In the frustrated mood of everyone, the boat finally swept diagonally to the shallows in the north of the river. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the "Xiaoshanzi" boat could stop, Murong Pei jumped off the boat, and in the splashing water, she knelt in the water as soon as her legs were weak.

The little girl who jumped down after her hurriedly reached out to pick it up.

Murong Pei pushed away the little girl's hand, looked down with stubborn eyes, and said, "Don't stop me, I'm going to get Xiaoshanzi back!" After speaking, he stood up and took two steps forward, but his body shook a few times, and he saw that he was about to fall into the water again, and was supported by the little girl who rushed to the next place.

"That's not the way to go." Shen Chong stepped forward, "Everyone is sleepy these days, first find a place to get something to eat, Xiaoshanzi will definitely look for it, but finding Xiaoshanzi is not something that can be solved in a while." ”

"It's this, it's this." The little girl's grandfather nodded in agreement, "I have some food on the boat, but it's not enough, just now on the river, I see that there is someone above us, let's go there first." ”

Everyone was silent.

It was right to get some food first, from the time the Japanese army broke the city until they escaped at this time, they had not eaten for a long time, like Murong Pei's clothes were almost wet by the cold river water, and they needed to rest when they were cold and hungry.

Compared with those who are still on the other side of the river and those who are still struggling in the river, it is undoubtedly a fortunate thing to be able to escape, but due to Huo Xiaoshan's accident, everyone's hearts have become very depressed.

Murong Pei didn't object anymore, so a group of more than a dozen people slowly walked upstream in the harsh river wind.

"Huh? That's ......" didn't go far, the little girl who walked in front of the grandfather found something, everyone followed the sound and saw a black horse lying there, and there was a person lying next to it.

"Isn't this black lightning?" Shen Chong, who came closer, shouted.

Hei Deng he knew, the majestic war horse that galloped like the wind, when he was on the river, he and Huo Xiaoshan saw it carrying its master struggling in the river.

And it, a war horse, actually created a miracle, it actually carried its master across the Yangtze River! It's shocking!

It's just that his master, the commander of the Central Military Academy, has long been unable to speak, Shen Chong stepped forward and probed his snort, but he was already completely out of breath, and the red surging Yangtze River water on his chest had not been completely washed away.

And black electricity is already dying.

It couldn't even snort out of its usual snort, and it was rubbing its owner's face with its wet nose.

It couldn't understand why the owner couldn't touch his head as affectionately as before, and the owner's unresponsiveness became the last straw that took away the vitality of Hei Dian, and Hei Dian's eyes became empty and confused.

So, it hung its huge head down to its master's chest and was never able to lift it again.

Murong Pei Shen Chong faced this person and a horse, and a cadre of people gathered in a circle, silent, he had forgotten his exhaustion, and his heart was full of sadness, for this person and a horse, no! I felt indescribable sadness for these two fallen comrades.

"Bury it."

For a long time, Shen Chong said.

The crowd did as they were told, using the tools they could find.

Bayonets, daggers, although people are tired to the extreme, the movement is slow, but no one stops.

At dusk, a mound finally took shape.

"Erect a monument for them." Murong Pei knelt on the ground and scattered a handful of soil on the grave.

Shen Chong didn't look up, and walked towards a forest nearly a hundred meters away with a Yanling knife. Half an hour later, he returned with a chopped plank.

"I said you carve." Murong Pei said that at this time, she had calmed down from Huo Xiaoshan's accident, and knew that it was useless to be anxious.

"This side is engraved with a righteous horse." Murong Pei used a thin branch to mark the word "塚" on the ground as she spoke, because she knew that Shen Chong was not very literate.

Shen Chong did as he said.

Pei Rongpei simply wrote out the words to be engraved later.

"Ma Ming Heidian, in the defense of Nanjing, carried his master across the Yangtze River and both died here."

After a while, the simple wooden tablet was carved, and several people stood in front of the grave and buried it.

They stood there in silence for a moment, then turned and walked upstream.

Before dark, the gang finally found a family.

There are only two old husbands and wives in this family, the old man is too old to go into the water to fish, he has planted a few acres of thin fields, and the old lady has her ears behind her ears, and she needs to shout loudly to speak, but this does not prevent them from being enthusiastic.

The old couple accepted them without hesitation. Some sweet potatoes and piping hot gruel finally brought a little comfort to them who had been running around and hungry for days.

The old lady kindly found a set of old clothes for Murong Pei to change into, and she set up a pile of firewood outside to bake her dry and wet clothes.

