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The two of them sat across the fire, and it was Huo Xiaoshan and Murong Pei who escaped from the devils while the night was going downstream.

They went out day and night, and sat down the river on a raft for two nights in a row, Huo Xiaoshan estimated how the two of them ran out of nearly a hundred miles, and then pulled Murong Pei to abandon the raft and landed, caught two pheasants in the forest, and roasted two people to eat.

At this moment, Murong Pei was slowly tearing the chicken leg in his hand and adding it to his mouth, but his eyes were watching Huo Xiaoshan eat chicken.

Huo Xiaoshan ate quickly, by no means as gentle as Murong Pei, eating, but Huo Xiaoshan suddenly stopped.

"Why didn't you eat it?" Murong Peiqi said, because he guessed that Huo Xiaoshan must be hungry, she knew that Huo Xiaoshan only had three potstickers left, and after carrying him across the river, he ate one by himself, and in the past two days, he went out day and night, and he didn't dare to make a fire during the day, Huo Xiaoshan gave her the last potsticker to eat, and he just dug up some plant tubers in the field to eat, although Huo Xiaoshan said that the thing was hungry, but it was not serious food after all.

Huo Xiaoshan glanced up at Murong Pei, and hurriedly lowered his head, when he found out that Murong Pei was not only a girl but also an extremely beautiful girl, he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Why can't you say a few more words like a wooden peg? Now there are no little devils chasing us. Murong Pei said angrily.

"I remembered my mother, who told me not to kill." Huo Xiaoshan said in a low voice, since he entered the devil in the mountain village, he began his wandering career, and killed a lot of wild animals in the mountains and forests in order to fill his stomach, and just now he shot two pheasants, which violated his mother's consistent teachings.

"Oh, what about your father?" Murong Pei asked.

"A man and I were hunted down by Japanese devils, and the people in the village have been killed by those Japanese." Huo Xiaoshan seemed to see the shining bayonets of Japanese devils, the burning villages, the screams and cries of children and women.

"I'm really sorry, I don't know......" Murong Pei felt that he had asked the wrong thing.

"My father and mother were not in the village at the time." Huo Xiaoshan didn't notice Murong Pei's embarrassment, and continued to speak to himself.

"Then they must still be alive!" Murong Pei continued.

"I don't know, they weren't in the village when the Japanese slaughtered the village, but they must have come back to find me later, next to the grave of the whole village, my father set up a sign saying that he was going to avenge me and the whole village, and I was still in the sinkhole at that time and couldn't get out, and when I came out, I went to the county seat to find them." Huo Xiaoshan slowly told his story.

"I heard from the people in the county town that during that time, there was a person who broke into the little devil's barracks in the middle of the night and killed dozens of little devils, and he was shot in the county town that night, and I knew that person must be my father, because only he has such great ability, he must have thought that I was also dead, and went to avenge me and the whole village!" When Huo Xiaoshan said this, he felt a little excited, so he consciously took a deep breath to calm his mood.

Murong Pei's clear eyes looked closely at the young man in front of him who was as big as himself, and his heart was also pinched.

"Later, I secretly arrested a second devil as an official in the county, and he said that the Japanese did not catch the person who made a big fuss in the county, but he said to the outside world that he was killed. If my father hadn't died, he would have gone to Kannai's hometown with my mother. I just wanted to go to them, and I happened to run into you, so I came out. Huo Xin came up with the reason why he was able to meet Murong Pei and Zhou Liebao.

"Where is your hometown?" Murong Pei asked.

"Nanjing." Huo Xiaoshan replied.

"Nanjing?!" Murong Pei called out in surprise, because she was also going to Nanjing, and she was holding the jade seal in her hand, which meant that she could justifiably be with Huo Xiaoshan in the future, and she didn't have to worry about the long distance, but Murong Pei didn't find that her dependence on Huo Xiaoshan in her heart was getting heavier and heavier.

And Huo Xiaoshan's surprise at Murong Pei was not surprising, because he had already heard Zhou Liebao say that he would send this jade seal to the Nanjing Nationalist Government.

"Is your mother a Buddhist?" Murong Pei asked curiously.

"Yes." Huo Xiaoshan replied.

"People who believe in Buddhism are not allowed to kill, but this time you are not only killing, but also killing." Murong Pei said.

There is a monastery where Murong Pei lives, and she has been there with her classmates, so she still has some basic knowledge of Buddhism.

"If I don't kill the Japanese devils, the Japanese devils will kill us. So the stupid big man said that killing the Japanese devil is to release the Chinese. Huo Xiaoshan listened to Hao Cunyi's explanation after being slaughtered in the village, and he also felt that this was the reason, so he thought about it, and did not have any knots on the issue of killing, the so-called killing just now violated Song Zijun's education, it was more of a child's statement that he missed his mother.

"Who's the stupid big one?" Murong Pei interjected and asked.

