Guizhou is a place like spring all year round, although it has entered October, but the willow branches on the side of the road are still spitting out new green, and the small shoots of emerald green are like babies, tender and vigorous. The tenacious grass overturned the small stone that pressed on the top of his head, stretched his waist, and gradually stretched his body. The morning dew is crystal clear, just like a pearl necklace hanging from the neck, which is illuminated by the sun, revealing a different kind of youth and enchantment in the colorful colors.

On the official road leading from Pu'an County to Anxian County, which is not wide and flat, there are not many pedestrians. Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Yunnan-Guizhou and Sichuan have become a large rear in a certain sense, and many northerners have begun to move forward to avoid the invasion of the Japanese army, but many of them have gathered in big cities such as Changsha and Kunming, but there are not many refugees from the north in small places such as Pu'an and Anxian. There are few people on the official road, but it is by no means nothing, and a group of middle-aged men who came from far away from the direction of Pu'an County are the northern refugees who are preparing to enter Yunnan along the official road.

Although they would encounter troubles and bandits and bandits on the way, these refugees who migrated from the north were determined to march towards Yunnan. These seven or eight men are scattered from Guiyang, and they only gathered together after staying in Pu'an County for a while, although they heard that the world in Anxian County is not peaceful, but they want to walk together and have a care, and everyone thinks that their luck will not be bad enough to meet the bandits who block the road and rob the road.

They were all refugees, not soldiers, so they only carried a five- or six-foot-long wooden stick in their hands, saying that it was their weapon rather than a tool for each of them to puff up. If the bandits along the road would really be frightened by the wooden stick in their hands, which was more than a meter long, then there would be no rumors of the ferocity of the bandits in Anxian County. "Brother Wu, we're almost in Anxian County, and we haven't seen any bandits, so those people in Pu'an County coaxed us." A young man who looked to be in his mid-twenties asked in a loud voice the stout man who was walking in front.

The sturdy man who was asked was the oldest in this group, his name was Li Dafu, and his name sounded cheesy, but this person was still righteous, so he gathered these young men to venture to Anxian County. Subconsciously held the heavy package on his back, feeling that the money was still there, Li Dafu felt down-to-earth, "It's better to be careful, Pu'an County has spread that there are bandits here in An'an County, if I don't have an emergency, I must rush to Kunming before the end of the month, I definitely don't dare to take this risk." ”

"Everyone work hard, bypassing the two mountains in front of us should be almost to Anxian, let's go faster now, and when we get to Anxian, we will have a good rest, slowing down now will only harm ourselves." Li Dafu clenched the wooden stick in his hand, turned around and whispered to his companions who were already tired. Li Dafu's worries are not unreasonable, the closer he is to the mountains and forests, the more bandits will appear, and only by seizing the time to climb over these mountains and forests is the most correct.

A few people behind Li Dafu were responding, and suddenly there was a crisp sound of bells from behind, and a rough shout: "The people in front hurry up and let go, startled my big green mule, be careful to kick your ass!" When they looked back, they saw several large carts coming from behind, and the one in front was pulling a cyan mule that looked quite athletic. The person driving the car wore a straw hat on his head, and the clothes on his body were black silk short coats, which looked like they came from a large family.

Li Dafu and the others were all from small rural families, although they hated the arrogance of the car driver, they didn't dare to provoke, so they could only stand obediently on the side of the road and get out of the way. When the black-clothed man who was driving the car saw everyone giving way, he was still humming in his mouth: "Count you as acquaintances, otherwise the whip will go down and tear your skin." The man spoke rudely and with a very awkward accent.

The black-clothed coachman was still showing off, but he saw a gap in the curtain of the carriage, and a delicate little girl poked her head out of the gap and said: "Old Ge, the young master is still in the car, you are full of foul language, take care of your skin first!" "This little girl has not yet reached the end of her life, she looks like she is twelve or thirteen years old, she looks very delicate and delicate, but her eyebrows are disgusted with the car driver. The driver seemed to be very afraid of this little girl, and quickly apologized, and no longer dared to speak publicly.

Li Dafu and the others stood on the side of the road, waiting for the big cars to pass before continuing to hurry. In the past, there were a total of three carts, except for the first carriage with the young master, which looked quite luxurious, the remaining two carts were very ordinary, but there were a few men in black with rifles sitting on the last two carts. These high-ranking people, Li Dafu has always been able to hide and hide, first, he can't be provoked, and second, he looks disgusted.

