Zizhen Village, Xujiagou Township, is not far from the blockade line ditch. The sun shines through the mist and reflects dazzling light, and sometimes biting cold winds are everywhere.

A few years ago, there was a small river surrounding the village. After the Japanese recruited civilians to dig a blockade ditch, the water flow continued to decrease, and this year it was even cut off.

The land outside the village without water can no longer support the villagers in this area.

The Xu family has a strong clan power in this area, and almost all the land was seized by the Xu family and all of them were acquired by the Xu family.

After the Japanese came, Xu Jinsheng, the third wife who was not doing his job, took the lead in surrendering to the enemy and made a great fortune. Now, when he saw the big house, he was too lazy to even look up.

Uncle Zhao, who is guarding the village of Zizhen Village, has to become the maintenance president. There is no way to join the Japanese! There is a ancestral hall and field at home, but it cannot be escaped. Everyone knows that if you dare to resist, it will be a word of death.

It is said that there is a backer, but the tribe is even poorer. The Japanese puppet army is in trouble, but God is not open to his eyes. In this year of severe drought, there is almost no harvest in the field. In addition, locust plagues are rampant this autumn, so the family cannot continue to operate all the cracked land, and the tenant farmers have almost escaped from famine.

The clan had no choice but to move his family to the city. After years of saving money, he slowly bought a backyard of a business in the city.

Some people who fled further east took root in this semi-desolate village and lived in a peaceful manner with the tenant farmers who left behind. Those who left behind and those who fled were all old and weak.

Going westward can enter the territory of the Eighth Route Army. Unfortunately, the Japanese and traitors guarded the artillery tower day and night. If they are in good health, they can find ways to secretly cross the blockade ditch. The elderly, weak, women and children go down the blockade ditch. If they want to climb the ditch, it will be too difficult.

After escaping to this strange village, if someone hadn't secretly sent some food every day, Dad Zhao knew that he would have starved to death long ago.

The people in the village may have died long ago!

Dad Zhao also followed those young people and was about to secretly cross the blockade ditch. Unfortunately, he was not old but was prematurely aging. He was unable to climb the blockade ditch with his little Nannan on his back. When there were too many people, the children howled and the women cried. Every time, he was soon discovered by the Japanese puppet troops in the artillery tower. The Japanese puppet troops in the artillery tower did not come out at all, so he directly installed machine guns and fired into the blockade ditch.

Dad Zhao finally got rid of his trousers and was pulled back by a few women who didn't have time to go down the ditch. Otherwise, he might have to die in the blocking ditch with Xiao Nannan.

It was a pity that Mr. Zhao was almost there, so he climbed up along the small wooden pole standing west of the ditch.

Those young people who killed thousands of swords and crawled to the opposite side first never thought of pulling the person who was still in the ditch.

I had to go back to the village to continue waiting, but what are I waiting for?

Early in the morning, a message was spread everywhere in the village. The skinny old man Zhao saw that the bark of the elm tree on the mountain had been stripped naked. When he heard the news, he felt inexplicably sad. It was a hopeful news that made people live.

After receiving the news, the fleeing people in several nearby villages began to gather in Xiangzizhen Village.

In the city.

"Second uncle, more and more poor people are running into our village."

"I'll go when I go. It doesn't matter if I live there. I can still feel a little hot and hot. I can still work more when spring starts. Remember not to cut off the food? Don't give it too much!" The gray-haired old man was worried.

"But they not only beat Xiaoliu, who was guarding the ancestral hall, but also moved into our ancestral hall?" Looking at the older second uncle, the person who reported the news did not dare to finish his words in one breath.

"Faced with a group of old, weak, women and children, all so incompetent, and a bunch of waste, can't you four stop them?

"We went around through the blockade ditch. Those poor people were burning firewood. Not only did they demolish our ancestral house, but they even burned the ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall!" He shrank his neck and was ready to run away at any time.

After hearing this, my second uncle was stunned for a moment, his head buzzed, his eyes rolled, and he almost couldn't recover in one breath, and he felt soft on the chair.

The person who reported the news hesitated for a moment and rushed forward, but was blocked by the maid next to him. He was rubbed with water for a while. After rolling his eyes for a long time, he came to his senses and coughed a few times: "It's a bit unreasonable, really a bit unreasonable? Xiao Si? Forget it? It's useless to blame you. Go and ask your second cousin for help immediately."

