"Comrade Li Xiyue, right?" The new postman greeted her with a smile, then rummaged through the mailbag and pulled out a letter. "This is your letter."
Li Xiyue looked at the letter in his hand, but didn't take it. Instead, she took a step back. "You're not a postman at all!"
The man smelled of medicine. If she wasn't mistaken, the letter had been drugged. She would faint if she touched it. This man wasn't a postman; he was an enemy agent disguised as a postman!
When the postman realized he had been seen through, the smile on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a ruthless look. He reached out and attacked Li Xiyue.
Li Xiyue was prepared and easily dodged the attack. Just as she was about to retaliate, the enemy agent was hit hard from behind. With a thud, the enemy agent fell to the ground, and a large bump visibly swelled up on the back of his head.
She looked up in surprise and saw that it was Xu Guoqiang.
Xu Guoqiang was holding a carrying pole, still in the act of hitting someone. He propped the pole on the ground, put one hand on his hip, and cursed angrily: "Damn it, I knew he wasn't a good person. How dare he sneak into our Xu Family Village? I think he's asking for death!"
"Captain." Li Xiyue smiled, not expecting that Xu Guoqiang, this militiaman, was really capable, having seen through the enemy agent's identity.
Xu Guoqiang said, "I felt something was off about him as soon as I saw him, but I didn't know what he was up to. Turns out he was after you, Li Zhiqing."
Deputy Regiment Commander Chu spoke to him before leaving that day, telling him to be careful and to be on guard if any strangers came to the village.
Of course, even if Deputy Commander Chu didn't say anything, he would still be on guard, after all, he was the commander of the militia and civilian regiment.
Just as Li Xiyue was about to speak again, Xiaobai yelled and rushed out.
The two looked over and found that the enemy agent had woken up and run away.
Li Xiyue took off after him.
Xu Guoqiang shouted urgently, "Li Zhiqing, don't go, it's dangerous..." Thinking of the wild boar she killed that morning, he felt that perhaps the enemy agent was the one in danger.
So he turned around and went home, blowing his bugle towards the village.
Xu Dashan, who was playing with his son at home, was stunned when he heard the noise. He then handed Xiao Panpan to his wife and said, "Quickly take our son to the air-raid shelter!"
He went inside, grabbed the gun, and ran away quickly.
"Dashan!" Fang Yue'e called out urgently. Seeing that her husband had already disappeared, her heart pounded. She picked up her son and went out the door.
Other villagers also heard the bugle call that the Japanese soldiers would sound when they entered the village. The militia would conduct a drill every year, and the whole village would be on alert as soon as they heard the bugle call.
The men grabbed their belongings and rushed out of the house, while the women led the elderly and children out to take refuge in the air-raid shelters in the mountains.
Zhao Cuihua, Lai Di's mother, who was beating her daughter, stopped in shock when she heard the bugle call. When Lai Di and the others saw that their mother had stopped, they tried to run away, but their mother pulled them back, picked up her younger brother, and led them like a mother hen with her chicks, all the way to the other side of the mountain.
Erniu was picking herbs on the hillside when she heard the horn. She dropped her basket and ran home.
Wang Cuihua was chasing her crazed son around the yard when she heard the bugle call. She said to Xu Shoutian, who rushed out of the house with a weapon, "I'm going to fight the Japanese. You take our son to the air-raid shelter."
“What kind of woman fights the Japanese? This is a man’s business. You take your son and leave now, don’t hold me back.” Xu Shoutian pushed her away and was about to leave.
Xu Dazhuang's madness has been cured. He snatched his father's weapon and shouted, "Fight the Japanese devils! I want to fight the Japanese devils!"
The Liu Qingju family next door was also in a mess. Liu Qingju hugged her husband's leg and said, "I caused the Xu family to die out. I am a sinner. I will go to fight the Japanese. If I sacrifice myself, I can still bring some honor back to the Xu family. Then you can marry a beautiful woman and have another son!"
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