Everyone looked at the shadows of the carriages in the distance and guessed who the people in those carriages were, and suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground behind them. The people had learned the lesson of what had happened before, and they gave way without waiting for the people behind to speak. Before he could turn back, several fast horses had already galloped past everyone's bodies, and Li Dafu was slow to dodge and was almost knocked down by the horse. In his heart, he opened his mouth in anger and scolded twice. The knight on horseback only turned his head and glanced at him coldly, and didn't pay attention to it, but this glance was like a knife, as if it had directly entered Li Dafu's heart.

Li Dafu looked at the fast horses that ran over and changed his face in disbelief, and whispered to his companions with a cold face: "Disaster is coming, it seems that we can't rush today." Li Dafu's face can already explain the reason, these people who are rushing with him are some who have no backbone, and when they heard Li Dafu say this, they all turned their heads to look at Li Dafu, but no one asked the reason.

Seeing that these companions he had gathered were like this, Li Dafu couldn't help but sigh and said: "According to those people in Pu'an County, those fast horses in the past were not good enough to step on the plates, and they were probably going to fight those carts, it seems that the people on those carts will not end well, and they deserve to be targeted by the bandits, it's really unlucky!" ”

As soon as they heard that the few horses that passed by just now were bandits, the frightened people around Li Dafu suddenly changed their faces, and they couldn't even move their feet, and several of them trembled involuntarily, and a layer of cold sweat immediately broke out on their backs. "It's already here, and it's a bit unjust to go back, I plan to continue to Anxian, what do you mean?" Hearing that there were bandits, those people were already frightened, and Li Dafu wanted to continue walking, only the young man who had spoken to him earlier followed, and the others all said that they wanted to return to Pu'an County.

"Those carts and fast horses are faster than ours, and maybe by the time we get there, the bandits will have already left." Seeing that there was only one person following him, Li Dafu smiled half jokingly and half cheeringly, although Li Dafu's expression was undoubted, but his own heart was also very bottomless. Although the beginning of autumn had already passed, the weather was still hot, and Li Dafu and the young man surnamed Zhang walked along the forest on the side of the official road until they reached the place called the Shuangfeng Valley by the locals before stopping.

The Shuangfeng Valley is not far from Anxian County, as long as Li Dafu and they cross the Shuangfeng Valley and go straight west for four or five miles to reach Anxian County, but their fairy A can only hide outside the Shuangfeng Valley, because as far as they can see, there are two groups of people fighting in the valley. Li Dafu: The big cars they saw earlier had already flipped over to the side of the road, and there were some men in black on their stomachs next to the big cars.

The two gangs of people fighting in the valley did not look serious, the crowded side was dressed in shabby clothes, and most of them had axes and machetes in their hands, and they were chopping and chopping in an orderly manner. Although the other side is small in number, but holding a spear and waist knife in their hands, they cooperate with each other in the fight, shouting from time to time to make the opponent kneel and beg for mercy, obviously the number is small, but they have the advantage.

"Brother Li, look, there are still alive on the side of the cart." Li Dafu looked in the direction of the young man's finger, and the car on the side of the road was vaguely in a circle, and the two men in black were slowly retreating towards the grass on the side of the road with the help of the cover of the car. The two sides of the melee in the valley obviously didn't pay attention to the side of the cart, and seeing that the two of them were about to retreat into the grass on the side of the road, Li Dafu and the others, who had been hiding in the distance, couldn't help but be secretly happy.

"Oops, they've been discovered." The young man surnamed Zhang suddenly exclaimed, and a bandit who had been injured and retreated had obviously noticed the abnormality on the side of the cart, and was pointing in the direction where the two were retreating and shouting loudly. With a "snap" of a gunshot, the wounded bandits, who let out an exclamation, fell on their backs, and the two men in black, who had retreated to the edge of the grass, stood up and ran away. When the gun rang out, Li Dafu's first reaction was to lie down, although they were still far away from there, but who knew if there would be stray bullets flying over and hurting themselves.

At first, seeing that these two gangs were just fighting with knives, axes and spears, Li Dafu and the others still had a trace of luck, but after the two black-clothed men who were eager to flee for their lives shot, the two gangs of bandits in the melee miraculously stopped fighting and ordered the guns to shoot at the two black-clothed men. The sound of gunshots and fried beans generally sounded in the shuangfeng valley, and the two black-clothed men who had already run into the grass did not run far before they were beaten into a blood gourd by the bullets that were fired from behind them, and the backs of Li Dafu, who were lying on their stomachs in the distance, were covered with cold sweat.

"Killed, they killed." The young man surnamed Zhang next to Li Dafu had a trembling voice and wanted to get up and run, Li Dafu just wanted to stretch out his hand to stop it, but the back of his head was blocked by a hard object, and at the same time, a slightly cold voice sounded in his ears, "Don't move, honestly lie on your stomach and watch the excitement, if you are not honest, be careful to send you down to Huangquan to see Lord Yan." ”