In the broken yard, a donkey was slowly circling around the stone mill.

A middle-aged woman with a towel on her head kept pouring the chaff from her grinding eyes, and the slightly finer grinding chaff was squeezed out from the grinding disc. Compared with the ones poured in, there was almost no change.

In the middle of the yard, a broken table was placed around several guerrilla soldiers who were eating.

There were a few old patches on the clothes were squeezed at the entrance of the courtyard, and the children were filled with snot.

The monkey stepped on the stool, holding the millet and wild vegetable porridge in one hand, and holding a steamed bun in his other hand, and looked at Lao Meng opposite him: "Captain Meng, is this damn human being able to eat?"

Lao Meng looked dishy and said with a hoarse voice: "If you like to eat, you will only have two meals a day."

"This thing is sore!" The monkey cried and poured the porridge into his mouth.

"You can't eat like this. You have to break the steamed buns into the porridge!" Lao Meng stood up after saying that, and put another bowl of porridge for the monkey from the basin on the broken table with a dark face.

The monkey was speechless when he looked at the porridge that could reveal his shadow. He helplessly learned from Lao Meng to slowly break the steamed buns into pieces that were big on his fingers and soaked them in the porridge.

The steamed buns were broken into small pieces and then they scattered directly into the porridge. The bran was floating on the surface of the porridge. The monkey closed his eyes and poured it into his mouth. He was still swallowed and rolled his eyes, constantly complaining: "This is more than what a big beast eats.

Not as good as that.”

"It's good to eat if you have something to do. Don't waste it, drink it completely." Seeing that the monkey had half a bowl left, Lao Meng had a stern face.

"I can't eat it, so I'll vomit it all." The monkey, who had just arrived for a long time, stood up and prepared to find a place to sleep.

A little girl in torn clothes and old pants standing at the door, with her face almost skinny and bone-shaped, staring at the bowl of porridge that the monkey had not finished eating.

The monkey thought the girl looked like a fool, so he turned around and asked Lao Meng: "Who is this girl? Why did he come here? Where is his master?"

Lao Meng shook his head: "This girl has a miserable life. Her parents were killed by the Japanese. His grandparents took her with the fleeing crowd to the base. She was the only one left in the family. She was very sensible at a young age."

"Hey, why are you looking at me? Come here..." The monkey suddenly felt sad, ready to tease the little girl.

During this period, monkeys were moving in the enemy-occupied area. They saw that more people were starving to death and saw too many people... They almost felt numb.

The little girl didn't say anything, suddenly plucked up the courage, ran to the table, picked up the monkey's porridge bowl that had not finished drinking and poured it into her mouth.

"Slow down, slow down!" Lao Meng patted the back of the girl licking the bowl, turned his head to look at the monkey: "Monkey, you have to know that if we can't get food, we may also be hungry here.

The situation of the dead.”

The monkey took his eyes off the little girl: "Didn't you tell the group? What are Tian Sanqi doing all day long?"

"The devils were foolish and rushed into the mountains. Our regiment alone received more than 6,000 people. There were no natural disasters before, and the independent regiment was short of food. Now there were so many mouths, so it was difficult for the regiment to have such difficulty in opening their mouths.

ah."

The monkey asked in confusion: "Didn't you get 100,000 kilograms of grain into the mountain some time ago?"

"That's been a long time ago. Besides, 100,000 kilograms of grain, do you think that amount is very large? It's only 30,000 kilograms of grain really divided into the Independent Group, but it was still a part of the division that was squeezed out, and the Independent Group's headquarters was near,

There are nearly 10,000 people who can share two pounds per person on average. How long do you think you can eat it? Even if you add wild vegetables, you can only deal with ten days and a half months. The group is very nervous now."

"Hehe, I have never encountered such a thing before." The monkey scratched his head. Although the national army mostly defeated wars, it had a special military ration support team and had never lacked food.

"It's almost winter now, and there are at least three months left to harvest summer grain. Think about it, if you starve for three days, even the soil will be stuffed into your mouth. What should you do in the next day? That's going to starve to death

Human.”

