Although the town wasn't big, the South Vietnamese army turned it upside down. After confirming that there were only a few old men in the town, the army outside the city began to enter the town in an orderly manner. When the noisy town gradually quieted down, the dark sky was about to dawn again.
At this moment, a dry well in a dilapidated courtyard suddenly began to stir. Mo Yu quietly climbed out of the well and observed the surroundings. His tense nerves finally relaxed.
One of them jumped into the dry well and prepared to carry the children up to get some fresh air. He said carefully, "Everyone should have left. It's safe for now. Let's go out and take a breath."
Because of her body shape, Tang Chen automatically requested to be the last person to leave. When she carefully came out of the dry well and breathed the fresh air outside the well, she felt as if she had returned to the hot pot again.
After taking several deep breaths, Tang Chen slowly squatted down and gave each of the children dressed as beggars a sweet kiss: "Oh my God, I've been holding it in for a while. Thank you so much!"
The children smiled and ignored Tang Chen. They immediately surrounded Mo Yu and said, "It's nothing. Big Brother comes to play with us every day, and we want to help. We used to play hide-and-seek here in this dry well. It was so cool!"
Li Xinzhai had only known Mo Yu as a fun-loving person who, for various reasons, had suppressed his inner feelings. He hadn't expected someone like him to be so popular with the kids. Birds of a feather flock together, it seemed. "So you've been making excuses to go out so often lately. Are you going to play with them?"
Mo Yu turned his head away with a bit of arrogance and said, "...what do you care?"
Li Xinzhai smiled helplessly and said, "Whatever, whatever, as long as you are happy."
...Just as he came out to breathe a few breaths of fresh air, the day was about to dawn again. Wang Yanzhou looked at Tang Chen who was whispering with the children, and felt a little complicated: "It's not a solution to keep hiding like this. We have to find a way to leave here."
Wang Yanzhou just mentioned this, and the children who were chatting happily with Tang Chen just now suddenly became nervous and put almost all their attention back on Mo Yu, especially the little girl with Hongyu.
"Are you leaving?"
Mo Yu patted the little girl's head gently and said, "Well, it's almost done."
The little girl's eyes suddenly turned red, and she and several other children rushed over to hug Mo Yu's thighs, refusing to let him go: "Big brother, can't you stay?"
"Yes, big brother, please stay, we will protect you!"
"Please, don't go!"
Faced with the children's desperate pleas, Mo Yu felt a little distressed, but he couldn't agree. If they stayed, who knows if these children would be implicated. After providing psychological counseling to these children for a while, Mo Yu very seriously and solemnly raised his pinky finger in front of the children and said, "Big brother and these brothers and sisters have important things to do, but I promise you, when big brother is done, I will come back to see you."
The children's tiny fingers hooked around Mo Yu one by one. At that moment, the invisible vines extending from the fingers of people who had originally had no connection made it possible for their unrelated lives to intersect.
"We have an appointment."
"Well, we have an appointment," said the little girl Hongyu, and then she pulled Mo Yu's clothes and was about to take him away, "Big brother, I know the way out, I will take you out."
Mo Yu looked down at his little fingers, which had just felt the attachment of these children, and suddenly realized that just because they couldn't stay, it didn't mean these children couldn't leave with him. As long as he could get back to Qingliang Valley in time, even taking these children with him wouldn't matter. "What about you guys? Do you want to leave with big brother?"
Except for little girl Hongyu who remained silent, the other four children shook their heads and said, "No, we're fine here. Mother said there are bad people outside, and this is the safest place."
Seeing that the little girl Hongyu didn't say anything, Mo Yu thought she was willing to leave with them. He just squatted down and was about to carry her away, but the little girl took a few steps back, returned to her friends, and smiled at him.
For some reason, Mo Yu seemed to have seen this smile somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where it was: "...Thank you, take care of yourselves and wait for big brother, okay?"
"Um!"
Under the guidance of the little girl Hongyu, Wang Yanzhou and Tang Chen's team of more than ten to twenty people bypassed the houses where the South Vietnamese army was located beside an inconspicuous broken wall and left the dangerous town before dawn.
Wang Yanzhou looked back at the slightly conspicuous group behind him and suggested, "We're many in number, so let's spread out to avoid being discovered. Considering the distance and our speed, we should be able to reach the outside of Qingliang Valley in ten days. Shaoqing is still guarding Qingliang Valley, and we will meet up at the palace. If we encounter any danger on the way, use the black market's markings as a marker to facilitate support from others."
Tang Chen nodded vigorously, and as if afraid that Wang Yanzhou would be snatched away by someone else, he grabbed him and said, "No problem, let's be a team!"
Li Xinzhai said disdainfully, "Look at your character. Who would eat him? Why are you so anxious to grab him?"
“Lululu!”
...After seeing Mo Yu off, the children were dejected, as if they had lost something precious. Little Hongyu, under the guidance of the other children, went back to the yard to make a fire, while the other four children went out in a group to find food.
Little Hongyu saw that they had been gone for a long time and had not returned. She was left alone here, and she felt a little scared. After thinking seriously and seriously for a long time, she decided to go out and look for them. Then, as expected, she and four other children were caught by the South Vietnamese patrol.
Xie Zhuangshui was originally discussing future plans with Xiao Liang in the house. When he heard the noise and children's cries outside, he simply stopped what he was doing and asked loudly, "What's the noise outside?"
The guards outside heard Xie Zhuangshui's question and hurried in to reply, "General, we found a few children here, sneaking around. I don't know what they're up to."
A strange light flashed in Xie Zhuangshui's eyes, and he waved his hand and said, "Bring it up here so I can take a look."
Xie Zhuangshui looked at the five children of varying heights dressed as beggars, and a terrifying smile appeared on his lips. "It's amazing that they can look like this dressed like this. Not bad, not bad."
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