"The stupid big man's surname is Hao, he is the commander of the anti-Japanese volunteers, he passed by our village and the two of us ran away together, and he was killed by the devil." Huo Xiaoshan still misses Hao Cunyi very much.

"Oh." Although Hao Cunyi was very famous for resisting Japan in the three eastern provinces, Murong Pei was in the Japanese-occupied area of Qiqihar, where the news was sealed by the Japanese army, so he had not heard of it.

"My mother said that sentient beings mean all sentient beings. Those beasts are also sentient beings. But these Japanese devils are not even as good as brutes! No wonder my mother said that the most terrible thing in this world is people. Huo Xiaoshan didn't say Hao Cunyi again, but continued to talk about killing.

Seeing Murong Pei's puzzled look, he explained: "Look at the beasts in this mountain forest, although wolves, tigers, and bears also eat meat and are cruel, they are just to feed their stomachs. By no means like people, especially these Japanese devils, they kill us Chinese by no means to feed their stomachs. ”

Having said this, Huo Xiaoshan stood up, and when he saw that there was still green smoke on the burned wood, he stepped on it again with his foot until a trace of green smoke no longer came out. "It's time for us to go on." ”

"Oh." Murong Pei also stood up.

The two men walked downstream along the riverside together.

Along the way, the two seemed to forget the embarrassment of falling into the river together, and both told their own stories.

Murong Pei originally lived in Qiqihar with her mother, in the third year after the 918 incident, her mother died, leaving only herself, fortunately, her uncle, who was the chief of education, got the news of the death of her only sister, so he sent Zhou Liebao and others to Heilongjiang to pick her up and return to the south.

But because of the jade seal, they could not go south, but were chased all the way to the mountains north of Heilongjiang by the Japanese ghosts.

Although Murong Pei only lives in Qiqihar City with his mother, he is also a person who lives in the upper class society, has complex interpersonal relationships, she naturally has a good education, and she actually understands Japanese, so when the devil chased Zhou Liebao, she actually understood the Japanese soldiers' drinking, and the devil shouted that this person was shooting very accurately and told everyone to go over, so she asked Huo Xiaoshan to run down the hill with confidence.

In terms of knowledge level, Huo Xiaoshan is naturally not as good as Murong Pei, but what he told Murong Pei was all about the mountains and forests, climbing trees, fishing, fighting wolves, and even the little roe deer snow ape Hai Dongqing in the sinkhole.

When Huo Xiaoshan said this, Murong Pei always looked at Huo Xiaoshan with big shining eyes, she felt that a new world was unfolding in front of her, in this world it was by no means as complicated as her own world, sometimes it was faint like a calm stream, sometimes it was strong like a storm, in this world love is love, hate is hate, and sometimes it is beyond the mortal, there is a Zen artistic conception between every move, everything is the outpouring of true temperament, like nature without disguise.

"When do you think we'll be able to get out?" Murong Pei asked Huo Xiaoshan, she remembered that when she asked Huo Xiaoshan about this, it was already the fourth day that the two of them walked by the river, and in these four days, they walked except for sleeping and resting, but fortunately, there were no devils chasing after them now, so they didn't walk too fast.

"Follow the river, there will definitely be people downstream." Huo Xiaoshan said with certainty.

"Wang, Wang, Wang" At this moment, a dog barked in the woods ahead.

"There must be someone." Murong Pei said in surprise.

"Be careful, we don't know who it is." Huo Xiaoshan reminded that as soon as he reached out and grabbed Murong Pei's little hand, Murong Pei was led like this, and the two of them hid behind a dense bush and bowed down.

Only then did Murong Pei notice that the feeling of being held by Huo Xiaoshan was very natural and warm, and he felt as if he had been waiting for this boy to hold hands for a lifetime.

Huo Xiaoshan definitely didn't have the slightest bit of Murong Pei's little daughter mentality, when he knew that Murong Pei was a girl, did he need any reason to give her safety and protection? No, certainly not, it's like one plus one must equal two, there is no why, rightly! Just like the old man Huo Yuan naturally wants to go into the mountains to hunt and collect medicine, and the old lady Song Zijun naturally wants to wash and wash at home, drive pigs to the pen, and teach him to read and write!

The dog's barking was getting closer and closer, and the barking became more and more fierce, and soon, Huo Xiaoshan and Murong Pei saw the branches and leaves in front of them shaking, and at this moment, Huo Xiaoshan also heard the chirping of a Japanese devil after the dog's barking.

He gently tugged Murong Pei's hand down, and Murong Pei lowered his body knowingly.

At this moment, a man in a shoulder was seen in the gap in the tree running quickly towards their hiding place, and a large wolf dog chased after them at a faster speed! It's obvious that the Japanese devils scattered the wolf dogs to chase this man!

Eight steps, seven steps, six steps...... The last step of that person finally rushed to the bush where Huo Xiaoshan and Murong Pei were hiding, and he was surprised to see that the bush was hiding two people from behind! And at this time, the two front paws of the big wolf dog behind him had also pounced on his shoulders from behind!