"How do I know?" The monkey's head buzzed, thinking that I couldn't walk without eating for a day, so he asked again: "Then how should we deal with it?"

Lao Meng poured a big mouthful of hard into his mouth: "The superiors are also trying to figure out a solution for this..."

"Report!" A guerrilla member opened several children at the door and squeezed into the broken courtyard to salute: "Captain Meng, there were several people outside the village, saying that they came from the fifth division."

The voice of the speech interrupted the hellish atmosphere that the two of them made.

Lao Meng shook his head, drank all the porridge in the bowl, then licked it clean, got up and said to the monkey, "Go and go and have a look."

At the entrance of the village, two tall and thin people dressed in their hands were put on their sleeves. When they saw Lao Meng with patches coming out, their eyes lit up: "Lao Meng! Long time no see!"

Lao Meng showed a rare smile: "Captain Yu? Why are you here?"

"Why, we are not welcome to the armed task force?"

"Hehe, I'm not in the mood to welcome you. We're almost too poor to lose the blame. Isn't it a joke for you to come?"

Captain Yu smiled heartily and bitterly: "You are so poor that you can't help but have no money. In the past few days, you can't help but have a meal. Oh, don't you invite me in and sit down? Let me drink the northwest wind here?"

"See what you said, why... haven't eaten yet? Let's take a walk, hurry up, I still have hot porridge and steamed buns."

Captain Yu drank three bowls of porridge and ate two steamed buns. He stood up and shook Ding Dangxiang's stomach, and his throat was hoarse: "It feels good to fill the stomach with things."

Lao Meng asked: "How long has it been since you met? Why are you so thin?"

"Look at you, how good can you be?" Captain Yu looked up and looked at Captain Meng, and then carefully pulled out a piece of paper from the bottom behind him: "Hey, Lao Meng, this is my letter of introduction

.”

Lao Meng took it and said, "I'm already acquaintances, what other letter of introduction is needed? I heard that your work team made great contributions when they attacked Hua County last time?"

"Hehe, it happened a few months ago. I'm ashamed... uh... by the way, Comrade Chang Hongying of the Independent Group and their base seems to be nearby, right?"

Lao Meng asked in surprise: "Xiao Hongying? What did you ask her for?"

"Last time in Hua County, we spent a lot of effort, but I didn't expect this girl to be even better than us. Thank her by the way this time."

Lao Meng thought about it and did not hide it: "She went to the teacher to participate in the Anti-Japanese University study."

"Oh, that's a pity." Captain Yu finished speaking, took out something wrapped in cloth from his pocket and wrapped in ropes and handed it to Lao Meng: "Please find a way to hand it over to her."

Captain Meng reached out to take it again: "This is no problem. What tasks do you have this time?"

Then he returned the letter of introduction he had read to Captain Yu.

Captain Yu sat down and his face became serious: "The situation is now serious. From last autumn to now, the district has been counted. Tens of thousands of people have starved to death in Weinan, Hua County, Guangqi County. The superiors sent our work team to you.

When we come, we have to find a way to buy grain from Shanxi, and then transport it from the mountains and then transport the grain into the enemy-occupied area."

"What did you say? From Shanxi, through Taihang Mountain, to the enemy-occupied area eastward, they have always transported grain from the plain to the mountains. The first time I heard that I transported it from the mountains to the outside? Are you not confused, right?"

"What I said was to buy it from Shanxi and send it to Neihuang area through your defense zone."

"Who the hell came up with this bad idea? It's nearly a thousand miles from the West Pacific to the east, so why not go to the plains to transport it?"

Captain Yu shook his head: "Those people in Chongqing still don't believe that there is a great famine. The war zone is even collecting military rations! There is no way to transport it from their defense zone! There is another problem. They still think that they are transporting food.

The enemy occupied the area is an act of capital and enemy!"

Captain Yu was helpless: "We must do our best to do our best in this matter. The superiors have already arranged it. We only need to execute orders. Not only your independent regiment, but also the supplementary regiment and friendly troops in the north are all trying to get more.

It would be less likely to starve to death.”

"Tell me, how do you cooperate with you in transporting grain?" Lao Meng was serious.
Chapter completed!