What a beautiful white lotus

Ye Rongqiu took Xiao Zhao out the door, and immediately chased after Zhou Shujuan in the direction where Zhou Shujuan left.

Xiao Zhao asked softly, "Political Commissar, where are we going?"

Ye Rongqiu said, "Lucky looking for Shansi."

Xiao Zhao was startled, and subconsciously touched the place where the gun was hidden in his waist: "Are we going to assassinate that big traitor?"

Ye Rongqiu didn't explain too much to him, just said: "I'll bring you out, you have to obey my command, don't be impulsive. I didn't let you shoot, you are absolutely not allowed to shoot."

Xiao Zhao immediately withdrew his hand: "Okay, I'll listen to the political commissar!"

Ye Rongqiu just likes Xiao Zhao.In fact, Huang Mu and the others don't really like to take Xiao Zhao to work. Although Xiao Zhao is good at skills, his personality is indeed a problem. Anticipate what will happen to him next moment.Sometimes before Xiao Zhao has time to give instructions, Xiao Zhao reacts first, and it is easy to do bad things.But Xiao Zhao is obedient, especially if he listens to Ye Rongqiu, as long as he can be instructed in advance, Xiao Zhao is still a very reliable person.

Ye Rongqiu is not familiar with the terrain of Wuchang, he also knows that this is his weakness, but fortunately his memory is not counted, when he came back last time, he had already memorized the roads around his residence, and this time he went out seriously. Remember the way and make sure you won't get lost when you come back.

After a while, they caught up with Zhou Shujuan.

When Xiao Zhao saw Zhou Shujuan in front of him, he was about to rush forward: "It's like a male sister!"

Ye Rongqiu quickly pulled him back with sharp eyes: "Don't go up! We'll follow behind!"

Xiao Zhao was taken aback, and obediently retreated to Ye Rongqiu's side: "Why?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "She will not allow the two of us to come out. We follow her secretly. I am worried that she will encounter any difficulties. Once there are difficulties, we will help her secretly."

Xiao Zhao nodded again and again: "Okay!"

So Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Zhao carefully followed behind Zhou Shujuan. While Ye Rongqiu was paying attention to whether Zhou Shujuan in front had contact with anyone, he also carefully remembered every road he had traveled.

As he was walking, suddenly there was a commotion in front of him.Ye Rongqiu saw a group of troops in military uniforms approaching from the front of the street from a distance, he squinted his eyes, trying to see more clearly, but maybe it was because of too much blood spilled these days, his eyes were very blurred, and he could only I saw a yellow-green-yellow-green figure swaying.

The people on the street immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and the doors and windows that were originally open on the street were also closed.Zhou Shujuan dodged and hid in an alley for a while.Xiao Zhao also hurriedly helped Ye Rongqiu into another alley, and looked out secretly.

As the people approached, Ye Rongqiu saw it clearly. A group of Japanese soldiers captured dozens of guys dressed as ordinary people and walked towards the city gate.

Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Zhao were startled and looked at each other.Their first reaction was that those arrested might be revolutionaries, if not, they were also soldiers of the national army, in short they must be anti-Japanese elements.Ye Rongqiu looked nervously at the arrested people, wanting to see if anyone knew them inside, but unfortunately he couldn't see clearly due to lack of blood and oxygen, so he could only push and push Xiao Zhao, and asked softly, "Is Hoe and Xiao San inside?"

He didn't see Hoe and Xiaosan die with his own eyes, and he was lucky in his heart, hoping that maybe they survived.It is better to be caught by the Japanese devils than to be a corpse.

Xiao Zhao looked at them and shook his head: "No, I don't recognize any of them."

The two of them were not the only ones hiding in the alley. When the Japanese army came over, an old man followed them into the alley.There were others around, so Xiao Zhao had no choice but to ask softly in his ear: "Why did the devil arrest them?"

Ye Rongqiu didn't understand either.The man was getting closer, and he saw that although these people were surrounded by devils, their hands and feet were not tied.If he was a member of the Revolutionary Party, I am afraid that the devils would have tied him up a long time ago.

