Chapter 130: Back on the Road

Erniu said: "It's, it's just one vehicle... but there are over a dozen people on horseback following behind!"

He Yuzhu's heart tightened, and he immediately said: "Erniu, the tent and the candies are all yours. You three hurry home, and give me your bamboo baskets!"

Erniu pulled Daniu along, and the two of them carried the tent and took the youngest, Erlyu, as they ran toward the village.

He Yuzhu quickly flashed into his space, and when he came back out, he had already changed into a set of old, patched cloth clothes, with mud smeared on his face.

He carried that broken bamboo basket on his back and walked forward with a staggering gait.

In less than ten minutes, he encountered that group of people and horses.

The truck struggled forward in the muddy ground, looking just like a tortoise crawling.

Over a dozen cavalrymen followed behind, their horses' hooves making a squelching sound as they stepped into the mud.

He Yuzhu stood foolishly by the side of the road, muttering words that could not be heard clearly.

A man wearing a Guangtou Party Army uniform jumped down from the vehicle.

The officer glanced at He Yuzhu, saw his tattered clothes, mud-stained face, and crooked mouth and eyes, and immediately frowned, shouting in a rough voice: "Hey! You idiot! Come here!"

He Yuzhu sneered in his heart, but on the surface, he maintained a foolish appearance, shuffling over slowly, and even deliberately stumbled, nearly falling into a mud pit.

The officer took a pocket watch out of his pocket to check it, and asked impatiently: "Idiot, have you seen a small sedan? The kind that runs super fast and goes 'woo-woo-woo'!"

He Yuzhu blinked his eyes, nodded slowly, and reached out to point toward the woods in the distance.

The officer grinned immediately, fished two fruit candies out of his pocket, and shook them in front of He Yuzhu: "You lead the way for me, and you can eat these candies."

He Yuzhu immediately reached out for the candies, tilted his neck, and stammered: "Eat... eat, now... eat now!"

The officer rolled his eyes, threw the candies into the mud, and said: "Go, take us there!"

He Yuzhu clumsily picked up the mud-covered candies, peeled off the wrappers, stuffed them into his mouth, and giggled foolishly.

Yet, the corner of his eye was rapidly observing this group. The truck was two zhang away from him, but the ten cavalrymen behind were scattered over twenty zhang away. If he made a move here, it would be easy for those cavalrymen to scatter and run into the fields, and he might let a few slip away.

He calculated in his heart: I must let the car and the horsemen cross the bridge; it will be more convenient to use the machine gun when they run back.

Thinking of this, He Yuzhu deliberately giggled: "I... I want to ride... ride the big car!"

The officer was stunned for a moment, then burst into loud laughter: "This idiot even wants to ride the big car! Company Commander Qi, get down here and let him sit up!"

Company Commander Qi poked his head out from the driver's cab, looked at He Yuzhu's mud-covered body, and said with a look of disgust: "Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, this idiot is dirty and smelly, just let him sit in the back cargo bed!"

"Are you more of an idiot than he is?!" Deputy Battalion Commander Wang glared at him. "He has to point the way for us, how can he point if he sits in the back? Get down here immediately!"

Company Commander Qi pushed the door open reluctantly, glared fiercely at He Yuzhu, and muttered: "Damn it, how am I supposed to sit here after an idiot has sat in it!"

He Yuzhu put his bamboo basket in the back cargo bed, slowly climbed into the driver's cab, pointed toward the front, and said vaguely: "Front... front, in the woods... there is a small sedan."

The driver heard this and immediately started the truck, driving toward the small woods ahead.

The cavalrymen followed slowly behind, and some even lit cigarettes.

When they reached the edge of the woods, He Yuzhu suddenly shouted:

The driver subconsciously stepped on the brake. As soon as the truck came to a steady stop, He Yuzhu moved his mind, and Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, the driver in the cab, and all the soldiers in the back cargo bed vanished without a trace in an instant.

