sinking into sand

This evening, Ye Wanwan and Guan Lan came back a bit late again.

They encountered the refugee army again today, and many of the people they brought back were hanged.Some of them were taken by Wu Jun to another nearby camp to rest.The old and weak women and children were brought back to Hanhao Village and sent to Lan Bailing.

Ye Wanwan hadn't rested for several days, and as soon as she entered the room, she took the water bowl on the table without asking whose it belonged, feeling bored.After drinking, he still didn't feel his thirst quenched, so he continued to ask Si En.

"People are not easy to take care of." She drank three bowls of water before she opened her mouth: "Many people have never seen blood, and they are usually fierce. If they really see the refugee army, they will be cowardly. In fact, we felt that, except for the Huns, These guys aren't very good."

Seeing that she was still looking for something to eat, Si En handed over a plate of steamed buns, and said, "Let you be careful, the people in these dozen or so camps still have to be screened after all. And the situation in the north, have you figured it out today? "

They were exchanging messages there, Yu Sha looked at Guan Lan, he didn't say a word after he came in, his face was still dirty, and he didn't wipe it off, so he found a seat by himself, took a steamed bun and gnawed dryly, I don't know why I find it interesting.

Guan Lan gnawed on the steamed buns for a while, then grabbed Yu Sha's hand that rubbed the dirt for him expressionlessly, looked at him, and said concisely: "Tired."

"You rest yours." Yu Sha turned a deaf ear and said perfunctorily, "I'll wipe it off for you."

Guan Lan was disturbed by Yu Sha's hand rubbing, and he forcibly endured it for a while, but he caught him again.This time, without even saying a word, she just stared at him.

Si En and Ye Wanwan were a little speechless seeing the two men's perverted vigor.Xu Ziyuan didn't know them very well, and his hands shaking his beard while shaking, felt that they didn't respond to them, maybe this was very common.

Everyone looked at each other for a while, but Si En took the initiative to smooth things over: "Okay, you guys come to discuss it too. Leng Jue and the others will also come over later, let's take a look at the situation in the north together."

The news from the north, after Leng Jue and the others arrived, was gathered together, and finally there was a general picture.

"The person should have arrived in Fengcheng, and there is no sign of being ambushed or blocked." One of Leng Jue's subordinates reported the current situation in the north to everyone: "We have searched along all the mountain roads in and out. People from the refugee army are on the move. But we didn’t see any corpses or bloodstains from our people. The refugee army has never cleaned up the scene after the conflict, and now it is inferred that nothing happened.”

Xu Ziyuan rubbed the tip of his beard, "Since we have already gone north, there is no news at all, and no one in Fengcheng has pulled out the camp. The appeal for help failed? Zhai Su refuses to come?"

This is a doubtful point, but Leng Jue paid more attention to another matter, "Hey, Ye. Is the plan to ambush the Huns you mentioned earlier still in effect?"

For a moment, everyone looked at Ye Wanwan. If Fengcheng didn't have soldiers to rescue them, they would have to deal with the people in Daocheng by themselves.

Ye Wanwan bit her lip, but still told the truth: "With the current situation, it will take some time to train soldiers."

There is nothing wrong with this, everyone can understand it, but Leng Jue listened to it, his face pulled, and he began to sneer: "Hmph, what you said that day was so impassioned, I think you are someone. It turns out that you are also a silver pewter gun head."

"Oh, Lao Leng." Xu Ziyuan persuaded the fight, "Now we are all in the same boat, don't be too mean."

Yu Sha sensed that he was not in the right mood, and took the initiative to ask: "What's the matter, what did you meet when you went out today?"

"What does it matter to you what I meet?" Leng Jue sneered, "I just advise you, no matter what, it's best to come up with a charter as soon as possible. Otherwise, this so-called turmoil will only be sung by your Hanhaozhai family. It's a big show."

After he finished speaking, he took his subordinates out regardless of the faces of everyone present.

Yu Sha was a little worried, and looked at Ye Wanwan, only to find that although she bit her lip, her expression was firm, and she didn't seem to be affected too much.Xu Ziyuan looked at everyone's expressions, and smiled to smooth things over: "Oh...Miss Ye, don't worry about it. Lao Leng is just like that, he doesn't forgive others, but he has no evil intentions."

"He's right." Ye Wanwan raised her head to look at Xu Ziyuan, although her words were gentle, she didn't appreciate it: "It is true that the brothers who have moved around in the other villages these few days are one step behind the Huns because of the delay. It is my fault that many lives were lost in vain."

She took the initiative to undertake, but Xu Ziyuan was not easy to persuade, he just bowed to Ye Wanwan.

Ye Wanwan pursed her lips, she couldn't see what she was thinking on her face, she just said that she wanted to go out for a walk, and left the meeting hall.

As soon as he left, Xu Ziyuan had something to say again, and sighed: "It's really a bit stressful for a little girl to bear such a war."

