"When my mother was gone, I only remember my father saying that my mother went to a place where she would never suffer again. He said that the poor people in that place also had food and clothing."

When Erni said this to Dazhuang, tears kept falling. The 13-year-old Dazhuang stretched out his dirty hand to wipe off Erni's tears, but Erni wiped away the tears by herself before reaching out her hand.

"Erni, stop crying," said Dazhuang: "Come to my house, you will be my sister from now on, and I and my mother will take care of you."

Erni shook her head stubbornly: "No, although my father is gone, I am here, I am here, my family is here."

...

The 15-year-old Dazhuang piled up the harvested wheat bundles. Erni on the side said, "Brother Dazhuang, you can rest for a while. You have been busy for so long. Take a breath and have a drink of soup."

"Not tired," Dazhuang said with a silly smile: "Look at my strong body. I can pick it up all of your fields in a few trips. The harvest this year is quite good, so I have to finish it early."

"Brother Dazhuang, I'll go with you." Erni said as she picked up the shoulder pole, but Dazhuang refused, "I'm fine alone. Don't worry, I won't help you in vain. You will have to help my family pick up wheat in a few days."

Erni smiled, smiling very happily, and her face was filled with a happy look.

...

The villagers looked at Dazhuang and always joked, "Dazhuang, when will you marry Ernie home?"

Dazhuang said shyly: "What nonsense? I just treat Erni as a girl."

The third uncle said with a smile: "Heaven, if you don't marry Erni, I will go to Erni's house for my little master."

Da Zhuang changed color and looked at the third uncle like a wolf protecting food. The third uncle smiled: "Silly boy, do you think you third uncle is blind!"

Dazhuang smiled embarrassedly.

The third uncle sighed and said, "Erni is a miserable girl. She has lost her mother at the age of three, and her father is gone again at the age of 12. I have long wanted to take Erni as my granddaughter. I took the time to go to Erni's house and recognize this granddaughter. You are 17, and Erni is not young anymore. You should have a plan. Go and your mother tell me, let the lame woman discuss with me, an old guy."

Dazhuang looked at the third uncle in surprise, his eyes full of joy and happiness.

...

"Nizi, you are 16, it's time to find someone," the lame woman looked at Erni and said with a smile: "Si Niang, I have several candidates. Tell me if you like it."

The lame woman said one by one, but deliberately hid Dazhuang's name. Erni didn't hear Dazhuang's name and said:

"Si Niang, I... I'm the only one left in my family. I don't want to get married."

The lame woman smiled: "Nizi, this woman has to get married when she gets old. You look so handsome, how can you not get married? There is no one in our village, what about the other village? Why don't I ask you?"

"No, I don't want to leave our village." Erni said firmly.

"Don't leave the village?" The lame woman thought about it and said for a while: "But there are only a few young men in our village who should be married. You can't really be an old girl, right?"

Erni was anxious and complained that Si Niang couldn't have thought of Dazhuang?

The lame woman looked at Erni's anxious look and felt funny, but she knew that the girl's skin was thin, so she didn't tease her, but deliberately said:

"By the way, there is Dazhuang. Alas, Nizi, do you think Dazhuang is OK?"

Erni finally breathed a sigh of relief and said shyly: "Si Niang, you are an elder, just discuss it with my grandfather, I... I have no objection."

...

Erni and Dazhuang were finally engaged. They were simple and had no bride gifts for many things, but Erni smiled very happily.

Dazhuang quietly said to Erni: "Nizi, don't worry, when we get married, I will prepare more good things and let you marry me in a glorious way."

Erni said: "Brother Dazhuang, I...I don't have so many requests. I just need you to be nice to me."

"Nizi, don't worry, I, Dazhuang, will definitely treat you well in this life, and I won't beat you or scold you."

...

Since getting engaged, Dazhuang has become more diligent and often goes out to exchange for money. Although the farmers' strength is not worth a lot, in less than half a year, Dazhuang still brought back a lot of things to his family, and even pulled a lot of cloth for Erni, asking someone to make new clothes for Erni and new clothes for her when she got married.

"Brother Dazhuang," Erni looked at Dazhuang shyly, opened a pack of tight handkerchief bit by bit, and said, "This is the money my father left for me. Can you pull some cloth for me when you go to the county town?"

"What kind of cloth do you want, what money do you give me? I have money now!" Dazhuang pushed away Erni's handkerchief: "Nizi, you are the money left to you by your father, just keep it!"

"No! I have to spend money on these cloths." Erni insisted stubbornly, but finally said shyly: "I... I want to make you a few new sets of clothes."

...

"Nizi, you are good at making your clothes," the lame woman took out the clothes made by Erni. After checking, she praised Erni and said with a smile: "Nizi, you are still a member of the Dazhuang family, so you have already calculated for Dazhuang!"

Erni lowered her head shyly: "Si Niang, stop laughing at me..."

"Why am I laughing at you? I envy Dazhuang. Look at how much virtue he has accumulated in his previous life to marry a girl like you!"

"It's my fate that I met Brother Dazhuang." Erni smiled, remembering the kindness he had been to her since she was a child, and couldn't help laughing even more happily.

