It is already dark now. Standing on the tree and looking down, I can only see the remaining smoke from the village that has not been completely burned.
The new village chief does not recommend that everyone go down the mountain now. Who knows if there are other Japanese devils below, or whether the Japanese devils will come again.
After all, if you look further away, the fires in other villages are still quite chaotic, and the Japanese are probably not gone yet.
Lin Youliang asked the middle-aged and elderly people who were killing the Japanese on the mountainside today to rest first, and organized young people to patrol the surrounding area at night, while the elderly, the weak, women and children all rested in the cave.
After the sadness, others have to continue living.
Lin Wenxuan was also on the night duty team. He followed Dashan next door and went out together, leaving his mother and wife sitting in the cave.
Liang Shengdi was hungry again. She stared at the small pot in Zhang Xiaonu's hand with her green eyes. She had brought it up the mountain in the early morning while carrying the grain bag. She also hung it around her neck. It was also the only cooking utensil their family brought with them.
Zhang Xiaonv: ...
"Just bear with it for a while! Wenxuan hasn't eaten a single bite today! Can you please leave some for your man?" She was really impressed by Liang Shengdi. How could she only know how to eat every day?
Liang Shengdi was really convinced and pointed at the grain bag behind her mother-in-law and said,
"Why don't you just give him some later? If you keep it covered now, it will be cold by the time Wenxuan comes to eat it!"
"Oh my goodness!" Zhang Xiaonu cried out, "We don't know when we can get down the mountain. We won't be able to harvest a single grain of rice from the fields this year. Can't you save some food? There are only a few bags left. If we finish them, the three of us will be left starving!"
Dashan's mother, who was sitting next to her, also echoed Zhang Xiaonu's words and advised Liang Shengdi,
"Yes, Wenxuan, your mother-in-law is doing this for your own good. Life isn't just a few days away... Look at Xiaomao over there, she's pregnant too. She has such a big belly, and she hasn't even complained of being hungry since she had just one bite this morning!"
The food they carried on their backs was for their own consumption, and no family was rich. When yours is finished, don't expect other families to help you.
To be honest, Liang Shengdi was a little upset. Was there really something wrong with her stomach? She was just hungry! So hungry! Why wouldn't they let her have one more bite?
When Lin Wenxuan came back from his shift, Zhang Xiaonv was still leaning against the mountain wall, holding the pot and waiting for him, while Liang Shengdi had fallen asleep with tears in her eyes.
"Son! You're back. Are you hungry? Come! Have a bite!" Zhang Xiaonv opened the pot and handed it in front of him. There were two boiled sweet potatoes in it. Liang Shengdi wanted to drink porridge, but Zhang Xiaonv refused, saying that at this time, one must eat the sweet potatoes first and then eat rice.
Lin Wenxuan put down his hoe and went to see Liang Shengdi first. In the cave, everyone was crowded together with several families, so he walked carefully for fear of stepping on others.
"Have you eaten?" he asked Zhang Xiaonv casually.
Zhang Xiaonu looked at her filial son with a smile on her face, "I've eaten, I've eaten. This is specially for you!"
Lin Wenxuan finally arrived at Liang Shengdi's side in the dark. As soon as he touched his wife's face, he felt wetness.
Although they had only been married for half a year, Lin Wenxuan had some understanding of his wife. Of course, he knew his mother better.
"Mom, you won't give Shengdi any food?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Zhang Xiaonu glanced at Liang Shengdi who was still asleep and cursed in a low voice.
"She ate that much by herself," Zhang Xiaonv said, gesturing with her hands as she placed the pot on her knees. "Two sweet potatoes that big! Two! And she still said she was hungry! Do you think I can give her more? I'm afraid she'll get sick from eating too much!"
Lin Wenxuan took the pot from his mother's knees and said in a light tone,
"Where did we get such big sweet potatoes? These two in the pot are the biggest ones. How could I not know if I dug them out?"
Zhang Xiaonu was a little embarrassed, but she couldn't help but defend herself, "You're a man, you have to eat more to have strength, and you also have to be on night patrol... She just sits here motionless..."
"She's pregnant!" Lin Wenxuan emphasized this point to his mother again. "If I die at the hands of the Japanese tomorrow, her independent child will be the only root of our family. You won't let her have enough to eat. Do you really want our family to be extinct?"
Zhang Xiaonv didn't expect that Lin Wenxuan would curse himself for his wife. Her face changed drastically and she said, "Ah, bah, bah, bah! You unfilial son! What a bunch of bullshit you said! Take it back..."
Lin Wenxuan ignored his mother and woke Liang Shengdi up. He picked the biggest sweet potato from the two in the pot and gave it to her.
"Eat quickly, and talk after you're done."
Liang Shengdi was eating meat in her dream when she was suddenly woken up. She was very unhappy, but the next second she found a sweet potato in her hand and she woke up instantly.
After taking a bite of the meat and skin, I was shaking with hunger.
Lin Wenxuan was happy to see his wife eating with relish, so he sat beside her and started to nibble on the remaining piece.
"So you're the good guy and I'm the bad guy! Do I just want to bully her?" The young couple were chewing sweet potatoes sweetly on the opposite side, making Zhang Xiaonu very angry.
"She's not the only pregnant woman! There are so many people in the village..."
"Mom, please be quiet, everyone is asleep."
Zhang Xiaonu was furious and didn't want to say anything anymore. There was only so much food available and it was impossible to eat much every day. If Lin Wenxuan wanted his wife to eat more, he could just use his own share.
Zhang Xiaonv simply fell back, too lazy to pay attention to the two people opposite her.
Liang Shengdi finished chewing the sweet potato, and only then did she feel her panic and trembling subside a little. She looked at Lin Wenxuan, feeling a little embarrassed.
"You're back... that sweet potato... is one enough for you..."
It wasn't enough and it went into her stomach.
Lin Wenxuan hugged her with amusement, "I've had enough. I drank a lot of water when I was on duty outside just now, and my stomach is bloated."
Liang Shengdi's guilty feeling faded a little, and she leaned on the man's shoulder and whispered about her dream.
"I just dreamed that I killed a wild boar in the mountains. It was so big that I couldn't even finish eating it."
"Haha, your dream is really beautiful... Is it because we went into the mountains?... It's a pity that there don't seem to be wild boars in our mountains..."
"...It's not easy to fight even if there are some... When I first had the dream, I was squatting on a tree with a gun and shooting. I fired a lot of shots and used up all the bullets."
"Hey, you can shoot a gun?"
"That was just a dream... But I fought pretty well in my dream, really!"
"Okay, okay, my wife can be a sharpshooter too... But just now, when Uncle Dachun and the others came back, they brought back six bayonets, including the Japanese's bags and clothes, and said they wanted to study them carefully.
Maybe next time the devils come, we can kill them straight away."
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