There is no wind or cloud tonight, only a faint moon hanging quietly on the treetops, like a half-closed eye, staring blankly at the empty three-way intersection, staring blankly at the silent bushes on the roadside, staring blankly at the people hidden in the darkness.
Class 9 was a supporting role, so Hu Yi had nothing to worry about. He lay on his back in the grass, staring at the starry sky in a daze. Officer Yang, who had a strong sense of time, was not far away. Hu Yi vaguely heard him muttering anxiously to someone: "It was said to be evening, but now it's night, why haven't they come yet? What's going on..." Unfortunately, Hu Yi didn't care.
Unconsciously, the moon climbed to the sky. Hu Yi was still lying on his back in the grass, but he fell asleep. He had hardly closed his eyes since the start. Now there was a platoon hiding beside him, guarding him for free, so Hu Yi slept soundly. In the darkness not far away, the whisper of Platoon Leader Liu came: "They are more rigorous than us, and it is impossible for them to be late. It seems that we have to cancel the mission. I suggest that we now..." Unfortunately, Hu Yi, who was sleeping, could not hear it.
As time went by, the moon was about to fall to the treetops on the other side. Hu Yi, who was sleeping, felt his nose itchy, and then he felt a sense of suffocation. This danger signal made Hu Yi suddenly alert. He didn't care that his vision was still blurry. He turned over quickly, pressed the target under him, and strangled the throat with both hands...
"Ah—" A childish scream of panic made Hu Yi's fingers suddenly freeze, and then suddenly spread apart, because he touched a smooth and delicate little neck. His vision finally became clear, and under the moonlight, he saw a pair of innocent big eyes that were stunned.
Then, a pair of weak little fists pounded on Hu Yi's chest like a storm: "You damn fox, are you going to kill me just by pinching my nose? How dare you bear to do this to me? You have no conscience! I won't live any longer..."
Ma Liang and Luo Fugui hurried over from the darkness upon hearing the noise. They saw Hu Yi riding on a little girl and being beaten by the little girl underneath him. They both stood there in a daze. What was going on
The little girl was waving her fists and was pounding them vigorously on the ground when she suddenly realized that Ma Liang and Luo Fugui had appeared beside her and were staring at her and Hu Yi blankly. She stopped her fists without blushing and slapped them in annoyance: "What are you looking at! I'm just playing house with a fox!"
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The watch case jumped up and down. Hu Yi carefully checked the dial in the moonlight. It was three o'clock in the morning. Then he turned around and asked Ma Liang beside him, "When did they leave?"
"Just left, so I asked the girl to call you. Brother, let's retreat too."
Hu Yi closed the watch in his hand and looked up at the low moonlight: "It's almost dawn. We don't have enough time to get out of the plain. Since the mission is cancelled, there is no need to rush. Continue to rest in seclusion and set off tonight. In addition, the surveillance post will not be withdrawn. You and Runny Nose will continue to take turns."
There was a rustling sound, and Ma Liang lay down beside Liu Jianqiang who was observing the intersection, and whispered: "The squad leader said that we have to get there during the day and leave tonight. The sentry post will not be withdrawn."
Liu Jianqiang nodded and suddenly asked, "I heard the girl scream just now, what happened?"
Ma Liang covered his mouth and laughed: "The girl and the monitor are playing house."
Ma Liang's words made Liu Jianqiang even more confused. He turned his head to look at Ma Liang next to him and said, "Playing house? Then how come..." Before he could finish his words, Ma Liang's hand suddenly covered his mouth.
Under the moonlight, a black figure hurriedly walked on the road east of the fork. It gradually approached, turned at the intersection, and continued to walk towards the south of the county town. Although the moonlight was not bright enough, when this person passed by the hiding place of Ma Liang and Liu Jianqiang, Ma Liang and Liu Jianqiang saw that the Mauser pistol holster hanging behind the person was swinging in the moonlight with his steps...
Hu Yi sat on a tree stump, fiddling with the pistol in his hand. He opened the bolt and took a look. Then he put the gun back into the holster and threw it into Liu Jianqiang's arms: "Go back and keep watch!"
Liu Jianqiang happily slung the gun behind his back, turned around and ran back.
