"Damn, it's been raining lately, so there's not a good day." Huang Hanju, who was frowning, shook the muddy water on his feet indiscriminately, and reluctantly raised his head and cursed, but was doused by the dripping rain, and then he flashed into the house in a hurry. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there seemed to be no intention of stopping, and Huang Hanju in the room was pacing back and forth restlessly, and his mood was as bad as the weather outside.

"Sir, the butler is back." Just when Huang Hanju was frowning, the voice of the family came from outside the door, Huang Hanju was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the housekeeper Huang San to come in and speak. Huang San is the son of the Huang family, and three generations have been the housekeepers of the Huang family.

"Master, I'm back." I haven't seen him for three months, and Huang San, who is not fat, has already lost his human form, and he struggled to break free of the support of the family members around him, and Huang San, who looked guilty, knelt down for Huang Han. "Master, Huang San has no ability, and he didn't find out about the second master when he went out this time. After the Battle of Xiaojieling, I heard that the troops of the 88th Division had withdrawn to rest, but I inquired around, but I could not find any news about the 88th Division. ”

After Huang San finished saying the last words, there was already a cry in his voice, Huang Hanju knew that Huang San still didn't mean to say it, but he shook his head again and again. "No, my brother is a war-go-getter, places like Shanghai and Nanjing City haven't been able to trap him, it's hard to stump him with a small boundary ridge, there will definitely be no such thing as you think." It has been more than a year since he lost contact with Tang Cheng, and Huang Hanju, who moved to Kunming with his family, is worried about Tang Cheng's safety all the time, and the housekeeper Huang San is the person he sent to inquire about Tang Cheng's news.

"What the master said is also true, the second master is a person who can fight, and in Macheng, there are only more than 100 people around the second master who can defeat hundreds of bandits and horse thieves. There are more than 10,000 national troops on the small boundary ridge, and the 88th Division is also the elite of the national army, so there should be no danger to the second master, and he may have already withdrawn to the rear to rest. Seeing that his master was like this, Huang San had no choice but to follow Huang Hanju's words, and besides, the news he got was all hearsay, and he didn't see it with his own eyes.

"What did Huang San say?" Mrs. Huang in the backyard also knew the news of Huang San's return, so she hurried to Huang Hanju's study to ask, and she didn't need Huang Hanju to say anything when she got up, just looking at the expression on his face, Mrs. Huang could already guess that the news brought back by Huang San was not very optimistic. "Hanju, it's okay, didn't Huang San also say that those news were also told by others, where can the things that are spread by false rumors be taken seriously. Tang Cheng is not a recruit under you, he is a person who has seen the world and fought a big battle, if he didn't have the ability to protect himself, how could he escape from Nanjing City alive in the first place. ”

Mrs. Huang's persuasion made Huang Hanju feel better, but the worry in his heart did not dissipate at all, "The current situation is very bad, I just got the news today, the Japanese army failed to take advantage of the attack on Changsha in September, and I heard that it is preparing to attack Changsha again, looking at the current momentum, Changsha may not be able to keep it." "Huang Hanju is now a small lieutenant colonel in the Southwest Administration, although he is not a real power officer, but he always has access to some documents and archives that are not known to the outside world, so his words also made Mrs. Huang worried.

"I think, I'd better go to Chongqing again, last time that foreign devil priest had already promised to make an appointment with us to meet the American consul, if you weren't in a hurry to return to Kunming, maybe our business would have been done." Mrs. Huang glared at Huang Han, and the latter, who was guilty, had no choice but to let Mrs. Huang smash it with her fist. I went to Chongqing to get acquainted with the American consul, and also to find a way out for the future of the Huang family.

"Okay, okay, just promise you, it just so happens that I don't have anything to do these days, so I'll accompany you to Chongqing, it just so happens that the old chief of Tangcheng hasn't been found yet, I want to go for a trip in person." The only person Huang Hanju is afraid of in this world may be the woman next to him, not only because this woman gave him a pair of children, but also because this woman is really good to herself and the Huang family.

The Huang couple, who had been worried about Tang Cheng, did not know that the person they had been worried about was rushing to Kunming, and besides, going from Kunming to Chongqing and going to Guiyang were not the same direction, just when the Huang couple was about to go to Chongqing, the dusty Tang Cheng and his party had already rushed to Qujing, which was only more than 100 kilometers away from Kunming. Qujing is adjacent to Guizhou and Guangxi in the east, bordering the provincial capital Kunming in the west, Wenshan and Honghe in the south, and Zhaotong and Guizhou Liupanshui in the north.