He pushed the door open, climbed under the truck after getting out, and took out a Submachine Gun from his space.

At this time, the cavalrymen had dismounted one after another and were walking toward the woods in twos and threes. The formation was very loose, and some were still laughing and talking.

He Yuzhu held his breath, and when several cavalrymen walked into range, he slammed his finger on the trigger: "Da-da-da-da!"

The sound of gunfire instantly broke the tranquility of the small village. The seven or eight cavalrymen in the lead didn't have time to react before they fell straight into the mud.

The remaining four cavalrymen were scared out of their wits and turned to run toward where the horses were tied.

He Yuzhu quickly swapped in a new magazine, put force into his feet, and chased after them like a gust of wind.

His speed was far beyond what an ordinary person could compare to; in less than twenty seconds, he caught up to those four cavalrymen.

Before the other side could turn around to fire, He Yuzhu pulled the trigger and took care of two more.

The remaining two were so scared their legs went weak and they knelt directly on the ground, but they still couldn't escape their fate.

At this time, only the three cavalrymen responsible for guarding the warhorses remained.

Hearing the gunfire, they knew the situation was wrong, so they hurriedly mounted their horses and ran toward the stone bridge in the distance.

Seeing this, He Yuzhu immediately threw away the Submachine Gun, took the Type 11 Light Machine Gun out of his space, aimed at the small bridge, and pulled the trigger.

A dense rain of bullets whistled out, and the three cavalrymen fell onto the stone bridge along with their horses, blood staining the bridge deck red.

He Yuzhu dared not delay, quickly collected the corpses, horses, and the truck on the ground into his space, carefully inspected the scene again, and covered the bloodstains with mud before returning to the Su family.

Upon returning to his lodging, he had just pushed the door open when he saw Zhao Ying's family already awake, sitting around the table waiting anxiously.

Everyone was very worried when they saw He Yuzhu return, and Zhao Ying asked anxiously: "Zhuzi, did someone come?"

He Yuzhu told Zhao Meiting about eliminating the pursuers.

Zhao Meiting's expression darkened, and he said: "We can't stay here any longer; we must leave immediately, lest their accomplices find their way here."

He Yuzhu nodded and turned to look for the landlord, Su Qing.

He Yuzhu walked up to him and said straight to the point: "Mr. Su, we are people being hunted by the Military Statistics Bureau. A group of them came just now, and I killed them. It is already dangerous here for you; I can give you a sum of money, you should leave here quickly."

The young man thought for a moment and said: "You all hurry and go, don't worry about me; I was going to return to Shanghai anyway."

Zhao Ying asked: "You are also returning to Shanghai?"

The young man nodded and said softly: "To tell you the truth, I finished university in Shanghai and found a job as a teacher there. Later, my wife died of illness, and I felt terrible, so I just brought my son back to the village to stay for a while."

He Yuzhu suddenly asked: "Are you familiar with the road from here to Shanghai?"

The young man was stunned for a moment and asked suspiciously: "Didn't you say you were going to Hong Kong?"

He Yuzhu sighed: "We were originally going to Hong Kong, but looking at it now, the road is full of ambushes, so we can only change our route back to Shanghai."

"That's great!" The young man's eyes lit up. "If you are driving back to Shanghai, I can lead the way. However," his expression dimmed, "your small sedan can't hold that many people!"

"You don't need to worry about that," He Yuzhu said, "we just captured a truck. If you can point the way, you can come with us."

"To tell you the truth, there are many checkpoints on the road from Jinhua to Shanghai," Su Qing said. "I studied geography in university and am very familiar with the roads in this area; I can lead you to bypass those checkpoints."

Upon hearing this, He Yuzhu immediately clapped his hands: "Then let's leave now, so as not to have any more complications!"

The young man nodded: I will go tell my second uncle and be back immediately.

Half an hour later, He Yuzhu drove the captured truck, with the small sedan driven by Zhao Ying in tow, and headed toward the dangerous Shanghai.