In the new year, the main force of the Japanese invaders in Yuezhou was trapped in the southeast.
In May, the Japanese in the west assembled a large army and marched south from Su County, launching the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign.
In the town near Sihe Village, although the Japanese still come to harass from time to time, their number and strength are not as great as before.
In addition, the militia teams organized by several villages here have been working hard to protect the villages and villagers, especially the farmlands.
When the Japanese attacked and destroyed houses, everyone would hide if they could, but when they attacked and burned crops, they would definitely rush out with guns and knives and fight to the death. At least this helped to preserve this year's harvest to the greatest extent possible.
However, another one of Liang Shengdi's chickens was taken away.
After a spring, the two chickens had grown up. Although it was not time for them to lay eggs yet, they could no longer be held steady by one hand. So when they ran up the mountain again, one of the chickens broke free from Liang Shengdi's hand and flew backwards.
Liang Shengdi originally wanted to turn around and catch it back, but Lin Wenxuan grabbed her arm and pulled her up the mountain.
"Don't go back! The Japs are already here!"
Zhang Xiaonv walked past them, holding her child in one hand and dragging her belongings in the other. "You two are so quick! You are running for your lives!" Then she rushed up without looking back.
Lin Wenxuan was carrying a grain bag in one hand. This was the only half bag of grain his family had now, and they depended on it before the summer harvest.
He still held Liang Shengdi up tightly with one hand, "As long as you're alive, you'll have everything! You'll have food! You'll have chickens too!"
When Liang Shengdi was standing on the mountain holding the remaining chicken, she was still praying that the one that ran away would hide well, or at least not be captured by the Japanese, so that she could find it when she got down and catch some insects for it to eat.
Of course, a beautiful dream is called a dream because it does not correspond to reality.
Everyone knows whether the chicken was captured by the Japanese, ran away on its own, or was captured by someone else.
The only thing we know is that when Liang Shengdi and the others go down the mountain again, they won’t be able to find it.
Liang Shengdi cried for a long time while holding the remaining chicken. No matter how Lin Wenxuan tried to comfort her, she wouldn't stop. Finally, when she was tired of crying, she dragged the chicken and said she wanted to kill it and eat it.
The result was that Zhang Xiaonu snatched the chicken from Liang Shengdi's hand, sat down on the ground with it in her arms and started howling.
Little Yulan was also on the ground. She was already able to sit up and lean against something. She sat on the ground and looked left and right, occasionally making eye contact with the chicken, her face full of curiosity.
If baby language could be translated, she would probably ask a question.
What? That chicken is her long-lost brother?
Zhang Xiaonu refused to let Liang Shengdi kill the chicken, and said that she had to be killed first before the chicken could be killed.
We've already lost another chicken, so this one has to be treated like an eyeball? It's about to lay eggs! Eat, eat, eat! All I do is eat!
Liang Shengdi rushed over to grab it, but was hugged by Lin Wenxuan.
Lin Wenxuan had no choice. Her mental state was a little strange, as if she was crazy.
Liang Shengdi kept shouting,
"This is my chicken! I raised it just to eat!"
"It's the money I earned from weaving baskets! I used it to buy the chicken! It's mine!"
"I catch bugs for it! I cut vegetables for it! Why do I have no say?"
"I'll kill it and everyone will have something to eat! It's better than the whole thing going to the Japs' stomachs!"
"Why don't you give me food!!! Why!!!"
Zhang Xiaonu was also very angry, she was holding the chicken and cursing,
"What do you mean by yours and mine? Didn't you eat the rice at home? Didn't you drink the water at home?"
"That's all we have! And we're still dividing it between you and me! If we're not poor, who else could be poor?"
"Everything belongs to our family! I am your mother! I am the elder! I have the final say in this family!"
"I'm dying! Let someone come and see! You, as a daughter-in-law, are you really trying to rebel against your mother-in-law?"
"I'm going to make this clear today! I'd rather this chicken end up in the devil's stomach than let you, a greedy idiot, kill it and eat it!"
"Mom!"
Lin Wenxuan yelled, and finally shut up Zhang Xiaonu, who was talking more and more outrageously.
Liang Shengdi was held by the man's waist and could not move, but she just stared at her mother-in-law and the chicken in her arms.
What did she say?
Would you rather eat the Japanese than let her eat it?
Then what about Liang Shengdi?
Liang Shengdi lay in bed for three days, but still couldn't figure out the matter.
Or maybe, I will never figure it out in this lifetime.
Lin Wenxuan sat beside her with a bowl in his hand, trying his best to stuff the porridge into her mouth with a spoon.
"Shengdi...my mother is such a person..." Lin Wenxuan didn't know how to comfort her. His life had been a mess for the past three days.
"You know, she's a bit stingy and has a sharp tongue, but she's really not that bad... She said something about sending the Japanese to the battlefield without thinking, and she probably didn't even know what she was saying after she said it...
Really! I've been talking about her every day these past two days! She knows she's wrong..."
"Will she be willing to kill the chicken?" Liang Shengdi lay face up with an expressionless face, motionless, but her words hit the nail on the head, which immediately choked Lin Wenxuan.
Yes, Zhang Xiaonv still refused to kill the chicken.
He was crying and saying that the chicken was about to lay eggs in a few days, and if he killed it now, the food he had fed for the past six months would have been wasted.
Besides, who would slaughter chickens during festivals? Do you really think they are landlords?
Lin Wenxuan was actually also very confused. His heart was torn into two halves. One half felt that Liang Shengdi was right. This was the chicken she bought with the money she earned, and she also raised it. Liang Shengdi should have the final say on its life or death.
But his mother was wrong too. We were all family, so why divide things into yours and mine? Poor families didn't have much to begin with. If they didn't work together, they would starve to death.
He coaxed Liang Shengdi, "Why don't you just let the chicken lay eggs for half a year? Then you can kill it and eat it during the New Year. Wouldn't that be perfect?"
Liang Shengdi was still lying there, staring blankly at the beams above her head, and said quietly,
"I had another dream last night."
"I dreamed again that I killed a wild boar and there was so much meat that I couldn't finish it all."
Lin Wenxuan smiled bitterly and said, "You really want to eat meat... Then why don't I ask Brother Youliang to go to the mountain to have a look? There will definitely be no wild boars, but there will be plenty of snakes! I tell you..."
"Forget it." Liang Shengdi interrupted Lin Wenxuan, "I don't really want to eat meat anymore."
She closed her eyes, sat up from the bed, reached out to take the bowl from his hand, and used the spoon to stir it randomly, and soon finished it.
She wiped her mouth, handed the bowl back to Lin Wenxuan, and leaned against the wall.
"You can do whatever you want with the chicken, I won't eat it.
But I don’t want to work anymore.”
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