"He is not incompatible with our sect and has long since disappeared. Is this appropriate?"

"The tablets of our ancestors are gone, what else is wrong? All this is lost is the face of our ancestors of the Xu family! I have a serious sin, so what can I use to see the ancestors in the future?"

"Second uncle, I'll try it first. I can't guarantee whether it will succeed!" The fourth brother put his hands into his sleeves, turned around and left.

The fourth brother of the elder brothers were found in the yard, and the three of them went to Xujiazhuang, the detective team, to find helpers.

After the Japanese blocked the ditches and repaired them, life in the mountains became more and more difficult, and the dealers were broken.

The bandits who bought wealth in the country had no source of wealth, and the people on the plains were so poor that they could not fill the crowd. Occasionally, they could not fill in the amount of money they had to go to bed, and some of the copycats even began to go hungry.

The Eighth Route Army has cleared out bandits in the mountains several times. Without the source of income, the life of the bandits was also worse than injury. They had to run to the plain. After entering the plain, they would not care about the morality of killing the rich and helping the poor in order to stutter.

Bandits robbed food everywhere, and the people were poor and panicked for a meal. Anyway, every family had no food, and everyone ignored anyone to survive. Some people then became bandit armed forces.

Other young people who survived the Japanese raid participated in various anti-Japanese teams.

In this chaotic situation, some of them had shot the Japanese as security forces, while others had thrown the traitors as spies, and continued to do things like selling, buying, robbing, and kidnapping and extortion.

The messy forces left the people living in the cracks without even their lives, and they had to flee their homes one after another, and would rather go to those poor and bad places in the mountains to at least save their lives.

After Ma Dabangzi, who was originally in the mountains, and his bandits went down the mountain, they directly surrendered to Xu Jinsheng.

The man who was in charge of Ma Da’s family, with a tiger-back and a bear-back, and a fierce face, caught up with Xu Jinsheng, and changed his appearance and directly became a mission to be the head of the Japanese Public Security District.

The Japanese didn't care about these rural affairs. As long as the village could hand over the grain collection tasks assigned by the Imperial Army on time, they would just ask about anything else. The township chief suddenly became a local emperor.

The bandit-born chief Ma was nothing wrong with other township chiefs on the surface, but secretly did everything he wanted to open tobacco shops, secretly sell human beings, bully the market, and do evil all day long.

If someone meets someone's wife, the bandit leader can't help it. He leads several subordinates with guns on their backs and goes to the wedding banquet during the day. In the middle of the night, he brings a group of subordinates who are marching over the wall and crosses the wall to marry his wife. He ties the family first and then knocks on the door of the new house by himself. A few women who suffer losses were hung up that night. More timids were humiliated and swallowed their anger and dared not speak out.

After the hanged, the family came to the township office to report to the official. The township chief Ma was pretending to be a good person in public and even sent someone to investigate. As for whether the case could be solved, it was said that the bandit did it in the end...

Its animal nature is outrageous!

There is no wall in the world that is not leaking. It is harmed by the smoke and the business people have no way to survive. The evil deeds of Township Mayor Ma finally spread. The people who received the news dared not stay in the ghost cave and fled their families.

In addition, the sudden appearance of severe drought, more ordinary people fled to famine, and the village under Ma Dabangzi finally turned into a nest of bandits.

"Report..." dragged a long tail sound, and arrived before the sound came.

A man with a spear and a thick cotton coat ran into the village office: "Of the boss, Commander Xu sent his clan brothers to come and said that if there is something important, we should do a favor!"

"Please!" Ma Dabangzi knew the power of the Xu family in this area and hurried out.

There is no need to ask for it? Xu Laosi was walking carefully to the village office. When he saw someone coming out, he stopped and bowed: "May I ask... is it Brother Ma?"

"Hey, they are all my own brothers, why are you doing so polite?" Ma Dabangzi went out and greeted him with a smile.

"My cousin said I want to ask you if you have something to do!" Seeing that the village chief looked so vulgar but was so polite, Xu Xiaosi calmed down.

"If you have something to say, Boss Xu's business is mine!" This winter is coming, and he is already idle and he is preparing to go to the county town to have fun.
Chapter completed!