At this time, the old man who was hiding with them sighed: "Oh, another batch."

Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Zhao looked back at him at the same time, Ye Rongqiu asked softly: "Old man, why did the devils arrest so many of us ordinary people?"

The old man said: "You don't go out on weekdays? What else can you do, arrest them for mining. There have been several batches of arrests."

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback.There are many minerals in Hubei. The Japanese occupied the famous mines such as Dazhi Iron Mine and Xialu Iron Mine. They did not have enough manpower, so they recruited the surrounding people to do coolies for them, mining iron ore or refining weapons, or transporting them back to Japan.

"You devil!" Xiao Zhao cursed through gritted teeth.Although he has never read a book, he also knows how to mine iron ore.In order to manufacture weapons in their arsenal, many soldiers risked their lives to pick up scrap metal in the war zone, and the common people even donated their cooking pots and shovels to support the Anti-Japanese War.And what about the Japanese devils?Occupied their mines, captured their brothers and sisters to work as coolies, and finally used the collected iron to make weapons to kill the Chinese!

Xiao Zhao was ready to move, wishing to rush out to kill all these devils and rescue the captured coolies.

Ye Rongqiu was afraid that he would be reckless. If it was one or two people, they could take the risk to save them. But now there are dozens of Japanese soldiers, and they are in the Japanese-occupied area. Many lives.

Ye Rongqiu narrowed his eyes and tried hard to observe the teams on the street, pushed Xiao Zhao, and said softly: "I don't see clearly, is the one in the blue dress a woman?"

Xiao Zhao glanced in the direction of his finger, nodded: "Yes, she is a big girl, very young."

Ye Rongqiu frowned: "Catch coolies, why do you even catch women?"

The old man spat angrily, and said: "Those beasts, what can they do with women? Mining is an excuse! Not only women, these beasts even arrest children, and often take away the whole family, go away I won’t let them go back, I’m afraid that the family members who stay behind will ask them to please people!”

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback again.The Japanese devils have occupied China for so many years. If the war is to continue, they will build fortifications, and the construction of fortifications will arrest the Chinese people. Sometimes all the men in a village will be captured by them. A group of old and weak women and children just want to fight, but they can't even hold a gun.Without males, no one would dare to resist them.But what is the purpose of arresting women and children?Women and children are not suitable for coolies.It is not uncommon to arrest common people's women under the pretext, but in fact they are raped and killed as comfort women, but it is rare to arrest children.It's not that the Japanese devils don't kill children. They have slaughtered quite a few villages and towns, and newborn babies are still not relentless, but they are all killed on the spot, and there is no need to take them to a hidden place to kill them.

Ye Rongqiu felt that this was a bit weird, but he couldn't understand the reason why the devil did this.Maybe it's like the old man said, they are afraid of the Chinese people's resistance, so let's arrest people by discussing the family.

When this group of devils passed by, Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Zhao saw Zhou Shujuan coming out of the alley in front, and hurriedly followed.

Zhou Shujuan turned around and arrived at a market in the south of the city in a short while. She didn't stop and walked straight into the market.

Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Zhao came outside the market, Ye Rongqiu glanced inside, a little distracted.

Xiao Zhao pushed him and whispered: "Brother Ye, do you recognize this place?" When he got to a crowded place, he didn't care about calling Ye Rongqiu the political commissar.

Ye Rongqiu was a little dizzy. He was in extremely poor physical condition now. After an hour in the sun in the morning, he was already top-heavy.Being pushed lightly by Xiao Zhao, his body fell forward.

Xiao Zhao was taken aback, and quickly supported him: "Brother Ye, what's wrong with you, don't scare me!"

Ye Rongqiu rubbed his temples, trying to pull himself together.

He really recognized this place.When Feng Zhen brought him into the city for the first time, he came here.This place looks like a bazaar on the surface, but it is also an underground black market in Wuchang, and many shady transactions are made here.

Zhou Shujuan wanted sulfa, but she came to the black market.

Ye Rongqiu beat his forehead blankly.

Could it be that he guessed wrong again?Seeing the coming dawn, but getting farther and farther away from him...