march to victory

"boom!"

"Crack!"

The dark clouds were densely covered, and a bolt of lightning, like a swimming dragon, flashed its huge and long figure in the mortal world, and disappeared into the black clouds in an instant.

Xiang Xueqin, who was about to go out with a basket, looked up at the sky, turned around and entered the house, and when she came out, she had an extra umbrella in her hand.

Before he could take a few steps towards Xueqin, the light rain began to pour down, and it turned into a torrential rain in an instant.

Xiang Xueqin doesn't care if the rain wets her trousers and cotton shoes, what she cares about is not letting the rain wet her jacket, because there is a letter to Zhang Qingshan in her jacket pocket, which entrusts her thoughts And worried, and told Zhang Qingshan how much favor I owed him...Because not long after arriving here, coupled with the war and chaos, it was temporarily impossible to send letters from here to Yan'an. .In other words, from Zhang Qingshan's departure to now, Xiang Xueqin has received two letters from Zhang Qingshan. It's not that she doesn't want to write, but even if she writes it, she has to wait for someone to contact her before she can ask them to bring the letter.

The heavy rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was about to turn into a torrential rain, but Xiang Xueqin didn't care about it, because she found out that a group of soldiers was going to Yan'an today, and she had to deliver the letter to them before they set off, asking them to After arriving in Yan'an, hand it over to Zhang Qingshan, otherwise, God knows when the next letter will be sent.

Under the heavy rain, the visibility was very low, but Xiang Xueqin was very familiar with the roads around here, so he didn't care about it.

In front is Widow Zhang's house.

Unable to bear the exploitation of the landlord, Widow Zhang's husband resolutely participated in the revolution, and later sacrificed, leaving Widow Zhang and three children to live a difficult life.

Fortunately, Widow Zhang is a family member of a martyr. At first, the team led by the Communist Party secretly helped her family. Later, when the Central Red Army arrived, they gave special care according to the conditions of the martyrs and according to the actual situation of her family. When it comes to some martyrs' money (most of the time it is directly distributed food), when the farming is busy, the organization will send people to plow the land for her family, and she herself raises livestock. In this way, her family's life is much better now, at least, there is no need to worry about it. starve.

I heard that Widow Zhang has already applied to the organization. She thinks the cave dwelling in her house is too old, and she wants to renovate and strengthen it recently.The organization also agreed, and promised to send someone to her house to renovate and strengthen the cave.

Walking along the muddy path to the door of her house, a faint light shines through the window, and the sound of a child reading can still be heard vaguely.This made Xiang Xueqin very satisfied and envious.

Satisfied: Isn’t the simplest purpose of the revolution just to feed the working people all over the world and enable poor children to study?So seeing this scene, she was very happy.What I envy is that I yearn for such a warm life. I work during the day and accompany my children to read and write at night. Such a life is really happy and fulfilling.

Thinking of this, she touched her slightly swollen belly, and said softly: "My child, you have to be good. After you come out, mom will let you read and write."

After a short pause, Xiang Xueqin smiled and wanted to leave, not wanting to disturb the warm atmosphere of Widow Zhang's house.

But when she turned around, she always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Widow Zhang's house, but she couldn't tell the specifics.

She couldn't help but stop, turned around, held her umbrella, and looked carefully at Widow Zhang's house.

At first, she was just suspicious, but when she looked at it, she suddenly realized that something was wrong: the cave dwellings were all built in compacted soil, and the soil above the cave dwellings was suppressed, trying to make it cool when it rained. Won't loosen and fall off.However, on the cave of Widow Zhang's house, not only were water marks like spider webs washed out by the rain, but some places have been cracked... Look carefully, I don't know if it is an illusion, but Xiang Xueqin feels that these cracked places , which seems to be growing.

But whether it was an illusion or not, Xiang Xueqin knew that as long as there were cracks on the cave dwelling, it was a sign that the soil was soft.And if there are more cracks, it is a precursor to the collapse of the cave dwelling.No matter how strong the inside is, once the outside collapses, even if the cave does not collapse, the collapsed soil will most likely bury the cave.

Especially under this heavy rain, once it collapses, the rain will pour into the cave, and the people inside will most likely die.

Xiang Xueqin's face changed drastically in an instant, before she had time to think, she rushed to the door of Widow Zhang's house, knocked on the door vigorously and shouted: "Sister Zhang, take the child out quickly, the cave is about to collapse..."

In fact, the sound of the rainstorm almost completely covered Xiang Xueqin's voice. Fortunately, the knock on the door was a life-saving sound for the people in the cave.

The door opened.

Widow Zhang, who is about 30 years old, looks like a 40-year-old woman because she has been worrying and working hard for the past few years.

Seeing Xiang Xueqin, she hurriedly moved aside, and even took Xiang Xueqin's hand, saying enthusiastically: "It's Comrade Xueqin, come in, come in. You are pregnant, so you can't get wet..."

Xiang Xueqin couldn't care less about these, she even forgot to enter the house, and yelled directly: "Take the child out quickly, this cave dwelling might collapse."

