Chapter 457 Going up the mountain
Shen Qiu said that he wanted to go up the mountain. Shen Shuyu didn't have to go to class the next day, so she went up the mountain with Shen Qiu early the next morning.
Ozawa is very happy on his mother's back. To be more precise, Ozawa is very happy as long as he goes out to play, and he keeps babbling on the back.
"Big sister, are you tired? Let me carry Xiaoze on your back."
This mountain is quite high, and the elder sister must be tired.
"Not tired. If you feel tired, we can stop and rest for a while." Anyway, they came here to play and were not in a hurry.
It had been a long time since I last walked such a steep road, so Shen Qiu did feel a little tired. "Then let's sit down and rest for a while."
The two sisters sat on a big rock, and the white radish and cabbage whiskers sat in front of them. The cabbage whiskers would bite the white radish from time to time, and the white radish would stretch out its claws and slap the naughty cabbage whiskers away.
Shen Qiu looked at Dashan and suddenly felt sad. "Sister, I miss home."
She has been in the army for almost half a year, and she misses her parents, grandparents, brother and sister-in-law.
"The Chinese New Year will be here in a little over a month, and we'll go home then."
Gu Jiandong and Jiang Ziqiang didn't know if they could take a vacation, but they could.
If they were not on leave, the two sisters would just go back together.
Shen Qiu shook his head, "I'm not going home this year. I made a plan with Ziqiang to go back to his hometown for the New Year."
She and Ziqiang didn't have enough vacation time after they got married, so they didn't go to Jiang's hometown to visit their grandparents.
Ziqiang said that his grandparents loved him very much, so as their granddaughter-in-law, she had to go back to see them.
"Have you told your uncle and aunt?" Xiaoqiu has been in the army for so long, her uncle and aunt must miss their daughter very much.
"Not yet. I'll write the letter when I get back."
The two sisters talked as they walked. They were not familiar with this mountain, and there were no wild vegetables to dig.
The two of them had no destination, they just kept walking up.
"Xiao Qiu, are you tired? If you are, we can sit here." Shen Shuyu brought a lot of food with her, and the two sisters were almost ready to go camping.
I took out the food and spread the cloth I brought on the flat ground. Once I sat down, I looked down and saw the beautiful scenery.
Shen Shuyu fed her son milk powder. After Xiaoze was full, he sat on the white radish and pulled its ears to play with it.
Shen Shuyu was afraid that her son would not be able to control his strength and hurt the white radish, so she picked her son up and took out a wooden toy for him to play with.
Xiaoze was unhappy when his mother took him down, and he looked like he was about to cry.
It's so pitiful, but when he saw there were toys to play with, he suddenly smiled again.
The white radish was lazily lying beside its little master. The white radish, which had just squinted, suddenly opened its eyes, turned around twice on the spot with its white radish whiskers, and looked forward vigilantly.
"Sister, what happened to the white radish?"
Shen Shuyu didn't know what happened to the white radish, but seeing it so alert, she was afraid it was in danger.
"Xiao Qiu, put your things away. It might not be safe here."
Shen Qiu didn't dare to delay at all and quickly put away the things, "Sister, let's go back."
"Ah."
Just as the two were about to go down the mountain, they heard a noisy sound of footsteps. Shen Shuyu pulled Shen Qiu to hide behind a big rock, and called Bai Caixu and Bai Luobo in.
Xiaoze on Shen Shuyu's back blinked his eyes and looked around, not crying or making a noise, and without making any sound.
The same goes for white radish and cabbage roots.
White Radish is always alert. White Cabbage is the descendant of a military dog and is naturally sensitive to danger.
It crawls on the ground, ready to fight at any time.
The noisy footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Shen Shuyu and Shen Qiu also saw the faces of the people coming.
Opposite them were eight middle-aged men wearing patched clothes.
There wasn't anything wrong just by looking at their clothes and the people, but what they said made Shen Shuyu's eyes flash.
If this isn't Japanese, then what is this?
The white radish and cabbage whiskers bared their teeth, ready to rush out and bite people at any time.
Shen Shuyu made a hushing gesture, and the two furry kids restrained the urge to go out and bite people.
The people walked further and further away, running up the mountain. They hid behind a big rock for a while, and only spoke after they were sure that they were far away, "Bai Luobo, go back and ask Gu Jiandong to bring people up."
Bai Luobo wanted to go back and call Gu Jiandong, but he seemed to be worried about them being here, "Go back, they have gone far away, we are fine."
The white radish ran away quickly.
Bai Caixu raised his head and waited for Shen Shuyu's instructions, "Bai Caixu, can you follow them secretly?"
The cabbage whiskers follow them, marking the way, and the white radish can find them based on the smell of the cabbage whiskers.
Now she has a child and Shen Qiu is still pregnant, so Shen Shuyu doesn't dare to take the risk to follow her.
Bai Caixu barked twice and ran up the mountain with a clatter.
"Sister, who were those people just now?"
"A small life."
Shen Qiu's face changed. There are troops stationed here. How dare they appear here?
"This is a big mountain, so it's hard to spot them." If she didn't understand Japanese, she would have thought they were villagers from the surrounding area.
"Sister, what should we do?"
"Wait here for Gu Jiandong and the others to come up." The place where they were was blocked by large rocks and there were tall weeds behind them. If they didn't pay attention, it would be difficult to notice that there were people here.
"Then we'll wait here."
Shen Qiu feels safe as long as his elder sister is around.
"Sister, what did those people say just now?" Shen Qiu couldn't understand what they were saying. She thought the villagers were speaking in dialect.
Shen Shuyu's face darkened. "They said they would torture the people they captured."
The people they arrested were most likely military comrades.
Those dogs never do anything for humans.
In a hidden cave on the mountain, a group of people laughed and looked at the dying man on the shelf with contempt.
"I heard that Chinese people have very hard bones. I'm going to try to see how hard their bones are today."
The man who was talking took the iron chain and whipped it on the man's body.
The man, who was already seriously injured, had a weaker breathing now, but he still held his head straight and spat out a mouthful of blood to the person in front of him.
The man in front of him was particularly angry after being spat out blood. "Bring me the iron brand, you are a piece of shit who won't accept my toast."
At the foot of the mountain, Bai Luobo had already run back to the army and told Gu Jiandong what happened. Gu Jiandong immediately reported to his superiors and led a group of people up the mountain.
They arrived at Shen Shuyu's place in less than half an hour. Shen Shuyu pointed to the mountain.
"They must still be up there. Be careful. I've asked Cabbagebeard to follow them. White Radish should be able to find them based on the smell."
Gu Jiandong and his men brought two military dogs with them. Together with Bai Luobo, there are three dogs in total. It should be no problem to find them.
"I understand. Shu Yu, you go back first." Afraid that it would be unsafe for them to go down the mountain, Gu Jiandong asked two of his comrades to send them down the mountain.