When Ai Xi woke up the next morning, she felt that her back was sore and her brain was a little groggy. She got off the car, and there happened to be a small ditch not far away. She walked over and washed her face. Feeling that her mind was much clearer, Ai Xi walked to the car and woke up Jia Renlu.

After Jia Renlu woke up, he sighed and sighed, sometimes saying that his waist was broken, sometimes saying that he had fallen asleep. Essie was sitting in the passenger seat, chewing a cake, and said angrily: "If you are really in so much pain, then get off the car here. I can just go by myself. Why do you have to suffer with me?"

When talking about this Jia Renlu, his face was full of pain, "Cousin, my cousin followed you out yesterday because he was dizzy and confused. I regret it now. But it's too late to regret it. I drove so far and now let me go. Go back, I’m afraid I won’t even be able to go back if I break my leg.”

The corner of Essie's mouth twitched, and she held it in for a long time before saying, "Then don't think about it, just follow me."

Jia Renlu got into the car again after breakfast. In his words, driving is a man's business, and it is ungentlemanly to let a woman drive. Essie didn't want to refute him, so she just let him go.

We started setting off early in the morning and were almost at the front line by noon. Jia Renlu said: "Fortunately, I filled up the gas, otherwise I might not even be able to get here."

The reason why we knew we were almost at the front line was because we could already see people along the way. From time to time there were people carrying luggage on the road, and injured people were being helped along. It looked like they were escaping from the war zone. No matter how they were dressed, everyone looked gray and depressed.

Ai Xi asked Jia Renlu to drive the car aside. Jia Renlu said, "What are you doing? Aren't you going to the front line?"

"No." Essie took out two pieces of tattered clothes from her luggage and said, "The situation here is so chaotic, we'd better keep a low profile. No one will notice us if we wear this."

Jia Renlu held the tattered clothes and said disgustedly: "Are you sure that wearing this won't scratch my delicate skin?"

Essie: "...If you don't change, I'll beat you!"

The two of them put on tattered clothes, and Essie wrapped their heads with a scarf. Clothes and everything can be disguised, but hair cannot. The hair of the two of them, people who had no worries about food and clothing, looked different from those of those who lived a hard life. Essie was still worried, and she even took some grass ash and touched it on the exposed skin.

After such a disguise, Ai Qian and Jia Renlu looked at each other silently, and both of them saw a farmer uncle who had experienced many vicissitudes of life in the other's eyes.

Essie's own things were also wrapped in rags as a disguise. She said to Jia Renlu: "When you drive to the city, abandon the car and walk in."

Jia Renlu glanced at his precious car reluctantly and nodded aggrievedly, "Yeah."

Ai Qian handed the baggage to Jia Renlu again, "Carry it on your back, do you want to watch me carry such a big bag?"

Jia Renlu carried the burden aggrievedly, feeling that this was the gloomiest period in his life.

Essie comforted: "Don't be wronged. I'm telling you that I plan to take my father to the United States. Can you also take you with me? The United States is not at war. When we go there, we can live a quiet and prosperous life like now." It’s been a long time.”

Jia Renlu said: "Is it true?"

"Really." Aisie said, "What did I lie to you for?"

"Then why not go to France?" Jia Renlu said: "I like the perfume there very much."

Essie was so worried, she said: "Are you stupid? France is even worse than our country now. Are you rushing to go there and take bullets?"

Jia Renlu was surprised and said: "No way, you are still producing perfume after being beaten like this?"

Essie was silent for a moment, and then said: "Silly cousin, don't believe what others say, okay? You just believed it when she said it was French perfume?"

Jia Renlu: "..."

Slowly, the city wall could be seen. The last battle report Ai Xi saw was that Bai Yuan was defeated and retreated back to the city, guarding the city waiting for rescue. The two got off the car not far from the city gate and saw many people running out in a hurry.

Jia Renlu said: "Why are they running away now?"

Essie sighed and said: "How long has it been since the defeat? Besides, who wants to leave their home unless they have to?"

Among the groups of people leaving the city, the two of them swimming upstream were extremely conspicuous. When she reached the gate of the city, Ai Xi asked strangely: "Why is there not even a guard here?"

Jia Renlu said: "No, it's better. What if the things in our bags are taken away?"

Ai Qian and Jia Renlu entered the city together, and the streets in the city were in chaos. There were broken bricks and rubble everywhere, and bodies could be seen. The wind blew pieces of paper and rags flying all over the sky. Jia Renlu said: "Where is uncle?"

"In the north of the city." Ai Xi said: "If we weren't guarding in the north of the city, how could we still walk on the street?"

Suddenly there was a roaring sound from the sky, and the people around him immediately panicked. Before Ai Xi could react, there was a sudden explosion in front of them. The heat wave caused the two of them to fall to the ground, and the warm mud hit them like rain.