Finally, all of them could lie down on the straw pile in the firewood room and rest.

It was already completely dark, and a few soldiers in the firewood room were snoring.

The dung ball reached out and poked Shen Chong, who was lying next to him, and whispered, "You said Huo Xiaoshan was fine." ”

"I'm not an immortal, how do I know." Shen Chong didn't sleep either, he was staring at the roof of the firewood house, the old lady of the houseowner was outside the firewood pile had not been extinguished, and the red firelight illuminated the roof through the tattered window paper.

"He was either washed up on the Bagua Continent, or he was washed on the north shore, or he was ......" Shen Chong lowered his voice when he said the third possibility, and glanced at the direction where Murong Pei was sleeping, the firelight could only shine above, and Murong Pei couldn't see clearly.

"What about tomorrow?" Dung Ball is obviously not an assertive person, Huo Xiaoshan is gone, and Shen Chong has become his backbone again.

"Tomorrow we will search downstream along the river, and if we can't find it, we will separate the people and wait at a fixed point in sections." Shen Chong thought for a while and said.

The former is based on the assumption that Huo Xiaoshan was directly washed to the north bank by the current, and the latter is based on the assumption that Huo Xiaoshan was washed up on Baguazhou and would inevitably cross the Yangtze River again.

This is also the safest search and rescue method he can think of.

Although he was convinced of Huo Xiaoshan's wateriness and cold-resistant ability, it was obvious at that time that Huo Xiaoshan was either physically exhausted or was shot, but neither situation was good, although the chance of finding and rescuing him successfully was very slim, but how could he not save it?

Neither of them was silent and soon fell asleep.

At this time, Murong Pei was still not asleep, and he also looked at the roof of the firewood room in a daze. The fire outside the house was being extinguished, seeing that the last glimmer of light on the roof of the shed had disappeared, and the room became pitch black, Murong Pei suddenly had a bad premonition, Xiao Shanzi's fire of life would not be swallowed up by the night like this last trace of fire.

No! No, it won't! There was a voice in her heart shouting loudly, Xiaoshanzi will be fine! You are so brave and powerful, you can take me out of the encirclement of devils from the waterway, you can take me from the northeast all the way to Nanjing, you can bathe in the snow, you can cross the Yangtze River in the icy water, you will definitely survive!

Huo Xiaoshan's lovers and comrades-in-arms didn't know that at this time, Huo Xiaoshan was lying naked in a haystack and falling asleep.

Huo Xiaoshan felt like he was really in a dream.

At that time, he really had no strength, and he rushed around for days, and the hard work in the river squeezed out the last trace of his remaining physical strength.

After he fell into the water again, he could only rely on his own skillful water nature to let his body swell with the surging river to prevent himself from sinking.

And the swollen cotton clothes of the cold river blisters shackled his limbs again, taking away the last bit of heat in his body.

His body stiffened, unable to move but could no longer feel the cold of the water, and the last shred of clarity in his mind told himself that he was hallucinating. How can the water not be cold?

In the midst of the crisis, he subconsciously thought, is this going to the Western Elysium?

As soon as the Buddha's horn was mentioned, he felt that a cloud of light in the sky that he had never seen before, and as soon as this light came out, it was so dazzling that the sun, moon, and fire beads were all hidden.

The next moment, Amitabha Buddha will come on the golden platform and is about to come out! You can see your mother by yourself, no, no, but, what about Yaya? The Japanese devils haven't been beaten away yet, no, I'm going to stay! Stay and fight the devil to save the girl!

As soon as this thought came out, the light in the dream weakened, Huo Xiaoshan felt that his body had become heavier, and his nose, which was still breathing on the water, was about to be immersed in the water, was this death?

Death is not as terrible as imagined, just a little regrettable.

At this time, a force lifted him up again, and a finless porpoise from nowhere held him up with his back, and even let his head expose the water!

The finless porpoise was crying happily as if it was playing with him, was this the finless porpoise he had encountered? Huo Xiaoshan thought in a daze.

After a while, two slightly larger finless porpoises swam in, and they swam forward with Huo Xiaoshan, and the Baguazhou, which was already not far away, soon arrived.

In the shallow waters on the shore, when the finless porpoise left, Huo Xiaoshan, who was originally frozen and wooden, burst out with the last trace of potential, and finally set foot on the ground.

He stumbled out of the shallow water, and saw a stack of reeds in front of him, and he took a lot of care from the cold and hunger, and with great difficulty he stripped off his clothes, and went into it with great difficulty, and then fell asleep. (To be continued.) )