suddenly shrank - on the other side of the black hole, Tang Jingmo was running wildly in the dense forest, and the torches of the pursuers behind him formed a sea of fire.
"Tang Jingmo!" She rushed forward subconsciously, but the whirlpool suddenly disappeared.
The mountain wind was howling, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
Xiaobai licked his fangs and suddenly smiled.
It seems like it's time to try a different map.
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"The luggage is all here. It's safe to use an old bag so it won't cause any trouble!"
Lin Guohua put the patched travel bag on the kang and patted the bulging bag.
"Twenty five-spice eggs, five packs of peach cakes, five catties of beef jerky, five catties of dried fruit, and bacon wrapped tightly in oil paper..."
The eldest sister Lin Shuhua was filling the military canteen with malted milk: "There won't be much good food on the road, so let's warm it up and drink it. It tastes sweet."
"I'm going to visit my relatives, not to escape famine." Xiaobai held his sister's hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but felt calluses all over his palm.
She suddenly fell silent - her elder sister's hands were much rougher than last year.
I guess he was reluctant to use the food coupons she gave him.
The eldest brother silently stuffed a bag of things into the luggage compartment.
Xiaobai knew as soon as he pinched it that it was given to him by Tang Jingmo, the Swiss Army knife that he never leaves behind.
"Xiao An, please watch over your sister on the way. Work more, eat less, and don't sleep. Be alert." Lin Guohua suddenly turned his back and said, "How about I let my brother go with you?"
The moonlight shines through the window lattice, drawing a boundary between light and dark on the edge of the kang.
Xiaobai took out the saber and put it back into Lin Guohua's hand: "Brother, don't you know my ability? It's bad luck for the thief to meet me.
Keep this knife for self-defense. Don’t go too far into the back mountain. Xiaoguai can’t always take care of you.”
"You, you, the Wolf King is the leader after all, don't always order him around..."
No one slept well that night because of all the chatter.
The next morning, I almost missed the train and finally climbed onto the green train bound for the provincial capital.
Xiaobai was so tired that he lay on his seat and yawned.
Xiao An put away his luggage and took out a still-warm omelet. "Xiao Bai, eat something. You were in such a hurry to leave this morning that you didn't eat enough. Look, this omelet smells so good!"
Xiao An held the oil-paper package in his hand. The golden surface of the pancake was covered with green chopped green onions, and the crispy edges were still steaming.
Xiaobai shook the military canteen and said, "I have no appetite. I'll drink this."
A pair of hands suddenly stretched out from the side, and were about to take the omelet. Xiao An quickly retracted his hands and slapped the "uninvited hands" away with his palm.
"Who are these filthy people who dare to steal from your grandfather?"
"Brother, please be kind, we are both hungry all the way!"
Sitting opposite them was a mother and son.
The woman in the patched cotton jacket pushed the runny-nosed boy forward and said, "Please have pity on the boy. He hasn't eaten for two days..."
The child stared at the omelet with his eyes wide open and his snot almost running into his mouth.
When the woman saw that the brother and sister didn’t respond, she suddenly raised her voice: “City people are just hard-hearted!”
The passengers around him looked at him sideways. Xiao An hesitated and broke off half a cake, but Xiao Bai held his wrist.
"Auntie," Xiaobai smiled and pointed at the woman's bulging bag, which had been opened at some point.
"The meat buns sticking out of your bag are enough for your son to eat for three days."
There was laughter in the carriage.
The woman's face changed, she suddenly pulled the child back and tightened the luggage bag: "You are the only one with good eyesight!"
He turned back and glared at the people who were making fun of him, "A dog trying to catch a rat!"
Xiao An clenched his fists and opened his mouth to say something back, but Xiao Bai stuffed his mouth full of biscuits: "Eat yours. Don't waste your saliva."
The vine playfully slid under the table into the child's hand. The little boy was frightened and wet his pants, which caused the woman to scold him.
Xiaobai wailed in his heart: What a bad decision, this urine smell is so horrible!
“Crunch—”
The train, which had been running for half a day, suddenly stopped. Inertia caused Xiao An to fall forward, but fortunately Xiao Bai grabbed his back.
"Are we there yet?" The passengers in the car looked around, confused.
"Bang!"
There was a sudden loud noise at the connection between the carriages.
Three men kicked the door open, and the scarred man in the lead held up a homemade explosive pack and said, "Don't move!"
The passengers were driven to the middle of the carriage screaming in fear.
Xiaobai squinted his eyes and counted - a gang of five people, two shotguns, and a pack of explosives.
She gently touched Xiao An's slightly trembling hand.
"Throw the money and food coupons over here!" the short gangster waved a machete, "Otherwise..." He suddenly grabbed the little boy.
"What else?"
A clear female voice sounded.
The short man turned around and saw a girl with a ponytail slowly standing up with half an omelet in her hand.
Auntie Roubaozi screamed, "Catch her! This girl is rich! She eats egg pancakes and drinks malted milk!"
Xiao An glared at her fiercely. He should have punished her just now.
Aunt Roubaozi avoided looking at him, but when she saw her son in the hands of the gangsters, she became a little bolder and pointed at Xiaobai and shouted to the gangsters:
"Let her be a hostage! Look at her, she is as white and tender as tofu, a ready-made daughter-in-law, let us orphans and widows go..."
"Good attention! But your son is a man after all, he can be sold for some money, I'll take all of him."
The short guy won't be fooled by Aunt Baozi, and the more hostages the better.
The scarred man holding the explosive pack laughed lewdly, "Third brother, I like this woman, come back and have sex with her!"
Xiaobai calmly stuffed the last bite of biscuit into his brother's mouth.
"You want me, right?" She wiped the oil off her fingertips with a handkerchief, and suddenly, as fast as lightning, she grabbed the short third brother with one hand and twisted his wrist -
“Crack!”
A hand rolled up the little boy.
Amid screams, Aunt Baozi watched in amazement as the short gangster was swung up like a sack and smashed towards his accomplices.
Xiaobai stepped on the fallen rifle with her cotton boots, and with a tip of her toes, the gun was in her hand in an instant.
Xiaobai grinned:
"Auntie, I'm as white and tender as tofu? Do you want to try it, too?"
The girl who looks like a fairy is actually a living devil! She is holding the lifeblood of the Tian family for three generations!
Aunt Baozi didn't dare to say anything nonsense anymore. She knelt down and kowtowed, not daring to say a word!
Xiaobai saw the criminals quietly approaching him from the corner of his eye, and with a flick of his hand, the boy was returned to his rightful owner.
The inertia caused Aunt Baozi and her son to slide into the crowd.
The mother and son escaped from the jaws of death and were temporarily safe. They collapsed on the ground and wet their pants.
"Bitch..."
Scarface pulled the fuse of the explosive pack and said, "If you dare to move again, we will die together!"
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