"Okay, I understand."
The lieutenant general hadn't expected her to answer so straightforwardly. He looked at her in surprise, then at Dongsheng, "Master Yan, do you have any other requests?"
"We don't have anything else, but we'd like to ask you to lend us some vehicles when we evacuate. We'll have nearly 100,000 tons of cotton in a few days, and we also have a lot of tools on the farm that we can't transport without a vehicle."
"Don't worry about this. We need to transfer people from various places, so a convoy is indispensable."
Chunxiao looked at Dongsheng again, "Commander-in-Chief, can I have a word with Captain Xu alone?"
The lieutenant general looked at the two of them and said, "Go."
Chunxiao pulled Dongsheng aside and asked, "Do you want to go to the front line too?"
"I'm sorry, Sister Chunxiao. What happened today is all because of me."
"Let's not talk about the cotton for now. Do you want to participate in something like going into battle and killing the enemy?" Losing money is a small matter, but for Dongsheng, this is a matter of life and death. What if something unexpected happens? Chunxiao was a little anxious.
Dongsheng nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will protect myself."
Chun Xiao could only sigh. He was in the military camp and couldn't decide his own life or death. To put it bluntly, even if they knew it was a dead end, they had no choice but to go if their superiors told them to. "You, you must be careful and think more about your father. Everything else I say is nonsense."
Dongsheng pursed his lips and looked at her, and finally just nodded.
After saying this, the man was about to leave.
"Boss Yan, I don't need to explain the importance of what we're talking about today. You better watch your mouths. Otherwise, we won't be able to show any mercy."
"Sir, don't worry, I know my limits. I have one last question: this cotton farm has been requisitioned. Do you still want to collect this cotton?"
The lieutenant general was also confused by her question for a moment, "Let's see the result. I hope it won't be necessary."
After the people from the military camp left, Chunxiao immediately asked Ersan to call all the managers of the village over.
"We're going to evacuate in five days. Collect as much as you can in the next few days. If you can't, there's nothing you can do. Organize the villagers."
"Boss, then we're just going to throw away the rest?"
The managers felt very painful. They said it was in rounds, but in fact it was continuous for a month. The cotton branches were all producing cotton one after another. How could they bear to see such good cotton being thrown away?
"Boss, we worked hard for a year and just threw it away like that. These soldiers are too hateful." Several people were dissatisfied.
"Hey, all of you should be quiet. Do you think the boss is willing? These days, it's not about willingness or not. Today, those soldiers have been very polite."
"Er San is right. This matter is not up to us. You go down and distribute this month's wages to the village in advance. Harvest as much as you can. Don't say anything else, and don't discuss it too much when you are together, okay?"
Everyone understood the seriousness of the situation and nodded.
"Er San, we should all take stock of our things in the next few days and pack up what needs to be packed. We won't have much time to spare once we leave."
"Boss, I'll go and do the statistics and sort it out right away."
After this day, Zhuangzi entered a state of high tension. When the villagers heard about the evacuation, they felt sorry for the cotton lying on the ground, so they spontaneously left from morning till night without taking a break at noon. In this way, by the morning of the fifth day, everything had been almost packed up, but they were still picking in the fields. Now the family has harvested 140,000 to 150,000 kilograms of cotton, which is the result of the greatest effort to harvest, because they have so much land.
The officers and soldiers arrived at noon, along with a large group of vehicles. Shui Liu led the way to Zhuangzi.
Chunxiao was a little surprised to see him. She didn't expect that he was an acquaintance.
Shui Liu also smiled, "Sister, the boss arranged for us to come here, hurry up and pack up. Just tell me where you want to go and I'll take you there. Anyway, the farther away from here, the better. The farther away, the safer it is."
"Let's go to our farm on the outskirts of the city. I'm afraid it's a bit far."
"It's okay. Everyone in the village needs to be moved to the charity hall in the county town. It will take a day."
Chunxiao and his crew also had 20 cows, but 150,000 kilograms of cotton was no joke. Fortunately, Shuiliu and his crew had a horse-drawn carriage that weighed dozens of taels. Even so, they still had to run back and forth several times. Soon, after all the carriages were filled with cotton, Xiaohua sat in the front and took them to the outskirts of the city.
The ox cart carrying Zhuangzi's belongings and cotton followed closely behind. Chunxiao and Ersan stayed behind to wait for their second return trip.
Several managers in the farm did not leave either. They were still picking cotton in the fields. Chunxiao really admired their determination to speed up the progress.
Immediately afterwards, from a distance, we saw cars carrying people leaving the village one after another.
"Boss, if we evacuate like this, won't the enemy notice something's wrong?"
"From this perspective, we think the situation is clear. The enemy needs to inquire about this information, and what they ultimately learn depends on the information. Didn't you hear what the lieutenant general said yesterday? We have people on the other side trying to confuse the public. Besides, we've already started evacuating here, so even if they knew, they'd just think it was to avoid danger." Chunxiao made a "hushing" gesture to Ersan. "Let's not talk about it anymore, for fear that the walls may have ears."
The car made three trips until midnight before all the things were taken away. Chunxiao was very grateful to Shui Liu and the others, and asked them to take care of themselves when seeing them off.
Zhuangzi, who lived in the suburbs, once said that we should build more houses to prepare for emergencies, and now his words have become a true proverb.
Everyone worked all night to put the things in order and put them in the big warehouse.
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