Hurried to Qujing, Tang Cheng and the others didn't have the heart to go out to wander, but took the warrant issued by the Dian army and went directly to the local county government. More than a dozen of the wounded soldiers of the Yunnan army escorted by them in Tangcheng were from Qujing, and the disabled soldiers naturally needed the assistance of the local government to return to their hometowns, otherwise they would all be exhausted to death by Tangcheng alone, and it would be impossible to send these disabled soldiers back to their respective homes. Qujing is a county seat, and the biggest official is naturally the county magistrate here, but Tangcheng is not the right time for them, and the county magistrate here has been called to Kunming for a meeting.

"It's okay, we can wait, you can also check the household registration first, and see if the list of these people we provide is from your county." The county magistrate was not there, and the staff of the county government did not dare to agree to Tang Cheng in a big way, but the county government still placed Tang Cheng and them in the camp of the local militia to rest. For this reason, Tang Cheng is quite satisfied, after all, someone is responsible for food and accommodation, but they don't have to go all over the street to find inns.

A group of wounded soldiers who had been withdrawn from the front line came to the county town, and the news soon spread in Qujing, and one after another people with their children as soldiers began to gather outside the militia camp, and they just wanted to know if there were any children of their own among the wounded soldiers who had been withdrawn from the front line. "Company Commander Tang, this matter is really going to trouble you, there are many children in our county who went to the 60th Army and the 58th Army to serve as soldiers, although I don't know what rules there are in your army, but you see, can you post a list of these people you brought back, so that the people outside can rest assured."

When he promised to stay in Qujing temporarily, Tang Cheng didn't expect such a thing to happen, and the soldiers of the Dian Army who were escorted back all the way back were also told by him not to casually disclose the battle ahead, but the military camp was surrounded by so many people, this was definitely not something that could be solved by posting a list. Tang Cheng was not a member of the Dian army, but this was someone he could not sue the local government, since he was not a member of the Dian army, there was no way to mention the war ahead, and if Tang Cheng said it, he would be charged with disturbing the morale of the army.

"Post it, but you can only post the list of those who live in Qujing, and other people can't appear on this list." Tang Cheng's answer made the people in the county government secretly breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the list was posted, it could be regarded as an explanation to the people gathered outside the barracks. Things are as Tang Cheng guessed, the list has been posted, but the people gathered outside the barracks have no intention of wanting to disperse, but the number is constantly increasing, Tang Cheng has no choice but to hide in the barracks and can't go anywhere.

"This is not a solution, if we continue to block it like this, what can we do when we leave?" Tang Cheng wasn't the only one worried, Mu Lianshan had already come to him several times, and each time he asked the same content. But Tang Cheng really couldn't answer Mu Lianshan's question, could it be that he could directly send troops to drive away the people gathered outside the barracks, if that was the case, he would not be ordered to return to his hometown and become a standard rout.

"Let's wait a little longer, when the county magistrate here comes back, there may be a way, we can't keep blocking us from leaving. If that's the case, it's fine, at least we people are looking for a place to eat without spending money, and someone is in charge of free food and accommodation, which is not what the days of the gods are. Tang Cheng didn't forget to joke when he arrived here, and Mu Lianshan bluntly said that Tang Cheng was a heartless guy.

The speed of the county magistrate's return was obviously beyond Tang Cheng's expectations, Tang Cheng and they only stayed in the military camp of the militia group for two nights, and the dusty county magistrate came back from Kunming, and learned that Tang Cheng was a wounded soldier who had been ordered to return to his hometown. "Everyone, you are all good men for the country and the people, although Qujing is not a big place like a provincial city, but we are not people who do not know etiquette. Since you have shed blood and wounded for the sake of your country, those of us who are in the rear cannot ignore your merits. ”

Looking at the impassioned and sad face of the county magistrate who was already full of white hair, Tang Cheng's heart seemed to have something suddenly burst open, and Tang Cheng, who had a sour nose, forcibly endured the moisture in his eyes and refused the hospitality of the white-haired county magistrate. "You shouldn't be like this, it's too cruel." Looking at the white hair in the wind from afar, Mu Lianshan's eyes also had moisture, although he knew Tang Cheng's reason for refusing the county magistrate, he still felt that Tang Cheng's refusal of such an old man was too cruel.

"So what do you want me to do? Could it be that I told him that we men had traveled thousands of miles to escort these wounded soldiers to Yunnan to escape the war? In this case, I don't have the face to say, I'm afraid I'm sorry for those brothers who died in battle, I'm sorry for Uncle Liu who died in Mengcheng, and I'm sorry for the nine catties who don't know life and death. Tang Cheng rarely yelled at Mu Lianshan and the others, and it wasn't until he spurted out the blood in his throat that Tang Cheng's voice full of guilt finally stopped.