Essie felt a sharp pain in her chest and coughed heartbreakingly. Jia Renlu got up from the ground, "Cousin, cousin, are you okay?!"

People were screaming all around, and everyone was shouting: "The plane is coming! The plane is coming! Go to the air-raid shelter..."

"Cough cough cough...Biao..." Ai Qian held Jia Renlu's arm and said: "Follow them quickly, go to the air raid shelter cough cough cough..."

Jia Renlu helped Ai Xi and ran away, and the two followed the crowd into a narrow hole. Not far into the cave, Ai Xi dragged Jia Renlu against the wall and stopped walking inside. Jia Renlu panicked and said, "Cousin, what's wrong?"

Essie had heard before that there were too many people entering some air-raid shelters during the Anti-Japanese War, and the time inside was too long, causing the oxygen to gradually deplete. In the end, everyone inside died of lack of oxygen, because when the bombing was over, the inside People can no longer climb out.

Essie leaned against the wall tightly, feeling that people kept passing by and crowded into the air-raid shelter. When no more people could enter inside, someone shouted: "Close the door, close the door! You can't get in... Close the door quickly..."

As soon as the door closed, the air-raid shelter fell into darkness.

From time to time there were explosions outside, the air-raid shelter was shaken by the earthquake, and the soil from the sky fell rustling down.

Elsie breathed in the dust and couldn't help coughing. The previous explosion was too close to her, and her chest kept hurting. Several sobs could be heard from time to time in the air-raid shelter. Jia Renlu supported Ai Xi and said, "Cousin, cousin, how are you?"

Essie: "Cough cough cough cough..."

She coughed for a long time and felt like her lungs were about to come out. Then she stopped coughing, but the pain in her chest felt like it was about to burst. Jia Renlu turned on the flashlight and looked at the corner of Ai Qian's mouth, and exclaimed: "Cousin, why are you coughing up blood?"

A woman next to her looked at it and said, "She was injured by the bomb. This is bad."

Jia Renlu was so anxious that he didn't know it was so good. Ai Qian whispered: "Don't be anxious. Are you afraid that there won't be a doctor when you find my dad?"

Yes, Jia Renlu calmed down instantly. The bombing outside continued, Jia Renlu asked: "When will it end?"

"I don't know." Essie said, "But it will be over before dark. When it gets dark, the bombers will not be able to aim accurately."

As expected, the bombing outside ended in the evening, and Aisie was glad that she was not suffocated to death here. The door of the air-raid shelter opened, and the people inside walked out one after another. The woman next to them didn't move, and the child in her arms whispered: "Mom, I'm hungry."

The woman wiped her tears and touched her face with dirt on her hands, which looked very ugly. She said with a dull expression: "Mom is too thin. If she were fatter, she could give you some meat. My baby..."

Jia Renlu looked at the woman in shock. He had never thought that anyone in the world could say such a thing.

Essie took out a bag of snacks from her bag and quietly put it into the woman's hand, whispering: "Give it to the child."

When women get excited, they kowtow to Ai Xi. Ai Xi stopped her and said, "Don't let others see it."

Jia Renlu helped Ai Qian out of the air-raid shelter. The outside was so bombed that she couldn't even see it. Jia Renlu was frightened and said: "The bombing just now was so terrible, will my uncle be okay?"

Essie glared at him, "Don't talk nonsense."

The two of them were really tired. Jia Renlu helped Aiqi sit down on the side and gave her water to drink. "Cousin, are you feeling better? Where were you injured just now?"

Essie took a sip of water and grinned at the pain in her chest. She looked at the people running outside the city and wondered what happened to Bai Yuan.

At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Everyone, run away, all the soldiers are running away!"

Immediately afterwards, someone in military uniform drove a three-wheeled motorcycle toward the outside of the city. Jia Renlu stood up and pointed to the driveway: "Then... are those my uncle's people?"

Then another car passed by, and Jia Renlu quickly ran to the side of the road, yelling to stop the car. Several cars passed by without paying attention to him, and finally he almost stopped a car with his body, and finally stopped one.

The soldier in the car cursed: "Are you looking for death?!"

"No, it's me. I'm Jia Renlu, Commander Bai's nephew." Jia Renlu pointed at Ai Xi not far away, "That's Commander Bai's daughter. We're here to find Commander Bai."

From a distance, the soldier saw a man with a dirty face and a gray face whose gender was almost unclear. The car behind him came over and said, "Why did you stop?"

The soldier pointed at Elsie and said, "He said that was the commander's daughter."

Ai Xi walked over, poured some water from the drink, washed her face, and said, "I am Bai Xunmei, and I want to see my father."

When Ai Qian saw Bai Yuan, Bai Yuan had already taken off his military uniform and had a layer of gauze wrapped around it.

Bai Yuan turned his head when he heard the noise, and when he saw Ai Xi, his eyes widened as if he couldn't believe it. His cheeks twitched for a long time, and finally he said: "Why are you so disobedient?"

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