After speaking, she remembered that she should do it immediately.He rushed into the house quickly, and rushed out holding a child who was sleeping on the bed.

Widow Zhang didn't believe it at first: the cave dwelling in her house is a bit dilapidated, but it has been supported for so many years, so luck can't be so bad, but at this moment, the cave dwelling is about to collapse?

However, seeing that Xiang Xueqin was in such a hurry, she didn't even ask a question, and ran out with her young son in her arms.This made her pay attention immediately, because she knew that Xiang Xueqin was also a soldier of the Red Army, and it was absolutely impossible for the Red Army to joke about this kind of thing. Otherwise, she would just find any Red Army officer to file a complaint afterwards. walk.

"Boss, second child, run." Before she had time to think about it, she shouted to the eldest and second child, and ran out to protect the eldest and second child. When she ran to the door, she was poured on her body by the heavy rain outside. Going straight to the top of her head calmed her somewhat.Only then did I realize that in my panic, I forgot to bring my umbrella: I can't let my child get wet in the rain.

Turn around and grab two umbrellas from behind the door, give one to the eldest, like a hen protecting its chicks, and walk out quickly while protecting the two children, while telling him and the second child to take good care of them.

Standing more than ten meters away from the house, feeling safe, Widow Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

But before she could speak, she saw Xiang Xueqin bent over, protecting her youngest son, ran to her, and put down the child... At this time, Xiang Xueqin's hair and back were covered with rainwater, but Widow Zhang The youngest son, except for the wet calf accident, most of the body was not wet.

Widow Zhang, who was watching, was very moved. With her left hand, she pulled the child to the eldest and second child, and let the three children squeeze together to hold an umbrella. The umbrella in her right hand also directly supported Xiang Xueqin's head.

"Comrade Xueqin, you're pregnant, what's wrong with getting wet~!"

Xiang Xueqin wiped the rainwater from her face, and smiled at Widow Zhang: "Don't be afraid, I'm a nurse, even if I have a cold or something, I know how to treat it..."

After saying a word, she yelled to Widow Zhang's boss: "Boss, you send your two younger brothers to my house immediately, and then, you go find someone to save your house, understand?"

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Xiang Xueqin immediately rushed to Widow Zhang's house again: "Sister Zhang, you wait here while I go and move your things out. It would be a pity if they were buried."

"Xueqin, no need, I... hey~!" Widow Zhang didn't stop Xiang Xueqin, and hurriedly yelled. It can be seen that Xiang Xueqin had already rushed to her door, and obviously wouldn't stop. She stamped her foot anxiously, Shouted to the boss, "Hurry up and go!" Then, he threw away the umbrella, regardless of whether he got wet or not, and rushed home.

The boss of Widow Zhang’s house yelled mother twice, and seeing Widow Zhang rushed into the house without looking back, he hurriedly took his two younger brothers and staggered towards Xueqin’s house, crying, “Help, help!” ! Help my mother..."

Widow Zhang rushed into the house and saw that Xiang Xueqin was carrying a bag of thirty to forty catties of grain on her shoulders. She hurriedly shouted: "Xueqin, don't worry about the grain for now. After this thing is wet by rain, it will die within a few days." It will germinate and grow mold, we should put the clothes first..."

These days, food is a very important thing - if you run out of clothes and trousers, you can ask others to borrow them, and you can get by for a while, but when the food is gone, everyone is poor, and even if others borrow it, they can't borrow much, and you still have to be hungry abdomen.Therefore, the first thing Xiang Xueqin thought of was food... If it was not a last resort, who would give up food?Money is not that important: even if the cave dwelling collapses, it will only be buried, not washed away. When the time comes, it can still be dug out.Besides, the ocean is not afraid of rain, and although the paper bills will get wet, they can still be used as long as they are exposed, so the rescue of food is the first priority.

Before I finished speaking, I saw Xueqin yelling: "Sister Zhang, carry the food out first. Don't be afraid of being wet by the rain. There are so many people in our Red Army, and your two or three hundred catties of food are not enough for us to eat. Breakfast, carry it out now, and when it’s time for breakfast tomorrow, I’ll go find the Red Army to exchange dry food for you, but they can put your wet food into the pot at once, so there’s no delay.”

Upon hearing this, Widow Zhang was determined, grabbed a bag of grain, carried it on her shoulder, and rushed out towards Xueqin.

When she came to the gate in front of the courtyard and put the food bag away, Widow Zhang grabbed Xiang Xueqin who was about to continue carrying the food, and shouted: "Xueqin, you are pregnant, so I dare not let you carry such a heavy thing, in case someone Anyway, how do you let me face people?"

But Xiang Xueqin waved his hand, got rid of Widow Zhang's pull, and rushed into the cave while shouting: "Then I will carry some light ones, and you will carry the grain."

Having said that, when Widow Zhang rushed into the house with her, she saw that Xiang Xueqin picked up another bag of food without stopping, rushed out quickly, and shouted: "Don't say anything, so as not to waste time .”

Widow Zhang was moved and worried, but she also understood that time was running out and every second counted, so she had to carry a bag of food and followed Xiang Xueqin closely for fear of falling...