If it was the past, Si En would definitely have a verbal lawsuit with this person.It's just that I just received the battle report from Dongnan today, and looking at the description of Mu Yao who killed all directions in Huizhou, her lips moved slightly, and she couldn't speak some words after all.

Needless to say, compared with Guan Jingyue and Zhai Su, who have been famous for many years, Ye Wanwan does look a little too immature even if she only takes Mu Yao.

It wasn't her fault, but it was her problem.

Time is running out.

Ye Wanwan left the meeting room and walked around Hanhao Village by herself.Hanhaozhai at night is also very lively.Especially in the past few days, those who wash and cook, heal the wounded and make various weapons.Everyone has their own thing to do.

Ye Wanwan watched for a while, feeling more and more upset.

Although she also asked about these logistics matters, she was not in charge of them, and Si En was mainly in charge.This woman seemed to be preparing to rebel one day, but within a day or two, everything fell into place.

She is so capable, but it seems that she is very incompetent on the outside battlefield.There has not been a formal fight yet, it is just an offensive and defensive around a few stockades, or a few sporadic encounters.Ye Wanwan herself didn't know how many times she won because Guan Lan was too strong.

Ye Wanwan knew that she was guilty of being short-tempered again at this time, but the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change.Even if she knew it, it was hard not to worry about it.

She stood in the shadow and watched the busy crowd for a while, then turned her head and went to a more secluded place.

This time, I met an unexpected person.

Xun Er.

She didn't know what to do when she ran out in the dark at night, and she didn't even turn on the lights, as if she was doing something shameful.When Ye Wanwan met her by the mountain stream in Hanhao Village, she was taken aback.

"What are you doing here?" Ye Wanwan was confused, "Aren't you helping take care of the children these days?"

Xun Er was very nervous at first, but when the moonlight saw that the person who came was Ye Wanwan, she suddenly became happy and said, "It's you, Wanwan! I didn't do anything, just...today is Sister Lu Hua's birthday, so I'm here to help you." She puts a lamp on."

Saying that, Xun Er took out the flint from her pocket and showed it to Ye Wanwan, and Ye Wanwan noticed that she was indeed holding a paper lotus lantern in her hand.The workmanship is rough, but I can see the intention.

Fast forward more than a year, and the anniversary of Lu Hua's death has passed, but unexpectedly, she bumped into her on his birthday.Ye Wanwan was also a little emotional for a while, and even the depression in her heart dissipated for a while, so she didn't say much, and simply set up the lantern with Xun Er.

The wick of the paper lantern is weak, a little bit.The water in the mountain stream is also shallow, and there are many rocks.The lantern just kept spinning in place, and it couldn't swim far.

Ye Wanwan picked up a wooden stick from the ground, trying to push those stones away.As soon as she stretched out her hand, Xun Er stopped her. Ye Wanwan couldn't understand, and asked her, "Why don't you dial, so you can't swim out." :Even*

"That's pretty good." Xun Er thought about it, "Look, there's only one here, as if Lu Hua is here talking to us."

Ye Wanwan laughed, she and Xun Er were not a few years older, so for some reason she always felt that Xun Er's words were very childish.

She was sitting on Xun Er's side, and accompanied her to watch the lantern lit for Lu Hua.

An inconspicuous bright color doesn't suit Lu Hua at all, Ye Wanwan thought.

When she was looking for the person who saved her in Zhulin Temple, she found many paintings by Lu Hua by chance.Most of them are collected by arty people. Compared with the painting itself, the person who painted it is a very beautiful woman, which is more intriguing.Therefore, her paintings are not considered masterpieces of famous artists.

Until one time, Ye Wanwan saw with her own eyes a picture of the snowy mountains and rivers drawn by Lu.

The grandeur of its momentum and the wildness of its brushstrokes are simply arrogant and unreasonable.

It was also from that time that Ye Wanwan remembered this person.

As for its ending, then, there is no need to say more.

Ye Wanwan looked at the faint light of the fire, and her thoughts drifted away.The moon hung in the sky, and the moonlight was cold, reflecting the clear light on the stream.After a while, Ye Wanwan suddenly heard Xun Er asking her.

"Wanwan, are you unhappy?"

Ye Wanwan turned her head, Xun Er didn't look at her, she still rested her chin on her hand, looking at the lamp in the stream.

For some reason, looking at Xun Er like this, Ye Wanwan felt that she didn't have so much persistence, and even the troubles in her heart were no longer so annoying, and it seemed that it was no big deal to say it out.

She looked at Xun Er quietly for a while, then turned her head, and said, "It's nothing, I just think that anyone like me can be regarded as a commander in chief. An astonishing famous artist like Lu Hua has such an ending. unfair."

The meaning of her words was very discouraged, Xun Er understood it, and was silent for a while.

When she spoke again, Ye Wanwan was very surprised.

"Actually, I envy you very much." Xun Er didn't move, still looking at the stream, he said slowly: "I think you are like Sien, my brother and the others. Oh yes, and my mother. You all seem to have a lot A lot of things, know a lot of solutions to problems."