...

"Nizi, Mr. Wang from the county is recruiting people, and the salary is enough. I'll go and work for a few months. When I come back, I will definitely bring a lot of money. Then I will definitely marry you in a grand manner!"

"Brother Dazhuang, don't go. I heard from my grandfather that Mr. Wang is now an accomplice of the Japanese, it's bad or bad."

"It's okay, we just buy some energy. Master Wang can eat big fish and meat every time, and can we lose the strength and money of our farmers?"

"Then... then don't fight too hard!"

Dazhuang smiled foolishly: "If you don't fight, I'm still waiting to support you and your mother in the future."

Erni spat, her face flushed, Dazhuang continued to giggle on the side, and said blankly: "Erni, you...you are so beautiful."

...

"Didn't you mean to repair the house? Why did you get on the train?"

"Master Wang has work in another place, you can go and do it first! Don't worry, Master Wang is famously kind-hearted and will not mislead your wages!"

Under the sweet words of the plainclothes team, the workers boarded the train with surprise. Only Dazhuang was angry and willing, but he was beaten up by the plainclothes team.

Dazhuang, who was locked up, was sweating stubbornly: "No! I won't get in the car! I won't go out of town! I want to go home!"

"Go home?" A traitor smiled: "Silly boy, are you still thinking about going home? You're dreaming! Do you know where the car is going? Taijun wants to take you to a place you have never heard of before! Go home? Hahaha, this boy is so beautiful!"

Da Zhuang felt like he was hit hard.

He seemed to have accepted his fate, and did not struggle or make trouble. Later, a team of Japanese men got into the car and disliked Dazhuang who was tied up in the car, so he drove Dazhuang back to the traitors who pretended to be kind before the labor carriage. At this time, he had changed his face and began to scold and bully the laborers in the carriage.

Among the workers, there were guerrillas who had infiltrated the Japanese and told the workers about the purpose of the Japanese: "The Japanese wanted to take us to repair a hidden base. After repairing the base, the Japanese would not let us go in order to keep it secret. We cannot sit and wait for death!"

"Then...what should I do?"

The honest laborers panicked.

"Don't worry, our Eighth Route Army will not watch the big guy being deceived by the Japanese. Our people will save the big guy halfway. Then everyone will obey my orders and don't run around."

Afterwards, a resistance to survival began after the ambush.

In order to survive, the laborers, led by the guerrillas, ran desperately and kept running.

Da Zhuang mixed in the crowd and ran with a few villagers. A group of Japanese soldiers chased after him desperately. Erzhuzi was injured. Seeing that he could not run anymore, he cried and said:

"Don't leave me behind! I'm going home! Dazhuang, dog, don't leave me behind!"

Da Zhuang, honestly, turned around and ran back, carried the second pillar and continued running. As he ran, he couldn't run anymore. The sound of the Japanese screaming from behind was getting closer and closer. Da Zhuang gasped and said:

"Douzi, Shitou, you take Erzhuzi away, I'll go and lead the Japanese away!"

So, Da Zhuang ran in the other direction. After seeing Da Zhuang's figure, the Japanese chased after him. Dogs and the others started running for a long time until there was no strange scream from the Japanese behind.

Shi Tou was about to run home, Erzhuzi cried and said, "I won't leave, I'm going to wait for Brother Dazhuang, I'm going to find Brother Dazhuang!"

Shi Tou cried and said:

"I want to go home, I want to go home, I'm afraid... I want to go home..."

Finally, Shi Tou left the two and ran away. Dog Zi searched in the mountain with the injured Erzhuzi for three days and finally found Dazhuang's body. The bayonet pierced through Dazhuang's body, and the solidified dark brown blood spread all over the floor. Dazhuang opened his eyes tightly and looked into the distance.

There was his mother, and there was Erni who hadn't passed the door yet.

He couldn't even think about it until he died. He just wanted to buy some money and make some money and marry Erni in a grand manner, but why...

Why is this happening?

...

Erzhuzi and Gouzi brought back Dazhuang and lost news.

Da Zhuang's mother almost cried and blinded her eyes. Later, Da Zhuang's mother told Erni:

"Ni, Dazhuang doesn't have that blessing, I can't marry you...you...just find someone to marry again..."

Erni cried and said, "Mom, I was born as a brave man, and died as a brave ghost, don't drive me away, I... I'm the only one left now..."

Da Zhuang's mother looked at the crying girl with pear blossoms and couldn't help but hugging her and howled.

...

In the cave.

"Erzhuzi, he... is he a Japanese?" Erni looked at the person rescued by the villagers. The dazzling Japanese military trousers made her feel that the whole world was dizzy.

Erzhuzi shook his head and said, "No, he is Comrade Zheng from the Eighth Route Army. Last time I just wanted to join his team and fight the Japanese to avenge my Dazhuang Brother. He...he didn't want me."

"Then he... why did he wear Japanese pants?"

"Who knows, maybe he snatched the Japanese's pants and wore them. He is so amazing. I heard that there were hundreds of Japanese who killed one person, and all the Japanese called him King Zheng Yan."
To be continued...