Ma Liang approached Hu Yi and said, "Who dares to carry a gun in this place? Can they be good people? They are either from the detective team or the plainclothes team! I saw him passing by alone, so I brought him in with Runny Nose."
At this time Luo Fugui also straightened up, clapped his big hands and said, "Okay! Boss Hu, it's tied up." Then he raised his foot and kicked, and the guy who was tied like a dumpling on the ground flipped over twice and rolled to Hu Yi's feet.
"My dear friends, this must be a misunderstanding. I don't have much stuff on me, but I am willing to give it to you. Please show some mercy." Although the light in the woods was getting worse and he couldn't see the faces of these people clearly, the guy tied to the ground could tell that they were wearing military uniforms. They were not Japanese soldiers or puppet soldiers, but most likely the Eighth Route Army. So he tried hard to conceal his panic and tried to buy a chance.
"What do you do?" Hu Yi had no interest in talking nonsense with the guy in front of him, so he spoke in a low voice.
"Guardian, I am just a guard."
"Where are you from? Where are you going?"
"Just come up from the village in the east and go to the county town."
“Why go to the county town?”
"Go... go and meet someone good."
Hu Yi slowly pulled out the bayonet and weighed it in his hand. Under the moonlight, a faint light flashed: "It's so early, are you saying the wrong thing, or are you walking the wrong way?"
"I..." The people on the ground finally realized that it was early morning, not the first half of the night, and they didn't know how to answer for a moment.
In the middle of the night, he ran to the county town with a gun on his body, and his words were unreliable. Hu Yi concluded that the guy on the ground was not a good thing, so he tilted his head and said, "Girl, go and keep watch with Runny Nose."
"I'm not a child!" Xiao Hongying didn't want to move, but seeing that Hu Yi was still staring at her without saying anything, she had to take small steps and added, "Who wants to watch!" before walking out of the woods.
Hu Yi spoke to the person on the ground in a low voice again: "I don't want to bother to shut you up, so you have to bear with it. If you dare to speak out, I will have to silence you!" As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Yi suddenly raised his knife and swung it down.
Puff—the bayonet instantly pierced through the thigh and went straight into the ground. Although the man on the ground was tied up like a dumpling by Luo Fugui, this unexpected knife made him convulse and bend his body. He almost sat up, but he could only grit his teeth and moan softly.
Hu Yi loosened his hand, but did not draw his bayonet. He asked again, "What do you do?"
"Guardian. Guardian."
"Where are you from? Where are you going?"
"Come from the east, go to the county town, the county town."
“Why go to the county town?”
"I asked for leave and planned to go find a prostitute. Ah... really... everything I said was true..." The guy on the ground was shaking with pain, but his thigh was still nailed to the ground by the bayonet. The more he shook, the more painful it was.
Hu Yi couldn't help but frown. It seemed that the guy on the ground was not a fool. He knew that as long as he told the truth, his life would be over. So he gritted his teeth and endured it, hoping to live a little longer.
After a moment of silence, Hu Yi reached out his hand again, grasped the bayonet handle, slowly exerted force to rotate the bayonet 90 degrees, and slowly pulled out the blade amid a trembling of teeth knocking against each other, and wiped it on his body. Then he leaned down and whispered to the dying man on the ground: "It's still early in the morning, I have a lot of time to accompany you, as long as you tell the truth, I will reward you with a quick death, how about it?"
Hu Yi's words made the man on the ground stop twisting his body in pain. He just gasped for breath, as if he had turned into a pile of dead ashes that could only breathe.
After a while, Hu Yi felt that the time was right and asked again, "Have you thought it through?"
“Huh—I’ve thought it through!” The man on the ground finally moved, trying to stretch his bound body. He suddenly raised his head and shouted at the top of his lungs, “There are Eighth Route Army soldiers! Catch them! Someone come and catch them… uh…”
Hu Yi reluctantly pulled the bayonet out of his chest on the ground, and said to Luo Fugui who was standing there in a daze: "Don't just stand there, untie the rope, we'll need it again." Then he ordered Ma Liang: "For safety reasons, we can't stay here any longer. Pack up and prepare to move."
"Oh? Where to?" Ma Liang came to his senses and asked back.
"Go east." There was still some time before dawn, and Hu Yi was a little curious. What was in the village to the east? Or maybe... it was the batch of goods that had not been received!