"What about me. Now I seem to be, um, I know a little bit." Xun Er stretched out his hand, and by the moonlight, he looked at his rough and short nails that were neglected because he hadn't played the pipa for a long time, "But it's still far away. It's not enough, like you were doing things at the gate of the village that day, I couldn't help at all."

Xun Er sniffed: "Sometimes I really want to find my brother, so I don't do anything else, just stay with him for a while. But he is very busy, and people are looking for him everywhere. In fact, it was the same before, But at that time, I can still run to play the pipa, and I can wait for him to be free, and then come to me.”

"But I also know that it doesn't work like this now." Xun Er rubbed his eyes, "I also have to, um, do something. I'm very scared, and I'm still the one who doesn't know anything. I'm afraid that's it. , being left behind. Also very scared, if something happens to me, I can’t do anything.”

"It's really easy for people to feel helpless." Xun'er finished the sentence heavily, "But, in fact, sometimes, looking back, I still feel that I have more or less accomplished a little bit."

"That's right, I don't know why I dared to drag you to talk about the city wall on the day the city was broken... Now that I think about it, I'm kind of scared. I'm afraid what to do if it really doesn't collapse."

"But it still collapsed."

"That's right, Wanwan, I don't know how to tell you. But sometimes, when I feel that I am a waste, I will think of that city wall. We blew it down together."

"If you think about it, you will feel that, in fact, there is no need to let yourself go so hard."

"There's always something I can do too."

Xun Er stammered and cried from time to time, talking for a long time.At the end, she seemed to have come to her senses. Ye Wanwan obviously only said a word, but in the end she said a lot of things about herself with the intention of comforting her, and she was so embarrassed that she didn't know how to put her hands away.

"No, that, I'm sorry. I mean, don't be too hard on yourself." Xun Eryi was anxious, and his tongue tied more knots.Seeing her flustered, Ye Wanwan stretched out her hand and flicked the ashes on her clothes.

"It's okay, what you said is very good." Ye Wanwan said, with a tone that she didn't know herself, and she seemed to have never been relaxed, "What you said is right, I can always do it thing."

The next day, early in the morning, Hanhaozhai.

Everyone wakes up in the twilight of morning light, ready for a day's work.Today, of course, I still have to go out and continue to search for the cottage that has not been moved.When Leng Jue and the others went out with a slight yawn, they realized that something was different today.

Ye Wanwan brought Hanhao Village and the elites from Carpenter Village at the foot of the mountain to form a team outside the gate of the village.

I don't know how Ye Wanwan did it. A few days ago, these people were just civilians with little fighting power. Although they have a lot of strength, they still have a long way to go before becoming real soldiers.It's just that they stand in line at this time, and everyone wears various weapons according to the same specifications.Looking at it in the morning light, it does have a faint military charm.

Leng Jue looked at the team from the sidelines for a long time, and at the end, he did not forget to continue to be sarcastic, saying, "It's nothing but appearances."

Ye Wanwan, who was beside him, happened to hear these words, laughed, and said casually, "Yes."

Leng Jue: "..."

Ye Wanwan agreed so neatly, but he didn't know what to say.

Facing the rising sun, Ye Wanwan looked at Leng Jue, and seemed to have a strange calmness when speaking.

"Today is just a show, but tomorrow, the day after, day after day, one day, they will become elite soldiers."

She spoke with certainty, and even Leng Jue was the meanest person, so she was taken aback by this certainty for a moment, and did not immediately sarcastically say anything.

After a while, when the time for irony had passed, Leng Jue twitched the corner of his mouth and said coldly: "Then pray, these people will live to that day."

"I'll let them live until that day." Ye Wanwan promised, "Unless I die before them."

She said these words plainly, but there was a sense of determination everywhere.Leng Jue looked at her for a long while with the corners of his mouth drooping, but said nothing, he snorted coldly, and walked towards his team.

Seeing Leng Jue leaving, Xu Ziyuan came over.He didn't go out today, but he saw that Leng Jue and Ye Wanwan were facing each other again, and he was worried that there was something wrong with each other, so he came to have a look.

Seeing that Leng Jue left without saying anything, he came up in surprise and asked Ye Wanwan, "What's the matter? Lao Leng is in a good mood today? Did you not offend the girl?"

Ye Wanwan waved her hand to signal him not to take it to heart.Finally, she looked at the sun and said, "It's getting late, we have to go."

Xu Ziyuan said: "Actually, don't be influenced by Lao Leng. We checked the number of people carefully yesterday, and most of the people in the cottage are safe. It's okay to rest in Hanhao Village for a day today."

Ye Wanwan shook her head and said, "No, the transfer of personnel is only the first step. If we want to really take back Daocheng, we can kill the Huns to avenge our hatred. We can no longer follow the normal way."

Xu Ziyuan was surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "So, the girl led the team out today..."

"Training." Ye Wanwan replied, "Since they dare to use small troops to test the situation in the mountains, why not do it?"

"Master Xu." Ye Wanwan called Xu Ziyuan and said seriously, "Get ready, soon, this place will become a battlefield."